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Review of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis
No full textReview of C. J. S. Hayward, “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Illinois: C. J. S. Hayward Publications, 2000-19). 381 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781794669956
Allotment gardens as a challenge for an urban designer
No full textIrrespective of their specific form or of the way they are managed, urban allotment gardens and other urban gardens are important types of urban green spaces, able to influence, to contribute overall quality of cities. Particularly if part of broader green infrastructures, UAG may integrate positively within the complex inner metabolism of metropolitan areas. In particular the 10th chapter of the book, in which the author contributed actively, focus on the challenges and characteristics of urban agriculture practices in the city and the role of urban design and planning disciplines in order to ensure a better socio-spatial development
Comparison of staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine and human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk by phage typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and binary typing
No full textStaphylococcus aureus isolates (n = 225) from bovine teat skin, human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk were fingerprinted by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Strains were compared to assess the role of skin and milking equipment as sources of S. aureus mastitis. PFGE of SmaI-digested genomic DNA identified 24 main types and 17 subtypes among isolates from 43 herds and discriminated between isolates from bovine teat skin and milk. Earlier, phage typing (L. K. Fox, M. Gershmann, D. D. Hancock, and C. T. Hutton, Cornell Vet. 81:183-193, 1991) had failed to discriminate between isolates from skin and milk. Skin isolates from humans belonged to the same pulsotypes as skin isolates from cows. Milking equipment harbored strains from skin as well as strains from milk. We conclude that S. aureus strains from skin and from milk can both be transmitted via the milking machine, but that skin strains are not an important source of intramammary S. aureus infections in dairy cows. A subset of 142 isolates was characterized by binary typing with DNA probes developed for typing of human S. aureus. Typeability and overall concordance with epidemiological data were lower for binary typing than for PFGE while discriminatory powers were similar. Within several PFGE types, binary typing discriminated between main types and subtypes and between isolates from different herds or sources. Thus, binary typing is not suitable as replacement for PFGE but may be useful in combination with PFGE to refine strain differentiation
The instrument in space: The embodiment of music in the machine age
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The body exists in space and time. It moves through cultural spaces and temporal rhythms. In the combination of instantiated actions and environmental conditions a context is created, this through embodiment. In this thesis I will attempt to link definitions of embodiment with the process of creating and performing new sound theatre works that involve live interaction with media technology. I will also examine terms such as inscription or incorporation and their application to processes of learning and memory within a particular context of inter-disciplinary skills. Finally, in the light of this genre, I will approach the problematic of analytical procedures that change the very parameters of embodied knowledge.
The term sound theatre could be defined as a shift of play between music, image and text, incorporating elements such as gesture, choreography, audio and visual technology into a compositional dialogue. However this approach demands a re-examination of the spatial and temporal aspects involved in such inter-activity and their consequent relation to the performer. Taking the starting-point of sound and movement within the body of the performer, my research involves investigations into medial extensions of embodiment that have developed through a discourse with machines.
This project takes an essentially practical basis for its research in the form of collaborations with musicians and practitioners of media technology towards a creative product. The result is a series of written compositions, each of which examines a different aspect of sound theatre. The valuable exchange that takes place during such a situation of experimentation becomes equally as important as the final product, providing much of the material framework for issues such as terminology and analytical procedures that concern my investigation
Idaho Conservation Reserve Program contract holder's preferences for the 1995 Food Security Act
No full textBulletin no. 773 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1995-02-01. Author(s): Fox, Linette; Meyer, Neil; Greear, Jea
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
'Hammondia heydorni' from the Arabian mountain gazelle and red fox in Saudi Arabia
No full textUnsporulated oocysts were detected in the feces of an Arabian red fox (Vulpes vulpes arabica) between 6 and 8 days after it had been fed meat from Arabian mountain gazelles (Gazella gazella) known to contain sarcocysts. No oocysts were discovered in the feces of other experimental cubs, although sporocysts of Sarcocystis spp. were passed subsequently by all cubs that were fed gazelle meat, including those fed with reem (G. subgutturosa marica). The oocysts sporulated in 3 days at room temperature (25 ± 2 C); they were 10.9 ± 1.4 × 10.1 ± 1.3 μm, with 2 sporocysts measuring 6.0 ± 0.6 × 4.7 ± 0.8 μm, each with 4 sporozoites. Sporulated oocysts were identified as those of Hammondia heydorni using molecular and standard morphometric techniques. Sequence differences between 2 fox and 3 dog isolates of H. heydorni were detected and allowed differentiation between the 2 populations of the organism. The involvement of Neospora caninum was excluded using molecular methods. The Arabian red fox and the Arabian mountain gazelle in Saudi Arabia are new, definitive and intermediate hosts for H. heydorni
Lady Mary Fox, the mysterious story of a portrait
No full textThe author suggests an attribution of the miniature portrait of Lady Mary Fox-Holland from
the collection of Tsarskoye Selo Museum. It is a painted oval ivory plate. According to the old
inventory numbers and records in the museum archive the portrait came from the collection
of the Catherine Palace. On the reverse there is the pencil inscription with the name of the
sitter — “Lady Mary Fox, afterwards Lady Holland”. She was the elder daughter of John Fitzpatrick,
the Earl of Upper Ossory and Lady Evelina Leveson Gower, the eldest daughter of the Earl
Gower. Mary was descended from one of the most famous and wealthy aristocratic families in
Britain. The portrait have not been not published until now. The author, researching the history
of the Fox-Holland family, elucidates the circumstances of the creation of the miniature and its
author — English miniature portraitist Edward Miles. During the period of his apprenticeship
(1772–92), he created the miniature copy of the original portrait made by his teacher Joshua
Reynolds in 1769. The original by Reynolds is still in the collection of the Holland family. The
miniature copy was taken by Miles to Russia in 1797 as a recommendation together with the letter
of Count Semen Vorontsov. Miles, being a court painter of Paul I and Alexander I until 1807,
produced a series of miniature portraits of the imperial families. The miniature portrait of Mary
Fox-Holland is stylistically similar to his other copies of Reynold’ s original paintings
THEORY OF ANOMALOUS LINE STREGTHS IN ISOTOPICALLY SUBSTITUTED SPHERICAL TOP
No full textResearch supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. K. Fox, D.E. Jennings, G. W. Halsey, and S. J. Daunt, Paper TAS, 34th Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University (1979). K. Fox, G. W. Halsey, S. J. Daunt, W.E. Blass, and D. E. Jennings, J. Chem. Phys., to be published 15 April 1980.Author Institution:Recent measurements of absolute strengths of the singlets Q1, RO, and R1 for and , under identical experimental conditions designed to minimize errors in derived relative strengths, demonstrated that isotopic substitution for the central atom in a spherical top can affect these strengths dramatically. In an effort to explain these apparently anomalous experimental results, vibration-rotation interactions in the multiplets with m + n = 1,2,3,\ldots have been considered. Preliminary theoretical results indicate that the observed isotopic effects, including possible variation with rotational quantum number, can be accounted for satisfactorily
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