PIAAC Bibliography - 2008-2019

In order to enhance the performance of rehabilitation robots, it is imperative to know both force and motion caused by the interaction between user and robot. However, common direct measurement of both signals through force and motion sensors not only increases the complexity of the system but also impedes affordability of the system. As an alternative of the direct measurement, in this work, we present new force and motion estimators for the proper control of the upper-limb rehabilitation Universal Haptic Pantograph (UHP) robot. The estimators are based on the kinematic and dynamic model of the UHP and the use of signals measured by means of common low-cost sensors. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the estimators, several experimental tests were carried out. The force and impedance control of the UHP was implemented first by directly measuring the interaction force using accurate extra sensors and the robot performance was compared to the case where the proposed estimators replace the direct measured values. The experimental results reveal that the controller based on the estimators has similar performance to that using direct measurement (less than 1 N difference in root mean square error between two cases), indicating that the proposed force and motion estimators can facilitate implementation of interactive controller for the UHP in robot-mediated rehabilitation trainings

Involuntary major changes: Student narrative about what helped and hindered their adaptability

Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Special Education, Counseling and Student AffairsWendy G. TroxelCareer services professionals and academic advisors support students as they pursue their goals. Yet, scholars know little about the lived experiences of students placed into alternative degree programs after they fail to secure admission or are rescinded from a selective or regulated professional program such as nursing, teaching, or social work. This narrative inquiry study examines the critical events of participants who survived unplanned academic loss included in stories about their undergraduate education. Individual interviews with participants humanized and brought voice to their coping strategies, barriers, career decision-making, and persisting toward graduation. Higher education leaders can use the findings to foster policy revisions, cross-departmental well-being collaboration, and strategic support during individual conversations with students coping with change

Knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship: business plans, capital, technology and growth of new ventures in Austin, Texas

textThis study addresses the themes of knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship, all of them key factors that contribute to the development and growth of new ventures. The study focuses specifically on the impacts of business plans, initial sources of capital, and technology on the patterns of growth and development of a group of new ventures in Austin, Texas from 1990 to 2003. For the most part, these new ventures were in the early stages of their respective lifecycles and were analyzed through their stages of survival, growth, or demise. The enterprises conducted operations during a period that witnessed rapid business growth, and culminated through the rise and fall of the Dot-Com Bubble. The relationships among their initial sources of capital, business plans, technology, and growth were collectively analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The research involved a questionnaire survey of more than seventy-five Austin software enterprises. Additionally, in-depth interviews were conducted with seven key entrepreneurs and two venture capital investors. This study uses the Resource-Based View, and it categorizes styles of entrepreneurship, according to their initial sources of capital, into three major groups: self-funded, venture capital (VC) funded and corporation funded. The findings demonstrate that the initial sources of capital significantly impact the selected styles of business plans. 50% of VC funded ventures, as opposed to 15% of selffunded ventures, started with formal business plans. Ninety percent of VC funded ventures that started with a formal business plan, however, used those plans for external communication with the third parties, essentially for funding purposes. One-year after startup, 55% of the VC funded ventures had developed formal business plans while 45% of them still followed informal business plans. One year after startup, among the selffunded ventures, only 20% of them developed formal business plans while 80% of them followed informal, but adaptive, business plans. Only three ventures, out of the total sample group of seventy-five, started with patented technologies, but more than thirteen eventually registered patented technologies. An analysis of the role of patented technologies in the process of venture development suggests that new technology assumes a more critical role in the latter stages of enterprise development than it does during the initial stages. Patents, accordingly, appear to be more a result of growth rather than a basis for growth. The overall rate of growth of VC funded ventures was about twice that of selffunded ventures. Self-funded ventures often proceed cautiously and try to grow in accordance with their limited resources in an evolutionary fashion. VC funded ventures may follow more ambitious patterns of growth, depending on the amount of initial capital at their disposal, but the presence of capital does not guarantee long-term sustainability. The study concludes that formal business plans are used mostly as communication tools with external sources of capital and do not necessarily serve to guide operations. Formal business plans are, however, distinct from the process of business planning. The latter tends to be a creative, complex, and on-going attempt to envision potential courses of action for the development of enterprises, and is relatively unique for each case.Informatio

