Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case-study

Sharma-Khushal, Sindra (2014) Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case-study. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Report on the 2015 NSF Workshop on Unified Annotation Tooling

Report on the 2015 NSF Workshop on Unified Annotation Tooling Finlayson, Mark Alan On March 30 & 31, 2015, an international group of twenty-three researchers with expertise in linguistic annotation convened in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida to discuss problems with and potential solutions for the state of linguistic annotation tooling. The participants comprised 14 researchers from the U.S. and 9 from outside the U.S., with 7 countries and 4 continents represented, and hailed from fields and specialties including computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, speech processing, multi-modal data processing, clinical & medical natural language processing, linguistics, documentary linguistics, sign-language linguistics, corpus linguistics, and the digital humanities. The motivating problem of the workshop was the balkanization of annotation tooling, namely, that even though linguistic annotation requires sophisticated tool support to efficiently generate high-quality data, the landscape of tools for the field is fractured, incompatible, inconsistent, and lacks key capabilities. The overall goal of the workshop was to chart the way forward, centering on five key questions: (1) What are the problems with current tool landscape? (2) What are the possible benefits of solving some or all of these problems? (3) What capabilities are most needed? (4) How should we go about implementing these capabilities? And, (5) How should we ensure longevity and sustainability of the solution? I surveyed the participants before their arrival, which provided significant raw material for ideas, and the workshop discussion itself resulted in identification of ten specific classes of problems, five sets of most-needed capabilities. Importantly, we identified annotation project managers in computational linguistics as the key recipients and users of any solution, thereby succinctly addressing questions about the scope and audience of potential solutions. We discussed management and sustainability of potential solutions at length. The participants agreed on sixteen recommendations for future work. This technical report contains a detailed discussion of all these topics, a point-by-point review of the discussion in the workshop as it unfolded, detailed information on the participants and their expertise, and the summarized data from the surveys.

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Our Information Will Replace Us

Our Information Will Replace Us Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 324, broadcast November 4, 2016. Features interview with Robyn Hitchcock, musician and songwriter, on the topic of how our physical and digital information may or may not be preserved.

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Question My Authority II: Academic Peer Review

Question My Authority II: Academic Peer Review Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Live discussion portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 323, broadcast Oct 28, 2016. Features interview with Mike Filler, Associate Professor and the Gunn Faculty Fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, head of the Filler Laboratory, and host of the Nanovation Podcast. Discussion centered on the nature of peer review, its problems, and what scientists could do instead.

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Serendipity and the Digital

Serendipity and the Digital Bennett, Charlie; Doshi, Ameet; Hagenmaier, Wendy; Rascoe, Fred Interview portion of Lost in the Stacks episode 322, broadcast October 21, 2016. Features interview with Kate Joranson, Head of the Frick Fine Arts Library at University of Pittsburgh, on the subject of serendipity in the digital library environment.

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An affective and embodied push to Bourdieu’s dispositional model: Funk’s cultural practices in Rio de Janeiro

Barboza Muniz, Bruno (2015) An affective and embodied push to Bourdieu’s dispositional model: Funk’s cultural practices in Rio de Janeiro. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Essays on functions and organisations of political parties

Lee, Suhjin (2016) Essays on functions and organisations of political parties. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Sectoral policy-making in China’s strategic industries: government guidance and state firm influence in the electricity supply sector

Sampson, Christopher (2016) Sectoral policy-making in China’s strategic industries: government guidance and state firm influence in the electricity supply sector. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Berantas Korupsi: a political history of governance reform and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia 1945-2014

Juwono, Vishnu (2016) Berantas Korupsi: a political history of governance reform and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia 1945-2014. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Ambisinisterity, success traps and the base of the pyramid

Millington, Nadia (2015) Ambisinisterity, success traps and the base of the pyramid. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A constructivist analysis of religion’s role in foreign policy: the cases of Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia under the leaderships of Menachem Begin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Fahd bin Abdulaziz

Delgado, Magdalena (2015) A constructivist analysis of religion’s role in foreign policy: the cases of Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia under the leaderships of Menachem Begin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Fahd bin Abdulaziz. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance

Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance Miller, T. Reed; Gregory, Jeremy; Kirchain, Randolph Guides, standards, product category rules, and environmental product declarations have emerged to evaluate environmental impacts within the buildings sector. These efforts have certainly moved the field forward, but as of yet still do not ensure comparability among building products or whole buildings. In this paper, we aim to address critical issues and make recommendations to practitioners and those developing guidance to enable more robust comparisons of building products and whole buildings.

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Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis (Revised)

Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis (Revised) Ghattas, Randa; Gregory, Jeremy; Noori, Mehdi; Miller, T. Reed; Olivetti, Elsa; Greene, Suzanne What is the environmental impact of a house throughout its lifetime? This report summarizes recent research on life cycle assessment of residential buildings in order to identify gaps in understanding as well as best practices for LCA methodology.

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The patterns and dynamics of the civil service pay reform in Korea

Nam, Ju Hyun (2016) The patterns and dynamics of the civil service pay reform in Korea. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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The attraction of unity: power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia

Buitrón Arias, Natalia (2016) The attraction of unity: power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Communicating effectively during an LMS migration: Hitting the sweet spot

Communicating effectively during an LMS migration: Hitting the sweet spot Givens, Marlee; Jeffcoat, Heather In the ever-changing library landscape effective communication is paramount, especially during a significant change like introducing a new library management system (LMS). During Georgia Tech’s rapid implementation of a NextGen library system, our communications team had to quickly develop a strategy for internal and external communications. Focusing on the essential messages for both staff and users enabled us to hit the sweet spot between too much communication and too little. We will discuss best practices, challenges, successes and lessons learned as we underwent our recent LMS migration. Presented at the 28th Georgia COMO Conference, October 5-7, 2016, Athens GA.

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Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare

Terry, Jillian (2015) Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Refugee repatriation and consent

Gerver, Mollie (2016) Refugee repatriation and consent. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Understanding flexible work and well-being: analysis of a critical case

Cañibano, Almudena (2016) Understanding flexible work and well-being: analysis of a critical case. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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A supply-side story of oil and gas: how fear of the future dictates behaviour today

Bligaard Nielsen, Thomas (2016) A supply-side story of oil and gas: how fear of the future dictates behaviour today. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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