317 research outputs found
Past National Mobilisation Insights: Supply Chains, the People and Supporting Great Power Allies (Working paper)
No full textIn this multi-author edition of the Centre of Gravity series, four leading thinkers explore issues and opportunities of mobilisation in Australia.
Peter Layton explores recent history to argue that Australian defence strategies, and accordingly the ADF’s force structure, need to be designed cognizant of national mobilisation possibilities in Past National Mobilisation Insights: Supply Chains, the People and Supporting Great Power Allies.
Zach Lambert highlights that deliberate foreplaning, especially in concert with the Unites States and South Pacific, can improve Australian mobilisation and sustainment capacity in mutually beneficial ways in Break in Case of War – the Australian/United States Alliance and the Argument for Military Scaling.
Nathan K. Finney argues that that to determine gaps in force structure and capabilities for expansion, a more robust discussion and analysis must occur, including re-establishing scalability as a core tenant of defence policy in Preventing a Glass Cannon: Increasing the Flexibility and Stamina of the Australian Army.
Chris Barrie necessitates a national debate on the nature, form, requirements and incentives for a universal service scheme in AUSS+IE – Why Australia needs a universal service scheme.Full Tex
U.S.S. Macon The Last U.S. Navy Rigid Airship
No full textRecorded for a talk presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's Dudley Knox Library, December 14, 2010.Included are slides for a talk by Prof. Layton. Note that each slide contains a "play" button that initiates a recorded narrative by the author. In addition is a set of U.S.S. Macon images to accompany the presentation
From gnostics to monastics : studies in Coptic and early Christianity in honor of Bentley Layton /
No full textThis collection of studies is offered in honor of Bentley Layton by twenty-three of his colleagues and former students. Prof. Layton taught the history of ancient Christianity and also the Coptic language at Yale University for forty years beginning in 1976. At that time he was already recognized internationally as a leading figure in the publication and study of the Coptic Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi Codices and in Coptic linguistic and manuscript studies, two areas of research that are represented in this volume by sections on Gnostic, Valentinian, and Manichaean literature, and on Coptic language and texts. A section on Egyptian monasticism pays tribute to Prof. Layton's fundamental contributions to the study of the late antique monastic leader and Coptic author Shenoute. A final section looks north across the Mediterranean Sea to early Chistianity in the Wider Late Roman World.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Valentinians and their demons: fate, seduction, and deception in the quest for virtue -- First thoughts on the structure of the Apocryphon of John (NHC II, 1 and Par.) and divine providence in "classic Gnostic' literature -- "The virgin whom the forces did not defile": Norea and the virginal spirit in The reality of the rulers -- La dispositio de l' Évangile de Judas -- Some Aporiae in the Gospel of Judas -- Valentinians on the Euphrates? -- À propos de la neusis [Greek word] dans les textes de Nag Hammadi -- Christ's gift-Gift to Judas: singing the spiritual transaction at the heart of the betrayal -- À la recherche des manuscrits coptes de la région thébaine -- A new verb form in Coptic -- The inscriptions of late antique Egypt (ILAE) database: digitizing textual culture -- Some lesser known construct forms of Coptic -- Musings on neutralization in Coptic -- The use of the Psalms in Shenoute's Tractate He who sits upon His throne -- Emotional communities and emotional suffering in Shenoute's White Monastery federation: sadness, anger, and fear in select works of Shenoute -- Curriculum vitae et memoriae: the life of Saint Onophrius and Local practices of monastic commemoration -- Shenoute for historians: The Pneueit Incident (a monastic leader and anti-pagan violence in late antique southern Egypt) -- Pachomius and his successors in the library of Deir Anba Shenouda -- Two different walling systems of the Egyptian monasteries: a comparison -- Jews and Christians in Upper Egypt: Apa Shenoute of Atripe -- Reading Abraham in the White Monastery: fathers, sources, and history -- The misfortunes of Triphis and religious change in late antique Egypt. -- The Adventus of Peter and Paul: evidence of Roman superiority to Constantinople in a letter of Gregory I.This collection of studies is offered in honor of Bentley Layton by twenty-three of his colleagues and former students. Prof. Layton taught the history of ancient Christianity and also the Coptic language at Yale University for forty years beginning in 1976. At that time he was already recognized internationally as a leading figure in the publication and study of the Coptic Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi Codices and in Coptic linguistic and manuscript studies, two areas of research that are represented in this volume by sections on Gnostic, Valentinian, and Manichaean literature, and on Coptic language and texts. A section on Egyptian monasticism pays tribute to Prof. Layton's fundamental contributions to the study of the late antique monastic leader and Coptic author Shenoute. A final section looks north across the Mediterranean Sea to early Chistianity in the Wider Late Roman World
