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Emma Hubbs, Emma Hubbs Ellis, and Mrs. Gray
No full textPortrait (bust, facing left) of a young woman identified as Emma Hubbs, Emma Hubbs Ellis, and Mrs. Gray; vignetted against dark backgroun
Margaret Kent, Marian Merritt, Margaret Lee, and Mrs. Claude Albright
No full textGroup portrait of five women, three seated in front, two standing before an elaborate carved screen and painted studio backdrop; identified as Margaret Kent, Marian Merritt, Margaret Lee, and Mrs. Claude Albright, all members of the Merry-Go-Round Clu
Emma Hubbs
No full textPortrait (half-length) of a young woman, identified as Emma Hubbs, wearing a light-colored print dres
The persistence of populations facing climate shifts and harvest
No full textMany species are expected to shift their geographic distribution as climates change, and yet climate change is only one of a suite of stressors that species face. Species that might, in theory, be able to shift rapidly enough to keep up with climate velocity (the rate and direction that isotherms move across the landscape) may not in actuality be able to do so when facing the cumulative impacts of multiple stressors. Despite empirical reports of substantial interactions between climate change and other stressors, we often lack a mechanistic understanding of these interactions. Here, we developed and analyzed a spatial population dynamics model to explore the cumulative impacts of climate with another dominant stressor in the ocean and on land: harvest. We found that critical rates of climate velocity and harvest depend on the growth rate and dispersal kernel of the population, as well as the magnitude of the other stressor. This allowed us to identify conditions under which harvesting and climate velocity can together drive populations extinct even when neither stressor would do so in isolation. Except in these extreme cases, we also found that the interaction between the declines in biomass caused by climate velocity and harvest is approximately additive. Finally, we have shown that threshold harvest rules can be effective management tools to mitigate the interaction between the two stressors, while protected areas can either help or hinder,depending on how harvesters reallocate their effort. We also have parameterized the model for black rockfish (Sebastes melanops) to demonstrate the model’s broad applicability.Received 22 December 2014; revised 25 February 2015; accepted 4 March 2015; final version received 8 May 2015; published 23 September 2015.Peer reviewe
Ritorno a Thornfield. La "storia segreta" di Adèle Varens in Thornfield Hall di Emma Tennant
No full textIn the line of the Neo-Victorian movement within postmodern literature, in 2002 British author Emma Tennant (1937-2017) re-wrote Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 Jane Eyre as Thornfield Hall. Even though its subtitle, The Hidden Story of Jane Eyre, anticipates a new appendix to Jane’s widely known adventures, the novel is in fact centred on Adèle Varens, “the French dancer’s bastard”. In particular, Tennant’s narrative looks back at the Brontean novel by exploring the Parisian milieu in which the young Adèle breathes the air of the Révolution and learns how to resist the patriarchal and political established order; and yet, later on, she seems to forget the teachings she drew from Céline Varens, her mother, and her world in a problematic intertextual twist that questions the presence of the Other – once again represented by Bertha Antoinette Mason, echoing Jean Rhys’s 1966 masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea – but ultimately/inevitably pays homage to Brontë’s classic
Members of the Ballut Abyad Shriners' Temple
No full textMembers of the Ballut Abyad Shriners' Temple in parade formation, holding sign and American flag at right; two images printed side by side; on card mount inscribed "Albright
Handheld-Impedance-Measurement System with seven-decade capability and potentiostatic function
Full text linkThis paper describes design and test of a new impedance-measurement system for nonlinear devices that exhibits a seven-decade range and works down to a frequency of 0.01 Hz. The system is specifically designed for electrochemical measurements, but the proposed architecture can be employed in many other fields where flexible signal generation and analysis are required. The system employs an unconventional signal generator based on two pulsewidth modulation (PWM) oscillators and an autocalibration system that allows uncertainties of less than 3% to be obtained over a range of 1 kΩ to 100 GΩ. A synchronous demodulation processing allows the noise superimposed to the low-amplitude input signals to be made negligibl
Group portrait of six women wearing hats and one man, in an anecdotal pose
No full textGroup portrait of six women wearing hats and one man, in an anecdotal pose: man at center offering a bag (of peanuts?) to the ladies surrounding him in a pyramidal composition; identified are Marian Merritt, Margaret Lee, Margaret Kent, Miss Baker, Lena Huning, and Mrs. Albright, all members of the Merry-Go-Round Club; printing-out paper on studio card moun
Group portrait of seven women
No full textGroup portrait (head-and-shoulders) of seven women in a circular composition; the words "Merry-Go-Round Club" appear at center; identified are Marian Merritt, Margaret Lee, Miss Baker, Margaret Kent, Lena Huning, and Claude Albright; printing-out paper on studio card mount
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