This thesis considers the imprint of unfinished work upon cultural history. It asks how one might record, interpret and situate abandoned and unfinished works within critical discourse. It explores the various opportunities they present to both disrupt and imaginatively develop existing perspectives on cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Discussing a range of unfinished projects from literature, film and architecture kept in public archives, this study attempts to find a renewed poetics of abandoned work that can displace the melancholy selectivity that pervades the topic. In addition to this, the project hopes to contribute to growing discourses on archives, ruins and fragments, where a consideration of the remains of unfinished work would broaden and problematise these conversations. The introduction considers the critical and cultural history of leaving work unfinished, identifying various critical motifs and absences that this project can address. The first chapter examines the legacy of an unfinished socialist city planned and partially built in 1914 called Llano del Rio; exploring how the abandoned settlement is mediated through its archival collection and material remains on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The second chapter then delves into the National Archives to investigate abandoned plans for London in the 1960s, demonstrating how unbuilt plans possess an under-researched intertextual and cultural function in their abandoned state. The third chapter traces a set of texts through literary and cinematic archives, charting the abandonment of Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey’s unfilmed Proust Screenplay. It maps the project’s afterlife and its contemporaneous relationship with the decline of cinema theatres in the 1970s, tracing the concomitant processes of unfinishing work and ruination. The fourth chapter looks at the papers of Muriel Spark and B.S. Johnson, considering their unfinished work and project proposals, from Spark’s brief narrative sketches to Johnson’s rejected ideas for television programmes. It sees corresponding tactics taken by the two writers, both authors using their unfinished work as a resource to reuse and recycle for texts that are eventually completed. Alongside this discovery, it reads unfinished work as a form of life writing, skirting autobiography and creative output. The conclusion draws these findings together and considers the potential for unfinished work to form its own critical rubric in the context of broader academic discourse.

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<p>This dissertation examines how human remains are circulated as material culture in contemporary Western society. It is based on an extended period of research and fieldwork carried out from September 2011 to June 2013, in addition to forensic-related research conducted from 2007 to 2010. Through interviews with individuals who handle human remains and an analysis of popular culture via social and mass media, I pose the question: How and why have the undisposed dead been made to occupy a variety of spaces in contemporary Western society; for personal use, education, sale, or veneration?</p> <p>Interviews conducted with Roman Catholic clergy confirm not only the contemporary importance and influence of human relics, but the Church’s ongoing relationship with the dismembered body. This research thus offers a counterpoint to the usual positioning of the Church as anti-science and as imposing a religious taboo toward human remains. I argue instead that the Catholic Church historically has had an important influence on the practices of anatomical dissection, and the deeply embedded Western traditions of making the undisposed dead necessary, popular and culturally acceptable.</p> <p>As an extension of my analysis of the Catholic Church’s traditions and policies around the use of human remains, I examine the institutional handling of the dead in various types of museums and compare this with how human remains are celebrated and circulated in popular culture. Lastly, I explore the work of five controversial visual artists who use human remains in their art.1 Through extensive personal interviews, conducted in their homes and studios, I demonstrate how Catholic bodies, images and symbols have profoundly inspired (rather than discouraged) these visual artists in their personal, as well as artistic narratives.</p> <p>My research shows that, contrary to the academic literature, human remains are neither imbued with fear, nor with notions of violence or taboo; neither are they deployed to symbolically encounter death. In the hands of either institutional or personal collectors, I argue that human remains are valuable commodities through which membership, identity, and knowledge are expressed in contemporary Western society.</p> <p>1 Wayne Martin Belger, Al Farrow, Andrew Krasnow, Mark Prent, Joel Peter Witkin</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Nothing Remains Still is a collection of short stories and a novella. The series of short stories, "The Assortment 1-4" chronicle the childhood of a young girl, her siblings, and her mother, and the lives they lead in the gated, but impoverished, community, in which they live. The tone of the stories is meant to be surreal, approaching the dystopic, as a way to reveal the underlying horror of growing up in low-income housing. The story, as so many of these stories do in their real life correlates, ultimately ends in tragedy for the central family. The novella, Nothing Remains Still, is an epistolary tale of a young woman who rediscovers her mother, and herself, while training to become a psychoanalyst. The novella is about movement and stagnation, or false or artificial stagnation. In this context, the Heraclitus quote, "All entities move, and nothing remains still," which acts as the novella's epigraph, serves to introduce a kind of cosmological conceit concerning bodies of matter and how the study of physics situates inanimate objects. I had my narrator apply this conceit to people, as well, and to situate human bodies as also being physical objects subject to the same physical laws. The quote is meant to signal that the narrator's journey is in constant flux -- there are no endings, happy or otherwise, just a transfer of energy into one thing or another. / MFA

