Negotiating Audiences: Confronting Social Issues in Theatre/or Young Audiences

Resume: Cet article examine les problèmes pratiques, esthétiques et idéologiques auxquels sont confrontées les troupes de théâtre qui produisent des pièces portant sur I\u27expérience vécue des jeunes et qui les présentent en milieu scolaire Si I\u27école permet I\u27accès à la culture théâtrale à des groupes d\u27enfants défavorisés, il n\u27en reste pas moins que cet accès est contrôlé par des adultes (commissions scolaires, enseignants, parents et bailleurs de fonds). À cet égard, l\u27expérience de deux troupes, Ie Catalyst Theatre d\u27Edmonton et la Company of Sirens de Toronto, montre les difficultés que soulèvent l\u27exploration de sujets comme la violence à la maison et les abus sexuels. Summary: This paper deals with the practical, aesthetic, and ideological problems facing theatre groups who choose to produce issue-based plays for young audiences in schools. In socio-economic terms, performing in schools makes theatre available to a larger cross section of young people, however, a company\u27s access to these audiences is ultimately mediated by adults (school boards, teachers, parents and funding agencies). The paper compares the experiences of two different theatre groups — Catalyst Theatre (Edmonton) and the Company of Sirens (Toronto) — whose plays for young audiences tackled issues of sexual abuse and domestic violence. The paper concludes with a consideration of the challenges and rewards of TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences) more generally

Effect of weighting on time sidelobe suppression

Weighting simulations in the time domain were considered to shape the time-compressed pulse waveform. The digital input radar data were 32 bit I,Q, and simulated data from a point target, imaged by a Seasat-A type system. Weighting functions tested include stepped-amplitude distributions, (with 1 through 5 steps), and the cosine-squared plus pedestal distribution. Effects treated include mainlobe ratio, signal to noise ratio, and nearest sidelobe suppression

Child\u27s Pique Dress

The Ladies’ Paradise takes its readers to the late nineteenth century when the development of department stores was revolutionizing business in Paris. Zola uses great detail in describing the departments, business tactics and social life within the Ladies’ Paradise. He also describes two large sales held by the store, the second of which is the “White Sale,” where the Paradise took all of their white garments and displayed them to be sold at a discounted price. A white piqué child’s coat found in the University of Rhode Island Textile Collection is similar to what would have been sold in Denise’s department during the sale

Feminism and Fashion of the Twentieth Century

Looking back in history it is easy to see how politics have affected movements like the fight for women\u27s rights and equality. Women and men together have always been expected to follow certain styles and trends depending on the time period, but women seemed to have broken that mold over the past two centuries. Through the three waves of feminism, women’s clothing has been refined depending on factors such as changes in political policies, periods of war, and feminist activism

Remediating the Past: Doing “Periodical Studies” in the Digital Era

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Weighting in digital synthetic aperture radar processing

Weighting is employed in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing to reduce the sidelobe response at the expense of peak center response height and mainlobe resolution. The weighting effectiveness in digital processing depends not only on the choice of weighting function, but on the fineness of sampling and quantization, on the time bandwidth product, on the quadratic phase error, and on the azimuth antenna pattern. The results of simulations conducted to uncover the effect of these parameters on azimuth weighting effectiveness are presented. In particular, it is shown that multilook capabilities of future SAR systems may obviate the need for consideration of the antenna pattern, and that azimuth time-bandwidth products of over 200 are probably required before the digital results begin to approach the ideal results

Synthetic aperture radar and digital processing: An introduction

A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented with emphasis on digital data collection and processing. Background information on waveform frequency and phase notation, mixing, Q conversion, sampling and cross correlation operations is included for clarity. The fate of a SAR signal from transmission to processed image is traced in detail, using the model of a single bright point target against a dark background. Some of the principal problems connected with SAR processing are also discussed

Trade, diplomacy, and warfare: The Quest for elite rhizobia inoculant strains

Rhizobia form symbiotic nitrogen-fixing nodules on leguminous plants, which provides an important source of fixed nitrogen input into the soil ecosystem. The improvement of symbiotic nitrogen fixation is one of the main challenges facing agriculture research. Doing so will reduce the usage of chemical nitrogen fertilizer, contributing to the development of sustainable agriculture practices to deal with the increasing global human population. Sociomicrobiological studies of rhizobia have become a model for the study of the evolution of mutualistic interactions. The exploitation of the wide range of social interactions rhizobia establish among themselves, with the soil and root microbiota, and with the host plant, could constitute a great advantage in the development of a new generation of highly effective rhizobia inoculants. Here, we provide a brief overview of the current knowledge on three main aspects of rhizobia interaction: trade of fixed nitrogen with the plant; diplomacy in terms of communication and possible synergistic effects; and warfare, as antagonism and plant control over symbiosis. Then, we propose new areas of investigation and the selection of strains based on the combination of the genetic determinants for the relevant rhizobia symbiotic behavioral phenotypes