14 research outputs found
Many Mountains, Many Musics, Many Movements
No full textThe roundtable focuses broadly on hip hop within Appalachia. Presenters will interact with the audience, but focus briefly on the following:Forrest Yerman will discuss the evolution of spirituals, to blues, to jazz, to rhythm and blues to, funk, to hip hop in a large American context, and apply that discussion to Appalachia. Willard Watson will discuss the publication and distribution of Hip Hop/Rap in the region, differentiating between mainstream artists and mixtape culture within the region and conclude by sharing an online resource for finding Appalachian Hip Hop. Nate May will be speaking to the West Virginia rap scene and his research as a music scholar. Moderator, Jordan Laney, will organize questions and frame the discussion as an exploration of race, aesthetics, and possibilities in the region
John Caldwell Colt: A notorious accountant
No full textJohn C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet. Convicted of murder and condemned to execution by hanging, Colt committed suicide in prison in 1842. His text, The Science of Double Entry Bookkeeping, first published in 1838, continued in print until 1856
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Refinements on Analysis of PCM Synchronization
No full textInternational Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-20, 1966 / Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CaliforniaIn this paper, the author reconsiders some of his previously reported assumptions on an analysis of mean time to establish PCM synchronization, and he provides further insight into the effect of specific synchronization patterns and parameters of the synchronization process. An improvements in one assumption shows how the analysis can provide slightly more accurate results. Specific recommendations are made for standardization of PCM sync patterns.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection
JOHN CALDWELL COLT: A NOTORIOUS ACCOUNTANT
No full textJohn C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet. Convicted of murder and condemned to execution by hanging, Colt committed suicide in prison in 1842. His text, The Science of Double Entry Bookkeeping, first published in 1838, continued in print until 1856.</jats:p
Valdosta Project Change, Scrapbook, December 1998
No full textValdosta Project Change. “Valdosta Project Change Scrapbook, December 1998.” Lowndes County Historical Society. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, MS-181: Valdosta Project Change scrapbook Collection, 1998-2003. 1 PDF document and scans, 41 pages. 840 MB (881,697,568 bytes).12/1- School counselor complains about parents- Yvonne Fournier; 12/2- Williams’ death inquest held today: Public expected to observe ‘utmost decorum’ during inquest of Williams death- Jodi M. Scott; 12/2- Sister denies brother’s jail death was ‘suspicious’: Autopsy shows Williard McFarland died in 1994 of natural causes- Jodi M. Scott; 12/2- Church member doesn’t like using term ‘reverend’- Robert L. Scott, Lake Park ; 12/2- People’s Tribunal calls for economic ‘reciprocity’- Mailbox Post Staff; 12/4- Inquest jurors split on racial lines: Coroner incorrectly reported the verdict of the inquest as unanimous- Jodi M. Scott; 12/4- Coroner’s inquest efforts undermined by mistake- no author; 12/4- Williams speaks out against racism- no author; 12/5- Finding truth remains goal in Williams case- no author; 12/7- ‘Granny’s Place’ offers help for kids- Jodi M. Scott; 12/9- Coroner’s jury returns accidental death- Suzanne Harris; 12/9- Coroner’s inquest did its job- no author; 12/13- Local businesses deal with People’s Tribunal- Lowell Vickers Jr. ; 12/13- Protest group prepares list: Businesses asked for money, support- Lowell Vickers Jr.; 12/15- Tribunal incorporated as nonprofit group: Organization approved for incorporation last month- Jodi M. Scott; 12/16- People’s Tribunal wanting ‘Cooperative Reciprocity’- Suzanne Harris; 12/16- Inquest doesn’t answer all question, dispel all doubts- Charles Moore; 12/17- Evidence in Willie Williams’ death reaches grand jury: District attorney mum on details of testimony- Jodi M. Scott; 12/17- Give us the list- no author; 12/17- Truth is Out- no author; 12/17- Double standard- no author; 12/17- Don’t understand- no author; 12/17- Whites help blacks- no author; 12/18- Civil rights leader praises work of People’s Tribunal- Joe Dunlop; 12/19- Deputy ‘no billed’ in inmate’s death: No evidence found of beatings, abuse- Jodi M. Scott; 12/21- Tribunal letter causes concern: Officials ‘tense’ about group’s plan asking for support- Shelby G. Spires ; 12/23- Examine Procedures Now- no author; 12/30- Sheriff plans no change in arrest procedures- Suzanne Harris
Analisis Wacana Perilaku Cyberbullying Dalam Film Budi Pekerti
