1,179 research outputs found
We’ll make a man out of you yet: The masculinity of Peter in the book of Acts
No full textAccording to scholars of masculinity studies, manhood is won or lost through the performance of gender-based expectations. In any given culture, masculinities exist in hierarchal relationships. The author of the book of Acts shows Peter demonstrating elite masculine performances in the narrative of Acts. Through Peter’s self-control, and the lack of self-control on the part of those who oppose him, his persuasive, public speech and his ability to control others in the text, Peter exhibits a masculinity that contradicts early portraits of Peter found in 1 Corinthians and the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John. Peter is not overcome by other people in Acts, and he demonstrates a masculinity that is complicit with the types of masculinities prized by the Romans and often considered out of the reach of foreigners
Review of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002: final report
No full textExecutive summary: The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) allows the Australian Government to make standards to ensure that people with disability are not discriminated against, and to provide information about these standards. The purpose of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (Transport Standards) is to enable public transport operators and providers to remove discrimination from public transport services.
Part 34 of the Transport Standards requires the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, in consultation with the Attorney-General, to review the efficiency and effectiveness of the Transport Standards within five years of them taking effect, with subsequent reviews every five years. This report of the Review of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (this review) assesses how accessible public transport systems are to people with disability. Under its Terms of Reference, publicly released on 19 October 2012, this review was required to:
report the views of people with disability, and the community generally, on progress towards achieving the targets set out in the Transport Standards
assess compliance with the requirements set out in Schedule 1 of the Transport Standards, in particular the targets listed under Part 2 of Schedule 1
identify initiatives and actions for removing discrimination from public transport services delivered by state and territory governments since the 2007 Review
assess the progress of implementing the response to the 2007 Review of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (the 2007 Review).
The effectiveness and efficiency of the Transport Standards is vital for people with disability to engage and participate in the community. The 2012 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Disability, Ageing and Carers Survey (SDAC) released in November 2013 shows that the number of people with disability in Australia is 18.5 per cent of the population or 4.2 million people. Of these people, 1.4 million had a profound or severe limitation affecting their mobility, self-care or communication. The rate of disability increased with age, with less than 5 per cent of children under the age of five having a disability compared to almost 90 per cent of people aged 90 years and over.
There has been no improvement in the labour-force participation rate by people with disability since the SDAC was last conducted in 2009. The 2012 SDAC also shows that just over 50 per cent of people with disability aged between 15 and 64 were participating in the labour force in 2012, compared with 80 per cent of people without disability.
An accessible public transport system is also important for planning for Australia’s ageing population. In 2012 there were around 3.3 million older people (aged 65 years and over), representing 14 per cent of the population. This proportion has risen from 12.6 per cent in 2003. Around half of Australia’s older population have disability. As such, older people with disability now form a larger part of the Australian population than previously measured.
The Transport Standards also help to ensure Australia meets its international obligations. The ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008 reflects the Australian Government’s commitment to promoting and supporting the equal and active participation by people with disability in economic and social life. The National Disability Strategy (NDS) incorporates the principles underpinning the CRPD into the government’s policies and programs directed towards people with disability. The NDS Policy Direction 4 of Outcome 1 focuses on developing a public, private and community transport system that is accessible to the whole community. 
Rate of telomere shortening and cardiovascular damage: a longitudinal study in the 1946 British Birth Cohort.
No full textCross-sectional studies reported associations between short leucocyte telomere length (LTL) and measures of vascular and cardiac damage. However, the contribution of LTL dynamics to the age-related process of cardiovascular (CV) remodelling remains unknown. In this study, we explored whether the rate of LTL shortening can predict CV phenotypes over 10-year follow-up and the influence of established CV risk factors on this relationship
World Society in the Global Economic Crisis
No full textEric Mielants (with Jeffrey Kentor and Peter Grimes) is a contributing author, The Current Economic Crisis, The Longue Durée, and Regional Hegemony, p. 71-88.
Book description: The global financial and economic crisis started in 2008 with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Four years later, despite massive national and international countermeasures, it is still not over. This volume examines the considerable economic, social and political consequences of the present global crisis for world society. In particular, the 16 contributions focus on three central issues: Firstly, crisis impacts on world society structures and evolutionary dynamics, secondly, crisis perceptions and public discourses with their social and political consequences and, thirdly, experience of the global crisis at local and regional levels, as well as the responses to it.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/sociologyandanthropology-books/1034/thumbnail.jp
SCORDATURA IN THE ACCOMPANIED VIOLONCELLO REPERTOIRE OF JACOB KLEIN, PETER RITTER, AND ERIC MALMQUIST
No full textEver since a ‘standard’ tuning existed for the violoncello, certain composers
have chosen to alter this tuning, a technique known as scordatura, in order to achieve
various effects on the sound and technique of the instrument. Current scholarship on
scordatura in the cello repertoire focuses primarily on its use in compositions prior to
and including Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fifth Suite in C minor and in twentieth
century compositions beginning with Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8.
Little attention has been given to scordatura compositions contemporary with Bach’s
Fifth Suite and continuing through the nineteenth century. Moreover, discussions of
scordatura across the entire string literature have skewed toward its use to facilitate
technique. In doing so, scholars have underplayed the effect of scordatura on the
resonance of the instrument. Of the scholarly writings that do address this subject, the
discussion is frequently limited to broad references, such as increasing the projection
of an instrument or altering its tone. The research stops short of explaining the
physics behind these results.
