Pattern Research Project: An Investigation of The Pattern And Printing Process - Cusp

2018 Pattern Research Project Audrey Paiva – Cusp The Pattern Research Project involves research and analysis of contemporary patterns found in the textiles and wallcoverings of the built interior environment. Patterns use motif, repetition, color, geometry, craft, technology, and space to communicate place, time, and concept. Through this research and analysis, built environments - their designers, occupants, construction, and context - can be better understood. Audrey Paiva, VCU Interior Design BFA 2021, selected the Cusp pattern for the 2018 Pattern Research Project. The text below is excerpted from the student’s work: “The main shapes used in Athos Bulcao’s work are circle and square forms. This is extremely significant because the traditional art of the Indians of Brazil features among other forms, the circle and the square. Also, within his work there is “admiration for different phases of Western art, particularly Byzantine art (form, color, texture)”. Most of Bulcao’s work was created right after the switch of the new capital city to Brasilia and “a radical change for Brazil. Athos does not believe in inspiration. For him, there is talent and hard work. “Arte é cosa mentale,” he says, quoting Leonardo da Vinci. While Athos Bulcao provided the modular units, he was unconcerned with how they would be arranged “preferring to have his collaborators arrange them themselves, following no preconceived order””.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/prp/1016/thumbnail.jp

Materialism, Idealism and the Onto-Epistemological Roots of Geography

The present article has as proposal the discussion of the philosophical categories of Idealism and Materialism in the Geographical thought. Starting from the assumption that the knowledge is a fact, we explicit our onto-epistemological basis by a dialog between the main representatives of each Philosophy pole, from Democritus to Hegel, exposing after the sublation to the metaphysics done by the dialectical materialism. Using a bridge to the hard core of the Critical Geography (Lefebvre, Harvey and Quaini), we transmute the philosophical debate to the geographical field showing the often ignored roots, logic and addictions of the Modern Geography. Retaking in the end the duel between Idealism and Materialism, we present our thesis in which the Crisis of Geography is, in fact, just the result of a process originated from its incapacity as a discipline to overcome the limiter vestige of its birth: the Metaphysics

Quasi-Appraisal: Appraising Breach of Duty of Disclosure Claims Following Cash-Out Mergers in Delaware

In recent years, Delaware has served as the hot bed for the dramatic increase in merger appraisal litigation and the proliferation of “appraisal arbitrage” whereby opportunistic shareholders buy into companies following merger announcements and challenge announced deal prices as an investment strategy. While this has not always proved profitable, it has increased scrutiny over the Delaware appraisal regime and the ability for shareholders to avail themselves of the opportunity for a judicial valuation of their shares. Furthermore, it has highlighted information asymmetries in which controlling shareholders, particularly those seeking to cash out their minority shareholders, are incentivized to underpay or mislead minority shareholders who might be reluctant to seek appraisal. This raises questions regarding the accessibility of the appraisal remedy and how closely appraisal should mirror class actions which allow for broader representation with lower barriers to entry. This Note argues that current trends in merger and appraisal litigation, particularly those which have significantly heightened scrutiny over pre- and post-closing disclosure claims, present an opportunity to reexamine quasi-appraisal as a collective form of redress in appraisal actions. This Note calls for the expansion of the quasi-appraisal remedy to provide greater access to appraisal valuations in the most extreme examples of minority shareholder manipulation, which would provide a more equitable form of recovery and discourage manipulation of minority shareholders

Stop or Continue Data Collection: A Nonignorable Missing Data Approach for Continuous Variables

We present an approach to inform decisions about nonresponse follow-up sampling. The basic idea is (i) to create completed samples by imputing nonrespondents' data under various assumptions about the nonresponse mechanisms, (ii) take hypothetical samples of varying sizes from the completed samples, and (iii) compute and compare measures of accuracy and cost for different proposed sample sizes. As part of the methodology, we present a new approach for generating imputations for multivariate continuous data with nonignorable unit nonresponse. We fit mixtures of multivariate normal distributions to the respondents' data, and adjust the probabilities of the mixture components to generate nonrespondents' distributions with desired features. We illustrate the approaches using data from the 2007 U. S. Census of Manufactures