474 research outputs found
Cloud Dialogue
Get PDFCloud Dialogue is a sculpture (approximate dimensions 7.5 x 11.5 x 2.6m ) which investigates the potentials of iron as a sculptural material. The work expands the expressive, associative and poetic potential of iron within the context of contemporary art. The work was conceived, made and installed by Ewan Robertson in collaboration with Scottish sculptor Gordon Munro. The research builds on the symbolism and the historical associations of iron, as a ubiquitous element of our lives. Through the creation of a large-scale sculpture and experimentation with techniques of fabrication, it challenges perceptions of iron as a utilitarian material. Cloud Dialogue has been made in several iterations, with different combinations of nodes and arms. Each form conjures different symbolic associations whilst responding to their different sites. As such, the research is also an extended experiment in site-specific installation
Essentials of business law / Ewan MacIntyre.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xxxiii, 464 pages.
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Applied Social Science for Early Years
No full textApplying social science subjects such as psychology, sociology, social policy and research methods to Early Years can help to raise standards and ensure good practice. These subjects inform much of the academic curriculum within many Early Years programmes and are subjects that make an important contribution to understanding children’s behaviour, growth and development. The book identifies, analyses and assesses how social science enriches Early Years as opposed to regarding Early Years and social science as distinct. Each chapter imaginatively introduces the main learning objectives and includes formative activities, which apply social science to particular themes to aid students’ cognitive skills
The legacy of monastic hospitality : 2 the lasting influence
No full textIn this the second of two articles Kevin O'Gorman continues his exploration of the influence of Western monasticism on hospitality. He shows how monastic hospitality evolved to became the foundation of modern hospitality in the secular states. Ewan MacPhee reports on receiving monastic hospitality almost 1,500 years after St Benedict. The article concludes with a set of modern principles of hospitality derived from St Benedict's Rule, which are relevant to today
Dialog – Skulpturale Positionen
Get PDFTitle of Exhibition: Dialog – Skulpturale PositionenGroup exhibition of sculpture: Stuart Bennett, Gordon Munro, Ewan Robertson, Bill ScottPrivate View: 8th September 2011Public Exhibition: Sep 9th - Oct 2nd 2011Venue: Haus Hohenbusch, Erkelenz, Heinsberg, Germanyhttp://www.erkelenz.de/de/Haus_Hohenbusch/Haus_Hohenbusch.html http://www.an-online.de/artikel/1802944 - online reviewhttp://www.az-web.de/artikel/1811191 - online reviewhttp://aktuell.meinestadt.de/selfkant/2011/09/12/«dialog-skulpturale-positionen»-vier-kunstler-zeigen-ihre-werke/ - online reviewCatalogue: Dialog – Skulpturale Positionen, Regina Van Den Berg www.epubli.deOther details: Extract from Catalogue by exhibition curator Regina van den BergFor centuries, space was the main frame of reference for the three dimensional sculptural work made of traditional materials. The entry of the element of time in artistic production in the nineteen sixties, led to fundamental changes in the discipline of sculpture. Time-based sculptural works pointed to the fact that in nature there is no stagnation, that everything is in constant change and movement and that our perception depends on both space and time.Sculptors refer to this by processual acts and by use of new media such as video, photography and digital media. The final artwork which was for centuries the sole aim of artistic creation, now stands beside the open work, the experiment, the performative act and beneath a variety of hybrid forms.The meaning of the artworks often arises as a result of communicative structures between artists, viewer, artwork, space and time. If meaning is based on perception as well as on realisation and a shift of traditional patterns of perception, then the artwork engages in a dialogue with humans in their environment. Today the discipline of sculpture has become a major field of experimentation and a juxtaposition of artistic expression and issues often emerge from interdisciplinary approaches, such as the current working out of a new understanding of materiality.<br/
We carry the light, comprising : i) Writing in lockdown: exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on writers' creativity, ii) We carry the light, a family novel set in Scotland during the pandemic
No full textThis paper examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on writers’ practice during the periods that social distancing restrictions were in place. The study focuses on – but is not limited to – the first UK lockdown, which began on 23rd March 2020.
Structured interviews were conducted with five writers, with an additional person responding to the questions in writing. This group included writers of fiction and non-fiction, as well as poets. Interviewees were at various points of their careers, ranging from an undergraduate creative writing student to a prize-winning author who has been publishing for over thirty years. Through these interviews, the impact of the pandemic on writing was explored in three main areas: the impact of emotions on the writing process; the effect Covid had on conditions needed for writing; and the ability of writers to find and/or act on inspiration.
