Activating The Past

Author : Andrew Apter,Lauren Derby
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443817905

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Activating the Past by Andrew Apter,Lauren Derby Pdf

Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in “fetishized” forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have retreated, so to speak, within ritual associations as restricted, repressed, even secret histories that are activated during public festivals and through different styles of spirit possession. In West Africa, our focus on selected port cities along the coast extends into the hinterlands, where slave raiding occurred but is poorly documented and rarely acknowledged. In the Caribbean, regional contrasts between coastal and hinterland communities relate figures of the jíbaro, the indio and the caboclo to their ritual representations in Santería, Vodou, and Candomblé. Highlighting the spatial association of memories with shrines and the ritual “condensation” of regional geographies, we locate local spirits and domestic terrains within co-extensive Atlantic horizons. The volume brings together leading scholars of the African Diaspora who not only explore these ritual archives for significant echoes of the past, but also illuminate a subaltern historiography embedded within Atlantic cultural systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031218712

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Federal Medical Center, Proposed Activation of Former Rochester State Hospital by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000066183419

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by United States. Patent and Trademark Office Pdf

Author : Elisabeth J. Porter,Baden Offord
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 3039105094

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Activating Human Rights by Elisabeth J. Porter,Baden Offord Pdf

Papers originally presented at an international conference held in Australia, 2003.

Author : Elisabeth Punzi,Linda Steele
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774869355

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Sites of Conscience by Elisabeth Punzi,Linda Steele Pdf

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community – has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished. Sites of Conscience explores use of the concept of sites of conscience, which involves place-based memory activities such as walking tours, survivor-authored social histories, and performances and artistic works in or generated from sites of systemic suffering and injustice. These activities offer new ways to move forward from the unfinished deinstitutionalization project and its failures. Covering diverse national contexts, this volume proposes that acknowledging the memories and lived experiences of former residents – and keeping histories and social heritage of institutions alive rather than simply closing sites – holds the greatest potential for recognition, accountability, and action.

Author : Markus Werning,Wolfram Hinzen,Edouard Machery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191633294

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The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality by Markus Werning,Wolfram Hinzen,Edouard Machery Pdf

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. Understanding how compositionality works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. It is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy and in the cognitive sciences more generally, and is without question one of the most exciting fields in the study of language and mind. The authors of this book report critically on lines of research in different disciplines, revealing the connections between them and highlighting current problems and opportunities. The force and justification of compositionality have long been contentious. First proposed by Frege as the notion that the meaning of an expression is generally determined by the meaning and syntax of its components, it has since been deployed as a constraint on the relation between theories of syntax and semantics, as a means of analysis, and more recently as underlying the structures of representational systems, such as computer programs and neural architectures. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality explores these and many other dimensions of this challenging field. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in linguistics and philosophy and to everyone concerned with the study of language and cognition including those working in neuroscience, computational science, and bio-informatics.

Author : Jeffrey W. Sherman,Bertram Gawronski,Yaacov Trope
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462514397

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Dual-Process Theories of the Social Mind by Jeffrey W. Sherman,Bertram Gawronski,Yaacov Trope Pdf

"This volume provides an authoritative synthesis of a dynamic, influential area of psychological research. Leading investigators address all aspects of dual-process theories: their core assumptions, conceptual foundations, and applications to a wide range of social phenomena. In 38 chapters, the volume addresses the pivotal role of automatic and controlled processes in attitudes and evaluation; social perception; thinking and reasoning; self-regulation; and the interplay of affect, cognition, and motivation. Current empirical and methodological developments are described. Critiques of the duality approach are explored and important questions for future research identified"--

Author : Stephen T. Abedon,Pilar García,Peter Mullany,Rustam Aminov
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889452514

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Phage Therapy: Past, Present and Future by Stephen T. Abedon,Pilar García,Peter Mullany,Rustam Aminov Pdf

Historically, the first observation of a transmissible lytic agent that is specifically active against a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) was by a Russian microbiologist Nikolay Gamaleya in 1898. At that time, however, it was too early to make a connection to another discovery made by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892 and Martinus Beijerinck in 1898 on a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants. Thus the viral world was discovered in two of the three domains of life, and our current understanding is that viruses represent the most abundant biological entities on the planet. The potential of bacteriophages for infection treatment have been recognized after the discoveries by Frederick Twort and Felix d’Hérelle in 1915 and 1917. Subsequent phage therapy developments, however, have been overshadowed by the remarkable success of antibiotics in infection control and treatment, and phage therapy research and development persisted mostly in the former Soviet Union countries, Russia and Georgia, as well as in France and Poland. The dramatic rise of antibiotic resistance and especially of multi-drug resistance among human and animal bacterial pathogens, however, challenged the position of antibiotics as a single most important pillar for infection control and treatment. Thus there is a renewed interest in phage therapy as a possible additive/alternative therapy, especially for the infections that resist routine antibiotic treatment. The basis for the revival of phage therapy is affected by a number of issues that need to be resolved before it can enter the arena, which is traditionally reserved for antibiotics. Probably the most important is the regulatory issue: How should phage therapy be regulated? Similarly to drugs? Then the co-evolving nature of phage-bacterial host relationship will be a major hurdle for the production of consistent phage formulae. Or should we resort to the phage products such as lysins and the corresponding engineered versions in order to have accurate and consistent delivery doses? We still have very limited knowledge about the pharmacodynamics of phage therapy. More data, obtained in animal models, are necessary to evaluate the phage therapy efficiency compared, for example, to antibiotics. Another aspect is the safety of phage therapy. How do phages interact with the immune system and to what costs, or benefits? What are the risks, in the course of phage therapy, of transduction of undesirable properties such as virulence or antibiotic resistance genes? How frequent is the development of bacterial host resistance during phage therapy? Understanding these and many other aspects of phage therapy, basic and applied, is the main subject of this Topic.

