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Identity and consumption practices of Northamptonshire Caribbeans c.1955-1989
No full textThe objective of this thesis is to delineate and analyse Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption c.1955-1989. Author-collected and other oral histories alongside complementary primary and secondary references dovetail to unearth and analyse aspects of Post-War Caribbean consumption in a British provincial location that have been significantly unexplored previously. Central to the argument is the contention that identity is fundamentally significant in comprehending and analysing Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption. Various conceptualisations of identity facilitated development of consumer materialisations and aspirations. This thesis explores how multiple forms of identity as Caribbean, Black and British people were significant in shaping local Caribbeans' consumption. The succeeding pages address and analyse how these multiple identities influenced consumption and how provincial consumer behaviour was shaped by Caribbeans' relative co-ethnic isolation in Northamptonshire. Chapter 3 delineates and analyses consumer practices and practicalities of Northamptonshire Caribbeans. Integral within these consumer practices and practicalities are changes in consumption over time, intergenerational differences in consumption, as well as aspects of consumption that could be considered 'typical' and/or 'atypical' Northamptonshire Caribbean consumption; all of which are incorporated within this chapter. Chapter 4 connects identity and consumption through enhancing understanding of Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumer networks. These networks interacted with the combination of identities local Caribbeans psychologically felt part of within various Caribbean, Black and British permutations. Furthermore, such identities varied more widely amongst the younger generation than their co-ethnic elders, a concept which is also addressed. Education and cultural currency are two novel strands through which to analyse connections between consumption and identity. The final two chapters deploy these concepts in an innovative manner creating and developing greater understanding of Northamptonshire Caribbeans' consumption. Chapter 5 expounds on the concept that education can be used as consumption whilst shaping future consumer behaviour, both ideas significantly under-explored previously. Chapter 6 introduces the theory of cultural currency, the idea that aspects of culture have finite, but changing, values and must be shared to have value similar to monetary currencies having exchange values for other monetary currencies. This chapter demonstrates how Northamptonshire Caribbeans shared aspects of Caribbean culture as cultural currency, fostering co-ethnic strength whilst gaining inter-ethnic respect for Caribbeans. Through comprehending Caribbean identity, correlations between empirical and social history, local consumption, as well as educational and cultural circumstances that stimulated and inspired Northamptonshire Caribbeans, this thesis distinctively illuminates how local Caribbeans' consumption interacted with various permutations of Afro-Caribbean, Black and/or British identities whilst representing idiosyncratic local nodes within these larger amalgamations
Poster 197: Early and Aggressive Management of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Related Complications on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit: A Case Report
No full textUniversity of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 2000