No full textThe phenomenon of cyberbullying, which is rampant on social media, has now extended into the film industry by incorporating elements of cyberbullying to enhance the film's appeal. One example of a film that integrates cyberbullying behavior into its scenes is "Budi Pekerti," directed by Wregas Bhanuteja. This study aims to examine the discourse of cyberbullying behavior in the film "Budi Pekerti" by Wregas Bhanuteja. The film "Budi Pekerti" becomes intriguing as cyberbullying is perceived negatively in society yet portrayed within its scenes, adding commercial value to the film. The reality of cyberbullying discourse, initially viewed negatively by society, is gradually normalizing within the community's current environment. This research utilizes a qualitative approach with a constructivist paradigm. The author employs discourse analysis using the concept of the categorization of cyberbullying proposed by Williard. Data collection involves documentary study of the film "Budi Pekerti" through non-participant observation and literature review from various sources such as books, internet, and mass media. From the findings, it is evident that in the film "Budi Pekerti" by Wregas Bhanuteja, cyberbullying discourse is conveyed through various behaviors such as harassment, defamation, provocative content, stalking, dissemination of personal information, and exclusion in several scenes. The filmmakers direct their discourse as a means of education but presented implicitly within the film. This discourse is motivated by the filmmakers' concern over the prevalent phenomenon of cyberbullying in today's social media landscape
Conservation in an Islamic context a case study of Makkah
No full textThe Holy Qu’ rān contains many injunctions for Muslims to respect and conserve the natural environment but few address the built environment. Habitat at the time of the Prophet (PBOH) was in the vernacular and relatively impermanent. The first habitat was the cave, the second the tent and then simple flat roofed buildings of post and lintel construction made of mud and rubble. Later buildings were not indigenous but reflected the architectural styles and techniques of Muslim pilgrims from beyond the Arabian Peninsula. Permanent exotic buildings were later erected as reminders of holy places and events. This work advances a case to restore and preserve historic and religious sites in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Makkah is the destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims who annually pay homage to Allah during the occasions of Hajj, Ramadan and Umra. The tranquillity and peaceful ambience that one associates with the holiest of Islamic experiences have, over the years, given way to jostling crowds of people who must be expediently housed, fed, transported, and protected. Due to the lack of planning and the insensitive but profitable development of the city, Makkah is in grave danger of becoming a bustling metropolis instead of a sanctuary where pilgrims gather to perform their religious rites and reaffirm their dedication to Allah. The author calls for professional planning and international cooperation to guide future development for this expanding and sensitive area. The author's ideas are grounded in practical and aesthetic study, therefore, the political, environmental and economic issues are examined in relationship to religious, historic and artistic values. The author makes proposals for a future Makkah that would provide pilgrims with the physical comforts, security, and serene environment they deserve—without destroying the city they came to visit. The author discusses preservation and conservation in the western world and the need for their acceptance in Muslim countries, the former being an aesthetic and intellectual concept sustained by law and the latter being the prescribed free expression of the individual unhindered by material considerations. Both worlds are rapidly being overwhelmed by materialism, but body, mind and spirit combine in making us aware of our surroundings and the way in what we see around us has come into being
Poetics of the same: a philosophical poetic recourse into sameness
No full textPhDThis study endeavours to investigate the philosophical and poetological
dimensions, the philological origins, and significant philosophical-literary
representations of the Same. It also assesses sameness as a philosophical and
poetological modus operandi; that is to say, it analyzes the ways in which the
Same operates in different types of discourses both as an object of investigation
and as an agent of (poetic) thought. The concept of the Same or the operation of
sameness as the philosophical question par excellence will be considered in the
development of Continental philosophy and philosophical poetics from classical
antiquity to Postmodernism, and its transposition into poetry.
