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Kazuo Ishiguro And The Service Economy, Kate Montague

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy,” Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels enact a poetics of work for the present moment—not just at the level of narrative but also in the kind of language used to describe the service economies his characters are doomed to inhabit. In his best-known novels, a clinical, bureaucratic, and even glorifying lexicon of “donations,” “completions,” “substitutions,” and “lifting” is betrayed by the reality of work grounded in horror. In Ishiguro’s worlds, which are very much our own, the out-sourcing of reproductive and domestic labor is enabled by a larger system in …

Reading The Global City: Crisis, Cognitive Mapping And The “Urban Sensorium” In Tom Mccarthy’S Satin Island And Ben Lerner’S 10:04, Marty Gilroy

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

“What is the role played by the aesthetics and politics of space,” asks Kanishka Goonewardena, “in producing and reproducing the durable disjunction between the consciousness of our urban everyday life […] and the now global structure of social relations that is itself ultimately responsible for producing the spaces of our lived-experience?” (55). Goonewardena’s account of the “urban sensorium” describes the mediatory, ideological role played by space in this “gap,” informing his adaptation of Jameson’s “cognitive mapping” as a hermeneutics of urban experience vis-à-vis totality. This article considers the mediation of these insights as critical aesthetic strategies in two global city …

Literature And Economy In Portuguese-Speaking Southern Africa, Thomas Waller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa”, Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa. Reading the proliferation of spectral effects in the Mozambican literature of the late 1980s alongside dystopian depictions of societal collapse in contemporary Angolan fiction, he suggests that writers in the two states have used distinctive aesthetic idioms to register the reintegration of southern Africa into the neoliberal world-system. In the fiction of Mozambican writers Aldino Muianga and Aníbal Aleluia, he shows how the legacy of colonial underdevelopment and its role in the transition to neoliberalism in Mozambique …

Conjunctures, Commodities, And Social State Marxism, Stephen Shapiro

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article, “Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism,” Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend of centrist liberalism, a Kress cycle of managerial capitalism, and three Kondratieff waves. These can be understood by the addition of implied terms in Marx’s advanced discussion of the commodity-form through an approach that Shapiro calls Social State Marxism.

Periodizing The Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, & Contemporary Culture, Treasa De Loughry, Brittany Murray

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Everyday Consumption In Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction, Lígia Bezerra

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. It is also the first text to provide a pluralistic perspective on the representation of consumption in this fiction that moves beyond the concern with aesthetic judgment of culture based on binaries such as good/bad or elevated/degraded that have largely informed criticism on this body of literary work. Current Brazilian …

Origin Of The Electroarthrogram And Streaming Potentials In Compressed Cartilage, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Working Papers

Background: The electroarthrogram (EAG) is a recording of electrical potentials near a joint, usually a knee, that are generated when the articular cartilage is rhythmically compressed by weight bearing. Physics-based, quantitative prediction of the magnitude of the electroarthrogram remains an open problem. Methods and Results: A new electromechanical model is created to describe viscous displacement of sodium ions from fixed sulfonate anions in the cartilage matrix by radial flow of interstitial fluid during side-to-side shifting of body weight. The viscous force exerted by fluid flow slightly displaces the Na+ ion in its potential energy well. The ion pairs form electrical …

Impact Of Spray Coating On The Performance Of Hydrophobic Membranes, Dominick J. Maiorano, Hamid Fattahijuybari, David Warsinger

Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship

Membrane distillation (MD) is a rapidly emerging water treatment technology used to combat the global water crisis. Membrane pore wetting is a primary barrier to widespread industrial use of MD. The primary causes of membrane wetting are membrane fouling and an exceedance of liquid entry pressure. The development of different types of polymer membranes and the use of pretreatment have led to significant movement towards the prevention of wetting in MD. We sought to take a new approach to combat membrane wetting that involves coating these membranes with hydrophilic chemical compounds, which consequently would decrease their air permeability. Pulling data …

The Utilization Of Sunscreen Prescriptions To Increase Patient Use: Examination Of Healthcare Provider Perceptions, M Rousch, Elizabeth Richards, K Masterson, J Potetz

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Background: Despite the known benefits, many patients deny receiving sunscreen counseling. Over the past decade rates and treatment costs for skin cancer has risen.

