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Metagraffiti: Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
by Chandra Morrison AriyoFocusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo and Santiago in Chile, this innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art. Chandra Morrison Ariyo works across multiple scales of contemporary graffiti production—from tags to massive murals—to show how painting the city enables individuals to reimagine their own position within the material and social structures around them. Metagraffitti reveals how practitioners such as Tinho, OSGEMEOS, Grin, and Bisy use metagraffiti features to influence public perceptions about this art form and its effect on the urban environment. Ultimately, Metagraffiti proposes a novel conceptual framework that highlights graffiti’s ability to forge alternative forms of movement, sociality, and value within Latin American cityscapes. These urban images invite us to imagine what the city could be, when seen as a site for action and imagination.
The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois: A Bilingual Edition (Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater)
by Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe—paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context—at once tragic and farcical—of the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. This bilingual edition revives Maréchal’s play and reveals its centrality to scholarly debates about Revolutionary notions of justice, religion, commemoration, comedy, and propaganda. Provocative, written in accessible prose, and short—perfect for students in a French or history seminar—Le Jugement dernier des rois offers an ideal introduction to the most important and contentious questions of the Revolutionary period. Joué pour la première fois le lendemain de l’exécution de Marie-Antoinette, Le Jugement dernier des rois met en scène le procès burlesque des autres rois et reines d’Europe : exhibés et enchaînés tels des animaux, contraints de se battre pour un tonneau de biscuits, et finalement anéantis par l’éruption spectaculaire d’un volcan. Tel est le contexte scandaleux—tragédie et farce à la fois—de la pièce la plus célèbre de la Révolution française, bien connue de tous les spécialistes de cette période. Jusqu’à maintenant, pourtant, il n’existait ni édition critique ni traduction anglaise de cet ouvrage historique. Notre édition bilingue fait revivre la pièce de Maréchal et la replace au centre des plus grands débats chez les historiens de la Révolution, traitant de justice, religion, commémoration, comédie, et propagande. Provocateur, facile à lire, et concis—parfaitement adapté aux étudiants d’un cours de français ou d’histoire—Le Jugement dernier des rois propose ainsi une introduction idéale à la période révolutionnaire et à ses principales controverses. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination (Critical Caribbean Studies)
by Darlène Elizabeth DubuissonHaiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86, were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957–1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn doktè, returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality's fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places of belonging through improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination. By centering on Haiti and the Caribbean, the book offers insights not just into the Haitian experience but also into how fractures have come to typify more aspects of life globally and what we might do about it.
Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
by Julie Cupples Kevin GlynnLooking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third, and fourth (Indigenous people’s) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian postdemocracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate megaconglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world but also of many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.
Grieving Pregnancy: Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism
by Maureen L. WalshIn Grieving Pregnancy: Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism, Maureen L. Walsh compares how the two religious traditions respond ritually and discursively to miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion experiences marked by grief for the women involved. The experience of pregnancy loss has always been a part of women’s lives, yet only recently has it garnered attention from religious leaders and scholars commensurate with its prevalence. This book examines pregnancy loss as a theological problem for both Buddhism and Catholicism and analyzes the rites and memorials that have developed to address it, such as Japanese Buddhist mizuko kuyō (water children rites) and emergent American Catholic memorial practices focused on pregnancy loss. These parallel practices have emerged within distinct religious landscapes—a fact reflected in their forms and purposes—and when considered together, they raise questions of keen interest to theological and religious studies about the goals of religious practice and the imagination of human life at its earliest stages.
Becoming an Expert Caregiver: How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community (Carework in a Changing World)
by Cara A. Chiaraluce“The hardest thing is dealing with the rest of the world. And we kind of accommodate our lives around that. But the rest of the world doesn’t.” These poignant words were spoken by Charlotte, a mother and primary caregiver of a five-year-old autistic boy, and her words reference the structural arrangements of our world that shape autism carework today. This book features the voices of fifty primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which laywomen become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children. Expert caregiving captures an intensification of traditional family carework – meeting dependents’ financial, emotional, and physical needs – that transcends the walls of one’s private home and family and challenges the strict boundaries between many worlds: lay and professional, family and work, private and public, medical and social, and individual and society. The process of becoming an expert caregiver spotlights several interesting paradoxes in sociological literature, particularly regarding gender, family, and medicalization, and often forgotten structural flaws in “the rest of the world.” Throughout the chapters in this book, the expert caregiver is one person who faces unbelievably daunting tasks of filling or reforming persistent institutional gaps, primarily in education and health care, and subverting ableist cultural norms. Without institutional support, answers to their questions, or pragmatic avenues to access resources, lay caregivers become the experts. Their trials and tribulations, especially when navigating the boundaries of professional/lay and private/public worlds, illuminate a type of carework that is increasingly relevant to a growing number of young families caring for neurodivergent, disabled, medically fragile, and/or chronically ill children. These stories offer a vivid picture of the often invisible complex challenges and structural forces that drive individuals to become expert caregivers in the first place.
