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Eknoor Brar
No full textThe design is proposed keeping in mind the occupancy of the apartment building in the mill-side of the project. The design will incorporate a restaurant, as this will help the community to engage with each other. The restaurant has both indoor and outdoor spaces for all kinds of weather. The patio is kept away from the road so that customers can enjoy nature and have privacy
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
ldmavrogonatou/BRAR: v0.1.0 - In Advance of Resubmission
No full textThis version comprises the code submitted as part of the response to the reviewers of "A comparison of allocation strategies for optimising clinical trial designs under variance heterogeneity" (Mavrogonatou et al.). It will be assigned a DOI by Zenodo
Nano-Ecotoxicology of Natural and Engineered Nanomaterials for Microorganisms
No full textThe mobility of nanomaterials (NMs) varies according to their surface charges, polarity and the media properties they come into contact. When compared to bulk materials their degradability is lower and solubility is slower. These two facts result in longer bioavailability periods and increased possibility of transport to further distances. In general terms, all of NMs produce toxic effects in living organisms, again depending on the interaction with the surrounding media. Given the possibility of enhanced transport, it could be assumed that soon or later NMs will reach environmental conditions that trigger their toxic effects to the local biota. The physiological pathway they trigger is linked to the cellular production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), which would further result in reduction of cellular growth and even cell death, depending on the concentrations of NMs and the sensibility of the given organism. NMs’ toxicity and transport can vary with 1) time (due to changes suffered once in the environment), 2) space (due to seasonal or other fluctuations in environmental features), and 3) the species. Therefore, a general protocol for NMs testing should be developed. In general, such a general protocol should use NMs and their aged derivates for determination of toxicity in at least three local species of different trophic levels under different conditions (e.g., temperature, light, or environmental conditions such as different dissolved organic matters, aerobic or anaerobic settings) (Blaise et al. 2008). There are a large number of standardized bioassays that can be also used for evaluating NMs toxicity. All of them use different medium conditions and different target organisms, which can produce significantly different results.This chapter focuses on nano-ecotoxicology of natural and engineering NMs for microorganisms. The chapter starts with mobility, bioavailability and degradability of NMs in the environment, and then moves into general considerations of toxicity and eco-toxicity of NMs, followed by discussions about the comet and the micronucleus assays, including the K micronuclei and Ames tests and Highthroughput screening and current status in the related areas.Fil: Cledón, Maximiliano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; ArgentinaFil: Brar, Satinder Kaur. No especifíca;Fil: Zhang, Tian C. No especifíca
Beefy's Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)
No full textDean Blunt is the most important British artist of the current century because he fundamentally does not care about Britain. His importance makes it shocking that such little critical attention has been paid to his work. His indifference explains it. Dhanveer Singh Brar’s ‘Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)’ looks to initiate a conversation that needs to be had about Dean Blunt, about Britain (through Blunt’s indifference to it), and about Blackness in Britain (through the depth and complexity of Blunt’s feeling for it). Using the 2016 album ‘BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow’ as a means of navigation, Brar hears Blunt in order to access the long contested dream of Britain’s disappearance that was conducted under the name of Black British Arts. Partial (in the sense of his relation to Blunt) and partial (in the sense of unfinished), ‘Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)’ see’s Dhanveer Singh Brar give the dream a grammar, if not a name
Towards equitable SEND systems: South-Asian and Indian-Panjabi Sikh parents’ experiences with SEND-support in England
No full textThe Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) code of practice mandates that education professionals ensure all children with SEND are treated fairly and have access to adequate services and education, irrespective of their ethnicity and culture. Despite this legislation, children from ethnic minority backgrounds receiving SEND-support continue to be disproportionately represented in England's education system. Understanding over- and under-representation is crucial to ensuring equitable SEND-support for all children in need. Culturally responsive practices can help ensure equitable access to support and are underpinned by guidance from governing bodies of the educational psychology profession in England. However, there is a dearth of literature exploring minority SEND experiences and the development of educational psychologists’ culturally responsive practices.A systematic literature review explored how South-Asian parents understand their children’s SEND and how they describe their experiences with education professionals and SEND-systems in England. The findings from 11 studies were synthesised. Key findings suggest that South-Asian parents experience unmet language needs, cultural stigma and shame (sharam), and a lack of support, exacerbating power imbalances with education professionals, including educational psychologists. The empirical research used critical communicative methodology to explore Indian-Panjabi Sikh parents’ experiences with SEND-systems. Parents face significant barriers in navigating SEND-systems and are vulnerable to isolation due to a lack of perceived professional, familial, and community support. They discussed issues related to unmet language needs, absence of interpreters, cultural considerations, informed consent, and clear information on EP involvement and parental rights during EHCP processes. These experiences contributed to disempowerment and vulnerability to SEND-stigma and sharam (shame). Moreover, parents described SEND-support for autistic children in mainstream schools as inadequate. These findings highlight the unique difficulties parents face in understanding SEND and accessing support. The findings suggest that children from minority ethnic and linguistic backgrounds are at risk of receiving inadequate support when EPs and teachers lack cultural responsiveness. Given the new UK government in power, research exploring accessibility to equitable SEND-support for families of children with SEND from minority backgrounds is timely. Culturally responsive practices are discussed and identified in response
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
ESTIMATION OF ECONOMIC RENT AS A MEASURE OF FACTOR OWNERS' WELFARE
No full textInstitutional and Behavioral Economics,
Seven Theses on P-Funk
No full textThis session will be led by Dhanveer Singh Brar & Louis Moreno and will map the music of a spatial dialectic that began sometime in 1967, a spatiotemporal riot which wasn't specific to the great rebellions of Newark or Detroit, but emerged in the interregnum between these two cities. This is the story of a project, maybe even a plan that came to be known as P-Funk, Parliament-Funkadelic, Uncut Funk — The Bomb
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