451 research outputs found
Translating Landscape: Maria Parr’s Tonje Glimmerdal from an ecocritical perspective
No full textThe article examines two sets of illustrations of the children’s novel Tonje Glimmerdal (2009) by Norwegian author Maria Parr. The original version in Norwegian, illustrated by Åshild Irgens, and the translation into Spanish, illustrated by Zuzanna Celej, are examined. The aim is to show how the concepts of nature and landscape are modified in the translated version. This analysis illuminates how illustrations have an impact on texts, and how illustrations create new meanings. While the original novel is considered a winter pastoral as young protagonist Tonje lives in the mountains and finds her purpose in life in her homeland valley, Irgens’ illustrations foreground Tonje’s actions, whereas Celej’s work is more focused on the landscape. The different ways in which these two versions of the book depict the winter pastoral, and the image of nature, are analysed from an ecocritical perspective, especially following Carol Glotfelty’s and Greg Garrard’s approaches
Sizing Up Winter by L. Flatt
No full textFlatt, Lizann. Sizing Up Winter. Illus. Ashley Barron. Toronto, ON: Owlkids, 2013. Print.Children’s book author, Lizann Flatt, is a freelance editor and writer of children’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Ms Flatt has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Owl, beginning as a teen in 1981, when she won a writing contest and was published in Owl Magazine. Lizann went on to contribute in content development and editorial positions during and following her Arts degree.Hailing originally from Whitby, Ontario, Toronto-based illustrator, Ashley Barron is passionate about nature, and this comes through in her cut-paper collages. Ms Barron’s skillful use of simple shapes, choice of colour and texture, and attention to detail, result in visually stunning cut-paper collage works, which are a central feature in Sizing up Winter, as well as the other books in the same series.Sizing up Winter is the third book in the Math in Nature series, which includes “Counting on Fall”, “Sorting through Spring”. This book pairs rhyming text with colourful nature-inspired artwork to introduce young readers to measurement concepts such as depth, distance, size, area, and time. Highlight boxes on each page ask questions that encourage readers to examine the images closely, encouraging interactive reading.Many of the pages use rhyming text, but this approach is used inconsistently. Some words and concepts may not be clear to young readers (e.g., mass, capacity) a glossary or call-out boxes on the same page as the introduced terms would have been helpful. The back of the book includes Nature Notes with additional information about the animals featured in the pages of the book, in the order in which the animals appear, rather than in alphabetical order.The online Teacher’s Guide resource, a pdf that includes support activities to reinforce measurement concepts from each page of the book, is a valuable addition to the book: http://www.owlkidsbooks.com/ResourcesActivities/TeacherGuides.aspx or http://www.owlkidsbooks.com/Portals/0/docs/teachersGuides/SizingUpWinter-TeacherGuides.pdf (pdf document). It’s unfortunate that the book itself does not mention its availability (I only learned about it from a publisher promotional insert in the review copy of the book).“Shaping up Summer”, a fourth book in the Math in Nature series will be released in Spring 2014.Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Maria TanMaria is a library intern at the University of Alberta’s John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. She enjoys travelling and visiting unique and far-flung libraries. Maria firmly believes that children\u27s literature is an essential component in the fountain of youth
The Figure of the Limit: Metalepsis
No full textIn 1972, Gérard Genette introduced in narratology the figure of metalepsis, that is «any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse». In other words, metalepsis is a transgression of narrative levels, a perturbation of hierarchy that raises the question of the porosity of boundaries between diegetic and metadiegetic, author and reader, fact and fiction.
In my presentation, I will show how this phenomenon is ubiquitous nowadays, and how it is settled both in highbrow and lowbrow cultural representations across various media.
