392 research outputs found
Liming as Black Methodology: Black Early Career Scholars Engage Black Humanity in Research
No full textThis paper builds on decolonizing educational research discourse. Rich, generative, and diverse forms of knowledge production, includes that of the Caribbean. Specifically, the paper uses the Black Caribbean method of Liming, which is an indigenous methodology. The paper illustrates how educational research practices can be enriched by Black and Caribbean ways of thinking, being and knowing. This diversity would support a pivot from Western methods. The author employs reflections from her dissertation writing
and research experience, while highlighting the dire need to incorporate and institutionalize methods from Black scholars, Black communities, and the Global South. Via this paper, I illustrate how Liming has allowed for greater discourse, and learning with the diverse communities served. Liming’s contributions are beneficial in educational research as well its utility for other areas of research. Lastly, this paper processes the idea that Caribbean, African-centric, and Black, knowledge-making such as Liming are liberatory
Kat Incorrigible #3: Stolen Magic
No full textKat is finally able to start preparing for her test to become a full-fledged Guardian, but she has to do it in secrecy and avoid causing any problems for Angeline and her marriage to Lord Frederick Carlyle. Not too long into the trip to the Carlyle estate, it becomes apparent that someone intends to hurt Kat or someone in her family--possibly the same person who stole the Guardians’ collection of magic portals. As Kat works to practice her magic and avoid the person who keeps threatening her and her sisters, she solves the mysteries about her family’s past and helps create a better world for magic in the future through the discoveries she makes
Kat Incorrigible #2: Renegade Magic
No full textKat’s world is turned upside-down when her sister Elissa’s wedding is ruined by Frederick Carlyle’s mother. When his mother refuses to let him marry Angeline and announces to everyone that the girls in the family are witches, Stepmama takes all of the Stephensons to Bath, hoping that Angeline can get married to an eligible suitor before the word spreads about the family. Kat is thrown out of the Guardians Order, but at Bath she finds connections to magic that the Guardians are ignoring. Kat uses her wits and determination to save her family and find the person responsible for manipulating the wild magic at the roman baths
Gliding swifts attain laminar flow over rough wings
No full textSwifts are among the most aerodynamically refined gliding birds. However, the overlapping vanes and protruding shafts of their primary feathers make swift wings remarkably rough for their size. Wing roughness height is 1–2% of chord length on the upper surface—10,000 times rougher than sailplane wings. Sailplanes depend on extreme wing smoothness to increase the area of laminar flow on the wing surface and minimize drag for extended glides. To understand why the swift does not rely on smooth wings, we used a stethoscope to map laminar flow over preserved wings in a low-turbulence wind tunnel. By combining laminar area, lift, and drag measurements, we show that average area of laminar flow on swift wings is 69% (n = 3; std 13%) of their total area during glides that maximize flight distance and duration—similar to high-performance sailplanes. Our aerodynamic analysis indicates that swifts attain laminar flow over their rough wings because their wing size is comparable to the distance the air travels (after a roughness-induced perturbation) before it transitions from laminar to turbulent. To interpret the function of swift wing roughness, we simulated its effect on smooth model wings using physical models. This manipulation shows that laminar flow is reduced and drag increased at high speeds. At the speeds at which swifts cruise, however, swift-like roughness prolongs laminar flow and reduces drag. This feature gives small birds with rudimentary wings an edge during the evolution of glide performance
The impact of the composition and behaviour of the Palestinian leadership on the outcome of the Madrid and Washington negotiations 1991-1997
No full textThis thesis examines the composition and behaviour of the Palestinian leadership during the peace process, from the Madrid conference in 1991 to the breakdown of Oslo in 1997. Through an historical survey, an assessment of the structure and documents of the peace process, and an analysis of the strategies of the Palestinian leadership, it demonstrates that the invitation to the peace process arrived when the Palestinian leadership in exile outside was at its weakest, simultaneously seeking to further weaken it by restricting participation in the peace talks to Palestinians from the OPT except East Jerusalem. The outside leadership decided to fall back on the strong political support and loyalty of the leadership by appointing a delegation from inside in order to avoid the political danger of exclusion and marginalization. The Palestinian delegation from inside was selected from individuals with credibility and the credentials of struggle, which