Level 4: Lucia et le Bebe / Lucia and the Baby

I dedicate this book to my little brother Javier, the baby of my family. About the Author: Hello, my name is Silvia. I live in Georgia, in the United States, but I am of Guatemalan origin. I am a student at the University of Kennesaw. I love cats and one day I hope to become a translator. Je dédie ce livre à mon petit frère Javier, le bébé de ma famille Bonjour, je m\u27appelle Silvia. J\u27habite en Géorgie, aux États-Unis, mais je suis d\u27origine guatémaltèque. Je suis étudiante à l\u27Université de Kennesaw. J\u27adore les chats et un jour j\u27espère devenir traductrice.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/globallib/1001/thumbnail.jp

Performance Analysis of Publish/Subscribe Systems

The Desktop Grid offers solutions to overcome several challenges and to answer increasingly needs of scientific computing. Its technology consists mainly in exploiting resources, geographically dispersed, to treat complex applications needing big power of calculation and/or important storage capacity. However, as resources number increases, the need for scalability, self-organisation, dynamic reconfigurations, decentralisation and performance becomes more and more essential. Since such properties are exhibited by P2P systems, the convergence of grid computing and P2P computing seems natural. In this context, this paper evaluates the scalability and performance of P2P tools for discovering and registering services. Three protocols are used for this purpose: Bonjour, Avahi and Free-Pastry. We have studied the behaviour of theses protocols related to two criteria: the elapsed time for registrations services and the needed time to discover new services. Our aim is to analyse these results in order to choose the best protocol we can use in order to create a decentralised middleware for desktop grid

The Universality of Human Rights: A Response

A response to: Mayerfeld, J., Ackerly, B., Shue, H., Donnelly, J., Tan, K., & Beitz, C. (2007). Exploring universal rights: A symposium. Human Rights, Human Welfare, 7. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol7/iss1/24

A Tale of Two Nortons

This paper considers Norton’s Material Theory of Induction. The material theory aims inter alia to neutralize Hume’s Problem of Induction. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the material theorys capacity to achieve this end. After pulling apart two versions of the theory, I argue that neither version satisfactorily neutralizes the problem

Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the ‘good and legitimate citizens’ and the ‘acceptable family’. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states’ concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. The introduction to this Special Issue analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g. ‘sham’, ‘forced’ and ‘mixed’ marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. We suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states’ logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. The empirical contributions of the Special Issue offer new insights into a timely topic

Address: Investiture Ceremony, J. Michael Pressimone, November 14, 2014

Inaugural Address given by J. Michael Pressimone at his Investiture Ceremony in 2014. This copy was deposited with University Archives and is not the podium copy from the event