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Disrupting strength, power, and perfect bodies: Disability as narrative prosthesis in 1990s Australian national cinema
The essential Australian is male, working-class, sardonic, laconic, loyal to his mates, unimpressed by rank, an improviser, non-conformist, and so on. These virtues are defined and redefined under the harsh conditions of the bush, workplace, war or sport, in which women, and the feminine qualities, are considered to be beside the point
--Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka describing the ―male ensemble‖ (1988, p. 62
Closing Talk: QCD Moriond 2006
I comment on some theoretical work presented at QCD Moriond 2006.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Two-dimensional graphics tools for a transputer based display board
A package of 2-D graphics routines has been developed in an effort to standardize and simplify the user interface for a transputer based graphics display board. The routines available take advantage of the graphic board's capabilities while also presenting an intuitive approach for generating drawings. The routines allow a user to perform graphics rendering in a 2-D real-coordinate space without regard to the actual screen coordinates. Multiple windows, which can be placed arbitrarily on the screen as well as the ability to use double-buffering techniques for smooth animations are also supported. The routines are designed to be run on a transputer other than the graphics display board. The window and screen parameters are maintained locally. The conversion to device coordinates is also performed locally. The only data sent to the display board are control and device coordinate display commands. The routines available include: rotation translation, and scaling commands; absolute and relative point and line commands; circle, rectangle and polygon commands; and window and viewpoint definition commands
Multiprocessor graphics computation and display using transputers
A package of two-dimensional graphics routines was developed to run on a transputer-based parallel processing system. These routines were designed to enable applications programmers to easily generate and display results from the transputer network in a graphic format. The graphics procedures were designed for the lowest possible network communication overhead for increased performance. The routines were designed for ease of use and to present an intuitive approach to generating graphics on the transputer parallel processing system
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An education and negotiation of differences: the ‘schooling’ experiences of English-speaking Canadian children growing up with polio during the 1940s and 1950s
In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by individuals in authority (teachers, principals), by other young people, and through the dominant negative discourses of polio and normalizing, ableist practices of schooling. Using narrative accounts from participants’ interviews, we analyze their school experiences of difference: inaccessible physical and temporal spaces, bullying at school, exclusion from classes, and negotiating youth culture related to shoes, clothes and friendships. However, participants were not passive and they discussed how, along with families, they negotiated and occasionally defied normalizing processes. This research gives voice to a generation of disabled English-speaking Canadians, whose stories about school have not been heard before
Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), psychiatry and the clinical assessment of skills and competencies (CASC) : same evidence, different judgement
Background: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), originally developed in the 1970’s, has been
hailed as the "gold standard" of clinical assessments for medical students and is used within medical schools
throughout the world. The Clinical assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) is an OSCE used as a clinical
examination gateway, granting access to becoming a senior Psychiatrist in the UK.
Discussion: Van der Vleuten’s utility model is used to examine the CASC from the viewpoint of a senior
psychiatrist. Reliability may be equivalent to more traditional examinations. Whilst the CASC is likely to have
content validity, other forms of validity are untested and authenticity is poor. Educational impact has the potential
to change facets of psychiatric professionalism and influence future patient care. There are doubts about
acceptability from candidates and more senior psychiatrists.
Summary: Whilst OSCEs may be the best choice for medical student examinations, their use in post graduate
psychiatric examination in the UK is subject to challenge on the grounds of validity, authenticity and educational
impact
Heavy Quark Production at High Energy
We report on QCD radiative corrections to heavy quark production valid at
high energy. The formulae presented will allow a matched calculation of the
total cross section which is correct at O(\as^3) and includes resummation of
all terms of order \as^3 [\as \ln (s/m^2)]^n. We also include asymptotic
estimates of the effect of the high energy resummation. A complete description
of the calculation of the heavy quark impact factor is included in an appendix.Comment: 32 pages (LaTeX) with three figures. Resubmission to agree with
published version, which contains a new note added in proof and modifications
of text of appendix
Characterization of Jets in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Jet quenching is considered to be one of the signatures of the formation of
quark gluon plasma. In order to investigate the jet quenching, it is necessary
to detect jets produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, determine their
properties and compare those with the jets one obtains in hadron-hadron or
collisions. In this work, we propose that calculation of flow
parameters may be used to detect and characterize jets in relativistic heavy
ion collisions.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, more discussions are added, to be published in
Phys. Rev.
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