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The National Transport Data Framework
Report by Professor Peter Landshoff (Cambridge University) and
Professor John Polak (Imperial College London) on a project for
the Department for Transport.
emails: [email protected] [email protected] NTDF is designed to be a resource for data owners to deposit descriptions
into a central catalogue, so that people can search for data and find data
and understand their characteristics. The value of this is to individuals, to
commercial organizations, and to public bodies. For example, services that
provide better information to travellers will help to make their journey
less stressful and persuade them to make more use of public transport.
Transport operators need very diverse information to help them
plan developments to their services: demographic, geographical, economic etc.
And policy makers need a similar range of information to help them decide
how to divide their budget and afterwards to evaluate how valuable it has
been.This work was supported by the Department for Transport (DfT)
"We are GREAT Britain": British newspaper narratives during the London 2012 Olympic Games
British newspaper narratives were examined during the 2012 London Olympic Games to discern how the British press promoted specific ânarratives of the nation.â For the London-based British press, the home Olympics became the ideal medium not only to sell newspapers and electronic format subscriptions, but also to (re)present their views on Britain and what it stood for. Using a qualitative textual analysis methodology, this study drew on Andersonâs theory of the âimagined communityâ and Edmunds and Turnerâs concepts of benign and malign nationalism to provide insights about how Britishness was framed. For a country struggling to shake off the economic recession, early narratives about the Games were imbued with concerns about the escalating costs of hosting the Games and fears of terrorism. However, the critical early tone of British newspaper narratives was supplanted with uplifting, inspirational stories about the unprecedented success of Team GB athletes. This provided British journalists with an opportunity to reengineer Britishness to reinforce some traditional values and inject some new inclusive ones. Although at times, complex, contested and contradictory, the narratives generally linked the internationalism of the Olympics with a progressive, benign version of Britishness that emphasized inclusion, tolerance, and creativity and, at least temporarily, redefined how Britain regarded itself and was viewed.</jats:p
Using self-categorization theory to uncover the framing of the 2015 Rugby World Cup: a cross-cultural comparison of three nationsâ newspapers
Research into the framing of sporting events has been extensively studied to uncover newspaper bias in the coverage of global sporting events. Through discourse, the media attempt to capture, build, and maintain audiences for the duration of sporting events through the use of multiple narratives and/or storylines. Little research has looked at the ways in which the same event is reported across different nations, and media representations of the Rugby World Cup have rarely featured in discussions of the framing of sport events. The present study highlights the different ways in which rugby union is portrayed across the three leading Southern Hemisphere nations in the sport. It also shows the prominence of nationalistic discourse across those nations and importance of self-categorizations in newspaper narratives.</jats:p
Equations-of-motion method including renormalization and double-excitation mixing
The equationsâofâmotion method is discussed as an approach to calculating excitation energies and transition moments directly. The proposed solution [T. Shibuya and V. McKoy, Phys. Rev. A 2, 2208 (1970)] of these equations is extended in two ways. First we include the proper renormalization of the equations with respect to the ground state particleâhole densities. We then show how to include the effects of twoâparticleâhole components in excited states which are primarily singleâparticleâhole states. This is seen to be equivalent to a singleâparticleâhole theory with a normalized interaction. Applications to various diatomic and polyatomic molecules indicate that the theory can predict excitation energies and transition moments accurately and economically
INAUT, a Controlled Language for the French Coast Pilot Books Instructions nautiques
We describe INAUT, a controlled natural language dedicated to collaborative
update of a knowledge base on maritime navigation and to automatic generation
of coast pilot books (Instructions nautiques) of the French National
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service SHOM. INAUT is based on French language
and abundantly uses georeferenced entities. After describing the structure of
the overall system, giving details on the language and on its generation, and
discussing the three major applications of INAUT (document production,
interaction with ENCs and collaborative updates of the knowledge base), we
conclude with future extensions and open problems.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication at Fourth Workshop on
Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014), 20-22 August 2014, Galway, Irelan
Salem numbers and arithmetic hyperbolic groups
In this paper we prove that there is a direct relationship between Salem
numbers and translation lengths of hyperbolic elements of arithmetic hyperbolic
groups that are determined by a quadratic form over a totally real number
field. As an application we determine a sharp lower bound for the length of a
closed geodesic in a noncompact arithmetic hyperbolic n-orbifold for each
dimension n. We also discuss a "short geodesic conjecture", and prove its
equivalence with "Lehmer's conjecture" for Salem numbers.Comment: The exposition in version 3 is more compact; this shortens the paper:
26 pages now instead of 37. A discussion on Lehmer's problem has been added
in Section 1.2. Final version, to appear is Trans. AM
Multi-segment foot kinematics and plantar fascia strain during treadmill and overground running
Although physiologically beneficial, running is known to be associated with a high incidence of chronic injuries. Excessive coronal and transverse plane motions of the foot segments and strain experienced by the plantar fascia are linked to the development of a number of chronic injuries. This study examined differences in multi-segment foot kinematics and plantar fascia strain during treadmill and overground running. Twelve male recreational runners ran at 4.0 m.s-1 in both treadmill and overground conditions. Multi-segment foot kinematics and plantar fascia strain were measured using an eight-camera motion analysis system and contrasted using paired samples t-tests. The results showed that plantar fascia strain was significantly greater in the overground condition (8.23 ± 2.77) compared to the treadmill (5.53 ± 2.25). Given the proposed relationship between excessive plantar fascia strain and the etiology of injury, overground running may be associated with a higher incidence of injury although further work is necessary before causation can be confirmed
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