Mending Minds

Mending Minds

Parliament, Press, Radio and TV

description by "an eminent psychiatrist" of his patients and working methods. The articles were written by Douglas Keay, a journalist. 8th September. The main article in The Sunday Times?"Mending Broken Minds" by Dr. Alfred Byrne-?was devoted to a survey of provisions for the rehabilitation of mental patients after discharge from hospital. Letters from Mary Adams and J. Mallory Wober of the N.A...

A Stitch in Time: Changing Cultural Constructions of Craft and Mending

Over the course of the twentieth century, the availability of cheap, mass-produced fashion has contributed to a decline in everyday domestic mending skills. Indeed, as mass-manufactured goods have become cheaper for the global population it has become normative consumer behaviour to dispose of any item that is less than perfect, even when the damage is entirely superficial, leading Clark to cla...

American Humor in Promoting the Talk over the Wall with a Focus on Robert Frost’s Poems

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...

Tight Fault Locality (Extended Abstract)

The notion of fault local mending was suggested as a paradigm for designing fault tolerant algorithms that scale to large networks. For such algorithms the complexity of recovering is proportional to the number of faults. We refine this notion by introducing the concept of tight fault locality to deal with problems whose complexity (in the absence of faults) is sublinear in the size of the netw...