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The Chair
No full textNoted prose poet and celebrated Latino author Richard Garcia's sixth collection is rich in fabulist traditionslyrical, accessible, and highly imaginative.Intro -- Contents -- Matchbook -- A Portrait of My Childhood Painted by Goya -- Day at the Beach, 1958 -- The Unstucks at the Gates of the Desert Folly Garden -- The History of Umbrellas -- The History of White Anklets -- The History of the Minstrel Show -- Little Known Fact Number One -- Little Known Fact Number Two -- Little Known Fact Number Three -- The Religious Brain -- His Last Night -- My Angry Mob -- My Fog -- Helen's Birthday -- Susan -- Christina -- Miss C.C. -- October -- November First -- Former Lovers -- Footsteps -- The Masked One -- Sappho -- The Poker-Playing Dog Poetry Workshop -- The Poetry Lesson -- The Expert -- Useful Phrases for Business Letters: Example One -- The Typewriter of Transcendence -- The Pencil of Transubstantiation -- The iPod of Pithy -- Page -- History -- Gotta Have -- Tripod -- Little Sister -- The Drummers -- The Mysterious -- The Mysterious Brassiere -- Postcard from Pink -- Postcard from Lake Manzanita -- Postcard from a Nude Beach -- Postcard from the Library Fire -- Postcard from a Civil War Reenactment -- Nightstand -- The Chair -- Felsenfeld -- The Alibi Room -- The Felsenfeld Movement -- Confusion -- No One -- Vowelville -- Missing One -- Hemlock 1-7563 -- The Three -- It's Like -- Like Two People -- Just Like Two People -- Tristes Tropiques -- Undecided -- Subservient Chicken -- The Case of the Disappearing Blondes -- The Rory Calhoun Film Festival -- Dollar Theater -- Hackers and 70s Hit Songs -- Take -- A Man Leaned Back -- Tanglewood -- Upraised Arms -- The Abandoning -- The Duration -- The Waiting -- The Aftermath -- The Pants Dance -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- BOA Editions, Ltd. American Poets Continuum Series -- ColophonNoted prose poet and celebrated Latino author Richard Garcia's sixth collection is rich in fabulist traditionslyrical, accessible, and highly imaginative.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Alumni Chair in the Humanities
Full text linkThe University of Dayton appointed Julius Amin as the Alumni Chair in the Humanities. Amin is a professor in the department of history who joined the faculty in 1989
Bridging the Racial Divide
Full text linkIn an op-ed piece, Julius Amin, professor and chair of history, says Barack Obama transcended America\u27s racial divide with his victory in the presidential election, but he has not cured the country\u27s racial ills
Sarah Scott, Program Chair
No full textInscribed on back: \u27Sarah Scott, Program Chair; LWV MS Convention, 5-21-97 Gulf Coast\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lwv_photo/1001/thumbnail.jp
Perseverance: Bestselling Author Is Cedarville’s Berry Chair of Entrepreneurship
Full text linkNearly 18 years ago, Kary Oberbrunner scribbled “10-23-05 Cedarville?” next to Psalm 75 in his Bible. Now, 12 books, two companies, and one doctoral degree later, this Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author and entrepreneur is serving as the Berry Chair of Entrepreneurship
Numerical experiments on unsupervised manifold learning applied to mechanical modeling of materials and structures
Full text linkThe present work aims at analyzing issues related to the data manifold dimensionality. The interest of the study is twofold: (i) first, when too many measurable variables are considered, manifold learning is expected to extract useless variables; (ii) second, and more important, the same technique, manifold learning, could be utilized for identifying the necessity of employing latent extra variables able to recover single-valued outputs. Both aspects are discussed in the modeling of materials and structural systems by using unsupervised manifold learning strategies.The first, third, and fourth authors are supported by their respective ESI Group research chairs; their support is gratefully acknowledged. The first author is supported by CREATE-ID ESI-ENSAM research chair. The third author is supported by the ESI Group Chair at the University of Zaragoza. The fourth author is supported by CREATE-ID ESI-ENSAM research chair
Chair-based fidgeting and energy expenditure
Full text linkabstract: Introduction Sedentariness is associated with chronic health conditions, impaired cognitive function and obesity. Work contributes significantly to sedentariness because many work tasks necessitate sitting. Few sustained solutions exist to reverse workplace sedentariness. Here, we evaluated a chair and an under-table device that were designed to promote fidgeting while seated. Our hypothesis was that an under-table leg-fidget bar and/or a fidget-promoting chair significantly increased energy expenditure. We compared these devices with chair-based exercise and walking.
Materials and methods We measured energy expenditure and heart rate in 16 people while they sat and worked using a standard chair, an under-desk device that encourages leg fidgeting and a fidget-promoting chair. We compared outcomes with chair-based exercise and walking.
Results Energy expenditure increased significantly while using either an under-table leg-fidget bar or a fidget-promoting chair, when compared to the standard office chair (standard chair, 76±31 kcal/hour; leg-fidget bar, 98±42 kcal/hour (p<0.001); fidget chair, 89±40 kcal/hour (p=0.03)). However, heart rate did not increase significantly in either case. Bouts of exercise performed while seated provided energetic and heart rate equivalency to walking at 2 mph.
Conclusions Chairs and devices that promote fidgeting can increase energy expenditure by ∼20–30% but not increase heart rate. Dynamic sitting may be among a lexicon of options to help people move more while at work.The final version of this article, as published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, can be viewed online at: http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000152.inf
Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body
No full textThe aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP). The latter has proven to be a major cost to health services and private industry throughout the industrialised world and now represents a global health issue as recent WHO reports on obesity and LBP reveal. Thus far there have been few co-ordinated attempts to deal with the causes of the problem through public policy. Drawing upon a range of sources in anthropology, health studies, politics and economics, the paper argues that this a modern social problem rooted in the contingent conjuncture of natural and social causal mechanisms. The key question it raises is: what are the appropriate mechanisms for addressing this problem? This paper develops an analysis rooted in libertarian social theory and argues that both the state and the capitalist market are flawed mechanisms for resolving this problem. There remains a fundamental dilemma for libertarians, however. Whilst the state and the market may well be flawed mechanisms, they are the dominant ones shaping global political economy. To what extent can libertarians work within these structures and remain committed to libertarian goals
Strategic directions in verification, validation and accreditation research: A personal view.
Full text linkImage 60: Child Sitting in Chair
No full textAfrican American or multi-racial toddler sitting in a chair wearing and white dress. Photograph taken in the late 19th or early 20th century.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/harwood_photo/1059/thumbnail.jp
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