423 research outputs found
Daphne Gottlieb, Slam Poetry Reading
No full textDaphne Gottlieb is a poet and author of several books, including Final Girl
American Women Writers: Daphne Kalotay
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Daphne Kalotay about her life and the inspiration for her work
Daphne Kalotay, 28th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDaphne Kalotay is the author of Calamity and Other Stories (Doubleday, 2005). Her short fiction has appeared in publications ranging from Missouri Review and Prairie Schooner to AGNI and Good Housekeeping and has won fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Kalotay lives in Brookline, Mass. and teaches literature and writing at Boston University, where she received her M.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary literature
Gwendolyne Stevens
No full text"Gwendolyne Daphne was born on 7 June 1908 at Quorn, South Australia, daughter of Hugo Albert Valentine Healey, painter and later publican, and his wife Jessie Gwendolyne, n?e Napier, both South Australian born.
Gwendolyne attended several rural schools, including Innamincka Public, before proceeding to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide. Miss Healey trained at Burra public and (Royal) Adelaide hospitals, and was registered as a nurse on 11 July 1929. She then moved to Parkside Mental Hospital where she gained a certificate in psychiatric nursing in 1931 and became sister-in-charge. In 1934 she bought a large house at Payneham that had been built by James Marshall, converted it into a private psychiatric hospital and named it St Margarets. As its owner and matron for eighteen years, she cared for patients suffering the early stages of nervous disorders, and provided them with a secure and restful setting, with aviaries amid beautiful gardens. That she took on such a task during the depression, and succeeded in it, testified to her business acumen, organizing ability and compassion for those in need.
At the chapel of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, on 12 April 1940, she married George Dempster Stevens, a clerk employed by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. They were to have two daughters.
Pursuing her interest in community health, Mrs Stevens was founding president (1944-50) and a committee-member (until 1961) of the Payneham branch of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.
After she sold her hospital in 1952, she set up Sterling Downs, a Poll Dorset stud on 2200 acres (890 ha) at Currency Creek, in 1957. She employed a manager to supervise the stud and visited it each week. In the 1960s she sold part of the land and moved the stud to Sterling Park, McLaren Vale. The stud was later sold and its sheep replaced with cattle.
Having noticed particular outcrops of rock at Sterling Park, Stevens arranged for drilling to be conducted, as a result of which she opened a quarry and sold building sands to the local council.
In 1968 she became interested in the mining potential of the Northern Territory. She studied maps, obtained advice from geologists and concentrated on an area near Oenpelli, Arnhem Land. She received permission to prospect on 1282 sq. miles (3320 km?) of Aboriginal reserve and negotiated an exploration programme with Queensland Mines Ltd.
In 1970 that company discovered what was then described as the richest body of uranium ore in the world, at a site known to local Aborigines as Nabarlek.
Newspapers referred to Stevens as 'probably the first woman in the world with a right to mine uranium'. She visited the area twice during the early stages of exploration and was staggered by the size of the find.
In August 1971, however, Queensland Mines downgraded the ore reserves to about one-sixth of those announced a year earlier. Intending to use some of the proceeds of her investment to benefit the health of the Aborigines, she transferred the exploration licences to Queensland Mines in May 1973 and negotiated a royalty agreement. Mining at Nabarlek began in 1979.
Mrs Stevens both created and took advantage of opportunities in the areas of mental health, sheep-breeding and mining. Suffering from hypertension, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 3 March 1974 in her Kensington Park home and was cremated. She was survived by her husband and their daughters. Her estate was sworn for probate at $416,266." [author Tony Bott].NurseSheep BreederMining EntrepreneurHospital Proprieto
The DAPHNE Project
No full textAbstractThis paper summarizes the DAPHNE Project presented at the ICTH 2016. The DAPHNE (Data-as-a-Service Platform for Healthy lifestyle and preventive medicine) Project is supported by the European Community's FP7 research programme with the objective of providing personalized ICT services to support healthier lifestyles for patients with obesity and related chronic diseases. The DAPHNE Project has developed wearable sensors to monitor health behavior, with data aggregated and transmitted to a cloud-based platform where it can be accessed by health care professionals to provide off-site monitoring and clinical care
UMass Amherst Professor Daphne Patai Keynote
No full textPress Release advertising a presentation by published author Daphne Pata
The gothic heroine in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
No full textThe present thesis will explore Daphne du Maurier`s treatment of female Gothic in her novel Rebecca. The main purpose is to find out how the author uses the conventions of the canon stretching back to Ann Radcliffe`s female Gothic heroine in order to produce her own version of the Gothic heroine.
The thesis consists of an introduction, two main chapters, and a conclusion. The introduction gives a general overview of Daphne du Maurier as an author, and her novel Rebecca. The first chapter will give an overview of the female Gothic genre and its use in the novel in the context of pertinent scholarship. The second chapter will analyse du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, pinpointing innovations and digressions from the Gothic canon used by the author to create her own version of the Gothic heroine. The findings of the thesis are summarised in the conclusion.https://www.ester.ee/record=b5375581*es
Studies for the selection of the neutrino events collected in ICARUS T600 at FERMILAB
No full textopenThe ICARUS T600 LAr-TPC detector has restarted in 2020 to collect events at Fermilab exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) within the SBN program, to definitively clarify the open questions of the presently-observed neutrino anomalies related to the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. It is also recording neutrino interactions from the NuMI off-axis beam and these events will be studied to obtain in particular neutrino-Argon cross section measurements. The T600 is taking data at shallow-depth, so a large number of cosmic muons are expected to cross the detector randomly in the 1-ms drift time corresponding to the triggered event. The neutrino interactions should be recognized among the events triggered by cosmics and this condition makes it necessary to deploy suitable automatic tools for the identification, selection, and measurement of the neutrino events. These tools should exploit all the available information from the TPC, from the internal PMTs and from the external Cosmic Ray Tagging system surrounding the detector. In the present thesis tools for the selection of the neutrino interactions recorded in the T600 will be developed starting from the available reconstruction tools and applied to the data recorded and MC events to evaluate the performance. The selected events will be also visually studied to improve the selection efficiency of the neutrino interactions. The focus will be in particular on the selection and reconstruction of the quasi elastic muon neutrino interactions fully contained in the detector
Inventing the New Negro : Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography /
No full textDaphne Lamothe explores how many black writers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern Black identity.Daphne Lamothe explores how many black writers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern Black identity.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Daphne Lamothe teaches Afro-American studies at Smith College.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
Review of Justine Picardie's Daphne
No full textThis review essay presents a review of Justine Picardie's novel Daphne, setting it within a critical context. It opens by claiming that Daphne articulates several contemporary literary debates: it specifically addresses the location of the woman writer and reader and the relationship between author and text. The essay illustrates how Picardies's tripartite narrative works both to revise Rebecca and to re-position du Maurier as an author worthy of academic attention. The novel's extensive use of intertextuality and its own hybridisation of fiction and biography are seen to operate as an analogy for the complexities and pleasures of reading, writing and research. This essay is sympathetic to the recuperation of the popular woman writer and popular women's writing but argues that Daphne's transgressive potential resides in its repeated slippage between the textual and the material, as highlighted by its imbrication of biographical fact and fictional narrative. It concludes by suggesting that these transgressive elements also work to foreground the ethical contradictions of reading and writing
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