563 research outputs found
A Century of Mathematical Excellence at Spelman College
No full textThis file consists of the presentation slides of a presentation by Colm Mulcahy at the AMS-NAM Joint Special Session on The Mathematics of the Atlanta University Center. The event was held Thursday January 5, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. KEYWORDS: Mathematics, Spelman College, Histor
Short Stories, Novels and Spain. An Interview With Colm Tóibín
No full textColm Tóibín (Enniscorthy, 1955) is the author of five novels, The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship(1999) and The Master (2004). This last novel won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger for the best foreign novel published in 2005 in France, and it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Colm Tóibín has a long career in journalism and was the editor of the magazine Magill from 1982 to 1985. He is also the author of several non-fiction books, including Homage to Barcelona (1990) and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994). He edited The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) and has recently published his first book of short stories,Mothers and Sons (2006). Colm Tóibín attended the 10th International Conference on the Short Story in English, held at University College Cork on 19-21 June 2008, where this interview took place
CPA on Hardware Implementation of COLM Authenticated Cipher and Protect it with DOM Masking Scheme
No full textAuthenticated encryption schemes provide both confidentiality and integrity services, simultaneously. Correlation power analysis (CPA) can be a thread for authenticated ciphers, like all physical implementations of any cryptographic system. In this paper, for the first time, a three-steps CPA attack against COLM, one of the winners of CAESAR, is presented to indicate its vulnerability. For this purpose, in this research paper, this authenticated encryption scheme is implemented on the FPGA of the SAKURA-G board and, by measuring and collecting 1,800 power traces, a successful CPA attack with zero value power model has been mounted on it. In addition, a protected hardware architecture for the COLM is proposed to make this design secure against first-order CPA attacks. To this end, a domain-oriented masking (DOM) scheme with two inputs/outputs share is used to protect the COLM. To verify the security of these countermeasures, we mounted a first and second-order CPA attack and a non-specified t-test on the protected COLM
A Guest at the Feast
No full textColm Tóibín\u27s touching memoir, A Guest at the Feast, beautifully read by the author himself. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author\u27s early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín\u27s captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1452/thumbnail.jp
Economic Aspects of Personal Injury Compensation in Ireland
No full textVictims of events including road accidents, workplace injuries and medical negligence are compensated in the Irish legal system through once-off lump-sum awards. In cases where victims have suffered incapacitating injuries but have extended life expectancy, these awards include provision for loss of earnings and life-long medical care that can run into millions. Where liability is contested, significant litigation costs also arise, but even where liability is admitted, the determination of quantum is complex, requiring evidence about future medical care costs, loss of earnings, life expectancy and the returns to be expected from the investment of the lump sum award. The once-off lump sum system of compensating successful plaintiffs has been criticised over the years from both legal and economic perspectives, and change was recommended in a Law Reform Commission report in 1996. Mr. Justice Nicholas Kearns, President of the High Court, established recently a working group to consider the issues involved and charged it to report by November 2010. Since 1995, courts in the United Kingdom have been free to award periodic payments, as distinct from once-off lump sums, where the parties agree, and since the passage of the 2003 Courts Act, whether or not they agree. It is opportune to consider whether periodic payments should be introduced in Ireland and this paper reviews the principal economic aspects of the issue. The paper also considers whether a move to periodic payments would require changes to the government bond market, specifically the issuance of long-dated index-linked Exchequer debt.Compensation awards, catastrophic injury, lump-sum compensation, periodic payments, index-linked annuities
Planners Get Their Way — and Newry? The Persistence of Colonial Attitudes in the North of Ireland
No full textAugust 1964. Geoffrey Copcutt, an English architect appointed only 18 months earlier by the Northern Ireland (NI) government to design the region’s first ‘New City’ of Craigavon, announces his resignation in an explosive public statement, alleging that he has been “asked to engineer propaganda rather than a city” and criticising the “religious and political considerations” constraining the project.
This episode is only one in a string of controversies revealing the sectarian nature of the “new technocratic strategy of economic modernisation and regional planning” that transformed the built environment of NI from the early 1960s onwards. These included the 1964 Lockwood Committee and 1965 Wilson Plan, both of which concentrated investment and economic development in unionist (mainly Protestant, identifying as British) strongholds, at the expense of nationalist (mainly Catholic, identifying as Irish) areas, as a way to maintain unionist hegemony. While this represented a continuation of practices of dispossession and disenfranchisement that had been ongoing since the 16th and 17th century British plantations of Ireland, the same processes of modernisation also heralded the foundation of the welfare state, leading to the emergence of an increasingly well-educated minority and an associated movement for equality and civil rights. By the late 1960s, the brutal suppression of this movement would erupt into a decades-long cycle of violence known as the Troubles.
With the advent of power sharing since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the fragile, incomplete peace process that it ushered in, such blatant sectarianism and inequality in planning has become a thing of the past. Curiously, however, the same colonial structures and decision-making processes remain a feature of NI planning at local, regional and (inter)national scales. This is evident in the continued colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland (recently highlighted by the imposition of Brexit against the will of NI electorate), but is also to be found in many of the decisions and actions taken by public representatives across the political spectrum.
