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Rees, A. L. Expanded cinema: Art, performance, film. London: Tate Gallery Pub., 2011.
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1946-, Steeb Randall, United States Army, United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense., Arroyo Center, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), and Rand Corporation, eds. Rapid force projection technologies: Assessing the performance of advanced ground sensors. Santa Monica, CA (1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, 90407-2138): Rand, 2000.
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Syngellakis, S. Projectile impact: Modelling techniques and target performance assessment. Southampton, Boston: WIT Press, 2014.
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Gaethke-Brandt, Jane E. The effect of auditory subliminal deactivating messages on motor and task performance of hyperkinetic children. 1986.
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Dobbins, Alison C. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Dobbins, Alison C. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design. Routledge, 2021.
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Dobbins, Alison C. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Dobbins, Alison C. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Dobbins, Alison C. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance: Principles of Media Design. Routledge, 2021.
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Soyres, Constance de, and Henry Mooney. Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance. International Monetary Fund, 2017.
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Soyres, Constance de, and Henry Mooney. Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance. International Monetary Fund, 2017.
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Soyres, Constance de, and Henry Mooney. Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance. International Monetary Fund, 2017.
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Ahmed, Mahbub I. Performance analysis of least square error [omega] filter for image reconstruction from projection. 1990.
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Matsumura, John. Rapid Force Projection Technologies: Assessing the Performance of Advanced Ground Sensors (His the BBC TV Shakespeare). RAND Corporation, 2000.
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Abad, José Vicente, ed. Research on Language Teaching and Learning: Advances and Projection. Fondo Editorial Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21501/9789588943701.
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In 2010, teachers from the B.A. in English Teaching at Universidad Católica Luis Amigó formed CILEX (Construcciones Investigativas en Lenguas Extranjeras). Research and teaching in the program have grown synergistically ever since, but ten years down the road it was time to take stock of our research to project the direction in which we wanted to move forward. This book is the result of that effort to recognize our shared history and thus propel our upcoming academic endeavors. The book starts out by presenting the epistemological foundations of CILEX, which is based on the threefold notion of the language teacher as an intellectual, an academic, and an educator. It thereon explains the system that arranges our academic production within five thematic nodes: cultural studies, language policy, literacies, language teacher education, and language assessment. Each chapter reports on one or two studies in which the authors participated as leading researchers or advisors. Hence, the book also reflects the formative research tradition that characterizes most of our practice. Having language teacher education as a binding thread that cuts across the entire volume, authors present their particular perspective on topics as varied as college academic performance, early childhood literacy, language policy appropriation, teacher educators’ assessment literacy, student teachers’ practicum identity crisis, research training in teacher education, and critical reading instruction. This book condenses the work of a group of teacher educators who believe in the power of research to galvanize teaching and inspire positive educational change. As readers go through its pages, it is our hope they will be able to recognize not only the singular value of each individual chapter but also the richness of our collaboration, which constitutes the fabric of our identity as an academic community.
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Navy acquisition: Cost, schedule, and performance of new submarine combat systems : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional Defense, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1990.
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Barber, Stephen. Performance Projections: Film and the Body in Action. Reaktion Books, Limited, 2014.
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Tauber, Robert T. Projecting Enthusiasm. Praeger, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216001966.
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Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance. To know your material is important, but to project your enthusiasm for the subject is just as vital to engage your audience. Research supports that presenters who boast an enthusiastic flair best engage, inform, and motivate their audiences. Dr. Robert Tauber uses his expertise to train you in the most effective presentation tools, with a joyful touch. Delivering a set of performance skills proven to deliver palpable results, Projecting Enthusiasm will teach you how to integrate suspense and surprise, humor, props, voice animation, creative entrances and exits, and more into your next performance. This book won’t try to rewrite your speech or bombard you with intimidating critiques. Instead, you will learn that the passion you present gives your message an essential meaning and makes your audience value it as one worth listening to. Projecting Enthusiasm harnesses the exuberant, creative, and informative elements you want to bring to your next presentation and shows you how to do it.
