The Dialectics of Oriental Images in American Trade Cards

A late nineteenth-century trade card, or a color-printed circulating advertisement, touts Shepherd and Doyle\u27s new Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms (Fig. 1).1 These economical, durable, and handsome clothing items require less starching and washing, and so remove the need for Chinese laundries. The text on the reverse side includes directions on how to remove yellow stains, and the image enacts a kind of literal version of this removal. The slovenly laundryshop (the clothes overflowing the basket, the linens hung up askew, the steaming basins), the mix-and-match, gender-ambiguous garments of the workers, and their thin, slouching bodies all participate in the racist stereotype of Asians as dirty, effeminate and alien others. The caption proclaims the product to be The Last Invention ; the last indicates finality, both in terms of modernity as the final stage of history and of a solution to the problem of unwanted immigrants. A group of Chinese male laundry-workers are so taken aback by this product that their pigtails stand in erect consternation. Their reaction stems both from the realization that they must return to China because their services have become unnecessary as well as from pure awe at the invention itself; in both cases, the scenario and its appeal apparently rely on these acts of recognition by the Chinese characters. Furthermore, the advertisement\u27s status as such - merely advertisement - hides the illogicality of the celluloid salesman\u27s presence in the laundry at all. The salesman, wearing a garish plaid suit and a bowler hat, appears to be one of those traveling salesmen who might peddle patent medicines, yet he bears the product eliciting such awe and consternation. Rather than selling the product to the Chinese workers, he appears simply to be taking gratuitous pleasure in introducing the workers to the agent of their impending misfortunes

The beauty of laser lines

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).A line, the simplest way to express an artist's feelings or interpretation of an object, has its own emotions that an artist can employ for her purpose. Laser light, the most self-concentrated, self-sustained and directed, has its unique characteristics that no other medium can imitate. When a line and laser light are combined, the result is a knife-cut clean laser line that catches the viewers breath. Artists, who have chosen the laser as their tool, need to make laser line images more attractive than laser light itself. In other words, artists must find the beauty of laser lines. Otherwise, the tool of the work dominates the artist's work itself. In this thesis, I having already chosen the laser as my tool, tried to find the beauty of laser lines by first learning the technical aspects and the characteristics of lasers. Then I examined previous works done by other laser artists, before working with lasers myself. I designed four laser projects in order to find "the beauty of laser lines," and the details of my works will be presented in this thesis.by Sue-Mie Kim.M.S.V.S

A Study and Performance Analysis of Selected Art Songs by Un-Yeong Na

Korea\u27s history spans over 5,000 years. A rich culture of Korean arts developed through the foresight and vision of Korean nobility and the artistic underground during periods of occupation. Korea was exposed to Western cultural influences beginning with the arrival of American Christian missionaries in the mid-19th century and the Japanese invasion and occupation (1910-1945). During the Japanese colonial period, the Korean people were forced to accept new cultural ideas including new forms and styles of music. After the emancipation from Japan, music in Korea was already becoming settled in the Western music system. Some composers who were active during the transitional period between Japanese occupation and Korean sovereignty (circa 1950s) believed that the Korean traditional music should be reintroduced to Korean culture. One composer/scholar who dedicated his professional life to the revival and progress of Korean traditional music was Un-Yeong Na (1922-1994). Na contributed to the perpetuation of Korean traditional music while also using Western musical idioms. Na believed that the most successful means of expressing traditional Korean musical idioms in a modern world was through the art song form. Un-Yeong Na\u27s art songs are written in a recognizably Western musical style. This study of five of his art songs is intended to open this music to a wider, non-Korean audience by providing translations, IPA for the Korean language, and a detailed analysis of the elements of Korean traditional music present in these songs. The art songs of Un-Yeong Na are regularly performed in Korea. Many of his art songs are good teaching pieces and accessible to anyone willing to experiment with the Korean language

A Retrospective Cephalometric Growth Study of Sagittal Airway in Skeletal Class II Patients

Purpose: The study retrospectively determined the average sagittal pharyngeal airway widths in Class II males and females between 7 to 16 years of age and changes in sagittal airway with increasing age. Additionally, this study determined whether average airway differs between gender at each age and compared the average airway widths in relation to increasing age between Class I and II patients. Materials and Methods: Longitudinal cephalograms were digitally traced for 38 untreated subjects (23 males, 15 females) from age 7 to 16 with skeletal and dental Class II patterns. These records were previously taken through growth studies conducted between 1930-70s. Six horizontal lines perpendicular to Orbitale Vertical were traced through the following landmarks: anterior nasal spine (1A-1B), A-point (2A-2B), upper incisor tip (3A-3B), B-point (4A-4B), pogonion (5A-5B), soft palate tip (6A-6B). The intersections of these planes with the anterior and posterior limits of the airway were measured. Results: Class II: Males had more sagittal airway width, ranging from 2-8mm more than that of females at 1A-1B, 2A-2B, 4A-4B, 5A-5B, and 6A-6B (P=0.00-0.04). There was a significant increase in sagittal width from 7 to 16 years of age at 1A-1B for females (P=0.02) and 5A-5B for males (P=0.00). Class I vs. II: While Class I females had more significant airway width at 3A-3B and 5A-5B than Class II females at age 11 and 12, respectively, the vice versa was true at 4A-4B at age 12. Class II males had more airway width at 1A-1B, 4A-4B, and 5A-5B of 1-7mm more than Class I males (P=0.00-0.05). No statistical difference was found in change in airway with increasing age between Class I and II patients. Conclusions: Class II males had more airway width of 2-8mm more than that of Class II females at 1A-1B, 2A-2B, 4A-4B, 5A-5B, and 6A-6B (P=0.00-0.04). Class II males had more airway width at 1A-1B, 4A-4B, and 5A-5B of 1-7mm more than that of Class I males (P=0.00-0.05). Sagittal airway widths increased by a few millimeters in Class I and II patients with increasing age from 7 to 16

