articulate the argument of this dissertation: the cultivation of an awareness described as Zen, w... more articulate the argument of this dissertation: the cultivation of an awareness described as Zen, whether arising from tradition or felicitous circumstance, is directly correlated with the trauma of American war efforts in the 20 th century and with a society whose policies and social values are shaped by said wars. The practice of Zen non-thinking awareness provides an alternative to a personal identification with the socially contingent logocentrically constructed self, and the adoption of this perspective leads the affected characters on a countercultural pilgrimage away from society. These acts of flight from society bear the trauma of the relevant war, and in escape, the characters in these texts demonstrate an attempt to reconcile the fragmented self by dethroning the thinking mind-as-sovereign. The discussion of this dethroning in this project both builds on and complicates the theory Burton sets forth about the (post)modern quest for authenticity. She argues that in large part because "transience and rupture replace stasis and continuity as the norm," modernity jeopardizes the potential to experience "authenticity," and so the rural and the generally "pre-modern" become figures of "authentic models" of living (162-163). In response to this romantic desire, modern and postmodern subjects "travel to observe and participate in authentic life" (163), and in extreme cases, such as the cases presented in this project, these subjects "undertake a life-changing pilgrimage" that leads them from the trauma and fragmentation of this world to another, necessarily better one (163). The analysis of the texts in this dissertation finds this claim true-these conditions do lead to this kind of seeking. The pursuit of this authenticity suggests a life lived "fully in place…engaged in the present, [so] that the fragmentation…experience[d] as anxious self-consciousness or malaise dissipates" (164), and the practice of non-thinking evidently becomes the motivation for and/or accompanying mode of living on these travels, travels which seek to come to terms with impermanence "or repair anomie" and thus make their origin "sites of familial or 23
Let Cn be the n-th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian sq... more Let Cn be the n-th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian square Kn of Cn consists of 4n squares of side-length 4−n. The chance that a long needle thrown at random in the unit square will meet Kn is essentially the average length of the projections of Kn, also known as the Favard length of Kn. A result due to Bateman and Volberg (1) shows that a lower estimate for this Favard length is c log n n . We may bend the needle at each stage, giving us what we will call a noodle, and ask whether the uniform lower estimate c log n n still holds for these so-called Buffon noodle probabilities. If so, we call the sequence of noodles undercooked. We will define a few classes of noodles and prove that they are undercooked. In particular, we are interested in the case when the noodles are circular arcs of radius rn. We will show that if rn � 4 n 5 , then the circular arcs are undercooked noodles.
A biological and anthropological analysis of type II diabetes in contemporary Eeyou Istchee Cree ... more A biological and anthropological analysis of type II diabetes in contemporary Eeyou Istchee Cree society. Biomedical and ethnobotanical treatments are contrasted by focusing on their appropriateness and efficacy relative to current and historical Cree concepts of health and illness.
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2015
The “visibility” of a planar set S S from a point a a is defined as the normalized size of the ra... more The “visibility” of a planar set S S from a point a a is defined as the normalized size of the radial projection of S S from a a to the unit circle centered at a a . Simon and Solomyak in 2006 proved that unrectifiable self-similar one-sets are invisible from every point in the plane. We quantify this by giving an upper bound on the visibility of δ \delta -neighborhoods of such sets. We also prove lower bounds on the visibility of δ \delta -neighborhoods of more general sets, based in part on Bourgain’s discretized sum-product estimates.
Foundation trusts offer the potential for substantial local autonomy. Their governance arrangemen... more Foundation trusts offer the potential for substantial local autonomy. Their governance arrangements raise concerns. Lay non-executives in primary care trusts will face difficulties holding hospitals to account.
Primary care groups had few precedents in the NHS, but their introduction was met with little pol... more Primary care groups had few precedents in the NHS, but their introduction was met with little political hostility. It is difficult to discern PCG/Ts' achievements. The record on commissioning and health improvement is poor. They have not exploited their potential to change the whole NHS.
