806 research outputs found
Mary Carpenter Interviewed by Charlotte Aexel
No full textCharlotte Aexel interviews Mary Carpenter, author of Flannery O’Connor: A Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind, on discovering O’Connor and the impact of Milledgeville on her life.
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Precision dicing and micromilling of silica for photonics
No full textThis thesis focuses on the development of precision dicing and micromilling machining techniques for silica photonic applications. Comparison is given between the studied and conventional techniques for machining silica, such as photolithography and etching, laser machining, etc..Precision dicing was used to create low loss input/output facets in the silica-on-silicon platform. It was demonstrated that ductile type dicing can produce facets in a silica-on-silicon substrate with a smooth, mirror like finish. The facet had a surface roughness (Sa) of 4.9 nm, a factor of ~7.5 improvement on previously reported roughnesses. An individual silica/air average interface loss, caused by surface roughness scatter, was calculated to be -0.63 dB and -0.76 dB for the TE and TM polarisations, respectively.Utilising dicing, glass photonic microcantilever devices are produced with integrated Bragg gratings and waveguides. Two cantilever interrogations methods have been shown; one utilising a single Bragg grating and the other using a pair of spectrally matched Bragg gratings to form a Fabry-Pérot interferometer. These cantilever devices were subjected to physical stimulus of external pressure change and profilometer actuation.A precision micromill was built by the author. Precision micromilling was used to remove the cladding material from the silica-on-silicon platform, for evanescent field access. By accessing the ductile milling regime, the mill enabled three-dimensional machining of flat, smooth, chip free grooves in silica. A groove with an average surface roughness (Sa) of 3.0 nm was measured, with a depth of cut of 17 µm. This micromilling method produces grooves that are seven times smoother and cut depths forty times deeper, than previously reported in the literature
William Morris and Edward Carpenter: back to the land and the simple life, 1880-1910
No full textThis thesis focuses on the influence of William Morris and Edward Carpenter on
aspects of the back-to-the-land and simple-life movements between the years 1880-
1910. Specifically, it seeks to define and explore the convergence and divergence of
both writers' return-to-nature ideology, and considers their influence on the
development of particular groups, who represented some of the multiplicity of backto-
the-land ideas and experiments current during this period. The thesis is divided
into three main parts; the intellectual framework for the study is broad, and takes into
account the historical context, the cultural significance and the character of the
material in each section.
The first part of the thesis undertakes an expository evaluation of key texts
from Morris's and Carpenter's political journalism, lectures and imaginative writing,
examining how both writers developed an appropriate language to convey their
social and political ideals. The critical method employed uses detailed textual
analysis, identifying and discussing the individual qualities of Morris's and
Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reflecting on the differing emphases of
their utopian rhetoric. The second part of the research explores the take-up of
Morris's and Carpenter's ethos in four diverse and little known late-nineteenthcentury
journals, concerned with simple-life issues and a return to the land, namely
Seed-time, The New Order, Land and Labor and Land and People. It employs the
thinking of Pierre Bourdieu and Mikhail Bakhtin to establish an appropriate balance
between critical theory and empirical study. Lastly using a historical and descriptive
method the thesis uses archival material to examine the nature and extent of both
writers' influence on two Cotswold back-to-the-land experiments - the Whiteway
Colony and the Chipping Campden Guild of Handicraft. These provide a particular
opportunity to consider and compare the practical outcomes of return-to-the-land and
simple-life ideologies.
