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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Northern Expressway (NEXY)
No full textDesign leaders and coordinators of project team and associates: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, lighting specialist Bluebottle, sculptor Robert Owen, artist Robin Eley. Extent : 23 km Northern Expressway (NEXY) (incorporating Urban Design and Landscape Reference Design)Adjunct Associate Professor Kevin Taylor (late), Adjunct Associate Professor Kate Cullity, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, Bluebottle Lighting Designer
Language Change and SA-OT: The case of sentential negation
No full textSimulated Annealing for Optimality Theory (SA-OT) updates Optimality Theory by adding a model of performance to a theory of linguistic competence. Our aim is to show that SA-OT can contribute to language change simulations. Performance "errors" are considered to be one of the causes of variation and change. We have chosen to model the evolution of sentential negation (SN). The descriptive background adopts Jespersen's Cycle, according to which the evolution of sentential negation follows three main stages (1. pre-verbal, 2. discontinuous, and 3. post-verbal). Therefore, we advance a novel model for SN, based on SA-OT. It reproduces the three pure and the two observed mixed stages, whereas it correctly predicts the lack of an intermediate stage between 3 and 1. The success of the approach corroborates the computational, performance-based approach to the data. Finally, we employ the iterated learning paradigm to reproduce historical changes in a "simulated corpus study". This enterprise turns out to be more difficult than one would naively believe.Appeared open access as: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal (CLIN), vol. 1 (2011), pp. 21-40, and is available at http://www.clinjournal.org/sites/default/files/Lopopolo.pdfA. Lopopolo and Biró, T., “Language Change and SA-OT. The case of sentential negation”, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, vol. 1, pp. 21-40, 2011.Peer Reviewe
Does Instrument Independence Matter under the Constrained Discretionof an Inflation Targeting Goal? Lessons from UK Taylor Rule Empirics
No full textWe investigate whether increased independence affects central bank behavior when monetary policy is already in an inflation targeting regime. Taking advantage of the recent UK experience to identify such an exogenous change, we estimate Taylor rules via alternative methods, specifications and proxies. Our contribution is to detect two novel results: the Bank of England has responded to the output gap, not growth; and in a stronger way after receiving operational independence. Both findings are consistent with the Bank's mandate and New Keynesian monetary theory. Economic expansion and anchored inflation have thus complemented greater autonomy in influencing the Bank's policy feedbackasymmetry of monetary policy reaction function across the business cycle, response to output gap vs output growth, Taylor rules, operational independence, inflation targeting, United Kingdom
EVIDENCE FOR REVERSIBILITY OF DEFECTIVE COUNTERREGULATION IN A PATIENT WITH INSULINOMA
No full textTo investigate her unheralded neuroglycopenia, a 45-year-old woman was studied before and 3 months after removal of her insulinoma. Hypoglycaemia was induced and reversed by glucose infusion during 4-h insulin infusions (1.5 mU kg-1 min-1). Postoperatively,the low preoperative adrenaline, noradrenaline, growth hormone, and cortisol responses increased by 490, 152, 64, and 178 %, respectively, and started at higher glucose levels (2.7 vs 1.9 mmol l-1 for adrenaline), with a four-fold increase in autonomic symptoms and more profound psychomotor dysfunction. We conclude that the syndrome of recurrent severe hypoglycaemia with defective warning symptoms and hormonal responses, in this case induced by an insulin-secreting tumour, is reversible, perhaps by the removal of the hypoglycaemia, a finding which may be relevant to other patients with recurrent severe hypoglycaemia
[1 lettre de Felix Taylor à Charles Nuitter, 26 octobre 1880] (manuscrit autographe)
No full textSollicite Nuitter pour examiner une lettre qu'il a rédigée à l'attention du sous-secretaire d'État en vue d'obtenir une indemnisation pour le don de la bibliothèque du baron Taylor. - La lettre ne comporte pas le courrier adressé au sous-secrétaire d'État. Elle est accompagnée d'un brouillon de lettre de Nuitter en date du 27 octobre 1880 comportant sa réponse ainsi que de nombreuses indications pour rendre le courrier de Félix Taylor plus efficace. - Papier bordé de noirCorrespondanc
