181 research outputs found
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
Aircraft fuel system prognostics and health management
No full textThis thesis contains the specific description of Group Design Project (GDP) and
Individual Research Project (IRP) that are undertaken by the author and form
part of the degree of Master of Science.
The target of GDP is to develop a novel and unique commercial flying wing
aircraft titled FW-11. FW-11 is a three-year collaborative civil aircraft project
between Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and Cranfield University.
According to the market analysis result conducted by the author, 250 seats
capacity and 7500 nautical miles were chosen as the design targets.
The IRP is the further study of GDP, which is to enhance the competitive
capability by deploying prognostics and health management (PHM) technology
to the fuel system of FW-11. As a novel and brand-new technology, PHM
enables the real-time transformation of system status data into alert and
maintenance information during all ground or flight operating phases to improve
the aircraft reliability and operating costs. Aircraft fuel system has a great
impact on flight safety. Therefore, the development of fuel system PHM concept
is necessary.
This thesis began with an investigation of PHM, then a safety and reliability
analysis of fuel system was conducted by using FHA, FMEA and FTA.
According to these analyses, fuel temperature diagnosis and prognosis were
chosen as a case study to improve the reliability and safety of FW-11. The PHM
architecture of fuel temperature had been established. A fuel temperature
prediction model was also introduced in this thesis
UAS Literary & Arts Journal
No full textProof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.What Have We Become? Vol. 5 / Galanin, Nicholas -- A Note From Kaleigh Lambert / Lambert, Kaleigh -- A Note From Thomas Bay / Bay, Thomas -- A Note From Andrew Lounsbury / Lounsbury, Andrew -- A Note From Emily Wall / Wall, Emily -- Sub 5 / Mundy, Joel -- Sub 1 / Mundy, Joel -- Another Morning like This / Johnson, Tina M. -- Hardest to Love /Johnson, Tina M. -- Reasons Why Pregnancy is Not My Idea of a Good Decision / Wendel, Courtney -- This Year in Haiku (a poem for you) / Dornbirer, McKenzie -- Clean Get-Away / Stokes, Richard -- Deflection of the Racism Curve / Stokes, Richard -- On Prince of Wales Island / Wilburn, Evelyn J. -- Frontier Justice / Elgie, Brooke -- Researching in the Woods / Kugo, Yoko -- Blueberry / Blefgen, Linda -- Nightfall / Boesser, Sara -- Alisa on the Flume / Helmar, Patrice -- Jalapeño & Cherry / Helmar, Patrice -- Answer the Subway Minstrel / Helmar, Patrice -- Clair on the Bus / Helmar, Patrice -- Reading the Waves / Kiffer, Dave -- Burial at Sea / Kiffer, Dave -- Interview with Featured Artist Nicholas Galanin / Lounsbury, Andrew -- I Killed and Indian Today / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become / Galanin, Nicholas -- I Killed an Indian Today 2 / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become? Vol. 5 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Indian River / Ingallinera, Kathy -- Underworld / Trainor, Amanda -- Winter Raven Totem / Blefgen, Linda -- Tactical Warfare / Boucher, Jacqueline -- Morning Stories / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- Two Times the Girl / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- Haiku Stand: Justice, for Allie / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- You Bring Out the Korean Adoptee in Me / Eriksen, Christy NaMee -- The Heritage of Adam / Radford, Richard -- Search Engine / Lane, Ashia -- Color Guard / Dauenhauer, Nora Marks -- Red Dogs and Onions / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Life Support / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Atonement 2009 / Dauenhauer, Richard -- Ravens Rue The Day / Cramer, Anna -- Maggie at the Greek Festival / Helmar, Patrice -- King / Campbell, Jack -- Sitka