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Insights into Disability and Giftedness: Narrative Methodologies in Interviewing Young People Identified as Twice Exceptional

This chapter describes the fluid methodologies used in a narrative research study involving interviewing children identified as gifted and also having a disability—twice exceptional children. Within the qualitative literature encompassing young people identified as twice exceptional, there is limited discussion of interview techniques and protocols used by interviewers in obtaining their narrative data or field texts. The researchers often skim over this section with phrases like “semi-structured interviews were used to obtain data”, with little detail surrounding the actual interview process, the creation of the field texts, and subsequent analysis. In order to guide ongoing research in the area of twice exceptionality, it is important to develop and explain the steps and processes used to obtain qualitative interview data with these young people, and further detail how this might be analysed through narrative methods. In this chapter we discuss the development of an interview protocol which was flexible and dynamic, and able to respond to the needs of both researcher and participant in conducting field research with one twice exceptional child. The focus of this chapter is on how we conducted the interviews, with some insights presented into our process of narrative analysis through description of one participant’s narrative presented as a story constellation. The interview protocol involved an inclusive approach where the child’s needs were addressed to ensure they were able to participate in the project, regardless of their disability and any communication needs. Conducting the interviews in the child’s home, a place of security, whilst spending time getting to know the child to build rapport, increased comfort during the interviews. This chapter concludes with reflecting on our flexible and dynamic interview approach which facilitated Ashley’s sharing of her lived experiences of twice exceptionality.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional StudiesFull Tex
Document-oriented data warehouses : complex hierarchies and summarizability

There is an increasing interest in implementing data warehouses with NoSQL document-oriented systems. In the ideal case, data can be analysed on different dimensions. These dimensions follow strict hierarchies that we can use to roll-up and drill-down on analysis axes. In this paper, we deal with non-strict and non-covering hierarchies, common issues in data warehousing a.k.a. summarizability issues. We show how to model these hierarchies in document-oriented systems and we propose an algorithm that can deal with summarizability issues. The new approach is tested and compared to existing approaches
Mapping the Beach Beneath the Street

Maps are an important component within many of the playful and gameful experien ces designed to turn cities into a playable infrastructures. They take advantage of the fact that the technology used for obtaining accurate spatial information, such as GPS receivers and magnetometers (digital compasses), are now so widespread that they are considered as ‘standard’ sensors on mobile phones, which are themselves ubiquitous. Interactive digital maps, therefore, are are widely used by the general public for a variety of purposes. However, despite the rich design history of cartography digital maps typically exhibit a dominant aesthetic that has been designed to serve the usability and utility requirements of turn-by-turn urban navigation, which is itself driven by the proliferation of in-car and personal navigation services. The navigation aesthetic is now widespread across almost all spatial applications, even where a bespoke cartographic product would be better suited. In this chapter we seek to challenge this by exploring novel neo-cartographic approaches to making maps for use within playful and gameful experiences designed for the cities. We will examine the potential of design approaches that can produce not only more aesthetically pleasing maps, but also offer the potential for influencing user behaviour, which can be used to promote emotional engagement and exploration in playable city experiences
Intersubjectivity in the imagination and feelings of the infant : implications for education in the early years

This chapter presents the child as a creature born with the spirit of an inquisitive and creative human being, seeking understanding of what to do with body and mind in a world of invented possibilities. He or she is intuitively sociable, seeking affectionate relations with companions who are willing to share the pleasure and adventure of doing and knowing with 'human sense'. Recent research traces signs of the child's impulses and feelings from before birth, and follows their efforts to master experience through stages of self-creating in enjoyable and hopeful companionship. Sensitive timing of rhythms in action and playful invention show age-related advances of creative vitality as the body and brain grow. Much of shared meaning is understood and played with before a child can benefit from school instruction in a prescribed curriculum of the proper ways to use elaborate symbolic conventions. We begin with the theory of James Mark Baldwin, who observed that infants and young children are instinctive experimenters, repeating experience by imitating their own as well as other's actions, accommodating to the resources of the shared world and assimilating new experiences as learned ideas for action. We argue that the child's contribution to cultural learning is a good guide for practice in early education and care of children in their families and communities and in artificially planned and technically structured modern worlds of bewildering diversity
Exploiting Vagueness for Multi-Agent Consensus

