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The journey is my home
No full textA creative writing thesis consisting of three interrelated essays.M.A.Reckoning -- The rifleman -- Yet another road trip storyby Tess Schaufle
TESS-India Baseline Report 2013: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar: baseline study of teacher educators, teacher trainees, head teachers, teachers and students
No full textTESS-India is a project funded by UK Aid from the Department for International Development (DFID) and led by The Open University, UK. It aims to address the urgent need to improve the classroom practices of teachers and teacher educators as this is essential for successful educational reform. TESS-India seeks to contribute significantly towards the professional development of teacher educators and teachers in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Assam and West Bengal.
The project's goal is to encourage student-centric, active teaching and learning pedagogies at both elementary and secondary school levels across India. TESS-India seeks to do this through use of high-quality Teacher Development Units (TDUs) and Leadership Development Units (LDUs) by teachers and school leaders in their everyday work. However, before launching the project and making the interventions it was necessary to establish a baseline to determine the status of teacher education in the states and to learn about the current situation relating to attitudes and practices of teachers and teacher educators about student-focussed participatory pedagogy and professional development in order to provide a base for comparison with similar data to be collected at different stages in the future.
This report presents the findings of the TESS-India Baseline Study conducted on a sample basis in three project states of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar and Madhya Pradesh (MP) in Sep-Nov 2013
Letter from Tess [Crager?] to Hubert Creekmore (09 July 1953)
No full textTess [Crager?] writes from New Orleans, Louisiana, on Basement Book Shop and Library letterhead to Creekmore in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding his novel, The Chain in the Heart. She praises the novel, states that she will do her best to ensure its success, and discusses business matters. Includes envelope.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1147/thumbnail.jp
TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators. Known ZZ Ceti stars of the southern ecliptic hemisphere as seen by TESS
No full textInternational audienceContext. We present our findings on 18 previously known ZZ Ceti stars observed by the TESS space telescope in 120 s cadence mode during the survey observation of the southern ecliptic hemisphere. Aims: We focus on the frequency analysis of the space-based observations, comparing the results with findings of previous ground-based measurements. The frequencies detected by the TESS observations can serve as inputs for future asteroseismic analyses. Methods: We performed standard pre-whitening of the data sets to derive the possible pulsation frequencies of the different targets. In some cases, we fit Lorentzians to the frequency groups that emerged as the result of short-term amplitude or phase variations that occurred during the TESS observations. Results: We detected more than 40 pulsation frequencies in seven ZZ Ceti stars observed in the 120 s cadence by TESS, with precision better than 0.1 μHz. We found that HE 0532-5605 may be a new outbursting ZZ Ceti. Ten targets do not show any significant pulsation frequencies in their Fourier transforms, due to a combination of their intrinsic faintness and/or crowding on the large TESS pixels. We also detected possible amplitude or phase variations during the TESS observations in some cases. Such behaviour in these targets was not previously identified from ground-based observations
TESS Full Orbital Phase Curve of the WASP-18b System
No full textWe present a visible-light full orbital phase curve of the transiting planet WASP-18b measured by the TESS mission. The phase curve includes the transit, secondary eclipse, and sinusoidal modulations across the orbital phase shaped by the planet's atmospheric characteristics and the star-planet gravitational interaction. We measure the beaming (Doppler boosting) and tidal ellipsoidal distortion phase modulations and show that the amplitudes of both agree with theoretical expectations. We find that the light from the planet's dayside hemisphere occulted during secondary eclipse, with a relative brightness of 341-18 +17 ppm, is dominated by thermal emission, leading to an upper limit on the geometric albedo in the TESS band of 0.048 (2σ). We also detect the phase modulation due to the planet's atmosphere longitudinal brightness distribution. We find that its maximum is well aligned with the substellar point to within 2.°9 (2σ). We do not detect light from the planet's nightside hemisphere, with an upper limit of 43 ppm (2σ), which is 13% of the dayside brightness. The low albedo, lack of atmospheric phase shift, and inefficient heat distribution from the day to night hemispheres that we deduce from our analysis are consistent with theoretical expectations and similar findings for other strongly irradiated gas giant planets. This work demonstrates the potential of TESS data for studying the full orbital phase curves of transiting systems. Finally, we complement our study by looking for transit timing variations (TTVs) in the TESS data combined with previously published transit times, although we do not find a statistically significant TTV signal
Tess DO
No full textTess Do a commencé sa carrière universitaire à l'Université Griffith et à l'Université du Queensland - où elle a terminé ses études postdoctorales - avant de rejoindre le département français à l'Université de Melbourne en 2001. Elle a publié des articles et des chapitres de livres sur Linda Lê, Anna Moï, Thanh -Van Tran-Nhut, Azouz Begag, Béatrix Beck (France), Jean Vanmai (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Le Hoang (réalisateur, Vietnam). Ses recherches actuelles se concentrent sur les genres policiers ..
