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This book discusses what differentiates 'architecture' from
'building', focusing on a whole range of architectural works. It
explores the role of the Roman concepts of 'durability', 'utility',
and 'beauty', the heart of what architecture strives for. In this
engaging, original work, Max Jacobson and Shelley Brock present a
compelling case for the importance of architecture in our
day-to-day lives. The book explores what differentiates
'architecture' from 'building', focusing not only on the 'great'
buildings of the world but also on the whole range of architectural
works from indigenous structures to contemporary buildings. The
core of the book is an exploration of the role of 'durability',
'utility', and 'beauty' in architecture. These three concepts
(originally coined by Vitruvius during the Roman empire as
Firmitas, Utilitas, and Venustas) remain at the heart of what
architecture strives for.
In this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture,
Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and
performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo
country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts,
Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous
politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of
music both the politics of difference and many internal
distinctions Dine make among themselves and their fellow Navajo
citizens. As the second largest tribe in the United States, the
Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic
entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and
Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing
the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through
musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical
appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class
affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology,
linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen
shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into
the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting
the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often
contradictory, spheres.
The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of
studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally
encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated
by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics),
representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently
most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a
model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar,
whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested
structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning
around which forms are deployed that express progressively more
subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the
periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in
highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has
to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and,
conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and
pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely
encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese
by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms
expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.
This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon
that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an
analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.
Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the
complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging,
state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in
irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal,
bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time
and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically
robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and
through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters
highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material,
and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter,
incorporate, and resist temporal structures. This collection
includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well
as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be
relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others
interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon
that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an
analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.
Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the
complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging,
state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in
irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal,
bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time
and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically
robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and
through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters
highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material,
and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter,
incorporate, and resist temporal structures. This collection
includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well
as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be
relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others
interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in
English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity
alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology,
semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language
typology.
In this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture,
Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and
performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo
country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts,
Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous
politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of
music both the politics of difference and many internal
distinctions Dine make among themselves and their fellow Navajo
citizens. As the second largest tribe in the United States, the
Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic
entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and
Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing
the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through
musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical
appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class
affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology,
linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen
shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into
the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting
the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often
contradictory, spheres.
A first version of these lecture notes was prepared for a course
given in 1980 at the University of Copenhagen to a class of
graduate students in mathematical statistics. A thorough revision
has led to the result presented here. The main topic of the notes
is the theory of multiplicative intens ity models for counting
processes, first introduced by Odd Aalen in his Ph.D. thesis from
Berkeley 1975, and in a subsequent fundamental paper in the Annals
of Statistics 1978. In Copenhagen the interest in statistics on
counting processes was sparked by a visit by Odd Aalen in 1976. At
present the activities here are centered around Niels Keiding and
his group at the Statistical Re search Unit. The Aalen theory is a
fine example of how advanced probability theory may be used to
develop a povlerful, and for applications very re levant,
statistical technique. Aalen's work relies quite heavily on the
'theorie generale des processus' developed primarily by the French
school of probability the ory. But the general theory aims at much
more general and profound re sults, than what is required to deal
with objects of such a relatively simple structure as counting
processes on the line. Since also this process theory is virtually
inaccessible to non-probabilists, it would appear useful to have an
account of what Aalen has done, that includes exactly the amount of
probability required to deal satisfactorily and rigorously with
statistical models for counting processes."
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in
English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity
alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology,
semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language
typology.
University Of Nebraska, University Studies, V39, No. 1.
Modern Pharmaceutical Industry: A Primer comprehensively explains
the broad range of divisions in the complex pharmaceutical
industry. Experts actively involved in each component discuss their
own contribution to a pharmaceutical company's work and success.
Divisions include regulatory affairs, research and development,
intellectual property, pricing, marketing, generics, OTC, and more.
The seventeen chapters included in this resource offer a wide range
of topics, from discovery and formulation to post-approval and
legal. Readers will be given a detailed look at the structure of a
contemporary drug company and a thorough understanding of what goes
on behind the scenes. Modern Pharmaceutical Industry: A Primer is a
valuable resource for all pharmacy students, new hires at
pharmaceutical companies, drug company management, and academic
health center libraries. No other text provides a comprehensive
look at one of the most dynamic industries related to the modern
healthcare system.
Ideas are products of individual human minds. Some of the ideas
that emerge in educational, cultural, health-related, community,
service, and faith-based organizations are potentially as important
to the institutions as their endowments. These ideas are the
concern of this guidebook: how to encourage their articulation, how
to muster the cooperation necessary to turn them into formal
blueprints, and how to secure whatever support is needed to see
them materialize as projects serving the interests of the
originators and their institutions. Designed for grant seekers in
the digital age, this book helps readers make sense of the various
printed and Web-based resources that are available to improve the
quality of proposals and find successful funding. The chapters
cover origins and early development of an idea, drawing up a
proposal, finding funding sources, submitting a proposal,
evaluation of a project, grant administration, and basic resources.
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