244 research outputs found
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
A Looking Forward: Phil's Final Weeks
No full textAlexandra Gillis is a teacher and educational researcher living in the city of Vancouver, on the territorial lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, amidst mountains and ocean of Canada’s west coast. She has published Thinking Woman (2006) and is co-author, with John Benton and Philip McShane, of Introducing Critical Thinking (2005). She currently works for the Ministry of Education
Astronomical and magnetic observations executed on the Congo Free State territory by A. Delporte and L. Gillis: F. Folie's report
No full textThe author establishes a report on A. Delporte and L. Gillis’ work on the astronomical and magnetic observations executed on the Congo Free State territory.L’auteur établit un rapport sur un travail de A. Delporte et L. Gillis sur les observations astronomiques et magnétiques exécutées sur le territoire de l'Etat Indépendant du Congo
Copyright and author rights
No full textPresentation on Copyright and author rights in journal publishing presented as part of the Dalhousie Libraries Scholarship Series
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
DNAQL: a query language for DNA sticker complexes
No full textDNA computing has a rich history of computing paradigms with great expressive power. However, far less expressive power is needed for data manipulation. Indeed, the relational algebra, the yardstick of database systems, is expressible in first-order logic, and thus less powerful than Turing-complete models. Turing-complete DNA computing models have to account for many and varied scenarios. A DNA implementation of data manipulations might be nimbler and perform its operation faster than a Turing-complete DNA computing model. Hence, we propose a restrictive model for implementing data manipulation operations, focused on implementability in DNA. We call this model the sticker complex model. A forte of the sticker complex model, is its ability to detect when hybridization becomes an uncontrolled chain reaction. Such chain reactions make hybridization less predictable and thus less attractive for deterministic computations. Next, we define a query language on sticker complexes, called DNAQL. DNAQL is a typed, applicative functional programming language, powerful enough to simulate the relational algebra on sticker complexes. The type system enjoys a number of desirable properties such as soundness, maximality, and tightness.Jan Van den Bussche is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61972455).van den Bussche, J (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Hasselt, Belgium.
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Iterative cross-coupling with MIDA boronates
No full textMany small molecules targeted for synthesis in the laboratory are inherently modular in their construction. Harnessing this modularity towards a unified strategy for the synthesis of these compounds, this dissertation describes an approach to small molecule making based on the iterative cross-coupling (ICC) of bifunctional haloboronic acid building blocks. Realizing a general ICC approach in the context of small molecule synthesis required the discovery of a ligand with the capacity to attenuate the reactivity of boronic acids under Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling (SMC) conditions and then liberate this masked reactivity under mild conditions. Towards this end, N-methyliminodiacetic acid (MIDA) was discovered to be such a ligand, enabling an approach by which the reactivity of boronic acids is modulated via rehybridization of the boron center. Further, MIDA boronates, which result from the condensation of MIDA with boronic acids, were found to possess a number of enabling properties. Specifically, MIDA boronates are uniformly stable to SiO2 chromatography and to storage under ambient air at room temperature. MIDA boronates were also found to be compatible with a broad range of common reagents and reaction conditions, enabling an approach by which relatively simple MIDA boronates can be elaborated through multiple-step organic synthesis en route to structurally complex boronate building blocks. Through a process of rate-controlled in situ release of boronic acids from the corresponding MIDA boronates, MIDA boronates were found to serve as generally effective surrogates for otherwise unstable boronic acids in high-yielding Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions with deactivated aryl chlorides. Enabled by these collective discoveries, and towards the goal of a simple and accessible approach to small molecule synthesis, a machine with the capacity to perform fully automated ICC syntheses was developed and was employed in the syntheses of several natural products.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2012-12-01The student, Eric Gillis, accepted the attached license on 2010-10-19 at 15:03.The student, Eric Gillis, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2010-10-19 at 16:23.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2010-10-20 at 09:10.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #1326 on 2016-09-09 at 16:06:49Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-09T21:14:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Essay about Great Duck Island. The author speculates about the lives of previous
No full textEssay about Great Duck Island. The author speculates about the lives of previous residents, including the psychiatrist George Cloutier, discusses the bird population of the island, and reflects on her own process of imagining and interpreting the island
Between the waves: currents in contemporary feminist thought
No full textWith a continuing focus on liberal feminism, Marxist feminism and essentialism, one would be forgiven for
thinking that feminist theory is unable to break free from the ‘second wave’. This is not the case. This article reviews three books which take on these feminist issues and offer new readings on the questions at the heart of feminism. Each provides clear links to feminism of the past but also connects to present debate and makes
suggestions for future directions for feminism. There is plenty of literature which bemoans the end of feminism and some which triumphantly hails our era as post-feminist: no longer in need of feminist theory. Contrary to such claims, each book tackles the problem of women’s oppression from a different perspective, each presents different solutions and in so doing they demonstrate that feminism is alive and well
Priapism secondary to penile metastasis in a dog
No full textA 4-year-old, male Newfoundland cross was presented for lethargy, anorexia, and dysuria. The main clinical finding was an enlarged and painful prostate gland. While the dog was hospitalized, priapism developed. Following euthanasia, microscopic examination revealed that a carcinoma involving both bladder and prostate gland had widely metastasized to the penile vasculature
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