The study extends scholarship in this area by significantly re-appraising the
relationship between Morris's and Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reinstating
Carpenter as a germinal influence. It also increases our understanding of the
values and function of the journals in the study, and establishes an insight into the
wider cultural assimilation of both writers' ideals
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Elizabeth R. Carpenter
No full textA native of Hoboken, New Jersey, Emily S. McCain was already forty years old when she started publishing short stories in newspapers and magazines under the pen name Elizabeth R. Carpenter. Shortly afterward, she ventured into the field of screenwriting, where she established herself as a successful independent freelancer. By the mid-1910s, “Elizabeth R. Carpenter” was a prominent author at the peak of her career, and a celebrated figure in the burgeoning film industry. Sometimes also credited as E. R. Carpenter, she sold scenarios to major studios like Vitagraph, Edison, Kalem, and Lubin, and left behind a trail of praise in the early film press. But, despite her literary achievements, McCain kept her real identity well concealed, to the point that specialized film trade outlets, as well as film historians in the following decades, never referred to Carpenter by any other name or seemed aware that this was a pseudonym. Carpenter disappeared suddenly from the industry and press around 1919, leaving behind few clues about her life and identity. Putting a name to the person behind Carpenter has been possible only after the extensive research undertaken for this profile, which represents the first effort to shed light on the screenwriter’s real identity
Polémicos privilegios: dos versiones de la primera sátira conocida en contra de los conversos
No full textThe anti-Converso literature of the 15th century is noteworthy for its variety of genres –prose treatises, sermons, satirical poetry, allegories, etc.–, but what unites all of these works is their intent to mock individuals or vilify conversos as a whole. While most of these works convey their hostility in crude, stereotypical fashion, a few are distinguished by their clever form, a rhetorical cloak designed to conceal the morally repugnant sentiments contained in these texts. Among the latter is a curious, unedited document entitled Privilege that King Juan II granted to a man named Hernando, one of his favored, to become a marrano, even though he was not one by birth. The 18th-century manuscript –“copied by hand from an old book”– is housed in the Royal Library of Madrid, and satirizes not only conversos but also patents of nobility. It is here edited for the first time. A work belonging to the same tradition, Transcript of a letter of privilege that King Juan II granted to a hidalgo, is found in two manuscripts in the National Library of Madrid. The editorial misfortunes it has suffered over more than a century warrant its publication here in a reliable edition.La literatura anticonversa del siglo XV se destaca por su diversidad genérica –tratados en prosa, sermones, sátiras poéticas, alegorías, etc.–, pero todas estas obras coinciden en su finalidad de ridiculizar individuos o envilecer la colectividad conversa. Mientras que la mayor parte de estos escritos expresan su animadversión de forma tosca y estereotipada, algunos se distinguen por su forma ingeniosa de diatriba, cobijo retórico que pretende disfrazar los sentimientos moralmente repugnantes que abarcan. Entre ellos se encuentra un curioso documento inédito llamado Privilegio del rey don Juan Segundo concedido a un hombre llamado Hernando, privado suyo, para ser marrano, aunque no lo era por nacimiento, texto manuscrito del siglo XVIII –«Copióse de un libro antiguo de mano»– que custodia la Real Biblioteca de Madrid y que se caracteriza por su doble sátira de los conversos y de las patentes nobiliarias. Aquí se edita por primera vez. Pertenece a esta misma tradición el Traslado de una carta de privilegio que el rey don Juan Segundo dio a un hijodalgo, texto que se encuentra en dos manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Sus infortunios editoriales durante más de una centuria justifican aquí una edición fidedigna
Acanthopagrus randalli Iwatsuki & Carpenter, 2009, n. sp.
