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Bus, bike and random journeys: crowdsourcing aid distribution in Ivory Coast
No full textDelivering supplies in poor rural areas is difficult and expensive. But people travel; and statistics can piggyback aid supplies on to the network of everyday journeys. James McInerney, Alex Rogers and Nicholas R. Jennings explore an imaginative solution to getting aid to the countryside
Mcinerney, C, NX38158
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/403501Surname: MCINERNEY. Given Name(s) or Initials: C. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX38158. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 16000.224326
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Letter from Organizing Secretary Liverpool Area, APL to C. McInerney
No full textTypescript letter dated 8 July 1939, to C. McInerney, General Secretary, Irish National Forester Benefit Society, from the Organising Secretary of the Liverpool area, to express appreciation for decisions in support of the APL
Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision.
No full textAll known visual pigments in Neuralia (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Bilateria) are composed of an opsin (a seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor), and a light-sensitive chromophore, generally retinal. Accordingly, opsins play a key role in vision. There is no agreement on the relationships of the neuralian opsin subfamilies, and clarifying their phylogeny is key to elucidating the origin of this protein family and of vision. We used improved methods and data to resolve the opsin phylogeny and explain the evolution of animal vision. We found that the Placozoa have opsins, and that the opsins share a common ancestor with the melatonin receptors. Further to this, we found that all known neuralian opsins can be classified into the same three subfamilies into which the bilaterian opsins are classified: the ciliary (C), rhabdomeric (R), and go-coupled plus retinochrome, retinal G protein-coupled receptor (Go/RGR) opsins. Our results entail a simple scenario of opsin evolution. The first opsin originated from the duplication of the common ancestor of the melatonin and opsin genes in a eumetazoan (Placozoa plus Neuralia) ancestor, and an inference of its amino acid sequence suggests that this protein might not have been light-sensitive. Two more gene duplications in the ancestral neuralian lineage resulted in the origin of the R, C, and Go/RGR opsins. Accordingly, the first animal with at least a C, an R, and a Go/RGR opsin was a neuralian progenitor
Learning periodic human behaviour models from sparse data for crowdsourcing aid delivery in developing countries
No full textIn many developing countries, half the population lives in rural locations, where access to essentials such as school materials, mosquito nets, and medical supplies is restricted. We propose an alternative method of distribution (to standard road delivery) in which the existing mobility habits of a local population are leveraged to deliver aid, which raises two technical challenges in the areas optimisation and learning. For optimisation, a standard Markov decision process applied to this problem is intractable, so we provide an exact formulation that takes advantage of the periodicities in human location behaviour. To learn such behaviour models from sparse data (i.e., cell tower observations), we develop a Bayesian model of human mobility. Using real cell tower data of the mobility behaviour of 50,000 individuals in Ivory Coast, we find that our model outperforms the state of the art approaches in mobility prediction by at least 25% (in held-out data likelihood). Furthermore, when incorporating mobility prediction with our MDP approach, we find a 81.3% reduction in total delivery time versus routine planning that minimises just the number of participants in the solution path
Intelligent agents for mobile location services
No full textUnderstanding human mobility patterns is a significant research endeavour that has recently received considerable attention. Developing the science to describe and predict how people move from one place to another during their daily lives promises to address a wide range of societal challenges: from predicting the spread of infectious diseases, improving urban planning, to devising effective emergency response strategies. Individuals are also set to benefit from this area of research, as mobile devices will be able to analyse their mobility pattern and offer context-aware assistance and information. For example, a service could warn about travel disruptions before the user is likely to encounter them, or provide recommendations and mobile vouchers for local services that promise to be of high value to the user, based on their predicted future plans. More ambitiously, control systems for home heating and electric vehicle charging could be enhanced with knowledge of when the user will be home. In this thesis, we focus on such anticipatory computing. Some aspects of the vision of context-awareness have been pursued for many years, resulting in mature research in the area of ubiquitous systems. However, the combination of surprisingly rapid adoption of advanced mobile devices by consumers and the broad acceptance of location-based apps has surfaced not only new opportunities, but also a number of pressing challenges.In more detail, these challenges are the (i) prediction of future mobility, (ii) inference of features of human location behaviour, and (iii) use of prediction and inference to make decisions about timely information or control actions. Our research brings together, for the first time, the entire workflow that a mobile location service needs to follow, in order to achieve an understanding of mobile user needs and to act on such understanding effectively. This framing of the problem highlights the shortcomings of existing approaches which we seek to address. In the current literature, prediction is only considered for established users, which implicitly assumes that new users will continue to use an initially inaccurate prediction system long enough for it to improve and increase in accuracy over time. Additionally, inference of user behaviour is mostly concerned with interruptibility, which does not take into account the constructive role of intelligent location services that