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Letter from P. R. Brown, Superintendent of Morrison Training School, to W. T. Johnson
No full textLetter from P. R. Brown, Superintendent of Morrison Training School, to W. T. Johnson, congratulating him on opening of NFA camp. Note with quote for souvenir program
Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
No full textThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
High-tech capital formation and labor composition in U.S. manufacturing industries : an exploratory analysis
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).Supported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity and Technology, Division of Productivity Research. First author supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Ernst R. Berndt, Catherine J. Morrison, Larry S. Rosenblum
Cooperative risk management : rationale and effectiveness
No full textabstract: Agricultural cooperatives tend to be riskier than investor-oriented firms, both in a business and financial sense. However, cooperative managers are often reluctant to actively manage risk. Although the “risk management irrelevance proposition” suggests that cooperative managers should be unable to add shareholder value through risk management activities, this study argues that there are several reasons why this is not likely to be the case for cooperatives. Several empirical examples are provided through numerical simulation of pro-forma financial statements from representative agricultural cooperatives. Using mean variance, expected utility and valueat-risk metrics, the results of these simulations show that various risk management strategies can improve the risk-return profile of a typical cooperative.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 03-01Includes bibliographical references (p. 10-13)
Stability and performance analysis of queueing networks with virtual multiserver stations
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A Unified approach to linear programming bounds for queueing networks: Systems with polyhedral invariance of transition probabilities
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Science Parks and Local Knowledge Creation: A Conceptual Approach and an Empirical Analysis in Two Italian Realities
No full textThis paper aims to measure the effectiveness of science parks in fostering knowledge transfer processes at local level. Although many empirical studies have focused on the ability of Science Parks to undertake knowledge-related tasks, we argue that little is known about the ability of Science Parks to perform gatekeeping functions and support of socialised processes of knowledge creation at local level. Our conceptual assumption is that the capacity of Science Parks to foster bridging and networking mechanisms among economic actors increases when firms are characterised by high absorptive and relational capacity. The empirical analysis provides prima facie evidence that Science Parks play a role in creating relationships among local actors while they poorly perform their gatekeeping function
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