No full textAcanthopagrus randalli n. sp. New English Name: Middle East Black Seabream (Figure 1; Table 1) Holotype: BPBM 33135, 322 mm, off Bahrain (collected from fish market in Bahrain), 13 November 1983, Persian Gulf, purchased by J. E. Randall. Paratype: MTUF-P 27226, 173 mm SL, off Kuwait (collected from Central Fish Market, Kuwait City), Persian Gulf, 29 December 1994, purchased by M. Moteki. Diagnosis: Dorsal-fin rays XI, 11; anal-fin rays III, 8; 4 ½ scale rows between fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line; 5 ½ scale rows above lateral line and 11 ½ or 12 ½ scale rows below; pored lateral-line scales 46; eyes of larger type distinctly separated from dorsal head profile because of a prominent convexity from snout to just above eye that becomes more convex with growth, both interorbital bulge span and interorbital width greater than orbit diameter (interorbital bulge span / orbit diameter 1.56–2.03, mean 1.80; inɭɵrΟrbiɭaI wiđɭh / Οrbiɭ điamɵɭɵr 1.43–1.71, mean 1.57); four or five wide vertical bands (six or seven horizontal scale rows in width) on body, presumably clearer in agitated or stressed live specimens (Fig. 1 A-B, bands not clear on figure of holotype but four bands are evident on specimen, particularly when viewed from above and four clear bands and one faint band in a smaller specimen of paratype), first bar from nape to around upper pectoral-fin base, second bar from dorsal-fin base between fourth and seventh dorsal-fin spine, through lateral line, to abdomen, third bar from base between ninth dorsal-fin spine and first dorsal-fin ray, through lateral line, to just before first anal-fin spine origin, fourth bar from dorsal-fin base between fifth dorsal-fin ray and last dorsal-fin ray, plus a faint bar on caudal peduncle that is darker dorsally; conspicuous diffuse dark blotch at origin of lateral line (covering first and second pored lateral line scales) continuous with a dense blackish shading over upper cleithrum and upper posterior opercle; anal-fin membrane nearly hyaline in smaller type and in larger type membrane is hyaline with sparse black melanophores that are lacking on membranes of the posteriormost rays; posterior margin of caudal fin darker than rest of fin. Description: Counts and measurements of a holotype and a paratype are given as percentages of SL in Table 1. Data for the holotype is presented first, followed in parenthesis by paratype data if different and available. Characters stated in the diagnosis are not repeated. Body compressed; mouth somewhat oblique; maxillary reaching to below middle of pupil and lager than eye diameter; lower jaw included in upper jaw; teeth in jaws in 3 to 5 rows, anteriorly about 6 (or 7) curved canines in the upper jaw and 6 in the lower jaw; upper and lower molar teeth strongly developed, subequal in size except some progressively larger posteriorly and some progressively smaller anteriorly and posteriorly, in upper jaw up to 5 rows and lower jaw up to 4 rows; suborbital depth slightly shorter than dermal eye opening (clearly shorter than dermal eye opening); 5 (or 6) irregular transverse rows of scales on preoperculum; anterodorsal profile from just above eye ascending gently and curved; anteriormost margin of head scalation rounded when viewed from above, reaching to just beyond posteriormost margin of orbit and without small scales anterior to scalation margin; dorsal-fin spines strong, first slightly longer than half length of second spine, which is shorter than third spine; fourth or fifth spine longest; longest soft dorsal-fin ray shorter than longest spine in dorsal fin; first anal-fin spine short, its length much less than eye, robust, not flattened; second anal-fin spine length clearly less than head without snout; third anal-fin spine shorter than second spine, which is slightly longer than snout; first anal-fin ray subequal to second anal-fin spine and slightly longer than third spine; pectoral-fin tip nearly reaching to first anal-fin spine base vertically, its length clearly greater than head length; longest pelvic-fin ray clearly less than head; pelvic-fin spine longer than snout. Colour when fresh: Colour when fresh is based on a colour photograph by J. E. Randall of the holotype after death: head and body silvery grey and both ventral part of head and abdomen somewhat white; dorsal, caudal, anal and pectoral fins a slight blackish-gray. Colour in preservation: Head and body yellowish tan; both ventral part of head and abdomen whitish; dorsal, caudal, anal, pelvic and pectoral fins slight