852 research outputs found
Scottish Poetry: The Scene and the Sixties
No full textThis was an intermediary but vital period of cultural change. The young Scottish poets of the late sixties (including D.M. Black, Alan Jackson, Kenneth White; Robin Fulton, and the first appearances of Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead) heralded this new spirit –very much of its time– and took us beyond the familiar arguments for and against the use of Scots, beyond the Renaissance agendas of national psychology and identity
Olivia [electronic resource] : or, deserted bride. By the author of Hortensia, The Rambles of Frankly, and The Fashionable Friend. In two volumes.
No full textAuthor of Hortensia = Elizabeth Bonhote.The imprint of volume 2 reads: "Dublin: Printed for Mess. W. Watson, Gilbert, Burton, White, Byrne, Whitestone, Wogan, and Halpen. MDCCLXXXVII."Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas"
A World with Two Moons: An Analysis of Reader Identification
No full textUtilizing Kenneth Burke\u27s theory of Identitification, this study seeks to understand if readers of a literary work of fiction were or were not able to identify with it according to the way Burke describes identification. The study uses Paul J. Watson\u27s Protect: A World\u27s Fight Against Evil as the literary work upon which qualitative surveys were conducted. Five general respondents and two expert readers took the survey, which asked questions regarding the novel. Through analysis and the comparing and contrasting of these respondents\u27 answers, conclusions were reached in regards to whether or not identification occurred between the readers and the novel and whether or not readers identified with the author\u27s intended central theme
Portraits in Silicon
No full textShort biographies of: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff, John V. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Howard Aiken, Jay W. Forrester, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., William Norris, H. Ross Perot, William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Gene Amdahl, Seymour Cray, Gordon Bell, Grace Murray Hopper, John Backus, John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, Gary Kildall, William Gates, Dennis Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson, Daniel Bricklin, Nolan Bushnell, Steven Jobs, Adam Osborne, William Millard, Donald Knuth
Au revoir Honolulu [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; Caption title.; "Author of 'Give me real Hawaiian,' 'Comeback and mend your broken doll,' 'The silver in my mother's hair,' 'My home,' &c., $c."--Cover.; Publication date approximated from 'Australian popular music : composer index", Snell, Kenneth R. 2nd ed., 1999, p. 29.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn3572216; NLA's NL copy from the collection of Keith Watson. ANL
Bestia 3
No full textItems included in this issue were read at the Society's Third International Congress in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in April, 1990. Items in this yearbook are: Kenneth Varty, Animal Fable and Fabulous Animal: The Evolution of the Species With Specific Reference to the Foxy Kind; Maureen Fries, Shape-shifting Women in the Old Irish Sagas; J.P. Singh, Beast Fables in Sanskrit; Servanne Woodward, Galiani's Beast Fable in Diderot's Letters to Sophie Volland; Kenneth Watson, The Beast of Syntax: Keats's 'Lamia' and Narrative Time; Cecilia Ann Sims, The Rebirth of Indian and Chinese Mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China; Judson Jerome, Myth, Fable, and Art in Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan'; Kenneth Varty, Renart Through the Looking Glass: The Passage of the Fox from One Fictitious World to Another in the Roman de Renart; Dennis Leavens, Finding One to Worship, Finding One to Betray: The Language of Fable in Thurber, Orwell, and Pynchon; Frederick B. Jonassen, The Stag Hunt in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Barbara Cantalupo, Secondary Beasts in Moby-Dick; Jim Severns, Bernard Shaw As Beast Fabulist; Roger L. Cole, Beast Allegory in the Late Medieval Sermon in Strasbourg: The Example of John Geiler's von den vier Lewengeschrei (1507).Editor Benjamin Bennan
Voucher funds in transitional economies : the Czech and Slovak experience
No full textVoucher funds have arisen in the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe that have used voucher privatization. These funds collect vouchers from citizens and use them to buy shares in enterprises. In the Czech and Slovak Republics, voucher funds are typically organized as corporations owned by the citizens who contributed their vouchers. Recently, they have also been organized as unit trusts (either open-ended or closed). A management company manages the funds under a contract that specifies the management fee. The management company is typically owned by the initial sponsor of the fund - for example, a bank. Voucher funds can give owners a diversified and professionally managed portfolio. More important, the funds select who sits on an enterprise's governance boards (which oversee management and profitability). Although experience is limited, the funds in these two countries have probably stopped most fraud and self-serving by enterprise mangers and are beginning to encourage the restructuring needed for profitability. A few funds have replaced poorly performing or dishonest managers; more often, because qualified replacements are few, they encourage managers to improve performance. There have been complaints about funds'performance. Some have made unrealistic promises to voucher holders and have appointed poorly qualified members to management boards. There is concern about conflicts of interest in the bank-sponsored funds and excessive control of enterprises. Funds typically lack capital or expertise to undertake restructuring - but few other potential owners are likely to be better qualified. The author