Crisis? What crisis? Australia after(?) the economic crisis

The global economic crisis is not over for Australia. Instead, its effects have been delayed rather than avoided. China’s economic stimulus delayed the impact of the crisis, but as Chinese economy rebalances and its growth slows, Australian policy-makers will have to deal with a series of structural economic vulnerabilities exacerbated by the resources boom. These vulnerabilities include declining demand for resources and high levels of private debt. Australian policy-makers – both political and bureaucratic – maintain through their words and actions that Australia will continue to benefit from Chinese and Asian growth well into the future and that the economy will transition away from the mining boom with few policy innovations required apart from fiscal rectitude. Policy-makers do not view Australia’s growing China dependence as a problem. The paper argues that Australia’s ‘modified’ economic liberal policy framework aims to reinforce Australia’s current economic ‘strengths’ and neglects the significance of economic vulnerabilities and the need for a more diverse economic structure. The embrace of economic liberalism is not total, as many commentators note, but the policy framework enables policy-makers to reject policy activism and justify smaller government

Du cinéma à la carte

Dès qu'elle se voit à l'intérieur d'un film, la carte géographique, qui réfère donc au monde réel, trouble l'espace imaginaire de la diégèse tout autant que celui dans lequel une subjectivation spectatorielle a lieu. Une carte géographique, dans un film, fait signe vers un rapport de parties au(x) « Tout(s) » qui serait au fond de l'illusion réaliste que le film cherche à faire valoir. L'hypothèse est que la carte indique ce que Christian Jacob nomme la « bilocation du spectateur ». L'analyse porte sur l'espace parcellaire, tel que le travaille Gilles Deleuze au début de l'image-mouvement et sur le cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard, notamment une séquence tirée de Pierrot le fou, que l'on met en parallèle avec ses avatars passés (la fin de L'Enfer est à lui [R. Walsh]) et futurs (une séquence de La Haine [M. Kassovitz]).As soon as it it appears within a film, the geographical map, which referes to the real world, complicates the imaginary space of the diegesis as well as the space in which spectatorial subjectivication takes place. A map within a film hints at a relationship of the partials to the "Whole(s)," which would be basically the illusion of reality that the film seeks to exploit. The hypothesis is that the map points to what Christian Jacob has called the "bilocation of the spectator." This analysis focuses on fragmentary space, much like the work of Gille Deleuze in the beginning of The Movement Image, and on the cinema of Godard, and a sequence from Pierrot le fou in particular, viv-à-vis his avatars of the past (White Heat [R. Walsh]) and of the future (a sequence from La Haine [M. Kassovitz])

Le stratège et le stratigraphe

Dans les dernières pages de L’image-temps, Gilles Deleuze constate que le décor du cinéma moderne se présente très souvent comme celui d’un paysage stratigraphique. Le cinéma, surtout celui qui va d’Antonioni à Straub et Huillet, présente une durée innommable et incommensurable. En partant d’une lecture suivie de Surveiller et punir et d’autres ouvrages de Michel Foucault, en travaillant, dans son livre sur Foucault, la distinction que ce dernier avait établie entre lire et voir, Deleuze évoque ces mêmes paysages. Ces paysages, dit-il, sont jonchés de mots, de lettres et de signes. Éparpillés et enfouis dans le décor, ils constituent des jalons pour des lectures variées du cinéma. Il faut cependant noter que les « strates » que relève le philosophe supposent aussi des stratégies de la part du cinéaste et du spectateur. C’est ainsi que le critique ou l’homme ordinaire du cinéma se mue en une espèce de stratège et est amené à se rapporter au cinéma d’une manière radicalement nouvelle. Le lecteur-stratège est invité à « voir » et à « lire » le paysage du cinéma classique (tel celui du western) comme un espace stratigraphique, donc à penser l’image-temps dans des espaces où l’on n’en soupçonnait pas l’existence. Pourtant, les plans stratigraphiques marquant la tradition du western indiquent que ce que Deleuze appelle l’image-temps — qui constitue le propre du cinéma moderne et du cinéma expérimental — se trouve aussi dans le régime de l’image-mouvement. Sans mettre en question les fins du projet taxinomique de Cinéma 1 et de Cinéma 2, on avancera l’idée que la durée habite bel et bien les paysages des westerns les plus « traditionnels » ou « familiers » : pour en donner une preuve concrète, les dernières lignes de l’analyse qui est proposée ici sont consacrées à la lecture d’un plan « stratigraphique » tiré de Tall in the Saddle (Edwin L. Marin, 1944).In the last chapter of Cinema 2: The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze remarks that the landscape of modern cinema bears a distinctly stratigraphic quality. In landscapes running from Antonioni to Straub and Huillet we witness an unnameable and incalculable sense of duration. Deleuze discusses these landscapes in light of his reading of Discipline and Punish and other volumes by Michel Foucault and develops Foucault’s distinction between reading and seeing, present also in his earlier book Foucault. These landscapes, he says, are strewn with words, letters and signs. Scattered about and hidden in the landscape, they are the signposts for diverse and multilateral readings of films. From these “strata” emerge a welter of strategies on the part of the filmmaker and viewer. As a result the critic or ordinary movie-goer becomes a strategist who can work with cinema in a radically new way. The reader-strategist is invited to “see” and “read” the landscape of classical cinema (such as the Western) as a stratigraphic space and thus discern the time-image in films where its existence is least suspected. The stratigraphic shots which mark the Western tradition, however, indicate that what Deleuze calls the time-image, the domain of modern and experimental cinema, is also present in the movement-image system. Without calling into question the taxonomic aims of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2, this article proposes that duration truly does inhabit the landscapes of the most “traditional” or “familiar” Westerns. As concrete evidence of this, the last part of this article is devoted to a reading of a “stratigraphic” shot from Tall in the Saddle (Edwin L. Marin, 1944)

