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Pensare la crisi. Crescita e decrescita per l'avvenire della società planetaria
No full textRaccolta di saggi interdisciplinari intorno alle crisi e alle crisi del presente. I punti di vista spaziano dalla teoria della decrescita a quelle dello sviluppo umano o sociale, dai beni comuni alla sociologia della crisi, dall'economia della natura all'antropologia filosofica
Professor Angela Shannon
No full textAngela Shannon shares her poetry with the Taylor community.
Angela Shannon is the author of Singing the Bones Together, a 2004 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. She teaches English at Bethel University. Her work has been published in journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Where One Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Her choreopoem Root Woman premiered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater in Evanston, Ill
Journey towards the mother : myth, origins and the daughter's desire in the fiction of Angela Carter
No full textThis study examines Angela Carter’s demythologising of origin myths and will
investigate the extent to which her fictions offer viable alternatives that allow for
productive representations of women and gender relations outside patriarchal paradigms.
In the first half of the thesis (Chapters 1-3), I will primarily focus on how several of
Carter’s earlier texts deconstruct existing mythical spaces, particularly the biblical
creation story in Genesis. The Genesis myth is central to socio-historical constructions of
gendered identities, and in itself, central to Carter’s imagination. She repeatedly returns
to this myth in her challenging of the ways in which patriarchal narratives construct
violent relations between self and other, specifically where ‘woman’ is situated as the
repressed other of male desires and fears. Alongside her demythologising of Genesis,
Carter deconstructs Freudian myths of sexual maturation, exposing where these also set
up a relationship of antagonism or enmity between the sexes. Although Chapter One will
explore how Carter attempts to revise these origin myths from a positive stance, Two and
Three will focus on the inherent difficulties faced by the female subject in her struggle
against patriarchal myths and their violent oppression of female autonomy. The second
half of the thesis (Chapters 4-6) will shift to an investigation of how Carter’s later texts
set up both possibilities and challenges for women when attempting to construct their
own narratives of origin. Through her problematising of matriarchal myths and feminist
fantasies of self-creation, Carter emphasises the need for confronting limitations rather
than celebrating transgressions as entirely liberating. The thesis will conclude, however,
with an examination of where Carter’s own attempts at remythologising opens up an
alternative space, or ‘elsewhere’, of feminine desires that allows for a refiguring of the
female subject as well as more reciprocal relations between the sexes
One process is not enough! A speed-accuracy tradeoff study of recognition memory
Full text linkSpeed–accuracy tradeoff (SAT) methods have been used to contrast single- and dual-process accounts
of recognition memory. In these procedures, subjects are presented with individual test items
and are required to make recognition decisions under various time constraints. In this experiment, we
presented word lists under incidental learning conditions, varying the modality of presentation and
level of processing. At test, we manipulated the interval between each visually presented test item and
a response signal, thus controlling the amount of time available to retrieve target information. Study–
test modality match had a beneficial effect on recognition accuracy at short response-signal delays
(<300msec). Conversely, recognition accuracy benefited more from deep than from shallow processing
at study only at relatively long response-signal delays (>300 msec). The results are congruent with
views suggesting that both fast familiarity and slower recollection processes contribute to recognition
memory.
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Angela Shanté : 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Angela Shanté gives an acceptance speech for When My Cousins Come to Town, illustrated by Keisha Morris (West Margin Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1004/thumbnail.jp
La teoria della struttura inerente di rete per lo studio dei sistemi elettrici ed elettronici per l'energia
No full textRISK ASSESSMENT OF MALICIOUS ATTACKS AGAINST POWER SYSTEMS
Full text linkThe new scenarios of malicious attack prompt for their deeper consideration and mainly when critical systems are at stake. In this framework, infrastructural systems, including power systems, represent a possible target due to the huge impact they can have on society. Malicious attacks are different in their nature from other more traditional cause of threats to power system, since they embed a strategic interaction between the attacker and the defender (characteristics that cannot be found in natural events or systemic failures). This difference has not been systematically analyzed by the existent literature. In this respect, new approaches and tools are needed. This paper presents a mixed-strategy game-theory model able to capture the strategic interactions between malicious agents that may be willing to attack power systems and the system operators, with its related bodies, that are in charge of defending them. At the game equilibrium, the different strategies of the two players, in terms of attacking/protecting the critical elements of the systems, can be obtained. The information about the attack probability to various elements can be used to assess the risk associated with each of them, and the efficiency of defense resource allocation is evidenced in terms of the corresponding risk. Reference defense plans related to the online defense action and the defense action with a time delay can be obtained according to their respective various time constraints. Moreover, risk sensitivity to the defense/attack-resource variation is also analyzed. The model is applied to a standard IEEE RTS-96 test system for illustrative purpose and, on the basis of that system, some peculiar aspects of the malicious attacks are pointed ou
The Family History of Angela Ruth Weidert
Full text linkAngela Ruth Weidert authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Ogden’s Basic English and its roots in the Early Modern English search for language simplicity
No full textThe idea of English as a lingua franca was anticipated in the early 1920s by Charles Kay Ogden, who conceived his Basic English as a form of controlled language that could be widely understood and used with proficiency by both native and non-native speakers. Basic English arguably represents a crucial moment in the development of the ideas of language simplicity and it remains a milestone which has influenced later controlled versions of English (e.g. Simplified Technical English, Special English, Simple English Wikipedia). In Ogden’s codification of simplified language (which was deeply influenced by his previous semiotic studies) a few simplification criteria can be distinguished: controlled vocabulary, lexical isomorphism, standardisation (intended as establishing a discrete number of shared rules for the use of language), morphosyntax as an outgrowth of lexicon, the superiority of analytic structures over synthetic structures, and universality of a shared language as a key factor in the resolution of human conflicts. Language simplicity is therefore essential for better communication and improved social interactions. This essay argues that Ogden’s idea of language simplicity is deeply rooted in the history of the English language and can be tracked back to the Reformation period, in which “plain speech” was seen as a source of truth and virtue as opposed to the ambiguity of a language rich in figures of speech and rhetorical artifice, and to the 17th century, in which we can distinguish a supposedly scientific approach in language simplification
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