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Who are the experts? e-Scholars in the semantic web
No full textScholarly research is the sum of diverse activities and leads to the dissemination of a large amount of material. Traditional approaches to exploring and becoming proficient within an esoteric research field rely on slow and sometimes ineffective discourse, and depend more on a scholar's detective skill, effort, and perseverance. However, the Web has introduced the potential for improved accessibility, interconnectivity, and more efficient and effective communication; we are becoming e-Scholars. Current efforts on the Web have focussed mainly on improving the accessibility of on-line research material and as a result, researchers have yet to realise the full implications of the new medium. Consequently, the emphasis must shift to improving and enhancing access to scholarly material; this research proposes a novel approach by presenting researchers with the facility to comprehensively, extensively, and rationally explore their research field and ask intricate questions about it and the individual facts and issues raised by it. This is realised through the integration of principles from the hypertext, Semantic Web, and digital library fields to interconnect and analyse all scholarly material in the academic domain. The e-Scholar Knowledge Inference Model (ESKIMO) demonstrates the approach and provides a platform for evaluation and further research
Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Analysis and Social Media
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Ali E. Abbas, Jay Simon, Chris Smith (2017) Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Analysis and Social Media. Decision
Analysis 14(4):227-228. https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2017.036
Andrew Wright : Home and Garden
No full textBooklet to accompany Wright's exhibition incorporating drawings executed with a camera lucida, photographs of the Gairloch Gardens illuminated at night and a video/sound installation. Simon draws attention to the artist's preoccupation with visual perception, and reflects on how the work embodies a tension between enchantment (of art and nature) and "an awareness of the cultural screens that programme the way we see." Brief biographical notes on author. 1 bibl. ref
War palimpsests: the Latin intertext in Claude Simon
No full textO romance de Claude Simon dialoga com muitos textos por meio de diversos procedimentos de composição, em especial devido à intertextualidade explícita em muitos casos. Ligado ao contexto estético do nouveau roman, o novo romance francês, o autor lida em sua escrita com aspectos linguísticos peculiares, dentre eles a perspectiva temporal, que evidenciam seu caráter literário. Evidencia-se, por consequência, para o crítico, a necessidade de entender como os diversos princípios de organização do texto se articulam em favor de sua unidade, feita de fragmentos que se colam e se deformam conforme as demandas do escritor, constituindo-se, assim, uma espécie de palimpsesto. O intertexto latino, ou seja, as relações entre um texto e a literatura romana antiga, tem papel fundamental na construção do texto simoniano, o que interfere também em nossa leitura de outros elementos que interagem com ele. Um dos romances em que se expõe com clareza esse fator intertextual na literatura de Simon é La Bataille de Pharsale (1969), nossa opção para objeto de estudo, dada à acentuação dos problemas postos pela presença da cultura clássica na obra por relações e transformações. Nesse romance, a guerra é um dos principais pontos de encontro derivados das relações entre antigos e modernos exercidas pela escrita, de modo que os outros aspectos composicionais do texto, como o tempo e a enunciação, parecem estabelecer uma interferência recíproca com o intertexto. Levando em conta esses fatores, nossa análise buscou se pautar na necessidade de reavaliar o percurso crítico feito sobre a obra do autor sob uma visão comparatista e multidisciplinar a fim de fornecer conclusões relevantes sobre nosso objeto. A partir desse estudo, fornecemos possibilidades de leitura do romance com base nessa discussão, bem como novas perspectivas para a compreensão da obra de Claude Simon e do romance moderno em relação à tradição clássica.The novel of Claude Simon dialogues with many texts through various composition procedures, especially due to the explicit intertextuality in many cases. In the aesthetic context of the nouveau roman, the French \"new novel\", the author deals in his writing with peculiar linguistic aspects, including the time perspective, which demonstrate its literary character. Thus, there is a clear need to the critics to understand how the various text organizational principles articulate among themselves in favor of a unit, made of fragments that stick and deform according to the demands of the writer, being thus a kind of palimpsest. The Latin intertext, the relationship between a text and the ancient Roman literature, plays a key role in the creation of the Simonian text, which also interferes in our reading of other elements that interact with it. One of the novels which sets out clearly that intertextual factor in Simon\'s literature is La Bataille de Pharsale (1969), our option for object of study, given the rise of problems posed by the presence of classical culture in the work by relations and transformations. In this novel, the war is one of the main points derived from the relations between ancient and modern in writing, so that other compositional aspects of the text, as time and enunciation, seem to establish a reciprocal interference with the intertext. Taking into account these factors, our analysis had the aim of reassessing the critical path on the author\'s work in a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to provide relevant conclusions about our object. From this study, we provide reading possibilities for the novel based on our discussion, as well as new perspectives for the understanding of Claude Simon\'s work and the modern novel in relation to the classical tradition
Forecasting banknotes
Get PDFA central bank’s liquidity forecast is important in ensuring that it supplies the banking system’s need for central bank money. Banknote (or currency in circulation) demand is the largest and for some central banks the most variable component of the liquidity forecast. Accurate forecasting of banknotes is essential in ensuring an accurate liquidity forecast and in turn effective monetary policy implementation. This Handbook discusses these issues and outlines a structural time series state space (STSSS) model which is now used by central banks including the Bank of England and ECB to forecast banknotes (currency in circulation).Forecasting banknotes
The synthesis of monodisperse alkanes with long chains
Get PDFThis thesis discusses reasons for the interest in monodisperse long chain alkanes and describes attempts, past and present, to synthesise such molecules. Chapter 1 discusses why the synthesis of such molecules are important and the objectives of this project. Chapter 2 reviews the methods previous groups have devised to prepare pure samples of long chain alkanes. In particular, work carried out by Whiting et al. at Bristol, whose scheme formed the basis of the early work in Durham. Chapter 3 describes the work in Durham and improvements which were made to Whiting's method, allowing the synthesis of longer chain lengths and greater quantities of materials to be achieved. Chapter 4 provides a summary of the practical work carried out by the author. Chapter 5 gives experimental details of the work described in Chapter 4