Irving Layton God's recording angel
No full textFrom the author of Layton's bibliography and the editor of his letters comes this new biography of Canada's most outspoken poet. Based on extensive interviews with Layton's friends, family, and colleagues, Irving Layton: God's Recording Angel reveals how the poetry and the life overlap. Beginning with Layton's youth in Montreal, Mansbridge examines Layton's early days with Louis Dudek and the First Statement poets. From the publication of his first book in 1945, to his outstanding success in the 1960s, Mansbridge captures the essense of Layton's turbulent and provocative life
William Layton in Spain
No full textTesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Filología Española II (Literatura Española), leída el 07/10/2015This year 2015 marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment in Spain of the first theatre academy whose methodological principles for actors were based on the Stanislavski system —although transformed by the perspective of the Method, developed in America by the Group Theatre during the 1930s and then implanted in some famous schools such as the Actor’s Studio—. It was in October 1960 when the American actor, teacher and director William Layton (1913-1995) opened the Teatro Estudio de Madrid (TEM). By then, he had already been living in Spain for two years. In that adventure Layton was accompanied by the Spanish Miguel Narros (a stage director) and the American Elizabeth H. Buckley. This private academy began its activity by offering the Method, a discipline that Layton had learned in his country with Sandford Meisner; one member of the Group Theatre along with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurmann or Elia Kazan. Thanks to the TEM, concepts till then completely unknown in Spanish academic venues for actors such as organicity, truth, mood, sensory memory, etc., started being implemented in the theatrical interpretation. Firstly, in exercises of improvisation; secondly, in scenes and characters; and finally, after a time of performing, those concepts were tested in the scenarios, by display to the public, which is the biggest challenge for any actor, author or director. That way, a singular model of interpretation, a naturalistic type, which have prevailed in the West over other ways of interpreting, came to Spain. A system (which could be defined as organic interpretation) that had been systematized by the Russian Konstantin Stanislavski in the early twentieth century and rapidly was exported abroad by some of his first students: Richard Boleslavsky, Maria Ouspenskaya, Michael Chekhov, Pietro Scharoff, P. Pauloff... Its popularity in the USA increased mainly due to the Actor’s Studio and also thanks to professor Lee Strasberg, through the famous Method working. While in 1960 Layton founded in Madrid the TEM, together with Narros and Buckley, the Brechtian technique was arriving to Barcelona. In that city, Ricard Salvat —who had trained in Germany— and Maria Aurélia Capmany opened the School of Dramatic Art Adrià Gual (EADAG). From Catalonia and over the years, this center will project the first formulas about “distancing”. That way, after decades of delay, that same year 1960 landed in Spain two key trends that shaped and influenced the development of Western theatrical art in the first half of the twentieth century. SYNTHESIS: The knowledge and deep analysis of William Layton’s work as acting teacher in Spain will allow us to get closer to a major figure in the history of theater education in our country. Our main goal is to demonstrate that he was responsible for breaking the isolation that, from secular times, suffered the training of actors in Spain. Layton not only did achieve that, but did it consistently, without interruption. Also, by analyzing his work as stage manager, we will discover how this methodology was implemented in two aspects regarding the theatrical play: in the actor himself and in the dramatic text...Depto. de Literaturas Hispánicas y BibliografíaFac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu
From individual innovation to global impact: the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) innovation snapshot as a method for sharing and scaling
No full textCITATION: Layton, N., Murphy, C. & Bell, D. 2018. From individual innovation to global impact : the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) innovation snapshot as a method for sharing and scaling. Disability and Rehabilitation : Assistive Technology, 13(5):486-491, doi:10.1080/17483107.2018.1467971.The original publication is available at https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/794Assistive technology (AT) is an essential facilitator of independence and participation, both for people living with the effects of disability and/or non-communicable disease, as well as people aging with resultant functional decline. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the substantial gap between the need for and provision of AT and is leading change through the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) initiative. Showcasing innovations gathered from 92 global researchers, innovators, users and educators of AT through the WHO GREAT Summit, this article provides an analysis of ideas and actions on a range of dimensions in order to provide a global overview of AT innovation. The accessible method used to capture and showcase this data is presented and critiqued, concluding that “innovation snapshots” are a rapid and concise strategy to capture and showcase AT innovation and to foster global collaboration.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17483107.2018.1467971Publisher's versio
