In a cultural web of myth, sexualisation and prejudice, how do older, British singletons gain access to health-giving, non-sexual touch? This study takes interview material from five single women and three single men (all cisgender, white, heterosexual, British, between 37-76 years) and interlaces it with autoethnographic commentary, poems and artworks to explore negotiations around touch. Drawing on Haraway and Barad’s theoretical concept of “entanglements” (2008; 2007), cross-disciplinary connections are woven across feminist new materialism and social sciences, the body and discourse, the conscious and subconscious. Findings, which are partial, provisional, messy and complex (Haraway 1988), include powerful narratives of shame, denial and cauterisation of touch-needs. These co-exist with corporeal tales of the richness and variety of touch-opportunities, the tactile importance of cats and a “turn” by the oldest, female participants away from a romantic, heterosexual partner towards bonding with the landscape.

This study aims to investigate the developmental ability of beginning and advance L1 English learners of Arabic to pronounce standard Arabic geminate consonants when enrolled in a full time L2 program. The results showed that English learners produced shorter closure duration when pronouncing geminates. In particular, the beginners lengthened singletons more than the advanced learners did, while both groups of learners shortened geminates much more so than native speakers of Arabic. The advanced L1 English learners of Arabic produced longer geminate duration than beginners. The ultimate result was a smaller ratio between singleton and geminate consonants in comparison to native speakers of Arabic.

The PhonePages of Sweden is a company that develops software for mobile units, especially cell phones. This thesis treats the development of, and contingencies for, a mobile phone directory, using the limited resources found in a mobile unit. The project was implemented and executed at The PhonePages with the intention of creating a product to sell to a third party. By studying different solutions, their benefits and drawbacks, an abstract picture of the product was constructed. Problems covered include compatibility problems caused by todays platform diversity as well as problems with saving, organizing and presenting data. The main goal was to create a phone directory which does not make external information retrievals. The service should contain both company and personal information, with name and phonenumber. Complete address information should also be available. The application should also manage different priorities and logotypes for the company information. The application, that emerged as a result of our work at The PhonePages, works independently, without making connections to the Internet and is completely implemented in J2ME, all according to the requirement specification. In other words, the analysis of the different solutions led to a working application.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Human African trypanosomiasis is the world’s third most important parasitic disease affecting human health after malaria and schistosomiaisis. The world health organization estimates approximately 60 million people at risk in sub-Saharan Africa and up to 50,000 deaths per year caused by trypanosomiasis. Current management of human African trypanosomiasis relies on active surveillance and chemotherapy of infected patients. Efforts to develop a vaccine to immunize the human host have been hampered by antigenic variation of the parasites cell coat. The advent of the genome era has opened up opportunities for developing novel strategies for interrupting the transmission cycle of trypanosomes, specifically using any of the three players,the human host, the tsetse fly vector and/or the parasite. The human genome has been deciphered and the genomes of several trypanosome species have been sequenced. Sequencing of additional neglected trypanosome species is in progress. The tsetse fly genome is currently being sequenced as part of the genomic activities of the International Glossina genome initiative (IGGI). In an attempt to support the tsetse fly sequencing effort, expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from various tissues and developmental stages of Glossina morsitans have been generated.In this study, tsetse fly EST data was analyzed using bioinformatics approaches, focusing on transcripts encoding serpin genes implicated in the immune defenses of tsetse flies. Glossina morsitans homologues to Drosophila melanogaster serpin4, serpin5, and serpin27A and Anopheles gambiae serpin10 were identified in the tsetse fly EST contigs. Comparison of the reactive center loop of tsetse fly serpins with human α-1-antitrypsin suggests that these tsetse serpins are inhibitory. Preliminary EST clustering did not succeed in assembling 3564 Tsal encoded ESTs into one contig. In this study, these ESTs were assembled together with three published Tsal cDNAs. A total of 29 Tsal-encoded contigs were generated. An analysis of the sequence variation within the Tsal EST assembled contigs identified five single base mismatches namely A-T, T-A, G-T and T-G.Results from this study form a basis onto which genetic and biochemical experimental studies can be designed, a process that will be successfully carried out once we have a reference genome. Specifically, studies aimed at genetic modification of tsetse flies towards populations that are inhabitable to trypanosomes. Ultimately, this will supplement current vector control strategies towards elimination of human African trypanosomiasis.

yes / This paper focuses on vaginal breech birth of singleton babies in New Zealand using a review of international literature to inform discussion on the care of women presenting at term with an uncomplicated breech presentation.

