439 research outputs found
Southern Utah, 1920: Bryce Canyon [01]
No full textBlack and white photograph by Fred Pack, taken during a tour of southern Utah with Dr. George W. Middleton in August of 1920. A scene at Bryce Canyon
Bryce DeWitt referee report on paper, "Everett's Theory and the 'Many Worlds' Interpretation"
No full textAround 1988, Bryce DeWitt was asked to referee a paper by an author who argued that that DeWitt's version of Hugh Everett's theory was not true to Everett's original work. In his referee report, DeWitt offers to "set the record straight" about his interpretation of Everett's work. This is a copy of DeWitt's referee report. A version of the reviewed paper was subsequently published in 1990 in the American Journal of Physics. At the request of the DeWitt estate, the name of the author of the paper has been redacted. For further details see Byrne, P. (2010). The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III. Oxford University Press.The estate of Bryce Dewitt
Carissa Bryce Christensen
No full textCarissa Bryce Christensen is an internationally known expert on the space industry and technology forecasting. She led the creation of widely used data tools now considered global metrics for the commercial space and satellite sectors, providing non-advocate, data-driven insights. She is a frequent speaker and author on space and satellite trends, serves as a strategic advisor to government and commercial clients, and has been an expert witness and testified before Congress on market dynamics. Ms. Christensen is the CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, LLC (formerly a division of The Tauri Group), an analytic consulting firm. She is also an active investor in technology-focused startups and advises several companies she has helped seed. She serves on the board of QxBranch, an early stage quantum computing firm.
Ms. Christensen holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University\u27s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in science and technology policy. She also completed the General Course in Government at the London School of Economics and was a Douglass Scholar at Rutgers University.
Ms. Christensen is an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Association.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1022/thumbnail.jp
Alfredo Bryce Echenique's word
No full textEn este artículo realizaremos una lectura panorámica del universo narrativo del escritor Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Podría decirse que toda la obra de Bryce se fundamenta en dos grandes ejes temáticos. Por un lado, Bryce es uno de los grandes cronistas de la burguesía peruana en novelas como Un mundo para Julius, No me esperen en abril y El huerto de mi amada. Por otro, una parte importante de su quehacer novelístico desde Tantas veces Pedro (1977) en adelante ha explorado la idiosincrasia de la identidad peruana ubicando a sus personajes en un mundo cultural ajeno al propio y viviendo un singular exilio. Todas las novelas de Bryce examinan la psicología del sujeto desclasado, antiheroico y solitario, que a menudo vive intensas experiencia sentimentales que subrayan su desarraigo en el mundo. La obra de Bryce exhibe siempre una voz propia para narrar, caracterizada por una oralidad siempre expansiva y envolvente y el despliegue de un humor irónico, corrosivo y revelador.Since the publication of his first novel, Un mundo para Julius (1970), Al-fredo Bryce Echenique can be considered an oustanding chronicler of Peru’s ruling class, exposing its many social and moral contradictions. While the author will return to this topic time and again, in other works, such as Tantas veces Pedro (1977) and La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (1981), Bryce is also a keen explorar of Peruvian identity through the experience of exile. Orality and humor are at the core of his unique style of writing to showcase the trials and tribulations of his many anti-heros
Book Review: Gunn, A. (2023) Teaching Excellence? Universities in an age of student consumerism. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.
No full textBook Review:
Gunn, A. (2023) Teaching Excellence? Universities in an age of student consumerism. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.
Rosie Bryce
Manchester Metropolitan University
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Key words: Teaching excellence, TEF, marketisation, consumerism, higher educatio
(Re)Discovering America: James Bryce and The American Commonwealth
No full textJames Bryce's The American Commonwealth (1888) seeks to understand and explain the inner workings of America, which at that time was the only country in the world to boast a democracy characterized by universal manhood suffrage. Despite offering a broader, more detailed study of America as a whole than had yet been undertaken (including the first substantive description of the sub-state level of politics), The American Commonwealth is today largely viewed as a dated work of political science from America’s Gilded Age. In fact, this work represents Bryce’s attempt to bring harmony to the tensions between certain accounts of human nature that were present in America at the turn of the 20th century as well as providing important insight into the development of America at a most crucial point in her history.This dissertation presents Bryce’s keen observations and methodology as an early manifestation of incorporating methods of the empirical sciences into the social sciences. As was the case with many other political scientists at this time (including Woodrow Wilson, who is thoroughly discussed here as an apt comparison), Bryce worked to incorporate the staggering amounts of information that could now be gathered through empirical methods into his studies. However, Bryce did not do so at the expense of the broader classical political tradition. Bryce brings what superficially appear to be opposing traditions into a harmony, and his success in doing so offers his readers the strongest defense as to why The American Commonwealth is still deserving of academic attention.Works by Alexis de Tocqueville and James Ceaser provide context to the political and intellectual world into which Bryce takes his readers. These are used to frame the larger debate between the views presented by Bryce, Wilson, and Progressives generally concerning human nature, the aims of government in society, the role of individual sovereignty, and the circular methods through which public opinion both creates and is created by these aforementioned views. In addition to Bryce’s arguments presented in The American Commonwealth, particular attention will be given to a speech Bryce delivered in 1908 to the American Political Science Association in which he discussed the relationship between the hard sciences and the social sciences, and the implications for political science when they are intermingled.Political scienceAmerican historyClassical Political Thought, Empiricism, James Bryce, Public Opinion, The American Commonwealth, Woodrow WilsonPoliticsDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of Americ
