258 research outputs found
CDC Valour flax
No full text CDC Valour, an early-maturing oilseed flax (Linum usitatissimum L.), was developed in 1996 at the Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This cultivar has medium oil content, good oil quality, brown seeds and medium seed size, fair lodging resistance and high yield when seeded early in the Black and the Brown Soil zones of the prairies. It is immune to North American races of rust caused by Melampsora lini and moderately resistant to wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lini. Key words: Flax, oilseed, Linum usitatissimum L., cultivar description </jats:p
οὐ κακὸς ἐῶν: Megarian Valour and its Place in the Local Discourse at Megara
No full textIn this essay, the author argues that it is possible to recover from the historiographical tradition something of the Megarians’ own account of their city’s role in the defense of Greece against Persia. Reeves demonstrates that this Persian-War history of the Megarians was articulated and encoded through time by a distinctive community, using a set of idiosyncratic and local memes, and that contentions over the military participation and valour of Megarians in this international conflict constituted an important feature of emic Megarian discourse
Remembering Joshua in the Book of Ben Sira: Man of Valour or Prophet?
No full textThe deuterocanonical Book of Ben Sira is considered a collection of wisdom sayings as it belongs to biblical wisdom literature. Attached to the collection of sayings we find a hymn, a so-called anthology „The Praise of the Fathers” representing the author’s view on Israel’s history. Ben Sira’s main concern appears to be the Law (the Torah) and the relation of man to God. The author considers the influence an exceptonal individual can excercise over society in general. The heros are discovered by Ben Sira in four offices: patriarch, priest, judge and king. The portrait gallery includes nevertheless one warrior, a man of valour, Joshua. Joshua’s glory and greatness is described by Ben Sira as depending on Joshua’s prophetic office: his military success is due to God’s intervention on his behalf. Thus, the author of the hellenistic period confirms the biblical view on war: war is always holy, it is part of the cult led by God and fought with God’s help
Determinants of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus native bone and joint infection treatment failure: a retrospective cohort study.
No full textBACKGROUND: Although methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) native bone and joint infection (BJI) constitutes the more frequent clinical entity of BJI, prognostic studies mostly focused on methicillin-resistant S. aureus prosthetic joint infection. We aimed to assess the determinants of native MSSA BJI outcomes.
METHODS: Retrospective cohort study (2001-2011) of patients admitted in a reference hospital centre for native MSSA BJI. Treatment failure determinants were assessed using Kaplan-Meier curves and binary logistic regression.
RESULTS: Sixty-six patients (42 males [63.6%]; median age 61.2 years; interquartile range [IQR] 45.9-71.9) presented an acute (n = 38; 57.6%) or chronic (n = 28; 42.4%) native MSSA arthritis (n = 15; 22.7%), osteomyelitis (n = 19; 28.8%) or spondylodiscitis (n = 32; 48.5%), considered as "difficult-to-treat" in 61 cases (92.4%). All received a prolonged (27.1 weeks; IQR, 16.9-36.1) combined antimicrobial therapy, after surgical management in 37 cases (56.1%). Sixteen treatment failures (24.2%) were observed during a median follow-up period of 63.3 weeks (IQR, 44.7-103.1), including 13 persisting infections, 1 relapse after treatment disruption, and 2 super-infections. Independent determinants of treatment failure were the existence of a sinus tract (odds ratio [OR], 5.300; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.166-24.103) and a prolonged delay to infectious disease specialist referral (OR, 1.134; 95% CI 1.013-1.271).
CONCLUSIONS: The important treatment failure rate pinpointed the difficulty of cure encountered in complicated native MSSA BJI. An early infectious disease specialist referral is essential, especially in debilitated patients or in presence of sinus tract
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Exchanging blows and courtesies : status and conduct in Bonduca, A king and no king, and The nice valour
No full texttextThis project examines the plays Bonduca (c. 1609-12), by John
Fletcher, A King and No King (c. 1610-11), by Fletcher and Francis
Beaumont, and The Nice Valour (c. 1615-16), by Fletcher and Thomas
Middleton in conjunction with a series of early modern conduct manuals
which focus primarily on physical engagement: military manuals, dueling
manuals, and manuals describing household correction (i.e. beating).
These manuals are part of the larger genre of courtesy literature, and
combine the subject of violent encounter with the discourse of courtesy––
that is, they describe ways to inflict violence, the appropriateness of
violence, and how to comport oneself in such violent contexts. They bring
together "blows and courtesies" by presenting for the reader how one
should engage in violence properly, as befits an honorable soldier, a refined
duelist, a respected authority figure. The manuals demonstrate for public
consumption that appropriately administered acts of violence can be
understood as behaviors that mark someone's appropriate place in the
social order. Each play depicts violent interactions on the stage: Bonduca
presents a military conflict between the Roman and British armies; A King
and No King presents characters engaging in duels and beatings at court;
The Nice Valour presents characters at court who beat and are beaten, and
one character who prints a conduct manual on beating. By examining the
manuals in conjunction with the plays, I show that armed combat, duels,
and beatings provide ways for participants to express their position in a
social matrix by allowing them to exhibit such behaviors as deference and
admiration, or disrespect and contempt toward their adversaries. I
demonstrate the extent to which the violent conflicts in the plays can be
read as expressions of social codes which determine the participants'
status in their particular dramatic environments. I show that such codes
are also open to manipulation and inversion by characters who are willing
to adapt them to their own particular needs, and that such manipulation
can disrupt the social hierarchies presented on stage, calling into question
the legitimacy of authority figures in the plays.Englis
Proverbs 31-01: why is the woman of valour of Proverbs 31:10-31 so hard to find?
