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Backman, Sigrid
No full textSigrid Backman
f. 1.12. 1880 i Helsingfors
d. 26.5. 1938 i Helsingfors
Sigrid Backman var en starkt personlig svenskspråkig prosaförfattare aktiv under 1910-30-talen, lite vid sidan om modernismen och andra samtida litterära strömningar. Hennes författarskap har blivit något förbisett både under hennes samtid och i senare litteraturhistorieskrivning. Som författare stod Backman ändå i dialog med den samtida utvecklingen och aktuella frågor. Hon behandlade teman som aktualiserades av kvinnosaksrörelsen under 1920- och 30-talen, den nya kvinnans livsvillkor, en svensk arbetarmiljö i Helsingfors. I ett par böcker skrev hon även om det finska inbördeskriget, t.ex. i romanen Familjen Brinks öden (1922). Återkommande i åtminstone delar av Backmans produktion är en ambivalent civilisations- och modernitetskritik och ett spänningsförhållande mellan naturen och den tekniska utvecklingen. I ett par av hennes verk är miljöskildringen realistisk, men i övrigt är verken mera stiliserade och utmärks av sagans drag. En viss humor är genomgående i produktionen. Hennes kanske kändaste är verk är den självbiografiska romanen De fåvitska trollen (1932).
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-----Sigrid Backman
s. 1.12. 1880 Helsingissä
k. 26.5. 1938 Helsingissä
Sigrid Backman on omaleimainen ja vahvaääninen prosaisti, joka julkaisi teoksiaan 1910-1930-luvulla. Backman kulki omaa polkuaan poiketen aikansa modernistisista ja muista kirjallisista virtauksista, ja hänet on usein sivuutettu niin omana aikanaan kuin kirjallisuushistorioissakin. Tuotannossa on kuitenkin näkyvissä myös vuoropuhelua yhteiskunnallisesti ajankohtaisista kysymyksistä. Backmanin käsittelemät teemat, kuten uuden naisen elämänehdot ja Helsingin ruotsinkielisen työläismiljöön ongelmat, ovat keskeisiä 1920 ja -30-lukujen naisasialiikkeelle. Muutamassa teoksessaan, kuten romaanissaan Familjen Brinks öden (1922), Backman käsittelee Suomen sisällissotaa. Osassa Backmanin tuotantoa korostuu yhteiskunnan modernisoitumisen kritiikki sekä jännitteinen suhde luonnon ja teknisen kehityksen välillä. Joissakin teoksissa miljöökuvaus on esittävää ja realistista, kun taas muissa teoksissa korostuu stilisoidumpi ja sadunomainen ote. Humoristisuus on koko tuotannolle tyypillistä. Tunnetuimpana Backmanin teoksena voidaan pitää omaelämäkerrallista romaania De fåvitska trollen (1932).
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http://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=333
G. H. Backman, Abstracts, Salt Lake City
No full textCartoon portrait of G. H. Backman, Licensed Abstracter and Attorney at Law at Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 20th centuryArtwork from the book Just for Fun: Cartoons and Caricatures of Men in Utah published in 1906 by E. A. Thompson, Press of the F. W. Gardiner Company
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
IODP Proposal 626: "Cenozoic Equatorial Age Transect – Following the Palaeo-equator"
No full textAs the largest ocean, the Pacific is intricately linked to major changes in the global climate system that took place during the Cenozoic. Throughout the Cenozoic the Pacific plate has had a northward component. Thus, the Pacific is unique, in that the thick sediment bulge of biogenic rich deposits from the currently narrowly focused zone of equatorial upwelling is slowly moving away from the equator. Hence, older sections are not deeply buried and can be recovered by drilling. Previous ODP Legs 138 and 199 were designed as transects across the paleo-equator in order to study the changing patterns of sediment deposition across equatorial regions, while this proposal aims to recover an orthogonal “age-transect” along the paleo-equator. Both previous legs were remarkably successful in giving us new insights into the workings of the climate and carbon system, productivity changes across the zone of divergence, time dependent calcium carbonate dissolution, bio- and magnetostratigraphy, the location of the ITCZ, and evolutionary patterns for times of climatic change and upheaval. Together with older DSDP drilling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, both Legs also helped to delineate the position of the paleo-equator and variations in sediment thickness from approximately 150°W to 110°W. As we have gained more information about the past movement of plates, and where in time “critical” climate events are located, we now propose to drill an age-transect (“flow-line”) along the position of the paleo-equator in the Pacific, targeting selected time-slices of interest where calcareous sediments have been preserved best. Leg 199 enhanced our understanding of extreme changes of the calcium carbonate compensation depth across major geological boundaries during the last 55 million years. A very shallow CCD during most of the Paleogene makes it difficult to obtain well preserved sediments, but we believe our siting strategy will allow us to drill the most promising sites and to obtain a unique sedimentary biogenic carbonate archive for time periods just after the Paleocene- Eocene boundary event, the Eocene cooling, the Eocene/Oligocene transition, the “one cold pole” Oligocene, the Oligocene-Miocene transition, and the Miocene, contributing to the objectives of the IODP Extreme Climates Initiative, and providing material that the previous legs were not able to recover
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
Logarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
Maine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world
No full textMaine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world as he relates how, as a young farm boy in the late 1800\u27s, he drove his father\u27s horses on an errand to an icebound river
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
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