908 research outputs found
Copy of Exchange Endorsed by James S. Lauderdale, J.J. Halbert,Alex Copeland Jr., Pickens County Alabama to Samuel Lauderdale and Alex Copeland, Sr.
No full textFashion Culture: Misty Copeland in conversation with Valerie Steele
No full textMisty Copeland is a soloist with American Ballet Theatre. In 2007 she made history by becoming their second African American Female Soloist and the first in two decades. In September 2014, she was the first black woman to perform the lead role of Odette/Odile in American Ballet Theatre’s production of Swan Lake during the company’s first ever tour to Australia. Misty is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Life in Motion (2014), co-written with Charisse Jones, and of the picture book Firebird (2014) in collaboration with Christopher Myers.Misty Copeland was in conversation with Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT on Tuesday, November 4, 2014
The Past, Present, and Future of Janerra Copeland and Poetry
No full textThe Past, Present, and Future of Janerra Copeland and Poetry tackles the conversation around established literary tradition and contemporary digital culture, specifically focusing on the tension between canonical Black literature and the rapidly emerging, accessible format of Insta-poetry. The project is created by the author\u27s search for an authentic creative voice while navigating two distinct professional and academic environments predominantly structured around whiteness: the silencing of Black literature and Black Coders.
This project frames digital self-publishing and web development as alternative distribution methods, but as active literary tools capable of dismantling the gatekeeping functions of traditional publishing and academic institutions. The website creates a world for multimodal media (images, videos, and audio). The poetry collections create a world of vulnerability surrounding the life of Janerra Copeland, going through the past, present, and future of her life. Along with the visual and literary comparisons of Traditional Poetry versus Instapoetry. The thesis ultimately argues that by actively coding one\u27s own literary platform, the author transcends institutional and racialized constraints, securing a structurally autonomous and fully realized Black poetic voice in the digital era
Compassion Matters
No full textAuthor and theologian M. Shawn Copeland delivered the Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, in room 204, Gorecki Center, College of Saint Benedict.
Her lecture, entitled Compassion Matters, was free and open to the public. It explored compassion as a disposition, a virtue, a way of being and a way of acting, and will consider the contribution compassion makes to creating the common good.
Copeland is the author of Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race and Being, which was published by Fortress Press in 2010.
Being human is neither abstract nor hypothetical. It is concrete, visceral and embodied in the everyday experience and relationships that determine who we are, Fortress Press wrote in describing the book. In that case, argues distinguished theologian Shawn Copeland, we have much to learn from the embodied experience of black women who, for centuries, have borne in their bodies the identities and pathologies of those in power.
A professor in the theology department at Boston College, she has previously taught at Marquette University (1994-2003) and Yale University Divinity School (1989-94). She also taught systematic theology in the degree program at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University, from 1994-2005
Conclusion: Causehealth recommendations for making causal evidence clinically relevant and informed
No full textFrom the philosophical perspective presented in the first part of this book, together with the clinical application of this framework in the second part, it follows that we must change the way we approach causal evidence of health and illness conceptually, methodologically and practically. This has some practical consequences for the clinical encounter, as discussed throughout the book. We here offer some specific CauseHealth recommendations for making causal evidence more clinically relevant and better informed by the clinical encounter. The recommendations follow from an overall consideration of the previous chapters, both the philosophical framework and its clinical implications.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
I\u27m Published! Now What?: An Author\u27s Guide to Creating Successful Book Events, Readings, and Promotions
No full textThis practical guide to conducting successful book readings, events, and promotions will help you understand and navigate the shifting sands of the publishing world. This guide will help demystify book marketing and prepare authors to work effectively with bookstore event coordinators, the best friends authors can have inside the stores. Copeland also shares what to do after events to maximize and build upon success. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1378/thumbnail.jp
Introduction: Why is philosophy relevant for clinical practice?
