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Probabilistic DCS: An RFID reader-to-reader anti-collision protocol
No full textThe wide adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) for applications requiring a large number of tags and readers makes critical the reader-to-reader collision problem. Various anti-collision protocols have been proposed, but the majority require considerable additional resources and costs. Distributed color system (DCS) is a state-of-the-art protocol based on time division, without noteworthy additional requirements. This paper presents the probabilistic DCS (PDCS) reader-to-reader anti-collision protocol which employs probabilistic collision resolution. Differently from previous time division protocols, PDCS allows multichannel transmissions, according to international RFID regulations. A theoretical analysis is provided in order to clearly identify the behavior of the additional parameter representing the probability. The proposed protocol maintains the features of DCS, achieving more efficiency. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that the number of reader-to-reader collisions after a slot change is decreased by over 30%. The simulation analysis validates the theoretical results, and shows that PDCS reaches better performance than state-of-the-art reader-to-reader anti-collision protocol
The Reader: an exploration of the history and present place of Reader ministry in the Church of England
No full textA substantial part of the Church of England ministry is provided by Readers, but little information is available about their past or present position in the church. This thesis addresses this absence of knowledge by the exploration of Reader history and its contemporary expression.
History is examined using primary and secondary sources. The contemporary place of the Reader is researched through a survey of diocesan Reader Officers and by a longitudinal study of student Readers. Interviews with Readers and clergy from varied backgrounds provide a check on my findings.
Reader ministry is identified as a resource used primarily in crises. When there is no obvious need, the church, unclear as to how to use Reader ministry, is ambivalent and expresses this in the uncertain place it accords to the Reader.
I suggest that living in uncertainty is the natural environment for the church. From this I argue that the ambivalence of the church to Reader ministry may be a symptom of this uncertainty. The Reader therefore has to be trained for and function in an unpredictable context and the Reader’s effective actualization of this role provided and provides an essential contribution to the ministry of the Church of England.
I conclude that the Reader represents a trained and available ministerial resource able to work and live with uncertainty and to respond when specific needs arise. Consequently the Reader may be described as holding a unique and vital place in the Church of England, essential for its wellbeing and for its future ministry.
This fresh understanding of Reader ministry provides an opportunity for a reassessment within the church of the place at present ascribed to Readers, together with the identification of appropriate education and training patterns
Does apraxia support spatial and kinematic ormirror neuron approaches to social interaction? A commentary on Binder et al. (2017)
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\u27Letters Full of Love\u27: Wayne Booth\u27s Theories of the Implied Author and Reader in Brad Marsh\u27s WWII Correspondence
No full textThis project consists of a qualitative study of the WWII correspondence of Captain Brad Marsh from the collection of letters donated by his daughter on April 26, 2013. I draw from the narrative theory and works of Wayne Booth to examine Marsh’s construction of self as an implied author by examining how he presents his experiences and portrays his emotions. I also examine how Marsh constructs his implied self by paying attention to details such as the information he shares with Lynn and how he presents it. I explore the nature of the implied author and reader in the correspondence and also how the relationship between the implied writer and reader influences the understanding of an unintended audience
STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF M-READER
No full textMany universities in the Middle East, for instance, Shiraz University in Iran and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman have been running M-reader, a free Internet site which helps educational institutions to manage extensive reading (ER), as a way of including Extensive Reading in ELT classes for years. In spite of few attempts to evaluate this online tool based on different aspects, no studies have focused on students' ideas toward the pros and cons of M-reader and how it can be improved. Hence, using a large sample, the present study sheds some light on potential advantages and drawbacks of M-reader and, ultimately, presents students' comments on how to idealize this popular Extensive Reading tool. A mixed-method design was used in data collection and data analysis. The study shows that M-reader is a popular online platform among students despite some potential drawbacks
Hardy's rhetoric and reader response in Far from the madding crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 203-207)This is a study of how insights into the process of reading can enhance our understanding of two novels by Thomas Hardy--Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The process of reading may be seen as a communications transaction which involves the reader, the text, and the author. From reader response criticism, we learn that both the reader and the text have dynamic roles in the process of reading a literary text. However, in attributing to the text an active role, reader response critics allow the writer to drop out of the literary transaction. A more likely explanation is that the ultimate director of response is the author, not the text. The author's control of reader response suggests that there is a rhetorical dimension to literature. Rhetoric involves conscious manipulation of language to achieve desired effects. Reader response criticism studies those effects from the reader's point of view, and rhetorical criticism enables us to study them from the author's point of view. Our response to a novel--Hardy's novels, for example--includes response to narrative and artistic devices and recognition of the author's rhetorical use of language and of fictional techniques. Thus, in Far from the Madding Crowd, humor--a standard narrative and fictional technique--also functions as a means of shaping our response to the narrator and to Gabriel Oak. In Tess, the narrator is much more than a fictional device for telling a story. He is a complex personality whose characteristics function rhetorically to control our response to Tess and to the other characters and to shape our understanding of the novel. ..