meant that they were loyal to the inside's main source of power, the Palestinian public in the OPT. Thus the relationship between the inside and outside leaderships was complementary: the inside needed the legitimacy and political access of the outside, and the outside needed the unity and representation of the inside. This mutual opportunism exposed, however, each leadership's differences in structure and priorities, which stemmed from their different realities. Because its priorities and approach prevailed, the outside manipulated the inside delegation to encourage secret but direct talks between the PLO and Israel in Oslo, in parallel with the talks in Washington. The Oslo talks’ lack of structure and terms of reference, the absence of a third party, as well as the missing expertise of the negotiators from the OPT, who had personal knowledge of both the Israelis and the terrain, led to weak Palestinian performance and a weak agreement. This, combined with an unfavourable environment created by Israel's expansion of illegal settlements, the asymmetry of power, and the biased position of the us mediator, led to a flawed implementation of the agreement. Among the unfortunate outcomes was the creation of a Palestinian Authority that was structurally dependent on and compromised by Israel, which thereafter affected the Palestinian leadership's implementation of subsequent agreements. Thus, the thesis concludes that a vicious cycle was created where problematic structure, delegation composition, and the leadership and delegation's behaviour led to poor process
Author Gender Representation at Audio Engineering Conferences - An Anonymised Dataset
No full textThis repository contains the author gender dataset (as a comma-delimited .csv file) associated with the paper entitled 'The Impact of Gender on Conference Authorship in Audio Engineering: Analysis Using a New Data Collection Method', published in the IEEE Transactions Special Issue on Increasing the Socio-Cultural Diversity of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Related Fields. Available at: dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2018.2814613. Please cite both the paper and dataset if used. Visualisation is available at: http://tibbakoi/github.io/aesgender.
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The dataset was produced using a novel method which used self-identified pronouns, therefore allowing for as many groups as necessary to describe the population.
A list of authors was generated from conference proceedings.
An email was sent to each author to acquire their pronoun.
If no email was available/no response was received, a pronoun was acquired from a biography.
If no biography was available, a pronoun was inferred from traditional gender markers and gender presentation.
If no gender marker/photograph was available, the entry was labelled as 'Information Unavailable'. For brevity, the label 'Unknown' is used in the paper.
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The columns in the dataset are as follows:
ID: unique identifier of entry
Pronoun: pronoun of entry
Position (abs): numerical absolute position within author list for entry
Position (relative): relative position within author list for entry (either First, Last, or Middle)
Single/multi-author: whether the publication for that entry has a single author or has multiple authors (single author publications are excluded from author position analysis)
Conference: Full conference name of entry
Topic: Topic of conference of entry, taken from conference name
Year: Year of conference of entry
Type: Type of publication for that entry as listed on the online conference proceedings
Grouped Type: Grouping of publication types for that entry for easier analysis due to inconsistencies in online conference proceedings (groups are: workshop, poster, paper, panel, keynote, invited speaker, invited paper, demo)
Inc. for author pos?: True/False as to whether to include the entry for analysis over author position (included types are: paper, invited paper, poster as these have meaningful author orders)
Inc. for single/multi-author?: True/False as to whether to include the entry for analysis over single/multi author (includes types are: paper, invited paper, poster as these have meaningful author orders)
Invited paper status: Grouping of the types to allow statistical analysis over invited vs non-invited types (invited types are: invited speaker, invited paper, keynote, panel. Non-invited types are: poster, paper, demo, workshop)
NB: Some grouping of the data is required as online conference proceedings are not always consistent (Column 10). Some labelling of the data is required to determine which entries to include in certain types of analysis (Columns 11-13).
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This dataset is distributed in the hopes that it will prove useful under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, with no warranty; or the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular problem.
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Dataset curated by: Kat Young and Michael Lovedee-Turner at the Audio Lab, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of York.
