Comedy hints at the tragedy beneath [REVIEW]

THE Little Dog Laughed. By Douglas Carter Beane. Queensland Theatre Company. Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane. February 11. DOUGLAS Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed is a comedy about truth and its consequences. Set mainly in New York, the story follows film star Mitchell Green's developing relationship with Alex, a rentboy he calls one night while drunk and lonely in a hotel room. Scenes in which Mitchell and Alex test the strength of something they seem to have found together are punctuated by monologues from Mitchell's agent Diane and Alex's ex-girlfriend Ellen. We start to see glimpses of their separate lives, what their shared life might look like and, eventually, a crisis that brings all four characters together in the pursuit of a somewhat conflicted set of ideas about what happiness is and what it takes to be happy.

Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

We performed an integrated genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of 373 endometrial carcinomas using array- and sequencing-based technologies. Uterine serous tumours and ∼25% of high-grade endometrioid tumours had extensive copy number alterations, few DNA methylation changes, low oestrogen receptor/progesterone receptor levels, and frequent TP53 mutations. Most endometrioid tumours had few copy number alterations or TP53 mutations, but frequent mutations in PTEN, CTNNB1, PIK3CA, ARID1A and KRAS and novel mutations in the SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex gene ARID5B. A subset of endometrioid tumours that we identified had a markedly increased transversion mutation frequency and newly identified hotspot mutations in POLE. Our results classified endometrial cancers into four categories: POLE ultramutated, microsatellite instability hypermutated, copy-number low, and copy-number high. Uterine serous carcinomas share genomic features with ovarian serous and basal-like breast carcinomas. We demonstrated that the genomic features of endometrial carcinomas permit a reclassification that may affect post-surgical adjuvant treatment for women with aggressive tumours.

Douglas Shire Water Quality Monitoring Strategy: Final Report: a Report to Douglas Shire Council and the Department of the Environment and Heritage

This report describes results and conclusions from the monitoring component of the Douglas Shire Council (DSC) water quality project. The components of this project that this report addresses are: • Site selection and installation of in-stream and off-paddock automatic water quality monitoring equipment in the Douglas Shire. • Design of appropriate sampling strategies for automatic stations. • Estimation of loads of suspended sediment, total nitrogen and total phosphorus in rivers and also estimation of the changes in nutrient loads from sugar cane under different fertilizer application rates. • Development of a community-based water quality sampling program to complement the automatic sampling efforts. • Design of an optimised, long-term water quality monitoring strategy.

A Classification of Homogeneous Operators in the Cowen-Douglas Class

A complete list of homogeneous operators in the Cowen-Douglas class B-n(D) is given. This classification is obtained from an explicit realization of all the homogeneous Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles on the unit disc under the action of the universal covering group of the bi-holomorphic automorphism group of the unit disc.

Accountability for good faith in commercial dealing: The Carter v Boehm legacy 250 years on

In common law jurisdictions such as England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand good faith in contracting has long been recognised in specific areas of the law such as insurance law and franchising, and more recently the implied duties of good faith and mutual trust and convenience in employment contracts have generated a considerable volume of case law. Outside of these areas of law that may be characterised as being strongly‘relational’ in character,the courts in common law jurisdictions have been reluctant to embrace a more universal application of good faith in contracting and performance. However increasingly there are cases which support the proposition that there is a common law duty of good faith of general application to all commercial contracts. Most important in this context is the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Bhasin v Hrynew.1 However, this matter is by no means resolved in all common law jurisdictions. This article looks at the recent case law and literature and at various legislative incursions including statutes, codes of conduct and regulations impacting good faith in commercial dealings.

A classification of homogeneous operators in the Cowen-Douglas class

An explicit construction of all the homogeneous holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles over the unit disc D is given. It is shown that every such vector bundle is a direct sum of irreducible ones. Among these irreducible homogeneous holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles over D, the ones corresponding to operators in the Cowen-Douglas class B-n(D) are identified. The classification of homogeneous operators in B-n(D) is completed using an explicit realization of these operators. We also show how the homogeneous operators in B-n(D) split into similarity classes. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Infinitely divisible metrics and curvature inequalities for operators in the Cowen-Douglas class

The curvature (T)(w) of a contraction T in the Cowen-Douglas class B-1() is bounded above by the curvature (S*)(w) of the backward shift operator. However, in general, an operator satisfying the curvature inequality need not be contractive. In this paper, we characterize a slightly smaller class of contractions using a stronger form of the curvature inequality. Along the way, we find conditions on the metric of the holomorphic Hermitian vector bundle E-T corresponding to the operator T in the Cowen-Douglas class B-1() which ensures negative definiteness of the curvature function. We obtain a generalization for commuting tuples of operators in the class B-1() for a bounded domain in C-m.

