342 research outputs found
Genesee Community College
No full textA series of interviews with early leaders of Genesee Community College (State University of New York): Eva Bohn (former administrative assistant to the president), interviewed by Neal Robbins on March 22, 2006; Neil Burns (trustee emeritus), interviewed by Ruth Andes on February 14, 2006; Bernie Hoerbelt (professor emeritus), interviewed by Ruth Andes on February 3, 2006; Stuart Steiner (former president), interviewed by Larene Hoelcle on January 20, 2006; Tony Zambito (founding trustee), 1994 video transcript.Archived web contentAssociation of Community College Trustees, Association of Presidents of Public Community Colleges, SUNY Office of Community Colleges, Educational Administration and Policy Studies at SUNY Alban
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
Mapping Savanna Wildfires in Southern Belize using Sentinel-1 SAR and Object Based Imagery Analysis.
No full textA new approach for extracting spatially explicit estimates of burned areas is developed, using a time series of pre-processed Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and object based image analysis. By using scientific analysis-ready and easily downloadable Sentinel 1 data from both ascending and descending orbital paths, we are able to increase the observational frequency of wildfires to several scenes per month, enabling more precise detection of fire events and mapping their progression from week to week during a fire season. By using object based segmentation and fuzzy logic threshold classification of temporal backscatter coefficient indices, we are able to improve the mapping of the overall extents of burns, and improve on the timings of when burns occur. We apply the method to Sentinel-1 data spanning two fire seasons in 2018 and 2019 in lowland pine savannas of Belize, Central America, to produce new enhanced information products for land and fire managers. The new mapping contains more detailed and precise dates and extents for wildfires than has previously been possible to produce using passive multispectral platforms. We discuss the scope and challenges of extending the method for further years, and to other savanna areas, and present some practical advice from our experience as to the more influential channels and temporal indices for detection of burnt area in this landscape
Mapping Fires in the Lowland Pine Savannas of Southern Belize using Non-Sequential Landsat dNBRs
No full textClimate change and rising populations are increasing wildland fires globally. The use of Landsat imagery is well established for mapping fire scars. However in the tropics where most fires happen its use is constrained by rapid regrowth and high proportion of cloud cover. To overcome this we developed a method of using multiple differenced Normalised Burn Ratios throughout a single year. The enabled a largely complete mapping of burns for a given year, despite large areas of individual scenes being obscured.
The method is demonstrated in three Protected Areas in Southern Belize which are predominantly savanna. We derive the extent of burning in for each single year and inter-annual frequency and variation over a ten year period from 2006 to 2015. We show that one of the Protected Areas had 25% greater burnt area on average over the ten years. This corresponded to a higher frequency of burning than the other protected areas where prescribed burning has been practiced over the last decade. Mapping to visualise burn frequency and extents were developed and tested with local land managers
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
In Search of Meaning: The Modern Myth in Neil Gaiman's American Gods
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to discover how the idea of the modern national identity and the process of identity creation is explored through mythology in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. I argue that Gaiman uses mythological tales and gods in order to illustrate the concept of national identity, as it is theorized by Stuart Hall, and through the book’s protagonist, Shadow Moon, the author examines the identity creating process and the identity crisis of modern individuals, living in a Western society. By deploying Ragnarök, the Norse mythological tale of the death of all the gods, Gaiman acknowledges the chaos of modern society. American Gods also delves into the question of modern and pre-modern societies, reflecting on both cultural structures and the effect they have on the male protagonist’s identity creating process.N.E.AnglisztikaMSc/M
Amanda
No full text"Amanda" is a stop-motion animated short film, shot in stereoscopic 3D. Using fairy tale themes, it tells the story of a young girl who is struggling to control her emotions. Lost in a dark swamp, she encounters a troll who catches and consumes her. She must eventually outwit him in order to return home
Autonomy, rights, and euthanasia policy: Lessons from John Stuart Mill
No full textBringing together political theorists and specialists in Canadian politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics combines conceptual frameworks from political theory and empirical evidence to offer fresh perspectives on political events in contemporary Canada. Examining complex and timely subjects such as equality, social justice, democracy, citizenship, and ethnic diversity, contributors present current and archival research supplemented with insights drawn from political theory to give readers a deep and nuanced understanding of increasingly pressing issues in Canadian society. For scholars and students seeking a work of political theory that is tangible, focused, and connected to the real world of everyday politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics will be an important resource, combining philosophical insights and empirical evidence to enhance our understanding of contemporary Canadian politics. --From publisher description.book chapte
Embroidered rhetoric: the social, religious and political functions of elite women's needlework, c.1560-1630
No full textThis thesis focuses on the Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocracy and upper gentry to yield the first detailed study of the elite needleworking woman as fashioner of her social personage, and of the objects she produced as indices of social persona, religious conscience and political agency.
