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2. All the President's Men: CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY and ROBERT B. RAY, 2023, London and New York, Bloomsbury, pp. 112, illus., $16.15 (paper).
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Krstic, Igor
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WATERGATE Affair, 1972-1974 , *CAMERA movement , *SPATIAL orientation , *TELEPHONE calls , *FILM genres - Abstract
"All the President's Men" is a film analyzed by Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray in their book. The authors argue that the film focuses on the experience of disorientation and uncertainty rather than the outcome of the investigation. The film, which follows the reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they investigate the Watergate scandal, recreates the feeling of being lost in a maze of clues and information. The book provides a close reading of the film's narrative structure, mise-en-scène, and cinematography, and argues for its status as an American classic. The authors also discuss the blend of art movie, classical studio-era, and New Hollywood elements in the film, as well as the deliberate choice to obscure and omit relevant story information. The book offers valuable insights for students of close reading methods and scholars of Hollywood history and style. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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3. The Watermark Imaging System: Revealing the Internal Structure of Historical Papers.
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Ou, Elisa, Messier, Paul, Lian, Ruixue, Messier, Andrew, and Sethares, William
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IMAGING systems , *DIGITAL watermarking , *ART conservators , *ART historians , *LIFE skills education , *GREY relational analysis , *WATERMARKS , *MULTIPLE criteria decision making , *PHOTOGRAPHS - Abstract
This paper introduces the Watermark Imaging System (WImSy) which can be used to photograph, document, and study sheets of paper. The WImSy provides surface images, raking light images, and transmitted light images of the paper, all in perfect alignment. We develop algorithms that exploit this alignment by combining several images together in a process that mimics both the "surface image removal" technique and the method of "high dynamic range" photographs. An improved optimization criterion and an automatic parameter selection procedure streamline the process and make it practical for art historians and conservators to extract the relevant information to study watermarks. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated in several experiments on images taken with the WImSy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the results are compared with manually optimized images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. On the Casimir Effect with δ-Like Potentials, and a Recent Paper by K. Ziemian (Ann. Henri Poincaré, 2021).
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Fermi, Davide and Pizzocchero, Livio
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SCALAR field theory , *QUANTUM mechanics , *ENERGY density , *SCHRODINGER operator , *CASIMIR effect , *INDUCTIVE effect - Abstract
The local and global aspects of the Casimir effect for a scalar field in the presence of a point-like impurity were treated in our papers (Fermi and Pizzocchero in Symmetry 10(2):38, 2018; Fermi in Mod. Phys. Lett. A 35(03):2040008, 2020), using the zeta regularization method. A paper by Ziemian, recently published in (Ann. Henri Poincaré 22:1751–1781, 2021), discusses the Casimir effect for a scalar field in presence of one or two, extended or point-like impurities, using the Herdegen–Stopa approach. Ziemian claims that his result for the energy density with a single point-like impurity differs from that derived in Fermi and Pizzocchero (2018), ascribing the mismatch to a basic conceptual discrepancy. In the present work, we show that the formula in Ziemian (2021) for the energy density in the presence of a point-like impurity coincides (upon amending minor computational errors) with the formula of Fermi and Pizzocchero (2018) for the same quantity. In order to make our discussion self-contained, in the present paper we also survey some basic facts related to Fermi and Pizzocchero (2018), Fermi (2020), Ziemian (2021). This survey includes Schrödinger's operators with point-like interactions, as described in the celebrated book (Solvable models in quantum mechanics, Springer, New York, 1988) by Albeverio et al., the zeta regularization method for a canonically quantized scalar field and the implementation of point-like interactions in this setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Horror Film and Otherness: Film and Culture: ADAM LOWENSTEIN, 2022, New York, NY: Columbia university press, pp. xiii + 229, illus., $140.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper).
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Gibson, Michael
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OTHER (Philosophy) , *WOOD chemistry , *HORROR films , *TRANSGENDER people , *SOCIAL evolution , *SELF-perception - Abstract
Adam Lowenstein's book, "Horror Film and Otherness," explores the social relevance and transformative power of horror cinema. Lowenstein argues that horror films can teach us about otherness and illuminate the ongoing evolution of social norms and identities. He challenges Robin Wood's analysis of American horror cinema, offering a more nuanced understanding of the genre's exploration of trauma, alienation, and displacement. Lowenstein engages with theorists and historians to examine the themes of aging, the body, gender, and sexuality in horror films from the 1970s to the present. While the book is comprehensive, it lacks coverage of trans people, which would further contribute to the exploration of otherness. Overall, "Horror Film and Otherness" is a landmark text that highlights the importance of horror in understanding society and the self. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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6. Marjorie Corbman: Divine Rage: Malcolm X's Challenge to Christians: New York: Orbis Books, 2023. Pp. 269. Paper, $29.00.
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Butts, Jimmy
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BLACK power movement , *BLACK LGBTQ+ people , *CHRISTIANS , *LIBERATION theology , *BLACK Lives Matter movement - Abstract
Marjorie Corbman's book, "Divine Rage: Malcolm X's Challenge to Christians," argues that the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s should be seen as a spiritual transition from Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi to Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (NOI), rather than a move away from religion. Corbman traces Malcolm X's spiritual influence on the Black Power movement, highlighting his theological development and the impact of his ideas on figures such as Huey Newton, Sonia Sanchez, Vincent Harding, and James Baldwin. The book also explores Malcolm X's influence on Black Liberation Theology and radical activists of the era. While the book provides an important reinterpretation of Malcolm X's influence, it could benefit from a more nuanced discussion of conflicting perspectives within these movements. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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7. Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape: LISA M. ANDERSON, 2023, New York, NY, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. x + 165, illus. (black and white), $80.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper).
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Biano, Ilaria
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WOMEN on television , *BLACK women , *BLACK people , *LANDSCAPE changes , *TELEVISION situation comedies - Abstract
"Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape" by Lisa M. Anderson is a book that examines the portrayal of Black women on television throughout history. Anderson, an associate professor of women and gender studies, builds on her previous work to explore the complex and evolving representations of Black women in media. Using a semiotic approach and drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, Anderson analyzes specific television shows and personalities from the 1950s to the present. The book goes beyond simplistic judgments and aims to understand the historical and cultural contexts in which these representations exist, as well as the agency of Black women in shaping them. It is a valuable resource for scholars in cultural, media, and television studies. [Extracted from the article]
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8. SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters: CHRIS PERRY and ERIC HENRY SANDERS, 2022, New York, NY, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. vii + 230, index and appendices (references, course adoption guide), $34.95 (paper), $111.50 (cloth).
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Brashich, Audrey D.
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SCREENWRITERS , *ENGAGED reading , *MOTION picture audiences , *SCREENPLAYS - Abstract
Approaching the writing of a scene in this way, the authors argue, makes character motivations clear, creates tension and leaves room for either additional obstacles or resolution. Which points to another fundamental premise that Perry and Sanders believe in, namely that every scene needs to have both a goal and an obstacle. I SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters i by Chris Perry and Eric Henry Sanders is an essential primer on the important foundational structure and elements that make a scene - and by extrapolation, a story - work. [Extracted from the article]
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9. Actor Training in Anglophone Countries: Past, Present, and Future: by Peter Zazzali, New York, Routledge, 2022, xxi + 229 pp., £120 (cloth), £36.99 (paper), £36.99 (ebook).
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Rosenthal, Arnon
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ACTING education , *ELECTRONIC books , *PRAXIS (Process) , *PERFORMING arts , *MAORI (New Zealand people) ,ENGLISH-speaking countries - Abstract
In I Actor Training in Anglophone Countries i , actor, director and theatre scholar Peter Zazzali has considerably deepened and extended his unique performative-pedagogical research. But a more meaningful turn, Zazzali emphasizes, was RADA's efforts to adopt a policy of gender equality and racial diversity - although, as he shows, its graduates continue to criticize the school on these counts (28-29). While the Australian programs investigated are, to varying degrees, closely based on the English and North-American teaching models, Zazzali underlines Toi Whaakari - New Zealand's national drama school - as the best example of an effective postcolonial and bicultural model. [Extracted from the article]
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10. Recoverable mutual exclusion with abortability.
