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Trevor Swan And The Neoclassical Growth Model
No full textTrevor Swan independently developed the neoclassical growth model. Swan (1956) was published ten months later than Solow (1956), but included a more complete analysis of technical progress, which Solow treated separately in Solow (1957). Reference is sometimes made to the "Solow-Swan growth model", but more commonly reference is made only to the "Solow growth model". This paper examines the history of Swan’s development of the growth model, the similarities and differences between the approaches of Swan and Solow and the reasons why Swan's contribution has been overshadowed. We draw on unpublished work to show that in 1950, Swan was working on a growth model in a verbal format. In 1956, Swan published only a simplified version of his model based on a Cobb-Douglas production function, but Swan's original model (circulated July 1956 and published posthumously in 2002) was much more general. Swan's reluctance to publish was consistent with his perhaps counterproductive modesty and perfectionism. His well known paper, "Longer run problems of the Balance of Payments" was circulated in 1955, eight years before publication in 1963. His pioneering work in 1945, developing the first macroeconomic model of the Australian economy, was published posthumously in 1989.
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
Trevor Marchand On Craft
No full textIt’s an unusual approach for an academic: a hands-on approach. Literally a hands-on approach. Trevor Marchand is an anthropologist interested in how information about crafts is transferred from expert to novice. This has led him to Nigeria, Yemen, Mali, and East London and has required him to use his hands to build, among other things, minarets and homes of mud bricks.Marchand, currently at SOAS, University of London, started his studies — in architecture — at Canada’s McGill University, which paved the way for field research on mud-brick building in northern Nigeria. That experience in turn spurred Marchand’s focus on an anthropological approach to architecture, a crafts-oriented approach to anthropology, and now study of how all of this plays out in a neuro-scientific context.This unusual approach has also allowed him to build up a pile of awards resulting from his investigations. For example, his 2009 monograph on The Masons of Djenné, written after his rise from apprentice to skilled craftsman in this Malian city, won the Elliot P. Skinner Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology, the 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association, and the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Just last year he was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute, an honor that recognizes exceptional work accomplished in the field.In this interview, philosopher Nigel Warburton asks about Marchand’s field work, looking at what ties these disparate locales together and what sets them apart, not just in techniques but how craftspeople approach their work and how it influences them.But as he tells Warburton, Marchand has a larger agenda behind his scholarship. “I think it’s extremely important for a general public to gain appreciation for the kind of skill and the diversity of knowledge that goes into producing something with the body,” he explains. “I think for far too long we’ve made that division between manual labour and intellectual work, and it’s something that goes back centuries. Leonardo da Vinci made that distinction between manual labour and intellectual work, and that distinction too between craft and fine art. And so, it’s been kind of relegated to the side-lines; it’s been marginalised and unfortunately vocational education – not just here in the UK but in other parts of the world – is something that children go into or are steered into when their peers or adults feel that they’re not academically inclined.
Faith at the fractures of life : an examination of lament and praise in response to human suffering with special reference to the theology of Walter Brueggemann and David Ford
No full textThis thesis explores the role of lament and praise in the respective theological
approaches of Walter Brueggemann and David Ford for the purpose of examining how
Christian faith transforms human response to suffering.
The first three chapters trace Brueggemann’s engagement with Israel’s lament psalms,
beginning with his observation that their typical dual form mirrors the collective shape
of Israel’s psalter as well as all biblical faith. Influential interactions with sociology
eventually lead Brueggemann to propose faith not simply as response to God’s
faithfulness, but rather through rhetorical tension maintained between conflicts
perceived in aspects of scripture such as praise and lament. We critique this view of
irresolvable textual tension for leaving Brueggemann with an unresolved understanding
of divine fidelity which obscures biblical expectation that God will respond faithfully to
human lament.
The fourth and fifth chapters concern David Ford’s consistent engagement with praise
and subsequently, Christian joy. His early collaborative scholarship proposes praise as
the result of faith in who God is through the suffering person and work of Jesus Christ.
Nevertheless, continued ethical concerns lead Ford to identify Christian faith as an
inextricable relationship between joy and responsibility resulting from “facing” Christ’s
life and suffering death. We critique Ford for failing to clarify how such “facing” is
made possible through who God is in Christ, rendering faith merely the result of human
expression of Christ’s example, and thus obscuring any real reason for praise amidst
suffering.
