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Estranged lives: the romantic grotesque in Carson McCullers fiction
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoAnálise da função do grotesco no estabelecimento da atmosfera em Reflections in a Golden Eye e The Ballad of the Sad Café, de Carson McCullers, a partir do conceito de grotesco Romântico, de Mikhail Bakhtin. A análise mostra que a falta do poder regenerativo que é característico do grotesco Romântico está presente nas duas obras estudadas, proporcionando-lhes uma atmosfera sombria
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Translations of the Self: A.E. Housman and Anne Carson, Between Scholarship and Creativity
No full textIn my PhD thesis I have explored some aspects of the interface between classical scholarship and creativity, through the work and careers of two scholar-poets, Anne Carson (1950 - ) and A.E. Housman (1859-1936). I have shown how, within their social and cultural contexts, they attempted to craft their careers by using both genres of their work to help them construct carefully-crafted public profiles, and how these self-translations within their careers relate to received versions of their work by different readerships. By connecting explorations of their social and cultural contexts with their biographies and with close readings of their scholarly and creative work, I explore the shifting relationship between creative and scholarly ‘cultural fields’, as well as the recent social, cultural, and institutional changes which have turned these fields from ‘homogeneous poles’ to ‘heterogeneous poles’ (to use Pierre Bourdieu’s terms). I examine the surprising similarities in the unusual personalities of Carson and Housman, who both have, or had, a tendency to use their reputations for independence and reclusiveness to help them navigate around important issues and conflicts which could have threatened their success. I show how they have constructed versions of themselves, both within and beyond their writings, which have enabled them to make grand assertions of the self in the teeth of social and cultural necessities
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A theoretical study of population II Cepheids with periods in the range 10-20 days
No full textA theoretical study of population II variables with
periods in the range 10 - 20 days (W Virginis variables) is
presented. A modified hydrodynamic Christy code is used in
conjunction with the Carson opacities, in preference to the Los
Alamos tables, following the work of Carson, Stothers and
Vemury on the shorter period BL Herculis variables.
Twenty-five survey models are presented, along with nine other
comparison models of varying masses and opacities.
A study of the observations shows that the division of
these variables into two types by observers might be explained
by a slightly different mass for each type, thus making the
division dependent on the star's previous evolution.
The non-linear results obtained by this study show that a
mass of 0.6 M☉ is a good one to use, and that M = 0.5 M☉ makes
little difference (although M = 0.8 M☉ seems to be too high).
The results in general compare well with the observations, as
both also show the split into two types of light curve. Three good models of individual stars are presented, on a par with the models of BL Herculis published by Carson, Stothers and
Vemury. The bumps in the light and velocity curves of many of
the models seem to be real, caused by the Christy "echo".
A few of the models show some RV Tauri behaviour. One in
particular shows very strange behaviour, involving a violent
81ternation of light curve shapes. Models constructed using
the Los Alamos opacities do not produce results as consistent
with observations as those of the main survey.
The study shows that these stars can be represented by
hydrodynamic models of mass 0.6 M☉ using the Carson opacities, but also that convection may be important in the cooler stars in order to model them accurately. This indicates the
direction in which further theoretical work may lie
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X231196804 - Supplemental material for Improving <i>SUVR</i> quantification by correcting for radiotracer clearance in tissue
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X231196804 for Improving SUVR quantification by correcting for radiotracer clearance in tissue by Praveen Honhar, David Matuskey, Richard E Carson, Ansel T Hillmer in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism</p
Entrevista Richard Blair
No full textRichard Blair é filho do autor George Orwell e presidente da Orwell Society.Richard Blair is the son of author George Orwell and president of the Orwell Society
Method of hydrothermal liquid phase sintering of ceramic materials and products derived therefrom, U.S. Patent 8,313,802
No full textProvided here is a method of producing a monolithic body from a porous matrix, comprising: (i) providing a porous matrix having interstitial spaces and comprising at least a first reactant; (ii) contacting the porous matrix with an infiltrating medium that carries at least a second reactant; (iii) allowing the infiltrating medium to infiltrate at least a portion of the interstitial spaces of the porous matrix under conditions that promote a reaction between the at least first reactant and the at least second reactant to provide at least a first product; and (iv) allowing the at least first product to form and fill at least a portion of the interstitial spaces of the porous matrix, thereby producing a monolithic body, wherein the monolithic body does not comprise barium titanate
Systems and methods for capture and sequestration of gases and compositions derived therefrom, U.S. Patent 8,721,784
No full textA method of sequestering a greenhouse gas is described, which comprises: (i) providing a solution carrying a first reagent that is capable of reacting with a greenhouse gas; (ii) contacting the solution with a greenhouse gas under conditions that promote a reaction between the at least first reagent and the greenhouse gas to produce at least a first reactant; (iii) providing a porous matrix having interstitial spaces and comprising at least a second reactant; (iv) allowing a solution carrying the at least first reactant to infiltrate at least a substantial portion of the interstitial spaces of the porous matrix under conditions that promote a reaction between the at least first reactant and the at least second reactant to provide at least a first product; and (v) allowing the at least first product to form and fill at least a portion of the interior spaces of the porous matrix, thereby sequestering a greenhouse gas
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