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Catalogue of Central College Library, at Fayette, Mo. 1887
No full textPamphlet entitled "Catalogue of Central College Library at Fayette, Mo. 1887." 57 pages. 15.5 cm high. Has index of author names, possibly missing some pages. Several writings in pencil and stray pencil marks
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
A Review of Creep Deformation and Rupture Mechanisms of Cr-Mo Alloy for the Development of Creep Damage Constitutive Equations under Lower Stress
No full textThis paper presents a review of creep deformation and rupture mechanisms of low Cr-Mo alloy for the development of its creep damage constitutive equations under lower stress. The most popular KRH (Kachanov-Robatnov-Hayhurst) formulation was not necessarily developed and calibrated for low stress and can not depict the creep strain accurately under multi-axial state of stress due to the three-dimensional generalization method used. This paper summarizes a critical analysis on the cavity nucleation and growth, and the deformation mechanisms and creep damage evolution characteristics at the temperature ranging for 723 K to 923 K (450 °C to 650 °C), particularly under low stress level (0.2-0.4ογ) in order to form the physical base for the development of creep damage constitutive equation. Moreover, it covers the influence of the stress level, states of stress, and the failure criterion
David Nicholson's Liquid Bread
No full textTrade card advertising Liquid Bread, a dietary supplement prepared by David Nicholson, St. Louis, Mo
Revealing the influence of Mo addition on interphase precipitation in Ti-bearing low carbon steels
No full textMo is widely used as an effective microalloying element to improve mechanical performance of interphase precipitation steels, but the precise role of Mo in interphase precipitation behavior is not fully understood. In this contribution, interphase precipitation behavior in a series of Ti-Mo-bearing low carbon steels is systematically studied, and the role of Mo in interphase precipitates and its coarsening behavior is revisited. It is found that (Ti, Mo)C precipitates instead of TiC are formed in the Mo-containing alloys, and the average site fraction of Mo in (Ti, Mo)C is almost independent of the bulk Mo content. Moreover, the number density of interphase precipitates can be substantially enhanced by a minor addition of Mo, albeit it does not further rise with increasing the bulk Mo content. This is because the Mo fraction in (Ti, Mo)C rather than the bulk Mo content governs the driving force for precipitation nucleation and the interfacial energy of the (Ti, Mo)C/α and (Ti, Mo)C/γ interfaces. In addition to the reduced interfacial energy, decrease of Ti trans-interface diffusivity has been identified as another key reason for the enhanced carbide coarsening resistance in Mo-containing alloys.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Novel Aerospace Material
Studies on Bis(imido) molybdenum complexes containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands
No full textThis thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of molybdenum bis(imido) complexes containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands. A principal objective of the work was to examine the effect of various imido substituents on the coordination number of the complex and the orientations adopted by olefin and acetylene ligands. Chapter One highlights areas of transition metal chemistry relevant to the thesis, with particular emphasis on the psuedo-isolobal analogy between cyclopentadienyl and imido ligands, A convenient one-pot synthesis of molybdenum bis(imido) complexes of the type Mo(NR)(NR')Cl(_2).DME (R=R'=l-adamantyl, 2-t- BUC(_6)H(_4); R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t-Bu) is described in Chapter Two. Mo(N-l- adamantyl)(O)Cl(_2).DME has been synthesised, and its structure determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction.- The preparation of olefin complexes Mo(NR)(NR')(C(_2)H(_4))(PMe(_3))n (R=R'=l-adamantyl, n=l; R=R'=2-t-BuC(_6)H(_4), n=2; R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t- Bu, n=l) is outlined in Chapter Three. Structural information derived from NMR data has allowed comparison with metallocene-like olefin adducts. Chapter Four describes the synthesis of complexes containing σ-bound phenyl ligands (Mo(NR)(NR')(σ-C(_6)H(_5))(PMe(_3)) (R=R'=l-adamantyl, 2-t-BuC(_6)H(_4); R=2,6-i-Pr(_2)C(_6)H(_3), R'=t-Bu)) as potential precursors to benzyne complexes. Chapter Five describes the preparation of diphenylacetylene complexes Mo(NR)(NR')(PhC=CPh)(PMe(_3)), structural information derived from NMR data allows comparison with previously known metallocene-like acetylene complexes. Full experimental details for Chapters Two to Five are given in Chapter Six
Explosive spore dispersal of Selaginella kraussiana
No full textVideos showing the explosive spore dispersal of the reproductive structures (strobili) in the lycophyte Selaginella kraussiana. In several instances in this dataset, microsporangia under desiccating conditions can be seen to firstly dehisce, exposing the microspores. This is then followed by the strobili mechanically ejecting the entire sporangium, resulting in an explosive projectile spore dispersal mechanism. This type of spore dispersal in lycophytes has been noted previously in the literature (Koller & Scheckler, 1986 https://doi.org/10.2307/2444062), but to our knowledge this is the first time that it has been recorded on video. Here, we deposit the full unedited videos. Videos are taken using a VHX-7000 Keyence light microscope
