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    Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary

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    Bibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas

    The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

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    Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering

    Investigating The Discrepancy Between Theory And Empirical Research In Knowledge Transfer And Innovation

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    The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. The literature documents that increasing knowledge transfer can both increase and decrease an organisation's capability to innovate. This study proposes a model that integrates these two theoretical standpoints and in doing so hypothesizes a non-linear (parabolic) relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. Empirical research to date, including the work of Storey and Kelly (2002), document a linear relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. In order to investigate the possibility of a non-linear relationship this study proposes and tests refinements to Storey and Kelly's methodology. A refined survey questionnaire was sent to all the local government councils within two Australian states and both linear and quadratic statistical analyses were performed. The results of this pilot study revealed linear relationships between four of the six knowledge transfer questions and the innovation measurement question. A further refinement to the methodology is recommended before a non-linear relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation is rejected

    Phylogenetics, systematics and biogeography of deep-sea Pennatulacea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia): evidence from molecules and morphology

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    Despite its extreme environmental conditions, the deep sea harbours a unique andspecies-rich fauna of mostly unknown age and phylogeny. Pennatulids (Anthozoa:Octocorallia) are a group whose taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships remain poorlyknown and little studied, in spite of their abundance and ecological importance in softbottomcommunities. Phylogenetic analysis of a combination of partial ND2 and msh1sequences produced well-supported phylogenetic relationships for representative deepsea(and shallow-water) pennatulids at familial, generic and specific taxonomic levels.Generally, molecular data were congruent with current classification and previousphylogenetic reconstructions of the O. Pennatulacea based on morphology.Discrepancies were evident concerning the finer details for some families and genera: thiscan be attributable to the high frequency of homoplasy in pennatulids where reversals inevolution have led to taxa that possess apomorphic character states that are analogouswith plesiomorphic traits. Genetic analysis gave strong support that highly-derived taxaoccur in both shallow and deep water and that many may have differentiated anddispersed from the deep sea to the shallows. The Renillidae, which is considered one ofthe most primitive shallow-water families, evolved recently from deep-water ancestors.Conversely, the bathyal Anthoptilidae was the most primitive of families, and althoughmore evidence is required, pennatulids as a group may have originated in deep water.The systematics of the exclusively deep-sea genus Umbellula, which contains fortytwospecies, remains unclear despite the repeated attempts of revision. Incorporatingnew morphological and distributional data from the examination of recently collectedmaterial, together with type specimens, genetic analysis, and a critical study of theliterature, fifteen Umbellula species are here considered valid, including three new toscience. Eight species lack sclerites in the autozooids, U. magniflora, U. encrinus, U.antarctica, U. carpenteri and Umbellula sp.1 n. sp. (quadrangular axes), and U. huxleyi andU. pellucida (round axes); and seven possess autozooid sclerites, U. thomsoni and U.hemigymna (quadrangular axes), and U. monocephalus, U. aciculifera, U. durissima,Umbellula sp.2 n. sp. and Umbellula sp.3 n. sp. (round axes).Biogeographic data and genetic evidence supported the hypothesis that species ofUmbellula differentiated in the Indo-Pacific. Many radiated southwards to the Antarcticand later north into the Atlantic, E Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, occupying bathyaland abyssal depths. Other, older species that evolved via a separate evolutionarypathway, may have originated in the Indo-Pacific, and dispersed to the Subantarctic (U.sp.2 n. sp.) or Indian and Atlantic oceans (U. monocephalus). Further, morphologicalexamination of Umbellula showed it adapted to the oligotrophic conditions of the deepsea by reducing the number but increasing the size of the autozooids, and in doing so,enlarged the food-catchment area; abyssal species have done so even more extremely

