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‘Do we all get a PhD?' Attempting emancipatory research relating to disability in an academic environment. Relating to disability in an academic environment
Within the model of emancipatory research, the researcher is situated as one member of a
team. They are often conceptualised as providing methodological tools and skills to others
involved in the research project but the definition of topic, data analysis and dissemination is
presented as a joint enterprise. This model of research (deliberately) contradicts with the
view of the expert researcher prevalent within higher education establishments and
particularly with the individualised construction of research degrees such as PhDs which
requires a thesis to be the exclusive product of one individual. The paper discusses attempts
which have been made to reconcile the tensions inherent in adopting an emancipatory model
within an academic environment including our own experiences of researching and
supervising a doctoral thesis on citizenship and disability. The project is led by an advisory
panel of disabled people who are involved in the preparation, selection and analysis of the
interviews and pragmatic aspects of attempting such an emancipatory model of research from
the viewpoint of the entire research team. It raises the question as to whether such models
can only be completely adhered to in particular, probably non-academic settings
Invariant states and rates of Convergence for a critical fluid model of a processor sharing queue
This paper contains an asymptotic analysis of a fluid model for a heavily
loaded processor sharing queue. Specifically, we consider the behavior of
solutions of critical fluid models as time approaches \infty. The main theorems
of the paper provide sufficient conditions for a fluid model solution to
converge to an invariant state and, under slightly more restrictive
assumptions, provide a rate of convergence. These results are used in a related
work by Gromoll for establishing a heavy traffic diffusion approximation for a
processor sharing queue
A remote sensing evaluation of potential for sinkhole occurrence
The relationship between lowering of the water table and sinkhole development in Pierson and in Hillsborough County, Florida was investigated. The locations of recently developed (1973) collapses were examined with respect to lineaments or fracture traces that are expressed in the terrain and visible in aerial photography and satellite imagery. It was anticipated that these relationships would provide the basis for establishment of criteria for mapping those land areas that have the greatest potential for sinkhole development. A very good correlation was found between mapped lineament intersections and known location of sinkhole occurrences for both study areas. This indicates that lineament and fracture trace mapping may be very useful in locating zones with the greatest potential for sinkhole development. It is further shown that this information is quite beneficial in land use planning applications
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