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Nick Salvato, Obstruction
No full textNick Salvato, Obstruction Durham: Duke UP, 2016. Pp263. ISBN 978-0-8223-6098-8 Theodora D. Patrona The Oxford dictionary online defines obstruction, as “a thing that impedes or prevents passage or progress; an obstacle or blockage.” Nick Salvato’s eponymous book, multilayered and thought-provoking, is an original study of five phenomena that while they ‘torment’ scholars and impede inquiry, for the author “they may, if properly directed, be conducive to critical work and valuable, more broad..
Commencement 2022 Presentation of Honorary Degrees | Nick Cave, Cheryl D. Miller
No full textPresident Crystal Williams awards honorary degrees to acclaimed artist/educator Nick Cave and keynote speaker Cheryl D. Miller .
Artist/educator Nick Cave works in a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. His much-lauded Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, were created in response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 and serve as a visual embodiment of both brutality and empowerment.
Throughout his practice, Cave has created spaces of memorial by combining found historical objects with contemporary dialogues on gun violence, death and catastrophic loss. His work reminds us that while there may be despair, there remains space for hope and renewal. From dismembered body parts stem delicate metal flowers, affirming the potential for new growth.
Cave encourages a profound and compassionate analysis of violence and its effects as the path towards an ultimate metamorphosis. His works ask how we may reposition ourselves to recognize societal issues such as global warming, racism and gun violence, come together on a global scale, instigate change and—ultimately—heal.
Graphic designer, educator and author Cheryl D. Miller aims to end the marginalization of BIPOC designers through her civil rights activism, industry exposé trade writing, rigorous research and archival vision. A nationally recognized advocate for equity and inclusion in graphic design and founder of the NYC social impact design firm Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc., she currently serves as distinguished senior lecturer in design at the University of Texas–Austin (where she was the 2021 E.W. Doty fellow) and adjunct professor at Howard University.
In 2021 Miller was an AIGA Medalist “Expanding Access,” a Cooper Hewitt “Design Visionary” awardee and an Honorary IBM Design Scholar. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Vermont College of Fine Arts and the President’s Global Advisory Board of Maryland Institute College of Art.
Miller earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Maryland Institute College of Art, an MS in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary and an honorary degree in Humane Letters from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her essays appear in PRINT and Communication Arts, and her D&I-related professional research is archived in the Cheryl D. Miller Collection at Stanford University
sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211064292 – Supplemental material for Rate and Timing of Return to Golf After Hip, Knee, or Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211064292 for Rate and Timing of Return to Golf After Hip, Knee, or Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Patrick G. Robinson, Tom R. Williamson, Andrew P. Creighton, Jennifer Cheng, Andrew D. Murray, Heidi Prather, Joshua S. Dines, Lawrence V. Gulotta, Edwin P. Su, Joel M. Press, Roger Hawkes and Nick D. Clement in The American Journal of Sports Medicine</p
A new model of river dynamics, hydroclimatic change and human settlement in the Nile Valley derived from meta-analysis of the Holocene fluvial archive
No full textAbstract not availableMark G. Macklin, Willem H.J. Toonen, Jamie C. Woodward, Martin A.J. Williams, Clement Flaux, Nick Marriner, Kathleen Nicoll, Gert Verstraeten, Neal Spencer, Derek Welsb
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Sequence effects in categorization of simple perceptual stimuli
No full textCategorization research typically assumes that the cognitive system has access to a (more or less noisy) representation of the absolute magnitudes of the properties of stimuli and that this information is used in reaching a categorization decision. However, research on identification of simple perceptual stimuli suggests that people have very poor representations of absolute magnitude information and that judgments about absolute magnitude are strongly influenced by preceding material. The experiments presented here investigate such sequence effects in categorization tasks. Strong sequence effects were found. Classification of a borderline stimulus was more accurate when preceded by a distant member of the opposite category than by a distant member of the same category. It is argued that this category contrast effect cannot be accounted for by extant exemplar or decision-bound models of categorization. The effect suggests the use of relative magnitude information in categorization. A memory and contrast model illustrates how relative magnitude information may be used in categorization
Globalising care? Town twinning in Britain since 1945
No full textTown twinning describes the establishment and practice, by various groups and to various ends, of relatively formal and long-term relationships between settlements usually located in different nation-states. Twin towns are sometimes called sister cities. This paper draws on a study of town twinning that focused on the involvement of British localities since the end of the Second World War and analysed data collected by the Local Government Association (for England and Wales), materials archived in the National Archives at Kew, London and various local record offices, and transcripts of interviews with representatives of relevant local, national, and international organisations. The paper makes three main contributions. Firstly, it provides a brief history of town twinning involving British localities. Secondly, it develops from this historical narrative an original conceptualisation of town twinning, arguing that it should be approached less as a coherent movement and more as a device, a repertoire, and a model. Thirdly, it argues that town twinning has often been used as a device for extending care across space – and that much can be learned from its history for contemporary geographies of care. Town twinning participants have approached the problem of care-at-a-distance as both an ontological problem and a practical problem. Some have focused more than others on the role of distanciated causal relationships in the generation of needs in distant places. Some are currently encountering another problem as they attempt to globalise care: the problem of care-in-a-hurry
Conflict in the East China Sea: would ANZUS apply?
