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A psychoanalytic feminist inquiry into shame

This thesis offers an inquiry into shame; in particular a reading of some women's lived experience of shame from a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective. This work also reflects critically on epistemological issues and tensions between the adoption of qualitative methods of research and psychoanalytic, feminist and post-structuralist readings of texts. The thesis starts with an outline of its contents, a reflexive history of the research, and a brief introduction on shame. Chapters one to three review the main body of literature on shame, critically reflecting on how shame is constructed within different theoretical frameworks. This investigation begins with the work of Sigmund Freud and the different constructions of shame in Freudian metapsychology (chapter one) and continues with a review of the literature on the role of shame in social and interpsychic dynamics (chapter two). Chapter three focuses on the literature arguing for a crucial link between shame and femininity. Epistemological and methodological issues are discussed in chapters four; while chapter five provides a detailed description of how the research was carried out and of the analysis of the text. Chapters six to ten are based on in-depth semi-structured interviews on women's experience of shame. The discursive analysis investigates the ideological function of the shameful subject position within the context of the themes identified in the thematic decomposition of the interviews. The conclusion summaries and reflects on the thesis as a whole; it also comments on some implications of the different readings of shame proposed in the thesis.
Effects of acetazolamide on aerobic exercise capacity and pulmonary hemodynamics at high altitudes.

Aerobic exercise capacity is decreased at altitude because of combined decreases in arterial oxygenation and in cardiac output. Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction could limit cardiac output in hypoxia. We tested the hypothesis that acetazolamide could improve exercise capacity at altitude by an increased arterial oxygenation and an inhibition of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. Resting and exercise pulmonary artery pressure (Ppa) and flow (Q) (Doppler echocardiography) and exercise capacity (cardiopulmonary exercise test) were determined at sea level, 10 days after arrival on the Bolivian altiplano, at Huayna Potosi (4,700 m), and again after the intake of 250 mg acetazolamide vs. a placebo three times a day for 24 h. Acetazolamide and placebo were administered double-blind and in a random sequence. Altitude shifted Ppa/Q plots to higher pressures and decreased maximum O(2) consumption ((.)Vo(2max)). Acetazolamide had no effect on Ppa/Q plots but increased arterial O(2) saturation at rest from 84 +/- 5 to 90 +/- 3% (P < 0.05) and at exercise from 79 +/- 6 to 83 +/- 4% (P < 0.05), and O(2) consumption at the anaerobic threshold (V-slope method) from 21 +/- 5 to 25 +/- 5 ml.min(-1). kg(-1) (P < 0.01). However, acetazolamide did not affect (.)Vo(2max) (from 31 +/- 6 to 29 +/- 7 ml.kg(-1). min(-1)), and the maximum respiratory exchange ratio decreased from 1.2 +/- 0.06 to 1.05 +/- 0.03 (P < 0.001). We conclude that acetazolamide does not affect maximum exercise capacity or pulmonary hemodynamics at high altitudes. Associated changes in the respiratory exchange ratio may be due to altered CO(2) production kinetics.
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION | RESEARCH ARTICLE Augmentative and alternative communication for children with autism spectrum disorder: An evidence-based evaluation of the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) programme

1 Abstract: Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder often have restricted verbal communication. For children who do not use functional speech, augmenta- tive and alternative communication (AAC) devices can be an important support. We evaluated the effectiveness of one AAC programme, the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) using a Vantage Lite™ device as the speech output in the home and school environments. Eight children with limited communication were assessed by a speech pathologist prior to the introduction of the programme, after five weeks of training and again after a further two weeks of use of the pro- gramme, but without the supported training. The pre-/post-assessment measures revealed that all eight children made gains in the development of spontaneous communication using the device during the implementation period. Parents and teachers also reported that the gains achieved during the five-week trial were
OVERLAY ARCHITECTURES FOR FPGA-BASED SOFTWARE PACKET PROCESSING

Overlay Architectures for FPGA-Based Software Packet Processing Martin Labrecque Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2011 Packet processing is the enabling technology of networked information sy stems such as the Internet and is usually performed with fixed-function custom-made ASIC chips. As co mmunication protocols evolve rapidly, there is increasing interest in adapting features of the pro cessing over time and, since software is the preferred way of expressing complex computation, we are interested in finding a platform to execute packet processing software with the best possible thr oughput. Because FPGAs are widely used in network equipment and they can implement processors, we ar e motivated to investigate executing software directly on the FPGAs. Off-the-shelf soft process ors on FPGA fabric are currently geared towards performing embedded sequential tasks and, in contrast, network processing is most often inherently parallel between packet flows, if not between each individua l packet. Our goal is to allow multiple threads of execution in an FPGA to reach a higher ag gregate throughput than commercially available shared-memory soft multi-processors via improveme nts to the underlying soft processor architecture. We study a number of processor pipeline organizations to identify which ones can scale to a larger number of execution threads and find that tuning multithreaded pipelines can provide compact cores with high throughput. We then perform a design sp ace exploration of multicore soft systems, compare single-threaded and multithreaded designs to identify scalability limits and develop processor architectures allowing threads to execute with as little arc hitectural stalls as possible: in particular with instruction replay and static hazard detection mechanisms. To f urther reduce the wait times, we allow threads to speculatively execute by leveraging transactional memory. Our multithreaded multiprocessor along with our compilation and simulation framework makes the FPGA easy to use for an average programmer who can write an application as a single thread of co mputation with coarsegrained synchronization around shared data structures. Comparing with multithreaded processors using
Core Ontology for Robotics and Automation

