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The Rhetoric of Landscape in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the ISBN in this recordAnalytical and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014)Series:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 150In this paper I want to take you on a walk through a garden. It is, to be sure, an imaginary garden; nevertheless, it bears a significance which extends beyond itself. Some of this significance concerns words and texts: for as we shall see, the garden is, amongst other things, a ‘garden of rhetoric’. The garden in question appears in the Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs.[...
An Evening with Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory, Civil Rights Activist, Nutritionist, Comedian, and Author
No full textGregory, Richard Claxton “Dick” (Born, October 12, 1932, St. Louis, Mo.), African American comedian and civil rights activist whose social satire changed the way white Americans perceived African American comedians since he first performed in public. Gregory’s autobiography, Nigger, was published in 1963 prior to The assassination of President Kennedy, and became the number one best-selling book in America. Over the decades it has sold in excess of seven million copies. His choice for the title was explained in the forward, where Dick Gregory wrote a note to his mother. “Whenever you hear the word ‘Nigger’,” he said, “you’ll know their advertising my book.” In 1984 he founded Health Enterprises, Inc., a company that distributed weight loss products. In 1987 Gregory introduced the Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet, a powdered diet mix, which was immensely profitable. Economic losses caused in part by conflicts with his business partners led to his eviction from his home in 1992. Gregory remained active, however, and in 1996 returned to the stage in his critically acclaimed one-man show, Dick Gregory Live! The reviews of Gregory’s show compared him to the greatest stand-ups in the history of Broadway
“Judge Me Gently”: Reflections on the Religious Life of John Milton Gregory, 1822–1898
No full text John Milton Gregory is familiar to many Christian educators through his 19th-century publication, The Seven Laws of Teaching. For most readers of this important book, little is known about the author himself. This article explores the religious life and theological foundations of John Milton Gregory, who was both author of The Seven Laws of Teaching and founding president of the University of Illinois. Utilizing his spiritual diaries preserved in his daughter's biography of her father and archival sources from the University of Illinois, this essay offers a theological and spiritual understanding of this important historical figure. </jats:p
David Gregory
No full textPhotograph - David Gregory, member of the Book Sub-Committee, part of the Town of Athabasca 75th Anniversary Committee, Athabasca, Alberta. The Book Sub Committee produced the book "Athabasca Landing: An Illustrated History
Ceylon Coffee, the Comtesse and the Consignee: A Historical Reappraisal of Rochefoucauld v Boustead
No full textThis paper examines the Court of Appeal judgment of Rochefoucauld v Boustead [1897] 1 Ch. 196 through use of archive records, rarely cited law reports and nineteenth-century academic opinion. A full and hitherto untold account of the facts of the case is presented. It is revealed that the land which was the subject matter of the dispute was sold under the direction of the Ceylon District Court, and that the plaintiff was an accomplished individual who utilized various means to frustrate her former husband's attempts to obtain the land. The Court of Appeal's rulings that the defendant was a trustee of the land for the prevention of fraud, and that the trust was to be treated as an express trust, are also analysed with the aim of establishing how these issues were understood at the time of the judgment. It is argued that both of these aspects of the judgment were regarded as uncontroversial because there was a settled concept of equitable fraud, and because trusts imposed for the prevention of such fraud were an established category of trust in their own right, separate from express, resulting or constructive trusts
Improved Balloon
No full textLetter to the editor by J. Gregory describing his improved gas balloon, with an accompanying labeled mechanical illustration.For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/71
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Homeric Echoes in Posidippus
No full textLabored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309) is a Center for Hellenic Studies publication, specifically Hellenic Studies Series 2. Since Gregory Nagy is both article author and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, no special permission needed for online submission.The ClassicsAuthor's Origina
The haemodynamics of aneurysms: a spectral element analysis of the effects of wall stiffness
