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Media psychology, symbolic power and social justice in Aotearoa
Psychologists reside in a world saturated by media. We work in professional contexts where guidelines for practice foreground ethical obligations to address issues of social justice. This paper addresses both these contextual dimensions of psychological research and practice. We explore the social significance of increased media production by Maori in challenging the tendency in mainstream media to marginalize Maori concerns while promoting Pakeha perspectives. The analysis focuses on the recent 'Inside Out documentary - Hikoi', which was initiated by two young Maori women as a challenge to media framing of Maori protests as 'unjustified' and 'disruptive' acts. We illustrate how this documentary furthers public dialogue regarding the foreshore and seabed controversy by promoting an alternative depiction of a Maori protest, which emphasize the history of grievances and social unity. The implications of such representations for psychologists working to address issues of social justice and to challenge abuses of symbolic power are discussed
Phase noise in distributed oscillators
The phase noise of a distributed oscillator is evaluated very simply by identifying an effective capacitance equal to the total capacitance distributed along the transmission lines. The contributions of the various passive and active noise sources to the total phase noise are calculated revealing several guidelines for improved distributed oscillator designs
Teaching and Professional Fellowship Report 2005/06 : a benchmark for the basis of a shared assessment vocabulary making clear what feedback statements mean to Cultural Studies students
A benchmark for the basis of a shared assessment vocabulary making clear what feedback statements mean to Cultural Studies student
Uses of Economic Rhetoric – Told by Designers, Represented by Economic Press
The design discipline is constantly moving and reshaping itself. As the practices are often new and still evolving, the professionals in the field need to position their own activities to the context in which they are practiced (Valtonen, 2007). In the case of industrial design, the practice is conducted and increasingly discussed in the realm of the economic world. When issues such as global competitiveness or companies’ competitive advantages are discussed, design is often seen as a mean to improve business. This is the case especially where(onko tämä where ok?) competing on merely price or technological advantage becomes increasingly difficult. This paper shows how the designers present industrial design as an economically viable action and how the economic press represents industrial design in the context of economy.
Keywords:
Economic Rhetoric; Industrial Design; Interviews; Media; Rhetorical Analysis</p
Localization from quantum interference in one-dimensional disordered potentials
We show that the tails of the asymptotic density distribution of a quantum
wave packet that localizes in the the presence of random or quasiperiodic
disorder can be described by the diagonal term of the projection over the
eingenstates of the disordered potential. This is equivalent of assuming a
phase randomization of the off-diagonal/interference terms. We demonstrate
these results through numerical calculations of the dynamics of ultracold atoms
in the one-dimensional speckle and quasiperiodic potentials used in the recent
experiments that lead to the observation of Anderson localization for matter
waves [Billy et al., Nature 453, 891 (2008); Roati et al., Nature 453, 895
(2008)]. For the quasiperiodic case, we also discuss the implications of using
continuos or discrete models.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; minor changes, references update
A novel tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 mutation reveals a common molecular phenotype in sorsby's fundus dystrophy
Sorsby’s fundus dystrophy (SFD) is a dominantly inherited
degenerative disease of the retina that leads to
loss of vision in middle age. It has been shown to be
caused by mutations in the gene for tissue inhibitor of
metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP-3). Five different mutations
have previously been identified, all introducing an extra
cysteine residue into exon 5 (which forms part of the
C-terminal domain) of the TIMP-3 molecule; however,
the significance of these mutations to the disease phenotype
was unknown. In this report, we describe the
expression of several of these mutated genes, together
with a previously unreported novel TIMP-3 mutation
from a family with SFD that results in truncation of
most of the C-terminal domain of the molecule. Despite
these differences, all of these molecules are expressed
and exhibit characteristics of the normal protein, including
inhibition of metalloproteinases and binding to
the extracellular matrix. However, unlike wild-type
TIMP-3, they all form dimers. These observations, together
with the recent finding that expression of TIMP-3
is increased, rather than decreased, in eyes from patients
with SFD, provides compelling evidence that
dimerized TIMP-3 plays an active role in the disease
process by accumulating in the eye. Increased expression
of TIMP-3 is also observed in other degenerative
retinal diseases, including the more severe forms of agerelated
macular degeneration, the most common cause
of blindness in the elderly in developed countries. We
hypothesize that overexpression of TIMP-3 may prove to
be a critical step in the progression of a variety of degenerative
retinopathies
Chronic patients: persons with diabetes frequent attenders in Croatian family practice
Chronic diseases cause high frequency visits and generate the long-term frequent attenders (FAs). The connection between frequent attendance and specific morbidities in the health care systems in transitional Europe has been underestimated. We investigated whether frequent visits of chronic patients in primary care are related to characteristic of chronic disease (diabetes mellitus) and whether this is influenced by the family practice in the transitional health care. We analyzed the number of visits a day time work for 490 persons with diabetes in the period 1997 to 2000. As the cut-off points between frequent attenders and non frequent attenders (NFAs) we used the value of the third quartile (Q3) of visits determined for the sex and age groups in the parallel study in the whole population. The analysis was performed for 23 variables: demographic characteristics of patients, disease characteristic and variables of physician. Logistic regressions were employed to identify the predictors of FAs/NFAs. 56.9% (in 1997) to 62.4% (in 2000) persons with diabetes were FAs, compared to 22.4% to 24.3% FAs patients in the whole population. Logistic regression analysis significantly differentiated the two group of visits with 68% accuracy. 4 variables are significant predictors for FAs/NFAs: diabetes as the main disease (p = 0.0005), diet-only-treatment (p = 0.0062), treatment by secondary care (p = 0.0116), and if glycated hemoglobin test (HbA1c) is determined (p = 0.0272). Understanding the similarities and differences of FAs/NFAs persons with diabetes may be important in improving the care and management of chronic diseases in family medicine in transitional health care systems
Equilibrium interest rate and liquidity premium with transaction costs.
In this paper we study the effects of transaction costs on asset prices. We assume an overlapping generations economy with two riskless assets. The first asset is liquid while the second asset carries proportional transaction costs. We show that agents buy the liquid asset for short-term investment and the illiquid asset for long-term investment. When transaction costs increase, the price of the liquid asset increases. The price of the illiquid asset decreases if the asset is in small supply, but may increase if the supply is large. These results have implications for the effects of transaction taxes and commission deregulation.
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