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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
Loss of the ClC-7 Chloride Channel Leads to Osteopetrosis in Mice and Man
No full textAbstractChloride channels play important roles in the plasma membrane and in intracellular organelles. Mice deficient for the ubiquitously expressed ClC-7 Cl− channel show severe osteopetrosis and retinal degeneration. Although osteoclasts are present in normal numbers, they fail to resorb bone because they cannot acidify the extracellular resorption lacuna. ClC-7 resides in late endosomal and lysosomal compartments. In osteoclasts, it is highly expressed in the ruffled membrane, formed by the fusion of H+-ATPase-containing vesicles, that secretes protons into the lacuna. We also identified CLCN7 mutations in a patient with human infantile malignant osteopetrosis. We conclude that ClC-7 provides the chloride conductance required for an efficient proton pumping by the H+-ATPase of the osteoclast ruffled membrane
Teager-Kaiser energetic trajectory for machine diagnosis purposes
No full textIncreased requirements regarding safety, reliability and early detection of failures of industrial machines stimulate the development of new methods and tools for purposes of condition monitoring. The paper presents original concept of the Teager-Kaiser energetic trajectory representing an examined signal on the Teager-Kaiser energy plane. The Teager-Kaiser energetic trajectory illustrates simultaneously changes of instantaneous values of the Teager-Kaiser energy indicator and the velocity of change of the energy indicator. At the beginning of the paper, the Teager-Kaiser energetic trajectory is presented and described followed by examples of trajectories of simulated signals. In the next section, the author presents and discusses the model of signal simulating occurrence of a failure in a gearbox. Finally, the paper presents representations of signals recorded form gearbox during fatigue tests. The paper concludes with the discussion on application options of the Teager-Kaiser energetic plane in condition monitoring of rotation machinery
The heat transport in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: local scaling exponents
No full textUsing infrared thermography, the dimensionless local wall heat fluxNu(x; y) has been measured with high spatial resolution. The measurements at the heating plate of a cubic Rayleigh-Bénard cell show that the scaling exponent α in the Nu / Ra α scaling law depends on the position with respect to the surface. The results have been obtained in a small aspect ratio cell with αx = 1,αy = 0:26 and clearly show an effect of the sidewalls on the local and therefore also on the global scaling of the heat transport
Wind study of Kaiser Center office building
No full textCER69-70GH-JEC-WZS-13.September 1969.For Metronics Associates, Inc.Includes bibliographical references.Mean and fluctuating wind loading on a 1:192 scale model of Kaiser Center Office Building 403 ft high was studied in a uniform flow. Pressure measurements were carried out for four different wind directions (N, NE, E, and S). The wind loading was influenced strongly by a tall building immediately to the southeast when the wind was from the south, Generally, the mean pressure was higher at the center portion of an upwind face than near its edges. On the leewind surface relatively uniform negative pressure (suction) was obtained. Its absolute value was about one-third of that along an upwind face. On the other hand, the fluctuating pressure was highest near the building base, in the flow separation region and in the wake of the adjacent building in a southly wind. A model of the upstream topography to the northeast was constructed using a 1:600 scale. This model terrain was 24 ft long (2.7 miles of the prototype terrain) with the Kaiser building site near its trailing edge. Mean velocity and turbulence intensity profiles were measured along the terrain
Humor imperial: el kaiser Guillermo II en caricaturas anglo-norteamericanas contemporáneas
No full textThe author presents a selection of cartoons of Kaiser William II, which, in criterion, represent with fidelity the characteristics and personality of the last German Emperor.El autor presenta una selección de caricaturas anglo-americanas contemporáneas del Kaiser Guillermo II, que, según su criterio, representan con fidelidad las particularidades de la personalidad y el carácter del último Emperador alemán
Roughness-triggered turbulent boundary layers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe present measurements carried out inside the Barrel of Ilmenau as part of the European EuHIT transnational infrastructure access program. The Barrel of Ilmenau is the worldwide largest experiment to study highly turbulent convection in air. A rectangular cell, with proportions strictly identical to the water cell in Lyon [Salort, et al. PoF 26:015112 (2014)], but six times larger, has been inserted inside the Barrel. The top plate is smooth, and the bottom plate is rough. The roughness are also similar to the one in Lyon, but six times larger. We have obtained velocity fields using PIV near the obstacles, as well as the local heat-flux on the bottom plate. This has allowed us to test and improve our previous interpretation of the roughness-induced heat transfer enhancement mechanisms
The Influence of the Asymptotic Regime on the RS-IMEX
No full textIn this work, we investigate the performance and explore the limits of a novel implicit-explicit splitting [6] for the efficient treatment of singularly perturbed ODEs. We consider a singularly perturbed ODE where, based on the choice of initial conditions, the unperturbed equation does not necessarily describe the behavior of
the perturbed one accurately. For the splitting presented in [6], this has a tremendous influence as it explicitly depends on the solution to the unperturbed equation. That this indeed poses a problem is shown numerically; but also the remedy of using the
’correct’ asymptotics is presented. Comparisons with a fully implicit and a standard implicit-explicit splitting are shown.The first author has been partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) project NO 361/3-3, and the University of Hasselt in the framework of the BOF 2016
The Christ-Centered Homiletics of Edmund Clowney and Sidney Greidanus in Contrast With the Human Author-Centered Hermeneutics of Walter Kaiser
No full textThis dissertation examines the Christ-centered homiletics of Edmund Clowney and Sidney Greidanus in contrast with the human author-centered hermeneutics of Walter Kaiser. Chapter 1 frames the dissertation by presenting the consequence of preaching and the marks of redemptive-historical preaching.
Chapter 2 presents Walter Kaiser's author-centered hermeneutic. Kaiser's hermeneutic is presented because it is used as a plumb line to assess if and how redemptive-historical preaching drifts from an author-centered hermeneutic.
Chapter 3 introduces Edmund Clowney as one of the seminal thinkers in redemptive-historical preaching. It considers Clowney's Christ-centered biblical theology and how that informs his use of symbolism and typology to preach Christ.
Chapter 4 juxtaposes Greidanus' seven ways of preaching Christ from the Old Testament alongside Kaiser's author-centered hermeneutic. Attention is also given to Greidanus' sermons from the Old Testament.
Chapter 5 presents summary conclusions, documenting some of the frequent cleavages between Kaiser and redemptive-historical preaching. It concludes with ways to implement the dissertation findings for preaching the Old Testament
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