41 research outputs found
Enhancement and integration for CINDI system
No full textThe CINDI system is an assembly of inter-related subsystems, working together as a digital library for academic documents in the field of computer science. These subsystems include the CINDI Robot, which downloads scientific documents including theses, technical reports, FAQ's, academic papers and discussion groups, the CINDI Conference system and the CINDI Registration and Upload subsystem, where authors upload academic documents. In addition, there is the Gleaning subsystem that converts the non-PDF documents to PDF format and filters out the documents that are more appropriate, the Automatic Semantic Header Generator which locates information about the author, title, keywords, subject and abstract from the documents, and the CINDI Search subsystem which enables users to search for resources in the CINDI repository, This thesis is based on the techniques that were used for the integration of subsystems, which includes porting of the Document Converter from the Windows platform to Linux. Enhancements were made to the Registration and Upload subsystem to allow multiple file uploads and improvements were made to the Graphical User Interface. The CINDI Search subsystem was redesigned to improve functionality and its interface was made more user-friendly. We have also developed an Annotation subsystem allowing users to make comments on documents in the CINDI repository
Capitalismo vagabundo y la necesidad de la reproducción social - Cindi Katz
No full textNeste artigo Cindi Katz levanta um problema intrínseco da produção capitalista globalizada: o descompromisso com os lugares e seus habitantes, agravando desigualdades de classe, gênero, raça. A autora discute este problema de maneira singular a partir de uma abordagem materialista da reprodução social. Como a globalização, a reprodução social é examinada em seus aspectos político-econômicos, político-ecológicos e culturais. Em um caso ilustrado, sobre crianças e espaços públicos em Nova Iorque, ela desenvolve o conceito de reescalonamento da infância, e nos mostra como as geografias específicas se interligam aos processos globais através de escalas geográficas e translocalmente. Katz propõe, além disso, os conceitos de topografia e contra-topografia que são tanto uma maneira de analisar a intersecção dos processos globais e seus custos sociais, geograficamente desiguais, quanto um instrumento político para reconstruir solidariedades translocais e internacionalistas contra este errante e irresponsável capitalismo globalizado.En este artículo Cindi Katz plantea un problema intrínseco de la producción capitalista globalizada: el descompromiso con los lugares y sus habitantes, agravando las desigualdades de clase, gênero y raza. La autora discute este problema de manera singular desde una perspectiva materialista de la reproducción social. Asi como la globalización, la reproducción social es examinada en sus aspectos político-económicos, político-ecológicos y culturales. En un caso sobre niños y espacios públicos en la ciudad de Nueva York, ella desarrolla el concepto de redimensionamiento de la infancia, y nos muestra como las geografías específicas se interconectan a los procesos globales a través de escalas geográficas y translocalmente. Katz propone (sin ademas) los conceptos de topografía y contra-topografía, que es tanto una manera de analizar la intersección de los procesos globales y sus costos sociales, geográficamente desiguales, como un instrumento político para reconstruir solidaridades translócales e internacionalistas contra este errante e irresponsable capitalismo globalizado.In this article Cindi Katz raises an intrinsic problem of the globalized capitalist production: the disengagement with places and their inhabitants, reinforcing inequalities of class, gender, race. The author discusses this problem in a singular way through a materialist approach on social reproduction. As globalization, social reproduction is examined in its political-economic, political-ecological, and cultural aspects. In an illustrated case about children and public spaces in New York, she develops the concept of rescaling of children, and shows us how specific geographies interconnect with global processes through geographic scales, and translocally. Katz proposes, furthermore, the concepts of topography and counter-topography, which are ways of analysing the intersection of global processes and their geographically unequal social costs, as well as political tools for reconstructing translocal and internationalist solidarities against this errant and irresponsible globalized capitalism
Enhanced web based CINDI system
No full textThe web-based CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery) System attempts to solve the common problem of the current search engines, such as lack of a standard indexing and an information query interface. It proposes Semantic Header as the standard index scheme, and stores the index entry into MySQL database management system. By invoking a set of graphic user interface, the CINDI system allows the resource contributor to catalog his own resource and enables the user to search for hypermedia documents based on the title, author(s), keyword(s) and subject search criteria. This report describes the redesign and implementation of the Semantic Header database, and the design and implementation of the graphic user interface for the resource registration subsystem and resource search subsystem. The user-friendly interface has been implemented with PHP script language on the Linux platform. The three-tier client/server architecture is used in the web-based CINDI system, with Apache web server exchanging information between the web Browser (the client) and the backend MySQL database
Intersectional Incoherence
No full textIntersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese empire and their postwar descendants in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans. Arguing for intersectionality as a reading method rather than strictly a tool of social analysis, Cindi Textor reads moments of illegibility and incoherent language in these texts as a product of the pressures on Zainichi Koreans and their literature to represent both Korean difference from and affinity with Japan. Rejecting linguistic norms and representational imperatives of identity categories, Textor instead demands that the reader grapple with the silent, absent, illegible, or unintelligible. Engaging with the incoherent, she argues, allows for a more ethical approach to texts, subjects, and communities that resist representation within existing paradigms.
