Far from being a meritocratic and equalising device, the Family Migration Visa racialises certain migrant-citizen families

Joseph Turner argues that we need to see recent changes which mean that British citizens can only live with non-EU spouses/partners if they earn over £18,600 p/a, as part of a broader history of strategies which have managed the intimate relations of citizens. He suggests that the visa retains a familiar function to the colonial practices of marriage restriction and other policies which have managed migrant/citizens families across the 20thcentury. The Family Migration Visa is treated as a strategy that regulates whom can live with, raise a family with, be intimate with whom in modern Britain

Sir Gawain and the green knight and the history of medieval rhetoric.

During the Middle Ages, rhetoric and literature were thoroughly intertwined, whereas current notions of disciplinarity, in which literature and rhetoric are constructed as separate traditions, muddy our understanding of medieval practice. This essay reads Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous fourteenth-century poem, as engaged in a Ciceronian debate over the ramifications of legislative rhetoric on civic decision-making. Because of the paucity of information on medieval rhetorical practice, it concludes, literature is a resource that illuminates this neglected and misunderstood historical period

Rhetoric and performing anger : Proserpina\u27s gift and Chaucer\u27s Merchant\u27s tale.

Although scholars have historically minimized the relationship between medieval grammatical and rhetorical traditions and Chaucer\u27s poetics, Proserpina\u27s angry speech in the Merchant\u27s Tale represents the intersection of medieval classroom grammar exercises, Geoffrey of Vinsauf\u27s theory of delivery, and poetics. Proserpina\u27s angry speech reveals that her rhetoric is calculated to subvert the masculine power structures that surround her. Such a focus on Chaucer\u27s depiction of women\u27s persuasive tactics helps to highlight Chaucer\u27s deep engagement with rhetoric beginning in the 1380\u27s. Moreover, this investigation asks for increased attention to the overlap between classroom grammatical traditions, rhetorical theory, and medieval poetics

Effects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas on Forest Resources

The effects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement on the forest sectors and resources of member countries are investigated. A model of wood supply within the spatial partial-equilibrium Global Forest Products Model is developed to link international trade and deforestation. The direct effects of tariff changes and the indirect effects of income changes induced by trade liberalization are considered. The FTAA has a small positive impact on the region's forest resources. Higher harvests of industrial roundwood in most countries are offset by increased afforestation due to the income effect of trade liberalization (captured by the environmental Kuznets curve).trade liberalization, international trade, forest resources, forest sector trade model, International Relations/Trade, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Route Selection Based On Sunlight Exposure

Digital maps provided via websites, mobile apps, in-car navigation systems, etc. include features to provide route guidance. Currently, such maps compute routes based on parameters such as travel time, cost, transport mode, type of roadway, etc. This disclosure describes techniques that enable digital map applications to provide routing information based on expected exposure to sunlight along the route. The sunlight exposure information can be displayed to users and utilized in route selection to minimize or maximize sunlight exposure depending on travel parameters. For example, higher sunlight exposure may be preferred by users who drive vehicles with solar panels while lower sunlight exposure may be preferred by users who walk to their destination

The Ungovernable Novel: Towards a New Political Imaginary

The primary objective of my thesis is to provide an initial definition of what we could call the “ungovernable novel.” I borrow the concept of the “ungovernable” from the field of political theory, and I apply it to the theory of the novel by way of an engagement of Mikhail Bakhtin’s and Georg Lukács’ theories of the novel. Building on this theoretical foundation, I argue that our contemporary political imagination has reached a historical juncture: we must abandon the dystopian framework that we have inherited from the Cold War, and we must move in the direction of the ungovernable novel. I analyze George Orwell\u27s Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1949) as the quintessential text of the dystopian paradigm. The novel’s dystopic vision has found purchase across the entire political spectrum and has shaped our vision of the future. I argue, however, that we should seek literary examples of ungovernability that disorient the ways we imagine moments of chaos and allow us to recognize them as experiences of collective joy. The ungovernable novel presents us with a new task: How do we write fictions that emerge from revolts themselves? Using Giorgio Agamben\u27s concept of the ungovernable, I analyze Rachel Kushner\u27s The Flamethrowers (2014) as a text that demonstrates some of the possibilities of an ungovernable imagination. The ungovernable novel reaches out to its readers from the event and allows the novel to deactivate its disciplinary role as an individualizing agent. This operation frees the imagination, allowing the reader to come to a different understanding of the forms that social revolt may take. Advisor: Roland Végs

Delivery, Facilitas, and Copia : job market preparation and the revival of the fifth canon.

