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Fate oftubercle bacilli outside the animal body
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Previous issue date: 1912"""This is a comparison bulletin with no. 149 of the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station issued under date of February, 1911, entitled Tuberculosis of Farm Animals, by Chas. F. Briscoe and W.J. MacNeal""--p. [277]."Cover title.Bibliography: p. 366-375
Fate of tubercle bacilli outside the animal body /
No full textCover title."This is a comparison bulletin with no. 149 of the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station issued under date of February, 1911, entitled Tuberculosis of Farm Animals, by Chas. F. Briscoe and W.J. MacNeal"--p. [277].Bibliography: p. 366-375.Mode of access: Internet
International human resource management
No full textThis up-to-date, comprehensive reference was written in response to the expanding role of international content within Human Resource Management. Reflecting both empirical research and the state of practice in the industry, it reflects information from consulting firms, national and global HRM conferences, and interviews with HRM managers in multinational and global firms. To reinforce concepts and principles, author Dennis R. Briscoe incorporates IHRM in Action boxes featuring actual companies. In addition, an entire chapter (9) explores the future of IHRM, complete with the latest references and research
Determinants of diarrheal disease in Jakarta
No full textIn this report, the authors develop and estimate a model of household defensive behavior and illness. Using cross-section data from a household survey in Jakarta, they observe defensive behavior (washing hands after using the toilet) consistent with expectations: defensive effort intensifies with exposure to contamination, and with income and education. Variables associated with the cost of defensive behavior - such as interruptions in the water supply - reduce defensive behavior. The data suggest that wealthier households are no less vulnerable to illness. The water sources that supply the wealthy (the water company and private wells) are disrupted more often, interfering with their defensive behavior. There is also evidence, although weak, to support findings by van der Slice and Briscoe (1993): that pathogens within a household are less harmful to household members than are pathogens originating from other households. Given the opportunity and knowledge, individuals try to modify the effect of contamination on the incidence of diarrhea. But diarrhea's inccidence is also affected by decisions and problems outside the realm of the household, including the performance of the water company.Water Conservation,Water and Industry,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Sanitation and Sewerage,Town Water Supply and Sanitation,Water and Industry,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Water Conservation,Health Economics&Finance
Shape skeletons and shape similarity
No full textJudgments of similarity play an integral role in the human cognitive system as they provide a means for extracting information about how objects in the world relate to each other. This similarity information is applied in various cognitive tasks, such as categorization, recognition, and identification. Previous work suggests that perceived objects are cognitively represented in a psychological space where similarity is preserved, allowing for an internal structured representation of objects in the world (Shepard, 1964). For an internal representation to be formed, information about an object must be extracted. Shape, a highly informative and salient property of an object, is often used. Judgments made about shape similarity reflect how humans functionally represent and utilize shape information from an object. Computational shape representation has been achieved with varying amounts of success (e.g. Blum, 1973; Biederman, 1987). This variability is due, in part, to the complexity of mimicking the seemingly effortless human ability to make judgments about shape even in spite of numerous possible complications, such as sparse information and occlusions. This work presents the use of a Bayesian estimation of a shape's skeleton, the maximum a posteriori (MAP) skeleton (Feldman & Singh, 2006), as part of a generative model of shape that allows for the computation of a probabilistically-based similarity metric. This method of shape representation makes possible the prediction of similarity judgments reported by human subjects on collections of shapes that exhibit differences in both part structure and metric qualities and that have been generated by an unrelated process. It is argued that the derivation of a similarity metric from this model provides the previously unavailable relationship between shape representation and categorical judgments about shape.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-91)
A Record of Undying
No full text‘A RECORD OF UNDYING’ was first exhibited at Vivid Projects, Birmingham, 3 October – 15 November 2014 and curated by Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, exhibition curator and Honorary Research Associate in Digital Humanities, University of Birmingham.“The collaboration with Saxon’s late partner D. John Briscoe (1949-2013), addresses the phenomenon of the last taboo: dying and death. Rooted in lived experience, this exhibition presents a large-scale installation of photographs and moving image alongside Blissfully Gunned Down (1980 – 2013), a live durational 16mm performance, which reworks footage of D. John Briscoe’s ‘acted’ death in 1980 (first shown at N.O.WHERE, London, October 2013). With Briscoe as subject, Saxon developed intimate photographs and films shot during the period leading up to and including his partner’s death, incorporating the current historical presence of his own, sometimes fragile body as material alongside that of his late partner; the emotional and creative repercussions of this collaboration”. -YBC.This exhibition reveals the very private and intimate relationship forged in the ordinariness and complexity of dying and facilitating end of life care. It is an examination of the collisions between dying, death and associated rituals; bringing into question audience perceptions of viewing death and dying and its wider dissemination. The moving image and photographic works expand into an environment incorporating visual and material signifiers alluding to the institutional and domestic space occupied by Briscoe in his last weeks of life.An essay was commissioned for the exhibition brochure ‘Love’s Revival’, from Dr. Michelle Aaron (University of Birmingham) author of ‘Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I and Envisaging Death’.A Record of Undying gratefully acknowledges support from Ron Lane, George Saxon, Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, Invacare and Coventry University.Audience responses to ‘A Record of Undying’: “A remarkable heart aching and beautiful experience”"A masterpiece" “The performance was amazing, the anger & frantic energy”http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/progra…/a-record-of-undying/https://www.scribd.com/document/240262990/Vivid-Projects-presents-A-Record-Of-UndyingADDITIONAL Material:Brochure for Exhibition:http://keithdodds.com/2015/09/11/a-record-of-undying/https://www.artrabbit.com/events/a-record-of-undyinghttp://polaroidsandpolarbears.co.uk/close-record-undying-vivid-projects/http://www.picbod.co.uk/category/guest-speakers/https://twitter.com/emulambert/status/71047879514534707
A survey of the materials collection of the Texas Southern University library, Houston, Texas
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