Willi Red Buhay Interview

Bio: Willi Red Buhay was a graduate of San Beda College and the University of Sto. Tomas. He was the first artistic director for design of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Folk Arts Theater, a position he held for fifteen years. He also held a teaching post at the University of the Philippines and his alma mater. One of Manila’s celebrated design-artist-painters, Willi had staged over 300 productions from theater and cinema to gallery exhibitions. In 1970, he won the prestigious design competition for the Philippine Center in New York. It was the start of numerous design commissions from hotels, resorts and museums. His artworks are in private collections and institutions in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Vatican. He received the Governor’s Award for Arts from Jim Edgar in 1993, the Most Outstanding Artist Overseas for Arts and Humanities and from the Philippine Government in 2004. He was also recognized by the city of Chicago for distinction and contribution to the Filipino-American community. He is the artist-in-residence of the Filipino American Community in Chicago. Concurrently, he holds the directorial post for arts and religious programs at the FACC-Rizal Center. A fifth-generation in a family of artists, cultural leaders, and patriots, he currently lives and works in his Lakeshore home-studio

Picturing the Catastrophic Space of Imagination: The Aesthetic of Algernon Charles Swinburne

In this study, I demonstrate how Swinburne develops an aesthetic that involves re-examining the contradictions and ambiguities arising in the tension between the celebration of the creative power of the imagination and the consideration of the material limitations that constrict the applications of the imagination’s power. He finds artistic integrity and productivity in the failure of the imagination to allow one to transcend the material world, because he determines that such failure allows one to discover many previously undetected possibilities for imaginative expression still inherent in the material world. Swinburne accomplishes this by privileging the fantasy component of art while recognizing fantasy as artifice, artifice in which failure is always already immanent. By emphasizing the artificiality, the fantastic quality, of art, he modifies conventional perceptions of art as well as conventional modes of conveying and interpreting “meaning” in art. In this way, Swinburne presages the explorations of the negative dialectic as well as the reconfigurations of material limitations that Theodor Adorno undertakes in the Aesthetic Theory. In my first three chapters, I establish how Swinburne’s creative reconsideration of the biography and works of William Blake allows him to explore the qualities of aesthetic particularity and individualized perspective made possible by the revaluation of artifice. Swinburne “misreads” or transforms Blake into an idealized artist who pioneers an aesthetic that depends on the very failures of actual, complete representation to occur within ideological conventions in order to modify radically, if not exceed, those conventions. In chapters four and five, I demonstrate how this aesthetic of failure is manifest in the process of serial identifications Swinburne uses in his depictions of the various “Ladies of Pain” in his Poems and Ballads, First Series. Swinburne applies this process of recasting failure as an aesthetically productive process of serial identifications to his explorations of Italian revolutionary politics and the carefully crafted images of Giuseppe Mazzini in Songs before Sunrise, as I demonstrate in chapter six. Finally, in chapter seven, I investigate Swinburne’s use of the polis as a trope exemplifying constructive struggle within failure through a comparison of his two major Greek tragedies, Atalanta in Calydon and Erechtheus

Engineering a New Home: Creating a Repository Collection for Faculty

Open Scholarship provides access to the scholarly output of faculty, staff, and students from Washington University in St. Louis by gathering it in one place. On May 9, 2011, the Faculty Senate passed the Open Access Resolution in order to make scholarship and creative works freely and easily available to the world community. The Open Scholarship site was officially launched on March 26, 2012 as a platform for realizing this goal. Powered by bepress\u27s Digital Commons, and supported by the Libraries’ Digital Library Services, Open Scholarship is a further step in the University\u27s commitment to open access. However, populating the collections beyond electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) has been inconsistent, and most faculty materials are added one article at a time across a handful of departments. In summer 2014, the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department contacted its subject librarian Lauren Todd about moving their technical reports from the department’s private SharePoint repository to Open Scholarship. Todd consulted with Emily Stenberg, the Digital Publishing and Digital Preservation librarian. Together with the CSE project manager and an involved professor, Todd and Stenberg formulated a plan to develop a collection in which faculty could submit their new reports and the subject librarian could administer the collection. They also established a local workflow making use of GoogleDrive (based on a workflow documented by Cleveland State University librarians) to batch upload earlier technical reports from the department’s SharePoint site. This was the first collection developed in Open Scholarship for an entire department in a comprehensive manner. The scope of the collection expanded beyond technical reports to include other faculty contributions, including conference materials and published research. The CSE collection has led to other engineering collections in Open Scholarship and extended the range of materials available in the repository.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1017/thumbnail.jp