Revised checklist of the vascular plants of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
No full textPrior to 1960, when the senior author wrote a dissertation on the plant ecology of the Paunsaugunt Plateau forests of Bryce Canyon National Park, relatively little plant taxonomic work had been done in the area. A checklist was prepared in 1971 that included 218 species of higher plants. During the field seasons 1978, 1979, and 1980, additional plants were collected during a second plant community study of the forests. The junior author spent the summer of 1980 at the park collecting plants in additional plant communities and organizing the herbarium collection. This checklist includes the additional species collected and updates the nomenclature of the vascular plants presently known to occur within the boundaries of Bryce Canyon National Park
Worlds of labor in South America: class, gender & political culture
No full textAuthor Iñigo García-Bryce presents his book ""Crafting the republic: Lima's artisans and nation-bulding in Peru, 1821-1879"" and author Elizabeth Quay Hutchison presents her book ""Labors appropriate to their sex: gender, labor and politics in urban Chile, 1900-1930"" as part of the Open Doors Speaker Series
Revaluations, III: James Bryce, “The American Commonwealth”
No full textHad Bryce died on his fiftieth birthday, 10 May 1888, he would have been known as the author of The Holy Roman Empire, as a distinguished Regius Professor of Civil Law and as a respectable but undistinguished Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The record would have been impressive enough but the content of achievement would have been orthodox – such as might be paralleled by many an academic liberal, British or European. Within a few months, however, Bryce broke into a new field and established a reputation of quite another order, with the appearance in December of The American Commortwealth, The book was more than a notable study of American institutions; it marked the recognition by a European mind of the first order of the importance and interest of the government, politics and manner of life of the contemporary United States. Tocqueville had paid such a tribute, a half-century earlier, but his example had not been followed up. Moreover, penetrating as his study was, as an analysis and a prophecy, one element was lacking in his tribute – observation.</jats:p
Alfredo Bryce Echenique entre lo periférico y lo transnacional
No full textRESUMEN En varios ensayos incluidos en Penúltimos escritos Bryce Echenique enfoca la tensión entre identidad peruana y proyección transnacional, un tema recurrente en su obra novelística y ensayística. Concretamente, enseña cómo Perú y Latinoamérica en general son víctimas de unos estereotipos formulados desde el extranjero o desde las propias comunidades nacionales. Estos arquetipos reflejan un complejo de inferioridad cultural y ponen a Perú en una posición periférica frente a las hegemonías intelectuales europea y estadounidense. Paradójicamente, el autor aprovecha esta marginación para inducir una perspectiva irónica que, acoplada a una tecnicidad textual pronunciada, genera una distancia crítica que corroe los prejuicios citados e incorpora a Latinoamérica en un ambiente transnacional. ABSTRACT In several essays included in penultimate writings Bryce Echenique focuses on the tension between Peruvian identity and transnational projection, a recurring theme in his novelistic and essayistic work. Specifically, it teaches how Peru and Latin America in general are victims of stereotypes formulated from abroad or from the national communities themselves. These archetypes reflect a complex of cultural inferiority and put Peru in a peripheral position against the European and American intellectual hegemonies. Paradoxically, the author takes advantage of this marginalization to induce an ironic perspective that, coupled with a pronounced textual technicality, generates a critical distance that corrodes the aforementioned prejudices and incorporates Latin America into a transnational environment. RESUMEN En varios ensayos incluidos en Penúltimos escritos Bryce Echenique enfoca la tensión entre identidad peruana y proyección transnacional, un tema recurrente en su obra novelística y ensayística. Concretamente, enseña cómo Perú y Latinoamérica en general son víctimas de unos estereotipos formulados desde el extranjero o desde las propias comunidades nacionales. Estos arquetipos reflejan un complejo de inferioridad cultural y ponen a Perú en una posición periférica frente a las hegemonías intelectuales europea y estadounidense. Paradójicamente, el autor aprovecha esta marginación para inducir una perspectiva irónica que, acoplada a una tecnicidad textual pronunciada, genera una distancia crítica que corroe los prejuicios citados e incorpora a Latinoamérica en un ambiente transnacional. ABSTRACT In several essays included in penultimate writings Bryce Echenique focuses on the tension between Peruvian identity and transnational projection, a recurring theme in his novelistic and essayistic work. Specifically, it teaches how Peru and Latin America in general are victims of stereotypes formulated from abroad or from the national communities themselves. These archetypes reflect a complex of cultural inferiority and put Peru in a peripheral position against the European and American intellectual hegemonies. Paradoxically, the author takes advantage of this marginalization to induce an ironic perspective that, coupled with a pronounced textual technicality, generates a critical distance that corrodes the aforementioned prejudices and incorporates Latin America into a transnational environment
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