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sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211048189 – Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adults’ Experiences With Discrimination and Impacts on Expectations for Long-Term Care: Results of a Survey in the Southern United States
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211048189 for Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adults’ Experiences With Discrimination and Impacts on Expectations for Long-Term Care: Results of a Survey in the Southern United States by Lexus Dickson, Samuel Bunting, Alexis Nanna, Megan Taylor, Mindi Spencer and Liam Hein in Journal of Applied Gerontology</p
A Primer On The Dickson Invariants
No full textthe Steenrod algebra action (for q = p) can be easily determined from Dickson's fundamental equation. Other authors (Milgram--Mann, Singer, Smith--Switzer) have determined the action by other means, but it seems instructive to give a direct proof from Dickson's original viewpoint. I. The Fundamental Equation and the Ring of Invariants. Let K be a field containing the F q --space V of dimension n. Here q = p s for p a rational integer prime and s ? 0. We first prove the equivalence of the two forms of the fundamental equation. This work was supported by Wayne State University, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Studies of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1 This is a corrected version of [22]. The author thanks Pe
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Remarks on certain topics connected with the general subject of slavery: by S. Henry Dickson... Reprinted at the request of several friends.
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Latin America's experience with export subsidies
No full textTwenty years ago, it ws believed that export subsidies would produce more diversification and better export performance. This has not happened. In most cases, export subsidies were not supported by more open import policies - so subsidies reduced only marginally the anti-export bias of Latin American countries. Unstable real exchange rates have also hurt exports. Export subsidies appear to have improved exports in Brazil, which also liberalized imports, stabilized exchange rates, and promoted other policies conducive to export growth. Yet Mexico, after reducing import barriers, also enjoyed improved exports - with minimum export subsidies, and with apparently lower social costs than Brazil experienced. Export subsidies have failed in other Latin American countries - and particularly hurt development in Argentina, where fraud, corruption, and rent-seeking have been rampant. The author contends that the failure of export subsidies should remind us of the importance of distinguishing what is possible from what is likely. Finally, export subsidies compete with other government programs, and, considering their failure rate, the money might be better spent on infrastructure, health, and education projects.Tax Law,Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Stabilization
1918 Bureau of Standards personnel negative set 44
No full text(top row) Roy J. Pile; William R. Russell; Sadie Blair; Paul L. Houston
(middle row) William G. Brombacher; William G. Brombacher; Samuel M. Burka; Joseph P. Mendel
(bottom row) Henry L. Steiner; Raymond Morgan; Alfred M. Heinzelmann; Earle Ensign Dickson
This item is part of the Bureau of Standards Personnel 1918 collection
Skew Hadamard Difference Sets from Dickson Polynomials of Order 7
No full textSkew Hadamard difference sets have been an interesting topic of study for over 70 years. For a long time, it had been conjectured the classical Paley difference sets (the set of nonzero quadratic residues in Fq where q≡3mod4) were the only example in Abelian groups. In 2006, the first author and Yuan disproved this conjecture by showing that the image set of D5(x2,u) is a new skew Hadamard difference set in (F3m,+) with m odd, where Dn(x,u) denotes the first kind of Dickson polynomials of order n and u∈Fq∗. The key observation in the proof is that D5(x2,u) is a planar function from F3m to F3m for m odd. Since then a few families of new skew Hadamard difference sets have been discovered. In this paper, we prove that for all u∈F3m∗, the set Du:={D7(x2,u):x∈F3m∗} is a skew Hadamard difference set in (F3m,+), where m is odd and m≢0(mod3). The proof is more complicated and different than that of Ding-Yuan skew Hadamard difference sets since D7(x2,u) is not planar in F3m. Furthermore, we show that such skew Hadamard difference sets are inequivalent to all existing ones for m=5,7 by comparing the triple intersection numbers.</p
Allegory and irony in the novels of William Golding as the perspective of ethical development according to E. Honing and L.L. Dickson