yellowish hyaline. Distribution: Acanthopagrus randalli is currently known only from and apparently endemic to the Persian Gulf. Etymology: The specific name “ randalli ” is proposed in honor of Dr. John E. Randall who collected the holotype and who is clearly one of the greatest ichthyologists of all times. TABLE 1. Acanthopagrus randalli n. sp. Remarks: As noted in the introduction, the 11 species of Acanthopagrus and Sparidentex can be divided into six morphological forms. Acanthopagrus randalli belongs to the Blackfin Seabream Form I with 3 ½ or 4 ½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line that also includes A. akazakii, A. berda, A. butcheri, A. sivicolus, and A. taiwanensis. Acanthopagrus berda and A. taiwanensis have 3 ½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line (Iwatsuki & Carpenter 2006). Acanthopagrus akazakii, A. butcheri, A. sivicolus and A. randalli are the only currently described species of Acanthopagrus with 4 ½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line (see also Iwatsuki & Carpenter 2006 and Iwatsuki et al. 2006). TABLE 2. Selected characters of Acanthopagrus randalli n. sp., A. akazakii, A. butcheri and A. sivicolus. continued next page A. randalli n. sp. A. akazakii A. butcheri A. sivicolus Holotype and a paratype Holotype and Holotype and 16 non- 1 paratype and 14 non- 11 paratypes type specimens type specimens 176–322 mm SL 66−185 mm SL 54–232 mm SL 112–272 mm SL n = 2 n = 12 n = 17 n= 15 Body colouration 4 or 5 wide black bands Absent in bands Absent in bands or 6–10 Usually 8–12 black very faint dusky black bands, m₀rɵ apparɵnɭ bands, prɵSumaƀIy in aǥiɭaɭɵđ IiVɵ m₀rɵ apparɵnɭ in SpɵcimɵnS aǥiɭaɭɵđ IiVɵ ₀r y₀unǥ SpɵcimɵnS *SR 5 DSLL, Scale rows between fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line; ** Measurements based on: Acanthopagrus akazakii, n = 10, based on holotype and 11 paratype specimens except FRLM 21171 (166 mm SL) and MNHN 2005 - 1958 (139 mm SL); A. butcheri, n = 5, based on MUFS 28685–28688 (198? 215 mm SL, 4 specimens, Perth, Western Australia, Australia) and WAM P 21684 (166 mm, Western Australia, Australia); A. sivicolus, n = 5, based on MUFS 1779 (130 mm SL), MUFS 13165–13166 (152–158 mm SL, 2 specimens), and MUFS 22976, 23054 (172–225 mm SL, 2 specimens). Iwatsuki & Carpenter (2006) noted that two smaller specimens of four syntypes (BMNH 1874.1.16.2. 1, 87–93 mm SL) of Chrysophrys swinhonis Günther 1874 had 4 ½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line (6 ½ in the two other syntypes). Subsequently, the first author re-examined all four syntypes and confirmed that our initial report of 4 ½ scale rows for the two smaller syntypes was erroneous and that the irregular scale rows on these specimens is correctly interpreted as 5 ½ between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line. As such, this nominal species is here considered conspecific with A. schlegelii (Bleeker 1854) which becomes the senior synonym. Other characters of these syntypes also conform to those of A. schlegelii such as pored lateral-line scale counts (51-56) and somewhat slender body (Akazaki 1962, 1984; this study). The placement of the eye relative to the unique convex ridge (bulge) of the dorsal profile of the head in Acanthopagrus randalli (Fig. 1 A B; Table 1, higher values on both interorbital bulge span / orbit diameter 1.56–2.03 and inɭɵrΟrbiɭaI wiđɭh / Οrbiɭ điamɵɭɵr 1.43–1.71) is clearly distinct from other Form I Blackfin Seabreams with 4 ½ scale rows between the 5 th dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line (Fig. 2; Table 2, lower values on both interorbital bulge span / orbit diameter 0.73–1.53 and inɭɵrΟrbiɭaI wiđɭh / Οrbiɭ điamɵɭɵr 0.70–1.47 of three other species). Furthermore, A. randalli differs from A. akazakii, A. butcheri, and A. sivicolus in having only four or five wide bars (six or seven horizontal scale rows in width) on the body. Bands are absent in A. akazakii, absent or 6 to 10 very faint and narrow bars in A. butcheri, and usually 8 to 12 somewhat irregular narrow bars (2 to 4 horizontal scale rows in width) in A. sivicolus (Figs. 1, 2 A, B, and D). In addition, the East Asian endemic species, A. schlegelii with the highest counts of 5 ½ or 6 ½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line (Akazaki 1962, 1984) is most similar to A. sivicolus in having a very similar looking silvery-gray coloration with similar narrow black bands on the body (Fig. 2 C–D). These two species are easily recognizable from A. akazakii, A. butcheri, A. randalli, and A. sivicolus