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Generically distributed investments on flexible projects and endogenous growth
No full textIn this paper we study an endogenous growth model where investments are (generically) distributed over multi-period flexible projects leading to new capital once completed. Recently developed techniques in dynamic programming are adapted and used to unveil the global dynamics of this model. Based on this analytical ground, several numerical exercises are performed to show the quantitative relevance of the analytical findings with an emphasis on the relation between project features and economic growth and speed of convergence toward the balanced growth path. © 2015 The Author(s
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An Interview with Dr. Bambi Schieffelin
No full textOn June 12, 2018, Dr. Hansun Zhang Waring’s Language Socialization class at Teachers College, Columbia University had the great pleasure and honor of being joined by Dr. Bambi Schieffelin, Collegiate Professor at New York University. A co-founder (with Elinor Ochs) of the field of language socialization, Dr. Schieffelin has done extensive research on linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, missionization, and much, much more. She is the author of the ethnography The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children, co-author of the classic chapter “Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications,” and co-author of the Handbook of Language Socialization—a foundational reference work for all language socialization scholars. In this interview, she shares her path to Language Socialization (LS), experiences from her groundbreaking LS work in Papua New Guinea, affordances, obstacles, and recent developments in LS research, and key takeaways for LS researchers
An Interview with Dr. Bambi Schieffelin
No full textOn June 12, 2018, Dr. Hansun Zhang Waring’s Language Socialization class at Teachers College, Columbia University had the great pleasure and honor of being joined by Dr. Bambi Schieffelin, Collegiate Professor at New York University. A co-founder (with Elinor Ochs) of the field of language socialization, Dr. Schieffelin has done extensive research on linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, missionization, and much, much more. She is the author of the ethnography The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children, co-author of the classic chapter “Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications,” and co-author of the Handbook of Language Socialization—a foundational reference work for all language socialization scholars. In this interview, she shares her path to Language Socialization (LS), experiences from her groundbreaking LS work in Papua New Guinea, affordances, obstacles, and recent developments in LS research, and key takeaways for LS researchers
The Death of Mother(s): The Disruption, Destruction and Renewal of Forest Life in Disney’s Bambi (1942)
No full textBambi (1942) was the fifth, and last, film in the first wave of animated features released by the Walt Disney Company from 1937 onwards. All five films are frequently mentioned in listings of the most terrifying childhood movie viewing experiences. It is usually said that in the case of Bambi the fright is caused by the scene in which the child protagonist’s mother is shot (off-screen). But there is another terrifying aspect of the film, mentioned less often. It is the climactic invasion of the forest by the (off-screen) hunters, indiscriminately killing animals and accidentally causing an all-encompassing forest fire. People often use the phrase ‘Mother Nature’ (or ‘Mother Earth’) to refer to the fact that our planet has provided conditions for life to emerge and flourish. A powerful instantiation of ‘Mother Nature’ is the forest which is fuller of life than other land environments. The terrifying impact of Bambi is therefore to do with the two-fold loss of mothers: Bambi’s mother and ‘Mother Nature’ in the shape of the burning forest. Bambi’s world is destroyed twice: first the person he most depends on is taken away from him, then it seems that everything he has ever known is being destroyed by fire.
This essay first discusses the 1923 novel by Austrian author Felix Salten on which the film is based, highlighting both Salten’s genuine interest in the lives of animals and the allegorical dimensions of his animal tales. It then outlines how the novel came to be adapted, with reference to Hollywood’s long-standing investment in (animated and live action) animal stories, and Disney’s expansion into feature film production in the 1930s. The essay also examines the circular structure of Disney’s Bambi, the way it maps the seasons and an individual’s life stages onto each other, thus promising eternal continuation through renewal/rebirth even in the face of death and comprehensive destruction. The essay concludes with some reflections on the fact that the film, unlike the novel, almost completely avoids the issue of non-anthropogenic animal suffering and deaths in the forest. This raises the question whether animal welfare, ecological and environmentalist discourses focus, like Disney’s Bambi, only on animal suffering caused by humans, and, if they do, whether there might be a problem with this
El registro aremborrochivadado: documento y entorpecimiento temporal, en En el ojo de Bambi (2020), de Verónica Gerber Bicecci
No full textVerónica Gerber Bicecci, in her work En el ojo de Bambi (2020), situates the boundary between art and literature and proposes a narrative curatorship or curatorial tale, where the selected museum works orchestrate the story of an environmental and technological catastrophe, and whose composition resorts to strategies such as rewriting, appropriation (or disappropriation [Rivera Garza, 2013]), remix, intervention or montage. It is, then, a practice of writing with language itself, in which the author suspends the story, accelerates or postpones it, giving rise to an inscription of its textual and temporal relations
Testing the Bardeen metric with the black hole candidate in Cygnus X-1
No full textAbstractIn general, it is very difficult to test the Kerr-nature of an astrophysical black hole candidate, because it is not possible to have independent measurements of both the spin parameter a⁎ and possible deviations from the Kerr solution. Non-Kerr objects may indeed look like Kerr black holes with different spin. However, it is much more difficult to mimic an extremal Kerr black hole. The black hole candidate in Cygnus X-1 has the features of a near extremal Kerr black hole, and it is therefore a good object to test the Kerr black hole paradigm. The 3σ-bounds a⁎>0.95 and a⁎>0.983 reported in the literature and valid in the Kerr spacetime become, respectively, a⁎>0.78 and |g/M|<0.41, and a⁎>0.89 and |g/M|<0.28 in the Bardeen metric, where g is the Bardeen charge of the black hole
Is Felix Salten the author of the Mutzenbacher novel (1906)? Yes and no
No full textJosefine Mutzenbacher oder die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt, published in Vienna in 1906, represents one of the most fascinating cases of attribution of authorship in German literature. Although Josefine Mutzenbacher is usually attributed to Felix Salten, the author of the world-famous Bambi (1923), the novel’s authorship has never been confirmed, and many other candidates have been named as potential authors. Among them is Arthur Schnitzler, who published Reigen, a cycle of amorous adventures in Viennese society, in 1903. Some scholars, instead, have attributed the novel to such lesser-known writers as Ernst Klein and Willi Handl. The controversy surrounding the authorship of Josefine Mutzenbacher was the starting point for our stylometric analyses, and our results help to answer some unresolved questions in a debate that has lasted for more than 100 years. The analyses were performed using the R package Stylo, which enables an efficient application of Burrows’ Delta and its variants. Focusing on both the entire text and on the final pages, two different types of analysis were carried out: one combines 1200 different stylometric methods to compare the candidate authors Salten, Schnitzler, Bahr, Altenberg, Hofmannsthal, Klein and Handl; the other verifies the attribution using the ‘impostors’ method. The results show that the most probable author is Felix Salten, while none of the candidates could be identified as the author of the final pages, confirming the hypothesis that the text was left unfinished by Salten and completed by an as-yet-unidentified ghost-writer
Climate change mitigation in agroforestry systems: linking smallholders to forest carbon markets BAMBI L . SEMROC , GÖTZ SCHROTH , CELIA A . HARVEY ,
No full textPalliative care education : an evaluation of a course for general practitioners
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