(re)solving the governance puzzle for the future UK-EU relationship

Brexit is a plan in the making. A positive and durable relationship is essential. We need a multilateral solution that works for the UK, the EFTA States including Switzerland, and the EU, writes Michael-James Clifton

Because your Heart

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When We\u27re Together

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Making the connection: J.B. Murray and the scripts and forms of Africa

Title from PDF of title page, viewed on May 31, 2013Thesis advisor: Maude Southwell WahlmanVitaIncludes bibliographic references (pages 107-110)Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013Many African and African America artists have chosen to represent Nsibidi and other African and Afro-Caribbean syllabaries in their works of art. However, some artists also produces art and script given to them "by God" with the intent of carrying out God's will and helping others? J.B. Murray believed this to be his situation. Through a thorough investigation of the history of the scripts and forms of Africa and the writing systems that developed in the Americas from those African scripts, the diasporic path that African traditions took in the Americas, will be explored. One of the challenges of this research has been the different perceptions expressed by Western and non-Western viewpoints. Through an analysis of several critical viewpoints, including sociological, anthropological, and art historical, these Western and non-Western viewpoints are critiqued in connection with the continuation of African traditions throughout the diaspora. Another area examined is the difference between knowing and choosing to use the scripts and forms of Africa to express a connection with that culture, such as the artists Betye Saar and Victor Ekpuk, and simply producing art, folkart, or script, and not knowing there is any connection between their work and the work of others, whether in other countries or their own. J.B. Murray is a wonderful artist to examine, due to the fact that he had no preconceived notions of African art, traditions, or customs. He was illiterate and therefore had no opportunity to read and gain knowledge of other cultures. Until he had produced his script and forms for a few years and gained notoriety with exposure to art institutions in the United States, he had no idea the messages going to his recipients through him, from God, had any connection to any other cultures.College of Arts and SciencesIntroduction -- History of African script and spirit forms and their migration to the New World -- Analysis of Murray's artistry and its reception -- Comparison of the use of scripts and forms by Murray and other artists -- Conclusions -- Illustrationsmonographi

An Evaluation of Pay Equity Reports at Five Canadian Universities

This paper reviews five reports measuring discrimination in salaries between males and females at Canadian universities. All find some discrimination (3% to 8%), a result in accord with published research on the same topic. However, the approaches taken are quite different, often reflecting controversial decisions over which variables would be included to explain salary differentials. We examine the strengths and weaknesses of these reports. In particular, the focus on single equation models is a problem since some of the controversial variables, which may be biased by discrimination, also contain some information which explains legitimate differences in salaries. Our review suggests that many of the models are probably misspecified. We conclude with a call for universities to collect the information which is required to complete these studies expeditiously and accurately.Ce article fait l'examen de cinq rapports portant sur l'équité salariale dans les universités canadiennes. Tous les rapports documentent l'existence d'écarts salariaux (entre 3 et 8%) qui reflètent les écarts généralement recensés dans les écrits sur le sujet. Cependant, ces résultats reposent sur des approches méthodologiques très différentes qui témoignent de décisions controversies ayant trait à la sélection des variables pouvant expliquer les écarts salariaux. L'étude analyse les forces et les faiblesses des approches utilisées. En particulier, le choix de modèles à une seule équation pose problème puisque certaines variables sélectionnées peuvent à la fois décrire des différences salariales discriminatoires et contenir de l'information permettant d'expliquer des écarts légitimes de salaires. Notre analyse suggère donc que plusieurs modèles ne permettent pas d'expliquer adéquatement les écarts salariaux et que les universités concernées devraient rapidement faire la collecte d'informations supplémentaires pertinentes pour compléter les études déjà réalisées

Short-term adaptation of accommodation, accommodative vergence and disparity vergence facility

AbstractPrevious studies have found that subjects can increase the velocity of accommodation using visual exercises such as pencil push ups, flippers, Brock strings and the like and myriad papers have shown improvement in accommodation facility (speed) and sufficiency (amplitude) using subjective tests following vision training but few have objectively measured accommodation before and after training in either normal subjects or in patients diagnosed with accommodative infacility (abnormally slow dynamics). Accommodation is driven either directly by blur or indirectly by way of neural crosslinks from the vergence system. Until now, no study has objectively measured both accommodation and accommodative–vergence before and after vision training and the role vergence might play in modifying the speed of accommodation. In the present study, accommodation and accommodative–vergence were measured with a Purkinje Eye Tracker/optometer before and after normal subjects trained in a flipper-like task in which the stimulus stepped between 0 and 2.5diopters and back for over 200 cycles. Most subjects increased their speed of accommodation as well as their speed of accommodative vergence. Accommodative vergence led the accommodation response by approximately 77ms before training and 100ms after training and the vergence lead was most prominent in subjects with high accommodation and vergence velocities and the vergence leads tended to increase in conjunction with increases in accommodation velocity. We surmise that volitional vergence may help increase accommodation velocity by way of vergence–accommodation cross links