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Attitudes toward sexuality in the Book of Ben Sira
No full textThe fact that Ben Sira seemingly has a negative attitude towards women or femininity can easily lead to the assumption that the work has a negative attitude toward sexuality. However, this thesis will seek to demonstrate that the author's view on sexuality is complex, subtle, and depends on the context of the individual sayings. First of all we have to make a distinction between the attitudes of the writer of the original Hebrew text of the book and that of the Greek translator. The two texts, produced in different social settings, circumstances, times and places, differ substantially at times in regard to sexuality. Therefore it is essential to treat them separately and to compare them. In addition, the Book of Ben Sira, the longest Jewish wisdom book, is a complex combination of carefully composed wisdom poems that structure the whole work, and of teachings on everyday issues including marriage, family life, self-control, desires and passions, and sexual promiscuity. The openness about issues of eroticism that characterizes some of the poems concerning personified female wisdom is unprecedented in the wisdom writings of Second Temple Judaism. Similarly, the sage dedicates a greater number of passages than other wisdom books, to the discussion of social relations especially in regard to family. In so doing his regular point of departure seems to be what benefits or damages these relations mean, and whether they bring disgrace to a person, especially through sexuality. These all have bearings on the author’s and translator’s views of sexuality, including the position a person or situation under discussion might have in the sage’s social value system. Therefore the thesis examines the wisdom poems, and all sayings that concern sexuality found in discussions of passions, relations with parents, daughters and sons, wives and husbands, and warnings against sexual wrongdoing, including prostitution and adultery. All this is done with a special regard to the differences between the Hebrew original text and the Greek translation
Selective constraints on global plankton dispersal
No full textMarine microbial communities are highly interconnected assemblages of organisms shaped by ecological drift, natural selection, and dispersal. The relative strength of these forces determines how ecosystems respond to environmental gradients, how much diversity is resident in a community or population at any given time, and how populations reorganize and evolve in response to environmental perturbations. In this study, we introduce a globally resolved population–genetic ocean model in order to examine the interplay of dispersal, selection, and adaptive evolution and their effects on community assembly and global biogeography. We find that environmental selection places strong constraints on global dispersal, even in the face of extremely high assumed rates of adaptation. Changing the relative strengths of dispersal, selection, and adaptation has pronounced effects on community assembly in the model and suggests that barriers to dispersal play a key role in the structuring of marine communities, enhancing global biodiversity and the importance of local historical contingencies.</p
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Czarina Conlan Collection
No full textA family portrait of Chickasaw Dan Collins, Sr. and his family. In the back row from left to right are Dan H. Collins, Jr; Mattie C. Kiersey; Louise C. Murray; and Ben C. Collins. In the front row from left to right are Mande Collins; Dan Collins; Charley Collins; Sallie Potts Collins; and Georgia C. Beeler. The photograph was taken in Colbert, Oklahoma
CCDC 1473305: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
No full textRelated Article: Beatrice S. L. Collins, Jos C. M. Kistemaker, Edwin Otten, Ben L. Feringa|2016|Nature Chemistry|8|860|doi:10.1038/nchem.2543,An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
CCDC 1473303: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
No full textRelated Article: Beatrice S. L. Collins, Jos C. M. Kistemaker, Edwin Otten, Ben L. Feringa|2016|Nature Chemistry|8|860|doi:10.1038/nchem.2543,An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
CCDC 1473304: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
No full textRelated Article: Beatrice S. L. Collins, Jos C. M. Kistemaker, Edwin Otten, Ben L. Feringa|2016|Nature Chemistry|8|860|doi:10.1038/nchem.2543,An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
No full textThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
SvePy src v1.0
No full textSvePy Saint Venant Solver Python version 1.0
author: Ben R. Hodges
National Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management
University of Texas at Austin
Copyright (c) 2019 Ben R. Hodges
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File organization:
/src source code for SvePy
/input input files needed for test cases
/restart restart files used for Waller Creek test cases
/documentation code documentation (limited)
/outbin_### output binary files from test cases
/outtxt_### output text files from test cases
/FigureProcessingMatlab scripts used to produce figures in Hodges and Liu (2019)
Note: documentation of the code is limited to the comments within the code,
the technical report in the /documentation folder, and the following papers:
Hodges, B. R. (2019).
Conservative finite-volume forms of the Saint-Venant equations for hydrology and urban drainage.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,
23, 1281-1304.
doi: 10.5194/hess-23-1281-2019
Hodges, B. R., and F. Liu, (2019).
Timescale interpolation and no-neighbor discretization for a 1D finite-volume Saint-Venant solver.
Journal of Hydraulic Research
(submitted July 2019)
The top-level scripts for running the code are labeled Run_### <br
Breaking into the Boundaries of World Literature: Tahar Ben Jelloun's "L'enfant de sable"
No full textIl presente articolo propone una lettura in prospettiva World Literature del primo romanzo di successo dell’autore franco-marocchino Tahar Ben Jelloun, "L’enfant de sable" (1985). Il ricorso a tale approccio teorico, che si avvale delle intuizioni di Bourdieu e di alcuni studi di Casanova e Damrosch, permette di illustrare in che misura il successo di un lavoro letterario sia il prodotto di intersezioni tra il suo valore estetico e le dinamiche socioeconomiche che regolano il mercato editoriale. Nell’opera di Ben Jelloun, collocata come il suo autore sulla soglia tra due mondi, confluiscono elementi di due sistemi letterari e culturali: quello occidentale e quello arabo-persiano. Ne "L’enfant de sable" è riscontrabile un’ibridità su più livelli – narratologico, intertestuale e linguistico – che può essere interpretata, nel quadro teorico della World Literature, come una strategia di negoziazione tra due culture per incontrare il favore di un pubblico più ampio. Dalla lettura del romanzo in questa prospettiva emergono ambiguità e criticità riguardanti l’opera di Ben Jelloun: da un lato l’accusa di orientalismo forzato per vendere un prodotto conforme alle aspettative dell’Occidente sul Mondo Arabo, dall’altro l’apprezzamento per un’opera in cui l’autore combina magistralmente due culture in una costruzione linguistica e narratologica di innegabile valore estetico, che ha il merito di aprire una finestra di contatto tra due culture.The essay aims to analyze the novel "L’enfant de sable" (1985) – the first bestseller by the French-Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun – in the perspective of World Literature as underpinned by the theories of David Damrosch and Pascale Casanova. This theoretical approach illustrates to what extent the success of a literary work is the product of the intersection between its aesthetic value and the socio-economic dynamics governing the literary market. A global writer on the threshold of two worlds, Ben Jelloun concocts a hybrid work in which Persian-Arabic literary and cultural traditions melt together with their Western counterparts. In particular, L’enfant de sable is characterized by a multilayered hybridity for a strategy of negotiation between the two cultures is employed at many levels: narratological, intertextual and linguistic. This strategy of hybridity/negotiation may be deemed as a mere compromise to reach a larger readership. Indeed, analyzing the novel within this theoretical framework highlights its ambiguities: remarkably, the author has been accused of commodifying his own culture to create a product palatable to the Euro-American market and compliant with Westerners’ expectations about the Arabic world – the topic appealing to French readers being the evidence of it. Yet, this reading also points out the novel’s undeniable aesthetic value: Ben Jelloun succeeds in merging two traditions artfully while opening a window into recondite aspects of Moroccan culture
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