124 research outputs found
Introduction:'infrastructural compendia' and the licensing of empiricism in Mesopotamian technical literature
No full textThis paper focuses initially on just two ideas that have already developed a recognised place in the theoretical literature and that are also of special relevance to Mesopotamian technical literature: the infrastructural character of Mesopotamian compendia and the role of citation in the formation and elaboration of infrastructural compendia. The infrastructural character of Mesopotamian compendia is most visible, however, in the total absence of controversy or even polite disagreement within the boundaries of the written text. This feature of Mesopotamian compendia stands in contrast to many types of Graeco-Roman technical compendia, which are often explicitly framed as the point of view of a named author and include direct challenges to other practitioners. This contrast, though by no means absolute, does suggest that the oral-written divide was definitive, at least in the earlier phases of the cuneiform textual record. The infrastructural text was written, memorised by all card-carrying members of a given profession, and could only be modified by reconfiguration or addition, never deletion or replacement
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Prosecutorial discretion in international criminal justice /
No full text"For many years, hidden from view in the secure corridors of The Hague, Arusha, and Freetown, international prosecutors have worked to bring those accused of international crimes to justice. Drawing on first-hand interviews with prosecutors, this book reveals what motivated their decisions-from opening investigations and selecting charges, right through to deciding whether to appeal. The book explores the motivations and assumptions that underpin prosecutorial decision-making using in-depth analysis of interviews with current and former senior prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). The author examines the diverse factors that have informed discretion by treating it as a practice. Cale Davis advances our understanding of discretion and exposes the importance of different roles in decision-making. This book is an intriguing and beneficial read for both academics and practitioners of international criminal justice that directly challenges the contemporary perception of discretion. Featuring qualitative and empirical data, it is also useful for scholars interested in historical, sociological, and cultural anthropological perspectives on international criminal law"-
Memorias de la cale: la propuesta transnacional de Fabienne Kanor
No full textThis article examines Fabienne Kanor’s proposal, in La poétique de la cale, relating to the ways of representing the horror of the transatlantic voyage of enslavement. Starting from the hold of the slave ship, the author weaves a poetics of black memory in a transnational perspective that not only recovers the narratives of the Holocaust but also includes the representations of the dictatorial horror in Chile to confront the past of enslavement. We will analyze how Kanor questions the politics of memory in the Franco-metropolitan territory by discussing the concept of place of memory, formulated by Pierre Nora. Furthermore, the memories of the Southern Cone are part of the ways that will allow Kanor to reconceptualize the ship as a place of memory, in spite of considering it a “disappeared space”, a place that “is and is not”. Finally, the concept of postmemory, developed by Marianne Hirsch, constitutes a starting point not only to describe the traumatic wound that Kanor calls blès but also to “invoke” the disappeared of the hold to recover an identity for them, even though—given the absence of remains— it is only spectral.El presente artículo analiza la propuesta de Fabienne Kanor, en La poétique de la cale, sobre las formas de representar el horror de la travesía transatlántica de la esclavización. A partir de la bodega del barco negrero, hilvana una poética de la memoria negra en clave transnacional que no solo recupera la matriz del Holocausto, sino que también incluye las representaciones del horror dictatorial en Chile para confrontar el pasado de la esclavización. Veremos cómo Kanor cuestiona la política de la memoria en el territorio francometropolitano, discutiendo la categoría de lugar de memoria propuesta por Pierre Nora. Además, las memorias del Cono Sur forman parte de los caminos que le permitirán recuperar el barco como lugar de memoria a pesar de considerarlo un “espacio desaparecido”, un lugar que “está y no está”. Por último, el concepto de posmemoria desarrollado por Marianne Hirsch constituye un punto de partida para describir la herida traumática que Kanor denomina blès e “invocar” a los desaparecidos de la bodega para devolverles una identidad, aunque –dada la ausencia de restos– solo sea espectral
More details on so-called corn diet
No full textThe question of holding diets came about when the flow of market-ready animals was disrupted by the novel coronavirus earlier this year. At that time, recommendations were made on what producers could do to slow the growth of their pigs until the opportunity arose to send them to harvest. Nick Gabler, an Iowa State University Animal Science professor, quickly initiated a study to evaluate various dietary options to reduce growth rates.This article is published as Norton, S., K. Betts, J. Jolliff, C. Pilcher, M. Ritter, J. Erickson, B. Ramer, C. Parson N. Gabler and J. Patience. More details on so-called corn diet. National Hog Farmer. Oct. 15, 2020. Posted with permission.</p
Cutaneous sensitivity in unilateral trans-tibial amputees
No full textAim: To examine tactile sensitivity in the leg and foot sole of below-knee amputees (diabetic n = 3, traumatic n = 1), and healthy control subjects (n = 4), and examine the association between sensation and balance. Method: Vibration perception threshold (VPT; 3, 40, 250Hz) and monofilaments (MF) were used to examine vibration and light touch sensitivity on the intact limb, residual limb, and homologous locations on controls. A functional reach test was performed to assess functional balance. Results: Tactile sensitivity was lower for diabetic amputee subjects compared to age matched controls for both VPT and MF; which was expected due to presence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. In contrast, the traumatic amputee participant showed increased sensitivity for VPT at 40Hz and 250Hz vibration in both the intact and residual limbs compared to controls. Amputees with lower tactile sensitivity had shorter reach distances compared to those with higher sensitivity. Conclusion: Changes in tactile sensitivity in the residual limb of trans-tibial amputees may have implications for the interaction between the amputee and the prosthetic device. The decreased skin sensitivity observed in the residual limb of subjects with diabetes is of concern as changes in skin sensitivity may be important in 1) identification/prevention of excessive pressure and 2) for functional stability. Interestingly, we saw increased residual limb skin sensitivity in the individual with the traumatic amputation. Although not measured directly in the present study, this increase in tactile sensitivity may be related to cortical reorganisation, which is known to occur following amputation, and would support similar findings observed in upper limb amputees
