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David Wiley [Entrevista]
No full textEntrevista a David Wiley realizada y traducida por Mª Paz Prendes Espinosa, Directora de RIIT
David Mechanic, Politics, Medicine and Social Science (Nueva York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974), 306 pp
No full textObra ressenyada: David MECHANIC, Politics, Medicine and Social Science. Nueva York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974
Watching As The World Turns: Performance, Everyday Life, and the Self in the Novels of David Foster Wallace
No full textThis thesis examines manifestations of performance in the novels of David
Foster Wallace. It argues that as Wallace engages with the theme of
performance he concurrently addresses the related topics of everyday life and the self. Taking key theories of performance from the discipline of
performance studies and applying these to an analysis of Wallace’s novels, this thesis demonstrates how the views of everyday life and the self presented by Wallace are predicated on performance and uncertainty. It first compares Wallace’s view of the everyday with theories put forward by Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord. Wallace’s view of the self is then outlined, primarily through close readings of how choice, boredom, rituals, and masks are presented in Wallace’s novels, alongside comparisons of his work with two further theorists of the everyday, Raoul Vaneigem and Erving Goffman. The thesis concludes by examining how Wallace presents audiences within his novels, suggesting that he often uses performance situations to articulate his thoughts on the relationship between the self and the other, before calling for further interdisciplinary research into Wallace’s writing
David Evans, Hugh Campbell, Anne Murcott (eds.) 2013 Waste Matters: New Perspectives on Food and Society, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell
No full textCosta Sandrine. David Evans, Hugh Campbell, Anne Murcott (eds.) 2013 Waste Matters: New Perspectives on Food and Society, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell. In: Revue d’études en Agriculture et Environnement, Vol. 95, N°4, 2014. pp. 517-522
Getting to Know Your Microbiota in Health and DiseaseReview of: <source>The Human Microbiota: How Microbial Communities Affect Health and Disease</source>; <person-group person-group-type="editor"> <name name-style="western"> <surname>Fredricks</surname> <given-names>David N.</given-names> </name> </person-group> (ed.); ( <year>2013</year>). <publisher-name>John Wiley and Sons</publisher-name>, <publisher-loc>Hoboken, NJ</publisher-loc>. <fpage>362</fpage> pages.
No full textReview of: The Human Microbiota: How Microbial Communities Affect Health and Disease; David N. Fredricks (ed.); (2013). John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ. 362 pages
Soil Nutrient Availability, Plant Nutrient Uptake, and Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) Yield in Response to N-Viro Biosolids and Irrigation Applications
No full textWe compared the impact of surface broadcasted N-Viro biosolids and inorganic fertilizer (16.5% Ammonium sulphate, 34.5% Diammonium phosphate, 4.5% Potash, and 44.5% s and/or clay filler) applications on soil properties and nutrients, leaf nutrient concentration, and the fruit yield of lowbush blueberry under irrigated and nonirrigated conditions during 2008-2009 at Debert, NS, Canada. Application rates of N-Viro biosolids were more than double of inorganic fertilizer applied at a recommended N rate of 32 kg ha−1. The experimental treatments NI: N-Viro with irrigation, FI: inorganic fertilizer with irrigation, N: N-Viro without irrigation, and F: inorganic fertilizer without irrigation (control) were replicated four times under a randomized complete block design. The NI treatment had the highest OM (6.68%) followed by FI (6.32%), N (6.18%), and F (4.43%) treatments during the year 2008. Similar trends were observed during 2009 with the highest soil OM values (5.50%) for NI treatment. Supplemental irrigation resulted in a 21% increase in the ripe fruit yield. Nonsignificant effect of fertilizer treatments on most of the nutrient concentrations in soil and plant leaves, and on ripe fruits yield reflects that the performance of N-Viro was comparable with that of the inorganic fertilizer used in this study
The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Spaces and Faces: Namesakes at the University of Arkansas
No full textMullins Library was built in 1968 and was named for David Wiley Mullins in 1975. Mullins graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1931 and served as President of the University of Arkansas from 1960-1974.Exterior view of the front (west) side of Mullins Library taken from the southwest.Fayettevillecolor; glossy print; 10" x 8
n-dimensional Quadrature
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this recordThis article discusses n‐dimensional quadrature. To show how dimensionality complicates integration rules this article focus on polynomial integration over squares and triangles where quadrature points are required to be on the boundary. In the case of a square, high quality formulae, called Gauss–Lobatto quadrature, are available as tensor products of 1‐dimensional quadrature. In triangles it has been shown that analogous Gauss–Lobatto formulae do not even exist
Estimating selection pressures on HIV-1 using phylogenetic likelihood models
No full textHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) can rapidly evolve due to selection pressures exerted by HIV-specific immune responses, antiviral agents, and to allow the virus to establish infection in different compartments in the body. Statistical models applied to HIV-1 sequence data can help to elucidate the nature of these selection pressures through comparisons of non-synonymous (or amino acid changing) and synonymous (or amino acid preserving) substitution rates. These models also need to take into account the non-independence of sequences due to their shared evolutionary history. We review how we have developed these methods and have applied them to characterize the evolution of HIV-1 in vivo. To illustrate our methods, we present an analysis of compartment-specific evolution of HIV-1 em) in blood and cerebrospinal fluid and of site-to-site variation in the gag gene of subtype C HIV-1. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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