21 research outputs found
The man of feeling [electronic resource] : a novel, by Mr. Mackenzie, of Edinburg. Author of Julia de Roubigne, and The man of the world. With The sentimental sailor. A poem, originating from Rousseau's Eloisa. [Six lines of verse from Propertius].
No full textError in paging: p. 77-103 misnumbered 76-102.Bookseller's advertisement, p. iv."The wish by Mr. Merrick."--p. [72]."The sentimental sailor, versified from Rousseau; or St. Preux to Eloisa, an elegy in two parts, with notes .."--p. [73]-108, with separate title page (Evans 17605). Attributed to Thomas Mercer by Evans. Dedicated to Rousseau.Signatures: [A]p2s B-Op4s Pp2sEvans,Evans,Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
Definitions of Guidelines for Introducing an Integrated Management System to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
No full textTo survive and achieve to develop their activities in an increasingly competitive
environment, small and medium sized enterprises have to increase their
competitiveness and, progressively, reduce their operational cost. It is therefore the
objective of this research project to develop a flexible and unique management system
for these enterprises to use to integrate all management systems or activities related to
quality, safety and environmental issues and continuously improve their overall
business performance and also to get prepared for certification according to the
relevant international standards.
The research project has been based on the edition of 2000 of the ISO 9001 standard:
"Quality Management Systems
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Requirements", the ISO 14001: 1996 standard:
"Environmental Management Systems
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Specification with Guidance for Use", the BS
8800: 1996 standard: "Guide to Occupational Health and Safety Management
Systems" and the Business Excellence Model.
The thesis author carried out a data collection procedure to determine the special
characteristics of small and medium sized enterprises and to specify their needs for
survival and development. The results of the research reinforced the conclusions of
the relevant literature that was reviewed. The areas of literature examined related to
quality management systems as platforms for integration, to safety and environmental
management systems and to business process analysis and the conclusions were taken
under consideration from a point of view of small and medium sized enterprises.
The output of the research project is a practical guide for small and medium sized
enterprises. It is a route-map of activities for the implementation of the integrated
management system, incorporating tools addressing specific management areas using
quality, safety and environmental issues to focus them. The route-map has the
potential to integrate the overall management activities of an organization and has an
internal metric mechanism to indicate the rate of integration. The tools of the route-
map were partially implemented to two (2) SMEs, giving positive validation of the
concepts.
A masculine circle : the charter myth of genius and its effects on women writers
No full textThis dissertation examines the concept of artistic genius and its workings
as a functional ‘charter myth’, helping to inscribe, enhance and perpetuate
discriminative practices against women within the field of literature in general
and novel writing in particular.
As an active agent as well as symbolic representation of some core
patriarchal values such as the innate supremacy and thus justified dominance of
men, the concept of genius operates in the following manner: Firstly, through its
multiple mythical elements such as the untruth of its affirmations surrounding
creativity combined with a paradoxical ability to nevertheless produce evidence
for its seeming accuracy; its inherent narrative structure featuring a prescribed
genius hero and tale and the latter’s powerful mythical allure, all of which help to
push the prominence of genius despite its continued academic deconstruction.
Secondly, through the subtle yet powerful gendering of the protagonist and plot
pattern it provides, containing a clear blue-print for a hero with a male body
complemented or opposed by a subordinate, non-genius female.