Lermontov in combat with Biblioteka dlia chteniia
No full textSusan Layton, Lermontov in combat with Bibliotéka dlia chteniia. Inspired by Bakhtin's analyses of double-voiced discourse, this article examines Lermontov's attacks on two pieces of low-brow orientalia published in Bibliotéka dlia chteniia in 1838 — Dmitrii Kropotkin's poem "Pal'ma" and the semi-anonymous prose tale "Beduinka." In the first case, Kropotkin was the target of a hidden polemic in Lermontov's "Tri pal'my," a verse which critics have long associated with Pushkin's "Podrazhaniia Koranu." In the second case, Lermontov subversively parodied "Beduinka" in "Bela," first published separately in 1839 and then incorporated into Geroi nashego vremeni. The analysis suggests that Lermontov's combat with Bibliotéka dlia chteniia was to some extent a criticism of his own sadistic streak (notably manifested in "Hadji-Abrek"). But most of all, the author was derisively exposing the Russian readership's taste for vulgar tales of oriental "savagery."Susan Layton, Lermontov à l'assaut de la Biblioteka dlja čtenija. Le présent article entreprend une analyse bakhtinienne des relations entre deux oeuvres de Lermontov et deux spécimens d'orientalisme de pacotille parus dans Biblioteka dlja čtenija en 1838 : le poème « Pal' ma » (Le palmier) de Dmitrij Kropotkin et le récit semi-anonyme « Beduinka » (La bédouine). La première fois, dans « Tri pal'my » (Les trois palmiers), poème célèbre que les critiques associèrent souvent à l'oeuvre de Puškin « Podražanie Koranu » (Imitation du Coran), Lermontov engageait une polémique déguisée avec Kropotkin. La seconde, dans le récit « Bela », publié séparément en 1839, puis intégré par la suite dans Geroj našego vremeni (Un héros de notre temps). Lermontov parodiait de façon subversive « Beduinka ». Ces deux attaques contre Bibliotéka dlja čtenija étaient dans une certaine mesure une auto-critique de l'orientalisme à sensation auquel Lermontov lui-même succomba (par exemple dans « Hadži-Abrek ») ; mais elles tournaient surtout en dérision le penchant des lecteurs russes de son temps pour les histoires d'un orientalisme de mauvais aloi.Layton Susan. Lermontov in combat with Biblioteka dlia chteniia. In: Cahiers du monde russe : Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique, États indépendants, vol. 35, n°4, Octobre-décembre 1994. pp. 787-802
Principles and techniques for designing precision machines
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-358).This thesis is written to advance the reader's knowledge of precision-engineering principles and their application to designing machines that achieve both sufficient precision and minimum cost. It provides the concepts and tools necessary for the engineer to create new precision machine designs. Four case studies demonstrate the principles and showcase approaches and solutions to specific problems that generally have wider applications. These come from projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in which the author participated: the Large Optics Diamond Turning Machine, Accuracy Enhancement of High productivity Machine Tools, the National Ignition Facility, and Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography. Although broad in scope, the topics go into sufficient depth to be useful to practicing precision engineers and often fulfill more academic ambitions. The thesis begins with a chapter that presents significant principles and fundamental knowledge from the Precision Engineering literature. Following this is a chapter that presents engineering design techniques that are general and not specific to precision machines. All subsequent chapters cover specific aspects of precision machine design. The first of these is Structural Design, guidelines and analysis techniques for achieving independently stiff machine structures. The next chapter addresses dynamic stiffness by presenting several techniques for Detenninistic Damping, damping designs that can be analyzed and optimized with predictive results. Several chapters present a main thrust of the thesis, Exact-Constraint Design. A main contribution is a generalized modeling approach developed through the course of creating several unique designs. The final chapter is the primary case study of the thesis, the Conceptual Design of a Horiwnta/ Machining Center.by Layton Carter Hale.Ph.D
ARATA’s response to the NDIA’s assistive technology discussion paper
No full textThe Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association (ARATA) responds to the NDIA’s AT Discussion Paper, and advocates that roles for all stakeholders must be considered.