This paper briefly presents the Core Ontology for Robotics and Automation (CORA), which was developed in the context of the IEEE Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group. We discuss the importance of ontologies and standardization for the domain of Robotics and Automation and we present the main aims of this initiative. Furthermore, we present the results of an experiment that was conducted for testing the effectiveness of applying CORA for representing knowledge in a scenario that requires the cooperation of heterogeneous robots.
Accelerating Data-Serial Applications on Data-Parallel GPGPUs: A Systems Approach

The general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) continues to make significant strides in high-end computing by delivering unprecedented performance at a commodity price. However, the many-core architecture of the GPGPU currently allows only data-parallel applications to extract the full potential out of the hardware. Applications that require frequent synchronization during their execution do not experience much performance gain out of the GPGPU. This is mainly due to the lack of explicit hardware or software support for inter thread communication across the entire GPGPU chip. In this paper, we design, implement, and evaluate a highly-efficient software barrier that synchronizes all the thread blocks running on an ofﬂoaded kernel on the GPGPU without having to transfer execution control back to the host processor. We show that our custom software barrier achieves a three-fold performance improvement over the existing approach, i.e., synchronization via the host processor. To illustrate the aforementioned performance benefit, we parallelize a data-serial application, specifically an optimal sequence-search algorithm called Smith-Waterman (SWat), that requires frequent barrier synchronization across the many cores of the nVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 GPGPU. Our parallelization consists of a suite of optimization techniques — optimal data layout, coalesced memory accesses, and blocked data decomposition. Then, when coupled with our custom software-barrier implementation, we achieve nearly a nine-fold speed-up over the serial implementation of SWat. We also show that our solution delivers 25 faster on-chip execution than the na¨ive implementation.
Libéralisation ou équité des échanges? : Les conflits sur les modalités de l'élaboration de la politique commerciale américaine de l'ALENA à l'ALEAC (1991-2005)

Aux Etats-Unis, les annees 1990 ont ete marquees par l’emergence de nouveaux debats politiques sur le libre-echange. Une large coalition de syndicats et d’organisations pour la protection de l’environnement et des consommateurs s’est pour la premiere fois mobilisee dans le but de redefinir les regles de la politique commerciale americaine. Quel est le bilan de leurs activites politiques, pres de quinze apres leur premiere bataille legislative contre l’Accord de libre-echange nord-americain (ALENA) ? Ce travail de recherche s’appuie sur une serie d’entretiens avec des acteurs politiques, des documents internes de groupes d’interets (syndicats, ecologistes, patronat, etc.) et les registres du Congres pour analyser les conflits entre les defenseurs du libre-echange et les partisans d’une « equite des echanges » a travers cinq etudes de cas entre 1991 et 2005. L’analyse conclut que la « relation speciale » entre le patronat et l’executif a ete l’un des principaux obstacles aux progres de l’alliance entre syndicalistes et ecologistes depuis l’origine du processus de decision jusqu’a la ratification au Congres. Non seulement les institutions americaines ont limite l’influence des groupes de la societe civile a l’origine des negociations commerciales, mais le president a egalement fortement assiste les organisations patronales dans leurs efforts de lobbying, leur permettant de remporter la plupart des batailles legislatives entre 1991 et 2005.
A New Architecture for Pixellated Solid State Gamma Camera Used in Nuclear Medicine

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel technique for acquiring and reconstructing planar or tomographic images obtained using a gamma camera. The aim is to overcome the sensitivity-spatial resolution tradeoff for conventional Anger gamma cameras. The future generation of solid state gamma cameras will benefit from the recent advances in CdZnTe (CZT) detector performances. Previous studies have shown that pixellated CZT detectors have a high energy resolution, good detection efficiency and a high intrinsic spatial resolution. Moreover, these detectors provide important additional information: the depth of interaction (DOI). In this paper, we introduce the HiSens (High Sensitivity) architecture: an original collimator architecture associated with a CZT pixellated detector that takes advantage of such performances, particularly in terms of DOI information and an adapted method of iterative reconstruction. We explain about the ability of our CZT detector, associated with specific electronic processing, to obtain accurate DOI information on a 5 mm-thick CZT detector. We have used SINDBAD simulation tool to evaluate the performance of the HiSens architecture. We describe an adapted iterative reconstruction using the CZT DOI information in order to improve image quality. Then we show preliminary simulation results of the HiSens architecture performances.
Wideband Indoor Radio Channel Measurements at 5.3 GHz

