203 research outputs found
Dr. Amie Whittemore
No full textAmie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books) and Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. Learn more at amiewhittemore.com.
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First record of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kansas
No full textRogers, D. Christopher, Goldhammer, David S., Garrison, Ingrid, Cook, Amie (2021): First record of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kansas. Zootaxa 5040 (4): 598-600, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.1
Book Review: Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien
No full textIn this review of Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien, book reviewers Nan O’Sullivan and David Hakaraia explain how this book casts light on discussion points, awkward conversations, skewed demographics and pathways to radical change in these disciplines in South Africa.
Keywords: Critical pedagogies, South Africa, Book review, Art design and architectureHow to cite this article:O’Sullivan, N.C. & Hakaraia, D. 2020. Book review: Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 4(2): 244-247. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v4i2.150.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Other title: Arboviral Disease Surveillance Annual Report, 2017; Other title: Arboviral Disease Surveillance, Kansas, 2017
No full text"Report Authors: Ingrid C. Garrison, Amie Cook."--Page 20.;
"Publication Date: October 11, 2018"--Page 20.;
Includes bibliographical and internet references (page 16)."Arboviruses (arthropod-borne virus) are commonly spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes, ticks, sand flies, midges, and other invertebrate vectors. This report focuses on mosquito transmitted arboviruses. West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading cause of domestically acquired arboviral disease in the United States and Kansas"--Page 3.Background -- Methods -- Mosquito Collection -- Mosquito Identification -- West Nile Virus Testing of Mosquitoes -- Human Case Surveillance -- Animal Case Surveillance -- Mosquito Control -- West Nile Virus Risk Levels -- Results -- Mosquito Surveillance -- Mosquito Identification -- Mosquito Abundance -- Human Case Surveillance -- West Nile virus Neuroinvasive Disease -- Other Arboviral Diseases -- Animal Surveillance -- West Nile Virus Risk Levels -- Discussion -- References -- Appendix A: West Nile virus surveillance case definition, 2017 -- Clinical Criteria for Surveillance Purposes -- Laboratory Criteria for Surveillance Purposes -- Surveillance Case Definitions -- Report Authors
A minor taxonomy proposal for the ambient intelligent environment (AmIE) design space
No full textThis research aims to create a minor taxonomy of the domain of Ambient Intelligent Environments (AmIE), sometimes simply called Ambient Intelligence (AmI). These refer to ‘smart-,’ ‘intelligent-,’ or ‘assistive-’ built environments including homes, schools, offices, museums, hospitals, libraries, stores, labs, prisons, warehouses, transport hubs, airports, parks, cities, etc. AmIE are often confused with (or described interchangeably as) ‘ubiquitous-,’ ‘pervasive computing,’ ‘mobile computing,’ or ‘spatial computing;’ as well as the Internet of Things (IoT) and building automation including HVAC automation. While AmIE comprise the aforementioned technologies, they specifically describe the paradigm in which these and other technologies (namely sensors, actuators, and processors) are outfitted in the built environment so that those places become sensitive and responsive to the presence, needs, wants, and preferences of their inhabitants. Given that AmIEs require an array of computing technologies to function, they are necessarily complex design-engineering systems that rely on some level of algorithmic taxonification and, as such, are vulnerable to perpetuating harm in so far as biases have been codified therein. This research engages this complexity and risk of harm perpetuation by utilizing Minor Theory (also ‘minor theory’) as a theoretical lens through which to begin to move towards values aligned taxonification of the vast AmIE design space. Through a series of sequential literature reviews, this work offers a jumping off point for the continued taxonification of the AmIE design space by 1) introducing and applying minor theory as a method for data analysis and by 2) proposing three thematic vectors to consider in codifying an AmIE a design space: attunement, embodiment, and anti-fragility.Strategic Product Desig
Book review: Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien
No full textIn this review of Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien, book reviewer Bridget Horner observes that for the scholarship of teaching and learning this book could serve as a source of possible teaching methods within the arts; however, this would negate policymakers, management of institutions, educators, discipline professionals and artists from viewing this book’s real potential, which is identifying and explaining the challenges faced within higher education, as well as opportunities for change – through critical pedagogy– in a country that still holds unaddressed ‘standing items’ related to its colonial and apartheid past within the present neoliberal agenda.
