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To ish or not to ish?
No full textIn English, new adjectives can be coined by adding the suffix -ish. For instance, one can
describe someone who acts like Arnold Schwarzenegger as Schwarzeneggerish. This paper
investigates how the use of -ish is influenced by text characteristics (genre, formality) and
author characteristics (gender, age). We used two corpora, the British National Corpus
and the Blog Authorship Corpus. From our analyses of variance (ANOVAs) and logistic
regression models, we learned that for the use of -ish it is probably more important what
type of text you are writing than who you are. We also concluded that this type of research is
seriously hampered by the absence of the kind of metadata needed for our type of research
The Shi arrangement and the Ish arrangement
No full textThis paper is about two arrangements of hyperplanes. The first — the Shi arrangement — was introduced by Jian-Yi Shi to describe the Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in the affine Weyl group of type A. The second — the Ish arrangement — was recently defined by the first author who used the two arrangements together to give a new interpretation of the q,t-Catalan numbers of Garsia and Haiman. In the present paper we will define a mysterious "combinatorial symmetry'' between the two arrangements and show that this symmetry preserves a great deal of information. For example, the Shi and Ish arrangements share the same characteristic polynomial, the same numbers of regions, bounded regions, dominant regions, regions with c "ceilings'' and d "degrees of freedom'', etc. Moreover, all of these results hold in the greater generality of "deleted'' Shi and Ish arrangements corresponding to an arbitrary subgraph of the complete graph. Our proofs are based on nice combinatorial labellings of Shi and Ish regions and a new set partition-valued statistic on these regions.Cet article traite de deux arrangements d'hyperplans. Le premier — arrangement Shi — a été introduit par Jian-Yi Shi pour décrire les cellules de Kazhdan-Lusztig du groupe de Weyl affine de type A. Le deuxième — arrangement Ish — a été récemment défini par le premier auteur pour donner une nouvelle interprétation des nombres q,t-Catalan de Garsia et Haiman. Ici nous définissons une mystérieuse "symétrie combinatoire" entre les deux arrangements et nous montrons que cette symétrie conserve un grand nombre d'informations. Par exemple, les arrangements Shi et Ish ont le même polynôme caractéristique, le même nombre de régions, de régions bornées, de régions dominantes, de régions avec c "plafonds'' et d "degrés de liberté'', etc. En outre, ces résultats se généralisent aux arrangements Shi et Ish "deleted'' correspondant à un sous-graphe arbitraire du graphe complet. Nos preuves reposent sur des étiquetages combinatoires des régions Shi et Ish, et sur une nouvelle statistique associée
Self-ish
No full text2014 Spring.Self-ish is a collection of essays surrounding the narrator's relationship to place, community, and family--the family one is born into and the family one chooses to create--and her evolving identity within these spaces. Essays include "The Cottage," which explores how the narrator's loss of innocence and feeling of community within her extended paternal family dissipates in conjunction with the sale of her family's cottage and the divorce of her parents. "Gone" is the story of the narrator's mentally ill and alcoholic father and her struggle to understand and accept him within the space of their sometimes-tumultuous relationship. In "B-Town, Bulgaria," the narrator chronicles her time studying abroad in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria and the internal changes she experiences throughout her time there. "Misdirection" is a travel narrative that follows the narrator and her study abroad roommate, Kelli, to the Czech Republic as their friendship is tested and ultimately strengthened during their difficult travels. In "Jane," the narrator studies the differences between the relationships of friends and best friends by focusing on the relationship between herself and her best friend, Jane. The final essay, "#selfhelp," is a memoir essay that examines the narrator's relationship to the self-help community and how it both helps and hinders her
THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND UNSTABLE PROCESSES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE
No full textINTERVIEW
Prof. Ish-Shalom pursued his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations. Member of the Steering Committe of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of ECPR. He was the Director of the Leonard Davis for International relations Associate Professor (2012-15). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. In addition he was the Israel Institute Visiting Professor as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University (2015-16), visiting scholar at the New School University in New York (2000-2001), at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (2012), and at the Institute for the Human Studies (IWM) in Vienna (2001). He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press, 2013), as well as articles in different scholarly journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.INTERVIEW
Prof. Ish-Shalom pursued his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations. Member of the Steering Committe of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of ECPR. He was the Director of the Leonard Davis for International relations Associate Professor (2012-15). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. In addition he was the Israel Institute Visiting Professor as well as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University (2015-16), visiting scholar at the New School University in New York (2000-2001), at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) (2012), and at the Institute for the Human Studies (IWM) in Vienna (2001). He is the author of Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press, 2013), as well as articles in different scholarly journals such as International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics.