No full textThe prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms is increasing with an ageing population. Aneurysms present a major health risk; in the event of aneurysm rupture, patients exhibit a mortality rate of 70-95% (Lindholt et al. 2005). Treatment of aneurysms involves invasive surgery, which carries an inherent risk, therefore it is preferable to intervene only when the aneurysm is close to rupture. Currently, the aneurysm initiation, growth and rupture mechanisms are not fully understood and accurate predictions of aneurysm growth-rate and rupture time cannot be made. Research in this field has identified haemodynamic stimuli as the principal factor in aneurysm growth. As such, in-depth fluid-dynamic investigations can contribute greatly to developing appropriate models for patient prognosis and treatment. Previous investigations into aneurysm haemodynamics have largely been focused on blood flows with rigid-wall dynamics. To realistically model the flow, a moving boundary condition must be applied to account for the elasticity of the aneurysm wall. A fluid-structure interaction was studied in the context of abdominal aortic aneurysms. The effects of an elastic wall were modelled using a numerical technique. To this end, a new coupling scheme is proposed based around an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) algorithm. The monolithic ALE solver uses a modified iterative over unequal time step coupling routine. The use of an ALE algorithm for modelling aneurysm flows maximises the accuracy of flow field data in the near-wall region where the haemodynamic environment is most pertinent. The biological material that comprises the artery wall is highly complex in nature. To accurately model the wall response, the wall is modelled as a multi-layered, hyper-elastic and heterogeneous material. A novel time stepping algorithm was developed and tested to model the wall response in the aneurysm. Spectral elements were used for the spatial discretisation while a backward differencing time stepping scheme was proposed for the temporal evolution. A two-step operator splitting scheme was proposed in order to implicitly solve for the displacement at the next time step. This algorithm is capable of modelling both the inertial and non-linear response of the wall, which is important in the context of biological applications. Once formulated, two fluid-structure interaction studies were conducted. The first investigated the effects of heterogeneous wall properties, such as those formed around lesions and calcification, on the haemodynamics in arteries. It was found that previous models based on a rigid-wall assumption misrepresent the flow conditions in aneurysms. Furthermore, it was shown that local variations in wall elasticity can affect the wall shear stress environment both locally and downstream of the lesion or calcification. Weakening of the aneurysm wall was shown to increase the wall shear stress downstream. This occurred as the greater wall motion led to higher variations in flow rate. In terms of the local effects, local variations in wall stiffness led to additional variations in aneurysm geometry and wall velocity. These changes led to a local change in boundary layer thickness which in turn affected the local wall shear stress distribution. In cases when the wall was weakened the wall shear stress decreased locally. Conversely the stiffer wall case corresponded to an increase in local wall shear stress. Finally an investigation into the effect of wall stiffness on established aneurysm geometries was conducted. Using an elastic-wall model, the wall motion was shown to cause significant flow reversal in the boundary layer. As a result, in addition to the vortex ring shed from the proximal neck, a distal vortex ring formed. The proximity of these vortices to the aneurysm wall affects the shear layer at the wall and consequently the wall shear stresses. In cases where there was large motion, the shear layer is drawn into a secondary distal vortex ring. At intermediate levels of wall motion, the formation of this secondary distal vortex ring is suppressed. The presence of the primary distal vortex ring protects the wall from the impact of the strong proximal vortex ring. Local variations in wall stiffness were investigated at three locations in the aneurysm bulge. All weakened wall cases exhibited similar changes in wall dynamics compared to the uniformly stiff case. However, it has been shown that a weakened region upstream of the distal neck provided the greatest change in wall shear stress distribution. The case of a weakened central region represents the least favourable haemodynamic conditions for healthy endothelial wall function. In terms of the stiffened cases, the least protective distribution was the stiffening at the distal neck. These results indicate that aneurysms that feature a weakened wall region upstream of the distal neck present the greatest risk of rupture
Columbus\u27s Ghost: Tourism, Art and National Identity in the Bahamas
No full textIan Gregory Strachan (1969-), Bahamian writer, Chair of English Studies at College of the Bahamas, author of God\u27s Angry Babies (1997) and Paradise and Plantation (2002)
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