594 research outputs found
On Reading and Writing: an Interview with Larissa Lai
No full textCultural activist, author and Creative Writing Professor Larissa Lai is interviewed by Spanish critic Sonia Villegas López
Larissa Lai reading for Campus Author 2011 Launch
No full textThe 2011 Campus Author Recognition Program was launched on March 16, 2011 with the help of Larissa Lai, award winning novelist and poet and Winter 2011 College of Arts Writer-in-Residence. She currently holds the position as Assistant Professor of Canadian English at the University of British Columbia.
Larissa read from her novel "Salt Fish Girl".
Introductions performed by Michael Ridley
The theory and practice of utopia in our troubled times : a conversation with author Larissa Lai and critic Sherryl Vint
No full textAmid current global crises, the international conference “The Knock at the Door: Utopian Dreams for Post-Covid Times,” jointly organized by the University of Huelva (Spain) and the University of Calgary (Canada) on May 21–24, 2023, at the University of Huelva, provided a forum for reflecting upon the role played by speculative fiction in (re)imagining better futures, while remaining vigilant to possible threats and dangers. The title of the conference, borrowed from philosopher John Rajchman,1 is intentionally ambiguous. Lying behind that door could be total liberation for all—or it could be secret police who lead us toward genocides, deportation, rapes, and mass graves. Taking this dichotomous trope, “the knock at the door,” as a point of departure, professors Larissa Lai (University of Toronto, Canada; recipient of a Maria Zambrano fellowship at the University of Huelva at the time of the interview) and Sherryl Vint (University of California Riverside, USA) engaged...Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaFac. de Ciencias Económicas y EmpresarialesTRUEpu
Sustainable mobility in the city of Larissa
No full textThis paper on sustainable mobility in the city of Larissa, Greece, is from the proceedings of 14th international Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, which was held in Malta in 2008. Larissa is a dynamic industrial, agricultural and cultural centre in the mainland of Greece with around 200,000 inhabitants. The author first briefly reviews the history of urban planning in Larissa, which began in the 1970s and since then has included a series of plans and studies that have been elaborated and implemented, all aiming at sustainable development, urban renaissance and sustainable mobility in the city center. Larissa uses a wide pedestrian network, as well as a less extended bike network, as an integral part of an infrastructure that connects the administrative center to the traditional, older part of the city and to the river shores zone. The author stresses that this infrastructure and framework has improved the quality of life and have had a direct positive impact on the physiognomy of the city. The author concludes with proposals of further sustainable mobility and urban transport policy for Larissa, discussing how these could be applied in towns of similar scale in the wider European area
Larissa trendien parissa : Taustatyö trendiennusteblogia varten
No full textOpinnäytetyössä tutustuttiin muotitrendien ennustamiseen, alan historiaan ja trendien ennustamisessa käytettyihin menetelmiin. Tavoitteena työssä oli syventää työn tekijän ammattitaitoa ja antaa muille trendien ennustamisesta kiinnostuneille muotoilualan opiskelijoille mahdollisuus tutustua työn kautta trendiennustealaan. Työ oli samalla myös taustatyötä tekijän perustamaa trendiennusteblogia varten.
Työssä käytiin läpi trendeihin ja muotiin liittyviä keskeisiä käsitteitä, ja pohdittiin pukuhistoriaan tutustumalla, mitkä tekijät ja yhteiskunnalliset muutokset vaikuttavat muotiin ja miten. Trendiennustetietoa ja työssä esiteltyjä ennustamiseen käytettyjä menetelmiä sovellettiin työssä tekemällä ennusteita sesongille kevät/ kesä 2014. Osoittaakseen ymmärtävänsä muotiin ja trendeihin liittyviä syy- ja seuraussuhteita, tekijä myös analysoi työssään tekemiään ennusteita ja pohti, miksi muoti on kehittymässä ennusteiden viitoittamaan suuntaan.
Työ antoi tekijälle perustiedot trendien ennustamisesta ja edellytykset jakaa ammattimaista trendiennustietoa blogin muodossa. Työstä oli siis merkittävä hyöty tekijän ammattitaidon kehittymisen ja työllistymismahdollisuuksien kannalta.This study explored the history of trend forecasting to identify the main research methods used in the field. The author aimed to deepen her personal knowledge in the field of fashion and to distribute the obtained knowledge to design students who are interested in trend forecasting.
The study focused on defining the concept of fashion and trends. The history of the 20th century fashion from the second world war to 1990s fashion is discussed in an attempt to explore the main factors that have an effect on fashion. Methods used in trend forecasting were applied to make trend forecasts for season spring/ summer 2014.
An analysis of forecasts were used to discover the underlying motives for trends. These analyses explored why trends are moving in certain directions and demonstrated the author’s perception of the main factors that influence fashion.
The study increased the author’s knowledge about trend forecasting and empowered the author with the requirements to apply the obtained knowledge to create realistic and professional fashion trend forecasts
Recherches nouvelles sur l'identification des volumes de la bibliothèque de Diderot
No full textLarissa L. Albina and Anthony R. Strugnell : New Research on the Identification of Diderot's Books.
