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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
In memoriam - Marek Edelman
No full textTrzeba pamiętać ...
Przede wszystkim trzeba pamiętać o jednym: czym był Holokaust. To nieprawda, że to była sprawa tylko żydowska. To nieprawda, że to była sprawa tych kilku szmalcowników. Czy kilkunastu. Czy kilkudziesięciu. Czy kilkuset. To nieprawda, że to była sprawa stu czy dwustu tysięcy Niemców, którzy osobiście brali udział w tych mordach. Nie, to była sprawa Europy i sprawa cywilizacji europejskiej, która stworzyła fabryki śmierci. Holokaust jest klęską cywilizacji. I niestety ta klęska nie skończyła się w 1945 roku. O tym trzeba pamiętać. I wszyscy muszą o tym pamiętać. [...]
Fragment wystąpienia na kolokwium, które odbyło się 10 i 11 czerwca 1995 roku w Krakowie (tytuł od redakcji)
The Beta-MANOVA Ensemble with General Covariance
No full textWe find the joint generalized singular value distribution and largest generalized singular value distributions of the β -MANOVA ensemble with positive diagonal covariance, which is general. This has been done for the continuous β > 0 case for identity covariance (in eigenvalue form), and by setting the covariance to I in our model we get another version. For the diagonal covariance case, it has only been done for β = 1, 2, 4 cases (real, complex, and quaternion matrix entries). This is in a way the first second-order β-ensemble, since the sampler for the generalized singular values of the β-MANOVA with diagonal covariance calls the sampler for the eigenvalues of the β-Wishart with diagonal covariance of Forrester and Dubbs-Edelman-Koev-Venkataramana. We use a conjecture of MacDonald proven by Baker and Forrester concerning an integral of a hypergeometric function and a theorem of Kaneko concerning an integral of Jack polynomials to derive our generalized singular value distributions. In addition we use many identities from Forrester’s Log-Gases and Random Matrices. We supply numerical evidence that our theorems are correct
Mathematics and the Legal Imagination: A Response to Paul Edelman
No full textThis article, a response to a review by Prof. Paul Edelman of Prof. Meyerson\u27s book Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution, explains how the study of mathematics can spur creative legal thinking
A Preliminary Assessment: 2001 Court Restructuring Plan Impacts on Three Iowa Counties
No full textA preliminary study is one that is conducted to develop an initial framework of analysis and/or to gain an initial assessment to provide enough understanding of the research issue so as to inform the direction of a more complete and comprehensive data collection, study analysis, and policymaking deliberation. On November 8, 2001, the Iowa General Assembly and Governor approved a 4.3 percent across-the-board state budget reduction. This reduced the Judicial Branch budget by $5.5 million. In anticipation of and in response to fiscal concerns, the Judicial Branch announced plans for restructuring the Iowa court system. Iowa citizens and community and interest group leaders are interested in having the impacts of the proposals identified and assessed to assist in informing state and local discussions and future decisions. It is the result of this interest for which the Department of Economics and Iowa Vitality Center at Iowa State University have undertaken this study. The Iowa State Bar Association contributed funding for the project. The author has developed a significant track record and expertise in conducting numerous studies on related public finance and government structure issues for Iowa policymakers, leaders and citizens during the past 15 years. He is solely responsible for directing this study, the study findings and the conclusions. The purpose of study is to provide an objective assessment of the impacts and to gather local observations and perspectives that may be useful in public discussions and planning next steps toward future public decisions.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Review of State Programs: Adjustment Options For Declining Enrollments and Economies of Size
No full textCompanion reports (Edelman and Knudsen)^ review the effects of .declining . enrollments ; and economies of size on per pupil expenditures and various state aid formulas. This report reviews the alternative ways- that states have adjusted to . declining enrollments and, i size- economies by adjusting their state aid formulas to meet their respective politically (determined goals,</p
(Coarse Coding of Shape Fragments) + (Retinotopy) = Representation of Structure
No full textst as tens of thousands of spoken words can be generated using a small number of phonemes as components (Biederman, 1987). The symbolic/structural approach to representation can be challenged as a model of human performance, which falls short of viewpoint invariance and is limited in other ways (Edelman, 1999). So far, it also proved to be a poor blueprint for computer vision, where no full-fledged system based on structural representations was ever implemented. This short note outlines an alternative to conventional structural representations, based on an established model of recognition and categorization: the Chorus of Prototypes (Edelman, 1998). The extended model, which I call the Chorus of Fragments (CoF), is based on the idea of combining "what" and "where" information within the same computational units. CoF aims at supporting all four core recognition-related tasks listed above, without recourse to problematic symbol-and-structure techniques. Present address:
