White Rose Research Online
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Este es el repositorio institucional de tres universidades del Reino Unido (York, Leeds y Sheffield), creado con el apoyo de SHERPA. Proporciona acceso a los artículos de investigación de las instituciones.
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A journey into e-resource administration hell - Cole, Louise
The author discusses the administrative problems which can still occur when looking after a large and complex portfolio of electronic resources, and focuses on some of the recurring nightmares involving e-journals in particular. Amongst the subjects discussed are lost archives, activation codes which change without anyone being told, unreasonable expiry dates, poor service, wandering URLs, lack of publicity, failure to keep licensing conditions, and title changes. The article ends with a look at some emerging examples of excellent practice to do with e-journal management, proving all parties involved can work together to ensure a smooth and efficient service.
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"This is a Mummers' play I wrote": Modern compositions and their implications - Millington, Peter
It seems that may people feel compelled to rewrite folk plays. Working with a large sample of composed and adapted texts, the apparent personal and cultural motivations of these wannabe folk playwrights are explored. More specifically, this study examines the textual characteristics of the rewritten plays in an attempt to determine what it is that makes the authors think that they have written a mummers' play. These features are then compared with a historical database of authentic Quack Doctor plays. It is suggested that similar processes and criteria have existed throughout the history of the plays, and may indeed have...
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Watermark location via back-lighting and recto removal - Boyle, R.D.; Hiary, H.
We consider the problem of locating a watermark
in pages of archaic documents that have been both scanned
and back-lit: the problem is of interest to codicologists in
identifying and tracking paper materials. Commonly, documents
of interest are worn or damaged, and all information
is victim to very unfavourable signal-to-noise ratios this
is especially true of hidden data such as watermarks and
chain lines. We present an approach to recto removal, followed
by highlighting of such hidden data. The result is
still of very low signal quality, and we also present a statistical
approach to location of watermarks from a known
lexicon of fragments. Results are presented from a comprehensively
scanned...
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MACROWater: a Top-down, Policy-driven Model for Forecasting Domestic Water Demand - Parsons, J.; Rees, P.; Sim, P.; McDonald, A.
MACROWater is a top-down domestic water demand model developed for the WaND project (Water Cycle Management for New Developments). Forecasts have been produced for all local authorities in England and Wales. They can be aggregrated for different reporting areas (such as Government Office Regions, Sustainable Communities and water companies). Sustainable community is the official term for key strategic areas, earmarked for rapid expansion of housing supply (such as the M11 corridor, Ashford, Milton Keynes). This model description uses the UK's biggest Sustainable Community, Thames Gateway, as the example case study.
Utilising Domestic Consumption Monitors from the water companies supplying this area,...
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Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity - Gennari, S.; Poeppel, D.
This paper explores how verb meanings that differ in semantic complexity are processed and represented. In particular, we compare eventive verbs, which denote causally structured events, with stative verbs, which denote facts without causal structure. We predicted that the conceptually more complex eventive verbs should take longer to process than stative verbs. Two experiments, a lexical decision task and a self-paced reading study, confirmed this prediction. The findings suggest that (a) semantic complexity is reflected in processing time, (b) processing verb meanings involves activating properties of the event structure beyond participants' roles, and (c) more generally, lexical event structures, which...
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Uncertain Flow Visualization using LIC - Allendes Osorio, R.S.; Brodlie, K.W.
In this paper we look at the Line Integral Convolution method for flow visualization and ways in which this can be
applied to the visualization of two dimensional, steady flow fields in the presence of uncertainty. To achieve this,
we start by studying the method and reviewing the history of modifications other authors have made to it in order
to improve its efficiency or capabilities, and using these as a base for the visualization of uncertain flow fields.
Finally, we apply our methodology to a case study from the field of oceanography.
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An improved closed-form solution to interfacial stresses in
plated beams using a two-stage approach - Yang, J.; Ye, J.
The shear stress and the normal stresses in the thickness direction at interfaces (referred as interfacial shear and transverse normal stresses hereafter) have played a significant role in understanding the premature debonding failure of beams strengthened by bonding steel/composite plates at their tension surfaces. Due to the occurrence of dissimilar materials and the abrupt change of the cross section, the stress distribution at plate ends becomes singular and hence is considerably complicated. Extensive experimental and analytical analyses have been undertaken to investigate this problem. Large discrepancies
have been found from various studies, particularly from experimental results due to the well-acknowledged difficulty...
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