The elaboration of the issue of sameness encompasses any philosophical
inquiry which seeks to establish the essence of Being and make it susceptible to a
general, unifying principle: as a search for an underlying element; for a
metaphysical unity or universal, preceding division or difference and amounting
to the harmony in the Universe; or for a transcendental absolute totality.
Postulations of the pure conceptual difference are likewise examined as part of the
elaboration of sameness, and will be viewed as indispensable for revealing the
genuine plenitude of sameness.
Part One traces the inception of sameness as a concept of pure identity,
amounting to the harmony of the Universe by virtue of the operations of
belonging (Presocratics), participation (Plato), and emanation (Plotinus), anchored
in the relationships between the One and the many, between the Whole and its
parts, between the Original and the copy. Part Two inquires into the limits of
postulating sameness in terms of pure identity and points to two possible solutions
to this problem: a philosophical-aesthetic digression from sameness (Kant and
related aesthetic theories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) and the
return to sameness as an absolute totality in Part Three (Schelling and Hegel).
Part Four investigates the re-postulation of sameness as pure Difference
(Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), hence the entire re-organization of thought in
terms of the other. Part Five analyzes the transposition of sameness from
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philosophy into the poetic language of repetition, using Rilke’s Sonnets to
Orpheus as its prime poetic example.
It will be argued that the philosophical displacement of the Same from a
concept of identity into that of difference does not amount to an abandonment of
its plenitude, but rather points to the need for a precarious balance between
sameness and difference, the simultaneous quest for unity and the absolute
singularity of the other. This balance, it will be argued, must be sought for in
every genuine creation
Cross-layer operation aided wireless networks
No full textIn this thesis, we propose several cross-layer operation aided schemes conceived for wireless networks. Cross layer design may overcome the disadvantages of the network's layered architecture, where layering is most typically represented by the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) suite.We invoke Fountain codes for protecting file transfer at the application layer, since they are suitable for erasure channels. They are also often referred to as rateless codes. When implementing Fountain code aided file transfer, the file will be firstly partitioned into a number of blocks, each of which contains K packets. Fountain codes randomly select several packets from a block and then combine them using exclusive- OR additions for generating an encoded packet. The encoding continues until all blocks are successfully received. Considering an 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) scenario, the packet size has to be appropriately chosen, since there exists a trade-off between the packet size and the transmission efficiency, which is defined as the number of primary information bits to the total number of all transmitted bits including headers, control packets and retransmitted replicas. In order to find the optimum packet size, the transmission efficiency is formulated as a function of the Packet Loss Ratio (PLR) at the application layer and of the total load imposed by a single packet. The PLR at the application layer is related both to the packet size, as well as to the 802.11 MAC retransmission mechanism and to the modulation scheme adopted by the physical layer. Apart from its source data, the total load imposed by an information packet also contains the control packets of the 802.11 Media Access Control (MAC) protocol such as the Request To Send (RTS) / Clear To Send (CTS) messages, the retransmitted replicas and the Acknowledgement (ACK) messages. According to these relations, the transmission efficiency may finally be expressed as a function of packet size. Based on the numerical analysis of this function, the optimum packet size may be determined. Our simulation results confirmed that indeed the highest transmission efficiency may be achieved, when using the optimum packet size.Since turbo codes are capable of achieving near capacity performance, they may be successfully combined with Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) schemes. In this thesis, the classic Twin Component Turbo Codes (TCTCs) are extended to Multiple Component Turbo Codes (MCTCs). In order to apply classic two-dimensional Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts for analyzing them, we divided an N-component MCTC into two logical parts. This partitioning was necessary, because otherwise an N-component scheme would require an N-dimensional EXIT chart. One of the parts is constituted by an individual Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek and Raviv (BCJR) decoder, while the other so-called composite decoder consists of the remaining (N-1) components. The EXIT charts visualized the extrinsic information exchange between these two logical parts of MCTCs. Aided by this partitioning technique, we may find the so-called 'open tunnel SNR threshold' for MCTCs, which is defined as the minimum