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Aebischer, Pascale. Technology and the Ethics of Spectatorship. Edited by James C. Bulman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.4.
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This chapter revisits debates regarding the use of technology to enhance or remediate performances in the light of Emmanuel Levinas’s understanding of the ethical encounter as a face-to-face encounter between a subject and her/his other. Building on these debates and Robert Weimann’s distinction between locus and platea, it suggests that performance theory’s emphasis on the physical co-presence of spectator and performer undervalues the experience of the spectator. Using three productions that use digital media as examples, the chapter demonstrates how online live streaming (in Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure), digital hologram projection (in the McGuires’ Ophelia’s Ghost), and the use of an online stage (in the RSC’s collaboration with Google+ on #dream40) each harness the affordances of digital media to create conceptual spaces in which spectators can experience ethical encounters. Digital media thus open up distinct ways of experiencing dilemmas explored by Shakespeare’s plays.
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Barber, Stephen. Performance Projections: Film and the Body in Action. Reaktion Books, Limited, 2014.
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Eduardo Martinez, Llarena. Part II Commentaries to Typical Sofa Rules, 23 Logistic Support. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808404.003.0023.
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This chapter discusses logistic support arrangements. When properly orchestrated, logistics arrangements can be conceived as a decisive instrument of multinational warfare and champion the change from a military coalition to an alliance. Nevertheless, logistics is a low-profile discipline that only comes to light when it fails. In this regard, looking for market-oriented efficiencies should never result in a gap on strategic projection. It is by creating and sustaining superior performance that an organization will dilute costs due to a greater value of its overall activities. Very great attention is paid to short-term cash economy in detriment to long-range military planning benefits. Tactical logistics are well monitored: everyone understands the importance of not running out of fuel during combat and it is not difficult to flag the problem. On the other hand, strategic logistics and its implication on support arrangements are frequently neglected during peacetime.
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Knowles, Kim, and Marion Schmid, eds. Cinematic Intermediality. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446341.001.0001.
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As a fundamentally hybrid medium, cinema has always been defined by its interactions with other art forms such as painting, sculpture, photography, performance and dance. Taking the in-between nature of the cinematic medium as its starting point, this collection of essays maps out new directions for understanding the richly diverse ways in which artists and filmmakers draw on and reconfigure the other arts in their creative practice. From pre-cinema to the digital era, from avant-garde to world cinema, and from the projection room to the gallery space, the contributors critically explore what happens when ideas, forms and feelings migrate from one art form to another. Giving voice to both theorists and moving image practitioners, Cinematic Intermediality: Theory and Practice stimulates fresh thinking about how intermediality, as both a creative method and an interpretative paradigm, can be explored alongside probing questions of what cinema is, has been and can be.
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Bawa, Seema, ed. Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India. Bloomsbury Academic India, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789394701335.
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Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.
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Teglasi, Hedwig. The Scientific Status of Projective Techniques as Performance Measures of Personality. Edited by Donald H. Saklofske, Cecil R. Reynolds, and Vicki Schwean. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199796304.013.0005.
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An Investigation of the Ballistic Performance for an Electromagnetic Gun-Launched Projectile. Storming Media, 1997.
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The Conative Connection: A Revolutionary New Management Tool for Accurately Predicting Performance and Projecting Results. Audio Renaissance, 1990.
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Salguero-Gomez, Roberto, and Marlène Gamelon, eds. Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838609.001.0001.
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Demography is everywhere in our lives: from birth to death. Demography shapes our daily decisions, as well as the decisions that others make on us (e.g. bank loans, retirement age). Demography is everywhere across the Tree of Life. The universal currencies of demography—survival, development, reproduction, and recruitment—shape the performance of all species, from lions to dandelions. The omnipresence of demography in all things alive and dead, and its multiple applications to better understand the ecology, evolution, and conservation/management of species, allows us to—in principle—apply the wide array of quantitative methods to, for example, bacteria or humans. However, demographic methods to date have remained taxonomically siloed, despite the fact that, to a large extent, they are widely applicable across the Tree of Life. In this book, we walk nonexperts through the ABCs of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic artillery. This book introduces the reader to some of the demographic methods, including abundance-based models, life tables, matrix population models, integral projection models, integrated population models, and individual based models, to mention a few. Through the careful integration of data collection methods, analytical approaches, and applications, clearly guided through fully reproducible R scripts, we provide a state-of-the-art thorough representation of many of the most popular tools that any demographer (or demographically inclined mind) should equip themselves with.
