437 research outputs found
Bryce DeWitt referee report on paper, "Everett's Theory and the 'Many Worlds' Interpretation"
No full textAround 1988, Bryce DeWitt was asked to referee a paper by an author who argued that that DeWitt's version of Hugh Everett's theory was not true to Everett's original work. In his referee report, DeWitt offers to "set the record straight" about his interpretation of Everett's work. This is a copy of DeWitt's referee report. A version of the reviewed paper was subsequently published in 1990 in the American Journal of Physics. At the request of the DeWitt estate, the name of the author of the paper has been redacted. For further details see Byrne, P. (2010). The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III. Oxford University Press.The estate of Bryce Dewitt
Carissa Bryce Christensen
No full textCarissa Bryce Christensen is an internationally known expert on the space industry and technology forecasting. She led the creation of widely used data tools now considered global metrics for the commercial space and satellite sectors, providing non-advocate, data-driven insights. She is a frequent speaker and author on space and satellite trends, serves as a strategic advisor to government and commercial clients, and has been an expert witness and testified before Congress on market dynamics. Ms. Christensen is the CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, LLC (formerly a division of The Tauri Group), an analytic consulting firm. She is also an active investor in technology-focused startups and advises several companies she has helped seed. She serves on the board of QxBranch, an early stage quantum computing firm.
Ms. Christensen holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University\u27s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in science and technology policy. She also completed the General Course in Government at the London School of Economics and was a Douglass Scholar at Rutgers University.
Ms. Christensen is an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Association.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1022/thumbnail.jp
Alfredo Bryce Echenique's word
No full textEn este artículo realizaremos una lectura panorámica del universo narrativo del escritor Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Podría decirse que toda la obra de Bryce se fundamenta en dos grandes ejes temáticos. Por un lado, Bryce es uno de los grandes cronistas de la burguesía peruana en novelas como Un mundo para Julius, No me esperen en abril y El huerto de mi amada. Por otro, una parte importante de su quehacer novelístico desde Tantas veces Pedro (1977) en adelante ha explorado la idiosincrasia de la identidad peruana ubicando a sus personajes en un mundo cultural ajeno al propio y viviendo un singular exilio. Todas las novelas de Bryce examinan la psicología del sujeto desclasado, antiheroico y solitario, que a menudo vive intensas experiencia sentimentales que subrayan su desarraigo en el mundo. La obra de Bryce exhibe siempre una voz propia para narrar, caracterizada por una oralidad siempre expansiva y envolvente y el despliegue de un humor irónico, corrosivo y revelador.Since the publication of his first novel, Un mundo para Julius (1970), Al-fredo Bryce Echenique can be considered an oustanding chronicler of Peru’s ruling class, exposing its many social and moral contradictions. While the author will return to this topic time and again, in other works, such as Tantas veces Pedro (1977) and La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (1981), Bryce is also a keen explorar of Peruvian identity through the experience of exile. Orality and humor are at the core of his unique style of writing to showcase the trials and tribulations of his many anti-heros
Go and Heal Our Kinship System
No full textKeynote Speaker:
Dr. Grace L. Dillon is an academic and author. She is an Anishinaabe professor in the indigenous nations studies program, in the school of gender, race, and nations, at Portland State University. Dr. Dillon is best known for coining the term indigenous futurism, which is a movement consisting of art, literature, and other forms of media which express indigenous perspectives of the past, present, and future in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres. Dr. Dillon is the editor of walking the clouds: an anthology of indigenous science fiction, which is the first anthology of indigenous science fiction short stories, published by the University of Arizona press in 2012.
Join us for our annual Solidarity Town Hall program, an anchor discussion as part of Arabic American National Museum’s theme for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022: Istiqbal al Mustaqbal (Welcoming the Future). This year, the Town Hall is themed Imagining Decolonized Futures, highlighting futurist and sci-fi narratives as we imagine a world without colonial concepts. The Town Hall will feature keynote speaker: Anishinaabe academic and author Grace Dillon; and panelists: British Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh, multidisciplinary Afrofuturist artist Bryce Detroit, Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson; with moderator Hina Baloch, leader of the Research & Analytics team at GM. This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom
Book Review: Gunn, A. (2023) Teaching Excellence? Universities in an age of student consumerism. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.
No full textBook Review:
Gunn, A. (2023) Teaching Excellence? Universities in an age of student consumerism. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.
