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“Well, you go there to get off” Visiting Feminist Care Ethics through a Women’s Bathhouse
Get PDFThis paper examines normative feminist care scholarship through the lens of a sexual bathhouse. At first glance, a space dedicated to casual sexual pleasure seems at odds with care ethics. Drawing on Toronto Women’s Bathhouse (TWB) as a case study, this paper argues that bathhouse spaces can exemplify feminist care norms. At the same time, as a casual sexual space oriented towards personal autonomy, carefree conduct, and self-care, TWB also challenges certain feminist care assumptions. Drawing on these challenges, in the light of wider problems with normative care theorizing, particularly the sanitization and idealization of personal relationships, the paper seeks to revision care along non-normative lines
Is sea-basing a viable method of providing logistic support to the UK amphibious force?
Get PDFMaritime power has traditionally been a central part of the UK’s defence planning and is well
suited to supporting a wide range of military operations. The littoral area has always created
problems for naval planners as most landings historically have had to endure a tactical
separation of the naval and land components, and hence an artificial seam between the Navy
and the Marines. With the end of the Cold War, amphibious operations are going to be more
difficult to conduct than in the past, and amphibious forces are going to have to adopt
manoeuvre warfare capabilities in order to successfully complete their missions. It is very
likely that amphibious forces will have to conduct operations against a numerically superior
enemy, who is on his own terrain, and be surrounded by a neutral, if not hostile populace. As
such, the concept of Operational Manoeuvre From The Sea (OMFTS) whereby the sea is used
as a manoeuvre space, and command and control is fast enough to cope with large amounts of
information, but at the same time allow subordinates maximum flexibility to use their
initiative, is increasingly attractive. It will be important not only for the combat elements to be
able to use this new concept, but the Combat Service Support (CSS) elements as well
Cooper pairing in non-Fermi liquids
Get PDFStates of matter with a sharp Fermi surface but no well-defined Landau quasiparticles arise in a number of physical systems. Examples include (i) quantum critical points associated with the onset of order in metals; (ii) spinon Fermi-surface [U(1) spin-liquid] state of a Mott insulator; (iii) Halperin-Lee-Read composite fermion charge liquid state of a half-filled Landau level. In this work, we use renormalization group techniques to investigate possible instabilities of such non-Fermi liquids in two spatial dimensions to Cooper pairing. We consider the Ising-nematic quantum critical point as an example of an ordering phase transition in a metal, and demonstrate that the attractive interaction mediated by the order-parameter fluctuations always leads to a superconducting instability. Moreover, in the regime where our calculation is controlled, superconductivity preempts the destruction of electronic quasiparticles. On the other hand, the spinon Fermi surface and the Halperin-Lee-Read states are stable against Cooper pairing for a sufficiently weak attractive short-range interaction; however, once the strength of attraction exceeds a critical value, pairing sets in. We describe the ensuing quantum phase transition between (i) U(1) and Z[subscript 2] spin-liquid states; (ii) Halperin-Lee-Read and Moore-Read states.National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF PHY11-25915)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DMR-1360789)Templeton FoundationUnited States. Dept. of Energy (DESC-8739- ER46872)Simons Foundation (Simons Investigator Grant)Canada. Industry CanadaOntario. Ministry of Research and Innovatio
Concrete Thinking for Sculpture
No full textThis article proposes to explore the variegated plays of concrete as a travelling concept through four specific examples, viewed from the locality of the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle in 2015. It will be argued that ‘concrete’ makes possible a triangulated reading practice in, of and for sculpture. The first example looks to the use of concrete, as a material, in some of the ‘technical’ experiments of Henry Moore, from the 1920s-1930s. The second example is the only public concrete sculpture by Barbara Hepworth on record, entitled Turning Forms. This is a kinetic work which was commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The psychic registrations of form-in-concrete will be explored through the aesthetic reception and understanding of these works. The third example examines the interplay between abstraction and concretion in a work of structural engineering: the Arqiva transmission tower on Emley Moor. This structure is a working utilitarian model of the telecommunications industry which took hold in the 1960s and 1970s. It is also a sculptural monument in a landscape of other design ‘types’. The fourth example considers the recent display of Lygia Clark’s Bichos at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, in 2014-2015. Bicho Pássaro do Espaço (‘Creature Passing through Space’) (1960) reveals a particular translation between concrete thinking and concrete experience. These examples call upon the semantics of the concrete as a thought process and will track a journey into a region marked by three interconnected points: the concrete specificity in the material works selected, the broader field of concrete forms within which the sculptural may sit and the philosophical/aesthetic language of concrete for sculpture
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No full textCaption: "Moore Librarian Julie Cooper assists Patty Wilt and Travis Halstead in the library's teen study center for middle school, junior high and high school students.
