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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Erratum: Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Purtiwi, P.D. (2017): Author Purtiwi, P.D. is spelled Pertiwi, P.D.
No full textAllen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Purtiwi, P.D. (2017) Descriptions of four new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) in the Pomacentrus philippinus complex from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 25, 47–76.
corrected spelling of third author’s name to:
Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Pertiwi, P.D. (2017) Descriptions of four new species of damselfishes
(Pomacentridae) in the Pomacentrus philippinus complex from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 25, 47–76
An interfacial area generation study for multi-component fluid mixing
No full textPrevious studies on chaotic mixing start from the point that mixing of a single fluid is considered. This can be a very hard problem, because of the rheology of the fluid or the geometry of the mixer. Analytical expressions for the velocity field are not available anymore and numerical techniques are required. Because of the enormous increase in computer power during the last years, these computational techniques have been successfully applied to obtain a better understanding of two and three-dimensional chaotic mixing flows.
A natural next step is to study systems with multiple fluid components. Here a computational technique is presented to study multi-component mixing in two and three-dimensional systems. Because a separate (fixed) mesh is used for the flow domain and a variable adaptive mesh for the fluid components, systems can be studied with an exponential generation of interfacial area. For different systems, like the three-dimensional cavity flow, results are present. In particular, the influence of viscosity ratio and interfacial tension on the generation of interfacial area is studied
Re: Nickel chromium and iron levels in the saliva of patients with simulated fixed orthodontic appliances
No full textRemote sensing condition categories on lowland raised bogs in the UK. Part 1 : Development and testing of methods
No full textInternalization of nanoparticles into spiral ganglion cells
No full textThe delivery of drugs or genes to the inner ear in a controlled and biocompatible manner could lead to new treatmentsfor conditions such as Ménière’s disease, tinnitus, schwannomas of the ear, and for improving hearing.The concept of multifunctional nanoparticles, which are targetable, biodegradable, and traceable, has led to newapproaches to controlled drug release and localized delivery to specific cell populations. Tissue-specific deliverycan be achieved by functionally “addressed” nanostructures loaded with a therapeutic molecule. In the presentstudy, we investigated the incorporation, distribution, and toxicology of amphiphilic block copolymer nanoparticles(NPs) in spiral ganglion (SG) cell cultures. Adult human and guinea pig SG neurons and glia/Schwanndissociated cell cultures were expanded, grown for several weeks, and then studied live using time-lapse videomicroscopy and high-resolution light microscopy. The cells were further characterized using immunocytochemistryfor the neural marker TuJ1 and the glia cell markers S-100 and GFAP, and their morphology was studiedin more detail using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). These cell cultures were exposed to fluorescently(Dil)-loaded NPs for different time periods and at different concentrations, and the uptake was studied usingfluorescence microscopy. The study demonstrates that DiI-loaded NPs can be internalized into guinea pig SGneurons as well as into human and guinea pig SG glia/Schwann cells without indication of toxicity or reducedviability. After 4 hours, almost 100% of both the neurons and the glia cells had incorporated the NPs into thecytoplasm. No uptake could be detected in the nucleus and no evidence of internalization could be seen inaxons or in the growth cone area of the neuron. Especially in the glia cells, the NPs were detected in smallvesicles surrounding the nucleus and occasionally in the periphery of the cytoplasm. This information could leadto the development of more specialized NPs, targeting only SG neurons or Schwann cells
Singular eigenvalue limit of advection-diffusion operators and properties of the strange eigenfunctions in globally chaotic flows
No full textEnforcing the results developed by Gorodetskyi et al. [O. Gorodetskyi, M. Giona, P. Anderson, Phys. Fluids 24, 073603 (2012)] on the application of the mapping matrix formalism to simulate advective-diffusive transport, we investigate the structure and the properties of strange eigenfunctions and of the associated eigenvalues up to values of the Péclet number Pe ∼ O(108). . Attention is focused on the possible occurrence of a singular limit for the second eigenvalue, 2| textrightarrow constant ≠ 0 for Pe textrightarrow ∞, whereas log |2 with Pe as Pe textrightarrow ∞