A Message Without a Code?

The photographic paradox is said to be that of a message without a code, a communication lacking a relay or gap essential to the process of communication. Tracing the recurrence of Barthes\u27s definition in the essays included in Image/Music/Text and in La Chambre claire, this paper argues that Barthes\u27s definition is platonic in its will to dematerialize the troubling — graphic — immediacy of the photograph. He writes of the image in order to flee its signature. As a function of media, his categories are written in order to be insufficient and inadequate; to maintain an ineluctable difference between language heard and letters seen; to protect an idiom of loss which the photograph disallows. The article studies the strategies of his definition in «The Photographic Paradox» as instrument of abstraction, opposes the notion of code, in an aural sense, to audio-visual markers of closed relay in advertising, and critiques the layout and order of La Chambre claire in respect to Barthes\u27s ideology of absence

Le métier d’écrire

Tout titre est à tiroir. D’emblée, il évoque certains titres pour en occulter d’autres. Il semble qu’il se façonne à la manière d’un dicton. Pour faire sens, il doit dessiner une généalogie, ou paraître familier, tout en offrant le garant d’un contrat à la fois réel et imaginaire, que signent son auteur avec ses lecteurs. Un titre, a souligné Jacques Derrida, est la différence même : il anticipe, comme le célèbre signifiant lacanien sur ce qu’il signifie ; et de par sa forme, il convoque une ..

Vibration Alert Bracelet for Notification of the Visually and Hearing Impaired

This paper presents the prototype of an electronic vibration bracelet designed to help the visually and hearing impaired to receive and send emergency alerts. The bracelet has two basic functions. The first function is to receive a wireless signal and respond with a vibration to alert the user. The second function is implemented by pushing one button of the bracelet to send an emergency signal. We report testing on a prototype system formed by a mobile application and two bracelets. The bracelets and the application form a complete system intended to be used in retirement apartment communities. However, the system is flexible and could be expanded to add new features or to serve as a research platform for gait analysis and location services. The medical and professional potential of the proposed system is that it offers a simple, modular, and cost-effective alternative to all the existing medical devices with similar functionality currently on the market. The proposed system has an educational potential as well: it can be used as a starting point for capstone projects and demonstration purposes in schools to attract students to STEM disciplines

REPEATABILITY OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE ON A SANDY BEACH ACROSS MULTIPLE TIMESCALES

The swash zone is a highly dynamic region of the nearshore in terms of both hydro- and sediment dynamics. Previous work has demonstrated that the majority of swash events transport only small amounts of sediment and net beachface volume change over several hours tends to be small. However, a small number of individual swash events can deposit or remove hundreds of kilograms of sediment per metre width of beach. These events are typically associated with swash flows that involve one or more highly turbulent swash-swash interactions, causing enhanced suspension and transport of sediment (Blenkinsopp et al. 2011). The timing and location of these interactions is complex and small changes in either can lead to very different local flow conditions. The complexity of these flows make sediment transport prediction on a swash-by-swash basis very challenging, and raises the question whether deterministic physical and numerical modelling of swash sediment transport is warranted. </jats:p

Seiberg-Witten-Floer stable homotopy type of three-manifolds with b_1=0

Using Furuta's idea of finite dimensional approximation in Seiberg-Witten theory, we refine Seiberg-Witten Floer homology to obtain an invariant of homology 3-spheres which lives in the S^1-equivariant graded suspension category. In particular, this gives a construction of Seiberg-Witten Floer homology that avoids the delicate transversality problems in the standard approach. We also define a relative invariant of four-manifolds with boundary which generalizes the Bauer-Furuta stable homotopy invariant of closed four-manifolds.Comment: v4, added errata: In Section 9, the Coulomb-Neumann condition should be replaced by a double Coulomb condition, as in Khandhawit's paper (arxiv:1401.7590). Other minor errors are fixed. The main results are unchanged. Version 3 was published in Geom. Topol. 7(2003) 889-932; current version contains appended errata. v5: added item (4) to the errat