This paper describes a wideband radio channel complex impulse response measurement system with 5.3 GHz carrier frequency. The sounder uses crosscorrelation method. The first measurements have been performed using sliding correlator principle. Delay resolution of 20 ns and dynamic ranges over 25 dB have been achieved for the wideband impulse response measurement. Statistical radio channel parameters, like rms delay spread and pathloss for an office environment have been measured for empirical radio channel characterization purposes.
Characterization of the thrombospondin (TSP)‐II gene in Penaeus monodon and a novel role of TSP‐like proteins in an induction of shrimp sperm acrosome reaction

We have recently shown that water‐soluble materials from the egg extracellular cortical rods (wsCRs) exert the ability to induce the sperm acrosome reaction in Penaeus monodon. In this study, we further demonstrated that the thrombospondin protein family (TSP) existed in wsCRs, and that their mRNA transcripts were detected in developing oocytes as early as stage I. Full sequence analysis revealed that our pmTSP sequence was considerably different from the recently reported pmTSP in the 5′ nonconserved region and in many TSP signature domains, hence, the name pmTSP‐II was given to our variant. The transcripts of pmTSP‐II were detected only in early developing oocytes (stage‐I and ‐II) while TSP‐like proteins were detected in all developing oocytes, particularly at the outer rim of cortical rods situated in the extracellular crypts of the mature, stage‐IV oocytes. In addition, wsCRs contained anti‐TSP‐reactive proteins, suggesting that TSP‐like proteins are dissolved in and are part of the egg water during spawning. The functional importance of TSP‐like proteins was evident by the interference of a wsCR‐induced acrosome reaction response with anti‐TSP in a concentration‐dependent manner. In summary, we found that pmTSP‐II transcripts were present in the developing oocytes and pmTSP‐II protein accumulated in cortical rods, which are partly secreted and thus solubilized to produce dissolved TSP‐like proteins that participate in induction of the sperm acrosome reaction—a novel reproductive role for TSP protein family. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 80: 393–402, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Packet Classification Algorithms: From Theory to Practice

During the past decade, the packet classification problem has been widely studied to accelerate network applications such as access control, traffic engineering and intrusion detection. In our research, we found that although a great number of packet classification algorithms have been proposed in recent years, unfortunately most of them stagnate in mathematical analysis or software simulation stages and few of them have been implemented in commercial products as a generic solution. To fill the gap between theory and practice, in this paper, we propose a novel packet classification algorithm named HyperSplit. Compared to the well-known HiCuts and HSM algorithms, HyperSplit achieves superior performance in terms of classification speed, memory usage and preprocessing time. The practicability of the proposed algorithm is manifested by two facts in our test: HyperSplit is the only algorithm that can successfully handle all the rule sets; HyperSplit is also the only algorithm that reaches more than 6Gbps throughput on the Octeon3860 multi-core platform when tested with 64-byte Ethernet packets against 10K ACL rules.
MAC Performance and Improvement in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Former Media Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are mainly for static networks. In the networks where mobile nodes exist, the performance will degrade greatly. In this paper the performance of MAC in mobile WSNs (mWSNs) is analyzed and improved algorithms are presented. Simulations validate the effects. A new MAC protocol also is presented for the scenario with more mobile nodes.
QUIC: Better for what and for whom?

Many applications nowadays use HTTP. HTTP/2, standardised in February 2015, is an improvment of HTTP/1.1. However it is still running on top of TCP/TLS and can thus suffer from performance issues, such as the number of RTTs for the handshake phase and the Head of Line blocking. Google proposed the QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connection) protocol, an user level protocol, running on top of UDP, to solve those issues. Google argues that the response time (Page Load Time) is shorter and thus the end-user experience better. First papers evaluated the intrinsic performances of QUIC, but none compared QUIC with the network, the website structure and the involved actors in mind. In this paper, we present the results of our evaluation, performed on a local testbed as well as on Internet, and our analysis to identify in which conditions QUIC is of interest, which actors can benefit from having QUIC deployed in the network and what impacts QUIC can lead to.
Two Dimensional DCT-Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems with Virtual Subcarriers in Mobile Wireless Channels

