169 research outputs found
Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making
No full textWeaving together first-person narratives of art practice, analytical accounts, and ethnographic research by artists and scholars in art history, theater, new media, music, and anthropology, this volume offers an overview of the wide range of conditions, processes, and motivations for art-making among asylum seekers in view of Israel’s continued legal obfuscation of the refugee status process.
With attention to the theorization of artistic production as a form of active, effective citizenship, it decentres these discourses to account for illiberal political contexts, geopolitical border zones and new disciplinary orientations, considering art-making in contexts of danger and incarceration. This carefully curated collection seeks to highlight the place of African asylum seekers in a increasingly illiberal, nationalist Israel, and the role of art as a resistant, affirming, and life-sustaining practice.
A study of the social, political and aesthetic considerations that asylum-seeking artists bring to their practice, Art Practice and Asylum in Israel will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration and diaspora, art activism and refugee studies
Wireless technology health risks report, SB 283
No full textauthors: Ali Hamade (PhD, DABT, Deputy state epidemiologist, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority), Blake Buchalter (MPH, Graduate student, Epidemiology Graduate Program, Oregon State University), Hillary Haskins (MS, MPH, Health physicist, Radiation Protection Services, Oregon Health Authority), Willie Chun Wai Leung (MPH, MS, Graduate student, Kinesiology Graduate Program, Oregon State University) ; reviewers: André Ourso (JD, MPH, Administrator, Center for Health Protection, Oregon Health Authority), David Howe (MA, Section manager, Radiation Protection Services, Oregon Health Authority), Dean E. Sidelinger (MD, MSEd, Health officer and state epidemiologist, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority), Duyen L. Ngo (PhD, MPH, Surveillance technical lead, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, Oregon Health Authority).Title from PDF cover (viewed on January 22, 2021)."OHA 3498 (12/2020)"--Back cover.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-49).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Wilde Stein (University of Maine) Records, 1972-2023
No full textThe University of Maine student group Wilde Stein (now Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance) is a student organization aimed to spread awareness and acceptance of sexuality, gender, and the LGBTQIA+ community across campus. Wilde Stein partners on events such as Coming Out Week and Pride Week to bring students, faculty, and the public together in an open and accepting environment. Wilde Stein was founded in the fall of 1973 by a group of students led by Karen E. Bye and Sturgis Haskins and was formally recognized as a student organization by the Student Senate in October of 1973. The group was named after Irish author, playwright, and gay man Oscar Wilde, and American author, playwright, and lesbian Gertrude Stein. In addition to Bye and Haskins among the early members of Wilde Stein were: Steve Bull (who succeeded Haskins as chair), John Frank, John Noble, Danny Estes, Robert Major, and Dan MacNaughton.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1545/thumbnail.jp
Uncanny tourism : rhetorical placemaking in Sleepy Hollow, NY
No full textMay 2021School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesIn the village of Sleepy Hollow, NY, local author Washington Irving’s 1819 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the basis for a Halloween season tourism industry. Combining a rhetorical analysis enriched by ethnographic fieldwork with affect theory literature, this dissertation examines how Sleepy Hollow placemakers utilize Irving’s “Legend” and uncanny theming at tourist sites and events.This project forwards the concept of uncanny tourism as a practical placemaking strategy. An ambient sense of the uncanny is inherent at sites like Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and Irving’s preserved home at Sunnyside, where the foregrounding of death through the cemetery setting and memorializing of a deceased author encourages visitors to contemplate mortality and the supernatural. I argue that deliberate use of uncanny affect as a theming resource can be a beneficial draw for niche tourism, particularly at historic sites. This dissertation centralizes walking practice as a primary tourist mobility and means of experiencing uncanny affect in Sleepy Hollow.The context for this study is the 2019-2020 bicentennial celebration of Irving’s story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. Over 18 months, local government leaders and historical societies presented educational programming aimed at reinforcing but also resituating the legacies of Irving and his “Legend” for the current cultural climate and the needs of today’s Sleepy Hollow community and visitors. This bicentennial positions Sleepy Hollow to merge cultural efforts in preservation of local heritage and promotion of the arts with infrastructure developments like an improved trail system connecting attractions and a new Sleepy Hollow Common. The bicentennial addressed dual goals of reevaluating the “Legend” as constitutive rhetoric for the area and expanding the tourism traditionally concentrated around Halloween across the calendar year.Ph
Reliability Systems Engineering for the Shell Eco-marathon Competition
No full textToday, companies have a great attention to their product's cost and time-to-
market, to become more competitive in the global market. Reliability engineering
as one of the most important topics in system engineering is employed by compa-
nies to not only assess the value of the product, but also to identify, prevent, and
reduce the risks of potential failures associated with design and manufacture of a
product.