Keywords: Critical pedagogies, South Africa, Book review, Art design and architectureHow to cite this article:Horner, B. 2020. Book review: Standing Items: critical pedagogies in South African art, design and architecture, edited by Brenden Gray, Shashi Cullinan Cook, Tariq Toffa and Amie Soudien. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 4(2): 239-243. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v4i2.151.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Análise categorial da arte em Amie Thomasson
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2010Esta dissertação pretende investigar o que é uma obra de arte, assumindo como principal subsídio metodológico a análise crítica de alguns textos de Amie Thomasson. A ontologia de Roman Ingarden também é exposta, pois constitui uma influência central para o pensamento de Thomasson. Diversas noções utilizadas pela autora, como a aceitação do pluralismo ontológico, a busca da estrutura específica de cada tipo de arte e a admissão de que a arte comporta características espaço-temporais e abstratas, remontam aos escritos do pensador polonês. Esses temas estão embutidos no principal aspecto abordado na dissertação, a saber, o modo como Thomasson investiga a obra de arte através da busca de seu estatuto ontológico, dentro do contexto de um quadro categorial mais amplo. A autora afirma que a questão central da ontologia da arte é: que tipo de entidade é uma obra de arte? Essa questão não é respondida através de uma definição rígida da arte ou de uma lista finita de características que permita classificar qualquer objeto no mundo como arte ou não-arte. Thomasson compromete-se apenas com a pretensão modesta de buscar um espaço categorial bem sucedido para a alocação das obras de arte. Ela problematiza o fato de que a estética e a metafísica tradicionais não proporcionam categorias adequadas para alocar a arte, a ficção e os objetos culturais, pois costumam adotar sistemas dualistas como sujeito-objeto, real-ideal, concreto-abstrato, entre outros, impróprios para pensar as obras de arte, que comportam características híbridas. Como alternativa, Thomasson sugere uma metodologia ontológica formal para a criação de sistemas categoriais e, nesse contexto, de categorias que respeitem a configuração específica das obras de arte. Sua proposta é analisada nessa dissertação como uma solução eficaz para capturar a estrutura ontológica das obras de arte através de uma base analítica formal.This thesis aims to investigate what is a work of art, assuming the critical analysis of some texts of Amie Thomasson as its main methodological subsidy. The ontology of Roman Ingarden is also exposed because it is a central influence to the thought of Thomasson. Several concepts used by the author, as the acceptance of ontological pluralism, the search for the specific structure of each type of art and the admission that art involves spatiotemporal and abstract characteristics, go back to the writings of the Polish thinker. These themes are inserted in the main aspect addressed by this thesis, namely, how Thomasson investigates the work of art through the pursuit of its ontological status within the broader context of a categorical framework. The author argues that the central question of the ontology of art is: what kind of entity is a work of art? This question is not answered by a rigid definition of art or a finite list of characteristics that allow classifying any object in the world as art or not art. Thomasson undertakes only the modest pretense of seeking for a successful categorial space for the allocation of works of art. She discusses the fact that traditional aesthetics and metaphysics do not provide adequate categories to allocate art, fiction and cultural objects, because they tend to adopt dualistic systems, like subject-object, real-ideal, concrete-abstract, among others, that are inadequate to think about works of art, which include hybrid features. Alternatively, Thomasson suggests a formal ontological methodology for creating categorial systems and, in this context, categories that meet the specific configuration of artworks. Her proposal is analyzed in this dissertation as an effective solution to capture the ontological structure of works of art through a formal analytical base
Design Thinking, neoliberalism, and the trivialisation of social change in higher education
No full textWhilst the notion of Design Thinking is nothing new, the methodology, and its focus on innovation, has become increasingly popularised within Higher Education over the last decade. Along with related practices, including Service Design, Design for Social Change, Social Design, and Design for Social Innovation, Design Thinking advocates a strategic, human-centred approach to design which ostensibly provides a “tool to address some of [societies’] most pressing issues: alleviating poverty, providing better education, and improving basic health services for all human beings” (Sharma 2012:195). Using examples from the RSA Student Design Awards, this chapter examines various ideological and practical problems inherent within the methodology. These include Design Thinking’s proximity to neoliberal economic policy, and a concomitant emphasis on ‘social change’ through marketisation and responsibilisation; its injudicious borrowing of techniques associated with the social sciences; and concerns around positioning vulnerable communities as ‘opportunities’ for gaining creative or mercantile capital, under the mantle of effecting positive ‘social change’. The chapter concludes by sketching out a possible way forward for developing a more critical and situated form of the practice, to ensure that the current rhetorical hyperbolisation around Design Thinking as a panacea for our global crises is balanced with an understanding that it is not an inherently emancipatory practice, but rather, one that has the potential to do more harm than good
Communicating outputs from risk assessment models: A picture paints a thousand words
No full textVisualisation and presentation of complex, feature rich data is often neglected within the area of quantitative risk assessment when, in reality, a clear representation of the data may greatly support the understanding of complex results and increase acceptance of results among risk managers. Feature rich data containing many explanatory variables can be very challenging to visualise effectively in a single graphic as the message can become cluttered when using two, or more, variables. As part of the international SPARE project (SPARE project team, 2018), a generic quantitative risk assessment (QRA) combining multiple routes and routes of entry was developed (Simons et al., 2019). The risk assessment provides an overall risk score for entry and exposure of three different pathogens into individual European Union (EU) countries: Classical swine fever (CSF), Bluetongue virus (BTV) and classical rabies.This paper describes the development of an application with graphical user interface (GUI) that allowed users, in particular risk managers, to explore the data and calculations behind the QRA. The aim was to produce an application that clearly illustrates the data and communicates the information without biasing their opinion in any way. To reach as wide an audience as possible the application should be easily accessed and understood without requiring the user to have detailed technical computing knowledge to use it.Development of the application followed a set of design principles focused on: context, software, data inputs and interactivity. This produced an application designed for a particular audience, written in a suitable language that allowed the user to explore the data within the context of a clearly defined risk question. Accessibility options for users with visual challenges was also considered and included within the design phase
Mise en Place
No full textMise en Place is a collection of essays that chronicles the author\u27s experiences working as the lone female line cook in the culinary boy\u27s club of professional restaurant kitchens. These essays follow the author\u27s descent into a wild love affair with food, the burnout and gender dynamics associated with the job, and how she navigates the passion and the stress that the kitchen brings out in her
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