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Sex Differences in Survey Engagement and Performance as part of an NSF ADVANCE Catalyst Faculty Experiences Survey
No full textPoster Presenter: Stephanie E. Miller
Research Team: Brianna S. Richmond, Caitlin M., Shaw, Natasha R. Wood, Joseph D. Wellman, C. Veronica Smith, & Stephanie E. Miller
Abstract: A significant sex difference was found in response patterns for Attention Check and Qualitative items. Male faculty members were more likely to be inconsistent and disengage from survey tasks than female faculty
Toby Miller on Games
No full textToby Miller is Professor of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Film & Visual Culture at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals and 50 volumes. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism. His forthcoming book is Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.\ud
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This interview was conducted during Toby's recent stint at QUT as a visiting fellow of the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Toby delivered a lecture on the games industry in which he directed attention both to the production cycle of games hardware and software, and to the historical context of moral panics about new media, where games can be viewed as the latest in a long line of new media to generate anxiety within a culture.\ud
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In this interview we canvass the directions that games studies might take, and the issues of production, particularly as they relate to the role of players as producers, and the politics of labour in this new model of networked production
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Construing the ‘primitive’ primitively: grammatical parallelism as patterning and positioning strategy in D.H. Lawrence
No full textThat the style of D. H. Lawrence tends to either bore or enthuse his readers is certainly no secret. That it is its hypnotic rhythmic quality that elicits such contradictory reactions is equally well-known (Balbert 1974). In his unpublished Foreword to Women in Love, Lawrence himself describes his style and offers a justification of sorts for it, one which implicitly ties his ‘form’ to what might be seen as his artistic aim, in terms of ‘content’, or better, of representation:
In point of style, fault is often found with the continual, slightly modified repetition. The only answer is that it is natural to the author; and that every natural crisis in emotion or passion or understanding come from this pulsing, frictional to-and-fro, which works up to culmination (1930: 276)
As Lawrence repeatedly makes clear in his copious production, for him the very act of writing is a means of enacting what he sees as a primeval and creative, if antagonistic, ‘flux’ between two extremes – call them mind-body, knowledge-feeling, light-dark, Lamb-Lion, Son-Father...his dyads are myriad – of the intrinsically dual nature of both the individual and creation itself. A basic assumption of this paper is that the chief linguistic resource through which Lawrence construes this fluid but strained relationship between the two ‘ways’ is grammatical parallelism (Jakobson 1960, 1966), still frequently seen as a survivor of a primitive, tongue-tied way of meaning (cf. Ong 1967, 1982). The paper posits that a detailed linguistic analysis engages with, and leads us to, an understanding of this characteristic of Lawrence’s art in a more fruitful way than other, albeit valid and insightful, critical approaches alone have, or can (Miller 1989, 2000). This does not imply that the Lawrencian socio-cultural context, and intertext(s), are neglected, for also assumed is that Literature [i]s Social Practice (Fowler 1981).
