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A late pleistocene-holocene sapropelic layer in the Northwest Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean
No full textSedimentological, geochemical, and micropaleontological analyses of nine gravity and two piston cores from the northwest Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean, revealed the presence of five lithologies deposited during the last 18,000 years. These are a Continental Shelf Unit, a hemipelagic-turbiditic Upper Unit, a hemipelagic-turbiditic Middle Unit, a marine transgression Lower Unit, and within the Middle Unit, a Sapropelic layer. Deposition of the Sapropelic layer took place beneath a water column depleted in dissolved oxygen, and reduced in salinity and temperature compared to existing conditions today. The main input for the organic matter preserved was fluvial, issuing from the Greek mainland
Crime and subversion in the later fiction of Wilkie Collins
No full textAlthough some good work on Collins is now beginning to emerge, complex and central elements in his fiction require fuller exploration. More consideration is due to the development of Collins's thinking and fictional techniques in the lesser-known novels, since out of a total of thirty-four published works most have received scant attention from scholars. This is particularly true of the later fiction. It is to work of the later period (1870-1889) that I devote the fullest consideration, whilst giving due
attention to the novels of the 1860s which are usually regarded as Collins's major novels.
Collins perceived that established discourses on criminality, deviance, femininity and morality functioned as mechanisms with which the dominant masculine and middle-class hegemony attempted to confirm and maintain its power. His later fiction reveals the anxieties of masculine and middle-class narrator-figures. In his novels written in the 1860s Collins explored narrative and subnarrative. He developed the technique of using the accounts of various characters to challenge the perspective of the narrator-figure and created the persona of an omniscient narrator whose response to his creations reveals his own anxieties.
The novels of Collins's later period develop such techniques to explore masculine apprehension at the changes occurring in late-Victorian society in which women and the working-classes were gaining greater freedom and middle-class dominance was threatened. Although narrators overtly argue the validity of standard discourses, their views are subverted by a level of sub-textual meaning at which the inadequacy of the narrators and their ideologies is revealed. Sub-textual meaning in the novels reveals
tensions and anomalies within ideas of criminality, the Victorian ideal of womanhood, medical discourses and the idea of the gentleman and his counterpart, the knight errant figure. Collins's later fiction presents itself as an impressive attempt to explore the ideological and social tensions of rapidly changing late-Victorian England
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Adrian Matejka, 34th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAdrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden and Mixology, which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has been featured in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, and Ploughshares, among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Late pleistocene-holocene sedimentation in the NW Aegean Sea: A palaeoclimatic palaeoceanographic reconstruction
No full textSedimentological (particle-size, organic carbon, calcium carbonate, clay mineralogy and radiocarbon dating) and micropalaeontological investigation of 9 cores from the NW Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean, have enabled five main lithological units to be identified. The units cover a period from the Late Pleistocene to the present day. On the basis of these results, and reference to other studies, a palaeo-reconstruction is presented for the area. The reconstruction takes into account the increase in sea level during the period, the decrease in fluvial inputs issuing to the area from the north Mediterranean coastline and the possible influence of water issuing from the Black Sea. It is concluded that the sedimentological and oceanographic regimes of the area were strongly influenced by a fluvial component during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene, whereas today, the sedimentary record is more indicative of an open oceanic environment
Source identification of fine-grained suspended sediment in the Kharaa River basin, northern Mongolia
No full textFine sediment inputs into river systems can be a major source of nutrients and heavy metals and have a strong impact on water quality and ecosystem functions of rivers and lakes, including those in semiarid regions. However, little is known to date about the spatial distribution of sediment sources in most large scale river basins in Central Asia. Accordingly, a sediment source fingerprinting technique was used to assess the spatial sources of fine-grained (<10 ?m) sediment in the 15 000 km(2) Kharaa River basin in northern Mongolia. Variation in geochemical composition (e.g. in Ti, Sn, Mo, Mn, As, Sr, B, U, Ca and Sb) was used for sediment source discrimination with geochemical composite fingerprints based on Genetic Algorithm (GA)-driven Discriminant Function Analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis H-test and Principal Component Analysis. All composite fingerprints yielded a satisfactory GOF (>0.97) and were subsequently used for numerical mass balance modelling with uncertainty analysis. The contributions of the individual sub-catchment spatial sediment sources varied from 6.4% (the headwater sub-catchment of Sugnugur Gol) to 36.2% (the Kharaa II sub-catchment in the middle reaches of the study basin), generally showing higher contributions from the sub-catchments in the middle, rather than the upstream, portions of the study area. The importance of river bank erosion is shown to increase from upstream to midstream tributaries. The source tracing procedure provides results in reasonable accordance with previous findings in the study region and demonstrates the applicability and associated uncertainties of the approach for fine-grained sediment source investigation in large scale semi-arid catchments
Charles Wallace Collins -- nieces and nephews, 1958 and undated
No full textPortraits of Charles Wallace Collins' nieces and nephews. The names of the nieces and nephews are: Beth (2 years old), Bill (8 years old), Margaret (4 years old) Adrian (9 years old) and Peggy Givhan
Role of marine larval duration and growth rate of glass eels in determining the distribution of Anguilla reinhardtii and A. australis on Australian eastern coasts
No full textThe differences in geographical distribution between Anguilla reinhardtii and A. australis on the eastern coast of Australia can be understood by comparing otolith growth increments and microchemistry, the ages between species of the eels at metamorphosis from leptocephalus to glass eels and the ages of glass eels at estuarine arrival. The ages at metamorphosis were determined from where the increment width dramatically increased and the Sr/Ca ratio dropped. The mean age (± s.d.) of A. reinhardtii (n = 176) at metamorphosis was 144.5 estuarine arrival was182.7 ± 16.3 days. For A. australis (n = 150) it was 173.7 ± 20.5 days and 229.2 ± 29.4 days, respectively. The differences in age between species were significantly larger than the annual and seasonal variations within species. Australian eels are believed to spawn in the tropical oceans and larval eels drift in the South Equatorial Current to eastern Australia. The younger ages at estuarine arrival of A. reinhardtii suggest that the spawning grounds of this species lie closer to Australia than those of A. australis. In addition, the mean total length at recruitment of A. reinhardtii (49.9 ± 2.0 mm) was significantly smaller than for A. australis (54.6 ± 5.4 mm) (t = 3.8, P < 0.01). However, the growth rates of A. reinhardtii (0.25 than for A. australis (0.23 ± 0.022 mm/d) (t = 7.6, P < 0.01). The smaller sizes of A. reinhardtii at recruitment were likely due to the shorter marine larval period and faster growth rate compared with A. australis. The duration of the marine larval period and growth rate may be the principal factors in determining the geographical distribution of both A. reinhardtii, which tend to occur in tropical-subtropical waters, and A. australis, which predominate in more temperate waters
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