by the 4 ½ scale-row count between the fifth dorsal-fin spine and the lateral line. The coloration of the anal-fin membrane among these four species is also clearly different. In A. randalli it is nearly hyaline in the smaller paratype (Fig. 1 B) and in the larger holotype it is hyaline with sparse melanophores that are lacking on the membrane of the posteriormost anal-fin rays (Fig. 3 A). Acanthopagrus akazakii has dense black membranes in anterior anal-fin rays and hyaline in posteriormost anal-fin rays (Fig. 3 B). The anal-fin membrane in A. butcheri is black from the second anal-fin spine to the third or fourth soft anal-fin ray, the remaining portion being hyaline (Fig. 3 C). Lastly, A. sivicolus has black or dusky black membranes in the whole anal-fin membrane with each anal-fin ray lighter (Fig. 3 D). Selected characters comparing these four species are shown in Table 2.Published as part of Iwatsuki, Yukio & Carpenter, Kent E., 2009, Acanthopagrus randalli (Perciformes: Sparidae), a new black seabream from the Persian Gulf, pp. 43-54 in Zootaxa 2267 on pages 44-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19085
Partner Facilitation and Partner Interference in Individuals' Weight Loss Goals
No full textDrawing on the logic of the relational turbulence model, this study examined the ways in which romantic partners facilitate and interfere with individuals’ weight loss goals. Participants (N = 122) described the ways in which their romantic partner had recently helped or hindered their weight loss at four times over the course of 2 months. We conducted a content analysis of responses to identify themes of partner facilitation (Research Question 1 [RQ1]) and partner interference (RQ2) in individuals’ weight loss goals. Results revealed seven themes of partner facilitation: (a) partner enabling diet, (b) motivation and encouragement, (c) emotional support and positive reinforcement, (d) exercising together, (e) partner enabling exercise, (f) dieting together, and (g) relationship influence and priorities. Four themes of partner interference emerged in the data: (a) inability to plan for healthy meals, (b) inability to control the food environment, (c) preventing or discouraging exercise, and (d) emotional or relational discouragement.Peer reviewe
Integrated pest management guide to wireworms in potatoes
No full textBulletin no. 760 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1994-02-01. Author(s): Bechinski, E. J.; Sandvol, L. E.; Carpenter, G. P.; Homan, H. W
Selecting films for sex research: Gender differences in erotic film preference
No full textThe official published version can be obtained from the link below.The aim of this study was to explore gender differences in sexual responsiveness to erotic films that had been selected for their differential appeal for men and women. A secondary objective was to identify variables that influence sexual arousal and explore whether these variables differ for men and women. Fifteen men (M age = 26 yrs) and 17 women (M age = 24 yrs) were presented with 20 film clips depicting heterosexual interactions, half of which were female- and the other half male-selected, and were asked to rate the clips on a number of dimensions. Overall, men found the film clips more sexually arousing than did the women. Gender differences in arousal were negligible for female-selected clips but substantial for male-selected clips. Furthermore, men and women experienced higher levels of sexual arousal to clips selected for individuals of their own gender. Cluster regression analyses, explaining 77% of the variance for male and 65% for female participants, revealed that men's sexual arousal was dependent upon the attractiveness of the female actor, feeling interested, and both imagining oneself as a participant and watching as an observer. For women, with all variables entered, only imagining oneself as a participant contributed to sexual arousal ratings. The findings suggest that how films are selected in sex research is an important variable in predicting levels of sexual arousal reported by men and women
broadinstitute/cell-health: Preprint Analysis Code
No full textComplete analysis code for the preprint submission for "Predicting cell health phenotypes using image-based morphology profiling"
Gregory P. Way+, Maria Kost-Alimova+, Tsukasa Shibue, William F. Harrington, Stanley Gill, Tim Becker, William C. Hahn, Anne E. Carpenter^, Francisca Vazquez^, Shantanu Singh^
+Co-First Authors ^Co-Senior Author
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