Towards flexible parsing of structured textual model representations

Existing parsers for textual model representation formats such as XMI and HUTN are unforgiving and fail upon even the smallest inconsistency between the structure and naming of metamodel elements and the contents of serialised models. In this paper, we demonstrate how a fuzzy parsing approach can transparently and automatically resolve a number of these inconsistencies, and how it can eventually turn XML into a human-readable and editable textual model representation format for particular classes of models.

Génesis y evolución del rol enfermero en la Atención Primaria de Salud de Cantabria

La intención de esta investigación es conocer el proceso que ha tenido lugar en Cantabria en relación con el desempeño de los profesionales de enfermería de Atención Primaria de Salud (APS) desde la puesta en marcha del modelo hasta la actualidad. Para llevar a cabo este estudio se planteó la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿Qué proceso ha tenido lugar en relación con el desempeño profesional de las enfermeras y enfermeros de APS de Cantabria desde el inicio del modelo en 1985 hasta la actualidad? Los objetivos propuestos para su respuesta fueron los siguientes: Determinar si desde la implantación del modelo de la Atención Primaria de Salud en Cantabria se ha generado un rol diferenciado en los profesionales de Enfermería y desarrollar una teoría sustantiva que explique la evolución del papel de los profesionales de Enfermería en la Atención Primaria de Salud en Cantabria desde sus comienzos hasta la actualidad, que permita futuras intervenciones de mejora. Y como objetivos específicos: Identificar los factores favorecedores de un adecuado desempeño de los profesionales de enfermería acorde con el servicio que deben prestar a la sociedad en el ámbito de la Atención Primaria de Salud en Cantabria, identificar aquellos factores que dificultan a las enfermeras y enfermeros de Atención Primaria de Salud en Cantabria un ejercicio profesional acorde a los postulados del modelo e identificar estrategias que mejoren la contribución de los profesionales de Enfermería de Atención Primaria de Cantabria a la sociedad. JUSTIFICACIÓN: La implantación del modelo de Atención Primaria de Salud en España en la década de los 80 posibilita a la profesión enfermera la participación en la salud de la población en situación de igualdad al resto de los profesionales, esta posibilidad viene cargada sin embargo de una profunda indefinición respecto al papel que va a desempeñar. La llegada de los profesionales estaba condicionada por los moldes dominantes de resolver lo inmediato con una tendencia hacia lo curativo y una formación acorde con ella. El estudio de las iniciativas llevadas a cabo supone una forma de conocer cómo los diferentes factores que condicionan el desempeño van influyendo en las formas de hacer y entender de los profesionales y pueden permitir aventurar comportamientos futuros. No existen patrones fijos de comportamiento en ninguna disciplina, pero sin lugar a duda el conocimiento de la influencia de los factores sociales, sanitarios y profesionales en el desempeño es interesante de cara a poder hacer predicciones...

Caminhos da crítica textual Da filologia à interdisciplinaridade: o caso das edições dos Sermões de Padre António Vieira

The present paper discusses the problem of the plurality of the text, as a cultural object, and its implications for the textual criticism activity. Starting from the fact that the nature of the textual object, especially in the case of ancient texts and literary texts, requires the editor to call into play very diverse knowledge – among which stands out the linguistic knowledge, but also the knowledge of the work, its characteristics and context – we advocate that a «philological» approach, multi and interdisciplinary, of the text editing is still needed, desirably carried out by teams of experts in different scientific fields. We exemplify, among others,with the case of the editions of the Sermões, by Vieira.

Comentario del libro: “Costa Rica. 1800-1850: El legado colonial y la génesis del capitalismo, de Iván Molina”

IntroducciónEn éste, el cuarto de dieciseis volúmenes de la serie patrocianda por el Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Molina intenta al menos resumir los resultados de una gran variedad de investigaciones históricas recientes. El autor se destaca tanto por una prosa atractiva, como por un enfoque que no se reduce al esquema "café-capitalismo-sociedad" característico de anteriores estudios suyos. Es más, si hay una sorpresa agradable en esta obra, está en el evidente interés y desarrollo de los estudios de "mentalité", siguiendo tanto a los modelos franco-ingleses como lo poco hecho en el ámbito local... 

