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    Yellow Rail Vocalizations

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    There are two videos (YERA vocalization video 1.mp4 and YERA vocalization video 2.mp4) available. YERA vocalization video 1.mp4 is a 14 second clip showing a Yellow Rail slipping through some Spartina spartinae and vocalizing. YERA vocalization video 2.mp4 is a 51 second clips which shows a Yellow Rail in the open vocalizing. There is also one audio file (YERA Contact Call 1.mp3) that is an audio recording of this vocalization. The file cluster.kcs is a recognizer created within Kaleidoscope pro designed to detect the Yellow Rail vocalization. The file Yellow Rail Spectrogram.R is the R code to visualize the Yellow Rail vocalization

    Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work

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    One of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking

    Author, Author! Part 1

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    There can be no better venue for paying homage to celebrated writers than a journal devoted to wordplay. A score of such literary luminaries awaiting well-deserved recognition is concealed in the listing below. Revealing a name entails permuting the collection that results when a new letter replaces a given one in each word. To illustrate, after scrambling, the creators of Tom Sawyer and Robinson Crusoe will be exposed when W supplants G in GIANT and O does the same to R in FREED, respectively. A perfect score authorizes you to call yourself an author authority

    Event-B code generation: type extension with theories

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    The Event-B method is a formal modelling approach; our interest is the final step, of generating code for concurrent programs, from Event-B. Our Tasking Event-B tool integrates Event-B to facilitate code generation. The theory plug-in allows mathematical extensions to be added to an Event-B development. When working at the implementation level we need to consider how to translate the newly added types and operators into code. In this paper, we augment the theory plug-in, by adding a Translation Rules section to the tool. This enables us to define translation rules that map Event-B formulas to code. We illustrate the approach using a small case study, where we add a theory of arrays, and specify translation rules for generating Ada code

    Author correction: obesity and ethnicity alter gene expression in skin

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    Daniel Butler was omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. The Author contributions section now reads: “J.M.W. designed, conducted, and contributed to the writing of the manuscript, prepared Fig. 1. S.G. evaluated and did statistical analysis on the skin and fat samples, prepared Figs. 2–9. J.O.A. evaluated and contributed to writing the manuscript. D.B prepared and sequenced DNA libraries for the skin microbiota data, and wrote the applicable parts of the methods section. C.M. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data, prepared Fig. 10. All authors have read the manuscript and approved its contents. D.D. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data. S.Z. ran and analyzed the skin metabolite data. J.S. assisted in design, analysis and wrote up the skin metabolite data. J.K. assisted in analysis write up of skin and fat data. J.L.B. assisted in analysis, interpretation and writing of the manuscript. P.R.H. designed, analyzed, interpreted the data, and was the primary author of the manuscript.” This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file.</p

    Il dolore comune. Butler dopo Kant

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    The author shows how the political reflexion of Butler is a radicalisation of the Kantian one. The theme of pain ,which Heidegger already debated on a rational and non-emotional basis, constitutes for the philosopher the point from which you start to think about the community today

    The Horns of the North: Historical Sources of J. R. R. Tolkien\u27s Trilogy

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    Few books have enjoyed the publishing success seen in the last decade by J. R. R. Tolkien\u27s epic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Since the time of its paperback appearance in 1965 the work has not only attracted wide popular readership but has also stimulated a considerable body of scholarly criticism.1 As a work of fantasy, Tolkien\u27s tale of struggle surrounding a ring of power has attracted most of its commentators to the areas of myth and linguistics, two of the sources upon which the author relied most heavily. Yet for all its epic dimensions, the trilogy has thus far failed co spur a similar inquiry into another of Tolkien\u27s vital sources, the realm of history and the historical imagination

    A Trust Analysis Methodology for Pervasive Computing Systems

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    We present an analysis Trust Analysis Methodology for finding trust issues within pervasive computing systems. It is based on a systematic analysis of scenarios that describe the typical use of the pervasive system by using a Trust Analysis Grid. The Trust Analysis Grid is composed of eleven Trust Issue Categories that cover the various aspects of the concept of trust in pervasive computing systems. The Trust Analysis Grid is then used to guide the design of the pervasive computing system

    The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler

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    Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler\u27s complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author\u27s work, including:· Cyborgs and the posthuman· Race and African American history· Afrofuturism· Gender and sexuality· New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies· New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington LibraryThe book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/english-facbooks/1008/thumbnail.jp

    Miscommunication Code Words

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    Many letters have sound-alike names, for example b and p : radio operators use communication code words such as BRAVO and PETER to avoid confusing these letters. A committee of logologists got together to try to submit a more interesting list of code words, drawing only on words from Webster\u27s Third. Here is the list they produced (B, N, R, and S need better examples)
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