‘Do What Yourself?: Querying the Status of “It” in Contemporary Punk’

In order to ‘do-it-yourself’ (DIY), one needs to have some idea as to what ‘it’ is, presumably. From the late 1970s punk scene onwards, many took ‘it’ to be releasing a record: some were content to simply perform a gig or several gigs, but actually releasing a vinyl record, or even a flexi or a tape, brought a certain credibility and seriousness to the profile of a band. However, some within the punk scene would appear to have realized early on that releasing records is not necessarily the best way to ensure that ‘anyone can do it’. Latterly, record sales have slumped and yet much of the DIY punk scene, even in its more radical and leftist margins, has critically failed to really explore the necessity and validity of releasing physical copies of musical performance. Should ‘we’ still be making records in the twenty-first century? Perhaps so, the article goes on to argue in the light of Walter Benjamin’s discussion of the on-going value of physical collections. ‘The’ revolution is not yet here and, under a capitalist system, we still may want to make records for some time to come, but a critical stance on pressing records in particular and DIY in general will do the punk scene no harm. Perhaps, indeed, making records is not the best ‘it’ that one can do and other forms of doing it yourself (putting on gigs, designing visual imagery, unrecorded musical performance and so forth) deserve to be valued more highly within the DIY punk scene(s)

Joanna Bullivant, Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc

Radical politics and radical aesthetics: how closely are they linked? This question is spectral to Joanna Bullivant’s excellent book on the communist composer Alan Bush, in my reading. Does a composer with a strong commitment to radical social change, such as Bush, need to shock and/or challenge the audience with experimentation, dissonance and/or ostentatious novelty of some kind? Alternatively, are there other (and perhaps more subtle, nuanced) ways of navigating the aesthetic path whilst n..

What if Keith Levene never left the Clash?: Punk and the Politics of Novelty

This volume brings together a range of writers from different academic disciplines and different locations to provide an engaging and accessible critical exploration of one of the most revered and reviled bands in the history of popular ..

Estimating the prevalence of latent tuberculosis in a low-incidence setting: Australia.

Migration is a key driver of tuberculosis (TB) in many low-incidence settings, with the majority of TB cases attributed to reactivation of latent TB (LTBI) acquired overseas. A greater understanding of LTBI risk in heterogeneous migrant populations would aid health planning. We aimed to estimate the LTBI prevalence and distribution among locally born and overseas-born Australians.Annual risks of TB infection estimates were applied to population cohorts (by country of birth, year of arrival and age) in Australian census data in 2006, 2011 and 2016.Both the absolute number and proportion of Australian residents with LTBI increased from 4.6% (interquartile range (IQR) 4.2-5.2%) in 2006 to 5.1% (IQR 4.7-5.5%) in 2016, due to the increasing proportion of the population born overseas (23.8% in 2006 to 28.3% in 2016). Of all residents estimated to have LTBI in 2016; 93.2% were overseas born, 21.6% were aged <35 years and 34.4% had migrated to Australia since 2007.The overall prevalence of LTBI in Australia is low. Some residents, particularly migrants from high-incidence settings, may have considerably higher risk of LTBI, and these findings allow for tailored public health interventions to reduce the risk and impact of future TB disease

Prospectus, October 11, 1978

FOREIGN STUDENTS-- ALONE IN A NEW LAND; letters to the editor: Student says best discos are gay, States jump on CBE bandwagon, Ticket, nit-picking; Correction; Legal clinic for PC women; Electronics club plans field trips; Art dept. plans Pompeii trip; Blood bank rep. to speak Oct. 17; \u27Plan your escape\u27 is the theme this year; Lung diseases to be discussed; EIU hosts visitation day; Bake sale in college center starts Parkland\u27s activities for the week; Seminar to be Oct. 14-15; Real estate review workshop held; Lottery winners drawn; Politics, school and job mix for Scott Trail; Oktoberfest is Oct. 25; Music dept. still seeking players; Disco mania hits Champaign-Urbana: Disco dance lessons--what to expect, Popular disco songs in C-U, Local discos bring C-U \u27Saturday Night Fever\u27, Disco dj\u27s help people get on the floor and boogie, Basic disco dance steps; PC has new business instructor; Foreign students face changes; Santana performs; Free Classifieds; Do health foods possess power to cure disease?; WPCD\u27s Top 15 For The Week Of Oct. 9; Coach Dutton aims to win; Competency testing concerns PTA; Woodroofe exhibit to run till Oct. 15 at Buell; EIU places 4 in PC invitational; Gerhardt assistant basketball coach; 5 winners in Fast Freddy contest; Fast Freddy contesthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1008/thumbnail.jp

Optimisation of multimodal coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy for the detection of isotope-labelled molecules

