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Frankfurt book fair: cancelled prize ceremony for Palestinian author is part of a long history of political zigzagging
No full textFirst paragraph: The Frankfurt Buchmesse, or book fair, is the world’s largest publishing industry gathering, attracting thousands of exhibitors every October. On one level, it’s a business event focused on creating buzz for forthcoming bestsellers, trading rights and discussing industry developments. On another, it’s a public celebration of books and the values associated with them.https://theconversation.com/frankfurt-book-fair-cancelled-prize-ceremony-for-palestinian-author-is-part-of-a-long-history-of-political-zigzagging-21574
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
L’autografia d'autore: Cambiamenti nella realizzazione e nella concezione del libro dal XII secolo all’invenzione della stampa
No full textIt is generally believed that the invention of printing triggered a cultural change, marking the passage between the medieval idea of the book and the modern one. It should be noted, though, that there was an important evolution through the Late Middle Ages, and that the printing revolution, however crucial, must be placed inside the wider process that from the XIIth century onwards transformed the use and function of writing, of reading and, consequently, the book itself, both theoretically and physically. The aim of this study is to track the cultural roots of the changes in the practices of intellectual work and, viceversa, to determine whether and how such changes may have influenced, through the literary production, late medieval culture. I have focused on the phenomenon of literary autography which, very unusual in the Early Middle Ages, is attested by a new and uninterrupted series of examples from the XIth-XIIth centuries onwards. The cultural landscape of the end of the Middle Ages appears therefore marked by the tension between a recurring drive towards an individualisation of the relation between an author and his work and a strict control by the author over the final product (both philologically and graphically) and an opposite trend leading to the loosening of the author's control over his work, as a natural result of the circulation of the texts but also of a different idea of the authorial role
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Condiscipuli Sumus
No full textThis chapter addresses the place of horizontal learning in monastic
culture. Firstly, it focuses on the relation between theoretical instances
of horizontal learning and the evidence for horizontal learning practices
in monastic everyday life. On the basis of this, it proposes a reflection
on the extent to which horizontal learning can be associated with the
monastic world in comparison to other contexts, first and foremost the
world of secular clerics and canon regulars. While there can be no doubt
that horizontal learning is not unique to the monastic world, an evaluation
of the complex balance between horizontal learning and vertical learning
must always consider that much depends on the individual author, his or
her social and religious status, the kind of community, and the specific
contents and contexts of learning
Development of logistics services in Vietnam since becoming the World Trade Organization’s member (WTO) : factors affecting supply chain activities at retail business enterprises in Vietnam
No full textLogistics Services in Vietnam have been rapidly changing after accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007, is marked a significant turning point in international integration. The entry into the world has extended a range of opportunities for import and export operations, which has supported the expansion and consolidation of logistics services. The thesis illustrates an overview of the Logistics Service and Supply Chain activities at Retail Businesses in Vietnam.
The goals of this thesis were to offer the solutions to effectively develop the logistics service industry that can be proposed, positively impact the chain of production and business activities, and improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese enterprises. The study aimed at effectively assisting in improving the competitiveness of Vietnamese companies, actively contributing to the management of the product lifecycle and supply chain.
The thesis was implemented by applying the qualitative research approach to collect the data from reliable sources such as academic books, sciences journal articles, literature views, sciences research by experts, etc. The data was evaluated and recognized the answer the research questions and substantiate the study’s conclusion. In the thesis, to acquire a better understanding of Logistics Services in practice in Vietnam, the author did a SWOT analysis, which was used to evaluate the situations then recommend the best solutions to the obstacles and challenges.
Consequently, the author identified 15 critical factors impacting the performance of Vietnam's retail firms' supply chain operations and proposed a feasible solution for the future growth of Logistics Services Enterprises in Vietnam. The solution was based on the key success of 15 aspects and a long-term economic strategy for the expansion of Logistics Services. Comprehensive connectivity and coordination throughout the supply chain will enable supply chain development and growth
The synthesis of monodisperse alkanes with long chains
No full textThis 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
A modelling and simulation tool for DNA strand displacement systems
No full textDNA is the hereditary material in almost all organisms, and the sequence of its monomers efficiently conveys essential biological information. Although DNA is well known for its biological functions, the unique material properties of DNA also motivate scientists to design and manufacture DNA complexes for technological purposes. This research field is termed DNA nanotechnology, and it aims to construct arbitrary biomolecular structures using DNA molecules as building blocks.
DNA nanotechnology initially focused on programmable static structures, but it has further inspired the designs of engineering systems with dynamic properties such as logic circuits and catalytic systems. This dynamic variant of DNA nanotechnology is enabled by the DNA strand displacement (DSD) mechanism. The design of a DSD system involves discreetly designed initial species that can execute expected sequential reactions. However, such task is hard to be accomplished by hand as the complete reaction network of a large-scaled DSD system can be intractable.
In this thesis, we study the problem of modelling DSD systems, i.e., enumerating combinatorially the full space of molecular complexes reachable from the initial species and transferring the resulting chemical reaction network to a simulation engine. We present a rule-based modelling pipeline RuleDSD for generating and simulating reaction networks of DSD systems. RuleDSD is implemented as a software package DSDPy, a tool that automatically generates a complete reaction network for a described DSD system and integrates with the PySB framework for further simulations using the BioNetGen engine. The reaction networks produced by DSDPy show that it is suitable for modelling various DSD systems from existing literature
A Modelling and Simulation Tool for DNA Strand Displacement Systems
No full textDNA is the hereditary material in almost all organisms, and the sequence of its monomers
efficiently conveys essential biological information. Although DNA is well known for its
biological functions, the unique material properties of DNA also motivate scientists to
design and manufacture DNA complexes for technological purposes. This research field
is termed DNA nanotechnology, and it aims to construct arbitrary biomolecular structures
using DNA molecules as building blocks.
DNA nanotechnology initially focused on programmable static structures, but it has
further inspired the designs of engineering systems with dynamic properties such as logic
circuits and catalytic systems. This dynamic variant of DNA nanotechnology is enabled
by the DNA strand displacement (DSD) mechanism. The design of a DSD system
involves discreetly designed initial species that can execute expected sequential reactions.
However, such task is hard to be accomplished by hand as the complete reaction network
of a large-scaled DSD system can be intractable.
In this thesis, we study the problem of modelling DSD systems, i.e., enumerating
combinatorially the full space of molecular complexes reachable from the initial species
and transferring the resulting chemical reaction network to a simulation engine. We
present a rule-based modelling pipeline RuleDSD for generating and simulating reaction
networks of DSD systems. RuleDSD is implemented as a software package DSDPy, a
tool that automatically generates a complete reaction network for a described DSD system
and integrates with the PySB framework for further simulations using the BioNetGen
engine. The reaction networks produced by DSDPy show that it is suitable for modelling
various DSD systems from existing literature
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