Yi, Observational Documentary Aesthetics, and the Identity Politics of Transcultural Migrancy

There is a moment in Edward Yang’s acclaimed film Yi Yi (2000) in which a young boy in a conversation with his father observes that he cannot see what his father sees and that his father cannot see what he sees, prompting two questions: “How can I know what you see?” and “Can we only know half of the truth?” Unable to provide adequate answers, his father instead offers his son a camera. Later in the film, the same boy presents his uncle with a picture he took of the back of his head. When asked why, the boy responds by saying, “You cannot see it yourself, so I’m helping you.” These two scenes in Yang’s film illustrate the spirit of the questions that guide the aesthetic approach I have taken in my own documentary project. My thesis is composed of two parts: a video project and a research paper, the former of which is a documentary entitled Yi. Named after its primary subject, the film explores the intersections of transnational migrancy and cultural identity through a series of interviews that are intercut with scenes of everyday life that are shot in an observational style. The research paper that follows will situate the project within a specific historical, conceptual, and aesthetic context, before delineating how the cinematic composition of my documentary engages with this framework

How Do You Mass What You Cannot See? Using Paper Clips to Help Students Learn How Electron Mass Was First Measured

Many students wrongly presume that scientific knowledge is mysteriously discovered and often believe the development of this knowledge is beyond their ability to comprehend. The activity presented here – appropriate for high-school chemistry and physics students – challenges these misconceptions. Students are engaged in thinking and creativity similar to how the first scientists accurately measured the mass and charge of an electron. Through this process, students develop a deep understanding of how the mass and charge of an individual electron was determined. This activity addresses National Science Education Standards A, B, E, and G and Iowa teaching Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6

Dressing by Design: Your Accessories

Accessories belong in every outfit you wear. You cannot escape them. And you have a key to their successful use. You fix your new hat, adjust the strand of pearls, and take a last look at your hemline. You like what you see. Everything seems to be just as you planned it. Your figure, your personality, the time, the place, the occasion, the dress and your accessories all seem to fit together. You have dressed by design. You are pleased with yourself, and off you go

what if you cannot see the target two case studies of atlas to patient registration in trigeminal neuralgia radiosurgery

Introduction: Medically resistant trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a wellsuited pathology to be treated by radiosurgery (RS). A significant percentage (60%-70%) of patients is expected to benefit from the RS treatment. Imaging is crucial to identify the target, though unfortunately in some cases the trigeminal nerve could not be visible even in high field magnetic resonance images (MRI). The aim of this work is to develop and relatively validate a method for the atlas-based identification of the target in those cases where the trigeminal nerve is not visible. Material Methods: The proposed method is based on the modification of a previously published approach for functional RS, adapted to the TN. A high resolution, high contrast volumetric T1-MRI atlas was nonrigidly registered to patient T1-MRI. Two patients scanned with a 3T T1-weighted-MRI and trigeminal nerve specific MR (Constructive Interference in Steady State – CISS) sequences were considered in this study. In both cases, the right-sided trigeminal nerve was not visible, while it was the contralateral nerve. For one patient, we simulated a potential radiosurgical treatment plan. The atlas-based localization accuracy of the trigeminal nerve was validated in a relative way evaluating the nearby structure continuity and the contralateral nerve localization

The challenge of fluid flow 1. The diversity of flow phenomena

You look up at the sky, and see a lovely cloud; you look down, and may see lovely ripples on a rivulet (or river). On a hot summer afternoon you see dancing dust devils; on a cold winter evening you can see smoke rising lazily from achulah, and hang up there as if it has given up. You peer at a telescope, and see intense supersonic jets, or vast whirling galaxies; you measure in a wind tunnel, and sense powerful tornadoes behind an aircraft wing. The universe is full of fluid that flows in crazy, beautiful or fearsome ways. In our machines and in the lab, as in terrestrial nature, one sees this amazing diversity in the flow of such a simple liquid like water or a simple gas like air. What is it that makes fluid flows so rich, so complex-some times so highly ordered that their patterns can adorn a saree border, sometimes so chaotic as to defy analysis? Do thesame laws governall that extraordinary variety? We begin with a picture gallery of a number of visible or visualized flows, and consider which ones we understand and which ones we do not, which ones we can compute and which ones we cannot; and it will be argued that behind those all-too-common but lovely flows lie deep problems in physics and mathematics that still remain mysteries

