Representation matters !

Should research samples reflect the diversity of the population?

Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are present in samples. For quantitative research looking primarily at treatment effects of drugs and devices four suggestions are made. First, identify where the representation of minorities in samples...

Dual Representation in Unrelated Matters Permitted with Client Consent When Firm Can Protect Clients' Best Interests: Unified Sewerage Agency v. Jelco Inc., 646 F.2d 1339

Dual Representation in Unrelated Matters Permitted with Client Consent When Firm Can Protect Clients' Best Interests: Unified Sewerage Agency v. Jelco Inc., 646 F.2d 1339

Pitch Contour Shape Matters in Memory

The Autosegmental-metrical model of prosody [1,2] holds that pitch melodies can be modeled with level low and high tones; information about the shape of the pitch contour is not part of the phonological representation. Yet recent results [3,4] show that contour shape affects the perception of tone height and timing. A pitch plateau that maintains a level pitch at its peak will be perceived as h...

“Except That the Haunted, Hidden Thing Was Me”: Ghostly Matters and Transsexual Haunting

This paper examines motifs of ghostliness and haunting in representations of transsexuality, both in the violent and oppressive representations of transsexuality within a transphobic culture, and in the self-representation and narration of transsexuals themselves. Using scholar Avery Gordon’s definition of haunting—which characterizes haunting as the “knot” of oppression, self-representation, a...

Issues of Integration and Balancing in Hybrid

In the last several years the hybrid approach to Knowledge Representation has received much attention, because it was felt that one monolithic knowledge representation formalism cannot meet all representational demands. In this paper we will present one particular hybrid knowledge representation system, BACK, concentrating on matters of how to integrate diierent subformalisms and their interpre...