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Hmong Research—Then and Now: Closing Keynote Speech by Dr. Bruce T. Downing at the Hmong Across Borders Conference
Full text linkThis article consists of the text of a speech delivered by Dr. Bruce T. Downing as the closing keynote speech at the Hmong Across Borders conference at the University of Minnesota in October 2013. The speech discusses how the author became involved in Hmong Studies and how the University of Minnesota came to take on an important role in Hmong Studies research in the early 1980s. The author also discusses his involvement in early Hmong refugee resettlement efforts in the U.S. and how the landscape of Hmong Studies has changed over the past several decades
Descripción del impacto y los beneficios económicos de las bibliotecas públicas de Florida : resultados y aplicaciones metodológicas para trabajos futuros
No full textEste artículo describe el impacto y los beneficios económicos que generan las bibliotecas públicas de
Florida, indicando que, en general, las bibliotecas públicas contribuyen significativamente al desarrollo
económico del estado. Las bibliotecas reciben financiación pública y pueden ser una de las primeras
instituciones que sufran recortes presupuestarios en tiempos difíciles. La identificación del papel
económico que las bibliotecas desempeñan en las comunidades es crucial para seguir recibiendo una
financiación adecuada, apoyo y para la propia existencia de las bibliotecas. Además, este artículo
analiza algunos de los esfuerzos que se han realizado anteriormente, para determinar el impacto
y los beneficios económicos que se generan en relación con el presupuesto público que recibe la
biblioteca. Partiendo de estos estudios previos, los autores presentan un marco metodológico para
trabajos posteriores, sobre el impacto y los beneficios económicos que generan las bibliotecas públicas
y algunos fines y objetivos para investigaciones futuras. | This article describes the economic impacts and benefits received from public libraries in Florida,
indicating that, overall, public libraries make a significant contribution to the economic development
of the state. Public libraries receive funding from taxpayers and can be one of the first institutions to
experience budget cuts when they occur. Identifying the economic role that libraries play in communities is crucial to the continued funding, support, and existence of libraries. In addition, this article
discusses some of the other efforts that have been undertaken to determine the economic impacts
and benefits received from taxpayer investment. Drawing on these earlier efforts, the authors present
a framework for further study into the economic impacts and benefits received from public libraries,
and present some goals and objectives for future studies
Dasatinib suppresses in vitro natural killer cell cytotoxicity
No full textStephen J. Blake, A. Bruce Lyons, Cara K. Fraser, John D. Hayball, and Timothy P. Hughe
North By East; Kid Lit; A Very Bruce Christmas
No full textProfiles Maine children\u27s book author, Ryan T. Higgins and his kid\u27s book series, Bruce which is focused on Bruce, the bear. Lists many of his titles, including a holiday book, Santa Bruce
Mixed Bruce-Roberts numbers
Full text link[EN] We extend the notions of mu*- sequences and Tjurina numbers of functions to the framework of Bruce-Roberts numbers, that is, to pairs formed by the germ at 0 of a complex analytic variety X. Cn and a finitely R( X)-determined analytic function germ f : (Cn, 0). (C, 0). We analyze some fundamental properties of these numbers.Part of this work was developed during the stay of the first author at the Departamento de Matematica of ICMC, Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), in February and July 2018. The first author wishes to thank this institution for their hospitality and working conditions and to FAPESP for financial support. The first author was partially supported by MICINN Grant PGC2018-094889-B-I00 and FAPESP Grant 2014/00304-2. The second author was partially supported by CNPq Grant 306306/2015-8 and FAPESP Grant 2014/00304-2.Bivià-Ausina, C.; Ruas, M. (2020). Mixed Bruce-Roberts numbers. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 63(2):456-474. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091519000543S456474632Damon, J. (1996). Higher multiplicities and almost free divisors and complete intersections. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 123(589), 0-0. doi:10.1090/memo/0589Wahl, J. M. (1983). Derivations, automorphisms and deformations of quasihomogeneous singularities. Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 613-624. doi:10.1090/pspum/040.2/713285De Goes Grulha, N. (2008). THE EULER OBSTRUCTION AND BRUCE-ROBERTS’ MILNOR NUMBER. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 60(3), 291-302. doi:10.1093/qmath/han011Greuel, G.-M. (1975). Der Gau�-Manin-Zusammenhang isolierter Singularit�ten von vollst�ndigen Durchschnitten. Mathematische Annalen, 214(3), 235-266. doi:10.1007/bf01352108Gaffney, T. (1996). Multiplicities and equisingularity of ICIS germs. Inventiones Mathematicae, 123(1), 209-220. doi:10.1007/bf01232372Damon, J. (2002). On the freeness of equisingular deformations of plane curve singularities. Topology and its Applications, 118(1-2), 31-43. doi:10.1016/s0166-8641(01)00040-2Bruce, J. W., & Roberts, R. M. (1988). Critical points of functions on analytic varieties. Topology, 27(1), 57-90. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(88)90007-9Decker, W. , Greuel, G.-M. , Pfister, G. and Schönemann, H. , Singular 4-0-2. A computer algebra system for polynomial computations. Available at http://www.singular.uni-kl.de (2015).Looijenga, E. J. N. (1984). Isolated Singular Points on Complete Intersections. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511662720AHMED, I., RUAS, M. A. S., & TOMAZELLA, J. N. (2013). Invariants of topological relative right equivalences. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 155(2), 307-315. doi:10.1017/s0305004113000297Aleksandrov, A. G. (1986). COHOMOLOGY OF A QUASIHOMOGENEOUS COMPLETE INTERSECTION. Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya, 26(3), 437-477. doi:10.1070/im1986v026n03abeh001155Briançon, J., & Maynadier-Gervais, H. (2002). Sur le nombre de Milnor d’une singularité semi-quasi-homogène. Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 334(4), 317-320. doi:10.1016/s1631-073x(02)02256-2Giusti, M., & Henry, J.-P.-G. (1980). Minorations de nombres de Milnor. Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France, 79, 17-45. doi:10.24033/bsmf.1907Hauser, H., & Müller, G. (1993). Affine varieties and lie algebras of vector fields. Manuscripta Mathematica, 80(1), 309-337. doi:10.1007/bf03026556Liu, Y. (2018). Milnor and Tjurina numbers for a hypersurface germ with isolated singularity. Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 356(9), 963-966. doi:10.1016/j.crma.2018.07.004Nuno-Ballesteros, J. J., Orefice, B., & Tomazella, J. N. (2011). THE BRUCE-ROBERTS NUMBER OF A FUNCTION ON A WEIGHTED HOMOGENEOUS HYPERSURFACE. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 64(1), 269-280. doi:10.1093/qmath/har032Ohmoto, T., Suwa, T., & Yokura, S. (1997). A remark on the Chern classes of local complete intersections. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences, 73(5), 93-95. doi:10.3792/pjaa.73.93Lê Tráng, D. (1974). Calculation of Milnor number of isolated singularity of complete intersection. Functional Analysis and Its Applications, 8(2), 127-131. doi:10.1007/bf0107859
Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world
No full textBestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a networkInternationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how t
Distribution of European Winter Moth, Operophtera brumata (L.), and Bruce Spanworm, O. bruceata (Hulst), in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia
Full text linkSixteen pheromone traps, baited with (Z,Z,Z)-1,3,6,9-nonadecatetraene, were placed in commercial blueberry and raspberry fields, and at one woodland site in the lower Fraser Valley. Traps were monitored weekly from early November, 1990 until late January, 1991. Winter moth males were recovered from all but the eastern-most trap in Mission. Four traps in blueberry fields in Richmond caught a total of 2,928 winter moths. and 198 were caught in two traps in Delta and Surrey, whereas only 74 came to the ten traps north and cast of Surrey, A total of 1,306 Bruce span worm males were trapped , Although spanworm moths were recovered from traps in all areas. there was no correlation between trap location and number of spanworms caught. Thirteen males with characters intermediate between the two species were trapped in Richmond and Surrey. Male of both species were more numerous in raspberries than in nearby blueberry fields. Spanworm males came to the traps later in the fall than winter moths. East of Richmond, most spanworm males were trapped during November whereas, in Richmond, very few were attracted until the first week of December
Re-engaging with the intimacy of materials through touch
No full textIn today’s retail led world consumers are suffocating through an excess of soulless products. It is time we paused to breathe.
