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Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
The resignation of Sir William Charles Ellis
No full text Sir William Ellis (1780–1839) was superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and Hanwell Asylum. He was a practitioner of moral therapy and non-restraint. He added his own religious aspects to his treatment based on his personal experiences. These interventions were novel and benefitted his patients. However, he is less well known in the present day than his contemporaries who also championed non-restraint. In 1838, he left Hanwell Asylum, as he disagreed with plans to expand patient capacity. The resurgence of Whig politics at the time also played its part in his resignation. Ellis died one year later, his contributions to modern psychiatry remaining in relative obscurity. This paper seeks to shed light on Ellis and analyse his resignation as an example of how politics can affect healthcare. </jats:p
Missionary travels
No full textSpine title: Missionary travelsIntroductory sketch of missionary history -- First missionary voyage to the South Sea -- Dr. Vanderkemp's travels in Southern Africa -- Rev. John Campbell's first journey into the interior of South Africa -- Second journey -- John Jefferson and others -- William Ellis' voyages and researches.The original document was digitized with financial support from Media24.by Andrew Pickenhttp://explore.up.ac.za/record=b173125
Vestibular Cognition: A Computational Approach to Sensory Inference and Cognition
No full textThis dissertation is a compilation of publications and manuscripts that seek to advance the burgeoning field of vestibular cognition from two perspectives: (i) by developing a computational framework through which we can connect high-level cognitive capacities to perception of self-motion, and (ii) by investigating whether the perception of self- motion is itself cognitively penetrable, i.e. whether it can be influenced by cognition. In the first manuscript, we provide a formal account of the computations that are similar between self-motion perception, and imagined self-motion, which is conceptualized as a simulation of a dynamical system. This approach aims to provide novel insights into mental imagery, and introduces our sense of self-motion as a suitable sensory modality in which to investigate the connections between cognition and perception. This is largely due to the wealth of computational models that describe the vestibular sensory system in terms of probabilistic inference; this, in turn is due to the comparative simplicity of the peripheral vestibular sensors. In the second manuscript, we discuss how cognitive training may be beneficial to patients suffering bilateral loss of their vestibular sensors, and we seek to understand this in terms of computations that may enable patients to compensate for their loss of sensory input. In the third manuscript, we examine the effect of prior knowledge about the direction of passive self-motion on self-motion decision making. In this empirical study, we sought to determine which cognitive processes are affected by prior knowledge, using a diffusion decision model to analyze subjects’ choices and response times. Although not conclusive, we provide evidence that subjects incorporate their prior knowledge by both biasing their decision-making process and by changing their rate of evidence accumulation. The fourth manuscript is a perspective paper, in which we claim that, in order to understand mental imagery, it is not sufficient to focus merely on neural resources that are shared with perception, but that it is necessary to focus on the computations that are common to both. As such, this paper is a precursor to the first manuscript, which constitutes this thesis’ main contribution
The death of William Golding: authorship and creativity in darkness visible and the paper men
No full textIn the seventies and eighties William Golding was deeply responsive to the critical, anti-authorial ethos that followed the publication of Roland Barthes's "La mort de I'auteur" (1968). In Darkness Visible (1979) and The Paper Men (1984) he investigates means by which to reaffirm authorial presence. Working through paradox, he performs the authorial death in these novels, and establishes language’s inadequacy as a means of conveying absolute meaning, authorial "vision," truth or revelation. Having done so he nonetheless gestures towards the divine, towards the possibility of a vatic communication. In this manner the novels work upon principles of contradiction and collapse. What remains is a discourse of hope, promise, desire, without means of substantiating such optimism. Thus Golding might be said to have practiced a form of negative theology, and to have anticipated in this respect some recent trends in literary theory
Real estate financing alternatives in a high risk economy
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988.Bibliography: leaves 99-100.by Bruce W.C. Ellis and Andrew Weiss.M.S
Summary of Dissertation Recitals Three Programs of Harp Music
No full textThree harp recitals were given in lieu of a written dissertation.
My dissertation traced innovation on the harp. In particular, I focused on extended techniques. I examined composers’ social networks to help musicians better understand the development of extended harp techniques. In my doctoral recitals, I featured pieces that showcase a variety of extended techniques that come from a wide range of interconnected composers. My first recital was centered on networks of composers contributing to 20th-century innovation on the harp. My second recital continued this conversation, but with additional emphasis on premieres and electro-acoustic performance. My third recital featured innovative chamber works for harp and mezzo-soprano.
Saturday, November 15, 2014, 8:00 p.m., Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, The University of Michigan. John Elam, piano. Germaine Tailleferre, Sonata for Harp; Jean Cras, Deux Impromptus Pour Harpe; Carlos Salzedo, Scintillation; Alberto Ginastera Harp Concerto, op. 25.
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 8:00 p.m., Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, The University of Michigan. Jamie Bastian, trombone; Nadine Dyskant-Miller, flute; Peter Formanek, alto saxophone; Christine Hedden, fídíl; Alex Koi, voice; Andrew Peck, bass; Amanda Ross, trumpet; Benjamin Landen, percussion; Christopher Tabaczynski, tenor saxophone. David Lang, wed*, trans. Jennifer R. Ellis; Elliott Carter, Bariolage; Benjamin Britten, Suite for Harp, op. 83; Luciano Berio, Sequenza II; Jennifer R. Ellis, Disk*; Angélica Negrón, Technicolor for Harp and Pre-Recorded Electronics; Jennifer R. Ellis, Weav-Weav-Weaving, III. “And The Harp Strings Spoke”; Christine Hedden, Kitchen Dance*; Alex Koi, Violet. Asterisks denote premieres.