FROM HELL TO PARADISE OR OTHER WAY ROUND? SALVADOR DALI''S DIVINA COMMEDIA
No full textThe essay consider the complex hermeneutic questions concerning the illustrations that Salvador Dalí accomplished for Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia (Paris,1959-63 and Firenze,1963-64). Valuating the different interpretations from international critical studies, the author proposes a new reading of some plates, relying on the imaginative potential of the poetic word derived from the surrealist paranoycal-critical method of Dalí
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No. 18 Fall/Winter 2014 Newsletter
No full textHaricombe Takes Over
Modern Space for Modern Students
Center for Verse Opens
Pre-Mod, Pre-Med
The Libraries' Closet
Distinguished Author Dinner Recap
Interview with Cale McDowell
Campaign for Texas Wrapup
New Media Labs Open at PCL, FALUT Librarie
Rice Collection (MSS 47)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 47. Includes letters; business papers and contracts; research materials and notes; original and typed manuscripts of poems, short stories and books; photographs; cartoons; book reviews and clippings; and scrapbooks of Cale Young Rice (1872-1943), poet and author, and of Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), author, of Louisville, Kentucky
Thresholds of skin sensitivity are partially influenced by mechanical properties of the skin on the foot sole
No full textAcross the foot sole, there are vibration and monofilament sensory differences despite an alleged even distribution of cutaneous afferents. Mechanical property differences across foot sole sites have been proposed to account for these differences. Vibration (VPT; 3 Hz, 40 Hz, 250 Hz), and monofilament (MF) perception threshold measurements were compared with skin hardness, epidermal thickness, and stretch response across five foot sole locations in young healthy adults (n = 22). Perceptual thresholds were expected to correlate with all mechanical property measurements to help address sensitivity differences between sites. Following this hypothesis, the MedArch was consistently found to be the thinnest and softest site and demonstrated the greatest sensitivity. Conversely, the Heel was found to be the thickest and hardest site, and was relatively insensitive across perceptual tests. Site differences were not observed for epidermal stretch response measures. Despite an apparent trend of elevated sensory threshold at harder and thicker sites, significant correlations between sensitivity measures and skin mechanical properties were not observed. Skin hardness and epidermal thickness appeared to have a negligible influence on and minor influence on within this young healthy population. When normalized (% greater or smaller than subject mean) to the subject mean for each variable, significant positive correlations were observed between MF and skin hardness (R2 = 0.422, P < 0.0001) and epidermal thickness (R2 = 0.433, P < 0.0001) providing evidence that skin mechanics can influence threshold. In young healthy adults, differences in sensitivity are present across the foot sole, but cannot solely be accounted for by differences in the mechanical properties of the skin. Skin mechanical properties (thickness and hardness) were found to have a meaningful influence on monofilament perception threshold and a negligible influence on vibration perception threshold across the foot sole. Less sensitive sites were found to be the thickest and hardest, however significant correlations between these measures was not observed. In young healthy adults, differences in sensitivity are present across the foot sole, but cannot solely be accounted for by differences in the mechanical properties of the skin
Effects of emotional and sensorimotor knowledge in semantic processing of concrete and abstract nouns
No full textThere is much empirical evidence that words' relative imageability and body-object interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (e.g., Bennett et al., 2011). These findings are consistent with a grounded cognition framework (e.g., Barsalou, 2008), in which sensorimotor knowledge is integral to lexical processing. In the present study, we examined whether lexical processing is also sensitive to the dimension of emotional experience (i.e., the ease with which words evoke emotional experience), which is also derived from a grounded cognition framework. We examined the effects of emotional experience, imageability, and BOI in semantic categorization for concrete and abstract nouns. Our results indicate that for concrete nouns, emotional experience was associated with less accurate categorization, whereas imageability and BOI were associated with faster and more accurate categorization. For abstract nouns, emotional experience was associated with faster and more accurate categorization, whereas BOI was associated with slower and less accurate categorization. This pattern of results was observed even with many other lexical and semantic dimensions statistically controlled. These findings are consistent with Vigliocco et al.'s (2009) theory of semantic representation, which states that emotional knowledge underlies meanings for abstract concepts, whereas sensorimotor knowledge underlies meanings for concrete concepts.; There is much empirical evidence that words’ relative imageability and body-object interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (e.g., Bennett, Burnett, Siakaluk, & Pexman, 2011). These findings are consistent with a grounded cognition framework (e.g., Barsalou, 2008), in which sensorimotor knowledge is integral to lexical processing. In the present study, we examined whether lexical processing is also sensitive to the dimension of emotional experience (i.e., the ease with which words evoke emotional experience), which is also derived from a grounded cognition framework. We examined the effects of emotional experience, imageability, and BOI in semantic categorization for concrete and abstract nouns. Our results indicate that for concrete nouns, emotional experience was associated with less accurate categorization, whereas imageability and BOI were associated with faster and more accurate categorization. For abstract nouns, emotional experience was associated with faster and more accurate categorization, whereas BOI was associated with slower and less accurate categorization. This pattern of results was observed even with many other lexical and semantic dimensions statistically controlled. These findings are consistent with Vigliocco, Meteyard, Andrews, and Kousta’s (2009) theory of semantic representation, which states that emotional knowledge underlies meanings for abstract concepts, whereas sensorimotor knowledge underlies meanings for concrete concepts
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