In practical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, some virtual subcarriers are reserved for easing the requirements on the filter. In this case, the conventional discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based filtering in frequency-domain suffers from a spectral leakage, which results in an irreducible error floor. On the other hand, the DFT-based filtering or interpolation in time-domain also has performance degradation for system with high Doppler frequency. In order to solve these two problems, we propose a two dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D DCT)-based channel estimator for OFDM systems with virtual subcarriers and high Doppler frequency. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method can well approach the 2D minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation.
Computational mineral physics and the physical properties of perovskite

The inherent uncertainties in modern first–principles calculations are reviewed using geophysically relevant examples. The elastic constants of perovskite at lower–mantle temperatures and pressures are calculated using ab initio molecular dynamics. These are used in conjunction with seismic tomographic models to estimate that the lateral temperature contrasts in the Earth's lower mantle are 800 K at a depth of 1000 km, and 1500 K at a depth of 2000 km. The effect of Al3+ on the compressibility of MgSiO3 perovskite is calculated using three different pseudopotentials. The results confirm earlier work and show that the compressibility of perovskites with Al3+ substituted for both Si4+ and Mg2+ is very similar to the compressibility of Al3+–free perovskite. Even when 100% of the Si4+ and Mg2+ ions are replaced with Al3+, the bulk modulus is only 7% less than that for Al3+–free perovskite. In contrast, perovskites where Al3+ substitutes for Si4+ only and that are charge balanced by oxygen vacancies do show higher compressibilities. When corrected to similar concentrations of Al3+, the calculated compressibilities of the oxygen–vacancy–rich perovskites are in agreement with experimental results.
Resilient and Secure File Dispersal in a Mobile P2P System

The convergence of mobile networks and P2P systems has led to the deployment of a range of schemes for file storage over a network. This paper presents an approach to resilient file management and network storage through the design and implementation of a file dispersal system for a mobile P2P network, based on distributed hash tables (DHT). Inherent issues of security, reliability and efficiency are addressed by integrating two forms of data redundancy, pure replication and erasure coding. The functionality of the system and its configuration were enhanced at different levels by a variety of security-related techniques. Experimental results on the different stages of the file dispersal process were provided as validation of the proposed system.
International ideals and domestic reality: a qualitative study on Sweden’s pre-trial detention practices

Sweden is often described as being at the forefront of protecting human rights, but nevertheless Swedish pre-trial detention practices have received criticism from torture committees upholding human rights standards on regional and international levels. This suggests that a discrepancy exists between the legal ideals and the domestic practices. From a sociology of law perspective, the present study aims to further the understanding of why this discrepancy might exist. The methodological approach was two-fold; on one hand by interviewing judges with experience of pre-trial detention hearings, and on the other by using content analysis to examine reports from the torture committees along with the interview data. By applying Bourdieu’s framework and complementing these analytical tools with Cohen’s concepts on denial, the committees and the judges could be understood as agents in a legal field, engaged in a struggle for the right to determine the law. As the newer agents, the committees reject some of the current structures in the field and aim for gaining more dominant positions, whilst the judges defend their established positions and try to maintain their legitimacy, with support from their habitus. This study also highlights the close ties between the legal field and the field of state power, which might offer an understanding of the juridical accounts describing a position where judges are bound by the legal norms, resulting in domestic practices that do not appear to fulfill international human rights ideals.
Mécanismes spinaux et supraspinaux impliqués dans le couplage entre les réseaux locomoteurs et posturaux

Les fonctions locomotrices et posturales sont controlees par un ensemble de reseaux neuronaux qui doivent interagir afin de produire un comportement locomoteur optimal, adaptable aux contraintes internes et externes de l’organisme. Le maintien d’un equilibre dynamique au cours de la locomotion repose sur des processus internes de coordination entre les reseaux nerveux spinaux et supraspinaux qui commandent les differents segments du corps (membres, tete et tronc). C’est dans ce contexte que nous nous sommes interesses aux interactions entre la fonction locomotrice et la fonction posturale, sur des preparations reduites de tronc cerebral-moelle epiniere de rats nouveau-nes, au sein desquelles les CPGs locomoteurs spinaux et les noyaux vestibulaires sont intacts. Des approches combinees electrophysiologiques, pharmacologiques, neuroanatomique et lesionnelles nous ont permis de mettre en evidence une partie des mecanismes a l’origine du couplage entre les differents reseaux neuronaux etudies. Dans cette etude nous avons montre que les reseaux locomoteurs lombaires controlent l’activite des reseaux thoraciques axiaux, de maniere a produire une activation coordonnee des reseaux moteurs des membres et du tronc. Cette coordination est sous influence des entrees supraspinales. Les amines induisent une organisation temporelle specifique de l’activite des reseaux thoraco-lombo-sacres, et les informations en provenance des noyaux vestibulaires influencent le rythme locomoteur. Ces donnees apportent des elements nouveaux concernant les processus neuronaux a l’origine de la coordination des reseaux moteurs et posturaux.