The Imagenet dataset is an important benchmark and test bed for computer vision models. Two of its most important characteristics are the size and difficulty, which were what motivated the breakthrough deep learning model Alexnet a decade ago. As researches progress and computation power grows, the best models nowadays can achieve accuracy as high as 90% on Imagenet. With such high accuracy, model predictions are usually of high precision and the causes of this long tail of error are unknown. Many studies have suggested that reassessing Imagenet, a nontrivial amount of label error and noise is found and effort had been made to fix this label noise in the test set, mainly through manual review. However, not many studies have dived into fixing labels for the training set, largely due to its large scale. The proposed thesis aims to understand the remaining errors that models are still making on the ImageNet dataset and investigate the labeling problems in the Imagenet training set, utilizing TRAK- a recently developed efficient data attribution method to help identify problematic images among the 1.4 million images in Imagenet training set. / M.Eng.

No / Digitised Diseases is a new web resource which contains photo-realistic 3D models of bones, together with detailed descriptions, clinical synopses, radiographs and CT data. The images give broad coverage of disease conditions affecting the human skeleton. The project – a collaboration between the University of Bradford, Museum of London Archaeology and the Royal College of Surgeons of England – came about following recognition of conflict between the requirements of researchers and students and the need to preserve collections of material; repeated handling of the bones can cause appreciable damage. This article explains the importance of archaeological and historical specimens for modern medical research and training, and thus the usefulness of the project, which makes a huge amount of data freely available; it also describes some of the collections that have been digitised.

Yes / This chapter summarises the isotope analysis undertaken on the human remains from RUX6, in order to estimate their diet and physiological changes during life. Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope ratio analysis was carried out using incremental dentine sectioning for collagen for individuals SF 26319 and SF17642 (giving values for childhood and early adolescence) and bulk sampling of bone collagen for these two individuals plus an ulna from a third, disturbed burial from Square G, SF 17437 (providing an average for each of the diet during last 10 years of life). Contemporary faunal bone collage samples were also measured in order to provide an isotopic baseline. In addition, enamel from the teeth of SF 26319 and SF 17642 was sampled for strontium isotope ratios to assess individual migration. / Historic Environment Scotland, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Museum nan Eilean, National Museum of Scotland, Hunter Archaeological and Historic Trust, Guard Archaeology

Syftet med denna studie var att förstå de strategier som användes av socialsekreterarna i hanteringen av en stor arbetsbelastning och undersöka deras nivå av känsla av sammanhang i hanteringen av nätverksfamiljehemsplaceringar av ensamkommande barn under 2015 och 2016. Studien varkvalitativ, och vårt empiriska material bestod av semistrukturerade intervjuer.Åtta socialsekreterare från sju mindre kommuner och två socialsekreterare från störrekommuner i södra Sverige, alla med erfarenhet av att arbeta med ensamkommande barn, deltog i vår studie. Vår ambition var att förstå hur, trots den stora arbetsbelastningen, socialsekreterarna hanterade sin arbetssituation. Vi försökte förstå de strategierna som bidrog till att göra det möjligt för socialsekreterarna att stanna kvar på sitt arbete trots omständigheterna. Vi fann att alla socialsekreterarna som intervjuades i vår studie hade en hög känsla av sammanhang som hjälpte dem att göra deras arbete meningsfullt och hanterbart. Den vanligaste coping strategi som socialsekreterarna använde sig av för att hantera deras arbetssituation var genom att sänka sina ambitioner och acceptera att deras arbete nådde en "good enough" standard. Socialsekreterare med stor arbetslivserfarenhet tenderade också att hantera den högre arbetsbelastningen mer framgångsrikt genom att acceptera, att trots att de inte alltid kunde följa rutiner och riktlinjer var avsikten fortfarande att göra gott i en svår situation. / The aim of this study was to create an understanding of the strategies used by the social workersin order to handle a large workload and to examine their level of sense of coherence intheir handling of kinship foster care placements of unaccompanied children in the years 2015and 2016. The study was qualitative, and our empirical material consists of semi-structuredinterviews. Eight social workers from seven smaller municipalities and two social workersfrom larger municipalities in southern Sweden, all with experience of working with unaccompaniedchildren, have participated in our study. Our ambition was to understand how, despitethe large workload, the social workers handled their situation. We have tried to create an understandingof the strategies that contributed to make it possible for the social workers to remainat work despite the circumstances. We have found that all the social workers interviewedin our study had a high sense of coherence that helped them make their work understandableand manageable. The most common coping strategy the social workers used was tolower their ambitions and accept that their administration reached “good enough” to handletheir workload. Social workers with a lot of work experience also tend to be able to handle ahigh workload more successfully by accepting that, in spite of not always being able to abideby routines and procedures, the intention is still to do good in a bad situation.

