323 research outputs found
Diamanda GalĂĄs and Amanda Todd: Performing Traumaâs Sticky Connections
Though trauma transgresses borders and produces displacements, too often its study and the treatment of its harmful affects contain it historically, geographically, and institutionally. In the process, trauma becomes dislocated from the larger affective economies through which it is produced. Following the lead of feminist and queer studies scholars, Ann Cvetkovich and Sara Ahmed, Helene brings together two performancesâDiamanda GalĂĄsâs Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead , and Amanda Toddâs My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm âto illuminate sticky connections across the geopolitical particularities of violently produced trauma. She proposes that GalĂĄsâs and Toddâs performances of two radically disparate traumasâgenocide and sexual assaultâneed to be understood as contemporary variations of traditional laments that use embodied affective expression to communicate the overwhelming and âinarticulate griefâ associated with the trauma of loss and violation (Holst-Warhaft Cue 4). With this essay, Vosters aspires not only to bring GalĂĄs and Todd into dialogue, but also to join with them as part of an interdisciplinary and polyphonic chorus of lament against the forgetfulness of traumaâs production.MĂȘme si le traumatisme transgresse les frontiĂšres et provoque des dĂ©placements, lâĂ©tude et le traitement de ses effets nuisibles imposent trop souvent des limites historiques, gĂ©ographiques et institutionnelles. Le traumatisme est ainsi dĂ©calĂ© par rapport aux Ă©conomies de lâaffectivitĂ© qui le produisent. Suivant lâexemple dâAnn Cvetkovich et de Sara Ahmed, chercheures en Ă©tudes fĂ©ministes et queer, Helene Vosters rĂ©unit deux performancesâ Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead de Diamanda GalĂĄs et My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm dâAmanda Toddâpour jeter la lumiĂšre sur les liens qui traversent les particularitĂ©s gĂ©opolitiques de traumatismes liĂ©s Ă la violence. Vosters fait valoir quâil faut lire les performances de GalĂĄs et de Todd sur deux traumatismes radicalement diffĂ©rentsâle gĂ©nocide et lâagression sexuelleâcomme des variations contemporaines de complaintes traditionnelles qui font appel Ă des expressions affectives similaires pour communiquer lâimmense « deuil qui ne peut se faire jour » associĂ© au traumatisme de la perte et de la violation (Holst-Warhaft Cue 4). Dans cette contribution, Vosters tente non seulement de crĂ©er un dialogue entre GalĂĄs et Todd, mais aussi de les rejoindre dans un chĆur interdisciplinaire et polyphonique de complaintes contre lâoubli associĂ© Ă la production de traumatismes
Letter From Bunny Vosters to Eleanor Snell, May 6, 1970
This handwritten letter from Madge Bunny Vosters, Ursinus College Class of 1940, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on her teachings.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/snell_docs/1036/thumbnail.jp
FALC-project : draagblok ontwerp : het ontwerp van een draagblok, geschikt voor de produktfamilie ringvormsteunen, te gebruiken in een flexibele assemblage- en lascel
Emergent Completion of Multistep Instructions via Joint Control
Teaching procedures that facilitate the emergence of novel responses allow for increased efficiency, which is critical when providing early-intervention services to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Three children diagnosed with ASD between 5 and 6 years old participated. In Study 1, we demonstrated functional control over the effects of teaching echoic rehearsals on the emergence of completing novel two-step instructions via joint control. In Study 2, we conducted an experimental analysis of joint control by disrupting rehearsal of the instruction and tacts of the objects in the instruction, which served as the sources of joint control. Our results support the efficacy of the procedures for establishing first-trial performance with novel instructions and indicate joint control is the behavioral process responsible for the emergent responses produced by our teaching procedures
Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and Its Lost Subjects
Using the Highway of Heroes as my point of departure, in âGood Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and its Lost Subjectsâ I interrogate the role of Canadian military commemoration in the production of hierarchies of grievability and the construction of nationalist narratives. I argue that military commemoration plays a critical role in the performative constitution of the privilegedâand the âlostââsubjects of Canadian nationalism. My investigation looks first at how Canadian military memorial projects operate as a means of interpellating Canadaâs citizen populations into a particular kind of settler-nationalism, and second, at how performance might serve as a methodology towards the production of counter-memorials that resist the forgetful narratives of Canadian nationalism.
My methodological approach weaves historical, theoretical, and performance analyses with first-person reflections on three counter-memorial meditations I performed as a method of embodied inquiry and critical engagement. While the reflective remains of Impact Afghanistan War are scattered throughout this dissertation, and Unravel: A meditation on the warp and weft of militarism and Flag of Tears are discussed explicitly in the final chapters, all three counter-memorial meditations informâand are informed byâthe entire project.
Throughout this dissertation I deliberately posit both Canadian military commemoration, and performance, as broadly construed. I investigate repertorial performances of commemorationâlike the Highway of Heroes, Remembrance Day ceremonies, and Impactâin addition to the archival performances of institutions and objectsâlike the Canadian War Museum, military fatigues, and Unravelâs threaded remains. I also intentionally wander outside the constructed borders of Canadian military commemoration to consider how these memorials disappear the violence of settler-colonialism. I bring popular culture performances of nationalist and counter-nationalist narrativesâlike the Winter Olympics and Jeff Barnabyâs film, Rhymes for Young Ghoulsâinto conversation with performances overtly linked to the contested terrains of Canadian social memory, like the World War I and II documentary, The Valour and the Horror, and Canadaâs Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In bringing this range of performances together under the umbrella of Canadian military commemoration I make visible the larger scenario of Canadian settler nationalism and its sticky âinter(in)animationsâ with militarism and colonialism.
Efficient dense blur map estimation for automatic 2D-to-3D conversion
Focus is an important depth cue for 2D-to-3D conversion of low depth-of-field images and video. However, focus can be only reliably estimated on edges. Therefore, Bea et al. [1] first proposed an optimization based approach to propagate focus to non-edge image portions, for single image focus editing. While their approach produces accurate dense blur maps, the computational complexity and memory requirements for solving the resulting sparse linear system with standard multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques, are infeasible within the stringent requirements of the consumer electronics and broadcast industry. In this paper we propose fast, efficient, low latency, line scanning based focus propagation, which mitigates the need for complex multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques. In addition we propose facial blur compensation to compensate for false shading edges that cause incorrect blur estimates in people's faces. In general shading leads to incorrect focus estimates, which may lead to unnatural 3D and visual discomfort. Since visual attention mostly tends to faces, our solution solves the most distracting errors. A subjective assessment by paired comparison on a set of challenging low-depth-of-field images shows that the proposed approach achieves equal 3D image quality as optimization based approaches, and that facial blur compensation results in a significant improvemen
Update of the Navy Contract Writing Guide
MBA Professional ReportThe purpose of this MBA Project is to provide a comprehensive update of the Navy Contract Writing Guide. The project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition. The now out of date guide was originally written in 1996 in an effort to reduce problem disbursements as related to contract wording and organization. Extensive research, incorporating interviews, websites, periodicals, and texts, was employed to make the guide current. It has been reorganized to address issues and solutions in the same order in which the forms used by contracting officers and administrators have them listed. New issues have been raised since the original writing of this guide and are now incorporated with their recommended solutions. Individuals new to Naval contracting or those who have decades of experience will find the information provided useful to the efficient and effective writing and administration of government contracts.http://archive.org/details/updateofnavycont1094534235Second Lieutenant, United States Air ForceCaptain, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited
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