Furthermore, I wish I can discuss the role of metalepsis in poetics: in my opinion, it is possible to relate this device with the history of the novel. In XVIII and XIX centuries authorial narrators made extensive use of rhetoric metalepsis for humoristic purposes (such as playing with the story-time and the discourse-time) or to exhibit their authority (through the manipulation of different threads of the narration). With Naturalism and Modernism metalepsis disappeared, according to the poetic of impersonality: authors stopped being intrusive and eclipsed behind their characters. The golden era of the figure came in the temper of Postmodernism, where ontological metalepsis flourished and the public got used to author and reader literary entering the fiction or characters exiting from it and chitchatting with their creators
Image of Slovenes in travelogues of Maria Konopnicka
No full textW niniejszym artykule autorka podejmuje kwestię reprezentacji Słoweńców w dwóch obrazkach z podróży autorstwa Marii Konopnickiej: "Jak słońce zimą w Gorycji wschodzi" i "Jak słońce w Gorycji zachodzi" (1898). Po zarysowaniu kontekstu społeczno-kulturowego w słoweńskiej części Austro-Węgier przełomu XIX i XX wieku oraz omówieniu recepcji Marii Konopnickiej wśród Słoweńców autorka analizuje sposób, w jaki Konopnicka opisała miejscową ludność wiejską.Author is focused on the representation of Slovenes in two relations from the journey written by Maria Konopnicka in 1898: "Sun rising in winter Goritzia" ("Jak słońce zimą w Gorycji wschodzi") and "Sun set in Goritzia" ("Jak słońce w Gorycji zachodzi"). Following general information about socio-cultural context in Slovenian part of Austria-Hungary on the turn of the 19th and 20th century, author is concerned on the way of representation of local rural community in Konopnicka's works
An analytical study of the theatre of the Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, with particular emphasis on the plays written after the 1967 war
No full textThis study is an examination of the life and work of
the Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous (1941-1997). Wannous's name is virtually unknown in the West; only two academic studies of any significance have appeared in English on this eminent and challenging writer, who was honoured by UNESCO at the end of his life. Even in the Arab world his standing rests largely upon his celebrity as a cultural icon, since professional performances of his plays are rare due to the decline of the theatre in the region, and little attention has been devoted to theatre studies by Arab academics. The two studies in English do not attempt to be comprehensive but focus on particular stages of Wannous's career. This study is, therefore, the first to encompass the full range of Wannous's work. To do so it combines an account of his life which seeks to comprehend the various forces that shaped his thinking with an analysis of his dramatic works. The study concentrates on the plays written in the years following the trauma inflicted on the Arab world by the catastrophe of their
defeat in the Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967. Wannous's career can be divided into three phases: the immature plays of his young manhood which are influenced by European models and generally focus on the social condition of the individual; his middle period - the `theatre of politicisation', when his Marxist politics were the main
factor shaping his drama; and his late works, which are characterised by an extraordinary freedom of thought and expression. The introduction places Wannous in his historical and sociocultural context and provides a brief background explaining the literary and theatrical traditions of the Arab world that influenced his activity as a dramatist. Each phase is then examined in turn and the plays are analysed in accordance with the focus of the study. This means that emphasis is given to the middle period,
but no significant work is neglected. The study aims to trace the trajectory of Wannous's development using a
variety of sources: the plays themselves, Wannous's own journalism and critical writings, interviews with his widow, his friends and colleagues, and numerous
journals, books and articles, some of which contain
important interviews with Wannous that shed light on his thought and ways of working. Use is also made of the
two studies mentioned above. The study shows that Wannous's theatre was influenced by the key political, social and cultural developments of his time, and that he
constantly sought to find forms that would express those transformations in dramatic terms
Red emitting silicones for particles detection: Coupling with APD
