431 research outputs found
The Art of Collaboration : Guide
No full textDT Associate Lyn Gardner celebrates the power of collaboration in theatre, considering how it is essential for the successful creation and delivery of a production and provides an opportunity to diversify the pools of creativity.DT Associate Lyn Gardner celebrates the power of collaboration in theatre, considering how it is essential for the successful creation and delivery of a production and provides an opportunity to diversify the pools of creativity.Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed November 18, 2021
Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues
No full textThe"stylized fact"that distribution must get worse with economic growth in poor countries before it can get better turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way and are contingent on several other factors. The authors found no sign in the new cross-country data they assembled that growth has any systematic impact on inequality. Possibly measurement errors confound the true relationship, but they think it more likely that the relationship between growth and distribution is not as simple as some theories have held. Since distribution does not worsen, growth reduces absolute poverty. Indeed, absolute poverty measures typically respond quite elastically to growth, and the benefits are certainly not confined to those near typical poverty lines. Of course, one cannot say that growth always benefits the poor or that none of the poor lose from pro-growth policy reform. Only aggregate effects are studied. But for 17 of the 20 countries for which they assemble quite good data (from at least two surveys since the mid-1980s), the mean and the proportion of people living below $1 a day moved in opposite directions. The gains to poor people from a distribution-neutral growth process will tend to be lower, the higher the extent of initial inequality. A smaller share of total income must imply a smaller absolute gain from a given increment to total income. Compensatory direct interventions can be important, provided they are integrated into a framework of fiscal and monetary discipline. The evidence does not suggest that growth is always distribution-neutral, and it would be wrong to conclude that changes in distribution are of little consequence. The point is not that distribution is irrelevant or that it never changes, but that its changes are roughly uncorrelated with economic growth. There is no intrinsic tradeoff between long-run aggregate efficiency and overall equity. Policies aimed at helping the poor accumulate productive assets--especially policies to improve schooling, health, and nutrition--when adopted in a relatively nondistorted framework, are important instruments for achieving higher growth.Services&Transfers to Poor,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Public Health Promotion,Achieving Shared Growth,Inequality,Governance Indicators,Safety Nets and Transfers,Rural Poverty Reduction
From Novel to Play: Adaptations for the Stage : Guide
No full textDT Associate Lyn Gardner examines whether adaptations have been considered secondary to plays in the history of British and US theatre. Referring to some of the most radical productions in the last 50 years, including Complicite's The Encounter and…DT Associate Lyn Gardner examines whether adaptations have been considered secondary to plays in the history of British and US theatre. Referring to some of the most radical productions in the last 50 years, including Complicite's The Encounter and…Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed November 12, 2021
STAP‐2 negatively regulates BCR‐mediated B cell activation by recruiting tyrosine‐protein kinase CSK to LYN
No full textAlthough signal-transducing adaptor protein-2 (STAP-2) acts in certain immune responses, its role in B cell receptor (BCR)-mediated signals remains unknown. In this study, we have revealed that BCR-mediated signals, cytokine production and antibody production were increased in STAP-2 knockout (KO) mice compared with wild-type (WT) mice. Phosphorylation of tyrosine-protein kinase LYN Y508 was reduced in STAP-2 KO B cells after BCR stimulation. Mechanistic analysis revealed that STAP-2 directly binds to LYN, dependently of STAP-2 Y250 phosphorylation by LYN. Furthermore, phosphorylation of STAP-2 enhanced interactions between LYN and tyrosine-protein kinase CSK, resulting in enhanced CSK-mediated LYN Y508 phosphorylation. These results suggest that STAP-2 is crucial for controlling BCR-mediated signals and antibody production by enhanced CSK-mediated feedback regulation of LYN
The Fiction of Tim Winton - Introduction
No full textIn The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the eleven novels and four short story collections of an author whose works span the literary and popular divide. Throughout this work, McCredden shows Winton to be a writer of fearless and intelligent fiction, tackling themes such as belonging, gender, and redemption, all while sustaining a strong mainstream following
Evaluator Perspective
No full textMy name is Lyn Alderman and I hold the position of Professor and Dean (Academic Transformation) at the University of Southern Queensland. With over 40 years employment experience, I stepped into evaluation through a research higher degree pathway and found a home when I attended my first Australian Evaluation Association international conference in Perth in 2008 as a student. Since this time, I have been the President, Editor of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia, journal author, journal reviewer, conference presenter and attendee. From my perspective, I had found my evaluation home