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Jayanti, Prasad and Joshi, Anup
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CONFERENCE papers , *MULTIPROCESSORS - Abstract
Recent advances in non-volatile main memory (NVM) technology have spurred research on algorithms that are resilient to intermittent failures that cause processes to crash and subsequently restart. In this paper we present a Recoverable Mutual Exclusion (RME) algorithm that supports abortability. Our algorithm guarantees FCFS and a strong liveness property: processes do not starve even in runs consisting of infinitely many crashes, provided that a process crashes at most a finite number of times in each of its attempts. On DSM and Relaxed-CC multiprocessors, a process incurs O (min (k , log n)) RMRs in a passage and O (f + min (k , log n)) RMRs in an attempt, where n is the number of processes that the algorithm is designed for, k is the point contention of the passage or the attempt, and f is the number of times that p crashes during the attempt. On a Strict CC multiprocessor, the passage and attempt complexities are O(n) and O (f + n) , respectively. Our algorithm uses only the read, write, and CAS operations, which are commonly supported by multiprocessors. Attiya, Hendler, and Woelfel proved that, with any mutual exclusion algorithm, a process incurs at least Ω (log n) RMRs in a passage, if the algorithm uses only the read, write, and CAS operations (in: Proc. of the Fortieth ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New York, NY, USA, 2008). This lower bound implies that the worst-case RMR complexity of our algorithm is optimal for the DSM and Relaxed CC multiprocessors. This paper is an expanded version of our conference paper as reported by Jayanti and Joshi (in: Atig and Schwarzmann (eds) Networked Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2019), which presented the first Recoverable Mutual Exclusion (RME) algorithm that supports abortability. This algorithm from our conference paper (in: Atig and Schwarzmann (eds) Networked Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2019) admits starvation when there are infinitely many aborts in a run. In this paper, we fix this shortcoming and prove the algorithm's properties by identifying an inductive invariant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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11. Freud's papers on technique and contemporary clinical practice: Lawrence Friedman. New York: Routledge, 2019, 239 pp, $37.46 (paperback).
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Lothane, Henry
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COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology) , *APATHY , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *PATIENTS' attitudes - Abstract
Dr. Friedman invites the reader "to share the awe I feel before Freud's little book, and to follow that awe into larger wonderings about psychoanalysis and the human condition" (p. 1). (p. 19; emphasis added) Dr. Friedman dispels a misunderstanding created by Freud allegedly recommending anonymity, neutrality, and abstinence. Dr. Friedman's interest in psychoanalytic methodology is exemplary among writers on psychoanalysis, most of whom focus on Freud's theories of disorder. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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12. Review of Margaret Rustin's Finding a way to the child. Selected papers 1983–2021: Kate Stratton, & Simon Cregeen. (Eds.). (2023). Margaret Rustin's Finding a way to the child. Selected papers 1983–2021. London and New York: Routledge.
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Altman, Neil
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CULTURAL pluralism , *FAMILY systems theory , *NARCISSISTIC personality disorder , *CHILD psychotherapy , *FAMILY structure , *ADLERIAN psychology , *SINGLE-parent families , *GAY men - Abstract
This review provides an overview of Margaret Rustin's book "Finding a way to the child: Selected papers 1983-2021," which delves into the development of child psychotherapy theory and practice in the United Kingdom. The review acknowledges the need for child psychotherapy to adapt to societal changes, such as immigration and the dissolution of the British Empire. It also draws comparisons between the evolution of psychoanalytic therapy in the UK and the United States. The review emphasizes the importance of considering social context and cultural diversity in psychotherapy, particularly in addressing the needs of immigrant families and individuals who have experienced displacement. The text explores the use of play in child psychoanalysis and the role of the analyst in interpreting and engaging with the child's play. It also discusses the technical and theoretical adaptations made by psychoanalysts when working with specific diagnostic groups, such as children on the autistic spectrum and narcissistic patients. The author highlights the significance of interventions that challenge and disrupt the symptoms and patterns of these patients to promote self-regulation and growth. Additionally, the text explores the extension of psychoanalytic techniques to work with patients from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity and understanding. The author suggests that psychoanalytic clinicians should reflect on their own biases and prejudices to create a more diverse and inclusive practice. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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13. On the paper "Generalized hyperideals in locally associative left almost semihypergroups".
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KEHAYOPULU, Niovi
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MULTIPLICATION , *MATHEMATICS , *DEFINITIONS - Abstract
This note is written to show that the definition of the LA-semihypergroup by V. Amjad, K. Hila and F. Yousafzai "Generalized hyperideals in locally associative left almost semihypergroups, New York J. Math. 2014" should be corrected and that it is not enough to replace the multiplication "·" of an LA-semigroup by the hyperoperation "ο" to pass from an LA-semigroup to an LA-semihypergroup. The two examples of the paper based on the definition of the LA-semihypergroup are wrong that is a further indication that this definition needs correction. According to the last section of the paper, the paper generalizes the results of an LA-semigroup by M. Akram, N. Yaqoob and M. Khan "On (m, n) -ideals of left almost semigroups, Appl. Math. Sci. (Ruse) 2013" while the paper duplicates, without citation, the section 4 of the paper by W. Khan, F. Yousafzai, W. Guo and M. Khan "On (m, n) -ideals of left almost semigroups, J. Semigroup Theory Appl. 2014" with the usual change of "·" to "ο". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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14. Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer Till the Present: by Harry Redner, New York, Routledge, 2018, 293 pp., £120.00 (cloth), £36.99 (paper), £31.44 (ebook).
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Cristaudo, Wayne
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ELECTRONIC books , *WORLD War II - Abstract
Almost two years ago I reviewed I The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals i by Harry Redner in these pages; Redner, in turn, around much the same time had reviewed a book by Beibei Guan and myself on Charles Baudelaire and what we considered mistaken about Walter Benjamin's politicized aesthetics. Much of the brilliance of I Ulysses and Faust i shines through in the aperçus that abound throughout, and one can see that Redner is as thrilled by the works he is reading as he is by the discoveries he makes in undertaking the exploration. Just before his death he had completed a book criticizing the managerial ethos of the university and academic publishing - the very project strikes me as a fitting adieu from Harry to an institution that had provided him, and those who learnt from him, with so much only to evaporate before his eyes. [Extracted from the article]
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15. Imaginative Resistance in Science.
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Savojardo, Valentina
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PHILOSOPHICAL literature , *MIRROR neurons , *MORAL attitudes , *LITERARY theory , *EXPERIMENTAL philosophy , *COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic) - Abstract
The paper addresses the problem of imaginative resistance in science, that is, why and under what circumstances imagination sometimes resists certain scenarios. In the first part, the paper presents and discusses two accounts concerning the problem and relevant for the main thesis of this study. The first position is that of Gendler (Journal of Philosophy 97:55–81, 2000), (Gendler, in: Nichols (ed) The Architecture of the Imagination: New essays on pretence, possibility and fiction, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006a), (Gendler & Liao, in: Gibson, Carroll (eds) The routledge companion to philosophy of literature, Routledge, New York, 2016), according to which imaginative resistance mainly concerns evaluative scenarios, presenting deviant moral attitudes. The second account examined is that of Kim et al. (in: Cova, Réhault (eds) Advances in experimental philosophy of aesthetics, Bloomsbury, London, 2018), who insisted on the link between imaginative resistance on the one hand and counterfactual and counterdescriptive scenarios on the other. In the light of both theories, this paper discusses the importance of addressing the problem of imaginative resistance in the scientific enterprise in the light of some mechanisms of embodied simulation, based on the activity of mirror neurons and investigated within the framework of the Embodied Simulation Theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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16. NOMADLAND: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century: By Jessica Bruder. New York: W.W. Norton, 2017; 273 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. $13.95 (paper), isbn 9780393356311.