A framework for consensus modelling is introduced using Kleene's three valued
logic as a means to express vagueness in agents' beliefs. Explicitly borderline
cases are inherent to propositions involving vague concepts where sentences of
a propositional language may be absolutely true, absolutely false or
borderline. By exploiting these intermediate truth values, we can allow agents
to adopt a more vague interpretation of underlying concepts in order to weaken
their beliefs and reduce the levels of inconsistency, so as to achieve
consensus. We consider a consensus combination operation which results in
agents adopting the borderline truth value as a shared viewpoint if they are in
direct conflict. Simulation experiments are presented which show that applying
this operator to agents chosen at random (subject to a consistency threshold)
from a population, with initially diverse opinions, results in convergence to a
smaller set of more precise shared beliefs. Furthermore, if the choice of
agents for combination is dependent on the payoff of their beliefs, this acting
as a proxy for performance or usefulness, then the system converges to beliefs
which, on average, have higher payoff.Comment: Submitted to the second international workshop on Smart Simulation
  and Modelling for Complex Systems (SSMCS) at IJCAI 201
The Heun functions and their applications in astrophysics

The Heun functions are often called the hypergemeotry successors of the 21st
century, because of the wide number of their applications. In this proceeding
we discuss their application to the problem of perturbations of rotating and
non-rotating black holes and highlight some recent results on their late-time
ring-down obtained using those functions.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures,typos fixed. Final version to appear in the
  Proceedings of the XI. International Workshop LIE THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
  IN PHYSICS (2015
Anti de Sitter Holography via Sekiguchi Decomposition

In the present paper we start consideration of anti de Sitter holography in
the general case of the (q+1)-dimensional anti de Sitter bulk with boundary
q-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We present the group-theoretic foundations
that are necessary in our approach. Comparing what is done for q=3 the new
element in the present paper is the presentation of the bulk space as the
homogeneous space G/H = SO(q,2)/SO(q,1), which homogeneous space was studied by
Sekiguchi.Comment: 10 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the XI International
  Workshop "Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics", (Varna, Bulgaria, June
  2015
On Nonlocal Modified Gravity and its Cosmological Solutions

During hundred years of General Relativity (GR), many significant
gravitational phenomena have been predicted and discovered. General Relativity
is still the best theory of gravity. Nevertheless, some (quantum) theoretical
and (astrophysical and cosmological) phenomenological difficulties of modern
gravity have been motivation to search more general theory of gravity than GR.
As a result, many modifications of GR have been considered. One of promising
recent investigations is Nonlocal Modified Gravity. In this article we present
a brief review of some nonlocal gravity models with their cosmological
solutions, in which nonlocality is expressed by an analytic function of the
d'Alembert-Beltrami operator $\Box$. Some new results are also presented.Comment: 16 page
3-Dimensional Classification and Visualization of Clouds Simulated by Cloud-Resolving Atmospheric General Circulation Model

Cloud-resolving atmospheric general circulation models using large scale supercomputers reproduce realistic behavior of atmospheric field on a global scale. To understand the simulation result for scientists, visualizing individual clouds and their physical characteristics is necessary. In this study, we propose a new feature extraction and classification method of simulated clouds based on their 3-dimensional shape and physical properties. The results of applying the proposed method show the clouds' distribution of a tropical cyclone during its generation, development and disappearance process, and the relation between cloud-forms and precipitation
Recovery of VOC from offshore and onshore shuttle tankers using structured Y-type zeolite membranes.

The emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from onshore and offshore facilities are studied and an alternative technology for the recovery of methane and propane by the use of membrane technology is explored. Permeation tests were carried out with a zeolite membrane consisting of an ? - Al2O3 support. The permeance of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, methane and propane through the membrane at varying pressures was determined. The permeance of CH4 was in the range of 1.44 x 10-6 to 3.41 x 10 -6 mols-1m-2Pa-1 and a CH4/C3H8 selectivity of 3.3 at 293 K was obtained. The molar flux of the gases was found to have an average linear regression coefficient value R2 of 0.9892.   On the basis of the results obtained it can be concluded that separation of the hydrocarbon gases can be achieved with the zeolite membrane. The main mechanism governing the flow of gases through the zeolite membrane was molecular sieving although there is evidence of deviation from this mechanism. To achieve higher selectivity of the target gas there is need for further modification of the membrane. The morphology of the membrane was determined using the scanning electron microscope, which showed the pore size of the membrane and the support layer
Investigating cube attacks on the authenticated encryption stream cipher ACORN