No full textThis book is intended as an intellectual resource for clinicians and healthcare professionals who are interested in digging deeper into the philosophical foundations of their daily practice. It is a tool for understanding some of the philosophical motivations and rationality behind the way medicine and healthcare are studied, evaluated and practiced. In particular, this book illustrates the impact that our thinking about causality, both philosophically and conceptually, has on the clinical encounter. The aim is to engage and empower healthcare professionals to take part in changing and defining the premises for their own practice. After all, if clinical decisions should be based on evidence, this ought to be evidence that is relevant and well-suited for the clinic. The book has two parts, Philosophical Framework and Application to the Clinic. The first part is written from the philosophical perspective and presents a singular overall framework. The second part is written primarily by clinicians who address some implications of the philosophical framework for different aspects of their own practice.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Impact of Baryonic astrophysics and intrinsic alignments on dark energy and neutrino constraints in cosmology
No full textIn the early 2020s, cosmology will enter an era of unprecedented precision when the next generation of large scale structure surveys begin receiving data. As a result, it is expected that stronger constraints on major features of cosmology like dark energy and massive neutrinos are forthcoming. The former could help to favour an explanation for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe, while the latter has the potential to enhance our understanding of a prominent intersection between particle physics and cosmology. However, there are many systematics that must be accounted for in parameter forecasts. One of the most prominent theoretical cases is the influence of baryonic astrophysics on large scale structure (e.g., AGN and supernova feedback, adiabatic contraction etc.) and the effect that marginalising over a limited theoretical understanding of the associated phenomena will have on forecasts. This question is one of the core concerns of this thesis. It will be applied respectively in Chapters 3, 4 and 5 to constraints on dynamical dark energy, the neutrino mass sum and a possible coupling between dark energy and dark matter. While forecasts are the primary focus here, much of this work has implications for parameter inference more broadly, and could be used to inform the direction that model building or simulation development should take in pursuit of the goal of more accurate parameter constraints.
The key statistics used here to probe the growth of structure derive from the power spectrum of matter overdensities. This permits the use of both weak gravitational lensing of light from background sources by foreground objects, and galaxy clustering. The former requires accounting for the intrinsic alignments of ellipticities and shears, a systematic examined in depth for its impact on forecasts. This thesis presents Fisher analyses using weak lensing and galaxy clustering probes for parameter forecasts for a Euclid-like survey.
The approach here to modelling the baryonic phenomena is to adopt a generic treatment of their global redistribution of the dark matter content in haloes, via energy transfer to their surroundings. Different baryonic effects are separated into three general but distinct categories: large scale adiabatic contraction caused by radiative cooling; high impact energy transfer from specific, localised sources; and small-scale effects that manifest as inner halo cores. I introduce the inner halo core through analytic modelling. A central tenet of this work is the use of analytic modelling, rather than numerical simulations, in capturing the relevant physics so as to circumvent computational expenses and underlying systematics associated with the latter, while retaining the useful physical insight offered by the former.
Employing a maximum likelihood method, matter and weak lensing power spectra are varied around a fiducial cosmology given by Planck Collaboration et al. (2016b). For a Euclid-like survey covering 15000 sq. deg. of sky, measuring 10 redshift bins in the range 0 < z < 2 , the w0 - wa dark energy Figure of Merit is shown to experience a ~40% degradation due to the combination of baryon effects. This thesis presents a detailed analysis of the relative dark energy and baryon sensitivities over the range of available lensing modes. Ultimately, it is found that the application of cosmic microwave background (CMB) priors alleviate the baryon impact for individual errors on the dark energy parameters but the relative degradation to the Figure of Merit for the parameter space remains.
