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The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod"
No full text"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade ""Fiona Macleod"" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman.
Sharp wrote ""I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out"". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing ""second self"".
With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
Sharp thermal transition in the forearc mantle wedge as a consequence of nonlinear mantle wedge flow
No full textAuthor Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2011. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 38 (2011): L13308, doi:10.1029/2011GL047705.In the forearc mantle wedge, the thermal field depends strongly on slab-driven mantle wedge flow. The flow is in turn affected by the thermal field via the temperature dependence of mantle rheology. Using thermal modeling, we show that the nonlinear feedback between the thermal and flow fields always leads to complete stagnation of the mantle wedge over a shallow, weakened part of the slab-mantle interface and an abrupt onset of mantle flow further down-dip. The abrupt increase in flow velocity leads to a sharp thermal transition from a cold stagnant to a hot flowing part of the wedge. This sharp thermal transition is inherent to all subduction zones, explaining a commonly observed sharp arc-ward increase in seismic attenuation.This research was partially supported by
National Science Foundation through a MARGINS postdoctoral fellowship
(NSF OCE‐0840800) and by Natural Environment Research Council
APXS data associated with "Statistical analysis of APXS-derived chemistry of the clay-bearing Glen Torridon region and Mount Sharp group, Gale crater, Mars"
No full textData used in the paper "Statistical analysis of APXS-derived chemistry of the clay-bearing Glen Torridon region and Mount Sharp group, Gale crater, Mars
A sharp lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary imaged beneath eastern North America
No full textPlate tectonic theory hinges on the concept of a relatively rigid lithosphere moving over a weaker asthenosphere, yet the nature of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary remains poorly understood. The gradient in seismic velocity that occurs at this boundary is central to constraining the physical and chemical properties that create differences in mechanical strength between the two layers. For example, if the lithosphere is simply a thermal boundary layer that is more rigid owing to colder temperatures, mantle flow models1, 2 indicate that the velocity gradient at its base would occur over tens of kilometres. In contrast, if the asthenosphere is weak owing to volatile enrichment3, 4, 5, 6 or the presence of partial melt7, the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary could occur over a much smaller depth range. Here we use converted seismic phases in eastern North America to image a very sharp seismic velocity gradient at the base of the lithosphere—a 3–11 per cent drop in shear-wave velocity over a depth range of 11 km or less at 90–110 km depth. Such a strong, sharp boundary cannot be reconciled with a purely thermal gradient, but could be explained by an asthenosphere that contains a few per cent partial melt7 or that is enriched in volatiles relative to the lithosphere3, 4, 5, 6
Vicki Potempa demonstrating at the pro-abortion rally in Sydney, New South Wales, May 2010 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Purchased from the photographer, 2010. "Vicki Potempa seen here at a pro-abortion rally in Sydney. Author and 2001 Outstanding Humanist Achiever, Vicki has been an advocate to Women's Reproductive Rights since 1966 when she underwent her own abortion"--Information supplied by photographer
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Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
No full textAccomplished authors, Preece, Rogers and Sharp, have written a key new textbook on this core subject area. Interaction Design deals with a broad scope of issues, topics and paradigms that has traditionally been the scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID). The book covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface paradigms and the role of theory in informing design. The topics will be grounded in the design process and the aim is to present relevant issues in an integrated and coherent way, rather than assembling a collection of chapters on individual HCI topics.KEY FEATURES: This truly integrated approach to HCI provides students with background information from psychology, sociology, anthropology, information systems and computer science provides principles and skills for designing any technology through the use of many interesting and state of the art examples. The author supported, highly interactive Web Site provides resources that allow students to collaborate on experiments, participate in design competitions, collaborate on design, find resources and communicate with others. The accompanying Web Site also features examples, step-by-step exercises and templates for questionnaires
The Raven's Song
No full textMy third poetry collection, The Raven's Song, explores myths of ravens and crows from Orkney, Shetland and British Columbia. The poems are based on independent research and the collection itself has been illustrated and designed by Edinburgh artist, Catherine Hiley. The collection has been launched in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with readings at the Kolkata International Literature Festival (2018); Purvai Festival, Isle of Lewis (2017) and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2018). Some of the poems are based on Norse stories narrated by storytellers in Orkney, where I worked as George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow (2009-10). The publication was funded by Creative Scotland and Ankur Productions.
