Contemporary Impressions, Kitsch Aesthetics

2017 ◽  
pp. 201-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Matz
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Painting

How the impressionist optic persists apparently unchanged in the very different forms of contemporary painting by Peter Doig and Thomas Kinkade—one a cutting-edge post-conceptual artist, the other the “artist in the mall,” but both kitsch in ways that transform the meaning of that term.

The Vertical Agreements Regulation: A Critical Appraisal

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 525-545
Author(s):  
Paul M. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
The One

The Vertical Agreements Regulation may be judged in one of two ways, each yielding a different conclusion. It may be regarded, on the one hand, merely as a limited measure required at a particular time in the development of competition policy to correct some of the more obvious errors of previous Regulations. On the other hand, it may be assessed for its potential as a template for future Regulations. Is it to be regarded as a means of rectifying historic block exemptions or is it at the cutting edge of progressive policy? Without doubt it appears chronologically at one of the most important shifts in competition policy in decades and that is why there is much to be gained from reviewing the Regulation critically for improvements that can be carried forward into future Regulations.

The ‘Zen’ in the western monochrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Simon Morley
Keyword(s):  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Painting ◽  
The Impact

I look at the impact of Zen Buddhism on western painters during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the monochrome in particular, in order to create a historical context for the consideration of transcultural dialogue in relation to contemporary painting. I argue that a consideration of Zen can offer a ‘middle way’ between conceptions of the monochrome (and art in general) often hobbled by models of interpretation that function within a binary opposition between ‘literalist/sensory’ on the one hand, and ‘intellectual/non-sensory’ readings on the other.

scholarly journals Rising Sino-U.S. Competition in Artificial Intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
You Wang ◽  
Dingding Chen
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strategic Competition ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Political Security

Both China and the United States are international leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). Although there remains a significant gap between them in cutting-edge technologies, and they have adopted different methods of planning and implementation, both countries have been mobilizing national resources and formulating policies to promote AI development, so as to achieve a strategic advantage over the other, especially against the backdrop of ever more intense and complicated strategic competition between them in recent years. As an epitome of their changing relationship, Sino-U.S. competition in AI development is manifested in economic, political, security, technological and other fields. It is expected that artificial intelligence will become an even more important field of competition between China and the United States, and that the trends of AI development and competition will to some extent determine the future dynamics of their bilateral relations.

3. Contracts of employment (2): content and wages

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-253
Author(s):  
Ian Smith ◽  
Aaron Baker ◽  
Owen Warnock
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law

This chapter explores where express terms come from, especially if they are not all neatly set out in writing, and then goes on to consider how terms become implied. Here, several significant differences between ordinary commercial contracts and employment contracts will be seen, both in the scale of the use of implied terms in employment law to ‘perfect’ the bargain and in the sheer strength of some of these frequently implied terms that can, in practice, be just as important as express terms. Having looked at where these terms come from, the chapter goes on to consider the principal duties that they impose on employers and employees, some of which are old and obvious, such as the employer’s duty to pay wages and the employee’s duty of obedience to lawful orders. On the other hand, some are more recent and more at the cutting edge of modern employment law, such as the implied term of trust and confidence for the employee and the topical controversies over confidentiality at work in an age of electronic communication and social media. The chapter concludes by considering specifically the law on wages, including the statutory requirements of paying the national minimum wage and the national living wage.

scholarly journals The Flint Implements Of Sub-Crag Man

1911 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Reid Moir
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maximum Thickness ◽  
Brown Colour ◽  
General Arrangement ◽  
London Clay ◽  
Sand And Gravel

On the 3rd of October, 1909, I found on a stone heap in Messrs. Bolton and Laughlin's brickfield near Ipswich a large flint implement fashioned from a cylindrical nodule and flaked to a cutting edge at one end. This implement, which is obviously very massive, weight 8¾lbs., is deeply patinated on its worked surfaces a yellowish-brown colour, and has a very hard ferruginous deposit attached to portions of its crust.Following on this discovery I commenced, searching for others, and eventually found them lying on the London Clay under a seam of decalcified crag, and associated with many bones and phosphatic nodules such as are met with at other ordinary bases of the Red Crag. This decalcified crag occurs in two basin-shaped hollows, one 56 yards wide and the other 45 yards, in the London Clay. The general arrangement of the beds (Plate I.) in the hollows is as follows:—1. Top sand and gravel, in places up to 9 feet in thickness.2. Middle Glacial Sands, with sarsen stones, maximum thickness 12 feet to 15 feet.3. Decalcified crag, with casts of shells up to 3 feet. This is very hard in the eastern hollow, and rests upon an uneven floor of London Clay, containing pockets filled with pebbles, and boulders of flint and micaceous sandstone.