“Intersectional Incoherence offers an expansive critical curation of a significant but silenced Korean minority literature in Japan. By globalizing intersectional critique on race, gender, and disability, this book is a welcome development beyond Euro‑American postcolonial and critical race studies.” — Nayoung Aimee Kwon, author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
“This rich and self‑reflective study aims to tell an anti‑essentialist literary history of the Zainichi community. The fruits of Cindi Textor’s close readings will be relevant to many other literary histories of communities around the world.” — Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
“A powerful intervention that forces us to rethink what literature is, what history is, and what identity is.” — Sonia Ryang, author of Language and Truth in North Kore
Intersectional Incoherence
No full textIntersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese empire and their postwar descendants in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans. Arguing for intersectionality as a reading method rather than strictly a tool of social analysis, Cindi Textor reads moments of illegibility and incoherent language in these texts as a product of the pressures on Zainichi Koreans and their literature to represent both Korean difference from and affinity with Japan. Rejecting linguistic norms and representational imperatives of identity categories, Textor instead demands that the reader grapple with the silent, absent, illegible, or unintelligible. Engaging with the incoherent, she argues, allows for a more ethical approach to texts, subjects, and communities that resist representation within existing paradigms.
“Intersectional Incoherence offers an expansive critical curation of a significant but silenced Korean minority literature in Japan. By globalizing intersectional critique on race, gender, and disability, this book is a welcome development beyond Euro‑American postcolonial and critical race studies.” — Nayoung Aimee Kwon, author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
“This rich and self‑reflective study aims to tell an anti‑essentialist literary history of the Zainichi community. The fruits of Cindi Textor’s close readings will be relevant to many other literary histories of communities around the world.” — Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
“A powerful intervention that forces us to rethink what literature is, what history is, and what identity is.” — Sonia Ryang, author of Language and Truth in North Kore
Reseña de La tiranía de las moscas
No full textLa reseña de Cindi Alejandra Reyes Mondragón sobre La tiranía de las moscas, de Elaine Vilar Madruga, explora las complejidades simbólicas de la obra. Mediante un relato surrealista y grotesco, la novela narra una familia disfuncional que personifica la esclavitud del placer y la parodia de la sexualidad, el arte y la muerte, la violencia patriarcal y la tiranía del cuerpo femenino. En este sentido, la autora critica la mirada social sobre el cuerpo y los deseos, mostrándola como una prisión. Por lo tanto, el poder se manifiesta como un símbolo de una nación corrupta y, al mismo tiempo, del cuerpo femenino, ambos lugares de prevalencia, opresión y lucha.
Palabras clave: tiranía, cuerpo femenino, crítica social.
From the eschatological family to the submission of pleasure
The review written by Cindi Alejandra Reyes Mondragón of La tiranía de las moscas, by Elaine Vilar Madruga ,explores the symbolic complexities in this literary work. Through a surrealistic and grotesque story, the novel relates a dysfunctional family which embodies slavery of the pleasure and the sexuality parody, the art and death, patriarchal violence and the tyranny of female body. In this way, the author criticizes the social perspective about body and desires, showing it as a prison. Therefore, power is manifested as a corrupt nation symbol, and, at the same time, of the female body, both places of prevalence, oppression and fight.
Keywords: tyranny, female body, social criti
Noncognitive Factors: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Graduates’ Perceived Influence on College Readiness
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe how deaf and hard of hearing college graduates perceive the extent to which Farrington’s (2012) five noncognitive factors influenced their ability to successfully complete a four-year college degree.
Methodology: This phenomenological study identified and described the extent to which noncognitive factors influenced deaf and hard of hearing college graduates’ ability to successfully attain their college degree. Eight participants were selected through purposeful sampling based on criteria including being a resident in California and graduating with a four-year college degree between 2017 and 2020. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews using an Interview Protocol. Responses from participants were prioritized and data was coded for themes.
Findings: The findings from this study show that all participants agreed that each of Farrington’s noncognitive factors influenced their ability to successfully complete a four-year college degree. Participants shared examples that related to positive academic performance and the five noncognitive factors of academic behaviors, academic perseverance, academic mindsets, learning strategies, and social skills. Findings included a hierarchy of perceived degree of importance for each factor.
