Rheumatoid arthritis: An overview

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X to Expression

Art allows for the exploration of human life in a visual form. Over the summer I explored, through art, ideas regarding opposites and how they are more alike than we assume them to be. The purpose of this project was to reveal to the viewer that what we may think of as complete opposites actually achieve the same thing. The secondary purpose of this project was to explore these ideas in a non-representational form. I wanted to take this idea and present it through abstract art. I would observe two things that people seemed to think were opposites. I would then explore them with painting, searching for the link that combined them, that made them more alike than I or the audience would have imagined. X to Expression demonstrates my purpose in the most straightforward way of all my works. The background consists of vibrant colors of acrylic paint spread around in a random pattern. The foreground is a bold black X. The act of censoring something, of limiting what a person can say, makes just as big of a statement, if not a bigger one, than the statement that was silenced. The colors, the expression, swirl around the canvas and delight the eye. It is, however, the black X that dominates the viewer’s attention though. The X silences what has been expressed. This idea not only manifested itself politically in my body of work: it involved life and some of the more mundane aspects of life such as the chaos we get ourselves involved in. I was able to successfully demonstrate the similarities in opposites, all through the use of abstract art. The work is not direct in what it is saying but instead encourages the viewer to wrestle with it and the message it is conveying

The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 1977)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of the Modern Language Association by New York University and Queens College, City University of New York.The Victorian View of Russian Literature / Harold Orel -- Newman and the Victorian Cult of Style / David J. DeLaura -- Contrasting Pictorial Representations of Time: The Dural Narration of Bleak House / Devra Braun Rosenberg -- Swinburne's Craft of Pure Expression / Anthony H. Harrison -- Heart of Stone: An Emblem for Conversion / C. S. Vogel -- Thomas Hardy's Correspondence with Sir George Douglas / M. D. Wilkie -- Recent Publications: A Selected List / Arthur F. Minerof -- Victorian Group New

Literary studies and the academy

In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. The holder of the chair was, according to the statutes, to ‘lecture and give instruction on the broad history and criticism of English Language and Literature, and on the works of approved English authors’. This was not in itself a particularly innovatory move, as the study of English vernacular literature had played some part in higher education in Britain for over a century. Oxford University had put English as a subject into its pass degree in 1873, had been participating since 1878 in extension teaching, of which literary study formed a significant part, and had since 1881 been setting special examinations in the subject for its non-graduating women students. What was new was the fact that this ancient university appeared to be on the verge of granting the solid academic legitimacy of an established chair to an institutionally marginal and often contentious intellectual pursuit, acknowledging the study of literary texts in English to be a fit subject not just for women and the educationally disadvantaged but also for university men

Old Wine in New Wine Skins: Architecture, Representation and Electronic Media

Architectural computing too often is disengaged from the central culture of architectural discourse and traditional means of making. This paper proposes that one way to bridge this gap is to introduce electronic media in the context of a process-oriented theory of architectural representation - one that is principally concerned with issues of conception, intention, and perception. This approach to the use of computers in the design process requires the introduction of a morphology of representational modes that are intrinsic to the Architect and his musings, and proposes a pedagogical emphasis on electronic media's ability to perform in conjunction with the design intentions of these various representational forms.

The Masters of Our Time

The Masters of Our Time, 2014, Paper and oil on canvas, 36x36 inche

Perceptual interactions between cooling and flavors

There are many studies on the perceptual interactions between taste and smell, however, few studies have focused on interactions between flavor and cooling sensations. To examine the interactions between these sensations, two studies were conducted. The objective of the first study was to determine whether perceptual interactions exist between cooling and flavors, whether these interactions are dependent on the congruency (appropriate pairing) of the flavor with cooling, and how this influences perceived intensity of cooling and flavor attributes. Based on studies of interactions between taste and smell, the expectation was that congruent pairings would enhance cooling and flavor intensities, while incongruent pairings would suppress or have no influence on attribute intensities. The objective of the second study was to understand how cooling compounds influence liking and emotions when added to congruent and incongruent flavored model beverages. Concentrations corresponding to moderate and low cooling intensities were determined with a dose-response study of WS-3 (N-Ethyl-5-methyl-2-(1-methylethyl) cyclohexanecarboxamide). WS-3 concentrations were varied in flavored model beverages (apple, spearmint, caramel). Intensity scales were employed to study the effects of the mixtures on cooling and flavor intensities using ScentMove® and affective scales to study the hedonics and emotions related to these mixtures. Results indicated that moderate intensity WS-3 significantly increased perceived intensity of spearmint flavor (a congruent pairing) over the flavor alone for a period of 2 minutes from tasting, while there was no influence of cooling intensity on apple or caramel intensities (incongruent pairings). For apple and caramel, increasing levels of WS-3 corresponded with decreased liking and positive emotions, as well as higher disgust. For spearmint, moderate intensity WS-3 slightly decreased positive emotions and slightly increased disgust. Results suggest that congruency has an impact on perceptual interactions involving cooling. Cooling congruent flavor intensity can be boosted using a cooling agent. It is important to use caution in product design, as liking and emotional profiles are influenced by cooling intensities. Even with a congruent flavor, there is an optimal cooling intensity level.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Christie DeLaur

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2014, mixed media on paper, 18x24 inche

Route selection decision support in convective weather: a case study of the effects of weather and operational assumptions on departure throughput.

Abstract This paper presents a detailed study of a convective weather event affecting the northeastern United States on 19 April 2002: its impacts on departure throughput, the response of traffic managers and an analysis of the potential effects of decision support on system performance. We compare actual departure throughput to what may have been achieved using the Route Availability Planning Tool (RAPT), a prototype decision support tool. We examine two questions: Can decision support identify opportunities to release departures that were missed during the event? How is route selection guidance affected by the operational model incorporated into the decision support tool? By "operational model", we mean three things: the choice of weather forecast information used to define hazards (precipitation, echo tops, etc.), the model for how airspace is used (route definition and allocation) and the assessment of the likelihood that a given route is passable. We focus our analysis on the operational model only; we eliminate weather forecast uncertainty as a factor in the analysis by running RAPT using the actual observed weather as the forecast ('perfect' forecast). Results show that decision support based on perfect forecasts is sensitive to all three elements of the operational model. The sensitivity to weather metrics became evident when we compared decision support based upon perfect forecasts of level 3 vertically integrated liquid (VIL) to that based upon VIL plus storm echo tops. Traffic managers were at times able to move more aircraft by abandoning nominal routing than if they had used nominal routing with perfect weather information. The assessment of route availability will, at times, be ambiguous; different interpretations of that assessment lead to decisions that result in significant differences in departure throughput. These results suggest that for traffic flow management tools, a realistic operational model may be at least as important as the frequently discussed problem of weather forecast uncertainty