    Manual |'manyә(wә)l|

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    Manual |'manyә(wә)l| Noun: Instructions For Learning and Understanding a Subject Manual of the Artist's Aphorisms Based on Theory and Practice, Experience and Reflection. This manual is an investigation and a search for meaning within a gallery space. The essence of my practice as an artist is the research I do within the exhibition space prior to making or installing an artwork. By participating in the creation and the management of 1612 Gallery, I have been studying and reflecting on all aspects of that space as a gallery: researching its history, location and functionality and by observation I have seen how different artists respond to this gallery space. My research has included looking at the history of art galleries through catalogues and fieldwork, as well as studying the writings of art historians, curators and artists as they consider the gallery as a space for exhibiting art. The 1612 Gallery, Emily Carr University Graduate students studios and gallery located at 1612 West 3rd in Vancouver, British Columbia, functions as my case study and is also used as a comparative tool in my understanding of the nature of “the white cube” gallery space. My research question focuses on how the gallery and exhibition space influences the work on display and how, by placing an artwork within a certain space a specific meaning is created. My method was to place myself in the centre of the investigation, where I took on the roles of the carpenter, cleaner, facilitator, artist, curator and exhibition maker. My purpose was to better understand the role of the artist and the curator, complete with the obligations, and the tasks that comes with these roles, and to better understand how a space; with its white walls, its ideology, and its dialogue becomes an art gallery. My thesis artwork will be a final site-specific sculpture based on these reflections.Art galleriesCuratorArtistsSpac

    New Members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield\u27s 5 Year Club

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    Photograph of newly initiated members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida\u27s 5 Year Club for employees; members left to right, front row: Emily Tillman, Mabel Fleming, Martha Harvey, Betty White, Ina DeVane, Louise Perkinson; second row: Clarence Bolin, Veedy Rice, Alene Phelps, Ruby Wells, Emily Pfaff, Ilene Glason, Don Hugenot; third row: Jimmy Hopper, Joe Stansell, Jimmy Williams, Chuck Smith, John L. Bentley, Arnold Semanik; photo date 4/2/1959 Newsletter Issue: News of the Blues April, 1959https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/flablue_images/1017/thumbnail.jp

    Hiljaisuuden kieli, (ei-)tieto ja naistekijyys Marguerite Durasin romaanissa Emily L.

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    Tutkin tässä teoreettisessa esseessä ranskalaisen kirjailijan ja elokuvaohjaajan Marguerite Durasin (1914–1996) romaania Emily L. (1989/1987) siitä kulmasta, kuinka taiteen tekeminen, hiljaisuus ja sukupuoli kiertyvät siinä toisiinsa ja minkälaisia sukupuolittuneita merkityksiä hiljaisuus siinä saa. Kyseessä on iäkkään kirjailijanaisen elämänsä illassa sepittämä, itseään peilaava tai moninaistava ”antitarina”, joka sisältää kertomuksen myös toisesta, elämänsä viimeiselle matkalle valmistautuvasta kirjailijanaisesta. Luen romaania keskeisen modernistisen uudistajan autofiktiivisenä tutkielmana länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiasta poispyyhitystä naistekijyydestä. Tällaisessa kehystyksessä teoksesta kasvaa vaikuttava, feministisesti kantaaottava poeettis-poliittinen metafora. Käyn vuoropuhelua feministisen filosofian, ranskalaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen sekä mustan ja post-koloniaalisen teorian kanssa osoittaakseni radikaalin moninaisen teoreettisen ajattelun avulla, että Durasin esteettisessä ilmaisussa tyylitelty hiljaisuus luo paradoksaalisesti aivan omanlaistaan kieltä. Lopuksi tarkastelen transkielisyyden käsitteen avulla, kuinka durasilainen hiljaisuuden kieli nivoutuu hänen kulttuurisesti hybridiin ja monikieliseen taustaansa. Abstract in English The Language of Silence, (Un)Knowledge and Female Authorship in Marguerite Duras’s novel Emily L. In this theory-oriented essay, I examine Marguerite Duras’s (1914–1996) novel, Emily L. (1987), with a primary focus on the intertwinement of silence, writing, and gender, and the gendered meanings attributed to silence. In Emily L., an elderly female author tells a story of another female author embarking on her final journey. It is an ’anti-story’ narrative, multiplying or mirroring itself within itself. By analysing the text as an autofictional exploration of the erasure of female authorship in Western literary history, I highlight Duras’s role as a significant modernist literary innovator of the 20th century. Within this framing, the novel emerges as a powerful feminist poetico-political metaphor. I employ radically multiple theoretical perspectives, engaging in a thoughtful dialogue with feminist philosophy, French literary theory, as well as black and post­colonial feminist theory. This investigation reveals that in Duras's artistic expression, the stylized silence paradoxically creates a language of its’ own. In the end of the essay I analyse, with the help of the concept of literary translingualism, how Duras’s language of silence is intertwined with her culturally hybrid and multilingual background

