602 research outputs found
What Makes Indians Laugh': Surrealism, Ritual and Return in Steven Yazzie and Joseph Beuys
Full text linkabstract: This paper traces the shift into performative interactions by European scholars and artists as they sought or feigned interaction with the spirits and objects of Native American culture. I discuss the postwar artworks of Max Ernst, Joseph Beuys, and Steven Yazzie. I argue that each of these artists’ use of Native American objects goes beyond earlier surrealist appropriative and mimetic strategies. From a postcolonial position, these artworks address personal trauma as well as the collective trauma of colonialism. Aby Warburg’s late nineteenth-century travel to the American Southwest, and his resulting notion of an aesthetics of empathy, or of “mimesis through communion with/entering into the object,” becomes very relevant for Beuys’ work in particular. Furthermore these postwar artworks by Ernst, Beuys and Yazzie contain a comic element that invites laughter, a critical/therapeutic element that Pierre Clastres describes as a distinctly political act
A Cross-Layer Multicast-Push Unicast-Pull (MPUP) Architecture for Reliable File-Stream Distribution
No full textThe growing deployment of OpenFlow/SDN networks makes it increasingly possible to leverage network multi-cast services. This work proposes a novel cross-layer Multicast- Push Unicast Pull (MPUP) architecture that includes functionality in the application, transport and link layers to offer users a reliable file-stream distribution service to multiple subscribers. A prototype implementation of the MPUP architecture was realized in a new version of Local Data Manager (LDM), LDM7, a software program that has been in use since 1994 for real-time meteorology data distribution. LDM6, the currently deployed version, uses application-layer multicast. Experiment were run on the GENI infrastructure to compare LDM7 and LDM6. The two main findings are (i) LDM7 can be run at a higher sending rate than LDM6 allowing for improved performance (lower file-delivery latency), and (ii) to achieve the same performance, LDM7 uses significantly lower bandwidth and compute capacity. A three-fold improvement in performance improvement was possible with LDM7, and a bandwidth reduction from 350 Mbps to 21.4 Mbps was observed with 24 receivers.Peer reviewe
Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: The case of collections of journal papers
Full text linkIn this study, a mathematical treatment is proposed for analysis of entities and relations among entities in
complex networks consisting of cascaded bipartite networks. This treatment is applied to the case of
collections of journal papers. In this case, entities are distinguishable objects and concepts, such as papers,
references, paper authors, reference authors, paper journals, reference journals, institutions, terms, and term
definitions. Relations are associations between entity-types such as papers and the references they cite, or
paper authors and the papers they write. An entity-relationship model is introduced that explicitly shows
direct links between entity-types and possible useful indirect relations. From this a matrix formulation and
generalized matrix arithmetic are introduced that allow easy expression of relations between entities and
calculation of weights of indirect links and co-occurrence links. Occurrence matrices, equivalence
matrices, membership matrices and co-occurrence matrices are described. A dynamic model of growth
describes recursive relations in occurrence and co-occurrence matrices as papers are added to the paper
collection. Graph theoretic matrices are introduced to allow information flow studies of networks of papers
linked by their citations. Similarity calculations and similarity fusion are explained. Derivation of feature
vectors for pattern recognition techniques is presented. The relation of the proposed mathematical
treatment to seriation, clustering, multidimensional scaling, and visualization techniques is discussed. It is
shown that most existing bibliometric analysis techniques for dealing with collections of journal papers are
easily expressed in terms of the proposed mathematical treatment: co-citation analysis, bibliographic
coupling analysis, author co-citation analysis, journal co-citation analysis, Braam-Moed-vanRaan (BMV)
co-citation/co-word analysis, latent semantic analysis, hubs and authorities, and multidimensional scaling.
This report discusses an extensive software toolkit that was developed for this research for analyzing and
visualizing entities and links in a collection of journal papers. Additionally, an extensive case study is
presented, analyzing and visualizing 60 years of anthrax research through a collection of journal papers.
