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The dark or bright side? : The perception of Generation Z regarding Flexplace and Flextime in the working environment
No full textAuthor Lisa Maria Zechel, BScMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
Uncreative Practices: A Cross-Divisional RISD Symposium with Kenneth Goldsmith
No full textA couple of years ago Mairéad Byrne and Clement Valla had a Snap! moment when they simultaneously pulled the same assigned text out of their bags for courses they were teaching in different divisions. The courses were Nonpoetry Workshop (Graduate Studies) and Uncreative Design (Graphic Design), respectively. The book was Kenneth Goldsmith\u27s Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press 2011). Conversations have since built across RISD around Kenneth Goldsmith\u27s ideas of uncreativity, and especially the relevance of process and systems-based generative methodologies—as opposed to notions of inspired and intuitive genius—to current practices in art and design. Accordingly, faculty and students from every RISD division will participate in this discussion with Kenneth Goldsmith, who himself graduated from RISD (BFA Sculpture \u2784), demonstrating how his ideas might be important for the whole school to consider in the light of the post-media condition we are often theorized as occupying at the moment.
Organized by Mairéad Byrne, Shona Kitchen, Lisa Z. Morgan, and Clement Valla.
Supported by the RISD 2050 Fund, RISD Department of Digital + Media, and RISD Department of Graphic Design.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/digitalmedia_lecturespresentations/1000/thumbnail.jp
Manual / Issue 11 / Repair
No full textManual, a journal about art and its making. Repair. Can we find in the detail, in the stitch and the weave, an ecology of care, a model for activating new forms of life, ones that might reject or reimagine an economic and cultural order based on novelty, disposability, and the monadic self? Can they help us learn to live together in a broken world? —Brian Goldberg and Kate Irvin, from the preface to Issue 11
This volume complemented the exhibition Repair and Design Futures, on view at the RISD Museum October 5, 2018 through June 30, 2019. Softcover, 96 pages. Published 2018 by the RISD Museum. Manual 11 (Repair) contributors include Markus Berger, Gina Borromeo, Linda Catano, Thomas Denenberg, Daniel Eatock, Brian Goldberg, Ramiro Gomez, Kate Irvin, Anna Rose Keefe, Olivia Laing, Steven Lubar, Roberto Lugo, Lisa Z. Morgan, Maureen C. O’Brien, Barry Schwabsky, Sharma Shields, Jessica Urick, and Liliane Wong.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdmuseum_journals/1037/thumbnail.jp
Customizing knowledge management systems to accelerate newcomer development
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 95-98)
Casanovas are liars : behavioral syndromes, sperm competition risk, and the evolution of deceptive male mating behavior in live-bearing fishes [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
No full textMale reproductive biology can by characterized through competition over mates as well as mate choice. Multiple mating and male mate choice copying, especially in internally fertilizing species, set the stage for increased sperm competition, i.e., sperm of two or more males can compete for fertilization of the female’s ova. In the internally fertilizing fish Poecilia mexicana, males respond to the presence of rivals with reduced expression of mating preferences (audience effect), thereby lowering the risk of by-standing rivals copying their mate choice. Also, males interact initially more with a non-preferred female when observed by a rival, which has been interpreted in previous studies as a strategy to mislead rivals, again reducing sperm competition risk (SCR). Nevertheless, species might differ consistently in their expression of aggressive and reproductive behaviors, possibly due to varying levels of SCR. In the current study, we present a unique data set comprising ten poeciliid species (in two cases including multiple populations) and ask whether species can be characterized through consistent differences in the expression of aggression, sexual activity and changes in mate choice under increased SCR. We found consistent species-specific differences in aggressive behavior, sexual activity as well as in the level of misleading behavior, while decreased preference expression under increased SCR was a general feature of all but one species examined. Furthermore, mean sexual activity correlated positively with the occurrence of potentially misleading behavior. An alternative explanation for audience effects would be that males attempt to avoid aggressive encounters, which would predict stronger audience effects in more aggressive species. We demonstrate a positive correlation between mean aggressiveness and sexual activity (suggesting a hormonal link as a mechanistic explanation), but did not detect a correlation between aggressiveness and audience effects. Suites of correlated behavioral tendencies are termed behavioral syndromes, and our present study provides correlational evidence for the evolutionary significance of SCR in shaping a behavioral syndrome at the species level across poeciliid taxa
Keywords given by authors of scientific articles in database descriptors
No full textThis paper analyses the keywords given by authors of scientific articles and the descriptors assigned to the articles in order to ascertain the presence of the keywords in the descriptors. 640 INSPEC, CAB abstracts, ISTA and LISA database records were consulted. After detailed comparisons it was found that keywords provided by authors have an important presence in the database descriptors studied, since nearly 25% of all the keywords appeared in exactly the same form as descriptors, with another 21% while normalized, are still detected in the descriptors. This means that almost 46% of keywords appear in the descriptors, either as such or after normalization. Elsewhere, three distinct indexing policies appear, one represented by INSPEC and LISA (indexers seem to have freedom to assign the descriptors they deem necessary); another is represented by CAB (no record has fewer than four descriptors and, in general, a large number of descriptors is employed; in contrast, in ISTA, a certain institutional code towards economy in indexing, since 84% of records contain only four descriptors
Standardisation in acute stroke research: A scoping review of upper limb assessments against Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR) benchmarks
