title: Organizing digital music for use: an examination of personal music collections

authors: Cunningham, Sally Jo

abstract: Current research on music information retrieval and music digital libraries focuses on providing access to huge, public music collections. In this paper we consider a different, but related, problem: supporting an individual in maintaining and using a personal music collection. We
analyze organization and access techniques used to manage personal music collections (primarily CDs and MP3 files), and from these behaviors, to suggest user behaviors that should be supported in a personal music digital library (that is, a digital library of an individual's personal music collection).

text: Organizing digital music for use: an examination of personal music collections Current research on music information retrieval and music digital libraries focuses on providing access to huge, public music collections. In this paper we consider a different, but related, problem: supporting an individual in maintaining and using a personal music collection. We
analyze organization and access techniques used to manage personal music collections (primarily CDs and MP3 files), and from these behaviors, to suggest user behaviors that should be supported in a personal music digital library (that is, a digital library of an individual's personal music collection).

year: 2004-10-01

title: An exploration of using the intel AVX2 gather load instructions for vectorised image processing

authors: Cree, Michael J.

subjects: SIMD

abstract: Processing image data with single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) CPU instructions provides a means of vectorising, thus speeding up execution, of standard image processing operators. SIMD register loads normally load from consecutive locations in memory, that is, consecutive pixels in a row of the image. For some algorithms, however, data dependencies between pixels along rows render SIMD vectorisation useless. If one could efficiently load pixels from columns of images this problem would be fixed. The Intel AVX2 CPU extension introduces an instruction for the gather loading of data from multiple memory locations into a single CPU SIMD register. We explore using these instructions for column loads of image data in two common image operations, transposing images and mean filtering, to test 1) whether they provide useful speed-ups when other vectorised approaches exist (and find that they do not), and 2) whether they provide means of implementing operations that otherwise would be difficult or extremely inefficient to achieve without a column load (they can provide speed-ups over scalar code).

text: An exploration of using the intel AVX2 gather load instructions for vectorised image processing Processing image data with single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) CPU instructions provides a means of vectorising, thus speeding up execution, of standard image processing operators. SIMD register loads normally load from consecutive locations in memory, that is, consecutive pixels in a row of the image. For some algorithms, however, data dependencies between pixels along rows render SIMD vectorisation useless. If one could efficiently load pixels from columns of images this problem would be fixed. The Intel AVX2 CPU extension introduces an instruction for the gather loading of data from multiple memory locations into a single CPU SIMD register. We explore using these instructions for column loads of image data in two common image operations, transposing images and mean filtering, to test 1) whether they provide useful speed-ups when other vectorised approaches exist (and find that they do not), and 2) whether they provide means of implementing operations that otherwise would be difficult or extremely inefficient to achieve without a column load (they can provide speed-ups over scalar code).

year: 2018

title: Māori women and intimate partner violence: Some sociocultural influences

authors: Hoeata, Chloe

subjects: intimate partner violence

abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has recently been acknowledged as a worldwide phenomenon, with approximately one in four intimate relationships containing some form of violence. This study explores the interaction between relationship dynamics, IPV and whānau and community influences. We completed narrative interviews with two Māori women in December 2010. Our findings confirm the results of earlier studies which have found that childhood experiences of violence, actual or witnessed, have a powerful effect that reverberate within adult lives and into the formation of intimate relationships. Our interviews show that Māori whānau and women are textured by the same patriarchal expectations that privilege men in the Pākehā world. We also found that seeking help from whānau to escape a violent relationship may not be the most welcomed course of action. We conclude with a discussion of future research directions.

text: Māori women and intimate partner violence: Some sociocultural influences Intimate partner violence (IPV) has recently been acknowledged as a worldwide phenomenon, with approximately one in four intimate relationships containing some form of violence. This study explores the interaction between relationship dynamics, IPV and whānau and community influences. We completed narrative interviews with two Māori women in December 2010. Our findings confirm the results of earlier studies which have found that childhood experiences of violence, actual or witnessed, have a powerful effect that reverberate within adult lives and into the formation of intimate relationships. Our interviews show that Māori whānau and women are textured by the same patriarchal expectations that privilege men in the Pākehā world. We also found that seeking help from whānau to escape a violent relationship may not be the most welcomed course of action. We conclude with a discussion of future research directions.

year: 2011