examines 27 regulations that have been proposed for funds. Regulations in transitional economies, unlike regulations in most western countries, should encourage funds to play a strong role in corporate governance, he contends, as few potential owners have this ability. Most important, regulations should require that funds disclose information about their operations so their owners can monitor and control fund managers. The regulatory regime, the author says, should discourage monopolies and anticompetitive behavior; create incentives for fund managers to improve fund performance; discourage self-serving or fraudulent behavior by fund managers, and conflicts of interest; and eliminate high-risk investments unacceptable to fund owners. Because there is so little experience with these funds, the regulatory regime should not be unduly restrictive. As problems arise, regulations to deal with them can be added.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Payment Systems&Infrastructure
Photochemistry of metalloporphyrins
No full textMetalloporphyrins serve many functions in biological systems. Their important roles in the reduction of oxoanions such as nitrite and sulfite in bacteria and in the oxidation of organic substrates by cytochrome P450 has prompted our current investigations into the photochemistry of several metalloporphyrin oxoanion complexes. The use of photochemistry with model systems in the laboratory opens new avenues for the direct production of proposed active species in the biological systems.Irradiation of Mn(TPP)(NO\sb3) and Mn(TPP)(NO\sb2) (where TPP = 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrinate(-2)) produces the high valent metal-oxo species O = Mn\sp{\rm IV}(TPP) quantitatively, with quantum yields of 1.58 10\sp{-4} and 5.30 10\sp{-4}, respectively. This metal-oxo species is capable of oxidizing substrates, as demonstrated in reactions with styrene or triphenylphosphine. Mn(TPP)(NO\sb2) is formed as an intermediate in the complete photolysis of Mn(TPP)(NO\sb3). Similarly, the photochemistry of Fe(TPP)(NO\sb3) produces substrate oxidation, including C-H hydroxylation, which suggests the photochemical formation of O = Fe\sp{\rm IV}(TPP\sp{\cdot +}) as the active oxidant. Remarkably, all three oxygen atoms of the initially bound NO\sb3\sp- can be used for substrate oxidation.Irradiation of (Mn(TPP)) \sb2(SO\sb4) and Mn(TPP)(OSO\sb3H) produces Mn\sp{\rm II}(TPP) quantitatively, with quantum yields of 7.1 10\sp{-4} and 9.8 10\sp{-4}, respectively. In contrast to the nitrate and nitrite complexes, metal-oxo species are not formed and oxidation of hydrocarbons does not occur.The photochemistry of a number of metalloporphyrin oxoanion complexes has also been examined by matrix isolation techniques using both frozen solvent glasses and polymer films. Results suggest that the photoreduction of porphyrin metal centers is the primary photoreaction and that apparent differences in solution photochemistry actually result from secondary thermal reactions. A 3: 1 mixture of 2,2-dimethylbutane: t-butylbenzene was shown to work well as a non-coordinating, frozen solvent glass with little cracking below 70K. Additionally it was found that the photochemistry of metalloporphyrins could easily be monitored in polymer films by the co-evaporation of toluene solutions of either polymethylmethacrylate or poly--methylstyrene on a sapphire window. The polymer films have the added advantage of a greatly increased temperature range that can provide isolation even at room temperature.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:22:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Is the debt crisis history? Recent private capital inflows to developing countries
No full textThe outlook for economic development for an important group of middle-income countries has again been buoyed by substantial private capital inflows in the 1990s. As in the 1970s, this development has been met with cautious optimism. It is generally accepted that these countries need resource transfers from the rest of the world to support capital formation and growth. It is also generally accepted that these private capital flows make the allocation of resources more efficient. But there is concern that a rapid reversal of market sentiment could impose considerable adjustment costs on these same economies. The authors try to quantify what many consider to be the main reasons debtor countries have access to capital markets again: (a) Domestic policy reform in the debtor countries. (b) Debt and debt service reduction, usually associated with Brady Plan restructuring. (c) Changes in the external market, such as changes in interest rates in industrial countries. They argue that a useful barometer for access to new loans is the market value of existing sovereign debt. It follows that a quantitative analysis of the factors that caused the market value of sovereign debts to rise rapidly after 1989 would also improve understanding of the forces behind the renewed access to international capital. Empirical historical evidence suggests that fiscal reform, privatization, and debt reduction are useful in explaining relative improvements in the standing of debtor countries in international credit markets. Debtor countries with strong reform programs, in other words, are better prepared to withstand deterioration in the external environment. But the reduction in dollar interest rates since 1989 appears to be the chief factor in the debtor countries'renewed access to international loans. The authors estimate the effect of increases in dollar interest rates and conclude that the typical debtor country remains vulnerable to increases in interest rates that are well within the range of recent experience.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Strategic Debt Management,Financial Intermediation
Methodology for ion neutralization at solid/electrolyte interfaces
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