809 research outputs found
Author interview: Q and A with Dr Noni Stacey on Photography of protest and community: the radical collectives of the 1970s
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Dr Noni Stacey about her new book Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s, which examines how London-based photographers formed collectives that engaged with local and international political protest in cities across the UK. The book surveys the radical community photography produced by Hackney Flashers Collective, Exit Photography Group, Half Moon Photography Workshop, the producers of Camerawork magazine and the community darkrooms, North Paddington Community Darkroom and Blackfriars Photography Project
Animation and Automation : The liveliness and labours of bodies and machines
No full textWritten as the introduction to a special issue of Body & Society on the topic of animation and automation, this paper considers the interrelation of those two terms through readings of relevant work in film studies and science and technology studies (STS), inflected through recent scholarship on the body. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, we trace how movement is taken as a sign of life, while living bodies are translated through the mechanisms of artifice. Whereas film studies has drawn upon work ranging from production history to semiotics and psychoanalysis to conceptualise the ways in which the appearance of life on the cinema screen materialises subjectivities beyond it, STS has developed a corpus of theoretical and empirical scholarship that works to refigure material-semiotic entanglements of subjects and objects. In approaching animation and automation through insights developed within these two fields we hope to bring them into closer dialogue with each other and with body studies, given the convergence of their shared concerns with affective materialisations of life. More specifically, an interest in the moving capacities of animation, and with what gets rendered invisible in discourses of automation, is central to debates regarding the interdependencies of bodies and machines. Animation is always in the end a relational effect, it seems, while automation implies the continuing presence of hidden labour and care
Using information technology : a practical introduction to computers & communications / Brian K. Williams, Stacey C. Sawyer.
No full textOn t.p. of previous ed. Stacey C. Sawyer's name appears first.Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-552) and index.xxiv, 554, 12 pages.
Can forests meet our energy needs? The future of forest biomass in Colorado
No full textPresented at the Can forests meet our energy needs? The future of forest biomass in Colorado conference, February 21, 2008, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.Stacey Simms is the Biomass and Local Fuels Programs Manager at the Governor's Energy Office (GEO). In this position she has development, administrative and managerial responsibilities of projects related to woody biomass, anaerobic digestion and biofuels. Prior to joining GEO, Stacey worked at the American Lung Association of Colorado where she managed the Department of Energy's CLEAN CITIES program. While with CLEAN CITIES, Stacey supported the transition of more than 30 fleets in Colorado to biofuels and helped replace 1 billion gallons of fossil fuels with alternative fuels. Stacey started her career in renewable energy and public administration during her four year tour with the Peace Corps in El Salvador. Stacey graduated from Regis University in 2006 where she earned a Master's degree in Management with an emphasis on organizational leadership and project management
State fragmentation and citizen education: creating a culture of citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia
No full textMy dissertation is an ethnography of governance in Colombia. I argue that despite widespread understandings of the Colombian state as failed, it actually plays an important role in the everyday lives of citizens. I argue that the Colombian state continues to govern through two key mechanisms:1. the rapid construction of state institutions and policies that clutter symbolic and physical space 2. the education of citizens such that they learn to be active participants in providing services traditionally forthcoming from the state, like security and justice. I explore how these interconnected processes of state and citizen formation are articulated through citizen culture, a novel crime reduction policy that has turned the capital city of Bogotá into an international model of best governance practices.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaby Stacey Leigh HuntIncludes bibliographical reference
Conjuring our beings: Stacey Gillian Abe and Immy Mali in conversational partnership
No full textThe series of Conversational Partnerships began in 2017 in African Arts vol. 50, no. 2, with a conversation between two artists: Eria Nsubuga SANE from Uganda and Sikhumbuzo Makandula from South Africa. The format of a “conversational partnership” (Rubin and Rubin 2012: 7) emphasizes the cocreation of meaning by the interviewer and interviewee as coauthors. This enables a move away from the art history format of the interviewer (usually a writer) assuming the role of the sole author and the interviewee (often an artist) having no status as an author despite the fact that her or his practice-led creation of knowledge is foundational to the content of the interview. Stacey Gillian Abe and Immy Mali participated in a joint artists' residency as part of the RAW program at Rhodes University in South Africa from November to December 2017. During this time, they engaged with each other's practice-led work, and they created this conversational partnership at a writing breakaway in the Eastern Cape