No full textThe author attempts to describe the inspiration that comes from several concepts of various authors who are literary critics (E. Honing, L.L. Dickson), the researchers studying metaphors (P. Crisp) and studying creativity (G. Rose) and psychoanalysts who indicate educational gains, resulting from a “good analytic hour” in which the “binocular vision” occurs, coming from the allegorical “cognitive epistemology” and leading to sublimation conceived as a higher state of understanding of itself and the reality (H. Loewald, J. Miller). Among the many concepts of allegories presented earlier in her book “Allegories in aesthetic spaces of pedagogy. Duality in expositions of the ironic allegorist – qualitativeresearch” she chooses, for the purpose of this article only a single one. It is the concept of thinking about allegorical interpretation of works of William Golding.Autorka artykułu podejmuje próbę opisania inspiracji dla edukacji etycznej, jaka płynie z kilku koncepcji, których autorami są literaturoznawcy (E. Honing, L.L. Dickson), badacze metafor (P. Crisp) i twórczości (G. Rose) oraz psychoanalitycy, wskazujący edukacji zysk, jaki może spowodować „dobra godzina analityczna”, w której pojawia się „widzenie binokularne”, wychodzące od alegorycznej „królewskiej drogi do empatii epistemologicznej” (A. Margulies) i prowadzące do sublimacji pojmowanej jako wyższy stan rozumienia siebie i rzeczywistości (H. Loewald, J. Miller). Spośród wielu koncepcji alegorii, które przedstawiła w swojej książce pt. Alegorie w estetycznych przestrzeniach pedagogiki. Dwoistość w ekspozycjach ironicznego alegoryka – badania jakościowe wybiera jako przykład, dla potrzeb tego artykułu, tylko jedną. Jest nią koncepcja myślenia o sposobie interpretacji alegorycznych dzieł W. Goldinga
On triviality of Dickson invariants in the homology of the Steenrod algebra
No full textLet A be the Steenrod algebra and let Dk denote the Dickson algebra of k variables. J. E. Lannes
and S. Zarati [Math. Z. 194 (1987), no. 1, 25–59; MR0871217 (88j:55014)] defined homomorphisms
'k: Extk,k+i
A (F2,F2) ! (F2
A Dk)
i , which correspond to an associated graded of the
Hurewicz homomorphism H: s
(S0) = (Q0S0)!H (Q0S0;F2). The long-standing geometric
conjecture, that only Hopf invariant 1 and Kervaire invariant 1 classes are detected by H, has
the following algebraic version: 'k = 0 in positive stems, for k > 2. It has been proved that '3 = 0
[Nguy ̃ˆen H ̃u’u Vi.ˆet Hu’ng, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), no. 10, 3893–3910; MR1433119
(98e:55020)] and that 'k vanishes on the image of Singer’s algebraic transfer for k > 2 [Nguy ̃ˆen
H ̃u’u Vi.ˆet Hu’ng and Trˆan Ngoc Nam, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), no. 12, 5029–5040
(electronic); MR1852092 (2002f:55041)]. Further, by [Nguy ̃ˆen H ̃u’u Vi.ˆet Hu’ng and F. P. Peterson,
Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 124 (1998), no. 2, 253–264; MR1631123 (99i:55021)]
we know that 'k vanishes on decomposable elements for k > 2 and that '4 = 0 in positive stems
< 89.
In the paper under review the author completes this last result, establishing the conjecture for k =
4. The key step in the proof of his result is to show that the squaring operation Sq0 on (F2
ADk) ,
defined in [Nguy ̃ˆen H ̃u’u Vi.ˆet Hu’ng, op. cit.], commutes with the classical squaring operation
Sq0 on Extk
A(F2,F2) through the 'k. To this end, the explicit chain-level representation of the
Lannes-Zarati dual map '
k [see Nguy ̃ˆen H ̃u’u Vi.ˆet Hu’ng, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001),
no. 11, 4447–4460 (electronic); MR1851178 (2002g:55032)] plays a key role and leads to the
following equivalent formulation of the conjecture taken into account: the Dickson invariants are
homologically trivial in TorAk
(F2,F2)
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
No full textMost common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits(1), but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait(2,3). The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P<0.001). Second, the likely causal gene is often located near the most strongly associated variant: in 13 of 21 loci containing a known skeletal growth gene, that gene was closest to the associated variant. Third, at least 19 loci have multiple independently associated variants, suggesting that allelic heterogeneity is a frequent feature of polygenic traits, that comprehensive explorations of already-discovered loci should discover additional variants and that an appreciable fraction of associated loci may have been identified. Fourth, associated variants are enriched for likely functional effects on genes, being over-represented among variants that alter amino-acid structure of proteins and expression levels of nearby genes. Our data explain approximately 10% of the phenotypic variation in height, and we estimate that unidentified common variants of similar effect sizes would increase this figure to approximately 16% of phenotypic variation (approximately 20% of heritable variation). Although additional approaches are needed to dissect the genetic architecture of polygenic human traits fully, our findings indicate that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways
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