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Elgin Marbles: Plaster Cast Room
No full textBlock 10; "Elgin Marbles" is a popular term for the collection of sculpture from the Parthenon acquired by Lord Elgin in Athens between 1801-1805. The collection includes other works from the Acropolis as well. The Parthenon sculpture includes roughly half of what now survives: 247 feet of the original 524 feet of frieze; 15 of 92 metopes; 17 figures from the pediments, and various other pieces of architecture. The sculptures were presumably washed by some means in Elgin's possession. They must have been washed again in 1816, when casts were made of them by the sculptor Richard Westmacott, and washed again around 1836-1837, when they were moulded for the second and last time. The cast room allows visually impaired visitors a touch tour of the frieze and Parthenon model. Source: British Museum [website]; http://www.britishmuseum.org (accessed 6/14/2009
“Dream on, deluded one! The awakening will come soon!”: Reclaiming the Sensation Fiction Author, Gertrude Fenton.
No full textThis dissertation's aim is to highlight a forgotten author of a genre that was held in contempt by Victorian society; a genre that was a first of its time, breaking down boundaries in a new emerging publishing industry that was publishing cheap periodicals at a more rapid rate due
to the printing press. With this advanced system, the traditionalists in the industry felt threatened and attempted to thwart its efforts, which presented itself through the theory of cultural hierarchy; by using this literary theory and discourse, this dissertation will explore the narrative surrounding the Sensation Fiction genre, the woman reader, and the woman author. Using Victorian society and the theory of cultural hierarchy, this dissertation will showcase how women authors' novels were seen as “low-brow” art and thus are considered “guilty pleasures.” This will be analyzed through the lens of the author Gertrude Fenton, her written works, and their critical reception. The comprehensive primary and secondary research conducted has aided in rediscovering Gertrude Fenton. Her novels and various literary periodicals have assisted in showcasing her as an author and how the patriarchal Victorian society hindered women authors and women readers from moving into the
upper-class literary space
Cold cracking in DC-cast high strength aluminum alloy ingots: An intrinsic problem intensified by casting process parameters
No full textFor almost half a century the catastrophic failure of direct chill (DC) cast high strength aluminum alloys has been challenging the production of sound ingots. To overcome this problem, a criterion is required that can assist the researchers in predicting the critical conditions which facilitate the catastrophic failure of the ingots. This could be achieved at first glance by application of computer simulations to assess the level and distribution of residual thermal stresses. However, the simulation results are only able to show the critical locations and conditions where and when high stresses may appear in the ingots. The prediction of critical void/crack size requires simultaneous application of fracture mechanics. In this paper, we present the thermo-mechanical simulation results that indicate the critical crack size distribution in several DC-cast billets cast at various casting conditions. The simulation results were validated upon experimental DC-casting trials and revealed that the existence of voids/cracks with a considerable size is required for cold cracking to occur.Materials Science & EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Reproduction of South Portal of Saint-Pierre, Moissac
No full textOverall view of the west flanking wall and reliefs, engaging with the archivolts of the portal; In the late Victorian era, plaster casts of outstanding world artworks were produced by various vendors for museums (and world's fairs), spurred by an initiative of Prince Albert in Great Britain. Just a few museums, like the V&A and the Musée national des Monuments Français (Galerie des Moulages) went to extraordinary lengths to develop their own large, unique casts. The present cast collection (in what was the Palais du Trocadéro), was proposed by Viollet-le-Duc in 1879, which is the year this cast was made. It is a cast of the south portal of the former Benedictine abbey (Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre) in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. The giant tympanum, over 6 m wide, represents a theophanic vision, the iconographic source of which has been disputed. Christ, enthroned and wearing a crown, is surrounded by the four living creatures and the twenty-four Elders described in Revelation 4; they carry cups and musical instruments as in Revelation 5. There are also relief panels on the walls flanking the portal. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com
OUT cast Maine 03/14/2022
No full textTune in to OUT Cast on Monday, March 14 to hear an interview with Myke Johnson on “Queer Spirit,” a series of conversations exploring queer life and the power of the Sacred hosted by OUT Cast collective members Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres McGovern.