Tradução de dois contos de P.D. James : os desafios da tradução do policial na contemporaneidade
Full text linkO presente projeto pretende apresentar uma proposta de tradução de dois contos integrados na obra de P.D. James Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, publicada em 2017, e procura desenvolver uma reflexão acerca dos desafios da tradução de ficção policial nos dias de hoje. No seu início, este tipo de ficção foi desvalorizado, visto como literatura inferior. Porém, uma evolução positiva tem vindo a ocorrer nas últimas décadas, encaminhando o subgénero para uma posição cada vez mais respeitada. Assim, partindo da própria prática da tradução de ficção policial, o interesse pela análise deste fenómeno surgiu com a obra da autora britânica P.D. James, e com o recurso às abordagens e estratégias de tradução de diversos investigadores dos Estudos de Tradução. O projeto pretende dar ênfase ao contributo de P.D. James para uma visão crescentemente positiva do policial. A reflexão incide nos desafios emergentes desta nova visão, e analisam-se as dificuldades concretas que se levantaram à tradução, assim como as estratégias utilizadas e soluções encontradas. Considera-se que este projeto é pertinente para os Estudos de Tradução, na medida em que o policial é um dos subgéneros literários mais consumidos e, consequentemente, traduzidos no mundo. Por essa razão, é essencial que haja mais reflexão e investigação no campo da tradução acerca deste tipo de literatura, sendo que é pela tradução que estas obras literárias se disseminam, algo que traz uma grande responsabilidade ao tradutor.This project aims to present a proposal for the translation of two short stories by P.D. James from the work Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, published in 2017, and seeks to reflect on the challenges of translating crime fiction today. At its beginning, this type of fiction was devalued, seen as inferior literature. However, an interesting and positive evolution has been taking place in the last couple of decades, leading the genre to an increasingly respected position. An interest in analysing this phenomenon arose, starting from the actual practice of translating crime fiction, with the British author P.D. James, and using the approaches and translation strategies of various researchers in the field of Translation Studies. The project aims to emphasize P.D. James' contribution to the increasingly positive view of the crime fiction genre. It will reflect on the challenges emerging from this new vision, and analyse the difficulties that have arisen in translation, as well as the strategies used, and solutions found. I believe that this project is relevant to the field of Translation Studies, as crime fiction is one of the most widely consumed and, consequently, translated literary genres in the world. For this reason, it is essential that there is more reflection and research in the field of translation about this type of literature, since it is through translation that these literary works are disseminated, something that imposes a great responsibility on the translator
Short-time behavior of advecting-diffusing scalar fields in Stokes flows
No full textThis article addresses the short-term decay of advecting-diffusing scalar fields in Stokes flows. The analysis is developed in two main subparts. In the first part, we present an analytic approach for a class of simple flow systems expressed mathematically by the one-dimensional advection-diffusion equation w(y)partial derivative(xi)phi = epsilon partial derivative(2)(y)phi + i V (y)phi - epsilon'phi, where xi is either time or axial coordinate and i V (y) an imaginary potential. This class of systems encompasses both open- and closed-flow models and corresponds to the dynamics of a single Fourier mode in parallel flows. We derive an analytic expression for the short-time (short-length) decay of phi, and show that this decay is characterized by a universal behavior that depends solely on the singularity of the ratio of the transverse-to-axial velocity components V-eff(y) = V(y)/w(y), corresponding to the effective potential in the imaginary potential formulation. If V-eff(y) is smooth, then parallel to phi parallel to(L2)(xi) = exp(-epsilon'xi - b xi(3)), where b > 0 is a constant. Conversely, if the effective potential is singular, then parallel to phi parallel to(L2)(xi) = 1 - a xi(v) with a > 0. The exponent. attains the value 5/3 at the very early stages of the process, while for intermediate stages its value is 3/5. By summing over all of the Fourier modes, a stretched exponential decay is obtained in the presence of nonimpulsive initial conditions, while impulsive conditions give rise to an early-stage power-law behavior. In the second part, we consider generic, chaotic, and nonchaotic autonomous Stokes flows, providing a kinematic interpretation of the results found in the first part. The kinematic approach grounded on the warped-time transformation complements the analytical theory developed in the first part
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