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Fosback, Norman G. Mutual Fund Buyer's Guide: Performance Ratings, 5-year Projections, Safety Ratings, Sales Changes, Expenses Ratios, Investment Objectives, Yields, 1, 3, 5, 10-year Performance Record. Probus Publishing Co., 1994.
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VanCour, Shawn. Making Radio Music. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190497118.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on miking methods, mixing strategies, and performance styles developed by studio workers and on-air talent for making radio music. These strategies were governed by five principles: (1) acoustic plasticity (manipulating reverberation to simulate different acoustic environments); (2) sonic restraint (eschewing forceful concert-hall projections in favor of more subdued, microphone-appropriate performance styles); (3) flattening of curves (compression of dynamic range, yielding a uniformly close-up sound); (4) sonic parsimony (reduction of sonic inputs to maintain clarity of reproduction); and (5) intelligibility (rejecting fidelity to real-world spatial relationships in favor of a clear and evenly balanced sound). Embraced for broadcasting during the early and middle years of the 1920s, these principles helped to professionalize and legitimize radio’s emerging forms of soundwork and would also inform parallel strategies pursued in recording studios and Hollywood soundstages, facilitating broader shifts in period sound culture.
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Isaacs, Dee. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450177.
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The BASCA-nominated Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a 3-act site-specific opera for large ensemble, SATB choir, and children’s chorus involving multi-staged performance and video projection, performed in the University of Edinburgh’s Old College Quad and Playfair Library.A collaborative project by composer Dee Isaacs, writer Gerda Stevenson, theatre director John Bett, and film-maker Ian Dodds, the project was conceived and produced as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Music in the Community programme in collaboration with teachers and pupils of Leith Walk Primary School and two professional musicians from West Africa, Gibril Camara and Aboubacar Sylla. Isaacs and Stevenson retell the story of Coleridge’s epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for our times. The opera explores the issues raised by the current refugee crisis in partnership with 25 university music students and 60 school children in a multi-lingual primary school with a high proportion of immigrants in an area of deprivation within the City of Edinburgh. In this multi-cultural environment, the participants’ experiences became an integral part of the production process, allowing a complex of interactions to arise through the media of music and theatre. The video and scenic components were devised to immerse both audience and participants in contemporary experiences of flight and diaspora. The production process was monitored and a final evaluation report was produced, allowing the stake-holders to assess the social and educational impacts of the project.
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Fosback, Norman G. The Mutual Fund Buyer's Guide: Performance Ratings, 5-Year Projections, Safety Ratings, Sales Charges & Expense Ratios, Investment Objectives, Yields. Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994.
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Back, Kerry E. Factor Models. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241148.003.0006.
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The CAPM and factor models in general are explained. Factors can be replaced by the returns or excess returns that are maximally correlated (the projections of the factors). A factor model is equivalent to an affine representation of an SDF and to spanning a return on the mean‐variance frontier. The use of alphas for performance evaluation is explained. Statistical factor models are defined as models in which factors explain the covariance matrix of returns. A proof is given of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, which states that statistical factors are approximate pricing factors. The CAPM and the Fama‐French‐Carhart model are evaluated relative to portfolios based on sorts on size, book‐to‐market, and momentum.
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Jutz, Gabriele. Audiovisual Aesthetics in Contemporary Experimental Film. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.10.
