708 research outputs found
Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh
No full textIngemar Lindh's research on the principles of collective improvisation and performance conceived as process announce an important development in the 20th-century tradition of the actor's work. After early studies with Étienne Decroux and working collaborations with Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, and Yves Lebreton, Lindh founded the first laboratory theatre in Sweden in 1971, the Institutet för Scenkonst. His practice of collective improvisation is viewed in light of postdramatic concerns such as its resistance to fixed scores, directorial montage, and choreography as an organizing principle
Mountaineers In Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry
No full textOn April 26, 1865, on a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the remnants of the Army of Tennessee to his longtime foe, General William T. Sherman. Johnston’s surrender ended the unrelenting Federal drive through the Carolinas and dashed any hope for Southern independence. Among the thirty thousand or so ragged Confederates who soon received their paroles were seventy-eight men from the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Originally consisting of over one thousand men, the unit had—through four years of sickness, injury, desertion, and death—been reduced to a tiny fraction of its former strength.Organized from volunteer companies from the upper and lower portions of East Tennessee, the men of the Nineteenth represented an anomaly—Confederates in the midst of the largest Unionist stronghold of the South. Why these East Tennesseans chose to defy their neighbors, risking their lives and fortunes in pursuit of Southern independence, lacks a simple answer. John D. Fowler finds that a significant number of the Nineteenth’s members belonged to their region’s local elite—old, established families engaged in commercial farming or professional occupations. The influence of this elite, along with community pressure, kinship ties, fear of invasion, and a desire to protect republican liberty, generated Confederate sympathy amongst East Tennessee secessionists, including the members of the Nineteenth.Utilizing an exhaustive exploration of primary source materials, the author creates a new model for future regimental histories—a model that goes beyond “bugles and bullets” to probe the motivations for enlistment, the socioeconomic backgrounds, the wartime experiences, and the postwar world of these unique Confederates. The Nineteenth served from the beginning of the conflict to its conclusion, marching and fighting in every major engagement of the Army of Tennessee except Perryville. Fowler uses this extensive service to explore the soldiers’ effectiveness as fighting men, the thrill and fear of combat, the harsh and often appalling conditions of camp life, the relentless attrition through disease, desertion, and death in battle, and the specter of defeat that haunted the Confederate forces in the West. This study also provides insight into the larger issues of Confederate leadership, strategy and tactics, medical care, prison life, the erosion of Confederate morale, and Southern class relations. The resulting picture of the war is gritty, real, and all too personal. If the Civil War is indeed a mosaic of “little wars,” this, then, is the Nineteenth’s war
DQA1*0102 DQB1*0602 haplotype distinguishes coeliac disease and its complications from gluten unrelated enteropathies
No full textBackground: Duodenal villous atrophy is due not only to coeliac disease and its complications but also to other rare enteropathies unrelated to gluten consumption, defined as noncoeliac enteropathies. The diagnosis of noncoeliac enteropathies remains challenging, and HLA typing has been widely used to exclude coeliac disease if DQ2 and DQ8 alleles are absent. However, the frequency of the various HLA alleles in noncoeliac enteropathies is still unknown. Aims: To describe the HLA genetic profile of patients affected by noncoeliac enteropathies who have been evaluated at our centres between 2000 and 2021, and to investigate the diagnostic role of HLA typing. Methods: Genomic DNA was collected from 44 Italian and 19 British adult patients with noncoeliac enteropathies. Patient genotypes were compared with those of healthy Italian and British populations obtained from HLA bone marrow donors' banks. In addition, genotypes were also compared with those of patients with coeliac disease and complicated coeliac disease. Results: Both in the Italian and in the British group, the DQA1*0102 DQB1*0602 haplotype and related alleles occurred significantly more frequently in patients with noncoeliac enteropathies compared to coeliac disease and complicated coeliac disease. Conclusions: Together with negative HLA-DQ2 and DQ8 haplotypes, the DQA1*0102 DQB1*0602 haplotype can be used to guide the differential diagnosis between coeliac disease and noncoeliac enteropathies
Escribirse en México: estudio sobre la escritura de refugiado y el caso de Luis Cardoza y Aragón
No full textThis is a study about refugee creation. It is concerned with those bonds an exiled author establishes with the nation where he seeks refuge. It is in debt to Homi Bhabha’s theory of nation as narration, one trying to educate its readers or one making them perform the nation along the narrative enunciation. Beyond conforming community, nation narratives legitimize exclusion, separating citizens from mere inhabitants. Refugees, such as Carlos Mérida, Olga Costa, Helen Fowler or Luis Cardoza, resisted the exclusion by intervening, challenging or recreating such discourses. This work analyzes refugee art and literature in an environment where nationalist positions were radically expressed within the state apparatuses, as was the case in Mexico following the Revolution, when policies regarding immigration were radically restrictive. The dissertation focusses in Luis Cardoza y Aragón’s essays —La nube y el reloj (1940) and Apolo y Coatlicue (1944)— and poetry —Pequeña sinfonía del Nuevo Mundo (1948)— as refugee creation. On the one hand, it elucidates the match between local and universal as the foundation for Cardoza’s vanguardist attempt to decenter Western expression and to invest Latin America, after arielismo modernista, as the heir of European culture. On the other, it unveils how Cardoza corrodes symbolic borders in order to insert refugees like himself in Mexican time and space as citizens of merit, and to open the nation as an internation about to face imperialism. Cardoza exceeds national codification, displaces discourse through the ineffable of poetry, returns us to the materiality of signification and, in doing so, gives us the possibility to reformulate the nation’s terms