Harbor at Sunset / Cramer, Anna -- Blue Glacier / Girven, Wendy -- Kiss Me / Lane, Ashia -- Wade / Lane, Ashia -- Sitka Blacktail in Fall Meadow / Wendel, Courtney -- Bull Orca / Wendel, Courtney -- Aloha / Glanin, Nicholas -- Raven and the First Immigrant / Galanin, Nicholas -- Imaginary Indian Series / Galanin, Nicholas -- Devilish / Galanin, Nicholas -- What Have We Become? Vol. 4 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Love Birds / Galanin, Nicholas -- Anti Hero / Galanin, Nicholas -- Killer Whale Bracelet / Galanin, Nicholas -- Love Birds 3 / Galanin, Nicholas -- Chameleon Ring / Galanin, Nicholas -- Strings / Galanin, Nicholas -- Killer Whale / Galanin, Nicholas -- French Graffiti / Laster, Kate -- Love and the Immune System / Laster, Kate -- XIII / Laster, Kate -- Interview with Heather Lende / Lounsbury, Andrew -- Ruth’s Last Fairy Ride / Lende, Heather -- Sweet Caroline / Lende, Heather -- Singing Together With One Voice / Lende, Heather -- Running Beach / Campbell, Norman -- Burying Jack, June 2008 / Lende, Heather -- Brigid’s light: A Break from Rain / Christianson, Kersten -- 7 the first time we kissed / Holloway, Robyn -- Me and Tui at 13 / Holloway, Robyn -- Sunday school / Holloway, Robyn -- Amber, Lydia, and John / Bausler, Katie -- My Core / Hoffman, Anna -- Cranberry Juice-A Family Ordeal / Hoffman, Anna -- Brown Fat Old / Buffalo, T.M. -- Wait / Fisk, Chalise -- The Shimmering Forest / Morrison, Richard -- Forgotten / Morrison, Richard -- Turn at Martin’s / Pillsbury, Kent -- Smelting Rainbows / Pillsbury, Kent -- Burning Man / Fisk, Chalise -- I’m no daddy’s girl / Fisk, Chalise -- Paper Doll / Haight, Lauren -- For Poppy / McCauley, Roberta -- For Mammy / McCauley, Roberta -- The Catch / Vaida, Catelin -- Last Days of War / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- Act Like a Man / Prescott, Vivian Faith -- Shift Change at the Theatre / Pillsbury, Kent -- Kotzebue Harvest / Merk, William S. -- Echo Canyon / Merk, William S. -- Marbled Murrelet Chick About 23 Days Old / Armstrong, Bob -- Ice Ice Baby / Rivera, Edward -- Medicine Man / Galanin, Nicholas -- Knowledge / Galanin, Nicholas -- Author & Artist Biographies -- What Have We Become? Vol. 3 / Galanin, Nichola
Genomic imprinting disorders: lessons on how genome, epigenome and environment interact
No full textGenomic imprinting, the monoallelic and parent-of-origin-dependent expression of a subset of genes, is required for normal development, and its disruption leads to human disease. Imprinting defects can involve isolated or multilocus epigenetic changes that may have no evident genetic cause, or imprinting disruption can be traced back to alterations of cis-acting elements or trans-acting factors that control the establishment, maintenance and erasure of germline epigenetic imprints. Recent insights into the dynamics of the epigenome, including the effect of environmental factors, suggest that the developmental outcomes and heritability of imprinting disorders are influenced by interactions between the genome, the epigenome and the environment in germ cells and early embryos
Northern Industrial Scratch: The History and Contexts of a Visual Music Practice
No full textThe critical commentary presents and contextualizes a film and video making practice
spanning three decades. It locates a contemporary visual music practice within current
and emerging critical and theoretical contexts and tracks back the history of this
practice to the artist’s initial screenings of work as part of the 1980’s British Scratch
video art movement.
At the heart of the body of work presented here is an exploration and examination of
methods and working practices in the encounter of music, sound and moving image.
Central to this is an examination of the affective levels that sound and image can
operate on, in a transsensorial fusion, and political and cultural applications of such
encounters, whilst examining the epistemological regimes such work operates in.
