95 research outputs found
Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations
There has been growing interest in gender diversity and the leadership development of women in recent years within the broader field of management studies. Understanding leadership development processes is important for the sport industry, in which organizations are becoming increasingly professional and commercially focused. Despite the increased attention on gender diversity and leadership development within the sport industry to date, the scope and application of organizational gender and leadership development theory within an Australian sport context has been limited. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore the leadership development practices adopted by key stakeholders of the Australian sports industry, with the intention to uncover how they impact the role of women in different organizations. Specifically, the research investigated the practices of three organizations that have a major stake in Australian professional sport.</jats:p
Light Quark Physics with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We present results for spectroscopy, quark masses and decay constants
obtained from SESAM's and TkL's large statistics simulations of QCD with two
dynamical Wilson fermions.Comment: 3 pages; to appear in the proceedings of Lat.'9
Glueballs and string breaking from full QCD
We present results on the static potential, and torelon and glueball masses
from simulations of QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson fermions on
and lattices at .Comment: Talk presented by Gunnar Bali at International Symposium on Lattice
Field Theories (Lattice 97), Edinburgh, July 1997, 3 pages LaTeX
(epscrc2.sty) with 4 eps figure
Critical Dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm
We investigate the critical dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm
approaching the chiral limit of standard Wilson fermions. Our observations are
based on time series of lengths O(5000) for a variety of observables. The
lattice sizes are 16^3 x 32 and 24^3 x 40. We work at beta=5.6, and
kappa=0.156, 0.157, 0.1575, 0.158, with 0.83 > m_pi/m_rho > 0.55. We find
surprisingly small integrated autocorrelation times for local and extended
observables. The dynamical critical exponent of the exponential
autocorrelation time is compatible with 2. We estimate the total computational
effort to scale between V^2 and V^2.25 towards the chiral limit.Comment: 3 pages, Latex with espcrc2.sty and postscript figures, Talk given at
Lattice 9
Scanning the Topological Sectors of the QCD Vacuum with Hybrid Monte Carlo
We address a long standing issue and determine the decorrelation efficiency
of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMC), for full QCD with Wilson fermions,
with respect to vacuum topology. On the basis of five state-of-the art QCD
vacuum field ensembles (with 3000 to 5000 trajectories each and
m_pi/m_rho-ratios in the regime >0.56, for two sea quark flavours) we are able
to establish, for the first time, that HMC provides sufficient tunneling
between the different topological sectors of QCD. This will have an important
bearing on the prospect to determine, by lattice techniques, the topological
susceptibility of the vacuum, and topology sensitive quantities like the spin
content of the proton, or the eta' mass.Comment: 5 pages, 4 eps-figure
The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference, and the Challenge of Development
This report highlights the complex, multidimensional nature of inequality in the era of globalization. It documents that despite the impressive strides by nations like China and India, absolute inequality between the richest and poorest countries is greater than ever before in history. It demonstrates that the rise of China and India creates a new dimension to the persistent problem of inequality
SESAM and TXL Results for Wilson Action--A Status Report
Results from two studies of full QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson
fermions are presented. At beta=5.6, the region 0.83 > m_pi/m_rho > 0.56 at
m_pia > 0.23 L^{-1} is explored. The SESAM collaboration has generated
ensembles of about 200 statistically independent configurations on a 16^3 x
32-lattice at three different kappa-values and is entering the final phase of
data analysis. The TXL simulation on a 24^3 x 40-lattice at two kappa-values
has reached half statistics and data analysis has started recently, hence most
results presented here are preliminary. The focus of this report is fourfold:
we demonstrate that algorithmic improvements like fast Krylov solvers and
parallel preconditioning recently introduced can be put into practise in full
QCD simulations, we present encouraging observations as to the critical
dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in the approach to the chiral
limit, we mention signal improvements of noisy estimator techniques for
disconnected diagrams to the pi-N sigma term, and we report on SESAM's results
for light hadron spectrum, light quark masses, and heavy quarkonia.Comment: 24 pages, tex + postscript figures, to appear in Proceedings of Int.
Workshop "Lattice QCD on Parallel Computers", University of Tsukuba, Japa
Alpha_S from Upsilon Spectroscopy with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We estimate the QCD coupling constant from a lattice calculation of the
bottomonium spectrum. The second order perturbative expansion of the plaquette
expectation value is employed to determine alpha_S at a scale set by the 2S-1S
and 1P-1S level splittings. The latter are computed in NRQCD in a dynamical
gauge field background with two degenerate flavours of Wilson quarks at
intermediate masses and extrapolated to the chiral limit. Combining the N_f=2
result with the quenched result at equal lattice spacing we extrapolate to the
physical number of light flavours to find a value of alpha_{\bar MS}^{(5)}(m_Z)
= 0.1118(17). The error quoted covers both statistical and systematic
uncertainties in the scale determination. An additional 5% uncertainty comes
from the choice of the underlying sea quark formulation and from truncation
errors in perturbative expansions.Comment: 25 pages, 5 eps figures, revte
Report on the Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks
There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and
applications, both on the Web and in domain-specific collections, and both in our professional and in our daily life. Yet our understanding of complex search tasks, in comparison
to simple look up tasks, is fragmented at best. The workshop addressed many open research
questions: What are the obvious use cases and applications of complex search? What are
essential features of work tasks and search tasks to take into account? And how do these
evolve over time? With a multitude of information, varying from introductory to specialized,
and from authoritative to speculative or opinionated, when should which sources of information be shown? How does the information seeking process evolve and what are relevant
differences between different stages? With complex task and search process management,
blending searching, browsing, and recommendations, and supporting exploratory search to
sensemaking and analytics, UI and UX design pose an overconstrained challenge. How do
we know that our approach is any good? Supporting complex search tasks requires new
collaborations across the whole field of IR, and the proposed workshop brought together a
diverse group of researchers to work together on one of the greatest challenges of our field.
The workshop featured three main elements. First, two keynotes, one on the complexity
of meaningful interactive IR evaluation by Mark Hall and one on the types of search complexity encountered in real-world applications by Jussi Karlgren. Second, a lively boaster
and poster session in which seven contributed papers were presented. Third, three breakout
groups discussed concrete ideas on: (1) search context and tasks, (2) search process, and (3)
evaluation of complex search tasks. There was an general feeling that the discussion made
progress, and built new connections between related strands of research in IR
Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond
In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly analysis of gender and sport, we subsequently explore ideas inspired by feminist theorizing that have dominated/guided related research in other outlets over this time period but have received relatively little attention in papers published in Sex Roles. We conclude by briefly making suggestions for further research in this area
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