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Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan and Mohammedan countries : being a series of lectures and descriptions,
No full textLectures by Caleb Wright and Alexander Duff.Mode of access: Internet
Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright
No full textDouglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwrigh
Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for Estimated costs of pivotal trialsfor U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved cancer drugs, 2015–2017
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_Material for Estimated costs of pivotal trialsfor U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved cancer drugs, 2015–2017 by Emily Han-Chung Hsiue, Thomas J Moore and G Caleb Alexander in Clinical Trials</p
Author inscription in William Hazlitt, essayist and critic; selections from his writings, with a memoir, biographical and critical by Alexander Ireland
No full textAuthor's gift inscription, "To W. C. Hazlitt Esq with kind regards, from Alexr Ireland," with tipped-in review of the book.ASU Library edition has inscription from Ireland to Hazlitt [a child of William Hazlitt?].
Hazlitt , William, 1778-1830.
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
The Author of the Alexander Romance
No full textThis paper, which is based on a portion of the introduction of the author’s edition of Il Romanzo di Alessandro (Mondadori: Fondazione Valla 2007), surveys the generic components of the Alexander Romance in an attempt to arrive at a definition of the work. The argument builds on Merkelbach’s categorisation of elements and uses Fusillo’s insight into the novel as an ‘encyclopaedic genre’ to propose that ‘historical novel’ is not, as Hägg contended, a misnomer for the work. The main components I discuss are: ‘life’; praxeis; chreiai; Cynic elements, including choliambic poetry and utopian perspectives; and the Egyptian aspects of the narrative. A concluding jeu d’esprit offers a characterisation of the putative author, his antecedents and his process of composition.Richard Stoneman was for 25 years editor for classics at Croom Helm and then Routledge. In 1997 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow in the department of classics, University of Exeter. After retiring from publishing in 2006 he has been pursuing his researches on the Alexander legends and teaching a course on the subject at Exeter. His Penguin translation of the Alexander Romance was published in 1991, and a volume of translated Legends of Alexander the Great appeared from Everyman in 1994. Also in 1994 he co-edited Greek Fiction with John Morgan. His edition of the Greek recensions of the Alexander Romance was published (volume I) by the Fondazione Valla in 2007 – volumes II and III will follow over the next few years – and his Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend appeared from Yale University Press in spring 2008. He is the author of a number of other books on Greek history and travel, and is writing a book on oracles
Author Correction: The dengue-specific immune response and antibody identification with machine learning
No full textCorrection to: npj Vaccineshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-023-00788-7, published online 20 January 2024 In this article, the affiliation details for author Alexander Horst were incorrectly given as Alexander Horst1,2 but should have been Alexander Horst1 and other affiliations are renumbered. The original article has been corrected
Supplemental Material, 812058_web_appendix - Clinical Development of Biologics Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, 2003-2016
No full textSupplemental Material, 812058_web_appendix for Clinical Development of Biologics Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, 2003-2016 by G. Caleb Alexander, Ken Ogasawara, Dana Wiegand, Dora Lin, and Christopher D. Breder in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science</p
Improved rehabilitation and training techniques through the use of motion simulation – core strength conditioning for elite rowers
No full textThe most common injuries experienced by sweep rowers relate to the lower back; rowers with greater core strength have been shown to be less prone to these injuries. Stationary rowing trainers (Ergometers) currently used for training and rehabilitation generally have a fixed support base, contrary to a real boat. It is hypothesized that training with an unstable base may help develop core strength in athletes. This paper describes early development of a rowing simulator with a realistic unstable platform. Using SolidWorks, a conceptual motion simulator was designed, which was then linked to MATLAB/Simulink to produce a controllable simulation of rowing. A control algorithm was developed to compute the forces and virtual rowing parameters required. The algorithm uses a PID controller to maintain a coordinate position of the virtual boat's centre of gravity. In particular, the issue of creating an “unstable” feeling about the roll axis was developed. Comparison between the simulated output and real rowing data is required for verification of effective control. The resultant control system could be linked to a real-time motion platform, whereby EMG and or other biometric measurements could be used to determine the effectiveness of core muscle activation between the simulator, Ergometer and on water rowing<br/
Assessment of an Empirical Bob-skeleton Steering Model
No full textAbstractThe sport of Skeleton involves the headfirst decent on a Bobsleigh ice track, whereby an athlete lies face forward on a sled with two runners. The athlete steers by applying reactive control movements with his or her shoulders and knees. There is a limited understanding of how these control movements effect the sled direction (yaw), which currently restricts advances in sled design. These limitations exist due to a lack of understanding at the ice-runner interaction contact point. Without knowing exactly how the runners create friction and why, runner design and athlete control is misunderstood. This paper discusses the measurement and analysis of on-track recorded data of various sled motion, forces and steering input parameters. These parameters have been used to develop an empirical ‘steering’ model, with the integration of athlete steering forces to determine sled reaction and response from steering input. Validation of the model shows a good relationship between real and approximated sled yaw throughout the descent. Such a model gives an insight into which forces are the primary cause of sled direction change and therefore how best to manipulate and change such forces to maximise control for the athlete. Future work includes validation of various runner friction coefficients so that control of different runners can be explored
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