Don't-cares in the concurrency matrix for bit steering

The concurrency matrix aids the detection of bit steerability of microcommand sets in a microprogram. In the present work, the concept of don't-cares is introduced into the concurrency matrix to identify the bit steerable microcommand sets.

"We don't tell people what to do": An ethnography of health promotion with Indigenous Australians in South East Queensland

This thesis contributes to the decolonisation of health promotion by examining Indigenous-led health promotion practice in an urban setting. Using critical ethnography, the study revealed dialogical, identity-based approaches that centred relationship, community control and choice. Based on the findings, the thesis proposes four interrelated principles for decolonising health promotion and argues that Indigenous-led health promotion presents a way to bridge the rhetoric and practice of empowerment in Australian mainstream health promotion practice.

Things you don't want to know about yourself: Ambivalence about tracking and sharing personal information for behaviour change

Technologies that facilitate the collection and sharing of personal information can feed people's desire for enhanced self-knowledge and help them to change their behaviour, yet for various reasons people can also be reluctant to use such technologies. This paper explores this tension through an interview study in the context of smoking cessation. Our findings show that smokers and recent ex-smokers were ambivalent about their behaviour change as well as about collecting personal information through technology and sharing it with other users. We close with a summary of three challenges emerging from such ambivalence and directions to address them.

Why Don't Students Talk? Causes of Foreign Language Communication Apprehension in English Classes: A Comparison of High Apprehensive and Low Apprehensive Upper Secondary Students.

OBJECTIVES. Oral foreign language skills are an integral part of one's social, academic and professional competence. This can be problematic for those suffering from foreign language communication apprehension (CA), or a fear of speaking a foreign language. CA manifests itself, for example, through feelings of anxiety and tension, physical arousal and avoidance of foreign language communication situations. According to scholars, foreign language CA may impede the language learning process significantly and have detrimental effects on one's language learning, academic achievement and career prospects. Drawing on upper secondary students' subjective experiences of communication situations in English as a foreign language, this study seeks, first, to describe, analyze and interpret why upper secondary students experience English language communication apprehension in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Second, this study seeks to analyse what the most anxiety-arousing oral production tasks in EFL classes are, and which features of different oral production tasks arouse English language communication apprehension and why. The ultimate objectives of the present study are to raise teachers' awareness of foreign language CA and its features, manifestations and impacts in foreign language classes as well as to suggest possible ways to minimize the anxiety-arousing features in foreign language classes. METHODS. The data was collected in two phases by means of six-part Likert-type questionnaires and theme interviews, and analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The questionnaire data was collected in spring 2008. The respondents were 122 first-year upper secondary students, 68 % of whom were girls and 31 % of whom were boys. The data was analysed by statistical methods using SPSS software. The theme interviews were conducted in spring 2009. The interviewees were 11 second-year upper secondary students aged 17 to 19, who were chosen by purposeful selection on the basis of their English language CA level measured in the questionnaires. Six interviewees were classified as high apprehensives and five as low apprehensives according to their score in the foreign language CA scale in the questionnaires. The interview data was coded and thematized using the technique of content analysis. The analysis and interpretation of the data drew on a comparison of the self-reports of the highly apprehensive and low apprehensive upper secondary students. RESULTS. The causes of English language CA in EFL classes as reported by the students were both internal and external in nature. The most notable causes were a low self-assessed English proficiency, a concern over errors, a concern over evaluation, and a concern over the impression made on others. Other causes related to a high English language CA were a lack of authentic oral practise in EFL classes, discouraging teachers and negative experiences of learning English, unrealistic internal demands for oral English performance, high external demands and expectations for oral English performance, the conversation partner's higher English proficiency, and the audience's large size and unfamiliarity. The most anxiety-arousing oral production tasks in EFL classes were presentations or speeches with or without notes in front of the class, acting in front of the class, pair debates with the class as audience, expressing thoughts and ideas to the class, presentations or speeches without notes while seated, group debates with the class as audience, and answering to the teacher's questions involuntarily. The main features affecting the anxiety-arousing potential of an oral production task were a high degree of attention, a large audience, a high degree of evaluation, little time for preparation, little linguistic support, and a long duration.

