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'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett
No full textIn 1927, 13-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett published her first book, the critically acclaimed novel, The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There.
Twelve years later, on December 7, 1939, 25-year-old Barbara quarrelled with her husband and left her apartment in Boston with $30 in her pocket, and a notebook. She was never seen again.
The House Without Windows is set in a paracosm (Farksolia) she invented, and ends with the metamorphosis of the titular character into a 'fairy-a wood nymph … invisible for ever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe, eyes to see'.
In Barbara's (auto)biography, The Unconscious Autobiography of a Child Genius (1966), written by Harold Grier McCurdy 'in collaboration with Helen Follett' (Barbara's mother), the authors wonder: 'Can we be far wrong in substituting Barbara's name for Eepersip's in the closing scenes of [House Without Windows]?
In this paper, I grapple with the formal and ethical challenges of writing about Barbara Newhall Follett, and the ways her family and others have approached the problem of writing her unresolved life story: a child raised and educated in solitude, a celebrated 'natural' child author, a young woman whose disappearance remains unsolved. The paper will explore the ways in which adults write the stories of children's lives, as nostalgia and fable, as fairytale and paracosmic narrative, and the ways in which Barbara's biographers have, consciously and unconsciously, created biographical concordances, or paracosms of the self, in seeking to make meaning of her life's story
Barbara James
No full textDate:1943Barbara was born in Holdredge, Nebraska in the United States of America in 1943. In 1960 she arrived in Darwin working in a variety of occupations such as a journalist, historian, author, activist, advocate and editor. Barbara wrote 13 books including "No Man's Land" which explored the contributions of women in the Northern Territory. She also received a number of awards including 2001 NT Heritage Award, the 2000 NT Literary Essay Awards and the Chief Minister's Women's Achievement Award in 1999.JournalistHistorianAuthorActivistEditorAmerica
Designer: from author to creative commons
No full textThe essay explores the transformations that have occurred in the role of design, from authorship to networking, sharing and opensource modes
Barbara Ehrenreich: Blood Rites: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Violence
No full textBarbara Ehrenreich, author, social critic and political essayist, discusses the emotional and social aspects of warfare and violence.
Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as a myth buster by trade” and has been called a veteran muckraker by The New Yorker.During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Dataset for publication: Post‐war architecture and urban planning as means of reinventing Opole’s past and identity
No full textThe collection includes files related to the publication: Barbara Szczepańska, Post‐War Architecture and Urban Planning as Means of Reinventing Opole’s Past and Identity, „Urban Planning”, Vol 8, No 1 (2023): Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric, pp. 266-278, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i1.6079. The collection includes figures used in the publication:Opole_plan A plan of Opole, with areas of Ostrówek (left), Market Square (center) and Central Square (right) highlighted in red. Originally published in: "Guidebook to the city of Opole" ("Przewodnik po mieście Opolu", Opole: Księgarnia Opolska, 1948, https://polona.pl/preview/2f383a4a-5e9e-444d-9e94-366b8ac8610d). Author: Z. Streer. Licence: CC0Opole_Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom A photograph depicting Monument to the Opole Silesian Fighters for Freedom (Pomnik Bojownikom o Wolność Śląska Opolskiego) in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk A photograph depicting the monument of Kazimierz I Opolczyk in the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole. Author: Barbara Szczepańska. Licence: CC0Opole_Market Square_eastern frontage_before 1945 A photograph depicting eastern frontage of the Market Square in Opole before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Market_Square_in_Opole,_eastern_frontage.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0Opole_monument of Frederick the Great A photograph depicting monument of Frederick the Great in Opole, before 1945. Originally published on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opole_Oppeln_Denkmal_Friedrich_der_Große.jpg. Author: unknown. Licence: CC0</ul
Barbara Dicker Oration 2018 - The phenomenon of hallucinations
No full textThe 2018 Barbara Dicker Oration was presented by Professor Iris Sommer on 13 September 2018. Professor Sommer is a best-selling author and Professor of Cognitive Aspects of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorder at the Department of Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands. Entitled The phenomenon of hallucinations, Professor Sommer offered a holistic view into the research and experiences of hallucinations. It’s actually more common than you might think but what happens in our brains when we hallucinate? And what does this mean for new treatments and interventions
