4,897 research outputs found
Sarah Casey: Hidden Drawers
No full textExhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition 'Hidden Drawers' at Kensington Palace 9 january - 9 May 2013. Includes full colour illustrations. With a foreword by Alexandra Kim ( Historic Royal Palaces) and essay by Diane Hill
Keeping Chance in Its Place: The Socio-Legal Regulation of Gambling
No full textIn the winter of 2010, driving through a blizzard to a research interview outside of Ottawa, one of the co-editors of this special issue—Kate Bedford—slid and spun off the road in her rental car. The interviewee—an 80-year-old man who organized a small weekly bingo game—helped dig her out. Sitting in the community centre with him afterwards, thawing, there was ample opportunity for Bedford to reflect on the diverse meanings attached to gambling and the complex ways in which it is regulated. The interviewee talked about ‘use of proceeds’ forms and validating expenses payments for volunteers, describing a gambling landscape that seemed a long way from dominant law and policy conversations. While commentators on the global financial crisis were drawing repeated analogies to casinos and poker, the less glamourous world of small-town bingo seemed to have slipped from view. This special issue is, in part, an effort to bring it back. In 2013, inspired by research in Ontario, Bedford began work on a large, international research grant into gambling regulation. Rather than focusing on relatively well-researched forms of gambling, such as casinos, the project centred bingo as a distinctively under-studied gambling sector. The second co-editor, Donal Casey, joined the initiative in 2015, believing that online gambling could provide a crucial new lens for his research into European Union (“EU”) law and regulation. As part of the research project, Bedford, Casey, and others convened a conference at the University of Kent in 2016 on socio-legal approaches to gambling, where scholars from nine countries and a number of disciplines presented their research. The seven papers that we have collected in this special issue are drawn from that conference, including one from our third co-editor, Alexandra Flynn. In this Introduction to the collection, we lay out what these papers offer to the field of gambling research and beyond. To begin, we identify the scholarly approaches to gambling upon which we wish to build (Part I). Then, we specify three contributions we seek to make through our socio-legal endeavors. First, this collection seeks to foreground the diverse, vernacular forms and places of play that are sometimes overlooked in gambling scholarship (Part II). Second, the papers take a distinctive pluralist approach that recognizes the multi-layered character of gambling regulation (Part III). Third, and finally, the interdisciplinary and methodologically-diverse nature of this special issue allows the papers, alongside the contributions in the Voices and Perspectives section, to speak to a wide range of debates within and outside academia (Part IV)
Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Fig. 3 in Phylogenetic position of genera Acrostilicus Hubbard and Pachystilicus Casey (Staphylinidae, Paederinae) and their redescription
No full textFig. 3. Pachystilicus quadriceps (LeConte, 1880), habitus photograph and drawings of the apical abdominal sternite and genital structures. A. Habitus, lectotype, ♂ (MCZ). B. Male sternite VIII. C. Aedeagus, parameral view. D. Aedeagus, lateral view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.Published as part of Żyła, Dagmara, Tokareva, Alexandra & Koszela, Katarzyna, 2022, Phylogenetic position of genera Acrostilicus Hubbard and Pachystilicus Casey (Staphylinidae, Paederinae) and their redescription, pp. 1-22 in European Journal of Taxonomy 819 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.819.1773, http://zenodo.org/record/653301
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Pachystilicus Casey 1905
No full textGenus Pachystilicus Casey, 1905 Figs 3–4 Pachystilicus Casey, 1905: 226 (original description), 228 (comparison with Megastilicus). Pachystilicus – Blackwelder 1939: 107; 1952: 285 (notes). — Moore & Legner 1979: 11 (key), 111 (description). — Newton et al. 2001: 327 (characters in key), 387 (comment on taxonomic status). Type species Pachystilicus quadriceps (LeConte, 1880). Diagnosis The genus can be recognised based on the following combination of features: body robust (usually slender in Rugilus), covered with fine, dense, golden setae (absent in Acrostilicus, Eustilicus Sharp, 1886 and Megastilicus Casey, 1889); antennal tomentose pubescence starting from antennomere 4; paired teeth on labrum (single in Acrostilicus); the base of head broadly emarginate, punctation of head clearly denser and coarser than that of pronotum, head without dense ground sculpture (often present in Rugilus); absence of scutellar ridges of mesoscutellum (one or two present in other North American Stilicina). Redescription HABITUS. Medium sized, robust, covered with fine golden setae, integument densely punctured. Head more densely punctured than pronotum, without short and stout bristles. COLOURATION. Dark brown; head darker, legs and antennae reddish brown. HEAD. Trapezoidal, widest in middle, wider and longer than pronotum, temples straight, hind angles rounded, posterior margin emarginate (sinuate), disc rugose, punctation dense, rather fine, interstices reduced to narrow ridges, without microsculpture. Eyes large, approximately ⅓ of head length, slightly protruding, eyes with setae between ommatidia. Antenna 11-segmented, somewhat