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Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Arthur G. Ringland
No full textLetter (copy) from J. R. Eakin to Arthur C. Ringland about the alignment of 40 acres near the Buggeln ranch
The Beat of the Economic Heart: Joseph Schumpeter and Arthur Spiethoff on Business Cycles
No full textThe paper discusses the relationship between Arthur Spiethoff and Joseph A. Schumpeter, the men and their works. Had it not been for Spiethoff Schumpeter would in all probability have forever been lost to scientific work. It was Spiethoff who brought the Austrian back to academia and research after a sequence of serious mishaps in politics and banking. Spiethoff's contribution to an analysis of business cycles is then summarized and important similarities and some differences between it and Schumpeter's are pointed out. The view of Spiethoff and Schumpeter that cycles are endogenous and cannot possibly be eliminated without at the same time eliminating the dynamism of the capitalist economy is then couterposed with views of some of their contemporaries and particularly modern mainstream macroeconomics that this is not so.Schumpeter; Spiethoff; business cycles; innovations; creative destruction
Geochemical Investigations of Lacustrine Ferromanganese Concretions
No full textTitle: Geochemical Investigations of Lacustrine Ferromanganese Concretions, Author: Arthur G. Troup, Location: ThodeObservations on the geological environment of formation and data concerning the mineralogy, petrography and chemistry of lacustrine ferromanganese concretions are presented. Implications of these data with respect to concretion formation are discussed, and a model for concretion genesis is suggested.ThesisMaster of Science (MS
Structural basis of G-quadruplex biochemical specificity
No full textTitle: Structural basis of G-qudruplex biochemical specificity Author: Ráchel Sgallová Department: Department of Low Temperature Physics Supervisor: Edward Arthur Curtis, Ph.D., Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: G-quadruplexes are noncanonical nucleic acid structures formed by stacked guanine tetrads. Despite their functional and structural diversity, a sin- gle consensus sequence is typically used to describe sequences with the potential to form G-quadruplex structures. We are interested in developing more specific sequence models for G-quadruplexes. In previous work, we functionally character- ized each sequence in a 496-member library of variants of a monomeric reference G-quadruplex for the ability to bind GTP, promote a model peroxidase reac- tion, generate intrinsic fluorescence, and to form multimers. In this study, we statistically characterized those results by PCA and identified some connections between primary sequence and biochemical function. Furthermore, we used NMR to obtain a broad overview of the structural features of this library. After deter- mining the 1 H NMR spectrum of each of these 496 sequences, spectra were sorted into multiple classes, most of which could be rationalized based on mutational patterns in the primary sequence...
Strukturní podstata biochemické specificity G-kvadruplexů
No full textTitle: Structural basis of G-qudruplex biochemical specificity Author: Ráchel Sgallová Department: Department of Low Temperature Physics Supervisor: Edward Arthur Curtis, Ph.D., Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: G-quadruplexes are noncanonical nucleic acid structures formed by stacked guanine tetrads. Despite their functional and structural diversity, a sin- gle consensus sequence is typically used to describe sequences with the potential to form G-quadruplex structures. We are interested in developing more specific sequence models for G-quadruplexes. In previous work, we functionally character- ized each sequence in a 496-member library of variants of a monomeric reference G-quadruplex for the ability to bind GTP, promote a model peroxidase reac- tion, generate intrinsic fluorescence, and to form multimers. In this study, we statistically characterized those results by PCA and identified some connections between primary sequence and biochemical function. Furthermore, we used NMR to obtain a broad overview of the structural features of this library. After deter- mining the 1 H NMR spectrum of each of these 496 sequences, spectra were sorted into multiple classes, most of which could be rationalized based on mutational patterns in the primary sequence....Název práce: Strukturní podstata biochemické specificity G-kvadruplexů Autor: Ráchel Sgallová Katedra: Katedra fyziky nízkých teplot Školitel: Edward Arthur Curtis, Ph.D., Ústav organické chemie a biochemie AV ČR, v. v. i. Abstrakt: G-kvadruplexy jsou nekanonické struktury nukleových kyselin tvořené navrstvenými guaninovými tetrádami. Navzdory jejich funkční a strukturní di- verzitě jsou obvykle sekvence s potenciálem tvořit G-kvadruplexovou strukturu popisovány jedinou konsensus sekvencí. Cílem našeho výzkumu je vývoj speci- fičtějších sekvenčních modelů pro G-kvadruplexy. V předchozích pracích jsme funkčně charakterizovali každou sekvenci z knihovny 496 variant monomerického referenčního G-kvadruplexu pro jejich schopnost vázat GTP, katalyzovat mode- lovou peroxidázovou reakci, generovat fluorescenci a formovat multimery. V této práci jsme tyto výsledky statisticky analyzovali pomocí PCA a identifikovali něk- terá spojení mezi primární sekvencí a biochemickou funkcí. Dále jsme použili NMR k získání širokého přehledu o strukturních vlastnostech této knihovny. Po změření 1 H NMR spekter všech 496 sekvencí jsme je roztřídili do tříd, většinu z nichž lze vysvětlit na základě mutačních vzorů v primární sekvenci. Detailnější screen vybraných reprezentativních sekvencí poskytl další informace o spektrál- ních...Matematicko-fyzikální fakultaFaculty of Mathematics and Physic
A First- and Second-Order Motion Energy Analysis of Peripheral Motion Illusions Leads to Further Evidence of “Feature Blur” in Peripheral Vision
