5 research outputs found
Letter from R. R. Best, Project Director, and Lionel Perkins, Business Enterprises Adviser United States Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority to Mr. Ivan Williams Department of Justice, December 5, 1945
No full textThis official correspondence confirms that Tsugitada Kanamori had worked at the Tule Lake incarceration camp for 6.5 months and had earned a total of $131.86 as of November 30, 1945. Issued by R.R. Best, Project Director and Lionel Perkins, Business Enterprises Adviser United States Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
A Refined Graph Container Lemma and Applications to the Hard‐Core Model on Bipartite Expanders
No full textWe establish a refined version of a graph container lemma due to Galvin and discuss several applications related to the hard‐core model on bipartite expander graphs. Given a graph G and λ > 0 , the hard‐core model on G at activity λ is the probability distribution μ G , λ on independent sets in G given by μ G , λ ( I ) ∝ λ | I | . As one of our main applications, we show that the hard‐core model at activity λ on the hypercube Q d exhibits a ‘structured phase’ for λ = Ω ( log 2 d / d 1 / 2 ) in the following sense: in a typical sample from μ Q d , λ , most vertices are contained in one side of the bipartition of Q d . This improves upon a result of Galvin, which establishes the same for λ = Ω ( log d / d 1 / 3 ) . As another application, we establish a fully polynomial‐time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for the hard‐core model on a d ‐regular bipartite α ‐expander, with α > 0 fixed, when λ = Ω ( log 2 d / d 1 / 2 ) . This improves upon the bound λ = Ω ( log d / d 1 / 4 ) due to the first author, Perkins and Potukuchi. We discuss similar improvements to results of Galvin‐Tetali, Balogh‐Garcia‐Li and Kronenberg‐Spinka
The ‘Rest Cure’ Revisited: Resisting the Neoliberal Myths of Individualism and Self-Betterment in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
No full textThe aim of this presentation is to explore how My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)––American author Ottessa Moshfegh’s most acclaimed novel––exposes and opposes, by thematically engaging with the outdated medical practice of the ‘rest cure’, the hyper-individualistic myths of self-betterment and wellness inherent to the US neoliberal context. A customary medical treatment during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the rest cure was primarily prescribed to women who were diagnosed with typically ‘female’ mental disorders, such as hysteria or neurasthenia; however, as American author Perkins Gilman already revealed in her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), this cure was frequently detrimental to the patients who, instead of healing, generally manifested ulterior negative physical and psychological side-effects. Nowadays, the rest cure is considered an outdated medical treatment that (fortunately) no longer holds any value nor is prescribed. Yet, it is my intention to argue that, by revisiting the theme of the rest cure, Moshfegh’s novel not only questions quintessentially American myths of individualism, personal empowerment, and wellness, but it also engages with a specific American literary tradition of representation of female madness (thus, entering into dialogue with Perkins Gilman’s short story). Set in New York City in 2000 and 2001, My Year of Rest and Relaxation depicts the emotional spiral of an unnamed female narrator in her twenties who, hoping for recovery and physical/psychological rebirth, attempts to sleep for an entire year. Past feminist readings of fictional female madness (or, mental illness), typically rooted in psychoanalytical discourses, were usually oriented towards the criticism of patriarchalism (Gilbert & Gubar 1979). This presentation, however, whilst drawing from Foucault’s (1961) correlation between madness and power, intends to adopt a posthuman feminist perspective––a philosophical approach that, being materially grounded, insists on the embodied and embedded nature of subjectivities, as theorized by Braidotti (2022)––to shed light on the criticism to and the practices of resistance to these dominant American neoliberal myths as represented by the novel
La resolución de problemas de conteo a través de la incorporación de rutinas de pensamiento
No full textEste proyecto está desarrollado teniendo en cuenta las líneas de investigación suscritas por la maestría en enseñanza de las ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. La investigación tuvo como objetivo principal analizar la incidencia de la incorporación de rutinas de pensamiento en la resolución de problemas de conteo, en los estudiantes de noveno grado de la institución educativa el Tobal. Este proyecto muestra los resultados de una investigación cuyo propósito consistió en analizar la incidencia que tiene la incorporación de las rutinas de pensamiento en la resolución de problemas; el cual tiene un enfoque de análisis cualitativo de tipo descriptivo, en donde la recolección de la información se llevó a cabo con la implantación de una unidad didáctica estructurada en tres momentos: fase 1 o de exploración; fase 2 o de intervención y fase 3º de evaluación; en ellas se articularon las categorías resolución de problemas con su subcategoría la negociación de significados en la resolución de problemas de conteo haciendo uso de las rutinas de pensamiento con autor Allan Schoenfeld y la categoría las rutinas de pensamiento con su subcategoría Ejecución de rutinas de pensamiento para comprender un problema de conteo con autor (Perkins D. , 1997). Ritchart (2014), proyecto Zero Harvard University. Los resultados mostraron la aceptación de los estudiantes de la incorporación de las rutinas de pensamiento en sus actividades escolares y un fortalecimiento de sus habilidades y destrezas a la hora de resolver problemas de aleatoriedad.This project is developed taking into account the research lines subscribed by the Master of Science Education of the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. The main objective of the research was to analyze the incidence of the incorporation of thinking routines in the resolution of counting problems, in the ninth grade students of the educational institution el Tobal. This project shows the results of a research whose purpose was to analyze the incidence of the incorporation of thinking routines in the resolution of problems; which has a qualitative analysis approach of descriptive type, where the collection of information was carried out with the implementation of a didactic unit structured in three moments: Phase 1 or exploration; phase 2 or intervention and phase 3 of evaluation; in which the problemsolving categories were articulated with their subcategory The negotiation of meanings in the resolution of counting problems making use of the thinking routines with author Allan Schoenfeld and the category the thinking routines with their subcategory Execution of thinking routines to understand a counting problem with author (Perkins D. , 1997). Ritchart (2014), Project Zero Harvard University. The results showed the students' acceptance of the incorporation of thinking routines in their school activities and a strengthening of their skills and abilities in solving randomness problems
