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An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
No full textTony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com.
The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book
"Don Mueller " durante partido de beisbol entre los piratas de Pisburg y los Gigantes de Nueva York
No full textI.O. Mr 1310566... watch your credit... International News Photos slug ( Mueller safe ) UMP IN THE ACT NEW YORK ...gigant's Don Mueller ( 22 ) is safe at second in this first inning action, on park's " Automatic single " . The ball Hit umpire landés foot, popped into hands of ed oi brien ( left ) whoflipped to groat . the pirates thauggt it a force play and it resulted in a minor rhubrs. D.4.18.56 ( LCL ) Fot: TONY Bernab Fot: v.f. 786701 Sello: v.f. 78670
Policing serious public disorder: the search for principles, policies and operational lessons. [In two volumes]
No full textThe paper examines the influence of central government on the police response to serious public disorder; the effectiveness or otherwise of the law and the way in which it is used by the police in their response to such disorder, and searches for sone principles which need to be followed if the police are to maintain the general support of the communities in which they are required to act. Some comparisons are made, and differences highlighted, between the police commander in his response to serious public disorder, once it has broken out, and the military commander in battle. But, guided by lessons from history, the paper principally concentrates on the environment in which the operational police commander is required to act in responding to actual or potential serious public disorder, pointing out that he is dependant for his success on firstly, an effective system of command and control; secondly, on an intelligence system which feeds relevant and accurate information on which he can make sound and informed decisions; and thirdly, the physical resources, e.g. personnel and equipment, and the approved tactics which enable him to restore public tranquility once disorder has broken out. But before he can use the physical resources effectively, he must have a sound strategy for dealing with actual or potential disorder
New Labour, old Crosland?
No full textBook synopsis: How much does Tony Blair owe to Anthony Crosland? The author of The Future of Socialism , who died suddenly as Foreign Secretary in 1977, remains the major philosophical inspiration and reference point for the left. To what extent is New Labour fashioned in Crosland's image? What can the Blair government learn from his writings and ministerial achievements? An all-star cast of sixteen authors examine Crosland's legacy in political theory and political practice and point to numerous ways in which his message remains relevant to policy-makers today. The contributors include Gordon Brown, Roy Hattersley, Michael Young, Raymond Plant, David Lipsey, Brian Brivati and Tony Wright. Susan Crosland contributes a moving postscript
From Mariscos to Mariachis to a Murder Trail: How a Central American Freelance Jaunt Became a Literary and Legal Nightmare
No full textIn October 2006, freelance journalist and author Tony D\u27Souza left Florida in his Ford Ranger pick-up with two fishing poles and a loose assignment from Outside Magazine. His ensuing six month adventure south of the border saw him happen upon both the storming of the zocalo by government troops against the peaceful protesters in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the totality of the Eric Volz murder trial and guilty verdict in Rivas, Nicaragua. Tony will talk about crossing 15 borders (including one by canoe) in his truck, driving through the hectic Central American cities, reporting from the very front of political violence, and staying on a story despite intimidation, threats, a dwindling budget and flagging morale. Tony will also open for discussion the responsibilities of a travel writer to the people who inhabit the landscapes he writes about, what it means to be caught in the middle of a TV media feeding frenzy, as well as how {or if) to leave a tragic story behind once the copy has been filed
On the variable hierarchy of first-order spectra
No full textThe spectrum of a first-order logic sentence is the set of natural numbers that are cardinalities of its finite models. In this paper we study the hierarchy of first-order spectra based on the number of variables. It has been conjectured that it collapses to three variable.
We show the opposite: it forms an infinite hierarchy. However, despite the fact that more variables can express more spectra, we show that to establish whether the class of first-order spectra is closed under complement, it is sufficient to consider sentences using only three variables and binary relations.The first author is supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant DEC 2012/07/D/ST6/02435. The second author is supported by FWO Pegasus Marie Curie fellowship
Correction: Corrigendum: Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor is subjected to glucose modification and oxidation in Alzheimer’s Disease
No full textScientific Reports 7: Article number: 42874; published online: 23 February 2017; updated: 05 April 2017 The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author Tony D. James, which was incorrectly given as Tony James. This has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.</jats:p
A study of personality type preferences of students enrolled in the Milwaukee Area Technical College Fire Science Associate Degree Program
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Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
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