No full textAnatomical and physiological differences between the central and peripheral visual systems are well documented. Recent findings have suggested that vision in the periphery is not just a scaled version of foveal vision, but rather is relatively poor at representing spatial and temporal phase and other visual features. Shapiro, Lu, Huang, Knight, and Ennis (2010) have recently examined a motion stimulus (the “curveball illusion”) in which the shift from foveal to peripheral viewing results in a dramatic spatial/temporal discontinuity. Here, we apply a similar analysis to a range of other spatial/temporal configurations that create perceptual conflict between foveal and peripheral vision.To elucidate how the differences between foveal and peripheral vision affect super-threshold vision, we created a series of complex visual displays that contain opposing sources of motion information. The displays (referred to as the peripheral escalator illusion, peripheral acceleration and deceleration illusions, rotating reversals illusion, and disappearing squares illusion) create dramatically different perceptions when viewed foveally versus peripherally. We compute the first-order and second-order directional motion energy available in the displays using a three-dimensional Fourier analysis in the (x, y, t) space. The peripheral escalator, acceleration and deceleration illusions and rotating reversals illusion all show a similar trend: in the fovea, the first-order motion energy and second-order motion energy can be perceptually separated from each other; in the periphery, the perception seems to correspond to a combination of the multiple sources of motion information. The disappearing squares illusion shows that the ability to assemble the features of Kanisza squares becomes slower in the periphery.The results lead us to hypothesize “feature blur” in the periphery (i.e., the peripheral visual system combines features that the foveal visual system can separate). Feature blur is of general importance because humans are frequently bringing the information in the periphery to the fovea and vice versa
SemSorGrid4Env Architecture
No full textThis document specifies, designs, and validates the Semantic Sensor Grid Rapid Application Development for Environmental Management (SemSorGrid4Env) software architecture. The architecture enables the publication and querying of both stored (e.g. database) and streaming (e.g. sensor) data to support the rapid development of applications for environmental monitoring. Significant benefits are provided by the use of semantic technology for service discovery and data integration. The infrastructural backbone of the architecture is provided by four service-oriented services: Stored Data Service for the publication of databases, Streaming Data Service for the publication of sensor data, Registration and Discovery Service to enable resources to found, and Integration and Querying Service to enable multiple data sources to be accessed through a single model. These services will be supplemented with application domain specific services which may offer RESTful interfaces
Analysis of multistory frames with light gauge steel panel infills
No full textPREFACE This report was originally presented as a thesis to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred in August 1972. The author wishes to thank Professor Arthur H. Nilson, Project Director, and Professor Robert G. Sexsmith, Principal Investigator, for the help and guidance that made this work possible. This investigation was supported by the American Iron and Steel Institute
Arthur Danto's philosophy of art
No full textThe thesis is a critical examination of Danto's philosophy of art. It begins with his
article 'The Artworld' where he proposes a special is of artistic identification to
distinguish artworks. Danto's idea of the artworld is discussed, a historical and
contextual theory of art, which arose from his attempt to explain the difference
between Warhol's Brillo Boxes sculpture and an indiscernible stack of everyday
Brillo boxes. It is argued that Danto unsuccessfully attempts to shore up his artworld
concept with the special is.
The technique of comparing indiscernible counterparts, from Danto's
book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, is examined. It is argued that the
technique is philosophically redundant, but it is a redundant premise which has been
added to a valid inference (Danto's historical and contextual view of art: his artworld
theory) therefore, this does not make the original inference invalid.
Danto's treatment of metaphor, expression, and style is shown to result
in four claims. First, artworks embody rhetorical ellipsis. Second, artworks share
features of metaphor: they are intensional (with an s) in structure and cannot be
paraphrased. Third, a work of art expresses what it is a metaphor for by the way it
depicts its subject. Fourth, artworks embody style.
The conclusion, has two parts. The first part gives a summary of the
criticism of Danto's theory of art: (1) there are logical inconsistencies in his concept
of the is of artistic identification and in his use of indiscernible counterparts, (2) his
theory suffers by being over-inclusive and (3) he uses circular arguments. The
second part is based on a response to the criticism: it provides a definition of art.
This has three elements. First, an argument is proposed for a spectrum of artistic
presence in which all human activity and artefacts can be placed. Second, there is an
acceptance of Danto's view of art (or artistic presence) being both intentional (with
a t) and intensional (with an s); however, by applying these concepts to a spectrum,
the problem of over-inclusiveness is avoided. Finally, it is argued there can he no
wholly non-circular account of art
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