Unburdening Broadway: Spotlight on the American\u27s with Disabilites Act

Inspired by the Shakespearian play, someone once said, “All the world’s a stage, some of us just have better seats,” but what if you cannot even get into the theater to take your seat? Imagine you just watched the Tony Awards, the performers were spectacular, the musical numbers are stuck in your head, and you cannot wait to buy tickets to this year’s best musical. You go online, research the theater where the production is playing, and your heart sinks. There is a small step into the front of the theater, and the nearest handicapped bathroom is located in a hotel next door. It would be too onerous of a task to attempt to see the production in your motorized wheelchair. Instead you are left hoping that they will make a movie version

Modern Science VS Vedic Science

We will show with examples that all results of modern science are based on or derived from assumptions. Since assumptions cannot be valid for nature and engineering, modern science therefore cannot represent the nature, and be applicable to nature and engineering. For the same reason results of modern science can never be demonstrated. On the other hand the Vedic science is entirely based on observations, just like what Galileo observed. Vedic science does not therefore has any assumptions, and it is a record of what you see is happening in nature. The Vedic science also has another very crucial difference – it observed two types of causes: (a) efficient cause and (b) material cause, behind every phenomenon. As a result Vedic science is universal and eternal. We will illustrate all results of Vedic science with observations in nature. Such examples will be beyond comprehension of modern science

Editorial, Your Null Hypothesis Must Be False: Test It Anyway

A historical criticism of null hypothesis testing is that a null hypothesis cannot be correct in the first place. The reason that many nulls cannot be correct is that what makes a null hypothesis a null hypothesis is its infinite precision. Only an infinitely precise hypothesis can be used to generate an infinitely precise prediction, such as t will be zero. It is around that infinitely precise prediction that we would construct a probability density function. If you are thinking, I just want to know if the difference is significant, and if you mean important, a null hypothesis test will never tell you that. Although we should know from the start when our nulls cannot be correct, there is still reason to test them: to see if we can confidently decide on the direction of a difference. In this editorial, I explore when nulls can and cannot be correct and summarize the field of directional decisions. Ronald Fisher made directional decisions. To John Tukey, the only reason to test a null was to decide on direction. And it is not a matter of using one-tailed tests. Before you submit your P values to a journal, read this editorial and rethink what you have written. The question is one of direction

Decohering Environment And Coupled Quantum States And Internal Resonance In Coupled Spin Systems And The Conflict Between Quantum Gate Operation And Decoupling A Cormorant-Barnacle Model