The cube attack is an algebraic attack that allows an adversary to extract low degree polynomial equations from the targeted cryptographic primitive. This work applies the cube attack to a reduced round version of <i>ACORN</i>, a candidate cipher design in the <i>CAESAR</i> cryptographic competition. The cube attack on 477 initialization rounds of <i>ACORN</i> can recover the 128 bit key with a total attack complexity of about  2<sup>35</sup>. We have also shown that linear equations relating the initial state of the full version of <i>ACORN</i> can be easily generated which can lead to state recovery attack with an attack complexity of about  2<sup>72.8</sup>
Tweaking generic OTR to avoid forgery attacks

This paper considers the security of the <i>Offset Two-Round</i> (OTR) authenticated encryption mode [9] with respect to forgery attacks. The current version of OTR gives a security proof for specific choices of the block size (n) and the primitive polynomial used to construct the finite field F2n. Although the OTR construction is generic, the security proof is not. For every choice of finite field the distinctness of masking coefficients must be verified to ensure security. In this paper, we show that some primitive polynomials result in collisions among the masking coefficients used in the current instantiation, from which forgeries can be constructed. We propose a new way to instantiate OTR so that the masking coefficients are distinct in every finite field F2n, thus generalising OTR without reducing the security of OTR
Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography

This book provides an introduction to the complex system functions, variability and human interference in ecosystem between the continent and the ocean. It focuses on circulation, transport and mixing of estuarine and coastal water masses, which is ultimately related to an understanding of the hydrographic and hydrodynamic characteristics (salinity, temperature, density and circulation), mixing processes (advection and diffusion), transport timescales such as the residence time and the exposure time.

In the area of physical oceanography, experiments using these water bodies as a natural laboratory and interpreting their circulation and mixing processes using theoretical and semi-theoretical knowledge are of fundamental importance. Small-scale physical models may also be used together with analytical and numerical models. The book highlights the fact that research and theory are interactive, and the results provide the fundamentals for the development of the estuarine research.Full Tex
Wearable Haptic Based Pattern Feedback Sleeve System

This paper presents how humans trained in primitive hap- tic based patterns using a wearable sleeve, can recognize their scaling and shifting. The wearable sleeve consisted of 7 vibro-actuators to stimulate subjects arm to convey the primitive haptic based patterns. The used primitive haptic patterns are the Gaussian template (T), shifted right (R), shifted left (L), half Gaussian (H), and shrink (S) hereafter denoted by templates. The results of this paper would give an idea as to how humans mentally construct the cutaneous feedback in different scenarios such as shifting and scaling with respect to trained patterns and how they recognize all trained patterns when played randomly. These insights will help to develop more e�efficient haptic feedback systems us- ing a small number of templates to be learnt to encode complex haptic messages. Therefore, the results provide new insights and design guide- lines/algorithm to convey messages encoded in vibro-tactile actuator arrays specially in where vision and audition are less reliable scenarios like search and rescue, factories. For example, the results would be used to convey a message to the human to give an idea of the shape and stiffness of obstacles that come into contact with the robot during haptic based guiding in low visibility conditions in human-robot interactions
Automatic Location of Blood Vessel Bifurcations in\ud
Digital Eye Fundus Images

Retinal blood vessels are linked with hypertension and cardiovascular disease. It is generally known that vascular bifurcation is mainly involved in varying blood flow velocity as well as its pressure. This paper presents an\ud
efficient method for automatic location of blood vessel bifurcations in digital eye fundus images. The proposed algorithm comprised of three main steps: image enhancement, fuzzy clustering, and searching vascular bifurcation. The purposed algorithm revealed successful detection of bifurcations upon test images. Results showed improved diagnostic accuracy in identifying bifurcations with use of the proposed algorithm and encourage its use for further applications such as image registration, personal identification and pre-clinical scanning of retina diagnosis
Exploring designers' cognitive load when viewing different digital representations of spaces: A pilot study

Do different representations of space evoke the same response in viewers? This paper reports on a pilot study exploring designers’ cognitive load as they view different digital representation of spaces to determine the effect of the representations. The results reported in this paper are from a group of year 3 and year 4 architecture students from Harbin Institute of Technology in China who participated in the experiment. The two representational modalities in this study that participants were asked to view were a computer-generated hidden-line perspective and a digital photograph of the same space. Their physiological data were recorded by eye-tracking equipment, including participants’ eye gaze trace location and pupil size. The same seven Area of Interests (AOI) were defined in each of the two representations. Results show statistically significant cognitive load change when the AOI focused on changes. The cognitive loads for the two representations were found not to be significantly different.Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of EnvironmentFull Tex
Design's Role in Transitioning to Futures of Cultures of Repair

