126 research outputs found
Traces and shards of self-injury: Strange accounting with “Author X”
No full textIn this strange account autoethnography, three or four authors explore their lived experiences with self-injury. Strange accounting is both a post-modern style of text, and a method for keeping identities concealed when risks and secrets are in play. Author X, a post-modern place-keeper for an anonymous author who may or may not have contributed to this manuscript, introduces a new dimension and layer of concealment. With Author X in-play and under erasure, the reader will never be sure if there were three or four authors on this manuscript. Through strange accounting, a post-structuralist/postmodernist frame will be applied to understanding the self-injury experience. We frame self-injury as a social practice and, for some, an everyday norm, while remaining acutely aware of the stigma surrounding the topic of self-injury. Each of us, coupled with Author X, provide the others cover to trace stories of self-injury through the literature, our flesh, and our lives
Securing XML documents with author-X
No full textAuthor-X is a Java-based system that addresses the security issues of access control and policy design for XML document administration. Author-X supports the specification of policies at varying granularity levels and the specification of user credentials as a way to enforce access control. Access control is available according to both push and pull document distribution policies, and document updates are distributed through a combination of hash functions and digital signature techniques. The Author-X approach to distributed updates allows a user to verify a document's integrity without contacting the document server
DPC_multilane
No full textThis project contains the data and code of the paper"An unsupervised framework for extracting multilane roads from OpenStreetMap
Appendix: Informative Speech Features based on Emotion Classes and Gender in Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition
No full textAppendix tables for the paper "Informative Speech Features based on Emotion Classes and Gender in Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition".
Feature informativeness information was gathered using SHAP values.
TABLE VIII: Table of Statistics and Individual t-Test Results Between Each Emotion vs Neutral
TABLE IX: (continue)Table of Statistics and Individual t-Test Results Between Each Emotion vs Neutral
TABLE X: Table of Statistics and Individual t-Test Results Between Genders
TABLE XI: (continue) Table of Statistics and Individual t-Test Results Between Genders
TABLE XII: Table of 5 the most informative feature for each model, according to SHAP values
TABLE XIII: (continue)Table of 5 the most informative feature for each model, according to SHAP value
WHO BENEFITS FROM MICROFINANCE? THE IMPACT EVALUATION OF LARGE SCALE PROGRAMS IN BANGLADESH
No full textThis paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross-section data set from Bangladesh. The richness of the data and program eligibility criterion allow the use of a number of non-experimental impact evaluation techniques, in particular instrumental variable (IV) estimation and propensity score matching (PSM). Estimates from both IV and PSM strategies have been interpreted as average causal effects that are valid for various groups of participants in microfinance. The overall results indicate that the effects of micro loans are not robust across all groups of poor household borrowers. It appears that the poorest of the poor participants are among those who benefit most. The impact estimates are lower, or sometimes even negative, for those households marginal to the participation decision. The effects of participation are, in general, stronger for male borrowers. These results hold across different specifications and methods, including correction for various sources of selection bias (including possible spill-over effects).Microfinance, treatment effect, Matching, Consumption.
The Development Impact of Information Technology in Trade Facilitation
No full textThe main purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview and context of the country studies on Information Technology (IT) for Trade Facilitation (TF) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).Impact of Information Techonology, Trade Facilitation, SMEs
Mihran Krikor Kassabian (1870–1910). Textbook author & X-ray martyr
No full textThe life of the American radiologist and electrotherapist Mihran Kassabian (1870-1910) is reviewed and provides a useful insight into the early work with X-rays in the first decade of the 20th century. Much material is drawn from Kassabian’s textbook. Commentary is given on his radiation injuries which were eventually to prove fatal when he was only 40 years of age. A bibliography of his publications shows how wide a spectrum was studied by Kassabian. The two quotations below were chosen by Kassabian to be placed before the Preface of his book and clearly show that his interests were not limited to radiology but also encompassed literature.
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