Esta dissertação faz uma análise a respeito da mestiçagem brasileira, principalmente entre brancos e negros, sob a perspectiva do antropólogo alagoano Arthur Ramos em seu livro A mestiçagem no Brasil. O objetivo é compreender o papel desempenhado por ele na inversão positiva da imagem da mestiçagem, em especial, a partir dos anos 1930, quando Arthur Ramos, pertencendo a um conjunto de intelectuais brasileiros, preocupados em construir uma unidade nacional, elevou a figura do mestiço à categoria do particular, isto é, de singularidade nacional, porém sempre atrelada a ideia de democracia racial. Nessa operação, Ramos negou a tese da degenerescência do mestiço, o que lhe valeu embates políticos e intelectuais à frente da defesa da mestiçagem (física e cultural). Foi um dos responsáveis pela mudança de foco interpretativo da história nacional, que saiu do âmbito racial para o cultural. Na mesma medida, atuou de forma enérgica pela defesa da democracia racial brasileira, vista por ele como resultado da ausência de barreiras legais provenientes da colonização portuguesa. Assim, o estudo empreendido reflete a função e o significado da atuação de Ramos no cenário científico internacional, por seu trabalho curto, embora significativo no Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Unesco, que rendeu às ciências sociais brasileiras uma visibilidade como produtora de saber científico, bem como a vinda do projeto Unesco ao Brasil nos anos 1950. Esta pesquisa examina uma obra póstuma, A mestiçagem no Brasil, pouco conhecida e trabalhada, mas de significação ímpar, haja vista sua confecção depois das atrocidades da Segunda Guerra Mundial e ao retorno das concepções racistas do século XIX pelos nazistas. / This dissertation makes an analysis about the Brazilian miscegenation, mainly between black and white people, from the alagoano anthropologists perspective Arthur Ramos in his book on miscegenation in Brazil (A mestiçagem no Brasil). The objective is to understand the role he played in miscegenation reversing positive image, especially since the 1930s, when Arthur Ramos, belonging to a Brazilian intellectuals group, concerned with the building national unity, raised the mestizos figure to a particular category, thus, a national singularity, but always linked the idea of racial democracy. In this operation, Ramos denied the thesis of the mestizos degeneration, which earned his intellectual and political debates ahead about the miscegenation defense (physical and cultural). He was one of characters for focus interpretation of national history changing, who left from the race to the cultural context. In this way, acted vigorously to brazilian racial democracy defending, seen by him as a result of the legal barriers absence original from the Portuguese colonization. Thus, this studying treats about the function and meaning of Ramoss action in the international scientific space for his short but significant work in the Department of Social Sciences of UNESCO, which surrendered to the Brazilian Social Sciences visibility as a scientific producer of knowledge, as well as UNESCO project coming to Brazil in the 1950s. This research examines a posthumous work, The miscegenation in Brazil (A mestiçagem no Brasil), little bit known and worked, but unique meaning, considering his production from the World War II atrocities and the racist conception return in the nineteenth century by the Nazis.