2,018 research outputs found
A search for measure of the quality of life on Prince Edward Island: An inter-provincial "cost of living" inquiry
No full textby Godfrey Baldacchino & Matt Funk.; 23 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm; "31 July 2008"- t.p.; Report written for Dr. Michael Mayne, Deputy Minister, Dept. of Innovation and Advanced Learning.; Includes bibliographic references (p. 19-21)
Keynote Address — Funk and Afro Futurism: The Past, Present, and Future of the Funk
No full textDr. Frederick “Rickey” Vincent is author of the award-winning Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One (1996), the first definitive treatment of funk music and culture. His address addresses: Liberation in the Moment: Other Worlds and Black Liberation (from Soul Train to “Wakanda Forever”) The Rhythm Revolution: Liberation, Motion, and Black Identity (JB and The One) Transcendence: The Higher Plane of the Funk Groove (Sly and the body/mind/spirit unification) The Collective: Tribalism in a Post-Industrial World (Funk blends genres, blends cultures as long as it’s “On the One”) The Epic: P-Funk Earth Tour and Beyond (The “super groups” take over) More Bounce: Digital Funk and the Search for the Soul in the Machine (From Disco to House to EDM) Bring That Beat Back: the Return of the Raw (From LA to DC, the funk band returns)https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_funk_content/1028/thumbnail.jp
Designing for action: An evaluation of Social Recipes in reducing food waste
No full textApproximately, one-third to half of all food produced globally is wasted. In developed countries, roughly up to half of this food waste comes from consumers. In response to this, the UN has set goals to raise consumer awareness and reduce food waste by 50% before 2030. Our objective is to evaluate how emerging technologies could improve awareness in households. Inspired by future sensing possibilities, we envision a community-based social system that captures in-home food availability and waste patterns and uses this information to support awareness and sustainability. In this work, we describe an evaluation of a component that could be part of such a system. This component or concept, called Social Recipes, aims at encouraging food sharing by suggesting groups of related consumers recipes that are based on ingredients from different individuals or households. To evaluate Social Recipes, we conducted 3 user studies to see how it could raise awareness and reduce food waste and to suggest implications for its design. In the first two studies, we evaluated expected impacts of the concept. The third study was a home deployment, where Social Recipes were sent using technological probes for a more realistic experience. Here, we also evaluated it against the more common method of influence strategy in sustainability research that is restricted to feedback (i.e., eco-feedback). Our main findings showed that Social Recipes has raised awareness of in-home food availability and triggered food-related conversations among participants resulting in knowledge gain. However, Social Recipes alone was not perceived as effective in directly reducing food waste. And therefore, for the design of a community-based social system, we suggest another component to be added to the system that provides eco-feedback. This component was perceived as more effective in reducing food waste with impacts on awareness of waste generation and social surveillance. Overall, the aim of this work is to contribute to an understanding of how Social Recipes could impact consumers and how to design a community-based social (recipe) system that can be integrated in consumers daily activities for effective but pleasurable food waste prevention
"Funk is its own reward" : an analysis of selected lyrics in popular funk music of the 1970s, 2008
No full textThis research examined popular funk music as the social and political voice of African Americans during the era of the seventies. The objective of this research was to reveal the messages found in the lyrics as they commented on the climate of the times for African Americans of that era. A content analysis method was used to study the lyrics of popular funk music. This method allowed the researcher to scrutinize the lyrics in the context of their creation. When theories on the black vernacular and its historical roles found in African-American literature and music respectively were used in tandem with content analysis, it brought to light the voice of popular funk music of the seventies. This research will be useful in terms of using popular funk music as a tool to research the history of African Americans from the seventies to the present. The research herein concludes that popular funk music lyrics espoused the sentiments of the African-American community as it utilized a culturally familiar vernacular and prose to express the evolving sociopolitical themes amid the changing conditions of the seventies era
Haggadischen Elemente in den Homilien des Aphraates, des persischen Weisen