No full textUp to date, neutron detection has been relying on sophisticated and voluminous systems, employing toxic and awkward liquid scintillators and fragile expensive PMT. In order to overcome these main drawbacks, red emitting polysiloxane based solid scintillators have been developed and optimized for coupling with high responsivity APD, having higher External Quantum Efficiency (EQE) in the red region of the visible spectrum. Optical properties of phenyl substituted polysiloxane based matrices, doped with different amounts of three organic dyes (PPO, Basf Lumogen Violet® and Basf Lumogen Red®) have been investigated in order to optimize light output for detection with APD. Scintillation performances of these red emitting scintillators have been measured with alpha particles and gamma rays and compared with the previously developed blue emitting polysiloxane based scintillators, showing an improved scintillation light yield with APD detectors. The performances of this polysiloxane based materials in fast neutron detection have also been verified using time of flight (TOF) discrimination technique with a 2.32 MeV neutron beam. Finally, the possibility to achieve pulse shape discrimination with this innovative materials has been also explored, achieving very interesting preliminary results that pave the way to the use of polysiloxane based scintillators in a field where liquid scintillators have been so far the only competitor. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence
Daily and Seasonal Variation of Several Parameters Based on the Measured Deflection at the Edges of Different Types of Semi-rigid Pavements Transverse Cracks
No full textAbstractThere are around 30% semi-rigid pavements in the National Spanish Roads Network, being a composition of bituminous layers over cement treated layers. Those with more than 20 years in service were constructed with a high percentage of cement. As a result, thermal transverse cracks were reflected on the wearing course, which have to be sealed and reinforced periodically.This research is focused on transverse cracks edges daily and seasonal variation of Load Transfer (LT, %), Relative Deflection (RD, micrometer/micrometer) and Maximum Deflection (MD, micrometer), of four types of situations: thin cracks (width < 5 mm); wide cracks (width ≥ 5 mm); block cracks and fatigue cracks on the wheel-paths. For this purpose, eight sections of roads were chosen from thermal zones hot in summer and little rainy but cold in winter. The findings of this study have been the quantification of the transverse cracks pavement structural state in two scenarios referred as winter and summer conditions.Firstly, it was proved that the before mentioned structural parameters correlated with temperature. Secondly, these parameters daily and seasonal variations were defined. The main findings of this research are:•MD in semi-rigid pavements is even less than 200 micrometer after more than 20 years in service. Thus, LT and RD turn to be the main structural parameters to evaluate pavement bearing capacity close to thermal transverse cracks.•LT rises with temperature reaching 100% whereas RD decreases reaching almost 1 micrometer/micrometer, as well as, MD goes down up to the temperature turning point in which the bituminous layers influence is higher.•After more than 20 years in service, semi-rigid pavement road stretches could show good pavement structural state (that is, LT > 80%) measuring at any time in summer condition (average temperature 5 cm below the surface ≥ 20°C).•Crack sides MD measured with pavement temperature close to 20°C (reference temperature for Spanish standardized deflections) in winter condition (average temperature 5 cm below the surface < 20°C), could also show a good pavement structural state, MD < 300 micrometer.•If the worst structural pavement state needs to be evaluated, deflections should be measured on the front side cracks except for block shape cracks in winter condition and thinner cracks in both conditions.•Wide cracks LT experiences the greatest daily variation range among all crack types, from more than 20% to more than 30% in winter condition and thin cracks unseat them in summer condition with a daily variation range from almost10% to less than 20%.•Besides, wide cracks RD daily variation is the highest among all crack types in both conditions, ranging from a decrease of more than 0.30 micrometer/micrometer to more than 0.60 micrometer/micrometer in winter condition and half this range of values in summer condition
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
Essays on food security
