Sometimes in Reality You Kick the Football: A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
James Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Insight Into

With clear-eyed honesty and poetic detail, Gabrielle Bell’s comics deliver something that is simultaneously intimate, universal, and very funny. I first encountered Bell and her work in 2009, while I was covering the first-ever Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Since then I’ve wanted to ask her about rendering real life into art, and to gain some insight into her process, but hadn’t quite been able to gather up the time, or perhaps courage—sometimes, I have found, it’s better to admire from a distance. (Or as I saw in a Charlie Kaufman movie: you are what you love, not what loves you.) And yet the desire for companionship is a resonant theme throughout Bell’s work, so maybe it’s inevitable that I should want to connect with Gabrielle the person, as one connects with Gabrielle the comic-book character....

scholarly journals Modeling In-Match Sports Dynamics Using the Evolving Probability Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 4429
Author(s):  
Ana Šarčević ◽  
Damir Pintar ◽  
Mihaela Vranić ◽  
Ante Gojsalić
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo Simulation ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Empirical Bayes ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Bayes Estimation ◽  
Probability Method ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Sport Event ◽  
Insight Into

The prediction of sport event results has always drawn attention from a vast variety of different groups of people, such as club managers, coaches, betting companies, and the general population. The specific nature of each sport has an important role in the adaption of various predictive techniques founded on different mathematical and statistical models. In this paper, a common approach of modeling sports with a strongly defined structure and a rigid scoring system that relies on an assumption of independent and identical point distributions is challenged. It is demonstrated that such models can be improved by introducing dynamics into the match models in the form of sport momentums. Formal mathematical models for implementing these momentums based on conditional probability and empirical Bayes estimation are proposed, which are ultimately combined through a unifying hybrid approach based on the Monte Carlo simulation. Finally, the method is applied to real-life volleyball data demonstrating noticeable improvements over the previous approaches when it comes to predicting match outcomes. The method can be implemented into an expert system to obtain insight into the performance of players at different stages of the match or to study field scenarios that may arise under different circumstances.

scholarly journals Modeling of a Real-Life Industrial Reactor for Hydrogenation of Benzene Process

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 412
Author(s):  
Mirosław K. Szukiewicz ◽  
Krzysztof Kaczmarski
Keyword(s):  
Catalyst Activity ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Reactor Operation ◽  
Reactor Model ◽  
High Scale ◽  
Industrial Reactor ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Insight Into

A dynamic model of the hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane reaction in a real-life industrial reactor is elaborated. Transformations of the model leading to satisfactory results are presented and discussed. Operating conditions accepted in the simulations are identical to those observed in the chemical plant. Under those conditions, some components of the reaction mixture vanish, and the diffusion coefficients of the components vary along the reactor (they are strongly concentration-dependent). We came up with a final reactor model predicting with reasonable accuracy the reaction mixture’s outlet composition and temperature profile throughout the process. Additionally, the model enables the anticipation of catalyst activity and the remaining deactivated catalyst lifetime. Conclusions concerning reactor operation conditions resulting from the simulations are presented as well. Since the model provides deep insight into the process of simulating, it allows us to make knowledge-based decisions. It should be pointed out that improvements in the process run, related to operating conditions, or catalyst application, or both on account of the high scale of the process and its expected growth, will remarkably influence both the profits and environmental protection.

Charles Lamb's Insight Into the Nature of the Novel

PMLA ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-382
Author(s):  
Charles I. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Critical Essay ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Henry Mackenzie ◽  
External Events ◽  
Insight Into

Charles Lamb exhibited the same genial attitude toward books as toward people; he never expected too much of either, and was therefore seldom disappointed. This whimsical tolerance was especially evident in his reactions to prose fiction. He never went at a novel too seriously—with hammer and tongs, as we say; yet he could distinguish between the enduring works and the pulp. Moreover, he professed to like the same qualities in books as in people: individuality, personality, and even eccentricity. In 1821 he disclaimed a taste for the external events in narrative fiction, contrasting his attitude with that of his sister: “Narrative teases me. I have little concern with the progress of events. She must have a story.... The fluctuations of fortune in fiction ... and almost in real life ... have ceased to interest, or to operate but dully upon me. Out of the way humours and opinions—heads with some diverting twist in them—the oddities of authorship please me most” (ii, 75). There is, however, ample evidence that Lamb read widely in prose fiction and enjoyed the works of the great eighteenth-century masters—Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. He also was acquainted with the writings of Sterne, Goldsmith, Henry Mackenzie, Robert Paltock, Aleman, Cervantes, Jane and Maria Porter, Godwin, Scott, and many figures of less note, including the Minerva Press offerings. As Lamb himself put it, “Defoe was always my darling” (i, 524). In 1829, at the request of his friend Walter Wilson, Lamb wrote a critical essay on Defoe's secondary novels for Wilson's book Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe.4

scholarly journals Redox and essential metal status in the brain of Wistar rats acutely exposed to a cadmium and lead mixture

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-204
Author(s):  
Dragana Javorac ◽  
Aleksandra Buha Đorđević ◽  
Milena Anđelković ◽  
Simona Tatović ◽  
Katarina Baralić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wistar Rats ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Thiobarbituric Acid ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Essential Metal ◽  
Cadmium And Lead ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractMost Pb and Cd neurotoxicity studies investigate exposure to either of the toxic metals alone, while data on co-exposure are scarce. The aim of our study was to fill that gap by investigating acute combined effects of Pb and Cd on redox and essential metal status in the brain of Wistar rats. Animals were randomised in four groups of six to eight rats, which received 15 or 30 mg/kg of Cd, 150 mg/kg of Pb, or 150 mg/kg of Pb + 15 mg/kg of Cd by gavage. The fifth, control, group received distilled water only. Co-treatment with Pb and Cd induced significant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) compared to control and groups receiving either metal alone. This is of special importance, as MDA presence in the brain has been implicated in many neurodegenerative disorders. The groups did not significantly differ in Zn, Cu, Mn, and Fe brain levels. Our findings highlight the importance of metal mixture studies. Neurotoxicity assessments of single chemicals do not provide a real insight into exposure to mixtures in real life. Further research should look into interactions between these metals to reveal complex molecular mechanisms of their neurotoxicity.

Business Students as End-User Developers

2011 ◽  
pp. 2886-2894
Author(s):  
Sandra Barker
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
End User ◽  
Design Procedures ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Undergraduate Business Students ◽  
Insight Into

In this chapter, the introduction of “real-life” scenarios to undergraduate business students to enhance their understanding of end-user development of databases is investigated. The problems experienced with end-user development due to incomplete information, incorrect design procedures, and inadequate software knowledge are identified. It is the hope of the author that by identifying the design issue relevant to good database production and using “real-life” case studies as insight into how businesses use and store data, the students will be more aware of good practice for their future employment.

Business Students as End-User Developers

2003 ◽  
pp. 304-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Barker
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
End User ◽  
Design Procedures ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Undergraduate Business Students ◽  
Insight Into

In this chapter, the introduction of “real-life” scenarios to undergraduate business students to enhance their understanding of end-user development of databases is investigated. The problems experienced with end-user development due to incomplete information, incorrect design procedures, and inadequate software knowledge are identified. It is the hope of the author that by identifying the design issue relevant to good database production and using “real-life” case studies as insight into how businesses use and store data, the students will be more aware of good practice for their future employment.

Flexible identities and cross-border knowledge networking

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Moore
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Taiwanese People ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This paper aims to explore and discuss the use of the flexible, discursive nature of ethnic identity as a means of facilitating the construction and use of transnational knowledge networks. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the influence of “intangibles” on international business (IB), using a case study examining how Taiwanese people in London construct and use their professional networks for knowledge management. The methodology is ethnographic, including participant-observation, interviews and archival research. Findings Taiwanese businesspeople in London used their ethnic identity for networking, not only within the Taiwanese community, but also combined different identities to network through different groups. The findings suggest that the flexible nature of identity provides a means by which knowledge networks can be constructed across borders, providing insight into the actual processes through which knowledge is transferred in IB. Research limitations/implications An identity approach can add a more nuanced analysis of real-life situations to the more traditional culture-focused approach. Greater methodological variety is needed if IB studies are to incorporate more complex perspectives on cross-cultural management, and to develop this study’s conclusions. Practical implications Managers who are aware of the complexities of ethnic identity can exploit these among themselves and their employees to seek out new sources of knowledge. Originality/value This paper provides insight into the means and processes through which transnational networks are constructed and knowledge shared across borders, and the seldom-analysed role of identity, in this case ethnic identity, in these phenomena.

Exploring Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Louise Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Law Making

Exploring Parliament offers a fresh perspective on an ancient institution. It provides a real-life insight into the inner workings, impact, and relevance of twenty-first century Parliament. Short academic and practitioner chapters are combined with relevant and practical case studies, to provide an introduction to Parliament's structures, people, and practices. As well as covering the broader structure of UK Parliament, this text explains the role of small parties in law-making, the design and space of Parliament, and offers illuminating case studies on highly topical areas such as the Backbench Business Committee, the Hillsborough Inquiry and recent pieces of legislation such as the Assisted Dying Bill.

LD Youth and Mathematics: A Review of Characteristics

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Cawley ◽  
Anne M. Fitzmaurice ◽  
Robert Shaw ◽  
Harris Kahn ◽  
Herman Bates
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Mathematical Skills ◽  
Spring Issue ◽  
Final Article ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
Insight Into

This represents the second in a series of three articles by John F. Cawley and his associates on mathematics and learning disabled students. Based on information gleaned from the literature as well as an extensive data pool collected by the authors, the present article includes an interpretative review of the characteristics of learning disabled youth as they relate to mathematics. The authors delineate the many facets of failure with which the learning disabled youngster is faced. A set of discriminators are specified for identification of certain subgroups of learning disabilities. Finally, the data presented are shown to provide insight into assessment procedures for youth with disabilities in mathematics. The final article in this series on mathematics will appear in the Spring issue of the Quarterly. The focus will be on problem solving and the application of mathematical skills and concepts to “real-life” situations.

scholarly journals Uncovering Tor: An Examination of the Network Structure

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Monk ◽  
Julianna Mitchell ◽  
Richard Frank ◽  
Garth Davies
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Automated Data Collection ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Specialized Software ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dark Web

The dark web is a concealed portion of the Internet that can only be accessed through specialized software. Although multiple dark web technologies exist, with a common trait of using encryption to enforce anonymity, the Tor network remains the most prominent dark web network. To visit websites on the network, the user must use a heavily modified Firefox browser. The use of encryption to achieve anonymity poses a significant challenge for law enforcement that wishes to monitor users and content for illicit activity. This study examines Tor by focusing on the network structures created between websites via hyperlinks. Examining hyperlinks can provide insight into how virtual communities form on a network. We explore traditional social disorganization principles as a basis to draw comparisons between these virtual communities and real-life crime-prone neighborhoods. Automated data collection techniques were used to leverage the interconnected nature of domains on Tor. Using social network analysis, website hyperlinks are examined and core sites are identified. The analysis shows that these core sites form a significant portion of all connections made on the network with a density of 0.132. This core serves a critical function and has implications for detecting how users connect on Tor.

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