Incorporating evidence from these interviews – as well as from writing anthologies, newspaper articles, and literature relating to the pandemic – this study demonstrates that the pandemic did have a noticeable impact on writers’ creativity. Although two writers wrote more during lockdown, nearly all described the negative impact emotions had on their ability and/or motivation to write. Where the pandemic disrupted the conditions they need to write, writers wrote nothing, or significantly less than pre-pandemic; writers whose children lived with them during this time were most affected. Some noticed a negative correlation between finding/acting on inspiration and social distancing restrictions. Writers reflected on the impact of the pandemic and were able to identify positive and negative aspects that were a result of the restrictions, such as the benefits in terms of inclusion at literary events. The findings presented in the final section show the importance of learning from and recording the pandemic through writing."This work was supported by the Ewan and Christine Brown Postgraduate Studentship in the Arts and Humanities. I would, therefore, like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Ewan and Christine Brown for the financial support that allowed me to undertake this doctoral research.”--Fundin
Fossil fuel divestment, directors’ duties, and derivative claims: McGaughey and Davies v. USS Ltd and its directors
No full textA Climate Change Laws of the World insight In July 2023, at that time the hottest ever month in human history, the UK Court of Appeal gave judgment in McGaughey and Davies v. USS Ltd and its Directors [2023] EWCA Civ 873. The author of this note, Professor Ewan McGaughey, and his colleague, Professor Neil Davies, had undertaken the largest crowdfunded drive in the UK so far, to sue the board of directors personally to reverse (the roughly) 30% cuts to defined benefit pensions, and to require the UK’s biggest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), to divest of its fossil fuels assets. Out of court, after the Truss mini-budget, years of strikes, and shortly after the complainants got leave to the Court of Appeal, USS capitulated: the CEO announced his resignation, and USS declared it would reverse the pension cuts. Despite this victory, McGaughey and Davies went on to lose in the Court of Appeal, but by then they had already succeeded in most of their goals. The key issue where they had limited success was in fossil fuel divestment. The focus of this Climate Change Laws of the World note is why they lost on the fossil fuel claim, but also how the case sets a positive precedent for beneficiaries seeking to uphold directors’ duties, thus it may be instructive for the future wave of litigation against directors complicit in climate damage
Peer-to-peer, multi-agent interaction adapted to a web architecture
Get PDFThe Internet and Web have brought in a new era of information sharing and opened
up countless opportunities for people to rethink and redefine communication. With
the development of network-related technologies, a Client/Server architecture has become
dominant in the application layer of the Internet. Nowadays network nodes
are behind firewalls and Network Address Translations, and the centralised design of
the Client/Server architecture limits communication between users on the client side.
Achieving the conflicting goals of data privacy and data openness is difficult and in
many cases the difficulty is compounded by the differing solutions adopted by different
organisations and companies. Building a more decentralised or distributed environment
for people to freely share their knowledge has become a pressing challenge
and we need to understand how to adapt the pervasive Client/Server architecture to this
more fluid environment.
This thesis describes a novel framework by which network nodes or humans can interact
and share knowledge with each other through formal service-choreography specifications
in a decentralised manner. The platform allows peers to publish, discover
and (un)subscribe to those specifications in the form of Interaction Models (IMs). Peer
groups can be dynamically formed and disbanded based on the interaction logs of
peers. IMs are published in HTML documents as normal Web pages indexable by
search engines and associated with lightweight annotations which semantically enhance
the embedded IM elements and at the same time make IM publications comply
with the Linked Data principles. The execution of IMs is decentralised on each peer via
conventional Web browsers, potentially giving the system access to a very large user
community. In this thesis, after developing a proof-of-concept implementation, we
carry out case studies of the resulting functionality and evaluate the implementation
across several metrics.
An increasing number of service providers have began to look for customers proactively,
and we believe that in the near future we will not search for services but rather
services will find us through our peer communities. Our approaches show how a
peer-to-peer architecture for this purpose can be obtained on top of a conventional
Client/Server Web infrastructure
Numerical models of Hall thruster ionization oscillations
No full textThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-143).In this thesis, low frequency ionization oscillations in Hall thrusters resembling the breathing mode are studied through computational simulation. The relationship between wall erosion and discharge current oscillations is analyzed using particle-in-cell simulation, and a series of parametric simulations is used to determine the effects of macro-particle size, floating body potential, electron injection region, ion time step size, grid refinement, heavy particle mass reduction, and an artificial permittivity factor. These studies help to determine the parameters that will produce accurate simulations in the future, and identify the parts of the model that need improvement. One-dimensional steady and unsteady Hall thruster models, as well as a generalized sheath model are then developed, and the effects of the parameters that determine stability on the thruster's operating conditions are determined.by Ewan Samuel Kay.S.M
Ideational power or political demand? Tracing the logics of in-work benefit reforms in France and the United Kingdom
Get PDFIn recent decades, numerous welfare states have implemented in-work benefits to ‘make work pay’ and tackle in-work poverty. To explain the adoption and institutionalisation of this instrument, studies tend to emphasise either socio-political demand or ideational influences as motivators of policy decisions. However, the relative importance of these causal logics, and the relationship between them, remains ambiguous. To advance this debate, this article examines in-work benefit reforms in two welfare states: France and the United Kingdom. Examining reforms from the late 1990s to the 2010s, findings suggest that policy change and convergence were driven by an ideational rather than a demand-based logic. Reforms were more strongly motivated by the shared interpretive frameworks of policymakers and their instrumental use of ideas (ideational power) rather than the demands of voters and organised interests. This finding on the specific drivers of in-work benefits contributes wider insights into the roles of ideas in public policy
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