Monday, May 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m., Center for Fiction, 17 E. 47th St., New York, NY. Brandon Patrick George, flute; Megan Ihnen, mezzo-soprano. Kaija Saariaho, Ariel’s Hail; William Grant Still, Mol’e; John Cage, In a Landscape; Joseph Schwantner, Wild Angels of the Open Hills.Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)Music: PerformanceUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147592/1/jerellis_1.pd
Hyperelastic cloaking theory: Transformation elasticity with pre-stressed solids
No full textTransformation elasticity, by analogy with transformation acoustics and optics, converts material domains without altering wave properties, thereby enabling cloaking and related effects. By noting the similarity between transformation elasticity and the theory of ncremental motion superimposed on finite pre-strain it is shown that the constitutive parameters of transformation elasticity correspond to the density and moduli of small-on-large theory. The formal equivalence indicates that transformation elasticity can be achieved by selecting a particular finite (hyperelastic) strain energy function, which for isotropic elasticity is semilinear strain energy. The associated elastic transformation is restricted by the requirement of statically quilibrated pre-stress. This constraint can be cast as trF = constant, where F is the deformation gradient, subject to symmetry constraints, and its consequences are explored both analytically and through numerical examples of cloaking of anti-plane and in-plane wave motion.Peer reviewe
The yagé aesthetic of William Burroughs: the publication and development of his work 1953-1965
No full textPhDMy concern in this thesis is to show that a reconstruction of the publishing history of
the work of William Burroughs offers a new, critical perspective on his experiments
with psychoactive substances and their connection to his developing practice.
I begin with an exploration of the publication of The Yage Letters (1963) and Naked
Lunch (1959), and reveal how the complexities of their publishing histories shaped
their critical reception. I examine the legal defence of Naked Lunch as it developed
from the Big Table Post Office hearing through to the 1965 Boston trial and
demonstrate the degree to which censorship came to define the published text. The
legal defence of Naked Lunch, as it was incorporated into the Grove publication,
emphasised the issue of opiate addiction. The way in which Burroughs’ 1953 letters to
Allen Ginsberg were reworked as The Yage Letters did much to conceal the
significance of yagé for Burroughs’ later work. Together, these publishing histories
have obscured the relationship between his use of psychoactive substances and his
evolving aesthetic.
At the same time many of Burroughs’ most experimental - and important - works
appeared only in small, ephemeral magazines. His adoption of avant-garde strategies
such as collaboration and collage and his dedication to multimedia experimentation
with the non-chemical alteration of consciousness made conventional book
publication problematic or unsuitable. These experiments in aesthetic production, I
argue, are central to our understanding of Burroughs. His main published writings
must be re-evaluated as one element in this collage of multimedia activities.
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I argue that Burroughs’ experiences with yagé, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine
exerted an influence on his shift to experimentalism in the early 1960s, which sought
to replicate the experience of these altered states of consciousness. That this is so is
evident from a study of two collections of correspondence - Burroughs’ letters to
Ginsberg held at Columbia University Library and his letters to Brion Gysin in the
William S. Burroughs Papers held at the New York Public Library. My reading of
these letters forms an important component of my argument, working to reveal what
the conventional ‘published’ Burroughs serves to conceal.Arts and Humanities research Board.
Queen Mary University of London English Department
funding naked Lunch @ 50 conference in Pari
Colors 2003
No full textCONTENTS
Montana Badlands: Cretaceous Period, William Soller 1;
Void, Sean McDonald 2;
Traveling Mountain Nuns With Turtles, Sam Ellis 4;
An Examination into the Peril of Lust, Matt Gould 6;
Vending Machine, Josh Donoghue 7;
Quiet, Daniel Mack 8;
Baring Witness, Terri John 9;
The Bam, Jed Fox 10;
Another Curtain Call from the VFW Hall, Tom Kandt 12;
Strangled, Kate Fehringer 13;
The Traveler, Sean McDonald 14;
The Chalet, Sam Ellis 24;
Dreaming of Hair: Russia, William Soller, 25;
Why I Dream of Hair, William Soller 25;
Tree Song, Kate Wilson 26;
Mindful Matrix, Josh Donoghue 27;
My Dermatologist, Nathan Mills 28;
Everyperson, Patrick Couture 30;
Evening In, Loren Graham 33;
In the Eye of the Sun, Daniel Mack 34;
Breast Cancer, Terri John 35;
Supplication to a Seraph, Andrew Swiatkowski 36;
Tea Time, Danny Stapp 37;
A Tribute to the Cable Guy, Sean McDonald 40;
The Physiology of the Goose Bump, Katrina Collins 41;
Leaving the Relics, Ron Stottlemyer 42;
Mother Love, Kate Fehringer 43;
The Banquet, Loren Graham 44;
Shopper and Shirt, Josh Donoghue 45;
Cracked Nuts, Patrick Couture 46;
Teenage Barbie Whores, Adam Potts 53;
Notes on Chinese Medicine, William Soller 54;
Ripe, Kate Wilson 36;
Arrhythmia (Morgan), Daniel Mack 57;
Better Red than Dead, Terri John 58;
US Amen, Andrew Swiatkowski 60
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