When good neighbors don't need fences: temporal landscape partitioning among baboon social groups

Intraspecific competition is a key factor shaping space-use strategies and movement decisions in many species, yet how and when neighbors utilize shared areas while exhibiting active avoidance of one another is largely unknown. Here, we investigated temporal landscape partitioning in a population of wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). We used global positioning system (GPS) collars to synchronously record the hourly locations of five baboon social groups for similar to 900 days, and we used behavioral, demographic, and life history data to measure factors affecting use of overlap areas. Annual home ranges of neighboring groups overlapped substantially, as predicted (baboons are considered non-territorial), but home ranges overlapped less when space use was assessed over shorter time scales. Moreover, neighboring groups were in close spatial proximity to one another on fewer days than predicted by a null model, suggesting an avoidance-based spacing pattern. At all time scales examined (monthly, biweekly, and weekly), time spent in overlap areas was greater during time periods when groups fed on evenly dispersed, low-quality foods. The percent of fertile females in social groups was negatively correlated with time spent in overlap areas only during weekly time intervals. This suggests that broad temporal changes in ecological resources are a major predictor of how intensively overlap areas are used, and groups modify these ecologically driven spacing patterns at short time scales based on female reproductive status. Together, these findings offer insight into the economics of territoriality by highlighting the dynamics of spacing patterns at differing time scales.

Acerca del Troço de la corónica del rey don Enrique el Doliente del manuscrito BNM 1530

Resumen: A raíz del descubrimiento de un testimonio desconocido perteneciente a la tradición de la Refundición del Sumario del Despensero, en ff. 238v-239v del manuscrito Biblioteca Nacional de España 15530 (BETA manid 4978), la ponencia se propone indagar el procedimiento fragmentario de construcción del objeto historiable en las obras historiográficas del siglo XV conocidas como sumarios de crónicas. Del mismo modo, vincula este fragmento con los hechos narrados en el “Magnicidio de Alfaro” (Crónica de Sancho IV) proponiendo su inclusión dentro del tópico “prendimiento de un grande”, el cual encuentra significativos ejemplos en la cronística medieval española.

Don Ramón Vega, enigmático rebelde de la ópera mexicana

Resumen: Un fortuito hallazgo del libreto manuscrito de la ópera El grito de Dolores, de Ramón Vega, compositor mexicano del siglo XIX, protagonizado por esta autora, desencadenó una serie de preguntas que hasta el presente no han sido respondidas a cabalidad por los estudios dedicados a la historia de la música en México. La investigación desarrollada con el propósito de situar el manuscrito encontrado en el contexto social y cultural del siglo de la Independencia y la exhaustiva pesquisa realizada en diferentes archivos históricos fructificaron en el descubrimiento de un vasto corpus de fuentes documentales actualmente desconocidas. La información que arrojó el análisis de estos documentos completó el conocimiento existente sobre la vida de Ramón Vega, permitió enderezar algunas ideas falibles en torno a su producción operística, así como construir y sustentar la hipótesis de que El grito de Dolores puede calificarse como el primer intento de creación de una ópera mexicana “enteramente nacional”.

Memoria poética y geografía en Don Juan Manuel

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

Llorar como Amadis / destruir como Orlando : una opción penitencial de don Quijote con vastas consecuencias

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

Las relaciones entre texto y música en la producción del rey Don Denis de Portugal

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

Contrafactum y adaptación de la canción de Malmaridada en la Península Ibérica : del Cancionero del rey Don Denis al Cancionero para cantar la noche de Navidad de Francisco de Ocaña

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII : Actas de las X Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2011, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo.

La visión de la autoridad regia desde la perspectiva de la nobleza rebelde en el Libro del conde Lucanor de don Juan Manuel y Mocedades de Rodrigo

Resumen: El trabajo propone una lectura del ejemplo XXXIIII del Libro del conde Lucanor (“De lo que conteçió a un falcón sacre del infante don Manuel con un águila et con una garça”) que atiende a cómo don Juan Manuel evalúa y discute la figura de autoridad real. Sin embargo, su relación con el rey se entiende como la síntesis de los conflictos entre proyecto nobiliario y proyecto regio, y es enfocada desde la perspectiva ideológica de los grandes señores de Castilla. Al mismo tiempo se intentará una lectura comparada con Mocedades de Rodrigo que trata la misma problemática con similar perspectiva ideológica, pero con una resolución diferente del conflicto

Historia caballeresca de Don Claridoro de España, libro de caballerías manuscrito

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula