Award Finalists Research Articles

The Index as a Form of Self-Archiving in the Works of Alejandro Cesarco and Joan Wickersham

Contemporary life-writing, especially of an experimental disposition, increasingly demonstrates its wariness of narrative as an organising principle of auto/biography and favours structures that resemble an archive – a repository of autobiographical content, disconnected, fragmentary, and arbitrarily arranged. Over the last two decades, we can observe a rise in the popularity of self-archives adopting alphabetical structures such as the bibliography, the encyclopaedia, the glossary, and the index. Of all the alphabetical arrangements of the archive, the index appears the least likely form to be used in life-writing because of the rigidity of its structure and its aura of formality and academic detachment. However, as this article demonstrates, the index can be successfully used in life-writing as a method of processing and investigating one's past. The article begins with a theoretical discussion of the index – its historical and cultural significance, as well as its politics and poetics. It proceeds to analyse two notable uses of the index for autobiographical purposes: Alejandro Cesarco's long-term artistic project titled Index (2000–2015) and Joan Wickersham's memoir The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order (2008), a National Book Award's finalist for non-fiction. The article shows that whereas Cesarco employs the index primarily to catalogue and examine his intellectual and artistic influences, Wickersham uses it as a structural foundation for her personal search to comprehend and mourn the suicide of her father.

Letter from the Editors: 2023 Awards Issue Featuring Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award Finalists and Interviews with AIB Fellows Award Recipients

Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to the finalists for AIB’s prestigious Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award. We are proud to feature the 11th such issue, with articles by the 2023 award finalists. This year, we add a new feature to the issue – interviews with the recipients of the AIB Fellows 2023 International Educator of the Year Award, John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award and International Executive of the Year Award.

Getting the wellbeing word out: how two RSPH Health & Wellbeing Award finalists raise awareness of their offer.

Getting the wellbeing word out: how two RSPH Health & Wellbeing Award finalists raise awareness of their offer.

Recognising sustainable best practice in the UK coatings industry as Coatings Care 2023 Award finalists announced

Recognising sustainable best practice in the UK coatings industry as Coatings Care 2023 Award finalists announced

From the Editor: Belated Recognition for the 2021 Clemen–Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award Winner and Finalist

Free AccessAboutSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Go to SectionFree Access HomeDecision AnalysisAhead of Print From the Editor: Belated Recognition for the 2021 Clemen–Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award Winner and FinalistVicki M. BierVicki M. BierPublished Online:9 May 2023https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2023.0477The winning paper for 2021 was “Friction and Decision Rules in Portfolio Decision Analysis,” by Gary J. Summers (Summers 2021). To put this paper in context, the practice of decision analysis typically involves identifying performance objectives and managerial preferences, quantifying uncertainties, and then using them as inputs to assess alternatives. An exhaustive theory-driven literature in decision analysis provides foundations for this practice, assuming that objectives, preferences, and uncertainties are well understood and available to quantify. The award-winning paper by Summers highlights that this quantification may not be accurate in practice, leading to “friction” in decision analysis models. This friction can systematically lead to a loss in decision quality. The article provides examples from multiple domains, and new analysis to illustrate this friction. As such, the article underscores the importance of calibrating the inputs to decision analysis models. It promises to be a springboard for future research on understanding the causes of friction in decision analysis models, its implications, and mitigation methods.I congratulate Gary J. Summers on this excellent paper and am especially glad that Decision Analysis was able to help a full-time practitioner bring forth important and insightful ideas in a manner that is compelling to both academics and practitioners.The finalist for 2021 was “Preference-Approval Structures in Group Decision Making: Axiomatic Distance and Aggregation,” by Yucheng Dong, Yao Li, Ying He, and Xia Chen (Dong et al. 2021). Although decision analysis commonly focuses on decision making by an individual or a group acting as an individual, this paper focuses on group decision making. It combines two popular approaches for aggregating individual preferences, ranked voting and approval voting, which have compensating strengths and weaknesses. Ranked voting leverages the preference ranking central to the decision analysis approach, but is subject to strategic manipulation (where individuals misrepresent their preferences); approval voting is immune to strategic manipulation, but does not provide the complete ranking required by decision analysis. The article shows that combining them leads to superior performance. Future empirical research and practice is likely to significantly benefit from the rigorous foundational treatment provided by this article.Congratulations to Dong et al. for this excellent and pragmatic contribution to the challenging topic of group decision making.Thanks also to committee members Saurabh Bansal (Pennsylvania State University) and Robert Bordley (University of Michigan) for cochairing the award committee for 2021, and for providing extensive input to the paper descriptions given above. My sincere apologies for this belated recognition to all.ReferencesDong Y, Li Y, He Y, Chen X (2021) Preference–approval structures in group decision making: Axiomatic distance and aggregation. Decision Anal. 18(4):273–295. https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2021.0430.Link, Google ScholarSummers GJ (2021) Friction and decision rules in portfolio decision analysis. Decision Anal. 18(2):101–120. https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2020.0421.Link, Google Scholar Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation Articles In Advance Article Information Metrics Information Published Online:May 09, 2023 Copyright © 2023, INFORMSCite asVicki M. Bier (2023) From the Editor: Belated Recognition for the 2021 Clemen–Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award Winner and Finalist. Decision Analysis 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2023.0477 PDF download

"Alternate Presents": An Interview with Daryl Gregory

"Alternate Presents":An Interview with Daryl Gregory Christina Connor (bio) and Daryl Gregory (bio) Daryl Gregory's publishing history includes a long list of awards and recognition that any writer of the fantastic would be thrilled to possess. Trained in the Clarion Writer's Workshop, Gregory has garnered acclaim since the publication of his debut novel, Pandemonium (2008), which won the Crawford award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy award. His bio is staggering: His novel Spoonbenders was a Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award finalist. His novella We Are All Completely Fine won the World Fantasy and the Shirley Jackson awards, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus awards. He's an executive producer and writer for several of his novels being adapted for TV. The SF novel Afterparty was an NPR and Kirkus Best Fiction book of 2014, and a finalist for the Campbell and the Lambda Literary awards. His other novels are YA horror novel Harrison Squared, The Devil's Alphabet (a Philip K. Dick award finalist), and Raising Stony Mayhall (a Library Journal best SF book of the year). His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo and other awards. Many of them are collected in Unpossible and Other Stories, which was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He has also written for video games and comics. We are grateful to him for sitting down to discuss craft in this special issue of Studies in the Fantastic devoted to fiction. During our interview, I discovered that the key to his success is a devotion to continued professional growth. In this interview, Gregory explains his thoughts on the "big ideas" of the fantastic genre and shares [End Page 95] advice for writers, both those seeking to start their careers and experienced writers hoping to sharpen their skills. He discusses his own path to getting published, muses upon how writers can train, and shares his views on what part of professionalism matters the most in a writing career. (Spoiler alert: It's not social media!) The following interview was edited for length and form. Christina Connor: Why did you become a writer? Daryl Gregory: Growing up, I would read books and desperately want to do the same thing. I didn't realize that you couldn't be a writer, so I began writing my own stories. In fourth grade, I wrote my first novel; it was eight pages—my magnum opus—and it was remarkably similar to a book I had just read. I guess everybody sort of plays around with the idea of being a writer, but I never outgrew it. And so, I just kept writing. CC: Who are your writing inspirations? DG: It's funny. I have a few heavy hitters, but every book I write gets to pick its own parents. Each one is in conversation with a different set of novels that came before. So, my inspirations are whatever books that led to this one. My favorite book of all time is John Crowley's Little, Big [1981]—that book's always in my head. But when I was starting out, there were the books of Sean Stewart. He's sort of stopped writing novels and has a very successful career making games and virtual worlds, but his novels in the '90s were a huge influence on me because he set them mostly in the real world where magic was infused with daily life. I thought, "that's my jam; that's what I want to write." But as I said, there's just a wide array of writers whom I steal from and get influenced by, and the roster changes with every book. CC: Why do you write in the fantastic genre? DG: The fantastic was the first stuff that sparked my interest as a young reader: science fiction, comic books, fantasy. It all just lit me [End Page 96] up in a way nothing else did. Even after I became an English major and studied the canon, I always wrote the fantastic. My sensibilities matured (slightly), but a story must have something weird in it or it bores me...

About the Contributors

Other| January 01 2023 About the Contributors GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 153–155. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10144533 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation About the Contributors. GLQ 1 January 2023; 29 (1): 153–155. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10144533 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search Kadji Amin is associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sex from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. His book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (2017), won an honorable mention for best book in LGBT studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book, “Trans Materialism without Gender Identity.”Howard Chiang is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and past chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. He is the author of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018), which received the International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize. Both books... Issue Section: Contributors You do not currently have access to this content.

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Letter from the Editors: Special Issue on the 2022 Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award

Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to the finalists for the AIB’s prestigious Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award. We are proud to feature the 10th such issue, with articles by the 2022 award finalists – and we hope that you will enjoy reading about key insights from their outstanding dissertation research as much as we have.

Abstract 14350: CVSA Early Career Investigator Award Finalist: Association of Aneurysm Wall Stresses With Diameter Indices and Three-Year Outcomes in Veterans

Introduction: Current diameter-based guidelines for ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms do not consistently predict risk of dissection/rupture. Aneurysm wall stresses may better predict risk but correlate weakly with diameter. Our objective was to correlate aneurysm wall stresses with indexed diameters in relation to 3-year all-cause mortality. Methods: Finite element analyses were performed on 255 patients with aneurysms ≥4.0cm. Three-dimensional geometries were reconstructed from computed tomography and models developed accounting for pre-stress geometries. A fiber-embedded hyperelastic material model was applied to obtain circumferential (circ.) and longitudinal (long.) wall stress distributions under systolic pressure. Peak wall stresses were compared across diameter/[body surface area (BSA)] and diameter/[height (ht)] thresholds from the literature. Hazard ratios for 3-year all-cause mortality and surgical aneurysm repair were estimated using cause-specific Cox proportional hazards models. Results: Compared to the 22% cumulative incidence of aneurysm repair at 3 years, indexed diameter indicated repair at baseline in 17/255 (7%) patients, including only 4/230 (1.7%) with diameter <5.5cm. Peak wall stresses did not significantly differ across literature-proposed thresholds for diameter/BSA (circ: p=0.15; long: p=0.18), but did differ for diameter/ht (circ: p=0.003; long: p=0.048). All-cause mortality was associated with peak long. stresses independent of indexed diameter (p=0.009). Peak long. stresses were best predicted by diameter (c-statistic=0.66), followed by diameter/ht (c-statistic=0.59), and diameter/BSA (c-statistic=0.55). Conclusions: Diameter/ht better stratified peak wall stresses than diameter/BSA. Peak long. stresses independently predicted all-cause mortality, adjusting for age and indexed diameter. Peak long. stresses may aid risk stratification for adverse events.

Abstract 10489: CVSA Early Career Investigator Award Finalist: Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion for Acute Coronary Syndromes - Insights From the TRICS-III Randomized Controlled Trial, Systematic Review, and Meta-Analysis

Introduction: The optimal transfusion strategy for patients with ACS is unclear. Current data are inconclusive and there is a paucity of long term data; therefore, we performed a subgroup analysis of patients with AMI in the Transfusion Thresholds in Cardiac Surgery (TRICS-III) randomized controlled trial (RCT) to add evidence addressing this important clinical question, and interpret the results in the context of a systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: The TRICS-III trial randomized patients undergoing cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass with a moderate-to-high risk of death to restrictive transfusion (transfuse at hemoglobin <7.5g/dL) or a liberal strategy (operating room and ICU: transfuse at hemoglobin <9.5g/dL; ward: <8.5g/dL). AMI patients were those undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery with a recent MI and ≥1 of the following enrichment criteria: unstable angina, critical preoperative state, preoperative intra aortic balloon pump, and/or emergency surgery. The primary outcome for this analysis was MACE (all-cause death, MI, and revascularization) at 6 months. The MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched through April 2022 to identify RCTs evaluating restrictive versus liberal transfusion in patients with ACS. The primary outcome was MACE at the longest available timepoint. Results: In the TRICS AMI population (N=194), a restrictive transfusion strategy did not increase the risk of MACE (OR: 1.36; 95% CI: 0.57-3.27). Three additional RCTs met eligibility criteria for the systematic review yielding a total of 1015 patients. The transfusion strategies were similar across all studies. After synthesizing the data, restrictive transfusion was associated with a trend toward an increased absolute risk of MACE (4%; 95% CI, -1 to 9%) and MI (3%; 95% CI, 0 to 6%) at the longest available timepoint (Figure). Conclusion: In the setting of ACS, liberal transfusion strategies may reduce the risk of long term adverse cardiovascular events.

BCF Recognizes Environmental Excellence, Announces Coatings Care 2022 Award Finalists

BCF Recognizes Environmental Excellence, Announces Coatings Care 2022 Award Finalists

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME: Tracing a poetic lineage

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAMETracing a poetic lineage Terrance Hayes (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 134] dear lucky recipient congratulations, tim seibles fan! You are receiving this very limited edition of our BOOKBIOBOARDGAME for an extended reading of Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems, by Tim Seibles, released in early 2022. Rereadings may be done alone or in pairs at your preferred light source and hour. A few members of our expert reading laboratory have reported enjoying the game best with Derridean deconstructions of the erotic in Tim Seibles. Our principles for enjoying the game are interchangeable with those of the Frank O'Hara Meditations in an Emergency Room and Board Game and the Bob Kaufman Golden Sardine Eating Board Game. But with Seibles we wanted to examine a classic midcentury Black baby boomer ironman work-a-day poet. Seibles is a poet who straddles our poetic past and future like Janus, the god of entrances and exits. ________ You are also receiving our Encyclopedic Century Poet Magic Reversible card deck. One side bears images of our extensive and ever-expanding collection of quintessential poets* and one side is a slanting mystical tarot deck of poetry trivia, scholia, tidbits, and footnotes. [End Page 135] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION YOUR TIM SEIBLES CHARM PLAY PLAYING STRATEGIES PERSONA POETS GAME VERSION STRATEGY WINNING THE GAME SAMPLE BOARD GAME RECAP BOOKS READING EQUIPMENT • Game board, constructed out of Ouija board and virtual pen and ink • Encyclopedic Century Poet Magic Reversible card deck • Tim Seibles charm (player piece) • Dice Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 136] INTRODUCTION tim seibles was born poised at the middle of the century between Brown v. Board of Education and the founding of Motown. Seibles was born in the year Emmett Till was murdered, one of the national shocks that set the Civil Rights era in motion. Tim Seibles was born at the birth of the civil and right. The proliferation of television meant a proliferation of images of horror at home and abroad. Tim Seibles was born at the birth of popular culture. His work is one measure of Time. He came of age as political change slowly evolved into social change for Black people. ________ "The Word 1964–1981" from Body Moves, his 1988 debut, begins, "In Philadelphia / I went back to the school / we integrated. The bunch of us / had no idea how big a deal it was." The scene returns twenty-four years later in "Allison Wolff," from 2012's Fast Animal, a National Book Award finalist: "Was she Jewish? I was seventeen, // an 'Afro-American' senior transferred to a suburban school / that held just a few of us." The poem speaks in the register of memoir and the timbre of personal letters. The references to "the bunch of us" and "few of us" across the poems underscore the communal and cultural confidence encircling the racial interaction. In "Allison Wolff" "the monsters that murdered / Emmett Till—were they everywhere? / I didn't know. I didn't know enough." In the poem, Black nationalism tangles with integration. Freedom tangles with cultural solidarity. The poems are full of brothers, Black men and Black boys, Black fathers and sons in earshot of Till's murder. ________ We encourage you to look closely at the measure of time in the body of work and in the body of Tim Seibles in America, and the spirit of his poems on earth. [End Page 137] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 139] YOUR TIM SEIBLES CHARM make sure all poems have been experienced before assembly. Remove the Janus-head and insert a watch battery (not included) beneath the hat. Assemble the parts of his grasp and reach first. The fingers are delicate. To prevent typos and bruises, do not use excessive force. Seibles belongs to a diminishing breed of troubadour poet, a tribe of bards and guitarists with agile oversized hands, angular Thelonious Monk goatees, and smiles full of affectionate vocabularies. In Body Moves, the poem "The Snail" opens, "Sisters, / I am weak of your kisses / the wanting of them," announcing the images of mouths and kisses that will populate the poems...

PL5.6 (Gusdon Award Finalist): Discovery and characterization of a small molecule inhibitor that targets the NS2B‐NS3 protease of zika virus and inhibits viral replication

PL5.6 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: Discovery and characterization of a small molecule inhibitor that targets the NS2B‐NS3 protease of zika virus and inhibits viral replication

PL5.4 (Gusdon Award Finalist): Defining maternal decidual immunity and the developmental consequences of Zika virus infection during first‐trimester pregnancy

PL5.4 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: Defining maternal decidual immunity and the developmental consequences of Zika virus infection during first‐trimester pregnancy

PL5.2 (Gusdon Award Finalist): An Allosteric Modulator of IL‐6R, HSJ633, Reduced PTB and Inflammation by Inhibiting STAT3 Activation in a LPS‐Induced PTB Mouse Model