A combination of factors has meant that work such as this, arising in the UK
provinces, can fall below the historicizing and critical radar – these include the
ephemeral and transitory nature of live performance work; the difficulties of
documenting such work; the fragility and degeneration of emerging and quickly
obsolescent formats; and a predominance of a London–centric focus on curating,
screening and historicizing of experimental film and video art practices.
My film and video practice has been screened nationally and internationally over
three decades, and has been recognized as exemplary practice both in the early 1980s
at the inception of the Scratch movement and in more recent retrospectives. The
critical commentary argues that this work contributes new knowledge of the history,
contexts and practices of film and video art and audiovisual and visual music
practices
Episode 20: Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects
No full textGuest Craig Whiteside and co-host Tim Hoyt join Dave Brown to discuss a recent book on Special Operations capabilities being developed by violent non-state actors, including various militants, mercenaries, and even criminal organizations. Join us for this discussion on the growing and emerging capabilities of the dark side of international security, as we examine the recent book, Non-State Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects, by Craig Whiteside and Ian Rice.
Article:
Non-state Special Operations - Capabilities and Effects, Ian Rice & Craig Whiteside, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026 - (ISBN 9781032594514)
Guests:
Timothy D. Hoyt, Ph.D. is a Senior Professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s Strategy and Policy Department. Professor Hoyt holds the John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism and Academic Director of the Advanced Strategist Program. Publications include articles on the war on terrorism in South Asia, the limits of military force in the global war on terrorism, military innovation and warfare in the developing world, and the impact of nuclear weapons on recent crises in South Asia. He is currently working on a book on American military strategy in the 21st Century, and a study of the strategy of the Irish Republican Army from 1913-2005.
Craig Whiteside is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College resident program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he teaches military officers as part of their professional military education. He is a senior associate with the Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and a fellow at the International Centre for Counter-terrorism – The Hague and George Washington\u27s Program on Extremism. Whiteside’s current research focuses on the doctrinal influences on the leadership of the so-called Islamic State movement and its evolving strategies. He is the co-author of The ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement (2020). He has a PhD in Political Science from Washington State University and a former U.S. Army officer with combat experience.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/the-trident/1019/thumbnail.jp
Open access self-archiving: An Introduction
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words, researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate.
In a separate exercise we asked the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd (IOPP) what their experiences have been over the 14 years that arXiv has been in existence. How many subscriptions have been lost as a result of arXiv? Both societies said they could not identify any losses of subscriptions for this reason and that they do not view arXiv as a threat to their business (rather the opposite -- this in fact the APS helped establish an arXiv mirror site at the Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Epigenetic Characterization of CDKN1C in Placenta Samples from Non-syndromic Intrauterine Growth Restriction
No full textThe cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-inhibitor 1C (CDKN1C) gene is expressed from the maternal allele and is located within the centromeric imprinted domain at chromosome 11p15. It is a negative regulator of proliferation, with loss-of function mutations associated with the overgrowth disorder Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Recently, gain-of-function mutations within the PCNA domain have been described in two disorders characterized by growth failure, namely IMAGe (intrauterine growth restriction, metaphyseal dysplasia, adrenal hypoplasia congenita and genital abnormalities) syndrome and Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS). Over-expression of CDKN1C by maternally inherited microduplications also results in SRS, suggesting that in addition to activating mutations this gene may regulate growth by changes in dosage. To determine if CDKN1C is involved in non-syndromic IUGR we compared the expression and DNA methylation levels in a large cohort of placental biopsies from IUGR and uneventful pregnancies. We observe higher levels of expression of CDKN1C in IUGR placentas compared to those of controls. All placenta biopsies heterozygous for the PAPA repeat sequence in exon 2 showed appropriate monoallelic expression and no mutations in the PCNA domain were observed. The expression profile was independent of both genetic or methylation variation in the minimal CDKN1C promoter interval and of methylation of the cis-acting maternally methylated region associated with the neighboring KCNQ1OT1 non-coding RNA. Chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed binding sites for CTCF within the unmethylated CDKN1C gene body CpG island and putative enhancer regions, associated with the canonical enhancer histone signature, H3K4me1 and H3K27ac, located 58 and 360 kb away. Using 3C-PCR we identify constitutive higher-order chromatin loops that occur between one of these putative enhancer regions and CDKN1C in human placenta tissues, which we propose facilitates expression
Episode 12: Playing with Fire: Election Violence in the U.S. in 2024 & Beyond
No full textProfessor Jacob Ware joins host Col. Dave Brown and Dr. Timothy Hoyt to discuss both current manifestations of and potential future episodes of election violence in this presidential election cycle. Quoting from one of Professor Ware\u27s recent articles, counterterrorism scholars and analysts have predicted for [some time] that the 2024 presidential election would provide a particularly volatile flashpoint for election violence. The near-assassination of Trump demonstrates the accuracy of these concerns—but they are only part of the story.