This paper traces how processes of modernisation have influenced, intersected with, and been informed by the major social and political upheavals during the last 75 years in the North of Ireland. Through revisiting and diffractively re-reading official archival material through other sources, including local and national newspaper accounts, private photographs, video reels and independently-published pamphlets from activists and community groups, it explores how colonial attitudes became embedded in urban planning. Finally, in assessing two controversial infrastructure projects currently being built just 6.4km apart across the same river estuary on the Irish border, namely the Narrow Water Bridge and the Newry Southern Relief Road, the paper examines the extent to which (neo)colonial approaches have become so ingrained that they continue to shape post-conflict urban development on both sides of the political divide
Planners Get Their Way — and Newry? The Persistence of Colonial Attitudes in the North of Ireland
No full textAugust 1964. Geoffrey Copcutt, an English architect appointed only 18 months earlier by the Northern Ireland (NI) government to design the region’s first ‘New City’ of Craigavon, announces his resignation in an explosive public statement, alleging that he has been “asked to engineer propaganda rather than a city” and criticising the “religious and political considerations” constraining the project.
This episode is only one in a string of controversies revealing the sectarian nature of the “new technocratic strategy of economic modernisation and regional planning” that transformed the built environment of NI from the early 1960s onwards. These included the 1964 Lockwood Committee and 1965 Wilson Plan, both of which concentrated investment and economic development in unionist (mainly Protestant, identifying as British) strongholds, at the expense of nationalist (mainly Catholic, identifying as Irish) areas, as a way to maintain unionist hegemony. While this represented a continuation of practices of dispossession and disenfranchisement that had been ongoing since the 16th and 17th century British plantations of Ireland, the same processes of modernisation also heralded the foundation of the welfare state, leading to the emergence of an increasingly well-educated minority and an associated movement for equality and civil rights. By the late 1960s, the brutal suppression of this movement would erupt into a decades-long cycle of violence known as the Troubles.
With the advent of power sharing since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the fragile, incomplete peace process that it ushered in, such blatant sectarianism and inequality in planning has become a thing of the past. Curiously, however, the same colonial structures and decision-making processes remain a feature of NI planning at local, regional and (inter)national scales. This is evident in the continued colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland (recently highlighted by the imposition of Brexit against the will of NI electorate), but is also to be found in many of the decisions and actions taken by public representatives across the political spectrum.
This paper traces how processes of modernisation have influenced, intersected with, and been informed by the major social and political upheavals during the last 75 years in the North of Ireland. Through revisiting and diffractively re-reading official archival material through other sources, including local and national newspaper accounts, private photographs, video reels and independently-published pamphlets from activists and community groups, it explores how colonial attitudes became embedded in urban planning. Finally, in assessing two controversial infrastructure projects currently being built just 6.4km apart across the same river estuary on the Irish border, namely the Narrow Water Bridge and the Newry Southern Relief Road, the paper examines the extent to which (neo)colonial approaches have become so ingrained that they continue to shape post-conflict urban development on both sides of the political divide
A study on the perception of stress and its individual difference relationship with curiosity, personality, self esteem and perceived social support
No full textThe aim of this study was to investigate to what degree individual differences in curiosity,
personality, self esteem and perceived social support are associated with perceived stress.
One hundred customer service employees completed questionnaires collected through an
anonymous survey collector website (www.surveymonkey.com). A convenience sample
technique was used to collect customer service employee responses from multinational
companies in Dublin and a snowball collection technique was used through LinkedIn and
Facebook networking sites. The outcome of the study found three variables as significant
predictors of perceived stress, namely conscientiousness, gender and neuroticism. Gender
was found to have no significant relationship with the predictor variables. Curiosity was not
found to be significantly related to perceived stress however it did have a positive moderate
correlation with the personality trait conscientiousness. The study indicates that future
interventions in relation to stress management especially in customer service centre
organisations need to factor in gender, curiosity and trait variables into their continuous
improvement and design. Author keywords: stress, perception, curiosity, self-esteem, personalit
Settlement of axially loaded pile groups in inhomogeneous soil
No full textAccurate prediction of settlement is key to performance-based design of pile groups. Simple methods based on physically motivated modelling assumptions, in conjunction with wisely chosen soil material constants, can accurately predict settlements without having to perform complex numerical analysis in three dimensions. Interaction factors, introduced by Poulos, simplify the analysis of pile groups through superposition of the effects of only two piles at a time. Closed-form solutions for interaction factors between piles in homogeneous soils are available in the literature, incorporating both the displacement field around a single pile and the reinforcing effect of a second pile. This paper will investigate pile groups embedded in inhomogeneous soils with shear modulus varying with a power law function of depth. The problem is formulated by considering the response of a ‘receiver’ pile carrying no load at its head, subjected to the displacement field of a loaded ‘source’ pile. A simplified approximate expression is developed using a model error correction factor that is suitable for routine design use. The performance of the proposed model at predicting experimental results is investigated. Dimensionless design charts and an illustrative example are provided
Electrification of isolated areas by interconnecting renewable sources : a sustainable approach
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