Priests, pirates, opera singers, and slaves: séga and European art music in Mauritius, "The little Paris of the Indian Ocean"

This dissertation comprises a musical history and ethnography of musical culture on the island of Mauritius in the southern Indian Ocean. It details two interrelated performance traditions, examining the history and practice of European art music on the island in parallel with that of an endemic song-and-dance tradition called séga. Mauritius, once a notorious nest of pirates and privateers, was a famous overseas haven of French culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wealth from trade, war, and piracy fueled a rich cultural scene that featured the latest music from Western Europe. Visitors to "The Little Paris of the Indian Ocean" also encountered séga, a percussion-driven music based on improvised songs and dances that developed amongst the island's African and Malagasy slaves. Today, séga is an integral part of the Mauritian tourism industry and is prominently featured in government cultural and educational programs. The general format of the dissertation is a musical history of Mauritius from its first human settlement in 1638 to the present day. It draws extensively on unpublished archival documents and on travelogues, letters, and diaries from visitors to provide specific details about the extent and nature of musical practice in Mauritius. It is also informed by historical newspapers, contemporaneous literature, and by recent discoveries in Mauritian archaeology. The narrative of the past half-century of Mauritian musical and cultural history takes the form of a musical ethnography and draws upon numerous interviews and on field research conducted in Mauritius from 2011-2012. The dissertation also includes a detailed study of music in contemporary Mauritian society, with special reference to the use of séga in nation-building policies, identity politics, the tourism industry, and in public education

PLIM : processamento de lingua natural utilizando o paradigma multi-agentes

Orientador: Ariadne Maria Britto Rizzoni CarvalhoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação CientificaResumo: O processamento automático da língua natural é um problema multidisciplinar que envolve aspectos computacionais e lingüísticos, dentre outros. Neste trabalho analisamos algumas das teorias lingüísticas centradas na sintaxe que já foram utilizadas com sucesso em sistemas computacionais. A análise destas teorias e dos sistemas que as implementam considera a adequação lingüística e a complexidade computacional associada. Também são analisados os paradigmas de programação utilizados na implementação destes sistemas, identificando suas limitações. Apresentamos também um sistema distribuído baseado em multi-agentes que é capaz de se utilizar dos mecanismos lingüísticos tradicionais ao mesmo tempo em que supera parte das limitações dos sistemas que os implementam.Abstract: Natural language processing is a multidisciplinar problem that covers, but is not limited to, Computer Science and Linguistics. This master thesis presents a survey on some of the syntactic-centered linguistic theories that have been successfuly used in computer systems. An analysis of the linguistic adequacy and the computational complexity of each formalism is also presented. An analysis of the programming paradigms which were used to implement these systems and their limitations is also shown. Finally a distributed system based on the multi-agent paradigm is presented. This system is able to mimic many of the traditional system features while overcoming some of their limitations.MestradoMestre em Ciência da Computaçã

Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers

Central to this edited volume is the legal position and the labour situation of non-EU and EU low-waged migrant workers. Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers presents ground breaking research on policies and practices in search of striking a right balance between the economic ambitions and the negative consequences thereof, for labour market dynamics such as down-ward wage pressures, unfair competition, the abuse of migrant workers and even the long-term setback for the children of previously low-waged migrant workers. Imbalances or presumed imbalances between free market mechanisms, labour migration policies, labour market protection and corrective mechanisms to protect migrant workers, thus come to the fore. The contributors to this volume will deconstruct some of these imbalances, and shed light on its causes, consequences and interrelatedness with other factors. Possible solutions that contribute to a decent labour market, in which rights of low-waged migrant workers are more respected, will be discussed

An examination of the Asus WL-HDD 2.5 as a nepenthes malware collector

The Linksys WRT54g has been used as a host for network forensics tools for instance Snort for a long period of time. Whilst large corporations are already utilising network forensic tools, this paper demonstrates that it is quite feasible for a non-security specialist to track and capture malicious network traffic. This paper introduces the Asus Wireless Hard disk as a replacement for the popular Linksys WRT54g. Firstly, the Linksys router will be introduced detailing some of the research that was undertaken on the device over the years amongst the security community. It then briefly discusses malicious software and the impact this may have for a home user. The paper then outlines the trivial steps in setting up Nepenthes 0.1.7 (a malware collector) for the Asus WL-HDD 2.5 according to the Nepenthes and tests the feasibility of running the malware collector on the selected device. The paper then concludes on discussing the limitations of the device when attempting to execute Nepenthes

MATrA: meta-modelling approach to traceability for avionics

PhD ThesisTraceability is the common term for mechanisms to record and navigate relationships between artifacts produced by development and assessment processes. Effective management of these relationships is critical to the success of projects involving the development of complex aerospace products. Practitioners use a range of notations to model aerospace products (often as part of a defined technique or methodology). Those appropriate to electrical and electronic systems (avionics) include Use Cases for requirements, Ada for development and Fault Trees for assessment (others such as PERT networks support product management). Most notations used within the industry have tool support, although a lack of well-defined approaches to integration leads to inconsistencies and limits traceability between their respective data sets (internal models). Conceptually, the artifacts produced using such notations populate four traceability dimensions. Of these, three record links between project artifacts (describing the same product), while the fourth relates artifacts across different projects (and hence products), and across product families within the same project. The scope of this thesis is to define a meta-framework that characterises traceability dimensions for aerospace projects, and then to propose a concrete framework capturing the syntax and semantics of notations used in developing avionics for such projects which enables traceability across the four dimensions. The concrete framework is achieved by exporting information from the internal models of tools supporting these notations to an integrated environment consisting of. i) a Workspace comprising a set of structures or meta-models (models describing models) expressed in a common modelling language representing selected notations (including appropriate extensions reflecting the application domain); ii) well-formedness constraints over these structures capturing properties of the notations (and again, reflecting the domain); and iii) associations between the structures. To maintain consistency and identify conflicts, elements of the structures are verified against a system model that defines common building blocks underlying the various notations. The approach is evaluated by (partial) tool implementation of the structures which are populated using case study material derived from actual commercial specifications and industry standards

Don't Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990.

“Don’t Blame Us” recasts the conventional narratives of modern liberalism, civil rights, suburban politics, and electoral realignment through an examination of the political culture and grassroots activism in the liberal suburbs of metropolitan Boston between 1960 and 1990. It interweaves the stories of postwar suburban growth and inequality, grassroots social movements and the transformation of both Massachusetts politics and the Democratic Party at the national level during the second half of the twentieth century. This examination of the suburbanization of liberalism revises existing scholarly assessments to demonstrate that the rise of the New Right and Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s did not mark the demise of liberalism or the Democratic Party. Instead, it illuminates the increasing centrality of suburban voters outside of Boston and throughout the nation in remaking modern liberalism and the Democratic Party. Through a thematic approach with chapters devoted to civil rights, housing, education, growth and development, taxation, environmentalism, feminism and antiwar activism, “Don’t Blame Us” demonstrates how the suburban liberal vision of equal opportunity and freedom of choice that favored individualist solutions to structural problems played a crucial role in helping Massachusetts preserve both its liberal reputation and segregated social structures. It highlights how the suburban-centered political sensibility of social liberalism and fiscal moderation has contributed in important ways to transformations of liberalism, the political realignment of the nation, and the persistence of structural inequality throughout the country over the course of the last half-century. Ultimately, “Don’t Blame Us” suggests that Massachusetts and suburban liberals provide a model for, not the exception, to understanding the political, economic and social trends of the last decades of the twentieth century.Ph.D.HistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77832/1/lgeismer_1.pd

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volum