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The ‘Futures’ of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal
This paper focuses on an especially urgent challenge to the legitimacy of the common school ideal—a challenge that has hardly been addressed within contemporary debates within liberal philosophy of education. The challenge arises from claims to accommodation by queer people and queer communities—claims that are based on notions of queerness and queer identity that are seriously underrepresented within contemporary liberal political and educational theory. The paper articulates a liberal view of personal autonomy that is constituted by a conception of practical reasoning rooted in thick communal experiences. It is argued that common schools concerned with equal concern for the autonomy of all children must attend to the specific communal requirements needed to developing the autonomous practical reasoning of queer children—requirements for what is termed a sense of ‘futurity’. Five practical recommendations for common schools are briefly outlined. The paper concludes with some reflections on the divergent and convergent interests of queer theory and liberalism, and considers some possibilities for a partial reconciliation of the two theoretical perspectives
Determining Genus From Sandpile Torsor Algorithms
We provide a pair of ribbon graphs that have the same rotor routing and
Bernardi sandpile torsors, but different topological genus. This resolves a
question posed by M. Chan [Cha]. We also show that if we are given a graph, but
not its ribbon structure, along with the rotor routing sandpile torsors, we are
able to determine the ribbon graph's genus.Comment: Extended Abstract Accepted to FPSAC 2018. Revision of previous
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A survey of NASTRAN improvements since level 15.5
Several improvements and capabilities were developed and installed in intermediate levels and are being analyzed and evaluated. A survey of current improvements to the program is presented which includes static analysis with differential stiffness rigid format, normal modes with differential stiffness rigid format, the TRIAAX and TRAPAX elements, the CNGRNT feature, fully stressed design, element strain energy and grid point force balance, and complex modal displacement plots
LSA And State Library Agencies
To know where our state libraries are going, it is important
first to know where they have been and where they are
now. Without going into this exhaustively, let me develop with
you for a few moments some of the things that have happened
to us in the five years since the Library Services Act became
the law of the land. I think we are all aware of the fact that the
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improvement in our state library agencies is one of the principal
accomplishments of the Library Services Act. The publication,
State Plans under the Library Services Act. Supplement 2,
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makes this quite clear. State after state reported strengthened
state library agencies in all parts of the country. Idaho, for
example, employed its first trained administrator and three
more professional librarians in the state agency. Kansas and
Mississippi added professional librarians and clerical assistants.
It was not just the small state agencies that did this, however;
even the New York State Library built on its existing
strength by adding specialists in Young Adult, Reference, and
Children's Services. In all, more than 115 field workers or consultants
were added to state agency staffs, an increase of more
than 100 per cent over the total field staffs in existence in 1956.
In addition, 285 other professional librarians were added.published or submitted for publicatio
Data management for earth observations
The management of NASA earth observation data is discussed. User requirements are identified, as well as means to facilitate data acquisition. It is shown that LANDSAT data can be preprocessed to condense data into a more accessible format, thus reducing data acquisition costs
Primordial Circular Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background
Circular ("V-mode") polarization is expected to be vanishing in the CMB,
since it is not produced in Thomson scattering. However, considering that the
conventional CMB anisotropies are generated via an early universe mechanism
such as inflation or a bouncing scenario, it is possible that circular
polarization could be primordially produced and survive to the surface of last
scattering. We study this in detail, and find a large class of inflationary
models that produce a nearly scale invariant spectrum of scalar V-mode
anisotropies. We study the inflationary production and subsequent evolution via
the Boltzmann hierarchy, and show that V-mode polarization present in the CMB
is suppressed by a factor of at least relative to the primordial
, consistent with expectation of negligible V-mode polarization from
inflation. We consider alternative possibilities for sourcing primordially,
such as the V-mode polarization induced by circularly polarized primordial
gravitational waves, or producing after inflation, via new interactions at
recombination.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. v2: references added. v3:matches published
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A National Summit on Women Veteran Homelessness: A Leadership Dialogue
The National Summit on Women Veteran Homelessness brought together noted researchers, policy and practice experts, and women veterans with the lived experience of homelessness in a day and a half of facilitated dialogue sessions. Our purpose was threefold. First, we wanted to call attention to the growing national problem of homelessness among women veterans. Second, we wanted to better understand the unique challenges facing women veterans who have lost their homes or are at risk of homelessness. Finally, we sought to gather information and ideas for solutions to prevent and end homelessness among women veterans. Rich information was obtained from these sessions that will help us to understand the complex conditions that can result in women veteran homelessness, isolate the key areas where action to remediate the issues is required and create comprehensive and sustainable solutions that reduce the risk of women veteran homelessness and help those who are already homeless to achieve full reintegration into their communities. This report begins with a summary of presentations delivered by three experts who provided background on the demographics of homeless veterans, key programs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a research perspective on the challenges homeless women veterans face and litigation and advocacy as tools for change. The core of the report, called the Summit Dialogue Sessions, summarizes three roundtable discussions centered on the following themes: 1) pathways to homelessness for women veterans; 2) strategies for exiting homelessness; and 3) approaches to preventing women veterans from falling into homelessness. The report then turns attention to the list of actionable tasks which grew out of the roundtables, as well as two facilitated "fishbowls" in which subgroups of Summit participants explored specific issues related to policy, practice and research. Together, these offer not only a record of the work accomplished at the Summit, but also a pathway to future research, policy and program initiatives that hold the hope and potential for preventing and ending women veteran homelessness
Issues in corporate governance
On September 29, 2002, William J. McDonough, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, delivered the William Taylor Memorial Lecture in Washington, D.C., at an event cosponsored by the William Taylor Memorial Fund and the Group of Thirty, a private, international consultative group on economic and monetary affairs. In his lecture, Mr. McDonough describes the actions already taken by private and public sector groups to strengthen corporate governance and accounting standards and identifies areas where reforms are still needed.Corporations - Finance ; Accounting ; Risk management ; Executives - Salaries
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