9,543 research outputs found
Enhancing the employability of fashion students through the use of 3D CAD
The textile and apparel industry has one of the longest and most intricate supply chains within manufacturing. Advancement in technology has facilitated its globalisation, enabling companies to span geographical borders. This has led to new methods of communication using electronic data formats. Throughout the latter part of the 20th Century, 2D CAD technology established itself as an invaluable tool within design and product development. More recently 3D virtual simulation software has made small but significant steps within this market. The technological revolution has opened significant opportunities for those forward thinking companies that are beginning to utilise 3D software. This advanced technology requires designers with unique skill sets. This paper investigates the skills required by fashion graduates from an industry perspective.
To reflect current industrial working practices, it is essential for educational establishments to incorporate technologies that will enhance the employability of graduates. This study developed an adapted action research model based on the work of Kurt Lewin, which reviewed the learning and teaching of 3D CAD within higher education. It encompassed the selection of 3D CAD software development, analysis of industry requirements, and the implementation of 3D CAD into the learning and teaching of a selection of fashion students over a three year period. Six interviews were undertaken with industrial design and product development specialists to determine: current working practices, opinions of virtual 3D software and graduate skill requirements.
It was found that the companies had similar working practices independent of the software utilised within their product development process. The companies which employed 3D CAD software considered further developments were required before the technology could be fully integrated. Further to this it was concluded that it was beneficial for graduates to be furnished with knowledge of emerging technologies which reflect industry and enhance their employability skills
Christopher Logue, Alexander Pope, and the Making of War Music
This is the final version. Available from Oxford University Press (OUP) via the DOI in this record.Between 1959 and 2011, the English poet Christopher Logue published a series of poems based on Homer’s Iliad, to which he eventually gave the collective title War Music. These are radical recastings of Homer’s epic (Logue resisted the term ‘translation’ and referred to them as ‘accounts’) and they seem at first sight to constitute a violent rejection of an earlier tradition of translation. One especially unusual aspect of Logue’s creative process was the way he pieced War Music together from a wide variety of sources, often physically incorporating fragments of earlier texts into his manuscript. This essay offers a sketch of Logue’s working methods, drawing on unpublished archival materials in order to stress the diversity of his sources (which encompassed both canonical literary texts and printed ephemera). I argue that one major influence on Logue’s approach to translation was the example of Alexander Pope, whose translation of the Iliad (1715–20) Logue knew intimately; Pope, like Logue, incorporated fragments of earlier literature into his translation. Having established the similarity in their working methods, I show (by reference to Logue’s annotated copy of Pope’s Iliad) that Logue was acutely aware of Pope’s particular approach to translation.British Academ
Explaining Violation Traces with Finite State Natural Language Generation Models
An essential element of any verification technique is that of identifying and
communicating to the user, system behaviour which leads to a deviation from the
expected behaviour. Such behaviours are typically made available as long traces
of system actions which would benefit from a natural language explanation of
the trace and especially in the context of business logic level specifications.
In this paper we present a natural language generation model which can be used
to explain such traces. A key idea is that the explanation language is a CNL
that is, formally speaking, regular language susceptible transformations that
can be expressed with finite state machinery. At the same time it admits
various forms of abstraction and simplification which contribute to the
naturalness of explanations that are communicated to the user
A note on protection and the processing of primary commodities
It is well known that "escalated" tariff structures in more developed countries (MDCs) serve to inhibit the ability of less developed countries (LDCs) to process their own primary commodities for export. What has not received attention, however, and what is demonstrated here, is that tariff structures of the LDCs, themselves, may add an additional bias against such processing activities. So reform of protection systems in both groups of countries is important to the success of industrialisation in LDCs. The terms of trade implications are noted as a possible explanation of the UNCTAD emphasis on trade preferences in MDC markets rather than on LDC tariff-reform. However, it is noted that LDC tariff reform would tend to remove a bias against trade among LDCs and that this mitigates the terms of trade argument. Finally, this also provides a new argument for trade preferences among LDCs
Protection and employment: a macroeconomic approach
A Macroeconomic growth model is set forth to distinguish among
Keynesian, Marxian and balance of payments constrained unemployment,
as well as to clarify the roles of productivity growth, factor substitution
and structural disequilibrium in affecting the growth of employment.
The model is then used to assess the effects on employment of the
typical kind of protection system found in less developed countries.
Protection of this sort is found to be inimical to the growth of employment
because of adverse influences on productivity, factor proportions,
saving and the balance of payments
The role of protection in industrialisation policy
Protection of domestic industry by means of restricting imports
has been widely employed as a means of promoting industrialisation.
Experience among less developed countries has shown that, while
this often produces a short "exuberant" period of rapid industrial
growth, it is likely to lead eventually to chronic balance of payments
difficulties and other constraints on growth that inhibit sustained
progress in industrialisation. This is partly because of the biases
in the system of protection that inevitably govern when it originates
as a response to a balance of payments problem. Even deliberately
planned protection for industrialisation, however, is likely to fail
if it takes the form of import restriction. The traditional arguments
for such protection (infant industry, et. al.) have virtuallv no
economic merit - not that the market failures they identify are not
real enough, but because the remedy is inappropriate and costly.
A more rational protection system would avoid the biases of traditional
protection against exports, against backward linkage, against employment,
and against the processing of domestic raw products. At the same
time it would correct the market failures that inhibit successful
industrialisation in less developed countries. The most important
of these market failures stem from factor price disequilibrium,
infant industry cases, terms of trade effects and the interdependence
of investment decisions. Such a more rational system could be based
on a combination of a uniform tariff, a domestic value added tax
system, and direct subsidies. It would be not only self-financing,
but also far easier to administer than any existing set of industrilisation
policies
Bubbles in graphene - a computational study
Strain-induced deformations in graphene are predicted to give rise to large
pseudomagnetic fields. We examine theoretically the case of gas-inflated
bubbles to determine whether signatures of such fields are present in the local
density of states. Sharp-edged bubbles are found to induce Friedel-type
oscillations which can envelope pseudo-Landau level features in certain regions
of the bubble. However, bubbles which minimise interference effects are also
unsuitable for pseudo-Landau level formation due to more spatially varying
field profiles.Comment: Submitted to Edison1
Scaling Symmetries of Scatterers of Classical Zero-Point Radiation
Classical radiation equilibrium (the blackbody problem) is investigated by
the use of an analogy. Scaling symmetries are noted for systems of classical
charged particles moving in circular orbits in central potentials V(r)=-k/r^n
when the particles are held in uniform circular motion against radiative
collapse by a circularly polarized incident plane wave. Only in the case of a
Coulomb potential n=1 with fixed charge e is there a unique scale-invariant
spectrum of radiation versus frequency (analogous to zero-point radiation)
obtained from the stable scattering arrangement. These results suggest that
non-electromagnetic potentials are not appropriate for discussions of classical
radiation equilibrium.Comment: 13 page
- …