241 research outputs found
Curio: Grotesques and satires from the electronic age
No full textCURIO: Grotesques & Satires From the Electronic Age is Elizabeth Bachinsky’s ellusive first book of poetry. Published just prior to Home of Sudden Service, a collection that went so far in another direction as to be nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2006, CURIO offers a very different view of what Bachinsky is capable of as a poet, and invites her readers to consider a much wider vision of her work as a whole. No one can truly hope to understand her work without reading this volume. Witness Antonin Artaud climbing a beanstalk and eating his lover’s foot, as his most torrid affair is revealed in letters; fear the Spy Cam’s omniscient eye; test your paranoiac tendencies as an alien abductee; watch as The Waste Land and The River Merchant’s Wife hit the blender; rejoice in poems without people, poems without authors, and poems with no audience. Informed by the writings of the 20th century’s (and even the 21st's!) most eclectic authors, CURIO is quirky and sly-an ironic mixture simultaneously engaged with formal innovation and a retro avant garde that heralded the arrival of a brave new poet. From publisher description.Poetr
Spatial attention related SEP amplitude modulations covary with BOLD signal in S1-a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study
No full textRecent studies investigating the influence of spatial-selective attention on primary somatosensory processing have produced inconsistent results. The aim of this study was to explore the influence of tactile spatial-selective attention on spatiotemporal aspects of evoked neuronal activity in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1). We employed simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG)-functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 14 right-handed subjects during bilateral index finger Braille stimulation to investigate the relationship between attentional effects on somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) components and the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal. The 1st reliable EEG response following left tactile stimulation (P50) was significantly enhanced by spatial-selective attention, which has not been reported before. FMRI analysis revealed increased activity in contralateral S1. Remarkably, the effect of attention on the P50 component as well as long-latency SEP components starting at 190 ms for left stimuli correlated with attentional effects on the BOLD signal in contralateral S1. The implications are 2-fold: First, the correlation between early and long-latency SEP components and the BOLD effect suggest that spatial-selective attention enhances processing in S1 at 2 time points: During an early passage of the signal and during a later passage, probably via re-entrant feedback from higher cortical areas. Second, attentional modulations of the fast electrophysiological signals and the slow hemodynamic response are linearly related in S1. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
Instanton Numbers and Exchange Symmetries in N=2 Dual String Pairs
No full textIn this note, we comment on Calabi-Yau spaces with Hodge numbers h 1;1 = 3 and h 2;1 = 243. We focus on the Calabi-Yau space WP 1;1;2;8;12 (24) and show how some of its instanton numbers are related to coefficients of certain modular forms. We also comment on the relation of four dimensional exchange symmetries in certain N = 2 dual models to six dimensional heterotic/heterotic string duality. CERN-TH/96-70 March 1996 1 email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 1. Introduction Recently, there has been an enormous progress in the understanding of non-perturbative effects in supersymmetric field theories and in superstring theories. In particular, various types of strong-weak coupling duality symmetries are by now quite well established, such as S-duality of the four-dimensional N = 4 heterotic string [1, 2, 3], string/string dualities [4, 5, 6] between the heterotic and type II strings and heterot..
The art of connection: negotiating the digital divide in Kenya's curio industry
No full textHow does the social and economic context in which new communication technologies are introduced shape the ways small-scale traders understand, gain access to, and use them? How does the digital divide in access to communication technologies reproduce or counter pre-existing inequalities? This dissertation is based on 26 months of participant observation in Kenya since 2001, when I investigated the competition and economic precariousness found among art traders, exporters, and art-producing organizations and cooperatives. In this dissertation I focus on the recent effects of cell phones and the internet. To clarify the contemporary importance of mobile communication technologies for Kenyans working in the shadow of the coastal tourism industry, I discuss the history of social inequality in Mombasa, the consolidation of curio art traders and cooperatives in the port city, and Kenya's political economy of ICT access. Following the removal of the roadside kiosks housing my initial sample of 2001, I investigated the strategies of small-scale art vendors as they struggled to survive economic change. This dissertation captures the story of the rise of the cell phone entrepreneur and the related decline of the cooperative societies around which Kenya's curio industry had long been structured. For economically disadvantaged actors, cell phones and email have become important for negotiating disparities in access not only to technologies, but also to jobs, capital, personal networks, and political representation. I argue that when state policy is not conducive to the formalization, legalization, and development of small-scale traders, ICTs can heighten social insecurity and economic precariousness among these businesspeople. Because the responsibility to manage risk has been abandoned by the Kenyan state and left to individual citizens and informal social and ethnic networks, the story of the digital divide among my research participants became one of ups and downs, repeated connection and disconnection, and intense competition. I demonstrate how the use of ICTs has left its mark on the individual men and women who drive Mombasa's curio industry, as well as the art itself.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-379)by Dillon Mahone
ICA-based spatio-temporal features for EEG signals
No full textThis research was supported as Brain Neuroinformatics Research Program by the Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy. We are grateful to Drs. Klaus-Robert Müller, Benjamin Blankertz and Gabriel Curio for providing us with their data
On The Duality Between The Heterotic String And F-Theory In 8 Dimensions
No full textIn this note we compare the moduli spaces of the heterotic string compactified on a two--torus and F--Theory compactified on an elliptic K3 surface for the case of an unbroken E 8 \Theta E 8 gauge group. The explicit map relating the deformation parameters ff and fi of the F--Theory K3 surface to the moduli T and U of the heterotic torus is found using the close relationship between the K3 discriminant and the discriminant of the Calabi--Yau--threefold X 1;1;2;8;12 (24) in the limit of a large base P 1 . September 1996 CERN-TH/96-232 1 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] During the last year it has become likely that a non--perturbative formulation of string theory (or of the theory behind it) requires the introduction of additional dimensions beyond the critical dimension 10 of perturbative supersymmetric string theories. From the space--time point of view all such constructions have in ..
Burros; a collection of sixty-four cute, curious and interesting burro pictures.
No full textThree photos. on p. [6] credited "By courtesy of Mrs. V. S. Warriner" have notice: "Copyrighted 1904 by A. V. Warriner."Attributed to W. A. Tracht.Heavy paper cover and outer edges of leaves cut in silhouette of burro's head."Patented ... 1903."From the Mundane to the Magical: 188 (p.61).Mode of access: Internet.Ill. self wrap, lettering in orange, cut in shape of burro's head, stapled
Non-zero mean and asymmetry of neuronal oscillations have different implications for evoked responses
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