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    Safe passage for attachment systems:Can attachment security at international schools be measured, and is it at risk?

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    Relocations challenge attachment networks. Regardless of whether a person moves or is moved away from, relocation produces separation and loss. When such losses are repeatedly experienced without being adequately processed, a defensive shutting down of the attachment system could result, particularly when such experiences occur during or across the developmental years. At schools with substantial turnover, this possibility could be shaping youth in ways that compromise attachment security and young people’s willingness or ability to develop and maintain deep long-term relationships. Given the well-documented associations between attachment security, social support, and long-term physical and mental health, the hypothesis that mobility could erode attachment and relational health warrants exploration. International schools are logical settings to test such a hypothesis, given their frequently high turnover without confounding factors (e.g. war trauma or refugee experiences). In addition, repeated experiences of separation and loss in international school settings would seem likely to create mental associations for the young people involved regarding how they and others tend to respond to such situations in such settings, raising the possibility that people at such schools, or even the school itself, could collectively be represented as an attachment figure. Questions like these have received scant attention in the literature. They warrant consideration because of their potential to shape young people’s most general convictions regarding attachment, which could, in turn, have implications for young people’s ability to experience meaning in their lives

    Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders. Working Papers

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    Artificial Intelligence for the Edge Computing Paradigm.

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    With modern technologies moving towards the internet of things where seemingly every financial, private, commercial and medical transaction being carried out by portable and intelligent devices; Machine Learning has found its way into every smart device and application possible. However, Machine Learning cannot be used on the edge directly due to the limited capabilities of small and battery-powered modules. Therefore, this thesis aims to provide light-weight automated Machine Learning models which are applied on a standard edge device, the Raspberry Pi, where one framework aims to limit parameter tuning while automating feature extraction and a second which can perform Machine Learning classification on the edge traditionally, and can be used additionally for image-based explainable Artificial Intelligence. Also, a commercial Artificial Intelligence software have been ported to work in a client/server setups on the Raspberry Pi board where it was incorporated in all of the Machine Learning frameworks which will be presented in this thesis. This dissertation also introduces multiple algorithms that can convert images into Time-series for classification and explainability but also introduces novel Time-series feature extraction algorithms that are applied to biomedical data while introducing the concept of the Activation Engine, which is a post-processing block that tunes Neural Networks without the need of particular experience in Machine Leaning. Also, a tree-based method for multiclass classification has been introduced which outperforms the One-to-Many approach while being less complex that the One-to-One method.\par The results presented in this thesis exhibit high accuracy when compared with the literature, while remaining efficient in terms of power consumption and the time of inference. Additionally the concepts, methods or algorithms that were introduced are particularly novel technically, where they include: • Feature extraction of professionally annotated, and poorly annotated time-series. • The introduction of the Activation Engine post-processing block. • A model for global image explainability with inference on the edge. • A tree-based algorithm for multiclass classification

    GAC-MAC-SGA 2023 Sudbury Meeting: Abstracts, Volume 46

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    Toward Fault-Tolerant Applications on Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip

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    American Literatures After 1865

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    This work was created as part of the University Libraries’ Open Educational Resources Initiative at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A web version of this text can be found at https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/ala1865/. This book is an anthology of American Literatures After 1865, a new revision of the open educational resource entitled Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present. It contains works that have been newly introduced to the public domain and provides direct links to reading materials that can be borrowed for free from Archive.org

    Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023: Complete Issue

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    Winter/Spring 2023 - Volume LXXIV, Number 1 - Issue #255. Encounters with Animals: Glimpsing the Soul of Natur

    "Nothing was further from his intention than to offend": an analysis of visual satire, identity and stereotypes in the Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass caricature periodical, 1825–1826

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    Created by Glasgow printer John Watson and English artist William Heath, the Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass (1825–1826) is not only one of the pioneering periodicals that paved the route from caricature to comic art (with researchers even going so far as to label it ‘the world’s first modern comic’), but a product that uniquely contributed to larger social conversations found across media formats during the early nineteenth century. Such conversations include those surrounding gender ideologies, racial stereotypes, and class-based struggles — issues that had become especially prominent across Britain during the 1820s. Though it provides reflections of and on both the evolving print world and the ever-changing social milieus of 1820s Britain, the GLG has not been the focus of an in-depth study until now. The goal of this thesis is to explore how in-depth, contextual analyses of depictions of gender and other identities found in the GLG’s satiric images can encourage new and more inclusive analyses of caricature’s place in print history and nineteenth-century European history. In order to understand better how caricature art arrived at the point we see it in 1825, this thesis firstly explores how historical events and social and cultural change impacted the art form in the sixty years leading up to the publication of the first issue of the GLG. With the contextual groundwork in place, several case studies are then employed to explore the overarching identities and stereotypes of women and men as they are depicted in images from the periodical. These case studies include images that best reflect the conversations around gender, class and race that were prominent at this time, and which show how the GLG, and other products like it, can be invaluable for gaining a more nuanced and rounded perspective on caricature art, the nineteenth-century British printing scene and late Georgian culture
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