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Public Engagement and the Civic Professional: What's Next?
No full textThe media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/outreach06/100806b.mp4Moderator: Amy Driscoll (Associate Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching). Panelists: David Mathews (President, Charles F. Kettering Foundation; Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the
Ford Administration; Former President,
University of Alabama), Roderick G. Chu (Chancellor Emeritus, Ohio Board of Regents). Abstract: This session will feature a discussion circle of prominent leaders in key sectors who have spent much of their careers integrating civic
responsibility into their professional lives, as well as the organizations they represent. Organizations and individuals are doing their work differently as they commit to sharing in the obligations of a broad and diversified community. Colleges and universities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies are supporting their employees as they integrate their work with the communities they serve. The ethos of engagement is shaping the educational and work choices of many young people, too. When professionals take on civic work, how is democracy served? How are we changed? What is the impact on institutions, organizations, and
professional cultures and practices? What are the implications for higher education?Outreach Scholarship and Imagining AmericaAmy Driscoll (00:00:00-00:04:46) -- David Mathews (00:04:47-00:19:05) -- Roderick G. Chu (00:19:06-00:30:50) -- Panel Discussion (00:30:51-01:17:19). [Note: The last few seconds of the panel discussion were not recorded.
Species of Selenophoma on North American grasses
No full textby Roderick Sprague and A. G. Johnson.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 41-43).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Development of an Aeroservoelastic Platform: From Concept to Final Product
No full textWith the increased focus on sustainability, aircraft are designed to reduce their emissions. One way to accomplish this is by increasing the wing aspect ratio, thereby increasing the aerodynamic efficiency, however this is not without consequences. Increased aspect ratio wings have a higher structural mass, are more susceptible to gust and maneuver loads and generally flutter at lower velocities. Due to the advent of both passive and active control techniques these issues can fortunately be solved by using gust load allevation (GLA), maneuver load alleviation (MLA) and flutter suppression. Current aeroelastic testing facilities at Delft University of Technology include a gust generator and aeroelastic apparatus, used to suspend a passive wing section in the wind tunnel. The need for ad¬ ditional research on aeroelastic control in order to improve the sustainability and safety of aviation necessitates the development of a new wing section with aileron and spoiler control surfaces that is compatible with current facilities. The development, manufacturing and initial characterization and test¬ ing of this wing section is the subject of the present work. As the new wing section includes a spoiler, a literature review is performed on this subject. Spoilers function by deflecting into the flow, causing separation aft of the spoiler and creating a large turbulent wake, resulting in a drastic decrease of lift. A linear potential flow model for spoiler aerodynamics developed by Brown and Parkinson was implemented in MATLAB with the intent of implementing this in future aeroelastic models. Verification of this model showed good agreements with original data presented in the paper describing the model. The passive wing section was chosen as a basis for the new design. The position and size of the control surfaces are determined based on a review of experimental and operational applications. The new wing section was designed, resulting in a self¬contained model, including a single¬board computer, sensors and power supply. Actuation mechanisms were developed for the control surfaces, with a parametric device for control surface free play included in the aileron actuation mechanism. The new wing section was manufactured successfully and control software was implemented using Simulink. A series of tests were performed to characterize the dynamic behavior of the wing section. Due to a combination of higher inertia and kinematics of the actuation mechanism, the usable bandwidth of the aileron is shown to be lower than that of the spoiler. Aerodynamic results show that the combined use of aileron and spoiler result in a reduction or reversal of the aerodynamic response of the wing. Gust load alleviation results with proportional control show an increase in damping by 1300% and a reduction in peak amplitude of 50% when using the spoiler. Results for the aileron are notice¬ ably less, with a decrease in amplitude of 15% and an increase of damping of 145%. The differences are attributed to both the differences in kinematics of the mechanisms as well as the greater absolute change in lift coefficient obtainable by the spoiler. Aerospace Engineerin
Ecology of Lactobacillus in the gastrointestinal tract of the weanling piglet
No full textTo investigate the effects of weaning and weaning diet on the ecology of adherent Lactobacillus species in the gastrointestinal tract sixteen piglets were used. At 28 d of age four pigs were killed and served as the pre-weaning control (PW). Four pigs remained on the sow (Sow), four pigs were fed a corn-soy-lactose (CSL) diet and the remaining four pigs were fed a corn-soy (CS) diet. Pigs from the latter three treatments were killed at 38 d of age. Total lactic acid bacteria were isolated from the pars esophagus, ileum, and cecum. The highest numbers (P .05) of lactic acid organisms were isolated from the pars esophagus (1.66\times10\sp{-9} CFU g\sp{-1}) and ileum (1.36\times10\sp{-9} CFU g\sp{-1}) of animals receiving the CSL and CS diets. Selected bacterial pure cultures were speciated using classical techniques and typed by using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) in conjunction with a 23S rRNA gene probe. Data was analyzed using Shannon, Simpson and, evenness diversity indices. The biotype and RFLP data was subjected to cluster analysis, and the clusters were defined as operational taxonomic units (OTU). The phenotypically typed bacteria, and data based on OTU were used as the basis for the calculation of Shannon, Simpson, and evenness indices as well as for a comparison of lactobacilli composition (based on phenotype and OTU) between treatment groups. The Shannon index indicated that the diversity of lactobacilli were the most similar when the PW and Sow treatments were compared for the pars esophagus (1.61 and 1.24 respectively) and ileum (1.04 and 1.04 respectively). The Simpson index confirmed the Shannon index. A comparison among the treatment groups indicated that the physical form of the diet (sows milk vs a dry diet) was an important factor in determining the composition of lactobacilli (phenotype and OTU) in different gastrointestinal compartments.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:10:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Author Correction: Cancer-associated fibroblasts induce metalloprotease-independent cancer cell invasion of the basement membrane
No full textIn the original version of this Article, financial support and contributions in manuscript preparation were not fully acknowledged. The PDF and HTML versions of the Article have now been corrected to include the following:‘M.P. and P.O. would like to thank Prof. Roderick Y.H. Lim for advice during manuscript preparation and for providing the laboratory and microscopy infrastructure.… [We also thank] the NanoteraProject, awarded to the PATLiSciII Consortium (M.P and P.O)…’</jats:p
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
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