This paper traces a historical and conceptual terrain of cultures of repair from a decolonial and ontological design perspective, i.e., through decolonial design. In the face of present and mounting future challenges, particularly Climate Change, consequent migration and global unsettlement, indiscriminately reaching all geographies, cultures of repair afford ecological, social, and technological exemplars of adaptation and resilience. Yet neither the complexity of the trace nor the imperative for appropriation is adequately reaching designers. To explore filling this gap, a relational map is presented here, that aims to aide designers understand four key threads implicated in the destruction of cultures of repair—concealment; newness; techne; care—and three key moves toward revaluing cultures of repair—transferrability, reclassification, amplification.Arts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of ArtFull Tex
A Multi-objective Harmony Search Algorithm for Optimal Energy and Environmental Refurbishment at District Level Scale

Nowadays municipalities are facing an increasing commitment regarding the energy and environmental performance of cities and districts. The multiple factors that characterize a district scenario, such as: refurbishment strategies’ selection, combination of passive, active and control measures, the surface to be refurbished and the generation systems to be substituted will highly influence the final impacts of the refurbishment solution. In order to answer this increasing demand and consider all above-mentioned district factors, municipalities need optimisation methods supporting the decision making process at district level scale when defining cost-effective refurbishment scenarios. Furthermore, the optimisation process should enable the evaluation of feasible solutions at district scale taking into account that each district and building has specific boundaries and barriers. Considering these needs, this paper presents a multi-objective approach allowing a simultaneous environmental and economic assessment of refurbishment scenarios at district scale. With the aim at demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a real scenario of Gros district in the city of Donostia-San Sebastian (North of Spain) is presented. After analysing the baseline scenario in terms of energy performance, environmental and economic impacts, the multi-objective Harmony Search algorithm has been employed to assess the goal of reducing the environmental impacts in terms of Global Warming Potential (GWP) and minimizing the investment cost obtaining the best ranking of economic and environmental refurbishment scenarios for the Gros district.OptEEmAL project, Grant Agreement Number 68067
The Control of an Upper-Limb Exoskeleton by Means of a Particle Swarm Optimised Active Force Control for Motor Recovery

This paper presents the modelling and control of a two degree of freedom upper extremity exoskeleton for rehabilitation. The Euler-Lagrange formulation was employed to obtain the dynamic modelling of both the anthropometric based human upper limb as well as the exoskeleton that comprises of the upper arm and the forearm. A proportionalderivative (PD) architecture is employed to investigate its efficacy in performing joint-space control objectives namely the flexion/extension of the elbow joint as well as the forward adduction/abduction on the shoulder joint. An intelligent active force control (AFC) optimised by means of the Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm is also incorporated into the aforementioned controller to examine its effectiveness in compensating disturbances. It was found from the study that the PD- PSOAFC performed well against the disturbances introduced into the system without compromising its tracking performances as compared to the classical pure PD counterpart
Acoustic spectrometer: Resonant sensing platform for measuring volumetric properties of liquid samples

A sensing platform for measuring volumetric properties of liquid samples using phononic crystals is presented in this paper. The proposed sensor concept is based on the transmission of elastic and acoustic waves through solids and liquids respectively to gather relevant information about the properties of the liquid under test. A major difference between this concept and the majority of current resonant sensors, like the well-known quartz crystal microbalance, is that the acoustic spectrometer proposed measures bulk properties and not interfacial properties of the liquid. The sensing platform uses a disposable analyte container to facilitate the measurement of hazardous substances and enable its use in biomedical applications. An electronic characterization system based on the acquisition of three mixed signals was developed to obtain the frequency response of the designed sensor. Finally, experimental and theoretical realizations were performed, using different analytes and showing characteristic transmission features that can be used as measures to determine the physical value speed of sound
Reflection methods for inverse problems with application to protein
  conformation determination

The Douglas-Rachford reflection method is a general purpose algorithm useful
for solving the feasibility problem of finding a point in the intersection of
finitely many sets. In this chapter we demonstrate that applied to a specific
problem, the method can benefit from heuristics specific to said problem which
exploit its special structure. In particular, we focus on the problem of
protein conformation determination formulated within the framework of matrix
completion, as was considered in a recent paper of the present authors.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure