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Blair Humphrey's secret
No full textBlair Humphreys’s Secret is about a misfit girl named Blair Humphreys. Blair’s father has died, mother is insane, and is routinely ridiculed by her classmates. Blair herself is extremely tall for her age and quite thin. She is a brooding loner. At the age of six, after having lived alone with her lunatic mother for several months, Blair’s grandmother (whom she calls “Gram”) comes to live with her. Blair hadn’t seen Gram since she was about four years old. Gram had flitted in and out of Blair’s life, showing up between research projects. When the story begins, Blair is twelve years old. It is
Halloween night and there appear to be monsters lurking in the bushes outside Blair’s home. In reality, the “monsters” are Blair’s classmates—the ones who have been tormenting her. They have come to witness the specter that appears on stormy nights on
the roof of the Humphreys’s home. The specter is Blair’s mother, who raves and mumbles on the rooftop. Blair and Gram share a tender relationship. Gram is always trying to nurture Blair and help her to confront her demons. Gram is forever trying to build up Blair’s confidence. Gram is a mysterious figure. She has spent most of her life as an entomologist and archaeologist, traveling the world from one research project to
another. The same night the “monsters” haunt Blair’s garden, Gram gives Blair a mysterious ring with a blue star sapphire in its setting. Blair quickly discovers that the ring transports her into a strange cave in the woods near her home. The cave walls glow with a blue light. Blair tries to discover what other secrets the ring holds, but her efforts are in vain. One day her tormentors, the same gang that haunted her garden, witness her
disappearing. They wait for her to return and force her to take them to the cave. Once there, Blair soon discovers that her tormentors hold the key to unlocking the potential of the ring and the cave.M.A.by Bryan Paul Hoffma
Tsimshian carver Bryan Paul displayed unfinished rattle, Port Simpson, British Columbia, 1934
No full textMan sits on steps of porch, half-finished rattle in hands; beside him is adze resting on block of wood
Note from Viola Garfield's The Tsimshian Indians and their arts: Bryan Paul and unfinished rattle, Port Simpson, B. C
Séminaire « Dialogues autour d’A. Kojève. A propos de l’autorité » : Bryan-Paul Frost
No full textLe mercredi 18 janvier 2023, de 16h à 18h, le Séminaire "Dialogues autour d'Alexandre Kojève" accueillera Bryan-Paul Frost (University of Louisiana) qui donnera une conférence intitulée : « Charting the Path from Authority to Justice in the Political and Legal Philosophy of Alexandre Kojève » Le séminaire se tiendra en ligne. Pour s’inscrire : https://evento.univ-paris1.fr/survey/seminaire-dialogues-…-q627imk
Diseño de un aditamento mezclador de alimentos balanceados para ganado vacuno con una capacidad de 1 M3 para un mini cargador
Get PDFEl presente proyecto que se realizó es de tipo tecnológico y nivel aplicado, debido que
tiene como objetivo aplicar el conocimiento científico para emprender acciones que permitan
el uso de un aditamento que facilite la mezcla del concentrado de maíz, soya y el forraje
conservado, en la actualidad presenta deficiencias en el mezclado manual de la alimentación
animal en un establo de producción de leche, ubicado en la región de Arequipa, para lo cual
surge la necesidad de buscar nuevas tecnologías para obtener una mezcla totalmente
racionalizada (TMR) de las diferentes dietas asignadas a cada hato lechero, debido a ello se
plantea diseñar un aditamento de 1 m3 que permita mezclar forrajes conservados y
concentrados, accionado por un mini cargador, logrando homogenizar la mezcla, reducir el
tiempo de mezcla y el número de trabajadores necesarios. El diseño del proyecto consiste en
un aditamento con espesor de plancha de 8 mm, para lo cual fueron simuladas las cargas a la
cual va estar sometido el aditamento en el momento del auto cargado del forraje conservado,
la mezcla totalmente racionalizada se realizará con un eje horizontal de 9 paletas inclinadas a
45 grados entre sí, adicional a ello tendrá un eje de tornillo sinfín para el reparto lineal de la
mezcla en los comederos, ambos ejes serán accionados por unos mecanismos de piñón y cadena
que estarán sincronizados al piñón de un motor hidráulico. La selección de componentes fue
realizada en base a los procedimientos recomendados por los fabricantes y por último se realizó
el presupuesto del presente proyecto
Tsimshian carver Bryan Paul uses hand drill on carved rattle, Port Simpson, British Columbia, 1934
No full textMan kneels on porch, rotating a hand drill between his hands on rattle resting on block of wood; another rattle lies on porch near adze, & a carved & painted box (with another adze) sits off to side. Box also in NA3770.
Note from Viola Garfield's The Tsimshian Indians and their arts: Tsimshian carver Bryan Paul using hand drill on rattle; adze and carved tool box beside him, Port Simpson
Viola Garfield negative no. 3
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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