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Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
Full text linkThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
Book Reviews
Full text linkOPERATION DRUMBEAT: THE DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF GERMANY\u27S FIRST U-BOAT ATTACKS ALONG THE AMERICAN COAST IN WORLD WAR II, by Michael Gannon, reviewed by George E. Buker; CONFEDERATE FLORIDA: THE ROAD TO OLUSTEE, by William H. Nulty, reviewed by Richard M. McMurry; FIRST ENCOUNTERS: SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE UNITED STATES, 1492-1570, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, reviewed by Amy T. Bushnell; HEARTH AND KNAPSACK: THE LADLEY LETTERS, 1857-1880, edited by Carl M. Becker and Ritchie Thomas, reviewed by Zack C. Waters; THE KING\u27S RANGER: THOMAS BROWN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER, by Edward J. Cashin, reviewed by Alan Gallay; NINE FLORIDA STORIES BY MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS, edited by Kevin M. McCarthy, reviewed by Jonathan Harrington; PUBLIC FACES-PRIVATE LIVES: WOMEN IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1870s-1910s, by Karen Davis, reviewed by Stuart B. McIver; GEORGE WYTHE RANDOLPH AND THE CONFEDERATE ELITE, by George Green Shackelford, reviewed by Thomas F. Armstrong; GENERAL A. P. HILL: THE STORY OF A CONFEDERATE WARRIOR, by James I. Robertson, Jr., reviewed by William Garrett Piston; PRISON LIFE AMONG THE REBELS: RECOLLECTIONS OF A UNION CHAPLAIN, edited by Edward D. Jervey, reviewed by Edward K. Eckert; THE UNION LEAGUE MOVEMENT IN THE DEEP SOUTH: POLITICS AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE DURING RECONSTRUCTION, by Michael W. Fitzgerald, reviewed by Joe M. Richardson; WITH ALL AND FOR THE GOOD OF ALL : THE EMERGENCE OF POPULAR NATIONALISM IN THE CUBAN COMMUNITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1848-1898, by Gerald E. Poyo, reviewed by Nancy A. Hewitt; ATLANTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY: GUARDIAN OF BLACK ECONOMIC DIGNITY, by Alexa Benson Henderson, reviewed by Edward F. Keuchel; IN SEARCH OF THE NEW SOUTH: THE BLACK URBAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 1970s AND 1980s, edited by Robert D. Bullard, reviewed by Raymond A. Mohl; POOR BUT PROUD: ALABAMA\u27S POOR WHITES, by Wayne Flynt, reviewed by Gilbert C. Fite; BACK TO BIRMINGHAM: RICHARD ARRINGTON, JR., AND HIS TIMES, by Jimmie Lewis Franklin, reviewed by Jim Haskins; WITH FIDDLE AND WELL-ROSINED BOW: OLD-TIME FIDDLING IN ALABAMA, by Joyce H. Cauthen, reviewed by Augustus Burns; RACE AND HISTORY: SELECTED ESSAYS, 1938-1988, by John Hope Franklin, reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield; THE URBAN SOUTH: A HISTORY, by Lawrence H. Larsen, reviewed by Kent Kaster I
Using Accelerometry to Detect Upper-Extremity Motor Deficits and Delays in Early Childhood
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
Identifying subtle motor delays in early childhood is challenging. Accelerometry is a novel way to characterize upper-extremity motor patterns in typically developing children. Differences were identified between typically developing children and children with hemiparesis ages 0–5 yr.
Primary Author and Speaker: Catherine Hoyt Drazen
Contributing Authors: Annie Nguyen, Elyse Everet, Melanie Berner, Jonathan Koller, Dustin K. Ragan, Nico U. F. Dosenbach</jats:p
Kajian Hadis Kontemporer Sarjana Amerika:Telaah Pemikiran Hadis Jonathan A.C. Brown
Full text linkThe direction of hadith studies in the contemporary era has changed. The proof, the studies presented by scholars are more varied. Not only at the level of the study of the authenticity of hadith but has gone beyond normative studies. This article aims to examine the thoughts of Jonathan A.C Brown, an expert on hadith studies from the United States and discover the nuances of contemporary hadith studies that he offers. Through qualitative analysis, this research was conducted in dialogue with the work of Jonathan A.C. Brown. The author\u27s findings as a revaluation scholar, Brown, display two nuances in contemporary hadith studies. First, the nuances of locality - in the study of character studies and literature studies on figures and literature (al-bahṡu \u27an al-a\u27lam wa al-musannafÄt). Brown packs a canonization theory to trace the historical process of the á¹¢ahīḥayn text. This research model is based on the socio-cultural trends of American scholars. This synthesis contributes positively to the critical debate on á¹¢ahīḥayn. Second, the nuances of glocalization – on the aspect of studying the understanding of hadith (al-bahṡu \u27an al-fiqh al-ḥadīṡ). In the effort to interpret the hadith, there has been an adjustment to local cultural values. This can be seen from the cases in the areas he visited and how the community or religious leaders hid a hadith. The interpretation of the hadith is directed at a substantive-philosophical understanding
London Law Consortium 2009
No full textTop left to right: Andrew Benjamin (Iowa); Aaron Prom (Florida); Anna Kordan (Suffolk); Jason Boffrey (Florida); Professor Wayne McCormack (Utah); Caleb Lutz (UM-KC); Gina Lavarda (Iowa); Ryan Oldroyd (Utah); Shannon Zollinger (Utah); Carl Clyde (Oregon); Justin Martin (Iowa). Bottom l to r: Professor John Reitz (Iowa); Professor Keith Meyer (Kansas); Professor Nancy Marder (Chicago-Kent); Stacey Rogers (Iowa); Jennifer Prom (Florida); Stephanie Baird (U of Miami); Jonathan Jones (Utah). Not pictured: John Coughlin (Missouri); Adam Delderfield (Indiana); Michael Presto (Seattle U); Professors Leslie Turano and Alexander Türk (King\u27s College)
Ligand design principles for perfecting stereoretention in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of unactivated CSP3 boronic acids
