22 research outputs found
Patani Semasa: An Exhibition on Contemporary Art from the Golden Peninsula
Get PDFExcerpt: The exhibition Patani Semasa: An Exhibition on Contemporary Art from the Golden Peninsula was held at the ILHAM Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from March 25 to July 15. The first incarnation of this exhibition was presented at the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from July 19, 2017, to February 14, 2018. The exhibition featured artworks from 28 artists either from the Patani region in southern Thailand or those who were artistically inspired by the history and culture of that area
Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna
Get PDFExcerpt: The exhibition Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna was held at the National Gallery of Singapore from November 16, 2017, to March 11, 2018. On display were over 100 artworks from the two artists, brought together for the very first time, and also likely the most comprehensive ever displayed for each artist.1 In both breadth and depth, the scale of the exhibition was a momentous one. Some artworks had never been shown outside of their home countries, and some had never been formally exhibited prior to the show in Singapore
Transitioning Adult Education Students into Community College
Get PDFThesis (Ph.D.), College of Education, Washington State UniversityAt both a national and state level there is a growing need for skilled workers in the labor force. Educating low skilled adults is one way to address this need. Adult education programs teach low skilled adults basic academic skills to prepare them for work and life in U.S. society. Until recently little attention was paid to transitioning students from adult education programs into college. Since 2004 the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) has led colleges across the state in launching multiple initiatives designed to help transition adult education students into college programs. In this exploratory study, the author investigated elements of a transition effort at the Grandview Campus of Yakima Valley Community College (YVCC). He specifically sought to determine the relationship between the number of students transitioning from the YVCC adult education program into college classes and the campus climate, student support services, college orientation activities, enrollment in specific transition classes, student age, student gender and student ethnicity. Using the results of correlation and regression analyses coupled with qualitative data from focus groups, the author found that certain support services, some orientation activities, student age, student gender and enrollment in transition classes were related to students transitioning. Additionally, the author concluded that elements of campus climate, college faculty, individualized attention from college employees, support from fellow students, and family support also had an impact on students transitioning.Department of Educational Leadership, Washington State Universit
Mentoring Programs in Small Districts: Helping New Teachers Thrive
Get PDFThesis (Ph.D.), College of Education, Washington State UniversityNew teachers continue to leave the profession at high rates although retention rates vary from school to school, districtto district, and state to state. Many districts have implemented mentoring programs to improve retention of and support for new teachers in their schools. Often these models rely on full-time release mentors, which is prohibitive for small districts in terms of cost and personnel. The author studied five small districts that used published standards to create and implement mentoring programs that fit district needs and resources. In this qualitative study, the researcher identified three areas of significance to the mentoring programs: Importance of relationships, becoming part of the profession, and implementation of a well developed plan. Implications for other small districts planning to implement a mentoring program and impacts of Adult Learning Theory on designing a mentoring program are also discussed.Department of Educational Leadership, Washington State Universit
Mai xiang suan fa gong yi de shang biao tu an fan shi zhuan yi
No full textUnauthorised use of the trademark logo on social media on a massive scale has led to frequent legal conflicts between trademark holders, social media providers and internet users and legal uncertainty. The thesis concludes that trademark infringement and dilution laws in the U.S. and EU are inadequate to solve this problem. The trademark logo on social media should be protected against unauthorised use, even though it is not used to sell the good or service the trademark indicates, but is used in a commercial environment. Two premises for any solution are that first the enforcement should be made automatic, since litigation on a case-by-case basis is not scalable, and second that the safe harbour provisions for online service providers, that aggravate the problem, should be substituted for strict liability. The trademark logo can be seen as the personification of the trademark holder, and one can argue that the stability of the trademark logo is not only in the interest of the trademark holder but also of society at large. One can argue that trademark dilution already provides a kind of moral right