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TWENTY-first century , *SOCIAL scientists , *SEASONAL employment , *COMMUNITIES , *JOB hunting , *HUNTER-gatherer societies - Abstract
Some nomads have their own websites and are on Facebook, which might be worth exploring. There is no typology of these nomads; some have regularity, some on highly ad hoc (just hitting the road) ventures, and some using websites, Facebook, and Internet gatherings to construct a community. Bruder mentions the I RV Daily Report i , the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, roving GTG (get togethers), FreeCampsites.net, Kampgrounds of America, Amazon's CamperForce, and Craigslist (for job opportunities). [Extracted from the article]
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17. The Archaeology of Ancient Cities: by Glenn R. Storey, New York, Eliot Warner Publications, 2020, 159 pp., ill., tables, and bibliography, $26.33 (paper), ISBN: 978-0415498647.
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Cortina, Camila A.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY , *SOCIAL status , *COMMUNITIES , *CITIES & towns , *PUBLIC spaces , *ARCHAEOLOGY , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations - Abstract
Following the discussions of how to define a city, in Chapter 4 Storey guides the reader through case studies of primary cities. In his primer on ancient urbanism, Glenn Storey provides an introductory text that encompasses many crucial topics across a range of past urban sites. Storey classifies cities into "hyper" and "hypo" cities, which are compact high-density or physically large areas of with low-density populations, respectively. [Extracted from the article]
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18. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice: MAX SCHLESER, 2021 New York, London and Dublin, Bloomsbury Academic pp. ix + 246, notes, index, £24.99 (paper).
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Zogall, Gabriela
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SMARTPHONES , *FILMMAKING , *THEORY-practice relationship , *DIGITAL cinematography , *ORIGINALITY - Abstract
Throughout the book it is addressed that the field of digital filmmaking and especially mobile and smartphone filmmaking as a unique form of creative practice is fast-developing, with new emerging techniques, forms and methods. The author establishes mobile and smartphone filmmaking as a unique film form and introduces his filmmaking modes as a theoretical approach for analysis. The positioning of smartphone filmmaking in a wider framework is challenging in its own right. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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19. BREACHING THE 2-APPROXIMATION BARRIER FOR CONNECTIVITY AUGMENTATION: A REDUCTION TO STEINER TREE.
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BYRKA, JAROSŁAW, GRANDONI, FABRIZIO, and AMELI, AFROUZ JABAL
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APPROXIMATION algorithms , *NP-hard problems , *TREES , *CONFERENCE papers , *GRAPH connectivity , *STEINER systems - Abstract
The basic goal of survivable network design is to build a cheap network that maintains the connectivity between given sets of nodes despite the failure of a few edges/nodes. The connectivity augmentation problem (CAP) is arguably one of the most basic problems in this area: given a k(-edge)-connected graph G and a set of extra edges (links), select a minimum cardinality subset A of links such that adding A to G increases its edge connectivity to k+1. Intuitively, one wants to make an existing network more reliable by augmenting it with extra edges. The best known approximation factor for this NP-hard problem is 2, and this can be achieved with multiple approaches (the first such result is in [G. N. Frederickson and J\'aj\'a, SIAM J. Comput., 10 (1981), pp. 270--283]. It is known [E. A. Dinitz, A. V. Karzanov, and M. V. Lomonosov, Studies in Discrete Optimization, Nauka, Moscow, 1976, pp. 290--306] that CAP can be reduced to the case k = 1, also known as the tree augmentation problem (TAP) for odd k, and to the case k = 2, also known as the cactus augmentation problem (CacAP) for even k. Prior to the conference version of this paper [J. Byrka, F. Grandoni, and A. Jabal Ameli, STOC'20, ACM, New York, 2020, pp. 815--825], several better than 2 approximation algorithms were known for TAP, culminating with a recent 1.458 approximation [F. Grandoni, C. Kalaitzis, and R. Zenklusen, STOC'18, ACM, New York, 1918, pp. 632--645]. However, for CacAP the best known approximation was 2. In this paper we breach the 2 approximation barrier for CacAP, hence, for CAP, by presenting a polynomial-time 2 ln(4) 967 1120 + \varepsilon < 1.91 approximation. From a technical point of view, our approach deviates quite substantially from previous work. In particular, the better-than-2 approximation algorithms for TAP either exploit greedy-style algorithms or are based on rounding carefully designed LPs. We instead use a reduction to the Steiner tree problem which was previously used in parameterized algorithms [Basavaraju et al., ICALP'14, Springer, Berlin, 2014, pp. 800--811]. This reduction is not approximation preserving, and using the current best approximation factor for a Steiner tree [Byrka et al., J. ACM, 60 (2013), 6] as a black box would not be good enough to improve on 2. To achieve the latter goal, we "open the box" and exploit the specific properties of the instances of a Steiner tree arising from CacAP. In our opinion this connection between approximation algorithms for survivable network design and Steiner-type problems is interesting, and might lead to other results in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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20. Writing the Great War: The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present: edited by Christoph Cornelissen and Arndt Weinrich, New York, Berghahn Books, 2021, viii + 507 pp., $179.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
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Lalande, J.-Guy
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WORLD War I , *HISTORIOGRAPHY , *WAR , *WORLD War II , *SOCIAL history , *CIVILIANS in war , *PRISONERS of war - Abstract
The historiographical debate over the Great War continues. This essential tome is a good example of how the Great War has been instrumentalized over the years by various individuals and groups eager to achieve their political objectives, no matter how reasonable and legitimate they were. [Extracted from the article]
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21. Enter Ghost: By Isabella Hammad. New York: Grove Press, 2023. 336 pages. $28 cloth, $18 paper, $28 e-book. Reviewed by Nora Parr.
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Parr, Nora
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PALESTINIAN children , *REFUGEE camps , *MARRIAGE , *PALESTINIANS ,OSLO Accords (1993) - Abstract
"Enter Ghost" by Isabella Hammad is a novel that explores the future of Palestine through the lens of its theater scene in the 2010s. The story follows a diverse troupe of actors attempting to stage Hamlet in the West Bank, challenging stale narratives about Palestinian fragmentation and government corruption. The characters in the novel, each with their own complicated pasts, seek to reconcile interrupted narratives and find fulfillment in a reimagined national family. The play within the novel serves as a device to take ownership of the past and create a new vision of Palestine. [Extracted from the article]
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22. Reconstitutive process in the psychopathology of the self1 : The following paper by J.W. Perry is published with permission from the Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences where it was first published in January 1962. It was later republished by the San Francisco Jung Institute in 1971. For some readers the paper is an enlightening foray into the depth and breadth of Perry's original research carried out in San Francisco. It offers a significant analytical perspective on the psychotic process and schizophrenia, built on Jung's early work at the Burghölzli. For others, who are already familiar with Perry's work, the editors view its republication in this Journal as furthering the historical continuity of the important thread of research and clinical thought on psychosis and schizophrenia in analytical psychology. https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1962.tb50168.x.
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Perry, John Weir
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JUNGIAN psychology , *MEDICAL research , *DEVELOPMENTAL psychology , *SCHIZOPHRENIA , *PSYCHOSES , *BIRTH order , *PSYCHOANALYTIC interpretation - Abstract
The archetype of the self underlies the ego-complex at its root and source in the unconscious. None of these assigns to the self the role that I feel to be so essential in the syndrome. SP 50-52 sp In regard to the method of study of these processes of the archaic, unconscious psyche in psychosis, I find myself baffled as to how to set up anything like a scientific approach to the material. In this hypothesis the model is easy to visualize but difficult to understand in terms of experience; the self is seen in this case as the center of the total psychic organism, and the ego is subsumed within this totality as the center of the field of consciousness only, that is, of contents accessible to consciousness; between the two are the autonomous complexes, which are groupings of contents not accessible to ego-consciousness (Figure 1). Reconstitutive process in the psychopathology of the self1: The following paper by J.W. Perry is published with permission from the Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences where it was first published in January 1962. The imagery I refer to is a whole class of symbolic representations of centrality and organization, of order and highest authority; I hope to demonstrate that in these we see representations of the self and processes that transform or reorganize the self in the unconscious psyche. [Extracted from the article]
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23. Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology: by Robert D. Drennan, C. Adam Berrey, and Christian E. Peterson, New York, Eliot Werner Publications, 2015, 200 pp., ill., maps. $32.95 (paper), ISBN: 978-0989824941.
