Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro-American discourse. Yet formerly agro-pastoralist upwardly mobile Gaddi community Himalayan India, it by women with qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ indicate deeper disruption bodily humours, intimate relations, household materiality. This article takes tension, parti...

Abstract According to Aristotle, the crucial meta-virtue of phronesis (practical wisdom) is cultivated through teaching and experience. But he remains mostly silent on details this developmental picture its educational ramifications. This article focuses ‘taught’ element development in context police ethics education. I begin by piecing together trajectory that Aristotle suggests towards full v...

Acceptance Testing is a fundamental part of XP. It provides the customer-developer “handshake” required for a project to succeed. One logical place to do this testing is at the GUI level. However, to do so requires a GUI testing tool. This paper will discuss the lessons we learned developing and using such a tool over the course of several projects. We believe that these lessons are generally a...

The internet and the rise of e-Science alter the conditions for scholarly communication. In signing declarations against open access mandates, society publishers indicate that they feel most threatened by the emergence of institutional repositories and the self-archiving mandates that these make possible. More attention should be paid to the impact of e-Science, the rise of internet-based guild...

The field of computability and complexity was, where computer science sprung from. Turing, Church, and Kleene all developed formalisms that demonstrated what they held"intuitively computable". The times change however and today's (aspiring) computer scientists are less proficient in building automata or composing functions and are much more native to the world of programming languages. This art...

In the 2007 and 2010 Status of Girls in Wisconsin reports, published by the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls, it was found that while girls aspire to go to college, there may be some threats to their ability to attain or complete those aspirations. This was true especially for those aspiring to nontraditional majors such as the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. This pape...

Women entrepreneurs have been playing an increasingly significant role in the Chinese economic reform of the past thirty years. Through historical review and case studies, this paper examines the development of female entrepreneurship in the People’s Republic of China. Faced with both challenges and opportunities, aspiring Chinese women must have a clear vision, sheer determination and persever...

The effective translation of data into novel insights, discoveries, and solutions, also known as data science, has enormous potential to bring about positive social change. In this paper, we propose ways to “democratize data science”: that is, to allocate the power of data science to society’s greatest needs. Two underlying challenges are 1) the misalignment of economic incentives to aspiring d...