This gendered mythical pattern directly affects women writers in a variety
of manners. On the one hand, it assists the lastingly biased reception of women
authors, pre-imposing genius-inscribed beliefs of female inferiority onto literary
judgments, thus cyclically perpetuating that belief. On the other – and most
importantly for this thesis – the myth of genius also has an inward bearing on
many female writers, impeding their creative process and development especially
through the myth’s complex interaction with self-confidence as one of the core
features necessary for a successful completion of literary projects such as novels
Cello techniques and performing practices in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
No full textThis thesis comprises a study of cello performance practices throughout the nineteenth century and into the early decades of the twentieth. It is organised in terms of the increasing complexity of the concepts which it examines, as they are to be found in printed and manuscript music, instrumental methods and larger treatises, early recordings, concert reviews and pictures. Basic posture is considered along with different ways of holding the
bow. The development of the tail-pin shows that even when it was widely used, the older posture was still referred to as a model. Some implications for tone quality and tonal
projection are considered in the light of the shape of the arms. Some connections between the cellist's posture and that recommended by etiquette books are explored. The
functionality of the left hand and arm, and the development of modem scale fingerings, show that there was a considerable period of overlap between newer and older practices, with modern scale fingerings evolving over a long period of time. Similarly, views on the function of the right wrist in bowing are shown to change gradually, moving towards a more active upper arm movement with less extreme flexibility of the wrist. Two central expressive techniques especially associated with string playing arc considered in the context of the cello, namely vibrato and portamento. These topics are examined in the light of written indications in music, recommendations in cello treatises, and the practices evidenced in early recordings. The sources for this study can be brought into an overall
framework of a constant dialogue between `theory', as expressed in verbal instructions to the learner, or general a priori reflections about the cello, and `practice', manifested in performing editions and early recordings, or in individual acts of reception. A wide divergence is noted, both between theory and practice in general, and in terms of different styles of playing observable at any one time. It is suggested that tensions between practice
and critical disapproval can be resolved in terms of Lacanian discourse. Several test cases are used in order to compare several different recordings of the same works. The question of the musical character of the cello is discussed in terms of widespread assumptions about its gendered identity. A wide range of sources suggest that this moved from a straightforwardly `masculine' identity expressed through a controlling, elevated eloquence to a less clearly defined one, incorporating the 'feminine', with a greater stress on uninhibited emotional expression. Some performance implications for this change of view are pursued with respect to specific repertoires. Broad conclusions stress the importance of the diversity of performance practices as opposed to unifying generalisations
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free Zones?
No full textRace, sex, religion, crime, liberty, patriotism, equality. The Supreme Court’s treatment of these incendiary topics has indelibly shaped public education and the constitutional rights of students around the country. Professor Justin Driver of Yale Law School maintains that since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated responsibility in protecting students’ rights, risking transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones and in turn jeopardizing our basic constitutional order. How have courts evaluated corporal punishment, random drug tests, strip searches, and transgender students accessing restrooms? Join Justin Driver, author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, as he analyzes these pressing legal questions regarding public schools and their place in American society. Speaker’s Bio
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law, and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.
A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. A member of the American Law Institute and of the American Constitution Society’s Academic Advisory Board, Driver is also an editor of the Supreme Court Review. In 2021, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Previously, Driver was the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Driver is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.), and Justice Stephen Breyer
Entropy Profiling for the Diagnosis of NCA/Gr-SiOx Li-Ion Battery Health
No full textGraphite-silicon (Gr-Si) blends have become common in commercial Li-ion battery negative electrodes, offering increased capacity over pure graphite. Lithiation/delithiation of the silicon particles results in volume changes, which may be associated with increased hysteresis of the open circuit potential (OCP). The OCP is a function of both concentration and temperature. Entropy change measurement—which probes the response of the OCP to temperature—offers a unique battery diagnostics tool. While entropy change measurements have previously been applied to study degradation, the implications of Si additives on the entropy profiles of commercial cells have not been explored. Here, we use entropy profiling to track ageing markers in the same way as differential voltage analysis. In addition to lithiation/delithiation hysteresis in the OCP of Gr-Si blends, cells with Gr-Si anodes also exhibit differences in entropy profile depending on cycling direction, reflecting degradation-related morphological changes. For cycled cells, entropy change decreased during discharge, likely corresponding to graphite particles breaking and cracking. However, entropy change during charge increased with cycling, likely due to the volume change of silicon. Over a broad voltage range, these combined effects led to the observed rise in entropy hysteresis with age. Conversely, for calendar aged cells entropy hysteresis remained stable
