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Fashion and art
No full textSome of the biggest names in British fashion and art, ranging from royal wedding-dress designer Sarah Burton to sculptor Marc Quinn, were paired-up in a unique collaboration to create works to celebrate 'Olympic Values'. Called Britain Creates 2012. The project was billed as a highlight of the London 2012 Festival. This book presents the results of these unprecedented collaborations, across different artistic mediums, from: Christopher Bailey, Charming Baker, Sarah Burton, Hussein Chalayan, Dinos Chapman, Giles Deacon, Jeremy Deller, Jess Flood-Paddock, Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Stella McCartney, Erdem Moralioglu, Marc Quinn, Jonathan Saunders, Paul Smith and Vivienne Westwood. The artists and designers created works representing Strength, Courage, Might, Speed, Power, Truce or Stamina, bringing Olympic and Paralympic values to life through a project that salutes the longstanding connection between fashion and the visual arts. This lavishly illustrated book endeavours to show, when great minds collide, amazing things happen. Packaged as a box set containing 2 volumes, a CD and nine posters of the finished artworks. Edward Booth-Clibborn is a publisher, author and editor of many award-winning books, including books on Damian Hirst and Young British Art of the Saatchi decade. Jonathan Barnbrook is graphic designer
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Perspectives on corporate volunteering programs: why they matter and new directions
No full textResearch on the volunteering experiences of employees and their relationships with personal and organizational outcomes has blossomed in recent years. However, much of this research has not distinguished between employees’ engagement in personal and corporate-sponsored volunteering programs. Personal volunteering (i.e., employees volunteering their own time to causes that support the community) is distinct from corporate volunteering – employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored activities, with support from their employer in terms of paid time or other supporting resources. Given our shortage of knowledge regarding the impacts of corporate-sponsored volunteering programs in particular, this symposium brings together five presentations that seek to advance our understanding of the impacts of corporate volunteering programs from a variety of perspectives. Collectively, the papers use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide novel insights into why corporate volunteering matters, the processes through which organizations design and implement these programs, the impacts such programs can have on employees, the expectations various stakeholders in these programs hold of each other, and how these programs can be designed to be sustainable over time. The symposium will close with an audience discussion led by our discussant on the implications of the five papers for the study of corporate volunteering programs. Employee volunteering as a change catalyst Author: Katerina Gonzalez; Suffolk University Author: Florencio F. Portocarrero; London School of Economics and Political Science Broadening the Social Impact: How Volunteering Enables Servant Leadership Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Sandy J. Wayne; Author: Siyi Tao; Employee volunteering programs: a marginal and essentially performative CSR tool Author: Bethania Antunes; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Cecile Guillaume; University of Surrey Author: Lisa Jean Cafora; University of Surrey The (Mis)Alignment of Expectations across Corporate Volunteering Program Stakeholders Author: Jonathan Edward Booth; Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Aaron Aujla; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology When in Rome? Selling centralized HR policies across subsidiaries: A qualitative investigation Author: Kiera Dempsey-Brench; Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Author: Mihwa Seong; King's College London Author: Amanda Shantz; Not Associate
10-05 "The Macroeconomics of Development without Throughput Growth"
No full textSerious discussion has begun of policies to promote the goal of increasing well-being without material growth. Moving towards this goal requires a profound reorientation of macroeconomic theory. Importantly, the call by ecological economists to move away from traditional growth-oriented models comes at a moment when standard macroeconomics is in considerable turmoil. The financial crisis of 2008/2009 seriously undermined the basis for mainstream macroeconomics and brought renewed attention to various forms of Keynesian analysis and policy previously regarded as outdated. There is a close complementarity between new Keynesian and ecological perspectives. While older Keynesian analysis was oriented towards promoting growth, a true Keynesian analysis of the relationship between investment and consumption does not depend on a growth orientation. What this analysis has in common with an ecological perspective is the rejection of market optimality assumed in classical models. Moving away from the neoclassical goal of inter-temporal utility maximization allows for different, pluralistic economic goals: full employment, provision of basic needs, social and infrastructure investment, and income equity. These goals are compatible with environmental preservation and resource sustainability, whereas indefinite growth is not. But they require a revitalization of the sphere of social investment, seriously neglected (indeed often omitted completely) in standard models. Reintroducing this perspective allows the development of an economic theory suitable for the transition to a stable-population, low-carbon, resource-conserving global economy. The barriers to this transition are primarily political and institutional, not economic. Specifically, an eco-Keynesian perspective emphasizes new macroeconomic categories including: * human-capital-intensive services * investment in energy-conserving capital * investment in natural and human capital The expansion of these categories provides a basis for growth in wellbeing without growth in throughput, while preserving full employment and economic stability. This paper explores some of the implications of this altered macroeconomic perspective for development in both the global "North" and "South". It is suggested that the problems following the global financial crisis cannot be resolved by a return to traditional growth patterns, and will require large-scale practical policies based on eco-Keynesianism.
