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Memories of Labor: Landscapes of Deindustrialization and the Anthracite Coal Miners’ Memorial
No full textAmending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is an edited volume presenting original research from established and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Contributors focus on topics including the memory of race and slavery, wars of oppression, and regional and ethnic identities to interrogate how we as collectives remember, commemorate, discuss, forget, and question what is historically revealed, appropriated, silenced, or concealed from public discourse. Through analyses of a wide range of cultural texts and contexts, contributors to this volume demonstrate the crucial role of communication and media in shaping public opinion—and our collective present more broadly—in an effort to amend our painful histories.https://scholarship.shu.edu/faculty-publications/1082/thumbnail.jp
Amorphous Packings of Spheres
No full textThe apparent simplicity of amorphous sphere packings can be misleading. Although random close packing is a common phenomenon that has been studied for decades, recent theoretical and computational advances reveal how complex the underlying physics actually is. By bringing together perspectives from thermodynamics, constraint satisfaction problems, and optimization, unique insights emerge. This chapter reviews these advances and describes a framework for addressing some of the remaining open problems, including how to define a more rigorous analogue to random close packing and how to compute its properties.https://scholarship.shu.edu/faculty-publications/1091/thumbnail.jp
