11 research outputs found
Kenneth L Londoner
No full textKenneth L Londoner founded the medical device company BioSig Technologies in February 2009. This company has created a system designed to improve Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia, called PURE EP. This is a surface electrocardiogram (ECG) and intracardiac multichannel recording and analysis system. Kenneth L Londoner serves as the CEO of BioSig.
Besides of this, Londoner serves as the Managing Partner of Endicott Management Partners, LLC. This is a company that assists emerging growth companies in their corporate development and investing needs.
Over the course of his career, Kenneth L Londoner has held a number of positions in different companies, and also founded and co-founded other companies, besides BioSig.
From April 2007 to October 2009, Kenneth L Londoner has held a position as the executive vice president of the Silicon Valley based cardiac software company, NewCardio, Inc.
From May 2012 to March 2014, he held a position as the Director and the architect for the turnaround at Alliqua BioMedical, Inc.
Kenneth L Londoner co-founded a port security and logistics company, Safe Ports Holdings. This company is based in Charleston, South Carolina.
Moreover, in 1996, Kenneth L Londoner founded Red Coat Capital Management. He serves as its managing partner. This hedge fund has grown from its initial base of 1.1 billion.
Currently, he is working on commercialization of the PURE EP System, which was approved by FDA
How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs
No full textThis paper introduces a new internationally comparable data set that permits an empirical investigation of the effects of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, and the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876. They include innovations that were not patented, as well as those that were, and innovations from countries both with and without patent laws. I find no evidence that patent laws increased levels of innovative activity but strong evidence that patent systems influenced the distribution of innovative activity across industries. Inventors in countries without patent laws concentrated in industries where secrecy was effective relative to patents, e.g., food processing and scientific instruments. These results suggest that introducing strong and effective patent laws in countries without patents may have stronger effects on changing the direction of innovative activity than on raising the number of innovations.
Evoking the Possibility of Presence:Textual and Ideological Effects of Linguistic Negation in Written Discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written texts. It argues that when language users process negation, understanding its use in context is as much about the possibility of presence as it is about the actuality of absence. This gives rise to a variety of effects in texts from contributing to the construction of fictional characters to potentially influencing readers’/hearers’ view of the world they inhabit. This thesis brings together research on the theoretical aspects of how negation works to present a new approach to linguistic negation in written discourse. It also demonstrates how this approach can be applied in the analysis of the conceptual practice of negating. The approach presented is made up of three main elements; negation is presuppositional, is realised through a wide variety of linguistic forms beyond the morphosyntactic core forms (not, no, never, none, un-, in-, and so on) and includes semantic and pragmatically implied forms. These two elements combine to give rise to implied meaning in context. Having outlined this approach to negation, it is then applied in the analysis of literary and non-literary texts to explain the textual and ideological effects that arise from its use
THE EMERGING OF A MULTILATERAL FORUM FOR DEBT RESTRUCTURING: THE PARIS CLUB
No full textThis paper describes the evolution of intergovernmental relationships on debt rescheduling. It starts describing some experiences that aroused in the 18th Century and which negotiations were carried out, in many occasions, with the help of gunboat diplomacy. The settlement of liabilities that were created at the aftermath of the two 20th Century World Wars, which were – at least for some countries –- not exactly debt but war reparations, gave some insights in how to deal with these problems allowing the debtor country to find its own path to get out of the debt overhang. The settlement of these foreign liabilities may give some guidelines for dealing with debt restructuring in more general cases The creation of the Paris Club – which is a very civilized way to settle debt defaults compared to gunboat diplomacy – is analyzed and described here: first its emergency as an ad hoc transitory institution and later its evolution toward its definitive establishment in the international financial system landscape. It is also suggested that for a combination of events, which included the launch in Evian of the G-8’s so-called Evian Approach for the Paris Club, as well as the lack of support of some major industrialized countries to the implementation of a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM), the Paris Club has become the only feasible international intergovernmental debt restructuring mechanism in spite of numerous shortcomings embodied in it. On this basis, some improvements of the actual mechanism are proposed, without precluding the possibility of the implementation of a more equilibrated SDRM in the future.