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This chapter maps the territory of the contemporary audiovisual cinematic avant-garde, which arose at the very moment of celluloid’s passage from mass use to obsolescence. It presents films that bear witness to the avant-garde’s ongoing interest in the formal organization of sound/image relationships. If one of the main concerns of sound in conventional film is to “naturalize” the image, experimental film is interested instead in ananti-naturalistic use of sound. Films without sound or even without images (which still can be called “films”), the use of audiovisual polysemy, asynchronous, or even synchronous sound, as well as the visualization of code-based music, are all means of revealing the constructed nature of the cinesonic event. The chapter examines the realm of the sound of technology itself, pointing out the creative potential ofoptically synthesized soundsas well aslive generated sounds and images, which attest to the agility of current projection performances.
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Ibelema, Minabere, and Ebere Onwudiwe. Afro-Optimism. Praeger, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400608384.
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The view that Africa regressed the moment that colonial governments left its shores is widespread. This volume is a counterpoint to the orthodoxy. Here 13 scholars with specializations ranging from literature and history to philosophy and economics argue that Africa has advanced since colonialism and is poised to march forward in spite of setbacks and disappointments. The contributors to the book contend that development is about human beings, so they do not rely exclusively on statistical estimates and projections. Afro-Optimismis a book with a simple thesis: Africa is marching forward, even if at times haltingly and at a different pace from the rest of the world. A common view among journalists and academics alike is that African conditions declined the moment colonial governments left its shores. The chapters in this book cover Africa's progress in health, agriculture, transportation, cultural innovation, and economic advancement. The contributors to the book contend that development is about human beings, so they do not rely exclusively on statistical estimates and projections. The essays in this book discuss the advances African states have made in spite of, and at times because of, their experiences of European colonial rule. The contributors argue that in all facets of development, Africans had to overcome colonial obstacles or had to build on meager colonial foundations. Although the authors acknowledge Africa's disappointing performance in various respects, they stress throughout that exclusive concentration on African failures creates new and reinforces existing negative perceptions of contemporary Africa.
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Konstan, David. Comedy and the Athenian Ideal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.003.0006.
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New Comedy was a Panhellenic phenomenon. It may be that a performance in Athens was still the acme of a comic playwright’s career, but Athens was no longer the exclusive venue of the genre. Yet Athens, or an idealized version of Athens, remained the setting or backdrop for New Comedy, whatever its provenance or intended audience. New Comedy was thus an important vehicle for the dissemination of the Athenian polis model throughout the Hellenistic world, and it was a factor in what has been termed ‘the great convergence’. The role of New Comedy in projecting an idealized image of the city-state may be compared to that of Hollywood movies in conveying a similarly romanticized, but not altogether false, conception of American democracy to populations around the world.
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Drury, Joseph. Realism’s Ghosts. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792383.003.0004.
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Accounts of the enlightened philosophical principles of Fielding’s fiction have struggled to explain the performativity of his narrator and the miraculous implausibilities of his plot. This chapter shows, however, that just as performances with spectacular machines played a key role in establishing the epistemological authority of the new science in the eighteenth century, so Fielding’s narration in Tom Jones must be seen as a constitutive element in his effort to establish the philosophical utility of the modern novel. Eighteenth-century natural philosophers performed ‘boundary-work’ that distinguished their experimental apparatus from the devices exhibited by magicians and projectors. Similarly, Fielding sought to contrast the orderly principles of his clockwork plot with the supernatural machinery of older literary forms. But natural philosophers were also sometimes accused of exploiting the popular appetite for wonder, which explains why Fielding often ironically presents himself not as a philosopher but as an unscrupulous hack or projector.
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Pizzato, Mark, Margaret H. Freeman, Eva Lilja, Mark Pizzato, Victor Bermúdez, and Yasemin Hacioglu. European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765109144.