Rosie Bryce
Manchester Metropolitan University
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Key words: Teaching excellence, TEF, marketisation, consumerism, higher educatio
(Re)Discovering America: James Bryce and The American Commonwealth
No full textJames Bryce's The American Commonwealth (1888) seeks to understand and explain the inner workings of America, which at that time was the only country in the world to boast a democracy characterized by universal manhood suffrage. Despite offering a broader, more detailed study of America as a whole than had yet been undertaken (including the first substantive description of the sub-state level of politics), The American Commonwealth is today largely viewed as a dated work of political science from America’s Gilded Age. In fact, this work represents Bryce’s attempt to bring harmony to the tensions between certain accounts of human nature that were present in America at the turn of the 20th century as well as providing important insight into the development of America at a most crucial point in her history.This dissertation presents Bryce’s keen observations and methodology as an early manifestation of incorporating methods of the empirical sciences into the social sciences. As was the case with many other political scientists at this time (including Woodrow Wilson, who is thoroughly discussed here as an apt comparison), Bryce worked to incorporate the staggering amounts of information that could now be gathered through empirical methods into his studies. However, Bryce did not do so at the expense of the broader classical political tradition. Bryce brings what superficially appear to be opposing traditions into a harmony, and his success in doing so offers his readers the strongest defense as to why The American Commonwealth is still deserving of academic attention.Works by Alexis de Tocqueville and James Ceaser provide context to the political and intellectual world into which Bryce takes his readers. These are used to frame the larger debate between the views presented by Bryce, Wilson, and Progressives generally concerning human nature, the aims of government in society, the role of individual sovereignty, and the circular methods through which public opinion both creates and is created by these aforementioned views. In addition to Bryce’s arguments presented in The American Commonwealth, particular attention will be given to a speech Bryce delivered in 1908 to the American Political Science Association in which he discussed the relationship between the hard sciences and the social sciences, and the implications for political science when they are intermingled.Political scienceAmerican historyClassical Political Thought, Empiricism, James Bryce, Public Opinion, The American Commonwealth, Woodrow WilsonPoliticsDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of Americ
Revised checklist of the vascular plants of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
No full textPrior to 1960, when the senior author wrote a dissertation on the plant ecology of the Paunsaugunt Plateau forests of Bryce Canyon National Park, relatively little plant taxonomic work had been done in the area. A checklist was prepared in 1971 that included 218 species of higher plants. During the field seasons 1978, 1979, and 1980, additional plants were collected during a second plant community study of the forests. The junior author spent the summer of 1980 at the park collecting plants in additional plant communities and organizing the herbarium collection. This checklist includes the additional species collected and updates the nomenclature of the vascular plants presently known to occur within the boundaries of Bryce Canyon National Park
Worlds of labor in South America: class, gender & political culture
No full textAuthor Iñigo García-Bryce presents his book ""Crafting the republic: Lima's artisans and nation-bulding in Peru, 1821-1879"" and author Elizabeth Quay Hutchison presents her book ""Labors appropriate to their sex: gender, labor and politics in urban Chile, 1900-1930"" as part of the Open Doors Speaker Series
Impact of COVID-19 on Service Utilization by Those Experiencing Homelessness in Detroit
No full textBackground:
Current research has demonstrated increased levels of fear and anxiety due to the Coronavirus pandemic. While fear can have a significant impact on any individual, fear among individuals experiencing homelessness is particularly impactful as this may affect service utilization and thus the ability of to access basic necessities such as food, shelter and water. This study seeks to understand the impact of fear of contracting COVID on service utilization among those experiencing homelessness in Detroit, MI.
Methods and Results:
From July-August 2020, 35 individuals who self-identified as homeless participated in a multiple-choice survey. 40% of surveyed individuals stated that they experienced fear of contracting COVID-19. None of the individuals who primarily stayed in shelters over the last six months reported such fear, whereas 48% of rough sleepers reported experiencing fear. 83% of those who did not stay in a shelter stated that they chose not to stay in a shelter that they otherwise would have due to fear of COVID-19. Of those who primarily relied on community resources for food, 23% stated that they did not use these resources during March, April or May of 2020, and 60% of these individuals said that this decision was due to fear of contracting COVID.
Conclusions:
Fear of contracting COVID-19 is present among the homeless population and impacted the use of community resources in Detroit. Specifically, individuals who normally rely on community shelters and food distributions chose not to frequent these services out of fear of contracting the coronavirus
Revaluations, III: James Bryce, “The American Commonwealth”
No full textHad Bryce died on his fiftieth birthday, 10 May 1888, he would have been known as the author of The Holy Roman Empire, as a distinguished Regius Professor of Civil Law and as a respectable but undistinguished Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The record would have been impressive enough but the content of achievement would have been orthodox – such as might be paralleled by many an academic liberal, British or European. Within a few months, however, Bryce broke into a new field and established a reputation of quite another order, with the appearance in December of The American Commortwealth, The book was more than a notable study of American institutions; it marked the recognition by a European mind of the first order of the importance and interest of the government, politics and manner of life of the contemporary United States. Tocqueville had paid such a tribute, a half-century earlier, but his example had not been followed up. Moreover, penetrating as his study was, as an analysis and a prophecy, one element was lacking in his tribute – observation.</jats:p
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