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`Electronic Publishing' -- Practice and Experience
Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design (EP-odd) is an academic journal which publishes refereed papers in the subject area of electronic publishing. The authors of the present paper are, respectively, editor-in-chief, system software consultant and senior
production manager for the journal. EP-odd's policy is that editors, authors, referees and production staff will work closely together using electronic mail. Authors are also encouraged to originate their
papers using one of the approved text-processing packages together with the appropriate set of macros which enforce the layout style for the journal. This same software will then be used by the
publisher in the production phase. Our experiences with these strategies are presented, and two recently developed suites of software are described: one of these makes the macro sets available over
electronic mail and the other automates the flow of papers through the refereeing process. The decision to produce EP-odd in this way means that the publisher has to adopt production procedures
which differ markedly from those employed for a conventional journal
A Note on Adult Overwintering of Dasymutilla Nigripes in Michigan (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)
Excerpt: Although Dasymutilla nigripes (Fabricius) is one of the more common Michigan velvet ant species, little is known about its life cycle. In his summary of mutillid life cycles, Michel (1928) indicated that mutillids of northern latitudes probably overwinter in the prepupal stage within the subterranean cells of their hymenopterous hosts. Bohart and McSwain (1939) cited prepupal overwintering as normal for Dasymutilla sackenii (Cresson) in California. However, Potts and Smith (1944), also working in California, collected overwintering adult female Dasymutilla aureola pacifica (Cresson)
Subfactor realisation of modular invariants
We study the problem of realising modular invariants by braided subfactors
and the related problem of classifying nimreps. We develop the fusion rule
structure of these modular invariants. This structure is useful tool in the
analysis of modular data from quantum double subfactors, particularly those of
the double of cyclic groups, the symmetric group on 3 letters and the double of
the subfactors with principal graph the extended Dynkin diagram D_5^(1). In
particular for the double of S_3, 14 of the 48 modular modular invariants are
nimless, and only 28 of the remaining 34 nimble invariants can be realised by
subfactors
The Age-Specific Force of Natural Selection and Walls of Death
W. D. Hamilton's celebrated formula for the age-specific force of natural
selection furnishes predictions for senescent mortality due to mutation
accumulation, at the price of reliance on a linear approximation. Applying to
Hamilton's setting the full non-linear demographic model for mutation
accumulation of Evans et al. (2007), we find surprising differences. Non-linear
interactions cause the collapse of Hamilton-style predictions in the most
commonly studied case, refine predictions in other cases, and allow Walls of
Death at ages before the end of reproduction. Haldane's Principle for genetic
load has an exact but unfamiliar generalization.Comment: 27 page
Studying a relativistic field theory at finite chemical potential with the density matrix renormalization group
The density matrix renormalization group is applied to a relativistic complex
scalar field at finite chemical potential. The two-point function and various
bulk quantities are studied. It is seen that bulk quantities do not change with
the chemical potential until it is larger than the minimum excitation energy.
The technical limitations of the density matrix renormalization group for
treating bosons in relativistic field theories are discussed. Applications to
other relativistic models and to nontopological solitons are also suggested.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; v2: title changed; references added, conclusions
expanded, to be published in PR
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Technology in Nonformal Education: A Critical Appraisal
Issue Papers are a series of monographs written by and for theorists and practitioners in the field of nonformal education. Ranging broadly over ethical, theoretical and practical issues in nonformal education, the series is designed to reflect the current conceptual state of the art, its pitfalls and potentialities, and to focus attention on fundamental philosophic and behavioral tenets of the field
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Games and Simulations in Literacy Training
A monograph on âinstructional technologyâ which presents innovative teaching-learning possibilities through games and simulations. Geared toward literacy workers and learners, it describes a variety of games and simulations from planning and design to implementation. Discussions of participatory learning and learner-control of these instructional technologies are interwoven in the text
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Training Deep Practitioners : 50-years of the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
This chapter presents a brief analytic history of the initial 50 years of the Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the goal of understanding what made it possible and what can be learned from it for the future of Comparative and International Education programs in other universities. The chapter begins with the unusual context in which CIE was created and its commitment to a synergistic linkage between academics and managing funded, development education programs. The discussion then describes CIEâs defining characteristics, the challenges it faced, its current situation, and the insights that can be gleaned from its history. The chapter concludes with comments on the implications for the future shape of CE/IE graduate programs and centers at universities. The author is the Founding Director of CIE who has led the program for most of its 50-year history
Journal publishing with Acrobat: the CAJUN project
The publication of material in electronic form should ideally preserve, in a unified document representation, all of the richness of the printed document while maintaining enough of its underlying structure to enable searching and other forms of semantic processing. Until recently it has been hard to find a document representation which combined these attributes and which also stood some chance of becoming a de facto multi-platform standard.
This paper sets out experience gained within the Electronic Publishing Research Group at the University of Nottingham in using Adobe Acrobat software and its underlying PDF (Portable Document Format) notation. The CAJUN project1 (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) began in 1993 and has used Acrobat software to produce electronic versions of journal papers for network and CD-ROM dissemination. The paper describes the project's progress so far and also gives a brief assessment of PDF's suitability as a universal document interchange standard
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