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2025 Sub-Librarians Meeting: The Adventure of Lomax the Sub-librarian Featuring Lyndsay Faye
No full textALA Best Historical Award-winning (and twice Edgar Award-nominated) Sherlockian author, Lyndsay Faye, will give a presentation on Lomax--the sub-librarian of the British Library and namesake of the Sherlock Holmes society, the Sub-librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars. Her comments will draw upon her own research and her experience in writing her short story “The Gospel of Sheba,” a bibliomystery centered around a lethal grimoire, narrated via Lomax\u27s private journals. The presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A
Ellsworth Traverse, 1958-59.
No full textSubmitted by Richard P. Goldthwait to the U.S. National Committee for the IGY National Academy of Sciences, in partial fulfillment of IGY Project No. 4.10 - NSF Grant No. Y/4.10/285.This report summarizes and presents results of glaciological observations at the Ellsworth IGY Station in 1958 and 1959. The data included in this report was collected in the field by Robert J. Goodwin. Reduction of the data at Glaciological Data Reduction Center was accomplished by Robert J. Goodwin, Mrs. Faye Smith and George VanNeil.National Science Foundation Grant No. Y/4.10/285.Ellsworth Station Glaciological Observations 1958-1959, by Robert J. Goodwin
There is no me without you: one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children
No full textThis is the archive of a lecture given by Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out
The use of multilevel models to evaluate sources of variation in reproductive performance in dairy cattle in Reunion Island
No full textSources of variation in measures of reproductive performance in dairy cattle were evaluated using data collected from 3207 lactations in 1570 cows in 50 herds from five geographic regions of Reunion Island (located off the cast coast of Madagascar). Three continuously distributed reproductive parameters (intervals from calving-to-conception, calving-to-first-service and first-service-to-conception) were considered, along with one Binomial outcome (first-service-conception risk). Multilevel models which take into account the hierarchical nature of the data were used to fit all models. For the overall measure of calving-to-conception interval, 86% of the variation resided at the lactation level with only 7, 6 and 2% at the cow, herd and regional levels, respectively. The proportion of variance at the herd and cow levels were slightly higher for the calving-to-first-service interval (12 and 9%, respectively) - but for the other two parameters (first-service-conception risk and first-service-to-conception interval), >90% of the variation resided at the lactation level. For the three continuous dependent variables, comparison of results between models based on log-transformed data and Box-Cox-transformed data suggested that minor departures from the assumption of normality did not have a substantial effect on the variance estimates. For the Binomial dependent variable, five different estimation procedures (penalised quasi-likelihood, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, parametric and non-parametric bootstrap estimates and maximum-likelihood) yielded substantially different results for the estimate of the cow-level variance
Examining the Experiences and Unmet Needs of Chassidic Mothers Raising a Child With Autism
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This qualitative study was conducted to understand the needs and priorities of mothers raising a child with autism in the Chassidic community. Five major themes emerged that reflect unique challenges. This research highlights the importance of routines and rituals that define insular communities.
Primary Author and Speaker: Faye Levy
Contributing Authors: M. J. Mulcahey</jats:p
PETIT PAYS DE GAEL FAYE : POÉTIQUE DU TRAGIQUE ET FLOTTABILITÉ IDENTITAIRE
No full textPetit pays permet à Gael Faye d’évoquer le génocide rwandais dont les tribulations alimentent encore la mémoire tragique de l’Afrique post-indépendante. À travers le regard d’un personnage enfant qui rompt rapidement avec le narratif idyllique propre au pays des merveilles, l’auteur présente un imaginaire romanesque spécifique. La nostalgie du pays natal, espace des origines, laisse progressivement place à l’impermanence identitaire. L’identité originelle devient évanescente sous le poids de l’exil. Les nouvelles étiquettes acquises quant à elles, restent insaisissables. La démarche sociocritique de Claude Duchet permettra alors d’explorer l’imaginaire social du roman de Gael Faye qui s’écroule sous le poids des violences ethno-politiques. Ainsi, la poétique du tragique permet à l’auteur de mettre en scène le bouleversement de l’ordre social ayant conduit inexorablement à la déconstruction de soi, et d’exprimer une identité inconstante.Petit pays allows Gael Faye to raise the Rwandan genocide, whose tribulations still feed the tragic memory of post-independent Africa. Through the eyes of a child character who becomes distinct from the idyllic narrative typical of Wonderland, the author presents a specific imaginary novel. Nostalgia for home, the place of origins, gradually gives way to the identity inconstancy. The original identity becomes evanescent due to exile. Newly acquired labels remain elusive. Claude Duchet's sociocritical method allows us to explore the social imaginary of Gael Faye's novel, which is crumbling under the impact of ethno-political violence. In this manner, the poetics of tragedy enable the author to stage the upheaval of the social order leading to stainless stell self dismaintly, and to express an uncertain identity. Article visualizations
The sorcerer's pharmacy
No full textHow do traditions of magic, both practical and literary, interact with texts about plant- and substance-based remedies in ancient Greece and Rome, and what role does genre play in the manifestation and transmission of these traditions? This is the question that my research seeks to answer, through the methods of lexicography, close reading, and comparison of magical texts with pharmaceutical literature from four significant authors. Each chapter represents a case study of one of these authors: Theophrastus and Nicander of Colophon, who wrote in Greek; and Pliny the Elder and Scribonius Largus, who wrote in Latin.
