315 research outputs found
Prædiken til 5. aug. 1972 af Johan Grundtvig. Introduction and comments
No full textJohan Grundtvigs prædiken d. 5. august 1792Af Gerald M. HaslamMed den her gengivne prædiken af N.F.S. Grundtvigs far præsenteres et større transskriptionsarbejde og en opfølgende analyse. Haslam arbejder dels med Johan Grundtvigs prædikener, dels med sammes brevveksling. Arbejdet skal munde ud i en redegørelse for N.F.S. Grundtvigs forhold til faderens teologi.Prædikenen er fra 1792 og har derfor kunnet høres af N.F.S. Grundtvig før han drog til Thyregod. Haslam tilslutter sig K.E. Bugges beskrivelse af Johan Grundtvigs teologi som en blanding af ortodoksi, pietisme og supranaturalisme, men understreger, at Johan Grundtvigs teologi er endog mere præget af bodskristendom, end Bugge antager.Haslam foretager på grundlag af den samlede mængde prædikener en bestemmelse af Johan Grundtvigs teologi i en samfundsmæssig og kulturel kontekst. Denne analyse peger på de positive aspekter af Johan Grundtvigs virke, uden at Haslam derfor forholder sig ukritisk til Johan Grundtvig. Han understreger det værdifulde i, at Johan Grundtvig i en tid præget af politisk og religiøs forvirring gennem sin forkyndelse af den personlige omvendelses betydning for den evige frelse var i stand til at motivere sine sognebørn til at leve et bedre liv og til at bibringe dem tr.st og håb.Afsluttende går Haslam det klart, at N.F.S. Grundtvig - og andre fornyere af forkyndelsen - ikke opstod i et tomrum, men positivt knyttede an til forkyndelsen hos kirkemænd, der i slutningen af 1700-tallet bekymrede sig for deres sognebørns åndelige og fysiske velbefindende
A Contemporary Western Writer Gerald Haslam: His Means to a New West and the World
No full textPurpose of the Study: Gerald Haslam is representative of the contemporary Western writer whose works reveal a new West, not the mythical or formula Western of the past. He has focused his writing on the Great Central Valley; the people, places and events typical of their lives. However, this has not limited the universality of his themes. The purpose of my study is to examine Haslam's work for clues leading to an understanding of how he has used his locale to rediscover the West and, in turn, achieve universal significance. Procedure: This study has used all of Haslam's short story collections and many of his nonfiction books, magazine articles and tapes. I have also used information obtained as a participant in his Spring 1988 classes in Western Literature at Sonoma State University, and also information obtained through personal conversations with him. I have also used many of the nonfiction writings of some of his contemporaries in my study. Findings: The locale of the Great Central Valley has had an enormous influence on Haslam, and he has used it as a focus and springboard for much of his fiction. This has been to his advantage as it provides him with nonstereotypical sources devoid of the myths of the formula Western. Haslam's West consists of real people and places which enable him to achieve in his fiction commonality of experience, the essential of universality. Conclusions: Haslam is an exemplar of the contemporary Western writer in providing the reader a new West through his Great Central Valley. What's more, he proves that the regional writer can achieve universal significance. He should be read for both entertainment and insight into the human condition.Weeks, Jonina. 1988. A Contemporary Western Writer Gerald Haslam: His Means to a New West and the World. Department of English, Sonoma State University
A Contemporary Western Writer Gerald Haslam: His Means to a New West and the World
No full textPurpose of the Study:\ud
Gerald Haslam is representative of the contemporary Western writer whose works reveal a new West, not the mythical or formula Western of the past. He has focused his writing on the Great Central Valley; the people, places and events typical of their lives. However, this has not limited the universality of his themes.\ud
The purpose of my study is to examine Haslam's work for\ud
clues leading to an understanding of how he has used his locale to rediscover the West and, in turn, achieve universal significance.\ud
Procedure:\ud
This study has used all of Haslam's short story collections and many of his nonfiction books, magazine articles and tapes. I have also used information obtained as a participant in his Spring 1988 classes in Western Literature at Sonoma State University, and also information obtained through personal conversations with him. I have also used many of the nonfiction writings of some of his contemporaries in my study.\ud
Findings:\ud
The locale of the Great Central Valley has had an enormous influence on Haslam, and he has used it as a focus and springboard for much of his fiction. This has been to his advantage as it provides him with nonstereotypical sources devoid of the myths of the formula Western. Haslam's West consists of real people and places which enable him to achieve in his fiction commonality of experience, the essential of universality.\ud
Conclusions:\ud
Haslam is an exemplar of the contemporary Western writer in providing the reader a new West through his Great Central Valley. What's more, he proves that the regional writer can achieve universal significance. He should be read for both entertainment and insight into the human condition
Thermal equivalence of DNA duplexes for probe design
No full textWe present the theory of thermal equivalence in the framework of the Peyrard–Bishop model and some of its anharmonic variants. The thermal equivalence gives rise to a melting index ? which maps closely the experimental DNA melting temperatures for short DNA sequences. We show that the efficient calculation of the melting index can be used to analyse the parameters of the Peyrard–Bishop model and propose an improved set of Morse potential parameters. With this new set we are able to calculate some of the experimental melting temperatures to ± 1.2 °C. We review some of the concepts of sequencing probe design and show how to use the melting index to explore the possibilities of gene coverage by tuning the model parameters
Social Support
No full textFirst paragraph: Flick through any autobiography of a celebrated athlete and you will find that one of its key themes is social support. Certainly there will be discussions of training and tactics, distress and disappointment, guts and glory. But the backdrop to all this is likely to be the support the athlete received from key individuals and groups along the way. The mother who drove them to training every day in the middle of winter, the coach who instilled a sense of self-discipline and pride, the backroom team who always had a kind word when things hadn’t gone quite to plan. This is beautifully exemplified by a legendary yet bitter-sweet moment from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where hot-favourite sprinter Derek Redmond from the United Kingdom tore his hamstring during the 400 meters semi-final. His father, Jim, jumped the balustrades and pushed past event officials to help his son cross the line and finish the race. We hobbled over the finishing line with our arms round each other, just me and my dad, the man I’m really close to, who’s supported my athletics career since I was seven years old. (Bos, 2017) Accounts such as this are also often filled with heroic examples of athletes going ‘above and beyond’ to provide support to others in their team — even to the extent of making personal sacrifices for the ‘greater good’. Consider the 2012 Tour de France, when Chris Froome gave up his opportunity to secure personal victory, instead opting to help his teammate Bradley Wiggins secure the coveted maillot jaune. Clearly, the role of socially supportive others, across both sport and life more generally, cannot be understated. For this reason, social support plays a key role in optimal functioning across a range of performance contexts — not only in sport, but also in the workplace, at school, or at home (Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012; Freeman & Rees, 2009; Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014). Indeed, work by the fourth author and his colleagues highlighted how supportive families, coaches, and networks are key to the development of super-elite athletes (Rees et al., 2016)
Having a lot of a good thing: multiple important group memberships as a source of self-esteem.