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Summary of ARATA\u27s key recommendations arising from the Discussion Paper:
1. Evaluate outcomes from AT provision in trial sites and other systems to inform in the development of procurement and service delivery policy, consumer supports, and continuing professional development.
2. Support practitioners and researchers to validate existing AT service models for use in Australia.
3. Assist ARATA and other key stakeholders to develop a national accreditation system for AT practitioners and suppliers.
4. Investigate and document the roles, activities, and scope of practice of suppliers and peer mentors in AT service delivery, and associated outcomes for AT users.
5. Ensure the coupling of AT devices with appropriate soft technology support for device selection, implementation and review.
6. Investigate the efficacy and potential expansion of existing peer and consumer networking channels.
7. Support research into consumer use of information and decision-making in AT provision.
8. Fund independent AT information services and explore options for facilitating consumer ratings of products and services.
9. Identify AT products not yet available on the Australian market.
10. Fund research into AT development and commercialisation in Australia. 
Malnutrition and postoperative complications in abdominal surgery
No full textWe read with great interest the article by Hennessey et al 1 who studied retrospectively the relationship between preoperative serum albumin and surgical site infection(SSI) in a heterogeneous population of 524 patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery.A total of 105 patients developed SSI and among them hypoalbuminemia (>30 mg/dL) was significantly associated, both at univariate and multivariate analysis, with the development of SSI, deeper SSI and prolonged inpatient stay. It is well known that malnutrition is a significant risk factor of postoperative complications in major abdominal surgery. Disclosure: The authors declare that they have nothing to disclose. DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182306457
However, in the last 3 decades we have assisted to an impressive improvement of anaesthetic and surgical techniques and in an amelioration of postoperative patient management that have led to a reduction of postoperative morbidity and mortality.
At the same time, some recent evidence suggests that being overweight and obesity, rather than malnutrition, are significant risk factors of postoperative complications in major abdominal surgery.
Indeed, in 2008 we published the results of a prospective study that evaluated the incidence of mortality and major and minor postoperative complications in patients who underwent surgery for gastric cancer between 2000 and 2006. In this study, we stratified patients according to the preoperative percentage weight loss (0%–5%, 5.1%–10%, >10%) and serumalbumin levels < 3.0 g/dL; 3.0–3.4 g/dL; ≥ 3.5 g/dL). Interestingly, the rate of major infectious, major non-infectious and minor infectious (as SSI) postoperative complications was similar in patients with serum albumin 8.1%, respectively); between 3.0 and 3.4 (8.8%, 13.3%, 17.7%, respectively) or ≥ 3.5 g/dL (10.5%, 7.9%, 8.7%, respectively). It is difficult to explain the difference between our study and that of Hennessey et al Indeed, the study of Hennessey et al was retrospective and it is unknown if the surgeons or the attending doctors who made the diagnosis of SSI in each case were blinded to the status of serum albumin. In addition, the population studied by Hennessey et al was extremely heterogeneous, including patients who underwent elective or urgent operations on the gastrointestinal tract including stomach, duodenum, gallbladder, small intestine and colon and rectum, whereas we studied only patients undergoing gastric surgery. It has been shown that malnutrition does not re-enter in the risk factors predictive of postoperative morbidity in surgery for malignant gastric tumors.
It seems that role of hypoalbuminemia in the development of SSI varies according to the type of disease, to the type of surgery and to the characteristics of patients
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