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Determining the Diffusivity for Light Quarks from Experiment
Charge balance functions reflect the evolution of charged pair correlations
throughout the stages of pair production, dynamical diffusion, and
hadronization in heavy-ion collisions. Microscopic modeling of these
correlations in the full collision volume shows that the balance functions are
sensitive to the diffusivity of light quarks when studied as functions of
relative azimuthal angle. By restricting our analysis to K+,K- and p,pbar
pairs, we find that the diffusivity of light quarks, a fundamental property not
currently well understood, can be constrained by experimental measurement.Comment: 6 pages, newer version is longer than previous versio
Surf ās Up: Work, Life, Balance and Brand in a New Age Capitalist Organization
This article reframes the notion of work/life balance through analysis of branding and the immaterial labour process in a ānew age capitalistā organization. The company does not manufacture material products; rather, value is produced through branding imported goods to promote āalternativeā ways of living. This is achieved through incorporation of leisure activities and lifestyles of key employees, effectively putting their ālivesā to āworkā in the creation of value for the company. For employees, therefore, much work actually takes place notionally outside or on the margins of their formally employed space and time. We argue that this qualitatively transforms the conceptions of, and relations between, work and life that underpin the concept of work/life balance. We conclude by exploring the tensions generated by organizational incorporation of employee autonomy in the pursuit of aspirational branding. </jats:p
A distributional model of semantic context effects in lexical processinga
One of the most robust findings of experimental psycholinguistics is that the context in which a word is presented influences the effort involved in processing that word. We present a novel model of contextual facilitation based on word co-occurrence prob ability distributions, and empirically validate the model through simulation of three representative types of context manipulation: single word priming, multiple-priming and contextual constraint. In our simulations the effects of semantic context are mod eled using general-purpose techniques and representations from multivariate statistics, augmented with simple assumptions reflecting the inherently incremental nature of speech understanding. The contribution of our study is to show that special-purpose m echanisms are not necessary in order to capture the general pattern of the experimental results, and that a range of semantic context effects can be subsumed under the same principled account.āŗ
Student Attitude to Audio Versus Written Feedback
First year Biology at the University of Glasgow consists of two courses, 1A and 1B, with an annual intake of 750-800 students. Both courses consist of lectures, practical lab sessions, tutorials and discussion groups. With such large numbers of students, teaching methods and delivery continually change and develop to ensure best delivery of the course content. As such, assessment and feedback systems also need to remain current and accessible to all. Timely, instructive and developmental feedback on student work is arguably the most powerful single influence on a studentās ability to learn. As part of the transition from school into university, feedback is a recognised method of maximising student potential (Hattie and Timperley, 2007). Research shows that increasing student numbers and associated rise in marking workloads, means that feedback can be slow in returning to the student and lacking quality/detail (Glover and Brown, 2006). From the markers perspective there is some evidence that students fail to engage with, misinterpret or ignore written feedback.
We have carried out a pilot study to apply, and attempt to build upon, principles of good feedback practice to the assessment of coursework. To do this, an essay assignment was submitted online by Biology 1A students, marked and written feedback provided to all. A randomly selected group of students (10% of the cohort) also received audio feedback (electronic audio files were imbedded into the student work and returned to them by e-mail) on their submitted work. All students then completed an anonymous āFeedbackā questionnaire detailing their experiences with the feedback they received, with additional questions that were answered solely by the āaudio groupā asking more specific questions about the effectiveness of the audio feedback. To carry out this study, new technologies were utilised and these will be demonstrated at the meeting along with the study conclusions.
Hattie, J. and Timperley, H. (2007) The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77, 81ā112
Glover, C. and Brown, E. (2006). Written Feedback for Students: too much, too detailed or too incomprehensible to be effective? Bioscience Education, 7
USBcat - Towards an Intrusion Surveillance Toolset
This paper identifies an intrusion surveillance framework which provides an
analyst with the ability to investigate and monitor cyber-attacks in a covert
manner. Where cyber-attacks are perpetrated for the purposes of espionage the
ability to understand an adversary's techniques and objectives are an important
element in network and computer security. With the appropriate toolset,
security investigators would be permitted to perform both live and stealthy
counter-intelligence operations by observing the behaviour and communications
of the intruder. Subsequently a more complete picture of the attacker's
identity, objectives, capabilities, and infiltration could be formulated than
is possible with present technologies. This research focused on developing an
extensible framework to permit the covert investigation of malware.
Additionally, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Mass Storage Device (MSD) based
covert channel was designed to enable remote command and control of the
framework. The work was validated through the design, implementation and
testing of a toolset.Comment: In Proceedings AIDP 2014, arXiv:1410.322
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Precision Electro-Weak and Hadronic Luminosity Calculations
We have used YFS Monte Carlo techniques to obtain per-mil level accuracy for
the Bhabha scattering cross section used in the luminosity monitor in
electro-weak scattering experiments. We will describe techniques for extending
these methods for use in the W production luminosity cross section for hadron
colliders.Comment: 8 pages (LaTex) with 5 figures (EPS). Presented by S.A. Yost at the
Third International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Cincinnati,
Sept. 10 - 14, 200
Encumbered by Stage Fright Or Iām Not Sure Why I Did That
I hope to be as honest as possible. Iām hoping to be the star of the show. This is a series of onanistic musings, a rambling narrative that oscillates between truth and fabrication. There are instances of earnestness paired with ostentatious exaggeration. The frequent leaps from subject to subject, often seemingly unrelated to one another, reflect the ineluctably scatterbrained headspace that dictates how I operate in the studio, in every facet of life. Through this lens of storytelling I delve into a few artists, like Bruce Nauman, and rock and roll musicians, like Lou Reed, who I have been unable to divulge myself of a fixation with. They come to function almost like characters in the anecdotes.
Iām going to tell you a couple of stories. Iām going to talk about myself quite a bit. I have a tendency to embellish, so take it all with a grain of salt. I donāt mean to insinuate that what follows is insincere, but it is glazed with anamneses and illusions. I like to think that through some phantom version or versions of myself Iād do a bit of aggrandizing; I could be the rock star I daydream of. Though sometimes the person playing the fool is a fool
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