The first chapter explores how needlework mediates between wtiwomeann d their social context. It surveys the way in which needlework, both as practice and as object, functioned as a vehicle for projecting persona and personage into a social context which interpreted needlework according to complex value systems of personal virtue and the husbandries of conspicuous wealth. The chapter explores needlework as a site for intellectual expression. The theories developed in the first chapter are tested in a case study of Bess of Hardwick, whose textiles show her construction of a virtuous aristocratic persona proclaiming its self-assured place in the social hierarchy.
Chapter Two is the first study to consider the needlework of Elizabethan and Jacobean Catholics in the light of the Protestant proscription of iconic vestments. It recovers the history of lost needlework from English convents on the Continent, and of the English recusants' covert provision of vestments to Jesuit missioners. The first detailed case studs' of Helena Wintour's vestments reads Wintour's Jesuit-influenced Marian floral emblems and iconography alongside Hawkins's meditation handbook Partheneia Sacra to theorise Wintour's devotion to the Immaculate Conception, and explores the vestments' relationship to the liturgy and their iconographical importance to the Mass.
Chapter Three considers needlework gifts as political currency within patronage structures at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. Narrated with a contemporary vocabulary of grace, needlework gifts contribute to the construction of court-crown relations, symbolised by needlework gifts in Jacobean court masques. Through needlework gifts a `feminine commonwealth' availed itself of power structures at the court of James's consort that parallel his departments, and the women's political agency in a female political hierarchy is seen encoded within gifts of needlework in the Queen's Courts final masque. The case study uses Mary's needlework gifts to Elizabeth as an index of changes in their relationship. Mary's needlework joins parallel texts such as poetry, portraiture and planned masques in developing an iconographical vocabulary centring on the Judgement of Paris, with which diplomatic negotiations sought to clarify the Queens' relative positions
Thermal hydraulic performance analysis of a small integral pressurized water reactor core
No full textThesis (Nucl. E. and S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-121).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.A thermal hydraulic analysis of the International Reactor Innovative and Secure (IRIS) core has been performed. Thermal margins for steady state and a selection of Loss Of Flow Accidents have been assessed using three methodologies to account for uncertainty. The thermal hydraulic analysis has shown that the IRIS is designed with adequate thermal margin for steady state operation, the locked rotor/shaft shear accident (LR/SS) and for variants of the partial loss of flow accident. To treat uncertainties, three methods were used, ranging from conservative, deterministic methods, to more realistic and computationally demanding Monte Carlo-based methods. To facilitate the computational requirements of the thermal hydraulic analysis, a script-based interface was created for VIPRE. This scripted interface (written in Matlab) supplants the existing file-based interface. This interface allows for repeated, automatic execution of the VIPRE code on a script-modifiable input data, and parses and stores output data to disk. This endows the analyst with much greater power to use VIPRE in parametric studies, or using the Monte Carlo-based uncertainty analysis methodology. The Matlab environment also provides powerful visualization capability that greatly eases the task of data analysis.by Stuart R. Blair.Nucl.E.and S.M
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