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Ordinary working men...transformed into giants on the rugby field': Individual and Collective Memory in Oral Histories of Rugby League.
No full textAs a sport that partly owes its existence to the issue of ‘broken time’, the working life of professional players outside the game is a highly symbolic issue in rugby league. In England financial reality meant that until the 1990s most players at professional level had to combine their career with full time employment away from the sport, often in the communities they represented on the field. To many this helped create a strong communal bond between those who played and watched rugby league and this perception has become a key cultural narrative in the sport’s ‘collective’ memory. This article uses individual narratives from oral history interviews which relate to the working life of professional players outside rugby league to examine the contention advanced by the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs and others that recollections of personal experience are always shaped to fit within the accepted public discourse. A wide range of personal testimonies are considered in order to illustrate how far, as some oral historians have argued, individuals are able to reflect upon the significance of shared experiences in ways which offer alternative perspectives to dominant cultural scripts
Staples, Rob L., Staples of the Church of the Nazarene
No full textRob L. Staples of the Church of the Nazarene 1974.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1408/thumbnail.jp
Staples, Rob L., Staples of the Church of the Nazarene
No full textRob L. Staples of the Church of the Nazarene 1974.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/holinessphotos/1409/thumbnail.jp
Genomic analysis of cattle rob(1;29)
No full textRobertsonian translocation (rob) involving chromosomes 1 and 29 represents the most frequent chromosome abnormality observed in cattle breeds intended for meat production. The negative effects of this anomaly on fertility are widely demonstrated, and in many countries, screening programs are being carried out to eliminate carriers from reproduction. Although rob(1;29) was first observed in 1964, the genomic structure of this anomaly is partially unclear. In this work, we demonstrate that, during the fusion process, around 5.4 Mb of the pericentromeric region of BTA29 moves to the q arm, close to the centromere, of rob(1;29). We also clearly show that this fragment is inverted. We find that no deletion/duplication involving sequences reported in the BosTau6 genome assembly occurred during the fusion process which originates this translocation. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Genomic analysis of cattle rob(1;29)
No full textRobertsonian translocation (rob) involving chromosomes 1 and 29 represents the most frequent chromosome abnormality observed in cattle breeds intended for meat production. The negative effects of this anomaly on fertility are widely demonstrated, and in many countries, screening programs are being carried out to eliminate carriers from reproduction. Although rob(1;29) was first observed in 1964, the genomic structure of this anomaly is partially unclear. In this work, we demonstrate that, during the fusion process, around 5.4 Mb of the pericentromeric region of BTA29 moves to the q arm, close to the centromere, of rob(1;29). We also clearly show that this fragment is inverted. We find that no deletion/duplication involving sequences reported in the BosTau6 genome assembly occurred during the fusion process which originates this translocation
Emergent associative memory as a local organising principle for global adaptation in adaptive networks
No full textComplex adaptive systems composed of self-interested agents can in some circumstances self-organise into structures that enhance global adaptation or efficiency. However, the general conditions for such an outcome are poorly understood. In contrast, sufficient conditions for artificial neural networks to form structures that perform collective computational processes such as associative memory/recall, generalisation and optimisation, are well-understood. While such global functions within a single agent or organism may arise from mechanisms (e.g., Hebbian learning) that were selected for this purpose, agents in a multi-agent system have no obvious reason to produce such global behaviours when acting from individual interest. However, Hebbian learning is actually a very simple and fully-distributed habituation or positive feedback principle. Here we use an adaptive network model in which agents can modify their behaviours (states) but also their interactions with other agents (network topology). We show that when self-interested agents can modify how they are affected by other agents then, in adapting these inter- agent relationships to maximise their own utility, they will necessarily alter them in a manner homologous with Hebbian learning. When the agents adapt their behaviours relatively quickly, and their relationships with other agents relatively slowly, we find that the overall network dynamics are modified to find better adapted states more reliably. This separation in timescales causes the state dynamics to spend most of their time at attractors. Thus, the network develops an associative memory that amplifies a subset of its own attractor states. This self-organised modification to the network dynamics enhances its ability to resolve conflicts between agents. Moreover, we show that the system is not merely ‘recalling’ high quality states that have been previously visited, but ‘predicting’ their location by generalising over local attractor states that have already been visited. Thus, globally adaptive behaviours can emerge from self-organising adaptive networks that follow organisational principles familiar in connectionist models of organismic learning
L - R: Rob Voye, Dave Houghton, Tim Evenden
No full textPhoto shows (left to right) L - R: Rob Voye, Dave Houghton, Tim Evenden, probably employees at Alta Ski Resort, Alta, Uta
L-R: Rob Voye , David Houghton & Tim Evenden
No full textPhoto shows (left to right) L - R: Rob Voye, Dave Houghton, Tim Evenden, probably employees at Alta Ski Resort, Alta, Uta
A new case of Rob (14;17) in cattle
No full textRobertsonian translocations, also called centric fusions, represent the most frequent chromosome anomalies in cattle, and rob (1;29) is the most widespread. However centric fusions involving other chromosomes have been discovered in different cattle breeds. Here we report the appearance of a new case of rob (14;17) in an Italian cattle breed more than ten years from the first and only case observed, and we demonstrate the different origin of this anomaly from the previous case
Rob. L. Wannyn. — L'art ancien du métal au bas-Congo.
No full textFaublée Jacques, Urbain-Faublée Jacques. Rob. L. Wannyn. — L'art ancien du métal au bas-Congo. . In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1963, tome 33, fascicule 2. pp. 322-323
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