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Dr. Joe Hoyle – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Joe Hoyle, Associate Professor of Accounting in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, discusses Introduction to Financial Accounting, a unique online textbook that incorporates many different learning and media techniques. By offering introductory videos, embedded multiple-choice questions and real-life interviews with an investment manager, Hoyle and his co-author include something for every student. The book will be published by Flat World Knowledge in early 2010
Jonesin': the life and music of Philly Joe Jones
No full textThis thesis explores the life of drummer “Philly” Joseph Rudolf Jones, one of jazz’s most renowned, unknown figures. As the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet and a later incarnation of the Bill Evans Trio, Joe achieved worldwide fame and success. Yet, his life story has always been told in the footnotes of the towering figures he performed with: John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, etc. Jazz history books recognize Joe’s contributions and nearly all provide a space, albeit a small one, to recognize his accomplishments. Leonard Feather’s The Encyclopedia of Jazz has an entry for Joe, Lewis Porter’s An Historical Survey of Jazz Drumming Styles lists Joe as an important figure in the evolution of jazz drumming, and The Oxford Companion to Jazz states that “just about anyone of consequence worked with Jones.” These texts and many others put Joe in a place of prominence for a handful of sentences. However, footnoting Joe’s success overlooks the fact that he recorded on more than one-hundred albums from 1955-1960 and was probably the most recorded American drummer in any genre during that time period. Despite his popularity and critical acclaim, no published author has delved into Joe’s complex life with any depth. This thesis explores Joe’s musical biography and seeks to illuminate the paradoxes therin. Joe’s story contains drug use, prison time, and abrasive behavior. On the other hand, he was an excellent musician and a generous man who mentored many young musicians. Joe’s life is intertwined in a web of circumstantial experiences: a fatherless upbringing, military service during World War II, integrating the Philadelphia Transit Company, and working to survive as a musician in New York. There are also lesser-known parts of his life including his roots as a Rhythm and blues drummer, his love for big band music, and his associations with the avant-garde. Joe overcame the obstacles of socioeconomic status, racism, evolving musical styles, and the drug culture to become a superb musician who still found time to educate the next generation.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Dustin E. MalloryIncludes discograph
Towards the Holy Grail: combining system dynamics and discrete-event simulation in healthcare
No full textThe idea of combining discrete-event simulation and system dynamics has been a topic of debate in theoperations research community for over a decade. Many authors have considered the potential benefits ofsuch an approach from a methodological or practical standpoint. However, despite numerous examples ofmodels with both discrete and continuous parameters in the computer science and engineering literature,nobody in the OR field has yet succeeded in developing a genuinely hybrid approach which truly integratesthe philosophical approach and technical merits of both DES and SD in a single model. In this paperwe consider some of the reasons for this and describe two practical healthcare examples of combinedDES/SD models, which nevertheless fall short of the “holy grail” which has been so widely discussed inthe literature over the past decade
E-journals in a networked environment : its impact on academic libraries in the digital millennium
No full textThis paper tries to describe the Advantages of E-journals in terms of Accessibility, Speed distribution and production, Subscription Cost, Multimedia Capabilities, Internal and External Links etc and also tries to find out the Technological, Socio-cultural and Economic Barriers. The issues like Refereeing, Copyright and Licensing, Longevity and Storage and recent trends in E-journal publication and its implication on Academic Libraries in selection and acquisition, Cataloguing, archiving, user's access, training and support to staff and users are discussed in this paper
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
The open provenance model: an overview
No full textProvenance is well understood in the context of art or digital libaries, where it respectively refers to the documented history of an art object, or the documentation of processes in a digital object's life cycle. Interest for provenance in the "e-science community'" [12] is also growing, since provenance is perceived as a crucial component of workflow systems that can help scientists ensure reproducibility of their scientific analyses and processes
Hybrid simulation for health and social care: the way forward, or more trouble than it’s worth?
No full textForecasting banknotes
No full textA 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
Wpływ politycznej osobowość Joe Bidena na jego decyzję o wyborze Kamali Harris
No full textThe article examines Joe Biden’s decision to choose Kamala Harris as his running mate in light of the presidential candidate’s features of political personality. It starts with the description of what political personality is and what it consists of. Second, the author takes a look at some of Joe Biden’s political decisions, which indicate that his certain leadership characteristics that have been seen recently, are actually longstanding because one could also observe them in the past. Third, the author examines some of Joe Bident’s aspirants to becoming his running mate and demonstrates how Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris discloses the key features of his political personality. Finally, the author identifies Joe Biden’s leadership strengths as well as weaknesses and, as a result, explains what consequences his decision regarding Kamala Harris might have on his future political decisions as the President of the United States of America. Artykuł analizuje osobowość polityczną Joe Bidena. Aby pokazać cechy charakteru prezydenta, autor analizuje jego dotychczasowe decyzje polityczne. Badanie rozpoczyna się od opisu, czym jest osobowość polityczna i z jakich elementów się składa. Następnie, autor dokonuje analizy niektórych politycznych decyzji Joe Bidena, które wskazują, że jego pewne cechy przywódcze, które zaobserwowano w ostatnim czasie, są w rzeczywistości obecne od dawna, ponieważ można ich było doświadczyć również w przeszłości. Wreszcie na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań autor przewiduje, jak Joe Biden może zachowywać się jako przywódca.
Collective authorship in Joe Sacco’s comic strips
No full textO objetivo deste artigo é descrever e discutir a noção de “autoria coletiva” (Medina) nos quadrinhos jornalísticos de Joe Sacco publicados no Brasil. Para compreender a estruturação dessas narrativas, aplicamos os conceitos de narrador como ente distinto do autor e explicitamos a relação entre protagonistas e o narrador-personagem, estratégica voz que emerge em momentos decisivos para demarcar sua autoria. A alternância de vozes tem origem no processo de reportagem em campo, em que predominam as entrevistas. Elas atingem, em muitas das situações possíveis, o patamar de trocas culturais, superiores à mera transmissão de informações. Assumindo, com Bakhtin, que os diálogos constituem as unidades reais do discurso, nos quadrinhos jornalísticos assinados por Joe Sacco, a autoria coletiva tem pelo menos dois aspectos fundamentais, o dialogal e o dialógico.Palavras-chave: autoria, reportagem, Joe Sacco.The aim of this article is to describe and discuss the notion of “collective authorship” (Medina) in Joe Sacco’s journalistic comics published in Brazil. To understand the structuring of these narratives, we apply the concepts of the narrator as a distinct entity of the author and we explain the relationship between protagonists and the character-narrator, a strategic voice that emerges at decisive moments to demarcate his authorship. The alternation of voices originates in the process of reporting in the field, in which the interviews predominate. They reach, in many of the possible situations, the level of cultural exchange, superior to the mere transmission of information. Assuming, with Bakhtin, that the dialogues constitute the real units of discourse, in the journalistic comics signed by Joe Sacco, collective authorship has at least two fundamental aspects, the dialogue and the dialogical one. Keywords: authorship, reporting, Joe Sacco
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