Foucault’s Heterotopias and History in Greenaway’s Suitcases

In an attempt to exemplify Peter Greenaway's fascination with hetero­topias, alternative organisation and History, this essay will focus on deci­phering the meanings in his film trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases, using textual evidence mainly from the first and second part. It will also occa­sionally draw on Greenaway's museum practices, since the Museum is a heterotopia that holds a prominent place in Greenaway's work. The theo­retical premises behind all the interpretations attempted lie in the work of Michel Foucault, which will serve as the fundamental background and will provide the stepping stone for the film analysis throughout the essay. As this paper will argue, these two thinkers share a nominalist view of history, which is reflected in Foucault's work and illustrated in Green­away's cinematography. The goal of this essay is thus to draw parallels between their worldviews in an attempt to interpret Greenaway's work through Foucault's theory

Case Mis-matching as Kase Stranding

Depending on whether and how argumental Free Relatives (FRs) resolve instances of case conflict between the requirements of the External (i.e., the matrix) and the Internal (i.e., the relative) Predicate, they can be classified into three main categories: (i) Strictly Matching FRs (e.g., Polish), where the FR pronoun has to comply in morphological case with both predicates (Citko 2000), (ii) I(nternal)-Matching FRs (e.g. German), where the FR pronoun has to comply in morphological case with the Internal Predicate, but not necessarily with the External one (Grosu 1994), and (iii) E(xternal)-Matching FR (e.g., Greek), where the FR pronoun has to comply in morphological case with the External Predicate, but not necessarily with the Internal one ((Stavrou & Philippaki 1987; Horrocks & Stavrou 1987; Chila-Markopoulou 1991; Philippaki & Spyropoulos 1997; Alexiadou & Varlokosta 2007; Vogel 2001; Agouraki 2005; Daskalaki 2008; Spyropoulos 2007). In this paper, I use the Greek pattern as my starting point, and I develop a formal account of the observed cross-linguistic variation, which builds on the KP hypothesis (Lamontagne & Travis 1987)

Experiencing Distinctiveness at the Margins of the School: Relatedness, Performance and Becoming a Greek Gypsy

This thesis focuses on a sedentary Greek Gypsy population in Athens. The arguments presented in this ethnographic study are structured through a discussion of what I call 'the schooling paradox'. This paradox indicates that the children's and adults' acknowledgement of the importance of the school co-exists with the recognition of the incompatibility between Greek Gypsy life and formal education. The degree to which adults entrust in their children the decision whether or not to attend classes, draws attention to the blurred boundaries between Greek Gypsy childhood and adulthood and processes of becoming through which children actively participate in the adults' worlds. Based on the premise that children are subjects with agency, their views reflect broader perceptions of the Greek state and other institutions. Considering these perceptions, the thesis examines Greek Gypsy projects of identification and explores children's and adults' degrees of participation within wider Greek society. Whilst acknowledging the importance of a specific 'Gypsy' sense of distinctiveness, this study recognises that there is a Greek component to it. Here, the experience of being a Greek Gypsy is seen as premised on age and gender-specific embodied performances. These performances are principally located within marriage, work and the kinship network and are sustained through the acquisition of knowledge through practice. This thesis argues that the schooling paradox is symptomatic of alternative processes of learning as well as relationships and practices which inform Greek Gypsies' experiences of becoming and belonging. The schooling paradox provides the vehicle for examining the ways through which an individual and a shared sense of Greek Gypsy distinctiveness are primarily sustained and reproduced at the margins of the school

A study of the effects of exercise on the urinary metabolome using normalisation to individual metabolic output

Aerobic exercise, in spite of its multi-organ benefit and potent effect on the metabolome, has yet to be investigated comprehensively via an untargeted metabolomics technology. We conducted an exploratory untargeted liquid chromatography mass spectrometry study to investigate the effects of a one-h aerobic exercise session in the urine of three physically active males. Individual urine samples were collected over a 37-h protocol (two pre-exercise and eight post-exercise). Raw data were subjected to a variety of normalization techniques, with the most effective measure dividing each metabolite by the sum response of that metabolite for each individual across the 37-h protocol expressed as a percentage. This allowed the metabolite responses to be plotted on a normalised scale. Our results highlight significant metabolites located in the following systems: purine pathway, tryptophan metabolism, carnitine metabolism, cortisol metabolism, androgen metabolism, amino acid oxidation, as well as metabolites from the gastrointestinal microbiome. Many of the significant changes observed in our pilot investigation mirror previous research studies, of various methodological designs, published within the last 15 years, although they have never been reported at the same time in a single study

Σεισμική συμπεριφορά ξύλινων διαφραγμάτων σε κτίρια από άοπλη τοιχοποιία

Faced with an expected general labor shortage, Saudi Arabia allowed foreign workers to enter its labor markets or to be recruited by employers on a large scale since 1973. This led to a continuous inflow of labor migration, so much so that as early as 1980 there were more employed immigrants than natives. In this dissertation the Saudi policy to meet labor shortages with expatriate workers is evaluated using empirical analysis. Specifically, this study consists of: (1) a comparative study of other countries\u27 policies on labor shortages and immigration and the implications for the Saudi case; (2) a critical assessment of the effects of immigration on domestic wages supplemented by an empirical analysis of the Saudi case; and (3) an empirical analysis of the elasticities of substitution between native and expatriate workers in Saudi production, in which we also consider the effects of immigration on the level of wages. First, our study of other countries\u27 experiences with the use of foreign workers on a temporary basis clearly indicates that this can be a misleading strategy to counter labor shortages. The main reason is that several factors usually intervene and make the presence of foreign workers more of a permanent one. Most noticeable is the possibility that immigration is a cumulative and self-reinforcing phenomenon. The evidence from the Saudi case shows that it is not immune from this pitfall. Second, when we considered the effects of immigration on domestic wages, the evidence shows that, under almost any assumptions immigrants will reduce wage rates. The empirical analysis of the Saudi case shows that expatriate workers did reduce wage growth in the private sector. This effect seems to be, however, rather small and uneven among different labor groups. Our results show that had there been no immigration, wage growth could have been 3-10 percent higher than it was between 1968 and 1973 and 1-12 percent higher than it was betwen 1978 and 1982. Third, our study includes estimates of the elasticities of complementarity between native and immigrant labor. The elasticity of substitution between natives and migrants is estimated to be -2.13. This value changes when labor is disaggregated by skill or educational levels, but in all the classifications migrants and natives were found to be substitutable. This means that an increase in immigrant employment will decrease native employment. The simulation exercise which we used confirmed this conclusion

An XML format for benchmarks in High School Timetabling

The High School Timetabling Problem is amongst the most widely used timetabling problems. This problem has varying structures in different high schools even within the same country or educational system. Due to lack of standard benchmarks and data formats this problem has been studied less than other timetabling problems in the literature. In this paper we describe the High School Timetabling Problem in several countries in order to find a common set of constraints and objectives. Our main goal is to provide exchangeable benchmarks for this problem. To achieve this we propose a standard data format suitable for different countries and educational systems, defined by an XML schema. The schema and datasets are available online