My Alcoholic Mother Died Last Week

Poetry by Ian Hunt. Third place in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest

Wicked, Hard and Supple: An Examination of Suzanne Valadon's Nude Drawings of Young Maurice

This article examines the nude drawings Suzanne Valadon made of her young son, Maurice Utrillo. These drawings, depicting Utrillo from late childhood until adolescence, began Valadon's interest in the male nude, which she carried into her later career. Though children appeared often in her work, the drawings of Utrillo are complicated by the relationship between the artist and subject.Publisher allows immediate open acces

Modular subvarieties of arithmetic quotients of bounded symmetric domains

Arithmetic quotients are quotients of bounded symmetric domains by arithmetic groups, and modular subvarieties of arithmetic quotients are themselves arithmetic quotients of lower dimension which live on arithmetic quotients, by an embedding induced from an inclusion of groups of hermitian type. We show the existence of such modular subvarieties, drawing on earlier work of the author. If $\Gamma$ is a fixed arithmetic subgroup, maximal in some sense, then we introduce the notion of ``$\Gamma$-integral symmetric'' subgroups, which in turn defines a notion of ``integral modular subvarieties'', and we show that there are finitely many such on an (isotropic, i.e, non-compact) arithmetic variety.Comment: 48 pages, also available at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwagag/ LaTeX (e-mail: [email protected]

An analysis of an industry sponsored governance development intervention : the case of Dairy NZ's Mark and Measure programme : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Studies in Management at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Appendices 6 & 7 removed due to copyright reasonsA plethora of ‘good’ corporate governance prescriptions are ascribed to boards. Yet there is little research on the influence of corporate governance prescriptions on businesses. This research aims to investigate the impact of the DairyNZ Mark and Measure Farm Business Governance Programme (the Mark and Measure course). This research uses Kirkpatrick’s (1958) Four Level Model to evaluate the Mark and Measure course. The author employs an embedded case study with a sequential mixed methods design to examine the Mark and Measure course. The sequential mixed methods design included a document analysis, a quantitative comparative pre and post intervention analysis, and five qualitative semi-structured interviews. The participants in the research were made up of closely-held SME’s and family businesses. The results show inconsistencies in the conceptualisation of corporate governance in academia, the Mark and Measure course, and the responses of the interviewed participants. There was an increase in most of the four levels in Kirkpatrick’s model. However, caution needs to be applied to results as there are methodological issues with the employed survey instrument

Communications in education

The paper aims to provide evidence of the role of communications in education. The term communications is used in three interrelated ways: it refers to the interactions and engagements which take place between different actors in the education sector; it looks at the transmission of information, knowledge or data between two or more points; and it refers to the processes and means though which these interactions take place. The report identifies where communications in the education sector has been successful and some of its weaknesses. The paper focuses on spaces for communications in education, the processes of communications and the direct and indirect impacts of communications initiatives. It gives examples of a range of communication initiatives and provides evidence of impact, where available