title: ‘Red Snow on Their Boots: Russian characters in spy thriller fiction published during the two World Wars': 1-10

authors: Bydder, Jillene

subjects: Spy fiction

abstract: When we think of spy thriller fiction, and especially of spy thriller fiction written at any time during the Cold War, we think of Soviet or Russian villains. Russian or Soviet characters, some portrayed as heroic and some as evil, were also prominent in spy thriller fiction before and after both the World Wars. By contrast, there were few English-language spy thrillers with Russian or Soviet characters written between 1914 and 1918, and between 1939 and 1945. Thriller writers always react quickly to current events and Russia was enormously popular in Britain when it was an ally during the two wars, so why were Russians in wartime spy fiction few and far between? What were the factors in both time periods which help explain this? Was it because of the political backgrounds of the times, or were there other, more practical, explanations?

text: ‘Red Snow on Their Boots: Russian characters in spy thriller fiction published during the two World Wars': 1-10 When we think of spy thriller fiction, and especially of spy thriller fiction written at any time during the Cold War, we think of Soviet or Russian villains. Russian or Soviet characters, some portrayed as heroic and some as evil, were also prominent in spy thriller fiction before and after both the World Wars. By contrast, there were few English-language spy thrillers with Russian or Soviet characters written between 1914 and 1918, and between 1939 and 1945. Thriller writers always react quickly to current events and Russia was enormously popular in Britain when it was an ally during the two wars, so why were Russians in wartime spy fiction few and far between? What were the factors in both time periods which help explain this? Was it because of the political backgrounds of the times, or were there other, more practical, explanations?

year: 2017

title: Accuracy bounds for ensembles under 0 - 1 loss.

authors: Bouckaert, Remco R.

abstract: This paper is an attempt to increase the understanding in the behavior of ensembles for discrete variables in a quantitative way.  A set of tight upper and lower bounds for the accuracy of an ensemble is presented for wide classes of ensemble algorithms, including bagging and boosting.  The ensemble accuracy is expressed in terms of the accuracies of the members of the ensemble. 
Since those bounds represent best and worst case behavior only, we study typical behavior as well, and discuss its properties.  A parameterised bound is presented which describes ensemble bahavior as a mixture of dependent base classifier and independent base classifier areas.  Some empirical results are presented to support our conclusions.

text: Accuracy bounds for ensembles under 0 - 1 loss. This paper is an attempt to increase the understanding in the behavior of ensembles for discrete variables in a quantitative way.  A set of tight upper and lower bounds for the accuracy of an ensemble is presented for wide classes of ensemble algorithms, including bagging and boosting.  The ensemble accuracy is expressed in terms of the accuracies of the members of the ensemble. 
Since those bounds represent best and worst case behavior only, we study typical behavior as well, and discuss its properties.  A parameterised bound is presented which describes ensemble bahavior as a mixture of dependent base classifier and independent base classifier areas.  Some empirical results are presented to support our conclusions.

year: 2002-06-01

title: Lifting barriers: Leadership, tactical, and strategic issues from, and for, indigenous community development

authors: Murthy, Vikram

subjects: indigenous communities

abstract: This paper uses learnings from a project with indigenous youth to engage with a recurring challenge in indigenous community organisation (ICO) development initiatives: The unwitting detraction from outcome efficacy by charismatic and influential indigenous leadership leading with an out-of-date repertoire. Using material from recent literature in the fields of non-profit management, new leadership, and social enterprise, the paper suggests guides to improved practice for meeting this challenge. It also sets out to effectiveness, will better underwrite sensitivity in entrepreneurial environments with complex cultural and social beliefs and practices. Such a repertoire will energise intraorganisational communal and consensual processes, which would resonate culturally with the ICO's normative behaviours and values, and would thus help the organisation marshall its collective will to frame futures that best capture their stakeholders' hopes and aspirations. Finally, it recommends that future research examine interfaces between these fields and the spiritual frameworks of indigenous world-views.

text: Lifting barriers: Leadership, tactical, and strategic issues from, and for, indigenous community development This paper uses learnings from a project with indigenous youth to engage with a recurring challenge in indigenous community organisation (ICO) development initiatives: The unwitting detraction from outcome efficacy by charismatic and influential indigenous leadership leading with an out-of-date repertoire. Using material from recent literature in the fields of non-profit management, new leadership, and social enterprise, the paper suggests guides to improved practice for meeting this challenge. It also sets out to effectiveness, will better underwrite sensitivity in entrepreneurial environments with complex cultural and social beliefs and practices. Such a repertoire will energise intraorganisational communal and consensual processes, which would resonate culturally with the ICO's normative behaviours and values, and would thus help the organisation marshall its collective will to frame futures that best capture their stakeholders' hopes and aspirations. Finally, it recommends that future research examine interfaces between these fields and the spiritual frameworks of indigenous world-views.

year: 2006