SNR for which the EXIT chart at the specific coding rate used has an open tunnel. It may be used as a metric to compare the achievable performance to the Discrete-input Continuous-output Memoryless Channel's (DCMC) capacity. Our simulation results showed that the achievable performance of MCTCs is closer to the DCMC capacity than that of non-systematic TCTCs, but a bit further than that of systematic TCTCs, if generator polynomials having an arbitrary memory length - and hence complexity - are considered. However, for the lowest-memory octally represented polynomial (2; 3)o, which implies having the lowest possible complexity, MCTCs outperform non-systematic and systematic TCTCs. Furthermore, MCTC aided HARQ schemes using the polynomial of (2; 3)o exhibit significantly better PLRs and throughput performances than systematic as well as non-systematic TCTC aided HARQ schemes using the same polynomial. If systematic TCTC aided HARQ schemes relying on the polynomial of (17; 15)o are used as benchmarkers, MCTC aided HARQ schemes may significantly reduce the complexity, without a substantial degradation of the PLR and throughput.When combining turbo codes with HARQ, the associated complexity becomes a critical issue, since iterative decoding is immediately activated after each transmission. In order to reduce the associated complexity, an Early Stopping (ES) strategy was proposed in this thesis to substitute the fixed number of BCJR operations invoked for each iterative decoding. By observing the EXIT charts of turbo codes, we note that the extrinsic information increases along the decoding trajectory of an open or closed tunnel. The ES aided MCTC HARQ scheme curtails iterative decoding, when the Mutual Information (MI) increase becomes less than a given threshold. This threshold was determined by an off-line training in order to achieve a trade-off between the throughput and complexity. Our simulation results verified that the complexity of MCTC aided HARQ schemes may be reduced by as much as 80%, compared to that of systematic TCTC aided HARQ schemes using a fixed number of 10 BCJR operations.Moreover, the complexity of turbo coded HARQ schemes may be further reduced by our Look-Up Table (LUT) based Deferred Iteration (DI) method. The DI method delays the iterative decoding until the receiver estimates that it has received sufficient information for successful decoding, which may be represented by the emergence of an open tunnel in the EXIT chart corresponding to all received replicas. Therefore, the specific MI that a 'just' open tunnel appears when combining all previous (i-1) MIs will be the threshold that has to be satisfied by the ith reception. More specifically, if the MI received during the ith reception is higher than this threshold, the EXIT tunnel is deemed to be open and hence the iterative decoding is triggered. Otherwise, iterative decoding will be disabled when the tunnel is deemed to be closed. This reduces the complexity. The LUT stores all possible MI thresholds for N-component MCTCs, which results in a large storage requirement, if N becomes high. Hence, an efficient LUT design was also proposed in this thesis. Our simulation results demonstrated the achievable complexity reduction may be as high as 50%, compared to the schemes operating without the DI method
Spirituality in Sports Fanship: the Case of English Football and Lithuanian Basketball Fans
No full textThe changing religious landscape in developed societies has not only introduced a
greater religious diversity but also initiated a search for alternative channels to connect
with a greater perspective in life. Spirituality has emerged as a source of meaning and
contemplation that can be expressed and experienced in various ways; hence being
relevant to all aspects of life. As a result, spiritual concern has been addressed in a
number of research areas, including education, social care, aesthetics, and business. The
recent emergence of sport and spirituality as an area of study creates a context for the
present enquiry, which considers elements of sports fanship, such as self-actualisation,
self-expression, and social wellbeing, as potentially spiritual, arguing that these aspects
might have been overlooked due to previous fanship research lacking diversity in
methodological approaches. The study employed phenomenological interviewing in
order to obtain extensive narratives from England National Football Team fans (n=5;
M=48.6) and Lithuanian National Basketball Team supporters (n=5; M=34). A
culturally diverse sample was selected in consideration of social and cultural influences
that are apparent in both sports fanship and spirituality. The data suggest that elements
of sports fanship may involve spiritual values for some sports supporters. The key
themes identified through data analysis (1) ‘Connecting with Transcendence’,
2)‘Connecting with the Self’, 3)‘Connecting with Others’, 4) ‘Connecting with the
World’) contemplate that involvement in sport does not only allow fans to experience
momentary pleasures but also encapsulate significant meanings, which are a necessary
attribute of a person’s spirituality. The culturally diverse sample, however, did not
capture substantial cultural differences but rather proposed that personality traits are a
more prominent factor influencing person’s spiritual involvement in sports fanship,
which, therefore, could be addressed in future studies
