133,056 research outputs found
Brett, N F, NX42739
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/373465Surname: BRETT
Given Name(s) or Initials: N F
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX42739
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 19774184503
Item: [2016.0049.05784] "Brett, N F, NX42739
Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866-99
No full textBoys of England was a Victorian boys' periodical. It was published weekly by Edwin J. Brett from 1866 to 1899, initially from the Fleet Street offices of the Newsagents'
Publishing Company, and later from Brett's own `Boys of England Office'. It was the first periodical of its kind, and achieved a large sale amongst eager youngsters.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide a general history of BOE and Brett, neither of which has yet been attempted. More specifically, the thesis is intended to address
misconceptions regarding Brett and his work. Historians of boys' periodical literature have tended to portray Brett's papers as largely supportive of middle class hegemony. They
argue that they failed to connect with the lives of their upper working and lower middle class readers. However, this thesis contends that in actual fact BOE engaged closely with
the lives of its readership, comprised mainly of boys from the `respectable' working classes. Therefore, BOE should rightly be considered an important, indigenous component
of working class society and culture in mid to late Victorian Britain.
To provide as comprehensive an analysis as possible, the thesis is divided into three sections: `Paper and Proprietor'; `Content'; `Response'. These sections are divided into further chapters, each exploring a salient facet of BOE and Brett. Some of these engage with, and challenge, the existing historiography of boys' periodical literature. Others introduce historiographies previously remote from the study of boys' papers, widening the
remit of this relatively self-contained field. Some examine entirely unstudied, or largely understudied, subject matter.
Ultimately, this thesis is intended to make a valuable contribution not only to the historiography of boys' papers specifically, and children's literature in general, but also to the wider historiographies of Victorian social and cultural history and the Victorian working class
Recommended from our members
[Binder's Collection: Oliver Brett]
No full textBound compilation of sheet music collected by Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher. The front cover is monogrammed O.S.B., with a bookplate reading "Ex libris Oliver Brett" on the front inside cover. Nearly all items contain a primary or secondary publishing location imprint in London. The collection is unusual for its inclusion of arrangements for banjo. The titles are generally in alphabetical order, beginning with the letter "K," which suggests the existence of a prior volume. Many titles are taken from larger works of musical theater. This item contains a substantial number of selections that include racial slurs and stereotyping
Secure Merge with O(n log log n) Secure Operations
No full textData-oblivious algorithms are a key component of many secure computation protocols.
In this work, we show that advances in secure multiparty shuffling algorithms can be used to increase the efficiency of several key cryptographic tools.
The key observation is that many secure computation protocols rely heavily on secure shuffles. The best data-oblivious shuffling algorithms require O(n log n), operations, but in the two-party or multiparty setting, secure shuffling can be achieved with only O(n) communication.
Leveraging the efficiency of secure multiparty shuffling, we give novel, information-theoretic algorithms that improve the efficiency of securely sorting sparse lists, secure stable compaction, and securely merging two sorted lists.
Securely sorting private lists is a key component of many larger secure computation protocols. The best data-oblivious sorting algorithms for sorting a list of n elements require O(n log n) comparisons. Using black-box access to a linear-communication secure shuffle, we give a secure algorithm for sorting a list of length n with t ≪ n nonzero elements with communication O(t log² n + n), which beats the best oblivious algorithms when the number of nonzero elements, t, satisfies t < n/log² n.
Secure compaction is the problem of removing dummy elements from a list, and is essentially equivalent to sorting on 1-bit keys. The best oblivious compaction algorithms run in O(n)-time, but they are unstable, i.e., the order of the remaining elements is not preserved. Using black-box access to a linear-communication secure shuffle, we give an information-theoretic stable compaction algorithm with only O(n) communication.
Our main result is a novel secure merge protocol. The best previous algorithms for securely merging two sorted lists into a sorted whole required O(n log n) secure operations. Using black-box access to an O(n)-communication secure shuffle, we give the first multi-party secure merge algorithm that requires only O(n log log n) communication. Our algorithm takes as input n secret-shared values, and outputs a secret-sharing of the sorted list.
All our algorithms are generic, i.e., they can be implemented using generic secure computations techniques and make black-box access to a secure shuffle. Our techniques extend naturally to the multiparty situation (with a constant number of parties) as well as to handle malicious adversaries without changing the asymptotic efficiency.
