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Appreciates the kindness of Partridge (and others at the Academy and in Middletown) on the death of his son, James Hay while at the Academy; his wife wishes a lock of her son's hair; not yet sure what he would like to do with James' body. ; Transcription by Tom Weiss. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

35, [1] p. ; 17 cm. ; Signed on p. 35: A Virginian born and bred. Attributed to James Hay by Shipton & Mooney.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Audience Studies and The Convergence or Research Traditions -- 1. Viewers Work -- 2. Combinations, Comparisons, and Confrontations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Audience Research -- 3. Audience Research: Antinomies, Intersetions, and the Prospect of Comprehensive Theory -- 4. After Convergence: Constituents of a Social Semiotics of Mass Media Reception -- 5. The Pragmatics of Audience in Research and Theory -- Part II: Rethinking the Audience as and Object of Study -- 6. Recasting the Audience in the New Television Marketplace? -- 7. Toward a Qualitative Methodology of Audience Study: Using Ethnography to Study the Popular Culture Audience -- 8. Notes on Children as a Television Audience -- 9. Figuring Audiences and Readers -- 10. Marginal Texts, Marginal Audiences -- 11. Notes on the Struggle of Define Involvment in Television Viewing -- 12. On Not Finding Media Effects: Conceptual Problemsin the Notion of and "Active" Audience (with a Reply to Elihu Katz) -- Part III: The Politics of Audience Studies -- 13. The Politics of Producting Audiences -- 14. Power Viewing: A Glance at Pervasion inteh Postmodern Perplex -- 15. The Hegemony of "Specificity" and the Impase in Audience Research: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Ethnography -- 16. Ethnography and Radical Contextualism in Audience Studies -- Part IV: Locating Audiences -- 17. Hemisperes of Scholarship: Psychological and Other Approaches to Studying Media Audiences -- 18. From Audiences to Consumers: The Household and the Consumption of Communication and Information Technologies -- 19. Audience Violence: Watching Homeless Men Watch Die Hard -- 20. The Geograppy of Television: Ethnography, Communications, and Community

Using complexity science, we develop a theory to explain why some social movements develop through stages of increasing intensity which we define as an increase in social focusing. We name six such stages of focusing: disintegration, revitalization, religious, organisation, militaristic, and self-immolation. Our theory uses two variables from the social sciences: differentiation and centrality, where differentiation refers to the internal structure of a social system and centrality measures the variety of incoming information. The ratio of the two, differentiation/centrality (the d/c ratio) is a shorthand way of saying that centrality must be matched by a corresponding level of differentiation to maintain basic focusing. If centrality exceeds differentiation, then the result is a lack of focusing—disintegration. On the other hand, the more differentiation exceeds centrality, the more the system moves into the higher stages of social focusing, from revitalization to the final stage of self-immolation. To test the theory we examine historically indigenous social movements, in particular, the Grassy Narrows movement in northern Ontario Canada. We also suggest how the theory might be applied to explain other examples of social movement, especially millenarian movements at the end of the 20th century. We also suggest sociocybernetic ways the rest of society and the social movement itself can change its own social focusing.

Includes indexes. ; James Hay, chairman. ; v. 1. Statement of Brig. Gen. James B. Aleshire, Quartermaster General, United States Army. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; With this is bound: Army appropriation bill. Hearings . Jan. 13, 1912. 202 p.

The ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus, caused over 3 million reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 200,000 reported deaths between December 2019 and April 2020(1). Cases and deaths will increase as the virus continues its global march outward. In the absence of effective pharmaceutical interventions or a vaccine, wide-spread virological screening is required to inform where restrictive isolation measures should be targeted and when they can be lifted(2–6). However, limitations on testing capacity have restricted the ability of governments and institutions to identify individual clinical cases, appropriately measure community prevalence, and mitigate transmission. Group testing offers a way to increase efficiency, by combining samples and testing a small number of pools(7–9). Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of group testing designs for individual identification or prevalence estimation of SARS-CoV-2 infection when testing capacity is limited. To do this, we developed mathematical models for epidemic spread, incorporating empirically measured individual-level viral kinetics to simulate changing viral loads in a large population over the course of an epidemic. We used these to construct representative populations and assess pooling strategies for community screening, accounting for variability in viral load samples, dilution effects, changing prevalence and resource constraints. We confirmed our group testing framework through pooled tests on de-identified human nasopharyngeal specimens with viral loads representative of the larger population. We show that group testing designs can both accurately estimate overall prevalence using a small number of measurements and substantially increase the identification rate of infected individuals in resource-limited settings.