Reviews

This paper presents a review of three books i.e first publications in a new series, Literacies, edited by David Barton. Details are as given below: Situated Literacies. Reading and Writing in Context, By David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic (eds.) London: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-415-20671-5. £17.99 paperback.City Literacies. Learning to Read across Generations and Cultures. By Eve Gregory and Ann Williams. London: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-415-19116-5. £15.99 paperback.Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web. By Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Se1fe (eds.) London: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-415-18942-X. £16.99 paperback.</p

Minimisation of energy consumption variance for multi-process manufacturing lines through genetic algorithm manipulation of production schedule

Typical manufacturing scheduling algorithms do not consider the energy consumption of each job, or its variance, when they generate a production schedule. This can become problematic for manufacturers when local infrastructure has limited energy distribution capabilities. In this paper, a genetic algorithm based schedule modification algorithm is presented. By referencing energy consumption models for each job, adjustments are made to the original schedule so that it produces a minimal variance in the total energy consumption in a multi-process manufacturing production line, all while operating within the constraints of the manufacturing line and individual processes. Empirical results show a significant reduction in energy consumption variance can be achieved on schedules containing multiple concurrent jobs

Understanding and Practicing Self Care

Due to the high rates of burnout and compassion fatigue in many of the helping professions, it’s becoming increasingly important for students and professionals to better understand theories and strategies that will help them build resiliency and protect themselves from the negative effects of burnout and fatigue. This session focuses on how we as a department assist family studies students in developing a broad understanding of self-care and in helping them establish practical habits that promote resiliency in their respective professions. This presentation provides participants with practical examples of self-care

Strong unitary and overlap uncertainty relations: theory and experiment

We derive and experimentally investigate a strong uncertainty relation valid for any $n$ unitary operators, which implies the standard uncertainty relation as a special case, and which can be written in terms of geometric phases. It is saturated by every pure state of any $n$-dimensional quantum system, generates a tight overlap uncertainty relation for the transition probabilities of any $n+1$ pure states, and gives an upper bound for the out-of-time-order correlation function. We test these uncertainty relations experimentally for photonic polarisation qubits, including the minimum uncertainty states of the overlap uncertainty relation, via interferometric measurements of generalised geometric phases.Comment: 5 pages of main text, 5 pages of Supplemental Material. Clarifications added in this updated versio