Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation: Bidirectional Neuroprosthetics for Tremor and BCI

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Elements of molecular neurobiology

This edition of the popular text incorporates recent advances in neurobiology enabled by modern molecular biology techniques. Understanding how the brain works from a molecular level allows research to better understand behaviours, cognition, and neuropathologies. Since the appearance six years ago of the second edition, much more has been learned about the molecular biology of development and its relations with early evolution. This "evodevo" (as it has come to be known) framework also has a great deal of bearing on our understanding of neuropathologies as dysfunction of early onset genes can cause neurodegeneration in later life. Advances in our understanding of the genomes and proteomes of a number of organisms also greatly influence our understanding of neurobiology. This book will be of particular interest to biomedical undergraduates undertaking a neuroscience unit, neuroscience postgraduates, physiologists, pharmacologists. It is also a useful basic reference for university libraries.

Collaborative entrepreneurship:how communities of networked firms use continuous innovation to create economic wealth

Book Review: Raymond E. Miles, Grant Miles and Charles C. Snow Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth, 2005, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press 144 pages

Understanding enterprise behaviour:a feasibility study

This paper describes work conducted as a joint collaboration between the Virtual Design Team (VDT) research group at Stanford University (USA) , the Systems Engineering Group (SEG) at De Montfort University (UK) and Elipsis Ltd . We describe a new docking methodology in which we combine the use of two radically different types of organizational simulation tool. The VDT simulation tool operates on a standalone computer, and employs computational agents during simulated execution of a pre-defined process model (Kunz, 1998). The other software tool, DREAMS , operates over a standard TCP/IP network, and employs human agents (real people) during a simulated execution of a pre-defined process model (Clegg, 2000).

On plagiarism, patchwriting and the problems of overseas students in British universities

Although according to Angélil-Carter (2002: 2) ‘plagiarism is a modern Western concept which arose with the introduction of copyright laws in the Eighteenth century’, its avoidance is now a basic plank of respectable academic scholarship. Student plagiarism is currently a hot topic, at least for those who teach and study in British and American universities. There are companies selling both off-the-shelf and written-to-order term papers and others, like Turnitin.com, offering an electronic detection service. Recently an Australian Rector was dismissed for persistent plagiarism earlier in his career and most Anglo-American universities have warnings against and definitions of plagiarism on their websites – indeed Pennycook notes that in the mid-90s Stanford University's documents about plagiarism were reproduced by the University of Oregon apparently without attribution, and suggests, whimsically, that there is 'one set of standards for the guardians of truth and knowledge and another for those seeking entry' (1996: 213), (example and quote taken from Pecorari, 2002, p 29).

FIU Digital Commons Annual Report, FY 2012-2013

The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of Florida International University Libraries��� institutional repository. The report includes download and page hit statistics for all collections held in FIU Digital Commons.

FIU Digital Commons Annual Report, FY 2011-2012

The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of Florida International University Libraries��� institutional repository. The report includes download and page hit statistics for all collections held in FIU Digital Commons.

FIU Digital Commons Annual Report, FY 2013-2014

The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a means of monitoring the yearly progress of Florida International University Libraries��� institutional repository. The report includes download and page hit statistics for all collections held in FIU Digital Commons.

Research databases page usability test - August 2016

During the summer of 2016, Duke University Libraries staff began a project to update the way that research databases are displayed on the library website. The new research databases page is a customized version of the default A-Z list that Springshare provides for its LibGuides content management system. Duke Libraries staff made adjustments to the content and interface of the page. In order to see how Duke users navigated the new interface, usability testing was conducted on August 9th, 2016.

