Beverley Hills Research Articles

The Mountain in the Sea: Place, Wilderness and History on the Sunset Side of Hoerikwaggo

For six years of my life, I lived in Camps Bay. That’s a bit like saying I lived in Beverley Hills, or Knightsbridge, or on The Peak in Hong Kong. Every city has a suburb that is the local byword for conspicuous consumption, for interstellar property values, for self-indulgent wealth. In Cape Town to say you live in Camps Bay is to say your other car is a Range Rover; that your Pilates instructor comes to your house every morning; that your daughter started using Botox at seventeen.

Street art as “street fetish”- a new signifier of social class? The case of Brazil’s “Beverley Hills”

ABSTRACT This study explores street art's changing symbolic value and emplacement, the latter of which is reaching beyond the city limits and so-called 'public' space, where commissioned practices are being carried out on individuals' private homes and elite households in non-urban spaces. In this paper I focus on the process of “street fetish”, which has resulted from street art's contemporary institutionalization and shaped by complex socio-cultural, political, and economic process including de-subculturalization and artification. These microprocesses are intertwined with the convergence of authenticity and commercialization, and inseparable from practical, symbolic, organizational, discursive, and semiotic shifts taking place within the (street) art world concerning its market value, which are shaped by and simultaneously shape the field of cultural production and highly influenced by global capitalism. My investigation focuses on the work of one Brazilian street artist, RDO SAMP and his commissioned street art on a private home in the beach town resort of Jurerê International (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina), one of the most affluent towns in the country, which was designed by the world renowned, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and a place, where class distinctions center on enculturated symbolic and material economies.

Introduction: ‘So bad it’s good’: aesthetics, reception, and beyond

7 January 2018. Beverley Hills, California. It was the night of the 75th Golden Globe Awards, and James Franco had just been named Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disas...

Low-Turnover Drug Molecules: A Current Challenge for Drug Metabolism Scientists.

In vitro assays using liver subcellular fractions or suspended hepatocytes for characterizing the metabolism of drug candidates play an integral role in the optimization strategy employed by medicinal chemists. However, conventional in vitro assays have limitations in their ability to predict clearance and generate metabolites for low-turnover (slowly metabolized) drug molecules. Due to a rapid loss in the activity of the drug-metabolizing enzymes, in vitro incubations are typically performed for a maximum of 1 hour with liver microsomes to 4 hours with suspended hepatocytes. Such incubations are insufficient to generate a robust metabolic response for compounds that are slowly metabolized. Thus, the challenge of accurately estimating low human clearance with confidence has emerged to be among the top challenges that drug metabolism scientists are confronted with today. In response, investigators have evaluated novel methodologies to extend incubation times and more sufficiently measure metabolism of low-turnover drugs. These methods include plated human hepatocytes in monoculture, and a novel in vitro methodology using a relay of sequential incubations with suspended cryopreserved hepatocytes. In addition, more complex in vitro cellular models, such as HepatoPac (Hepregen, Medford, MA), a micropatterned hepatocyte-fibroblast coculture system, and the HµREL (Beverley Hills, CA) hepatic coculture system, have been developed and characterized that demonstrate prolonged enzyme activity. In this review, the advantages and disadvantages of each of these in vitro methodologies as it relates to the prediction of clearance and metabolite identification will be described in an effort to provide drug metabolism scientists with the most up-to-date experimental options for dealing with the complex issue of low-turnover drug candidates.

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and hair loss

1. Edwin Suddleson, MD (esudds{at}aol.com) 1. Beverley Hills, California, USA Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most prevalent endocrine abnormalities in women.[1][1] This fact, simply stated, came as a surprise to me when I interviewed a patient with PCOS and hair loss and

Writings on the Dark Side of Travel

Thursday, 11 August 2005. Killing time, I visit the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. This is coming to the end of a tour of the Arthur Murray dance studios up and down the West Coast. It is a hot break coming at the end of a month’s dance fieldwork in Sacramento. Rather than fly back to Belfast from San Francisco, I opted for LAX and bookended my research with a personal journey driving up and down the state. I had gone up through Death Valley where I had solo hiked into the desert and made a souvenir vial of Death Valley sand. Then inland north to get through Yosemite, living in my rental car, sleeping in motels. Back south, I was sampling the dance studios along the coast—waltz in San Francisco, rumba in Hayward, foxtrot in Redwood City, tango in San Jose, salsa in chic Santa Barbara, merengue in Beverley Hills. Along the way, I was taking in the tourist attractions: the boardwalk in Santa Cruz where the movie Lost Boys was filmed; Cannery Row, Monterey, described long ago by John Steinbeck; Hearst Castle, which had inspired Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane.

