486 research outputs found
Older women in local parties: marginalised or empowered?
No full textThe subject of older women in politics has rarely been investigated and very little is thus known about their motivation to be active in party membership. Vicky Randall’s interview-based study in seven English parliamentary constituencies sheds some light on the matter. Randall finds a mixed picture, showing that older women give a substantial contribution to the party, not least through fundraising activities, while facing a number of obstacles in making their voice heard. At the same time, however, political life benefits senior women by allowing them to claim an active role in society
Games as subject-matter for learning in primary physical education
No full textThis is an accepted manuscript of a chapter published by Routledge in An Introduction to Primary Physical Education edited by Gerald Griggs, Vicky Randall on 08/02/2022, available online at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257783 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.Games has been one of the cornerstones of Physical Education teaching since its earliest inclusion in the school timetable. However, it is an area that is inherently complex and such has often been delivered poorly or without real clarity of purpose. These issues are tackled head on in this chapter. To support the practitioner in creating intelligible competitive games that match players’ skilfulness and maturity, the chapter deconstructs sporting forms of games into games as subject-matter for learning. Subject-matter for learning focuses attention on the learning experiences that can be developed through playing games. This includes examining the tactical problems competitive games pose, solutions to these tactical problems and the associated skilfulness needed to enact these solutions. These game constructs are employed to utilise this understanding to permit more explicit understanding of ways to develop technical competence and decision-making within game play.Published onlin
PELEMBAGAAN PARTAI POLITIK (Assessment derajat kesisteman Vicky Randall dan Lars Svasan pada partai Gerindra kota Tangerang)
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pelembagaan partai politik khususnya drajat kesisteman. Wujud dari keberlanjutan partai politik adalah munculnya kader-kader yang memiliki kapabilitas dan komitmen terhadap dinamika partai politik untuk masa depan. Terdapat elemen structural dan sikap/cultural (budaya) pada pelembagaan partai. Dimensi internal menjelaskan mengenai hubungan antar bagian dalam tubuh partai, dimana pada bagian ini berimplikasi pada peningkatan kontinuitas dan prospek terhadap akuntabilitas pemilu. Metode pendekatan yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif dengan menggunakan konsep kaderisasi yang melakat dalam fungsi partai politik. Selain itu, penulis juga menggunakan teori Pelembagaan partai politik dari Vicky Randall dan Lars Svasand, proses pemantapan partai politik baik secara struktural dalam rangka mempolakan perilaku maupun secara kultural dalam mempolakan sikap atau budaya. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa secara internal, Partai Gerindra kota Tangerang menghadapi pelembagaan internal partai politik yang cenderung masih mengandalkan keadaan lingkungan belum terlembaga dengan maksimal. Upaya yang harus dilakukan adalah perkaderan struktur partai harus di maksimalkan agar membentuk pola dan menjadi karakter partai dan juga memaksimalkan fungsi partai politik secara umum dengan maksimal
Vicky Henderson
No full textthis paper. The second author is supported by an Advanced Fellowship from the EPSRC. The third author acknowledges partial financial support from DAAD, EPSRC and KW
Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping
No full textPerceptual grouping is the process by which a set of image elements is divided into distinct “objects” or components. In this dissertation I propose a Bayesian framework for understanding perceptual grouping, in which the goal of the computation is to estimate the organization that best explains the observed configuration of image elements. I formalize the problem of perceptual grouping as a mixture estimation problem, where it is assumed that the configuration of elements is generated by a set of distinct components (or ”objects”), whose underlying parameters one seeks to estimate. In the first part of this dissertation I will propose a simplified version of the framework and show how it can be used to estimate the number of objects, more specifically clusters of dots, present in the image. Across two experiments I show how the model gives an accurate and quantitatively precise account of subjects’ numerosity judgments, while at the same time outperforming more standard accounts for dot clustering. In the second part of the dissertation this simplified framework is expanded to estimate a hierarchical representation of the image elements. This framework can easily be adjusted to different subproblems of perceptual grouping. Here I will show how an instantiation of our framework for contour integration, part decomposition, and shape completion can account for several key perceptual phenomena and previously collected human subject data.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Vicky Froye
Politics in the Development World.
No full textPolitics in the Development World.Peter Burnell y Vicky Randall. Nueva York: Oxford University Press,2005
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