The conversation ranges from how political rhetoric framed in existential terms drives these outcomes, the staggering percentages of the U.S. polity that feel violence might be necessary to fix U.S. political problems, and identifies potential target orientations before, during, and after the election. This timely discussion focuses on the growth and significance of both realized and potential political violence in our country as we move into this important election season, and beyond.
Articles/Reference: Election Violence Is Already in Full Swing, J. Ware, Lawfare, 22 Sep 2024 Opinion: Trump Assassination Attempts are Just the Beginning. Imagine What is Coming After the Election, J. Ware & C. Clarke, L.A. Times, 17 Sep 2024 How Bad Will Political Violence in the U.S. Get? B. Hoffman & J. War, Foreign Policy, 28 Jun 2024 Preventing U.S. Election Violence in 2024, J. Ware, CFR, 17 April 2024 Political Violence Becomes America\u27s New Norm - But is Still Shocking, A. Zurcher, BBC, 15 Sep 2024 2 Virginia Guardsmen Are Running a Rural Anti-Government Militia, S. Beynon, Military.com, 5 Sep 2024 Could Civil War Erupt in America?, R. Agrawal, Foreign Policy, 29 Aug 2024 (video) Iran Hack Illuminates Long-Standing Trends—and Raises New Challenges, R. DiResta, Lawfare, 26 Aug 2024 Two Ex-Marines Sentenced for Terror Plot to Attack Power Grid, N. Slayton, Task & Purpose, 27 Jul 2024 FBI Probing Trump Rally Shooting as ‘Domestic Terrorism’ as RNC Opens, Al Jazeera, 15 Jul 2024
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Guests:
Timothy D. Hoyt, Ph.D. – Co-Host Senior Professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s Strategy and Policy Department. Professor Hoyt holds the John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism and Academic Director of the Advanced Strategist Program. Publications include articles on the war on terrorism in South Asia, the limits of military force in the global war on terrorism, military innovation and warfare in the developing world, and the impact of nuclear weapons on recent crises in South Asia. He is currently working on a book on American military strategy in the 21st Century, and a study of the strategy of the Irish Republican Army from 1913-2005.