When dealing with complex networks that consist of cascaded bipartite networks, the treatment presented
here provides a general mathematical framework for all aspects of analysis of static network structure and
network dynamic growth. As such, it provides a basic paradigm for thinking about and modeling such
networks: computing direct and indirect links, expressing and analyzing statistical distributions of network
characteristics, describing network growth, deriving feature vectors, clustering, and visualizing network
structure and growth
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No full textResponses in E. coli to combinatorial stress treatments (HCl, EDTA, H2O2, and CuSO4):
No full textAll living organisms adapt to their environment through a series of biochemical responses. Escherichia coli (E. coli) have a plethora of different enzymes, sigma factors, and other biomolecules that assist in stress relief. These experiments showed that E. coli have stress responses for individual stresses. These stress responses are not always additive when exposed to multiple stress factors.
Many times an individual stress response is triggered to counteract a single environmental change. Sometimes this same stress response will aid the cells with a different, unrelated stress. When both stresses are present, more of this stress response will materialize as a response to both stresses and will help prevent too much damage to the cell. This is called "cross-protection" of stress. After seeing the results of these experiments, it is believed that E. coli has some global stress responses and many of the biomolecules used to fight stress are involved in cross-protection of multiple stresses.
These results were generated using a method where E. coli were grown onto control agar plates as well as plates treated with small concentrations of lethal substances. Using a technique called "Blue/White Screening" and colony counting software, the amount of colonies grown overnight on these plates could be counted. The area of the colonies and the relative amount of β-galactosidase transcribed and translated could also be measured. The control plates and treated plates were compared using these three criteria. The different individual stresses were also compared.
Plates were also treated with combinations of the same stresses and compared to the single treatment plates. Much of the data collected indicated a difference in E. coli's responses to an individual stress and how E. coli would be expected to react if the stress responses were additive. This proves that there was some cross-protection taking place in some instances.
Changes in distributions were also examined for each set of plates in order to examine the effect of the stresses on the stochastic nature of E. coli growth and functional protein production. Differences were noticed when comparing the distributions of control plates and stress plates. Differences were seen in different types and combinatorial stressors as well.
The second half of the experiments done here focused on using high performance liquid chromatography to find differences in concentration of molecules in E. coli extracts that were treated with hydrogen peroxide for a brief amount of time and control E. coli extracts not put under any stress. This experiment proved to be too inconsistent to learn any facts. There was an issue with the chemistry involved in the E. coli extracts reactions with the indicator molecules used to find free thiols and free amines in the extracts.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184)by Steven Middle
Poems for boys
No full textPoems For Boys examines how the proliferation, absence, or destruction of male influences — fathers, grandfathers, sons, friends, and coworkers — work to establish or disfigure masculine identity, a composition welded together with feigned strength, emotional silence, and an often quiet love. These poems travel along copper creeks, hover over miniature trains, stomp in football fields, hold chainsaws, and churn in the cannons of sunken battleships. With sincerity, patience, cadence, both lyrical and narrative, these poems hope to edge the reader closer to Burns’ depiction of masculinity.M.F.A.by Steven Brian Burn
The Greening of Theology: The Ecological Models of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Jürgen Moltmann
No full textThis volume examines the contributions of three contemporary theologians -- Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Jurgen Moltmann -- to the development of Christian ecological theology. Against the charge that the Christian tradition is ecologically bankrupt, the author demonstratesthe intellectual and spiritual resources available within Christianity for addressing ecological issues. Of particular interest are Ruether\u27s doctrine of God and her emphasis on ecojustice, Sittler\u27s cosmic Christology and reconception of the relation between nature and grace, and Motlmann\u27sdoctrine of the Holy Spirit and argument for social trinitarianism. Beyond evaluating the issues raised by Ruether, Sittler, and Moltmann, the author presents sixteen theses or desiderata for any adequate Christian ecological theology
Effects of acute microinjections of thyroid hormone to the median preoptic nucleus of hypothyroid adult male rats on sleep, motor activity, and body temperature