This essay argues that English Studies departments should implement training programs in oral delivery strategies for graduate students seeking tenure track employment. A sample a 13-week training program, modeled on elements of classical rhetorical pedagogy, can help students develop and refine stills in oral delivery necessary for academic job interviews

Alert Generation for Cyclically Varying Metrics

This disclosure describes techniques for monitoring computer system metrics that exhibit cyclical (periodic) behavior. Per techniques of this disclosure, function-based thresholds are utilized for metric monitoring and generation of system alerts. The function-based thresholds are time-varying and are aligned with the troughs and peaks of the underlying metric being monitored. Metric measurements are obtained for a particular period of time. A function such as a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is fitted to the obtained metric data. A threshold is set for the metric based on the fitted function at a fixed offset from the function derived value. Function-based thresholding can enable monitoring metrics that exhibit cyclical properties with greater sensitivity when compared to fixed thresholding. Deviations of metric values can be accurately detected even at troughs in the metric data while also mitigating false positives at peaks in the metric data

Failure of an Educational Intervention to Improve Consultation and Implications for Healthcare Consultation.

INTRODUCTION: Consultation of another physician for his or her specialized expertise regarding a patient's care is a common occurrence in most physicians' daily practice, especially in the emergency department (ED). Therefore, the ability to communicate effectively with another physician during a patient consultation is an essential skill. However, there has been limited research on a standardized method for a physician to physician consultation with little guidance on teaching consultations to physicians in training. The objective of our study was to measure the effect of a structured consultation intervention on both content standardization and quality of medical student consultations. METHODS: Senior medical students were assessed on a required emergency medicine rotation with a physician phone consultation during a standardized, simulated chest pain case. The intervention groups received a standard consult checklist as part of their orientation to the rotation, followed by a video recording of a good consult call and a bad consult call with commentary from an emergency physician. The intervention was given to students every other month, alternating with a control group who received no additional education. Recordings were reviewed by three second-year internal medicine residents pursuing a fellowship in cardiology. Each recording was evaluated by two of the three reviewers and scored using a standardized checklist. RESULTS: Providing a standardized consultation intervention did not improve students' ability to communicate with consultants. In addition, there was variability between evaluators in regards to how they received the same information and how they perceived the quality of the same recorded consultation calls. Evaluator inter-rater reliability (IRR) was poor on the questions of 1) would you have any other questions of the student calling the consult and 2) did the student calling the consult provide an accurate account of information and case detail. The IRR was also poor on objective data such as whether the student stated their name. CONCLUSIONS: A brief intervention may not be enough to change complex behavior such as a physician to physician consultant communication. Importantly, despite consultants listening to the same audio recordings, the information was processed differently. Future investigations should focus on both those delivering as well as those receiving a consultation

Prenatal psychic experience: a psychoanalytic systematic exploration of the emotional life of the fetus

The purpose of this dissertation was to provide a systematic and comprehensive review of the psychoanalytic literature as it pertains to prenatal psychic experience. The emotional life of the fetus has become an increasingly important topic in psychoanalysis, particularly within object relations theory and theoretical and clinical exploration of primitive mental states. Contemporary psychoanalysts, following the ideas of Freud, Bion, Ploye, Mancia, Grotstein, and Paul have begun to gather research from the fields of infant mental health, developmental psychology, and medicine, among others, to show that not only does the newborn infant have an inherent capacity to communicate with the mothering one but that these capacities may have taken form during the prenatal stage of development. While psychoanalytic theory in the area of prenatal psychic experience has been sparse, to date there have been no attempts to identify and synthesize the literature that exists in disparate areas of psychoanalysis. This dissertation aimed to systematically review the psychoanalytic literature in this area of study and to integrate existing theories and ideas through the use of Grounded Theory methods to provide a context for further inquiry and recommendations for possible clinical application