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Excavations at Tell Brak 1998: Preliminary report

The 22nd season of excavations at Tell Brak took place in April and May of 1998, with David Oates as Project Director and Geoff Emberling as Field Director. It is our pleasure to mention institutions and people who made the project such a success. This season was primarily funded by the Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund (in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families) of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Dell Computer Corporation and the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan also generously provided funds and equipment. We would like to thank Dr Sultan Muhesen, Director-General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria, for his encouragement and interest, as well as Dr Adnan Bounni, Director of Excavations, and our representative, Abd el Messih Baghdo. The excavation team this season was exceptionally enthusiastic and dedicated. Jack Cheng was registrar, a position that included designing an excavation database as well as photography and drawing; Tim Skuldboel and Torben Larsen were surveyors; Lisa Cooper, Zenia Hoeserich, Stine Rossel, Suanna Selby and Laura Tedesco were site supervisors; Michael Charles and Mette Marie Hald supervised the notation program; Jill Weber worked on faunal material; Jean-François de Lapérouse of the Metropolitan Museum was objects conservator; Henry Wright analysed samples of chipped stone; and Donald Hansen and Joan Oates gave crucial help in architecture, excavation and ceramic analysis. David Oates provided helpful advice and support. We thank them all for their many contributions to work in the field and to this report.
Collaborative Spaces for Increased Traceability in Knowledge-Intensive Document-Based Processes

II DEDICATION III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV VITA V LIST OF TABLES IX LIST OF FIGURES X 1.Thesis Organization and Problem Statement 1 1.1 ORGANIZATION OF THIS THESIS 1 1.2 WORKFLOW AND COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS 2 1.3 AD-HOC WORKFLOW 3 1.3. 1 Benefits and Shortcomings of Ad-Hoc Workflow 3 1.3. 2 Ad-Hoc Workflow State of the Art 4 1.4 PRODUCTION WORKFLOW 6 1.4. 1 Production Workflow Terms and Definitions 6 1.4. 2 Benefits of Production Workflow 8 1.4. 3 Shortcomings of Production Workflow 11 1.4. 4 Production Workflow State of the Art 12 1.5 THE TRACEABILITY/FLEXIBILITY TRADE OFF AND APPROACHES TO BRIDGE THE GAP 13 1.5. 1 The Flexible Workflow Engine Approach 14 1.5. 2 The Process Mining Approach 15 1.5. 3 The Document-centric Approach 15 1.5. 4 The MySight Approach 16 2.Document Based Processes and Conceptual Overview of MySight 17 2.1 DOCUMENT BASED PROCESSES 17 2.2 THE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS 18 2.3 THE PRODUCTION WORKFLOW METAPHOR IN DOCUMENT BASED PROCESSES . 20 2.4 MYSIGHT CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW 21 2.4. 1 The MySight Document Meta Model 21 2.5 RUNTIME BEHAVIOR AND PROCESS INSTANTIATION 31 2.5. 1 MySight User Interface 31
The Design and Implementation of an Asynchronous Microprocessor

A fully asynchronous implementation of the ARM microprocessor has been developed in order to demonstrate the feasibility of building complex systems using asynchronous design techniques. The design is based upon Sutherland's Micropipelines and allows considerable internal asynchronous concurrency. The design exhibits several novel features including: a register bank design which maintains coherent register operation while allowing concurrent read and write access with arbitrary timing and dependencies, the incorporation of an ALU whose speed of operation depends upon the data presented, and an instruction prefetch unit which has a non-deterministic (but bounded) prefetch depth beyond a branch. The design also includes many complex features commonly found in modern RISC processors, such as support for exact exceptions, backwards instruction set compatibility and pipelined operation. This thesis introduces the Micropipeline approach and discusses the design, organization, implementation and performance of the asynchronous ARM microprocessor which was constructed in the course of the work. No portion of the work referred to in this thesis has been submitted in support of an application for another degree of qualification of this or any other university or other institution of learning. was completed the following year. The author was then employed as a Research Assistant on the ESPRIT EDS project investigating the implementation of functional language execution mechanisms on a distributed store parallel machine. In January 1990 the author became a Research Associate working on the ESPRIT OMI-MAP project investigating the potential of asynchronous logic for low power applications. The author is currently employed as a Research Fellow working on the ESPRIT OMI-DE project which is continuing on from the work of OMI-MAP. This thesis reports the results of the work undertaken during the OMI-MAP project.
Do Environmental Policy Instruments Influence Fiduciaries' Decisions?

