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Quince Duncan Moodie
No full textLiterary Encyclopedia entry on Costa Rican author Quince Duncan Moodi
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Southern Thailand: from conflict to negotiations?
Get PDFSummary: In this Analysis, University of Leeds professor Duncan McCargo argues that the recent Malaysian-backed Southern Thai peace initiative has now run into some serious problems. He argues that despite its various shortcomings the initiative is still worthy of support, since it has gained far more traction that any previous attempts to address the decade-long insurgency. Thailand needs to maintain focus on the southern conflict despite its current preoccupation with a national-level political crisis that threatens to topple the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
Key findings
The conflict in Southern Thailand is one of Asia’s most serious insurgencies, with over 6,000 dead over the last 10 years.
The Malaysian government sponsored negotiations represents the best hope for reaching a political settlement and bringing peace to the region.
However, both sides need to show greater commitment to the negotiations, introducing new structures and procedures
The Family Story of Alissa Duncan
Get PDFThe Family History of
Alissa A. Duncan
24 April 2016
Alissa Anne Duncan authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2016 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Negative space of things: a practice-based research approach to understand the role of objects in the Internet of Things
Get PDFThis is a practice-based research thesis situated in the research context of the ‘Internet of Things’, and
critiques contemporary theoretical discourse related to the 21st century turn of connecting everyday
objects to the World Wide Web. In the last decade we have seen the ‘Internet of Things’ articulated
predominately through three commercial design fictions, each a response to the shift towards
pervasive”, “ubiquitous” (Weiser 1991), or “context-ware” (Schilit, 1994) computing; where we inhabit
spaces with objects capable of sensing, recording and relaying data about themselves and
their environments. Through reflecting upon these existing design fictions, through a new combination
of theories and practice-based research that embodies them, this thesis proposes a recovery to
understanding the role of objects in the ‘Internet of Things’, which this author believes has been lost
since its conception in the mid 2000s.
In 2000, HP Labs presented Cooltown, which addressed what HP identified as the ‘convergence of
Web technology, wireless networks, and portable client devices provides’. Cooltown’s primary discourse
was to provide ‘new design opportunities for computer/communications systems, through an
infrastructure to support "web presence" for people, places and things.’ (Anders 1998; Barton &
Kindberg 2002). IBM’s Smarter Planet followed this in 2008 and shifted importance from the act of
connecting objects to understanding the value of data as it flows between these objects in a network
(Castells 1996; Sterling 2005; Latour 2005). Finally, Cisco presented The Internet of Everything in 2012
and moved the argument on one stage further, identifying that the importance of connected objects lies
in the sum of their communication across silos of networks, where data can provide potential insight
from which you can improve services (Bleecker 2006).
Despite these design and theoretical fictions, the affordances of the Internet of Things first proposed in
the mid 2000s has regressed from data to product, driven largely by unchanged discourse argued by
those designers at its conception and also the enticement of being the next Google acquisition; instead
of pigeons reporting on the environmental conditions of a city (Da Costa 2006), we have thermostats
controllable from your smartphone (www.scottishpower.co.uk/connect).
Therefore the aim of this thesis is to re-examine the initial potential of the Internet of Things, which is
tested through a series of design interventions as research for art and design, (produced as part of my
EPSRC funded doctoral studies on the Tales of Things and Electronic Memory research project and
also whilst employed as a research assistant on two EPSRC funded research programmes of work Sixth
Sense Transport, and The Connected High Street), to understand how we use data to allow an
alternative discourse to emerge in order to recover the role of a networked object, rather than producing
prototypical systems
David Duncan Wallace Papers - Accession 333
Get PDFThe David Duncan Wallace Papers consist of microfiche copies of the original David D. Wallace family papers, 1866-1951, SCHS 1233.00 held at the South Carolina Historical Society. David Duncan Wallace (1874-1951) was a Professor of History at Wofford College from 1899 through 1947 and was the author of the three volume set titled, History of South Carolina published in 1934. He is considered one of the foremost historians in State. The papers consist of his correspondence, research notes, clippings, and published and unpublished manuscripts related to his publications and areas of research. Also, included is some ephemera and other items.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1417/thumbnail.jp
Preservation assessment of the collections at the Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon: October 6, 7 & 8, 2009
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Documentation Images -- Appendix B. Resources -- Appendix C. Recommended Books, Collection Policy Resources, Organizations for Reference & Vendors for Supplies -- Appendix D. Cost Estimates.prepared by Lisa Duncan, Art Conservator, LLC.Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 8, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Letter from H. Scott Duncan to Hayao (Sam) Chuman
No full textA letter from H. Scott Duncan Associate Executive Secretary for Finance for the American Friends Service Committee, to Hayao (Sam) Chuman. The letter thanks Hayao for his donation.The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
Fundamental challenges in designing a collaborative travel app
Get PDFThe growing capabilities of smartphones have opened up new opportunities for travel coordination and transport is a fertile area for app development. One stream of development is apps that enable collaborative travel, either in the form of lift sharing or collaborative shopping, but despite growing interest from governmental agencies, there is little evidence of the efficacy of such apps. Based on trials of purpose built travel collaboration apps, deployed in tourism, urban and rural residential communities, and logistics, this paper analyses the fundamental challenges facing users adopting such travel apps. The findings suggest that transport practitioners, policy makers and app developers need to better understand the challenges associated with attracting users, the use of incentives and the types of communities most appropriate to implement collaborative travel concepts using such approaches. Also, how the users’ sense of time pressure and the issues around reciprocal exchange can impact on their long-term success and wider adoption
Memo from C.E. Duncan, Colonel, Air Corps Chief of Staff, to all personnel, Headquarters, Second Air Force, November 2, 1945
No full textMemorandum of understanding from C.E. Duncan to All Personnel, Headquarters, Second Air Force regarding the award of the American Theater Ribbon.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
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