Interreligious Formation: Reflecting on Co-Learning with the (Religiously) Other

The author suggests that we are at a time in history when religious formation, which has tended to focus on preparation for a specific religion or denomination,  may be a thing of the past. That the world is becoming more spiritual than religious. Many factors come into play which have broadened the interaction among people and institutions, resulting in the greater need for interreligious formation

A corpus-cognitive approach to ideological attention in discourse

This thesis develops a corpus-cognitive approach to discourse analysis centred on the patterns of attention created in texts, addressing the challenge of providing a cognitively valid analysis of discourse. It uses traditional methods from corpus linguistics and the notion of construal from cognitive grammar, with the concept of mind-modelling as central for analysing ideological viewpoints. I describe how attentional patterns construct ideology in newspaper texts on the debate on abortion access in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with case studies of Direct Speech, double quotations, and co-occurring discourses. The results overall provide a valuable new perspective on how textual patterns con- struct points of attention and proffer ideological readings to the audience. I develop and analytically test the attentional framework, which gives guidance on how attention is directed by drawing on cognitive and corpus linguistic principles. Detailed analysis of one text demonstrates how to account for personal, voluntary attention and readings, which is a major concern for discourse analysis. Analyses of direct speech in the corpus reveal that it has uses indicative of the debate, with the cognitive analysis of the semantic domain of happiness highlighting its use as a means of voicing an ideological perspective while seemingly remaining objective. I further explore how writers communicate the intended viewpoint of their texts when several perspectives are presented in double quotations. I suggest writers reduce the perspectives offered to maintain their relation with the readers and provide a categorisation of this relation. Lastly I analyse the relation and function of co-occurring discourses for creating ideology during the debate of the death of Savita Halappanavar. Results indicate that the discourses voiced about certain concepts changes in the presence of other concepts. Specifically, the discourses about a mother differ when the concept of the church is present in a text. The cognitive analyses detail how an ideology is then created by putting certain discourses into the attentional foreground or background. The findings demonstrate that when statistical and qualitative evidence augment each other, then the complexity of first, creating an ideological viewpoint in a text and second, for the reader to understand it can be more accurately described

Validating Dose Uncertainty Estimates Produced by AUTODIRECT: An Automated Program to Evaluate Deformable Image Registration Accuracy.

Deformable image registration is a powerful tool for mapping information, such as radiation therapy dose calculations, from one computed tomography image to another. However, deformable image registration is susceptible to mapping errors. Recently, an automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool was proposed to predict voxel-specific deformable image registration dose mapping errors on a patient-by-patient basis. The purpose of this work is to conduct an extensive analysis of automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool to show its effectiveness in estimating dose mapping errors. The proposed format of automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool utilizes 4 simulated patient deformations (3 B-spline-based deformations and 1 rigid transformation) to predict the uncertainty in a deformable image registration algorithm's performance. This workflow is validated for 2 DIR algorithms (B-spline multipass from Velocity and Plastimatch) with 1 physical and 11 virtual phantoms, which have known ground-truth deformations, and with 3 pairs of real patient lung images, which have several hundred identified landmarks. The true dose mapping error distributions closely followed the Student t distributions predicted by automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool for the validation tests: on average, the automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool-produced confidence levels of 50%, 68%, and 95% contained 48.8%, 66.3%, and 93.8% and 50.1%, 67.6%, and 93.8% of the actual errors from Velocity and Plastimatch, respectively. Despite the sparsity of landmark points, the observed error distribution from the 3 lung patient data sets also followed the expected error distribution. The dose error distributions from automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool also demonstrate good resemblance to the true dose error distributions. Automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool was also found to produce accurate confidence intervals for the dose-volume histograms of the deformed dose

Risks to healthcare organizations and staff who manage obese (bariatric) patients and use of obesity data to mitigate risks: A literature review

This literature review explores obesity risks to healthcare staff and organizations that manage and caring for obese (bariatric) patients. These risks are anticipated to increase due to Australian population obesity rate projections increasing from 31% in 2018 to 42% by the year 2035, which will result in increased hospital admissions of patients with obesity. Literature searches were conducted through the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science. Thirty studies met the inclusion criteria and were tabulated and critiqued using appropriate appraisal techniques. High risk of injury to healthcare staff was identified relating to bariatric patient handling tasks. High liability and financial risks of organizations were also identified relating to workers’ compensation and common law claims by injured staff and medical negligence claims by patients with obesity. Availability of obesity data was identified within clinically captured information, which could be utilized to inform obesity risk management programs. Future research should focus on improving the use and quality of obesity data to better understand obesity risks to healthcare organizations and staff, including accurate identification of obese patient admissions, enhanced ability to measure bariatric patient handling hazards and related staff injuries and improved assessment of bariatric intervention effectiveness