Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU referendum.

This chapter is concerned with establishing and analysing the discourses that shaped the coverage of the 2016 EU referendum in a selection of Scottish and Welsh newspapers. The chapter looks at the Scottish editions of the Daily Express and Daily Mail, as well as the Herald and the Daily Record. The Welsh papers examined are the Western Mail/Wales on Sunday, the Daily Post and the Evening Post. Using Lexis Nexis the chapter engages in a search for key terms across a three month sample of coverage, followed by a critical discourse analysis of how these are used. Discourses of danger and fear are found to be prominent themes across both samples, mirroring public discourse more broadly

Modeling Heterogeneous Systems Using SystemC-AMS Case Study: A Wireless Sensor Network Node

Abstract — The paper presents a preliminary approach for the modeling and simulation of a simple but complete Wireless Sensor Network with two nodes using SystemC-AMS, an open-source C++ library dedicated to the description of heterogeneous systems containing digital, analog, RF hardware parts as well as embedded software. The WSN node, or mote, detailed herein consists of a physical sensor, a continuous time sigmadelta converter with its associated decimation filter, an ATMEGA128 8-bit microcontroller running the embedded application and a QPSK-based 2.4 GHz RF transceiver. The node has been designed to be interoperable with both the XBow MICAZ hardware platform and the TinyOS operating system in a near future. The paper starts with the structural description of the system as a hierarchical set of behavioural modules, then gives an insight on how multi-frequency simulation is handled in SystemC-AMS, and finally presents simulation results that are systematically compared with the Matlab reference in terms of accuracy and simulation time. I

Modeling and Refining Heterogeneous Systems With SystemC-AMS: Application to WSN

Abstract — The paper presents a system-level approach for the modeling and simulation of a paradigmatic Wireless Sensor Network composed of two nodes using SystemC-AMS, an open-source C++ extension to the OSCI SystemC Standard dedicated to the description of heterogeneous systems containing digital, analog, RF hardware IPs as well as embedded software. The paper is composed of three parts. The first part details the modeled WSN (physical sensor, sigma-delta ADC, ATMEGA128 8-bit microcontroller running the embedded application, QPSK-based 2.4 GHz RF transceiver), presents the corresponding implementation in SystemC-AMS, and gives an insight on how multi-frequency simulation is handled in SystemC-AMS. The second part shows how to introduce several RF designer specifications (noise figure, IIP3,...) into models and how to express them in SystemC-AMS. The third part proves that the combination of C++ and RF baseband equivalent dramatically reduces simulation time while keeping excellent accuracy and code readability. The paper concludes on the possibilities offered by this approach in terms of validation and optimization of heteregeneous systems through open-source simulation. I

Long-term (8.5 years) analysis of the type and rate of reoperation after transvaginal mesh repair (Prolift) in 349 patients

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Ten years on in the linguistics of writing

In this article we offer a brief, non-technical reviewof developments in linguistic approaches to written texts during the ten years since 'Prose Studies' first appeared