No full textSanaz Afiat, Jeffry K. Ailes, Karolin Sonja Redenbach Anderson, John Charles Andresen, Timothy Daniel Babbitt, Kristina Lynn Bailey-Marrero, Jennifer Lynn Krohn Bengston, Kristina Suzanne Walline Birch, Kenneth L. Blad, Stacy Diane Fairbanks Blum, Kristine Lynn Kulig Bott, Tara Renee Berney Brakke, Stacey L. Brown, Shanaeya Nicole Burton, Michele Sue Cauble, Jason J. Cisler, Mark J. Clifft, Christopher John Connolly, Corinna Ann Kolder Cooper, Wendy M. Curulla, Jason John David, Valerie Anne David, Jeanenne Marie Dean, Yulia Michelle Demidovich, David Arthur Denman, Anjali J. Desai, Joy Catherine Taylor Drass, Chad Michael Duval, Vannessa Denise Evans, Lynette Denea Exum, Thomas Nolan Fennessy, Douglas Robert Fiedler, Jennifer Ann Forsman, Sheryl A. Haggerty, Cody Stephen Harlan, Nick J. Hartl, Bryce Aric Heese, Jason Thaine Helvey, Jeffrey Allen Himmelberg, Virginia Marie Hoefer, Jason Douglas Huff, Heidi Jo Iwanski, John Randall Jacobsen, Alicia Ann Johnson, Melissa Ann Johnson, Joseph Michael Kalamaja, Dina Alexandra Kogan, Joseph Lewis Kummer, Nitya Krishan Lassi, Anthony James Lauder, Lisa Ellen Berger Linquist, Patrice Diane Lockhart, Brant Noel Luebbe, Jennifer Leigh Lundgren, Nicolle Marie Mahoney, Tamer Helmy Mahrous, Gotam Makker, Mark Phillip Menolascino, Donald Michael Merrill, Jason John Mickels, Clifford Douglas Miles, Jason Jay Miller, Kody Alan Moffatt, Jonathan Fisher Moravek, Adam Paul Newman, Susan Michelle Nikels, Timothy J. Nitzsche, Curtis Robert Noel, John Robert Ohnoutka, Mara Pegeen Paradix, Philip Anthonly Pazderka, Diane Manning Pennington, Wendy Marie Metz Peterson, Travis J. Petree, Elizabeth Suzanne Pitt, Randall Raymond Plambeck, Dorisa L. Polk, Todd John Popp, Sara C. Powers, David Lee Priebe, John Christopher Puente, Bryan Lee Reuss, Dasen Ronald Ritchey, Julie Lynn Rothlisberger, Chelsea Dawn Sawyer, Laura Joelle Schaben, Michele Nicole Schaefer, Amy Lynn Schlichtemeier, Rudy Jay Schneider, Gwynn Colette Schoonmaker, David John Schram, Matthew Robert Schultz, Matthew David Shaw, Lisa Michelle Sieczkowski, Erin Nicole Wingert Silvius, Michelle Lea Simmons, Anton James Smolik, George Brent Sorensen, Michael Tracey Stang, Christine S. Stanko, Scott D. Straka, Heidi Lynn Hieb Strouth, John Jason Summa, Daniel Lee Surdell, Chad Aaron Surratt, Misty Anne Svitak, JonBen Dale Svoboda, Richard Mack Tempero, Todd Jason Tessendof, Julie Ann Schmid Theis, Lee Thomas Thurbert, Nguyet Anh Tran, Christopher Michael Traudt, Corey Alan Trease, Theodore Carl Tucker, Christopher Burgon Valentine, Chad William Vokoun, Steven Jerald Volin, Paula Leigh Engelbart Walters, Kristin Kay Warner, Colin Dexter Weekes, Nicole Suzanne White, Joy Carol Williams, Mario Valente Wilmath, Robert Royden York, Jr.https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1081/thumbnail.jp
Braid group actions, Baxter polynomials, and affine quantum groups
Get PDFIt is a classical result in representation theory that the braid group
of a simple Lie algebra acts on any
integrable representation of via triple products of exponentials
in its Chevalley generators. In this article, we show that a modification of
this construction induces an action of on the
commutative subalgebra
of the Yangian by Hopf algebra automorphisms, which gives rise to a
representation of the Hecke algebra of type on a flat
deformation of the Cartan subalgebra .
By dualizing, we recover a representation of
constructed in the works of Y. Tan and V. Chari, which was used to obtain
sufficient conditions for the cyclicity of any tensor product of irreducible
representations of and the quantum loop algebra
. We apply this dual action to prove that the cyclicity
conditions from the work of Tan are identical to those obtained in the recent
work of the third author and S. Gautam. Finally, we study the
-counterpart of the braid group action on
, which arises from Lusztig's braid group operators
and recovers the aforementioned -action defined by
Chari.Comment: 44 pages. Updates: Theorem 3.5, Corollary 3.11 and Theorem 6.5 now
include descriptions of the inverse modified braid group operators. In
addition, Corollary 4.5 has been added and Remarks 4.2, 4.6 and 4.7 have been
adjusted. The numbering of some statements has changed accordingly. To appear
in Transactions of the American Mathematical Societ
Are EU spatial ex ante coexistence regulations proportional?
