27 research outputs found

    Introduction to Migration Studies

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    This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods. As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity. As such, this textbook provides a very useful introductory reading for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for policymakers, policy advisors, and all those interested in studies on migration and migration-related diversities

    “Things are not separate”: literary symbiotic metamorphoses in the fiction and critical work of A. S. Byatt

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    My critical project in this dissertation examines the way Byatt’s work productively moves across, and in and out of apparently conflicting theoretical debates, such as Leavis’s views on reading and writing in the light of poststructuralist and feminist theoretical approaches; or the establishment of a separate female literary tradition within the male literary canon; or the postmodernist resistance to/ rejection of realist representation, to name but a few of the debates examined in this dissertation. Hence, it is not my intention to superimpose a particular theoretical view on my analysis of Byatt’s work, but rather analyse their particular relevance in the light of Byatt’s own politics of writing. I propose the term “literary symbiotic metamorphosis” to investigate Byatt’s negotiation of apparently conflicting theoretical debates, in which she examines the validity of each individual theory vis-à-vis their symbiotic relationship, and then reshapes them into a unique poetics of writing which combines the understanding of a text’s symbiotically creative as well as theoretical relationships with the capacity to rearrange them into a practice of writing which is much more than the sum of the different parts which constitute it. My term is also informed by the Hegelian dialectic as the critical investigation of “a process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite” (Merriam Webster) in which “some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)” (Thesaurus). It is in light of all these interconnected threads that I will investigate Byatt’s creative and critical work.O meu projeto crítico nesta dissertação examina a forma como o trabalho de Byatt se move produtivamente em debates teóricos aparentemente conflituosos, como as opiniões de F. R. Leavis sobre a leitura e a escrita à luz de abordagens teóricas pós-estruturalistas e feministas; ou o estabelecimento de uma tradição literária feminina separada dentro do cânone literário masculino; ou a resistência pós-modernista à representação realista, para citar apenas alguns dos debates examinados nesta dissertação. Por conseguinte, não é minha intenção sobrepor uma visão teórica específica à minha análise do trabalho de Byatt, mas sim analisar a sua particular relevância à luz das próprias políticas de escrita de Byatt. Proponho o termo crítico “metamorfose simbiótica literária” para investigar o modo como Byatt se posiciona em debates teóricos aparentemente conflituosos, em que examina a validade de cada teoria individual, remodelando-as depois numa poética única de escrita que combina por simbiose as relações criativas e as relações teóricas de um texto com a capacidade de as reorganizar numa prática de escrita que é muito mais do que a soma das diferentes partes que constituem o produto final. O meu termo crítico também é informado pela dialética hegeliana como a investigação crítica de uma tese, necessariamente oposta por uma antítese, sendo a contradição mútua reconciliada num nível mais elevado de verdade por uma terceira proposta, ou síntese. É à luz de todos estes fios interligados que investigo o trabalho criativo e crítico de Byatt

    Satellite Communications

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    This study is motivated by the need to give the reader a broad view of the developments, key concepts, and technologies related to information society evolution, with a focus on the wireless communications and geoinformation technologies and their role in the environment. Giving perspective, it aims at assisting people active in the industry, the public sector, and Earth science fields as well, by providing a base for their continued work and thinking

    Channel modelling and over-the-air signal quality at 3.5 GHz for 5G New Radio

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    With the next generation of mobile communication being trialled across the world, 5G New Radio (NR) promises to provide a flexible radio interface that fits a diverse range of use cases. As trials and pilots progress, propagation studies are required that evaluate electromagnetic (EM) propagation effects for 5G NR signals. In this article, 5G NR signals are used to evaluate the over-the-air (OTA) error vector magnitude (EVM) within a line-of-sight (LoS) rural/urban environment. For the same receiver locations, time dispersion and propagation loss were measured via the root mean square (RMS) delay spread and path loss. The transmitter-receiver distance investigated ranged from 60 m to 450 m. From the measurement campaign, the path loss exponent (PLE) using a directional antenna at the receiver was 1.98, and 1.82 with an omnidirectional antenna. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the floating intercept/close-in (FI/CI) models for the path loss was 4.96/4.74 and 3.84/3.23 for directional and omnidirectional receivers. The delay spread using a cross polar configuration showed significant increase and a dependency of the delay spread on the path loss was observed. For the measurement route, the mean delay spread was 24 ns and 35 ns for directional and omnidirectional measurements. With regards to the EVM, 16 and 64-QAM transmissions were robust along the entire route for directional and omnidirectional antennas, whereas 256-QAM worked in locations where there was minimal obstruction to the propagation path. The average EVM (%) for 16, 64 and 256-QAM measured along the route was 4.5/5.3/3.9 and 3.4/4.3/3.6 for omnidirectional and directional antennas. The OTA results also show that using a directional antenna (as the receiver) significantly improves the obtainable signal quality of 5G NR signals and also reduces outages for higher modulation schemes. With the measurement results presented, system designers can design efficient receivers, estimate coverage and adequately..

    Proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress

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    Published proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress, hosted by York University, 27-30 May 2018

    Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

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    The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion

    Proceedings of the II International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences

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    Interdisciplinarity is the main topic and the main goal of this conference. Since the sixteen century with the creation of the first Academy of Sciences, in Napoles (Italy) (1568), and before that with the creation of the Fine Arts Academies, the world of science and arts began to work independently, on the contrary of the Academy of Plato, in Classical Antiquity, where science, art and sport went interconnected. Over time, specific sciences began to be independent, and the specificity of sciences caused an increased difficulty in mutual understanding. The same trend has affected the Human and Social Sciences. Each of the specific sciences gave rise to a wide range of particular fields. This has the advantage of allowing the deepening of specialised knowledge, but it means that there is often only a piecemeal approach of the research object, not taking into account its overall complexity. So, it is important to work for a better understanding of the scientific phenomena with the complementarity of the different sciences, in an interdisciplinary perspective. With this growing specialisation of sciences, Interdisciplinarity acquired more relevance for scientists to find more encompassing and useful answers for their research questions. CIEO (Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics) organises this conference, being Interdisciplinarity an important issue.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

    Social work with airports passengers

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    Social work at the airport is in to offer to passengers social services. The main methodological position is that people are under stress, which characterized by a particular set of characteristics in appearance and behavior. In such circumstances passenger attracts in his actions some attention. Only person whom he trusts can help him with the documents or psychologically
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