of integrity for the trademark logo. However, this right is limited to trademark logos that are considered famous or have a reputation, and, moreover, that are used in a commercial way. This thesis argues that also the trademark logo that did not reach the requested level of fame or reputation and is used in a non-commercial way should also be protected against unauthorised use on social media. Therefore the moral right of integrity is proposed for the trademark logo. Until the law will be amended to include a moral right of integrity for the trademark logo, this thesis suggests to implement proactive solutions in the walled gardens of social media as a testing ground for potential legislation. This automated solution is scalable, makes intellectual property protection and enforcement not only effective but also more calibratable to social policy goals and will inevitable lead to an algorithmic justice.社交媒體上大規模未經授權使用的商標標誌為商標持有人、社交媒體提供商和互聯網用戶之間帶來法律衝突，更帶來法律上的不確定性。本文提出的結論是美國與歐盟有關商標被侵犯和稀釋的法律並不足以解決這個問題。縱使在社交媒體上的商標標誌未被用作銷售貨品或服務，但由於是在商業環境使用，所以法律應該保障其免被未經授權使用。任何解決方法都必須基於兩個前設。首先由於按個別情況興訟的可行性低，所以執法應該自動化。其二網絡服務供應商所依賴的避風港條款只會使問題更加嚴重，因此應該採用嚴格法律責任。商標標誌可被視為商標持有人的縮影，而商標標誌的穩定性除了對商標持有人有利之外，可謂對廣大社會也有裨益。法律所保障商標免被稀釋本身可說是一種對商標標誌完整性的精神權利的認可。但現時只有被認為著名，有聲譽，以及作商業用途的商標標誌才享有此權利。本文強調一般未達到著名或有聲譽，以及未作商業用途的商標標誌在社交媒體上應該受到同等免被未經授權使用的保障。就此，本文提出商標標誌應享有完整性的精神權利。在修法保障商標標誌完整性的精神權利前，本文建議在社交媒體這個空間裡採納積極的措施，以測試未來法律條文的可行性。此自動化的方案有可擴展性，使保障和執行知識產權既有效率，又可對準社會政策的目標，更必然會帶來算法公義。Friedmann, Danny.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 354-380).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 05, October, 2016).Friedmann, Danny.Detailed summary in vernacular field only
How to Think about Antisemitism
No full textAlmost two decades ago, Daniel Goldhagen wrote a book about the holocaust that changed the entire discussion. For the first time, people were forced to consider how everyday Germans influenced the genocide. Since then, he’s written more books on related topics and watched as global antisemitism got worse and worse, publishing, finally, a powerful study called The Devil that Never Dies. On this episode Danny and Jack have a wide-ranging discussion about antisemitism itself, Israel, the use of language to describe Jews, and even Microsoft Word!
Daniel Goldhagen is the author numerous books, including The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism; A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, and the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, which has been published in fifteen languages, and named by Time one of the two best non-fiction books of 1996 and by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungas “the most spectacular nonfiction success of this year.” He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a professor in their Government and Social Studies departments until he became an independent scholar. He is currently affiliated with Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
A written version of the episode’s monologue can be found here.https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/1066/thumbnail.jp
Novel technologies in the investigation of the neuronal dynamics of mouse forelimb movements
No full textPh.D.Innovative technologies are crucial to advancing our understanding of the brain. In vivo two-photon fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool that enables observation of the living brain. When combined with fluorescent functional indicators, this technique can be used to acquire chronic recording of large ensembles of neural activity in an awake behaving head-fixed animal, and can simultaneously exploit a wealth of transgenic tools to dissect structural connectivity and plasticity within neural circuits. Designing and constructing a custom microscope provides the flexibility to engineer towards specific imaging requirements, and the freedom to augment its functionality with novel features.A universal challenge for in vivo optical imaging is to overcome the intrinsic light-scattering properties of tissue, which severely attenuates excitation photons and randomly disperses photons emitted by a sample, resulting in severely limited imaging depths. To overcome this issue, a method was developed which employs Monte Carlo ray tracing to simulate photon trajectories through scattering medium, combined with an iterative algorithm to assess the collection efficiency of all possible lens configurations in a constrained detector structure, and arrive at an optimal model. Implementation of this model yielded superior imaging depths in vivo compared to a naïve design.To advance the system beyond its basic capabilities, a modular focal plane adjustment system driven by a pair of electronically-tuneable lenses was designed and implemented to enable high-speed dual-layer imaging at 15 Hz each, in tandem with the resonant scanning system without compromises in imaging resolution. Axial shift of up to 350 μm is achievable without any curvature of the focal plane, but with 35% reduction of the field-of-view along the Y-dimension. Demonstration of dual-layer imaging is performed in the mouse neocortex, simultaneously acquiring calcium transients from Layer 2/3 soma and Layer 1 apical dendrites.Experimental paradigms for testing animal behaviour must be adapted to comply with the head-fixated requirement of in vivo two-photon imaging. A novel 2 degree-of-freedom robotic manipulandum was developed to aid in the study of complex forelimb movements in mice. The robotic system is driven by a dedicated microcontroller that communicates with a PC-client to perform fully automated experiments, while remaining synchronized with other data acquisition modalities.C57BL/6 mice were trained to operate the robotic manipulandum in “centre-out” and two-segment path movements, while in vivo calcium imaging was performed, alternating between the caudal forelimb area (CFA) and rostral forelimb areas (RFA) of the motor cortex. A greater proportion of neurons in the RFA were significantly correlated to a highly trained motor segment compared to the CFA, suggesting a greater role of the RFA in the acquisition of novel movements.