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Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
($35.00)Publisher PD
Geoffrey Robertson on the History of Human Rights
No full textQueen\u27s Counsel, broadcaster and author Geoffrey Robertson has achieved international fame by defending high-profile cases, often representing victims of alleged human rights abuses. Here, at an event organised by Amnesty Australia, he gives a short history of human rights, from the Magna Carta to the present
‘Like a Mason Addressing a Block’: Materiality and Design in Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Shearsman Books via the ISBN in this recordNote change of chapter title between accepted and published versionsArguing against the notion that contemporary British poetry is either insular or apolitical, this essay takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to the twenty-first century poetic redeployment of European material culture. It takes as a case study the work of the contemporary British poet, Geoffrey Hill. Hill's poetry makes strategic use of the built environment, in order to negotiate both the European cultural inheritance and to foreground its importance in the British poetic imagination. Reinvesting in built structure on the page, Hill’s inter-artistic eye keeps his audience historically and politically attuned to the uses to which stones, tablets and building blocks are used and re-used across the arts (to attract new audience gazes; to both found and bolster artistic reputations). The powerful contribution of Italian, French and German design models to social, rhetorical and moral thought in British poetry have frequently been neglected in scholarship of contemporary British poetics. This essay offers a corrective, focusing on Hill's distinctive contemporary attention to this shared design politics. Hill's work foregrounds the importance of this European influence, and works consciously to redirect the way that contemporary British audiences understand poetry's complex cultural inheritance and its legacy
A challenge to publish books in Zambia!
No full textGeoffrey Musonda, author and engineer, about the challenge of publishing books in Zambia and to market Zambian literature globally.</p
The development of a model of Alpha helix formation for transmembrane peptides
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 26).Researchers have studied the folding and binding properties of peptides in water for many years, but only recently has anyone attempted to explore those same tendencies in an environment similar to that of a transmembrane protein incorporated into the phospholipid bilayer of the cell. To this end, we have been working on the synthesis of a group of peptides with the general sequence +H3N-Ala2-Leu3-Ala7-Trp-Ala-X-Ala10-Lys6-COOH, where we will substitute all twenty naturally occurring amino acids into position X. We have successfully synthesized and purified the peptide in which the guest position X is filled by an isoleucine-due to the difficulty of the sequence involved, we have been unable to synthesize and purify eighteen of the remaining nineteen. Peptides, once synthesized, are characterized by MALDI mass spectrometry and HPLC and purified peptides are studied using circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to determine the a-helicity. Initial results suggest that the transmembrane environment will indeed alter the propensities of the various amino acid residues to form a-helices, though to what degree still remains to be seen. Once complete, this study should make it possible to determine a system for predicting a-helix formation in membrane proteins and determine the basic rules that guide such helix formation
The Chinese in Victoria, 1870-1890
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © Geoffrey A. Oddie.The thesis covers the history of the Chinese in Victoria between 1870 and 1890. This includes growth and development of anti-Chinese movement, including objections to Chinese immigration and legal and economic factors
English Composition as a Happening
No full textFrom the Introduction: Contemporary Composition is still inflected by the epistemic turn taken in the 1980s, convincing me that we need to remember what we\u27ve forgotten—namely, how impassioned resolves and thrilling discoveries were abandoned and why. I\u27d like to retrace the road not taken in Composition Studies, to salvage what can still be recovered... I want to inspect the wreckage, in order to show what was the promise of the Happenings for Composition, as well as the huge gray longueur of its pale replacement, Eighties Composition. In so doing, I hope to begin a reconfiguration of our field\u27s pre- and after history. What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer\u27s 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemer\u27s inquiry, moving through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1133/thumbnail.jp
Tropical Vegetable Diseases: I
No full textThis fact sheet describes the symptoms of several diseases commonly observed on Florida tropical vegetables and provides recommendations for control. This version updated with new author Geoffrey Meru
Nothovernonia purpurea H. Rob. & V. A. Funk
No full text<p> <b> <i>Nothovernonia purpurea</i> (Sch.Bip. ex Walp.) H.Rob. & V.A.Funk</b> —</p> <p>Habit: Herb.</p> <p>Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: II.</p> <p> Voucher: West Mount Kenya, Coles Mill, Alt. 2 200 m, 16 Jan. 1922, <i>Fries & Fries 948</i> (K).</p> <p>References: Beentje (2000), Agnew (2013).</p>Published as part of <i>Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1)</i> on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6550464">http://zenodo.org/record/6550464</a>
Sharing the Desire to Open U.S. Literary Culture to Outside Perspectives : An Interview With Geoffrey Brock, Anna Vilner, and J. Bailey Hutchinson, Editors of The Arkansas International
No full textThe Arkansas International is a vibrant space, evident in the recent publications of Anneli Furmark’s comic “Horses” (translated by Hanna Strömberg) and Ladee Hubbard’s essay “Mafolie Hill,” which describes the author\u27s time in the Virgin Islands. The journal, published by students of the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation with Geoffrey Brock as editor-in-chief, seeks to place “US writing in conversation with writing from around the world.” The editors seek more creative nonfiction in translation from underrepresented countries as well as writing in English from underrepresented voices. The enthusiasm of its staff is evident as they describe their process in the following interview conducted via email with Geoffrey Brock, nonfiction editor Anna Vilner, and poetry editor J. Bailey Hutchinson
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