The Voting Audience

The Voting Audience

The Voting Audience

The Voting Audience

The Architectural Nervous System

The Architectural Nervous System

The Manufacture of World Order

The Manufacture of World Order

Reconsidering the exploration of power distance: an active case study approach

In this paper, we present what we call an “active case study” and we theorize specifically on the relevance hereof for an exploration of power distance (as conceptualized by Hofstede (Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, Sage, Beverley Hills, CA, 1980)). As Hofstede conceives it, the notion of “power distance” enables an understanding of the predominant ideas about inequality prevalent in a (national) culture, which in turn infuse work relationships. An active case study approach—as we elucidate in the paper—implies an acknowledgement on the part of those organizing the research of the manner in which their intervention might affect the way “respondents” experience their work relationships. We suggest that our proposed active case study approach offers novel possibilities for exploring power distance and should be added to the repertoire of approaches used to examine this in organizational life. We develop our argument in this regard by offering a detailed account of the application of this approach to a Taiwanese organization (the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau in Taiwan).

John Grisham: The chamber (London: Century 1994); The rainmaker (London: Century 1995); The runaway jury (London: Century 1996)

Let me be frank. Like any practising lawyer, I would prefer to write novels and have them made into movies by Hollywood. A decade ago, John Grisham was practising as a lawyer somewhere in the American South. The Runaway Jury is his seventh novel about the legal process. Its six predecessors have sold some 75 million copies in the English language. Four have already been released as films. The others have no doubt been the subject of deals in the Polo Bar of the Beverley Hills Hotel. How is this phenomenon to be explained?

Audits of nursing care in Britain: A review and a critique of approaches to validating them

The literature on audits of nursing care shows a strong link between the quality of nursing care and nursing labour force issues. Early attempts to develop a universally applicable formula to set nurse staffing levels on the basis of variations in patient dependency were shown to have been based on unrealistic assumptions about the ability of scientific methods to remove the influence of judgement from such areas of decision-making. The extent to which the validity of audit instruments has been established is reviewed, showing the number of studies to be small, almost exclusively in relation to American instruments, and with inconclusive results. An extension of the concept of validity is discussed, based on House's approach [House, E.R. (1980). Evaluating with Validity. Sage Publications, London, Beverley Hills] towards establishing validity in educational evaluation. This approach explicitly acknowledges the role of judgement in the evaluative enterprise, and widens the debate about how to settle questions of validity for audits of nursing care.

W. J. Lonner and J. W. Berry (eds.): Field Methods in Cross-Cultural Research. Volume 8, Cross-Cultural Research and Methodology Series 1987, Beverley Hills CA: Sage. 368 pages

W. J. Lonner and J. W. Berry (eds.): Field Methods in Cross-Cultural Research. Volume 8, Cross-Cultural Research and Methodology Series 1987, Beverley Hills CA: Sage. 368 pages

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS Get access AGING CRIMINALS. BY NEAL SHOVER. [Beverley Hills: Sage. 1985. 175 pp. Cloth £28.00, Paper £12.50.] Mike Maguire Mike Maguire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Autumn 1988, Page 556, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047777 Published: 01 October 1988

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS Get access AGING CRIMINALS. BY NEAL SHOVER. [Beverley Hills: Sage. 1985. 175 pp. Cloth £28.00, Paper £12.50.] Mike Maguire Mike Maguire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Autumn 1988, Page 556, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047777 Published: 01 October 1988

Nora Hamilton and Timothy Harding (eds): Modern Mexico: State, Economy and Social Conflict (London: Sage, in cooperation with Latin American Perspectives, Beverley Hills, 1985, £16.50). Pp. 312.

Nora Hamilton and Timothy Harding (eds): Modern Mexico: State, Economy and Social Conflict (London: Sage, in cooperation with Latin American Perspectives, Beverley Hills, 1985, £16.50). Pp. 312.

Book Review: Kenneth E. Boulding, The World as a Total System (Beverley Hills, London and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1985, 183pp., £27.50)

Book Review: Kenneth E. Boulding, The World as a Total System (Beverley Hills, London and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1985, 183pp., £27.50)

Urban economic development and regulation by municipal licensing

Urban Economic Development: Edited by Richard D. Bincham and John P. Blair. Beverley Hills: Sage Publications. 1984. Pp. 287. $28.00 (hardcover). $14.00 (paper)Regulation by Municipal Licensing: By John Bosson, S.M. Makuchand John Palmer. Ontario Economic Council Research Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1984. Pp. 111 (paper). $6.50

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access DEVIANTS: VICTIMS OR VICTIMIZERS? Edited by DONAL E. J. MACNAMARA and ANDREW KARMEN. [Beverley Hills: Sage, 1983. 256 pp. No price given.] Joanna Shapland Joanna Shapland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1985, Pages 205–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047523 Published: 01 April 1985