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Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, the Artist, the Masses, and the 'Double Nature' of Language" Elizabeth Rechniewski discusses the function of the European intellectual elite through a close reading of two very different yet related books, John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses, and Pierre Bourdieu's Les Règles de l'art. Through a contrapuntal reading of the arguments of these two critics, she argues that Symbolist experiments may actually be read as reactionist; in celebrating art's supposed conquest of independence and refinement, they are replete with nostalgia for a time when the artist and the intellectual were able to ignore the pressure …

Silence, The Utmost In Ambiguity, Mario Perniola

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Silence, the Utmost in Ambiguity" Mario Perniola presents a historical perspective on the meanings and development of the term "ambiguity" from ancient Greek to the modern age. Perniola's perspective is not a review of different approaches and schools of thought; instead, he presents an alternative philosophical and aesthetic discourse he counter-poses to modern and contemporary cultural positions which he considers useful in order to explain the state of today's art and intellectual discourse. Perniola does so by stressing the significance of silence as the aesthetic attitude that combines contemplation and action. Drawing on the work of Pascal …

Understanding La Francophone In The Context Of The Business French Curriculum, William Thompson

Global Business Languages

This article proposes a framework by which "la Francophonie" can be presented to students within the context of the business French class. The goal may not be to pursue an in-depth analysis of each and every country and region, but rather to provide a variety of approaches according to which these political entities may be compared, not only to each other, but to the rest of the world. By adopting a comparative perspective on the French-speaking world, the instructor will avoid the dilemma of having to choose on which states/regions to focus, and the pitfalls of teaching a subject matter …

The Chi Complex And Ambiguities Of Meeting, Paul Carter

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Chi Complex and Ambiguities of Meeting" Paul Carter develops a discussion of interpersonal encounters by mobilizing an apparatus of references, ranging from Jean Genet to Lévinas, Derrida, Bachmann, Merleau-Ponty, and Arendt. The hypothesis is that meeting another person entails and subsumes a non-meeting; a resistance and a refusal. The article pursues the ambiguity at the heart of encountering the other through an investigation of the urban spaces that are allegedly designed to invite and facilitate meetings. The argument put forward is that these spaces are paradoxically designed to avert encounters. This is especially true in the …

Ambiguity, Children, Representation, And Sexuality, Catharine Lumby

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality" Catharine Lumby considers current and historical scholarly and popular debates about the representation of children, including concerns about their sexualisation in such representations. The article begins by examining images taken by photographers in the Victorian era, including Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron, and asks not only how the gaze of the photographer frames the child but how the child returns the adult gaze. Lumby seeks to problematize our understanding of the ways in which images "sexualize" children. Drawing on the work of James Kincaid, it examines discourses that frame children as, on …

The Data Curation Profiles Toolkit: Interview Worksheet, Jake Carlson

Data Curation Profiles Toolkit

This worksheet is designed to elicit the information necessary to develop a data curation profile about data from a particular research project. In your responses to this worksheet and to the interview questions, please limit your focus to the data associated with the particular research project you have selected.

This worksheet is meant to be filled out as a part of the interview and your responses to the questions in each module will serve to guide the conversation. The interviewer will then ask you some follow up questions about your responses to gather additional details and to better understand your …

Identification Of A Single-Nucleotide Insertion In The Promoter Region Affecting The Sodc Promoter Activity In Brucella Neotomae, Dina A. Moustafa, Neeta Jain, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, Ramesh Vemulapalli

Department of Comparative Pathobiology Faculty Publications

Brucella neotomae is not known to be associated with clinical disease in any host species. Previous research suggested that B. neotomae might not express detectable levels of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD), a periplasmic enzyme known to be involved in protecting Brucella from oxidative bactericidal effects of host phagocytes. This study was undertaken to investigate the genetic basis for the disparity in SOD expression in B. neotomae. Our Western blot and SOD enzyme assay analyses indicated that B. neotomae does express SOD, but at a substantially reduced level. Nucleotide sequence analysis of region upstream to the sodC gene identified a single-nucleotide …