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Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as “inner theatre” elements. Integrating research across the humanities and sciences, this book explores how traditional designs of outer theatrical spaces left cultural imprints for the inner staging of Self and Other consciousness, which each of us performs daily based on how we think others view us. But believers also perform in a cosmic theatre. Ancestral spirits and gods (or God) watch and interact with them in awe-inspiring spaces, grooming affects toward in-group identification and sacrifice, or out-group rivalry and scapegoating. In a study of over 80 buildings – shown by 40 images in the book, plus thousands of photos and videos online – Pizzato demonstrates how they reflect meta-theatrical projections from prior generations. They also affect the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended (4E) cognition of current visitors, who bring performance frameworks of belief, hope, and doubt to the sacred site. This involves neuro-social, inner/outer theatre networks with patriarchal, maternal, and trickster paradigms. European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites investigates performative material cultures, creating dialogs between theatre, philosophy, history, and various (cognitive, affective, social, biological) sciences. It applies them to the architecture of religious buildings: from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant in Europe, plus key sites in Jerusalem and prior “pagan” temples, to Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and imperial in China. It thus reveals individualist/collectivist, focal/holistic, analytical/dialectical, and melodramatic/tragicomic trajectories, with cathartic poetics for the future. Brain Spirits: European Churches and Chinese Temples as Theatrical Sites compares the monumental spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and Daoist sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human drives, mimetic emotions, and cultural (patriarchal, maternal, or trickster) ideals are reflected historically and affected in visitors today as “inner theatre” elements. This book will increase the reader’s awareness of how each person’s choices within a religious building (or in other performance situations)—observing, engaging with, or questioning artworks, services, and ideologies—may alter or perpetuate melodramatic temptations of religious and political traditions: inter-group conflict, scapegoating, and self-sacrifice. Lessons from this cross-cultural, cognitive neuro-performance auto-ethnography apply to the communally binding, yet dangerous brain spirits evoked by today’s secular, mass, and social media as well.
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Neville, Kate J. Fueling Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535585.001.0001.
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This book explores how and why controversies over liquid biofuels (bioethanol and biodiesel) and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) unfolded in surprisingly similar ways in the Global North and South. In the early 2000s the search was on for fuels that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, spur economic development in rural regions, and diversify national energy supplies. Biofuels and fracking took center stage as promising commodities and technologies. But controversy quickly erupted. Global enthusiasm for these fuels and the widespread projections for their production around the world collided with local politics. Rural and remote places, such as coastal east Africa and Canada’s Yukon territory, became hotbeds of contention in these new energy politics. Opponents of biofuels in Kenya and of fracking in the Yukon activated specific identities, embraced scale shifts across transnational networks, brokered relationships between disparate communities and interests, and engaged in contentious performances with symbolic resonance. To explain these convergent dynamics of contention and resistance, the book argues that the emergence of grievances and the mechanisms of mobilization that are used to resist new fuel technologies depend less on the type of energy developed than on intersecting elements of the political economy of energy—specifically finance, ownership, and trade relations. Taken together, the intersecting elements of the political economy of energy shape patterns of resistance in new energy frontiers.
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Tércio, Daniel, ed. TEPe 2022 - Encontro Internacional sobre a Cidade, o Corpo e o Som. INET-md, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53072/ilic8040.
