473 research outputs found
Pat Conroy Papers - Accession 1632
No full textThe Pat Conroy Papers consists of materials related to author Donald Patrick “Pat” Conroy (1945-2016). The collection consists of legal documents concerning a lawsuit between the Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD) against Mr. Conroy, copies of newspaper articles concerning the SCAD lawsuit, legal documents concerning the divorce of Pat Conroy and his wife Lenore Guerwitz Fleischer Conroy, correspondence concerning the rights to “Beach Music”, manuscripts sent over the years to Mr. Conroy to read, One letter to Mr. Conroy concerning the possibility of Pat Conroy writing a screenplay for , “Look Homeward Angel”, along with what appears to be a screenplay for , “Look Homeward Angel”, two framed political cartoons, four college hoods, and two chefs coats.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2823/thumbnail.jp
Expanding sensor networks to automate knowledge acquisition
No full textThe availability of accurate, low-cost sensors to scientists has resulted in widespread deployment in a variety of sporting and health environments. The sensor data output is often in a raw, proprietary or unstructured format. As a result, it is often difficult to query multiple sensors for complex properties or actions. In our research, we deploy a heterogeneous sensor network to detect the various biological and physiological properties in athletes during training activities. The goal for exercise physiologists is to quickly identify key intervals in exercise such as moments of stress or fatigue. This is not currently possible because of low level sensors and a lack of query language support. Thus, our motivation is to expand the sensor network with a contextual layer that enriches raw sensor data, so that it can be exploited by a high level query language. To achieve this, the domain expert specifies events in a tradiational event-condition-action format to deliver the required contextual enrichment
Author Correction: GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality
No full textAn author of the paper was omitted in the original version (Ted Conroy, University of Waikato, New Zealand). This has been corrected in the pdf and HTML versions of the paper, and the associated metadata
Enrichment of raw sensor data to enable high-level queries
No full textSensor networks are increasingly used across various application domains. Their usage has the advantage of automated, often continuous, monitoring of activities and events. Ubiquitous sensor networks detect location of people and objects and their movement. In our research,
we employ a ubiquitous sensor network to track the movement
of players in a tennis match. By doing so, our goal is to create a detailed analysis of how the match progressed, recording points scored, games and sets, and in doing so, greatly reduce the eort of coaches and players who are required to study matches afterwards. The sensor network
is highly efficient as it eliminates the need for manual recording of the match. However, it generates raw data that is unusable by domain experts as it contains no frame of reference or context and cannot be analyzed or queried. In this work, we present the UbiQuSE system of data transformers which bridges the gap between raw sensor data and the high-level requirements of domain specialists such as the tennis coach
“The Rhetoric of Equality: Marie de Gournay, Linguist and Philosopher”
No full textMarie de Gournay’s works are mostly well known today. This French writer, editor, translator, philosopher and literary critic played a key role in Renaissance Europe taking part to the major cultural debates of her time. The originality of her thought as well as the audacity of her choices have been much argued and progressively appreciated. In a particular way, her later feminist treatises – The Equality of Men and Women (1622) and The Ladies’ Complaint (1626) – have been widely studied over the time, although against the background of the « Querelle des femmes ». Despite this kind of developments, these texts deserve a new and greater attention. Hence, moving beyond the terms of the ‘Woman Controversy’, this contribution will mainly focus on the linguistic and rhetorical strategies applied by the author in order to pursue the refutation of male claims to rational superiority. Using the examples of illustrious women and dealing with various sources – historical, philosophical, biblical – Marie de Gournay shows the importance of providing both men and women with the same intellectual opportunities since the main attribute of human beings is the rational soul. Through a disarticulation of the scholastic theory, the author proves that neither the natural nor the political or the religious laws admit any differences between men and women. In this context, she conceptualises her own idea of « the unity of the sexes » exploiting linguistic, philosophical and social issues and thus contributing to an aware construction of gender equality in Early Modern France
Evaluation of a Bayesian MCMC Random Effects Inference Methodology for Capture-Mark-Recapture Data
No full textMonte Carlo simulation was used to evaluate properties of a simple Bayesian MCMC analysis of the random effects model for single group Cormack-Jolly-Seber capture-recapture data. The MCMC method is applied to the model via a logit link, so parameters p, S are on a logit scale, where logit(S) is assumed to have, and is generated from, a normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ2 . Marginal prior distributions on logit(p) and μ were independent normal with mean zero and standard deviation 1.75 for logit(p) and 100 for μ ; hence minimally informative. Marginal prior distribution on σ2 was placed on τ2=1/σ2 as a gamma distribution with α=β=0.001 . The study design has 432 points spread over 5 factors: occasions (t) , new releases per occasion (u), p, μ , and σ . At each design point 100 independent trials were completed (hence 43,200 trials in total), each with sample size n=10,000 from the parameter posterior distribution. At 128 of these design points comparisons are made to previously reported results from a method of moments procedure. We looked at properties of point and interval inference on μ , and σ based on the posterior mean, median, and mode and equal-tailed 95% credibility interval. Bayesian inference did very well for the parameter μ , but under the conditions used here, MCMC inference performance for σ was mixed: poor for sparse data (i.e., only 7 occasions) or σ=0 , but good when there were sufficient data and not small σ
Author Correction: GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality
No full textCorrection to: Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01973-y, published online 16 February 2023.
An author of the paper was omitted in the original version (Ted Conroy, University of Waikato, New Zealand). This has been corrected in the pdf and HTML versions of the paper, and the associated metadata
Australian Senator Advocates National Broadband Plan
No full textAustralia's Senator Stephen Conroy was awarded with the OSA's 2011 Advocate of Optics on September 29, 2011, at the recent International Quantum Electronics Conference/Conference for Lasers and Electro-Optics (IQEC/CLEO) Pacific Rim 2011 held in Sydney. Senator Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has been the champion of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). Australian officials aim at achieving a nationwide rollout of fiber-optic technology through the NBN that will bring communication speeds between 100 and 1,000 MB to 93 percent of Australian homes, schools and businesses. The project will also provide a stimulus to the Australian optical communications industry, which has recently been evolved. Conroy was appointed Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy after the August 2010 federal election
James Joyce: From Hero to Author of the Bildungsroman
No full textWhen James Joyce went to Paris as a young man in 1902, he followed a narrative arc fundamental to the European Bildungsromane. Comparing Joyce’s motives and decisions with those of his fictional predecessors in novels by Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others, I argue that he acted at first as an unwitting and unreconstructed hero of the genre but that, as he wrote the last two stories for Dubliners in 1906-1907, he earned greater perspective over his life and writing. Little Chandler, Gallaher, and Gabriel Conroy proved to be especially important catalysts for a Joyce in evolution from hero to author of his own Bildungsroman
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