The study is carried out on a very small, though diachronically ‘representative’, corpus of Lawrence’s poems. Though the corpus is machine-readable and interrogate-able, analysis is primarily manual, and qualitative. Grammatical Parallelism is, firstly, explored as a means of consistent, significant and motivated meaning-patterning, or foregrounding, or ‘symbolic articulation’, of the poems’ deepest meanings, or Theme (Hasan 1985/1989), which, no matter what the subject matter of Lawrence’s text, can be said to center upon that flux. Secondly, but not unrelatedly, its likely function as resource for aligning speaker/hearer positioning is also investigated. Thus parallelism is looked at from the perspective of recent developments in Appraisal theory, and in particular, Engagement (White 2003a & b), in an attempt, as is unavoidable with Lawrence, to get at what is treated as being at stake. But the phenomenon is also, and ultimately, queried as a means of enacting Shklovosky’s (1977: 35) claim that “Art is a way of experiencing the making of a thing.” In short, in Lawrence, parallelism would seem to be construing experience as process, as a process of ‘flux’, as this ‘primitive’, ‘tongue-tied’ way of meaning might usefully be compared to the medium of ‘spoken-ness’. And as Halliday has convincingly argued, the ‘choreographic’ complexity of the spoken mode lends it
...the power to intuit, to make indefinitely many connections in different directions at once, to explore (by tolerating them) contradictions, to represent experience as fluid and indeterminate (1987: 148-149)
Line-start permanent-magnet motor: single-phase starting performance analysis
No full textThis paper presents a detailed quasi-steady-state approach to different torque components (average and pulsating) for a single-phase capacitor-run permanent-magnet (PM) motor. By employing average electromagnetic torque, and the expected envelope of the pulsating torque, an accurate prediction of starting torque components behavior is made. The quasi-steady-state analysis of the asynchronous performance of the single-phase capacitor-start capacitor-run PM motor is realized through a combination of symmetrical components and d-q axes theory. The developed approach is valid for any m-phase AC motor-induction, synchronous reluctance, or synchronous PM
Faults and unbalance forces in the switched reluctance machine
No full textThe paper identifies and analyzes a number of severe fault conditions that can occur in the switched reluctance machine, from the electrical and mechanical points of view. It is shown how the currents, torques, and forces may be estimated, and examples are included showing the possibility of large lateral forces on the rotor. The methods used for analysis include finite-element analysis, magnetic circuit models, and experiments on a small machine specially modified for the measurement of forces and magnetization characteristics when the rotor is off-center. Also described is a computer program (PC-SRD dynamic) which is used for simulating operation under fault conditions as well as normal conditions. The paper discusses various electrical configurations of windings and controller circuits, along with methods of fault detection and protective relaying. The paper attempts to cover several analytical and experimental aspects as well as methods of detection and protection
Differences between Nonprecipitating Tropical and Trade Wind Marine Shallow Cumuli
No full textMarine nonprecipitating cumulus topped boundary layers (CTBL) observed in a tropical and in a trade-wind region are contrasted based on their cloud macro-physical, dynamical, and radiative structures. Data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) observational site previously operating at Manus Island and data collected during the deployment of ARM Mobile Facility at the island of Graciosa were used in this study. The tropical marine CTBL were deeper, had higher surface fluxes and boundary layer radiative cooling, but lower wind speeds compared to their trade-wind counterparts. The radiative velocity scale was 50-70% of the surface convective velocity scale at both locations, highlighting the prominent role played by radiation in maintaining turbulence in marine CTBLs. Despite greater thicknesses, the chord lengths of tropical cumuli were on average lower than that of trade wind cumuli, and due to lower cloud cover, the hourly averaged (cloudy and clear) liquid water paths of tropical cumuli were lower than the trade-wind cumuli. At both locations ~70% of the cloudy profiles were updrafts, while the averaged amount of updrafts near cloud base stronger than 1 m s-1 was ~22% in tropical cumuli and ~12% in the trade-wind cumuli. The mean in-cloud radar reflectivity within updrafts and mean updraft velocity was higher in tropical cumuli than the trade-wind cumuli. Despite stronger vertical velocities and more amount of strong updrafts, due to lower cloud fraction, the updraft mass-flux was lower in tropical cumuli compared to the trade-wind cumuli. The observations suggest the tropical and trade-wind marine cumulus clouds to differ significantly in their macro-physical and dynamical structures.Peer reviewe
Readers’ attitudes to self-archiving in the UK
No full textThe online self-archiving by authors of their scholarly articles has been proposed as an alternative to author-pays open access publication, but has the potential to undermine journal publisher income if the ready availability of self-archived articles leads to a drop in subscriptions. This study investigated the awareness of self-archiving and use of self-archived articles in a survey of a mainly academic population including both authors and non-authors, and looks at their attitudes to self-archived papers and whether they view them as an authoritative alternative to subscription access. In total, 70% of respondents had heard of self-archiving, though only 15% knew a lot about it, and 71% had used self-archived papers. These proportions are higher than in previous studies, suggesting that awareness has grown. Most self-archived papers used came from websites rather than repositories, particularly among those whose awareness of self-archiving was low. Use of self-archived articles was greater amongst those who had published more papers and also depended strongly on subject field – use and awareness were both particularly low in the field of medicine. People who were more aware of self-archiving were less likely to view the publisher’s official version as the only authoritative version and more likely not to care about the online location of articles. Moreover, authors who had self-archived tended to archive the publisher’s official version regardless of whether they were permitted to. These results suggest that the awareness of self-archiving is currently mostly limited to academic authors and is unlikely to grow beyond this in the short term. However, in the long term, the combination of high rates of self-archiving of the publisher’s official version, coupled with the devaluation of the journal as the authoritative source of material together with increased convenience of access to self-archived material, could result in fewer people accessing articles through subscription-based methods
An Investigation into the Impact of Mission Statements on School Development Planning.