The impact of labor market regulations
No full textThe authors investigate the impact of labor market regulations in settings where compliance is incomplete. They review some stylized facts about labor market behavior, present an analytical model that may explain such behavior, and provide a checklist for assessing the distortionary impact of a regulation such as the minimum wage. They take as their starting point the limited evidence about the distortionary effects of such regulations and argue that there may be natural limits on the efficiency losses engendered by labor market regulations. First, the regulations may not be binding at market equilibrium. For example, minimum wages may be set so low that they are ineffective. Second, even if they are binding, the relevant elasticities of supply and demand may be so low that the regulations have little impact on efficiency. Third, even if the regulations are binding and elasticities are sizable, compliance may be low. The authors argue that the likelihood of compliance will be greatest when the regulations are binding and the relevant elasticities are sizable. That is, if the distortionary costs of regulations are not rendered insignificant by the first two reasons, then the returns to noncompliance will be high and, other things being equal, employers will evade or avoid the regulations, thereby minimizing the imact on efficiency. The argument rests on profit maximization subject to a hard budget constraint. Public enterprises, which are not concerned only with profit maximization and often have softer budget constraints than the private sector, may be more willing to conform to profit-reducing regulations, but in this case the authors argue that compliance may reduce already-existing efficiency losses.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Public Health Promotion,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Poverty Assessment,Environmental Economics&Policies
Can we work together?: An observational study of appraisals, faultline activation, conflict, and group outcomes
No full textThis study examines the moderation of potential faultlines and faultline activation through manipulating appraisals. Previous research has investigated the causes and effects of faultline activation, but none have examined appraisals as a trigger to faultline activation. Using a 2x2x2 factorial quasi-experimental design crossing appraisals (intrinsic vs. instrumental), potential faultlines (weak vs. strong), and faultline activation (alignment vs. no alignment), 156 participants (43 groups) were rated on the study constructs as they completed a group task. The data revealed that faultlines were more likely to activate in groups with potential faultlines where members were instructed to think about undesirable qualities of group members (intrinsic appraisal condition) rather than in groups with potential faultlines where members were instructed to think about obstacles that people created within the group (instrumental appraisal condition). In addition, I found that active faultlines had an influence on conflict (task, process, and relationship) between and within subgroups, and performance. Results of the study have implications for future research.M.A.Includes abstractIncludes bibliographical referencesby Jamie Lyn Perr
Fleshed sacred : the carnal theologies of Nick Cave
No full textContents: Cultural contexts. The light within : the 21st century love songs of Nick Cave / Jillian Burt ; Planting seeds / Clinton Walker ; Nick Cave and the Australian language of laughter / Karen Welberry ; Nick Cave, dance performance and the production of masculinity / Laknath Jayasinghe -- Intersections. An audience for antagonism / Chris Bilton ; And the ass saw the angel : a novel of fragment and excess / Carol Hart ; Red right hand : the cinema and Nick Cave / Adrian Danks ; Grinderman : all stripped down / Angela Jones -- The sacred. From mutiny to calling upon the author : Cave's religion / Robert Eaglestone ; Oedipus wrecks : Cave and the Presley myth / Nathan Wiseman-Trowse ; Fleshed sacred : the carnal theologies of Nick Cave / Lyn McCredden ; The moose and Nick Cave : melancholy, creativity and love songs / Tanya Dalziell
Evaluation of the epistemic state of the speaker/author
No full text Language users are sensitive to their language’s grammatical requirements, the plausibility of the situation described and the information shared by speaker and listener. We propose that they are also sensitive to whether an author is likely to be in a state of knowledge that actually supports the assertion being made. Failure to be in such a state reduces the naturalness of the assertion. Consistent with this proposal, sentences with a disjoined noun phrase are judged to be less natural than their conjunctive counterparts, presumably because the author of a disjunctive sentence must know that an event took place but not know which of the two individuals was the agent. This unlikely state of knowledge reduces the naturalness of the sentence. The results of three experiments indicate that providing evidence that the speaker could be in an unlikely epistemic state reduces the disjunction penalty; a fourth extends the demonstration of the penalty from coordinated noun phrases to coordinated verb phrases. We also present one experiment that explores the possibility that disjunction penalty is due to the unexpectedness of a disjunction. These findings demonstrate that language users evaluate linguistic input in light of the epistemic state of its author. </jats:p
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