53 research outputs found
Kevin Laird Hallmann in a Junior Piano Recital
No full textThis is the program for the junior piano recital of Kevin Laird Hallmann. The recital took place on January 26, 1987, in the Mabee Fine Arts Recital Hall
Kevin Laird Hallmann in a Senior Piano Composition Recital
No full textThis is the program for the senior piano composition recital of Kevin Laird Hallmann. This recital took place on April 14, 1988, in the Mabee Fine Arts Recital Hall
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The Mutant Database: Media Franchise Authorship, Creators' Rights, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
No full textTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) is a massive ongoing franchise that began as a 1984 self-published comic book created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Its history is intertwined with the creators' rights movement and the Creator's Bill of Rights (CBR), which rejected work-for-hire contracts, wherein creative laborers—creative authors—cede authorial control of their labor. Because the production of comic books and their franchises is highly collaborative, intellectual property (IP) rights are often consolidated in a single rights holder—a corporate author—via work-for-hire contracts. Eastman and Laird, as both creative and corporate authors, initially maintained strict control of TMNT licensees, but allowed their employees to retain IP rights over creative contributions to TMNT. However, in 1992, Eastman and Laird sent retroactive work-for-hire contracts to all current and former employees. This TMNT case study illustrates how the CBR represented the conflicting interests of publishers and creative laborers and ultimately reinforced the individualistic view of authorship that undergirds work-for-hire doctrine. Additionally, because IP legal infrastructure uses individualistic discourse to consolidate control of media franchises in one entity that allows authorized individuals access to a shared database of creative expressions that workers can borrow from or add to, media franchises resemble folklore and are made via a database mode of production. The romantic vision of authorship (and authorial control) upon which the CBR was founded ultimately went on to serve publishers rather than creators working for media properties, repeating a pattern that has existed since the inception of copyright and authorship
Invasion dynamics of Wolbachia bacteria in laboratory populations of the wasp, Trichomalopsis sarcophagae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
No full textWolbachia are obligate intracellular bacteria common in diverse arthropod hosts. Infections are spread from infected mothers to their progeny via egg cytoplasm. Establishment and spread of infections are affected by the number of infected individuals invading the novel host population plus the effect of infections on the production of female progeny and mating behaviour. Here we examined the ability of Wolbachia to establish and spread in populations of the parasitoid wasp Trichomalopsis sarcophagae (Gahan, 1914) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Uninfected females mated with infected males only produced male progeny and broods of smaller size, which was attributed to fertilized eggs developing as though male or failing to develop. All other mate combinations produced normal broods of similar size and sex ratio. Mate-choice tests showed that females mated once and showed no preference for infected or uninfected males. An experiment tracking the extinction or subsequent establishment and spread of Wolbachia infections in laboratory colonies for 20+ generations indicated an establishment threshold for infection prevalence of less than 10%. The existence of such a threshold, and its relatively low value, is broadly consistent with a simple mathematical model informed by the results from the experimental crosses and mate-choice tests. This is one of few experimental studies tracking the spread of Wolbachia infection in an insect species. It helps explain why Wolbachia is such a successful and widespread parasite.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
A review of diapause and tolerance to extreme temperatures to dermestids (Coleoptera)
No full textSherpa Romeo green journal. Permission to archive accepted author manuscript.Numerous species in Family Dermestidae (Coleoptera) are important economic pests of stored
goods of animal and vegetal origin, and museum specimens. Reliance on chemical methods for
of control has led to the development of pesticide resistance and contamination of treated
products with insecticide residues. To assess its practicality as an alternate method of control,
we review the literature on the tolerance of dermestids to extreme hot and cold temperatures.
The information for dermestid beetles on temperature tolerance is fragmentary, experimental
methods are not standardized across studies, and most studies do not consider the role of
acclimation and diapause. Difficulties in determining the diapause status of dermestid larvae
may explain the lack of studies. The few studies that do examine these factors show that they
can greatly increase tolerance to cold temperatures. The use of extreme temperatures will
need to target the most tolerant life stage, which for dermestids at cold temperatures will
potentially be the cold-acclimated individuals in diapause. The development of effective
protocols will be facilitated by studies that clearly and completely describe experimental and
statistical methods, consider factors (life-stage, acclimation, diapause) that increase tolerance
to extreme temperatures, and assess the mortality at various temperatures to develop
mathematical models
The effects of partner type on condom choice and condom use
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 75-90).South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection. Little previous research has focused on the relationship between individuals in different sexual contexts and their attitudes toward condom choice. I tested the hypotheses that (a) implicit and explicit measures of attitudes towards condom choice would show that individuals in casual sexual contexts, compared to those in the context of exclusive sexual relationships, would spontaneously associate more strongly with brand-name condoms over generic condoms, and (b) there would be a positive correlation between explicit and implicit attitudes towards condom choice
Policy Space to Prevent and Mitigate Financial Crises in Trade and Investment Agreements
No full textDo nations have the policy space to deploy capital controls in order to prevent and mitigate financial crises? This paper examines the extent to which measures to mitigate this crisis and prevent future crises are permissible under a variety of bilateral, regional and multilateral trade and investment agreements. It is found that the United States trade and investment agreements, and to a lesser extent the WTO, leave little room to manoeuvre when it comes to capital controls. This is the case despite the increasing economic evidence showing that certain capital controls can be useful in preventing or mitigating financial crises. It also stands in contrast with investment rules under the IMF, OECD and the treaties of most capital exporting nations which allow for at least the temporary use of capital controls as a safeguard measure. Drawing on the comparative analysis conducted in the paper, the author offers a range of policies that could be deployed to make the United States investment rules more consistent with the rules of its peers and the economic realities of the 21st century.
Functional impairment in South African children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 109-115).This research aimed to increase current understanding of functional impairment in children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Twenty-six South African children and adolescents with OCD participated in the study. The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (KSADS-PL), the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview For Children and Adolescents Version 5 (MINIKID5.0), the Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS), the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) and the Child Obsessive-Compulsive Impact Scale-Revised (COIS-R) were used to assess the children's and adolescent's past and current psychopathology, OCD symptom severity and OCD-related functional impairment. Findings suggest that most of the children (88.46%) in this study had one or more comorbid disorders. Parents and children agreed on very few of the rating items common the COIS-R-P and COIS-R-C. Parents, however, consistently reported higher rates of significant problems than did their children. Correlations between the various instruments revealed that parents are more accurate than their children in rating their child's global impairment and OCD-specific impairment. Therefore, collateral information from parents is vital for the clinician to accurately assess and fully understand the child's OCD-related functional impairment. Moreover, the number of comorbid disorders, and whether the child had ADHD or not, did not impact on the COIS-R total scores, suggesting that the COIS-R is a useful measure to assess OCD-specific impairment. Parents and children both reported that the most significant domain of impairment is the school domain. Moreover, parents reported that the most significant functional problem is "concentrating on his/her work" and children reported that the most significant functional problem is "getting good grades." Findings from studies such as this help clinicians to have a better understanding of childhood OCD-related functional impairment, which helps them to accurately diagnose and treat children with OCD
Author Correction: Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing
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