Engineering a New Home: Creating a Repository Collection for Faculty AND Building a Larger Digital Presence for the School of Engineering

This talk is an expanded version of one given at the 2015 MOBIUS conference. Washington University librarians Emily Stenberg and Lauren Todd explain how they created and manage a collection in the university’s repository Open Scholarship for the Computer Science and Engineering department. This presentation will highlight how they developed a step-by-step workflow, addressed customization requests from the department, what really happened once that plan was implemented, and how they handle Bepress troubleshooting and faculty concerns. The presenters will also discuss how this project has helped them offer Open Scholarship as a service to other engineering faculty.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1020/thumbnail.jp

Fecal Transplant vs Vancomycin for Recurrent Clostridium Diffile

Objective: To compare fecal transplant and vancomycin in the treatment of recurrent clostridium difficile to determine which has the higher cure rate. Design: Systematic literature review. Methods: Pubmed, Google Scholar, and TRIP database using the search terms “recurrent clostridium difficile.” Filters were implemented in the Pubmed database including: randomized control trials, English, and published in the past 5 years. Records were screened for RCT with fecal transplant and full-text. Results: van Nood et al. revealed an initial cure rate of 81% for the infusion group, and a re-treated cure rate of 94%, compared to the vancomycin alone group of 31% cure rate and the vancomycin plus bowel lavage group of 23% cure rate. Cammarota et al. determined an initial cure rate of 65% for the infusion group, and a re-treated cure rate of 90%, compared to the vancomycin only group of 26% cure rate. Conclusion: An initial abbreviated dose of vancomycin at the start of fecal transplant has a significantly higher cure rate in treating recurrent clostridium difficile infections when compared to standard vancomycin therapy

Griff : A Simple Daily Aid

Arthritis can hold many people back from living everyday life with confidence. These individuals generally must learn to live with pain and inaccessible tasks. What if there was a simple tool to make life easier for those with arthritis and other hand impairments? Griff is a small, handheld tool that addresses the daily struggles of those with hand impairments. It is adaptable to many needs and situations, while staying discreet and portable. The design is accessible in shape and size, allowing each individual to use Griff in any way that works for them. Simplicity and comfort allows Griff to aid people with arthritis in staying confident in their abilities.No embargoAcademic Major: Industrial Desig

Interpersonal skills and Facebook use among college students

The use of Facebook® among college students is prevalent, and its relationship with interpersonal skills is unknown. A cross-sectional design study using a convenience sample of undergraduate students enrolled in one of four sections of an upper-level nutrition course at a Northeastern, public university was conducted to investigate this relationship. Participants completed a paper survey containing items that assessed interpersonal skills, Facebook® use, and demographics. Data from 136 participants were analyzed to determine what, if any, relationship exists between Facebook® use and interpersonal skills. A statistically significant relationship was found between three pairs of variables: the Bergen Facebook® Addiction Scale total scores and a communication subscale, r(127) = -0.29, p \u3c0.01; the Bergen Facebook® Addiction Scale total scores and a conflict resolution subscale, r(127) = -0.34, p \u3c0.01; and the Bergen Facebook® Addiction Scale total scores and a total Interpersonal Skills Scale, r(127) = -0.25, p \u3c0.01. Given the inverse relationship of these variables, health educators may need to emphasize interpersonal skills to a greater extent than in the past; however, further research investigating Facebook® use and interpersonal skills should be conducted to better understand this relationship and determine whether or not it is a causal relationship

Mismatch Negativity: Translating the Potential

The mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential has become a valuable tool in cognitive neuroscience. Its reduced size in persons with schizophrenia is of unknown origin but theories proposed include links to problems in experience-dependent plasticity reliant on N-methyl-d-aspartate glutamate receptors. In this review we address the utility of this tool in revealing the nature and time course of problems in perceptual inference in this illness together with its potential for use in translational research testing animal models of schizophrenia-related phenotypes. Specifically, we review the reasons for interest in MMN in schizophrenia, issues pertaining to the measurement of MMN, its use as a vulnerability index for the development of schizophrenia, the pharmacological sensitivity of MMN and the progress in developing animal models of MMN. Within this process we highlight the challenges posed by knowledge gaps pertaining to the tool and the pharmacology of the underlying system