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Macrobrachium suphanense sp. nov. (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4482 (1) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
NUKUL SAENGPHAN ◽  
BHINYO PANIJPAN ◽  
SAENGCHAN SENAPIN ◽  
PARAMES LAOSINCHAI ◽  
PINTIP RUENWONGSA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Freshwater Prawn ◽  
Dna Analyses ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A small freshwater prawn in Thailand has been found to be a new species and is named Macrobrachium suphanense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Fully grown male M. suphanense appeared very different from the most closely related male of M. sintangense: size smaller, second pereiopod smaller and less robust, rostrum form different and, in females, fewer eggs. Less closely related, fully grown M. dolatum has sharper distal cutting edge on fixed finger and M. hungi has longer rostrum than M. suphanense. DNA analyses put M. suphanense, M. sintangense and M. nipponense in the same clade with M. nipponense sister to the other two. Two more clades consist of M. dienbienphuense and M. niphanae on the one hand and M. lanchesteri and M. rosenbergii on the other. The relationship among the three clades is not clearly resolved. 

Diamond Coatings for Machining: Coating Thickness Effects

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Qin ◽  
Y. Kevin Chou ◽  
Dustin Nolen ◽  
Raymond G. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Coating Thickness ◽  
Cutting Forces ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Cutting Tools ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diamond Coatings ◽  
Coated Tools ◽  
Other Hand

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown diamond films have found applications as a hard coating for cutting tools. Even though the use of conventional diamond coatings seems to be accepted in the cutting tool industry, selections of proper coating thickness for different machining operations have not been often studied. Coating thickness affects the characteristics of diamond coated cutting tools in different perspectives that may mutually impact the tool performance in machining in a complex way. In this study, coating thickness effects on the deposition residual stresses, particularly around a cutting edge, and on coating failure modes were numerically investigated. On the other hand, coating thickness effects on tool surface smoothness and cutting edge radii were experimentally investigated. In addition, machining Al matrix composites using diamond coated tools with varied coating thicknesses was conducted to evaluate the effects on cutting forces, part surface finish and tool wear. The results are summarized as follows. (1) Increasing coating thickness will increase the residual stresses at the coating-substrate interface. (2) On the other hand, increasing coating thickness will generally increase the resistance of coating cracking and delamination. (3) Thicker coatings will result in larger edge radii; however, the extent of the effect on cutting forces also depends upon the machining condition. (4) For the thickness range tested, the life of diamond coated tools increases with the coating thickness because of delay of delaminations.

Regenerative Chatter Vibration Occurring in Turning With Different Side Cutting Edge Angles

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Marui ◽  
M. Hashimoto ◽  
S. Kato
Keyword(s):  
Energy Supply ◽  
Cutting Tool ◽  
Cutting Tools ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chatter Vibration ◽  
Regenerative Chatter ◽  
Edge Angle ◽  
Regenerative Effect ◽  
Two Factors

This paper deals with the regenerative chatter vibration occurring in cutting tools with different side cutting edge angles. The occurrence of regenerative chatter vibration of the cutting tool is influenced by two factors, which are closely related to the vibratory energy supply or consumption. One factor is the interference effect between the tool flank and the workpiece. Of course, this factor exists in the primary chatter, too. The other is the regenerative effect. The influence of both factors on the regenerative chatter vibration of cutting tools with different side cutting edge angles is examined experimentally. The vibratory energy supply is simulated, considering the dynamic cutting process. As a result, the property of the regenerative chatter vibration and the influence of the side cutting edge angle on the regenerative chatter vibration are clarified.

Organizations, gender and learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Organizations need to use, create, and share knowledge to gain competitive advantage. Many organizations are traditionally based on a male culture. This means that men are seen as the “norm” and women as the “other.” Women, thus, feel excluded and their voices, opinions, and knowledge go unheard. This can be detrimental to successful organizational learning. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Angry young men and women

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Simon Linacre
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Aggressive Male ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Portrayals of superiors in film or on television are rarely positive. Think about it for a second. The cliche of the boss or supervisor is of an aggressive male, barking orders at employees, showing barely any humanity and never satisfied by anything his charges do for him. Alternatively, there is the stereotypically “hard-assed” woman boss who is similarly unyielding or sometimes the other end of the spectrum is used, and a boss is shown to be slightly deranged or so ineffectual as to be rendered irrelevant by their subordinates. Practical Implications Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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