705 research outputs found
Author Spotlight: Zoe Larghi Laureiro
No full textZoe Larghi Laureiro is currently at her 4th year of General Surgery Residency at Umberto I Hospital, La Sapienza
University of Rome. She will become a general surgeon following her graduation on December 2021. Her clinical and
research interests include hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery
and liver transplantation
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
Get PDF“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
Get PDF“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
The role of actor associations in understanding the implementation of lean thinking in healthcare
Get PDFPurpose: The importance of networks in effecting the outcomes of change processes is well-established in the literature. Whilst extant literature focuses predominantly on the structural properties of networks, our purpose is to explore the dynamics of network emergence that give rise to the outcomes of process interventions. We show how Actor Network Theory (ANT) may be used as a lens for interrogating the way in which management interventions play out in the complex organisational setting of a UK National Health Service Trust, providing insights for management of process change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: This is a rich qualitative study in the Pathology Unit of a UK National Health Service Trust, using ANT as the theoretical lens for tracking the emergence and transformation of networks of individuals over the course of a management intervention to promote “lean thinking” for performance improvements.Findings: ANT is useful for explicitly tracking how organisational players shift their positions and network allegiances over time, and identifying objects and actions that are effective in engaging individuals in networks enabling transition to a lean process. It is important to attend to the dynamics of the process of change and devise appropriate timely interventions enabling actors to shift their own positions towards a desired outcome.Research limitations/implications: We make the case for using of theoretical frameworks developed outside the operations management to develop insights for designing process interventions.Originality/value: By understanding the role of shifting networks managers can use timely interventions during the process implementation to facilitate the transition to lean processes: e.g. using demonstrable senior leadership commitment and visual communication.<br/
Restocking the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis in the Solent – a model for ecosystem service restoration across Europe
No full textEuropean flat oyster Ostrea edulis beds have been reduced by over 90% globally over the last 100 years, through a combination of over-fishing, competition with invasive species, adverse winters and the spread of a lethal invasive parasite, Bonamia ostreae, which is now present in most coastal regions of Europe. Popular interest in Ecological Restoration has meant that O. edulis broodstock availability has replaced monetary investment as the main limiting factor for oyster restoration in the UK. Concerns associated with limited broodstock include the development of a population with reduced genetic diversity, the survival of Bonamia-naive or Bonamia-exposed oysters in an environment dissimilar to their own, and further spread of the parasite and consequential disease, bonamiosis. There are many unknowns surrounding effective restoration. This thesis explored the importance of the hydrodynamic environment, broodstock origin and restoration design (re-laying density and elevation from the seabed) on the physiological performance of O. edulis to further our understanding of how to restore O. edulis to a self-sustaining population. Adult oyster valve movement was influenced by water velocities from 0.19 m s-1, and the threshold for physical displacement of all oyster sizes and weights (from 0.22 m s-1) was found to be lower than many recorded velocities in the Solent. Modelling the trajectory of larvae from given broodstock sites is highly recommended to indicate larval dispersal patterns and identify potential settlement areas where restoration efforts can be focussed. Appreciation of physiological performance of O. edulis was achieved by monitoring the metabolic rate, inferred from respirometry, and clearance rate of the oysters in both their local conditions and when acclimated to common aquarium conditions. Growth, body condition, and B. ostreae prevalence was thereafter recorded. The Solent is not recommended as a location for restoration evidenced by the poor condition of Solent oysters in comparison to those from Loch Ryan, Scotland, and Galway, Ireland, as well as the decrease in body condition observed in Loch Ryan oysters after 2 years of being re-laid in the Solent. However, the rapid development of a rich and diverse community of organisms observed in association with the oyster gabions deployed in the Beaulieu River should encourage restoration of O. edulis to prioritise ecosystem regeneration over commercial oyster production in this area. Undisturbed oyster beds support a rich ecosystem that will directly impact the future biodiversity of coastal areas of UK and Europe. This project identified a potential use for metabolic markers in association with Bonamia-infection, and urges further research into combined cellular and molecular approaches to better our understanding of this parasite-host interaction
Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
No full textWhile most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of
the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.
Exploring gender and class in the amateur film collection of Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) 1895-1950
No full textThis thesis focuses on gender and class in the amateur film collection of Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) between 1895 and 1950. It provides a timely insight into regional amateur filmmaking practice, that contributes to rethinking how women’s film history is written, moving beyond pioneers and prominent professionals towards recognising women in everyday film culture and towards providing evidence of amateur filmmaking practice as a vehicle for social mobility. Through a synthesis of qualitative and quantitative methods, I bring oral history interviews in consideration with questionnaires, combine textual analysis with demographic data and interpret print sources and ephemera alongside extant reels of film. This methodological innovation provides concrete statistical data on the demographic composition of the collection. Revealing for the first time, a more accurate sense of the gender and socio-economic status of filmmakers. Using WFSA and its collection as a representative sample, I demonstrate that the work of women amateur filmmakers is consistently overlooked in archives because of entrenched patriarchal shaped practices. I evidence how the diversity of female interactions in amateur film within this sample calls for a reappraisal of the linguistic framing around amateur practice, demanding a departure from the authorial model and instead acknowledging the more democratic features of practice and fluidity of interactions. Furthermore, I identify that the disparity in cost of cine equipment by gauge before 1950 had considerable bearing on who engaged in filmmaking and with what technology. With new evidence suggesting access was not necessarily limited to the wealthy upper classes. My work constitutes a significant contribution to the field of amateur cinema studies, and more specifically to understanding women amateur filmmakers in the UK. It offers a series of original findings including: 1) addressing the absence of substantial prior investigations into the filmmakers or films housed within the WFSA collection; 2) the dataset from which my analysis is drawn supports the argument for deployment of innovative new approaches to regional filmmaking populations; 3) my approach has uncovered more than nine additional women filmmakers, whose work was not visible or acknowledged before this research was undertaken; 4) my empirical dataset maps the work of over two hundred filmmakers active in this regional collection, the first population analysis for such a regional archive; 5) I pioneer the development and application of a collection survey method that takes a holistic approach to understanding filmmaking populations whilst drawing on the strengths of case study centred discussio
Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
Get PDFWhile most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of
the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.
The Mosaic Panel of Constantine IX and Zoe in Saint Sophia
No full textREB 36 1978 France p. 219-232
N. Oikonomides, The Mosaic Panel of Constantine IX and Zoe in Saint Sophia. — This wellknown mosaic panel of the South Gallery of Saint Sophia was first made in order to commemorate a generous donation to the Church by Romanos III Argyros (1028-1034) and his wife Zoe. When Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-1055), Zoe's third husband, made a new and more important donation to Saint Sophia, the patriarch Michael Keroularios had the heads of the imperial couple and of the central figure of Christ as well as the accompanying inscriptions changed, in order to commemorate the new donation. Certain discrepancies in the preserved mosaic lead the author to the hypothesis that the « new » heads of Zoe and of Christ come from an earlier mosaic of similar dimensions, made before 1028, at a time when Zoe was young.</jats:p
Panelist
No full textZoe Taylor joined Alexander Fury (Fashion Editor at The Independent), Gary Card (acclaimed fashion set designer and illustrator), Richard Kilroy (author of Menswear Fashion Illustration published by Thames and Hudson and creator of DECOY magazine) for a symposium about fashion illustration. This took place publicly at The Shop at Bluebird, Kings Road, London
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