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Improved effective equation for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor nanowires (dataset)
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This repository contains the dataset required to reproduce all the figures of the article "Samuel D. Escribano, Alfredo Levy Yeyati and Elsa Prada, Improved effective equation for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor nanowires, arXiv:2001.04375 (2020)".
Structure of the dataset
All the data is saved in Matlab file-format .mat. Their file names correspond to the figure that they plot. Together with each dataset, there is a Python script .py which plots the corresponding figure. The output of every script is the corresponding figure in PDF-format .pdf. Please, read "reedme.txt" file for further information
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Inscription in Nova Solyma, the ideal city; or, Jerusalem regained; an anonymous romance written in the time of Charles I
No full textProbable editor's gift inscription, "Jacobo Hiltonio Amico Suo Amicissimo D. D. D Libri hujus Editor et Interpres. W. B. A.D. CMMII".Nova Solyma, the ideal city; or, Jerusalem regained; an anonymous romance written in the time of Charles I. Now first drawn from obscurity, and attributed to the illustrious John Milton. With introduction, translation, literary essays and a bibliography by the Rev. Walter Begley.
Begley, Walter, 1845-1905, ed. and tr.
Gott, Samuel, 1613-1671, supposed author.
Milton, John, 1608-1674, supposed author
Effects of the electrostatic environment on superlattice Majorana nanowires (dataset)
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<p>This repository contains the dataset required to reproduce all the figures of the article "Samuel D. Escribano, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Yuval Oreg, and Elsa Prada,<em> Effects of the electrostatic environment on superlattice Majorana nanowires</em>, arXiv:1904.10289 (2019)".</p>
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<p><strong>Structure of the dataset</strong></p>
<p>All the data is saved in Matlab file-format .mat. Their file names correspond to the figure that they plot. Together with each dataset, there is a Python script .py which plots the corresponding figure. The output of every script is the corresponding figure in PDF-format .pdf. Please, read "reedme.txt" file for further information.</p>
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Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Usability and acceptability of a website that provides tailored advice on falls prevention activities for older people
No full textThis article presents the usability and acceptability of a website that provides older people with tailored advice to help motivate them to undertake physical activities that prevent falls. Views on the website from interviews with 16 older people and 26 sheltered housing wardens were analysed thematically. The website was well received with only one usability difficulty with the action plan calendar. The older people selected balance training activities out of interest or enjoyment, and appeared to carefully add them into their current routine. The wardens were motivated to promote the website to their residents, particularly those who owned a computer, had balance problems, or were physically active. However, the participants noted that currently a minority of older people use the Internet. Also, some older people underestimated how much activity was enough to improve balance, and others perceived themselves as too old for the activities
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Ohio impromptu, genre and Beckett on film
No full textSamuel Beckett’s choice of the title Ohio Impromptu to name the play first performed to an audience of academics and scholars at Columbus Ohio in 1981 is one manifestation of its author’s interest in the question of literary genre; more generally, in Beckett’s dramatic works one encounters a meticulous attention to the activity of categorisation, even if the energy is often directed toward the creation of phantom genres for spectral exemplars. This essay concerns itself with Ohio Impromptu in particular because by means of elements specific to this play (including the context in which it was first performed) it comments upon its own very failure to occupy its designated genre co-ordinates (these include its identity both as a play and as an ‘impromptu’). This play, which is so apt to incorporate other genres, however, is presided over by a stage direction which locates it firmly in the theatrical context. It is in its deliberate failure to attend to this stage direction that the Beckett on Film version of the play goes beyond the mere treacherous fidelity that is inevitably a feature of any adaptation. In arguing this, the essay analyses the foregrounding in the play of questions that can be said to pertain to genre (in several senses). Its more specific intention is to suggest that, via a combination of casting and special effects, the adaptation succeeds not only in cancelling the critical reflection on the ‘genre gesture’ that is lodged in Ohio Impromptu, but also in eradicating the very disjunction between Reader and Listener upon which the play depends
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The Nature and Function of the Samuel Conclusion: 2 Samuel 21–24 as Mise en Abyme
No full textIn this study, I undertake an analysis of the final four chapters of the book of Samuel (i.e., 2 Sam 21–24). I propose that the six sections that comprise 2 Samuel 21–24 serve as a mise en abyme, a miniature replica of the book of Samuel, which reflects the major themes of the book. This reflection offers, at the same time, both a theological distillation of the work as a whole and an interpretative lens through which to understand the preceding narrative. It is established through strategic use of inner-Biblical allusion and analogical correspondence whereby the various episodes of the conclusion are designed to resemble specific sections of the book while their sequence mirrors the story’s progression. After analyzing its function as the conclusion to the work, I make the case that the addition of 2 Samuel 21–24 occurred at a single point in time at a final stage of the composition of the book (during the post-exilic period). I argue that the author/editor used available literary and historical sources to fashion his six-part conclusion, but that the narratives on the outer boundaries were likely composed, or (at least) heavily reworked, by the author himself.
I begin the study with an introduction that provides an overview of issues relating to 2 Samuel 21–24 and my proposal. The first main chapter offers a survey of the history of interpretation of 2 Samuel 21–24 from the 1800’s to the present. This is followed by a chapter which discusses the theory behind particular literary devices which are relevant to my thesis. These devices include allusion, intertextuality, narrative analogy, and mise en abyme. This discussion forms the foundation for the next chapter, which offers an analysis of how 2 Samuel 21–24 serves as a mise en abyme of the book of Samuel as a whole. In the final chapter (before the conclusion), I engage with this material from a diachronic perspective, offering some suggestions with regard to the date and situation of its composition
Easy Spanish readings and conversation
No full text"Adapted from 'Lectura y conversaciʹon para principiantes' by Samuel A. Wofsy, copyright, 1929."--p. [iv]"Canciones" (words and music): p. 138-144.Municipal University of Wichita faculty author
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