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Uncertainty Regarding Species Delimitation, Geographic Distribution, and the Evolutionary History of South-Central Amazonian Titi Monkey Species (\u3cem\u3ePlecturocebus\u3c/em\u3e, Pitheciidae)
No full textPlatyrrhine primate taxonomy is a rapidly evolving area of research. The recent description of the Parecis titi monkey, Plecturocebus parecis, has raised substantial questions regarding the taxonomy, distribution, and evolutionary history of titi taxa from south-central Amazonia. There is only a single documented record of P. parecis, which is the type locality, with uncertainty regarding species monophyly. Moreover, there are questions surrounding the distribution and pelage patterns of the poorly studied P. cinerascens and P. parecis, which further highlight the uncertainty regarding the taxonomic validity of this new species. Here, we investigate the taxonomy, distribution, and evolutionary history of these lineages through new field work and assessment of pelage pigmentation patterns from 25 localities, as well as maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic reconstructions based on two mitochondrial and 11 nuclear loci for 19 and 10 specimens of Plecturocebus, respectively. Our mitochondrial results recover a paraphyletic arrangement for the four P. parecis type specimens that show three distinct haplotypes, with the holotype showing a close affinity to P. bernhardi. Our morphological analysis reveals a north–south clinal bleaching gradient through the Aripuanã-Sucundurí/Juruena interfluve from an all-grayish morphotype associated with P. cinerascens, through intermediary morphotypes with increasingly whitish hairs on the beard, hands, feet, and tail, to the most whitish morphotype described as P. parecis. Based on these findings, we present hypotheses to explain the taxonomy, distribution, and evolutionary history of P. cinerascens and P. parecis and discuss the significance of introgression among titi taxa from southern Amazonia given the lack of study systems for natural hybridization in platyrrhine primates
Pushing Buttons: The Video Game Cartoons of John Holmstrom
No full textJohn Holmstrom is a celebrated writer and cartoonist best known for cofounding Punk magazine in 1975. He later chronicled the counterculture for High Times, restoring the magazine’s reputation for subversive humor and advocacy journalism. But less remembered is Holmstrom’s career as a video game critic. Between 1981 and 1985, Holmstrom would document the emergence of video games as a cultural force to be reckoned with. An adolescence steeped in trash culture—comics, wrestling, and rock ʼn’ roll—sensitized Holmstrom to the value of games at a time when many commentators viewed them with condescension. In Heavy Metal and the short-lived Video Games, Holmstrom published pieces that challenged skepticism of the medium. His career in games journalism lasted fewer than four years, but his work can be read as an alternative history of the different directions that games culture could have gone had it not been extinguished by the video game crash of 1983
[Review of the Book \u3cem\u3eDesegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992\u3c/em\u3e, by M. Newman]
Get PDFLa mirada opuesta: Voces de victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea
No full textLa presente colección de ensayos ofrece un examen interdisciplinario del discurso del victimario en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea con el propósito de aportar una nueva visión crítica y teórica de la violencia y de su representación textual en la región. Mediante el análisis de las voces de los victimarios en diversos discursos textuales y visuales que plasman la violencia en diferentes contextos históricos, políticos y sociales, esta colección expande y enriquece el estudio de la construcción de la memoria histórica del continente al ofrecer una perspectiva más integral a través de sus culturas.
