Beaut-Ease

The Beaut-Ease product line consists of several machines that are a hybrid between beauty products and infomercial products. Both industries flourish on a level of falsehood that teeters on the brink of hilarity

'Re-Focus' at PERDUTO PADRE/LOST FATHER

Curator Maria Campitelli wrote about PERDUTO PADRE: This project arose from Fabiola Faidiga’s pain, due to the loss of her father, and her necessity to deal with it and share it with other people/artists, in order to develop a plot of evocations, memories, assertions and analysis. These elements were supposed to reflect a want, a lack of what was but will not be anymore, and make it become art. Namely, it becomes a concrete witness of an ineluctable experience – death – and results in a constructive assertion and a range of propositions, enclosed in the complex sphere of art; prepositions that reassert the idea of life and the historical continuity in the succession of generations. The ten artists that accepted Faidiga’s invitation display different marks. They recalled what their fathers did, what their fathers mostly identified themselves with and what they, daughters and sons, mostly acknowledged in their father’s lives. About ‘Refocus' for PERDUTO PADRE Nicola Rae with Douglas Rae My father spent a great deal of time documenting our family life but unfortunately we have very few photographs of him. This regret developed into a wish to focus closely on the photographs of him that do exist at different stages in his life, projected as a series of black and white 35 mm slides. A looped fragment of his rarely-seen first film made in 1964 was also projected, using his Bell & Howell Autoload Standard 8 film projector. Dad always carried a 35mm camera, a cine camera and a slide film camera, perhaps wanting to record and document everything that mattered to him, or possibly feeling more himself with a camera at hand. His earliest cameras from the 1950s-60s are shown on tripods in this installation: a visual presence of photography as process that represented one of his main interests away from work. The sounds of the whirring reels of the Bell & Howell Autoload Standard 8 film projector, and the sensation of seeing dust particles lit up in its beam, are well remembered from our childhood. The section of unedited Standard 8 footage projected within the installation is at the start of his first film made in 1964, and shows my younger sister and myself ( aged 3 ) playing in our garden in Keston, Kent. We are trying to interrupt the process of being filmed by pouring water on his feet on a sunny day, and so negotiate a mutual space for play. Pushing me on the swing while filming, Dad captures movement in a more experiential way. Re-seeing these unedited silent film reels has been interesting, as the edited sections became overseen when transferred to low quality video with classical music that changed their meaning: the actual footage restages our narratives in different ways. Projected through a 1958 Liesegang Fantax-Automat slide projector, the images of my father are seen in context and then in further detail: attempting to refocus through close ups on seeing him more clearly. He is shown as a boy and then after a four year internment in a Prisoner of War camp in Germany during his early twenties. His outraged memories of seeing a friend being shot while drawing from a window at Oflag V-B may have led directly to his early support of my chosen life as an artist, alongside my Mother’s encouragement. My parents are seen holding hands for their engagement photograph in front of a ferry to Brittany, echoed again in the last photo taken of Dad standing, at their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 2003. Dad fell and broke his hip a month later, and Mum cared for him at home against hospital advice for five more years before he died in 2008. His presence still seems to be part of our lives particularly preparing for this exhibition

The Wheel Garden: Project Based Learning for Cross Curriculum Education

In this article, we discuss project-based learning in the context of a wheel garden as an instructional tool in science and mathematics education. A wheel garden provides multiple opportunities to teach across the curriculum, to integrate disciplines, and to promote community involvement. Grounded in the theoretical framework of constructivism, the wheel garden provides a multidisciplined educational tool that provides a hands-on, non-traditional arena for learning. We will examine some of the cultural, art, science, and mathematics connections made with this projec

Innovative learning at The University of Edinburgh

The activities available to civil engineering students during the University of Edinburgh's innovative learning week in 2012 were examined. The academic staff proposed a wide range of possible activities and student participation was optional. Popular activities were those with a ‘hands-on’ element: making or doing something. The practical activities offered included designing and building trebuchets, relaying railway permanent way on a heritage railway, practical workshops on engineering in international development and learning to juggle. These activities suggested that heuristic learning by trial and error was likely to enhance the visualisation skills that contribute to good engineering design. Further, the linking of achievement to purposeful practice rather than innate talent could inform teaching methods in the future. They also showed that in some cases safety culture messages were still not fully assimilated by students

Direct measurement of the intermolecular forces confining a single molecule in an entangled polymer solution