Quantum decoherence in all its locus of essence, and expression is the loss of coherence or ordering of the phase angles between the components of a system in a quantum superposition. Detrimental ramifications, and pernicious implications of this dephasing leads to classical or probabilistically additive behavior. Quantum decoherence gives the appearance of wave function collapse (the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an observer. Here it is to be noted that perception is not the reality and what you see is not what you see ;what you do not see is what you do not see; what you see is what you do not see ;and what you do not see is what you see.)… Thus in all its wide ranging manifestations, it justifies the propositional subsistence and corporeal reality that justifies the framework and intuition of classical physics as an acceptable approximation: decoherence is the mechanism by which the classical limit emerges out of a perceptual field   of quantum starting point and it determines the location of the quantum-classical boundary. Decoherence occurs when a system interacts with its environment in a thermodynamically irreversible way. This prevents transitive states, substantive sub states and determinate orientation different elements in the quantum superposition of the system and environment's wavefunction from interfering with each other. Decoherence has been a subject of active research since the 1980s. Decoherence can be viewed as the principal frontier of diurnal dynamics that results in loss of information from a system into the environment (often modeled as a heat bath), since every system is loosely coupled with the energetic state of its surroundings, with particularistic predicational pronouncements. . Viewed in isolation, the system's dynamics are non-unitary (although the combined system plus environment evolves in a unitary fashion). Thus, the dynamics of the system aphorism and anecdote of the system alone are irreversible. As with any coupling, entanglements are generated in its theme and potentialities between the system and environment, which have the effect of sharing quantum information with—or transferring it to—the surroundings. It is a blatant and flagrant misconception that collapse of wave function is attributable and ascribable to wave function collapse; Decoherence does not generate actual wave function collapse. It only provides an explanation for the appearance of the wavefunction collapse, as the quantum nature of the system "leaks" into the environment. So, the wave function collapse is the figment of the observer’s imagination, product of puerile prognostication and resultant orientationality of his phantasmagoria.  One cannot have the apodictic knowledge of reality that is; components of the wavefunction are decoupled from a coherent system, and acquire phases from their immediate surroundings. A total superposition of the global or universal wavefunction still exists (and remains coherent at the global level), but its ultimate fate remains an interpretational issue. This is a very important pharisaical provenience and plagenetious precocity with all the disembodied resemblances of the system in total form; specifically, decoherence does not attempt to explain the measurement problem. Rather, decoherence provides an explanation for the transition of the system to a mixture of states that seem to correspond to those states observers perceive. Moreover, our observation tells us that this mixture looks like a proper quantum ensemble in a measurement situation, as we observe that measurements lead to the "realization" of precisely one state in the "ensemble".Decoherence represents a challenge for the practical realization of quantum computers, since they are expected to rely heavily on the undisturbed evolution of quantum coherences. Simply put; they require that coherent states be preserved and that decoherence is managed, in order to actually perform quantum computation. In the following we give a model for decoherence of the environment, coupled quantum states, at determinate and differential levels ,internal resonance in coupled spin systems, and the conflict in the Quantum state operations and decoupling.   KEY WORDS Coupled quantum states, Quantum mechanic

Letter from W[illia]m Lord Smith to [John Muir], 1903 Oct 19.

[4] been put on the track of the famous [deodars]. I wish I might see them with you [even] will look [forward] [to] hearing about them. Kindly let me have a few lines at Cook\u27s office Bombay as [to] your wherabouts if you have not sailed and if you have left what line you have taken. When you come [to] Massachusetts again I should be most happy [to? see you and hope you will not fail [to] look me up. You can easily find me, though at present I have no Boston address. The best of luck if we fail [to] meet in Bombay. Sincerely yours Wm. [William] Lord Smith Johnson & Hoffman [ ] [Himalaya] photographs (Calcutta) possibly [branch] Bombay Jeypore – Rajputana Oct 19- 1903 [1] Dear Doctor I am writing this in case I do not see you in Bombay which may not be if you sail next Saturday. Jeypore has proved very interesting. Being [in] one of the so called independent states it is almost exclusively Hindo, very few such [mohammedans] and about three English men. In a word it is the first pukker Indian place I have seen and offers the chance of seeing native life in the capital of a Maharajah, a direct [2] descendent of the sun god. There are so many interesting places between here and Bombay that I cannot arrive there anyway before Sunday I fear. If you are still there I will hope to see Bombay and the caves of Elephanta with you. I consider myself most lucky to have fallen in with you and thanks to you the, mountains, snows and trees will be much more interesting than before even if they should be bare of tigers. This countries seems especially [favoured] by the royal [cat] and the royals has made a very [3] good collection of which I have taken advantage. I fell in with a very interesting man here who evidently is connected with the Calcutta museum. He has proved that the Taj was not made by Italian brains but undoubtedly by Indian. I was very glad to hear it as I could not reconcile the facts and it [had] worried me in Agra as you may remember. I may see you after all if you make a trip over from [Simla] into the forests which I hear are a day or more away- but you have probably met the local forester an