These algorithm have applications to securely computing database joins and order statistics on private data as well as multiparty Oblivious RAM protocols
The Wanganui River [cartographic material] /
No full textBirds eye view of Wanganui River, New Zealand, from Taumarunui to Wanganui. Includes photos of scenes along the river, and tourist information.; Cover title: Panorama of New Zealand's great scenic river, the Wanganui: the Rhine of Maoriland.; Map 299 from Ferguson Collection.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f299; Library copy includes postcards : N. Island, Main trunk line plan of spiral ; Wanganui River, N.Z. ; Queen Charlotte Sound, Picton.Panorama of New Zealand's great scenic river, the Wanganui: the Rhine of Maorilan
Synaptic NMDA receptor activity at resting membrane potentials
No full textNMDA receptors (NMDARs) are crucial for glutamatergic synaptic signaling in the mammalian central nervous system. When activated by glutamate and glycine/D-serine, the NMDAR ion channel can open, but current flux is further regulated by voltage-dependent block conferred by extracellular Mg(2+) ions. The unique biophysical property of ligand- and voltage-dependence positions NMDARs as synaptic coincidence detectors, controlling a major source of synaptic Ca(2+) influx. We measured synaptic currents in layer 2/3 neurons after stimulation in layer 4 of somatosensory cortex and found measurable NMDAR currents at all voltages tested. This NMDAR current did not require concurrent AMPAR depolarization. In physiological ionic conditions, the NMDAR current response at negative potentials was enhanced relative to ionic conditions typically used in slice experiments. NMDAR activity was also seen in synaptic recordings from hippocampal CA1 neurons, indicating a general property of NMDAR signaling. Using a fluorescent Ca(2+) indicator, we measured responses to stimulation in layer 4 at individual synaptic sites, and Ca(2+) influx could be detected even with AMPARs blocked. In current clamp recordings, we found that resting membrane potential was hyperpolarized by ∼7 mV and AP firing threshold depolarized by ∼4 mV in traditional compared to physiological ionic concentrations, and that NMDARs contribute to EPSPs at resting membrane potentials. These measurements demonstrate that, even in the presence of extracellular Mg(2+) and absence of postsynaptic depolarization, NMDARs contribute to synaptic currents and Ca(2+) influx
Life Patterns and Choices: A Survey of Graduates from Radcliffe College/Harvard University and Newnham College, University of Cambridge
No full textThe Life Patterns and Choices Study was a cross-national, cross-cohort
study on the life patterns and experiences of well-educated women
conducted by Belle Brett, Ed.D. and Jane Elliott, Ph.D.
In 2003, a 15 page questionnaire was mailed to all US resident graduates
of the Radcliffe Classes of 1969 and 1979(n=752) as well as equivalent
cohorts from Newnham College,Cambridge University, in England (N=363).
(In addition, the responses from the Radcliffe Class of 1969 were
intended to be the third wave of a previous two-wave study conducted by
Belle Brett in 1979 and 1990 (The Radcliffe Class of 1969: A Survey of
Life Patterns, Choices, and Beliefs, also held by the Henry A. Murray
Center Research Archive).
The purpose of this study was to find out if there were differences both
between cohorts that were ten years apart and between women from the
U.S. and Great Britain in terms of their work patterns and choices,
marital patterns and choices, other life activities, and attitudes and
beliefs around work, family, and women’s rights. The linkages among
these areas was also of interest.
The questionnaire contained 12 parts: 1) Overview, 2)Your Type of Work,
3) Your Day-to-Day Activities, 4) Career/Working Life, 5)Work patterns
since leaving college, 6)Your Current Paid Work, 7)Spouses and partners,
8)Children,9)Plans and Hopes for the Future/Wishes for the Past,
10)Attitudes and Beliefs, 11)Other Personal Data, and 12)Comments.
Questions were multiple choice, short answer, and essay type. Short
answer questions were coded as were some of the essay type questions.
Overall response rate was 58% (n=642), 51% for the Radcliffe sample and
71% for the Newnham sample. (Among the Radcliffe Class of 1969 sample
who had participated in the 1990 study, 77% returned questionnaires.)
Raw data as well as numerical data are available for the two Radcliffe
cohorts, but only numerical data are available for the two Newnham
College cohorts
Life Patterns and Choices: A Survey of Graduates from Radcliffe College/Harvard University and Newnham College, University of Cambridge
No full textThe Life Patterns and Choices Study was a cross-national, cross-cohort
study on the life patterns and experiences of well-educated women
conducted by Belle Brett, Ed.D. and Jane Elliott, Ph.D.
In 2003, a 15 page questionnaire was mailed to all US resident graduates
of the Radcliffe Classes of 1969 and 1979(n=752) as well as equivalent
cohorts from Newnham College,Cambridge University, in England (N=363).
(In addition, the responses from the Radcliffe Class of 1969 were
intended to be the third wave of a previous two-wave study conducted by
Belle Brett in 1979 and 1990 (The Radcliffe Class of 1969: A Survey of
Life Patterns, Choices, and Beliefs, also held by the Henry A. Murray
Center Research Archive).
The purpose of this study was to find out if there were differences both
between cohorts that were ten years apart and between women from the
U.S. and Great Britain in terms of their work patterns and choices,
marital patterns and choices, other life activities, and attitudes and
beliefs around work, family, and women’s rights. The linkages among
these areas was also of interest.
The questionnaire contained 12 parts: 1) Overview, 2)Your Type of Work,
3) Your Day-to-Day Activities, 4) Career/Working Life, 5)Work patterns
since leaving college, 6)Your Current Paid Work, 7)Spouses and partners,
8)Children,9)Plans and Hopes for the Future/Wishes for the Past,
10)Attitudes and Beliefs, 11)Other Personal Data, and 12)Comments.
Questions were multiple choice, short answer, and essay type. Short
answer questions were coded as were some of the essay type questions.
Overall response rate was 58% (n=642), 51% for the Radcliffe sample and
71% for the Newnham sample. (Among the Radcliffe Class of 1969 sample
who had participated in the 1990 study, 77% returned questionnaires.)
Raw data as well as numerical data are available for the two Radcliffe
cohorts, but only numerical data are available for the two Newnham
College cohorts
Extracellular glutamate is not modulated by cannabinoid receptor activity
No full textAbstract Cannabinoid receptor activation has been proposed to trigger glutamate release from astrocytes located in cortical layer 2/3. Here, we measure the basal concentration of extracellular glutamate in layer 2/3 of mouse somatosensory cortex and find it to be 20–30 nM. We further examine the effect of cannabinoid receptor signaling on extracellular glutamate, and find no evidence for increased extracellular glutamate upon cannabinoid receptor agonist application.Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 202
- …