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Os contextos pandémico e pós-pandémico vêm impondo às cidades outras dinâmicas, outros sons, outros ecos, outros percursos, outros visitantes humanos e não humanos. Durante o confinamento, o encerramento de espaços teatrais e expositivos – bem como, durante o desconfinamento, as limitações para a sua utilização - têm tido consequências penosas nas programações artísticas e efeitos dramáticos nos quotidianos dos seus agentes (artistas, técnicos, programadores, curadores, etc.). Ao mesmo tempo, a desaceleração da vida da cidade (do trânsito, do ritmo nas ruas, do frenesim produtivo e de consumo, etc.) veio contribuir beneficamente para uma diminuição das emissões de CO2. Neste quadro, a cidade - mais concretamente as suas zonas públicas a céu aberto – surgem mais nitidamente como espaços de circulação e de interferência (ou de suspensão de interferência) entre pessoas. O que aprendemos com a experiência de confinamento e desconfinamento? Em primeiro lugar, que a cidade tem uma densidade flutuante, na medida em que as concentrações populacionais se esvaem quando nos encerramos em casa. Em segundo lugar, que o encontro com o outro (uma das prerrogativas da cidade) pode acontecer em outras escalas que não apenas a dimensão cultural. Em terceiro lugar, que o medo pode ser um sentimento público capaz de fazer implodir as próprias cidades, se não for transformado numa força para a vida. Como é que, neste processo, os artistas se organizam e se constituem como agentes na cidade? Como é que a cidade passou a ser representada? Que cidade é aquela que desejamos? Este congresso surge assim da necessidade de intensificar o diálogo entre a cidade e a arte, em particular as artes performativas. Este encontro efoi o culminar de dois anos de investigação consistente e consolidada no âmbito do projecto TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance). Ao longo destes dois anos, desenvolvemos atividades com a comunidade com o intuito de promover um diálogo intercultural e transdisciplinar, e proporcionar o encontro com vivências urbanas variadas. Através das diferentes propostas de percursos pela cidade, mapeámos acontecimentos, hoje invisíveis, mas ainda assim presentes: desde “memórias soterradas” a “caminhadas sensoriais”, passando por registos íntimos de confinamento. O encontro visou partilhar as experiências realizadas com a contribuição de duas equipas: a portuguesa, em Lisboa, e a brasileira, em Fortaleza. Para além de apresentarmos as conclusões das pesquisas realizadas, lançamos esta chamada para apresentações, especialmente destinada a artistas e estudiosos de performance art, historiadores das cidades, antropólogos, urbanistas, geógrafos, estudiosos da escuta e do som e a todxs aquelxs a quem interessa pensar (e projectar) a vida na cidade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pandemic and post-pandemic contexts have imposed on cities other dynamics, other sounds, other echoes, other routes, other human and non-human visitors. During the lockdown, the closure of theatrical and exhibition spaces - as well as, during lockdown unlocking, the limitations for their use - have had painful consequences in artistic programming and dramatic effects in the daily lives of its agents (artists, technicians, programmers, curators, etc.). At the same time, the slowing down of city life (traffic, the pace of the streets, the frenzy of production and consumption, etc.) has made a beneficial contribution to a reduction in CO2 emissions. In this context, the city - and more specifically its open-air public areas - emerge more clearly as spaces for circulation and interference (or suspension of interference) between people. What have we learned from the experience of national lockdown and unlocking? Firstly, that the city has a fluctuating density, insofar as population concentrations fade when we shut ourselves indoors. Secondly, the encounter with the other (one of the prerogatives of the city) can take place on other scales than the cultural dimension alone. Thirdly, fear can be a public sentiment capable of imploding cities themselves if it is not transformed into a force for life. How, in this process, are artists organised and constituted as agents in the city? How did the city come to be represented? What kind of city do we want? This congress thus arises from the need to intensify the dialogue between the city and art, particularly the performing arts. This international meeting is the culmination of two years of consistent and consolidated research within the TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance) project. Throughout these two years, we have developed activities with the community to promote intercultural and transdisciplinary dialogue and provide an encounter with varied urban experiences. Through the different proposals of walks through the city, we have mapped events, today invisible, but still present: from "buried memories" to "sensorial walks", passing through intimate records of confinement. The meeting aims to share the experiences carried out with the contribution of two teams: the Portuguese, in Lisbon, and the Brazilian, in Fortaleza. Besides presenting the conclusions of the researches carried out, we launch this call for presentations, especially addressed to artists and scholars of performance art, historians of cities, anthropologists, urban planners, geographers, scholars of listening and sound and to all those who are interested in thinking (and projecting) life in the city.
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Bernstein, Lawrence F. Inside Mahler's Second Symphony. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197575635.001.0001.
