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Treasures of the University : an examination of the identification, presentation and responses to artefacts of significance at the University of St Andrews, from 1410 to the mid-19th century; with an additional consideration of the development of the portrait collection to the early 21st century
No full textSince its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent.
The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838.
The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs.
This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project
Bernard W. Bell Collection
No full textDr. Bernard William Bell is an emeritus research professor at The Pennsylvania State University and an internationally known scholar of American and African American literature, language, and culture. Throughout his forty-year career in academia, Dr. Bell’s contributions to African American scholarship included serving as a co-founder and acting head of one of the nation’s first African American Studies programs, authoring and editing nine books and more than seventy articles and reviews, and teaching and lecturing in eight countries.
At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at [email protected]
Hypnotized by images of the past: dynamic interpretation and the flawed majoritarianism of statutory law
No full textThis paper assesses William N. Eskridge, Jr.'s dynamic statutory interpretation approach from the perspective of concerns about non-majoritarian decision-making. In particular, scholars have long expressed concern about the counter-majoritarian difficulty, i.e., non-elected judges invalidating statutes adopted by popularly elected legislatures, inherent in judicial review of statutes for constitutional infirmity. Dynamic statutory interpretation urges courts to abandon their role as "faithful agents" of enacting legislatures, arguing that courts should not merely discern and give effect to the intent of the legislatures, but also interpret statutes in light of changes in societal values that post-date the statute's enactment. Thus Eskridge's dynamic interpretation approach has been criticized as non-majoritarian. The paper notes that while courts are indeed not majoritarian, statutes are often not majoritarian either. First, they may be non-majoritarian because the text of the statute may encompass circumstances that legislators did not envision, or at least did not contemplate. The text of a statute may require a certain result in such circumstances, but that result is not attributable to any conscious decision by a legislative majority. Second, statutes may become non-majoritarian because of their longevity, particularly given the supermajority requirements for legislative action (including action to amend extant statutes) and the temporal constraints on legislative agendas. Thus, statutes may continue in effect after their supporting majorities disappear, or statutes, and the policies underlying them, may gain greater acceptance over time such that the intent of the enacting legislature may become anachronistic and unrepresentative of current majorities. Thus, the paper suggests that even if courts should act as "faithful agents" of the legislature when interpreting statutes, they must still determine to which of the various legislatures that exist over time they owe their allegiance. I suggest that enacting legislature's act of reducing a statute to writing does not entitle the enacting legislature to greater judicial fealty than later-in-time legislatures.
The paper suggests that at least two conventional interpretive techniques make statutory interpretation somewhat dynamic, but at the same time reflect a "faithful agent" theory of interpretation. In particular, while legislatures may leave particular statues, or particular provisions within statutes, unchanged for a long period of time (thus creating the possibility that the statutes have become non-majoritarian), legislatures nevertheless will likely have enacted or modified other statutes during that period of inactivity. Thus, certain techniques for resolving statutory conflicts between older and newer statutes, and the "extending statutes" technique of viewing statutes as creating common-law principles that may be used in construing older statutes, allows courts that adhere to the "faithful agent" theory of interpretation to introduce an element of dynamic statutory interpretation into their construction of statutes.Peer reviewe
Wiretapping's fruits, the first amendment, and the paradigms of privacy
No full textThis paper explores the legal system’s treatment of privacy along five dimensions. The dimensions focus on: (1) physical location, (2) the means of communication, (3) the means of intrusion, (4) subject matter, and (5) confidential relationships. The paper illustrates how reliance on some, but not others, in particular contexts serves to determine the results courts reach or statutes ordain. The papers shows the U.S. Supreme Court has systematically favored particular paradigms in ways that often make privacy protections porous. The paper then discusses the dimensions of privacy in the context of Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding liability for publishing material obtained from a private citizen who wiretapped a conversation in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, USAF, 1959
No full textLt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, USAF, 1959, b&w. Back reads: Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever stamp from Base Photo Lab, Andrews AFB, Washington 25, DC Folder contains official Air Force bio.https://mds.marshall.edu/doris_miller_papers/1174/thumbnail.jp
Bernard z Clairvaux, heretycy i poganie. Próba interpretacji listu Bernarda w sprawie krucjaty słowiańskiej w 1147 roku
Get PDFW 1147 r. Bernard z Clairvaux napisał list w sprawie krucjaty przeciwko pogańskim Słowianom zamieszkałym na wschód od Łaby. Wyraził w nim pogląd, że naród Słowian należy albo całkowicie unicestwić, albo nawrócić. W artykule została postawiona hipoteza, że to słynne sformułowanie Bernarda powinno być interpretowane w kontekście jego poglądów dotyczących walki z herezją. Podstawą analizy są, oprócz przedmiotowego listu, także niektóre inne pisma Bernarda.In 1147, Bernard of Clairvaux wrote a letter regarding a crusade against the pagan Slavs residing on the east side of the Elbe. In his opinion, the nation of Slavs should be either totally exterminated, or converted. The author of the article puts forward a hypothesis that this famous statement of Bernard’s statement ought to be interpreted in the context of his views and opinions on the fight against heresy. The analysis is based on, besides the mentioned letter, some other of Bernard’s writings
Bernard Brodie and the bomb: at the birth of the bipolar world
No full textBernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the military world. This thesis explores Brodie’s evolution as a theorist and his response to the technological innovations that transformed warfare from World War II to the Vietnam War. It situates his theoretical development within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), as Brodie came to be known as “America’s Clausewitz.” While his first influential works focused on naval strategy, his most lasting impact came within the field of nuclear strategic thinking. Brodie helped conceptualize America’s strategy of deterrence, later taking into account America’s loss of nuclear monopoly, the advent of thermonuclear weapons, and proliferation of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Brodie’s strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age led to his life-long effort to reconcile Clausewitz’s theories of war, which were a direct response to the strategic innovations of the Napoleonic era, to the new challenges of the nuclear age. While today’s world is much changed from the bipolar international order of the Cold War period, contemporary efforts to apply Clausewitzian concepts to today’s conflicts suggests that much can be learned from a similar endeavor by the previous generation as its strategic thinkers struggled to imagine new ways to maintain order in their era of unprecedented nuclear danger.acceptedVersionei tietoa saavutettavuudest
The Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels.
