The Cambridge companion to Sam Shepard / / edited by Matthew Roudané [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996213400003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-139-81626-8; 0-511-99883-X; 1-280-16018-7; 0-511-11837-6; 1-139-14629-7; 0-511-06670-8; 0-511-06039-4; 0-511-30860-4; 0-511-06883-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge companions to literature
• Disciplina: 812/.54; B
• Soggetti: Dramatists, American - 20th century - Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Born injured / Christopher Bigsby -- Shepard and off-off-broadway: the unseen hand of theatre genesis / Stephen J. Bottoms -- Shepart on Shepard: an interview -- A note on Sam Shepard / Joseph Chaikin -- Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard in collaboration / Marc Robinson -- Repetition and regression in Curse of the Starving Class and Buried Child / Thomas P. Adler -- Shepard writes about writing / Brenda Murphy -- Reflections of the past in True West and A Lie of the Mind / Leslie Kane -- Patriarchal pathology from The Holy Ghostly to Silent Tongue Carla J. McDonough -- The classic western and Sam Shepard's family sagas / John M. Clum -- European textures: adapting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / Johan Callens -- Sam Shepard and the cinema / Kimball King -- Sam Shepard as musical experimenter / David J. DeRose.; Sam Shepard's nondramatic works / Ann C. Hall -- State of shock, Simpatico, and Eyes for Consuela: Sam Shepard's plays of the 1990s / Leslie A. Wade -- Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss / Matthew Roudane -- Sam Shepard: a bibliographic essay and production overview / Susan C.W. Abbotson.
• Sommario/riassunto: Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and European authors from different professional and academic backgrounds explore the various aspects of Shepard's career - his plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. The volume covers the major plays, including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True West, as well as other lesser known but vitally important works. A thorough chronology of Shepard's life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.

DNA, statistics and the law [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-disciplinary approach to forensic inference / / topic editors Alex Biedermann, Joëlle Vuille and Franco Taroni

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910131531203321
• Autore: Alex Biedermann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frontiers Media SA, 2014; France : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2014
• ISBN: 9782889192502 (ebook)
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (39 pages)
• Collana: Frontiers Research Topics
• Soggetti: Biology - General; Biology; Health & Biological Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: From ABO typing during the first half of the 20th century, to the use of enzymes and protein contained in blood serums and finally direct DNA typing, biology has been serving forensic purposes for many decades. Statistics, in turn, has been constantly underpinning the discussions of the probative value of results of biological analyses, in particular when defendants could not be considered as excluded as potential sources because of different genetic traits. The marriage between genetics and statistics has never been an easy one, though, as is illustrated by fierce arguments that peaked in the so-called "DNA wars" in some American courtrooms in the mid-1990s. This controversy has contributed to a lively production of research and publications on various interpretative topics, such as the collection of relevant data, foundations in population genetics as well as theoretical and practical considerations in probability and statistics. Both DNA profiling as a technique and the associated statistical considerations are now widely accepted as robust, but this does not yet guarantee or imply a neat transition to their application in court. Indeed, statistical principles applied to results of forensic DNA profiling analyses are a necessary, yet not a sufficient ; preliminary requirement for the contextually meaningful use of DNA in the law. Ultimately, the appropriate use of DNA in the forensic context relies on inference, i.e. reasoning reasonably in the face of uncertainty. This is all the more challenging that such thought processes need to be adopted by stakeholders from various backgrounds and holding diverse interests. Although several topics of the DNA controversy have been settled over time, some others are still debated (such as the question of how to deal with the probability of error), while yet others - purportedly settled topics - saw some recent revivals (e.g., the question of how to deal with database searches). In addition, new challenging topics have emerged over the last decade, such as the analysis and interpretation of traces containing only low quantities of DNA where artefacts of varying nature may affect results. Both technical and interpretative research involving statistics thus represent areas where ongoing research is necessary, and where scholars from the natural sciences and the law should collaborate. The articles in this Research Topic thus aim to investigate, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the current understanding of the strengths and limitations of DNA profiling results in legal applications. This Research Topic accepts contributions in all frontiers article type categories and places an emphasis on topics with a multidisciplinary perspective that explore (while not being limited to) statistical genetics for forensic scientists, case studies and reports, evaluation and interpretation of forensic findings, communication of expert findings to laypersons, quantitative legal reasoning and fact-finding using probability.