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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Responding to lethal violence: RCMP use of deadly force
No full textNot peer reviewedContemporary police officers face the challenge of intervening in community crises while maintaining public and personal safety. Unfortunately, this sometimes includes precarious life and death encounters which require using deadly force.police; RCMP; use of force; deadly force; mental illness; crisis interventio
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Line bisection and visual orienting within and beyond arm's reach in patients with visuospatial neglect.
No full textLine bisection and covert orienting were explored in patients with neglect using stimuli presented within (peripersonal space) and beyond (extrapersonal space) arm's reach.Methods. Forty-three young subjects, 9 older subjects and 13 individuals with right-hemisphere damage, seven of whom were classified as showing left neglect, participated in the study. In one task, subjects used a hand-held device to remotely bisect computer-generated horizontally and vertically oriented lines that were placed centrally or away from center (above, below, center for horizontal lines; to the left, right of center for vertical lines). To direct the subject's attention, the bisecting cursor that was controlled by the subject was initially presented near the center of the line or towards one or the other end. In a second task, subjects detected the presentation of a target presented in one of 4 quadrants (top left; top right; bottom left; bottom right) following informative peripheral cues designed to elicit covert orienting of visual attention. All stimuli were presented at distances of 28 cm peripersonal space) and 224 (extrapersonal space) cm.Results: Line Bisection. In patients with neglect a significant rightward bias (i.e., >10%) on horizontal lines was noted, as expected. Interestingly, cuing the left end of the horizontal line significantly reduced the rightward bias to near normal level, while cuing the middle or right end of the line resulted in the expected significant rightward deviations. In contrast, vertical lines yielded a non-significant downward bias and the bisection cursor starting position did not significantly alter the bias. Viewing distances did not significantly alter bisection biases for either horizontal or vertical lines. In normal controls, the bisecting cursor significantly altered the bias in the direction of its initial starting position on both horizontal (left-right ends of lines) and vertical lines (top-bottom ends of lines). As well, a viewing distance by line location interaction was obtained for horizontal lines only. The direction of the bias differed significantly between lines displayed above and below eye levels in peripersonal space, but it did not in extrapersonal space.Visual Orienting. All groups responded more rapidly to targets presented at the cued location (valid cuing condition) than to targets at uncued locations (invalid cuing condition). Patients with neglect manifested a disengage deficit between hemifields, as expected wherein the reaction time delay on an invalid trial was much greater for targets presented in the neglected hemifield following cues in the non-neglected hemifield, than vice versa. However, evidence of a within field disengage deficit in the contralesional hemifield was not substantiated here. Moreover, following the presentation of a cue within the contralesional hemifield patients with or without neglect responded equally quickly to poor field targets at the cued and uncued locations. Viewing distance did not alter the manifestation of the disengage deficit pattern in patients with neglect. In normal controls, detection of the cued target was fastest to the lower field in peripersonal space than at any other location or viewing distance. Finally, a correlational analysis performed on the entire sample of patients with right-hemisphere damage suggested a relationship between rightward deviations on line bisection and the disengage.Conclusion. The outcome of these studies provides partial support of Previc's (1990) model of upper and lower visual field specialization.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1999
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Droplet motion with contact-line friction: long-time asymptotics in complete wetting
No full textWe consider the thin-film equation for a class of free boundary conditions modelling friction at the contact line, as introduced by E and Ren. Our analysis focuses on formal long-time asymptotics of solutions in the perfect wetting regime. In particular, through the analysis of quasi-self-similar solutions, we characterize the profile and the spreading rate of solutions depending on the strength of friction at the contact line, as well as their (global or local) corrections, which are due to the dynamical nature of the free boundary conditions. These results are complemented with full transient numerical solutions of the free boundary problem. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Mathematical Physic
A study of the level of instructor interest and experience concerning the development of on-line courses at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
No full textPlan BThis study examined the level of interest and experience concerning on-line course development among full-time instructors employed by the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College. The purpose of the study is to determine level of interest concerning the development of on-line courses, the level of experience to develop and instruct on-line courses, and the need for training and support for on-line course development. Recommendations of this study will be used to help WITC develop a sense of direction for future on-line course development. It may also provide the necessary information needed to create and provide on-line course development training, curriculum guidelines and standards, and the collection and compilation of developmental resource materials. Since the platform for on-line learning is through the Internet, an electronic on-line survey was chosen as the means of collecting data. During the Spring Semester of 2003, an e-mail message containing a link to access the survey was sent to all full-time WITC instructors. After each instructor completed the survey, the data was sent electronically via the Internet, without any personal identifiers, to University of Wisconsin-Stout Publications for processing. Recommendations of this study will be used to help WITC develop a sense of direction for future on-line course development. It may also provide the necessary information needed to create and provide on-line course development training, curriculum guidelines and standards, and the collection and compilation of developmental resource materials
Line transect sampling of primates : can animal-to-observer distance methods work?
No full textAn erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-010-9469-4Line transect sampling is widely used for estimating abundance of primate populations. Animal-to-observer distances (AODs) are commonly used in analysis, in preference to perpendicular distances from the line. This is in marked contrast with standard practice for other applications of line transect sampling. We formalize the mathematical shortcomings of approaches based on AODs, and show that they are likely to give strongly biased estimates of density. We review papers that claim good performance for the method, and explore this performance through simulations. These confirm strong bias in estimates of density using AODs. We conclude that AOD methods are conceptually flawed, and that they cannot in general provide valid estimates of density.Peer reviewe
Modelling of coupled cross-flow and in-line vortex-induced vibrations of flexible cylindrical structures: Part II: on the importance of in-line coupling
No full textTo illustrate the influence of the in-line coupling on the prediction of vortex-induced vibration (VIV), the simulation results of the coupled cross-flow and in-line VIVs of flexible cylinders- obtained with three different wake oscillator models with and without the in-line coupling- are compared and studied in this paper. Both the cases of uniform and linearly sheared flow are analysed and the simulation results of the three models are compared with each other from the viewpoints of response pattern, fluid force, energy transfer and fatigue damage. The differences between the simulation results from the three models highlight the importance of the in-line coupling on the prediction of coupled cross-flow and in-line VIVs of flexible cylindrical structures.Accepted author manuscriptOffshore EngineeringEngineering Structure
Do organizations that have reached the excellence level in the Wisconsin Forward Award process benefit from an increase in bottom line results?
No full textPlan BWhether it be large corporations or small companies, all organizations have and always are looking for ways to improve. In the past, improvement meant simply concentrating on production and finding ways to make it faster, more efficient, cheaper and better. Since that time, there have been many changes in the way people think about what improvement really means to an organization. The present and future of continuous improvement for companies is for them to constantly concentrate on the quality of their many operating systems to maximize the efficiency of all the criteria that makes their organization successful. Today’s quality professionals from a wide range of organizations and industries use quality programs such as; Total Quality Management (TQM), the Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award program (MBNQA), the Wisconsin Forward Award program (WFA), and other state programs. All improvement programs have in common that if they are not proven to provide bottom line results, organizations will not use them. Many researchers over the past ten years have worked to show the relationship between quality programs and bottom line results. The quality programs that have most commonly been studied are Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program. This study is designed to show the relationship between Wisconsin’s version of the Baldrige Award, the Wisconsin Forward Award program, and bottom line results. In this research paper, the researcher will study the performance of organizations who have reached the highest level of performance in the Wisconsin Forward Award program. The results will be used to conclude whether or not their bottom line results have improved since implementing the WFA process
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