Get PDFThe EU is currently struggling to implement coherent coexistence regulations on genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in all member states. While it stresses that any approach needs to be “proportionate to the aim of achieving coexistence”, very few studies have actually attempted to assess whether the proposed spatial ex ante coexistence regulations (SEACERs) satisfy this proportionality condition. In this article, we define proportionality as a functional relationship which is weakly increasing in the incentives for coexistence. We propose a spatial framework based on an existing landscape and introduce the new concept of shadow factor as a measure for the opportunity costs induced by SEACERs. This enables comparing the proportionality of (i) rigid SEACERs which are based on large isolation distances imposed on GM farmers versus (ii) flexible SEACERs based on pollen barrier agreements between neighboring farmers. Our theoretical and empirical findings argue for flexibility as rigid SEACERs violate the proportionality condition and, hence, are not consistent with the objectives of the EU.policy analysis, GIS, shadow factor, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,
Simulation studies of the imaging atmospheric cherenkov technique using the Durham mark 6 and H.E.S.S. stand-alone telescopes
Get PDFThe subject of this thesis is the simulation study of the development of extensive air show ers produced by very high energy gamma-ray and hadronic cosmic rays with respect to the Cherenkov light they produce, and its imaging in ground based telescopes. Chapters 1-4 are introductory: Chapter 1 covers the mechanisms responsible for the production of very high energy gamma-rays, whereas, chapter 2 focusses on the development of extensive air showers and Cherenkov light production. Chapter 3 covers the instrumentation used to measure the Cherenkov light using the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. Chapter 4 covers known and possible sources of very high energy gamma-rays. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 cover research performed by the author: Chapter 5 discusses some of the differences between three popular extensive air shower simulations codes, namely ALTAI, CORSIKA and MOCCA. Chapter 6 details the simulation of the response of two ground based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (the Durham Mark 6 and stand-alone H.E.S.S. telescopes), and in particular details the derivation of the flux of the x-ray selected BL-LAC PKS 2155-304 with the Durham Mark 6 telescope. This represents the refinement of a published measurement given an improved telescope simulation. The significance of the signal seen is 6.8o, and the integral flux derived above 1.5 TeV (assuming a differential spectral slope of-2.6) is {2.5±0.7stat ± (^0.5)(_1.6syst) x 10(^-7) photons m(^-2) s(^-1) Chapter 7 discusses the importance of the atmosphere, and the results of shower simulations under different atmospheric assumptions are presented, which indicate the importance of atmospheric calibration for the new generation of Cherenkov telescopes. The results of this chapter suggest that to first order large changes in the low level aerosol concentration have a much more significant effect on the trigger rate of a stand-alone H.E.S.S. telescope, than on the Hillas parameter distributions seen. Chapter 8 brings together the work done in this thesis, and highlights a final set of fluxes for the active galactic nuclei sources seen with the Durham Mark 6 telescope, many of which will form future sources to be measured with the H.E.S.S. system. The current status of the stand-alone H.E.S.S. system is also covered in chapter 8. The thesis concludes with a further brief discussion of the future prospects for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov astronomy
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
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Investigating orthographic and semantic aspects of word learning in poor comprehenders
Get PDFThis study compared orthographic and semantic aspects of word learning in children who differed in reading comprehension skill. Poor comprehenders and controls matched for age (9–10 years), nonverbal ability and decoding skill were trained to pronounce 20 visually presented nonwords, 10 in a consistent way and 10 in an inconsistent way. They then had an opportunity to infer the meanings of the new words from story context. Orthographic learning was measured in three ways: the number of trials taken to learn to pronounce nonwords correctly, orthographic choice and spelling. Across all measures, consistent items were easier than inconsistent items and poor comprehenders did not differ from control children. Semantic learning was assessed on three occasions, using a nonword–picture matching task. While poor comprehenders showed equivalent semantic learning to controls immediately after exposure to nonword meaning, this knowledge was not well retained over time. Results are discussed in terms of the language and reading skills of poor comprehenders and in relation to current models of reading development
Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
Get PDFThis thesis examines the juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and question gender identity. The introduction outlines commentaries on the story cycle and considers definitions of the form. It includes case studies of earlier twentieth-century cycles by American women: cycles such as Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps that have been passed over by critics of the form.
Chapter One presents Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples as a cycle paradigm, examining conventions such as the form's metafictional dimension and its preoccupation with communal identity. Chapter Two argues that Grace Paley's scattered Faith narratives set a standard for more dispersed versions of the form. Chapter Three considers how Joyce Carol Oates uses the sequential cycle to represent gender identity as a social construct. Chapters Four and Five examine the macrocosmic cycles of Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich and consider changes in their form and gender politics. The final 'composite' chapters explore postmodern versions of the form such as Susan Minot's Monkeys. The prose works of Sandra Cisneros stretch across the story cycle continuum, whilst Toni Morrison's Paradise is universally regarded as a novel. Readings of contemporary cycles by Melissa Bank, Elissa Schappell and Emily Carter demonstrate that American women are re-invigorating the form to facilitate the plural identity of the postmodern heroine
The unexplained nature of reading.
Get PDFThe effects of properties of words on their reading aloud response times (RTs) are 1 major source of evidence about the reading process. The precision with which such RTs could potentially be predicted by word properties is critical to evaluate our understanding of reading but is often underestimated due to contamination from individual differences. We estimated this precision without such contamination individually for 4 people who each read 2,820 words 50 times each. These estimates were compared to the precision achieved by a 31-variable regression model that outperforms current cognitive models on variance-explained criteria. Most (around 2/3) of the meaningful (non-first-phoneme, non-noise) word-level variance remained unexplained by this model. Considerable empirical and theoretical-computational effort has been expended on this area of psychology, but the high level of systematic variance remaining unexplained suggests doubts regarding contemporary accounts of the details of the mechanisms of reading at the level of the word. Future assessment of models can take advantage of the availability of our precise participant-level database