M. M. Bakhtin as an Author and Reader of Reviews
No full textПоступила в редакцию 12.05.2017. Принята к печати 09.01.2018.Submitted on 12 May, 2017. Accepted on 09 January, 2018.Статья призвана осветить сторону деятельности российского мыслителя и литературоведа М. М. Бахтина, которая еще не становилась предметом исследовательского интереса. Источниками данной статьи стали две работы Бахтина, посвященные «литературоведческому» рецензированию: внутренняя рецензия на книгу Л. Е. Пинского «Драматургия Шекспира» (1970) и конспект рецензии В. Шмида на книгу Б. А. Успенского «Поэтика композиции» (1970). Характерно, что тексты, о которых будет идти речь являются поздними, т. е. созданными после 1965 г. — года публикации бахтинского «Рабле» и начала его реабилитации из «саранского небытия заживо» — и не были опубликованы при жизни автора, а увидели свет лишь посмертно. В обоих случаях речь идет об отклике Бахтина на произведения, которые по той или иной причине были важны или созвучны его собственным размышлениям и теориям. В случае работы Пинского — на пьесы Шекспира, в которых действует карнавальная стихия, что, очевидно, было близко Бахтину как теоретику карнавальной культуры и карнавального смеха, а в случае конспекта рецензии В. Шмида на книгу Б. А. Успенского — мысли о полифонии и голосе / голосах автора, с которыми он вступает в диалог, пытаясь ответить на не близкую ему самому позицию. Используя филологические, текстологиче- ские и герменевтические методы, автор показывает, как рецензия оказывается важным инструментом в полемике между учеными и служит для прояснения и кристаллизации собственных идей и мыслей автора.This paper aims to illustrate one of the aspects of work of Russian literary critic M. Bakhtin which has not been considered previously. The sources of this paper are two works by Bakhtin dedicated to literary reviews: Bakhtin’s internal review of the book Shakespeare’s Drama (1970) by L. E. Pinsky and a summary of W. Schmid’s review of the book The Poetics of Composition (1971) by B. A. Uspensky. It is important to note that the texts studied in the article are later ones, they were created after 1965 — the year of Bakhtin’s Rabelais was published and after the beginning of his rehabilitation from Saransk. They were published posthumously. In both cases the author considers Bakhtin’s response to works which were important for his own reflections and theories. They are carnival elements in Shakespeare’s plays in Pinsky’s work as Bakhtin was interested in them as a theorist of carnival culture and laughter, and thoughts of polyphony and the voice/voices of the author in Schmid’s review of Uspensky’s book which contradict his own view and which he tries to communicate with. Using philological, textual, and hermeneutical methods, the author shows how the review turns out to be an important tool in the polemics between scholars and serves to clarify the author’s own ideas and thoughts.Статья подготовлена в ходе проведения исследования (№ 16-05-0031) в рамках Программы «Научный фонд Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» (НИУ ВШЭ)» в 2017 г. и в рамках государственной поддержки ведущих университетов Российской Федерации «5–100».The article was prepared during research project 16-05-0031 of the Programme “The Scientific Fund of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE)” in 2017 and within the framework of the state support of the leading universities of the Russian Federation “5–100”
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
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