Advancing The Ideas Of John Dewey: A Look At The High Tech Schools, Jennifer R. Pieratt

Education and Culture

Over the course of the past 100 years the work of John Dewey has been studied by philosophers, educators and politicians. He has been hailed by some and blamed by others for the evolution of educational reform in America. His influences can still be seen in schools today ranging from Progressive approaches to Child-centered Curriculum to Project-Based Learning. While Dewey offered many philosophies about education, he rarely suggested methods for implementation. The High Tech schools in San Diego, California approached this challenge left behind by Dewey in the design of their schools. This article will address the theories of Dewey …

Analyzing The Meshwork As An Emerging Social Movement Formation: An Ethnographic Account Of The Popular Assembly Of The Peoples Of Oaxaca (Appo), Maurice Rafael Magaña

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

No abstract provided.

He Is Dead, And He Is Continuing To Die: A Feminist Psycho-Semiotic Reflection On Men’S Embodiment Of Metaphor In A Toronto Zombie Walk, Bryce Peake

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Public Images, Political Art, And Gendered Spaces: Construction Of Gendered Space In Socialist And Post-Socialist Ukraine, Maryna Bazylevych

Journal of Contemporary Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Sensor To Detect Endothelialization On An Active Coronary Stent, Katherine M. Musick, Arthur C. Coffey, Pedro P. Irazoqui Dr.

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Background

A serious complication with drug-eluting coronary stents is late thrombosis, caused by exposed stent struts not covered by endothelial cells in the healing process. Real-time detection of this healing process could guide physicians for more individualized anti-platelet therapy. Here we present work towards developing a sensor to detect this healing process. Sensors on several stent struts could give information about the heterogeneity of healing across the stent.

Methods

A piezoelectric microcantilever was insulated with parylene and demonstrated as an endothelialization detector for incorporation within an active coronary stent. After initial characterization, endothelial cells were plated onto the cantilever surface. …

Legally Speaking-The Legal Basis For Library Video Surveilance, Bryan M. Carson, Bruce Strauch, Jack G. Montgomery

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Refractive Index And Dielectric Constant Evolution Of Ultra-Thin Gold From Clusters To Films, X. F. Wang, K. P. Chen, M. Zhao, D. D. Nolte

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Using high-speed picometrology, the complete cluster-to-film dielectric trajectories of ultra-thin gold films on silica are measured at 488 nm and 532 nm wavelengths for increasing mass-equivalent thickness from 0.2 nm to 10 nm. The trajectories are parametric curves on the complex dielectric plane that consist of three distinct regimes with two turning points. The thinnest regime (0.2 nm - 0.6 nm) exhibits increasing dipole density up to the turning point for the real part of the dielectric function at which the clusters begin to acquire metallic character. The mid-thickness regime (0.6 nm similar to 2 nm) shows a linear trajectory …

Simple Waves In Relativistic Fluids, M. Lyutikov

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We consider the Riemann problem for relativistic flows of polytropic fluids and find relations for the flow characteristics. Evolution of physical quantities takes especially simple form for the case of cold magnetized plasmas. We find exact explicit analytical solutions for one-dimensional expansion of magnetized plasma into vacuum, valid for arbitrary magnetization. We also consider expansion into cold unmagnetized external medium both for stationary initial conditions and for initially moving plasma, as well as reflection of rarefaction wave from a wall. We also find self-similar structure of three-dimensional magnetized outflows into vacuum, valid close to the plasma-vacuum interface.

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-2009 Charleston Conference, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

International Dateline-Earthly Paradise, Rita Ricketts

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

A College Library, Its Print Monograph Collection And The New Information Ecology, Bob Kieft

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Atg Special Report-How The Emergence Of Digital Content Is Transforming The Publishing Industry, Delores Meglio

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

At Brunning: People And Technology-At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Functional Significance Of Athma4 C-Terminal Domain In Planta., Rebecca F. Mills, Billy Valdes, Michael Duke, Kerry A. Peaston, Brett C. Lahner, David E. Salt, Lorraine E. Williams

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Background

Enhancing the upward translocation of heavy metals such as Zn from root to shoot through genetic engineering has potential for biofortification and phytoremediation. This study examined the contribution of the heavy metal-transporting ATPase, AtHMA4, to the shoot ionomic profile of soil-grown plants, and investigated the importance of the C-terminal domain in the functioning of this transporter.

