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Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory, Practice, Activism (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
by Brian James Baer Klaus KaindlThis groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors’ introduction to the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation; Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators; and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to not only shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross fertilization between these disciplines towards further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, and activism, and gender and sexuality studies.
Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory, Practice, Activism (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
by Brian James Baer Klaus KaindlThis groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors’ introduction to the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation; Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators; and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to not only shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross fertilization between these disciplines towards further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, and activism, and gender and sexuality studies.
queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media (Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality)
by Claire MareeFrom the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.
QUEERQUEEN SLG C: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media (Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality)
by Claire MareeFrom the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.
Queerstories: Reflections on lives well lived from some of Australia's finest LGBTQIA+ writers
by Maeve MarsdenThere's more to being queer than coming out and getting married. This exciting and contemporary collection contains stories that are as diverse as the LGBTQIA+ community from which they're drawn. From hilarious anecdotes of an awkward adolescence, to heartwarming stories of family acceptance and self-discovery, the LGBTQIA+ community has been sharing stories for centuries, creating their own histories, disrupting and reinventing conventional ideas about narrative, family, love and community.Curated from the hugely popular Queerstories storytelling event this important collection features stories from Benjamin Law, Jen Cloher, Nayuka Gorrie, Peter Polites, Candy Royalle, Rebecca Shaw, Simon 'Pauline Pantsdown' Hunt, Steven Lindsay Ross, Amy Coopes, Paul van Reyk, Mama Alto, Liz Duck-Chong, Maxine Kauter, David Cunningham, Peter Taggart, Ben McLeay, Jax Jacki Brown, Ginger Valentine, Candy Bowers, Simon Copland, Kelly Azizi, Nic Holas, Quinn Eades, Vicki Melson, Tim Bishop and Maeve Marsden.
Querying Moving Objects Detected by Sensor Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Markus BestehornDeclarative query interfaces to Sensor Networks (SN) have become a commodity. These interfaces allow access to SN deployed for collecting data using relational queries. However, SN are not confined to data collection, but may track object movement, e.g., wildlife observation or traffic monitoring. While rational approaches are well suited for data collection, research on Moving Object Databases (MOD) has shown that relational operators are unsuitable to express information needs on object movement, i.e., spatio-temporal queries. Querying Moving Objects Detected by Sensor Networks studies declarative access to SN that track moving objects. The properties of SN present a straightforward application of MOD, e.g., node failures, limited detection ranges and accuracy which vary over time etc. Furthermore, point sets used to model MOD-entities like regions assume the availability of very accurate knowledge regarding the spatial extend of these entities, assuming such knowledge is unrealistic for most SN. This book is the first that defines a complete set of spatio-temporal operators for SN while taking into account their properties. Based on these operators, we systematically investigate how to derive query results from object detections by SN. Finally, process spatio-temporal queries are shown in SN efficiently, i.e., reducing the communication between nodes. The evaluation shows that the measures reduce communication by 45%-89%.
Querying over Encrypted Data in Smart Grids (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Mi Wen Rongxing Lu Xiaohui Liang Jingsheng Lei Xuemin (Sherman) ShenThis SpringerBrief presents the concept of the smart grid architecture and investigates the security issues of the smart grid and the existing encrypted data query techniques. Unique characteristics of smart grid impose distinguished challenges on this investigation, such as multidimensional attributes in metering data and finer grained query on each dimension. Three kinds of queries are introduced, namely, equality query, conjunctive query and range query. For the equality query over encrypted metering data, an efficient searchable encryption scheme is introduced and can be applied for auction in emerging smart grid marketing. Later chapters examine the conjunctive query and range query over encrypted data. Different techniques are used, including the Public key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) and Hidden Vector Encryption (HVE), to construct the comparison predicate and range query predicate. Their correctness is demonstrated in the book. Concise and practical, Encrypted Data Querying in Smart Grids is valuable for professionals and researchers involved in data privacy or encryption. It is also useful for graduate students interested in smart grid and related technologies.
The Quest for Attention: Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age
by Chao Guo Gregory D. SaxtonToday, social media offers an alternative broadcast and communication medium for nonprofit advocacy organizations. At the same time, social media ushers in a "noisy" information era that renders it more difficult for nonprofits to make their voices heard. This book seeks to unpack the prevalence, mechanisms, and ramifications of a new model for nonprofit advocacy in a social media age. The keyword for this new model is attention. Advocacy always starts with attention: when an organization speaks out on a cause, it must ensure that it has an audience and that its voice is heard by that audience; it must ensure that current and potential supporters are paying attention to what it has to say before expecting more tangible outcomes. Yet the organization must also ensure that advocacy does not end with attention: attention should serve as a springboard to something greater. The authors elaborate how attention fits into contemporary organizations' advocacy work and explain the key features of social media that are driving the quest for attention. Developing conceptual models, they explain why some organizations and messages gain attention while others do not. Lastly, the book explores how organizations are weaving together online and offline efforts to deliver strategic advocacy outcomes.
