501 research outputs found
Authoring Culture Video, Chapter 04: Circulation
No full textA student video offering insight and explanation of the material in Authoring Culture, Chapter 4, Circulation. The author is Aidan Johnson with collaborator Izabella Valenciana. The piece was produced in the Foundation of Twenty-First Century Writing class during the Spring semester, 2025, taught by Dr. Brendan Riley. Length: 04:09.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/authoring_culture/1018/thumbnail.jp
Judicial politics in the Judicial Committee
No full textThe author suggests that a Scottish takeover of English law in matters of Convention rights has seen the House of Lords superseded as the final court of appeal. Article by Aidan O’Neill QC (Advocates Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Judicial politics in the Judicial Committee
No full textThe author suggests that a Scottish takeover of English law in matters of Convention rights has seen the House of Lords superseded as the final court of appeal. Article by Aidan O’Neill QC (Advocates Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The Ripple Archives
No full textThroughout my undergraduate education, my writing has turned towards subjects that most people willfully ignore. I’ve been fascinated with the machine of capitalism, and how it often leads to death or unfulfilled life. We pack infinity into a small box we carry around, endless information that leaves us feeling a multitude of ways. With this endless information, progress, and consumption, comes death. Death on the personal level, a human experience for all of our sentient existence, but also death within our surroundings, and deaths worldwide, broadcasted and mediated through our technology and news sources. With the help of my honors thesis mentor, Alessandra Lynch, I developed the concept of a literary archive, titled The Ripple Archives, in which the speaker attempts to give voices to neglected and abandoned figures, objects, and emotions. This archive contains not only a multiplicity of subjects, but structures, containing packing lists, elegies, conversations, and even calendars. The archive finds commonalities between the internet, political events, and Death, both a mysterious place and figure. Through the practice of archiving, the speaker hopes to find some form of deliverance from the inevitability of death and progress, whether it is in the physical world or in their imagination
The “Deviant” Dead: (De)constructing Personhood in Mycenaean Mortuary Landscapes
No full textDespite increasing standardization in mortuary practice during the Mycenaean palatial period, there remains a significant degree of variation in burials. This project seeks to elucidate the reasons for the wide variability in the Mycenaean mortuary program with theories of anthropological personhood as a guiding framework. I focus on the palatial period, from LHIII A2 - LHIIIB2 (1410-1190) because of the pervasiveness of Mycenaean culture throughout the Aegean, but especially in Greece’s northeastern Peloponnese, during that time. I use mortuary data from 12 cemeteries in the Argolid and Korinthia to trace trends in burial practice, in the hope of establishing a theoretical norm. I consider how burial affects the construction of a “person,” as a being that is relationally authored in creating a definition of normativity. Additionally, I consider the existence of so-called “deviant” burials that lie beyond the norm. Ultimately, I conclude that no such burials exist within this data set, and instead, that the norm for the Mycenaean burial program allows for variability
The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene /
No full textW. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it.W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
Poron tarha-aidan suunnittelu
No full textOpinnäytetyön tehtävänä oli selvittää poron tarha-aidan suunnittelussa huomioitavat asiat sekä laskea malliesimerkin kautta kustannukset porotarhan rakentamiselle. Työn tilaajana toimi Porutaku-hanke, joka oli Poron lisäruokinnan, talvitarhauksen ja elävänä kuljettamisen hyvät käytännöt – elinkeinon kehittämishanke. Porojen tarhaan ruokinta on ajankohtainen asia niin kauan kuin talvisten luonnonlaidunten kunto on niin huono, että porot eivät selviydy niillä ilman ruokintaa tai vähäisellä maastoruokinnalla. Suunnittelun ja kustannusten laskeminen ennakolta korostuu, kun mietitään, miten porokarja saadaan hoidettua yli talven mahdollisimman pienillä kustannuksilla.
Selvitystyö toteutettiin laadullisena tutkimuksena haastatellen Janne Mustosta. Tapauskohtaisesti tutustuin Mustosen porotarhaan. Laskin nykyisistä tarha-aidoista pinta-alat ja kustannukset. Näiden laskelmien pohjalta tein muutosehdotuksen ja lisälaajennussuunnitelman. Laskelmat ja havainnollistamisen tein PoroFencer-aitaohjelmalla.
Mustosen nykyisessä porotarhassa on keskimäärin 14 poroa hehtaaria kohden, jos lisälaajennus tehtäisiin, porotiheydeksi tulisi 5,2 poroa hehtaarilla suosituksen ollessa korkeintaan 50 poroa hehtaarilla. Porotarhan sisällä osastojen välillä porotiheys vaihtelee suuresti, jos muutosehdotusta ei suoriteta. Tarharakennelmien kustannus poroa kohden nykyisissä aidoissa on 3,02 euroa vuodessa, kun aidan käyttöikä on 20 vuotta. Lisälaajennus nostaisi porokohtaista kulua 1,11 eurolla ja suunniteltu kuja 0,16 eurolla. Mustosen nykyisen porotarhan aitojen rakentaminen kestäisi 42 työpäivää sekä lisälaajennuksen ja kujan 25 työpäivää. Tarharakennelmien vuosikustannukset ovat pieniä verrattuna muihin ruokintaan liittyviin kustannuksiin kuten rehut, koneet ja työ.