Flag structure for operators in the Cowen-Douglas class

The explicit description of homogeneous operators and localization of a Hilbert module naturally leads to the definition of a class of Cowen-Douglas operators possessing a flag structure. These operators are irreducible. We show that the flag structure is rigid in the sense that the unitary equivalence class of the operator and the flag structure determine each other. We obtain a complete set of unitary invariants which are somewhat more tractable than those of an arbitrary operator in the Cowen-Douglas class. (C) 2014 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Homogeneous Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles and the Cowen-Douglas class over bounded symmetric domains

It is known that all the vector bundles of the title can be obtained by holomorphic induction from representations of a certain parabolic group on finite-dimensional inner product spaces. The representations, and the induced bundles, have composition series with irreducible factors. We write down an equivariant constant coefficient differential operator that intertwines the bundle with the direct sum of its irreducible factors. As an application, we show that in the case of the closed unit ball in C-n all homogeneous n-tuples of Cowen-Douglas operators are similar to direct sums of certain basic n-tuples. (c) 2015 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Fatores de risco de perda de documentos eletrônicos de caráter arquivístico em uma instituição pública : um estudo de caso na Câmara dos Deputados

Identifica os riscos de perda de documentos eletrônicos de caráter arquivístico em uma organização, tomando por base um estudo de caso na Câmara dos Deputados. Analisa as diversas origens desses riscos na instituição : visão estratégica do problema, monitoração e auditoria, treinamento, conservação e obsolescência tecnológica, políticas e responsabilidades, aspectos técnicos, administrativos e culturais, sistemas eletrônicos de gestão arquivística de documentos, conhecimento de normas e padrões.

Demonstrativo das despesas obrigatórias de caráter continuado : análise e evolução histórica, avaliação e identificação das variáveis que o determinam para proposição de um novo modelo

Analisa os mecanismos referentes ao controle das despesas obrigatórias de caráter continuado: o mecanismo de compensação, que tem suas origens no denominado "pay-as-you-go" implantado com o "Budget Enforcement Act" norte-americano, e o demonstrativo de margem de expansão. A análise da evolução histórica dessa categoria de despesas para a União evidencia que os mecanismos de compensação utilizados não permitiram o controle efetivo do aumento dessas despesas, inviabilizando o direcionamento de recursos para ações que impliquem garantia de desenvolvimento sustentável. A discussão sobre os conceitos de despesas obrigatórias de caráter continuado, dos mecanismos de compensação e dos objetivos da apresentação de um demonstrativo de estimativa de margem de expansão indica a necessidade de uma reavaliação e aprofundamento, baseados nos objetivos originais da Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal, a fim de se ampliar a eficácia de tais mecanismos. Por fim, o trabalho propõe um novo modelo para a apresentação do demonstrativo de estimativa de margem de expansão de despesas obrigatórias de caráter continuado, que possibilite a utilização de uma terminologia adequada, a identificação de fontes e valores dos parâmetros empregados na previsão de receitas e despesas e a avaliação comparativa entre os valores estimados e aqueles realmente executados nos dois exercícios anteriores.

Angela Carter's focus on celluloid dreams

Santamaría, José Miguel; Pajares, Eterio; Olsen, Vickie; Merino, Raquel; Eguíluz, Federico (eds.)

Divididos por zero : um estudo sobre o caráter difuso do anonymous

Analisa elementos que caracterizam os grupos de manifestação política dispersos pelas redes e mídias digitais, a partir do caso do Anonymous, grupo cuja atuação política foge aos padrões convencionais de participação, contestação e ativismo. Sugere-se para a entidade o conceito de “grupos difusos”, visto que não há liderança unificada e nem centralização de suas ações. Além disso, o grupo não possui uma política claramente definida e nem atores identificados. Conclui-se que, ao favorecer a interação e permitir o espraiamento de mútuos padrões comportamentais, o grupo aparenta alcançar ainda mais cooperação do que os modelos tradicionais de manifestação política.