This collection of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the perpetrator\u27s discourse in contemporary Latin American literature with the aim of providing a new critical and theoretical vision of violence and its textual representation in the region. Through the analysis of the voices of the perpetrators in various textual and visual discourses that capture violence in different historical, political and social contexts, this collection expands and enriches the study of the construction of the historical memory of the continent by offering a more comprehensive perspective. across their cultures.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1178/thumbnail.jp
World Bank Education Sector: From Internal and External Perspectives
Get PDFThis paper describes the authors’ almost 30-year (1972-1998) personal experience with the World Bank (WB) education sector operations from the internal perspective. Then, it discusses the authors’ 20-year (1999-2020) observation from an external perspective. The paper aims to reveal the goals, objectives, strategies, the mechanism, and processes of decision-making, especially on how an education loan and credit is justified, of the world’s largest international aid organization for the education sector in developing countries (some $4 billion a year). Through this effort, the author provides a sound basis for insiders’ and outsiders’ fair assessments or criticisms of WB education sector operations. It also allows for some lessons/suggestions for the future WB education sector operations and for possible participations, collaborations, and cooperation with outsiders interested in WB operations in the education sector
The Late Novellas
No full textThe last four novels Roth composed prior to his retirement—which include Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and Nemesis have also been lately grouped together as “Nemeses.” The novels—more accurately deemed novellas, in sharp contrast to hefty tomes likes those collected as “The American Trilogy”—are not grouped together by a common protagonist, but rather by their notable brevity and by common theme: all four deal closely with the subject of mortality. This chapter offers an expanded discussion for the rationale of grouping these novels together (and, as with the other categorizations, the pitfalls of doing so), and will provide an overview of their critical reception and commentary on how they draw upon and depart from Roth’s earlier body of work
Multiple Vote Electoral Systems: A Remedy for Political Polarization
No full textWe examine the mechanical effect of a multiple vote, proportional representation electoral system on party vote share in n dimensions. In one dimension, Cox (1990) has proven that such a system is centripetal: it drives parties to the center of the political spectrum. However, as populism has swept across Western Europe and the United States, the importance of multiple policy dimensions has grown considerably. We use simulations to examine how a multiple vote system could alter electoral outcomes in all possible parliamentary systems. We find that multiple vote systems act centripetally in multiple dimensions too, though weakly in extreme cases where parties are sorted into ideological clusters at opposite corners of the ideological space. Even in these cases, though, we find that a slight disturbance of the conditions (by introducing an additional party- even if it is very small) strengthens the centripetal properties of the multiple vote system
A Study in Akka-based Distributed Ray-tracing of Large Scenes
Get PDFThis project creates a ray-tracing and geometry distribution framework through an actor model of parallelism, which is then expanded onto a cluster of machines to show effective data distribution across a network. This is shown to be feasible, but due to problems internal to the actor framework, as well as design failures, fails to effectively and consistently increase usable memory and generate larger ray-traces, though generally scaled well. Despite this, it compares several methods of ray organization across the geometry and shows that more complex methods generally scale better with the amount of geometry. A photometric renderer was added with very little modification, showing the generality of the geometry distribution framework, and the performance benefits of alternative serialization methods are shown to outweigh the drawbacks of more difficult implementation
Alternative Ethnographies: Negotiating Identity in the Photography of Mahtab Hussain
No full textMy thesis argues that Mahtab Hussain’s photographs offer a distinct model for representing British Asian and British Muslim experiences through a kind of ‘intimate ethnography’ which addresses the lasting legacy of empire, avoids fetishism or objectification, and foregrounds the agency of each subject. I assert that Hussain’s photographs are intended to build a sense of empathy and even intimacy with the people he photographs while resisting the potentially voyeuristic tendencies of photography. Hussain synthesizes fine art portraiture, ethnography, and aspects of documentary art to create representations of collective identities that do not homogenize or erase individual differences. Instead, his practice balances his interest in portraying these collective identities while emphasizing the agency of his subjects. He addresses both the exploitative aspects of historic ethnographic and documentary photography and the contemporary omnipresence of surveillance to find new modes of representation that are based on affiliation with the subject rather than establishing difference between subject and viewer
The Development of International Civil Aviation Regulations, 1899-1944
Get PDFThe International Civil Aviation Organization is the modern day arbiter of aviation regulations. Affairs between nations, principally between the United States and Great Britain, but also between other world powers at various points throughout history, dictated how the ICAO came to be a child organization of the United Nations and the impact created regulations had on the conduct of civil aviation between nations of the world between the first powered flight and the conclusion of World War II. The creation of the ICAO serves as a reminder of the power of foreign collaboration toward a shared goal, even at times of global conflict