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The TESS-Keck Survey I: A Warm Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet and a Caution about Stray Light in TESS Cameras
No full textWe report the detection of a Saturn-size exoplanet orbiting HD 332231 (TOI 1456) in light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). HD 332231—an F8 dwarf star with a V-band magnitude of 8.56—was observed by TESS in Sectors 14 and 15. We detect a single-transit event in the Sector 15 presearch data conditioning (PDC) light curve. We obtain spectroscopic follow-up observations of HD 332231 with the Automated Planet Finder, Keck I, and SONG telescopes. The orbital period we infer from radial velocity (RV) observations leads to the discovery of another transit in Sector 14 that was masked by PDC due to scattered light contamination. A joint analysis of the transit and RV data confirms the planetary nature of HD 332231 b, a Saturn-size (0.867^(+0.027)_(−0.025) R_J), sub-Saturn-mass (0.244±0.021M_J) exoplanet on a 18.71 day circular orbit. The low surface gravity of HD 332231 b and the relatively low stellar flux it receives make it a compelling target for transmission spectroscopy. Also, the stellar obliquity is likely measurable via the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect, an exciting prospect given the 0.14 au orbital separation of HD 332231 b. The spectroscopic observations do not provide substantial evidence for any additional planets in the HD 332231 system, but continued RV monitoring is needed to further characterize this system. We also predict that the frequency and duration of masked data in the PDC light curves for TESS Sectors 14–16 could hide transits of some exoplanets with orbital periods between 10.5 and 17.5 days
The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
Uncovering Dwarf AGN With TESS
No full textWe present the results of a systematic search for AGN in TESS light curves of dwarf galaxies. Evidence of short-term flux changes in dwarf galaxies can reveal an AGN even when emission line ratios fail to do so. Studies of dwarf AGN are essential for a general understanding of the relationship between black hole and galaxy evolution. The timescale from the commonly-used damped random walk model has been shown to correlate with black hole mass, but further studies are required to understand the physical processes driving this empirical model’s effectiveness. Partially because of this timescale relation, TESS is a unique tool for the identification of dwarf AGN; a light curve from a single sector can reveal adequate variability. We demonstrate a successful methodology that accounts for TESS systematics and contamination by variable stars. The newly-identified AGN help populate scaling relations at the low-mass end and demonstrate the crucial role of TESS in studies of dwarf AGN and AGN in general
The Story of Tess
No full textWhenever "human actions are formed to make an art work," human meaning is involved, as the critic, Wayne Booth, points out in his classic, Rhetoric of Fiction (p. 397). One of the tasks that he charges an author with is the need to be clear in his values. He also charges that the author needs to "plumb to universal values about which his readers can really care" (p. 395). Given this, Tess of the d'Urbervilles becomes an intriguing work, for although Hardy draws on certain moral values which his readers can share, he intends to call these values into question. In the novel he endows the heroine, Tess, with certain moral attributes, but he also creates a narrator who, at every step, explains away the meaning of her actions through an amoral ontology. A reader can perceive the narrative's dual function, of showing value but also undercutting it, through a dissonance between Tess and the omniscient narrator. But for the reader, Tess simply comes alive, and takes on a moral significance that the narrator cannot perceive. Writers from time to time speak of such a phenomenon, that in creating a character, they produce something that takes on a life of its own. A character can come to life for a reader, that the author did not intend, and acquire its own authority, when the character’s experiences contradict narrative explanation. The paradox for a reader of Tess is that he or she both accepts and appreciates the story of Tess, but rejects the amoral vision of its implied author. My project is to investigate the conditions under which a reader can dissent ideologically from a work but still value it
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