Different media allocation rules of varying complexity and data needs were developed from the same profit maximization principle. The benefits of using a complex allocation rule could then be critically examined. The analysis indicates that the benefits of complexity could be over‐estimated; the conditions under which some simple rules are expected to perform well are suggested.Résumé
'between the voice between the words between the work between us' appears in 'Voice as Form', a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal edited by Dr Pamela Corey and Dr Wenny Teo. Abstract: This visual/text essay reflects and reflects on some of the vocalities, vocabularies and moves in my practice since the mid-1990s, situated across moving image, installation, sound, performance, and text. Invoking the politics of speech, representation and translation, the essay offers a split and at least doubled narrative. A parallel sequence of text fragments – the one unfolding more or less chronologically, the other reversing through a series of concrete image/visual-text works, reconfigured. Then, a reverse partial chronology through images, invoking past projects, echoing and weaving back between preceding narrative fragments. The resulting coincidences, disjunctures and tensions between visual, textual and linguistic registers may suggest shifts between critical and poetic, disciplinary and discursive positions. Siting, losing, unmooring and hearing voices, acts of speaking, writing and listening are always contingent to other words and works, other histories and practices. Always-already tongue-tied and tin-eared, apparently sounding at once 'very London' and 'very Hong Kong village' – this voice is more parochial than metropolitan, more pidgin than cosmospolitan, more translocal than transnational; and possibly unreliable.
All too often, archaeologists have viewed curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological and natural history collections. The curation crisis can be understood as the result of a serious imbalance between the continued generation of field collections and a corresponding lack of resources and facilities devoted to accessioning, analyzing, reporting, curating and otherwise caring for these collections. Researchers mistakenly prioritize 'interpretation at the trowel's edge' with emphasis on excavation and field work, without considering the problem of how and where to store the objects they excavate. While legislation, Curation of Federally Owned and Administered Archaeological Collections (36 C.F.R. Part 79), was intended to ensure the long-term management and care of these resources, the absence of funding at the institutional and federal levels, nonexistent enforcement of the legislation through the National Park Service, and lack of compliance from field archaeologists, have resulted in collections throughout the United States being at risk of loss through deterioration, mismanagement, and neglect. I will demonstrate that accessioning, inventorying, cataloguing, rehousing and conserving are meaningful generative encounters between scholars, objects and collections staff, not simply byproducts of research. The need for an online database specifically set up for archaeological collections is suggested as a way to address the curation crisis. Implementing digitization will enhance preservation by reducing damage to the artifacts caused by physical handling. Persons working within the field will gain a better understanding of collections care and the collections transition to the repository.
All too often, archaeologists have viewed curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological and natural history collections. The curation crisis can be understood as the result of a serious imbalance between the continued generation of field collections and a corresponding lack of resources and facilities devoted to accessioning, analyzing, reporting, curating and otherwise caring for these collections. Researchers mistakenly prioritize 'interpretation at the trowel's edge' with emphasis on excavation and field work, without considering the problem of how and where to store the objects they excavate. While legislation, Curation of Federally Owned and Administered Archaeological Collections (36 C.F.R. Part 79), was intended to ensure the long-term management and care of these resources, the absence of funding at the institutional and federal levels, nonexistent enforcement of the legislation through the National Park Service, and lack of compliance from field archaeologists, have resulted in collections throughout the United States being at risk of loss through deterioration, mismanagement, and neglect. I will demonstrate that accessioning, inventorying, cataloguing, rehousing and conserving are meaningful generative encounters between scholars, objects and collections staff, not simply byproducts of research. The need for an online database specifically set up for archaeological collections is suggested as a way to address the curation crisis. Implementing digitization will enhance preservation by reducing damage to the artifacts caused by physical handling. Persons working within the field will gain a better understanding of collections care and the collections transition to the repository.
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Jeffrey D. Sadow is an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University Shreveport. If you're an elected official, political operative or anyone else upset at his views, don't go bothering LSUS or LSU System officials about that because these are his own views solely.
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