Génesis del movimiento separatista en los Altos de Guatemala, 1806-1829

ResumenExplica el comportamiento político del cabildo de españoles de Quetzaltenango a partir de 1806, influido por los sucesos de la Corte de Cádiz. Analiza también su participación en las crisis de independencia, la anexión a México y en las negociaciones conducentes a la creación de la República Federal de Centroamérica, y más concretamente, del Estado de Guatemala.Abstractn this article, the author explains the political behavior of the Spanish cabildo in Quetzaltenango after 1806, under the influence of the events at the Cortes de Cádiz. He also discusses its participation in the Independence crisis, in the annexation to México and in negotiations leading to the establishment of the Central American Federal Republic and, specifically, that of the State of Guatemala

LOS PROCESOS DE REMOCIÓN EN MASA; GÉNESIS, LIMITACIONES Y EFECTOS EN EL CRECIMIENTO URBANO DE LA CIUDAD DE TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO

La ciudad de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas se localiza en las coordenadas geográficas de 16°45´14.5´´N y 93°06´56.5´´W, (mapa 1) asentada en un valle fluvial modelado por el río Sabinal y sus afluentes, delimitado por la Meseta de las Ánimas al norte y por la Meseta de Copoya al sur, ambas con una litología de naturaleza caliza con diferente edad.Las características geológicas y geomorfológicas de la meseta de Copoya, la interacción con fenómenos climáticos y demográficos, aunado a la falta de estudios especializados, han influido en el comportamiento de los procesos gravitacionales o remoción en masa (Lugo, 2003) y los depósitos de talud que se han producido, tienen como consecuencia los daños a la obra civil y a la población asentadas en la ladera sur de dicha geoforma cárstica.A partir del análisis de la cartografía topográfica, geológica, de vegetación y urbana, además de verificaciones en campo, se generaron mapas derivados como son los de relieve y temáticos que delimitan las zonas problemáticas, proponiendo criterios adicionales para el ordenamiento territorial y que puedan emplearse en la planeación de acciones que lleven a atenuar la vulnerabilidad del espacio en el que conviven los residentes

Sounds of the suburb

Sounds of the Suburb was a commissioned public art proposal based upon a brief set by Queensland Rail for the major redevelopment at their Brunswick Street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. I proposed a large scale, electronic artwork to be distributed across the glass fronted structure of their station’s new concourse building. It was designed as a network of LED based ‘tracking’ - along which would travel electronically animated, ‘trains’ of text synchronised to the actual train timetables. Each message packet moved endlessly through a complex spatial network of ‘tracks’ and ‘stations’ set both inside, outside and via the concourse. The design was underpinned by large scale image of sound waves etched onto the architecture’s glass and was accompanied by two inset monitors each presenting ghosted images of passenger movements within the concourse, time-delay recorded and then cross-combined in realtime to form new composites.----- Each moving, reprogrammable phrase was conceived as a ‘train of thought’ and ostensibly contained an idea or concept about popular cultures surrounding contemporary music – thereby meeting the brief that the work should speak to the diverse musical cultures central to Fortitude Valley’s image as an entertainment hub. These cultural ‘memes’, gathered from both passengers and the music press were situated alongside quotes from philosophies of networking, speed and digital ecologies. These texts would continually propagate, replicate and cross fertlise as they moved throughout the ‘network’, thereby writing a constantly evolving ‘textual soundcape’ of that place. This idea was further cemented through the pace, scale and rhythm of passenger movements continually recorded and re-presented on the smaller screens.