Got a Minute? Instruction Tune-Up for Time Pressed Librarians

This book contains 19 essays that have been written by current LIS Students who were enrolled in the LIS4330: Library Instruction class at the University of Denver, 2016. Designed to provide a short and pithy overview of a topic that is related to instruction, education, or information literacy, each essays aims to be accessible and approachable for time-pressed librarians who may not have time to catch up

Resistance commons : file-sharing litigation and the social system of commoning

textThis dissertation is an investigation into the practice of peer-to-peer file-sharing and the litigation campaign targeting individual file-sharers carried out by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from 2003 to 2008. The competing conceptualizations of social relations which motivate the conflict over peer-to-peer file-sharing are explored using a combination of Autonomist Marxist theory and structuration theory. Peer-to-peer file-sharing is framed as part of the social system of commoning stemming from the recent ascendancy of immaterial labor within that sector of the economy dedicated to the production and distribution of informational and cultural goods. The RIAA litigation campaign is framed as a reaction to the emergence of new forms of social relations which are seen by the content-producing industries as subversive of revenue streams premised on commodity exchange in informational and cultural goods. The history of the RIAA litigation campaign is presented in detail with careful attention given to those instances in which defendants and other interested parties fought back against RIAA legal actions. The acts of resistance within the legal arena affected the ultimate potential of the litigation campaign to control the spread of file-sharing activities. Subsequent legal campaigns which have been based on the RIAA litigation model are also examined. These later file-sharing cases have been met with similar forms of resistance which have likewise mitigated the impact of legal efforts to combat file-sharing. In addition, a survey of file-sharers is included in this research as part of an attempt to understand the relationship between legal actions targeting peer-to-peer systems and individual file-sharers and the technological and social development of peer-to-peer systems. This research argues that file-sharing litigation has proven ineffective in turning back the flood of file-sharing and may have increased the technological sophistication and community ties among file-sharers. In the end, the conflict over peer-to-peer file-sharing is cast as a manifestation of a larger dynamic of capitalist crisis as content-producing industries attempt to come to terms with the contradictory tendencies of immaterial labor and the production of common pools of digital resources.Radio-Television-Fil

The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO2022) Intelligent Technologies, Governments and Citizens June 15-17, 2022

The 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research theme is “Intelligent Technologies, Governments and Citizens”. Data and computational algorithms make systems smarter, but should result in smarter government and citizens. Intelligence and smartness affect all kinds of public values - such as fairness, inclusion, equity, transparency, privacy, security, trust, etc., and is not well-understood. These technologies provide immense opportunities and should be used in the light of public values. Society and technology co-evolve and we are looking for new ways to balance between them. Specifically, the conference aims to advance research and practice in this field. The keynotes, presentations, posters and workshops show that the conference theme is very well-chosen and more actual than ever. The challenges posed by new technology have underscored the need to grasp the potential. Digital government brings into focus the realization of public values to improve our society at all levels of government. The conference again shows the importance of the digital government society, which brings together scholars in this field. Dg.o 2022 is fully online and enables to connect to scholars and practitioners around the globe and facilitate global conversations and exchanges via the use of digital technologies. This conference is primarily a live conference for full engagement, keynotes, presentations of research papers, workshops, panels and posters and provides engaging exchange throughout the entire duration of the conference

The Political Economy of Global Private Currencies

This dissertation examines regulatory responses to global private currencies (GPCs). Through detailed analyses of the history and evolution of private digital currencies, and through case studies of the United States, the European Union, and China, this dissertation identifies five factors that condition regulatory responses: (1) compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws, (2) compliance with systems built for fiat currencies, (3) degree of transparency in operations, (4) culture of sovereignty within the nation, and (5) great power competition with other nations. Throughout the dissertation, various political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) characteristics of GPCs are highlighted. This dissertation also proposes a ‘game transformation framework’ (GTF) by combining these PESTLE factors with concepts from game theory. A 2x2 game structure is used to analyze strategic interactions between governments in the three case studies and GPCs on a spectrum between cooperation and conflict

Undergraduate Catalogue 2013-2014

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