創新性技術對於提高我們對大腦的理解至關重要。體內雙光子熒光顯微鏡是觀察活體大腦的強大工具。當與功能熒光指示劑結合使用時，該技術可用於在頭部固定的清醒動物中獲取大量神經元活動的慢性記錄，並且可以與大量的轉基因工具同時使用，來解析神經迴路內的結構連接性和可塑性。設計和構建定制顯微鏡為研究提供了靈活性，可以針對特定的成像要求進行設計，並且可以通過新穎的功能來增加其工作性能。體內光學成像的普遍挑戰是克服組織固有的光散射。光散射嚴重地削弱激發光子並隨機分散樣品發射的光子，導致成像深度嚴重受限。為了克服這個問題，本研究開發了一種採用蒙特卡羅射線跟踪來模擬通過散射介質的光子軌跡的方法，結合迭代算法來評估受限探測器結構中所有可能的透鏡配置的採集效率，並得到最優模型。與初始設計相比，該模型的實施產生了較好的體內成像深度。為了在基本功能之上提升使系統的功能，本研究設計並實現了由一對電子可調鏡頭驅動的模塊化焦平面調節系統，以便能夠以 15 Hz 的速度進行高速雙層掃描成像，並無損成像分辨率。該技術可以實現高達 350 μm 的的軸向移動而沒有視場的任何曲率，但是沿 Y-維度視場範圍減少 35％。我們用該技術在小鼠新腦皮層中進行了雙層成像的示範，同時從第 2/3層和第 1 層頂端樹突獲取鈣信號軌跡。用於測試動物行為的實驗策略必須符合體內雙光子成像的頭部固定要求。本研究開發了一種新穎的具有兩個自由度的機器操作平台，以幫助研究小鼠複雜的前肢運動。機器系統由專門的微控制器驅動，該微控制器與PC客戶端進行溝通，以執行全自動化實驗，同時保持與其他模式數據採集的同步。C57BL/6小鼠被訓練操作上述操控平台，做“由中心向外”的上肢運動和兩段運動路徑的上肢運動，同時進行腦部鈣成像，同步收集後部前肢區域（CFA）和前部前肢區域（RFA）運動神經元的活動。與 CFA 相比，RFA 中較大比例的神經元與高度訓練的運動片段顯著相關，表明 RFA 在習得新動作中的作用更大。Chan, Cheuk Wing Danny."December 2017."Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2018.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-194).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 25, May, 2021)
Kirk, Robert Warren
No full textMemorial Statement for Professor Robert Warren Kirk, D.V.M., Ph.D. (1922-2011) who was in general veterinary practice in several states after earning his DVM at Cornell in 1946. He returned to Cornell in 1952 and helped usher in a new age of pet health care at Cornell. In addition to being a superb teacher of veterinary students and postgraduate trainees, Dr. Kirk held a number of College administrative positions including head of the teaching hospital, director of the Small Animal Clinic, and chair of the Clinical Sciences Department. He was a prolific author that included many editions of Current Veterinary Therapy, Small Animal Dermatology, among other books. He was a founding member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, past president of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology, and recipient of numerous professional awards. At the time of his retirement in 1985, he was one of the most decorated and widely-known small animal veterinarians in the world
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Commercial navigation in the Greek and Roman world
Get PDFtextThe economic development of Greece and Rome hinged directly on the ability of commercial vessels to transport large volumes of goods across the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Archaeology has revealed the sizes, construction methods and cargos of these ships, but the navigational techniques that were employed to direct them from port to port remain unclear and elusive. In ancient literature, the oft-repeated themes of storm, shipwreck and death at sea led to the popular assumption among scholars that seafarers developed habits to minimize their exposure to this hostile element--hugging the shore to avoid the open sea, putting in at night, sailing only in summer, and using 'seafaring manuals' to help guide their way. While several recent studies have made some strides in overturning this overly simplistic view by highlighting aspects of navigation in certain areas and in certain periods, the 'standard model' lingers in both scholarly and popular imagination. This study offers a comprehensive review of the scattered textual and archaeological evidence pertaining to ancient seafaring and navigation, and a major reinterpretation of ancient commercial navigation in both periods. Chapters 2-3 explore the parameters of the maritime environment (coasts, winds, currents and visibility) and the human responses to them in the form of ships, seasonal rhythms and maritime corridors. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the ways in which Greek and Roman sailing masters accounted for the fundamental requirements of navigation--the determination of direction, position, speed and distance--using wind roses as a 'compass' and various stars and star groups at night. Chapter 6 treats the question of whether seafarers used written guides or experience, or both, to help determine their position. Chapter 7 explores the historical figure of the sailing master himself and integrates a wide range of evidence to reconstruct the navigational routines of the crews of Alexandrian grain ships during the Roman imperial era. My research concludes that both coastal and open-sea sailing were matters of routine in the commercial sector, that commercial seafarers did indeed sail at night and employ the stars to deduce navigational information, that winter sailing was a widespread practice, and that crews employed navigational strategies to weather storms, usually successfully.Classic
