5,878 research outputs found
Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
($35.00)Publisher PD
Truth in Fiction
No full textAccording to literary tradition and genre classification, fiction has often been regarded as writing that lacks a foundation of truth. However, this does not necessarily mean that fiction contains no elements of truth. In this thesis, Timothy Baker argues that fiction contains traces of truth - truths that may not be fundamentally based on facts, yet can still be recognized as embodying the deep-seated essence of truth. These “essential truths”, though largely shunned from the nonfiction genre, can be utilized to establish the groundwork of fiction - making the genre a reflection of reality itself - instead of a captured moment of reality. Fiction that contains essential truths, though not based on actual events, can still be recognized as realistic and existentially valuable. This thesis includes three short works of creative writing by Timothy Baker: “Letters from Llea a creative essay, Perfection, a short story, and Desperate Desires, also a short story all of which, he argues in the introduction, contain essential truths
A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
No full textIn this thesis two interralted tasks are undertaken. First, this thesis is an attempt to gain mastery of an interpretive methodology, namely, socio-rhetorical analysis. Second, by looking at a crucial text that has major implications for the contemporary church, I have applied this method of analysis to a particularly Scriptural text, namely, 1 Timothy 2:8-15. In this thesis I demonstrate using socio-rhetorical analysis that the discourse contained in 1 Timothy 2:8-15 constitutes baptised patriarchal cultural practices and traditions from the dominant Greco-Roman culture of the first century. I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from the ""secular"" Greco-Roman culture of the day and transposed, using Scriptural texts as authentication, into the Christian community at Ephesus. Thus the text is simply re-enforcing normative Greco-Roman cultural values upon Christian women and camouflaging it as a Christian norm in order to persuade women to conform to patriarchal cultural standards. Such persuasion, however, is hardly required unless one has already accepted cultural assumptions about the subordination and silencing (objectification) of women in an androcentric hegemonic culture
Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker
No full textAn analysis of the confessional performances of performance artist, Bobby Baker, in particular 'Box Story'
Truth in Fiction
No full textAccording to literary tradition and genre classification, fiction has often been regarded as writing that lacks a foundation of truth. However, this does not necessarily mean that fiction contains no elements of truth. In this thesis, Timothy Baker argues that fiction contains traces of truth - truths that may not be fundamentally based on facts, yet can still be recognized as embodying the deep-seated essence of truth. These “essential truths”, though largely shunned from the nonfiction genre, can be utilized to establish the groundwork of fiction - making the genre a reflection of reality itself - instead of a captured moment of reality. Fiction that contains essential truths, though not based on actual events, can still be recognized as realistic and existentially valuable. This thesis includes three short works of creative writing by Timothy Baker: “Letters from Llea" a creative essay, "Perfection," a short story, and "Desperate Desires," also a short story all of which, he argues in the introduction, contain essential truths.SUNY BrockportEnglishMaster of Arts (MA)English Master’s These
Royal Religious Authority: Morocco’s "Commander of the Faithful"
No full textKing Mohammed VI of Morocco has cultivated the country’s image as a bastion of moderate Islam and of himself as a strategic partner, but to what extent does his international reputation correspond to public opinion in Morocco? In this paper, the author evaluates the domestic standing of the king and other religious figures as part of a larger Baker Institute study (https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new-guardians-religion-islam-and-authority-middle-east/) on religious authority in the Middle East
Cross-orientation masking is speed invariant between ocular pathways but speed dependent within them
No full textIn human (D. H. Baker, T. S. Meese, & R. J. Summers, 2007b) and in cat (B. Li, M. R. Peterson, J. K. Thompson, T. Duong, & R. D. Freeman, 2005; F. Sengpiel & V. Vorobyov, 2005) there are at least two routes to cross-orientation suppression (XOS): a broadband, non-adaptable, monocular (within-eye) pathway and a more narrowband, adaptable interocular (between the eyes) pathway. We further characterized these two routes psychophysically by measuring the weight of suppression across spatio-temporal frequency for cross-oriented pairs of superimposed flickering Gabor patches. Masking functions were normalized to unmasked detection thresholds and fitted by a two-stage model of contrast gain control (T. S. Meese, M. A. Georgeson, & D. H. Baker, 2006) that was developed to accommodate XOS. The weight of monocular suppression was a power function of the scalar quantity ‘speed’ (temporal-frequency/spatial-frequency). This weight can be expressed as the ratio of non-oriented magno- and parvo-like mechanisms, permitting a fast-acting, early locus, as befits the urgency for action associated with high retinal speeds. In contrast, dichoptic-masking functions superimposed. Overall, this (i) provides further evidence for dissociation between the two forms of XOS in humans, and (ii) indicates that the monocular and interocular varieties of XOS are space/time scale-dependent and scale-invariant, respectively. This suggests an image-processing role for interocular XOS that is tailored to natural image statistics—very different from that of the scale-dependent (speed-dependent) monocular variety
The R Journal (June 2012) 4(1): Complete Issue
No full textContributed Research Articles
Analysing Seasonal Data, Adrian G. Barnett, Peter Baker, and Annette J. Dobson
MARSS: Multivariate Autoregressive State-space Models for Analyzing Time-series Data, Elizabeth E. Holmes, Eric J. Ward, and Kellie Wills
openair: Data Analysis Tools for the Air Quality Community, Karl Ropkins and David C. Carslaw
Foreign Library Interface, Daniel Adler
Vdgraph: A Package for Creating Variance Dispersion Graphs, John Lawson
xgrid and R: Parallel Distributed Processing Using Heterogeneous Groups of Apple Computers, Sarah C. Anoke, Yuting Zhao, Rafael Jaeger, and Nicholas J. Horton
maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification, Timothy P. Jurka
Sumo: An Authenticating Web Application with an Embedded R Session, Timothy T. Bergsma and Michael S. Smith
Who Did What? The Roles of R Package Authors and How to Refer to Them, Kurt Hornik, Duncan Murdoch, and Achim Zeileis
News and Notes
Changes in R 70
Changes on CRAN 80
R Foundation News 9
Japanese displacement
No full textArticle written by Thomas R. Bodine about Japanese American incarceration, incarceration camps, and race and racism.The Bishop James Chamberlain Baker Collection includes letters, documents, and articles about Japanese Americans during World War II. Subjects in the collection include Japanese Americans mass removal, Pearl Harbor and the aftermath, religion, and support from the non-Japanese American community. The collection was digitized and made accessible online by CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Police, Technique, and Ellulian Critique: Evaluating Just Policing
No full textA chapter by Andy Alexis Baker called Police, technique, and Ellulian critique : evaluating just policing from the book Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War edited by Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy
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