This paper examines the import for fiduciary investors (pension funds, insurance companies, and mutual funds in OECD countries) of companies' environmental performance levels in light of existing and nascent energy-usage and environmental management policies. The study is based on an experiment using a sample of fiduciaries located mainly in Europe, North America, and Australia. Subjects are allocated to one of two groups: one group invests with reference to environmental considerations, while the other tracks a conventional equities index. Responding participants indicate the frequency with which they use nominated sources of information and rate the importance of nominated types of information in their decisions concerning the portfolio. The results suggest that the wider population of fiduciaries considers existing policy measures to be of limited value, yet, on liquidity grounds, might be prepared to take environmental considerations into account in the portfolio construction process. Another contribution of this paper is its framing and consolidating of literature on energy and environmental management policy, environmental investing, and decision psychology.
Motivations of the online student

When courses are offered in online teaching mode we lose the constant feedback available during face-to-face classes. We report on the results of a study of one course taken online over three semesters. Problems were identified that appear to be associated with the motivation for students to choose the online course. Use of push technology to overcome these problems showed significant improvement in performance of the course. There is evidence that students are not able to perform effectively in the unstructured online environment. Comparison with two other courses, delivered face-to-face, indicates that students do not generally make use of the flexibility of online delivery. Evidence is presented that is consistent with students being motivated to study online by an increased ability to work 'just in time'.
Early Arsenical Bronzes-A Metallurgical View

An appendix to Refrew, C. , Cycladic metallurgy and the Aegean Bronze Age, AJA, 71, No. 1, 1-20 (1967). Suggests that the higher arsenic content copper found extensively in the Early and MiddleBronze Age periods was an intentionally produced alloy. Establishes the effects of arsenic in producing copper castings most suitable for subsequent forging. With even up to 8% arsenic the alloys are readily worked, hot or cold, and give strengths and hardness equivalent to tin bronze. The presence of arsenic is particularly beneficial in maintaining the workability of copper which would otherwise contain copper oxide. It is considered that the gradual replacement of arsenical bronze by tin bronze as the main form of strengthened copper was due to the difficulties associated with the high volatibility of arsenic and its compounds, leading to uncertain metal composition and the risk of poisoning. See (6)-H4 -- 92. -- AATA
Learning about computer-assisted language learning: online tools and professional development

The study reported in this chapter investigates computer-assisted language learning (CALL) practitioners' use of online tools and ways of developing their professionalism in the field of CALL. Participants in the study were members of an international association for CALL. They were invited to complete an online questionnaire on a voluntary basis. The questionnaire was employed to collect the participants' demographic information and self-reported data on the use of online tools. It also asked the participants to indicate how they keep up to date with what is happening in CALL. The results of the study indicate that the participants use web search engines, communication tools and social networking sites most frequently among twelve categorised online tools while most participants consider themselves as good or excellent users of the Internet. Many participants often read journal articles or books, read email list messages or connect with others in social networks to learn about new developments in CALL. They also regularly search the web and collect information from blog posts or email list messages. Findings contribute to our understanding of CALL practitioners' experiences with online tools and professional development activities and provide recommendations for teacher training for CALL.
Self-Maintainability of Graph Structured Views

Materialized views need to be maintained in response to changes of base data. It is desirable to do this maintenance without accessing base data, to reduce overhead and contention for base data. In this paper we study the self-maintenance problem for materialized views deened over a graph-structured database (GSDB). We formally deene the notion of self-maintainability for such views, and show how to check if a base update can be incorporated into a view without referencing base data. We also characterize views that are always self-maintainable, and compute the auxiliary information that needs to be stored in order to make a view self-maintainable.
Fundamentals of Algebraic Specification 1: Equations and Initial Semantics

The aim of this book is to present fundamentals of algebraic specifications with respect to the following three aspects: fundamentals in the sense of a carefully motivated introduction to algebraic specifications, which is easy to understand for computer scientists and mathematicians; fundamentals in the sense of mathematical theories which are the basis for precise definitions, constructions, results, and correctness proofs; and fundamentals in the sense of concepts, which are introduced on a conceptual level and formalized in mathematical terms. The book is equally suitableas a text book for graduate courses and as a reference for researchers and system developers.
Obsession and the Other: a critique of the influence of the Japanese aesthetic in the work of Geoffrey Hyland

Geoffrey Hyland's directorial work is characterised by a visual aesthetic that is sensual, dark and exotic, drawing strongly from a Japanese aesthetic. His recurrent use of the Japanese aesthetic is evident in his adaptations of classical texts, which are visually striking and undeniably contemporary. His productions express complex emotional landscapes through a heightened visual and emotional performance language.
Online Multi-Stage Deep Architectures for Feature Extraction and Object Recognition