No full textThis thesis uses quantitative as well as qualitative methods to examine the impact of school philosophical statements on school development planning.
Three case study schools from an Asian city were selected. A questionnaire and face to face interviews were used as data gathering tools. The data from the questionnaires informed the questions created for the interviews and the outcomes of these two data sources were analysed qualitatively. As a result of the findings from qualitative analysis a further quantitative analysis was made of the questionnaire data. A total of 188 responses to questionnaires were examined and 22 interviews took place.
The main aim of this research is to empirically examine the assumptions that underpin the Council of International Schools and New England Association of Schools and College’s accreditation standards for school philosophical statements and development planning. At the heart of these assumptions is the belief that school development planning is most effective when it is closely linked to a clearly written, collaboratively created set of philosophical statements which articulate the school’s values and beliefs. To date this assumption has not been substantiated by research. A secondary aim is to examine the systems and structures in schools that assist in linking the school’s philosophy to its planning processes.
The data resulted in a set of interesting findings. Firstly, insights were gained into techniques used to reaffirm and embed school philosophy into the school’s culture. Secondly, the data suggested that the assumptions made by the accrediting agencies hold true under certain circumstances but that a school’s underlying ideology may be more powerful in driving institutional planning. As a result of the findings, suggestions to further develop accreditation standards are made and ideas for further research are proposed
Lifestyle-Related Risk Factors and Risk of Future Nursing Home Admission
No full textWhile risks of disease, hospitalization, and death attributable to lifestyle-related factors such as smoking, inactivity, and obesity have been well studied, their associations with nursing home admission are less well known. These risk factors are usually established by middle age, but nothing is known about how they relate to long-term risk of nursing home admission in this age group.
Cox proportional hazards regressions were used to analyze risk of nursing home admission over 2 decades of follow-up (1971-1975 to 1992) in a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of community-dwelling adults aged 45 to 74 years at baseline. Middle-aged (45-64 years at baseline) and elderly persons (aged 65-74 years at baseline) were analyzed separately: 230 (6.5%) of 3526 middle-aged respondents and 728 (24.7%) of 2936 elderly ones had 1 or more nursing home admissions. Baseline risk factors included smoking, inactivity, obesity, elevated blood pressure, elevated total cholesterol level, and diabetes mellitus, which were defined according to national guidelines. All lifestyle-related factors, except total cholesterol level, were associated with higher risk of nursing home admission during follow-up in one or both age groups. Risk ratios were higher in middle-aged than in elderly persons. In those aged 45 to 64 years at baseline, diabetes more than tripled the risk of nursing home admission (relative risk, 3.25; 95% confidence interval, 2.04-5.19); smoking, inactivity, and elevated systolic blood pressure had relative risks of 1.56, 1.40, and 1.35, respectively. Obesity was a risk factor for those aged 65 to 74 years at baseline, but not for the middle-aged subjects. Persons with 2 lifestyle-related factors were at greatly increased risk, especially if 1 was diabetes. Lifestyle factors are important contributors to the long-term risk of nursing home admission. Modifying lifestyle, especially in middle age, may reduce the risk of admission.Peer reviewe
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