Conclusions: The findings and literature review support that noncognitive factors positively relate to academic performance and postsecondary success. Results indicate that deaf and hard of hearing college graduates can overcome barriers by using noncognitive skills to help them attain their college degree. Findings include that deaf and hard of hearing college graduates utilized academic behaviors, persevered through barriers and expectations, demonstrated positive academic mindsets, utilized learning strategies that work for them, and valued social skills.
Recommendations for Action: The researcher recommends increasing awareness in families, caregivers, transition organizations, policy makers and decision makers in the benefits of noncognitive skills for deaf and hard of hearing students through workshops and formal presentations. Recommendations also include to create and teach noncognitive skills curriculum to deaf and hard of hearing middle school, high school and college students. Professional development should be provided to educators and academic counselors on the importance of noncognitive skills in education
Noncognitive Factors: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Graduates’ Perceived Influence on College Readiness
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe how deaf and hard of hearing college graduates perceive the extent to which Farrington’s (2012) five noncognitive factors influenced their ability to successfully complete a four-year college degree.
Methodology: This phenomenological study identified and described the extent to which noncognitive factors influenced deaf and hard of hearing college graduates’ ability to successfully attain their college degree. Eight participants were selected through purposeful sampling based on criteria including being a resident in California and graduating with a four-year college degree between 2017 and 2020. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews using an Interview Protocol. Responses from participants were prioritized and data was coded for themes.
Findings: The findings from this study show that all participants agreed that each of Farrington’s noncognitive factors influenced their ability to successfully complete a four-year college degree. Participants shared examples that related to positive academic performance and the five noncognitive factors of academic behaviors, academic perseverance, academic mindsets, learning strategies, and social skills. Findings included a hierarchy of perceived degree of importance for each factor.
Conclusions: The findings and literature review support that noncognitive factors positively relate to academic performance and postsecondary success. Results indicate that deaf and hard of hearing college graduates can overcome barriers by using noncognitive skills to help them attain their college degree. Findings include that deaf and hard of hearing college graduates utilized academic behaviors, persevered through barriers and expectations, demonstrated positive academic mindsets, utilized learning strategies that work for them, and valued social skills.
Recommendations for Action: The researcher recommends increasing awareness in families, caregivers, transition organizations, policy makers and decision makers in the benefits of noncognitive skills for deaf and hard of hearing students through workshops and formal presentations. Recommendations also include to create and teach noncognitive skills curriculum to deaf and hard of hearing middle school, high school and college students. Professional development should be provided to educators and academic counselors on the importance of noncognitive skills in education
Interethnic differences in the accuracy of anthropometric indicators of obesity in screening for high risk of coronary heart disease.
No full textBACKGROUND: Cut points for defining obesity have been derived from mortality data among Whites from Europe and the United States and their accuracy to screen for high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in other ethnic groups has been questioned. OBJECTIVE: To compare the accuracy and to define ethnic and gender-specific optimal cut points for body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) when they are used in screening for high risk of CHD in the Latin-American and the US populations. METHODS: We estimated the accuracy and optimal cut points for BMI, WC and WHR to screen for CHD risk in Latin Americans (n=18 976), non-Hispanic Whites (Whites; n=8956), non-Hispanic Blacks (Blacks; n=5205) and Hispanics (n=5803). High risk of CHD was defined as a 10-year risk > or =20% (Framingham equation). The area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) and the misclassification-cost term were used to assess accuracy and to identify optimal cut points. RESULTS: WHR had the highest AUC in all ethnic groups (from 0.75 to 0.82) and BMI had the lowest (from 0.50 to 0.59). Optimal cut point for BMI was similar across ethnic/gender groups (27 kg/m(2)). In women, cut points for WC (94 cm) and WHR (0.91) were consistent by ethnicity. In men, cut points for WC and WHR varied significantly with ethnicity: from 91 cm in Latin Americans to 102 cm in Whites, and from 0.94 in Latin Americans to 0.99 in Hispanics, respectively. CONCLUSION: WHR is the most accurate anthropometric indicator to screen for high risk of CHD, whereas BMI is almost uninformative. The same BMI cut point should be used in all men and women. Unique cut points for WC and WHR should be used in all women, but ethnic-specific cut points seem warranted among men
Community-based social services: practical advice based upon lessons from outside the World Bank
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to gather information in both developed and developing countries, on design and delivery of community based social service initiatives. While the field is sufficiently new that best practice may not yet be fully identifiable, there are many initiatives funded by other governments, NGOs, and donor agencies, which taken along with acknowledged good practice from the industrialized world, can help task managers with the design of community-based social service projects.Street Children,Adolescent Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Banks&BankingReform,Civil Society
