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Implementation and analysis of an innovative digital charge amplifier for hysteresis reduction in piezoelectric stack actuators
No full textAbstract not availableMohsen Bazghaleh, Steven Grainger, Ben Cazzolato, Tien-Fu Lu, and Reza Oskoue
Imagining a City
No full text‘Imagining a City’ is a programme developed by Laura Guy in partnership with the Common Guild as part of the research project ‘Remapping the ‘City of Culture’ through LGBTQ+ Cultural Production', supported by the Carnegie Trust and the Glasgow School of Art.
'Imagining a City’ looks back across two decades of queer and trans cultural activity in Glasgow from 1980 to 2000, a period bookended by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) 1980 Act (which partially decriminalised homosexuality in 1981), and the repeal of Section 28 (2A in Scotland) in 2000, three years before England and Wales. Marking the midway point between these dates is Glasgow’s designation as European Capital of Culture in 1990, a pivotal moment in the city’s history, which instigated a period of confident, culture-driven regeneration, and shaped the character of the city’s civic identity.
Guy’s research reexamines this period of cultural growth through the lens of concurrent queer and trans cultural production. Much of this activity deployed arts and culture to respond directly to the onset of crises surrounding HIV and AIDS, and advocated for the needs and rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
Guy is working with invited collaborators who include artist and researcher Steven Grainger, Senior Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University Fiona Anderson, curator and writer Taylor Le Melle, and researcher, writer and artist Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell to bring this material into conversation with the present, exploring current cultural infrastructure, self-organising and its impact on contemporary civic identities.
With The Common Guild, ‘Imagining a City’ unfolds initially through a closed discursive session in December 2024 with Fiona Anderson, Taylor Le Melle, Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell, who respond to the idea of queer and trans infrastructure through discussion of their own research and practice alongside invited participants. Through provocations focusing on archives of HIV/AIDS cultural production in the North East of England (Fiona Anderson), practices of building just infrastructure in the arts (Taylor Le Melle) and trans political horizons through returns to the1990s (Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell), the informal group discussion will reflect on how infrastructure limits, is worked into, and is reimagined through queer and trans practice.
A public session, ‘Inventing vocabularies’ with Laura Guy and Steven Grainger, will follow on 27 February 2025. In parallel, Grainger’s site-specific poster project ‘Power from Things Not Declared’ which maps significant locations in Glasgow’s queer cultural history will be situated across the city from 27 February – 27 March.
Finally, a display of ephemera, archival material and selection of publications related to the exhibition Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics at Tramway in 1992 traces interventions within Glasgow’s public realm and is presented in The Common Guild library from 27 February – 27 March
An insect inspired object tracking mechanism for autonomous vehicles
No full textZahra Bagheri, Benjamin S. Cazzolato, Stevend D. Wiederman, Steven Grainger, and David C. O'Carrol
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Active preload control of a redundantly actuated Stewart platform for backlash prevention
No full textAbstract not availableBoyin Ding, Benjamin S. Cazzolato, Steven Grainger, Richard M. Stanley, John J. Cost
Model-based drift correction of a digital charge amplifier
No full textMohsen Bazghaleh, Steven Grainger, Benjamin Cazzolato and Tien-Fu Luhttps://sites.google.com/site/2011icmt/Home/progra
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Constructive network reinforcement learning for autonomous mobile robots
No full textToby Lightheart, Steven Grainger and Tien-Fu Luhttp://sites.google.com/site/2011icmt/system/app/pages/search?scope=search-site&q=constructive+network+reinforcemen
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