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Book Review: As for Sinclair Ross
No full textLong admired by academics and fellow writers for his finely wrought portraits of small-town prairie life in Canada between the wars, and of the restless, complex, desiring souls contained within and by this landscape, Sinclair Ross was an intensely private man who nevertheless craved a wider popular audience for his work. It is thus somewhat ironic that his greatest public notoriety should have come as a result of his posthumous outing by Keath Fraser in As for Me and My Body (1997), a memoir documenting Fraser\u27s twenty-seven-year friendship with the author that was affectionately written but rather salaciously reviewed. Even this news was more rapaciously received by the growing coterie of Ross scholars than by the general public, providing as it did a wave of newly minted Canadian queer theorists (myself included) with the confirmation they needed in disclosing the veiled operations of subversive sexuality in Ross\u27s fiction. It is to David Stouck\u27s credit, in this meticulously researched biography, that he neither shies away from nor overplays Ross\u27s sexual identity, pointing out, through a close reading of the author\u27s texts rather than a cataloguing of his tricks (although there is some of this), that Ross\u27s bisexuality finds fictional expression in the triangulated relationships that recur throughout his best-known works
Web 2.0: Hypertext by Any Other Name?
No full textWeb 2.0 is the popular name of a new generation of Web applications, sites and companies that emphasis openness, community and interaction. Examples include technologies such as Blogs and Wikis, and sites such as Flickr. In this paper we compare these next generation tools to the aspirations of the early Hypertext pioneers to see if their aims have finally been realized
«Et vive la musique qui nous tombe du ciel!». Spazio scenico e drammaturgia nell’opera dell’Ottocento
No full textL'autore affronta alcune questioni che riguardano il rapporto fra la messa in scena e gli effetti sonori prodotti in palcoscenico, in un arco di tempo che si estende per cento anni a partire dai primi decenni , dell'Ottocento, dimostrando che con Jenůfa di Janáček si rompe il codice dell'opera tradizionale.The author addresses some questions concerning the relationship between the staging and the sound effects produced on stage, in a span of time that extends for one hundred years starting from the first decades of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that with Jenůfa by Janáček the code of traditional opera is broken
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The Rise and Development of Contemporary European Big Band Writing: An Analysis of Composers Peter Herbolzheimer, George Gruntz, Kenny Wheeler, Helge Sunde, and Florian Ross
No full textIt has been argued that a distinctive European big band sound began to emerge in the second half of the 20th century and has continued to develop over the following decades. As of this writing, however, only one book – in German – attempts to address the idea of a contemporary European big band approach, and no known publications are extant in the English language that specifically analyze works solely of contemporary European big band composers. With this in mind, this essay explores the music, compositions, and arranging styles of the following influential contemporary European composers: Peter Herbolzheimer, George Gruntz, Kenny Wheeler, Helge Sunde, and Florian Ross. The author identifies specific techniques, compositional trends, and influences that make these writers unique to the European continent. These findings are then applied in the creation of three extended jazz compositions totaling approximately 35 minutes in length and the author enumerates how these techniques and concepts were incorporated.</p
Acafan Identity, Communities of Practice, and Vocational Poaching
No full textIn a conceptualization and critique of the implications motivating a set of teaching and learning sessions designed to introduce undergraduate students to the professional role of location scouts and managers, two main interventions are offered. First, discussion of acafan identities is advanced by considering how this subject position applies to teaching and learning contexts rather than individual research dispositions, with acafans transferring competencies developed through fan practices that appropriate industry-located forms of knowledge to inform pedagogical design. Second, the concept of vocational poaching is applied as an alternative of fannish appropriation that acafans can engage in when designing teaching and learning sessions. Vocational poaching involves individual acafans performing tactical raids on industrially located forms of knowledge via fan practices such as location visiting and using these to satisfy the requirements of neoliberal teaching policies
Post trade liberalization policy and institutional challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
No full textArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay undertook extensive trade reform at a time of crisis, at which time institutional reform was difficult to undertake. Many of the countries had become members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in the late 1980s and anticipated institutional reform. Only later did they reform trade policymaking institutions to bring them somewhat in line with trade policy regimes and GATT rules. These countries have all used reference prices and antidumping provisions of GATT, rather than safeguards, to provide relief from import surges. They have all tried to centralize trade policy by moving it from different agencies into a single agency. Despite liberalization, some sectors -- including automobiles, textiles and agriculture -- remain protected. Lessons the author draws from experience in these coutries: 1) the deteriorating macroeconomic situations are the main challenge to maintaining open trade policy; 2) trade policymaking must be constantly reviewed to prevent reversals, and the costs of protection must be communicated to the public at large; 3) There must be short-run measures to help domestic activities adjust to short-run price movements and alleviate pressure for protection. The danger -- such measures (unrelated to long-run price trends) can become permanent. 4) external commitments (through WTO or customs unions) can be used to discourage a return to protection; 5) extending reform (to labor and capital markets and the regulatory framework) will help maintain and extend trade liberalization. Allowing factors of production to move smoothly from one activity to another could help prevent the buildup of pressures that lead to protection; 6) an institution to consider exceptional protection should be advisory (independent of day-to-day trade policymaking), so that it works steadily, free from administrative pressures and exigencies. Requests for protection must be handled openly and transparently, with the findings subject to public scrutiny. Procedures for granting relief through safeguards and similar mechanisms must reflect all interests, including those of consumers, exporters, and users of the product; and 7) the analysis to establish injury must conform to high technical standards. The criteria to consider trade policies must reflect national interests, not those of any particular sector.Economic Theory&Research,Common Carriers Industry,Trade Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Trade Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Transport and Trade Logistics