Modeling the Relationship Between Estimated Fungicide Use and Disease-Associated Yield Losses of Soybean in the United States I: Foliar Fungicides vs Foliar Diseases

Fungicide use in the United States to manage soybean diseases has increased in recent years. The ability of fungicides to reduce disease-associated yield losses varies greatly depending on multiple factors. Nonetheless, historical data are useful to understand the broad sense and long-term trends related to fungicide use practices. In the current study, the relationship between estimated soybean yield losses due to selected foliar diseases and foliar fungicide use was investigated using annual data from 28 soybean growing states over the period of 2005 to 2015. For national and regional (southern and northern United States) scale data, mixed effects modeling was performed considering fungicide use as a fixed and state and year as random factors to generate generalized R2 values for marginal (R2GLMM(m); contains only fixed effects) and conditional (R2GLMM(c); contains fixed and random effects) models. Similar analyses were performed considering soybean production data to see how fungicide use affected production. Analyses at both national and regional scales showed that R2GLMM(m) values were significantly smaller compared to R2GLMM(c) values. The large difference between R2 values for conditional and marginal models indicated that the variation of yield loss as well as production were predominantly explained by the state and year rather than the fungicide use, revealing the general lack of fit between fungicide use and yield loss/production at national and regional scales. Therefore, regression models were fitted across states and years to examine their importance in combination with fungicide use on yield loss or yield. In the majority of cases, the relationship was nonsignificant. However, the relationship between soybean yield and fungicide use was significant and positive for majority of the years in the study. Results suggest that foliar fungicides conferred yield benefits in most of the years in the study. Furthermore, the year-dependent usefulness of foliar fungicides in mitigating soybean yield losses suggested the possible influence of temporally fluctuating abiotic factors on the effectiveness of foliar fungicides and/or target disease occurrence and associated loss magnitudes

Prospectus, December 16, 1981

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS; Parkland offers workshop on real estate Jan. 16; Student bids farewell to Parkland; Attention Accounting students; Students should let state know feelings; News In Brief; Cleaning holiday messes; Bookstores having a prosperous gift season; W.I.R.E. celebrates fifth year; Spring semester classes begin Jan. 18; Greetings from the President...; Don\u27t want to complain, but...: Mother wants to avoid hassles; She enjoys atmosphere; Second annual video competition is underway; Students help with layout; Sistercelebration plans winter ritual; Uni High could get aid; Area offerings; 3 sides involved in radio issue; County eligible for grant; Com Club donates money; Stay on diet with sensible foods; \u27Sugar Babies\u27 rescheduled; Poinsettia: sign of season; Tree trimming becomes an art; Christmas cards start in England; He shares a gift of love; Christmas signifies something for everyone; Gift of jewelry never grows old; Boar\u27s head: traditional feast; Day after: throw nuts; Tiny candy shop tempts with treats; Age-old customs make lovely Christmas; Collectibles make memorable Christmas; Joyous carols fill December air; Norwegian Christmas same, yet different from other countries; Christmas garden takes place of tree; Ski club selling candy bars; Good food, drink is large part of Christmas tradition; Sweep bad luck out of house; Spread holiday cheer with goodies from Great Britain; Drive carefully on icy winter days; \u27Tis the season; Santa puts a smile on everyone\u27s face; \u27Buddy Buddy\u27 funny, \u27Rollover\u27 does better; \u27Pennies from Heaven\u27 is touching; Cablevision announces service changes; A tribute to Lennon; Two new books make good Christmas presents; Max? He\u27s a sweetheart; Christmas lives on through years; Burnham offers counsel; LRC adds two new librarians; Movie theatres offer good holiday viewing; Crazy Ozzy coming soon; Santa chooses rug over outdated reindeer; Keep holidays safe, hazard-free; Albums, 45\u27s make great music gifts; Disease killing off pine trees in Illinois; U of I receives 3 grants; Computer model acts like storm; Artificial tree puts a crimp in her tradition; Christmas celebrated in spring?; Guest speaker featured; Students do same things on break as during class; For those who love to skate: Ice arena offers fun for all ages; Parkland\u27s 1981-82 women\u27s basketball; Classifieds; Christmas personals; Post offices keep busy with holiday season; Survey explains degree days; Final Exam Schedule -- Fall \u2781; Prospectus Christmas Hide-A-Word; 1981-1982 College bowl calendar; Women face stern test with Cougars; Women play with balanced attack; B-ballers raise to 5-0; Plenty of upcoming action for football fans; Last Fast Freddy is on Bowls; Fast Freddy Contest; Cobras meet DuPage 19th; Fall semester in reviewhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1000/thumbnail.jp