Full text linkThe strategy of building block-based, iterative synthesis has revolutionized the preparation of oligonucleotides and oligopeptides. However, small molecules possess greater structural diversity than these classes of macromolecules. The development of an iterative, building block-based synthetic strategy could nonetheless accelerate the discovery of new small molecule functions. A key challenge in building block assembly is finding reactions to forge carbon-carbon bonds between a range of structurally diverse building blocks. Iteration of metal-mediated cross-coupling reactions represents a promising direction, and such an approach has already been automated and used to make many different small molecules. Still, the lack of methods for Csp3 coupling dramatically limits the scope of building block-based synthesis. With the goal of developing a stereospecific cross-coupling reaction for unactivated secondary alkylboronic acids, it was critical to understand the competition between stereoretentive and stereoinvertive transmetalation mechanisms. Achieving perfect transfer of stereochemistry from building blocks to products required that one of these transmetalation pathways be completely mitigated. By systematically studying the effect of the phosphine ligand on the outcome of a model Csp3 cross-coupling reaction, we have elucidated ligand steric and electronic design principles for maximizing stereoretention. These ligand design principles are applicable across different reaction conditions and a broad substrate scope. Continued progress in stereocontrolled Csp3 couplings will accelerate the generalization of building block-based synthesis.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Jonathan Lehmann, accepted the attached license on 2018-09-16 at 09:43.The student, Jonathan Lehmann, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-09-16 at 10:18.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-10-05 at 11:58.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13015 on 2019-02-07 at 14:16:35Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:35:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
Full text linkThe 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
Comparison of uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating analysis for international apatite reference materials and two fossil fish teeth
No full textBioapatite (Ca5(PO4)3OH) and apatite (Ca5(PO4)3(F, Cl, OH)) are found in nature, and their ages can be determined by the Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) isotope dating technique. The goals of this research were to investigate U-Pb dating of known international apatite reference materials and Cladocyclus gardneri (CG) and Neoproscinetes Penalvai (NP) fossil fish teeth (bioapatite samples) and to provide an improved understanding of the effects of secondary alteration on the U-Pb dates of fossil teeth. Teeth were mounted in epoxy and imaged by optical microscopy. Analyses were made by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). U-Pb data reduction was carried out using Iolite v. 4 software and the VizualAge-UcomPbine data reduction scheme. U-Pb dates of the fish teeth diverged from the expected age of fossilization as a result of secondary mobility of U, which was variable both between and within teeth. The expected age of the teeth was ~110 Ma based on biostratigraphy and the closest results were 67.0 ± 0.8 Ma for CG samples (measured on 30µm laser ablation spots), and 45.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 128.6 ± 12.9 Ma for NP samples (on 30µm and 60µm ablation spots, respectively).Embargo status: Restricted until 01/2023. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link to the left
"Development of high-frequency ""airgap"" windings for high-power density electrical machines"
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemThis thesis proposes the development of high-frequency airgap windings for a 1 MW permanent magnet electric machine designed for aerospace applications. A centerpiece of the design is focused on increasing the power density of the machine to 8 hp/lb, a factor of two greater than the state-of-the-art electric machines, while maintaining 96% efficiency. In essence this design specification demands increasing the electrical loading per lowest weight, which can be achieved by employing high-frequency armature currents together with a high pole count. This work will aim to design and implement an armature winding design made out of Litz wire that minimizes the extent of increased AC losses due to higher operating frequencies while simultaneously remaining a manufacturable solution. The approach will be based on identifying a numerical model that aids in selecting a specific conductor topology that minimizes copper losses, while a more refined finite element model will be used to verify these results. To verify the methods used to compute losses, the results of a caliometric experiment will be presented to validate the design approach. Ultimately, a manufacturing process will be demonstrated to conclude the development phase of the winding by presenting several hardware trials that implement the proposed conductor topology that resulted from the previous analysis.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Jonathan Martin, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-06 at 17:35.The student, Jonathan Martin, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-06 at 17:44.Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 93091
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Bibliometric Analysis Biodiversity
No full textThis data base was used for the analyses described in the publication "Spatial and Topical Imbalances in Biodiversity Research" by Tydecks, Laura, Jeschke, Jonathan, Wolf, Max, Singer, Gabriel, Tockner, Klement.
The data were derived from Web of Science (WoS). These terms were used to set up the data base: biodiversity, biological diversity, species richness, species evenness, genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity, alpha diversity, beta diversity, gamma diversity, taxonomic diversity, phylogenetic diversity, behavio(u)ral diversity, functional diversity.
All articles in English from 1945 to 2014 are included (download date: May 12, 2015).
pid = publication ID
py = publication year
ti = title
ab = abstract
auid = author ID
an = author name
cc = country
tc = times cite
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