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Smith, Maria Ostendorf
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DEMOGRAPHY , *ARCHAEOLOGY , *HUMAN settlements , *COMMUNITIES , *VALUE engineering , *REMOTE-sensing images - Abstract
However, the comprehensive exposition and discussions of the merits/shortcomings of proxies, methodologies, etc., should be regarded as essential reading for student and professional alike, particularly given the easy narrative writing style of the authors. They illustrate how settlement area may not be the best population proxy in all settlement scenarios (for Chifeng, although statistically significant, it is a comparatively poor proxy). Determining the best practice for elucidating settlement demography as an integral part of cultural reconstruction clearly requires thoughtful planning in the data-collection phase and an understanding of the differential merits of the material culture for meaningfully reconstructing the settlement landscape. [Extracted from the article]
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24. DLAN:Modeling user long- and short-term preferences based on double-layer attention network for next point-of-interest recommendation.
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Wu, Yuhang, Jiao, Xu, Hao, Qingbo, Xiao, Yingyuan, and Zheng, Wenguang
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CITIES & towns , *ATTENTION , *NEIGHBORHOODS - Abstract
The next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, in recent years, has attracted an extensive amount of attention from the academic community. RNN-based methods cannot establish effective long-term dependencies among the input sequences when capturing the user's motion patterns, resulting in inadequate exploitation of user preferences. Besides, the majority of prior studies often neglect high-order neighborhood information in users' check-in trajectory and their social relationships, yielding suboptimal recommendation efficacy. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel Double-Layer Attention Network model, named DLAN. Firstly, DLAN incorporates a multi-head attention module that can combine first-order and high-order neighborhood information in user check-in trajectories, thereby effectively and parallelly capturing both long- and short-term preferences of users and overcoming the problem that RNN-based methods cannot establish long-term dependencies between sequences. Secondly, this paper designs a user similarity weighting layer to measure the influence of other users on the target users leverage the social relationships among them. Finally, comprehensive experiments are conducted on user check-in data from two cities, New York (NYC) and Tokyo (TKY), and the results demonstrate that DLAN achieves a performance in Accuracy and Mean Reverse Rank enhancement by 8.07% -36.67% compared to the state-of-the-art method. Moreover, to investigate the effect of dimensionality and the number of heads of the multi-head attention mechanism on the performance of the DLAN model, we have done sufficient sensitivity experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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25. New Directions for Kinship Care Policy and Practice: A Position Paper from the Kinship Summit at Albany, New York, September 2016.
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KINSHIP care , *KINSHIP , *CHILD welfare , *COLLECTIVE action , *NEEDS assessment , *CAREGIVERS , *FAMILIES , *GOVERNMENT policy , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *U.S. states , *CUSTODY of children , *FOSTER home care , *GUARDIAN & ward , *PUBLIC welfare , *SOCIAL case work - Abstract
The article discusses potential developments involving kinship care policies and practices which were addressed at the Kinship Summit event in Albany, New York in September 2016, and it mentions collaborative partnerships, the needs of children, youth, and families, and gaps involving child welfare services in America. Continuity in kinship care is examined, along with kinship caregivers, the U.S. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, and Voluntary Placement Agreements.
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26. Reaching the Unreachable: Intensive Mobile Treatment, an Innovative Model of Community Mental Health Engagement and Treatment.
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Colton, Jana, Misra, Roshni, Woznick, Elise, Wiedermann, Rachel, and Huh, Anna
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TREATMENT of emotional trauma , *INSTITUTIONAL racism , *PSYCHODYNAMIC psychotherapy , *SOCIAL justice , *OCCUPATIONAL roles , *PATIENT advocacy , *TELEMEDICINE , *HARM reduction , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *PHYSICIANS - Abstract
In this paper we introduce the Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) model, which arose from a 2016 New York City initiative to engage individuals who were "falling through the cracks" of the mental health, housing, and criminal justice systems. People who are referred to IMT often have extensive histories of trauma. They experience structural racism and discrimination within systems and thus can present as distrustful of treatment teams. We detail the structure of the program as we practice it at our non-profit agency and outline the psychodynamic concepts that inform our work with challenging populations. We acknowledge IMT's role in engaging in advocacy and addressing social justice in our work. We also discuss how through this model we are able to both mitigate and tolerate risk in participants with difficult-to-manage behaviors. This is typically a long-term, non-linear process. We address how this impacts the team dynamic as a whole and explain how with long-term, trusting therapeutic relationships, participants can change and grow over time. We also explain the ways in which our non-billing model plays an integral role in the treatment we are able to provide and identify several challenges and areas for program growth. In outlining our model and its methodology, we hope to empower other practitioners to adapt IMT to other settings beyond the New York City area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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27. Improving Students Access to Primary Health Care Through School‐Based Health Centers.
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Davis, Charles R., Eraca, Jennifer, and Davis, Patti A.
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HEALTH services accessibility , *IMMUNIZATION , *STUDENT health services , *MENTAL health services , *HUMAN services programs , *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *MEDICAL care , *EDUCATIONAL technology , *INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems , *STUDENTS , *ACADEMIC achievement , *MEDICAL appointments , *ACCESS to primary care , *QUALITY assurance , *SCHOOL health services - Abstract
Background: More than 20 million children in the United States lack access to primary health care. Practice Learning: Research shows that students with regular access to physical and mental health services have fewer absences, are more social, less likely to participate in risky behaviors, have improved focus and higher test scores. Implication For School Health Policy, Practice, And Equity: School‐based health centers (SBHCs) can be an important, valuable and viable health care delivery option to meet the full‐range of primary health care needs of students where they spend the majority of their wake hours, ie, in school. Children in rural and other underserved communities, as well as those underinsured, non‐insured, economically challenged, underserved, and the most vulnerable among us are especially at risk. Conclusions: This paper discusses the history, value, and importance of SBHCs from myriad perspectives, including physical and emotional wellbeing, academic and social success, and the promotion of a positive transition to adulthood. In addition, the authors' experiences that resulted in building the first SBHC in the Mid‐Hudson Valley Region of New York State are shared. These experiences form the foundation for creating an important roadmap for individuals and school leaders that are interested in bringing a SBHC to their school and district. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge.
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Gvion, Liora
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This paper suggests looking at veganism as a set of knowledge that produces and reproduces habitual food practices and changes in semiotic habits and the meanings attached to foods. A semiotic analysis of veganism as a system of knowledge suggests its being a translated text that recognizes scientific and medical knowledge and the non-vegan alimentary system. However, it reconfigures them by communicating a series of signs whose meanings reverse those suggested by omnivores. The identification of signs that constitute the vegan knowledge enables me to look at veganism as complex system, in which syntagmatic and associative relationships are not fully determined (Barthes [1984]. Elements of Semiology. New York: Hill and Wang). Although contesting the essentiality of animal-based foods, vegan meals suggest two overlapping approaches to meals. In one, the plant-based protein serves as the centrepiece of the meal, imitating conventional meals. The other offers an alternative meal structure, in which syntagmatic relations are constructed as a sequence of daily meals, each consisting of an aggregation of simultaneously served dishes out of which diners construct their own repast, thus broadening the scope of associative relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. The Persistence of the Homeless Shelter as an Institutional Form: NYC's Response to Homelessness and COVID Through an Organizational Lens.
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Savino, Ryan and Mandiberg, James M.