Candida albicans repetitive elements display epigenetic diversity and plasticity
No full textTranscriptionally silent heterochromatin is associated with repetitive DNA. It is poorly understood whether and how heterochromatin differs between different organisms and whether its structure can be remodelled in response to environmental signals. Here, we address this question by analysing the chromatin state associated with DNA repeats in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Our analyses indicate that, contrary to model systems, each type of repetitive element is assembled into a distinct chromatin state. Classical Sir2-dependent hypoacetylated and hypomethylated chromatin is associated with the rDNA locus while telomeric regions are assembled into a weak heterochromatin that is only mildly hypoacetylated and hypomethylated. Major Repeat Sequences, a class of tandem repeats, are assembled into an intermediate chromatin state bearing features of both euchromatin and heterochromatin. Marker gene silencing assays and genome-wide RNA sequencing reveals that C. albicans heterochromatin represses expression of repeat-associated coding and non-coding RNAs. We find that telomeric heterochromatin is dynamic and remodelled upon an environmental change. Weak heterochromatin is associated with telomeres at 30?°C, while robust heterochromatin is assembled over these regions at 39?°C, a temperature mimicking moderate fever in the host. Thus in C. albicans, differential chromatin states controls gene expression and epigenetic plasticity is linked to adaptation
A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
No full textThis thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister's (1791-1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne's writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the 'fairer sex' (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne's sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature's Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women's historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne's sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women's historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne's sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne's sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne's everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824-25, I have focused upon Anne's textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendome and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman's engagement with early nineteenth century British culture
Replication Data for: Analyzing the Rhetoric of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
No full textThe below data and code replicates the main and appendix materials for "Analyzing the Rhetorical Behaviors of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings." An important note for these materials: The author's preference for software packages and programming languages to complete different layers of the research design constitutes the incorporation of Microsoft Excel (data collection), STATA (data analysis), and Python (sentiment classification). All replication materials (including STATA do-files and .py files are included below). The author is happy to discuss any data limitations, as well as the procedure for classifying rhetoric using supervised machine learning processes like the one incorporated in this work (Naive Bayes).
Motivation(s): Analyses of Supreme Court confirmation hearings routinely contend with hostility and political overtones becoming ingrained in the process. Accounts from political scientists, normative observers, and participants in these hearings themselves, often point to distinctive moments in the recent history of these hearings as the source of these developments. Chief among them is the contention that the rejection of Robert Bork in 1987 instigated a decades-long collection of grievances that plagued every subsequent hearing. Some observers have continued to support this framing by asserting that even more recent events like the infamous Thomas and Kavanaugh hearings, as well as the Republican Senate's refusal to grant Merrick Garland a hearing, built-from and expand-upon the grievances emanating from Bork. However, more recent literature exploring the contextual substance of interactions between committee members and nominees have questioned these contentions in favor of viewing rhetorical behaviors as a reflection of party dynamics and the balance of interbranch political power.
Approach: I apply supervised machine learning using Naive Bayes to analyze the rhetorical behaviors of committee members during hearings spanning 1970 to 2020.
Findings: My results ultimately suggest two core empirical findings. First, I find little evidence to support the contention that certain key events, Bork or otherwise, significantly impacted rhetorical behaviors. Any layer of analysis, regardless of how many of these aforementioned events are included in the research design, fails to discern any definitive moment where these events might explain longitudinal variation. Second, while the notion that grievances emanating from key events is the primary culprit fails to provide intuitive answers, I do find support for a conjoined influence of strategic party goals and the balance of interbranch political power. That is, rhetorical behaviors are often the result a committee member's position as an in (i.e., sharing the president's political party) or out-party member, as well as whether the hearing exists in unified (i.e., the Senate majority shares the party of the appointing president) or divided government. I find that the behaviors of in-party members alters significantly when they are in the minority. Under these circumstances, they become increasingly more probable to incorporate negative rhetoric, likely as a reflection of the out-party's position as the Senate majority now bearing the weight of real obstructionist consequences. I conclude this work by noting how these conditions and behaviors can produce negative consequences for the Court's institutional support
