The Robert E. Gard Reader : To Change the Face of America, From Writings by Robert E. Gard

This Reader draws from the works of Robert E. Gard, professor at the University of Wisconsin, Extension. His chief areas of activity were in the theatre arts and in creative writing, with a strong side activity in collecting and publishing the folklore of the state. He established the functional area of arts development under University Extension and remained a specialist in the arts in smaller communities and rural areas.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scholbks/1000/thumbnail.jp

J.D. Salinger and Copyright\u27s Rule of the Shorter Term

Recently, the small publishing house Devault-Graves took on the Salinger Estate in an, almost, epic battle to determine whether the copyright term had ended on three of Salinger\u27s early short stories in each country around the world. Devault-Graves wanted a declaratory judgment stating that if the copyright term had expired in the United States, it would have expired in all other countries with a rule of the shorter term (RST). But copyright is never that simple, as Devault-Graves soon found out. This short-lived case provides a useful lens through which to view the property rights as defined by the limited term in copyright and the pesky concept of RST embodied in the Berne Convention. RST posits that the copyright term for a work in a given country is limited to the amount of protection that its home country gives that same work; if a work is first published in Country A, and Country A provides ten years of protection, while Country B provides one hundred years, Country B need only provide ten years of protection to that work from Country A. RST becomes a key property boundary for foreign works, marking the moment between copyright and the public domain. And yet, whether RST is applied to foreign works in a given country is often unclear, or defining RST itself becomes very complicated. In the end, RST was not a friend to Devault-Graves. The Salinger short stories (in the US public domain) turned out to have copyright terms that were much more difficult to assess worldwide and,in many cases, were still protected by copyright in many countries around the world. This Article provides an in-depth discussion of RST and how it plays out on an historical as well as a practical level. This Article ends by suggesting a three-part test to determine whether RST applies in a particular country for a particular foreign work

Arts in the Small Community: Essays and Supplements Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Arts in the Small Community: A National Plan

The Arts in the Small Community: Essays and Supplements Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Arts in the Small Community: A National Plan. Eight essays and fourteen supplements from the original project provide the intellectual framework and the practical exploration of empowering arts in democratic America. The 1966 version is the original National Plan, while the 2006 version includes the stirring language of the original, but recognizes all of the dramatic progress in community arts development that took place between 1966 and 2006. It was intended to be a do-it-yourself manual to help local arts activists focus their work.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/msl_ae_ebooks/1002/thumbnail.jp

Bare for å unngå sammenstøt? - En fenomenologisk tilnærming til den norsk-russiske «Incident at Sea»-avtalens funksjoner i et norsk perspektiv.

I denne studien undersøkes den norsk-russiske avtalen «om forhindring av episoder til sjøs og utenfor territorialfarvannet», bedre kjent som «Incident at Sea»-avtalen eller bare «INCSEA-avtalen».Ved bruk av en Små-N-studie, basert på semi-strukturerte intervjuer, og en analyse med fenomenologisk tilnærming, har prosjektet sett bredt på INCSEA-avtalen som fenomen og hvilke funksjoner avtalen kan sies å fylle for Norge. Da eksisterende forskning på avtalen har vist seg å være svært sparsom har sluttproduktet for studien blitt et konsept i form av en typologisk modell, bestående av tre hovedfunksjoner. Dette konseptet baserer seg i all hovedsak på analyse av de data som har blitt generert gjennomintervjuene i studien. De tre hovedfunksjonene som er utledet er henholdsvis INCSEA-avtalen som «møteplass», «rammebetingelse» og «prosess». I tillegg er kontinuitet identifisert som en viktig faktor som går på tvers av disse funksjonene. Hovedfunksjonene går videre på tvers av organisatoriske nivåer i Forsvaret, samtidig som avtalen som møteplass også virker til dels utenfor Forsvaret, da avtalen også kan ses som engasjementspunkt i en mer overordnet politisk setting. Verdien som engasjementspunkt kan synes å ha økt etter 2014. Også utøvende nivå, på havet og i luften, oppfattes også avtalen å ha god relevans, men den kansynes å fra norsk side i større grad å bli brukt som en rettesnor for hvordan man skal samhandle enn som en avtale som leses bokstav for bokstav. Videre kan det også synes som at ved endring av avtalen er det selve i idéen om en god prosess og en tidsriktig avtale, som kan være vel så viktig for tilliten til avtalen som endringene i seg selv. I sum viser denne forskningen at INCSEA-avtalen kan sies å ha flere funksjoner som er viktige helt fra fartøy og fly på havet og i luften og opp til det politiske nivå. Disse funksjonene må ses i sammenheng ettersom de virker på hverandre og på tvers av organisatoriske nivåer

Computational psychosomatics and computational psychiatry: toward a joint framework for differential diagnosis

This article outlines how a core concept from theories of homeostasis and cybernetics, the inference-control loop, may be used to guide differential diagnosis in computational psychiatry and computational psychosomatics. In particular, we discuss 1) how conceptualizing perception and action as inference-control loops yields a joint computational perspective on brain-world and brain-body interactions and 2) how the concrete formulation of this loop as a hierarchical Bayesian model points to key computational quantities that inform a taxonomy of potential disease mechanisms. We consider the utility of this perspective for differential diagnosis in concrete clinical applications

Billy Elliot The Musical: visual representations of working-class masculinity and the all-singing, all-dancing bo[d]y

According to Cynthia Weber, ‘[d]ance is commonly thought of as liberating, transformative, empowering, transgressive, and even as dangerous’. Yet ballet as a masculine activity still remains a suspect phenomenon. This paper will challenge this claim in relation to Billy Elliot the Musical and its critical reception. The transformation of the visual representation of the human body on stage (from an ephemeral existence to a timeless work of art) will be discussed and analysed vis-a-vis the text and sub-texts of Stephen Daldry’s direction and Peter Darling’s choreography. The dynamics of working-class masculinity will be contextualised within the framework of the family, the older female, the community, the self and the act of dancing itself

Computerized system for translating a torch head

The system provides a constant travel speed along a contoured workpiece. It has a driven skate characterized by an elongated bed, with a pair of independently pivoted trucks connected to the bed for support. The trucks are mounted on a contoured track of arbitrary configuration in a mutually spaced relation. An axially extensible torch head manipulator arm is mounted on the bed of the carriage and projects perpendicular from the midportion. The torch head is mounted at its distal end. A real-time computerized control drive subsystem is used to advance the skate along the track of a variable rate for maintaining a constant speed for the torch head tip, and to position the torch axis relative to a preset angle to the workpiece

Evaluation of bistable systems versus matched filters in detecting bipolar pulse signals

This paper presents a thorough evaluation of a bistable system versus a matched filter in detecting bipolar pulse signals. The detectability of the bistable system can be optimized by adding noise, i.e. the stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon. This SR effect is also demonstrated by approximate statistical detection theory of the bistable system and corresponding numerical simulations. Furthermore, the performance comparison results between the bistable system and the matched filter show that (a) the bistable system is more robust than the matched filter in detecting signals with disturbed pulse rates, and (b) the bistable system approaches the performance of the matched filter in detecting unknown arrival times of received signals, with an especially better computational efficiency. These significant results verify the potential applicability of the bistable system in signal detection field.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, MikTex v2.