This project explores the degree(s) to which transformation myths of the raven as trickster affect memory and female subjectivity in different landscapes (Orkney and Canada), often recontextualising traditional stories. Texts consulted include A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (Robert Bringhurst, 1999); The Raven Steals the Light (Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst, 1994 and 1996); and Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: a Translation of Franz Boas's 1895 Edition Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kutse Amerikas, eds. Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy, with a foreword by Claude Lévis-Strauss, Vancouver, 2002. Some poems were based on stories narrated by storytellers in Orkney, Tom Muir and Fran Flett Hollinrake. While working as George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow in Orkney (2009-10), I led exciting collaborative projects with various practitioners, including these storytellers. Some of the poems were inspired by stories narrated by these storytellers, using notes encountered years later, after moving back to Glasgow from Orkney. The publication was created in collaboration with artist Catherine Hiley, who designed and illustrated the collection using hand-drawn and silkscreen printed images, which respond directly to the writing. Many discussions in person and by e-mail, exchanging poems and images between writer and artist, led to the production of the book and its publication (which was funded entirely by Creative Scotland and Ankur Productions, including artists’ fees and printing costs). The work’s context sits within the wider discourse of art writing, explorations of embodied experience, transformation through writing poetry, and postcolonial female subjectivity.
I have read the poems from this book at various events, readings and festivals internationally, including at StAnza, St Andrews (2017); Apeejay International Literature Festival, Kolkata (2018); Purvai Festival, Isle of Lewis, 2017; Robert Louis Stevenson Festival, Grez-sur-Loing France (as part of my residency as RLS Fellow); and at the Lahti International Writers' Reunion, Lahti, Finland, June 2019. I have also read poems from this book on air for the Janice Forsyth Show, BBC Radio Scotland, August 2015
Macroderes pristinus Sharp 1880
No full textMacroderes pristinus Sharp, 1880 (Figs. 100–102) Macroderes pristinus Sharp, 1880: 38; Péringuey 1901: 304; Janssen 1939: 29; Ferreira 1968: 322; Frolov & Scholtz 2005: 392. Type locality. Diamonds fields, S[outh] Africa. Type material examined. Holotype, ♀ (MNHN): “ Macroderes pristinus / Type / D [David]. S [Sharp] / Diamonds fields / S. a[A]frica [hand written]” // “EX. Musaeo / D [David]. Sharp 1890 [printed]” // “MUSEUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL / R. OBERTHUR [printed]” // “ HOLOTYPE [red label, printed] // HOLOTYPE / Macroderes pristinus Sharp 1880 [printed]". Differential diagnosis. This species is similar to M. bias females through the combination of the following characters: punctate lateral borders of pronotum, elytra stria 9 contiguous to elytra stria 10, even punctuation of pronotum, anterolateral depressions of pronotum and the dense punctate and shagreened elytra, however, M. pristinus can be distinguished from M. bias by having a more punctuated, flatter elytra striae. Remarks. We agree with Frolov & Scholtz (2005) in that this species is very close to females of M. bias and probably the same species. We compared the holotype of M. pristinus with females of M. bias and insignificant differences are noted between the two species. The most significant difference is that the elytral striae in M. pristinus are much flatter and densely punctuated than those of M. bias. The examined material show many common characteristics summarized as follows: the punctate lateral borders of pronotum, elytra stria 9 very close to elytra stria 10, regular rounded punctures of pronotum, the excavation of pronotum antero-laterally and the shagreened elytra with dense punctuation. Although the validity of the species is questioned, it is not possible to transfer it to M. bias as the species has been described from a single female specimen and collected from a different site opposite to M. bias range of distribution. Additional male and female specimens from the type locality may provide more evidence of the taxonomic status of the species.Published as part of Abdalla, Ishtiag H., Deschodt, Christian M., Scholtz, Clarke H. & Sole, Catherine L., 2018, An update to the taxonomy of the genus Macroderes Westwood 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with descriptions of new species from South Africa, pp. 41-75 in Zootaxa 4504 (1) on pages 70-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/260616
Supplementary_Tables – Supplemental material for Psychopathological outcomes of adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Tables for Psychopathological outcomes of adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms by Catherine Winsper, Dieter Wolke, Jan Scott, Carla Sharp, Andrew Thompson and Steven Marwaha in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry</p
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