A Question of Trust
by Gayatri Rath Paarul ChandWhy has Communications become one of the core functions of an organization? How can a CEO use it to their company’s best advantage? Gayatri Rath and Paarul Chand bring over fifty years of combined experience in corporate communications and the media industry to this essential CEO’s handbook to answer these questions and more.
Questioning the New Public Management
by John ChandlerThe book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment of NPM in its specific organizational contexts. A range of public services are covered including local government, education, social work and the police, with particular attention paid to the National Health Service. The editors introduce the case studies through an examination of the 'hydra-headed' nature of NPM, its variability between sectors and its contested character. This provides themes that are developed within the case studies, where, in varying organizational contexts, the meaning of NPM is negotiated and its impact on those working in the organization is explored. The book points to the complex, fluid and negotiated character of NPM, as well as its centrality in reconfiguring occupational identities and relations within public service organizations.
Questioning the New Public Management
by John ChandlerThe book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment of NPM in its specific organizational contexts. A range of public services are covered including local government, education, social work and the police, with particular attention paid to the National Health Service. The editors introduce the case studies through an examination of the 'hydra-headed' nature of NPM, its variability between sectors and its contested character. This provides themes that are developed within the case studies, where, in varying organizational contexts, the meaning of NPM is negotiated and its impact on those working in the organization is explored. The book points to the complex, fluid and negotiated character of NPM, as well as its centrality in reconfiguring occupational identities and relations within public service organizations.
Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation (AK Peters Visualization Series)
by Neil RichardsThis book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of the way, ultimately discussing how and when to bend and break the "rules" to come up with creative, unique, and sometimes unconventional ideas. Each easy-to-follow chapter poses one key question and provides a selection of discussion points and relevant data visualisation examples throughout. Structured in three parts: Section I poses questions around some fundamental data visualisation principles, while Section II introduces more advanced questions, challenging perceived best practices and suggesting when rules are open to interpretation or there to be broken. The questions in Section III introduce further themes leading on to specific ideas and visualisation projects in more detail. Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation will appeal to any reader with an interest in creative or unconventional data visualisation and will be especially useful for those at a beginner or intermediate level looking for inspiration and alternative ways to deploy their data visualisation skills outside of conventional business charts.
Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation (AK Peters Visualization Series)
by Neil RichardsThis book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of the way, ultimately discussing how and when to bend and break the "rules" to come up with creative, unique, and sometimes unconventional ideas. Each easy-to-follow chapter poses one key question and provides a selection of discussion points and relevant data visualisation examples throughout. Structured in three parts: Section I poses questions around some fundamental data visualisation principles, while Section II introduces more advanced questions, challenging perceived best practices and suggesting when rules are open to interpretation or there to be broken. The questions in Section III introduce further themes leading on to specific ideas and visualisation projects in more detail. Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation will appeal to any reader with an interest in creative or unconventional data visualisation and will be especially useful for those at a beginner or intermediate level looking for inspiration and alternative ways to deploy their data visualisation skills outside of conventional business charts.
Queueing Modelling Fundamentals: With Applications in Communication Networks
by Professor Chee-Hock Ng Professor Soong Boon-HeeQueueing analysis is a vital tool used in the evaluation of system performance. Applications of queueing analysis cover a wide spectrum from bank automated teller machines to transportation and communications data networks. Fully revised, this second edition of a popular book contains the significant addition of a new chapter on Flow & Congestion Control and a section on Network Calculus among other new sections that have been added to remaining chapters. An introductory text, Queueing Modelling Fundamentals focuses on queueing modelling techniques and applications of data networks, examining the underlying principles of isolated queueing systems. This book introduces the complex queueing theory in simple language/proofs to enable the reader to quickly pick up an overview to queueing theory without utilizing the diverse necessary mathematical tools. It incorporates a rich set of worked examples on its applications to communication networks. Features include: Fully revised and updated edition with significant new chapter on Flow and Congestion Control as-well-as a new section on Network Calculus A comprehensive text which highlights both the theoretical models and their applications through a rich set of worked examples, examples of applications to data networks and performance curves Provides an insight into the underlying queuing principles and features step-by-step derivation of queueing results Written by experienced Professors in the field Queueing Modelling Fundamentals is an introductory text for undergraduate or entry-level post-graduate students who are taking courses on network performance analysis as well as those practicing network administrators who want to understand the essentials of network operations. The detailed step-by-step derivation of queueing results also makes it an excellent text for professional engineers.