No full textCopyright: © 2015 Jetten et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedMembership in important social groups can promote a positive identity. We propose and test an identity resource model in which personal self-esteem is boosted by membership in additional important social groups. Belonging to multiple important group memberships predicts personal self-esteem in children (Study 1a), older adults (Study 1b), and former residents of a homeless shelter (Study 1c). Study 2 shows that the effects of multiple important group memberships on personal self-esteem are not reducible to number of interpersonal ties. Studies 3a and 3b provide longitudinal evidence that multiple important group memberships predict personal self-esteem over time. Studies 4 and 5 show that collective self-esteem mediates this effect, suggesting that membership in multiple important groups boosts personal self-esteem because people take pride in, and derive meaning from, important group memberships. Discussion focuses on when and why important group memberships act as a social resource that fuels personal self-esteem.This study was supported by 1. Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT110100238) awarded to Jolanda Jetten (see http://www.arc.gov.au) 2. Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP110200437) to Jolanda Jetten and Genevieve Dingle (see http://www.arc.gov.au) 3. support from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being Program to Nyla Branscombe, S. Alexander Haslam, and Catherine Haslam (see http://www.cifar.ca)
Thermal equivalence of DNA duplexes without calculation of melting temperature
No full textThe common key to nearly all processes involving DNA is the hybridization and melting of the double helix: from transmission of genetic information and RNA transcription, to polymerase chain reaction and DNA microarray analysis, DNA mechanical nanodevices and DNA computing. Selecting DNA sequences with similar melting temperatures is essential for many applications in biotechnology. We show that instead of calculating these temperatures, a single parameter can be derived from a statistical-mechanics model that conveniently represents the thermodynamic equivalence of DNA sequences. This parameter is shown to order experimental melting temperatures correctly, is much more readily obtained than the melting temperature, and is easier to handle than the numerous parameters of empirical regression models
Workin' man blues: country music in California
No full textCalifornia has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in country music's history, Gerald Haslam surveys the Golden State's contributions to what is today the most popular music in America. At the same time he illuminates the lives of the white, working-class men and women who migrated to California from the Dust Bowl, the Hoovervilles, and all the other locales where they had been turned out, shut down, or otherwise told to move on.Haslam's roots go back to Oildale, in California's central valley, where he first discovered the passion for country music that infuses Workin' Man Blues . As he traces the Hollywood singing cowboys, Bakersfield honky-tonks, western-swing dance halls, "hillbilly" radio shows, and crossover styles from blues and folk music that also have California roots, he shows how country music offered a kind of cultural comfort to its listeners, whether they were oil field roustabouts or hash slingers.Haslam analyzes the effects on country music of population shifts, wartime prosperity, the changes in gender roles, music industry economics, and television. He also challenges the assumption that Nashville has always been country music's hometown and Grand Ole Opry its principal venue. The soul of traditional country remains romantically rural, southern, and white, he says, but it is also the anthem of the underdog, which may explain why California plays so vital a part in its heritage: California is where people reinvent themselves, just as country music has reinvented itself since the first Dust Bowl migrants arrived, bringing their songs and heartaches with them
Subhuman, Inhuman, and Superhuman: Contrasting Humans with Nonhumans in Three Cultures
No full textTo understand dehumanization, we must understand how humans are contrasted with nonhumans. Our work (Haslam, 2006) proposes two forms of dehumanization, in which people are denied uniquelyhumanattributes and likened to animals, or denied human nature attributes and likened to robots. In the light of this model, we examined the mental capacities that are believed to differentiate humans from animals, robots, and supernatural beings in three cultures (Australia, China, Italy). Cross–culturally consistent patterns emerged, with humans differing from nonhumans on two dimensions that closely resembled our two proposed forms of humanness. Compared to humans, animals were seen as lacking higher cognitive powers and refined emotion, but also as having superior perceptual capacities. Robots chiefly lacked emotion– and desire– related capacities. Supernatural beings had superior cognitive and perceptual capacities. Implications for dehumanization are discussed
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