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Letter from Thomas Ellis to Alden Partridge, May 1835
No full textThomas Ellis writes from Richmond, Virginia, to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont, on 9 May 1835 regarding a request for Partridge to deliver a lecture on a course of military tactics in Richmond; a postscript, dated 18 May 1835, was added to the letter by John T. Winn, who had opened the letter thinking it related to a different matter and then forwarded it to Partridge; Winn's message includes a note related to "the arms" and a petition made to the Governor of Virginia.Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
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Letter from the president of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company ... To His Excellency Arthur I. Boreman, Governor of West Virginia.
No full textThomas H. Ellis request to the governor's recommendation for a proposed act which would transfer the charter to another company
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
Using country balance sheet data to predict debt rescheduling
No full textIn this study we utilise data relating to the balance sheets of developing countries (e.g. short-term debt) in a logit model of debt rescheduling. We find that such variables are theoretically and empirically superior to those conventionally used (such as debt-export ratios). The study is based upon an annual sample of 27 countries for 1977–1981 and a six-monthly data set involving 59 countries from 1977–1985
Predicting the Timing and Quantity of LDC Debt Rescheduling
No full textIn this paper we estimate a Type 2 Tobit model to explain both the timing and quantity of developing country debt rescheduling using an annual data set for 27 countries from 1977–1981 and six-monthly data for 59 countries from 1977–1985. We obtain a satisfactory model for both the timing and quantity of rescheduling which will be more useful for country risk analysis than models which predict the timing alone
Jere Nash Interview with Thomas H. Walman
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi legislator Thomas H. Walman in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Walman was vice-chair of the Education Committee during the passage of the 1982 education reform legislation. Topics covered include educational reform; Walman\u27s elections to the state legislature; Walman\u27s family and background; Buddie Newman; network created by University of Mississippi law school alumnus; William Winter; rules changes in the House; Tim Ford; House Ways and Means Committee; John Hampton Stennis; reapportionment; Sonny Meredith; gambling legislation for casinos; Ray Mabus; and Walman as mayor of McComb, Mississippi
Joint seismic and electrical measurements of gas hydrates in continental margin sediments
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Intersystem soft handover for converged DVB-H and UMTS networks
Full text linkDigital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is the standard for broadcasting Internet Protocol (IP) data services to mobile portable devices. To provide interactive services for DVB-H, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) can be used as a terrestrial interaction channel for the unidirectional DVB-H network. The converged DVB-H and UMTS network can be used to address the congestion problems due to the limited multimedia channel accesses of the UMTS network. In the converged network, intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS is needed for an optimum radio resource allocation, which reduces network operation cost while providing the required quality of service. This paper deals with the intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS in such a converged network. The converged network structure is presented. A novel soft handover scheme is proposed and evaluated. After considering the network operation cost, the performance tradeoff between the network quality of service and the network operation cost for the intersystem soft handover in the converged network is modeled using a stochastic tree and analyzed using a numerical simulation. The results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and has the potential to be used for implementation in the real environment
Letter from Usami Terada to Mr. A.W. Thomas, February 7, 1945
No full textA letter from Usami Terada, an incarceree at the Rohwer incarceration camp, to a Mr. A.W. Thomas in Lawndale, California. In the letter, Usami discusses about returning to California and asks Mr. Thomas how Lawndale has changed during the past three years. He also asks for photographs of Mr. Thomas' family, Terada's home, and their neighbor, Masumoto's home. Transcript was provided by the donor and is available: csudh_nis_9024.The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime
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