130 research outputs found
Introduction
No full textThis material is based on work supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Grant No. N00014-09-1-0597. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations therein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research
Designerly ways of knowing in HRI: Broadening the scope of design-oriented HRI through the concept of intermediate-level knowledge
No full textInterest in design methods and tools has been steadily growing in HRI. Yet, design is not acknowledged as a discipline with specific epistemology and methodology. Designerly HRI work is validated through user studies which, we argue, provide a limited account of the knowledge design produces. This paper aims to broaden current understanding of designerly HRI work and its contributions by unpacking what designerly knowledge is and how to produce it. Through a critical analysis of current HRI design literature, we identify a lack of work dedicated to understanding the conceptual implications of robotic artifacts. These, in fact, are implicit carriers of crucial HRI knowledge that can challenge established assumptions about how a robot should look, act, and be like. We conclude by discussing a set of practices desirable to legitimize designerly HRI work, and calling for further research addressing the conceptual implications designerly HRI work.Human Information Communication Desig
Becoming a garments worker: The mobilization of women into the garments factories of Bangladesh
No full textSince the early 1980s an export-oriented garments industry has mushroomed in Bangladesh, with women workers constituting a significant proportion of its wage labour force. In explaining the reasons for the feminized wage labour force, considerable attention has been paid to the motivations of employers: the lower cost of young women workers, and their assumed "docility" and "nimbleness" in comparison to men. However, as Nazli Kibria argues, a fuller understanding of the movement of women into the garments factories of Bangladesh also requires the consideration of the "push" factors that underpin it. Conventional understandings of women's entry into wage employment in Bangladesh have emphasized the role played by extreme poverty and the related dynamic of male unemployment and desertion factors that are also explored in the present paper. But based on interviews with women factory workers in Dhaka, the author is able to suggest a more diverse set of factors underpinning their movement into the garments sector, which in a significant number of cases also entails individual rural-urban migration. Among the factors highlighted are family conflicts, marriage breakdowns, problems of sexual harrassment, the pressures from rising dowry demands and uncertain marriage prospects. Rather than being uniformly a response to dire poverty, the paper argues that in some instances garments work provides the means for enhancing personal and/or household economic prospects, while in other cases it provides a measure of economic and social independence for the women concerned. Another point emerging from the paper is that the meanings that are attached to any kind of work are context-specific and thus highly variable: notwithstanding the exploitative nature of work in garments factories, the value that women workers in this particular context attach to garments work needs to be seen in the light of other livelihood options that are open to them, such as domestic service and arduous forms of agricultural wage work
Author Correction: Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology
No full textCorrection to: Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1, published online 6 December 2021.
In the version of this article initially published, the affiliation for Nazli Başak appeared incorrectly. Nazli Başak is at Koç University, School of Medicine, KUTTAM-NDAL, Istanbul, Turkey, and not Bogazici University. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Author Correction: Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 12, (1636-1648), 10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1)
No full textIn the version of this article initially published, the affiliation for Nazli Başak appeared incorrectly. Nazli Başak is at Koç University, School of Medicine, KUTTAM-NDAL, Istanbul, Turkey, and not Bogazici University. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Author Correction: Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 12, (1636-1648), 10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1)
No full textIn the version of this article initially published, the affiliation for Nazli Başak appeared incorrectly. Nazli Başak is at Koç University, School of Medicine, KUTTAM-NDAL, Istanbul, Turkey, and not Bogazici University. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Author Correction: Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 12, (1636-1648), 10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1)
No full textIn the version of this article initially published, the affiliation for Nazli Başak appeared incorrectly. Nazli Başak is at Koç University, School of Medicine, KUTTAM-NDAL, Istanbul, Turkey, and not Bogazici University. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Cyberpolitics in International Relations
No full textThis material is based on work supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Grant No. N00014-09-1-0597. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations therein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research
Speed up biopharma devices’ release to market
No full textIt is a challenge in the biopharma industry to attain appropriate qualification protocols for devices. The manufacturers necessitate device storage that lasts for an extended period of time.
Single-use devices may need storage for up to 6 years before their functional lifetime actually starts. In other words, every product completes its unique journey before it can be functionally used by the customer.
At this point, the manufacturer needs to provide a quality certificate that guarantees the device’s safety and robustness during its life cycle. Likewise, package material aging information is needed to ensure package integrity, satisfy FDA validation requirements, and provide evidence of sterility and fitness for use over a product’s life cycle. To decrease the time necessary for testing prior to commercialization, or in other words to speed up product’s market release; manufacturers perform accelerated-aging studies on the product/ package combination. These studies are performed at elevated temperatures, so to simulate the realistic life span of the product. Life span of every product is unique in line with its application requirements and consists of sections such as storage of components, assembly and irradiation, storage of the irradiated product and finally application. Polymers are similar to living organisms and their properties are time, temperature and stress dependent, making the job of simulating the life cycle very complicated and difficult.
As Sartorius Stedim Biotech, we are taking this challenge and adapt our aging methodology to each polymers. Our method will be shared to show how we can speed product introduction to market.
Biography
Dr. Nazli Gulsine Ozdemir has received her PhD from Kingston University London, UK at the age of 28 and following her graduation she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bristol, UK. Currently she works as a materials specialist, at Sartorius Stedim Biotech in the United Kingdom. She has published 10 papers as first author in reputable journals. She has also given speeches in many polymer engineering and materials science conferences across the globe.
Nelly Montenay has received a degree in Engineering from the ITECH Lyon Engineering School.
She is specialized in polymers science and plastic transformation. She is Platform Manager for Single Use Systems in Sartorius Stedim Biotech Research and Development Group, with 14 years of experience in polymer science, film development and product qualification testing
Market Microstructure in Emerging and Developed Markets
No full textNazli Sila Alan, with R. Bildik and R. Schwartz, is a contributing author, Microstructure of Equity Markets, 17-38.
Book Description: Interest in market microstructure has grown dramatically in recent years due largely in part to the rapid transformation of the financial market environment by technology, regulation, and globalization. Looking at market transactions at the most granular level—and taking into account market structure, price discovery, information flows, transaction costs, and the trading process—market microstructure also forms the basis of high-frequency trading strategies that can help professional investors generate profits and/or execute optimal transactions. Part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, Market Microstructure skillfully puts this discipline in perspective and examines how the working processes of markets impact transaction costs, prices, quotes, volume, and trading behavior. Along the way, it offers valuable insights on how specific features of the trading process like the existence of intermediaries or the environment in which trading takes place affect the price formation process.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/business-books/1036/thumbnail.jp
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