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Regola delli cinqve ordini d' architettvra /
No full textEngraved throughout. Architectural title leaf includes the arms of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, to whom the work is dedicated, and the half-length port. of Vignola facing to the viewer's right. The imprint has been recut with van Schoel's name replacing that of an earlier printer, traces of which remain. Plates are printed on one side of the leaf only, and most are arranged in pairs on a verso and the facing recto. Arabic numbering has been added, in addition to the original Roman.The first 32 plates are close to Fowler's type A, the plates from the original ed. of 1563, but most differ in details from Fowler's description. Type A also comprises the later Roman eds. of Vaccarius (1607-1610) and Rossi (ca. 1617). The present ed. includes the seven plates of the "Porte di Michel Angelo" (nos. 38-44) and the plate of the five orders (no. 3), all of which probably first appeared in Orlandi's ed. of 1602; see Fowler. It is therefore probable that the present ed. appeared between 1602 and Hendrik van Schoel's death in 1622.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: later gray pasteboard. Author & title written on spine. Centered on front pastedown is Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù.Bound after plate 44 in Getty copy is a leaf with a later (19th- century?) pen and wash drawing of a Gothic window with tracery and pinnacle
The Facilitation of the Invasive Alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla by a Native Decorator Worm (Diopatra cupre) in Mid-Atlantic Estuaries of the United States
No full textThis work is embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until August 2025.The establishment of a non-native organism can have dramatic consequences for native biodiversity, though this is not always straightforward. The predatory marine worm Diopatra cuprea anchors shells, algae, and plant matter to its tube in Mid-Atlantic salt marshes. This anchoring behavior has assisted the persistence and spread of the red alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla in soft-sediment habitats. This dissertation (1) examined decoration preferences of D. cuprea for G. vermiculophylla, (2) surveyed invertebrate communities which settle on G. vermiculophylla in the field and invertebrate settlement preference in the laboratory, and (3) compared D. cuprea decoration patterns across states and seasons.2025-08-1
Quagliana v. Exquisite Home Builders, Inc. : Brief of Respondent
No full textIN THE LAW LIBRARY SUPREME COURTS 6 ,975 OF THE STATE OF UTi4MHAM Y0UN6 UNIVERSIIY J7 Reuben Clark Law School JOSEPH M. QUAGLIANA and PAULA L. QUAGLIANA, Plaintiffs and Appellants, vs. EXQUISITE HOME BUILDERS, INC., a n d ALLAN KRUCKENBERG, GARY MARGETTS, dba K M DESIGN, Defendants and Respondents. Case No. 13723 BRIEF OF RESPONDENTS Appeal From a Judgment of the District Court of Salt Lake County Honorable Bryant H. Croft, Judge WAYNE A. ASHWORTH DONALD SAWAYA 2805 South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Attorneys for Defendants and Respondents Kruckenberg. Margetts, and K M Design BRYCE E. ROE ROE AND FOWLER 340 East Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 jf— Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Appellants*** ORVAL C. HARRISON » 15 East 400 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Attorney for Defendant and Respondent,. Exquisite Home Builders, Inc. LE
Quantification of TRPC5 protein levels in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), subiculum (SUB), and entorhinal cortex (ECx) in 21 and 63 day old rats
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Corticolimbic Expression of TRPC4 and TRPC5 Channels in the Rodent Brain"</p><p></p><p>PLoS ONE 2007;2(6):-.</p><p>Published online 27 Jun 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1892805.</p><p>Fowler et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</p> Results were normalized to β-actin protein levels. (Top left Inset) Representative bands of the immunoblot (n = 4
Logging student answer data in CALL exercises to gauge feedback efficacy
No full textAn important advantage of online assessment work is that answer data can be easily stored and later analysed with a view to establishing the efficacy of the assessment methodology. A 5-year study of the effectiveness of online grammar exercises has been carried out at the University of Kent. The exercises featured require input in the form of whole sentences (since this is a more authentic test of language skills than single word input or multiple choice). Error feedback is generic (indicating where errors have occurred) rather than specific (indicating the exact nature of the errors) because the error-diagnosis system has been designed to be completely language independent. The study aimed to gauge whether this type of feedback is effective - in terms of enabling students to:
· identify the types of mistakes in their input;
· rectify the mistakes;
· learn from the mistakes and apply that learning to subsequent problems
There was initial concern that the generic feedback might not provide enough detail to enable users to understand and correct their errors - however extensive use by the University's Spanish department has shown that this type of mark-up is very effective. Chapelle (1998) stresses that it is important for learners to be given the opportunity to correct their linguistic errors. Users of this system, having failed to answer a question correctly on their first attempt, are permitted a second attempt. It is abundantly clear from the logged data that where users make mistakes in their first attempt (and they generally do since the material is designed to be testing), there is almost always a significant improvement in attempt two. This alone would be enough to show that the feedback mode is effective. However this was not enough to prove the pedagogical efficacy of this means of exercise presentation. Therefore more detailed analysis was performed. Over several years of trials more than 100,000 answers have been logged and every answer has been analysed. It can be shown that, for well-designed exercises, as students progress through an exercise they improve in three ways:
· more questions are answered correctly on the first attempt;
· overall questions scores (i.e. the average of 1st and 2nd attempts at questions) improve;
· thinking time for formulating answers decreases
The degree of increase in accuracy and decrease in thinking time is exercise-dependent, but the overall picture shows clearly that the generic, language-independent feedback is indeed effective. Moreover, it is easy to identify poorly designed exercises since they do not exhibit the characteristics listed above
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