We use optical tweezers to directly measure the intermolecular forces acting on a single polymer imposed by surrounding entangled polymers (115 kbp DNA, 1 mg/ml). A tube-like confining field was measured in accord with the key assumption of reptation models. A time-dependent harmonic potential opposed transverse displacement, in accord with recent simulation findings. A tube radius of 0.8 microns was determined, close to the predicted value (0.5 microns). Three relaxation modes (~0.4, 5 and 30 s) were measured following transverse displacement, consistent with predicted relaxation mechanisms.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Forced oscillations of coronal loops driven by external EIT waves

Aims. We study the generation of transversal oscillations in coronal loops represented as a straight thin flux tube under the effect of an external driver modelling the global coronal EIT wave. We investigate how the generated oscillations depend on the nature of the driver, and the type of interaction between the two systems. Methods. We consider the oscillations of a magnetic straight cylinder with fixed-ends under the influence of an external driver modelling the force due to the global EIT wave. Given the uncertainties related to the nature of EIT waves, we first approximate the driver by an oscillatory force in time and later by a shock with a finite width. Results. Results show that for a harmonic driver the dominant period in the generated oscillation belongs to the driver. Depending on the period of driver, compared to the natural periods of the loop, a mixture of standing modes harmonics can be initiated. In the case of a non-harmonic driver (modelling a shock wave), the generated oscillations in the loop are the natural periods only. The amplitude of oscillations is determined by the position of the driver along the tube. The full diagnosis of generated oscillations is achieved using simple numerical methods

Forced oscillations of coronal loops driven by external EIT waves

Aims. We study the generation of transversal oscillations in coronal loops represented as a straight thin flux tube under the effect of an external driver modelling the global coronal EIT wave. We investigate how the generated oscillations depend on the nature of the driver, and the type of interaction between the two systems. Methods. We consider the oscillations of a magnetic straight cylinder with fixed-ends under the influence of an external driver modelling the force due to the global EIT wave. Given the uncertainties related to the nature of EIT waves, we first approximate the driver by an oscillatory force in time and later by a shock with a finite width. Results. Results show that for a harmonic driver the dominant period in the generated oscillation belongs to the driver. Depending on the period of driver, compared to the natural periods of the loop, a mixture of standing modes harmonics can be initiated. In the case of a non-harmonic driver (modelling a shock wave), the generated oscillations in the loop are the natural periods only. The amplitude of oscillations is determined by the position of the driver along the tube. The full diagnosis of generated oscillations is achieved using simple numerical methods

Mycobacterial mutants with defective control of phagosomal acidifi -cation. PLoS Pathog

The pathogenesis of mycobacterial infection is associated with an ability to interfere with maturation of the phagosomal compartment after ingestion by macrophages. Identification of the mycobacterial components that contribute to this phenomenon will allow rational design of novel approaches to the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Microarray-based screening of a transposon library was used to identify mutations that influence the fate of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Gué rin (BCG) following uptake by macrophages. A screen based on bacterial survival during a 3-d infection highlighted genes previously implicated in growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and in mice, together with a number of other virulence genes including a locus encoding virulenceassociated membrane proteins and a series of transporter molecules. A second screen based on separation of acidified and non-acidified phagosomes by flow cytometry identified genes involved in mycobacterial control of early acidification. This included the KefB potassium/proton antiport. Mutants unable to control early acidification were significantly attenuated for growth during 6-d infections of macrophages. Early acidification of the phagosome is associated with reduced survival of BCG in macrophages. A strong correlation exists between genes required for intracellular survival of BCG and those required for growth of M. tuberculosis in mice. In contrast, very little correlation exists between genes required for intracellular survival of BCG and those that are up-regulated during intracellular adaptation of M. tuberculosis. This study has identified targets for interventions to promote immune clearance of tuberculosis infection. The screening technologies demonstrated in this study will be useful to the study of pathogenesis in many other intracellular microorganisms

Satori 2022

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970. The Satori 2022 editors are Matthew Pearson, Jasmyne Taylor, and Emily Venne. the Satori 2022 faculty advisor is Dr. Jim Armstrong, Professor of English.https://openriver.winona.edu/satori/1009/thumbnail.jp

Duverger's Law and the Size Of the Indian Party Sytem

Duverger's law postulates that single-member plurality electoral systems lead to two-party systems. Existing scholarship regards India as an exception to this law at national level, but not at district level. This study tests the latter hypothesis through analysis of a comprehensive dataset covering Indian parliamentary elections in the period 1952—2004. The results show that a large number of Indian districts do not conform to the Duvergerian norm of two-party competition, and that there is no consistent movement towards the Duvergerian equilibrium. Furthermore, inter-region and inter-state variations in the size of district-level party systems make it difficult to generalize about the application of Duverger's law to the Indian case. The study concludes that a narrow focus on electoral rules is inadequate, and that a more comprehensive set of explanatory variables is needed to explain the size of the Indian party system even at the district level