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Herstellung und Verwendung von hochkonzentriertem HD zur Validierung der Kalibrierung von Wasserstoffanalysesystemen am Tritiumlabor Karlsruhe
Get PDFAustralia as a Southern Hemisphere power
Get PDFAustralia’s key economic, foreign and security relations are overwhelmingly focused to our north—in Asia, North America and Europe. But our ‘soft’ power in the realms of aid, trade, science, sport and education is increasingly manifested in the Southern Hemisphere regions of Africa, South America, the Indonesian archipelago and the Southwest Pacific, as well as Antarctica. Our developmental, scientific, business and people-to-people linkages with the emerging states of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are growing rapidly. At the same time, new forms of peacemaking have distinguished Australia’s cooperative interventions in our fragile island neighbourhood. This paper looks at these different ways Australian power is being projected across the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in relation to new links with Africa and South America. Rapid growth in our southern engagement has implications for the future, but also harks back to Australia’s past as ‘Mistress of the Southern Seas'
Animating archaeology: local theories and conceptually open-ended methodologies
Get PDFAnimists’ theories of matter must be given equivalence at the level of theory if we are to understand adequately the nature of ontological difference in the past. The current model is of a natural ontological continuum that connects all cultures, grounding our culturally relativist worldviews in a common world. Indigenous peoples’ worlds are thought of as fascinating but ultimately mistaken ways of knowing the world. We demonstrate how ontologically oriented theorists Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Karen Barad and Tim Ingold in conjuncture with an anti-representationalist methodology can provide the necessary conditions for alternative ontologies to emerge in archaeology. Anthropo-zoomorphic ‘body-pots’ from first-millennium ad northwest Argentina anticipate the possibility that matter was conceptualized as chronically unstable, inherently undifferentiated, and ultimately practice dependent
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
Cult: A Composite Novel
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The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Reading Through Displacement: Functionality of the Underlying Theme in Tim O'Brien's Fiction
No full textTim O'Brien, a contemporary author writing mostly about his combat experience in Vietnam, has written eight books to date. All involve Vietnam in some way—overtly, for the most part. He and his stories are well known stylistically for several traits including the blurred distinctions between what actually happened and "story truth," something that did not really happen, but is true nonetheless. Within the story, he also blurs the line between what actually happens and what is imagined by the narrator or one of the characters; and, although he sometimes makes the distinction, he often does not. To help shed some light on this, there are a number of published interviews and articles wherein he discusses the themes, forms, and methods of his writing as well as his experiences.
Research and analysis of O'Brien and his works show that, although his stories overtly deal with a myriad of other issues and themes, the complex and specific theme of displacement caused by trauma is present in all of his work, and can even be considered the engine that drives his stories and how they work with the reader. Additionally, O'Brien's well-known method of writing is actually a subtle yet intensely effective performance and enactment of this underlying theme of displacement. When used as a reading strategy, the theme itself clarifies and unlocks several points of contention about his texts such as O'Brien's generally negative treatment of women.Master of Art
The Relationship of the Signatures of 18th Century American Men to Their Names
No full textThis article is about multi-letter abbreviations of men’s first names, for example, Benj: for Benjamin and Jn° for John, used in 18th century American signatures. Their formal characteristics are described and they are examined in the context of the general abbreviation practices of the period. The author rejects the suggestion, made recently by Wilson, that nicknames used in oral discourse may explain these abbreviations, and stresses instead their visual nature. Signature elements such as G:° and And:w, the author maintains, cannot be fully understood without reference to written means of identification used in earlier centuries, including the mark, the monogram, the cipher, and the rubric.Cet article traite des abréviations à plusieurs lettres de prénoms d’hommes, par example, Benj: pour Benjamin et Jn° pour John, qui figurent dans les signatures d’Américains du 18e siècle. L’auteur examine leurs caractéristiques formelles et les situe dans le contexte des pratiques d’abréviation générales de l’époque. Il rejette la suggestion récemment formulée par Wilson selon laquelle l’utilisation de formes hypocoristiques de la langue parlée pourrait expliquer ces abréviations, et il souligne plutôt l’importance de leur aspect visuel. Selon l’auteur, on ne peut pas bien comprendre les éléments de signature comme G:0 et And:w, par exemple, sans considérer certain moyens d’identification de la langue écrite utilisées au cours des siècles antérieurs, tels la marque, le monogramme, le chiffre, et la rubrique
Ahead by a Century: Tim Edgar, Machine-Learning, and the Future of Anti-Avoidance