Purpose: This study seeks to investigate provider perceptions of using sunscreen prescriptions as a method to increase patient use.

Methods: A descriptive online survey using a convenience sample of dermatology, internal medicine, and family medicine providers was used. Descriptive statistics summarized quantitative variables and thematic analysis examined opened ended questions.

Results: Provider (n=38 total) thoughts about sunscreen prescriptions were mixed with many viewing sunscreen prescriptions positively (n =15; 42.9%). Commonly listed barriers included patient lack of …

Ils 490: Diplomacy Lab: Strategies For Identifying Mis/Disinformation Course Syllabus (Fall 2022), Bethany S. Mcgowan, Matthew Hannah

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Course syllabus for the Diplomacy Lab: Strategies for Identifying Mis/Disinformation student-driven project, a collaboration between Purdue University and the U.S. Department of State, supervised by Professors Bethany McGowan and Matthew Hannah.

Do Americans Have To Apologize For Dropping Nuclear Bombs On Hiroshima And Nagasaki In 1945?, Yeomin Yoon

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

A Book Review: Minor Feelings, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

No abstract provided.

Ewom Platforms As Productivity Catalyzers For Travel Agencies: A Two-Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis, Tomas Saralegui

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

The travel industry, and in particular travel agencies, face a severe challenge to increase productivity. In a fast-paced digitalization context, embracing ICTs to tackle this challenge should be part of COVID-19 recovery strategies. Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) could allow better learning processes, improve communication with customers, and serve as a remarkable diffusion channel. However, this channel is not yet fully embraced by the sector. This research, delimited to Spanish travel agencies in the period 2012-2019, applies a two-stage double bootstrap data envelopment analysis to assess whether eWOM and how firms manage eWOM, contributes to achieving higher levels of efficiency. …

Stakeholders’ Perspectives On The Safety Of An Adaptive Riding Program For Adults Living With Dementia And Care Partners, Alicia A. Oestreich, Beth E. Fields

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

The purpose of this qualitative community-based participatory research was to explore the safety perspectives of stakeholders involved in an adaptive horseback riding program designed to enhance the quality of life of adults living with dementia and their care partners. Human–animal interactions are becoming increasingly popular therapeutic interventions; however, there is still a lack of understanding about the safety considerations for providing adults living with dementia opportunities to interact with horses and the equine environment. To advance our understanding, researchers analyzed 10 semistructured interviews and two focus groups with therapeutic riding program instructors and staff, aging network specialists, and care partners …

Virtual Tour Package Model Innovation Based On Educational Tourism. A Case Study Of Cinangneng Village, Fetty Nurmala Rossi, Yustisia Pasfatima Mbulu, Yosi Erfinda

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

This research aims to identify the components of 5A tourism (Attraction, Accessibility, Amenities, Available Package, Activities) in The Cinangneng tourist village, analyze SWOT in the development of Cinangneng tourist village based on educational tourism, and create a virtual tour package model in Cinangneng tourist village based on educational tourism. The research method uses qualitative descriptive and conducts observations and interviews with management and tourists who have visited the tourist village of Cinangneng. The results of this study state that the Cinangneng tourist village has fulfilled the 5A tourism component judging from attractions, Amenities, Available Package & Activities. At the same …

Nature-Based Destination Image: An Exploratory Study On The Formation Of The Destination Image Of The Legal Amazon., Paula Cristina Pereira Rodrigues Chaves Drª., Francisco Antônio Dos Anjos Dr., Marklea Da Cunha Ferst Drª

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

This study aims to measure the Nature-Based Destination Image (NBDI) of the Legal Amazon among national tourists, verifying the image successors related to satisfaction, WOM /e- WOM, recommendation and revisit. With a predominantly quantitative approach, the study presents two purification stages: 1) a group of 15 experts and 2) 151 national tourists. To test convergence and reliability, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used, with Bartlett's sphericity and KMO and reliability by McDonald's Omega. The findings revealed that 58 variables are suitable to measure the image of the Brazilian Amazon destination, suggesting internal consistency with good convergence and reliability indexes. The …

Nature-Based Destination Image: An Exploratory Study On The Formation Of The Destination Image Of The Legal Amazon., Paula Cristina Pereira Rodrigues Chaves Drª., Francisco Antônio Dos Anjos Dr., Marklea Da Cunha Frest Dra.