Aproximaciones a los usos y apropiación de Twitter en bibliotecas universitarias de Argentina

El artículo analiza los principales usos de la plataforma Twitter por parte de bibliotecas universitarias en Argentina. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica, se exponen los procedimientos metodológicos empleados para identificar las instituciones que cuentan con esta herramienta comunicacional en la actualidad y los usos que se hace de ella a partir de ítems tales como: datos institucionales básicos, visibilidad y accesibilidad de la cuenta de Twitter en la Web de la biblioteca, momento de inicio de la actividad, volumen histórico de tuits, seguidores y siguiendo, así como cantidad y tipo de publicaciones realizadas en el período del relevamiento de datos. En los resultados se observa que un escaso número de bibliotecas adoptaron Twitter y que la apropiación de la herramienta muestra en general usos no planificados más centrados en la difusión que la interacción con usuarios. Se proponen estudios complementarios para conocer rutinas laborales de los bibliotecarios al respecto

Aproximaciones a los usos y apropiación de Twitter en bibliotecas universitarias de Argentina

El artículo analiza los principales usos de la plataforma Twitter por parte de bibliotecas universitarias en Argentina. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica, se exponen los procedimientos metodológicos empleados para identificar las instituciones que cuentan con esta herramienta comunicacional en la actualidad y los usos que se hace de ella a partir de ítems tales como: datos institucionales básicos, visibilidad y accesibilidad de la cuenta de Twitter en la Web de la biblioteca, momento de inicio de la actividad, volumen histórico de tuits, seguidores y siguiendo, así como cantidad y tipo de publicaciones realizadas en el período del relevamiento de datos. En los resultados se observa que un escaso número de bibliotecas adoptaron Twitter y que la apropiación de la herramienta muestra en general usos no planificados más centrados en la difusión que la interacción con usuarios. Se proponen estudios complementarios para conocer rutinas laborales de los bibliotecarios al respecto

Aproximaciones a los usos y apropiación de Twitter en bibliotecas universitarias de Argentina

El artículo analiza los principales usos de la plataforma Twitter por parte de bibliotecas universitarias en Argentina. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica, se exponen los procedimientos metodológicos empleados para identificar las instituciones que cuentan con esta herramienta comunicacional en la actualidad y los usos que se hace de ella a partir de ítems tales como: datos institucionales básicos, visibilidad y accesibilidad de la cuenta de Twitter en la Web de la biblioteca, momento de inicio de la actividad, volumen histórico de tuits, seguidores y siguiendo, así como cantidad y tipo de publicaciones realizadas en el período del relevamiento de datos. En los resultados se observa que un escaso número de bibliotecas adoptaron Twitter y que la apropiación de la herramienta muestra en general usos no planificados más centrados en la difusión que la interacción con usuarios. Se proponen estudios complementarios para conocer rutinas laborales de los bibliotecarios al respecto

Crisis communication in politics: forgiveness as image restoration tool

Crisis communication is a widely treated field. There are lot of works and guides which provide helpful information in order to face crisis situations successfully (Alcat, 2005, Benoit, 1997) and articles about case studies (Nespereira, 2014, Blaney y Benoit 2001). Nonetheless, most of times, these guides are focused on business or corporations (Abeler, 2010) and there are not such information about crisis communications in politics (Gaspar e Ibeas, 2015). The field is smaller if we speak about forgiveness as restoration image tool in politics (Harris 2006). Despite all, we live in “forgiveness era” as Krauze said (1998) where people demand to politicians to apologize when they have mistakes (Harris et al. 2006:716). So, we will try to make an approach to forgiveness in politics as a image restoration tool and analyze its capabilities in order to face crisis management.

Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction: Articulating Circuits of Migration

Care has come to dominate much feminist research on globalized migrations and the transfer of labor from the South to the North, while the older concept of reproduction had been pushed into the background but is now becoming the subject of debates on the commodification of care in the household and changes in welfare state policies. This article argues that we could achieve a better understanding of the different modalities and trajectories of care in the reproduction of individuals, families, and communities, both of migrant and nonmigrant populations by articulating the diverse circuits of migration, in particular that of labor and the family. In doing this, I go back to the earlier North American writing on racialized minorities and migrants and stratified social reproduction. I also explore insights from current Asian studies of gendered circuits of migration connecting labor and marriage migrations as well as the notion of global householding that highlights the gender politics of social reproduction operating within and beyond households in institutional and welfare architectures. In contrast to Asia, there has relatively been little exploration in European studies of the articulation of labor and family migrations through the lens of social reproduction. However, connecting the different types of migration enables us to achieve a more complex understanding of care trajectories and their contribution to social reproduction.