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Notes on the design of a barrel shifter for the Warwick pipelined CORDIC processor
No full textThis document discusses the design decisions made during the design of the barrel shifters used in the floating point adjustment circuitry of the Warwick pipelined CORDIC processor. The barrel shifter is required for both the input (mantissa alignment) and output (post normalistion) parts of the floating data path, although it also has applications in other areas such as a bit field extraction and multiplication/division. A brief survey of the available techniques will be given, followed by a discussion of the design process for the Barrel shifters in our implementatioof the CORDIC algorith
Processes of 'positive multiculturalism' in practice : an extended case study with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC)
No full textThis thesis consists of three distinct but interconnecting case studies that took place
between 2007 and 2010 in collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC), Britain’s
second largest multi-arts venue. The study developed practice-led methods to
investigate the dynamic interactions between notions and perceptions of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘internationalism’ in relation to WAC’s theatre and performance
programming and education activities. The first case study is a qualitative audience
reception study designed to make sense of WAC’s programme in relation to
multicultural and international issues. The second case study focuses on an
educational outreach project that placed two local schools in collaboration with a
commissioned teacher-artist and a University of Warwick academic. These
encounters inspired the final case study, which made use of WAC’s newly built
Creative Space as a site for a devising project with young people from nearby
Coventry, culminating in a performance for an invited audience.
The thesis explores the varied complexities that frame ‘multiculturalism’ by focusing
on its origins as a political concept in post-1945 Britain and its subsequent
association with contemporary contentious social, political and cultural national and
international issues. An analysis of the negative effects of ‘multiculturalism’ is
balanced by considerations of the project’s emergent concepts: ‘hospitality’ and
‘conviviality’, which articulate the possibilities of living in diversity in more ‘positive’
terms. These paradigms reverberate throughout each case study, informing their
methodologies, influencing their conceptual frameworks and placing
‘multiculturalism’ in more dynamic and relevant dimensions of pedagogical and
creative practices. Each case study considers collaboration between strangers and
investigates the potential of WAC as a hospitable and convivial environment. These
new perspectives demonstrate the optimistic possibilities of creative and humane
action for producing a ‘positive multiculturalism’
Social distinction and the written word : two provincial case studies, Warwick and Draguignan, 1780-1820
No full textThis is a comparative study of two countries, England and France, two county towns,
Warwick and Draguignan, and two families of the trading-manufacturing sort. It
argues that, during the period around 1780-1820, the acquisition of a certain form of
education, which included an emphasis on fluent reading, writing, and grammar.
preferably Latin grammar, became as important as the acquisition of capital. This
cultural capital gave its new owners a self-perceived distinction which allowed them to
consider themselves and to be considered by others as different.
Even if local, regional, and national differences are taken into account, this
comparative study shows that this new perception developed as a transnational
phenomenon, a form of culture sallS jrolltieres, even during the times of enmity and
almost uninterrupted wars between Britain and France which characterise this period.
This process had begun earlier in the eighteenth century, when the idea of a public
opinion and its premise of equal interaction amongst its proponents was 'invented'; but
it was facilitated by the French Revolution with its legacy of the notion of equality, and
therefore of the importance of communication in forging democracy. The written word
was the chosen means to achieve this.
It is argued that this distinctive culture, in the production and consumption of which
women played a considerable part, gave voice and a social and political consciousness
to those who began to see themselves as the 'middle class'
Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
No full text'WARWICK CASTLE, WARWICKSHIRE. Drawn in Lithotint Published by Chapman & Hall, London, Sepr.. 1st.. 1844. by J. D. Harding.' Accompanied by notes
The Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick
No full text'THE BEAUCHAMP CHAPEL, WARWICK. In Lithotint by J. D. Harding. Published by Chapman & Hall London May 1st.. 1845. From a Drawing by G. Cattermole.
Dionne Warwick portrait, undated
No full textBlack-and-white photograph of Dionne Warwick performing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The captions on the reverse of the image reads, "DIONNE WARWICK", "D-95", and "56 continued.
Dionne Warwick portrait, undated
No full textBlack-and-white photograph of Dionne Warwick performing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The captions on the reverse of the image reads, "DIONNE WARWICK", "D-95", and "56 continued.
Cross cultural evaluation of the Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS) -a mixed methods study
No full textBackground:
We aimed to validate the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) among English speaking adults representing two of the minority ethnic groups living in the UK, self-identified as Chinese or Pakistani by background, in a mixed methods study.
Methods:
Quantitative data were collected in two cities in the West Midlands, UK. Item response, dimensionality, internal consistency, and construct validity of the WEMWBS were assessed in Chinese and Pakistani groups separately, using data from both cities combined.
Qualitative data were collected in the first city in eight focus groups of different ages recruited by the community workers. Three mixed sex Chinese and five single sex Pakistani groups discussed ease of completion and comprehension of items, together with overall reactions to the scale and underlying concept.
Results of quantitative and qualitative analysis were examined for commonalities and differences.
Results:
Item completion and item total correlations were satisfactory in both groups. In the Chinese data, Exploratory Factor Analysis showed a single factor with loadings ranging from 0.60 to 0.82 for all 14 items. In the Pakistani data, three factors reached statistical significance; however, a substantial drop in eigenvalues between the first and second factors and the limited variance explained by the second and third factors supported a one-factor model. All items loaded on this factor from 0.51 to 0.83.
In the Chinese and Pakistani data respectively, Cronbach's alpha was 0.92 (0.89 -- 0.94) and 0.91 (0.88 -- 0.94); Spearman's correlation with GHQ-12 was - 0.63 (-0.73 to -0.49) and -0.55 (-0.70 to -0.36), and with the WHO-5 0.62 (0.46-0.75) and 0.64 (0.50 to 0.76).
Qualitative analysis revealed good comprehension and ease of completion of almost all items. Some culturally determined differences in understanding of mental well-being, which varied both between and within communities, emerged.
Conclusions:
The WEMWBS was well received by members of both Pakistani and Chinese communities. It showed high levels of consistency and reliability compared with accepted criteria. Data were sufficiently strong to recommend the WEMWBS for use in general population surveys
Macroecology and meiobenthos: Reply to Warwick (2014)
No full textWarwick (2014; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 505:295-298) suggests that my claim that the biology of marine metazoan benthos may scale continuously with body mass (Bett 2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 487:1-6) is an overstatement. His alternative hypothesis is that there is a ‘step-change’ in allometric relationships between the meio- and macrobenthos. I continue to propose that simple null hypotheses for standing stock size spectra and species size spectra of the metazoan benthos, consistent with metabolic theory and macroecology, offer parsimonious solutions. For standing stock and species size spectra I present field data that conform to these null hypotheses. Data from other studies, such as those suggested by Warwick (2014), may be difficult to place in the macroecological context, as those studies are constructed or presented in a different manner (e.g. they lack data on the number of individuals identified). I suggest that it may be useful to consider ‘evolutionary species size spectra’ separately from ‘macroecological species size spectra’. Both are valid testable hypotheses, and are not necessarily contradictory
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