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

Abstract: This study aims to measure the Nature-Based Destination Image (NBDI) of the Legal Amazon among national tourists, verifying the image successors related to satisfaction, WOM /e- WOM, recommendation and revisit. With a predominantly quantitative approach, the study presents two purification stages: 1) a group of 15 experts and 2) 151 national tourists. To test convergence and reliability, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used, with Bartlett's sphericity and KMO and reliability by McDonald's Omega. The findings revealed that 58 variables are suitable to measure the image of the Brazilian Amazon destination, suggesting internal consistency with good convergence and reliability indexes. …

Pandemic Phase: Where’S Democracy Now?, Andrea Bennett-Kinne

Education and Culture

This essay draws from a pragmatic feminist approach. It outlines the importance of relational ethics and Deweyan democracy to educational practices using the exploitative situation of emergency remote learning and women teachers to show the impact of systems that were in place before the COVID-19 pandemic, but which have become more concerning within those parameters. Such systems include the educational technology industry and the datafication of education. These systems rest in neoliberalism and concern their means and ends with economic gain instead of the importance of human relations. The essay suggests that centering relational ethics and relying on educational democracy …

Feminist-Pragmatist Perspectives On Online Education: Challenging And Changing Online Educational Conversation, Krissah Marga B. Taganas

Education and Culture

This paper is exploratory in a sense: I explore the possibility of feminist pragmatism as a pedagogical position compatible with online education. I argue in this paper that feminist pragmatism (FP) can be an important philosophic resource to continually challenge and change the online educational conversation. Contemporary feminist pragmatism is a conscious effort of women philosophers who took inspiration from the works of major women pragmatist thinkers, as well as others, especially John Dewey. Early women pragmatists developed a fruitful collegial relationship with John Dewey and collaborated on studies and issues that shaped Dewey’s pragmatism. FP’s main tenets include an …

How To Teach Machines In Artificial Intelligence? Technical Education In John Dewey, Gilbert Simondon And Machine Learning, Olivier Del Fabbro

Education and Culture

A society that uses drills and conditioning to train its machine learning models risks creating an alienated situation between human and machine in social life, as these teaching methods generate a lack of responsibility for the actions produced by such machines. Both John Dewey and Gilbert Simondon present conceptions and ideas that shed a different light on such alienated human– machine relationships in machine learning: that is, a critique of mere drilling and training as an educational method; the mode of existence of technical objects; and the importance of experience and practicality, for example, learning by doing. After giving an …

Responsible Imagineering: John Dewey's Pluralistic Ethics And Technological Innovation, John A. Machielsen

Education and Culture

I argue for taking John Dewey’s pluralistic ethics as a starting point, or embedded practice, from and in which technological innovations are conceptualized, critiqued, designed, tested, and eventually implemented. Dewey reconstructs human reason into operational intelligence where all behavior becomes gradually imaginative. I take Dewey’s view of moral deliberation as a basis for a responsible process-based methodology combining creative technological design with the training of imaginative prospection. I further use Dewey’s conception of technology that holds that implements, but also ideas and concepts are tools, forms of technology. I end by looking at the educational impact for the creative industries.