Six Curses

This creative writing work was selected for publication in a bi-lingual anthology, published in China, as suitable to be culturally applicable to both Chinese and Australian social contexts. The poem raises six social/ethical issues and comments on them. It is based on research into Chinese traditional poetry that focuses on an image, and after each image this poem provides an ethical comment. It is based in the ethical hypothesis that moral evaluation of individual and social behaviour can not be achieved without ethical judgement which questions social norms. In particular, the poem questions the validity of fundamentalism – the belief in religious, scientific and moral absolutes. This is a key issue in contemporary research into the effect of religion on politics. It also draws on contemporary psychological theory, especially the concept of narcissism. The sociological basis of the work is in drawing parallels between eastern and western ethical issues, stressing similarity by inference. The imagery on which the poem is based selects objects such a single ‘stone’ that take on symbolic connotations common to both Australian and Chinese readers. This is innovative, since very little creative writing has been dome to address commonalities between Australian and Chinese ethical thinking, especially by adopting Chinese motifs.

Show

Script for non-verbal performance. Research Component: Silent Treatment: Creating Non-verbal Performance Works for Children The research field of theatre for young people draws on theories of child development and popular culture. SHOW explored personal and social development, friendship and creative play through the lens of the experience of girls aged 8-12. This project consolidated and refined innovative approaches to creating non-verbal theatre performance, and addressed challenges inherent in the creation of a performance by adults for young audiences. A significant finding of the project was the unanticipated convergence of creative practice and research into child behaviour and development: the congruence of content (Female bullying) and theatrical form (non-verbal performance: “Within the hidden culture of aggression, girls fight with body language and relationships instead of fists and knives. In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away Simmons, Rachel (2002:3) Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture Of Aggression In Girls Schwartz Books The creative development and drafting process focussed on negotiating the conceptual design and practical constraints of incorporating diegetic music and video sources into the narrative. The authorial (and production) challenges of creating a script that could facilitate the re-mount a non-verbal work for a company specialising in text-based theatre . Show was commissioned by the Queensland Theatre Company in 2003, toured into Queensland Schools by the Queensland Arts Council and in 2004 was performed at the Sydney Opera House.

Analyzing the prevalence of sports-related terms among the web sites of global corporations

This research investigates the prevalence of sports-related terms among the Web sites of the world’s leading companies, the Fortune Global 500. An automated process copied about four gigabytes of textual data, around 70 million words, from their sites. The subsequent analysis revealed regional and industry differences in the distribution of sports-related terms, the popularity of tennis stars and few references to sports stars, especially in Asia.

Chasing reporters : Infotainment, intertextuality and media satire

The Chaser’s War on Everything is a night time entertainment program which screened on Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC in 2006 and 2007. This enormously successful comedy show managed to generate a lot of controversy in its short lifespan (see, for example, Dennehy, 2007; Dubecki, 2007; McLean, 2007; Wright, 2007), but also drew much praise for its satirising of, and commentary on, topical issues. Through interviews with the program’s producers, qualitative audience research and textual analysis, this paper will focus on this show’s media satire, and the segment ‘What Have We Learned From Current Affairs This Week?’ in particular. Viewed as a form of ‘Critical Intertextuality’ (Gray, 2006), this segment (which offered a humorous critique of the ways in which news and current affairs are presented elsewhere on television) may equip citizens with a better understanding of the new genre’s production methods, thus producing a higher level of public media literacy. This paper argues that through its media satire, The Chaser acts not as a traditional news program would in informing the public with new information, but as a text which can inform and shape our understanding of news that already exists within the public sphere. Humorous analyses and critiques of the media (like those analysed in this paper), are in fact very important forms of infotainment, because they can provide “other, ‘improper,’ and yet more media literate and savvy interpretations” (Gray, 2006, p. 4) of the news.