Lisälaajennuksella ja peltojen raivaamisella voidaan vähentää väkirehun kulutusta ja kasvattaa säilörehun osuutta ruokinnassa, mikä vähentää ruokintakuluja. Hyvin suunniteltu porotarha helpottaa porojen käsittelyä, vähentää aitamateriaalikustannuksia ja huomioi ympäristövaikutukset. Tarpeeksi tilava porotarha vähentää porojen stressiä ja mahdollistaa lajityypillisen käyttäytymisen.The aim of the thesis was to clarify the matters which are observed in the planning of the reindeer pen fence and to count the costs through the prime example for the building of the reindeer pen. The subscriber of the work was the Porutaku- project. The feeding is a current matter to the reindeer pen as long as the condition of winter nature pastures is so bad that the reindeer do not manage on them without the feeding or with a minor terrain feeding. The calculation of planning and costs in advance will be emphasised when it is thought how the reindeer cattle will be kept over the winter with as small costs as possible.
The report work was carried out as a qualitative study interviewing Janne Mustonen. The author became acquainted with the reindeer pen of Mustonen, case by case. The areas and costs were calculated from the present pen fences. Based on these calculations an amendment and plan for the additional extension were made. The calculations and illustrations were made with the fence programme, PoroFencer.
There will be 14 reindeer on average in the present reindeer pen of Mustonen per hectare if the additional extension were made, 5,2 reindeer per hectare would become a reindeer density when the recommendation will be the maximum of 50 reindeer per hectare. Inside the reindeer pen the reindeer density will vary greatly between the departments if the amendment is not executed. The cost of pen constructions per reindeer in the present fences will be 3,02 euros per year when the service life of the fence is 20 years. The additional extension would raise a rein-deer-specific expense by 1,11 euros and designed the lane on 0,16 euros. It would take 42 working days to build the fences of the present reindeer pen of Mustonen and 25 working days of the additional extension and lane. The annual costs of pen constructions are small compared to the feeding to other directed costs such as feeds, machines and work.
The additional extension and the clearing of fields can be used to reduce concentrated feed consumption and to expand the share of storage feed in the feeding which reduces feeding expenses. The well planned reindeer pen facilitates the reindeer handling, reduces cost of fence materials and pays attention to the environmental effects. The reindeer pen which is spacious enough reduces the reindeers' stress and makes the typical behaviour of the species possible
Mode-constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning via Gaussian Processes
No full textFunding Information: We thank ST John, Martin Trapp, Arno Solin, and Paul Chang for valuable discussions and feedback. This work was conducted whilst Aidan Scannell was a PhD student at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE) at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. It was finished whilst funded by the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms do not typically consider environments with multiple dynamic modes, where it is beneficial to avoid inoperable or undesirable modes. We present a model-based RL algorithm that constrains training to a single dynamic mode with high probability. This is a difficult problem because the mode constraint is a hidden variable associated with the environment's dynamics. As such, it is 1) unknown a priori and 2) we do not observe its output from the environment, so cannot learn it with supervised learning. We present a nonparametric dynamic model which learns the mode constraint alongside the dynamic modes. Importantly, it learns latent structure that our planning scheme leverages to 1) enforce the mode constraint with high probability, and 2) escape local optima induced by the mode constraint. We validate our method by showing that it can solve a simulated quadcopter navigation task whilst providing a level of constraint satisfaction both during and after training.Peer reviewe
Backlash Against Mosque and Community Centers
No full textThis project explores the religious backlash to Mosques and Muslim community centers. The project focuses on Murfreesboro, TN, New York City, NY, Houston, TX, and Carmel, IN
Aidan Higgins\u27s Fictions and Aesthetics
No full textThis doctoral thesis seeks to articulate how visual comparisons may help readers to understand the complexity of ways of seeing in Aidan Higgins\u27s main fictions, Felo de Se (1960), Langrishe, Go Down (1966), Balcony of Europe (first published in 1972, then edited and re-issued in 2010), Bornholm Night-Ferry (1983) and Lions of the Grunewald (1993). In closing, the study also considers the presence of drawings and other visual images in Blind Man\u27s Bluff (2012), Higgins\u27s final publication in his lifetime. A guiding research objective is to counter a common argument in the critical discourse that Higgins\u27s style is compromised by formal deficits. The true breadth and refinement of Higgins\u27s visual descriptions are revealed in this thesis through comparative engagement with texts from art history and aesthetics. This is a significant intervention in the study of Higgins: no such study, integrating specialist knowledge of art historiography in analysing the author\u27s fictional modes of vision, currently exists in the scholarship or criticism. The author was Samuel Beckett\u27s mentee in the 1950s, but is a marginal figure in Irish Studies. His first novel, Langrishe, Go Down , was greeted with a flourish of critical attention and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1967. The subsequent, more stylistically experimental texts have been less commercially successful. Higgins\u27s writing is inflected by a pan-European sensibility and international experiences. One of the reasons that Higgins\u27s writing has been under-appreciated on a stylistic level is that his subject matter exceeds the socio-political perspectives that has dominated Irish Studies since the latter half of the twentieth century. Scholars are still catching up with the complex artistic moves of twentieth-century Irish literature. Of the existing scholarship, there is one monograph that heavily deals with Higgins\u27s work: Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt: An Analysis of the Epistemological Crisis in Modern Irish Fiction (2004) by Neil Murphy. Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2010), an edited collection compiled by Murphy and the sole book to date that focuses entirely on Higgins\u27s work, pays tribute to the delicacy of his style. However, much of the extant criticism has reproached his work for its lack of robust formal structuring devices. This doctoral thesis uses a wealth of archival sources, notably including the collection of Ussher\u27s letters housed at the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library at Trinity College, Dublin, which provides original viewpoints that do not exist in any in-depth way in the current secondary literature on Higgins, and which also contains some of the burgeoning writer\u27s juvenilia. Similarly, the inventory of fonds at the University of Victoria in Canada is an invaluable resource. In particular, Higgins\u27s notebooks present an illuminating source for deciphering the emotions and aesthetic states that rest under his artistic proclivities. Relating Higgins\u27s letter writing and his diary and notebook entries to references from art historical theories bolsters a framework for interpreting the wealth of manuscript material
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