PL5.2 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: An Allosteric Modulator of IL‐6R, HSJ633, Reduced PTB and Inflammation by Inhibiting STAT3 Activation in a LPS‐Induced PTB Mouse Model

PL5.5 (Gusdon Award Finalist): Novel Identification of Distinct Neutrophil Subpopulations in the Mucosa of the Female Reproductive Tract Described by Spatial Transcriptomics

PL5.5 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: Novel Identification of Distinct Neutrophil Subpopulations in the Mucosa of the Female Reproductive Tract Described by Spatial Transcriptomics

PL5.1 (Gusdon Award Finalist): An in vivo model of urinary tract infection‐associated preterm birth

PL5.1 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: An in vivo model of urinary tract infection‐associated preterm birth

PL5.3 (Gusdon Award Finalist): Human decidual CD4+ T cells have phenotypic and functional heterogeneity

PL5.3 <i>(Gusdon Award Finalist)</i>: Human decidual CD4+ T cells have phenotypic and functional heterogeneity

The Prerogative of Human, Traditional, Green, and Dreamlike: An Interview with Violeta Dabija

The Prerogative of Human, Traditional, Green, and Dreamlike: An Interview with Violeta Dabija Vladimir Kravchenko (bio) and Violeta Dabija Violeta Dabija is one of the most prolific illustrators for children aged three to eight, in the United States and worldwide. She was born in Moldova, a small country situated in the extreme east of Europe, in 1979. She completed her art studies at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in the Republic of Moldova and illustrated her first children’s books for the Prut International publishing house and for UNICEF Moldova. In 2007, Dabija started collaborating with publishers from the United States and since 2011 with writers and publishing houses all around the world. She has illustrated about forty books, which have been published and translated in English, French, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. Dabija is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is best known for illustrating the nonfiction picturebooks of the Can Be… series by Laura Purdie Salas, which won prestigious awards and distinctions. Among them is the John Burroughs Riverby Award, 2012; Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2013 and 2015; CCBC Choices, 2015; Scholastic Book Club Selection, 2013; IRA Teachers’ Choices, 2013; and NYC Reads 365 Recommended Reading List, 2017. The book A Leaf Can Be… is the most appreciated of the three, claiming Dabija’s unique talent in depicting green issues: “The illustrations should be on every Earth Day poster” (Smorris/KidLitReviews). “Grown-up readers may be a bit in awe too,” commented the New York Times (Paul). It was even said that if the artist were American, not foreign, she could have been awarded the Caldecott Medal for these illustrations (“A Leaf Can Be…”). Since 2018, Dabija has been living and working in California, in the United States, with her husband and son. Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 95] How would your personal style match the environmental agenda of the post-COVID world? As I have been illustrating socially relevant issues for many years, the eventual “earth-friendly challenge” is likely up to me. In addition, illustrating children’s books for UNICEF helped me obtain skills of depicting stories of universal importance. Winter subjects are my favorite ones, and the magic of nature is a recurrent theme in many illustrations. In this context, the most representative are scenes from the nonfiction books A Leaf Can Be…, Water Can Be…, and A Rock Can Be…, which consider natural life in all its diversity. As a plant lover and as a mother, who wants her child to grow up in harmony with nature, I appreciate every effort to bring eco-knowledge in the forefront of people’s minds. That is why issues on antipollution, green and renewable energy, reduction and redistribution of waste, to name just a few, are likely to be represented in my pictures for little children. Click for larger view View full resolution Tell us more about your most acclaimed picture book, A Leaf Can Be… by Laura Purdie Salas. It is a nonfiction book with beautiful rhyming text on different appearances of leaves and on the functions they have in nature throughout a year. For example, a leaf can be rain stopper, wind rider, water ladle, Earth greener, shade spiller, pile maker, nest former, etc. The book is an excellent tool to bring up and assimilate green attitudes from a very early age. In agreement with the text, I provided images of trees and pure ambiance, I introduced shades of greens in the renderings, and I experimented a lot with watercolor texture, which is my favorite working method. This enhanced the feeling of magic “immersion” in the natural world. Among the most popular, in the nearest future, will also be technology-based issues. What is your professional opinion on representing artificial intelligence in children’s books? I am not the kind of artist interested in technology or machinery, but rather in human beings. The ideas of anthropomorphizing the technology have been active for more than 100 years in children’s books, among other sources. But even if artificial intelligence is part of daily life and is becoming more...