scholarly journals On the construction of a Table of Mortality

1901 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 534-566
Author(s):  
James Meikle
Keyword(s):  
Actuarial Science ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Simple Matter

Gentlemen,—Allow me to thank you very cordially for electing me to preside over your meetings during the ensuing Session It is an honour very greatly appreciated by every one who has been selected to fill this chair. Indeed I feel doubly honoured, seeing that I am the first to address you in the new Hall of the Faculty of Actuaries under the gaze of the stony eyes of our own immortal Napier. Your election reminds me that I had the honour of presiding over your earliest meetings and that I also had the pleasure of reading the earliest papers that were presented for your consideration. These three papers I am proud to believe have been diligently perused by nearly every student of Actuarial Science, forming as they do the wicket opening into wider fields, the earliest lessons of the course. They have, as I have been told, been the guiding rays of light which induced some of our most eminent Actuarial stars, presently shining in our firmament, to follow in the pursuit of higher knowledge, and to join the profession. These simple papers have been printed three times, and are again out of print. Gentlemen, I do wish I were able to repeat that enthusiasm. It seems to me now to be a much more simple matter to find language to describe something which one is striving to understand for oneself, and labouring to make clear to one's own comprehension, than to write an essay upon something which appears so plain and so palpable that the wonder is how any one could fail to interpret the language of the symbols.

Gaze behavior of pre-adolescent children afflicted with Asperger Syndrome

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Wiklund
Keyword(s):  
Asperger Syndrome ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Nonverbal Behaviors ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Straight Ahead

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a form of high-functioning autism characterized by qualitative impairment in social interaction. People afflicted with AS typically have abnormal nonverbal behaviors which are often manifested by avoiding eye contact. Gaze constitutes an important interactional resource, and an AS person’s tendency to avoid eye contact may affect the fluidity of conversations and cause misunderstandings. For this reason, it is important to know the precise ways in which this avoidance is done, and in what ways it affects the interaction. The objective of this article is to describe the gaze behavior of preadolescent AS children in institutional multiparty conversations. Methodologically, the study is based on conversation analysis and a multimodal study of interaction. The findings show that three main patterns are used for avoiding eye contact: 1) fixing one’s gaze straight ahead; 2) letting one’s gaze wander around; and 3) looking at one’s own hands when speaking. The informants of this study do not look at the interlocutors at all in the beginning or the middle of their turn. However, sometimes they turn to look at the interlocutors at the end of their turn. This proves that these children are able to use gaze as a source of feedback. When listening, looking at the speaker also seems to be easier for them than looking at the listeners when speaking.

Flâneur or Choraster: A Review of the Travel Narrator In the Formation of the Tourist Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-562
Author(s):  
Stephen Wearing ◽  
Stephen Schweinsberg ◽  
Patricia Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The People ◽  
Tourist Experience

Media representations of destinations play a powerful role in tourism appeal. The narrator assumes a role infused with knowledge and power, employing discourse to describe and interpret places and people to entice armchair audiences to not only travel vicariously alongside them, but to follow in their footsteps. This review article uses the English actor and writer Michael Palin to examine this phenomenon through the lens of the flâneur and choraster. Palin's travels have traditionally been viewed based on their ability to create space from the perspective of a representational voice of authority. In the present article, we wish to ask whether the power of the travel narrator for tourism is perhaps better expressed in their ability to develop a counter (or chora discourse), one where we are able to see space as locally contested. Palin's narrator expresses appreciation of his reliance on the people (chora) that inhabit the spaces he visits. His narrations of travel evidence how the flâneur perspective is influenced (and/or disrupted) by a chora in two ways—that which influences the perspective before travel and directs the gaze, and those that occupy and inscribe meaning on the spaces that are traveled to, that influences and/or forms experience.

A study on the characteristics of empathy through the gaze of expert teachers and pre-service teachers in science experiment class

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Jin Ko ◽  
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Dong-Yong Kim ◽  
Young-Ji Lee ◽  
Seung-Hyuk Kwon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Expert Teachers ◽  
The Gaze

Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel King
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Emotional Conflict ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

Akhilleus Tatios’ novel, Leukippe and Kleitophon, is famously obsessed with the formulations of viewing and the gaze. This has traditionally been seen as reinforcing some of the gender hierarchies of the narrative as a whole. Building on the work of Morales (and others), this chapter argues that Akhilleus Tatios constructs a conflicted gaze in which the emotional impact of viewing trauma is caught between the viewer’s pleasure at the image and the emotional distress that it might also induce. Akhilleus Tatios’ narrative constantly questions and problematizes how viewers position themselves in relation to trauma and, in so doing, helps to problematize a range of different reactions to others’ pain.

Race, Work, and Disability in Progressive Era United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lawrie
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Assembly Lines ◽  
Actuarial Science ◽  
World War ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Mental Testing ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Throughout U.S. history, the production of difference, whether along racial or disability lines, has been inextricably tied to the imperatives of labor economy. From the plantations of the antebellum era through the assembly lines and trenches of early-twentieth-century America, ideologies of race and disability have delineated which peoples could do which kinds of work. The ideologies and identities of race, work, and the “fit” ’ or “unfit” body informed Progressive Era labor economies. Here the processes of racializing or disabling certain bodies are charted from turn-of-the-century actuarial science, which monetized blacks as a degenerate, dying race, through the standardized physical and mental testing and rehabilitation methods developed by the U.S. army during World War I. Efforts to quantify, poke, prod, or mend black bodies reshaped contemporary understandings of labor, race, the state, and the working body.

Apocalyptic Visions and Revisions of the End in the Writings

2018 ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
Bennie H. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Apocalyptic Literature ◽  
Simple Matter ◽  
Textual Revision

Apocalyptic literature demonstrates an obsession with time. This chapter suggests that the elaborate descriptions and predictions of world history found in apocalypses produced an intrinsic need within apocalyptic communities for textual revision. Since apocalypses are framed as revelations, it was no simple matter to change them. Apocalyptic communities developed the practice of revelatory exegesis in order to revise failed prophecies and revitalize them for the contemporary events and concerns. This chapter analyzes Daniel 9 and 12, 4 Ezra, 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah, and 1QPesher Habakkuk in order to highlight how apocalyptic writers and communities used revelatory exegesis to revise failed prophecies.

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