869 research outputs found
Die Lehr-Stelle der Soziologie. Erkundungen einer disziplinären Herausforderung.
No full textZusammenfassungThemenessay zu:NINA BAUR / HERMANN KORTE / MARTINA LÖW / MARKUS SCHROER (Hrsg.), Handbuch Soziologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2008, 505 S., br., 39,95€DIETMAR BROCK / MATTHIAS JUNGE / UWE KRÄHNKE, Soziologische Theorien von Auguste Comte bis Talcott Parsons. 2 Auflage, München: Oldenbourg 2007, 228 S., br., 32,80 €ANTHONY GIDDENS / CHRISTIAN FLECK / MARIANNE EGGER DE CAMPO, Soziologie. 3. überarbeitete aktualisierte Auflage. Graz: Nausner & Nausner 2009, 989 S., br., 59,50 €GEORG KNEER / MARKUS SCHROER (Hrsg.), Handbuch soziologische Theorien. Wiesbaden: VS 2009, 559 S., gb., 39,90 €THOMAS KRON, Zeitgenössische soziologische Theorie. Zentrale Beiträge aus Deutschland. 1. Auflage, Wiesbaden: VS 2010, 238 S., br., 24,95 €JULIUS MOREL / EVA BAUER / TAMASZ MELEGHY / HEINZ JÜRGEN NIEDENZU / MAX PREGLAU / HELMUT STAUBMANN, Soziologische Theorie: Abriss der Ansätze ihrer Haup
Is the state against fatherhood?
No full textJasper Gerard, journalist and father of two, argues that, in the infamously tangled and strangely secretive world of the family court, a great injustice is being done to British fathers. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
Variance in Response to Heat Treatment in Perkinsville Jasper
No full textabstract: The heat treatment of lithic raw material is a globally dispersed technology that improves the flaking quality of toolstone. While not all types of stone respond to heat treatment, many forms of microcrystalline silicates do, including jasper. Here, we aim to better understand how Perkinsville jasper responds to heat treatment. Perkinsville jasper occurs in the Perkinsville Valley of Yavapai County, Arizona, and was utilized prehistorically by the Prescott, Sinagua, and Hohokam cultures. For our study, we collected seven boulders of jasper from private land (with permission) in Yavapai County. These boulders were flintknapped into 74 spalls which were subsequently heated in an electric kiln using 20 treatment protocols with systematically varying combinations of maximum temperature and maximum heating times. Afterward, we compared multiple quantitative and qualitative characteristics of unheated and heated flakes taken from the same nodule pre- and post-heat treatment. Our heating protocol allows us to determine an ‘optimal heating context’ for Perkinsville jasper and to better understand how variation in time and temperature influences flaking quality of the stone. Lastly, this research develops an experimental reference dataset that can be used by other researchers studying raw material use and heat treatment in the Southwest United States. (abstract
Birds of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Full text linkJasper Park, with an area of approximately 4,200 square miles, is the largest accessible primeval wildlife sanctuary on this continent and as such its bird life is of the greatest interest. The meagre available records of earlier conditions indicate that noteworthy changes in the park\u27s avifauna have taken place in the last 50 years. There can be little doubt that other changes will take place during the years to come. For this reason, then, if for no other, it seems desirable that as complete a record as possible of the current situation be made, for only against it can the significance of future trends be evaluated.
In 1943 the author spent a week in the Athabasca Valley in mid-April, and in July, August, and September travelled the south boundary trail, entering over Nigel Pass and passing by way of Jonas Pass and Indian Pass to the Brazeau icefields. From there in to Jasper the same route was followed as used by Clarke on his way out. The north boundary was ridden from Devona to Robson by way of Snake Indian Pass.