This article examines the relationship between the sex composition of boards of directors and cor... more This article examines the relationship between the sex composition of boards of directors and corporate philanthropy in a sample of large British corporations. The article hypothesises that having women on boards of directors will be positively related to corporate philanthropy. Bivariate analyses confirm the hypothesis for all women executives, non-executive directors and female chief executives but with the significant exception of other board executives. In multivariate analyses controlling for economic and sociological variables measuring cosmopolitanism, much of the positive effect of female chief executives and non-executives disappears while the negative effect of other female executives is strengthened. The article concludes that there is qualified evidence in support of the hypothesis that a female presence is positively associated with corporate philanthropy, although the sex effect is mediated by the position women occupy in board hierarchies. The article’s findings are consistent with the idea that elites’ discretionary behaviour varies with their social characteristics
This chapter models an Australian corporate interlock data set with a bipartite exponential rando... more This chapter models an Australian corporate interlock data set with a bipartite exponential random graph model (ERGM) (see Chapter 10) using the BPNet software, a version of the PNet software (Wang, Robins, & Pattison, 2009) for bipartite data. By using bipartite modeling, we are able to directly examine the interdependence long talked about in the sociological literature. That is, we are able to study social tie formation (corporate interlocks) as a function of (1) the individuals’ attributes (directors), (2) the groups’ attributes (corporations), (3) the interaction of individual and group attributes, and (4) purely structural network effects (social ties that form without reference to actor attributes).Our primary substantive objective is to study the effects of director characteristics on the pattern of corporate interlock formation. In particular, we are interested in the effects of three types of corporate director power on the formation of corporate interlocks: (1) physical or financial capital (i.e., wealth), (2) membership of exclusive business men’s clubs, and (3) attendance at elite private schools.Traditional elite and corporate interlock studies have tended to emphasize the unifying role of director social capital and the convergence of the many dimensions of director, corporate, social, and economic power at the apex of the corporate community. We argue that there is considerable differentiation in the purpose and effects of the many different forms of social and economic power within the corporate community. In particular, we argue that the alienability of the benefits of physical capital (Coleman, 1990/1994) leads owners to place relatively low emphasis on their own social capital (e.g., interlocks). We also argue that business men’s clubs and elite private schools, traditionally viewed as markers of upper-class membership and facilitators of corporate unity, play different roles within the Australian corporate community: we hypothesize that business men’s clubs are bonding social capital (Putnam, 2000, 22– 24) closer to in-group social capital, binding those corporations with common interests and identities, whereas private schools act as bridging social capital, providing between-group social capital, drawing together the disparate parts of the corporate community, with little differentiation on the basis of interests and identities of corporate groups united by private school ties.In addition, we make three methodological contributions. First, we demonstrate that there are purely structural network effects that operate on corporate interlocks, independent of the economic, political, and sociological attributes of directors and corporations. In this, we are looking for effects similar to the one-mode effects we call “path closure” (Robins, Pattison, & Wang, 2009) or “transitivity” (Granovetter, 1973; Holland & Leinhardt, 1976; Watts & Strogatz, 1998), and other effects such as “popularity” (Barabasi & Albert, 1999; Frank & Strauss, 1986; Wasserman & Pattison, 1996), in which ties form purely in response to the pattern of ties that comprise the local neighborhood. In the case of bipartite networks, we expect to find effects such as a tendency for 3-paths (L3) to close and become 4-cycles (C4), and a tendency for popular directors to become more popular (modeled with star configurations of various sizes). Second, we demonstrate the added benefits, both in terms of model fit and sociological explanatory power, of introducing director and corporation attributes into bipartite modeling. We model the effects of corporate attributes such as political donations, public listing, foreign ownership, regulated industries, and turnover. We model the effect of director attributes such as individual wealth, members of business men’s clubs, and education at elite private schools. Finally, we explore the benefit of the inclusion of interaction effects for the increased or decreased likelihood of directorship formation between particular types.