No full textObjective To examine how well acute stroke studies assessing upper limb sensorimotor capacity align with the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR) recommendations, focussing on the type of assessment tools used, study and participant characteristics, follow-up timings, and the use of clinical and multimodal data.Design Scoping review.Data sources Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and Web of Science were searched for relevant studies published between 01 August 2017 and 30 September 2025.Methods This review included studies involving adults with stroke who underwent upper limb assessment during the acute phase. Data were extracted on clinical, structural, and functional assessments, as well as follow-up timing, study, and participant characteristics. Of the 3628 identified articles, 132 met the inclusion criteria.Results While global assessments (e.g. NIH stroke scale [NIHSS]) and impairment-level upper limb assessments (e.g. Upper-extremity Fugl-Meyer Assessment) were widely used, activity-level tools (e.g. Action Research Arm Test) were underrepresented. Structural brain imaging was common, though often used only diagnostically, while functional brain imaging and multimodal approaches were rare. Follow-up timing varied, with limited long-term tracking. Demographic reporting was inconsistent, with underrepresentation of young adults and women.Conclusion Despite progress, significant gaps remain in the standardisation and comprehensiveness of upper limb assessment in acute stroke research. Future studies should better align with SRRR recommendations to improve data comparability and scientific rigour.The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: MD and CZ were supported by Brain Research UK (201718-13). LTT was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship obtained from the UK Stroke Association. ALK was supported by a Medical Research Travel Grant from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. This work was supported by a Senior Research Fellowship to Charlotte J Stagg by the Wellcome Trust (224430/Z/21/Z). This research was supported by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research
Centre (NIHR203316). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging was supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z and 203139/A/ 16/Z). For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author
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Mona Lisa – Arts Icon – (Pop) Culture Icon. The Problem of an Artwork Against “the Phenomenon of Fullness” by José Ortega y Gasset
No full textThe author adopts the theoretical ideas of a Spanish social philosopher José Ortega y Gasset to analyse the contemporary processes that occur between the artistic culture and the massified everyday life. Referring to the category of “the phenomenon of the fullness”, outlined in a book The Revolt of the Masses, she describes a variety of social reactions to one of the most famous works of art – the portrait of the Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci. The events of the last hundred years (from a theft in 1911, to two foreign travels, to the appearance in Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code) have made the artwork not only an icon of the artistic world, but, above all, a star of the mass culture. The museum space where Giaconda is displayed is regularly filled with crowds. For many, a selfie in front of the painting is a must-have souvenir from a trip to Paris. At the same time, the Gioconda is a heroine of Internet memes and decorative imprints on mugs, T-shirts, or bags. 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Periphylla
No full textPeriphylla sp. Material examined. WAM Z 4668, North of Dampier, WA, 18 ° 30 ’S 116 ° 29 ’E to 18 ° 24 ’S 116 ° 29 ’E, midwater trawl to ca. 800 m, FRV Soela, coll. L. Marsh, 7.iv. 1982; 12 specimens (BD 11.6–45.5 mm). Remarks. This is the first record of the genus Periphylla in Australia. These specimens are similar in general morphology to a California form studied by the senior author. The bell is small, transparent, and conical, with a deeply red-pigmented stomach; the 12 tentacles occur in four groups of three between four interradial rhopalia. Currently most workers recognize only one species, P. periphylla, although many nominal species have been described in the past. A revision of the genus appears warranted but is beyond the scope of this paper.Published as part of Gershwin, Lisa-Ann & Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2008, Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 1744 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27421
Modelling the speciation and biogeochemistry of iron in oceanic surface waters at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site
No full textBy means of numerical modelling the cycling of iron between its various physical (dissolved, colloidal, particulate) and chemical (redox state and organic complexation) forms in the upper mixed layer of the ocean is analysed. Using the model an initial quantitative assessment is made of how this cycling influences iron uptake by phytoplankton and its loss via particulate export. The model is forced with observed dust deposition rates, mixed layer depths, and solar radiation at the site of the Bermuda Atlantic Timeseries Study (BATS). It contains an optimised ecosystem model which yields results close to the observational data from BATS.Firstly, the results of a zero-dimensional model approach show that the mixed layer cycle strongly influences the cycling of iron between its various forms. This was mainly attributed to the light dependency of photoreductive processes and to the seasonality of primary production. The daily photochemical cycle is driven primarily by the production of superoxide and its amplitude depends on the concentration and speciation of dissolved copper. Model results are largely insensitive to the dominant form of dissolved iron introduced via dust deposition, and also to the form of iron that is taken up directly during algal growth. In the model solutions, the role of the colloidal pumping mechanism depends strongly on assumptions made regarding rates of colloid aggregation and photoreduction rate.Secondly, a one-dimensional approach of the model is coupled with the General Ocean Turbulence Model (GOTM). The combined model was able to simulate the temporal patterns and vertical profiles of dissolved iron in the upper ocean at the BATS site reasonably well. Subsurface model profiles depended strongly on the parameter values chosen for loss processes affecting iron, colloidal aggregation and scavenging onto particles. Current estimates for these parameters result in depletion of dFe. A high stability constant of iron-binding organic ligands is required to reproduce the observed degree of organic complexation below the mixed layer. Solubility of atmospherically deposited iron higher than 2% leads to dissolved iron concentrations higher than observations. Despite neglecting ultraviolet radiation, the model produces diurnal variations and mean vertical profiles of dFe which are in good agreement with observations
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