519 research outputs found
J. K. Ang and C. W. Bamforth
Get PDFAlthough there are product-to-product differences, the majority of the crystal and caramel malts tested have been shown to have a net destabilizing impact on foam. A foaming test using a model beer has been developed to quantify the magnitude of this inhibitory effect. Lipid analysis using thin-layer chromatography reveals that there are elevated levels of triglycerides in problematic malts. There also appear to be oxidized lipids in the specialty malts, probably produced in the heating stage of malt production with higher levels in more intensely heated products. However some specialty malts, such as black malt, while containing such foam-negative entities, do display superior foaming properties, probably because they develop even more powerful foam-positive components in the severe heating events. © 2014 The Institute of Brewing & Distilling
Book Review: Justin Lewis, Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination
No full textWhat is the role of the media and cultural industries in late
capitalism? In
Beyond Consumer Capitalism:
Media and the Limits to
Imagination
, author Justin Lewis joins those who argue that these forces
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re escalating the crisis of personal well
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being, the hollowing out of public
life, and the failure to develop imaginative policy responses to impending
environmental disaster. [Taken from introduction
Book Review: Justin Lewis, Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination
No full textWhat is the role of the media and cultural industries in late
capitalism? In
Beyond Consumer Capitalism:
Media and the Limits to
Imagination
, author Justin Lewis joins those who argue that these forces
a
re escalating the crisis of personal well
-
being, the hollowing out of public
life, and the failure to develop imaginative policy responses to impending
environmental disaster. [Taken from introduction
Ang II potentiates prorenin-induced TNFα production in microglia.
No full text<p>Mouse N-9 cells were pretreated with control media (DMEM) or Ang II (100 nmol/L) for 12 h, followed by treatment with DMEM or prorenin (20 nmol/L) for 6 hr. Next, TNFα positive cells were analyzed by flow cytometry. Data are means ± SEM from n = 6 experiments. * P<0.05 vs. control; † P<0.05 vs. prorenin without Ang II pretreatment.</p
Timing Measurement Platform for Arbitrary Black-Box Circuits Based on Transition Probability
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Rich, Sturmian, and trapezoidal words
Get PDFIn this paper we explore various interconnections between rich words, Sturmian words, and trapezoidal words. Rich words, first introduced by the second and third authors together with J. Justin and S. Widmer, constitute a new class of finite and infinite words characterized by having the maximal number of palindromic factors. Every finite Sturmian word is rich, but not conversely. Trapezoidal words were first introduced by the first author in studying the behavior of the subword complexity of finite Sturmian words. Unfortunately this property does not characterize finite Sturmian words. In this note we show that the only trapezoidal palindromes are Sturmian. More generally we show that Sturmian palindromes can be characterized either in terms of their subword complexity (the trapezoidal property) or in terms of their palindromic complexity. We also obtain a similar characterization of rich palindromes in terms of a relation between palindromic complexity and subword complexity
The cowboy comes out of the closet: questions on sexuality and national identity in the film Brokeback Mountain
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2009Esta dissertação discute o filme Brokeback Mountain (2005, dirigido por Ang Lee) sob a ótica de estudos de sexualidade e identidade nacional. O filme, que ganhou prêmios importantes e foi aclamado pelo grande público, trouxe bastante controvérsia também, na medida em que mostra cowboys que têm práticas homossexuais. Esta dissertação examina como o filme, apesar de parecer conservador pelo fato de que os homens nunca saem do armário e pelo seu final infeliz, ainda promove agenciamento na medida em que traz o que Judith Butler chama de performatividade paródica. Ademais, também há uma discussão de como o filme, ao trazer a subversão do mito do cowboy através da homossexualidade, representa um "queering" da identidade nacional dos Estados Unidos imaginada com base em tal mito.This thesis discusses the film Brokeback Mountain (2005, directed by Ang Lee) under the light of studies on sexuality and on national identity. The film, which won important awards and was acclaimed by the great public, has brought around great controversy as well, to the extent that it depicts cowboys holding homosexual practices. The thesis examines how the film, although may look conservative by the fact that the men never come out of the closet and by its unhappy ending, still promotes agency to extent that it brings what Judith Butler calls parodic performativity. Moreover, there is also a discussion on how the film, by bringing the subversion of the myth of the cowboy through homosexuality, represents the queering of US national identity imagined with its basis on such myth
China's economic reforms : pointers for other economies in transition?
Get PDFChina's two main economic problems before reform were low incentives to workers and the misallocation of resources among sectors. These problems were theresult of a development strategy oriented toward heavy industry. By improving material incentives, China's reforms created a flow of new resources and allowed them to be allocated to sectors suppressed under pre-reform strategies. The onset of reform in China was not allowed to disrupt production from existing resources. Instead, the newly created resources were permitted to accrue and to flow into the more productive, often light industrial sectors, thus stimulating continuous growth of the national economy during reform. Low incentives and the suppression of nonpriority sectors are common features of the legacy of economies in transition from central planning that based their development on the rapid growth of heavy industry. China's approach may be of interest to them. Among lessons China learned are that: (a) Autonomy must be granted to micromanagement units and preserved to improve the incentive structure and create a new flow of resources. (b) While maintaining essential minimum levels of production in the pre-reform priority sectors, autonomous enterprises must be permitted and encouraged to allocate new incremental resource flows to the previously suppressed sectors. (c) In parallel, the distorted policy environment and planned-allocation system must be progressively reformed to bring them into line with the new system of incentives and modus operandi of autonomous enterprises.Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Water and Industry,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
2014 Kansas Performance Tests with Winter Wheat Varieties
No full textThe Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station annually compares both new and currently grown varieties in the state’s major crop-producing areas. These performance tests generate unbiased performance information designed to help Kansas growers select wheat varieties suited for their area and conditions. Contributors Main Station, Manhattan Jane Lingenfelser, Assistant Agronomist (Senior Author) Erick DeWolf, Extension Plant Pathologist Allan Fritz, Wheat Breeder Mary Knapp, Weather Data Librarian Jeff Whitworth, Extension Entomologist Rebecca Miller, Grain Science and Industry Jim Shroyer, Extension Agronomist Jeff Whitworth, Extension Entomologist Experiment Fields Eric Adee, Ottawa Gary Cramer, Hutchinson James Kimball, Ottawa Michael Larson, Scandia Randall Nelson, Scandia Research Centers Patrick Evans, Colby Kelly Kusel, Parsons Alan Schlegel, Tribune Clayton Seaman, Hays Monty Spangler, Garden City Gurong Zhang, Hays Others Ming Chen, USDA Richard Chen, USDA Justin Knopf, Gypsum, K
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