Real or imagined women? Staff representations of international women postgraduate students

In Australia\u27s globalising universities many support staff and teaching staff now work with international women postgraduate students. But are they aware of the issues facing these women, and is their understanding of them adequate? Indeed, how do they represent them? In this paper we draw on a small-scale pilot study involving key university personnel. We argue that the ways in which such staff represent this group of students is problematic. Focusing primarily on academic issues and on the literature on learning styles, we analyse these staff members\u27 representations of international women postgraduate students from a postcolonial perspective. We explore the extent to which such representations, and the learning styles literature that reflects and informs them, are what Edward Said calls \u27Orientalist\u27. In so doing, we point to both the constitution of the international woman student as postcolonial female subject and show how this situates her in relation to the prevalent learning styles discourse. Further we argue that such representations of the students differ in crucial ways from the students\u27 self-representations, suggesting that in certain subtle ways such staff members are engaging with \u27imagined\u27 rather than \u27real\u27 women. <br /

Elucidation of Verifiable Secret Sharing Schemes for Images

Abstract: Images proved to be better medium for sharing sensitive data. Earlier secret sharing schemes were based on numbers and further were also applied on images. Most of the existing schemes proposed do not have the capability of verification of the shares and hence are prone to cheating either by the original secret holder or the participants. Some of these schemes provided security but required additional computation in the form of certificate vectors or error correction codes The intent of this paper is to discuss the verifiable secret sharing schemes. The paper analyses these schemes and presents a comparative study of the same. The parameters used for comparative study are threshold, cheater identification, techniques used for verification, need secure channel, etc. This paper will support in choosing the verifiable secret sharing scheme for specific applications

Comparing and learning from English and American higher education access and completion policies

England and the United States provide a very interesting pairing as countries with many similarities, but also instructive dissimilarities, with respect to their policies for higher education access and success. We focus on five key policy strands: student information provision; outreach from higher education institutions; student financial aid; affirmative action or contextualisation in higher education admissions; and programmes to improve higher education retention and completion. At the end, we draw conclusions on what England and the US can learn from each other. The US would benefit from following England in using Access and Participation Plans to govern university outreach efforts, making more use of income-contingent loans, and expanding the range of information provided to prospective higher education students. Meanwhile, England would benefit from following the US in making greater use of grant aid to students, devoting more policy attention to educational decisions students are making in early secondary school, and expanding its use of contextualised admissions. While we focus on England and the US, we think that the policy recommendations we make carry wider applicability. Many other countries with somewhat similar educational structures, experiences, and challenges could learn useful lessons from the policy experiences of these two countries

Optimization of Travelling Tournament Problem Using Nature Based Algorithms

Abstract: Travelling tournament problem(TTP) is evolved NP-hard problem from its similarity to Travelling Salesman problem.(TSP). TTP aims to solve optimization of objectives to stimulate the schedule of tournaments which now a days is used in such organizations. The availability of resources, constraints and objectives for optimization makes TTP problem hard to produce successful results efficiently. The optimization approaches used to solve complex TTP problem with higher number of teams and venues by researchers shows the partially accurate results with higher execution time. We propose here the novel approach to solve TTP using Genetic algorithm (GA) which tend to produce accurate results compared to existing approaches. We further extend this solution to reduce execution overhead of GA using parallel decomposition of GA. In this paper we present the proposed project work to optimize TTP using hierarchical parallel GA (HPGA) implementation on Hadoop Map Reduce

Experimental Study of the Iso-Heat-Transfer-Rate Lines on the End-Wall of a Turbine Cascade Experimental Study of the Iso-Heat-Transfer-Rate Lines on the End-Wall of a Turbine Cascade

Experiments were conducted to study the distribution of the iso-heat-transfer-rate lines on the end-wall of a turbine cascade. A light piston isentropic compression tube facility was used for the experiments together with thin film heat transfer gages and a fast response analog recording system. The conditions fully represented typical Mach and Reynolds numbers, temperature ratio as well as the blade section of a modern cooled turbine. Special attention was paid to the need for good spatial resolution. The study includes the effect of the free-stream turbulence intensity level and the inlet boundary layer thickness. A subsonic compressible flow calculation method was used to predict the potential flow streamlines and a visualization method was used to study the limiting streamlines on the end wall. Furthermore, the distribution of various heat transfer parameters (e.g., qca St) along these streamlines have undergone detailed study and some uniformity is shown to exist. ABSTRACT Experiments were conducted to study the distribution of the iso-heat-transfer-rate lines on the end-wall of a turbine cascade. A light piston isentropic compression tube facility was used for the experiments together with thin film heat transfer gauges and a fast response analog recording system. The conditions fully represented typical Mach and Reynolds numbers, temperature ratio as well as the blade section of a modern cooled turbine. Special attention was paid to the need for good spatial resolution. The study includes the effect of the free-stream turbulence intensity level and the inlet boundary layer thickness. A subsonic compressible flow calculation method was used to predict the potential flow streamlines and a visualization method was used to study the limiting streamlines on the end wall. Furthermore, the distribution of various heat transfer parameters (e.g. q,,,, St) along these streamlines have undergone detailed study and some uniformity is shown to exist