Queueing Networks and Markov Chains: Modeling and Performance Evaluation with Computer Science Applications
by Gunter Bolch Stefan Greiner Hermann de Meer Kishor S. TrivediCritically acclaimed text for computer performance analysis--now in its second edition The Second Edition of this now-classic text provides a current and thorough treatment of queueing systems, queueing networks, continuous and discrete-time Markov chains, and simulation. Thoroughly updated with new content, as well as new problems and worked examples, the text offers readers both the theory and practical guidance needed to conduct performance and reliability evaluations of computer, communication, and manufacturing systems. Starting with basic probability theory, the text sets the foundation for the more complicated topics of queueing networks and Markov chains, using applications and examples to illustrate key points. Designed to engage the reader and build practical performance analysis skills, the text features a wealth of problems that mirror actual industry challenges. New features of the Second Edition include: * Chapter examining simulation methods and applications * Performance analysis applications for wireless, Internet, J2EE, and Kanban systems * Latest material on non-Markovian and fluid stochastic Petri nets, as well as solution techniques for Markov regenerative processes * Updated discussions of new and popular performance analysis tools, including ns-2 and OPNET * New and current real-world examples, including DiffServ routers in the Internet and cellular mobile networks With the rapidly growing complexity of computer and communication systems, the need for this text, which expertly mixes theory and practice, is tremendous. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students in computer science will find the extensive use of examples and problems to be vital in mastering both the basics and the fine points of the field, while industry professionals will find the text essential for developing systems that comply with industry standards and regulations.
Queueing Theory with Applications to Packet Telecommunication
by John DaigleQueueing Theory with Applications to Packet Telecommunication is an efficient introduction to fundamental concepts and principles underlying the behavior of queueing systems and its application to the design of packet-oriented electrical communication systems. In addition to techniques and approaches found in earlier works, the author presents a thoroughly modern computational approach based on Schur decomposition. This approach facilitates solution of broad classes of problems wherein a number of practical modeling issues may be explored. Key features of communication systems, such as correlation in packet arrival processes at IP switches and variability in service rates due to fading wireless links are introduced. Numerous exercises embedded within the text and problems at the end of certain chapters that integrate lessons learned across multiple sections are also included. In all cases, including systems having priority, developments lead to procedures or formulae that yield numerical results from which sensitivity of queueing behavior to parameter variation can be explored. In several cases multiple approaches to computing distributions are presented. Queueing Theory with Applications to Packet Telecommunication is intended both for self study and for use as a primary text in graduate courses in queueing theory in electrical engineering, computer science, operations research, and mathematics. Professionals will also find this work invaluable because the author discusses applications such as statistical multiplexing, IP switch design, and wireless communication systems. In addition, numerous modeling issues, such as the suitability of Erlang-k and Pade approximations are addressed.
Queues Applied to Telecoms: Courses and Exercises
by Toky Basilide Ravaliminoarimalalason Falimanana RandimbindrainibeFrom queues to telecoms. Queues are, of course, omnipresent in our world, at the bank, the supermarket, the shops, on the road... and yes, they also exist in the domain of telecoms. Queues Applied to Telecoms studies the theoretical aspect of these queues, from Poisson processes, Markov chains and queueing systems to queueing networks. The study of the use of their resources is addressed by the theory of teletraffic. This book also outlines the basic ideas in the theory of teletraffic, presenting the teletraffic of loss systems and waiting systems. However, some applications and explanations are more oriented towards the field of telecommunications, and this book contains lectures and more than sixty corrected exercises to cover these topics. On your marks....
Queues Applied to Telecoms: Courses and Exercises
by Toky Basilide Ravaliminoarimalalason Falimanana Randimbindrainibe
Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications
by Giovanni GiambeneThis book is aimed to provide a basic description of current networking technologies and protocols as well as to provide important tools for network performance analysis based on queuing theory. The second edition adds selected contents in the first part of the book for what concerns: (i) the token bucket regulator and traffic shaping issues; (ii) the TCP protocol congestion control that has a significant part in current networking; (iii) basic satellite networking issues; (iv) adding details on QoS support in IP networks. The book is organized so that we have first networking technologies and protocols (Part I) and then theory and exercises with applications to the different technologies and protocols (Part II). This book is intended as a textbook for master level courses in networking and telecommunications sectors.
Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications
by Giovanni GiambeneCovering both fundamental methods and practical applications used for telecommunication network analysis and design Integrating quantative and qualitative treatment of the new topics in networking such as MPLS, access protocols, among others Targeted at engineers and graduate students majoring in networking
Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications (Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering)
by Giovanni GiambeneThis thoroughly revised textbook provides a description of current networking technologies and protocols as well as important new tools for network performance analysis based on queuing theory. The third edition adds topics such as network virtualization and new related architectures, novel satellite systems (such as Space X, OneWeb), jitter and its impact on streaming services, packet level FEC techniques and network coding, new Markovian models, and advanced details on M/G/1 queuing models. The author also adds new selected exercises throughout the chapters and a new version of the slides and the solution manual. The book maintains its organization with networking technologies and protocols in Part I and then theory and exercises with applications to the different technologies and protocols in Part II. This book is intended as a textbook for master level courses in networking and telecommunications sectors.