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CORPORATE culture , *HUMAN services programs , *DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION , *DECISION making , *GROUP decision making , *TRAUMATIC shock (Pathology) , *HOMELESS persons , *ORGANIZATIONAL change , *HOMELESSNESS , *HOUSING , *COVID-19 pandemic , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *SOCIAL distancing , *MANAGEMENT - Abstract
This paper investigates a taken-for-granted institutional form, shelters for unhoused New Yorkers, through the neo-institutional lens of institutional inertia and critical case study methodology. It focuses on the external shock of COVID-19, NYC's use of unoccupied hotels for social distancing, and the return to shelters when COVID waned. For guidance, we examine other instances of interrupted institutional inertia following shocks. Using Lewin's force field analysis, we explore why changes to some institutional forms amidst COVID persisted while novel approaches to shelter dissipated. We conclude that directly involving unhoused people in the design and implementation of homeless services may improve outcomes. Human service professionals share a body of knowledge and assumptions – a kind of echo chamber that amplifies and confirms beliefs. It is important to look beyond traditional and familiar models of service delivery to find alternative ideas and approaches that may be effective. Returning to Kurt Lewin's concept of force fields provides opportunities to think effectively and holistically about how to modify or change services, policies, and organizations. People served by human services – those with lived experiences – possess unique expertise that can inform organizational decisions and planning in new and helpful ways. As practitioners, we need to find ways to be more inclusive of the perspectives and ideas of those our programs serve through participatory methods of planning, decision making, and evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. Malnutrition risk assessment using a machine learning‐based screening tool: A multicentre retrospective cohort.
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Parchure, Prathamesh, Besculides, Melanie, Zhan, Serena, Cheng, Fu‐yuan, Timsina, Prem, Cheertirala, Satya Narayana, Kersch, Ilana, Wilson, Sara, Freeman, Robert, Reich, David, Mazumdar, Madhu, and Kia, Arash
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MALNUTRITION diagnosis , *RISK assessment , *DIETETICS , *MALNUTRITION , *MEDICAL quality control , *HUMAN services programs , *HOSPITAL care , *NUTRITIONAL assessment , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *LONGITUDINAL method , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *RESEARCH , *METROPOLITAN areas , *MACHINE learning , *QUALITY assurance , *LENGTH of stay in hospitals , *ALGORITHMS , *DISEASE risk factors ,ELECTRONIC health record standards - Abstract
Background: Malnutrition is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Early detection is important for timely intervention. This paper assesses the ability of a machine learning screening tool (MUST‐Plus) implemented in registered dietitian (RD) workflow to identify malnourished patients early in the hospital stay and to improve the diagnosis and documentation rate of malnutrition. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted in a large, urban health system in New York City comprising six hospitals serving a diverse patient population. The study included all patients aged ≥ 18 years, who were not admitted for COVID‐19 and had a length of stay of ≤ 30 days. Results: Of the 7736 hospitalisations that met the inclusion criteria, 1947 (25.2%) were identified as being malnourished by MUST‐Plus‐assisted RD evaluations. The lag between admission and diagnosis improved with MUST‐Plus implementation. The usability of the tool output by RDs exceeded 90%, showing good acceptance by users. When compared pre‐/post‐implementation, the rate of both diagnoses and documentation of malnutrition showed improvement. Conclusion: MUST‐Plus, a machine learning‐based screening tool, shows great promise as a malnutrition screening tool for hospitalised patients when used in conjunction with adequate RD staffing and training about the tool. It performed well across multiple measures and settings. Other health systems can use their electronic health record data to develop, test and implement similar machine learning‐based processes to improve malnutrition screening and facilitate timely intervention. Key points/Highlights: Malnutrition is prevalent among hospitalised patients and frequently goes unrecognised, with the potential for severe sequelae. Accurate diagnosis, documentation and treatment of malnutrition have the potential of having a positive impact on morbidity rate, mortality rate, length of inpatient stay, readmission rate and hospital revenue. The tool's successful application highlights its potential to optimise malnutrition screening in healthcare systems, offering potential benefits for patient outcomes and hospital finances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. Parents' ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse.
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Kucirkova, Natalia and Hiniker, Alexis
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PARENT attitudes , *PRESCHOOL children , *PARENTS , *CHILD development , *DISCOURSE analysis , *NEOLIBERALISM , *CHATBOTS , *QUALITY of service - Abstract
This paper develops a critical perspective on the use of conversational agents (CAs) with children at home. Drawing on interviews with eleven parents of pre-school children living in Norway, we illustrate the ways in which parents resisted the values epitomised by CAs. We problematise CAs' attributes in light of parents' ontological perceptions of what it means to be human and outline how their attitudes correspond to Bourdieu's [1998a. Acts of Resistance. New York: New Press] concept of acts of resistance. For example, parents saw artificial conversation designed for profit as a potential threat to users' autonomy and the instant gratification of CAs as a threat to children's development. Parents' antecedent beliefs map onto the ontological tensions between human and non-human attributes and challenge the neoliberal discourse by demanding freedom and equality for users rather than productivity and economic gain. Parents' comments reflect the belief that artificial conversation with a machine inappropriately and ineffectively mimics a nuanced and intimate human-to-human experience in service of profit motives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Awareness, Acceptance, Avoidance: Home Care Aides' Approaches to Death and End-of-Life Care.
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Tsui, Emma K., Reckrey, Jennifer M., Franzosa, Emily, LaMonica, Marita, Gassama, Seedoumuktar, and Boerner, Kathrin
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HEALTH literacy , *POLICY sciences , *DEATH , *MEDICAL quality control , *RESEARCH funding , *INTERVIEWING , *WORK experience (Employment) , *ANXIETY , *TERMINAL care , *COMMITMENT (Psychology) , *NATIONAL competency-based educational tests , *PROFESSIONAL competence , *INDUSTRIAL hygiene , *WELL-being - Abstract
Death and dying are woven throughout the work of home care aides, and yet the care they provide at the end of life (EOL) remains poorly understood. This is due in part to the multiple circumstances under which aides provide EOL care. In this paper, we elucidate the EOL care experiences of aides working in home care agencies in New York City. We conducted in-depth interviews with 29 home care aides, and we analyzed these data using inductive, team-based methods. Our findings show that aides may not be aware of or accept a client's EOL status, and they may avoid EOL care. These conditions shape EOL care, and we detail the committed forms of care aides provide when they are aware and accepting. We recommend improved training, support systems, and policy change to enhance aides' contributions to EOL care, while protecting aides' health and well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Functional recognition and polyamory: glitters and hard truths in the O'Neill judgment.
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Palazzo, Nausica
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POLYAMORY , *JUDGMENT (Psychology) , *RECOGNITION (Philosophy) , *LEGAL recognition , *APPELLATE courts - Abstract
In 2022, a New York civil court concluded that a polyamorous partner should not be automatically excluded from noneviction protection (O'Neill). The decision was hailed as particularly groundbreaking and a 'game changer'. On the other side of the globe, the New Zealand Supreme Court concluded that polyamorous unions could be entitled to the same property-sharing regime as couples. Upon closer examination, the two decisions use function-based modes of recognition to confer similar protections upon the polyamorous union. However, this paper will illustrate some of the limitations inherent in this approach. At present, functional recognition exhibits a continued attachment to the traditional marital family; this aspect, combined with the unique complexity of polyamorous arrangements, renders this route to legal recognition potentially inappropriate. The decisions examined either fail to understand the nature of the arrangement or choose to distort it in order to make polyamory legally intelligible. Both decisions are emblematic of a broader difficulty of functional recognition to provide answers to the legal demands of this type of relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Truck Traffic during COVID-19 Restrictions.