Visual attentional capture is a form of visual attentional selection that is automatic and involuntary in nature, and is of high adaptive value as it allows visual attention to be oriented in a reflexive manner towards visual information without necessarily being guided by pre-existing knowledge, goals, and plans. According to the load-hypothesis (Lavie & De Fockert, 2005), attentional capture of salient stimuli increases under load on working memory due to disruption of stimulus-processing priorities. Moreover, it has been proposed that maintenance of task-irrelevant verbal information increases distractor interference in singleton search by increasing attentional capture of salient, but task-irrelevant, color singletons. This hypothesis was tested in the present study by having participants complete several succeeding trials of singleton search while simultaneously maintaining digits in working memory. The presence of task-irrelevant color singletons in the search array of a singleton search task led to increased response times, indicating attentional capture. However, the cost to response times associated with distractor presence did not increase under load on working memory, indicating that distractor interference may not be affected by load on working memory when task-irrelevant verbal information is maintained over an extended period of time. Individual differences in action video game playing and trait anxiety were considered and excluded as possible confounders.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-06-12T16:16:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RICARDO DE SOUSA JOB - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014..pdf: 17381707 bytes, checksum: e786d3893958cbeb0121a19fae52628c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-12T16:16:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RICARDO DE SOUSA JOB - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014..pdf: 17381707 bytes, checksum: e786d3893958cbeb0121a19fae52628c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-05 / Capes / Padrões de Projeto são soluções consolidadas para problemas de projeto de software recorrentes. São utilizados amplamente em projetos de software orientados a objetos, tornando-se um artifício de comunicação de soluções conhecidas dentro das equipes de desenvolvimento. É importante que o projetista consiga detectar e identificar os padrões de projetos numa base de código, para compreender as relações entre as classes, como fornecer sugestões úteis para a compreensão e evolução do sistema. Para detecção automática de padrões existem basicamente duas técnicas: análise estática e dinâmica. No primeiro passo, as relações e colaborações estruturais são extraídas. Já no segundo passo monitora-se a execução do programa, rastreando o conjunto de padrões selecionados no passo anterior para identificar quais padrões comportam-se como o esperado. As técnicas de detecção atuais, no entanto, limitam-se a análises estruturais restritivas, omitindo casos em que o comportamento de um padrão está presente, mesmo que não siga a organização estrutural prevista na literatura. Chamamos de padrões emergentes estes casos em que o comportamento de um determinado padrão está presente, mesmo que certa região do código apresente estruturação livre. Por exemplo, a essência do padrão de projeto Singleton está presente em uma classe qualquer quando esta possui apenas uma única instância durante as execuções de um programa, mesmo que não haja restrição sintática para que isso seja possível; ou seja, o padrão Singleton emerge deste comportamento de um determinado elemento do programa. Ao auxiliar o desenvolvedor na detecção de situações de projeto como esta, pode-se enriquecer o seu conhecimento sobre as consequências de suas decisões, além de propiciar a estruturação explícita do padrão como conhecida, facilitando assim a documentação e comunicação do projeto. Este trabalho explora o conceito de padrões emergentes através das seguintes contribuições: (i) uma revisão sistemática sobre abordagens automáticas de detecção de padrões de projeto, (ii) conceitos de padrões emergentes para vários padrões de projeto bem conhecidos, (iii) uma proposta de abordagem semi-automática de detecção de padrões emergentes e (iv) sua utilização para uma análise de ferramentas de detecção existente acerca de sua capacidade de identificação de padrões emergentes em alguns projetos de código aberto Java. / Design Patterns are Consolidated solutions to recurring software design problems. They are widely used in object-oriented software design, as communication device of well known solutions within development teams. It is important that the software designer detects and identifies design patterns in a code base, to understand the relationships between classes, provide useful suggestions for the understanding and evolution of the system. For automatic detection of patterns there are basically two techniques: static and dynamic analysis. On the first step, relations and structural collaborations are extracted. In the second step, the program execution is monitored, tracking the selected set of patterns in the first step to identify which patterns behave as expected. However, the current detection techniques are limited to restrictive structural analysis, omitting cases where the behavior of a pattem is presente, even if not follow the structural organization provided in the literature. We call emerging patterns when the behavior of a given pattern is present, even if some code's region presents a free structure. For example, the essence of the Singleton design pattern is present in any given class when it has only a single instance during the execution of a program, even without syntactic restriction for this to be possible; that is, the Singleton pattern emerged from this program element behavior. When developers are assisted in detecting design situations like this, they can enhance their knowledge about the consequences of their decisions, as well as providing the explicit structure of the pattern, facilitating the documentation and communication of the project. This paper explores the concept of emerging patterns through the following contributions: (i) a systematic review of automatic detection approaches of design patterns, (ii) concepts of emerging patterns for several well-known design patterns, (iii) a proposal for semi-automatic detection approach of emerging patterns and (iv) its use for an analysis of existing detection tools about tíieir ability to identify emerging patterns in an open-source Java project