Guest Editors' Note, Kevin Taylor, Johnathan Flowers

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Adherence To Selected Air Carrier (Airline) Operational Regulations For Improved General Aviation Flight Safety In Degraded Visibility, Douglas D. Boyd, Mark T. Scharf

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Introduction: General aviation largely comprises fixed-wing piston-engine light aircraft (,12,500 lbs). Unfortunately, this civil aviation sector suffers a vastly inferior safety record when compared with air carriers (60- to 80-fold higher accident rate). Additionally, such mishaps pose a considerable financial burden to both the affected family and the United States: US$1.64–4.64 billion annually. We hypothesize that this safety disparity partly reflects more stringent operational regulations for air carriers. Herein, we determined whether compliance with six selected air carrier regulations could potentially reduce general aviation accidents in degraded visibility (IMC) the majority of which are fatal. Methods: Accidents (2005–2019) were identified …

Allelopathy: An Eco-Friendly Approach To Control Palmer Amaranth Using Allelopathic Sweetpotato, Varsha Singh, Worlanyo Segbefia, Mary Gracen Fuller, Mark W. Shankle, Callie J. Morris, Stephen L. Meyers, Te-Ming Tseng

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Palmer amaranth (PA) is one of the major weeds in sweetpotato reducing its quantity and quality. The widespread and repeated use of chemical herbicides has led PA to develop resistance for such chemicals. In addition, chemical herbicides are incompatible with the organic production system. It is imperative to find sustainable weed management strategies to provide weed control suitable for organic cultivation and detain the development of herbicide-resistant weeds under conventional crop production. In the present study, seventeen sweetpotato varieties were screened for their allelopathic (weed-suppressing) effect on the growth of PA. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse using a …

Affective Image Sequence Viewing In Virtual Reality Theater Environment: Frontal Alpha Asymmetry Responses From Mobile Eeg, Claudia Krogmeier, Brandon S. Coventry, Christos Mousas

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Background: Numerous studies have investigated emotion in virtual reality (VR) experiences using self-reported data in order to understand valence and arousal dimensions of emotion. Objective physiological data concerning valence and arousal has been less explored. Electroencephalography (EEG) can be used to examine correlates of emotional responses such as valence and arousal in virtual reality environments. Used across varying fields of research, images are able to elicit a range of affective responses from viewers. In this study, we display image sequences with annotated valence and arousal values on a screen within a virtual reality theater environment. Understanding how brain activity responses …

Investigation Of Chloride Transportation Mechanism In Reinforced Concrete Specimen Subjected To Eccentric Compression, Yong Dong Yan

International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures

In order to deal with the chloride ion transportation mechanism in eccentric compressive concrete pier and column in marine environment, stress distribution in the section of eccentric compressive concrete specimen was analyzed firstly, relationship between chloride diffusion coefficient and stress level was developed according to porosity varying under different loads, at last a model of chloride diffusion coefficient under varying stress level was developed. Conversion-diffusion equation in COMSOL Multiphysics was used in this paper to calculate the chloride ion transportation process. Three test beams with different mixture were cast and then loaded to different stress level. After that, all of …

On The Role Of The Microstructure In The Deformation Of Porous Solids, Sansit Patnaik, Mehdi Jokar, Wei Ding, Fabio Semperlotti

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

This study explores the role that the microstructure plays in determining the macroscopic static response of porous elastic continua and exposes the occurrence of position-dependent nonlocal effects that are strictly correlated to the configuration of the microstructure. Then, a nonlocal continuum theory based on variable-order fractional calculus is developed in order to accurately capture the complex spatially distributed nonlocal response. The remarkable potential of the fractional approach is illustrated by simulating the nonlinear thermoelastic response of porous beams. The performance, evaluated both in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency, is directly contrasted with high-fidelity finite element models that fully resolve …

Field-Test Performance Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Sofc) For Residential Cogeneration Applications, Nicolas Paulus, Vincent Lemort

International High Performance Buildings Conference

No abstract provided.

Critical Impact Of Fin Thermal Conductivity In The Modeling Of Evaporator Under Frost Conditions, Antoine M. Parthoens, Samuel Gendebien, Vincent Lemort

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Feasibility Of High Yield Biomass Fuel For Regenerative Gas Turbine Power Plants In Sudan, Aya Mohammed Hassan Mahjob, Siddharth Pannir, Momin Elhadi Abdalla

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.