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Remote Avant-Garde: Tjanpi Desert Weavers
No full textVolume 1. Geography and anthropology -- volume 2. History and sociology -- volume 3. Biology, psychology and neuroscience -- volume 4. Art and desig
Re-assessing the relationship between religion and juvenile delinquency
No full textUsing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the research examines the nature of the relationship between religion and juvenile delinquency. The research reveals that individual-level religiosity negatively relates to individual-level delinquency. The current study indicates that there is a significant correlation between religiosity and delinquency. The omnibus concept of religiosity was significantly related to delinquency along with the individual measures. This research provides support for the idea that religion is a multifaceted concept with many dimensions that should be examined as an index and separately. Also, while studies have varied in their estimation of the types of delinquent offenses that are reduced by religion (Baier and Wright 2001; Desmond, Soper, Purpura, and Smith 2009; Cochran Wood and Arneklev 1994; Rodell and Benda 1999), the current research maintains that religiosity affects a wide variety of delinquency including truant, property and violent offenses. In addition, the research indicates found that family bonds, friends and contextual variables do not diminish the inverse relationship between religiosity and delinquency. Finally, religiosity reduced delinquency in both Wave I and Wave II indicating that religiosity influences delinquent behavior over time.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Jennifer Biddl
Milpirri: Activating the At-Risk
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Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.
This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts. Just as Douglas Kahn's earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain.
The modern concept of energy is only two hundred years old—an abstraction grounded in extraction—but this book takes a more expansive view. It opens with a clap: the sonic energies in a ceremony of the indigenous Goolarabooloo people of Australia. Other chapters explore the energies of photography; responses of artists in the early twentieth century—including Marcel Duchamp—to scientific discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism; the aestheticization of entropy in works by Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson; free-jazz musician Milford Graves's cross-cultural engagement with music, science, and spiritualism; energy field performance; and the self-generating energy of rumor and gossip as artwork. Contributors include such leading scholars as Linda Dalrymple Henderson, John Tresch, and Caroline A. Jones. Practicing artists and students of art history will find Energies in the Arts an essential work.
Contributors Susan Ballard, Jennifer Biddle, Marcus Boon, Joan Brassil, Steven Connor, Milford Graves, Daniel Hackbarth, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Caroline A. Jones, Douglas Kahn, David Mather, Stephen Muecke, James Nisbet, Daniela Silvestrin, Michael Taussig, John Tresch, Melissa Wara
Desert Animations
No full textn association with Forum: Same but Different - Experimentation and Innovation in Desert Arts II, this screening and discussion event will showcase animations by indigenous film-makers and artists. The evening will be hosted by award winning filmmakers Warwick Thornton (Dir. Samson and Delilah) and Beck Cole (Dir. Here I am) in discussion with Martu Artist and Animator Yunkurra Billy Atkins and others.
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Welcome and Introductions
Dr Jennifer Biddle and Dr Lisa Stefanoff
Warwick Thornton and Beck Cole
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BIITE (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education), Batchelor, NT and Utopia, NT. Select short animations from Intem-antey anem (these things will always be) from the Utopia Bush Medicine Project (2007-2008)
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PAW (Pintupi, Anmatyere, Warlpiri) Media, Yuendumu, NT. Select short animations from Animating Jukurrpa (2009-10) and Animating Yimi (2012) series
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Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre, Larrapinta Valley, Alice Springs, NT: Antanette & Tom (2010) and Little Dingi (2012)
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Yunkurra Billy Atkins (Martumili Artists), Newman, WA: Cannibal Story (2012).
Presented by Yunkurra Billy Atkins
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Big hART Yijala Yala Project, Leramugadu (Roeburne), WA: NEOMAD/Love Punks interactive graphic novel (2012-2013)
Presented by Stu Campbell
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Governance for adaptive capacity and resilience in the U.S. water sector
No full textWater utility managers play potentially important roles in current and future transitions toward more adaptive and
sustainable approaches to water management. We report the results of qualitative interviews and focus groups designed to explore the
perspectives of 22 water utility managers in the United States regarding pressures, challenges, and opportunities facing their
organizations and communities. Overall, the study participants characterized their jobs as requiring a delicate balance between
innovation and reliability, with no room for error in delivering abundant, clean water, but opportunities for creative problem-solving
and forward planning. They demonstrated capacity for embracing changes that benefit the longer term future while imposing shortterm
costs on their own organizations. Coding of transcripts generated 17 major themes (11 problem categories and six solution
categories), which overlap meaningfully with results of previous research on resilience, adaptability, and transformability of socialecological
systems. Overlapping themes include social learning and development of social capital through various forms of collaboration,
communication, and citizen and stakeholder engagement, as well as capacity for innovation and sufficient authority to make decisions
based on system needs without undue political interference or burdensome adherence to rigid rule structures
Cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent characterisation of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in Guaymas Basin sediments
Get PDFMarine hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria perform a fundamental role in the biodegradation of crude oil and its petrochemical derivatives in coastal and open ocean environments. However, there is a paucity of knowledge on the diversity and function of these organisms in deep-sea sediment. Here we used stable-isotope probing (SIP), a valuable tool to link the phylogeny and function of targeted microbial groups, to investigate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacteria under aerobic conditions in sediments from Guaymas Basin with uniformly labeled [13C]phenanthrene. The dominant sequences in clone libraries constructed from 13C-enriched bacterial DNA (from phenanthrene enrichments) were identified to belong to the genus Cycloclasticus. We used quantitative PCR primers targeting the 16S rRNA gene of the SIP-identified Cycloclasticus to determine their abundance in sediment incubations amended with unlabeled phenanthrene and showed substantial increases in gene abundance during the experiments. We also isolated a strain, BG-2, representing the SIP-identified Cycloclasticus sequence (99.9% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity), and used this strain to provide direct evidence of phenanthrene degradation and mineralization. In addition, we isolated Halomonas, Thalassospira and Lutibacterium spp. with demonstrable phenanthrene-degrading capacity from Guaymas Basin sediment. This study demonstrates the value of coupling SIP with cultivation methods to identify and expand on the known diversity of PAH-degrading bacteria in the deep-sea
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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