The Anadyomene Movement: metamorphics of figure-ground
No full text‘Figure-ground’ is about the production of meaning based on the perception of contrasts or binary oppositions and segregations. Viewers of my paintings, and of the kind of paintings that interest me, have the impression that the ‘figure’ subsides or slips or fades into ‘ground’, or that the ‘ground’ is more powerful or dominant than the ‘figure’, or that the ‘figure’ is insecurely attached, suggesting it is incapable, unwilling, too acquiescent or complicit to fully differentiate itself from the ‘ground’. I address flux, mutation, indistinctness and complementarity within the visual field of painting. I develop and extend the heuristic context for the interpretation of my studio practice and for work of a similar kind, and then feedback this new context into my practice in order to generate new works, also in the process shedding a new light on my interpretative models. Beyond this, I also make a more general argument for the re alignment of the relationship between art theory and practice - one that can better incorporate a sense of in between-ness, indistinctness or liminality. My approach is comparative: I look at East Asian art and ideas and, in particular, deploy the writings of the French Sinologist and philosopher François Jullien, in whose work there is the attempt to expand Western epistemology, ontology, semantics and aesthetics via a discussion of Chinese thought and aesthetics. Jullien proposes a paradigm that draws the ‘in-out’ respiratory rhythm or pulse within the perceptual field towards the centre of a theory of representation, a theory that seeks to account for consciousness from the ‘inside’ rather than the ‘outside’. The consequence of this relocation of agency is an interpretative framework that is firmly grounded in a nondualistic and holistic approach, foregrounding affect and empathetic relationships between artist and work, viewer and work, and self and the world. Traditional East Asian thought begins with similar premises to poststructuralism in the West: the ‘self’ is an illusion and the possibility of knowledge of reality independent of thought is dismissed as untenable because there is no objective reality accessible to us. Everything depends on the bias of the mind, rather than on anything we can identify as an innate attribute of reality itself, thus there is no escape from our lived experience, and we are profoundly limited by the interpretive knowledge of our mind; we are trapped within the ‘prison house of language’. But within the different recursive orientations that characterize ‘East’ and ‘West’ the interpretation and consequences of these insights are understood in quite different ways. I explore why this should be the case and what some of the consequences are, both theoretically through the written text and performatively through my studio work
You play, we’ll watch – a study about e-sport consumption and community
No full textTitle You play, we’ll watch – a study about e-sport consumption and community
Author Simon Karlsson
Semester Spring 2012
Tutor Malin Sveningsson
Number of pages 67 (1 appendix)
Aim The study aims to explore the motivations and needs behind e-sport consumption and the possible identity construction it entails.
Method Qualitative methods: interviews and participant observations.
Material Ten interviews with individuals from the barcraft community in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ethnography studies from four locations in total for the e-sport tournament GBG E-sport Open: three from qualifiers and one from the finals.
Main results E-sport consumption proved to fill a variety of needs. Affective: To be entertained and experience emotional satisfaction. Social integrative: to connect with friends and other viewers. This proved also to enhance the affective need. Cognitive: better understanding of the game, which then later can be used while playing to enhance ones rank within the ladder. Tension release: to relax from a stressful day. E-sport consumption is preferably done with friends. This consumption with others also leads to a sense of belonging and identity. Outsiders might have a negative opinion about e-sports which also binds the consumers closer together and forms a subculture
Early prediction of autoimmune (type 1) diabetes
No full textUnderlying type 1 diabetes is a genetic aetiology dominated by the influence of specific HLA haplotypes involving primarily the class II DR-DQ region. In genetically predisposed children with the DR4-DQ8 haplotype, exogenous factors, yet to be identified, are thought to trigger an autoimmune reaction against insulin, signalled by insulin autoantibodies as the first autoantibody to appear. In children with the DR3-DQ2 haplotype, the triggering reaction is primarily against GAD signalled by GAD autoantibodies (GADA) as the first-appearing autoantibody. The incidence rate of insulin autoantibodies as the first-appearing autoantibody peaks during the first years of life and declines thereafter. The incidence rate of GADA as the first-appearing autoantibody peaks later but does not decline. The first autoantibody may variably be followed, in an apparently non-HLA-associated pathogenesis, by a second, third or fourth autoantibody. Although not all persons with a single type of autoantibody progress to diabetes, the presence of multiple autoantibodies seems invariably to be followed by loss of functional beta cell mass and eventually by dysglycaemia and symptoms. Infiltration of mononuclear cells in and around the islets appears to be a late phenomenon appearing in the multiple-autoantibody-positive with dysglycaemia. As our understanding of the aetiology and pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes advances, the improved capability for early prediction should guide new strategies for the prevention of type 1 diabetes
Iran’s Banking and Monetary Problems
Get PDFIran has had many self-imposed economic crises. Many of which relate to the poorly managed banking system as well as flawed monetary and fiscal policy. Inefficiency of the banking-monetary system in Iran is a well known fact. A complete overhaul of the current system should be one of the essential priorities of any economic reformation and development. The banking-monetary system of any country has a key role in its economic efficiency and strength, price stability, production, and economic growth. The main functions of a banking-monetary system are to provide fiscal resources, to prepare ground for optimal allocation of capital in the economy, to distribute the wealth in the best possible way, and to ease economic development. This is particularly important in Iran because capital markets are underdeveloped.Iran; Banking; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy
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