articulate the argument of this dissertation: the cultivation of an awareness described as Zen, w... more articulate the argument of this dissertation: the cultivation of an awareness described as Zen, whether arising from tradition or felicitous circumstance, is directly correlated with the trauma of American war efforts in the 20 th century and with a society whose policies and social values are shaped by said wars. The practice of Zen non-thinking awareness provides an alternative to a personal identification with the socially contingent logocentrically constructed self, and the adoption of this perspective leads the affected characters on a countercultural pilgrimage away from society. These acts of flight from society bear the trauma of the relevant war, and in escape, the characters in these texts demonstrate an attempt to reconcile the fragmented self by dethroning the thinking mind-as-sovereign. The discussion of this dethroning in this project both builds on and complicates the theory Burton sets forth about the (post)modern quest for authenticity. She argues that in large part because "transience and rupture replace stasis and continuity as the norm," modernity jeopardizes the potential to experience "authenticity," and so the rural and the generally "pre-modern" become figures of "authentic models" of living (162-163). In response to this romantic desire, modern and postmodern subjects "travel to observe and participate in authentic life" (163), and in extreme cases, such as the cases presented in this project, these subjects "undertake a life-changing pilgrimage" that leads them from the trauma and fragmentation of this world to another, necessarily better one (163). The analysis of the texts in this dissertation finds this claim true-these conditions do lead to this kind of seeking. The pursuit of this authenticity suggests a life lived "fully in place…engaged in the present, [so] that the fragmentation…experience[d] as anxious self-consciousness or malaise dissipates" (164), and the practice of non-thinking evidently becomes the motivation for and/or accompanying mode of living on these travels, travels which seek to come to terms with impermanence "or repair anomie" and thus make their origin "sites of familial or 23
Let Cn be the n-th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian sq... more Let Cn be the n-th generation in the construction of the middle-half Cantor set. The Cartesian square Kn of Cn consists of 4n squares of side-length 4−n. The chance that a long needle thrown at random in the unit square will meet Kn is essentially the average length of the projections of Kn, also known as the Favard length of Kn. A result due to Bateman and Volberg (1) shows that a lower estimate for this Favard length is c log n n . We may bend the needle at each stage, giving us what we will call a noodle, and ask whether the uniform lower estimate c log n n still holds for these so-called Buffon noodle probabilities. If so, we call the sequence of noodles undercooked. We will define a few classes of noodles and prove that they are undercooked. In particular, we are interested in the case when the noodles are circular arcs of radius rn. We will show that if rn � 4 n 5 , then the circular arcs are undercooked noodles.
A biological and anthropological analysis of type II diabetes in contemporary Eeyou Istchee Cree ... more A biological and anthropological analysis of type II diabetes in contemporary Eeyou Istchee Cree society. Biomedical and ethnobotanical treatments are contrasted by focusing on their appropriateness and efficacy relative to current and historical Cree concepts of health and illness.
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2015
The “visibility” of a planar set S S from a point a a is defined as the normalized size of the ra... more The “visibility” of a planar set S S from a point a a is defined as the normalized size of the radial projection of S S from a a to the unit circle centered at a a . Simon and Solomyak in 2006 proved that unrectifiable self-similar one-sets are invisible from every point in the plane. We quantify this by giving an upper bound on the visibility of δ \delta -neighborhoods of such sets. We also prove lower bounds on the visibility of δ \delta -neighborhoods of more general sets, based in part on Bourgain’s discretized sum-product estimates.
Foundation trusts offer the potential for substantial local autonomy. Their governance arrangemen... more Foundation trusts offer the potential for substantial local autonomy. Their governance arrangements raise concerns. Lay non-executives in primary care trusts will face difficulties holding hospitals to account.
Primary care groups had few precedents in the NHS, but their introduction was met with little pol... more Primary care groups had few precedents in the NHS, but their introduction was met with little political hostility. It is difficult to discern PCG/Ts' achievements. The record on commissioning and health improvement is poor. They have not exploited their potential to change the whole NHS.
