258 research outputs found
Cytological, anatomical and morphological studies of etiolation in broad bean (Vicia faba.L.)
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Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria quartet: influences shaping his fiction.
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Author Correction: The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos
No full textBarnouin, Olivier S. et al.-- Full list of authors: Barnouin, Olivier; Ballouz, Ronald-Louis; Marchi, Simone; Vincent, Jean-Baptiste; Agrusa, Harrison; Zhang, Yun; Ernst, Carolyn M.; Pajola, Maurizio; Tusberti, Filippo; Lucchetti, Alice; Daly, R. Terik; Palmer, Eric; Walsh, Kevin J.; Michel, Patrick; Sunshine, Jessica M.; Rizos, Juan L.; Farnham, Tony L.; Richardson, Derek C.; Parro, Laura M.; Murdoch, Naomi; Robin, Colas Q.; Hirabayashi, Masatoshi; Kahout, Tomas; Asphaug, Erik; Raducan, Sabina D.; Jutzi, Martin; Ferrari, Fabio; Hasselmann, Pedro Henrique Aragao; CampoBagatin, Adriano; Chabot, Nancy L.; Li, Jian-Yang; Cheng, Andrew F.; Nolan, Michael C.; Stickle, Angela M.; Karatekin, Ozgur; Dotto, Elisabetta; Della Corte, Vincenzo; Mazzotta Epifani, Elena; Rossi, Alessandro; Gai, Igor; Deshapriya, Jasinghege Don Prasanna; Bertini, Ivano; Zinzi, Angelo; Trigo-Rodriguez, Josep M.; Beccarelli, Joel; Ivanovski, Stavro Lambrov; Brucato, John Robert; Poggiali, Giovanni; Zanotti, Giovanni; Amoroso, Marilena; Capannolo, Andrea; Cremonese, Gabriele; Dall'Ora, Massimo; Ieva, Simone; Impresario, Gabriele; Lavagn, Michèle; Modenini, Dario; Palumbo, Pasquale; Perna, Davide; Pirrotta, Simone; Tortora, Paolo; Zannoni, Marco; Rivkin, Andrew S.In this article the funding from the Spanish project PID2021-128062NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI
was omitted. The original article has been corrected.Peer reviewe
Modernising Law Legislating for Technologies of Reproduction in Britain and Germany A Comparative Case Study
No full textPhDThe thesis compares the legislative decision-making in Germany and Britain with
regard to 'new' reproductive technologies (most prominently 1W and embryo
research). This entails the discourse analysis of legislative debates and papers and a
close reading of the two laws governing reproductive technologies, the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the German Embrvonencchulzgeselz
[Embryo Protection Act] of the same year. Reproductive technologies are read as
instances of modernisation. The legislative debates are therefore understood as
addressing the problems and effects of modernisation: individualisation,
detraditionalisation, the control and manipulation of (human) nature. Modernisation is
conceptualised as ambivalent, both holding the promise of a brighter future and the
risks of alienation and exploitation for humanity, and the erosion of tradition.
It is argued that the ambivalence of modernisation leads to conflicting concerns about
reproductive technologies, concerns (or risks) which are irreconcilable, which in turn
lead to insurmountable contradictions within each respective piece of legislation.
However, it is held that these contradictions should not be read as the ultimate failure
of the two laws. Rather, it turns out that the inability to overcome every contradiction,
their indeterminacy, is what enables the two pieces of legislation to resist some and
embrace other aspects of technological progress in the field of human reproduction.
The question whether the two laws can actually be said to 'rule' new reproductive
technologies is worked through by drawing on the legislative discourses themselves,
critical (legal) theory and contemporary theories of risk. The comparative perspective
allows us to see how the two laws' very different approaches lead to similar
dilemmas, highlighting that the ambivalence of modernisation is inescapable. The
thesis concludes with the (tentative) suggestion that even in today's world of
'scientism' and permanent modernisation, law does not simply get eroded. Through
its contingent nature, it resurfaces as the force that allows conflicting dynamics to coexist
Measurements from the RV Ronald H. Brown and related platforms as part of the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC)
No full text© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Quinn, P. K., Thompson, E. J., Coffman, D. J., Baidar, S., Bariteau, L., Bates, T. S., Bigorre, S., Brewer, A., de Boer, G., de Szoeke, S. P., Drushka, K., Foltz, G. R., Intrieri, J., Iyer, S., Fairall, C. W., Gaston, C. J., Jansen, F., Johnson, J. E., Krueger, O. O., Marchbanks, R. D., Moran, K. P., Noone, D., Pezoa, S., Pincus, R., Plueddemann, A. J., Poehlker, M. L., Poeschl, U., Melendez, E. Q., Royer, H. M., Szczodrak, M., Thomson, J., Upchurch, L. M., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., & Zuidema, P. Measurements from the RV Ronald H. Brown and related platforms as part of the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC). Earth System Science Data, 13(4), (2021): 1759-1790, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1759-2021.The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) took place from 7 January to 11 July 2020 in the tropical North Atlantic between the eastern edge of Barbados and 51∘ W, the longitude of the Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) mooring. Measurements were made to gather information on shallow atmospheric convection, the effects of aerosols and clouds on the ocean surface energy budget, and mesoscale oceanic processes. Multiple platforms were deployed during ATOMIC including the NOAA RV Ronald H. Brown (RHB) (7 January to 13 February) and WP-3D Orion (P-3) aircraft (17 January to 10 February), the University of Colorado's Robust Autonomous Aerial Vehicle-Endurant Nimble (RAAVEN) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) (24 January to 15 February), NOAA- and NASA-sponsored Saildrones (12 January to 11 July), and Surface Velocity Program Salinity (SVPS) surface ocean drifters (23 January to 29 April). The RV Ronald H. Brown conducted in situ and remote sensing measurements of oceanic and atmospheric properties with an emphasis on mesoscale oceanic–atmospheric coupling and aerosol–cloud