 
Black-ish (Abc: 2014- ): The (Black) American Dream
No full textTelevision series have become a recurring object of study in academia. Scholars have shown that television narratives function as social fables and morality plays about the functioning of society. This study analyzes the series Black-ish from the point of view of its ideological discourse: that is what we are, what we do, and what our objective is when we do it (van Dijk, 2009). Qualitatively speaking, the author has performed a textual analysis (McKee, 2002), showing that neoliberal values predominate in the series. In this regard, in the discussion, she compares the results from other series of the genre and shows the prevailing conservatism in sit-coms.Las series de televisión se han convertido en un objeto de estudio recurrente en el ámbito académico. En este sentido, se ha constatado que las narrativas televisivas funcionan como fábulas sociales que contienen en su seno moralejas sobre el funcionamiento de la sociedad. Este estudio articula un análisis de la serie Black-ish en torno al discurso ideológico; es decir, qué somos, qué hacemos y con qué objetivo (Van Dijk, 2009). Desde una perspectiva cualitativa, se ha realizado un análisis textual (McKee, 2002) que ha puesto de manifiesto que en la serie prevalecen los valores neoliberales. Al respecto, en la discusión se han contrapuestos los resultados con otras series del género y se ha corroborado la prevalencia del conservadurismo de las comedias de situación.El presente análisis arroja luz sobre una de las series del género de comedia de situación: Black-ish (abc: 2014- ), una producción focalizada en las vivencias de una familia afroamericana acomodada. En primer lugar, en este trabajo se realizará un repaso por la literatura científica relacionada con las temáticas de las comedias de situación, lo que nos permitirá adentrarnos posteriormente en la ficción televisiva objeto de estudio y discutir los valores ideológicos predominantes en la sitcom analizada
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Ramp sinusoidal breakdown of epoxy resin under high voltage waveforms at different frequencies
No full textIn this study, the immediate time to breakdown for pure epoxy resin is measured by applying a ramp sinusoidal voltage signal at certain frequency (50Hz, 500Hz and 5000Hz) until breakdown occurs. The HV testing procedures, epoxy resin sample and experimental set-up preparation and Weibull analysis of obtained results are elaborated. The experiments were carried out on epoxy samples with the thickness between 0.1mm and 0.2mm and the thickness was divided into three groups for more accurate statistical analysis.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.High Voltage Technology Grou
Metadata supporting data files of the related manuscript: Quantitative assessments and clinical outcomes in HER2 equivocal 2018 ASCO/CAP ISH group 4 breast cancer
No full textThe study quantified human epidermal growth factor receptor
2 (HER2) RNA and protein expression in 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology/
College of American Pathologists (ASCO/CAP) in-situ hybridisation (ISH) group 4
(HER2/CEP17 ratio <2.0; average HER2 copy number ≥ 4.0 and <6.0; 2013
ASCO/CAP ISH equivocal) breast cancers. ISH Group 4 in the 2018 ASCO/CAP
guidelines breast cancer is defined by ISH HER2/CEP17
ratio of <2.0 and HER2 copy number between 4.0 and 6.0. Little information
about prognosis and response to anti-HER2 treatment is currently available for this
subset of patients.Data access: The data files that support the figures, tables and the supplementary figures and tables in this article are not publicly available in order to protect patient privacy. The data files are available on reasonable request from the corresponding author Veerle Bossuyt, MD; Pathology Associates; Address: 55 Fruit Street, Warren, 202, Boston, MA 02114-2696; Email: [email protected] consent: This study was approved by IRB protocol ID 9505008219, Yale University. Patients were selected by searching the Yale Pathology electronic database for samples of invasive breast carcinoma with HER2 ISH HER2/CEP17 ratio Data files:The data file supporting figure 1 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds the results of analysis of HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) status by real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and quantitative immunofluorescence (QIF).The data file supporting figure 2 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds fluorescence in-situ hybridisation (FISH) HER2/ CEP17 ratios, FISH HER2 copy numbers and HER2 scores obtained by RT-qPCR and QIF in 63 patients.The data file supporting figure 4 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds survival data according to trastuzumab treatment and HER2 status.The data file supporting table 1 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds the clinicopathological characteristics of the 63 breast cancer patients.The data file supporting table 2 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds outcome data for HER2 negative and HER2 2018 ASCO/CAP ISH group 4 and IHC2+ (IG4,2+) status patient cohort.The data file supporting supplementary table 1 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds results of sensitivity and specificity assessments of HER2 RT-qPCR and QIF.The data file supporting supplementary table 2 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds assessment of RT-qPCR and QIF results using trastuzumab outcome data.The data file supporting supplementary table 3 in the published article is in Excel file format and holds outcome data from estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and ER-negative patients.Study aims and methodology:Breast cancers in 2018 ASCO/CAP ISH group 4 between 2014 and 2017 were identified from the Yale archives. 63 patients (34 with HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) status 0/1+ and 29 with HER2 IHC status 2+) were included in the study. Patient characteristics, systemic treatments, and outcomes were compared. The authors assessed HER2 by real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and quantitative immunofluorescence (QIF) to evaluate HER2 mRNA and protein levels respectively.The study aimed to determine whether ISH group 4 breast cancers represent a distinct biological group and whether with additional information following trastuzumab treatment, this might help to guide treatment decisions in these patients.</div
Into the Wild(ish)
No full textThe author describes his trip down the Allagash, the river\u27s history, and how part of it came to be the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in 1966. [images
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