Contact: [email protected], [email protected]</p
Racial Equity in Transfer Incentive Policies: A Critical Mixed Methods Analysis
No full textObjective/Research Question: This article examines the racial equity of transfer incentive policies by responding to the research question: How do students of differing races and ethnicities vary in their opportunity to benefit from transfer incentive policies? Methods: We utilized a mixed-methods approach, grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT). This study included an analysis of state policies' components and mechanisms to consider whether they are grounded in racially unjust assumptions. The critical policy analysis is combined with a QuantCrit analysis of national data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) to understand how identified aspects of the policies would affect students of differing races/ethnicities. Results: Our critical policy discourse analysis demonstrates that states' transfer incentive policies could foster racial inequity through the requirements students must meet (e.g., full-time status, being under the age of 24) and assumptions about what students may know or need regarding transfer. The QuantCrit analysis revealed that many transfer incentive requirements from the policy analysis findings would have a disproportionately negative effect on racially minoritized students' transfer eligibility. Together, findings and results illustrate how transfer incentives can contribute to educational inequity for racially minoritized students via color-evasive and meritocratic policies. Conclusions/Contributions: Implications include policy reform needed for the development of incentives aligned with closing the racial transfer gap and focused on incentivizing 2- and 4-year institutions in improving the transfer rates of racially minoritized students.Published articl
Kat River revisited
No full textThere is a paucity of oral-history works on Kat River. Likewise, although various histories of Kat River/Stockenstrom exist, few have focused on the forced removals of Stockenstrom coloured people in the 1980s, the effects of displacement on them, and their involvement in current land claims issues. This dissertation seeks to redress these lacunae and provide information from "the underside" on the Kat River Rebellion of 1851-1853. In order to accomplish this, between 2011 and 2016 the author interviewed, with their consent, people of Khoikhoi descent in Kat River, recording, transcribing and analysing the interviews. The interviews, which range from conversations with male and female subsistence farmers and lay preachers to activists - such as the late Manie Loots, aka James Stewart - are set in the broader context of a selective Kat River history from 1829 to the present. Vagrancy legislation during the historical period is discussed; showing the link between pauperism, vagrancy, and colonial perceptions of disease such as leprosy, which was often associated with "loose" women. It is argued that the above perceptions, together with fear, led to the targeting of women and lepers during the attack on Fort Armstrong in 1852. Despite attempts to marginalise them, it was found that both colonial women, including rebels, and women in present-day Kat River exercised, and continue to exercise, remarkable agency. This thesis also reassesses the ideological bases of the Kat River Settlement, arguing that they were cultivation and militarism, with the latter exemplified in the Kat River settlers' service in frontier wars. Further, it found that neo-Marxist theories of commoning can shed light on the etiology of the Kat River Rebellion, and that people, whose access to their commons or other rights is restricted or denied, become radicalised. It was also found that, although their dispossession from Kat River took place in the 1980s, the interviewees, who all demonstrated strong ties to the land on which they grew up, still feel the effects of it, their all-consuming aim being the recognition of their land claims and the restoration of their titles
Pressure from particle image velocimetry for convective flows: A Taylor\u92s hypothesis approach
No full textTaylors hypothesis is often applied in turbulent flow analysis to map temporal information into spatial information. Recent efforts in deriving pressure from particle image velocimetry (PIV) have proposed multiple approaches, each with its own weakness and strength. Application of Taylors hypothesis allows us to counter the weakness of an Eulerian approach that is described by de Kat & van Oudheusden (2012 Exp. Fluids 52 1089106). We build on the findings of de Kat & Ganapathisubramani (2013 Meas. Sci. Technol. 24 024002) and look in more detail into different ways of obtaining estimates for convection velocity on the determination of pressure from PIV using Taylor\u92s hypothesis. We also look at the influence of the omission of viscous terms. Results appear to indicate that pressure can indeed be obtained from PIV data in turbulent convective flows using the Taylors hypothesis approach, where there are no other methods to determine pressure. A more local estimate of convection velocity results in a pressure field that has less obvious defects. Other than a change in reference pressure for the pressure evaluation, inclusion or omission of the viscous terms appears to not have a significant effect
sj-docx-1-crw-10.1177_00915521221125826 – Supplemental material for Racial Equity in Transfer Incentive Policies: A Critical Mixed Methods Analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-crw-10.1177_00915521221125826 for Racial Equity in Transfer Incentive Policies: A Critical Mixed Methods Analysis by Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Patricia Feraud-King, Ling Chen, Miguel Tejada, Caryn Brause, Kat J. Stephens, Jamina M. Scippio-McFadden, Jeffrey Edelstein and Ryan S. Wells in Community College Review</p
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