My analysis of the interplay of magic, remedy, genre, and botany in each author has revealed the development, through time, of what I term a pharmaceutical-didactic subgenre, created through the editorial decisions and selective curatorship of writers who sought to educate others in botanical and pharmaceutical topics, and, often, to display their breadth of knowledge in these subjects.
At the heart of this subgenre lies the problem of dangerous or othered information: to what extent is recording it reasonable or unreasonable, ethical or immoral, traditional or subversive? How is it justified or erased, spoken or unspoken? Under what circumstances does an author preserve the sorcerer’s pharmacy? It is my hope that this approach will, beyond the limits of this thesis, prove useful for the examination of other authors of this genre in the classical period, and for their reception in the medieval era.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesElla Faye Wallac
The #LondonIsOpen campaign : desecuritizing Brexit?
No full textFaye Donnelly is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Securitization and the Iraq War: The Rules of Engagement in World Politics (Routledge, 2013). Her most recent article, ‘The Queen’s Speech: Desecuritizing the Past, Present and Future of Anglo-Irish Relations’ has been published in the European Journal of International Relations. Jasmine K. Gani is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations: Conflict and Cooperation (Palgrave 2014). Her latest article, ‘The Erasure of Race: Cosmopolitanism and the Illusion of Kantian hospitality ’ is forthcoming in Millennium Journal of International Studies. She tweets @JKGani
INVESTIGATION OF KEY ASPECTS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL MARKETING OF COWPEAS IN SENEGAL
No full textDue to the lack of information on the factors that affect the marketing of cowpeas in Senegal, this study investigates key aspects for the successful marketing of cowpeas in Senegal. The contribution this study makes lies in the information it generates to empower role-players in the cowpea value chain to better understand (i) the demand relations of cowpeas in Senegal, (ii) the information needs of role-players and the extent to which markets are integrated, and (iii) for which characteristics of cowpea consumers are willing to pay premiums. An Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model is applied to one period cross sectional data to estimate demand relations of cowpea's in Senegal. The own price elasticity of cowpea is -1.23 while its expenditure elasticity is 0.97 showing that cowpea is a normal necessity. A sample of 443 respondents was taken to determine the information needs of different role-players in the cowpea supply chain. Availability of price information on local and export markets are deemed vitally important by all role players. Information pertaining to quantities supplied and demanded, and buyers' preferences are not regarded by all role-players as equally important. The most appropriate mode to dissemination cowpea related information should depend on the accessibility of a particular mode by role-players. Bivariate correlation coefficients, co-integration tests, Granger Causality tests and Ravallion's model are used to investigate level of market integration. The results show that cowpea markets as a whole are not integrated. This is not a surprising result since it can be linked to the general lack of market information. The influence of cowpea characteristics on cowpea prices is analyzed with a hedonic pricing model. The results show that large grain size and sugar contents are characteristics for which consumers are willing to pay premiums in all markets. The implication of the results of this study has several dimensions, i.e. (i) role-players in the cowpea supply chain now has information to guide pricing strategies, (ii) changes in expenditures on cowpeas can be properly discounted in marketing strategies, (iii) interventions can be designed to address the needs of information users and to address the non-integrated nature of cowpeas markets, and (iv) research programs and role-players should focus their research and marketing activities on those characteristics for which consumers are willing to pay premiums.Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, Marketing,
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