Patents have become a direct source of revenue, apart from providing legal protections for inventions. A patent generates revenue in its patented form through licensing or sell-out. Three challenges confront this shift in use of patents as direct revenue generators especially in the context of patent sale. First, the challenge of estimating the price a patent fetches in a sale (referred as ‗patent value‘) remains scarcely addressed owing to the intangible nature of patents and lack of patent sale data in public domain. Secondly, the variations in price and the method used to estimate the price while selling a patent individually (called as a singleton) or in a group along with other patents (called as portfolio) are little understood. Thirdly, literature focus so far has been on the static dimensions of patent value determinants leaving scope for researching the time varying dynamic nature of potential value determinants. This thesis aims to systematically address the above challenges and research gaps through five specific research objectives pertaining to the following four aspects of patent sale: (1) Successful sale aspect of patent lots in an auction (Research objective 1) Research objective 1: To explore the determinants of successful sale of singletons and portfolios. (2) Selling strategy aspect of the sold patents (Research objective 2) Research objective 2: To characterize the singleton and portfolio patent lots successfully sold in an auction. (3) Time dynamic aspect of factors influencing price (Research objectives 3 & 4) Research objective 3: To investigate the effect of time dynamic nature of patent age on the selling prices of singletons and portfolios. Research objective 4: To understand the effect of time dynamic trend of technological importance (TI) and patent class trend on selling prices of singletons and portfolios. (4) Valuation aspect (Research objective 5) Research objective 5: To identify the determinants of selling prices of singletons and portfolios. In this thesis, we use a combination of patent bibliometric and market based approach to study various aspects of singleton and portfolio patent sale incorporating the time dynamic aspect. A set of US patents auctioned by an US auction firm, called Ocean Tomo, is used as sample. The sample was dominated by patents from Computer & Communication field. The research findings showed significant differences in the characteristics of sold and unsold lots both in the case of singletons and portfolios. Amongst the sold lots, singletons were found to include more novel (lesser patent backward citations) and technology specific (higher C&C technology scope) patents than the portfolios sold. Further investigation on the variation in selling prices fetched by singletons and portfolios showed portfolios fetching significantly higher prices than singletons at the lot level. Interestingly, at a granular level, the equation reversed with singletons showing significantly higher price compared to the average price per individual US patent member within the portfolio. Along the time dynamic aspect, the existence of an optimal age to sell patents for higher prices is evidenced especially in the case of singletons from C&C technology field. The optimal age was found to be around 10 year 2 months of age from grant of singletons. No such optimal age was identified for portfolios. The growth trend analysis of the forward citations (technological importance of patent) and the patent applications filed within the specific patent class of a patent (attractiveness of patent class) illustrated the significance of the patent class trend in explaining variation in selling price of singletons. Finally, the valuation models of singletons and portfolios showed singletons being valued more on the patent related characteristics unlike portfolios which were valued based on the all three aspects – patent, seller and bundling. In summary, the novelty of the thesis resides in the (1) incorporation of new set of variables namely forward citation diversity, forward citations trend, patent class trend, technology scope and portfolio type in understanding patent price (2) treatment of time dynamic variables in understanding patent value and (3) focus on portfolio analysis through independent analysis of singleton and portfolio selling prices.

Jednou z nejsložitěji verifikovaných vlastností programů v oblasti formální analýzy je živost. K jedné z metod ověřujících tuto vlastnost patří i dokazování neukončitelnosti programů. Naše práce popisuje návrh a implementaci dvou algoritmů ověřujících neukončitelnost. Inspirujeme se již existujícími přístupy, jako jsou rekurentní množiny a nadaproximace cyklů s využitím invariantů ve tvaru rekurentních relací. Hlavní výzvu pro nás představovalo přizpůsobení těchto algoritmů SSA (single static assignment) reprezentaci použité v 2LS a jejich celková integrace v našem frameworku. Vzpomínané přístupy se nám podařilo spojit do analýzy neukončitelnosti, která dosahuje nejlepší výsledky v porovnání s existujícími nástroji, které byly srovnané na soutěži SV-COMP 2017.

The purpose of this study is to provide a historiographical and musical analysis examining the jazz ride cymbal pattern, from its inception on woodblock, small accessory cymbals, hand cymbal mechanisms and brushes through what becomes known as the modern-day ride cymbal pattern. This research examines a wide array of drummers and bandleaders, with the objective of identifying the earliest recordings of this important addition to jazz drumming, and popular music history while analyzing the ride cymbal pattern's evolution through definitive recordings. The study begins with the earliest known recordings that clearly display the pattern as it is played on any of the instruments mentioned above. The research concludes with the jam sessions of the early 1940s at Minton's Playhouse, where the pioneer of bebop drumming, Kenny Clarke, experimented with altering the pattern. At this point, the pattern reach its final level of maturity and has since experienced no subsequent major modification. The historical and geographical analysis uses relevant literature from the field of jazz history in order to interpret and evaluate the impact of the the overall trajectory of the music and players. By surveying newspaper and magazine articles, archival interviews, and photographic sources, combined with audio and film analysis, it is clear that drummers navigated a path to the maturation of the pattern.