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Koliou, Katerina, Parr, Scott A., Kaisar, Evangelos I., Murray-Tuite, Pamela, and Wolshon, Brian
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COVID-19 pandemic , *FREIGHT traffic , *PASSENGER traffic , *VIRAL transmission , *FREIGHT trucking , *TRUCKING - Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on transportation worldwide. Significant decreases in transportation across all modes were evident and sustained as governments worldwide implemented various countrywide closures and quarantine restrictions to slow the spread of the virus. This paper quantifies and assesses daily vehicle counts by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) vehicle classifications during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York and Florida throughout 2020. The study found that duringMarch and April of 2020, traffic among all investigated FHWA categories was significantly reduced in both Florida and New York. However, commodity carriers in both states were able to recover faster and remained more consistent than passenger vehicles. This pattern was also observed in both urban and rural communities in Florida. The findings of this work demonstrate how commodity carrier movements, assessed through FHWA vehicle category counts, were less impacted by the governmental restrictions during the pandemic than passenger transportation. While overall traffic volume dropped by more than half in most places at the height of the pandemic, larger commodity-carrying vehicles remained nearly unchanged from the prior year by June of 2020. This was likely because of the critical need to maintain trucking movements to sustain populations. Understanding how truck traffic and freight movements more broadly were impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical in preserving the continuity of service and preventing supply shortages in the event of future outbreaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Belonging and Its Discontents.
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Rozmarin, Eyal
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BETRAYAL , *POSTCARDS , *SELF , *HOPE , *CRISES - Abstract
For a long time, I have been interested in belonging: in how we are forced but also need to belong in communities, in how collective identifications form our subjective identities, in how belonging is the subject-matter of our very sense of self. I have also been interested in un-belonging, in what happens to us when we are refused or choose to refuse a collective affiliation, in the dynamic of alienation, betrayal and freedom that ensues. The paper delves into these themes by journeying through the landscape of my own difficult belonging in the land where I was born: Israel-Palestine, sunk these days in a state of catastrophic war; my experience of belonging as it is being negotiated in my own analysis, carried over the phone between Tel Aviv and New York. It is a personal-theoretical postcard from a place of existential crisis but also hope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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36. Simultaneous Cannabis and Alcohol Use among Medical Cannabis Patients.
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Kritikos, Alexandra F., Johnson, Julie K., and Hodgkin, Dominic
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MEDICAL marijuana , *SUBSTANCE abuse , *RISK assessment , *GOVERNMENT policy , *RESEARCH funding , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *CHI-squared test , *MULTIVARIATE analysis , *LONGITUDINAL method , *STATISTICS , *PAIN , *ALCOHOLS (Chemical class) , *CLINICS , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors , *MEDICAL screening , *CANNABIS (Genus) , *ALCOHOL drinking , *THERAPEUTICS , *DISEASE complications - Abstract
Background: During the past two decades of cannabis legalization, the prevalence of medical cannabis (MC) use has increased and there has also been an upward trend in alcohol consumption. As less restricted cannabis laws generate more adult cannabis users, there is concern that more individuals may be simultaneously using medical cannabis with alcohol. A few studies have examined simultaneous use of medical cannabis with alcohol, but none of those studies also assessed patients' current or previous non-medical cannabis use. This paper explores simultaneous alcohol and medical cannabis use among medical cannabis patients with a specific focus on previous history of cannabis use and current non-medical cannabis use. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of MC patients (N = 319) from four dispensaries located in New York. Bivariate chi-square tests and multivariable logistic regression are used to estimate the extent to which sociodemographic and other factors were associated with simultaneous use. Results: Approximately 29% of the sample engaged in simultaneous use and a large share of these users report previous (44%) or current (66%) use of cannabis for non-medical purposes. MC patients who either previously or currently use cannabis non-medicinally, men, and patients using MC to treat a pain-related condition, were significantly more likely to report simultaneous alcohol/MC use. Conclusions: Findings indicate that there may be differential risks related to alcohol/MC use, which should be considered by cannabis regulatory policies and prevention/treatment programs. If patients are using cannabis and/or alcohol to manage pain, clinicians should screen for both alcohol and cannabis use risk factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Utilizing Experiential Learning to Deepen Understanding in an MSW Macro Practice Class: Impact on Learning and EPAS Competencies.
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Lane, Margaret and Grape, Annette
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EXPERIENTIAL learning , *KOLB'S Experiential Learning theory , *SOCIAL work students , *SOCIAL advocacy , *CONCEPT learning , *SOCIAL services - Abstract
Experiential learning in Master of Social Work (MSW) programs can be an instrumental pedagogical method of juxtaposing theoretical knowledge with tangible hands-on approaches, enhancing student experience through incorporating curriculum beyond classroom settings. This paper seeks to employ the use of educational theorist David Kolb's Theory of Experiential Learning as the pedagogical framework to explore the impact of a community partnership with an upstate New York organ donation organization on master level social work students. Furthermore, this paper pursues an increased understanding of experiential learning and factors connecting social work theoretical concepts with the learning process in MSW programming. Student discussions voiced and illuminated a deeper understanding of macrocommunity concepts and demonstrated skills reflecting EPAS. Students' responses to participation in the experiential learning activity were emotional, compelling, and profound. Common areas of understanding gained by students were a clear awareness of the need for social work advocacy, measures to address social justice, and increased education for organ donations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
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Klarić, Mirko Z.
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PUBLIC administration , *NEW public management , *SOCIAL status , *GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 , *STATE power , *SOCIAL policy , *ADMINISTRATIVE reform - Abstract
The role of state administration and its public institutions in certain circumstances represents one of the most significant issues in the last twenty years following the serious security crisis caused by terrorist attacks in New York on 11 September 2001. The accent of public administration reforms was on efficiency and effectiveness of public institutions. Reforms were divided into deregulation and liberalization of public services, territorial decentralization, and regionalization with the strengthening of local government institutions and reform of central government administration. After the security crisis in 2001, financial crisis in 2008 and health crisis in 2020, the role of state institutions and public authorities in governing the state was redefined. The leading motives of general liberalization of public services, deregulation, and various forms of decentralization of public institutions abounded due to the new doctrinal approach of governmental organization. New strengthening of public authorities and public institutions became the new mainstream in the organization and functioning of the state. This paper analyzes how the role of the state can be modified due to the dynamics of social, political, and economic changes in society. New governmental reforms are contrary to earlier political and administrative measures, which include the strengthening of public institutions and concentration of public authorities. The government takes on a regulatory function in many aspects of social, political, and economic life. This situation leads to a new organization of the state, where public authorities take on a significant part of the responsibility to regulate various aspects of economic and social activities. At the focus of this paper will be how the dynamics of specific circumstances in society can affect the developing processes of the state and their public institutions. Those processes have economic, social, and political dimensions. The economic dimension includes regulatory measures on the market which contributes to development of the framework for economic development. The social dimension includes measures of social policy focused on improving the social position of citizens according to the economic development of society. The political dimension includes various aspects of security policy, with various protective measures in the community, which depends on the type of treatment for security of citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Stochastic portfolio optimization: A regret-based approach on volatility risk measures: An empirical evidence from The New York stock market.
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Larni-Fooeik, AmirMohammad, Sadjadi, Seyed Jafar, and Mohammadi, Emran
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PORTFOLIO management (Investments) , *FINANCIAL literacy , *BEHAVIORAL economics , *INVESTORS , *STOCKS (Finance) - Abstract
Portfolio optimization involves finding the ideal combination of securities and shares to reduce risk and increase profit in an investment. To assess the impact of risk in portfolio optimization, we utilize a significant volatility risk measure series. Behavioral finance biases play a critical role in portfolio optimization and the efficient allocation of stocks. Regret, within the realm of behavioral finance, is the feeling of remorse that causes hesitation in making significant decisions and avoiding actions that could lead to poor investment choices. This behavior often leads investors to hold onto losing investments for extended periods, refusing to acknowledge mistakes and accept losses. Ironically, by evading regret, investors may miss out on potential opportunities. in this paper, our purpose is to compare investment scenarios in the decision-making process and calculate the amount of regret obtained in each scenario. To accomplish this, we consider volatility risk metrics and utilize stochastic optimization to identify the most suitable scenario that not only maximizes yield in the investment portfolio and minimizes risk, but also minimizes resulting regret. To convert each multi-objective model into a single objective, we employ the augmented epsilon constraint (AEC) method to establish the Pareto efficiency frontier. As a means of validating the solution of this method, we analyze data spanning 20, 50, and 100 weeks from 150 selected stocks in the New York market based on fundamental analysis. The results show that the selection of the mad risk measure in the time horizon of 100 weeks with a regret rate of 0.104 is the most appropriate research scenario. this article recommended that investors diversify their portfolios by investing in a variety of assets. This can help reduce risk and increase overall returns and improve financial literacy among investors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Long-time dynamics of a problem of strain gradient porous elastic theory with nonlinear damping and source terms.