Supplementary_Figures_12-11-19 – Supplemental material for Inhibition of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway enhances antitumor immunity in ovarian cancer
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Figures_12-11-19 for Inhibition of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway enhances antitumor immunity in ovarian cancer by David W. Doo, Selene Meza-Perez, Angelina I. Londoño, Whitney N. Goldsberry, Ashwini A. Katre, Jonathan D. Boone, Dylana J. Moore, Cindy T. Hudson, Ilaria Betella, Tyler R. McCaw, Abhishek Gangrade, Riyue Bao, Jason J. Luke, Eddy S. Yang, Michael J. Birrer, Dmytro Starenki, Sara J. Cooper, Donald J. Buchsbaum, Lyse A. Norian, Troy D. Randall and Rebecca C. Arend in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology</p
The influence of African sculpture on British art, 1910-1930
No full textThis thesis aims to discuss the influence of African wood sculpture
on British art from 1910 to 1930. It proposes that the works, tastes and
pronouncements of various 20th century British artists betray this
influence and that although the British artists did not initially
understand the conceptual foundations of African sculpture their limited
knowledge was just sufficient for the modernization of British art
through the adaptation of the formal qualities of African art.
In assessing the validity of these propositions the thesis examines
the factors and issues that facilitated the influence. Chapter 1
discusses the formal qualities of African wood sculpture that attracted
the British artists. It outlines the unusual figural proportions, the
free and direct use of planar, linear and solid geometry, the treatment
of material and its surfaces.
The conceptual foundations of African sculpture are generally
outlined in Chapter 2. The extent to which the British artists
understood these foundations is also discussed.
Chapter 3 concerns the introduction of African sculpture to Britain
and discusses the development of the anthropological and subsequent
aesthetic interest that it aroused. Both the Post-Impressionist
Exhibitions and the Omega Workshops which facilitated its influence are
examined. Chapter 4 examines the concept and attempts to categorize the
nature of this influence.
The last three chapters act as case studies in which the impact of
African sculpture on Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore is
examined. The conclusion discusses the term 'Primitive' and the British
artists and the 'Primitive
Phi Mu Alpha, 1975-1976 Members 2
No full textThese students were members of Phi Mu Alpha at Jacksonville State University in 1975-1976. Shown from left are, first row, Paul Davis, Jim Schoenick, Scott Holsomback, Kerry Griffin, Don Robinson, Greg Hawkins, Bert Coker, Ricky Taylor, Paul West, David Jones, Libby Cooper, Vesta Coleman, second row, Kathy Wood, Jane Berrier, Debbe McMahon, Trudy Warren, Pat Hendrix, Cynthia Aldredge, Athena Willingham, Pat Morrison, Carol Chandler, Kara Williams, Shirley Smith, Debbie Nesbit, Margie Rogers, Candy Tyson, Melanie Harris, Debbie Moore, Chuck Frugoli, third row, Rod Conaway, Chuck Simon, Eddie Thomason, David Ezell, Phillip Aubury, Tom McGarity, Steve Dyar, Daryl Ussery, Bruce Heard, Danny Echols, Mike Clark, Johnny Brimer, Bill Hamrick, David Bonorato, fourth row, Doug Gordon, Robby Wright, Les Still, Paul Pitman, Tom Moore, Joe Eargle, Larry Hice, Vickie Farmer, Anna Simon, Howard Hubler, Tommy Pearson, Pete Godburn, Randall Bryant, Mr. Mike Blake.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/2596/thumbnail.jp
Reciprocal Learning via Dialogue Interaction: Challenges and Prospects
Get PDFFernández R, Larsson S, Cooper R, Ginzburg J, Schlangen D. Reciprocal Learning via Dialogue Interaction: Challenges and Prospects. In: Proceedings of the IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (ALIHT 2011). Barcelona, Spain; 2011
Phi Mu Alpha, 1975-1976 Members 1
No full textThese students were members of Phi Mu Alpha at Jacksonville State University in 1975-1976. Shown from left are, first row, Paul Davis, Jim Schoenick, Scott Holsomback, Kerry Griffin, Don Robinson, Greg Hawkins, Bert Coker, Ricky Taylor, Paul West, David Jones, Libby Cooper, Vesta Coleman, second row, Kathy Wood, Jane Berrier, Debbe McMahon, Trudy Warren, Pat Hendrix, Cynthia Aldredge, Athena Willingham, Pat Morrison, Carol Chandler, Kara Williams, Shirley Smith, Debbie Nesbit, Margie Rogers, Candy Tyson, Melanie Harris, Debbie Moore, Chuck Frugoli, third row, Rod Conaway, Chuck Simon, Eddie Thomason, David Ezell, Phillip Aubury, Tom McGarity, Steve Dyar, Daryl Ussery, Bruce Heard, Danny Echols, Mike Clark, Johnny Brimer, Bill Hamrick, David Bonorato, fourth row, Doug Gordon, Robby Wright, Les Still, Paul Pitman, Tom Moore, Joe Eargle, Larry Hice, Vickie Farmer, Anna Simon, Howard Hubler, Tommy Pearson, Pete Godburn, Randall Bryant, Mr. Mike Blake.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/2595/thumbnail.jp
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