[1 lettre de Felix Taylor à Charles Nuitter, 13 novembre 1880] (manuscrit autographe)
No full textDemande à Nuitter des conseils sur la stratégie à adopter au sujet de sa lettre au sous-secrétaire d'État aux Beaux-Arts (voir lettre de Taylor à Nuitter du 26 octobre 1880)Correspondanc
Charles Taylor
No full textAvec L’Âge séculier (2007), Charles Taylor couronnait une œuvre consacrée à la genèse de la modernité et à la pensée du multiple. Il reconstituait la diversité des moments et des réflexions qui menèrent à un âge séculier, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Mais loin de constituer une synthèse humaniste, laissant derrière lui l’âge théologique, celui-ci éclate à son tour aux XIXe et XXe siècles, par un « effet supernova » comme Taylor l’a joliment appelé, en une multitude de galaxies nouvelles, où les athéismes côtoient des humanismes déistes mais aussi des « retours de Dieu » surprenants d’expressivité. Ce sont les diverses facettes remarquables de cet Âge séculier que traitent les auteurs de ce livre : sa place dans l’œuvre de Taylor, sa théorie complexe de la sécularisation, certains de ses moments historiques, son intérêt – ou non – dans l’actualité des religions. Une confrontation à un maître ouvrage, qui contribue à forger des instruments de pensée permettant de dépasser le conflit entre laïcité intransigeante et « accommodements raisonnables »
Charles Taylor
No full textAvec L’Âge séculier (2007), Charles Taylor couronnait une œuvre consacrée à la genèse de la modernité et à la pensée du multiple. Il reconstituait la diversité des moments et des réflexions qui menèrent à un âge séculier, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Mais loin de constituer une synthèse humaniste, laissant derrière lui l’âge théologique, celui-ci éclate à son tour aux XIXe et XXe siècles, par un « effet supernova » comme Taylor l’a joliment appelé, en une multitude de galaxies nouvelles, où les athéismes côtoient des humanismes déistes mais aussi des « retours de Dieu » surprenants d’expressivité. Ce sont les diverses facettes remarquables de cet Âge séculier que traitent les auteurs de ce livre : sa place dans l’œuvre de Taylor, sa théorie complexe de la sécularisation, certains de ses moments historiques, son intérêt – ou non – dans l’actualité des religions. Une confrontation à un maître ouvrage, qui contribue à forger des instruments de pensée permettant de dépasser le conflit entre laïcité intransigeante et « accommodements raisonnables »
John Stuart Mill et Harriet Taylor : écrits sur l'égalité de sexes
No full textÀ une époque où le statut légal des femmes indiquait leur position inférieure dans la société, John Stuart Mill, l’un des plus grands penseurs britanniques de son temps, s’éleva de manière répétée contre cette injustice. L’auteur du célèbre L’asservissement des femmes fit de l’égalité des sexes l’un des principaux enjeux de sa philosophie politique, au nom de la liberté individuelle et de l’égalité qu’il défendit toute sa vie. Avec le concours de Harriet Taylor, dont la participation à l’œuvre millienne est examinée ici, il devint l’un des pionniers du féminisme et contribua à son essor, se servant de sa réputation pour attirer l’attention sur la condition des femmes. D’articles inédits à des extraits des œuvres les plus connues, de sa correspondance à son autobiographie, les textes présentés font apparaître toute la cohérence et la modernité de l’auteur, et intéresseront tout autant les lecteurs de Mill que ceux qui s’intéressent au féminisme ou à l’histoire des femmes.J.S. Mill’s thought has been available to French readers since the 19th century and the Subjection of Women, his book on women’s position in society was translated and published as well. Yet the rest of his writings on women is less known which is why this book contains selected writings on women ranging from texts that have never been translated to extracts of Mill’s most famous works. The selection and critical introduction aim at showing that feminism was not a side-issue for Mill but a logical consequence of his whole political philosophy. The book also addresses the controversial question of Taylor-Mill’s participation in Mill’s work
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