Encounters and content sharing in an urban village : reading texts through an archaeological lens

Archaeology provides a framework of analysis and interpretation that is useful for disentangling the textual layers of a contemporary lived-in urban space. The producers and readers of texts may include those who planned and developed the site and those who now live, visit and work there. Some of the social encounters and content sharing between these people may be artificially produced or manufactured in the hope that certain social situations will occur. Others may be serendipitous. With archaeology’s original focus on places that are no longer inhabited it is often only the remaining artefacts and features of the built environment that form the basis for interpreting the social relationships of past people. Our analysis however, is framed within a contemporary notion of archaeological artefacts in an urban setting. Unlike an excavation, where the past is revealed through digging into the landscape, the application of landscape archaeology within a present day urban context is necessarily more experiential, visual and based on recording and analysing the physical traces of social encounters and relationships between residents and visitors. These physical traces are present within the creative content, and the built and natural elements of the environment. This chapter explores notions of social encounters and content sharing in an urban village by analysing three different types of texts: the design of the built environment; content produced by residents through a geospatial web application; and, print and online media produced in digital storytelling workshops.

Public knowledge beyond journalism : infotainment, satire and Australian television

This thesis examines the changing relationships between television, politics, audiences and the public sphere. Premised on the notion that mediated politics is now understood “in new ways by new voices” (Jones, 2005: 4), and appropriating what McNair (2003) calls a “chaos theory” of journalism sociology, this thesis explores how two different contemporary Australian political television programs (Sunrise and The Chaser’s War on Everything) are viewed, understood, and used by audiences. In analysing these programs from textual, industry and audience perspectives, this thesis argues that journalism has been largely thought about in overly simplistic binary terms which have failed to reflect the reality of audiences’ news consumption patterns. The findings of this thesis suggest that both ‘soft’ infotainment (Sunrise) and ‘frivolous’ satire (The Chaser’s War on Everything) are used by audiences in intricate ways as sources of political information, and thus these TV programs (and those like them) should be seen as legitimate and valuable forms of public knowledge production. It therefore might be more worthwhile for scholars to think about, research and teach journalism in the plural: as a series of complementary or antagonistic journalisms, rather than as a single coherent entity.

Using data mining to improve building life cycle

The building life cycle process is complex and prone to fragmentation as it moves through its various stages. The number of participants, and the diversity, specialisation and isolation both in space and time of their activities, have dramatically increased over time. The data generated within the construction industry has become increasingly overwhelming. Most currently available computer tools for the building industry have offered productivity improvement in the transmission of graphical drawings and textual specifications, without addressing more fundamental changes in building life cycle management. Facility managers and building owners are primarily concerned with highlighting areas of existing or potential maintenance problems in order to be able to improve the building performance, satisfying occupants and minimising turnover especially the operational cost of maintenance. In doing so, they collect large amounts of data that is stored in the building’s maintenance database. The work described in this paper is targeted at adding value to the design and maintenance of buildings by turning maintenance data into information and knowledge. Data mining technology presents an opportunity to increase significantly the rate at which the volumes of data generated through the maintenance process can be turned into useful information. This can be done using classification algorithms to discover patterns and correlations within a large volume of data. This paper presents how and what data mining techniques can be applied on maintenance data of buildings to identify the impediments to better performance of building assets. It demonstrates what sorts of knowledge can be found in maintenance records. The benefits to the construction industry lie in turning passive data in databases into knowledge that can improve the efficiency of the maintenance process and of future designs that incorporate that maintenance knowledge.

Negotiating multiple identities between school and the outside world : A critical discourse analysis

This article examines interview talk of three students in an Australian high school to show how they negotiate their young adult identities between school and the outside world. It draws on Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogism and heteroglossia to argue that identities are linguistically and corporeally constituted. A critical discourse analysis of segments of transcribed interviews and student-related public documents finds a mismatch between a social justice curriculum at school and its transfer into students’ accounts of outside school lived realities. The article concludes that a productive social justice pedagogy must use its key principles of (con)textual interrogation to engage students in reflexive practice about their positioning within and against discourses of social justice in their student and civic lives. An impending national curriculum must decide whether or not it negotiates the discursive divide any better.