interactions. In addition, the ship served as a launching pad for Wave Gliders, Surface Wave Instrument Floats with Tracking (SWIFTs), and radiosondes. Details of measurements made from the RV Ronald H. Brown, ship-deployed assets, and other platforms closely coordinated with the ship during ATOMIC are provided here. These platforms include Saildrone 1064 and the RAAVEN UAS as well as the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory (BACO). Inter-platform comparisons are presented to assess consistency in the data sets. Data sets from the RV Ronald H. Brown and deployed assets have been quality controlled and are publicly available at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) data archive (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/ATOMIC-2020, last access: 2 April 2021). Point-of-contact information and links to individual data sets with digital object identifiers (DOIs) are provided herein.NOAA's Climate Variability and Predictability Program provided funding under NOAA CVP NA19OAR4310379, GC19-301, and GC19-305. The Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) supported this study under NOAA cooperative agreement NA15OAR4320063. Additional support was provided by the NOAA's Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program Office, NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory, and NOAA AOML's Physical Oceanography Division. The NTAS project is funded by the NOAA's Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (CPO FundRef number 100007298), through the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) under cooperative agreement NA14OAR4320158
ERP projects : an examination of the factors influencing additional unplanned effort in the project life-cycle
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 125-143).For over a decade, ERP systems have been the target of significant amounts of investment in organisations. Some have reaped the benefits anticipated while others struggle to achieve the required level of success. In fact, based on available statistics, numerous organisations have faced problems in keeping their allocated budget and time schedules on track often facing the threat of failure, escalation or significant redirection in their projects. As a result, organisations are seen to spend what can be termed as additional unplanned effort (AUE) in order to try and achieve a certain level of success given budget and time constraints. Using the concept called AUE, derived from topics such as ERP project success and failure, the ERP life-cycle framework and critical success factors (CSFs) relevant to the life-cycle phases, this study attempted to investigate the factors that influence AUE in the phases ofthe ERP life-cycle which in this study consist of the pre-implementation and implementation phases specifically. A sub-objective was also to investigate the possible influence that the presence of factors, responsible for escalation of commitment (EoC) in IT projects, have on AUE in ERP projects. Based on a qualitative mUltiple case-study of 5 ERP projects at different organisations, results showed that there are several factors that influence AUE in satisfying CSFs in each phase of the life-cycle. Particularly, in the pre-implementation phase, factors such as the justification for ERP adoption, the formalisation of an ERP vision, the finalisation of an ERP package choice, the stability of organisational structure, the organisation and flow of the acquisition process, the nature of market conditions and the type of internal and external partnership were found important in influencing AUE in that phase. In the implementation phase factors such as the formalisation of an implementation strategy, the management of organisational momentum and resistance to change, the maintenance of external partnership relationships, conditions external to the organisation, the nature of the organisation and the management of project factors were found important
Self-consciousness and the image of self in the poetry of Stephen Spender, 1928 to 1934
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, to demonstrate the value and significance of Spender's early poetry in terms of its vision and technique. Through a series of close readings the thesis traces the ways in which Spender's early poetry not only shows itself to be self-conscious but also manipulates images of self. Presenting images of self, Spender achieves a balance between engagement with and distance from the self, and the reader shares in the process of poetic self-awareness. Secondly, to demonstrate the broader value of the poetry. Spender's poetry presents a distinctive exploration of the possibilities of self in relation to the external world. The resolution of Spender’s questioning and selection of both personal and public values, rooted in his contemporary situation and private circumstances, in his poetry takes the form less of historical document than of human record. The period on which I focus, 1928 to 1934, represents Spender’s first, and arguably most significant, poetic phase. The thesis is specifically concerned with four texts: Nine Experiments. Spender's contributions to Oxford Poetry (1929 and 1930), Twenty Poems and Poems (1933 and 1934). Nine Experiments marks the beginning of a particular approach and lyric style which finds its culmination in Poems (1933 and 1934). The earliest poetry is interesting largely insofar as it looks forward to later themes and techniques. In Nine Experiments and Oxford Poetry (1929 and 1930) we see Spender's often successful struggle to achieve effective forms in which to explore issues of self and value. Twenty Poems and Poems (1933 and 1934) concentrate on themes of love and friendship and the pressure on the poet of the contemporary political scene. The poetry does not reconcile the demands of the external, public world with his inner desires and aspirations, but presents a series of fascinatingly unresolved tensions. The thesis explores the way these poems strive for certainty. This striving stems from the tension between Spender's desire to politicize poetry and his tendency to the lyrical, personal statement
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