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy utilises intrinsic vibrational resonances of molecules to drive inelastic scattering of light, and thus eradicates the need for exogenous fluorescent labelling, whilst providing high-resolution three-dimensional images with chemical specificity. Replacement of hydrogen atoms with deuterium presents a labelling strategy that introduces minimal change to compound structure yet is compatible with CARS due to an induced down-shift of the CH2 peak into a region of the Raman spectrum which does not contain contributions from other chemical species, thus giving contrast against other cellular components. We present our work using deuterated oleic acid to optimise setup of an in-house-developed multimodal, multiphoton, laser-scanning microscope for precise identification of carbon-deuterium-associated peaks within the silent region of the Raman spectrum. Application of the data analysis procedure, factorisation into susceptibilities and concentrations of chemical components (FSC3), enables the identification and quantitative spatial resolution of specific deuterated chemical components within a hyperspectral CARS image. Full hyperspectral CARS datasets were acquired from HeLa cells incubated with either deuterated or non-deuterated oleic acid, and subsequent FSC3 analysis enabled identification of the intracellular location of the exogenously applied deuterated lipid against the chemical background of the cell. Through application of FSC3 analysis, deuterium-labelling may provide a powerful technique for imaging small molecules which are poorly suited to conventional fluorescence techniques

Prospectus, October 17, 1979

CANTEEN STILL IN TROUBLE; Language: Big adjustment; Across the globe; In the nation; Throughout the state; Around the town; Fire guts Athenaeum; Briefs: \u27Living Newspaper\u27 performs Oct. 23, German foods, Seniors to visit, Costumes display, Apply no more, Ciricle K events, Krannert events; Letter to editor: Ohio inmate wants pen-pal; Field trips to view artwork; French cooking offered Weds.; I.O.E. to evaluate Parkland College Oct. 30; Everyone would like a Vette; Feature: Fast Freddie wows women; Reviews: \u27Long Run\u27 ran, Science fiction and yesteryear unite in \u27time after time\u27, STYX book-album; Jumping out of a plane -- FOR FUN; Classifieds; Concerts: Frampton -- yea, Simms -- nay, Kenny Loggins storms C-U; Cross Country running well; Outlaws are a crowd pleaser; Sports: Cobras win 4 more; Superman Fast Freddy did it again? 4-9; Freddy\u27s picks; Fast Freddy Contest; Intramural Standingshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1979/1008/thumbnail.jp

Measuring the bias of technological change

Abstract When technological change occurs, it can increase the productivity of capital, labor, and the other factors of production in equal terms or it can be biased towards a specific factor. Whether technological change favors some factors of production over others is an empirical question that is central to economics. The literatures in industrial organization, productivity, and economic growth rest on very specific assumptions about the bias of technological change. Yet, the evidence is sparse. In this paper we propose a general framework for estimating production functions that allows productivity to be multi-dimensional. Using firm-level panel data, we are able to directly assess the bias of technological change by measuring, at the level of the individual firm, how much of technological change is factor neutral and how much of it is labor augmenting. We further relate the speed and the direction of technological change to firms&apos; R&amp;D activities. * We than

Towards Generalist Biomedical AI

Medicine is inherently multimodal, with rich data modalities spanning text, imaging, genomics, and more. Generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) systems that flexibly encode, integrate, and interpret this data at scale can potentially enable impactful applications ranging from scientific discovery to care delivery. To enable the development of these models, we first curate MultiMedBench, a new multimodal biomedical benchmark. MultiMedBench encompasses 14 diverse tasks such as medical question answering, mammography and dermatology image interpretation, radiology report generation and summarization, and genomic variant calling. We then introduce Med-PaLM Multimodal (Med-PaLM M), our proof of concept for a generalist biomedical AI system. Med-PaLM M is a large multimodal generative model that flexibly encodes and interprets biomedical data including clinical language, imaging, and genomics with the same set of model weights. Med-PaLM M reaches performance competitive with or exceeding the state of the art on all MultiMedBench tasks, often surpassing specialist models by a wide margin. We also report examples of zero-shot generalization to novel medical concepts and tasks, positive transfer learning across tasks, and emergent zero-shot medical reasoning. To further probe the capabilities and limitations of Med-PaLM M, we conduct a radiologist evaluation of model-generated (and human) chest X-ray reports and observe encouraging performance across model scales. In a side-by-side ranking on 246 retrospective chest X-rays, clinicians express a pairwise preference for Med-PaLM M reports over those produced by radiologists in up to 40.50% of cases, suggesting potential clinical utility. While considerable work is needed to validate these models in real-world use cases, our results represent a milestone towards the development of generalist biomedical AI systems

Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation

We report the results of a structured expert elicitation to identify the most likely typesof potential food system disruption scenarios for the UK, focusing on routes to civil unrest. Wetake a backcasting approach by defining as an end-point a societal event in which 1 in 2000 peoplehave been injured in the UK, which 40% of experts rated as “Possible (20–50%)”, “More likely thannot (50–80%)” or “Very likely (>80%)” over the coming decade. Over a timeframe of 50 years, thisincreased to 80% of experts. The experts considered two food system scenarios and ranked theirplausibility of contributing to the given societal scenario. For a timescale of 10 years, the majorityidentified a food distribution problem as the most likely. Over a timescale of 50 years, the expertswere more evenly split between the two scenarios, but over half thought the most likely route tocivil unrest would be a lack of total food in the UK. However, the experts stressed that the variouscauses of food system disruption are interconnected and can create cascading risks, highlighting theimportance of a systems approach. We encourage food system stakeholders to use these results intheir risk planning and recommend future work to support prevention, preparedness, response andrecovery planning