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The aesthetics of history in the modern English long poem: David Jones’s the anathemata. Basil bunting's briggflatts, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns and Roy fisher's a furnace
No full textDavid Jones, Basil Bunting, Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher are major poets in the modernist tradition who have written long poems which incorporate and interrogate history. The Anathemata. Briggflatts. Mercian Hvmns and A Furnace all explore the poet's sense of identity and his relationship to the present by attempting to give order to the past. This thesis examines how this attempt, and the various ideologies, philosophies and aesthetics that have accompanied it, are given form in these poems. It relates detailed readings of the poems to their intellectual and historical contexts. The Introduction outlines the typical features of die modernist long poem and suggests that they are peculiarly suited to expressions of both history and nationalism. Chapter I is a critical assessment of the aesthetics of Wilhelm Worringer and Herbert Read. Chapter II shows how David Jones endeavours to give form to the various histories of The Anathemata by using these aesthetics in conjunction with the historical philosophy of Oswald Spengler, the analysis of myth and ritual of J.G. Frazer and Jessie Weston, and his own nationalism and Roman Catholicism. This chapter accounts for the poem's obscurity by investigating its conflicting ideas of form, and locating it in die context of the Second World War. Chapter III, on Briggflatts. argues that Basil Bunting combines the ideas of Worringer and Read with an autobiographical narrative and a structure derived from music, in order to give die poem a form mirroring both his melancholia and the harmony he perceived in nature. It contends that the histories in the poem are best read as relating to autobiography and not Northumbrian nationalism. Chapter IV shows how Geoffrey Hill refashions the English long poem in a manner close to that of the lyric sequence. It explores notions of empathy and historical continuity in Mercian Hymns. and analyses Hill's ambiguous evocation of his Anglo-Saxon roots in the context of contemporary political discourse. Chapter V discusses the ways in which Roy Fisher enacts different apprehensions of time and history in the dialectical structure of A Furnace, and relates them to the thought of John Cowper Powys. The Conclusion draws together the recurrent themes of the thesis: change and continuity, history and identity, time and timelessness
Topological semimetals Materials research foundations ;, v. 48./ David J. Fisher.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.1 online resource (163 p.)
Rhenium Disulfide Materials research foundations ;, v. 40./ David J. Fisher.
No full textRhenium disulfide, especially in low-dimensional form, is a subject of lively research into its electronic and optical properties. The field of twodimensional materials such as graphene and its analogues has been growing very rapidly. Keywords: Electronic Devices, Energy Storage, Energy Harvesting, Catalysis, Transistors, Resistors, Lasers, Rhenium Disulfide, Rhenium Diselenide, Two-dimensional Materials, Layered Materials, Black Phosphorus, Transition-metal Dichalcogenides, Metal-free Magnetism, ReS2, ReSe2, TiS3, ZrS3, MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, WSe2.Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chemical Synthesis; Sample Preparation; Molecular Structure; Defects; Electronic Structure; Properties; Mechanical; Optical; Semiconduction; Magnetic; Applications; Electronic Devices; Energy Storage; Catalysis; Transistors; Resistors; Lasers; Medical; References; Keywords1 online resource (150 p.)
An analysis of the ex post Fisher hypothesis at short and long term
No full textThis paper tests the Fisher effect. The analysis is applied to the U.S.A. It contributes to the existing empirical literature in three ways. First, it considers a panel of short term and long term real interest rates between 1960 and 2008. Second, it explores both the presence of unit root and structural changes in real interest rates, by allowing for interaction between these two assumptions as suggested by the recent work of Lee and Strazicich. The third contribution consists in testing formally for the number of breaks using Bai and Perron (1998, 2003) test.Unit Root, Structural Break, Fisher Hypothesis, Cointegration
Detection of image structures using the Fisher information and the Rao metric
No full textIn many detection problems, the structures to be detected are parameterized by the points of a parameter space. If the conditional probability density function for the measurements is known, then detection can be achieved by sampling the parameter space at a finite number of points and checking each point to see if the corresponding structure is supported by the data. The number of samples and the distances between neighboring samples are calculated using the Rao metric on the parameter space. The Rao metric is obtained from the Fisher information which is, in turn, obtained from the conditional probability density function. An upper bound is obtained for the probability of a false detection. The calculations are simplified in the low noise case by making an asymptotic approximation to the Fisher information. An application to line detection is described. Expressions are obtained for the asymptotic approximation to the Fisher information, the volume of the parameter space, and the number of samples. The time complexity for line detection is estimated. An experimental comparison is made with a Hough transform-based method for detecting lines
The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman’s Monetary Economics
No full textThis paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher’s writings on Milton Friedman’s work in monetary economics. We focus first on Fisher’s influences in monetary theory (the quantity theory of money, the Fisher effect, Gibson’s Paradox, the monetary theory of business cycles, and the Phillips Curve, and empirics, e.g. distributed lags.). Then we discuss Fisher and Friedman's views on monetary policy and various schemes for monetary reform (the k% rule, freezing the monetary base, the compensated dollar, a mandate for price stability, 100% reserve money, and stamped money.) Assessing the influence of an earlier economist's writings on that of later scholars is a challenge. As a science progresses the views of its earlier pioneers are absorbed in the weltanschauung. Fisher's Purchasing Power of Money as well as the work of Pigou and Marshall were the basic building blocks for later students of monetary economics. Thus, the Chicago School of the 1930s absorbed Fisher's approach, and Friedman learned from them. However, in some salient aspects of Friedman's work we can clearly detect a major direct influence of Fisher's writings on Friedman's. Thus, for example with the buildup of inflation in the 1960s Friedman adopted the Fisher effect and Fisher's empirical approach to inflationary expectations into his analysis. Thus, Fisher's influence on Friedman was both indirect through the Chicago School and direct. Regardless of the weight attached to the two influences, Fisher' impact on Friedman was profound.