A similar approach is used to address the question of whether Stage IV surveys, whilst accounting for baryons and intrinsic alignments, can make a positive detection of the neutrino mass and whether they can distinguish between the normal and inverted hierarchy of mass eigenstates. Combined forecasts from weak lensing, the CMB and galaxy clustering preclude a meaningful distinction of hierarchies but do achieve a positive detection of the mass sum, overcoming the significant degradation by factors of ~2 to that arise when marginalising over baryons for weak lensing alone. These results could be improved upon with future CMB priors on the spectral index and information from neutrinoless double beta decay to achieve a 2-σ distinction of the hierarchies. The effect of intrinsic alignments on forecasts is shown to be minimal, with constraints even experiencing mild improvements due to information from the intrinsic alignment signal.
Finally, this work explores the prospects for using large scale structure to constrain the strength of a possible coupling between dark matter and a dark energy scalar field. While the growth of structure in the linear regime in this model has been well-explored, the non-linear regime is more challenging. Forecasts have been made using polynomial fits to power spectra directly. However, this thesis presents a more physically motivated approach to the problem. I show that a single parameter, the halo virial density, is responsible for describing most of the impact of the coupling on small scales. By computing the changes to the virial density in this model, a fit can be found that allows for a full physically-motivated halo model. This allows Fisher forecasts to be made for the coupling strength, including an assessment of the impact of baryons. Degradations to the coupling strength constraint of ~20% due to this systematic are found. While CMB and galaxy clustering priors notably improve the absolute errors without marginalising over baryons, when this systematic is accounted for these priors provide little improvement and the relative degradation increases.
Taken as a whole, this thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of baryons and intrinsic alignments on constraints for a wide range of cosmological phenomena responsible for the accelerated expansion, the neutrino mass hierarchy and beyond ΛCDM physics coupling dark matter and dark energy. Through modified and improved approaches to halo modelling, this work demonstrates which of these phenomena are subject to the most severe degeneracies with baryonic effects. This rigorous analysis, grounded in empirically motivated parameterisations, is designed to inform optimal mitigation strategies to minimise the impact on forecasts. In turn, this provides a wide scope for making future improvements to modelling and simulations that can advance efforts to constrain cosmology still further
The equity premium in 100 textbooks
No full textI review 100 finance and valuation textbooks published between 1979 and 2008 by authors such as Brealey and Myers, Copeland, Damodaran, Merton, Ross, Bruner, Bodie, Penman, Weston, Brigham and Arzac and find that their recommendations regarding the equity premium range from 3% to 10%. I also find that several books use different equity premia on different pages. Some of the confusion arises from not distinguishing among the four concepts that the term equity premium designates: historical equity premium, expected equity premium, required equity premium and implied equity premium. Finance textbooks should clarify the equity premium by providing distinguishing definitions of these four concepts and conveying a clearer message about their sensible magnitudes.equity premium; equity premium puzzle; required market risk premium; historical market risk premium; expected market risk premium; risk premium; market risk premium; market premium;
Review Of Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing Of Modern Dance By R. Copeland
No full textThis first critical overview of the Cunningham\u27s long career is the result of decades of study of Cunningham and his oeuvre. Arguing that Cunningham is one of the 20th century\u27s three most significant choreographers of theatrical dance (George Balanchine and Martha Graham being the others), Copeland (theater and dance, Oberlin College) positions Cunningham as the watershed figure in American modern dance because his work led to a rapprochement between ballet and modern dance that opened the floodgates for myriad postmodern developments. The author contextualizes the many stages of Cunningham\u27s career as he investigates Cunningham\u27s significant influence on spawning new choreographic structures; the ways that Cunningham\u27s dances served as creative stimuli for choreographers, dancers, and audiences; Cunningham\u27s chance methods and reconception of the collaborative process; and his relationship to intellectual movements and to advances in technology. Written with Copeland\u27s characteristic wit and impressive cross-referencing, this volume--illustrated by 15 photographs spanning the great choreographer\u27s career--will best suit those with a serious interest in Cunningham and visual and performing arts in the US. Including an extensive bibliography and index that will make it especially useful for scholars, this book promises to be as influential as What Is Dance?, which Copeland co-edited with Marshall Cohen (1983). Summing Up: Essential. All collections
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