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A set of nine principles for distributed-design information storing
No full textThe issues of distributed working are many, with problems relating to information access and information acquisition the most common (Crabtree et al., 1997). Keeping track of project and team information is becoming more complex as design is increasingly being carried out collaboratively by geographically dispersed design teams across different time zones. The literature notes that little prescription or guidance exists on information management for designers (Culley et al., 1999) and Hicks (2007) highlights a relative lack of overall principles for improving information management. Additionally, evidence from earlier studies by the author into ‘How information is stored in distributed design project work’ reinforces the need for guidance, particularly in a distributed context (Grierson, 2008). Distributed information collections were found to be unorganised, contained unclear information and lacked context. Storing and sharing of distributed information was often time consuming and the tools awkward to use. This can lead to poor project progress and can impact directly on the quality and success of project outcomes (Grierson et al., 2004, 2006). This paper seeks to address these issues by presenting the development, implementation and evaluation of a set of Principles and a Framework to support distributed design information storing in the context of a Global Design class. Through both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods the Principles were found to help in a number of ways – with the easy access of information; the structuring and organising of information; the creation of an information strategy; the making of information clear and concise; the supporting of documentation during project work; and the strengthening of team work; all helping teams to work towards project outcomes
Apprenticeship policy in England: increasing skills versus boosting young people’s job prospects.
Full text linkSuccessive British governments have committed substantial public resources to apprentice training, but far too few young people benefit and not enough high value skills have been developed. That is the central conclusion of a new report published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). The report’s author, Dr Hilary Steedman, who has nearly 30 years of research experience in this field, calls for a change in the country’s apprenticeship model.
Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades
No full textFrom the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. One of the first book-length studies of the writer's work, Reading Hilary Mantel explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political, social and ethical resonances. Combining material from original interviews with the author herself with psychoanalytic, historicist and deconstructivist critical perspectives, Reading Hilary Mantel is a landmark study of this important and popular contemporary novelist
HILARY MANTEL'S HISTORICAL DILOGY AND «THE MEMORY OF A GENRE»
No full textTwo historical novels of Hilary Mantel are under analysis in the essay in the context of the development of historical novel and the dialectics of traditions and innovations. The author tries to show the place which the novels analyzed occupy in the development of the genre of historical novel. The author argues on some essential peculiarities and originality of the artistic world of the novels: its narration, character-making, collisions, genre structure, approach to the history as socio-cultural wholeness, specific interpretation of famous historical facts and figures. In the essay it is shown the ways in which the tendencies of so called ‘plotted history’ and ‘subjectivization of history’ are being realized in the novels about Thomas Cromwell. The main point here is that the bulk of the English history of the XVI century in its decisive moments are poured out into the inner world of the protagonist and as such is presented. The author of the essay argues that Mantel is more interested in cultural movements of the time; that is why she depicts an individual whose role in English history is not only political but socio-cultural. It is stressed in the essay that the figure of the protagonist as the narrative centre of the dilogy is an example of the synthesis of two dominant trends in contemporary English novel — reflexive (self-analitical and self-knowlegeable) and historical
‘What cannot be fixed, measured, confined’: The mobile texts of Hilary Mantel
No full text‘I don’t know, you wait twenty years for a Booker prize, two come along at once!’ was Hilary Mantel’s laconic response to winning for the second time. A respected, if critically neglected, British author, she had in fact been writing and publishing for over twenty years when she won the Booker prize in 2009 for her tenth novel, Wolf Hall. She then made literary history by winning for a second time in 2012 with the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, an unprecedented achievement that catapulted her into the realms of global stardom. The Tudor novels have since been adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton and have been performed to much critical acclaim in Stratford, London and Broadway. Similarly, the 2015 BBC dramatization has aired in both the UK and the US to glowing reviews. Yet, despite Mantel’s renown and popularity at home and abroad, there remains surprisingly little critical material interpreting the rich and varied content of her work. As a result, this collection of essays aims to introduce students, scholars and general readers of Mantel’s writing to the diversity of her texts in order to showcase the extraordinary range and reach of this contemporary British author, currently at the peak of her writing life. The essays will explore the recurring themes of ambiguity, ghosts, trauma, childhood and memory that both trace and, in many ways, define Mantel’s oeuvre. The collection will also examine the challenge to conventional evocations of the past that underpins Mantel’s historical novels, from A Place of Greater Safety (1992) through to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, as well as the complex experimentation with perspective and tense that really sets apart her later work on Thomas Cromwell. The main objective of this book is to provide a wide-range of readers with a guide to Mantel’s historical fiction, autobiographical writing and short stories, as well as some of her more experimental early novels, that will help explain those most ambiguous elements of her corpus while demonstrating her fearlessness and breadth as a writer
