259 research outputs found
Editorial: The dialogue between forensic scientists, statisticians and lawyers about complex scientific issues for court
This is the Editorial of the Frontiers open-access article collection "The Dialogue Between Forensic Scientists, Statisticians and Lawyers About Complex Scientific Issues for Court". The 11 articles (by 22 authors) can be found here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4000
âThey are doing it because they love itâ: U.S. and English fan perceptions of women footballers as ârole modelsâ
We draw from 102 interviews with American and English adults who attended the 2019 Womenâs World Cup to examine how fans perceive women footballers as ârole modelsâ, with attention to the operations of gender ideology. Despite the recent professionalization and commercialization of womenâs football, there is a dearth of research on fan perspectives of players as role models. Our findings show that most fans perceive role modelling as womenâs accessibility and authenticity in interaction. Fans naturalize womenâs often uncompensated labor as role models through a supposed love for their sport and desire to see its future growth, endorsing a gender essentialist view of women as notably caring and giving in comparison to men. However, a minority of fans embrace a more critical view by identifying role modelling as an expectation placed disproportionately on women within an already unequal resource environment. We conclude that role modelling is a gendered expectation for elite women footballers and that fans can be a source of pressure towards its enactment
An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, covid-19 and governance of elite womenâs football in Australia, England and the USA
Purpose: Womenâs football faces an existential threat from covid-19. Using case studies, we explore the covid-19 responses of three highly-ranked national football associations (Australia, England, and the USA) and their professional womenâs football leagues to: (a) compare and shed new insights into the wide range of phased responses, and (b) establish recommendations for other nations to navigate major crises with their social and ethical responsibilities to womenâs football. Methodology: Drawing on institutional theory, a framework analysis was undertaken examining 71 articles to analyse the gendered global impacts of covid-19 on womenâs football. Findings: Results highlight several important recommendations for nations to consider during the pandemic: (1) maintain active communication with the community to allay worries about the future of womenâs football, (2) gather support from health and government officials, (3) seek out commercial and broadcasting partnerships to drive revenue, and (4) the interests of womenâs football are best served when responsibility for the elite womenâs league does not rest (solely) with national football associations. Originality: The study is first to explore institutional pressures and football governing bodies during covid-19 and provides a framework for nations to manage major crises. Social implications: We argue sport is an interwoven part of society and cannot be separated from gender equality issues irrespective of the pandemic
Python Programmers Have GPUs Too: Automatic Python Loop Parallelization with Staged Dependence Analysis
Python is a popular language for end-user software development in many application domains. End-users want to harness parallel compute resources effectively, by exploiting commodity manycore technology including GPUs. However, existing approaches to parallelism in Python are esoteric, and generally seem too complex for the typical end-user developer. We argue that implicit, or automatic, parallelization is the best way to deliver the benefits of manycore to end-users, since it avoids domain-specific languages, specialist libraries, complex annotations or restrictive language subsets. Auto-parallelization fits the Python philosophy, provides effective performance, and is convenient for non-expert developers.
Despite being a dynamic language, we show that Python is a suitable target for auto-parallelization. In an empirical study of 3000+ open-source Python notebooks, we demonstrate that typical loop behaviour âin the wildâ is amenable to auto-parallelization. We show that staging the dependence analysis is an effective way to maximize performance. We apply classical dependence analysis techniques, then leverage the Python runtimeâs rich introspection capabilities to resolve additional loop bounds and variable types in a just-in-time manner. The parallel loop nest code is then converted to CUDA kernels for GPU execution. We achieve orders of magnitude speedup over baseline interpreted execution and some speedup (up to 50x, although not consistently) over CPU JIT-compiled execution, across 12 loop-intensive standard benchmarks
University Libraries Annual Report FY 2022-2023
Annual Report of the Old Dominion University Libraries for FY 2022-2023. Contents include Reflecting on Progress, Fostering Scholarship, Reimagining Libraries\u27 Spaces, Strengthening Connections, and In Memoriam.
The report was written by the Libraries\u27 Communications Team, headed by Jennifer Hoyt
NATIONAL SCALING UP OF LPG TO ACHIEVE SDG 7: Implications for Policy, Implementation, Public Health and Environment
Investigations into the photophysical and electronic properties of pnictoles and Their pnictenium counterparts
The reaction of phosphole/arsole
starting materials with a series
of halide abstraction reagents afforded their respective phosphenium/arsenium
complexes. UVâvis absorption and luminescence studies on these
cations showed interesting emission profiles, which were found to
be dependent upon counterion choice. The addition of a reductant to
the phosphole reagent garnered a dimeric species with a central PâP
bond, which when heated was found to undergo homolytic bond cleavage
to produce an 11Ď radical complex. Electron paramagnetic resonance
(EPR), supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations,
was used to characterize this radical species
Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: Exploring the Effect of AGN Activity on the Relationships Between Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation
The molecular gas, H, that fuels star formation in galaxies is difficult
to observe directly. As such, the ratio of to
is an observational estimation of the star formation rate compared with the
amount of molecular gas available to form stars, which is related to the star
formation efficiency and the inverse of the gas consumption timescale. We test
what effect an IR luminous AGN has on the ratio
in a sample of 24 intermediate redshift galaxies from the 5 mJy Unbiased
Spitzer Extragalactic Survey (5MUSES). We obtain new CO(1-0) observations with
the Redshift Search Receiver on the Large Millimeter Telescope. We diagnose the
presence and strength of an AGN using Spitzer IRS spectroscopy. We find that
removing the AGN contribution to results in a mean
for our entire sample consistent with
the mean derived for a large sample of star
forming galaxies from . We also include in our comparison the
relative amount of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission for our sample and
a literature sample of local and high redshift Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies
and find a consistent trend between and , such that small dust grain emission decreases
with increasing for both local and high
redshift dusty galaxies.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ (to appear on December 10
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