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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
No full textD. H. Lawrence used the literary and cultural stereotype of the femme fatale to justify and to express his fear of women. His fatal women, all terrifying, are of two distinct types: actively hostile, and indifferent. The first group appears in various forms: as seducers and betrayers, similar in their effects to the fairy enchantress of Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; vampires; beasts or the consorts of beasts; women who breathe death or draw men into deathly embraces; and women who destroy men by possessing their souls. But even more frightening are the representatives of the second group, the indifferent, for they embody the most ancient and powerful of female archetypes: fertility goddesses; earth mothers; divinities of nature with mysterious powers associated with blood, the moon, and the cycles of procreation. These many femmes fatales appear repeatedly in the three major novels: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love. In The Plumed Serpent, Lawrence attempts to shift the balance in favor of maleness. But he lends strength to his enemy, and ultimately defeats his own purpose. To make the male half of creation triumph over the female half, he must make his male characters superheroes, and the quasi-religious fanaticism of Ramon and Cipriano rings hollow. The attempt to appropriate for these heroes many of the traditional female strengths also leads to impossible contradictions, as does the declaration of the "phallic mystery" to be the source of all creativity, since the attitude of manly prayer, a symbolic sexual intercourse which pointedly excludes women from communion with the higher energies of the universe, only forces man into a more direct confrontation of an ultimately female cosmos.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T19:14:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 1982Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69590
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Optimal Reconfiguration of Thermally Distorted Wire Mesh Reflectors for Large Space Antennas
No full textThe problem of guaranteeing reflector surface precision for large aperture antennas deployed in space has not been completely resolved. This feasibility study advances an approach that represents a fundamental divergence from conventional techniques. Specifically, an underconstrained structural system in the form of a wire mesh Chebyshev net is shaped to the desired reflector geometry. Predicted thermal patterns are applied to this surface and resulting distortions are calculated. A technique for optimally reconfiguring the distorted mesh in terms of RMS surface error is established. This reconfiguration is accomplished using the kinematic mobility inherent to underconstrained systems. Since stretching of the distorted mesh material is not allowed, control load magnitudes can be greatly reduced. An example using electrostatic control force is forwarded. The performance (in the form of antenna gain) for the resulting non-ideal surfaces is examined and is shown to be promising in terms of proposed space technology.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T23:55:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 1987Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 70801
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Investigation of the Use of Plastic Containers for Heat Processed Foods
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Previous issue date: 1954Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 57926
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Studies Related to Phosphate Reaction Products in Soils
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Previous issue date: 1962Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 57078
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The Existence of Hamilton Circuits in Tree Graphs
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Previous issue date: 1962Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 57236
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Effects of selenite on metabolic events during the proliferation of canine mammary tumor cells
No full textIncreased cytoplasmic and nuclear selenium retention in CMT-13 cells was correlated with cell growth inhibition caused by selenite supplementation. Greater quantities of cytosolic selenium-containing proteins and a nuclear selenium-containing protein were detected as the quantity of selenium within CMT-13 cells increased. One of the antiproliferation effects of selenite on CMT-13 cells is accompanied by decreased rates of macromolecule synthesis, increased cellular macromolecule contents and increased cell size and multiple nuclei, indicating that enhanced cell fusion occurred. Selenite modulated the S and M phases during the cell cycle. Selenite increased the activity of the 114 KD protein kinase only during the S phase. Selenite treatment during the M phase resulted in a disappearance of a 53 KD kinase and the appearance of a 47 KD kinase. The cellular \rm\sp{32}P incorporation into macromolecules increased when inhibition of cell growth was observed by supplementation of selenite. Selenite generally increased the phosphorylation of nuclear phosphoproteins in the S phase, especially the phosphorylation of a 46 KD protein. Selenite inhibited hyperphosphorylation of the 21, 62 and 108 KD proteins during the M phase. Results of this study suggest that perturbations in protein phosphorylation may explain the ability of selenite to alter cell proliferation.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T11:56:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Microstructure development in alkoxide-derived mullite and mullite/zirconia composites
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Atom-by-Atom Substitution of Transition Metals in GaAs and Visualization of Hole-Mediated Interactions
No full textThe discovery of ferromagnetism in Mn doped InAs and GaAs has ignited interest in the development of semiconductor technologies based on the electron spin. A major hurdle remaining for realistic applications of ferromagnetic semiconductors, such as Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As, is their below room-temperature ferromagnetic transition temperature. Enhancing ferromagnetism in semiconductors requires understanding the mechanisms for interactions between magnetic dopants and identifying the circumstances that maximize ferromagnetic interactions.
In this thesis, we present a novel atom-by-atom substitution technique with the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to controllably incorporate transition metal dopants into GaAs. We compare the electronic states of isolated single acceptors in an identical configuration - Ga sites in the top layer of a GaAs surface. The acceptor levels and anisotropic shape of the hole states for manganese, iron, cobalt; and zinc are determined with STM topography and spectroscopy. The manganese acceptor has a deeper acceptor level than the nonmagnetic
zinc acceptor. The iron and cobalt acceptors have two acceptor levels that are complementary in their spatial distribution. We discuss the influence of the GaAs band structure and the p-d hybridization on the hole states. In addition, we probe the Mn acceptor in n-type and p-type GaAs to understand the role of tip-induced band bending in our experiments.
We also present the first controlled atomic scale study of the interactions between isolated Mn impurities mediated by electronic states in GaAs. High-resolution STM measurements provide visualization of the GaAs electronic states that participate in Mn-Mn interactions. We quantify the interaction strengths between Mn pairs as a function of relative position and orientation. Our experimental findings, which can be explained using tight-binding model calculations, reveal a strong dependence of ferromagnetic interaction on crystallographic orientation. This anisotropic interaction can potentially be exploited by growing oriented Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As structures to enhance the ferromagnetic transition temperature beyond that achieved in randomly doped samples.Submitted by Rachelle Ramer ([email protected]) on 2012-06-07T19:04:00Z
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Characterization of Biodegradable Polymeric Microparticles for Controlled Release
No full textThe formation of microcapsules is a complex process relying on thermodynamic, kinetic and other factors such as the physical drug. Continued study in the microparticle arena will help achieve better control of release and allow for application of more potent therapeutics.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:43:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2004Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83653
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The Pricing Strategy of a Bayesian Learning Monopolistic Insurer
No full textMuch of the standard literature on adverse selection insurance models assumes that the only unknown parameter is the accident probability and that all consumers have the same level of risk aversion. This paper relaxes these two assumptions by allowing consumers to have different levels of risk aversion, which the insurer has no prior knowledge of these levels of risk aversion when meeting consumers for the first time. Using Bayesian learning a monopolistic insurer tries to learn a consumer's level of risk aversion. This paper shows that an insurer who learns in the two-type consumer model offers either separating contracts to the two different types of consumer or does not insure one of the types of consumer. This result is identical to the result in Stiglitz (1977) where he assumes that the monopolistic insurer has prior knowledge of a consumer's level of risk aversion. However, the insurer who learns offers different contracts when compared to the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk aversion. By offering different contracts than the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk aversion, the insurer who learns earns less expected profit than the insurer who knows a consumer's level of risk aversion. Monte Carlo simulation results show that the expected percentage loss in profit is significantly larger than the corresponding expected percentage changes in prices and coverage of the insurance contracts as a result of the insurer learning the levels of risk aversion of the two different types of consumer.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:47:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2003Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86811
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Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDsU of I Only150 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003