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This book introduces Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony to music students, concertgoers, and general listeners, addressing the composition as a reflection of Mahler’s modernist leanings. Existential questions lie at the heart of the work, and Mahler’s innovative ways of projecting them musically are discussed in detail. The question of how life can be meaningful if it inevitably leads to death engenders terrifying and angst-ridden music, much of it directly linked to Christian views on judgment and suggestive of an apocalyptic route to immortality. Another thread enters the work gradually, however, adding an important counterpoise to the theme of judgment. It begins with musical manifestations of gentleness, which gradually become more sensual. At first, in a powerfully convincing, if understated, climax, Mahler offers a resolution by setting Friedrich Klopstock’s Auferstehen chorale, verses that reflect an orthodox Christian view of immortality. In a stunning reversal, however, Mahler then undercuts this climax, providing, with his own text and in a triumph of the sensual music, a secular-leaning eschatology that replaces judgment with love as the route to eternal life. Mahler’s extensive reliance on the model of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is explicated, along with the composer’s ingenious approach to pacing in a work of unprecedented monumentality. The guide relies heavily on audio files for exemplification, providing more than 185 audio examples, along with an annotated complete performance of the symphony. The source of the music is the 1958 recording by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Bruno Walter, Mahler’s long-time amanuensis.
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Stewart, Wayne. Alex Rodriguez. Greenwood, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400609121.
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Most sports watchers' projections for Alex Rodriguez's final stats rank him with men such as Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron. A veritable baseball wunderkind, this Dominican-American ball player has broken records from the moment he stepped on the diamond. In this engaging biography author Wayne Stewart describes the highlights of A-Rod's record-setting career and examines the reasons for the unprecedented impact he has had on the game. Recruited right out of high school in 1993, his first year in pro ball was a whirlwind with Rodriguez making not only his minor league debut, but getting his first taste of big-league ball as a Seattle Mariner—all by the age of just 18. Fast forward to 2000 when A-Rod signed a 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers calling for a total salary of $252 million, the most lucrative deal in baseball. In 2003 he became the youngest player ever to reach the 300 home run circle. Just two years later became the youngest player ever to reach the 400 home run strata. If baseball history is any indication, A-Rod's days of record-breaking performances are far from over. This fair-minded and well-researched biography traces A-Rod from his childhood growing up in Miami to his career with the New York Yankees. Personal interests, such as his donations of both time and money to such causes as the Boys and Girls Club, are covered in detail. Also included is a timeline, photographs, and career statistics, which will give the reader insight into Rodriguez's place in the history of the game as well as how he stacks up against baseball's all-time greatest players.
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Busuioc, Aristita, and Alexandru Dumitrescu. Empirical-Statistical Downscaling: Nonlinear Statistical Downscaling. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.770.
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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Please check back later for the full article.The concept of statistical downscaling or empirical-statistical downscaling became a distinct and important scientific approach in climate science in recent decades, when the climate change issue and assessment of climate change impact on various social and natural systems have become international challenges. Global climate models are the best tools for estimating future climate conditions. Even if improvements can be made in state-of-the art global climate models, in terms of spatial resolution and their performance in simulation of climate characteristics, they are still skillful only in reproducing large-scale feature of climate variability, such as global mean temperature or various circulation patterns (e.g., the North Atlantic Oscillation). However, these models are not able to provide reliable information on local climate characteristics (mean temperature, total precipitation), especially on extreme weather and climate events. The main reason for this failure is the influence of local geographical features on the local climate, as well as other factors related to surrounding large-scale conditions, the influence of which cannot be correctly taken into consideration by the current dynamical global models.Impact models, such as hydrological and crop models, need high resolution information on various climate parameters on the scale of a river basin or a farm, scales that are not available from the usual global climate models. Downscaling techniques produce regional climate information on finer scale, from global climate change scenarios, based on the assumption that there is a systematic link between the large-scale and local climate. Two types of downscaling approaches are known: a) dynamical downscaling is based on regional climate models nested in a global climate model; and b) statistical downscaling is based on developing statistical relationships between large-scale atmospheric variables (predictors), available from global climate models, and observed local-scale variables of interest (predictands).Various types of empirical-statistical downscaling approaches can be placed approximately in linear and nonlinear groupings. The empirical-statistical downscaling techniques focus more on details related to the nonlinear models—their validation, strengths, and weaknesses—in comparison to linear models or the mixed models combining the linear and nonlinear approaches. Stochastic models can be applied to daily and sub-daily precipitation in Romania, with a comparison to dynamical downscaling. Conditional stochastic models are generally specific for daily or sub-daily precipitation as predictand.A complex validation of the nonlinear statistical downscaling models, selection of the large-scale predictors, model ability to reproduce historical trends, extreme events, and the uncertainty related to future downscaled changes are important issues. A better estimation of the uncertainty related to downscaled climate change projections can be achieved by using ensembles of more global climate models as drivers, including their ability to simulate the input in downscaling models. Comparison between future statistical downscaled climate signals and those derived from dynamical downscaling driven by the same global model, including a complex validation of the regional climate models, gives a measure of the reliability of downscaled regional climate changes.
