232 research outputs found
iOS 6 Foundations
No full textJesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has been developing for mobile devices since the early 1990s, beginning with Apple's Newton, and continuing on with the complete line of iOS products, including iPhone, iPod toch and iPad.Treehouse is a consortium of web and software designers and developers whose mission is to bring affordable technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world. In keeping with that mission, the Treehouse series of books are authored by experts and loaded with innovative design ideas and practical skill-building instruction. if you're a web developer, web designer, hobbyist, or career-changer, every book in the series belongs on your bookshel
Sportvereine
No full textBreuer C, Feiler S, Wicker P. Sportvereine. In: Schmidt W, Neuber N, Rauschenbach T, Brandl-Bredenbeck HP, Süßenbach J, Breuer C, eds. Dritter Deutscher Kinder- und Jugendsportbericht: Kinder- und Jugendsport im Umbruch. Schorndorf: Hofmann; 2015: 104-117
Architecture-Driven Semantic Analysis of Embedded Systems (Eds) Dagstuhl Seminar 12272
No full textArchitectural modeling of complex embedded systems is gaining prominence in recent years, both in academia and in industry. An architectural model represents components in a distributed system as boxes with well-defined interfaces, connections between ports on component interfaces, and specifies component properties that can be used in analytical reasoning about the model. Models are hierarchically organized, so that each box can contain another system inside, with its own set of boxes and connections between them.
The goal of Dagstuhl Seminar 12272 “Architecture-Driven Semantic Analysis of Embedded Systems” is to bring together researchers who are interested in defining precise semantics of an architecture description language and using it for building tools that generate analytical models from architectural ones, as well as generate code and configuration scripts for the system.
This report documents the program and the outcomes of the presentations and working groups held during the seminar
Art and the artist in the literary works of Elsa Triolet
No full textThis thesis takes a representative selection of Triolet's works to study the themes of writing and creativity as they are presented in the novels. These are all portraits of artists and the accounts of the search for a synthesis of aesthetic freedom and ethical responsibility. It considers Triolet's importance as a foreign writer, adopting a new creative language to be adopted by a different cultural
environment, to be essential in understanding her importance to the French literary tradition. By emphasising her formative years in the avant-garde circles of prerevolutionary Russia, my study demonstrates her considerable contribution to the meeting of Russian and French aesthetic theories. I extend this with close textual
readings of certain works to demonstrate her techniques in novelistic construction which reveal many Formalist practices before Formalist works in translation made
their official influence on creative methods.
The introduction considers the reasons for Triolet's neglect as a writer. It then considers various contemporary and recent critical appraisals which indicate
the interest she has received until present and which allow me to define my own critical approach. Part One traces Triolet's literary evolution from her formative
years in Russia, through exile to her first publications in Russian. It then considers her insertion into French literary activity, and her association with the schools of
socialist realism and the "nouveau roman".
Part Two examines two traditional novels which portray the creative and metaphorical roles of the artist and his work, showing the constant conflict between private and public lives. In Part Three, I show how aspects of novelistic
traditionalism are gradually foregrounded so that the work develops a dual-sided character where it both narrates and examines the processes of its own narration. In Part Four, this move to highly self-conscious aesthetics demonstrates an idiosyncratic exploration of new paths for the novel that bring visual, auditive and cinematographic media into the traditional domain of written art. Accompanying
the very post-modernist experimentation, I show how this research within the novel into the novel's own future has an ethical and redemptive purpose whose final conclusion is that creativity and human freedom are inexorably interwoven
A Self-Regulation Perspective of Applicant Behavior in the Employment Interview
No full textThe job interview is an evaluative situation that evokes considerable self-regulation for many job candidates, wherein they monitor their responses and behaviour closely. For example, interviewees focus on creating a favourable self-presentation or actively suppressing their feelings of interview anxiety, which are both critical to succeeding in the job interview and require significant cognitive resources. My dissertation focused on two independent research questions that explored the role of self-regulation in the job interview from the perspective of the job candidate. The first question was to examine whether portraying a favourable self-presentation in the job interview is cognitively taxing. In Study 1, laboratory participants were assigned to an incongruent or congruent self-presentation condition and were asked to complete the Ravens Progressive Matrices following the interview. Consistent with past research, I hypothesized that participants in the incongruent condition (e.g., unfamiliar self-presentation) would require more cognitive resources than those in the congruent condition (e.g., familiar self-presentation), and as a result would perform worse and persist less on a second task that is cognitively demanding. I also investigated whether interview anxiety and trait self-control would moderate the relation between condition and persistence (or performance) on the Ravens Matrices. The hypotheses in Study 1 were largely unsupported and highlight the importance of investigating causal mechanisms that underlie self-regulation and self-control. My second research question focused on whether those who experience interview anxiety direct their attention internally and consequently, engage in excessive levels of self-regulation. In Study 2, a community-based sample of participants who struggle with their interview anxiety participated in two interviews. All participants completed the same first interview and were assigned to one of four conditions (positive imagery, field, placebo, control condition) prior to their second interview. I examined changes in interview anxiety, self-focused attention and negative self-thought, interviewing self-efficacy and interview performance from interview 1 to interview 2. The results of Study 2 suggested that interview anxiety, self-focused attention, and interviewing self-efficacy improved significantly over time for those in the experimental and placebo conditions, but not in the control condition. Theoretical and practical implications as well as recommendations for future research are discussed
The Home School Knowledge Exchange Project; linking home and school to improve children’s literacy
No full textThe Government is urging teachers to engage more closely with families and is promoting the concept of the 'extended' school. This article reports on the literacy strand of the Home School Knowledge Exchange (HSKE) project, directed by Professor Martin Hughes at the University of Bristol. A selection of literacy activities developed during this project is discussed - activities that enabled teachers and parents to share their knowledge about children in order to enhance their learning. These included 'school-to-home' activities where the direction of knowledge was primarily from teachers to families and 'home-to-school' activities where families' knowledge of children impacted on school learning. Practical aspects of planning and conducting home-school knowledge exchange activities are discussed, and challenges are explored. The approaches presented in this article provide examples that could be considered and adapted by schools interested in extending their provision for families. This article draws on the recently published Improving Primary Literacy: Linking Home and School (Feiler et al., 2007). © 2008 The Author(s). Journal compilation © 2008 NASEN
Design and Analysis of Multi-Core Architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems
No full textInternational audienceCyber-Physical Systems are becoming software intensive, collocating many functions on a single processor and requiring a significant processing capacity which increased over the years. In recent years, improving processing performance has been achieved by adding more processing cores on the same chip rather than increasing its frequency. This new design also introduces issues: interaction among cores may impact software performance and might also arm software isolation layers, such as the one defined in ARINC653. For that reason, software using multi-core architecture must be carefully designed and specified with hardware and software aspects. This would help to analyze the system and detect potential design issue. This paper proposes an approach to represent multi-core architectures and their association with software ar-tifacts, such as the ones used for cyber-physical systems (e.g., the ARINC653 platform). For that purpose, we use the AADL language and define specific modeling patterns with new properties
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