Idiography and monothesis: The quest for intergration

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

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Annual Review of Nutrition, 1982

Audiovisual media have an ever-increasing penetration power in society, especially among minors and young people. Undoubtedly, this audiovisual culture of the new generations is a major challenge for teachers and educational institutions. ICTs and audiovisual content now comprise a symbiosis that offers numerous possibilities for individual and collective learning.

Communication Research and Practice, 2015

The increasing necessity of engaging in social interaction through online commercial providers such as Facebook, alongside the ability of providers to extract, aggregate, analyse and commercialise the data and metadata such activities produce, have attracted considerable attention amongst the media and academic commentators alike. While much of the attention has been focussed on the data mining of social networking services such as Facebook, it is equally important to recognise the widespread adoption of large-scale data mining practices in a number of realms, including social games such as the well-known Farmville and its sequels, created by Zynga. The implicit contract that the public who use these services necessarily engage requires them to trade information about their friends, their likes, their desires and their consumption habits in return for their participation in the service. This paper will critically explore the realm of social games utilising Zynga as a central example, with a view to examine the practices, politics and ethics of data mining and the inherent social media contradiction. In determining whether this contradiction is accidental or purposeful, this paper will ask, in effect, whether Zynga and other big data miners behind social games are entrepreneurial heroes, more sinister FarmVillains, or whether it is possible at all to draw a line between the two? In doing so, Zynga’s data mining approach and philosophy provide an important indicator about the broader integration of data analytics into a range of everyday activities.

English Studies, 2004

There were, as with every thesis, a number of people who helped me along the way and deserve acknowledgement. First and foremost: my supervisor and professor, Univ.Prof. Dr.

International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2006

We have performed a fully non-perturbative calculation of the thermal properties of a system of spin 1/2 fermions in 3D in the unitary regime. We have determined the critical temperature for the superfluid-normal phase transition. The thermodynamic behavior of this system presents a number of unexpected features, and we conclude that spin 1/2 fermions in the BCS-BEC crossover should be classified as a new type of superfluid.

Pachycondyla nigrita and related species in Southeast Asia are revised. Four new species are described: P. batak from N. Sumatra, P. flavipes from Myanmar, P. pilidorsalis from Borneo and Malay Peninsula, and P. wallacea from Sulawesi, Lombok and Bali. Keys to species are presented, though males and queens are not available for all the species.

The objective of this study was to assess the users' perceptions on the extent to which the wheelchair meet their mobility needs and overall satisfaction. Fifteen manual wheelchair users were interviewed with a questionnaire comprising questions about their perceptions on aspects of the daily wheelchair usage such as comfort and mobility. The results show that, in general, users experience seating and mobility problems related to their wheelchair. Participants reported problems to move independently in ramps, steps and with wheelchair transfers. Moreover, discomfort and pain were also reported as problems resulting from the prolonged use of wheelchairs. For the majority of the subjects, their wheelchairs are not ideally suitable to them, suggesting problems in the wheelchair prescription and provision. The results demonstrate that, from the users' point of view, both mobility and comfort problems affect users' experience with the wheelchair in daily usage. Such problems ...