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Lawrence Sykes
No full textLawrence Sykes is pictured his school year at Uintah High School. He was born to Dan and Leda Sykes of Daggett County on July 24, 1926. He served in World War II. He died November 7, 1998 in Rifle, Colorado
Economic evaluation of a stratified transport method for Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) juveniles
No full textThe objective of this study was to evaluate a convenient, low-cost modification to conventional transfer methods for Atlantic halibut juveniles. A series of wire mesh cages were stacked within transport tanks creating a stratified transport system (STS), increasing the surface area for settlement and facilitating a more homogeneous distribution of halibut throughout the tank compared with the conventional insulated box (Unstructured, UTS). A stochastic cost-benefit analysis determined investment into a STS to be cost-effective, generating a mean benefit-cost ratio of 1.31 (95% CI, 0.68–2.00) after 2 years and a mean 5-year net present value of 85,176(9546,906–$125,630). The implementation of a STS was found to be technically feasible and economically efficient method to improve Atlantic halibut transport.Peter J. Sykes, Carol A. McClure, Debbie J. Martin-Robichaud, Charles G. Caraguel, K. Larry Hammel
Claud Sykes
No full textClaud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley</p
Micro-CT 3D imaging reveals the internal structure of three abyssal xenophyophore species (Protista, Foraminifera) from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean
No full textXenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated tests, and organise their cells as branching strands enclosed within an organic tube (the ‘granellare’ system). Using non-destructive, three-dimensional micro-CT imaging we explored these structures in three species from the abyssal eastern Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). In Psammina spp., the low-density stercomare occupied much of the test interior, while high-density granellare strands branched throughout the structure. In Galatheammina sp. the test comprised a mixture of stercomare and test particles, with the granellare forming a web-like system of filaments. The granellare occupied 2.8–5.1%, the stercomare 72.4–82.4%, and test particles 14.7–22.5%, of the ‘body’ volume in the two Psammina species. The corresponding proportions in Galatheammina sp. were 1.7% (granellare), 39.5% (stercomare) and 58.8% (test particles). These data provide a potential basis for estimating the contribution of xenophyophores to seafloor biomass in areas like the CCZ where they dominate the megafauna. As in most xenophyophore species, the granellare hosted huge numbers of tiny barite crystals. We speculate that these help to support the extensive granellare system, as well as reducing the cell volume and lightening the metabolic burden required to maintain it
THE PORTRAIT OFWOMEN’S OPPRESSION AS THE SUBALTERN CLASS IN ROBERTA SYKES’ SNAKE CRADLE: A POST-COLONIAL READING
No full textSkripsi berjudul Portrait of Women Oppression as Subaltern Class in Roberta
Sykes’ Snake Cradle: A Post-colonial Reading ini mengkaji berbagai ketidakadilan
dan penindasan yang dialami oleh Roberta Sykes sebagai perempuan Aborigin
berdarah campuran (half-caste). Kenyataan bahwa ia terlahir sebagai perempuan halfcaste
telah menempatkannya pada posisi terendah di tengah masyarakat. Pergulatan
batin Sykes dalam usahanya mencari identitas diri dan keluarganya juga menjadi poin
bahasan yang signifikan dalam skripsi ini.
Dalam mengumpulkan data, penulis menggunakan metode penelitian pustaka,
sedangkan untuk analisis data, penulis mengunakan metode kualitatif. Teori subaltern
yang diusung oleh Spivak menjadi pijakan penulis dalam memahami berbagai
tindakan rasis dan ketidakadilan yang diterima oleh tokoh utama sebagai kaum
subaltern. Subaltern merupakan istilah dalam studi pascakolonial untuk menyebut
kelas sosial terendah dalam masyarakat yang hak-hak serta keberadaannya tidak
dianggap dan cenderung dimarginalisasi. Istilah ini pertama kali dipopulerkan oleh
Antonio Gramsci, yang kemudian dipakai secara lebih spesifik oleh Gayatry
Chakravorty Spivak dalam esai monumentalnya ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?” Dalam
esai tersebut, Spivak dengan lantang menyingkap kenyataan bahwa kaum subaltern
tidak pernah diakui sebagai bagian dari masyarakat, hak-hak mereka dirampas, dan
‘suara’ mereka tak pernah didengar.
Dengan menganalisa novel Snake Cradle dari sudut pandang pascakolonial
dan secara khusus bertolak dari teori subaltern, penulis menemukan bahwa darah
campuran (half-caste) yang melekat padanya telah membawa Sykes pada situasi yang
sangat sulit, dimana ia tidak hanya dipandang rendah, namun juga diperlakuan secara
tidak adil oleh masyarakat. Fakta bahwa Sykes adalah perempuan half-caste yang
dibesarkan oleh ibunya sebagai orangtua tunggal seolah menjadi alasan masyarakat
kulit putih untuk memarginalkan Sykes dari kehidupan sosial. Sykes dikeluarkan dari
sekolah; mengalami pelecehan seksual dari saudara iparnya; dan diperkosa oleh lakilaki
kulit putih. Sykes mencoba mencari keadilan, namun label ‘half-caste’ telah
menutup kesempatannya untuk mendapatkan keadillan. Sebagai subaltern, suara
Roberta Sykes tak pernah didengar kecuali didalam karya ini.
Kata kunci: half-caste, kajian pasca kolonial, subaltern, penindasan
An Alternative Approach to the Mean
No full textThis article, created by Alan W. Sykes of Swansea University College, describes an alternate calculation of expected value, which illustrates continuous random variables. The author uses charts, graphs and text to help illustrate these mathematical concepts. The author provides external references for those interested in further study of this subject
A Polychaete’s Powerful Punch: Venom Gland Transcriptomics of Glycera Reveals a Complex Cocktail of Toxin Homologs
No full text© The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The article attached is the publisher's pdf.NHM Repositor
Mapping the ground: A critical and creative exploration of the diary of Ada Sykes, 1912--1915.
No full textThis thesis provides a critical and creative exploration of the diary of a woman who pioneered in the upper Fraser River valley of northern British Columbia from 1912 to 1925. Ada Adelia Sykes left a diary in which she kept a record of daily activities throughout a three-year period. My work examines her diary in the context of women's life-writing. First, I discuss various theories of life-writing, arguing that women's life-writing makes important contributions to the understanding of past, present, and self. Next, I analyze the diary in its historical context. Finally, I present original poems, based on the diary entries, as well as on the life of my grandmother, Alice Jane Beaven, a contemporary of Ada Sykes. This thesis demonstrates a trend in which researchers imbricate their own stories in those of their subjects: in telling the stories of Ada Adelia Sykes and Alice Jane Beaven, I tell part of my own story.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b124798
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