Jacob Ware Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he studies domestic and international terrorism and counterterrorism. Together with Bruce Hoffman, he is the author of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America. In addition to his work at CFR, Ware is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches a class on domestic terrorism, as well as at DeSales University. He also serves on the editorial boards for the academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and was a spring 2024 visiting fellow at the University of Oslo\u27s Center for Research on Extremism.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/the-trident/1011/thumbnail.jp
Derrida and postmodernity: At the end(s) of history
No full textThis thesis erects and defends the proposition that Jacques Derrida's readings of 'metaphysics in deconstruction' and his raising to theoretical consciousness of the 'differential matrix', have the capacity to inaugurate a 'brave new world' in this postmodern 'age of the aporia'. Beginning with an examination of Derrida's readings of Husserl and Saussure, it is argued that the radical historicity uncovered here qua an originary synthesis of language, time and the other, opens the possibility for greatly more democratising and emancipating self-creations and human solidarities to be thought. In terms of 'self-creations', and borrowing from the work of Elizabeth Deeds Errnarth, Chapter Two follows Derrida as modernity's sovereign subject and its 'History' are dis-placed by an absolutely affirmative postmodern subjectivity whose axiom might be 'I inherit, therefore, I am ... yes, yes ... ' Construed through his deconstructive reading of Kant, Derrida shows the way in which this postmodern subjectivity without alibi, makes of us all (like it or not, know it or not) resistance fighters, so many singularities existing in constant tension with all normalising/totalising tendencies (social, economic, techno-scientific, political, legal etc ... ) which profess to know the secret. Turning to co-extensive 'human solidarities', Chapter Three subsequently demonstrates the way in which Derrida's call for a 'New International', orientated through a 'new figure of Europe', enables us to imagine new polysemic communities (local, national, international) founded on the 'aporia of the demos', a 'foundation' that construes its hyper-relativity as a positive (ethico-political) condition of decision in terms of a radical responsibility (on an individual and communal level) for the moral/aesthetic decisions we make. It is thus that I will argue that Derrida's vision for a 'new world order' is born out of an aporetic condition which is both a risk and a chance of both the best - and the worst - happening; as someone who shares Derrida's desire for a fairer, freer, more peaceful world, one respectful of difference and otherness, I believe this to be a 'poker like gamble' well worth taking. Chapter Four offers a comparative analysis between the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, two theorists counter-signing differently many of the 'same' discourses/ traditions/cultures/languages, etc ... to which they are both heirs. The chapter examines their respective 'quasi-philosophies of the limit', together with their differing conceptions of the issues surrounding globalisation and universalisation, as well as Baudrillard' s elevation of America (as opposed to Europe) as the exemplary site of resistance against the dangers of totalisation in 'postmodem' societies. The central argument here, in line with my previous remarks, is that Derrida's thought arguably remains 'the best' way to navigate the postmodem condition and the challenges it produces. The originality of this thesis lies in two main areas, the first having to do with my presentation and conception of Derrida's oeuvre and the second having to do with the comparisons made in this study between Derrida and Ermarth and Derrida and Baudrillard. In terms of the former, I offer what I consider to be a unique, sustained, in-depth analysis of the 'development' (on a theoretical and practical level) of the thematics of 'radical historicity' and of 'post-historical man' - effectively the development of Derrida's quasi-philosophy of history- from his earliest works so that they can be seen to inform his later intervention(s) in what are conventionally understood as ethical and political matters; transforming this understanding in the process and, after the end of history's ends (upper case, lower case and the totalising 'history of meaning' per se), quite literally and radically changing the way we see what we call 'the world'. For while in the conventional literature Derrida's politics come late, I argue here that his indeed later political work is but an emphasis of constant political thematics acting as a leitmotif from beginning to end. Turning to the latter, in terms of the comparisons I make - first between Derrida and Ermarth in Chapter Two and more especially between Derrida and Baudrillard in Chapter Four - the claim to originality lies in the fact that there is no comparison of any note or depth in the literature between these thinkers; nothing that compares Derrida's 'affirmative postmodem subjectivity' and its 'inheritance' with Ermarth's 'rhythmic time' and 'muIti-level consciousness', and nothing comparing Derrida's corpus - specifically his optimistic emancipating and democratizing hopes for the future - with Baudrillard's more pessimistic conceptualization of 'simulation society' and the loss of our European universal values under the hegemonic, globalising movement of the 'American model'. The aim of these two comparisons is to support my claim that Derrida's historico-political position is the 'best' way of essaying the quasi-ground of an in(different) politics in such a way that it keeps the future open to what he calls a 'better world' to come, a world without ends
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