This article examines the relationship between the sex composition of boards of directors and cor... more This article examines the relationship between the sex composition of boards of directors and corporate philanthropy in a sample of large British corporations. The article hypothesises that having women on boards of directors will be positively related to corporate philanthropy. Bivariate analyses confirm the hypothesis for all women executives, non-executive directors and female chief executives but with the significant exception of other board executives. In multivariate analyses controlling for economic and sociological variables measuring cosmopolitanism, much of the positive effect of female chief executives and non-executives disappears while the negative effect of other female executives is strengthened. The article concludes that there is qualified evidence in support of the hypothesis that a female presence is positively associated with corporate philanthropy, although the sex effect is mediated by the position women occupy in board hierarchies. The article’s findings are consistent with the idea that elites’ discretionary behaviour varies with their social characteristics
This chapter models an Australian corporate interlock data set with a bipartite exponential rando... more This chapter models an Australian corporate interlock data set with a bipartite exponential random graph model (ERGM) (see Chapter 10) using the BPNet software, a version of the PNet software (Wang, Robins, & Pattison, 2009) for bipartite data. By using bipartite modeling, we are able to directly examine the interdependence long talked about in the sociological literature. That is, we are able to study social tie formation (corporate interlocks) as a function of (1) the individuals’ attributes (directors), (2) the groups’ attributes (corporations), (3) the interaction of individual and group attributes, and (4) purely structural network effects (social ties that form without reference to actor attributes).Our primary substantive objective is to study the effects of director characteristics on the pattern of corporate interlock formation. In particular, we are interested in the effects of three types of corporate director power on the formation of corporate interlocks: (1) physical or financial capital (i.e., wealth), (2) membership of exclusive business men’s clubs, and (3) attendance at elite private schools.Traditional elite and corporate interlock studies have tended to emphasize the unifying role of director social capital and the convergence of the many dimensions of director, corporate, social, and economic power at the apex of the corporate community. We argue that there is considerable differentiation in the purpose and effects of the many different forms of social and economic power within the corporate community. In particular, we argue that the alienability of the benefits of physical capital (Coleman, 1990/1994) leads owners to place relatively low emphasis on their own social capital (e.g., interlocks). We also argue that business men’s clubs and elite private schools, traditionally viewed as markers of upper-class membership and facilitators of corporate unity, play different roles within the Australian corporate community: we hypothesize that business men’s clubs are bonding social capital (Putnam, 2000, 22– 24) closer to in-group social capital, binding those corporations with common interests and identities, whereas private schools act as bridging social capital, providing between-group social capital, drawing together the disparate parts of the corporate community, with little differentiation on the basis of interests and identities of corporate groups united by private school ties.In addition, we make three methodological contributions. First, we demonstrate that there are purely structural network effects that operate on corporate interlocks, independent of the economic, political, and sociological attributes of directors and corporations. In this, we are looking for effects similar to the one-mode effects we call “path closure” (Robins, Pattison, & Wang, 2009) or “transitivity” (Granovetter, 1973; Holland & Leinhardt, 1976; Watts & Strogatz, 1998), and other effects such as “popularity” (Barabasi & Albert, 1999; Frank & Strauss, 1986; Wasserman & Pattison, 1996), in which ties form purely in response to the pattern of ties that comprise the local neighborhood. In the case of bipartite networks, we expect to find effects such as a tendency for 3-paths (L3) to close and become 4-cycles (C4), and a tendency for popular directors to become more popular (modeled with star configurations of various sizes). Second, we demonstrate the added benefits, both in terms of model fit and sociological explanatory power, of introducing director and corporation attributes into bipartite modeling. We model the effects of corporate attributes such as political donations, public listing, foreign ownership, regulated industries, and turnover. We model the effect of director attributes such as individual wealth, members of business men’s clubs, and education at elite private schools. Finally, we explore the benefit of the inclusion of interaction effects for the increased or decreased likelihood of directorship formation between particular types.
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