No full textThis dissertation focuses on Proverbs 31:10-31, the poem about the eset hayil, the co-called ‘woman of valour’. Chapter one will use Reception Theory to show how scholarship on Proverbs, especially discussions about the school/royal court or folk/clan origin of Israelite wisdom, has influenced the interpretation of Proverbs, creating a pre-understanding or research paradigm within which researchers think. I will show how specific interpretations of Proverbs 31:10-31 as part of a hermeneutical framework or inspired by a particular social setting have been influenced by this research paradigm.
Chapter two will begin with a literary analysis, discussing the structure and content of Proverbs 31:10-31 and translation difficulties. A more focused word study will pick out key words and ideas in the poem, including military, industry, and action language, in an attempt to reconstruct the horizons of expectations (as understood in Reception Theory) of the original author. From this, I will identify specific motifs and images used by the poem, considering how they are used here and whether they are used similarly here as elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible—that is, whether they reaffirm an established literary motif or image, or go against other uses, challenging the horizons of expectation.
Chapter three, perhaps the most speculative part of the project, will undertake an intertextual analysis of the poem, in conversation with the book of Ruth. These texts share a number of similarities, including their focus on women who work for the benefit of home and family, who are both identified as an eset hayil and praised in the gates of the city for their documented deeds. This will build up to an analysis of the term eset hayil itself, to determine whether we should change our understanding of the term from a person to something more akin to a title or accolade someone earns. This would transform the overall function of 31:10-31 from advice literature for the male elite to a song of praise
The miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney, knt., with a life of the author and illustrative notes,
No full text"Five hundred copies ... printed."Life.--Defence of poesy.--Astrophel and Stella.--Miscellaneous poems.--The lady of May.--Valour anatomized in a fancy.--Letter to Queen Elizabeth.--A discourse in defence of the Earl of Leicester.--Letters reprinted from the Sidney papers, Seward's Biographiana, etc.--Letters from the unpublished originals in the British Museum.Mode of access: Internet
Proverbs 31-01: why is the woman of valour of Proverbs 31:10-31 so hard to find?
No full textThis dissertation focuses on Proverbs 31:10-31, the poem about the eset hayil, the co-called ‘woman of valour’. Chapter one will use Reception Theory to show how scholarship on Proverbs, especially discussions about the school/royal court or folk/clan origin of Israelite wisdom, has influenced the interpretation of Proverbs, creating a pre-understanding or research paradigm within which researchers think. I will show how specific interpretations of Proverbs 31:10-31 as part of a hermeneutical framework or inspired by a particular social setting have been influenced by this research paradigm.
Chapter two will begin with a literary analysis, discussing the structure and content of Proverbs 31:10-31 and translation difficulties. A more focused word study will pick out key words and ideas in the poem, including military, industry, and action language, in an attempt to reconstruct the horizons of expectations (as understood in Reception Theory) of the original author. From this, I will identify specific motifs and images used by the poem, considering how they are used here and whether they are used similarly here as elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible—that is, whether they reaffirm an established literary motif or image, or go against other uses, challenging the horizons of expectation.
Chapter three, perhaps the most speculative part of the project, will undertake an intertextual analysis of the poem, in conversation with the book of Ruth. These texts share a number of similarities, including their focus on women who work for the benefit of home and family, who are both identified as an eset hayil and praised in the gates of the city for their documented deeds. This will build up to an analysis of the term eset hayil itself, to determine whether we should change our understanding of the term from a person to something more akin to a title or accolade someone earns. This would transform the overall function of 31:10-31 from advice literature for the male elite to a song of praise
Bazalgette Lancaster FM-159 -- Nanton -- Laser Scanning -- 2021
No full textThis data set contains sixty-five (65) registered scans of the Bazalgette Lancaster FM-159 at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Two scanners were employed to collect the data, a Z+F 5010X and a BKL 360. The Z+F 5010X collected twenty-eight (28) of the scans around the exterior of the Bazalgette Lancaster FM-159. The BKL 360 collected thirty-seven (37) scans of the interior of the Bazalgette Lancaster FM-159. The data was collected by the Capture 2 Preserve team on March 18, 2021. Scans from the Z+F 5010X were registered and processed in Z+F Laser Control V. 9.2.1. Scans from the BKL 360 were registered and processed in Cyclone Register 360 (BKL Edition) V 2021.0.0
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