Get PDFThis is an article published in the Canadian Tax Journal.Tim Edgar’s contributions to our understanding of tax avoidance and anti-avoidance remain ahead of their time. In this paper, the author argues that Edgar’s work on building better general anti-avoidance rules (GAARs) was particularly prescient—correct in its claim that tax avoidance can and should be eliminated through effective anti-avoidance measures. The author maintains that although Edgar’s position and vision will eventually be realized, Edgar himself did not anticipate the manner in which this would occur. The author’s first claim is that the law is incomplete, and this incompleteness problematizes any insistence on the immediate adoption of strict anti-avoidance measures. The author explains how and why the current stage of legal development falls significantly short of completely specifying the law, including the tax law. The author’s second claim is that the next decades will bring considerably more sophisticated and effective approaches to legal development. Described, in broad terms, are some of the mechanisms through which our tax systems are moving toward a legal singularity (a state of the law that is functionally complete and well specified). The author proceeds to outline the implications of his two main claims for the future of GAARs and anti-avoidance— specifically, how the realization of a much more complete system of law will leave effectively no further scope for tax avoidance. Tax law, in the asymptotic realization of Edgar’s work and vision, will become well targeted and well equipped to address tax avoidance. Tax avoidance as we know it will cease to exist
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Missing Symmetries of the Standard Model
Get PDFThe strong CP problem is a compelling motivation for the existence of as-yet-undiscovered additions to the Standard Model of particle physics. An extraordinary cancellation between two apparently unrelated parameters in the Standard Model endows the neutron with an essentially symmetric distribution of electric charge, implying that quantum chromodynamics (QCD) conserves parity and time reversal symmetries P and CP, despite the fact that both are broken by electroweak interactions.Axion models provide a popular explanation to this puzzle of the Standard Model, by dynamically restoring CP as a symmetry of the QCD vacuum. Yet in the context of a high-energy theory with broken global symmetries, which encodes for example the expected effects from quantum gravity, simple axion models require their own severe form of fine-tuned cancellations to prevent unacceptably large violations of CP symmetry in the vacuum.Constructing a model that safeguards the axion against these catastrophic effects is highly nontrivial, and has been an active area of research from around 1990 to the present. Typical solutions in the literature invoke intricate structures of new symmetries and particles, leading an ongoing search for simpler and more aesthetically pleasing models.This thesis explores some supersymmetric models proposed by the author as new, robust solutions to the strong CP problem. In particular, the composite axion model of [3] provides a compellingly simple extension to the MSSM, with built-in B − L symmetry, a naturally O(TeV) scale for electroweak physics, and sufficient protection from symmetry-violating effects for the axion model in the preferred window of parameter space, where the axion is a viable candidate for dark matter
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A list of orchid books
No full textTwo private libraries, Benjamin Singer’s (which he donated to the American Orchid Society) and Joseph Arditti’s (its future is yet to be decided, it may be donated to an academic or scientific institutions or sold), served as primary sources for this list. However other sources were also used. The use of multiple sources increased the number of books which are listed but may have introduced errors or imperfections for following reasons.
One and the same book may have been listed under different names erroneously.
Names of authors may have been misspelled.
When books have more than one author, the order of authors may have been presented differently in different lists and/or one or more names may have been omitted, added or misspelled.
A book may have been published under different names in more than one country.
Books are sometimes published by one publisher in one country and another in a different one.
Spelling errors in different lists
Translations
Different editions
Lack of information
Conventions used in spelling names like “de” and “van.”
Erroneous assumptions regarding Chinese surnames. The Chinese traditions is to list surname first, as for example, Yam Tim Wing which may end up incorrectly as Wing, Y. T. in some lists compiled in the West and correctly as T. W. Yam in others.
Only the last names of some authors are listed.
Some entries listed as books may in fact be no more than reprints.
Several lists did not provide all relevant information about a book (dates of publication and names of publishers, for example).
In some cases we could check the accuracy or a listing and make appropriate corrections or find missing information and add it. However in many instances this was not possible and listings are incomplete.
When what seemed to be the same book appeared under several “identities” in different sources all are included in this list because we deemed multiple listings preferable to omission.
On the whole this list is far from perfect, but it we hope that it will prove to be useful
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