Analyzing generative group activities against the backdrop of an increasingly connected world, this paper develops the concept of "generative collectives" as a theoretical lens for explaining why some internet-based groups are more generative than others. Generative collectives are groups of people with shared interests or goals who mutually engage in rejuvenating, reconfiguring, reframing and ...

Summary  Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a frequent finding in cases of facial trauma or dental malpractice, and legal claims for TMD damage have been increased over the years. Temporomandibular disorders assessment in the medical legal setting is complicated by the peculiarities of these disorders, whose symptoms are heterogeneous, fluctuant, and recognise a multifactorial origin. A syst...

Project title: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment Project number: 244779 Programme: Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development Objective: SiS-2009-1.1.2.1: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: ethical, social and legal aspects. Contract type: Collaborative project Star...

This is the Technical Report version of the 2013 POPL submission by the same title. It includes the POPL version verbatim, followed by an appendix containing omitted contents and proofs.

s This paper is based on the author’s talk at 1997 Taniguchi Symposium “Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry”. We consider an approach to the theory of Frobenius manifolds based on the geometry of flat pencils of contravariant metrics. It is shown that, under certain homogeneity assumptions, these two objects are identical. The flat pencils of contravariant metrics on a manifold M appear n...

We provide cubature formulas for the calculation of derivatives of expected values in the spririt of Terry Lyons and Nicolas Victoir. In financial mathematics derivatives of option prices with respect to initial values, so called Greeks, are of particular importance as hedging parameters. The proof of existence of Cubature formulas for Greeks is based on an argument, which leads to the calculat...

In the UK schools are required by law to protect students from bullying; the responsibility of teachers to govern such behaviour has been extended outside the school setting to include cyberbullying. In this investigation, cyberbullying in secondary education is explored from the student perspective using a qualitative method of enquiry. Reported awareness and understanding about the legal aspe...

This paper deals with the old and classical problem of determining necessary conditions for the overconstrained mobility of some mechanical device. Methods from algebraic geometry have already been used to investigate these mobility conditions, and we propose some tools specifically developed for the so–called n–pods. In particular, we focus on the conditions which are imposed on an n–pod by th...

There are a number of requirements by which animals should be managed so that the best performance is achieved in a way acceptable to those responsible for the care of the animals and to the community generally. These requirements are the keys to good management and may be used to test the management of a poultry enterprise in relation to the standard of its management. These requirements are a...