No full textThyroid hormone's role as a genomic regulator of basal metabolic rate does not explain neurological changes in patients with dysthyroidism. Hypothyroidism, characterized by depressive symptoms including somnolence, intellectual deterioration, and coma, and hyperthyroidism, illustrated by symptoms including insomnia, anxiety, and seizures, imply a mechanism of thyroid hormone action which influences behavior. In adults, thyroid hormone is taken up to discrete brain areas by organic anion and monocarboxylate transport proteins. One site of distribution, the median preoptic nucleus (MePO), contains clusters of sleep-active neurons and is considered a key sleep-regulatory structure. To test the acute effect of thyroid hormone at this locus, we stereotaxically implanted adult hypothyroid rats with microinjection guide cannulae at the MePO and installed electrodes and miniature transmitters for recording EEG, EMG, core body temperature, and locomotor activity. The rats were rendered hypothyroid by administration of 0.02% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water until body weight plateaued, indicating a hypothyroid condition. Rats were given a series of dosages (0.3 μg, 1 μg, 3 μg, or 10 μg in 0.25μL vehicle) of L-3,3´,5-triiodothyronine (T3) in four weekly 48-hour tests. Each week, rats were bilaterally microinjected with a control solution. After 24 hours of recording, each rat was microinjected with one of the above doses of T3 and recorded for an additional 24 hours. In seven rats with histologically-confirmed cannulae placements in the MePO, we observed significant effects on REM, non-REM, total sleep, core body temperature and motor activity analyzed by 2-way ANOVAs. For each sleep parameter the effect of dose of hormone was significant (p < 0.0001), as was the effect of time after injection (p<0.0001), except for in REM sleep. Temperature and activity also showed significant effects of dose (p < 0.02) and time (p < 0.001). There was no significant interaction between dose and time factors in any ANOVA. Since the effects of T3 were seen within hours of acute injection, the data are most consistent with a non-genomic mechanism of action of thyroid hormones in the adult brain. The mechanism of thyroid hormone action may be due to inhibition of the GABAA receptor, by an unknown protein phosphorylation effect, or by its actions as an adrenergic system analogue.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Steven Moffet
Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter\u27s Screenplays and the Artistic Process
Full text linkBest known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Betrayal , collaborations with English director Joseph Losey, and an unproduced script for the remake of Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Lolita . In this definitive study of Pinter’s screenplays, Steven H. Gale compares the scripts with their sources and the resulting films, analyzes their stages of development, and shows how Pinter creates unique works of art by extracting the essence from his source and rendering it in cinematic terms. Gale introduces each film, traces the events that led to the script’s writing, examines critical reaction to the film, and provides an extensive bibliography, appendices, and an index.
A highly significant book both for Pinter studies and for the neglected analysis of the genre of film scripts. . . . This pioneering work will be a model for subsequent studies of film scripts. -- Choice
To say that [Steven Gale] is a master of the scholarship on Harold Pinter is an understatement….I have seldom agreed so much with an author’s interpretations of a film artist as I do with [Gale’s]….This is a landmark in scholarship about the adaptation of fiction and drama to film by an author who know his subject (in both senses of the word) inside out. In particular he documents the collaboration of Harold Printer with film director Joseph Losey, which is one of the most celebrated creative associations of a writer and director in cinema history. -- Gene D. Phillips
Such a volume was refreshing to read and gave me faith in scholarship—again. -- Peter C. Rollins
Named a Choice 2003 Academic Title.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1006/thumbnail.jp
Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Teaching of Business French
Full text linkUS higher education has focused on the development of new cadres of employees to the near exclusion of entrepreneurship as a career path. In this article, the authors describe an entrepreneurial approach to the teaching of Business French. The senior author served as the course instructor while the junior author was a student who completed the course. To provide an entry into the world of global entrepreneurship, the senior author selected the French translation of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. In parallel with the reading of Rich Dad, students completed a series of entrepreneurial course activities. Selected activities are described from the perspectives of both authors. The article ends with students’ feelings about (1) entrepreneurship, (2) future career plans, (3) the theme of the course, and (4) the use of Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad
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