Field work of 1944 covered much of the same areas as that of the previous year. Beginning on May 2, the author, accompanied by James Hatter, ascended the Snake Indian to Blue Creek and Topaz Lake, worked the Athabasca and Miette Valleys trom Yellowhead Pass to East Gate and the Banff-Jasper Highway area, and finally travelled the south boundary by way of Poboktan Pass, Brazeau River, Southesk River and Pass, and down the Rocky to Jacques Lake. This time the Maligne Lake area was visited and the lake explored along its entire length. In December of the same year observations were made at Jasper and Devona. Additional field work was carried on in the Athabasca Valley in July, 1945 and in May and June, 1946
Interview with the author
No full textA change has come to popular media. Every day, we are digitally invited into the homes and
lives of the creators whose work we love. We are pushed to become attached to them as we
become attached to their work. How can we as viewers healthily interact with the creators whose
work we enjoy, and how can we as creators healthily interact with the people that enjoy our
work? How intimate can we become? How intimate should we become? What harm can we do to
each other? Interview with the Author is a visual novel that asks its players to engage with these
questions while taking the role of web columnist Reed Knightly as they interview science fiction
author Arthur Wright. Stemming from a semester-long inquiry into the subject of parasocial
relationships, Death of the Author, and the intersection of the two theories, Interview lets its
players can ask Arthur a variety of questions related to topics like their professional work, their
fandom, and their time as a fanfiction writer. The answers they receive dynamically shift
depending on the player’s perceived interest or disinterest in parasocial connections between
authors, readers and fictional characters. Interview represents a continued exploration of the
subject of communication in my work, and of the way individuals and constructs build
connections with one another.Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg
Animation of data link protocols using JASPER tool
Full text linkV diplomski nalogi smo implementirali protokol z oddajo z mirovanjem in protokol s selektivno ponovno oddajo iz učbenika Computer Networks A. S. Tanenbauma s pomočjo orodja JASPER z namenom, prikazati obnašanje protokolov z animacijo. Najprej smo na kratko opisali vlogo in namen animacije protokolov ter navedli nekatera znana animacijska orodja. V jedru naloge smo najprej na splošno opisali orodje JASPER, njegovo zgradbo in koncept delovanja. Nato smo opisali oba protokola ter preslikavo njune implementacije iz programskega jezika C, kot si jo je zamislil avtor učbenika, v programski jezik našega orodja, javo. Pravilno delovanje razvite kode smo prikazali s podajo posnetkov animacije ter nekaterih možnih scenarijev v delovanju obeh protokolov.In this diploma thesis, we implemented an idle RQ protocol and a selective repeat protocol from A. S. Tanenbaum\u27s textbook Computer Networks by using JASPER tool with the purpose to show protocol behavior with animation. First, we briefly described the role and purpose of protocol animation and stated some well-known animation tools. In the central part of our thesis, we first provided a general description of JASPER tool, its structure and concept of operation. We then described both protocols and the mapping of their implementation from C programming language as suggested by the author of the textbook into Java, the programming language of our tool. We demonstrated the proper functioning of the developed code by presenting snapshots of the animation and some possible scenarios from the operation of the two protocols
Parallel session 3 : Transforming COVID-19 as an opportunity to innovate community-based experiential learning
No full textPresented Titles: Model of Transformative Service-Learning and Its Potentials [Author: Zoe Chong Xiao] Inter-University Collaboration and Innovative Teaching Methods under the New Normal [Author: Jasper Van Holsteijn] Addressing COVID-19 Related Community Needs through Service-Learning [Author: Albert Ko
All My Relatives: The Hunka Adoption of Jasper Milk
No full textThis research article infuses anthropological kinship theory with knowledge of traditional Lakota Sioux culture to discover the complex relationships that existed between Jasper Milk, his wife, and his Hunka (adopted) sibling. Offering a critique of the current praxis existing among genealogists conducting research in Native American lineages, the author suggests that genealogical specialization in a single tribe―in contrast to the current practice of all-encompassing ‘Native American research’―increases research success
Negotiating with biases: How culture and human rights variables alter the negotiation framework with north korea
No full textThis paper examines the cultural and human rights gaps in understanding that have impeded negotiations with North Korea due to culturally based negotiation biases within the context of East-West cross-border negotiations-a term the author refers to as a "barbarian bias"-that is linked to the human rights issue, as promulgated in such examples as the North Korean Human Rights Act (the Act). While the Act represented a good faith effort to improve the internal human rights conditions of North Korea, the foreseeable net effect of such legislation was the DPRK's reinforced notion of a hostile international community against it, led most notably, in North Korea's view, by the United States. In effect, North Korea holds the view that human rights may vary depending on culture (i.e. a view based on the theory of "cultural relativism" rather than "universalism"). Perhaps for this reason, North Korea's past negotiation behavior reflects the belief that the implementation of the human rights issue through offshore legislation, vis-à-vis the North Korean Human Rights Act, into its domestic framework is one variant of a "barbarian bias" in which the DPRK, in its own subjective view, is being unilaterally told (rather than asked through mutual cooperation), how and to what degree, human rights issues should be treated in its own sovereign territory. Such human rights and culturally based variables represent a notable impediment as they relate to negotiations with North Korea, which has not fully been considered in the relevant literature. © 2009 Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
Sworn testimony of the model evidence: Gaussian Mixture Importance (GAME) sampling
Full text linkWhat is the “best” model? The answer to this question lies in part in the eyes of the beholder, nevertheless a good model must blend rigorous theory with redeeming qualities such as parsimony and quality of fit. Model selection is used to make inferences, via weighted averaging, from a set of K candidate models, (Formula presented.), and help identify which model is most supported by the observed data, (Formula presented.). Here, we introduce a new and robust estimator of the model evidence, (Formula presented.), which acts as normalizing constant in the denominator of Bayes’ theorem and provides a single quantitative measure of relative support for each hypothesis that integrates model accuracy, uncertainty, and complexity. However, (Formula presented.) is analytically intractable for most practical modeling problems. Our method, coined GAussian Mixture importancE (GAME) sampling, uses bridge sampling of a mixture distribution fitted to samples of the posterior model parameter distribution derived from MCMC simulation. We benchmark the accuracy and reliability of GAME sampling by application to a diverse set of multivariate target distributions (up to 100 dimensions) with known values of (Formula presented.) and to hypothesis testing using numerical modeling of the rainfall-runoff transformation of the Leaf River watershed in Mississippi, USA. These case studies demonstrate that GAME sampling provides robust and unbiased estimates of the evidence at a relatively small computational cost outperforming commonly used estimators. The GAME sampler is implemented in the MATLAB package of DREAM and simplifies considerably scientific inquiry through hypothesis testing and model selection.Water Resource
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