No full text"Published for the Society, by Andrews and Co., Durham. Whittaker & Co., T. & W. Boone, Bernard Quaritch, Mrs. Nutt, London, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh."Contains prolegomena, various readings, etc.Edited by George Waring.Darlow & Moule,Mode of access: Internet
Synthesis of facial ageing transforms using three-dimensional morphable models
No full textSupplementary material restricted permanentlyThe ability to synthesise the effects of ageing in human faces has numerous uses from aiding
the search for missing people to improving recognition algorithms and aiding surgical
planning.
The principal contribution of this thesis is a novel method for synthesising the visual effects
of facial ageing using a training set of three-dimensional scans to train a statistical
ageing model. This data-base is constructed by fitting a statistical Face Model known as a
Morphable Model to a set of two dimensional photographs of a set of subjects at different
age points in their lives. We verify the effectiveness of this algorithm with both quantitative
and psychological evaluation. Most ageing research has concentrated on building models
using two-dimensional images. This has two major shortcomings, firstly some of the information
related to shape change may be lost by the projection to two-dimensions; secondly
the algorithms are very sensitive to even slight variations in pose and lighting. By using
standard face-fitting methods to fit a statistical face model to the image we overcome these
problems by reconstructing the lost shape information, and can use a model of physical
rotations and light transfer to overcome the issues of pose and rotation. We show that the
three-dimensional models captured by face-fitting offer an effective method of synthesising
facial ageing.
The second contribution is a new algorithm for ageing a face model based on Projection to
Latent Structures also known as Partial Least Squares. This method attempts to separate
the training set into a set of basis vectors that best explains the shape and colour changes
related to ageing from those factors within the training set that are unrelated to ageing. We
show that this method is more accurate than other linear techniques at producing a face
model that resembles the individual at the target age and of producing a face image of the
correct perceived age.
The third contribution is a careful evaluation of three well known ageing methods. We use
both quantitative evaluation to determine the accuracy of the ageing method, and perceptual
evaluation to determine how well the model performs in terms of perceived age increase
and also identity retention. We show that linear methods more accurately capture ageing
and identity information if they are trained using an individualised model, and that ageing
is more accurately captured if PLS is used to train the model
The role of the imagination in Hume's science of man
No full textIn recent years there has been an explosion of writing on
David Hume. His scepticism, his writings on morality, politics,
and religion, have all received substantial attention. What I
attempt to do in this thesis is to suggest that his
revolutionary contributions in all these fields can be better
understood if we consider his attempt to found the sciences on
the imagination.
What little work there is on the imagination in Hume's
writings is almost all concerned with Book I of the Treatise.
As regards Book I, I suggest that Hume's overarching problem is
to argue that belief is dependent on the imagination, whilst
still keeping a contrast with the whims of the 'fancy'. He
wants to disabuse us of the idea that we believe on account of
reason; but he wants to distinguish the claims of science from
the claims of poets.
But I also examine why he thinks his explanation of the
production of passions support his conclusions about belief.
And I argue that his former account guides conclusions found in
other genres. So for example, I examine certain essays and
letters about politics, and his explanation of religious events
in the History of England.
Why do men falsely believe that they are distinguished from
the animals through possessing reason? On the one hand Hume
tries to explain the origin of the sciences; on the other hand,
he tries to show how men have come to have a false conception
of themselves. A central aim of the thesis is to bring out
these themes through showing the use Hume makes of principles
of the imagination. I pay special attention to Hume's attempt
to argue that Christianity plays a major role in the sustaining
of the false view
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