In this piece, the writer offers up a tentative exemplification of how reframing thesis in terms what it can do rather than is has potential to generate joyful-artful engagement with PhD process and engender more response-able relationship world. By refusing engage dis-abling processes prescribed by institutional expectations doctoral study, act writing emerges as powerful antidote constraints ...

Although infrequently discussed in the professional literature, visionary language and visual imagery are identifiable elements within occupational therapy's culture. They seem part of the profession's desire to characterize, affirm, and renew itself. One early vision of practice, that of reaching for heart as well as hands, is the subject of this inquiry that extends a prior discussion of visi...

TESSA is an interactive translation system designed to support transactions between a post office clerk and a deaf customer. The system translates the clerk’s speech into British Sign Language (BSL), displayed on a screen, using a specially-developed avatar (virtual human). TESSA is a context-constrained exemplification of one of two basic approaches to machine translation, neither of which can...

While advances in open distributed systems have undoubtedly provided a uniquely diverse environment for users, managing the resources within such an environment has become an increasingly complex task. This challenge has been considered for several years within the distributed systems management research community and we have recently seen policy-based management emerge as one such promising ex...

William Allen, aged 40, a West Indian Negro, contracted syphilis about two years ago, for which he seems to have been salivated. The teeth were loosened, the gums spongy, and these with the insides of the cheeks became ulcerated. From thafe time ulceration and salivation have been constantly present. About a year ago the disease involved the greater part of the lower lip. The case had then been...

A study was conducted to test the hypothesis that high self-monitors more effectively manage impressions than low self-monitors do. Students in work groups indicated the extent to which they used 5 impression-management tactics over the course of a semester-long project. At the project's conclusion, students provided their perceptions of the other members of their group. The relationship betwee...

In this paper, we would like to exemplify how a syntactically annotated bilingual treebank can help us in exploring and revising a developed linguistic theory. On the material of the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank we observe sentences in which an Addressee argument in one language is linked translationally to a Patient argument in the other one, and make generalizations about the theo...

A popular definition of computational creativity is that it consists in behaviour that would be regarded as creative if performed by humans. This raises the question of which humans, as there are many different styles of human creative behaviour. This paper unpacks a number of ways in which human artistic creativity can be characterised, compares them with the kinds of creative actions found in...

Feminists and women’s groups around the world have been struggling to achieve some hard fought battles for equality and recognition for a very long time. Each success and each step forward has given many a reason to celebrate. But each success cannot be assumed to be complete, and “progress” is not inevitable. At specific points in time and geographic regions, strides forward in the battle towa...