Is the Fisher Effect for Real? A Reexamination of the Relationship Between Inflation and Interest Rates
No full textThe basic puzzle about the so-called Fisher effect, in which movements in short-term interest rates primarily reflect fluctuations in expected inflation, is why a strong Fisher effect occurs only for certain periods but not for others. This paper resolves this puzzle by reexamining the relationship between inflation and interest rates with modern time-series techniques. Recognition that the level of inflation and interest rates may contain stochastic trends suggests that the apparent ability of short-term interest rates to forecast inflation in the postwar United States is spurious. Additional evidence does not support the presence of a short-run Fisher effect but does support the existence of a long-run Fisher effect in which inflation and interest rates trend together in the long run when they exhibit trends. The evidence here can explain why the Fisher effect appears to be strong only for particular sample periods, but not for others. The conclusion that there is a long-run Fisher effect implies that when inflation and interest rates exhibit trends, these two series will trend together and thus there will be a strong correlation between inflation and interest rates. On the other hand, the nonexistence of a short-run Fisher effect implies that when either inflation and interest rates do not display trends, there is no long-run Fisher effect to produce a strong correlation between interest rates and inflation. The analysis in this paper resolves an important puzzle about when the Fisher effect appears in the data.
Additive manufacturing of metals Materials research foundations ;, 67./ David J. Fisher.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.The book reviews the various techniques that are currently in use and describes the many possible applications. Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, 3-Dimensional Printing, Layered Manufacturing, Titanium Alloys, Nickel Alloys, Iron Alloys, Stainless Steels, Aluminium, Cobalt, Copper, Magnesium, Niobium, Tantal, Tin, Tungsten, Zinc, Porous Metals, Biomedical Materials, Orthopaedic Devices, Dental Implants, Aerospace Components, Laser Melting, Electron-Beam Melting.Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Aluminium -- Al-Ce -- Al-Cu -- Al-Mg -- Al-Mn -- Al-Si -- AlSi10Mg -- Al-Zn -- Cobalt -- Copper -- Iron -- AISI304 -- AISI316 -- AISI H11 -- AISI H13 -- 17-4PH -- Magnesium -- Nickel -- Hastelloy X -- Haynes-282 -- Inconel-625 -- Inconel-718 -- Inconel-738 -- Monel K500 -- Niobium -- Tantalum -- Tin -- Titanium -- Ti-6Al-4V -- Tungsten -- Zinc -- References -- Keyword Index -- About the author1 online resource (iii, 150 pages)
Liquid Metal Alloys in Electronics Materials Research Foundations Ser./ David J. Fisher.
No full textLiquid gallium-based alloys are of rapidly increasing interest in electronics because they combine the high electrical conductivity of metals with the ease of manipulation and reconfiguration of liquids. Keywords: Liquid Metals, Gallium-Indium Alloys, Galinstan, EGaIn, Self-Assembled Monolayers, Energy-Harvesting, Reconfigurable Antennae, Sensors, Conformable Electrodes, Stretchable Wires and Interconnects, Self-Healing Circuits, Gallium-Lyophilic Surfaces, Wettability of Liquid Metal, Substrate Topology, Selective Wetting Deposition Technique, Gallium-Indium Droplets on Thin Metal Films, Subs.1 online resource (138 pages
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