Characterization of gas condensate reservoirs using pressure transient and production data - Santa Barbara Field, Monagas, Venezuela
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-77).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.This thesis presents a field case history of the integrated analysis and interpretation developed using all of the available petrophysical, production, and well test data from the condensate zone of Block A, Santa Barbara Field (Monagas, Venezuela). The reservoir units in Santa Barbara Field present substantial structural and fluid complexity, which, in turn, presents broad challenges for assessment and optimization of well performance behavior. Approximately 60 well tests have been performed in the gas condensate sections within Santa Barbara Field, and the analysis and interpretation of this data suggests the existence of condensate banking and layered reservoir behavior, as well as "well interference" effects. We demonstrate and discuss analysis and interpretation techniques that can be utilized for wells that exhibit condensate banking, layered reservoir behavior, and well interference effects (where all of these phenomena are observed in the well performance data taken from Block A in Santa Barbara Field). We have established that the layered reservoir model (no crossflow), coupled with the model for a two-zone radial composite reservoir, is an appropriate reservoir model for the analysis and interpretation of well performance data (i.e., well test and production data) taken from wells in Santa Barbara Field. It is of particular importance to note our success in using the "well interference" approach to analyze and interpret well test data taken from several wells in Santa Barbara Field. While it is premature to make broad conclusions, it can be noted that well interference effects (interference between production wells) could be (and probably is) a major influence on the production performance of Santa Barbara Field. In addition, our well test analysis approach corroborates the use of the Correa and Ramey (variable rate) plotting function for the analysis of drillstem test (DST) data. In summary, we are able to use our integrated analysis developed for Block A (Santa Barbara Field) estimate areal distributions of "flow" properties (porosity, effective permeability, and skin factor), as well as "volumetric" properties (original gas-in-place, gas reserves, and reservoir drainage area (all on a "per-well" basis))
Experiential Simulation for Urban Design: From Design Thinking to Final Presentation
No full textThe chapter presents the research outcomes developed by the author on the topic of environmental urban design and simulation, carried out at the Urban Simulation Laboratory ‘Fausto Curti’ at Polytechnic of Milan, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. In particular, the author focuses the attention on the experiential approach: she proposes an urban design method that make use of multi-sensory simulation and that addresses the human-environment relationship. The author firstly traces the origins of the research laboratories dealing with environmental urban design and simulation; given this research context, she then presents an overview of the central characteristics of reliable experiential simulation. Following, she proposes a design method based on recursive key phases and a mixed used of different kinds of representations. In the conclusion she synthetically sums up the relevant issues addressed in the text
Death, Women, and "Value Production": The Circulation of Hair Strings among the Walpiri of the Central Australian Desert
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Partial Equalization for MC–CDMA Systems in Non-Ideally Estimated Correlated Fading
No full textMulticarrier code-division multiple access (MC–CDMA) can support high data rates in next-generation multiuser wireless communication systems. Partial equalization (PE) is a low-complexity technique for combining the signals of subcarriers to improve the achievable performance of MC–CDMA systems in terms of their bit error probability (BEP) and bit error outage (BEO) in comparison with maximal ratio combining, orthogonality restoring combining, and equal-gain combining techniques. We analyze the performance of the multiuser MC–CDMA downlink and derive the optimal PE parameter expression, which minimizes the BEP. Realistic imperfect channel estimation and frequency-domain (FD) block-fading channels are considered. More explicitly, the analytical expression of the optimum PE parameter is derived as a function of the number of subcarriers, number of active users (i.e., the system load), mean signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and variance of the channel-estimation errors for the aforementioned FD block-fading channel. We show that the choice of the optimal PE technique significantly increases the achievable system load for the given target BEP and BEO
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