I Have No Pride : William Kennedy Laurie Dickson In His Own Words - An Autobiography

An early pioneer of cinema technology, author, photographer, and film director W.K.L. Dickson\u27s was one of the first people to perform a new type of subjectivity that we understand as multi-media. Working in the laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison, Dickson\u27s papers, photographs, and films have been carefully preserved as part of the Edison Papers Project and an examination of this archive rises to the level of autobiography. Authors Wyn Wachhorst, Paul Israel, and Charles Musser help to bring to life the world of the Edison Laboratory, the world\u27s first pure research and development company. Dickson\u27s own work speaks across the decades. He inscribed himself into the world\u27s earliest cinema and tells his own story from cinema space and through the materials in his copious archive

Review of Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in a Time of Crisis. Alcida Rita Ramos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xx, 346 pp. (paper).

As I have done considerable research among the Yanomamö,1 it was with anticipation that I received notice of Alcida Ramos\u27 publication of Sanumá Memories. This work is a useful contribution to the large and still expanding research on the Yanomamö, an Amazonian people who have become a classic case study for anthropology and the social sciences. They are probably the most widely read about tribal people in the world, largely a consequence of Napoleon Chagnon\u27s immensely popular ethnography Yanomamö: The Fierce People (first published in 1968 and the most recent edition in 1992). The Yanomamö have become a focal point for theoretical debates concerning the causes of warfare among tribal people, the promise of evolutionary biological theory in the behavioral sciences, and most recently, and lamentably, they are internationally known as victims of grave human rights violations. Ramos\u27 Sanumá Memories was first published in Portuguese in 1990 as an update of her 1972 doctoral dissertation (The Social System of the Sanumá of Northern Brazil, University of Wisconsin) supplemented by several return visits to the Sanumá (as recently as 1992) yielding additional chapters. A number of the chapters have been published as journal articles in both Portuguese and English. Based on the work of Ernesto Migliazza, the Yanomamö are divided into four ethnolinguistic groups: the Sanumá or Sanema with 3,200 speakers in about 100 villages, threequarters of which are in Venezuela; the Yanomamö with 11,700 speakers in 171 villages, with about 80 percent in Venezuela; Yanomam with 5,300 speakers in 64 villages, nearly all of which are in Brazil; and the Ninam (or Yanam), with perhaps as many as 850 speakers equally divided in Brazil and Venezuela. The work under review here is the most systematic account of we have on Sanumá social organization. Other major works on the Sanumá by Kent Taylor and Marcus Colchester focus on ethnobiology, ecology, and economics

Analytical solution proposal for fast numerical algorithm in special structured higher order differential equations

We suggest a practical method for obtaining the particular solution of non-homogeneous higher order linear differential equations with constant coefficients. The proposed method can be applied directly and simply to such problems. We revealed that is valid for the different type of problem by using sample solutions. This simple analytical solution that we have introduced will help to create a fast numerical algorithm for computers and thus simplify the numerical solutions of higher order physical problems.Peer Reviewe

Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere : Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ramon Llull understood the need of actually engaging with the beliefs of his Jewish and Muslim contemporaries, rather than just with their texts, if he wanted to attain their conversion to Christianity. Coming from the Iberian peninsula where new theologies like Kabbalah were gaining ground among the Jews, Llull harnessed its central tenets in order to convince the Jews, by "necessary reason", of the inherent truth of Christianity. This article discusses the intellectual milieau in which Llull developed his Art, shows how he intended it to be used, and brings a Jewish response by Solomon ibn Adret, leader of the Jewish community in Catalonia to the challenge posed by Llull

Uma revisão de literatura

TCC (Graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Socioeconômico. Curso de Ciências ContábeisO presente trabalho tem por objetivo geral tratar da importância da auditoria interna no processo decisório das organizações. Foram abordados conceitos de auditoria, processos de auditoria, controle interno, o processo decisório nas organizações e a importância da auditoria neste processo, mantendo estreitas conexões entre os auditores e os demais colaboradores da empresa. A finalidade da auditoria interna consiste na melhoria do processo e unificação da linguagem interna, buscando avaliar as informações no sentido de que sejam confiáveis, adequadas, totais e seguras. A auditoria interna também se apresenta como uma atividade que busca avaliar as ameaças e oportunidades, evidenciando seus pontos fortes e fracos e definindo as próprias diretrizes estratégicas voltadas à gestão do negócio. Ao finalizar este estudo, verificou-se que a auditoria interna contribui no processo decisório, sendo sua função de extrema importância na estrutura organizacional, por fornecer uma visão para formação e embasamento teórico-prático a administradores e demais usuários deste instrumento

Young children's understanding of learning disability

While it is certainly true that children - and adults - with learning disabilities have become more visible within society, we still have inadequate knowledge of people's understanding of learning disability. In particular, there is little or no information about the development of understanding among siblings of children with learning disabilities. The five studies presented here seek to provide relevant information. The first study forms part of a longitudinal investigation of siblings' conceptions (a) of their brothers' and sisters' disabilities; and (b) of the implications of these disabilities upon themselves and their disabled brothers and sisters. The next three studies compare (a) understanding of learning disability; (b) perceived social acceptability of children with learning disabilities; and (c) attainment of the normative concept of ability, amongst the siblings of children with severe and profound disabilities, children who have contact with others with disabilities in school and children who have no contact. These three studies identify children as young as 4 who are able to predict the difficulties that will be experienced by a child with severe learning disabilities, and children as young as 5 who can use adult-type explanations for why these difficulties occur. Having an older brother or sister with a learning disability promotes understanding. It is suggested that children's social experiences, - particularly language - facilitate early understanding, and that children who possess greater understanding of a disabled child's difficulties are consequently more likely to rate this child as having lower perceived social acceptability. The findings from these studies may help families and teachers who are concerned about young children's understanding and acceptance of other children with learning disabilities. The final study considers the adult general public's understanding of learning disability and was conducted in order that investigation with children could be considered within the context of adults' understanding

Reverse osmosis water purification system

A reverse osmosis water purification system, which uses a programmable controller (PC) as the control system, was designed and built to maintain the cleanliness and level of water for various systems of a 64-m antenna. The installation operates with other equipment of the antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex. The reverse osmosis system was designed to be fully automatic; with the PC, many complex sequential and timed logic networks were easily implemented and are modified. The PC monitors water levels, pressures, flows, control panel requests, and set points on analog meters; with this information various processes are initiated, monitored, modified, halted, or eliminated as required by the equipment being supplied pure water