Social work practice and life course development: transition and conformity?

Summary: The course of people lives is said to be marked by stages and periods of Transition, in effect a process of conforming, following a ‘set of rules’. This is demonstrated in literature and in the work of life course theorist who move through predictable stages, with failure to progress satisfactorily through these ‘stages’ affecting well-being and success in later life. Explored through the lens of professional social work practice, the question is how can we define what is ‘normal’? Findings: Life course development and transition theories give us a framework for understanding some of the common themes which have affected people through the ages and which affect individuals through the stages of their life. However each individuals life course must be interpreted through their own narratives

On the Andrews congruence for the Fibonacci quotient

We show that a congruence discovered by George E. Andrews in 1969 for the Fibonacci quotient directly implies a simpler congruence found by Hugh C. Williams in 1991

Extended calculations of a special Harmonic number

The search for values of $p$ for which the Harmonic numbers $H_{\lfloor p/6 \rfloor}$ vanish mod $p$, carried to $p < 600,000$ by Schwindt in 1983, is extended here to $p < 16,949,000,000,000$, and two new solutions are reported

A rigorous and efficient asymptotic test for power-law cross-correlation

Podobnik and Stanley recently proposed a novel framework, Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis, for the analysis of power-law cross-correlation between two time-series, a phenomenon which occurs widely in physical, geophysical, financial and numerous additional applications. While highly promising in these important application domains, to date no rigorous or efficient statistical test has been proposed which uses the information provided by DCCA across time-scales for the presence of this power-law cross-correlation. In this paper we fill this gap by proposing a method based on DCCA for testing the hypothesis of power-law cross-correlation; the method synthesizes the information generated by DCCA across time-scales and returns conservative but practically relevant p-values for the null hypothesis of zero correlation, which may be efficiently calculated in software. Thus our proposals generate confidence estimates for a DCCA analysis in a fully probabilistic fashion

Crafting Collaboratively with Technologies of Re-production

This short paper draws from and compares two projects involving the authors in which digital and analogue reproduction technologies were used in collaborations with artists. In the first, artists were recruited to participate in iPad painting workshops and try out populist painting apps. The second project involved the earliest print technology, the woodcut. Coloured inks, rollers and wooden spoons were utilised by the first author in her role as "master printer", "pulling" limited edition prints—by hand—from blocks of incised wood in commercial fine art production. Digitisation facilitates massive and instantaneous copying and distribution without any loss of quality. By limiting reproduction and dissemination of prints, each one becomes more collectable and valuable. The paper considers how the inherent material degradation of traditional printmaking is a condition to which digital processes might aspire