Hollywood Unions
by Barbara Hall Helen Warner Miranda J. Banks Paul Monticone Maya Montañez Smukler Adrienne L. McLean Luci Marzola Katie Bird Kate Fortmueller Dawn Fratini Erin HillHollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood unions represent a wide swath of the workers making media: from directors and stars to grips and makeup artists. People today know some of these organizations from their glitzy annual awards celebrations, but the unions’ actual importance is in bargaining with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on behalf of 331,000 workers in the motion picture and television industry. The Hollywood unions are not neutral institutions but rather have long histories of jurisdictional battles, competitions with rival unions, and industry-altering strikes. They have supported the industry’s workers through the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy era, the collapse of the studio system, the rise of television, runaway production, fights for gender parity, the digital revolution, and a global pandemic. The history of these unions has contributed to making media work sustainable in the long term and helped shape the conditions and production cultures of Hollywood.
British Romanticism and Prison Reform (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)
by Jonas CopeIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End (Global Perspectives on Aging)
by Casey GolomskiCan older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds. For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.
On the Psychology of Individual Differences: Toward a 'Differential Psychology' (Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology)
by L. William SternThis book presents an English translation, by Nicolas and Lamiell, of the entirety of a German-language text authored by William Stern (1871-1938) and published in 1900. Its publication is widely considered to mark the founding of that sub-discipline of psychology devoted to the systematic study of individual and group differences. The book includes an introductory chapter by Nicolas and Lamiell, placing Stern's work into historical context and discussing its influence on the work of scholars who followed.By making this available for the first time for an Anglophone audience, it fills a significant gap in the history of psychology literature and offers a springboard into much needed critical discourse on the contemporary state of psychological testing in particular, and on the study of individual and group differences more broadly. It holds fresh insights for those specializing in the fields of personality psychology, educational psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology; as well as to practitioners in the fields of personal and educational counseling.
Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
by Erik S. Maloney Kevin A. WrightIn Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerated men form his imprisoned mind concept: the men’s unimaginable childhood trauma and neglect set them on a pathway for prison or death. Maloney interviews his fellow prisoners with candor and savviness. He can do this because he is in prison alongside them—incarcerated for life at the age of twenty-one. Joined by a correctional scholar, Maloney presents a unique and informed perspective that blends lived experience with academic knowledge. A trauma-informed corrections can empower men to acknowledge and repair the harms of their past to regain control over their minds and their futures. Maloney has broken free from the mindset—and others can, too. Imprisoned Minds reminds us of the humanity of the nearly two million people behind bars in the United States and encourages solutions from within that can break the cycle of intergenerational incarceration.
Ethics and Fairness in Medical Imaging: Second International Workshop on Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging, FAIMI 2024, and Third International Workshop on Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging, EPIMI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6–10, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15198)
by Aasa Feragen Ben Glocker Veronika Cheplygina Enzo Ferrante Islem Rekik Ghada Zamzmi John S. H. Baxter Roy Eagleson Esther Puyol-Antón Andrew P. King Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen Eike PetersenThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, FAIMI 2024, and the Third International Workshop, EPIMI 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2024. The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. FAIMI aimed to raise awareness about potential fairness issues in machine learning within the context of biomedical image analysis. The instance of EPIMI concentrates on topics surrounding open science, taking a critical lens on the subject.
Shallow Learning vs. Deep Learning: A Practical Guide for Machine Learning Solutions (The Springer Series in Applied Machine Learning)
by Josep M. Guerrero Ömer Faruk Ertuğrul Musa YilmazThis book explores the ongoing debate between shallow and deep learning in the field of machine learning. It provides a comprehensive survey of machine learning methods, from shallow learning to deep learning, and examines their applications across various domains. Shallow Learning vs Deep Learning: A Practical Guide for Machine Learning Solutions emphasizes that the choice of a machine learning approach should be informed by the specific characteristics of the dataset, the operational environment, and the unique requirements of each application, rather than being influenced by prevailing trends. In each chapter, the book delves into different application areas, such as engineering, real-world scenarios, social applications, image processing, biomedical applications, anomaly detection, natural language processing, speech recognition, recommendation systems, autonomous systems, and smart grid applications. By comparing and contrasting the effectiveness of shallow and deep learning in these areas, the book provides a framework for thoughtful selection and application of machine learning strategies. This guide is designed for researchers, practitioners, and students who seek to deepen their understanding of when and how to apply different machine learning techniques effectively. Through comparative studies and detailed analyses, readers will gain valuable insights to make informed decisions in their respective fields.