The following study aims to provide a more thorough understanding of how
altered tuning of the violoncello strings affect the resonance of the instrument, and
how this resonance affects the overall aural impression of the composition. It then
examines the use of scordatura in two little-known compositions from the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries and one newly-commissioned work.
The dissertation project encompasses five components in total. The first
component is a recital of Jacob Klein’s complete Op. 1 sonatas and Eric Malmquist’s
Sonata for Cello and Piano, the video of which is accessible in the Digital Repository
at the University of Maryland. The second component is the written document. The
third and fourth components are modern editions of Jacob Klein’s and Peter Ritter’s
compositions, created by the author to facilitate the performance and study of these
works. The final component is the score for Eric Malmquist’s work, included with
permission from the composer. The scores and the program for the recital are located
in the appendices
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
The cathedral and the bazaar of e-repository development: encouraging community engagement with moving pictures and sound
No full textThis paper offers an insight into the development, use and governance of e‐repositories for learning and teaching, illustrated by Eric Raymond's bazaar and cathedral analogies and by a comparison of collection strategies that focus on content coverage or on the needs of users. It addresses in particular the processes that encourage and achieve community engagement. This insight is illustrated by one particular e‐repository, the Education Media On‐Line (EMOL) service. This paper draws analogies between the bazaar approach for open source software development and its possibilities for developing e‐repositories for learning and teaching. It suggests in particular that the development, use and evaluation of online moving pictures and sound objects for learning and teaching can benefit greatly from the community engagement lessons provided by the development, use and evaluation of open source software. Such lessons can be underpinned by experience in the area of learning resource collections, where repositories have been classified as ‘collections‐based’ or ‘user‐based’. Lessons from the open source movement may inform the development of e‐repositories such as EMOL in the future
Power of the false
No full textNeste texto em forma de diário, o artista Eric Baudelaire imagina uma exposição cuja premissa seria questionar através de trabalhos artísticos, as margens entre documento e ficção. Citando realizadores iconoclastas e iconofílicos, uma terceira via é elaborada a partir dos filmes de Peter Watkins borrando tais fronteiras, a fim de repensar a História e suas representações. Também em sua escrita Baudelaire transita do coloquial à crítica de arte. Em viagens, o artista toma nota de acontecimentos casuais relembrando catástrofes como a Shoah e as bombas atômicas lançadas em Hiroshima e Nagazaki. O título, potências do falso, faz referência ao conceito de Gilles Deleuze, relevante ao se pensar a produção e circulação das imagens no contemporâneo.
In this text, that takes the form of a journal, the artist Eric Baudelaire pictures an exhibition that would interrogate, through the articulation of artworks, the limits between document and fiction. Commenting iconoclasts and iconophiles filmmakers, Baudelaire brings a third way of relation with images, which is developed by Peter Watkins’ border-blurring movies, in order to rethink History and its representations. The author transits, in his writing, through art criticism and a colloquial speech as well. During his trips, Baudelaire takes notes of casual events recalling catastrophes such as the Shoah and Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s atomic bombs. The title, “power of the false”, refers to Gille Deleuze’s concept, relevant to the questioning of image production and circulation nowadays
Development of microbial community structure in turfgrass rootzone mixtures varying by amendment, age, presence of plants, and environment:
No full textThe stability of turfgrass golf green rootzone mixtures depends on the development of a stable microbial community structure. Factors affecting microbial community development are age of the turfgrass, the location of golf greens, and the amendments added. The objective of this study was to evaluate methods for assessment of turfgrass rootzone microbial community structure and function and to apply them to field situations. Methods were identified to evaluate the microbial community in these rootzone mixtures. Metabolic diversity (BIOLOG), dehydrogenase activity, bacterial plate counts, and phospholipid fatty acid analysis were performed on turfgrass green rootzone mixture samples collected from a bench top study, established golf courses, a greenhouse study, and replicated field plots.
The utility of each of the measures of microbial communities in evaluating turfgreen stability varied between the levels of complexitiy of the study (i.e. laboratory vs. greenhouse vs. field situation). In the bench top study, BIOLOG, dehydrogenase activity, and bacterial plate counts revealed differences in the microbial community as affected by the base material of the rootzone (sand, soil) and rate of peat moss amendment. In sampling of established golf courses, BIOLOG showed differences in the microbial community, based on age of the rootzone; it was not clear if these differences were due to age or other factors such as management. In a greenhouse study, BIOLOG showed differences in the microbial community, in rootzones varying by amendement and presence of turfgrass. Fatty acid data indicated some grouping based on amendment. Dehydrogenase and bacterial plate counts did not correlate to amendment or presence of turfgrass. Dehydrogenase did show correlation with bacterial signature fatty acids detected. A final study evaluated replicate field plots varying by amendment and microclimates. BIOLOG showed grouping based on microclimate and amendment. Fatty acid data did not vary based on amendment, yet showed slight, seasonal differences in the microbial community. Dehydrogenase did show correlation with bacterial fatty acids detected.
This research demonstrated that the selected methods of microbial community activity and function were useful for evaluating rootzone mixtures, although it appears that the specific combination of tests used will depend upon the system examined.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-282).by Eric Richard Gauli
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