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Feng, B. and Silva, M. A. Jorge
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STRAINS & stresses (Mechanics) , *NONLINEAR theories , *NONLINEAR evolution equations , *VON Karman equations , *MONOTONE operators , *ATTRACTORS (Mathematics) , *FRACTALS - Abstract
Of concern is a problem of strain gradient porous elastic theory with nonlinear damping terms, whose constitutive equations contain higher-order derivatives of the displacement in the basic postulates. The paper is based on the theory of 'consistency' due to Aouadi et al. [J. Therm. Stress. 43(2)(2020), 191–209] and Ieşan [American Institute of Physics, Conference Proceedings, 1329 (2011), 130–149], and contains four results. We firstly show that the system is global well posed by using maximal monotone operator. The second main result is the existence of global attractors which is proved by the method developed by Chueshov and Lasiecka [Long-time behavior of second order evolution equations with nonlinear damping. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 195, no. 912, Providence, 2008; Von Karman evolution equations: well-posedness and long-time dynamics. Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer, New York, 2010]. By showing the system is gradient and asymptotically smooth, we establish the existence of global attractors with finite fractal dimension via a stabilizability inequality. Then we study the continuity of global attractors regarding the parameter in a residual dense set. The above results allow the damping terms with polynomial growth. Finally we discuss the exponential decay and global boundedness to the linear case of damping terms of the system. The assumption of equal-speed wave propagations is not needed for all of results obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Chaudhuri and Mukerjee ORRT for two sensitive characteristics and their overlap.
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Pushadapu, Kavya and Singh, Sarjinder
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RANDOMIZED response , *ODDS ratio , *STATISTICAL correlation - Abstract
In this paper, we extend the optional randomized response technique (ORRT) developed by Chaudhuri and Mukerjee [Optionally randomized response techniques. Bull. Calcutta Statist. Assoc. 1985;34:225–230; Randomized response: theory and techniques. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.; 1988] to the situation of estimating the proportion of two sensitive characteristics and their overlap. Lee, Sedory and Singh [Estimating at least seven measures of qualitative variables from a single sample using randomized response technique. Stat Prob Lett. 2013;83(1):399–409; Estimation of odds ratio, attributable risk, relative risk, correlation coefficient and other parameters using randomized response techniques. Behaviormetrika. 2021;48:371–392.] have shown that their crossed model performs better than their simple model from an efficiency point of views. Here we investigated a further improvement in the crossed model along the lines of Chaudhuri and Mukerjee [Optionally randomized response techniques. Bull. Calcutta Statist. Assoc. 1985;34:225–230; Randomized response: theory and techniques. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.; 1988]. New unbiased estimators are proposed, their variance expressions are derived and estimators of variances are suggested. Lastly, we carry out a simulation study to investigate the behaviour of the proposed estimators with respect to their competitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Forecasting East and West Coast Gasoline Prices with Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms.
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Sofianos, Emmanouil, Zaganidis, Emmanouil, Papadimitriou, Theophilos, and Gogas, Periklis
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MACHINE learning , *GAS prices , *RANDOM forest algorithms , *ENERGY industries , *DECISION trees , *GASOLINE - Abstract
This study aims to forecast New York and Los Angeles gasoline spot prices on a daily frequency. The dataset includes gasoline prices and a big set of 128 other relevant variables spanning the period from 17 February 2004 to 26 March 2022. These variables were fed to three tree-based machine learning algorithms: decision trees, random forest, and XGBoost. Furthermore, a variable importance measure (VIM) technique was applied to identify and rank the most important explanatory variables. The optimal model, a trained random forest, achieves a mean absolute percent error (MAPE) in the out-of-sample of 3.23% for the New York and 3.78% for the Los Angeles gasoline spot prices. The first lag, AR (1), of gasoline is the most important variable in both markets; the top five variables are all energy-related. This paper can strengthen the understanding of price determinants and has the potential to inform strategic decisions and policy directions within the energy sector, making it a valuable asset for both industry practitioners and policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Information spillover in multiple zero-sum games.
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Pahl, Lucas
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This paper considers an infinitely repeated three-player zero-sum game with two-sided incomplete information, in which an informed player plays two zero-sum games simultaneously at each stage against two uninformed players. This is a generalization of the model in Aumann et al. (Repeated games with incomplete information. MIT Press, New York, 1995) of two-player zero-sum one-sided incomplete information games. Under a correlated prior, the informed player faces the problem of how to optimally disclose information among two uninformed players in order to maximize his long-term average payoffs (i.e., undiscounted payoffs). Our objective is to understand the adverse effects of "information spillover" from one game to the other in the equilibrium payoff set of the informed player. We provide conditions under which the informed player can fully overcome such adverse effects and characterize equilibrium payoffs. In a second result, we show how the effects of information spillover on the equilibrium payoff set of the informed player might be severe. Finally, we compare our findings on the equilibrium-payoff set of the informed player with those of Bayesian Persuasion models with multiple receivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. From Granary to Arts Incubator: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Food for Thought.
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Lopes Balsas, Carlos José
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VERNACULAR architecture , *BUILT environment , *ART & society , *GOVERNMENT policy , *INCUBATORS , *PROTEST songs , *INDIGENOUS children - Abstract
Does our food for thought come virtually from the internet? When we take a long view, the instant stroke of a keyboard pales in comparison to the centuries-old evolution of real food harvesting and the generation and exchange of ideas, which have resulted in creative capital. The vernacular architecture of the agricultural built environment has almost dematerialized in its transition from the ancient pre-industrial era to the post-truth world, to become almost only an imagined concept. The symbology of the common threshing terrace of a Portuguese remote mountain village can now be found in multiple spaces of the urban realm, including in the metaphor of a community arts incubator's modus operandi in Albany, New York (USA). How has the concept of food for thought developed and materialized? How has it evolved? And what are some of the expected ways it might be utilized in the future? The purpose of the paper is to trace the evolution of this concept and its elements via the BLC Framework. The methodology employs a time analysis of approximately three centuries to distinguish three distinct evolutionary phases: (i) the pre-industrial era, (ii) the industrial era, and (iii) the information-driven era. The key finding is an up-to-date discussion of the food for thought concept in two distinct geographical worlds and three-time eras, as well as a set of lessons learned according to a protest poem and a rock song. The results are presented in the form of five lessons learned with implications for public policy: the first two lessons pertain to issues of procedural justice as encapsulated in the anonymous 'The Goose' poem, while the last three result from a discussion of selected verses in Nick Cave's 'Fable of the Brown Ape' rock song. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Verification of the Global Forecast System, North American Mesoscale Forecast System, and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model Near-Surface Forecasts by Use of the New York State Mesonet.
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Gaudet, Lauriana C., Sulia, Kara J., Torn, Ryan D., and Bassill, Nick P.
