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Fanshawe College Presents: Author Alicia Elliott
No full textAuthor Alicia Elliott discusses her new book “A Mind Spread Out On The Ground”
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The reinvention revolution
No full textIt’s not just reality TV shows telling us how to remodel, refashion and rework our homes and gardens. Reinvention is also being taken up by institutions, corporations as well as by politicians and governments who see the makeover as a way to turn their fortunes around. This idea of a fresh start or a clean slate is enticing but can we really expect instant transformation?
Anthony Elliott examines a range of 21st century reinvention practices and reflects on modern life and the rise of frenetic living.
Highlights of the reinvention revolution presented the School of Sociology, ANU Canberra, September 2014
Guests
Professor Anthony Elliott
Director, Hawke Research Institute
Research Professor of Sociology, University of South Australia
Publications
Reinvention
Author: Anthony Elliott
Publisher: Routledg
Taboos & Transgressions: In Conversation with Darren Elliott-Smith
No full textDr. Darren Elliott-Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at University of Stirling, Scotland. His research is focused on representations of queerness, gender, and the body in horror film and television. He has published numerous academic articles, contributed to book collections, and is the author of Queer Horror Film and Television (I.B. Tauris, 2016) and co-editor of New Queer Horror Film and Television (UWP, 2020) with Dr John Edgar Browning. I was able to sit down with him for a chat about his work, the link between horror and eroticism, and the current queer horror moment
The great Gomez: John Astin in conversation with Anthony Elliott
No full textIn 2015, the legendary actor John Astin - star of stage and screen - granted me an interview in Baltimore, USA. The principal focus of the interview concerned Astin’s seminal performance as Gomez Addams in the hit 1960s TV comedy The Addams Family. Gomez Alonzo Addams was the charming, slightly crazed, clan patriarch of the spooky though sweet Addams Family. Ostensibly a lawyer, Gomez has great wealth, which eliminates any need to work, and instead he spends the days with beloved wife Morticia, and his two young children. He smokes cigars, sports a Groucho Marx-styled moustache, and likes to do crazy things like blow up toy trains. The performance made him a household name worldwide, and cast him firmly in the field of celebrity in the USA throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Astin is now a Professor of Drama at Johns Hopkins University, US
\u3cem\u3eDeadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization.\u3c/em\u3e Charles Lemert and Anthony Elliott.
No full textBook note for Charles Lemert and Anthony Elliott, Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. $ 19.95 paperback
On reducing vibration transmission in a two-dimensional cantilever truss structure using geometric optimization and active vibration control techniques
No full textFour optimization strategies were used to improve the average vibration isolation between the base and the end of a 10-m long two-dimensional (2D) cantilever truss structure. These were combinations of optimizing the structure geometry and the application of active vibration control (AVC) with optimal actuator positions. A power distribution analysis to investigate the mechanisms by which each strategy achieves reductions in the vibration transmission is reported. The trade-off is also explored between the freedom allowed in the size of the geometric changes and the number of actuators used in an AVC system to achieve a given level of vibration attenuation
Comparison of the effectiveness of minimizing cost function parameters for active control of vibrational energy transmission in a lightly damped structure
No full textThe success of an active control of vibration system depends upon both the cost function used and the positions of the controlling actuators. The cost function used also affects the best actuator positions since their performance is judged on the attenuation of this parameter. However, the physical success will be dependent on how well the cost function represents the actual physical vibration. Sometimes the most meaningful cost function can be calculated in a theoretical model but is difficult to measure in practice, and a compromise to a more practical one is often made. In this paper four cost functions are considered with the aim of reducing the vibration transmitted from the base to the end of a lightweight cantilever two-dimensional structure, and their performances compared with a view to evaluating the true success in using other cost function parameters in reducing the vibrational energy.Of the four cost functions studied, two are energy-based: one representing the total vibrational energy and one using only the flexural energy level. The other two cost functions are based on velocity measurements: the sum of the squares of the translational velocity components, and one additionally using rotational velocity measurements. An initial study confirms that the total vibrational energy is the cost function which most comprehensively represents the beam vibration and is used as the reference in a comparison of the other cost functions.Then, a ranking of the best actuator positions on the structure is determined to achieve the best reductions in each cost function. For each of these sets of actuator positions the consequential attenuation in the total vibrational energy is evaluated whilst minimizing the other cost functions. Thus, the effectiveness of these cost functions in reducing the total vibrational energy is evaluated
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