La production sociale du texte. Notes sur la relation production-produit dans les médias d'information
No full textThere are signs that North America Sociology is looking for a new departure in regard to its study of the mass media. This article is designed to trace, document and discuss this departure. The author addresses himself to the problem which is central to the study of Communications ; the specificities of the relationships between the modes of signification and the modes of behavioral practices and production processes.La sociologie américaine est à la recherche d'une nouvelle voie dans son étude des mass media. Le but de cet article est d'en dégager et d'en analyser les caractéristiques. L'auteur aborde ici une partie essentielle à l'étude des communications : les particularités des rapports entre modes de signification, modes de comportement et processus de production.La sociología americana busca una nueva vía en su estudio de los medios de comunicación. El objetivo de este artículo es de reconocer y analizar sus características. El autor aborda aquí una parte esencial en el estudio de las comunicaciones : las particularidades de las relaciones entre modos de significación, modos de comportamiento y procesos de producción.Bruck Peter A., Toutant Suzie, Ross Line. La production sociale du texte. Notes sur la relation production-produit dans les médias d'information. In: Communication Information, volume 4 n°3, été 1982. pp. 91-123
Temporal progression of photosynthetic-strategy in phytoplankton in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
No full textAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Marine Systems 166 (2017): 87-96, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.08.014.The bioavailability of iron influences the distribution, biomass and productivity of
phytoplankton in the Ross Sea, one of the most productive regions in the Southern
Ocean. We mapped the spatial and temporal extent and severity of iron-limitation of
the native phytoplankton assemblage using long- (>24 h) and short-term (24 h) iron-
addition experiments along with physiological and molecular characterisations during
a cruise to the Ross Sea in December-February 2012. Phytoplankton increased their
photosynthetic efficiency in response to iron addition, suggesting proximal iron
limitation throughout most of the Ross Sea during summer. Molecular and
physiological data further indicate that as nitrate is removed from the surface ocean the
phytoplankton community transitions to one displaying an iron-efficient photosynthetic
strategy characterised by an increase in the size of photosystem II (PSII) photochemical
cross section (σPSII) and a decrease in the chlorophyll-normalised PSII abundance.
These results suggest that phytoplankton with the ability to reduce their photosynthetic
iron requirements are selected as the growing season progresses, which may drive the
well-documented progression from Phaeocystis antarctica- assemblages to diatom-dominated phytoplankton. Such a shift in the assemblage-level photosynthetic strategy
potentially mediates further drawdown of nitrate following the development of iron
deficient conditions in the Ross Sea.This research was supported by grants from the National
Science Foundation (ANT-0944254 to W.O.S., ANT-0944174 to P.N.S.), and a NERC
PhD studentship to TRK
Water, dreams and Treaties: Agnes Ross’ Mémékwésiwak stories and Treaty No. 5
No full textThis thesis uses indigenous methodologies, including personal narrative and Cree stories, both ācimowina, (history stories) and ādizōhkīwina (legends), to explore the history of Pimichikamak Okimawin (Cross Lake, Manitoba) with reference to Hydro development and Treaty No. 5 negotiations. The stories are those told by Agnes Marie Ross in the spring of 2018 and were transcribed and translated by the author. They address questions of hydro impact through stories about Cree relationships with Mémékwésiwak. In Agnes’ stories this relationship is beneficial because it enables Cree healers to obtain medicine to heal tuberculosis. Agnes’ stories about treaty making, while they reference her great grandfather Tépasténam, who signed treaty, focus on his son, Papámohtè Ogimaw, who had to fight another medicine man who was trying to control the Treaty relationship. They address the history of Treaty making through a family story about a battle of medicine men that is politically significant today.February 201
Teleseismic earthquake wavefields observed on the ross ice shelf
No full text© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Baker, M. G., Aster, R. C., Wiens, D. A., Nyblade, A., Bromirski, P. D., Gerstoft, P., & Stephen, R. A. Teleseismic earthquake wavefields observed on the Ross Ice Shelf. Journal of Glaciology, 67(261), (2021): 58-74, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.83.Observations of teleseismic earthquakes using broadband seismometers on the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) must contend with environmental and structural processes that do not exist for land-sited seismometers. Important considerations are: (1) a broadband, multi-mode ambient wavefield excited by ocean gravity wave interactions with the ice shelf; (2) body wave reverberations produced by seismic impedance contrasts at the ice/water and water/seafloor interfaces and (3) decoupling of the solid Earth horizontal wavefield by the sub-shelf water column. We analyze seasonal and geographic variations in signal-to-noise ratios for teleseismic P-wave (0.5–2.0 s), S-wave (10–15 s) and surface wave (13–25 s) arrivals relative to the RIS noise field. We use ice and water layer reverberations generated by teleseismic P-waves to accurately estimate the sub-station thicknesses of these layers. We present observations consistent with the theoretically predicted transition of the water column from compressible to incompressible mechanics, relevant for vertically incident solid Earth waves with periods longer than 3 s. Finally, we observe symmetric-mode Lamb waves generated by teleseismic S-waves incident on the grounding zones. Despite their complexity, we conclude that teleseismic coda can be utilized for passive imaging of sub-shelf Earth structure, although longer deployments relative to conventional land-sited seismometers will be necessary to acquire adequate data.This research was supported by NSF grants PLR-1142518, 1141916, 1142126, 1246151, 1246416 and OPP-1744852 and 1744856
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