Myke Johnson
Myke Johnson, author of Finding Our Way Home: A Spiritual Journey into Earth Community, describes herself as a lesbian mystic, earth activist, and retired Unitarian Universalist minister, who lives in Portland Maine with her partner Margy and two cats.
She blogs at https://findingourwayhome.bloghttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/outcast/1159/thumbnail.jp
Search for chameleons with CAST
No full textÇetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author)In this work we present a search for (solar) chameleons with the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). This novel experimental technique, in the field of dark energy research, exploits both the chameleon coupling to matter (βm) and to photons (βγ) via the Primakoff effect. By reducing the X-ray detection energy threshold used for axions from 1 keV to 400 eV CAST became sensitive to the converted solar chameleon spectrum which peaks around 600 eV. Even though we have not observed any excess above background, we can provide a 95% C.L. limit for the coupling strength of chameleons to photons of βγ≲1011 for 1<βm<106
OUT cast 08/16/2021
No full textTune in to OUT Cast on Monday, August 16 to hear an interview with Chris Davis, lesbian survivor and author, on “Queer Spirit,” a series of conversations exploring queer life and the power of the Sacred hosted by OUT Cast collective members Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres McGovern. Chris Davis Chris Davis, who grew up in Bangor, is a relatively recent arrival in Portland. She attends college as an adult learner while working part-time and also parenting two young adults from a distance, one of whom identifies as transgender. In recent years Chris has been engaged in her own coming out: coming out as lesbian, coming out from a heterosexual marriage, and coming out from membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons. And if that wasn’t enough, Chris is also soon to be out as a published author. She’s contributing an essay to a collection by ex-Mormon LBGTQ folks entitled I Spoke to You with Silence, to be published by the University of Utah Press. The title of Chris’ chapter is “Five Reasons Why I Didn’t Belong.”https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/outcast/1129/thumbnail.jp
Search for low energy solar axions with CAST
No full textÇetin, Serkant Ali (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2008; Hamburg; Germany; 18 June 2008 through 21 June 2008We have started the development of a detector system, sensitive to single photons in the eV energy range, to be suitably coupled to one of the CAST magnet ports. This system should open to CAST a window on possible detection of low energy Axion Like Particles emitted by the sun. Preliminary tests have involved a cooled photomultiplier tube coupled to the CAST magnet via a Galileian telescope and a switched 40 m long optical fiber. This system has reached the limit background level of the detector alone in ideal conditions, and two solar tracking runs have been performed with it at CAST. Such a measurement has never been done before with an axion helioscope. We will present results from these runs and briefly discuss future detector developments
Effect of alloying on mechanical properties of as cast ferritic nodular cast irons
No full textThe development of low temperature applications for ferritic nodular cast irons calls for improved materials in the as cast state, e.g. for off-shore windmills components. Within this line of work, a series of 68 castings were prepared with the same casting procedure and slight changes in composition. The tensile properties at room temperature, as well as the impact energy for rupture at room temperature, 220 °C and 240 °C, were measured. Outputs from multivariate analysis performed on the data are then discussed and compared to literature results, putting emphasis on the properties of the ferritic matrix
New micromegas for axion searches in CAST
No full textYıldız, Süleyman Cenk (Dogus Author)Micromegas detectors have been taking data in the CAST experiment since 2002, occupying one opening (out of the two looking for sunrise axions) of the magnet and showing good performance and stability. Currently, three of the four X-ray detectors used in the experiment are micromegas. The new detectors are of the Microbulk technology, which have attracted a lot of attention because of the advantages they present, among them the low-material construction, high radiopurity and good energy resolution. Here, their performance during the last year will be commented. In particular, the low background levels reached in some detectors have triggered a set of studies in order to understand the effect
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