incrassate; antennomeres 4–11 with tomentose pubescence. Clypeal margin straight. Labrum transverse, twice as wide as long or wider, expanded, covering mandibles when closed, highly sclerotised in posterior part, less sclerotised in anterior part, anterior margin arcuate, with two long median teeth and four long setae (two per each side of teeth), incision between teeth rounded. Mandible without prostheca; maxillary palpus 4-segmented; maxillary palpomere 1 small; maxillary palpomere 2 longer than wide, widest near apex, with only few setae, with denser pubescence than maxillary palpomere 1; maxillary palpomere 3 almost twice as long as maxillary palpomere 2 and wider than it, slightly expanded, widest near apex, vase-like; maxillary palpomere 4 small, acicular, glossy and thin, shorter than wide, narrower and shorter than width of maxillary palpomere 3. Labial palpus 3-segmented, labial palpomere 1 slightly longer than wide, widest near apex; labial palpomere 2 about as wide as labial palpomere 1, longer than it, widest near apex; labial palpomere 3 shorter and distinctly narrower than labial palpomere 2, cylindrical. Mentum transverse, rectangular. Ligula entire, not bilobed, dorsal plate without setae. Gular sutures fully fused, not reaching posterior margin of head. Neck narrow, less than 1/5 of head width. THORAX. Pronotum wider than long, rhomboid, with anterior angles obtuse, narrower in anterior and posterior part, widest in middle, disk finely densely punctured, midline less punctured. Long black seta on each side of pronotum, in apical portion of widest part; shorter black seta in posterior portion of widest part. Superior marginal line deflexed, not meeting with inferior line. Basisternum of prosternum without macrosetae or microsculpture, but surface wrinkled, longitudinal carina present. Furcasternum of prosternum longer than ½ of basisternum length, reaching farther than tip of postcoxal process, triangular, acute, with sharp longitudinal carina and transversal carina. Hypomeron not delimited from pronotal disc by carina. Furcasternum of mesosternum with longitudinal carina, short, reaching less than ⅓ of distance between coxae, rectangular. Elytra quadrate, longer and wider than pronotum, with row of setae on edge of posterior margin, without epipleural ridge; humeral angle indistinct, rounded; surface glossy, interstices without microsculpture. Scutellum without ridges, integument reticulate, anterior margin rounded. Hind wing fully developed, with MP3 vein present. Legs, as rest of body, covered with shiny gold setae. Trochantins large, quadrate. Middle coxa contiguous, ridge below coxal rests present. Tibiae without spines or long bristles on outer edge. Protibia with two fully developed, longitudinally placed, comb-like rows of setae, and three associated macrosetae. Tarsi 5-segmented, stout, with one pair of empodial setae on each tarsus, equal to or slightly shorter than claws. Protarsus narrowly dilated, protarsomere 1 slightly longer than protarsomere 5, protarsomeres 2–4 decreasing in length, protarsomeres 1–4 narrower or equal to meso- and metatarsomeres 1–4, with dense pale adhesive setae on ventral side, protarsomere 4 not bilobed. Mesotarsus with mesotarsomere 1 longer than mesotarsomere 2, mesotarsomere 4 similar to preceding one. Metatarsus with metatarsomere 1 longer than metatarsomere 2, metatarsomere 4 similar to preceding one, metatarsomere 5 equal to metatarsomere 1, longer than metatarsomere 4, but shorter than metatarsomeres 2–4 combined. ABDOMEN. Finely pubescent, with fine and dense punctation, wider than elytra, widest at tergite V. Both ventral and dorsal sides with golden setae mixed with numerous longer black ones. Tergites III–VI impressed at base. Tergites III–VII with pair of paratergites on each side. Tergite VIII with posterior margin rounded. Sternite III without keel between coxae. Female: posterior margin of sternum VIII straight. Male: sternum VIII with moderately deep and broad median emargination of posterior margin; sides of emargination rounded (Figs 3B, 4C). AEDEAGUS. With parameres reduced and fused to median lobe; ventral process stout, apically broadly truncate, slightly longer than uneverted internal sac; in parameral view ventral process bent and with apex acute (Figs 3C–D, 4D–E).Published as part of Żyła, Dagmara, Tokareva, Alexandra & Koszela, Katarzyna, 2022, Phylogenetic position of genera Acrostilicus Hubbard and Pachystilicus Casey (Staphylinidae, Paederinae) and their redescription, pp. 1-22 in European Journal of Taxonomy 819 (1) on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.819.1773, http://zenodo.org/record/653301
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Athaliah and Alexandra: Gender and Queenship in Josephus [Author Accepted Manuscript]
No full textAthaliah and Alexandra were the only two women to rule as queens of Judah/Judaea in their own right and both women’s reigns are reported in Josephus’ writings. Despite their uniqueness, however, Athaliah and Alexandra are rarely compared in scholarship; the former is usually dismissed, and focus centred on the latter. This article contends that there are historical similarities between the two, but literary differences. Josephus could have referred to Athaliah or used elements of her portrayal in his presentation of Alexandra but does not, creating the impression that Alexandra was completely different to her predecessor. It may be instructive, therefore, to consider why Josephus literarily isolates the queens and what this means for his interpretation of Alexandra
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