1,393 research outputs found
The rise and fall of the public sphere? Public Service Broadcasting in Ireland, a wasted opportunity?
The following thesis has set itself the task of answering the following
questions. Does RTEs news and current affairs constitute a public sphere? Does it
provide the viewer or listener with a detailed, substantive analysis of the issues it
covers, providing the viewer with an arsenal of political facts in the process? Do we
emerge at the end of any given broadcast a better-informed electorate?
Or is the station guilty of the charge levelled against it by many of its critics, namely,
that in the search for ratings, it has jettisoned its public service remit to deal with the
issues it covers in a detailed way, and instead embarked on a “dumbing down” or
tabloidisation of this aspect of its output
The rise and fall of the public sphere? Public Service Broadcasting in Ireland, a wasted opportunity?
The following thesis has set itself the task of answering the following
questions. Does RTEs news and current affairs constitute a public sphere? Does it
provide the viewer or listener with a detailed, substantive analysis of the issues it
covers, providing the viewer with an arsenal of political facts in the process? Do we
emerge at the end of any given broadcast a better-informed electorate?
Or is the station guilty of the charge levelled against it by many of its critics, namely,
that in the search for ratings, it has jettisoned its public service remit to deal with the
issues it covers in a detailed way, and instead embarked on a “dumbing down” or
tabloidisation of this aspect of its output
Longitudinal and transverse meson correlators in the deconfined phase from the lattice
It has long been known that QCD undergoes a deconfining phase transition at
high temperature. One of the consequent features of this new, quark-gluon phase
is that hadrons become unbounded. In this talk meson correlation functions at
non-zero momentum are studied in the deconfined phase using the Maximum Entropy
Method.Comment: 6 pages. Prepared for Achievements and New Directions in Subatomic
Physics: Workshop in Honour of Tony Thomas' 60th Birthday, Adelaide,
Australia, 15-19 Feb 201
Believing the Integrity of a System (Invited Talk)
AbstractAn integrity policy defines the situations when modification of information is authorised and is enforced by the protection mechanisms of a system. Traditional models of protection tend to define integrity in terms of ad-hoc authorisation techniques whose effectiveness are justified more on the basis of experience and "best practice" rather than on any theoretical foundation. In a complex application system it is possible that an integrity policy may have been incorrectly configured, or that the protection mechanisms are inadequate, resulting in an unexpected system compromise. This paper examines the meaning of integrity and and describes a simple belief logic approach for analysing the integrity of a system configuration
Spectral functions at small energies and the electrical conductivity in hot, quenched lattice QCD
In lattice QCD, the Maximum Entropy Method can be used to reconstruct
spectral functions from euclidean correlators obtained in numerical
simulations. We show that at finite temperature the most commonly used
algorithm, employing Bryan's method, is inherently unstable at small energies
and give a modification that avoids this. We demonstrate this approach using
the vector current-current correlator obtained in quenched QCD at finite
temperature. Our first results indicate a small electrical conductivity above
the deconfinement transition.Comment: 4 pages, v2: minor changes, footnote corrected, to appear in PR
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