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Trace Substances, Science and Law: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Using advances in analytical technology as a point of departure, Dr. Short reviews what social science research reveals about perceptions, decision making processes and behaviors of organizations and individuals who try to cope with risk and uncertainty
What is being conveyed to health professionals and consumers through web and print sources of nutrition information?
Nutrition misinformation can be harmful. Within dietetics there is an acknowledgement that nutrition information should be consistent, science-based and made relevant to different segments of the population. This paper reports on a study, conducted in Scotland, which involved focus groups and interviews with consumers and health professionals to explore messages relating to a healthy diet and to starchy foods and foods high in fat or sugar in particular. The research also involved a discourse analysis of articles aimed at health professionals and consumers. Evidence based, clearly written web and print articles were not the norm. Many articles contained value-laden messages and inconsistent or unclear advice. Nutrition information was rarely contextualized for consumers to help them incorporate the advice into their daily lives. Consumers and health professionals reported feeling 'bombarded' by messages about diet, which was sometimes confusing. There is considerable scope for improving nutrition messaging in Scotland.Peer reviewe
Erving Seemed Surprised at How Little “Power” Came with the ASA Presidency, and Noted that the Position of Secretary Carried Much More Clout
Dr. James F. Short, Professor Emeritus at the Washington State University, wrote this memoir at the request of Dmitri Shalin and gave his permission to post it in the Erving Goffman Archives
Subgroups of direct products of limit groups
If are limit groups and is of
type \FP_n(\mathbb Q) then contains a subgroup of finite index that is
itself a direct product of at most limit groups. This settles a question of
Sela.Comment: 20 pages, no figures. Final version. Accepted by the Annals of
Mathematic
On the finite presentation of subdirect products and the nature of residually free groups
We establish {\em{virtual surjection to pairs}} (VSP) as a general criterion
for the finite presentability of subdirect products of groups: if
are finitely presented and
projects to a subgroup of finite index in
each , then is finitely presentable, indeed there
is an algorithm that will construct a finite presentation for .
We use the VSP criterion to characterise the finitely presented residually
free groups. We prove that the class of such groups is recursively enumerable.
We describe an algorithm that, given a finite presentation of a residually free
group, constructs a canonical embedding into a direct product of finitely many
limit groups. We solve the (multiple) conjugacy problem and membership problem
for finitely presentable subgroups of residually free groups. We also prove
that there is an algorithm that, given a finite generating set for such a
subgroup, will construct a finite presentation.
New families of subdirect products of free groups are constructed, including
the first examples of finitely presented subgroups that are neither
nor of Stallings-Bieri typeComment: 44 pages. To appear in American Journal of Mathematics. This is a
substantial rewrite of our previous Arxiv article 0809.3704, taking into
account subsequent developments, advice of colleagues and referee's comment
Finitely presented subgroups of automatic groups and their isoperimetric functions
We describe a general technique for embedding certain amalgamated products
into direct products. This technique provides us with a way of constructing a
host of finitely presented subgroups of automatic groups which are not even
asynchronously automatic. We can also arrange that such subgroups satisfy, at
best, an exponential isoperimetric inequality.Comment: DVI and Post-Script files only. To appear in J. London Math. So
Hell as the Here-and-Now
HELL AS THE HERE-AND-NOW: IMAGES OF HUMAN TRAVAIL IN TWELFTH-CENTURY EMAKI AND KUROSAWA'S RANAKIRA KUROSAWA'S last major epic film, Ran (translatable as "chaos"), begins in media res with the moment of precipitous decline of the seventy-year-old Hidetora, a medieval-period daimyo. Hidetora gathers together his three sons and two lesser daimyo, lords Fujimaki and Ayabe, for first a hunt, then to issue an edict: Though he will retain his banner and ceremonial title of Great Lord, his oldest son, Taro, will henceforth act as the clan's leader. Hidetora hopes to spend his remaining years as a doting and beloved father. But, as Hidetora's son Saburo warns, such familial peace and bliss is hardly achievable within a world of warriors and their competing ambitions, a world that Hidetora himself helped to create through his many ruthless acts. This meeting of hunter-warriors is both sequel to the violent episodes in..
Geology
Papers from private industry reporting applications of remote sensing to oil and gas exploration were presented. Digitally processed LANDSAT images were successfully employed in several geologic interpretations. A growing interest in digital image processing among the geologic user community was shown. The papers covered a wide geographic range and a wide technical and application range. Topics included: (1) oil and gas exploration, by use of radar and multisensor studies as well as by use of LANDSAT imagery or LANDSAT digital data, (2) mineral exploration, by mapping from LANDSAT and Skylab imagery and by LANDSAT digital processing, (3) geothermal energy studies with Skylab imagery, (4) environmental and engineering geology, by use of radar or LANDSAT and Skylab imagery, (5) regional mapping and interpretation, and digital and spectral methods
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