Multi-stage visual architectures have recently found success in achieving high classification accuracies over image datasets with large variations in pose, lighting, and scale. Inspired by techniques currently at the forefront of deep learning, such architectures are typically composed of one or more layers of preprocessing, feature encoding, and pooling to extract features from raw images. Training these components traditionally relies on large sets of patches that are extracted from a potentially large image dataset. In this context, high-dimensional feature space representations are often helpful for obtaining the best classification performances and providing a higher degree of invariance to object transformations. Large datasets with highdimensional features complicate the implementation of visual architectures in memory constrained environments. This dissertation constructs online learning replacements for the components within a multi-stage architecture and demonstrates that the proposed replacements (namely fuzzy competitive clustering, an incremental covariance estimator, and multi-layer neural network) can offer performance competitive with their offline batch counterparts while providing a reduced memory footprint. The online nature of this solution allows for the development of a method for adjusting parameters within the architecture via stochastic gradient descent. Testing over multiple datasets shows the potential benefits of this methodology when appropriate priors on the initial parameters are unknown. Alternatives to batch based decompositions for a whitening preprocessing stage which take advantage of natural image statistics and allow simple dictionary learners to work well in the problem domain are also explored. Expansions of the architecture using additional pooling statistics and multiple layers are presented and indicate that larger codebook sizes are not the only step forward to higher classification accuracies. Experimental results from these expansions further indicate the important role of sparsity and appropriate encodings within multi-stage visual feature extraction architectures.
Energy efficient hardware acceleration of multimedia processing tools

The world of mobile devices is experiencing an ongoing trend of feature enhancement and generalpurpose multimedia platform convergence. This trend poses many grand challenges, the most pressing being their limited battery life as a consequence of delivering computationally demanding features. The envisaged mobile application features can be considered to be accelerated by a set of underpinning hardware blocks Based on the survey that this thesis presents on modem video compression standards and their associated enabling technologies, it is concluded that tight energy and throughput constraints can still be effectively tackled at algorithmic level in order to design re-usable optimised hardware acceleration cores. To prove these conclusions, the work m this thesis is focused on two of the basic enabling technologies that support mobile video applications, namely the Shape Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform (SA-DCT) and its inverse, the SA-IDCT. The hardware architectures presented in this work have been designed with energy efficiency in mind. This goal is achieved by employing high level techniques such as redundant computation elimination, parallelism and low switching computation structures. Both architectures compare favourably against the relevant pnor art in the literature. The SA-DCT/IDCT technologies are instances of a more general computation - namely, both are Constant Matrix Multiplication (CMM) operations. Thus, this thesis also proposes an algorithm for the efficient hardware design of any general CMM-based enabling technology. The proposed algorithm leverages the effective solution search capability of genetic programming. A bonus feature of the proposed modelling approach is that it is further amenable to hardware acceleration. Another bonus feature is an early exit mechanism that achieves large search space reductions . Results show an improvement on state of the art algorithms with future potential for even greater savings.
The Melodic Tradition of Ireland

This book draws on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition. Irish folk music, resting upon monophonic melodies which are varied and ornamented, are thus viewed from several perspectives - ethnographic and musical, "insider" and theoretical - to weave an integrated image of a still thriving genre. The concepts of "tune family" and "melody type" are starting points for the qualitative study of melodic change and tune relationships without recourse to simplified tune skeletons or statistics. The concept of "implicit" folk theory leads both to rigorous theoretical analyses and to an examination of the musicians' own words, thus creating a working model in which a particular performance is understood in a larger context. The historic and ethnographic passages convey the setting of the music and suggest the ways in which Irish musicians reflect patterns in culture and patterns in sound.
Applied Statistics with SPSS

Accessibly written and easy to use, Applied Statistics Using SPSS is an all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. What is unique about Eelko Huizinghs approach is that this book is based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, and its self-help style is designed to boost the skills and confidence of those that will need to use SPSS in the course of their research project. The book is pedagogically well developed and contains many screen dumps and exercises, glossary terms, and worked examples. Divided into three parts, Applied Statistics Using SPSS covers: A self-study guide for learning how to use SPSS A reference guide for selecting the appropriate statistical technique A stepwise do-it-your-self guide for analyzing data and interpreting the results Geared explicitly for undergraduate needs, this is an easy to follow SPSS book that should provide a step-by-step guide to research design and data analysis using SPSS.
A Programming Language Where the Syntax and Semantics Are Mutable at Runtime