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WIND forecasting , *PRECIPITATION forecasting , *WIND speed , *FORECASTING , *COLD (Temperature) , *NUMERICAL weather forecasting - Abstract
Global Forecast System (GFS), North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM), and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) 2-m temperature, 10-m wind speed, and precipitation accumulation forecasts initialized at 1200 UTC are verified against New York State Mesonet (NYSM) observations from 1 January 2018 through 31 December 2021. NYSM observations at 126 site locations are used to calculate standard error statistics (e.g., forecast error, root-mean-square error) for temperature and wind speed and contingency table statistics for precipitation across forecast hours, meteorological seasons, and regions. The majority of the focus is placed on the first 18 forecast hours to allow for comparison among all three models. A daily NYSM station-mean temperature error analysis identified a slight cold bias at temperatures below 25°C in the GFS, a cool-to-warm bias as forecast temperatures warm in the HRRR, and a warm bias at temperatures above 30°C in each model. Differences arise when considering temperature biases with respect to lead times and seasons. Wind speeds are overforecast at all ranges in each season, and forecast wind speeds ≥ 18 m s−1 are rarely observed. Performance diagrams indicate overall good forecast performance at precipitation thresholds of 0.1–1.5 mm, but with a high frequency bias in the GFS and NAM. This paper provides an overview of deterministic forecast performance across New York State, with the aim of sharing common biases associated with temperature, wind speed, and precipitation with operational forecasters and is the first step in developing a real-time model forecast uncertainty prediction tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Inverse scattering problem by the use of vortex Bessel beams.
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Balandin, Alexander L. and Kaneko, Akira
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INVERSE problems , *TOMOGRAPHY , *INVERSE scattering transform , *VECTOR beams , *BESSEL beams , *ELECTROMAGNETIC radiation - Abstract
A major application of the inverse scattering and tomography methods is imaging all types of structural, physical, chemical and biological features of matter. The term vortex beam refers to a beam of electromagnetic radiation, electrons, photons or others—whose phase changes in corkscrew-like manner along the direction of propagation. The paper is devoted to the use of scalar Bessel beams of integer and fractional mode for the reconstruction of scattering potential. In practical applications, one naturally deals with Bessel beams truncated in the radial direction. The inversion formula for truncated Bessel beams is also obtained. Instead of the conventional Fourier diffraction theorem (Kak and Slaney in Principles of computerized tomographic imaging, SIAM, New York, 2001), the relations connecting the scattered field and the scattering potential in the Fourier space are obtained in the explicit form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Mapping Poverty in Gotham: Visualizing New York City's Almshouse Ledgers from 1822 to 1835.
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Fennelly, Katherine
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POVERTY , *NINETEENTH century , *ARCHIVAL research , *MAPS - Abstract
This paper maps and spatializes the Almshouse Ledger records for the children of unmarried parents in New York City in the 1820 and 1830s. Mapping the distribution of poverty and the provision of forms of welfare in the city, this paper illustrates specific areas of the city which were attracting the very poor as early as the second decade of the nineteenth century. This paper argues that migrants from countries with similar welfare systems to those established in New York may be overrepresented in the record due to familiarity with the system. This interdisciplinary paper combines archaeological approaches to GIS with archival research to illustrate the distribution of welfare provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. CHAPTER 1 STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER HAMILTON GROUP (MIDDLE DEVONIAN; GIVETIAN) IN NEW YORK STATE AND ADJACENT AREAS.
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Brett, Carlton E., Baird, Gordon C., Zambito IV, James J., and Bartholomew, Alexander J.
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SEQUENCE stratigraphy , *FACIES , *MUDSTONE , *CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY , *BRACHIOPODA , *CONODONTS , *TRILOBITES , *CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY , *PALEOECOLOGY - Abstract
The Middle Devonian (lower–middle Givetian) Hamilton Group of New York State is an iconic unit in North America, which has contributed many key concepts in stratigraphy, sedimentary geology, paleoecology, and evolution. This interval comprises a 100- to 1200-m-thick clastic wedge, shed westward from the Acadian Mountains, with thin but persistent carbonates. Despite the rich and diverse invertebrate fauna that consists of more than 300 species of corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, mollusks, echinoderms, and trilobites, the age of the Hamilton Group is rather poorly constrained in terms of chronostratigraphy owing to the rarity of biostratigraphically useful conodonts and goniatites. The upper part of the Hamilton Group that is the focus of this paper apparently belongs to the Polygnathus timorensis to middle Polygnathus ansatus Conodont chronozones. The middle to upper Hamilton Group in New York State comprises three formations—the Skaneateles, Ludlowville, and Moscow—each defined as an interval delimited with a sharply based fossiliferous limestone-calcareous siltstone; these formations are interpreted as containing condensed transgressive deposits overlain by thicker highstand to falling-stage shales, mudstones/siltstones, and sandstones. The eastern equivalents of these formations are dominated by fine-grained sandstones and siltstones and include two formations: the Panther Mountain Formation, equivalent to the Skaneateles and Ludlowville formations combined, and the Cooperstown Formation, equivalent to the Moscow Formation. In the present paper, we review, revise and update a hierarchical framework of lithostratigraphic subdivisions of these formations, including 24 members (four new), 50 submembers (more than half newly proposed or redefined; 14 informal at this time), and more than 80 named beds, both formal and informal. This refined lithostratigraphy provides an excellent framework for studying high-resolution sequence stratigraphy. As defined herein, members and most submembers represent high-frequency depositional sequences with basal shell-rich carbonates and abrupt flooding surfaces that mark the bases of highstand deposits. Not only are most of the members and submembers traceable across western and central New York, but also to a lesser extent into adjacent regions that include southern Ontario, Ohio, the Michigan Basin, and northeastern Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, much work on correlation remains to be done in eastern New York and central Pennsylvania, where local progradation of siliciclastics and expansion of successions obscures many of the finer scale features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Two phenomena behind the terminology of face.
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Lacroix, René
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UNIVERSAL language , *TERMS & phrases , *COURTESY , *RITES & ceremonies , *LABELING theory - Abstract
In politeness research and other areas, scholars use a range of metaphorical expressions involving the term face, as in "lose face", "threaten face" and "save face", drawing upon Goffman's paper "On face-work" (Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction ritual: Essays on face-to-face behavior. New York: Pantheon Books), often through Brown and Levinson's influential theory of politeness (Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The present paper argues that the interactional processes referred to by such expressions are of at least two kinds, here labeled "Observed-Behavior (OB) face-processes" and "Expressed-Attitude (EA) face-processes". X's OB face loss occurs when others negatively evaluate X on the basis of her behavior; X's EA face loss occurs when others convey to X that they do not have the same values as her ("positive face") or act in a way that impedes her freedom ("negative face"). Ten differences between OB and EA face-processes are set out. These differences are not acknowledged in the literature, which, as shown in this paper, leads to much ambiguity and confusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Clods, Compost and the Buoyancy of Clowns: Alex Tatarsky's mundane methods.
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Reid, Tim
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BUOYANCY , *CLOWNS , *COMPOSTING , *PERFORMANCE theory , *AUTUMN , *PREJUDICES , *REVENGE - Abstract
Of all performers, clowns might be the most mundane, in that their work – attending the etymological roots of the mundane – firmly and fixedly is of the world. Earthy, coarse and material, rebounding from whatever slip, trip, stumble or fall, their ascents only ever return them to the surface, back to the world. But of what is that buoyancy made? How does a clown get back up? To account for that force, this paper follows what Shoshana Felman finds, via J. L. Austin, as 'triviality as a philosophy – as a method'. When Austin writes: 'To feel the firm ground of prejudice slipping away is exhilarating, but brings its revenges,' it is Austin's humour, Felman shows, keeping him afloat. Buoyancy, then, could be understood as a species of performative force. Given how Felman's reading has shaped performance theory, this paper pushes her term triviality into the mundane by citing the context of performance and taking a performer whose ostensible field is humour. This paper, then, considers a clown, Alex Tatarsky, and a series of workshop performances given in an autumn 2021 residency at The Kitchen in New York, which turned, specifically, around the performance of etymology and an ecological commitment to compost. Celebrating how organic matter breaks into dirt gives Tatarsky a vehicle to break the linguistic-symbolic itself into roots. Revelling in the visceral force of language's materiality – as sound, history and the means by which we meet and misunderstand one another – Tatarsky pulses through states of disintegration both individual and collective. In the performance of etymology, they offer the common derivation of clown as clod, as in dirt – what makes the ground. Fixing that signature, Tatarsky breaks down themselves, and in that, rebounds to show something of how the world holds together, and what can happen when it doesn't. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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