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BAHADUR TIWARI, BHUPENDRA, E. ESWARA REDDY, and SAM X. KINGSLEY JOSHUA. INNOVATIVE HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO IT SECTOR. Jupiter Publications Consortium, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47715/jpc.b.978-93-91303-79-2.
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The industry of information technology in India includes the following services namely IT and software services, IT enabled services, hardware (engineering) services, and e-businesses/e-governance associated with government services. IT services are outsourcing of software support/installation, processing services, systems integration, exports of products and services, and training/education of the information technology science. The significant improvements in the industry have brought about a vital need for systematic process of managing the majority of employees in the IT industry. There was also a need created for technology in the subject matter of managing the employees and other aspects that came into picture. Hence, Innovative Human Resource practices came into existence for upgrading the skills and building the employees to work towards the goal of the organization. This gave birth to HR technology, Employee Engagement, ERP and so on. The study focuses on identifying various applications of Innovative Human resource practices in IT industry, the role of demographics and the factors influencing employee engagement and productivity. The study also analyzes the impact of innovative human resource practices on employee engagement and productivity and finally examines the mediating role of employee engagement upon the relationship between innovative human resource practices and employee productivity. To support the study, review of the relevant literature (Books, Research thesis and research papers) available in the innovative human resource practices space (both Global and Indian) was done. The research gap was identified in 4 categories i.e. empirical gap, evidence gap, methodological gap and population gap. The conceptual framework for the study was also designed. The literature review was categorized into national and international, theoretical and empirical to keep the study relevant according to the current global standards. Based on the research gap and the conceptual framework, the questionnaire was framed and according to the hypothesis the plan of analysis was structured to further the study. The data collection was completed through offline and online method, based on sample design. The analysis included Structural Equation Model, ANOVA, Independent t test and Mediation analysis – Andrew Hayes, Model 4 using SPSS and AMOS software. The study found out that HR Technology, HR Analytics, Collaboration Tools, AI in HR and Employee Pulse survey, are contributors to Innovative Human resource practices but there is no significant impact of demographic variables on perception of IHRM. Also, Employee retention, Reward and recognition, Personality development and Performance appraisal are factors influencing Employee engagement and Innovative work system, Employee contribution, Vigour, Dedication, Psychological factors, Motivational factors, Experience Factors and Individual capacity are factors influencing Employee Productivity. IHRM has significant impact on employee engagement and the employee productivity. Employee engagement mediates the relationship between IHRM and employee productivity. To conclude, this study provides insights into how employees are affected by innovative HR practices and provides practical solutions for organizations looking to encourage staff. By using motivational strategies that are directly tied to employees’ immediate interests and that are intended to affect their views and attitudes, innovative HR practices can assist firms in projecting a sense of employee engagement. Employees are further encouraged to be selfless and altruistic by the degrees of perceived satisfaction with the creative HR methods. As a result, they become more open to doing tasks that aren’t directly relevant to their professions but nevertheless helpful to their businesses. This would increase the efficiency of enterprises in managing their human resources, particularly those businesses that are team-based. Keywords: Innovative Human Resource Practices, Employee Engagement, Employee Productivity, IT Sector, Bengaluru, Human Resource Technology, Trends of IHRM, Innovative Human Resource Technology tools, IHRM Strategies, Information Technology.