A dissertation submitted to the University of Bristol in accordance with the requirements of the degree of Master of Enginnering in the Faculty of Engineering. It has not been submitted for any other degree or diploma of any examining body. Except where specifically acknowledged, it is all the work of the Author. SUMMARY Katahdin is a programming language where the syntax and semantics are mu-table at runtime. The Katahdin interpreter parses and executes programs according to a language definition that can be modified by the running program. Commands to modify the language definition are similar to those that define new types and functions in other languages, and can be collected into language definition modules. Katahdin can execute programs written in any language which it has a definition module for. The definition of more than one language can be composed allowing more than one language to be used in the same program, the same file, and even the same function. Data and code is shared between all languages , with a function defined in one language callable from another with no binding layer. Traditional language development involves using a parser generator tool to generate a static parser from the language grammar. Katahdin's approach is to just-in-time compile a parser from the grammar as the program runs. The grammar can be modified as the program runs because the parser can be recompiled to match it. Recent research into grammar theory with parsing expression grammars and parser theory with packrat parsers provided the basis for the techniques used in Katahdin and will be referenced in this thesis along with an introduction to my additions. Katahdin is intended as a language independent interpreter and a development platform that can replace traditional static parser generators for language development. With further development Katahdin should be useable as a drop in replacement for interpreters and compilers for a wide range of languages, and as a platform for development of new languages. Using a single runtime to execute any programming language will reduce development costs to businesses. For any combination of languages used in a system, only a single runtime has to be maintained, ported between platforms and supported. The ability to use multiple languages in the same program will allow businesses to use the most appropriate language for any part of the system. For example, an engineer could write the core of a program in FOR-TRAN and …
Hispanic Ministry Where Language is No Barrier

This study explores how linguistic, cultural, and social-economic factors have re-shaped ministry paradigms and practices in several churches across the United States that traditionally targeted foreign-born, Spanish-dominant Latinos, hut now also successfully target U.S.-born, English-dominant Latinos. Special attention is given to the contextually-appropriate approaches to evangelism, preaching, and worship in these multi-lingual and multi-generational Hispanic churches. The study concludes by identifying strategic implications for church leaders committed to Hispanic ministry in the United States.
The effec t of positive and negative messages on problem solving in computer programming tasks

Many supervisory control systems require the operator to solve any problems that the system’s automation cannot accommodate. Consequently, this class of systems would benefit from designs and methods which improve operator problem solving performance. Currently, human factors researchers develop designs and methods emphasizing the cognitive capacities and abilities of operators. For the most part, these approaches neglect the emotional state of the operator, although emotion has been shown to have an important impact on performance in many other domains. This dissertation introduces the modified Multidimensional Problem Solving (mMPS) Model, a theoretical model predicting how affect, one aspect of emotion, will influence problem solving performance. The model was tested in an experiment in which 32 participants attempted to correct a series of 5 bugs in a computer program. During their task, they received compiler messages with keywords specifically chosen to create a positive or negative affective state. The model predicted that the participants with messages designed to increase positive affect would seek solutions with a more divergent thought process, and this would be indicated with a more diverse set of problem-solving approaches, along with higher scores on a divergent thought measuring test administered throughout the experiment. Those with less positive affect would seek solutions in a smaller, less creative space and demonstrate less divergent thought. Unfortunately, the feedback messages did not appear to evoke an emotional response powerful enough to create a measurable change in emotional state. However, the messages did affect various aspects of the participants’ performance in ways consistent with the model, including 1
A INCOMPLETUDE NARRATIVA COMO EFEITO DE SENTIDO NOS JOGOS DIGITAIS

Se tomarmos o termo “narrativa” em um sentido amplo, certamente nao poderiamos atestar que todo e qualquer jogo digital constitua uma narrativa. Tetris , por exemplo, apresenta blocos que precisam ser encaixados em linhas para gerar pontos, nao constituindo uma narrativa per se . Ja em Donkey Kong as relacoes entre figuras como um homem, um gorila e uma princesa abalam um estado previo de coisas e tecem uma narrativa com comeco, meio e fim. Apesar disso, Jesper Juul (2005) caracteriza esse tipo de universo ficcional como incompleto – nao sabemos de onde vem a princesa, como o gorila a capturou –, e incoerente – a personagem principal tem varias vidas disponiveis. Essa postura critica e problematica, em nossa opiniao, pois: 1) considera o jogo como um meio de retratar um universo pre-existente, na medida em que, para ser incompleto, e preciso haver uma completude alem da que se mostra no jogo e independente dele; e 2) aplica como medidor de coerencia elementos alheios ao genero “jogo digital”, como os da “vida real” ou de demais artes. Nossa proposta e de que os elementos problematicos para Juul sao constitutivos da forma expressiva em si , e portanto nao podem torna-la incoerente nem incompleta – sendo a incompletude um efeito de sentido gerado pelo modo proprio desse meio expressivo conjugar-se a um conteudo seja ele qual for e tambem um meio de ampliar a propria experiencia ficcional. Para embasar as afirmacoes aqui presentes utilizaremos os trabalhos de Aristoteles, Achcar (1994) e Murray (1997).