Principal Findings

The Arabidopsis hma2 hma4 mutant has a stunted phenotype and a distinctive ionomic profile, with low shoot levels of Zn, Cd, Co, K and Rb, and high shoot Cu. Expression of AtHMA4(AtHMA4-FL) under the CaMV-35S promoter partially rescued …

Dynamics Of Streptococcus Mutans Transcriptome In Response To Starch And Sucrose During Biofilm Development., Marlis I. Klein, Lena Debaz, Senyo Agidi, Herbert Lee, Gary Xie, Amy Hui-Mei Lin, Bruce R. Hamaker, Jose A. Lemos, Hyun Koo

Department of Food Science Faculty Publications

The combination of sucrose and starch in the presence of surface-adsorbed salivary α-amylase and bacterial glucosyltransferases increase the formation of a structurally and metabolically distinctive biofilm by Streptococcus mutans. This host-pathogen-diet interaction may modulate the formation of pathogenic biofilms related to dental caries disease. We conducted a comprehensive study to further investigate the influence of the dietary carbohydrates on S. mutans-transcriptome at distinct stages of biofilm development using whole genomic profiling with a new computational tool (MDV) for data mining. S. mutans UA159 biofilms were formed on amylase-active saliva coated hydroxyapatite discs in the presence of various concentrations …

Dynamics Of Streptococcus Mutans Transcriptome In Response To Starch And Sucrose During Biofilm Development., Marlise I. Klein, Lena Debaz, Senyo Agidi, Herbert Lee, Gary Xie, Amy H.-M. Lin, Bruce R. Hamaker, José A. Lemos, Hyun Koo

Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Faculty Publications

The combination of sucrose and starch in the presence of surface-adsorbed salivary α-amylase and bacterial glucosyltransferases increase the formation of a structurally and metabolically distinctive biofilm by Streptococcus mutans. This host-pathogen-diet interaction may modulate the formation of pathogenic biofilms related to dental caries disease. We conducted a comprehensive study to further investigate the influence of the dietary carbohydrates on S. mutans-transcriptome at distinct stages of biofilm development using whole genomic profiling with a new computational tool (MDV) for data mining. S. mutans UA159 biofilms were formed on amylase-active saliva coated hydroxyapatite discs in the presence of various concentrations …

Rites Of Passage: How Today’S Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, And Commiserate, Leonard Greenspoon

Studies in Jewish Civilization

Scholars tend to call them “rites of passage.” Most people prefer to speak of them as life-cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there is something (a birth, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or a wedding) to celebrate. These are key moments for individuals and for the families and communities of which they are a part.

This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as recent as the twenty-first century, in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. It examines and frequently affirms some of the …

The Systemic And Empirical Approach To Literature And Culture As Theory And Application, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Irene Sywenky

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Canadian Culture And Literatures. And A Taiwan Perspective, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Yiu-Nam Leung

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Causality In Solving Economic Problems, A. Emanuel Robinson, Steven A. Sloman, York Hagmayer, Christopher K. Hertzog

The Journal of Problem Solving

No abstract provided.

Resolving Doppler-Factor Crisis In Active Galactic Nuclei: Non-Steady Magnetized Outflows, M. Lyutikov, M. Lister

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Magnetically driven non-stationary acceleration of jets in active galactic nuclei results in the leading parts of the flow being accelerated to much higher Lorentz factors than in the case of steady-state acceleration with the same parameters. The higher Doppler-boosted parts of the flow may dominate the high-energy emission of blazar jets. We suggest that highly variable GeV and TeV emission in blazars is produced by the faster moving leading edges of highly magnetized non-stationary ejection blobs, while the radio data trace the slower-moving bulk flow. Thus, the radio and gamma-ray emission regions have different, but correlated, Doppler factors. High-energy emission …

First Opinion: Signage And The City, Susan Britsch

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.