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Manufacturing Consumer Protection Law: The Private Construction of Public Legal Rights
No full textThe past half−century has seen a surge in consumer protection laws designed to give consumers power versus businesses. This dissertation shows how business organizations, namely, automobile manufacturers, shape the content and meaning of consumer protection laws designed to regulate them in ways that transform and at times weaken the rights of consumers. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses, I analyze the process through which public legal rights are essentially privatized as manufacturers influence the form and content of consumer warranty legislation (&Idquo;lemon laws”), the nature of administrative regulation, and most importantly, the way in which consumer complaints are adjudicated. This study compares an instance where powerful state consumer protection laws are resolved in third−party dispute resolution forums created by business organizations and approved by the state (California) with one in which consumer disputes are resolved in public alternative dispute resolution processes run and administered by the state (Vermont). After explaining how two states channeled public legal rights into different institutional structures, I show that the form of the organizational dispute resolution structure influences the meaning of lemon laws in different ways based on competing business and consumer logics operating among public and private actors that adjudicate consumer disputes. Thus, the form of the dispute resolution structure, and how public and private actors construct what lemon laws mean in these structures, has critical implications for the effectiveness of consumer protection laws for consumers.This research has important implications for theory, method, and policy. Theoretically, my study draws upon and elaborates new institutional work in organizational sociology (Edelman 1990, 1992; Edelman, Uggen, & Erlanger 1999; Dobbin et al. 1993; Sutton et al. 1994) and analyses of business influence over legislation and regulation by political scientists (Baumgartner & Jones 1993; Ayres & Braithwaite 1991; Stigler 1971; Bernstein 1955) by offering an institutional−political theory of how private organizations shape the content and meaning of public legal rights. It also contributes to law and society scholarship on dispute resolution in organizations (Galanter & Lande 1992; Edelman & Suchman 1999), studies of the law in action (Macaulay 1963), and access to justice (Felstinger, Abel & Sarat 1980−81). In addition to using a wide range of methods (archival analysis, interviewing, participant observation, content analysis, and statistics), I specifically use qualitative methods to examine how law is constructed by an &Idquo;organizational field,” in this case the field of automobile manufacturers, an arena that has previously been studied primarily through quantitative analyses. Whereas quantitative analyses illustrate the macro−dynamics of organizational fields and the diffusion of legal innovations, qualitative methods allow me to identify the micro−processes and mechanisms through which organizations construct the meaning of law. From a policy perspective, my work has critical implications for the growing body of legal scholarship on delegated governance. Whereas much of this scholarship advocates deregulation, public−private partnerships, and organizational self−governance in the context of delivery of services and benefits in society, my analysis sounds a note of caution. At least in the context of adjudicating public legal rights, I show the privatization of dispute resolution by business organizations has potential to undermine the rights of social have−nots
Robert Edelman Collection 1915-1941
No full textThe collection contains two manuscripts and assorted postcards and photographs.The typed manuscript in folder 1 recounts the events of the revolution in Germany from 1918-1919 and includes numerous photographs of fighting, specifically in Berlin. The manuscript in the oversized folder is handwritten, anonymous, and undated, but was certainly written before World War II. It contains countless fabric and wallpaper samples and describes the chemical components used to acquire the various colors and shades. The postcards in folder 2 were written during World War I and the photographs are of one family who emigrated to Amsterdam during the 1930s but were eventually killed by the Nazis. The photographs include captions but no names. The contents of the collection all appear to be connected to the Ury family, one of whom was married to Robert Edelman, the donor.Robert Edelmanprocessed for digitizationSent for digitizationdigitize
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