‘Vietnamese Londoners: Transnational Identities Through Community Networks’
No full textThis research examines Vietnamese in London, focusing on identity formation and
community networks through transnational activities. I argue that ‘the transnational’ is a
‘subset’ of migrant categories, and that Vietnamese transnational identities depend on the
measurable activities in which they are involved. Important aspects of this research are:
First, the Vietnamese are one of the first major non-British Commonwealth peoples to
migrate into the United Kingdom in the modern era. This has had implications related to
settlement into British society, overcome by the subsequent shift from refugee status to
transnational activity and identities, resulting in widespread Vietnamese transnational
networks. Second, the Vietnamese represent one of the first ‘quota’ refugee populations
granted entry into the UK. Refugees were accepted prior to entering Britain, and upon
arrival, government and private support structures were provided. Also, Vietnamese
refugees underwent mandatory dispersal across the UK, a detrimental situation prompting a
subsequent intra-Britain migration to urban centres, particularly London. Third, Vietnamese
communities in Britain have distinctive characteristics, making a study of identities and
networks an interesting and useful one, particularly in light of developing research in
transnational studies. These characteristics include the Vietnamese North-South cultural and
linguistic ‘divide’, the presence of Vietnamese and Chinese-background Vietnamese, and
differences in the timing and reasons for migration.
Key research questions relate to transnational activities, identities, and community networks
played out in the role, reach and specific pathways of those activities across national
borders. Key questions are: ‘What does it mean to be a transnationally active Vietnamese
Londoner?’ and ‘How are Vietnamese Londoners engaged in community-based
transnational networks?’ These questions are addressed using interviews, participant
observation, participation in Vietnamese-related conferences, and in informal conversations
on the street and in local Vietnamese shops. This research relates stories of contextualised
transnational identities linking Vietnamese from London across the globe
Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
No full textThis is the first attempt to provide a detailed description of the different types of devotional literature (excluding all liturgical books, biblical translations, doctrinal and polemic works, saintS lives and sermons) available in print to English readers in the years immediately preceding England's break with Rome. It shows that there were far more Catholic works of devotion, many of them written or printed for the first time 1520 - 35, than has previously been recognized. It is also clear that this flourishing literature came to a sudden and decisive end in 1535, although the tradition lived on unofficially to be taken up by the English Recusants. The leading themes of this traditional literature are indicated in chapters on treatises about confession and prayer, the mass, the life and Passion of Christ, on tribulation, death and the Last Things, while more general teaching about the Christian life addressed to religious, contemplatives and lay people, and the humanist and Protestant contribution to this literature is also discussed. The treatises are doctrinally sound and on the whole advocate moderation and common-sense; they avoid many of the weaknesses of popular non-literary devotion, including the Marioleatry and excessive morbidity for which the late middle ages are often condemned. Some of the weaknesses of the Catholic tradition are suggested by comparison with the more rational and secular attitudes of Christian humanist , authors, notably Erasmus, available during the 1530s. The Protestants, whose treatises become increasingly common, despite official censorship, during the decade until they dominate its second half, carry the humanist~ reform much further, and break with the Catholic Church. Traditional devotional topics and audiences are displaced by doctrinal and biblical teaching addressed to lay people. The Bible replaces the Church's authority and there is more emphasis on the spiritual and social dimensions of religion
'F- F- Felt it': Breathing Feminist, Queer and Clown Thinking into the Practice and Study of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and Blasted
No full textThis thesis uses studio practice, scholarly research, close reading of text, performance observation and conversation with practitioners to establish diverse readings of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed. It includes original material from the 2012 productions of Cleansed in Japan (Kamome-za Fringe Theatre), and in Ireland (Bare Cheek Theatre). It notes practice on Cleansed in gallery spaces (Cast-Off Drama, UK). It offers a dramaturgical approach to workshopping the play from a feminist and queer position, informed by theories of gender and transgender, and the marginalised, loving and delinquent practice of clowning. The research discusses principles of breath, voice and sexuate difference drawing primarily on the philosophies of Luce Irigaray, on the voice practice of Cicely Berry and the clown teaching of Sue Morrison.
The work challenges the ‘in-yer-face’ theatre discourse on Kane arguing that it represents a McDonaldization of its subject matter, and an insidious trivialisation of her texts. It offers new thinking on the opening night of Blasted (1995), suggesting that the ‘furore’ was fuelled by collective male hysteria and superstition; its roots centred in mourning. Analysing Cleansed in relation to Edward Bond’s Saved and Lear, it explores tropes of ghosts, stitching and the silent scream, and argues that Kane militates for gynocentric time and becoming. It analyses the symbol of the perimeter fence as a feature of 1980s Britain, noting the strength of binary associations configured in it with reference to both English football hooliganism (male) and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (female). It argues that Kane sets up heteronormative binaries in Cleansed to debate and contest them.
A key conclusion of the thesis is that Cleansed politically addresses and dramatises issues of transgender experience presenting accounts of gender violence, mutability, transitioning, the sharp fractures and silences of gender dysphoria, but also, ultimately, queer desire, love and optimism
The view from the backbench : Irish Nationalist MPs and their work, 1910-1914
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