Avatars of the author in Mo Yan's novels
No full textL’écrivain chinois Mo Yan a mis en scène dans son œuvre romanesque des avatars de l’auteur, identifiés à lui par le nom dans deux romans et par le rôle de créateur du récit dans plusieurs récits. Ces représentants ne sauraient être identifiés à l’auteur empirique, mais peuvent être interprétés à l’aune de ce que représente pour nous l’auteur, au sens large, ou dans une visée individuelle, lorsque nous analysons leur caractérisation en fonction d’autres textes, fictifs ou référentiels, construisant la figure biographique, théorique et fantasmatique de l’auteur. Outre qu’elle joue sur l’aporie de sa présence dans la fiction, cette représentation métafictionnelle a des fonctions diverses. Dans Le Pays de l’alcool, elle souligne l’allégorie tout en déjouant la censure ; dans La Dure Loi du karma, elle brosse un portrait comique du romancier, reflétant ses différents rôles pour le lecteur et la société. La suite de l’étude porte sur des narrateurs révélant un statut de créateur du récit, de sorte qu’ils provoquent une distanciation et un doute sur leur situation diégétique, en les associant à une tendance métafictionnelle présente dans l’œuvre de Mo Yan depuis son premier roman long, Le Clan du sorgho rouge, où elle est l’effet d’un narrateur omniscient et présent dans l’univers de la fiction. Ces figures d’autorité thématisent l’imagination à l’œuvre, tout en signalant l’altérité de la figure de l’auteur que le lecteur infère de ses indices supposés. Elles représentent l’auteur en une logique non référentielle, comme produit d’un ensemble mouvant d’hypothèses, issues d’une interprétation des récits comme éléments constitutifs de l’œuvre.In his fictional works, Chinese novelist Mo Yan created avatars of the author, who are either identified by their name such as the characters Mo Yan in The Republic of Wine and in Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out or by a creative role they reveal, in other narratives. Both doubles, Mo Yan’s fictional homonyms, cannot be considered as the empirical author, and yet may be interpreted in the light of what the author means to us, whether in a broad or individual sense, when their characteristics are confronted with the biographical, theoretical and fantasmatic figure of Mo Yan which other texts create. Drawing attention to the aporetical presence of the author in a universe he created, metafictional author representations have various functions. In The Republic of Wine, it enlights the allegorical value of the novel and, to the real author, is a means to deter censorship. In Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Mo Yan is a parody of a novelist, where the role he plays for the reader and in society appear in a nutshell. Next, the sign of the author is to be extended to other narrators who reveal, more or less explicitly, that they create the narrative, thus inducing readers to suspend belief and reconsider their diegetic posture. Beginning with his first long novel Red Sorghum, metafiction has been an obsessive tendency in Mo Yan’s novels, making imagination a theme of the novel while suggesting the figure of the author a reader infers from the text is but a shifting body of hypotheses, which envision narratives a part of the whole works that make the author
Racism in Empire Negative 39
No full textAudience members, including David Yonge and Glenn Alteen. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy
Poetry & sacrament: Being a commentary on the Kensington mass by David Jones
No full text"The Kensington Mass" was the last poem of the Anglo-Welsh poet - painter David Jones (1895-1974). It at first describes the faithful, correct and unthreatened celebration of the introductory rite of the mass. The poem then changes direction and tone when the celebrant kisses the altar, so as to introduce an Emperor troubled by a dream. This alerts the reader that there is a collateral text, a dream poem, where the significance of the transformation is to be found. The Emperor decides to hunt on the morrow to ease his disquiet, and the resources of hunting are exploited as an analogy of the Eucharist. The hunt takes place at dawn - the dawn of the day and the dawn of an era - and the poet wakes up to a scene of loss, unlike the happy promise celebrated by Milton in his Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. There is a sharp break before the poem's last section, when Peter's denial of Christ reverberates through history, amplified by the treachery of Roncesvalles. This dolorous sound reveals the true and exact character of human existence. The clue to the significance of the last section of the poem and its bearing on what goes before also lies outside the text: the proposal is that it is Jones's distress, obliquely expressed, at the disintegration of the traditional Roman liturgy (a denial and a betrayal) that unifies the composition. The commentary traces what might be called the narrative line of the poem, as above. It also notes some of its influences, salient concepts, underlying shapes, the history of its characters, the sacramental theology that informed his thinking, and the modality of the gloomy assertion at the close
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