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“In Conversation” (Illustrations by Carol Ryder 2015, animation by Zoë Hitchen 2015)
No full textThe dominant ‘fashionable body’ of the 21st century can be clearly identified as tall, thin, young, white and able-bodied. This ongoing practice-based research explores whether the promotion of more diverse representations of the ‘fashionable body’ is possible via fashion illustration.
At the end of October, Carol Ryder - Senior Lecturer in Fashion at LJMU - visited Berkeley, California to attend the International Conference on the Image http://ontheimage.com/2015-conference and present her research into ‘the fashionable body’ including two fashion films, produced from Carol’s own fashion illustrations, which raise questions about ‘fashionable’ body image and aim to promote greater diversity in fashion.
Carol’s research into the variable ‘fashionable body’ is concerned with investigating the social impact of a single, narrowly-defined and extreme fashionable bodily ideal (tall, thin, young, white, able-bodied) and proposes that a more diverse spectrum of fashionable bodies is both possible and necessary. In her practice-led research, Carol utilises her own original fashion illustration work to explore the possibility for illustrations to depict bodies that do not adhere to the current definition of the ‘fashionable body’ and yet can still be identified as ‘fashion illustrations’, thereby questioning what we understand by the term ‘fashionable’, and to what extent ‘fashionability’ is determined by the characteristics of the human bodies depicted in fashion imagery.
As part of her Conference presentation, Carol showed two animated films that were produced this year from her own fashion illustrations.
The first, “Animating Fashion Illustration: Diversity in Fashion Film” (illustrations and animation by Carol Ryder, 2015) was the result of a watercolour fashion illustration, depicting a disabled dancer, that was produced in 129 separate stages. The gradually-evolving stages of the illustration were systematically scanned into a computer and saved as sequenced frames which were used to create a short fashion film (4 minutes, 6 seconds) aiming to challenge the notion that, in order for an image (still or moving) to be considered ‘fashionable’, the body depicted should be tall, thin, young, white and able-bodied.
“I felt that the increased dynamism produced by animated movement was especially helpful in the promotion of body-positivity in a disabled subject, and the use of technology implicit in the production of a film provides a greater sense of modernity – therefore ‘fashionability’ - than that provided by a static illustration. The gradual emergence of the subject in the film attracts the viewer’s interest: it is not clear at the outset what the final image will be so attention is held for longer and directed towards the film’s ‘payoff’ at the end. The addition of music offers another means to engage the viewer, exciting the senses in a way that a static illustration cannot.” Carol Ryder.
The original illustration was inspired by the singer Viktoria Modesta who fought to have her painful and useless left leg removed so she could fulfil her dreams of a career in the music industry. Modesta designs and wears futuristic prosthetics which challenge body image in pop music, and is determined that promotional images of her should not provoke sympathy.
Having created her own animation Ryder subsequently passed the original watercolour illustrations to film-maker Zoë Hitchen (MMU) to create a second fashion film “In Conversation” (Illustrations by Carol Ryder 2015, animation by Zoë Hitchen 2015) that moved beyond simple time-lapse animation:
“… When I started a conversation with Carol, we were concerned about whether fashion illustration that does not feature the currently-defined fashionable body would be readily recognised and validated as ‘fashionable’. We decided to explore if fashion illustration could take a new form in the computer age, and promote positive ideas about body image. Our aim is to find out how people interpret this new fashion image, now it has taken a non-literal narrative in fashion film. As this is digital technology, it tactically emphasises the new, the ground-breaking, and arguably ‘more fashionable’. In an approach that combines social semiotics and cognitive semantics, we wanted to challenge preconceived ideas, and to question the fashionable body… fashion projects a narrow vision, exclusionary mindset, and an ideal of beauty that is oppressive for us all.” Zoë Hitche
A view of J. Barton Hack esqrs. farm, Echiunga [i.e. Echunga] Springs, Mount Barker, South Australia, from a sketch by Col. Gawler [picture] /
No full textU1228.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK254
The new port, Adelaide, South Australia [picture] /
No full textAfter a painting by Edward Opie.; S1211; U1257 NK248; U1260 NK4916.; Exhibited: Prints and Australia, Australian National Gallery, 1989; Deja vu, NLA, 1989
Isolation and characterization of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the smooth Cherax cainii and hairy marron C. tenuimanus (Decapoda: Parastacidae)
No full textNumbers of the critically endangered hairy marron Cherex tenuimanus are declining rapidly in its natural habitat, mainly due to competition with smooth marron C. cainii. To determine whether genetic introgression is occurring between the two species we isolated 13 new polymorphic microsatellite markers from C. cainii using 454 shotgun sequencing. The loci were screened for variation in 20 individuals of C. cainii and eight individuals of C. tenuimanus. There was no evidence of linkage disequilibrium between pairs of loci and only one locus deviated significantly from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to 11 across both species.W. Jason Kennington, Clodagh Guildea, Sherralee S. Lukehurst, Yvette Hitchen, Michael G. Gardner, Rodney Duffy, P. Joana Dias, Jason M. Ledger, Michael Sno
FIGURE 6. Ephutomorpha subelegans Rayment, 1933b in Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records
No full textFIGURE 6. Ephutomorpha subelegans Rayment, 1933b, lectotype, ♂. A: dorsal view; B: facial view; C: lateral view; D: la- bels.Published as part of Taylor, Christopher K., Murphy, Mark V., Hitchen, Yvette & Brothers, Denis J., 2019, Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records, pp. 201-224 in Zootaxa 4609 (2) on page 213, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/318750
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
FIGURE 7 in Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records
No full textFIGURE 7. Aglaotilla micra sp. nov., ♀, holotype. A: facial view; B: lateral view; C: mesosoma, dorsal view; D: metasoma, dorsal view.Published as part of Taylor, Christopher K., Murphy, Mark V., Hitchen, Yvette & Brothers, Denis J., 2019, Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records, pp. 201-224 in Zootaxa 4609 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/318750
FIGURE 4 in Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records
No full textFIGURE 4. Aglaotilla lathronymphos sp. nov., ♀, holotype. A: facial view; B: lateral view; C: mesosoma, dorsal view; D: metasoma, dorsal view.Published as part of Taylor, Christopher K., Murphy, Mark V., Hitchen, Yvette & Brothers, Denis J., 2019, Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records, pp. 201-224 in Zootaxa 4609 (2) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/318750
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Organic Cocrystals of TCNQ and TCNB Based on an Orthocetamol Backbone Solved by Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction
No full textWe report the first cocrystals of TCNQ and TCNB based on orthocetamol, a regioisomer of paracetamol. Through a simple solution growth process, cocrystals were produced containing orthocetamol as electron donors with coformers of either 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) or 1,2,4,5-tetracyanobenzene (TCNB), as electron acceptors. Because of submicron crystalline domains, 3D electron diffraction was employed for structure solution in both systems. This revealed that both systems crystallize in a 1:1 stoichiometry in which orthocetamol forms a backbone allowing for linking of acceptor molecules in a mixed-stack configuration. Orthocetamol-TCNQ adopts an noncentrosymmetric Pc symmetry, and orthocetamol-TCNB a centrosymmetric P-1 symmetry. UV-vis and FT-IR were employed to probe the ability of these cocrystals to create charge transfer (CT) systems, revealing a low degree of charge transfer. Still, the possibility to use orthocetamol backbone as structural scaffold paves the way for an entirely new class of CT materials
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