Author : Elisabeth Militz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783643802781

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Affective Nationalism by Elisabeth Militz Pdf

This book develops the concept of affective nationalism - the banal affirmation of the national emerging in moments of encounter between different bodies and objects. Based on eight months of ethnographic field work, conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Azerbaijan, the book examines the ways in which moments of bodily encounter perpetuate banal enactments and experiences of national belonging and alienation. The book advances scholarship on nationalism and affect by suggesting to study nationalisms not as given, but as potential and emergent experiences of differently positioned bodies in a world divided into nations.

Author : Dale Jacobs
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771126069

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On Comics and Grief by Dale Jacobs Pdf

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief surrounding his mother’s death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976. Structured around a year of comic books with a cover date of 1976, the year the author turned ten, the book is divided into an Introduction plus twelve sections, each a month of the publishing year. Two comic books are highlighted each month and examined through the interwoven lenses of creative nonfiction and comics studies. Through these twenty-four comics, the book addresses the major comic book publishers and virtually all genres of comics published in 1976. By pushing the ways in which the personal is used in comics studies, combining different modes of writing, and embracing a fragmentary style, the book explores what is possible in academic writing in general and comics studies in particular. On Comics and Grief both acts as a way for the author to process his grief and uses grief as a way to think about the comics themselves through the emotions and personal connections that underlie the work we do as scholars.

Author : Renate Bartsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027251991

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Memory and Understanding by Renate Bartsch Pdf

This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A neuro-connectionist circuit architecture of a constructive memory is developed in which understanding and remembering are modelled in accordance with the constituent structures of a dynamic conceptual semantics. Consciousness emerges by circuit activation between conceptual indicators and episodic indices with the sensory-motor, emotional, and proprioceptual areas. This theory of concept formation, remembering, and understanding is applied to Proust s "A la recherche du temps perdu," with special attention to the author s excursions into philosophical and aesthetic issues. Under this perspective, Proust s work can be seen as an artistic exploration into our capacity of understanding, whereby the unconscious, the memory, is exteriorized in consciousness by presenting the experienced episodes in the conceptual order of similarity and contiguity through our capacity of concept formation. (Series A)

Author : Doris A. Graber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226305769

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Processing Politics by Doris A. Graber Pdf

How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public? Processing Politics shows that average Americans are far smarter than the critics believe. Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence), Doris Graber shows that televised presentations—at their best—actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. She critiques current political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capacities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet. More and more people rely on information from television and the Internet to make important decisions. Processing Politics offers a sound, well-researched defense of these remarkably versatile media, and challenges us to make them work for us in our democracy.

Author : Ran Hassin,Kevin Ochsner,Yaacov Trope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199741625

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Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain by Ran Hassin,Kevin Ochsner,Yaacov Trope Pdf

This book presents social, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to the study of self-control, connecting recent work in cognitive and social psychology with recent advances in cognitive and social neuroscience. In bringing together multiple perspectives on self-control dilemmas from internationally renowned researchers in various allied disciplines, this is the first single-reference volume to illustrate the richness, depth, and breadth of the research in the new field of self control.

Author : Donald Harpers
Publisher : Donald Harpers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kundalini Awakening: Chakras Activation to Expand Mind Power (Open Your Third Eye With Chakra Meditation And Breathing Techniques) by Donald Harpers Pdf

Kundalini awakening refers to primordial life force energy contained at the base of the spine. This book has many pieces of information on how to activate your kundalini energy or shakti. Welcome to a wonderful journey that will lead you to discover the mysterious and intense kundalini awakening, you can go to the limits of the potential of your being by opening the third eye and enhancing your psychic abilities. Here’s just a preview of what awaits you, when you read kundalini awakening; Serpent energy: introduction to kundalini, a dormant serpent energy, ready to uncoil History: learn about kundalini, a discovery and practice that dates back thousands of years Chakras: introduction to 7 main chakras, your body’s critical energy centers Energy manipulation: how to work on your chakras and nadis? Kundalini yoga: kundalini yoga, for each of your 7 chakras Releasing kundalini: meditation & exercises to unleash your kundalini Kundalini is a dormant energy within most people.this guidebook will tell you how to use the simple yoga poses, meditation and mantra together to achieve the extra ordinary desired results in a short span of time. These techniques will not only awaken the kundalini energy, moving you towards spiritual enlightenment, it also can improve your health and remove all stress and unhappiness in your life.

Author : Dr. Robert A. Sottilare, US Army Research Laboratory,Dr. Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis,Dr. Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis,Dr. Benjamin Goldberg, US Army Research Laboratory
Publisher : U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780989392327

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Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems by Dr. Robert A. Sottilare, US Army Research Laboratory,Dr. Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis,Dr. Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis,Dr. Benjamin Goldberg, US Army Research Laboratory Pdf

Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems explores the impact of intelligent tutoring system design on education and training. Specifically, this volume examines “Instructional Management” techniques, strategies and tactics, and identifies best practices, emerging concepts and future needs to promote efficient and effective adaptive tutoring solutions. Design recommendations include current, projected, and emerging capabilities within the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), an open source, modular, service-oriented architecture developed to promote simplified authoring, reuse, standardization, automated instructional management and analysis of tutoring technologies.