No full textMy three dissertation essays explore food security questions in Ethiopia, Philippines and India. Specifically, I estimate how food security responds to (1) land degradation in Ethiopian highlands, (2) domestic marketing policies in Philippines, and (3) trade protection policies in India. In my first paper, I merge environmental maps with geographically coded farmer survey data in Ethiopian highlands to estimate the effect of land degradation on the value of agricultural production. Because land degradation may be endogenous to agricultural production choices, this analysis explicitly controls for endogeneity using bequests and type of energy used for cooking as instrumental variables. I find that land degradation reduces agricultural value by 4 percent, which is smaller than when endogeneity is not accounted for. I also generate a differential impacts map based on the estimates from the spatial weighted regression. By identifying those regions or sectors of Ethiopia most at risk of losing agricultural value from land degradation, this paper provides important information for targeting conservation measures. My second paper examines the effect of government grain
procurement and distribution in the Philippines. I use a structural Vector Autoregression model to estimate impacts of policy shocks on market prices and then use the estimates simulate ‘no policy’ prices. I compare the simulated ‘no policy’ prices with actual historical prices. I find that government activities have a very small impact on rice price levels and variability. Specifically, I find that the government’s activities only impacted food prices during the small number of years when the country was self-sufficient in production. Finally, in my third paper, I examine how trade policies, specifically export bans, affected domestic rice and wheat market integration in India. I verify that Indian markets maintain segmented equilibria by testing for and finding thresholds in a Threshold Vector Error Correction Model. More specifically I find that export bans may have had have had unintended consequences of increasing domestic price differences thereby resulting in the lack of domestic market integration. Since the decisions to use these blunt instruments are taken by domestic governments worldwide, studying the domestic effect of these policies has the potential to affect the use of these policies by other countries in the future.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2014-06-17T14:03:17Z
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Unraveling the mechanisms controlling Cd accumulation and Cd-tolerance in Brachiaria decumbens and Panicum maximum under summer and winter weather conditions
No full textWe evaluated the mechanisms that control Cd accumulation and distribution, and the mechanisms that protect the photosynthetic apparatus ofBrachiaria decumbensStapf. cv. Basilisk andPanicum maximumJacq. cv. Massai from Cd-induced oxidative stress, as well as the effects of simulated summer or winter conditions on these mechanisms. Both grasses were grown in unpolluted and Cd-polluted Oxisol (0.63 and 3.6 mg Cd kg(-1)soil, respectively) at summer and winter conditions. Grasses grown in the Cd-polluted Oxisol presented higher Cd concentration in their tissues in the winter conditions, but the shoot biomass production of both grasses was not affected by the experimental conditions. Cadmium was more accumulated in the root apoplast than the root symplast, contributing to increase the diameter and cell layers of the cambial region of both grasses. Roots ofB. decumbenswere more susceptible to disturbed nutrients uptake and nitrogen metabolism than roots ofP. maximum. Both grasses translocated high amounts of Cd to their shoots resulting in oxidative stress. Oxidative stress in the leaves of both grasses was higher in summer than winter, but only inP. maximumsuperoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activities were increased. However, CO(2)assimilation was not affected due to the protection provided by reduced glutathione (GSH) and phytochelatins (PCs) that were more synthesized in shoots than roots. In summary, the root apoplast was not sufficiently effective to prevent Cd translocation from roots to shoot, but GSH and PCs provided good protection for the photosynthetic apparatus of both grasses.This study was supported by Sao Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP (grants #2017/11299-8 and #2018/07190-3) and by the Hasselt University Methusalem project 08M03VGRJ. The authors thank the Profs Francisco Jose Krug, Jose Albertino Bendassolli and Paulo Cesar Ocheuze Trivelin, the lab technicians Aparecida de Fatima Patreze and Liz Mary Bueno de Moraes, and the master Nicolas Braga Casarin from CENA/USP for their contribution in the nutritional and delta15N isotopic analyses; and Rodrigo Hideki Mano from ESALQ/USP for his contribution in the study conduction. We also thank to Centro de Microscopia e Imagem (FOP/UNICAMP) and NAP/MEPA (ESALQ/USP) for the access to Transmission and Scanning electron microscopies, respectively. Ricardo Antunes Azevedo thanks Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico - CNPq (grant #303749/2016-4) for the research fellowship.Rabelo, FHS (corresponding author), Univ Sao Paulo, Coll Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba, Brazil; Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [email protected]
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