The Quick And Easy Way To Effective Speaking
by Dale CarnegieGood public speakers are made, not born - or so thinks Dale Carnegie, the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to communicate clearly. Public speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. It is also the very best method of overcoming self-consciousness and building confidence, courage and enthusiasm. This classic, well established title has been called 'the most brilliant book of its kind'. It takes you step by step through:-Acquiring basic public speaking skills-Building confidence -Speaking effectively the quick and easy way -Earning the right to talk -Vitalising your talk -Sharing the talk with the audience as well as organisation and presentation skills
Quick Guide Agile Content-Produktion: Die Customer Experience An Allen Touchpoints Optimal Gestalten (Quick Guide)
by Sarah PetifourtDynamisch und nach personalisiertem Mehrwert suchend – so entwickelt sich unser derzeitiges Kommunikationsverhalten. Gleichzeitig werden Marken für Konsumenten immer wichtiger, obgleich deren Produkte nicht mehr einzigartig, sondern nahezu austauschbar sind. Neben neuen Ideen und nutzwertigen Inhalten sind mittlerweile auch strukturelle und technische Raffinessen notwendig, um Konsumenten zu erreichen. Zielführender Content – das heißt wirklich jede inhaltliche Botschaft, die ein Unternehmen kommuniziert – muss daher zu einem unverzichtbaren Tool in den Unternehmen werden. Aber wie produziert und steuert man diesen am besten? Die Antwort lautet: agil! Dieses Buch erklärt kompakt und fundiert, welche herausragende Bedeutung Content heute hat und wie agile Methoden für die Produktion von zielgruppenspezifischen Inhalten angewendet werden können, um potenzielle Kunden im entscheidenden Moment an allen Touchpoints digital abzuholen und langfristig zu binden. Ein nützliches Buch mit zahlreichen anschaulichen Beispielen, Transferaufgaben und Fragestellungen, die Ihnen die Anwendung in der Praxis erleichtern.
Quick Guide Content Marketing für den B2B-Mittelstand: Wie KMU mehr Sichtbarkeit im Markt bekommen (Quick Guide)
by Uwe KleinkesContent Marketing ist in der heutigen digitalen Zeit ein wichtiges und erfolgsentscheidendes Werkzeug – und nicht nur großen Unternehmen vorbehalten. Auch kleinere Unternehmen mit B2B-Zielgruppen können Content Marketing gewinnbringend einsetzen.Dieser Quick Guide unterstützt mittelständische B2B-Unternehmen dabei, mittels Content-Marketing-Maßnahmen mehr Sichtbarkeit im Markt zu bekommen als ihre Wettbewerber. Das Buch erklärt alle grundlegenden Schritte, von Zielbestimmung über Analyse, Planung, Produktion und Management der Maßnahmen, und geht dabei auf die Besonderheiten im B2B-Markt ein.Marketing-Praktiker, die wenig Zeit und Vorkenntnisse haben, erhalten einen schnellen, grundlegenden Einblick sowie pragmatische Hilfestellungen für die Umsetzung. Ergänzend stellen Experten aus der Praxis ihre konkreten Projekte und Erfahrungen vor.Mit zahlreichen Checklisten zu einem organisierten, schrittweisen Vorgehen, umfangreichem weiterführendem Online-Arbeitsmaterial und Transferaufgaben für die individuelle Praxis.
Quick Guide Digitale B2B-Kommunikation: Content, Influencer, Blogs & Co: Wie Sie Ihre Kunden an allen digitalen Touchpoints erreichen (Quick Guide)
by Michael C. SchmittDieses Buch gibt einen kompakten Überblick über alle digitalen Kommunikationskanäle, die B2B-Unternehmen zielgerichtet für sich nutzen können, um Kunden auch in Zukunft auf sich aufmerksam zu machen, sie zu gewinnen und zu binden.Der Autor beschreibt, wie B2B-Unternehmen Content Marketing und Online-PR für sich nutzen, warum Videos hilfreiche Werkzeuge sind und welche Rolle Influencer bei der Ansprache von Business-Zielgruppen spielen. Er erklärt, wie Suchmaschinenoptimierung (SEO) funktioniert und welchen Regeln Social Media, Word of Mouth oder Unternehmensblogs unterliegen.Machen auch Sie einen Reality-Check Ihres Unternehmens und finden Sie heraus, mit welchen Kommunikationsmaßnahmen Ihr Unternehmen nachhaltig in Kontakt mit der Zielgruppe treten kann. Ein direkt anwendbares Buch, das Sie mit Transferübungen und Fragen für die Zukunft rüsten und inspirieren soll.