title: 'I demand an undying devotion to the play': Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead

authors: Martin, Fiona

abstract: Since the first production of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the tum of the seventeenth century, the play has attracted performers, fascinated audiences, and stimulated scholarly discussion and debate - a form of immortality which has been further perpetuated from the twentieth century onward by film versions of the play.¹ The attitudes of literary critics and theater reviewers toward Shakespeare productions, however, remain widely divergent. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, for example, observe, "In the last fifty years, the play' s iconic status has led to countless attempts to adapt, rethink, debunk and vandalize it."² The judgment implied by the word "vandalize" suggests the continuing divide between "high" and "popular" cultures, and draws attention to the issues potentially arising when a canonical text is appropriated and newly interpreted.³

text: 'I demand an undying devotion to the play': Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead Since the first production of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the tum of the seventeenth century, the play has attracted performers, fascinated audiences, and stimulated scholarly discussion and debate - a form of immortality which has been further perpetuated from the twentieth century onward by film versions of the play.¹ The attitudes of literary critics and theater reviewers toward Shakespeare productions, however, remain widely divergent. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, for example, observe, "In the last fifty years, the play' s iconic status has led to countless attempts to adapt, rethink, debunk and vandalize it."² The judgment implied by the word "vandalize" suggests the continuing divide between "high" and "popular" cultures, and draws attention to the issues potentially arising when a canonical text is appropriated and newly interpreted.³

year: 2011

title: Technique to assess the compatibility of medical implants to the RF Field in MRI

authors: McCabe, Steven Owen

subjects: Magnetic resonance imaging

abstract: The standard technique for determining the compatibility of medical implants to the magnetic and RF fields present in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), requires access to an MRI machine. For implants comprising metals of mostly the non-ferrous kind, it is only the RF field of an MRI machine that is of concern. Implant electrodes can concentrate the RF field in the surrounding tissue and give rise to joule heating. The inherent design of Spinal Cord Stimulators (SCS) and Deep Brain Stimulators (DBS) makes these implants particularly susceptible to hazardous levels of RF heating. We propose a technique that offers a quick and indicative assessment of the compatibility of implant leads to the RF field in 3-Tesla MRI, without needing access to an MRI machine. A dipole antenna, driven by a power amplifier and Continuous Wave (CW), injects RF energy into a gelled saline phantom. The heating in the gel near a test implant electrode is monitored with a fiber optic thermometer. The results are calibrated against measurements made in a 3-Tesla MRI machine.

text: Technique to assess the compatibility of medical implants to the RF Field in MRI The standard technique for determining the compatibility of medical implants to the magnetic and RF fields present in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), requires access to an MRI machine. For implants comprising metals of mostly the non-ferrous kind, it is only the RF field of an MRI machine that is of concern. Implant electrodes can concentrate the RF field in the surrounding tissue and give rise to joule heating. The inherent design of Spinal Cord Stimulators (SCS) and Deep Brain Stimulators (DBS) makes these implants particularly susceptible to hazardous levels of RF heating. We propose a technique that offers a quick and indicative assessment of the compatibility of implant leads to the RF field in 3-Tesla MRI, without needing access to an MRI machine. A dipole antenna, driven by a power amplifier and Continuous Wave (CW), injects RF energy into a gelled saline phantom. The heating in the gel near a test implant electrode is monitored with a fiber optic thermometer. The results are calibrated against measurements made in a 3-Tesla MRI machine.

year: 2015

title: Covering tangata whenua in Aotearoa: a big data exploration of print media and Māori

authors: Phillips, Justin B.

abstract: A large body of academic research documents harmful media coverage of indigenous populations across the globe. New Zealand is no exception. Aotearoa’s indigenous people, Māori, share similar damaging experiences, leading one major NZ media company to publish an apology for their historically poor depiction of tangata whenua. This paper adds to that wealth of evidence using the automated methods of machine learning to examine coverage of Māori in NZ print media. Across roughly 800,000 sentences–spanning over two decades of coverage–this research investigates print media discourses involving Māori at a mass scale while demonstrating the applicability of such tools for further research. The results replicate a collection of existing findings at large-N scale, further documenting problematic discussions of violence, political representation, and culture, among several other concerns. The novel approach also hints at complex, obscure relationships embedded within problematic language in Aotearoa’s print media, identifying notions of division - both implied and otherwise - along with notable instances of resistance.

text: Covering tangata whenua in Aotearoa: a big data exploration of print media and Māori A large body of academic research documents harmful media coverage of indigenous populations across the globe. New Zealand is no exception. Aotearoa’s indigenous people, Māori, share similar damaging experiences, leading one major NZ media company to publish an apology for their historically poor depiction of tangata whenua. This paper adds to that wealth of evidence using the automated methods of machine learning to examine coverage of Māori in NZ print media. Across roughly 800,000 sentences–spanning over two decades of coverage–this research investigates print media discourses involving Māori at a mass scale while demonstrating the applicability of such tools for further research. The results replicate a collection of existing findings at large-N scale, further documenting problematic discussions of violence, political representation, and culture, among several other concerns. The novel approach also hints at complex, obscure relationships embedded within problematic language in Aotearoa’s print media, identifying notions of division - both implied and otherwise - along with notable instances of resistance.

year: 2022