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Portrait of Susan Davidson Wearing Western Wear, B
No full textPortrait of Susan Davidson wearing western wear. She looks into the camera as she points a firearm up to the sky.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy/4195/thumbnail.jp
Virtual Book Launch: Russ Davidson author of: Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
No full textRuss Davidson, author of Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico In conversation with Felipe Gonzales and Christine Sierra
Russ Davidson served as a curator of Latin American and Iberian collections and was a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004.
Phillip b. (Felipe) Gonzales is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. As a historical sociologist, his research has primarily focused on the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. He is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles on Nuevomexicano identity, politics, and economic status.
Christine Marie Sierra is a professor emerita of political science at the University of New Mexico and a former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Her teaching career at UNM spanned twenty-eight years, and her research has focused on the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in US politics, Mexican American activism on immigration policy, and Hispanic politics in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1091/thumbnail.jp
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Base composition of RNA obtained from motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
No full textPT: J; CR: DANEHOLT B, 1966, J NEUROCHEM, V13, P913 DAVIDSON TJ, J NEUROPATHOL EXP NE DAVIDSON TJ, 1981, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V40, P32 EDSTROM JE, 1964, METHODS CELL PHYSL, V1, P417 HARTMANN HA, 1968, ACTA NEUROPATH BERL, V11, P275 KOENIG H, 1969, MOTOR NEURON DISEASE, P347 RINGBORG U, 1966, BRAIN RES, V2, P296 SLAGEL DE, 1966, J NEUROPATH EXP NEUR, V25, P244; NR: 8; TC: 16; J9: J NEUROPATHOL EXP NEUROL; PG: 6; GA: LF726Source type: Electronic(1
Data Citation: Giving Credit where Credit is Due
No full textAn increasing amount of information is being published in structured databases and retrieved using queries, raising the question of how query results should be cited. Since there are a large number of possible queries over a database, one strategy is to specify citations to a small set of frequent queries-citation views-and use these to construct citations to other "general" queries. We present three approaches to implementing citation views and describe alternative policies for the joint, alternate and aggregated use of citation views. Extensive experiments using both synthetic and realistic citation views and queries show the tradeoffs between the approaches in terms of the time to generate citations, as well as the size of the resulting citation. They also show that the choice of policy has a huge effect both on performance and size, leading to useful guidelines for what policies to use and how to specify citation views
RNA-content and volume of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .2. The lumbar intumescence and nucleus doralis
No full textPT: J; CR: DAVIDSON TJ, J NEUROPATHOL EXP NE DEVI A, 1963, EXP CELL RES, V32, P242 EDSTROM JE, 1956, J NEUROCHEM, V1, P159 EDSTROM JE, 1964, METHODS CELL PHYSL, V1, P417 HYDEN H, 1964, BRAIN FUNCTION RNA B, V2, P29 MICKLEWRIGHT HL, 1953, EXP CELL RES, V4, P151 RINGBORG U, 1966, BRAIN RES, V2, P296 UEMURA E, 1978, BRAIN RES B, V3, P207 UEMURA E, 1979, EXP NEUROL, V65, P107 VONHAHN HP, 1966, GERONTOLOGY, V12, P18; NR: 10; TC: 29; J9: J NEUROPATHOL EXP NEUROL; PG: 6; GA: LF726Source type: Electronic(1
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No full textSECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF REPORT 17. 20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 16. PRICE CODE 15. NUMBER OF PAGES 14. SUBJECT TERMS 12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE 12a. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words) PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 6, AUTHOR(S) 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED 2. REPORT DATE 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) B. Chadwick B. Davidson T. Hampton SSC San Diego SSC San Diego San Diego, CA 92152--5001 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188), Washington, DC 20503
Feyerabend and incommensurability
No full textI consider only the semantic claims of Paul Feyerabend's incommensurability thesis. These semantic claims are that incommensurable scientific theories, taken paradigmatically as successive theories: (1) are inconsistent; (2) the terms of one theory differ in meaning to those of another incommensurable theory; and (3) the claims of one theory are largely logically independent of the other. Since the inconsistency claim (1) is essential to Feyerabend's argument (against the Received View on theory reduction and explanation), I claim that (2) and (3) must be understood in the light of (1), and that (3) must be revised to avoid contradiction with (1). Feyerabend's semantic theory supporting (3) is presented and found wanting. Two other main arguments against (3) are also considered. The first is the causal theory of reference (of Putnam and Devitt), including causal descriptive theories advocated by Kitcher and Psillos; none of these theories is found to offer compelling reasons to reject (3). The second main argument against (3) is Donald Davidson's essay 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme', and a close reading of Davidson's paper is offered. I find that Davidson does offer convincing reasons for rejecting any implication by (3) that the languages of incommensurable theories are not intertranslatable, or that such theories are closed cognitive frameworks. However, I agree with Larry Laudan that Davidson does not deliver a fatal blow to the semantic incommensurabihty thesis because: (a) incommensurability need not entail nontranslatability; and (b) Davidson's semantic arguments do not succeed in demonstrating that the very notion of a conceptual scheme is incoherent. I present briefly two versions of the semantic incommensurability thesis which are consistent in an interesting way with (1), (2) and a revised (3), namely taxonomic incommensurability and a model of misinterpretation in intractable conflicts
Output-sensitive evaluation of prioritized skyline queries
No full textSkylines assume that all attributes are equally important, as each dimension can always be traded off for another. Prioritized skylines (p-skylines) take into account non-compensatory preferences, where some dimensions are deemed more important than others, and trade-offs are constrained by the relative importance of the attributes involved.
In this paper we show that querying using non-compensatory preferences is computationally efficient. We focus on preferences that are representable with p-expressions, and develop an efficient in-memory divide-and-conquer algorithm for answering p-skyline queries. Our algorithm is output-sensitive; this is very desirable in the context of preference queries, since the output is expected to be, on average, only a small fraction of the input. We prove that our method is well behaved in both the worst- and the average-case scenarios. Additionally, we develop a general framework for benchmarking p-skyline algorithms, showing how to sample prioritized preference relations uniformly, and how to highlight the effect of data correlation on performance. We conclude our study with extensive experimental results
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