No full textThis volume contains the inaugural dissertation of the Hungarian scholar Salomon Funk. In it, he addresses the following questions: What is Aphrahat’s dependence on Jewish sources? Which traditions did he receive from the Jews? Is Aphrahat unique in Syriac literature for his relationship to the Jews? After an introduction on Aphrahat’s life, works, and previous scholarship on him, Funk’s method is to go through biblical passages that Aphrahat comments on and show parallels in rabbinic literature. These passages are mostly from the Pentateuch but some subsequent parts of the Old Testament are also briefly touched on. Funk then shows how some of Aphrahat’s expressions and patterns of speech are related to rabbinic literature, and, finally, he indicates how Aphrahat’s psychology and theology relate to Jewish sources. The work concludes with three extraneous notes on the Jews in Persia, the Talmudic expression “Be Abidan,” and Aphrahat’s biblical citations and the Peshitta
On affine planes with 3-regular group of projectivities
No full textThe author looks at affine planes from von Staudt's point of view, by investigating the consequences of regularity assumptions for the group Πa of affine projectivities. This group Πa, which consists of all products of parallel projections, is always doubly transitive; it is 2-regular only in Desarguesian affine planes, and it is 4-regular in free affine planes [A. Barlotti et al., Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 60 (1978), 183--200; MR0555963 (81g:51005)]. Concerning 3-regularity, the author proves the following theorem: Let A be an affine plane, and assume that Πa is 3-regular. Then A is a translation plane, and if the kernel of A is not GF(2) (or if A is finite), then A is in fact Desarguesian
Vier-reguläre Möbius-Ebenen
No full textConsider the following regularity condition (Pn): every projectivity fixing n points is the identity. It was known that if the subgroup Π of all proper projectivities satisfies (P3) the plane must be Miquelian. The author shows that this is true even if Π satisfies (P4)
Joel David Funk
No full textAn article with the title identical to the author\u27s name? It\u27s not that I\u27m an egotist, it\u27s just that one has a lifetime of experience with one\u27s own name and it\u27s logological permutations
Can machine learning explain human learning?
No full textLearning Analytics (LA) has a major interest in exploring and understanding the learning process of humans and, for this purpose, benefits from both Cognitive Science, which studies how humans learn, and Machine Learning, which studies how algorithms learn from data. Usually, Machine Learning is exploited as a tool for analyzing data coming from experimental studies, but it has been recently applied to humans as if they were algorithms that learn from data. One example is the application of Rademacher Complexity, which measures the capacity of a learning machine, to human learning, which led to the formulation of Human Rademacher Complexity (HRC). In this line of research, we propose here a more powerful measure of complexity, the Human Algorithmic Stability (HAS), as a tool to better understand the learning process of humans. The experimental results from three different empirical studies, on more than 600 engineering students from the University of Genoa, showed that HAS (i) can be measured without the assumptions required by HRC, (ii) depends not only on the knowledge domain, as HRC, but also on the complexity of the problem, and (iii) can be exploited for better understanding of the human learning process
On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Island Life: Introducing a Unified Theory of Value & Evolutionarily Stable Island Economic Development Strategy
No full textThis discourse offers a solution to The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development on islands. This hypothesis offers a foundational, sub-game solution to The Island Survival Game, a counterintuitive, dominant economic development strategy for ‘islands’ (and relatively insular states). This discourse also tables conceptual building blocks, prerequisite analytical tools, and a guiding principle for The Earth Island Survival Game, a bounded delay supergame which models The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development at the global level. We begin our exploration with an introduction to The Principle of Relative Insularity, a postulate which informs ESS for ‘island’ and ‘continental’ players alike. Next, we model ‘island’ economic development with two bio-geo-politico-economic models and respective strategies: The Mustique Co. Development Plan, and The Prince Edward Island Federal-Provincial Program for Social and Economic Advancement. These diametrically opposed strategies offer an extraordinary comparative study. One island serves as a highly descriptive model for The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development; the other model informs ESS. The Island Survival Game serves as a remarkable learning tool, offering lessons which promote Darwinian fitness, resource holding power, self-sufficiency, and cooperative behaviour, by illuminating the illusive path toward sustainable economic development.Non-cooperative games, evolutionary game theory, relative insularity, islands, tragedy of the commons, sustainable economic development, resource holding power, evolutionarily stable strategy, long distance dispersal
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