goes beyond simply avoiding interrupting the user at inopportune times (e.g., in a meeting, or while driving). Finally, no principled decision framework for intelligent location services has been provided that takes into account the results of prediction and inference.To address these shortcomings, we make three main contributions to the state of the art. Firstly, we provide a novel Bayesian model that relates the location behaviour of new and established users, allowing the reuse of structure learnt from rich mobility data. This model shows a factor of 2.4 improvement over the state-of-the-art baseline in heldout data likelihood in experiments using the Nokia Lausanne dataset. Secondly, we give new tools for the analysis and prediction of routine in mobility, which is a latent feature of human behaviour, that informs the service about the user’s availability to follow up on any information provided. And thirdly, we provide a fully worked example of an intelligent mobile location service (a crowdsourced package delivery service) that performs decision-making using predictive densities of current and future user mobility. Simulations using real mobility data from the Orange Ivory Coast dataset indicate a 81.3% improvement in service efficiency when compared with the next best (non-anticipatory) approach
The Elemental Ideas of Harriet Beecher Stowe Revolutionized: Popular Thought in a Critical Period of American History
No full textReacting to oppression, and. its consequent cruelty, Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851 wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel was a reply to the evils of the slave system. For too long a time, an attitude of heartless submissiveness to slavery was noted in the united States. Sincere citizens of the North and the South alike saw its injustice. But either through the want of leadership, or through the fault of ignorance, these groups lacked the determination to make slavery an issue and to abolish the institution. The feeling and courage of a friend of humanity was needed. Mrs. Stowe assumed this role. With her, the harrowing scenes of cruelty amounted to disgrace; Christian charity and righteousness rose to honor and respect. Then, upon the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a new era of thought was ushered in; and its effects were soon felt not only in America tut also in the Old World.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
The Neogene expansion of C₄ dominated ecosystems: an Australian perspective
No full textOral Presentation Abstracts: Session 1 Paleoclimate and ancient environment IJake W. Andrae, Francesca A. McInerney, Jonathan J. Tyler, Tony Hal
Passed Acts; St. 1946, c.368, SC1/series 229, Petition of Timothy J. McInerney
No full textPetition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500563 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Timothy J. McInerney, Boston; committee on state administration Selected signatures:Timothy J. McInerney Actions taken on dates: 1946-01-17,1946-01-21 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 17, 1946 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1946 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: fair employment practice law, establishment of a state commission against discrimination, includes address, Roxbury, [many additional documents in folder] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1946, c.368, passed May 23, 1946 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p
"Through Humility the Path to Godliness Ascends on High": St. Augustine's Challenge to Modern Thought on Humility and Greatness
No full textDegree awarded: Ph.D. Systematic Theology. The Catholic University of America"Through Humility the Path to Godliness Ascends on High": St. Augustine's Challenge to Modern thought on Humility and GreatnessJoseph John McInerney, Ph.D.Director: Joseph E. Capizzi, Ph.D. "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted" (Lk 14:11). Few thinkers in the Christian tradition place greater emphasis on this Gospel principle than Augustine of Hippo. Augustine asserts that humility is the key to one's salvation and is the foundation of a person's greatness. Humility plays no such role, however, in the thought of classical or modern philosophers. The moral theories of Aristotle, Plotinus, Hume, and Nietzsche espouse little relation between humility and moral excellence or propose a view of that relationship in which humility is opposed to greatness. The purpose of this study is to detail the moral principles various thinkers use to approach the ideas of humility and greatness, thus demonstrating the manner in which each author comes to a particular conclusion regarding the relationship between the two principles. The focus of the study will be upon Augustine's conception of humility and greatness, as his understanding is unique in the positive value it attributes to humility in its relation to human excellence. Following an introductory chapter, the second section of the study describes classical conceptions of humility and greatness, investigating the views of Aristotle, the Stoic school of thought, Cicero, and Plotinus. The following three sections are devoted to the principles in which Augustine grounds his view of humility and greatness and a description of the relationship itself. Section three examines the scriptural and philosophical presuppositions that form Augustine's view of the relationship. The fourth section investigates the relation of humility to Augustine's understanding of morality. Section five details Augustine's explicit presentation of the relationship between humility and greatness. Following the description of Augustine's thought the sixth section examines the presentation of humility and greatness in the works of David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche. The seventh and final section provides a concluding analysis on the basis of Alasdair MacIntyre's methodology for comparing rival theories of moral enquiry. The study concludes that Augustine's position regarding the importance of humility to human greatness provides significant resources to the understanding of greatness lacking in authors who neglect or repudiate that importance.Made available in DSpace on 2012-11-01T17:08:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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