Following earlier research begun by A. Wilson and V.S. Lioublinski, a new study of the volumes in the Leningrad Library from the foreign section of the Ermitage Imperial Library has made it possible to establish criteria for identifying those belonging to Diderot. These criteria concern the organisation of the library, the works referred to in Diderot's writings and marks in the books themselves (including on occasion a few notes or a dedication by the author to Diderot) . As a result, the authors have drawn up a list of about eighty volumes (including some previously listed as belonging to Voltaire's library) which can be more or less certainly identified as having belonged to Diderot.Albina Larissa L., Strugnell Anthony. Recherches nouvelles sur l'identification des volumes de la bibliothèque de Diderot. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n°9, 1990. pp. 41-54
Constructing a diverse workforce: examining union and non-union construction apprenticeship programs and their outcomes for women and workers of color
No full textLarissa Petrucci, PHD, University of Oregon, Labor Education and Research Center.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 6, 2021).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 (pages 31-33).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Gender- and authority-related writing performance in academic research articles
No full textThis paper seeks to further existing knowledge of gender variation and of the role of the professional author status in academic discourse by analysing research articles by male and female authors with different levels of disciplinary authority within the domains of Applied Linguistics, Law and Economics.
In this paper we compare the use of interactive resources (transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials, code glosses, cf. Tse / Hyland 2006) and interactional resources (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, self-mention, role-identifying verbs, cf. Fløttum / Kinn / Dahl 2006) by male and female students, researchers and tenured professors, with different levels of experience and authority in the field of business studies, legal studies and linguistics. The material used for these analyses will consist of 100 English research articles from CADIS (Bergamo Corpus of Academic Discourse, Gotti 2006), written by authors of both genders of varying professional standing
Gender identity and authority in academic book reviews: an analysis of metadiscourse across disciplines
No full textNonostante la ricerca sul discorso accademico abbia stabilito che esso non é uniforme ma varia secondo le convenzioni disciplinari, il background culturale e professionale e le esperienze degli autori (Crammond 1998; Hyland 2000; Hyland / Bondi 2006; Mauranen 1993; Silver 2006), l’influenza del genere sul discorso accademico
é ancora poco esplorata. Benché alcuni studi abbiano sottolineato le differenze stilistiche ed interazionali nei testi prodotti da uomini e donne (Kirsch 1993, Tannen 1994, Herring et al. 1995), in pochi hanno investigato la potenziale influenza del genere nel discorso accademico, considerando il genere insieme alle culture disciplinari,
prendendo in esame le interazioni accademiche (Tse / Hyland 2006). Inoltre, le differenze di stile e di posizione tra i due generi sono raramente state discusse tenendo in considerazione l’età, l‘esperienza e l’autorità dello scrittore, in una determinate disciplina. In questo articolo analizzerò quindi l’uso che i recensori uomini e donne fanno delle risorse interattive (transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials, code glosses) ed interazionali (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, self mentions) in quattro diverse discipline, prendendo anche in considerazione le possibili variabili dovute all’età, all’esperienza ed all’autorità dell’autore. Il materiale utilizzato per questa analisi proviene da quattro subcorpora del CADIS
(Corpus of Academic Discourse), per un totale di 400 recensioni scritte in inglese da autori maschi e femmine.This paper seeks to further the existing knowledge of gender variation in academic discourse by analysing book reviews by male and female authors, within the disciplines of Applied Linguistics, Economics, Legal Studies and Medicine. While research in academic discourse has established that academic writing is not uniform, but varies greatly depending on disciplinary conventions, the cultural background and the professional status and experience of writers (Crammond 1998; Hyland 2000; Hyland / Bondi 2006; Mauranen 1993; Silver 2006), the influence of gender in academic writing is still largely unexplored. Although some studies have highlighted the stylistic and interactional differences between men and women when it comes to writing (Kirsch 1993, Tannen 1994, Herring et al. 1995), few have investigated the potential influence of gender in academic discourse by considering gender together with disciplinary cultures in the study of academic interactions (Tse / Hyland 2006). Furthermore, differences in writing styles and author stances between genders has seldom been discussed taking into consideration the age, experience and authority of the writer in the field.
In this paper I will thus analyse the use of interactive resources (transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials, code glosses) as well as interactional resources (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, self mentions) of male and female reviewers in four different disciplines, taking into consideration possible variants due to age, experience and authority in the field. The material used for these analyses will be taken from four subcorpora of CADIS (Corpus of Academic Discourse), comprising 400 Book Reviews written in English by authors of different genders
Taking cyberattacks seriously: the (likely) Albanian cyber aggression and the Iranian responsibility.
No full textAim of this paper is the analysis of the likely Albanian cyber aggression launched on July and September 2022 by two groups of cyber criminals, presumably acting from the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Author starts from the examination of the forensic activity to attribute these attacks. The first part of the examination deals with the technical attribution and it looks for the digital evidence of the attacks to attribute them to the Iranian criminal group.
The second part deals with the use of the technical attribution to conduct the legal attribution to declare the Iranian State responsibility. The latter can be articulated in the responsibility i) for ordering a cyber-attack that has reached the threshold of the prohibition of force, under Article 2, par. 4, of the United Nations Charter, ii) for violating the principle of international law of due diligence, because eventually Iran did not avoid that the attacks have been conducted from the digital infrastructures of its territory. The latter solution seems to be preferable based on the digital evidence open source.
Lastly, the article shed light on the role of private security tech companies, like Mandiant and Microsoft, in attribution because they perform government-like roles, as they possess the technologies to investigate that are needed by States, but without check and balances and any public constraints, that is usually applied to national intelligence systems
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