The effects of social and technical systems on workplace victims' cognitive appraisals and coping styles: a multi-organizational, multilevel study.
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Human Resources and Industrial Relations. Advisor: Theresa M. Glomb. 1 computer fie (PDF); xv, 232 pages, appendix pages 184-232. Ill.Sociotechnical systems theory has suggested that it is the conditions of social and technical systems that determine the healthiness of organizational and individual outcomes (Cox & colleagues, 1993, 1996, 2000; Trist & colleagues, 1951, 1963). However, scholars in this area have not explored the transactional psychological stress processes that are posited as precursors to these (un)healthy outcomes. Using the amalgamation of sociotechnical systems and transactional psychological stress theories, this dissertation's purpose was to investigate how organizational social systems and technical systems influence direct care workers' transactional psychological stress processes (i.e., cognitive appraisals and coping styles) after being victimized (i.e., direct, indirect, and sexual harassment victimizations) by patients, residents, and/or these clients' families. Understanding how organizational and workgroup contexts aid in molding an individual's appraisals and subsequent behavior is critical to an organization and its people - especially after workplace victimizations occur. Knowledge of the beneficial and negative aspects of the systems' influence on these processes can assist organizations in determining to maintain current programs and policies or to revamp, redesign, and/or create new systems and structures. The social systems under examination were: workgroup leader-member exchange (LMX) climate level and strength, workgroup conflict, and workgroup knowledge sharing climates. The technical systems under examination were: organizational complexity, centralization (i.e., hierarchy of authority and participation in decision making) and formalization climates (note: complexity was later removed as a key climate variable when it was deemed inappropriate for organizational aggregation).
Utilizing multilevel methods with 509 participants in 97 workgroups in 43 long term care facilities (total response was 575 participants in 49 facilities), main and moderating contextual effects on victims' cognitive appraisals and coping styles were assessed. Main effects were found between social systems and victims' appraisals and coping styles; while technical systems were only found to have direct relationships with cognitive appraisals. Further, significant three-way cross-level effects among direct victimization, workgroup LMX climate level, and workgroup LMX climate strength were found predicting threat, centrality, challenge, and resource availability cognitive appraisals. At high levels of direct victimization, high LMX climate level, high LMX climate strength workgroups' appraisals appeared better off than other workgroup categories. This suggests that leadership may act as a resource in the workplace to buffer victimization situations - especially when relationships between leadership and the workgroup are positive and consistent. Evidence from this study also suggested that the presence of rules in the workplace may have a stabilizing effect on cognitions. No change in centrality appraisals was found across levels of victims' direct victimization reports, and no change in resource appraisals was found across levels of victims' sexual harassment encounters; while low formalization climates were shown to exacerbate these appraisals. Finally, a balance may be needed with the amount of participation in decision making allocated to organizational members. For example, results revealed that a high participation in decision making climate ameliorated avoidance and denial coping mechanisms when direct victimization was at high levels; however, the same climate exacerbated advocacy seeking when direct victimization was at high levels.Booth, Jonathan Edward. (2009). The effects of social and technical systems on workplace victims' cognitive appraisals and coping styles: a multi-organizational, multilevel study.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/54042
Corrective justice, harm, and reparations for historical injustice
No full textSome regard harms to currently existing persons as a basis for reparations for historical injustice. By focusing on corrective justice as the basis for repairing wrongful harm, this thesis aims to clarify and strengthen the harm-based approach to reparations. I defend a version of the conformity account as the moral basis of corrective justice, critiquing various versions of this argument by Joseph Raz and John Gardner. I argue that the notion of harm relevant to corrective justice is a counterfactual comparative one and respond to various objections to that conception. I then consider two different cases in which compensation for an historical injustice might be thought appropriate. First, I examine an argument developed independently by Bernard Boxill and George Sher (which I refer to as the chain-harm argument). I analyze Andrew Cohen’s critique of the argument, clarifying the problems it faces before offering some tentative solutions. Second, I examine and critique Judith Jarvis Thomson’s proposal to solve the non-identity problem in the case of the Risky Policy. I explain why her argument fails and offer my own solution.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jonathan Paul Winterbotto
W.M. Thackeray : nostalgic satirist : a reappraisal of some aspects of his style
No full textIncludes bibliography.In this brief study, I have attempted to re-examine various critical issues raised by Thackeray's style, which seem to me unavoidable and which for convenience I have divided into these subjects: "Authorial Voice", "Satiric Method"'• "Stereotyping", "Time" and "Cynicism and Distance". I hope that the title: "Nostalgic Satirist" will be seen to have some meaning in view of the comments made in these chapters. The first of these concentrates predominantly on Thackeray's habit of commenting in asides, a habit much criticised and which I have attempted to defend in terms of the genre of Thackeray's works, which I take to be closer to the eighteenth century than to the Victorian era. I have attempted to explain his tendency towards towards rhetoric in terms of his self-conscioμs attitude, the special relationship he has with his reader, and in terms of his satiric method which is necessarily often rhetorical
Topics in affine and discrete harmonic analysis
No full textIn this thesis a number of problems in harmonic analysis of a geometric flavour are discussed
and, in particular, the Lebesgue space mapping properties of certain averaging and Fourier
restriction operators are studied. The first three chapters focus on the perspective afforded by
affine-geometrical considerations whilst the remaining chapter considers some discrete variants
of these problems.