Diversity and Activity Patterns of Medium‐Sized and Large Terrestrial Mammals in Agroforests of a Peruvian Amazon Rainforest Region
No full textABSTRACT Agroforests offer potential for biodiversity conservation through a land‐sharing approach. However, it remains uncertain whether they can support medium‐sized and large forest‐dependent terrestrial mammals. We evaluated the diversity and activity patterns of such mammals in agroforests and natural forests in the northern buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon. For agroforests specifically, we examined the influence of connectivity to the core zone of the reserve, vegetation structure and human presence on mammal diversity and activity. In total, 21 species were recorded using camera traps. Agroforests supported 15 species, significantly fewer than neighbouring forests. Five of the seven threatened species were found exclusively in forests. Nonetheless, one third of the recorded species exhibited similar or higher trapping rates in agroforests, with Tapirus terrestris showing rates up to 6.3 times higher than in forests. The diurnality index across cathemeral species was significantly higher in agroforests adjacent to the protected area and marginally so in forests. In agroforests, mammal diversity increased with greater tree DBH, canopy cover and taller understorey vegetation. The trapping rate of Dasyprocta variegata also increased with total tree species richness. Agroforests along the Tambopata River can thus support a substantial number of medium‐sized and large terrestrial mammals. However, forests remain critical for conserving mammal species richness, particularly for those of urgent conservation concern. Enhanced vegetation structure in agroforests—particularly larger trees, a denser canopy, and taller understorey vegetation—can increase their value as a habitat for medium‐sized and large forest‐dependent terrestrial mammals.Idea Wild https://doi.org/10.13039/100007142Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst https://doi.org/10.13039/50110000165
Book review: Photography of protest and community: the radical collectives of the 1970s by Noni Stacey
No full textIn Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s, Noni Stacey shows how a 1970s network of London-based photography collectives raised fundamental questions about the politics of photography, the role and responsibilities of photographers in relation to local communities and the uses of photography in the context of social activism. This book is a welcome addition to the expanding field of research on the photography of protest, writes Mathilde Bertrand, contributing to the ongoing documentation of this strong current in British photographic history. If you are interested in this book review, you can read an LSE RB interview with author Dr Noni Stacey. The archive of the Exit Photography Group is held at LSE Library; readers can find out more about the archive and the catalogue. Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s. Noni Stacey. Lund Humphries. 2020
J.N. et al. v. Oregon Department of Education et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Case No. 6:19-cv-00096-AA
No full textDavid Bateman, PhD, Jenifer Cline, MA CCC SLP, Sonja de Boer, PhD, BCBA-D, Stacey Gahagan, Esq.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
A snapshot of the Artemia genome: to code or not to code
No full textThe Waksman Student Scholars Program, along with the Introduction to Molecular Biology and Biochemical Research class, were responsible for the publication of 628 Artemia sequences. Surprisingly, 361 of these sequences (58%) did not contain an open reading frame larger than 80 residues. It was originally presumed that this was due to a high level of genomic DNA contamination. While it is possible that some of our Artemia sequences are genomic contamination, I believe a large majority of our non-coding sequences are long non-coding RNA (ncRNA), newly recognized players in transcriptional regulation. This high percentage of non-coding sequences is reasonable,
as other genomic studies indicate about 50% of an organism’s RNA is non-coding. Our average non-coding sequence length was 600nt, significantly longer than our average Artemia 3’UTR length of 175nt, which can easily be explained if we acknowledge these sequences as long non-coding RNAs. Many of our non-coding RNAs also contain polyA tails, as well as polyadenylation signals. Considering many ncRNAs are polyadenylated, this data supports my hypothesis. Fifty-two percent of our non-coding sequences match
other Artemia sequences in NCBI, and of these matches, 33% are in the reverse direction. Transcription in the reverse direction is a method used by ncRNA to inhibit gene transcription.
In addition to my analysis of the 628 analyzed Artemia sequences, I used DNASTAR software to analyze all 5,947 Artemia sequences generated from 2005 through 2008. This software validated sequence quality and assembled similar sequences into 2,848 contiguous sequences. These contiguous sequences were further processed using Blast2GO, a gene ontology tool, where only 268 contiguous sequences were of high
enough quality to be considered annotated genes. These genes were further characterized according to their Gene Ontology.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62)by Stacey Lynn Witti
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