    Hiljaisuuden kieli, (ei-)tieto ja naistekijyys Marguerite Durasin romaanissa Emily L.

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    Tutkin tässä teoreettisessa esseessä ranskalaisen kirjailijan ja elokuvaohjaajan Marguerite Durasin (1914–1996) romaania Emily L. (1989/1987) siitä kulmasta, kuinka taiteen teke-minen, hiljaisuus ja sukupuoli kiertyvät siinä toisiinsa ja minkälaisia sukupuolittuneita merkityksiä hiljaisuus siinä saa. Kyseessä on iäkkään kirjailijanaisen elämänsä illassa sepittämä, itseään peilaava tai moninaistava ”antitarina”, joka sisältää kertomuksen myös toisesta, elämänsä viimeiselle matkalle valmistautuvasta kirjailijanaisesta. Luen romaania keskeisen modernistisen uudistajan autofiktiivisenä tutkielmana länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiasta poispyyhitystä naistekijyydestä. Tällaisessa kehys-tyksessä teoksesta kasvaa vaikuttava, feministisesti kantaaottava poeettis-poliittinen metafora. Käyn vuoropuhelua feministisen filosofian, ranskalaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen sekä mustan ja post-koloniaalisen teorian kanssa osoittaakseni radikaalin moninaisen teoreettisen ajattelun avulla, että Durasin esteettisessä ilmaisussa tyylitelty hiljaisuus luo paradoksaalisesti aivan omanlaistaan kieltä. Lopuksi tarkastelen transkielisyyden käsitteen avulla, kuinka durasilainen hiljaisuuden kieli nivoutuu hänen kulttuurisesti hybridiin ja monikieliseen taustaansa.The Language of Silence, (Un)Knowledge and Female Authorship in Marguerite Duras’s novel Emily L.In this theory-oriented essay, I examine Marguerite Duras’s (1914–1996) novel, Emily L. (1987), with a primary focus on the intertwinement of silence, writing, and gender, and the gendered meanings attributed to silence. In Emily L., an elderly female author tells a story of another female author embarking upon her final journey. It is an "anti-story" narrative, multiplying or mirroring itself within itself. By analysing the text as an autofictional exploration of the erasure of female authorship in Western literary history, I highlight Duras’s role as a significant modernist literary innovator of the 20th century. Within this framing, the novel emerges as a powerful feminist poetico-political metaphor. I employ radically multiple theoretical perspectives, engaging in a thoughtful dialogue with feminist philosophy, French literary theory, as well as black and post­colonial feminist theory. This investigation reveals that in Duras's artistic expression, the stylized silence paradoxically creates a language of its own. In the end of the essay I analyse, with the help of the concept of literary translingualism, how Duras’s language of silence is intertwined with her culturally hybrid and multilingual background.</p

    Transatlantic Romanticism: The English Romantics and American Nineteenth−Century Poetic Tradition

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    This thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources. An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition

    Data supporting: 'Thermally Dynamic Examination of Local Order in Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite'

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    "Thermally Dynamic Examination of Local Order in Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite" Supporting Data Authors: Emily L Arnold*, Sarah Gosling, Samantha K Davies, Hannah L Cross,  Dean S Keeble, Paul Evans, Charlene Greenwood, Keith D Rogers * email: [email protected] Created: 2022-05-19 ; Last revision: 2022-05-26 Underlying data is given within this dataset. A readMe is provided explaining all files given within this dataset. </p
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