In Chapter 1 there is an overview of the basic affine theory of the aforementioned operators
and, in particular, the affine arc-length and surface measures are introduced.
Chapter 2 presents work of the author, submitted for publication, concerning an operator
which takes averages of functions on Euclidean space over both translates and dilates of a fixed
polynomial curve. Moreover, the averages are taken with respect to the affine arc-length; this
allows one to prove Lebesgue space estimates with a substantial degree of uniformity in the
constants. The sharp range of uniform estimates is obtained in all dimensions except for an
endpoint.
Chapter 3 presents some work of the author, published in Mathematika, concerning a family
of Fourier restriction operators closely related to the averaging operators discussed in Chapter
2. Specifically, a Fourier restriction estimate is obtained for a broad class of conic surfaces by
introducing a certain measure which exhibits a special kind of affine invariance. Again, the
sharp range of estimates is obtained, but the results are limited to the case of 2-dimensional
cones.
Finally, Chapter 4 discusses some recent joint work of the author and Jim Wright considering
the restriction problem over rings of integers modulo a prime power. The sharp range of
estimates is obtained for Fourier restriction to the moment curve in finitely-generated free
modules over such rings. This is achieved by lifting the problem to the p-adics and applying
a classical argument of Drury in this setting. This work aims to demonstrate that rings of
integers offer a simplified model for the Euclidean restriction problem
Quantification of Droplet Aerosol Generation During Phacoemulsification and Pars Plana Vitrectomy
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Suresh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Introduction Intraocular procedures such as phacoemulsification and pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) may generate fine droplet aerosols that are relevant to infection control, particularly in the context of SARS-CoV-2. Data on aerosol production during cataract and vitrectomy surgery, especially in human tissue and with different wound constructions, remain limited. This study used a high-sensitivity optical particle spectrometer to quantify droplet aerosols (0.12-8.00 μm in diameter) generated during phacoemulsification in cadaveric human eyes with 2.2 mm and 2.75 mm corneal incisions, to assess whether hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) reduces aerosol production, and to measure aerosol generation during individual steps of PPV. Methods Tests were performed on one model eye and two human cadaveric eyes. A printed optical particle spectrometer (POPS) was used to measure droplet aerosol generation during phacoemulsification through 2.2 mm and 2.75 mm main corneal incisions, with and without HPMC coating, and during predefined stages of 23-gauge PPV. Particle number concentration (PNC, particles cm⁻³) was recorded each second and summarised as mean PNC for each condition. Results In this small series, mean PNC during phacoemulsification without HPMC appeared to be higher with 2.75 mm incisions than with 2.2 mm incisions, and counts of particles >1 μm in diameter were also greater. Application of HPMC was associated with reduced aerosol counts. The maximum measured mean PNC without HPMC for 2.2 mm corneal incisions was 88 cm⁻³, which fell to 66 cm⁻³ with HPMC (p<0.05). For 2.75 mm incisions, the maximum measured mean PNC without HPMC was 493 cm⁻³, falling to 61 cm⁻³ with HPMC (p<0.05). No increase in droplet aerosol was detected during vitrectomy apart from during air infusion through a leaking trocar valve. Conclusion To our knowledge, this is the first study to use whole cadaveric human eyes in combination with a high-sensitivity optical particle spectrometer to quantify airborne particle number and size during phacoemulsification and PPV. In this model, droplet aerosol production during cataract surgery appeared lower with 2.2 mm incisions and with HPMC coating of the cornea. Droplet aerosols may be generated during vitrectomy when air infusion is delivered through a leaking trocar valve, highlighting the importance of port integrity
Worker heterogeneity, new monopsony, and training
No full textA worker's output depends not only on his/her own ability but also on that of colleagues, who can facilitate the performance of tasks that each individual cannot accomplish on his/her own. We show that this common-sense observation generates monopsony power and is sufficient to explain why employers might expend resources on training employees even when the training is of use to other firms. We show that training will take place in better-than-average or ‘good’ firms enjoying greater monopsony power, whereas ‘bad’ firms will have low-ability workers unlikely to receive much training
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