A Juvenile Miscellany: An Anthology of Lydia Maria Child’s Writing for Children
No full textEdited with an introduction by Hilary Emmett & Thomas Ruys Smith in collaboration with students from the Department of American Studies at UEA. Author and activist Lydia Maria Child was a foundational figure in the development of American literature in the early nineteenth century. After her debut novel Hobomok (1824) challenged readers with its representation of interracial marriage, she continued to blaze literary trails for the rest of her life, developing a loyal readership as she confronted the most pressing issues in American life. She wrote novels, poems and short stories, composed housekeeping and parenting manuals, edited abolitionist newspapers and narratives—most notably Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Less well-known is that she almost single-handedly invented a new American literature for children. For decades, and particularly during her time at the helm of groundbreaking children’s magazine The Juvenile Miscellany (1826-1834), Child was a constant companion for young readers across the world. For the first time, this anthology brings together a career-spanning collection of Child’s writing for children which demonstrates the extraordinary richness and range of her vital work in this field. As she shaped the idea of what children’s literature could be and do, Child trusted her young readers to understand difficult questions of social and racial justice, explorations of natural and national history, sentimental domestic sketches, and much more besides. Contemporary readers can now rediscover the delight that the arrival of a new issue of The Juvenile Miscellany brought to the world while grappling critically with the ongoing resonance of these questions in the twenty-first century
The anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers
Full text linkThis thesis examines the theological of the fourth-century bishop, Hilary of Poitiers, concentrating particularly on two commentaries written at different times in his life. The thesis starts by examining the texts, and demonstrates that Hilary's commentary on Psalm 118 is loosely speaking a translation of Origen; by comparing both authors with Ambrose, the relationship between Origen and Hilary appears much closer than previously thought. The main body of the thesis examines Hilary's anthropological theology. Three chapters look at created human nature, looking at the relationship between body and soul, human nature as imago dei, and the extent to which human nature can be treated as a platonic universal. The general conclusion is that Hilary is not particularly platonic, and at this stage is not particularly stoic either, but rather is eclectic in his choice of philosophical ideas. The influence of Origen is clear but Hilary only uses Origen’s theology critically. There follow four chapters on the Fall and its impact, focussing particularly on its effects on human nature. In particular it is shown that Hilary presages Augustine's teaching of the fallen will; in Hilary the Will is described as being in thrall to her mother-in-law Disobedience. Another human malady is the effect of the passions or emotions, where Hilary is influenced by Stoic ideas of the process of human action; nevertheless, concepts such as apatheia or the propatheiai do not appear in his work. These constraints on human action point towards Hilary's theology of original sin; indeed he appears to be the first author to use the phrase peccata originis in this sense. In the concluding chapter, Hilary's place in the continuum between Origen and Augustine is demonstrated; at very least, original sin cannot be called an African doctrine, since it first is named by Hilary, a Gaul
Spatial analysis of entomological factors affecting malaria transmission in the village of Goden (Burkina Faso)
No full textEvidence of low community level protection from malaria transmission despite High LLIN-coverage in a village of Burkina Faso
No full textLong Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are among the most effective strategies in malaria vector control, halving the population at risk in sub-Saharan Africa since 2010. Despite this success, in some hyperendemic African countries the annual incidence and the entomological infection rates are still very high.
In Burkina Faso the raising of LLIN coverage from 20% to 70% led to a significant reduction of malaria prevalence, without major effects on annual incidence. Evidence from a hyperendemic LLIN-protected village of Burkina Faso (Goden, Ouagadougou area) in 2011 and 2012 showed high Sporozoite Rates (SR>7%) in major vector species, despite Human Blood Indexes (HBI<16%), raising the need of deeper investigation to assess the potential risk of transmission to unprotected people in the area. We thus carried out an entomological survey in the village in November 2015 by Human Landing Catches at three different time points (21-22; 00-01; 03-04) in order to estimate the Entomological Inoculation Rate (EIR). A total of 1,955 Anopheles gambiae complex specimens was collected (A. coluzzii 55%, A. arabiensis 44%, A. gambiae 1%, without significant differences between in-outdoors collections and among the three time points) corresponding to a median number of 23.5 host-seeking mosquitoes/hour/person. Among 692 specimens analysed so far, the SR was 6.2%, without significant differences in indoor vs. outdoor collected specimens. Therefore, the entomological inoculation rate is equal to 1.46 infective bites/hour.This result highlights that, despite the large-scale usage of LLINs in the village since 2010, the mosquito population in the area is still highly infected and present at high densities, leading to a non-negligible risk of malaria transmission both to people either sleeping unprotected by a bednet indoors or exposed to mosquito bites outdoors
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