No full textThis paper analyses the circumstances under which conflict in the East China Sea could occur and the implications for Australia.
Executive summary
Tensions between China and Japan have ratcheted up in recent years to the point where their territorial dispute over islands in the East China Sea is seen as among the region’s most dangerous flashpoints. The prospect of Sino-Japanese conflict over these islands is one that cannot be taken lightly by Australia. Economically, three of our four leading trading partners are located in Northeast Asia, while sea lanes vital to Australian trade run through the waters of the East China Sea. Strategically and politically, two US allies are based in this region and America retains a strong forward military presence there.
This paper starts from the premise that insufficient attention has been given to the potential ramifications for Australia of conflict in the East China Sea, particularly in terms of whether Australia’s alliance obligations with the United States could embroil Canberra in a conflict. The paper is motivated in part by Defence Minister Johnston’s June 2014 remarks stating that the ANZUS alliance would not commit Australia to a conflict where the US had sent forces to support Japan. While reminiscent of remarks made a decade earlier by then-Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in relation to the prospect of Australian involvement via ANZUS in a Taiwan contingency, Johnston’s assessment has not attracted anywhere near the same level of attention and analysis as those made by Downer in August 2004.
The purpose of this paper is to begin to fill this gap in Australia’s public and policy debate by analysing the circumstances under which conflict in the East China Sea could occur and the implications thereof for Australia. The paper answers three questions:
1. What does Australia’s alliance relationship with the US commit Canberra to in the event of conflict in the East China Sea?
2. What are the risks that Australia faces as a result of ANZUS and other associated international commitments?
3. What can be done to better understand and manage these risks
Forecasting banknotes
No full textA central bank’s liquidity forecast is important in ensuring that it supplies the banking system’s need for central bank money. Banknote (or currency in circulation) demand is the largest and for some central banks the most variable component of the liquidity forecast. Accurate forecasting of banknotes is essential in ensuring an accurate liquidity forecast and in turn effective monetary policy implementation. This Handbook discusses these issues and outlines a structural time series state space (STSSS) model which is now used by central banks including the Bank of England and ECB to forecast banknotes (currency in circulation).Forecasting banknotes
Effect of phosphorylation state of 5′ nt at the nick site on stacked-unstacked equilibrium
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Base-stacking and base-pairing contributions into thermal stability of the DNA double helix"</p><p>Nucleic Acids Research 2006;34(2):564-574.</p><p>Published online 31 Jan 2006</p><p>PMCID:PMC1360284.</p><p>© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved</p> () Stacking parameters measured in 1× TBE at 37°C of A•T-containing (top panel) and G•C-containing (bottom panel) nicked dinucleotide stacks before (circles) and after (triangles) dephosphorylation are compared. White and gray fills are used for fragments with the nick in the forward and reverse strand, respectively. Nicked dinucleotide stacks with a purine at a 5′-side of the nick are underscored (see text). () Salt dependence of Δ values of nicked contacts indicated to the right of each panel before (circles) and after (triangles) dephosphorylation. Total concentration of sodium assuming 1× TBE to be equivalent to 15 mM Na is indicated, see
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