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Ben Foskett. 'Dinosaur' for solo flute. (CD Recording)
No full textWorld Premier recording of English composer Ben Foskett's debut CD as a part of NMC's 'Debust Disc' series. NMC is one of the UK's leading advocates of contemporary music by British Composers
Postscript:Jed Mercurio thrillers, pandemic policing, and populism
Full text linkSince 2020, Jed Mercurio’s Line of Duty (BBC, 2012–) has had an unprecedented impact on British television police series. Employing the principal conventions of the thriller genre, Mercurio has his detectives navigate an ever-growing complex external threat whilst the limits of their physical and mental endurance are tested (Glover 2003: 135–154). This postscript considers how Line of Duty, Vigil (BBC, 2021–), Trigger Point (ITV, 2022–), and The Responder (BBC, 2022–) utilise the thriller genre to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed policing. I determine how each series adheres to a model of normative compliance, whereby compliance with the law emerges because people deem the ‘directions of authority to be morally appropriate’ and fairly enforced (Stott et al. 2020: 575). Then I consider to what extent each series adopts a model of instrumental compliance, where adherence revolves around ‘fear of authority’s capacity to impose punishment’ (Stott et al. 2020: 575). I discover which model of policing is preferred in a manner akin to enquiries that criminologists are conducting into police forces worldwide, by assessing how the fictional police operate across stations, civilian settings, and in private. Employing this spatial model of textual analysis helps us better understand the political cut-through that Mercurio’s series have experienced in an era of populism
Postscript:Jed Mercurio thrillers, pandemic policing, and populism
Full text linkSince 2020, Jed Mercurio’s Line of Duty (BBC, 2012–) has had an unprecedented impact on British television police series. Employing the principal conventions of the thriller genre, Mercurio has his detectives navigate an ever-growing complex external threat whilst the limits of their physical and mental endurance are tested (Glover 2003: 135–154). This postscript considers how Line of Duty, Vigil (BBC, 2021–), Trigger Point (ITV, 2022–), and The Responder (BBC, 2022–) utilise the thriller genre to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed policing. I determine how each series adheres to a model of normative compliance, whereby compliance with the law emerges because people deem the ‘directions of authority to be morally appropriate’ and fairly enforced (Stott et al. 2020: 575). Then I consider to what extent each series adopts a model of instrumental compliance, where adherence revolves around ‘fear of authority’s capacity to impose punishment’ (Stott et al. 2020: 575). I discover which model of policing is preferred in a manner akin to enquiries that criminologists are conducting into police forces worldwide, by assessing how the fictional police operate across stations, civilian settings, and in private. Employing this spatial model of textual analysis helps us better understand the political cut-through that Mercurio’s series have experienced in an era of populism
Asymetric Price Transmission in the Spanish Lamb Sector
Full text linkThis paper aims to investigate the non-linear adjustments of prices between farm and retail prices in the lamb sector in Spain. The methodology used is based on the multivariate approach to specify and estimate a three-regime Threshold Autoregressive Model. Results indicate that in the long-run price transmission is perfect and any supply or demand shocks are fully transmitted along the marketing chain. In the short-run, price adjustments between the farm and the retail levels are asymmetric and are representative of a demand-pull transmission mechanism. On the other hand, retailers benefit from any shock, whether positive or negative, that affects supply or demand conditions.asymmetries, lamb, Spain, price transmission, Demand and Price Analysis, Livestock Production/Industries,
Weisheit von Sirach
No full text"Ben Sira, wisdom of (also called Ecclesiasticus), a work of the Apocrypha, which, though usually known by this name, may have been called by its author, "The Words of Simeon b. Jeshua," the title found on the Hebrew fragments" (Encyc. Judaica, CD-Rom Ed., 1997)Erscheinungsjahr nach Vorlage: 279 [i.e. 1519]Ben Sira folgen noch eine Reihe anderer Abhandlungen cf. Steinschneider p. 203 No. 1363. Die wichtigsten NZ!Siehe auch Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, in: Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 91, 1963, S. 8
Price Transmission Asymmetries in the Spanish Lamb Sector
Full text linkThe analysis of asymmetries in the price transmission mechanism at different levels of the marketing chain provides some interesting information about the degree of competition in vertical related markets. The objective of this paper is to investigate the non-linear adjustments of prices along the lamb sector in Spain. The methodology used is based on the multivariate approach to specify and estimate a Threshold Autoregressive Model. Price relationships at farm, wholesale and retail levels are considered. Results indicate that in the long-run price transmission is perfect and any supply or demand shocks are fully transmitted to all prices in the system. In the shortrun, analyses suggest that the high degree of horizontal concentration among retailers allow them to have market power. Responses to any shock generate an increase of the retail price spread which is more evident when prices show an upward trend.Price transmission, asymmetries, TAR models, lamb, Spain, Demand and Price Analysis,
Autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper speaks at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textIn an appearance at the Michigan State University Main Library, autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper talks about his career at the General Motors Truck and Bus Plant in Flint, Michigan and reads from various works, including his forward to the book "Working words: punching the clock and kicking out the jams" by M. L. Liebler and from his most famous work, "Rivethead", a cynical and humorous view of life in an auto plant. A question and answer session follows. Hamper is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory
No full textIn this chapter, Ben Yong discusses Martin Loughlin’s Public Law and Political Theory. Drawing in part on conversation with the author, Yong explores the significance of a book that, despite interrogating the nature of public law as a discipline in a novel and methodologically important way, is often poorly understood
Detection of cracks in metal sheets using pulsed laser generated ultrasound and EMAT detection
Full text linkA pulsed Nd: YAG laser with an approximately Gaussian beam shape is directed onto the surface of an aluminium sheet at an energy density below which damage by laser ablation occurs, generating Lamb waves in the sheet. The laser beam is raster scanned across the surface of the sample. The Lamb waves travel radially outwards from the generation point and are detected some distance away by an electromagnetic acoustic transducer with sensitivity to in-plane displacements of the sheet. A number of static EMATs are located around the edges of the sheet, some distance from the generation point. The presence of a crack-like defect on the sheet can be detected by either a sudden change in the ultrasonic waveform or by an enhancement in the frequency content of the waveform when the laser beam illuminates directly onto the crack
Idan Ben-Barak: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech.
No full textAuthor Idan Ben-Barak gives an acceptance speech for We Go Way Back (Roaring Brook Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1010/thumbnail.jp
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