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An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
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Streetstyle: an Interview with Susan B. Kaiser
No full text Susan B. Kaiser discusses fashion and the city, including its geography of consumption and production, the relation between street style and the fashion industry, and how sartorial experimentation relates to social change. Susan B. Kaiser is Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Textiles and Clothing, and the Cultural Studies Graduate Group, at the University of California at Davis. Her research and teaching interface between the fields of fashion studies and feminist cultural studies. Recent and current research addresses shifting articulations of masculinities; issues of space/place (i.e., rural, urban, suburban); and possibilities for critical fashion studies through popular and political cultural discourses. She is the author of
The Social Psychology of Clothing
(1997) and
Fashion and Cultural Studies
(forthcoming), and over 90 articles and book chapters in the fields of textile/fashion studies, sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and consumer behavior. She is a Fellow and Past President of the International Textile and Apparel Association, and was the first Nixon Distinguished Professor/Lecturer at Cornell University. She is currently organizing a critical fashion studies working group in the University of California system
In retrospect: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
No full textFifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had migrated to the history and philosophy of science. His main argument in the book — his second work, following a study of the Copernican revolution in astronomy — was that scientific activity unfolds according to a repeating pattern, which we can discern by studying its history
Gespräch im Reiche der Todten Zwischen Denen weyland beyden Römischen grossen Käysern Carolo Primo und Carolo Quinto : Darinnen die sonderbaren Geschichte ihres beyderseitig Höchst remarquablen Lebens aufrichtigst erzehlet, und mit denen gegenwärtigen Begebenheiten des ietzig Allerdurchlauchtigsten und Glorwürdigsten Kaysers Carl des Siebendens auf das angenehmste verknüpffet / [Johann Zacharias Gleichmann]
No full textVerf. ermitteltVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Erfurt, druckts und verlegts Johann David Jungnicol. - Erscheinungsjahr nach Regierungszeit Kaiser Karl des VII. (1742-1745) und Datierung auf S. 23 geschätztFrontisp. (Kupferst.
Secondary loop reversible AC/HP system for electric vehicles
No full textThis paper presents experimentally obtained results of a secondary loop air conditioning-heat pump system compared to a baseline direct system. The secondary loop system has a refrigerant circuit operating between two 50/50 water glycol loops, and uses the identical compressor and accumulator as the baseline DX system. For most operating conditions in this study, the secondary loop system has slightly lower maximum capacity and lower COP/HPF compared to the DX system, while it has potential for integrated thermal management, waste heat recovery, and may allow better refrigerants to be used due to compact refrigerant loop design. It was found that system refrigerant charge needed for cooling was close to that for heating, and was about 200g less than required by the baseline. Operating parameters including compressor and pump speeds, air flow rates, and condenser exit subcooling were investigated to improve energy efficiency. Performance in different ambient conditions was also studied and compared to the baseline.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-03-02 without embargo termsThe student, David Kaiser, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-07 at 14:33.The student, David Kaiser, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-12-07 at 14:55.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-12-09 at 08:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8955 on 2016-03-02 at 12:51:44Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T19:34:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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No full textPorträt von Kaiser Karl V. (1500-1558)I HBrustbild von Hieronymus Hopfer, Hintergrund von Daniel HopferBei der vorliegenden Eisenradierung handelt es sich um den zweiten Abzug von David Funk, 1684 entstanden. Die Datierung der Gebrüder Hopfer von 1521 befindet sich unten rechtsBildnis wahrscheinlich nach einer Medaille von Hans Schwarz (um 1492-nach 1532)Aus der Funck'schen Sammlung "Opera Hopferiana". Zugehörige Nummer unten rechts ergänzt: "86". Zweiter Abzug David Funck, 1684 Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchi
Social work student intern manual for Kaiser Permanente
No full textProject (M.S.W., Social Work) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.Employers often provide brief training for their workers and value quick learning from employees. Such expectations are not ideal for social work student interns, who are also developing professional skills and practicing theoretical application while adjusting to the internship work environment. This qualitative study capitalized on the internship experience of the author at Kaiser Permanente to discover what training materials were most relevant and useful to social work interns, and organized those materials into a social work student intern manual. This project was then evaluated by 5 previous and current social work interns at Kaiser Permanente, and each participant was interviewed on the quality of the manual. The findings from this study show that the manual contained useful and relevant materials, and that the manual would be a helpful tool for new social work interns.Social Wor
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