70 research outputs found
Creative Assets and the Changing Economy
No full textThis paper evaluates recent claims that art and culture have become more valuable assets in the new economy. Based on conversations with several prominent cultural economists, the author argues that advocates and scholars should be more cautious in their attempts to draw out the implications of the changing economy on culture. Rather than spend time calculating the impact or size of the “creative economy,” the author argues that we should direct our analytical and policy energies toward better understanding how creative work and institutions are changing and what might be done to foster a more robust, creative and diverse cultural life.
Ethnicity Sensitive Author Disambiguation Using Semi-supervised Learning
No full textAuthor name disambiguation in bibliographic databases is the problem of
grouping together scientific publications written by the same person,
accounting for potential homonyms and/or synonyms. Among solutions to this
problem, digital libraries are increasingly offering tools for authors to
manually curate their publications and claim those that are theirs. Indirectly,
these tools allow for the inexpensive collection of large annotated training
data, which can be further leveraged to build a complementary automated
disambiguation system capable of inferring patterns for identifying
publications written by the same person. Building on more than 1 million
publicly released crowdsourced annotations, we propose an automated author
disambiguation solution exploiting this data (i) to learn an accurate
classifier for identifying coreferring authors and (ii) to guide the clustering
of scientific publications by distinct authors in a semi-supervised way. To the
best of our knowledge, our analysis is the first to be carried out on data of
this size and coverage. With respect to the state of the art, we validate the
general pipeline used in most existing solutions, and improve by: (i) proposing
phonetic-based blocking strategies, thereby increasing recall; and (ii) adding
strong ethnicity-sensitive features for learning a linkage function, thereby
tailoring disambiguation to non-Western author names whenever necessary
Psychoanalysis as a positive interventions in the treatment of schizophrenia
No full textEndeavour to demonstrate psychoanalysis as a positive intervention in the treatment of schizophrenia. Questions compelling research and investigation for this Final Year Project; What happens to the ‘I’, the self in schizophrenia? In the disintegration of the self and the diminishment of boundaries between reality and phantasy what happens to the unconscious and the psyche. How does the language of Schizophrenia; this concoction of bizarre mutterings, delusions and hallucinations, function, for the Schizophrenic? How does the person experience the disintegration associated with Schizophrenia? Can psychoanalysis assist in developing a sense of self and an awareness of the other? The author would like to further investigate the question; is psychosis connected to the very thing that makes us human? However this lies outside the scope of this Final Year Project. Author keywords: Schizophrenia, Psychoanalysi
Author Correction: Reply to: Postbiotics - when simplification fails to clarify
No full textIn the original Supplementary Table associated with this Correspondence, the terms “postbiotic” and “ISAPP” were misspelled in the column heading and footnote, respectively. These errors have now been corrected and the Supplementary information updated online; for transparency, the updated Supplementary Table is available in the online version of this Correction.</p
Male gender role conflict and its effects on the therapeutic relationship
No full textThis study examines male gender role conflict (GRC) and its effect on therapeutic relationships in Ireland. The research was conducted to identify if psychotherapy and counselling training or personal therapy has an effect on GRC. Further investigation explored how GRC affects a man’s decision to seek counselling, and also its influence on their choice of gender when choosing a counsellor. The results also explore if GRC encourages/affects a preference in gender for the counsellors when choosing a client. The results were achieved by comparing the GRC levels from 20 counsellors and 20 non-counsellors. The GRC levels were obtained using a quantitative approach, employing the Gender Role Conflict Scale-Short Form (GRCS-SF) (Wester, Vogel, O'Neil, & Danforth, 2011) (Appendix 1) in order to measure the four factors that GRC affects: Success, Power, and Competition (SPC); Restricted Emotionality (RE); Restrictive and Affectionate Behaviour Between Men (RABBM); and Conflict Between Work and Family Relations (CBWFR). Author keywords: Gender role, conflict scale, socialisatio
Choosing, Using, and Building Effective Software Tools for Research with Symbolic Music Corpora
No full textFor a software tool to be useful for musical corpus studies, it should expose symbolic musical data, however it is stored, as a set of musically meaningful software abstractions; and support the batch manipulation of more than one piece of music with the help of these abstractions, preferably on the order of hundreds or thousands. In this chapter, the author explores the landscape of toolkits for analysis of symbolic corpora, including Humdrum and music21. In addition to providing a historical background to these tools, the author explores a number of use cases and introductory approaches to how to get started with each. Finally, the author discusses issues of maintainability and best practice in relation to research software
An exploration of the experience of client suicide on the psychotherapist in Ireland