Proceeding of the International Conference on Connected Objects and Artificial Intelligence: Connected Objects, Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1123)
by Youssef Mejdoub Abdelkebir Elamri’This book presents recent advances on Connected Objects, Systems, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic Engineering. On the connected objects side, the proceedings covered advancements in areas like sensor miniaturization, and networking to enable ever-more ubiquitous and autonomous IoT deployments. The AI-focused contributions explored novel machine learning architectures and training techniques tailored for resource-constrained edge devices. Key breakthroughs included federated learning models. In the telecommunications realm, the proceedings examined the critical role of 5G, 6G, and satellite communications in providing the high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity required to unlock the full potential of AI-powered connected systems. This book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Connected Objects and Artificial Intelligence (COCIA'2024), held at High School of Technology, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco, during 08–10 May 2024. This book features cutting-edge research and insights at the intersection of the important technology domains, Connected Objects, Systems, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic Engineering. It is designed for researchers, academicians, professionals, and graduates seeking to deepen their understanding and expertise at the intersection of IoT, AI, Telecommunications, and Electronic Engineering. This book includes: In-depth exploration of the latest advancements in connected objects and systems to enable autonomous IoT deployments. Detailed examinations of cutting-edge AI techniques optimized for edge computing environments, including federated learning and IA model compression. Insights into the critical role of 5G, 6G, and satellite communications in providing the high-performance connectivity required to unlock the full potential of intelligent, AI-powered IoT applications. With contributions from leading experts across academia and industry, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to drive innovation at the forefront of the connected intelligence revolution. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking to advance the state of the art in this rapidly evolving field.
Environmental Biology of the Young Chinese Sturgeon
by Tao Zhang Feng Zhao Ping ZhuangThis book provides a comprehensive coverage of the advances in biology and conservation research on Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze Estuary. The chapters feature the latest developments in Chinese sturgeon research and cover topics such as early development and ontogenetic behaviour, growth and feeding, ecophysiology, ecotoxicology, population dynamics, conservation management, etc. The volume not only lays a foundation for the research and conservation of Chinese sturgeon but also provides references for other sturgeons. It is an invaluable reference for sturgeon researchers. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
Grey Prediction Methods and Their Applications (Series on Grey System)
by Bo Zeng Zhuanzhuan ShiThis book introduces the grey prediction model methodology and its applications as a professional book. It involves the key concepts, data characteristics of modelling objects and the latest research achievements in grey system. The grey prediction models for homogeneous and non-homogeneous exponential sequences, saturated S-shaped sequences and special sequences have been introduced. This book combines the classical models and the latest models, case studies and model applications, modelling methods, and MATLAB programs in grey system. It is a guidebook for both new learners and professionals of grey prediction models.
The Figure of the Teacher in Comics: A Psychoanalytic Study of Immaterial and Fragmented Education
by David LewkowichThis book explores the distinctive narrative and representational gestures used to portray the personal and professional lives of teachers in comics. While serving as a reference for conceptualizing teachers in literary and popular culture, this book also turns to comics as a means to better understand and interpret lived, emotional experiences of teaching. Lewkowich discusses the cultural history of teachers in North American comics, and provides a series of thematic studies on the split and secret identities of teachers, teacher’s deaths by murder, and the teacher’s relationship to the thought bubble. He also outlines the psychic and social consequences of reading and making comics with preservice teachers.
Safety of Nanomaterials along Their Lifecycle: Release, Exposure, and Human Hazards
by Wendel Wohlleben Thomas A. J. Kuhlbusch Claus-Michael Lehr SchnekenburgerThe incorporation of nanomaterials into products can improve performance, efficiency, and durability in various fields ranging from construction, energy management, catalysis, microelectronics, plastics, coatings, and paints to consumer articles such as foods and cosmetics. But innovation never comes at zero risk. The potential hazards resulting fr
Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing
by Pedro Pacheco Filipe MagalhãesDroughts occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, but also in humid areas, and can develop over short periods (flash drought) or longer periods (seasons/decades). Even though progress has been made, it remains difficult to adequately characterize, monitor, forecast and manage droughts, due to their multi-faceted nature.Usually, drought does
Advances in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, Catalysts, and Catalysis (Chemical Industries)
by Burtron H. Davis Mario L. OccelliRising oil costs have stimulated significant interest in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) as a method for producing a synthetic petroleum substitute. Drawn from the proceedings at a symposium held during the 236th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia in August 2008, Advances in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, Catalysts, and Cataly
Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data
by David RichWhen your environmental project reaches the point where the amount of data seems overwhelming, you will need a robust tool to help you manage it. Written by a recognized expert and software author with over 25 years of industry experience, Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data begins with an overview of site data management c
Identity-Preserved Systems: A Reference Handbook
by Dennis StrayerIdentity-Preserved Systems: A Reference Handbook provides background for the development of processes or systems of maintaining the segregation of and documenting the identity of a product. Growers and other parties that handle, transport, condition, or process the identity-preserved (IP) product must follow strict growing and handling practices, i
United States Water Law: An Introduction
by John W. JohnsonA Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights. From farming, fishing, and biology to manufacturing, mine operation, and public water supply, water regulation affects a
Marine Pharmacognosy: Trends and Applications
by Se-Kwon KimDiverse and abundant, marine-derived bioactive compounds offer a plethora of pharmacologically active agents with the potential to produce valuable therapeutic entities. Marine-derived organisms, including some macroalgae, microalgae, blue-green algae, invertebrates, and vertebrates-valued in traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times-are now
Innovations In GIS 5: Selected Papers From The Fifth National Conference On GIS Research UK
by Steve CarverThis text reflects the interdisciplinary nature of GIS research and includes coverage of such themes as: virtual GIS; spatial analysis; artificial intelligence; spatial agents and fuzzy systems; and space-time GIS and GIS applications.