637 research outputs found
Replacement of Cakile edentula with Cakile maritima in New South Wales and on Lord Howe Island
No full textTwo species of Cakile (Brassicaceae) have been introduced to Australia and the genus has been a common feature on the beaches of NSW for over 130 years; Cakile edentula has been present for at least 148 years (in NSW since about 1870), while Cakile maritima arrived approximately 114 years ago, (in NSW since about 1969). Collections at CANB and NSW confirm that since around 1970 plants more like Cakile maritima have almost entirely replaced Cakile edentula along the NSW coast. A similar phenomenon is reported for Lord Howe Island
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
THE RADIATION RESPONSE OF FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS By
No full textMany people have played a signicant role in my success as a graduate student at Vanderbilt University. I would rst like to thank my husband, Josh Howe, for his never-ending support, patience, and encouragement through all of my schooling. Without him I would have never kept my sanity and drive. I also want to thank m
Dungeons, gratings, and black rooms: A defense of double-anchoring theory and a reply to Howe et al. (2007)
No full textThe double-anchoring theory of lightness (P. Bressan, 2006b) assumes that any given region belongs to
a set of frameworks, created by Gestalt grouping principles, and receives a provisional lightness within
each of them; the region’s final lightness is a weighted average of all these values. In their critique,
P. D. L. Howe, H. Sagreiya, D. L. Curtis, C. Zheng, and M. S. Livingstone (2007) (a) show that the
target’s lightness in the dungeon illusion (P. Bressan, 2001) and in White’s effect is not primarily
determined by the region with which the target is perceived to group and (b) claim that this is a challenge
to the theory. The author argues that Howe et al. misinterpret grouping for lightness by equating it with
grouping for object formation and by ignoring that lightness is determined by frameworks’ weights and
not by what appears to group with what. The author shows that Howe et al.’s empirical findings, together
with those on grating induction and all-black rooms that they cite as problematic, actually corroborate,
rather than falsify, the double-anchoring theory
Change is in the Cards: Competition in the Canadian Debit Card Market
No full textAs new entrants arrive in Canada’s debit card market, rule changes are needed to ensure a level playing field, and to enhance the potential benefits of competition for consumers and merchants. In a study released today, the author assesses the implications of the rapidly changing debit payment landscape. Bergevin makes recommendations for action to ensure that consumers and merchants are protected and that the system can evolve to serve them even better.financial services, debit card market, VISA, MasterCard, Interac
Three Hannahs, Tennesee Williams Theater Festival, 1996
No full textThis image appeared in Rhodes, Vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1996, page 5The Three Hannahs l-r: Susie Howe a Memphis television producer and actress; Betty Ruffin, professor emerita of theatre; and Christina Wellford Scott '73 who performed as Hannah Jelkes in Night of the Iguana
Categorified skew Howe duality and comparison of knot homologies
No full textIn this paper, we show an isomorphism of homological knot invariants categorifying the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for sl(n). Over the past decade, such invariants have been constructed in a variety of different ways, using matrix factorizations, category O, affine Grassmannians, and diagrammatic categorifications of tensor products.
While the definitions of these theories are quite different, there is a key commonality between them which makes it possible to prove that they are all isomorphic: they arise from a skew Howe dual action of gl(l) for some l. In this paper, we show that the construction of knot homology based on categorifying tensor products (from earlier work of the second author) fits into this framework, and thus agrees with other such homologies, such as Khovanov-Rozansky homology. We accomplish this by categorifying the action of gl(l) x gl(n) on Lambda(P)(C-l circle times C-n) using diagrammatic bimodules. In this action, the functors corresponding to gl(l) and gl(n) are quite different in nature, but they will switch roles under Koszul duality.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Wireless technology health risks report, SB 283
No full textauthors: Ali Hamade (PhD, DABT, Deputy state epidemiologist, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority), Blake Buchalter (MPH, Graduate student, Epidemiology Graduate Program, Oregon State University), Hillary Haskins (MS, MPH, Health physicist, Radiation Protection Services, Oregon Health Authority), Willie Chun Wai Leung (MPH, MS, Graduate student, Kinesiology Graduate Program, Oregon State University) ; reviewers: André Ourso (JD, MPH, Administrator, Center for Health Protection, Oregon Health Authority), David Howe (MA, Section manager, Radiation Protection Services, Oregon Health Authority), Dean E. Sidelinger (MD, MSEd, Health officer and state epidemiologist, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority), Duyen L. Ngo (PhD, MPH, Surveillance technical lead, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, Oregon Health Authority).Title from PDF cover (viewed on January 22, 2021)."OHA 3498 (12/2020)"--Back cover.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-49).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Go Big or Go Home: Priorities for the Canada-EU Economic and Trade Agreement
No full textA comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union (EU) is both desirable and possible. For Canada, an agreement with the EU is a strategic opportunity to significantly diversify the market for its high-value-added goods, services and skills, to increase the attractiveness of its economy for investors, and to make a statement that it is ready to engage with other important trade partners on reducing barriers to mutually beneficial trade and investment. This is important in light of both the failure of the Doha round of WTO talks and the existence of other important trade negotiations undertaken by Canada’s key trade partners.International Economic Policy, comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA), Canada, European Union (EU)
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