No full textThe literature suggests that professional and personal functioning can be undermined as a result of client suicide. Both anecdotal evidence and research would suggest that overcoming a client‟s suicide can be quite challenging for health-care professionals and good self-care practices are considered important in overcoming these challenges. Despite the number of therapists who experience client suicide, qualitative research is lacking in this area. To capture an in-depth insight into the psychotherapist in Ireland‟s experience of client suicide, this study uses qualitative research in the form of semi-structured interviews with four female psychotherapists. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data and resulted in four common themes. The main focus of this research topic was on whether client suicide impacts the psychotherapist in Ireland and if so, in what ways. It explored how these effects are mitigated. The researcher also explored self-care, self-care practices and considered the roles compassion fatigue, burnout and vicarious trauma may play as a result of client suicide. Results reveal that 100% of respondents were impacted both personally and professionally by their clients‟ suicide with 100% of respondents experiencing a range of trauma symptoms which lasted from a few weeks to a year. Vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout were experienced as an amalgamation of events rather than a direct result of client suicide. Overall, what psychotherapists in Ireland found most supportive in mitigating the effects of client suicide were; verbalising their experience, feeling that others understood what they were going through and feeling that what they were experiencing was „normal‟. Good self-care was considered invaluable. Supervisors and colleagues who could empathise with respondents were seen as most helpful in mitigating effects. Personal therapy, when attended, was viewed considered beneficial, while friends and family were seen as less helpful. Author keywords: Impact, therapist, client suicid
Author correction: The International Scientific Association of Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on the definition and scope of postbiotics
No full textThe originally published article contained an error in Table 2 in which the study on L. gasseri CP2305 was wrongly attributed to reference 155; it should have cited reference 15: Nishida et al. Para- psychobiotic Lactobacillus gasseri CP2305 ameliorates stress- related symptoms and sleep quality. J. Appl. Microbiol. 123, 1561–1570 (2017). This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.</p
Design imperatives for improved architecture-based reliability prediction of software systems
No full textReliability prediction of a software product is complex due to interdependencies and
interactions among components and the difficulty of representing this behavior with tractable models. Models developed by making simplifying assumptions about the software structure may be simple to use but their result may be far from what happens in reality. Making assumptions closer to reality that allows complex interactions and interdependences among components results in models that are too complex to use and/or their results may be too difficult to interpret.
The reliability predication problem is aggravated by the absence of precise information on the behavior of components and their interactions, information that is relevant for reliability modeling. Usually, the interactions are not known precisely because of subtle undocumented side effects. Without accurate precise information, even mathematically correct models will not yield accurate reliability predications. Deriving the necessary information from program code is not practical if not impossible because the code
contains too much implementation detail to be useful in creating a tractable model and
because it is difficult to fully analyze.
This author approached the problem from three tracks:
1. Identifying design imperatives that will make the system behavior easier to predict
2. Identifying mathematical documentation techniques to describe the behavior of software systems
3. Adapting structural reliability modeling techniques to predict the reliability of
software systems based on their mathematical description
This thesis documents the resulting novel approach of designing, specifying, and describing the behavior of software systems in a way that helps to predict their reliability from the reliability of the components and their interactions. The design approach, which the author names design for reliability redictability (DRP), integrates design for change, precise behavioral documentation and structure based reliability prediction to achieve improved reliability prediction of software systems. The specification and documentation approach builds upon precise behavioral specification of interfaces using the trace function method (TFM) and introduces a number of connection documents or structure functions. These functions capture both the static and dynamic behaviors of component
based software systems and are used as a basis for a novel document driven structure based reliability predication model. System reliability assessment is studied in at least three levels: component reliability, which is assumed to be known, interaction reliability, a novel approach in studying software reliability and service reliability, whose estimation is the primary objective of reliability assessment. The approach is applied successfully as a case study in the construction of an industrial product which is described in this thesis
Digging deeper : reflecting on the development and teaching of investigative journalism in a university setting in the United Kingdom
No full textThis chapter examines the development and teaching of investigative journalism within the setting of a UK university. The roots of the genre and definition of the term “investigative journalism” are explored with particular reference to an interview with the renowned US reporter, the late Bob Greene. It reflects on the steps taken by the author, who is course director of a Master’s degree in Investigative Journalism at a major Scottish university, to establish the degree; attract applicants; adjust course content as feedback emerged; and aim to balance theoretical academic study with imparting practical skills. The chapter also touches on several examples from the author’s own professional background working on investigations for all platforms both nationally and internationally. Responses to a questionnaire set by the author to a selection of the current (2010-2011) class of students who are studying on the Master’s course are included to reflect individual critical reflections on their own experiences and career aspirations in light of their studying for this advanced degree
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