Beyond a synthesis of Brueggemann and Ford’s respective approaches to lament and
praise, the final chapter argues that a trinitarian approach to Christ’s atonement is
necessary to propose how God confronts both suffering and sin thereby producing
faithful human response amidst persistent evil. We conclude by arguing that a trinitarian
understanding of praise cannot be proposed apart from either who God is in Christ’s
atonement or how the atoning Christ is humanly faithful in lament
sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465221120388 – Supplemental material for Comparison of Walking Biomechanics After Physical Therapist–Led Care or Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Secondary Analysis From a Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465221120388 for Comparison of Walking Biomechanics After Physical Therapist–Led Care or Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Secondary Analysis From a Randomized Controlled Trial by Tamara M. Grant, Laura E. Diamond, Claudio Pizzolato, Trevor N. Savage, Kim Bennell, Edward J. Dickenson, Jillian Eyles, Nadine E. Foster, Michelle Hall, David J. Hunter, David G. Lloyd, Robert Molnar, Nicholas J. Murphy, John O’Donnell, Parminder Singh, Libby Spiers, Phong Tran and David J. Saxby in The American Journal of Sports Medicine</p
The impact of climate change on the water resources of the Amu Darya Basin in central Asia
No full textCentral Asia is facing an unprecedented juxtaposition of regional climate- and water-related issues, emphasised by a changing climate. We investigate the potential impact of long-term climate change on the availability of water resources in the Amu Darya River, one of the two major rivers that feed the Aral Sea, and its effect on irrigation in the region. Using a water balance accounting model developed for the Amu Darya basin, we find that projected increases in summer temperatures of up to 5 °C by 2070–2099 under a high-emission scenario, combined with likely shifts in the seasonality of precipitation, would lead to an increase in crop water consumptive demand of between 10.6 and 16 % (or between 3.7 and 5.5 km3 y-1) relative to 1961–1990. By the end of the century, 34 to 49 % of the basin’s existing 3.4 million ha of irrigated land would go unirrigated in a 1:20 year drought. Runoff is also expected to decline by between 10 and 20 % on current levels, however contributions to river flows from unsustainable glacial retreat and snow-melt are likely to remain small. While the uncertainty surrounding the precipitation projections is high, the effect of increased temperatures on irrigation practices in the basin is more robust in the long-term
JOP784876_Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for The putative lithium-mimetic ebselen reduces impulsivity in rodent models
No full textSupplemental material, JOP784876_Supplementary_Material for The putative lithium-mimetic ebselen reduces impulsivity in rodent models by Chris Barkus, Jacqueline-Marie N Ferland, Wendy K Adams, Grant C Churchill, Philip J Cowen, David M Bannerman, Robert D Rogers, Catharine A Winstanley and Trevor Sharp in Journal of Psychopharmacology</p
Griffith standard integrated motion capture data collection protocol
No full textGriffith standard integrated motion capture data collection protoco
Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
No full textIn line with global targets agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the number of marine protected areas (MPAs) is increasing rapidly, yet socio-economic benefits generated by MPAs remain difficult to predict and under debate. MPAs often fail to reach their full potential as a consequence of factors such as illegal harvesting, regulations that legally allow detrimental harvesting, or emigration of animals outside boundaries because of continuous habitat or inadequate size of reserve. Here we show that the conservation benefits of 87 MPAs investigated worldwide increase exponentially with the accumulation of five key features: no take, well enforced, old (>10 years), large (>100km2), and isolated by deep water or sand. Using effective MPAs with four or five key features as an unfished standard, comparisons of underwater survey data from effective MPAs with predictions based on survey data from fished coasts indicate that total fish biomass has declined about two-thirds from historical baselines as a result of fishing. Effective MPAs also had twice as many large (>250mm total length) fish species per transect, five timesmore large fish biomass, and fourteen times more shark biomass than fished areas. Most (59%) of the MPAs studied had only one or two key features and were not ecologically distinguishable from fished sites. Our results show that global conservation targets based on area alone will not optimize protection of marine biodiversity. More emphasis is needed on better MPA design, durable management and compliance to ensure that MPAs achieve their desired conservation value.Fil: Graham, J. Edgar. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Stuart Smith, Rick D.. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Willis, Trevor J.. University of Portsmouth; Reino UnidoFil: Kininmonth, Stuart. University of Tasmania; Australia. Stockholms Universitet; SueciaFil: Baker, Susan C.. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Banks, Stuart. Charles Darwin Foundation; EcuadorFil: Barrett, Neville S.. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Becerro, Mikel A.. Natural Products and Agrobiology Institute; EspañaFil: Bernard, Anthony T. F.. South African Environmental Observation network; SudáfricaFil: Berkhout, Just. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Buxton, Colin D.. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Campbell, Stuart J.. Wildlife Conservation Society; Estados UnidosFil: Cooper, Antonia T.. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Davey, Marlene. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Edgar, Sophie C.. Department of Water; AustraliaFil: Försterra, Günter. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; ChileFil: Galvan, David Edgardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Irigoyen, Alejo Joaquin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Kushner, David J.. United States National Park Service; Estados UnidosFil: Moura, Rodrigo. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; BrasilFil: Parnell, P. Ed. University of California at San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Estados UnidosFil: Shears, Nick T.. The University Of Auckland; Nueva ZelandaFil: Soler, German. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Strain, Elisabeth M. A.. Universidad de Bologna; ItaliaFil: Thomson, Russell J.. University of Tasmania; Australi
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