This study is conducted to implement reliability systems engineering in DNVGLFF
2015 as a partial preparation of DNVGL prototype to participate in SEM 2015.
The author's objective is to investigate the eect of reliability engineering on
DNVGL prototype system. The scope of this thesis is mainly focused on the
initial three stages of the system life-cycle.
The former DNVGL team have been faced with problems in the prototype's brak-
ing system during the completion. As a result, the author decided to apply design
for reliability (DFR) techniques on braking sub-system with the aim of identifying
potential failures and propose possible solutions to mitigate their risks. In doing
so, the reliability methods including RBD, FMECA, and FTA are employed in
this thesis
Reliability Systems Engineering for the Shell Eco-marathon Competition
No full textToday, companies have a great attention to their product's cost and time-to-
market, to become more competitive in the global market. Reliability engineering
as one of the most important topics in system engineering is employed by compa-
nies to not only assess the value of the product, but also to identify, prevent, and
reduce the risks of potential failures associated with design and manufacture of a
product.
This study is conducted to implement reliability systems engineering in DNVGLFF
2015 as a partial preparation of DNVGL prototype to participate in SEM 2015.
The author's objective is to investigate the eect of reliability engineering on
DNVGL prototype system. The scope of this thesis is mainly focused on the
initial three stages of the system life-cycle.
The former DNVGL team have been faced with problems in the prototype's brak-
ing system during the completion. As a result, the author decided to apply design
for reliability (DFR) techniques on braking sub-system with the aim of identifying
potential failures and propose possible solutions to mitigate their risks. In doing
so, the reliability methods including RBD, FMECA, and FTA are employed in
this thesis
LC/MS peptide alignment and identification approach based on replicate spectral data
No full textThis item is available only to currently enrolled UTSA students, faculty or staff. To download, navigate to Log In in the top right-hand corner of this screen, then select Log in with my UTSA ID.Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) is becoming a widely-used approach for quantifying the protein composition of complex samples. The LC-MS spectra show the intensity of a peptide feature with a specific mass-charge ratio (m/z) and retention time. This technology has been used to compare complex biological samples from multiple LC-MS experiments. One challenge for comparison is to match corresponding peptide features from different LC-MS experiments. Alignment corrects for experimental variations in the chromatography, which is an important technology for the comparison of LC-MS experiments.
The corresponding feature pair is two features that are generated exactly by the same peptide in replicates. There are two key steps for corresponding feature identification: alignment and identification. Alignment gives the corresponding and non-corresponding feature pairs together and the identification step can choose the corresponding feature out of the total pairs.
Before the alignment and identification steps, it is needed to perform LC peak detection accurately. Instead of checking MS templates at the base position, the author checks the consistency of isotope patterns on the premises that peptides produce consistent isotope patterns on scans within their elution periods. After accurate elution peak detection, the author obtains the candidate elution profiles for the peptides. The author verifies the interval detection method on SILAC data. The dissertation compared several quantification method based on the accurate interval detection. The performance of H/L ratio is much better than the result from Maxquant.
Common alignment methods use warping functions to correct elution time shifts between two different LC-MS datasets to identify corresponding features (LC peaks registered by the same peptide). Although a warping function can correct the mean difference of elution time shifts, it alone cannot resolve the ambiguity in alignment completely because elution time shifts are random. Instead the author explored the R-statistic to measure the similarity in LC peak shapes between corresponding feature pairs for alignment, which means the correlation between two elution profiles.
In Super-SILAC labeled data, based on MS/MS identifications, considered that the LC peak shape is an important factor for alignment, the author proposed a Statistical Corresponding Feature Identification Algorithm (SCFIA) based on both time shifts and the similarity of LC peak shapes between corresponding features. The author tested SCFIA on publicly available datasets and compared its performance with that of warping function based methods. The accuracy and the number of detected corresponding features are improved significantly.
In 18O labeled data, as the author mentioned above, warping functions are commonly used to correct elution time shifts, which cannot resolve the ambiguity completely because elution time shifts are unpredicted. So the author takes peak shape, labeling efficiency, peptide isotope pattern and peptide predicted elution time into consideration.
The author compared the algorithm, which is not only based on elution time shift but also many other parameters, to the other software. The result shows a great improvement.Electrical and Computer Engineerin
The campaign of one day: a poem, in two cantos
No full textAppendix, pages [33]-42, contains "Occasional poems by the same author."Mode of access: Internet
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