Linguistics and interdisciplinary initiatives at Colorado: Obstacles and opportunities

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Elsewhere, yet nowhere : John Burnside’s autofictions and strategies of (dis)placement

In reading John Burnside’s three autofictions, A Lie About My Father (2006), Waking Up In Toytown (2009), and I Put A Spell On You (2014), this article aims at discussing how spaces and personal remembering, as well as potential displacements, are interlinked endeavours in recollective narratives. As a key argument, the notion of spacing yet displacing the self through writing and re-writing furthers the autofictional endeavour of self-narrative as a non-linear, fragmented enterprise. This paper therefore sheds light on the interconnections of autobiography and autofiction, space and memory, as well as seriality and writing.peer-reviewe

A Proposed Method for Noninvasive Assessment of Endothelial Damange

Transdermal microvascular studies of endothelial cell function have typically used iontophoresis to facilitate acetylcholine absorption, but iontophoresis introduces an important confounding stimulus that can alter the behavior of the microvasculature. This study examines a non-iontophoretic technique for transdermal microvascular studies using acetylcholine and nitroglycerin and demonstrates a relatively impaired vasodilatory response to these substances in a population with known microvascular pathology. Ten subjects without known vascular disease or diabetes were recruited for laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) monitoring. Topical acetylcholine chloride, nitroglycerin, and placebo were applied to subjects foreheads directly below LDF probes. Readings increased by averages of 406% (245%-566%) and 36% (26%-46%), respectively, at the acetylcholine and placebo sites (p=0.005 by Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (WSRT)); and they increased by 365% (179%-550%) at the nitroglycerin site (p=0.005 by WSRT versus placebo; p=0.6 versus acetylcholine). Ten diabetic subjects were also monitored. Mean percent increases in blood flow were 156% (91%-221%) and 116% (79%-153%), respectively, at the acetylcholine and nitroglycerin sites, vs. 21% (CI 4-37%) at the placebo site (p=0.005 by WSRT for placebo versus each active site). Diabetics responses at both active sites were significantly impaired relative to healthy subjects (p\u3c0.001 and p=0.009, respectively, by Mann-Whitney U Test) Topical acetylcholine and nitroglycerin induced significant local vasodilatory responses without requiring iontophoresis in both healthy and diabetic subjects. Diminished responses were noted in diabetic patients. This technique may constitute a minimally invasive way to interrogate the microvasculature including its responses in various disorders and the microcirculatory changes induced by therapeutic interventions

About uncertainties in practical salinity calculations

In the current state of the art, salinity is a quantity computed from conductivity ratio measurements, with temperature and pressure known at the time of the measurement, and using the Practical Salinity Scale algorithm of 1978 (PSS-78). This calculation gives practical salinity values <I>S</I>. The uncertainty expected in PSS-78 values is ±0.002, but no details have ever been given on the method used to work out this uncertainty, and the error sources to include in this calculation. Following a guide published by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), using two independent methods, this paper assesses the uncertainties of salinity values obtained from a laboratory salinometer and Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) measurements after laboratory calibration of a conductivity cell. The results show that the part due to the PSS-78 relations fits is sometimes as significant as the instrument's. This is particularly the case with CTD measurements where correlations between variables contribute mainly to decreasing the uncertainty of <I>S</I>, even when expanded uncertainties of conductivity cell calibrations are for the most part in the order of 0.002 mS cm<sup>−1</sup>. The relations given here, and obtained with the normalized GUM method, allow a real analysis of the uncertainties' sources and they can be used in a more general way, with instruments having different specifications

Estimation of operational value-at-risk in the presence of minimum collection threshold: An empirical study

The recently finalized Basel II Capital Accord requires banks to adopt a procedure to estimate the operational risk capital charge. Under the Advanced Measurement Approaches, that are currently mandated for all large internationally active US banks, require the use of historic operational loss data. Operational loss databases are typically subject to a minimum recording threshold of roughly $10,000. We demonstrate that ignoring such thresholds leads to biases in corresponding parameter estimates when the threshold is ignored. Using publicly available operational loss data, we analyze the effects of model misspecification on resulting expected loss, Value-at-Risk, and Conditional Value-at-Risk figures and show that underestimation of the regulatory capital is a consequence of such model error. The choice of an adequate loss distribution is conducted via in-sample goodness-of-fit procedures and backtesting, using both classical and robust methodologies. --

Reflection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop for Japanese Executives: Doing Business with U.S. Americans

Vérité en deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au-delà (There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees that are falsehoods on the other) Blaise Pascal (Moran, Harris & Moran, 2007, p. 2). This paper is a reflection on an intercultural communication workshop developed for sixteen upper-level Japanese executives who work with their U.S. American counterparts in a U.S.A.-based global corporation. This training session was only one part of a much larger training program initiative which was carried out in five countries in Asia as well as in several locations across the U.S.A. Throughout my paper, I will apply the stages of the experiential learning cycle to their corresponding phases of the entire workshop process. To start with, I will take a look at how I first learned about the experiential learning cycle and describe how I utilized this tool to reflect on the training experience. Then, I will explain the background and events that served as a catalyst for this training initiative. Subsequently, I will detail the content of the workshop. Next, I will give some reflective observations about what happened during the training, specifically on the participants\u27 analyses and suggestions concerning a critical incident scenario which they worked on together in small groups at the end of the training. After making these observations, I will combine the information presented by the groups about the critical incident with my prior knowledge to generate some hypotheses as to why the participants reacted to and analyzed the critical incident in the way that they did. Finally, I will use the data obtained during the workshop to suggest ideas for future trainings

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