"Touch has a memory" - John Keats. [A1]
It is often assumed that product designers, especially in the fashion industry, will have a deep understanding of the tactile properties of materials that they use. This tacit knowledge is also assumed to be an essential ingredient for intimate engagement with the materials, for touch is about direct contact, close and personal; it is not sensation at a distance in the way of sound and vision. Through this intimacy, the designer can fully understand the potential sensory impact on their customers and can share their knowledge of this intimacy with the customers.
However the rise of fast, offshore manufacture has led to a virtual design approach where cad-cam rules and the first direct contact that the designer has with their material is often when they receive the finished goods. The approach has become embedded in teaching, where virtual-oriented design is cheap and simple as well as effective.
This runs in parallel to what Black [A2] describes as "The Fashion Paradox", i.e. the tension between an industry which has become dependent on the overconsumption of the consumer society made possible by low cost design and manufacture processes with emerging imperatives of environmental and ethical issues. It has become easy to make and sell a lot of goods, but perhaps a new approach is needed before we drown in an ocean of stuff.
We hypothesise that a business strategy to introduce a new intimacy with materials to consumers through goods and experiences that celebrate "the joy of touch" will a) spawn better, higher value goods with cutting-edge appeal and b) provide a positive piece in the jigsaw necessary to address the Fashion Paradox, taking the line described by Fletcher and Early in "5-Ways" [A3, A4] that touch is relevant to the production of "supersatisfiers...which begin to break the chain of consumption and dissatisfaction".
There are always many old voices that decry the lack of materials knowledge in the "designers of today", and we do not wish simply to join them. To avoid this yet to achieve new thinking in the territory we take a tangential approach that does not get stuck into stuff to early.
Accordingly, the method will apply a method of research and teaching based on storytelling in multidisciplinary teams developed by Smith and Sams [A5, A6]. This reflects on the role of designer-storytellers described by Seah [A7] and Erikson [A8]. Thus, perhaps counter-intuitively, we seek to stimulate word-based approaches to a physical effect.
The resultant project vehicle "Touch Stories" is inspired by the observations of experimental psychologist Charles Spence, e.g. [A9], that people have difficulty in detecting and remembering touch, but can be taught touch skills. This builds on earlier design projects "Touch Gourmet" by Torres and Sams [A10]. We provide below a short summary of the science context as well as the more usual design context for the project.
The work described here is our first experiment using this method in the touch context with a fashion student community of young business and design professionals. In recognition, we report in the style of a science experiment - which also reflects the background of the second author.
We are at the very start of a journey which we intend to take well beyond fashion (for the challenge of new materials and "too much stuff" spreads well beyond Fashion and its Paradox), thus to stretch and develop the territory, through the processes described in [A5, A6]. It’s a journey the design world needs to ‘touch on’
Coherent Assessments of Europe’s Marine Fishes Show Regional Divergence and Megafauna Loss
Full text linkFull list of authors is as follows:Paul G. Fernandes, Gina M. Ralph, Ana Nieto, Mariana García Criado, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Christos D. Maravelias, Robin M. Cook, Riley A. Pollom, Marcelo Kovačić, David Pollard, Edward D. Farrell, Ann-Britt Florin, Beth A. Polidoro, Julia M. Lawson, Pascal Lorance, Franz Uiblein, Matthew Craig, David J. Allen, Sarah L. Fowler, Rachel H. L. Walls, Mia T. Comeros-Raynal, Michael S. Harvey, Manuel Dureuil, Manuel Biscoito, Caroline Pollock, Sophy R. McCully Phillips, Jim R. Ellis, Constantinos Papaconstantinou, Alen Soldo, Çetin Keskin, Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Luís Gil de Sola, Fabrizio Serena, Bruce B. Collette, Kjell Nedreaas, Emilie Stump, Barry C. Russell, Silvia Garcia, Pedro Afonso, Armelle B. J. Jung, Helena Alvarez, João Delgado, Nicholas K. Dulvy & Kent E. Carpenter
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
Full text linkThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
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