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The elegies of Ted Hughes
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the ‘actual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dream’. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is ๐mate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
Opening Session/Lunch
No full textTed Ownby, introduction. Great Wrongs?: Writers\u27 Expectations, Publishers\u27 Realities in Early America , David D. Hall. Lunch hosted by Julia Rholes, Dean of University Librarie
Appraisal report of Bandon State Natural Area, Coos County, Oregon
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 5, 2013)"Date of valuation: April 7, 2011."Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection
Design of 50nm Vertical MOSFET Incorporating a Dielectric Pocket
No full textA new architecture for a vertical MOS transistor is proposed that incorporates a so-called dielectric pocket (DP) for suppression of short channel effects and bulk punch-through. We outline the advantages that the DP brings and propose a basic fabrication process to realize the device. The design issues of a 50-nm channel device are addressed by numerical simulation. The gate delay of an associated CMOS inverter is assessed in the context of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors and the vertical transistor is seen to offer considerable advantages down to the 100-nm node and beyond due to the dual channels and the ability to produce a 50-nm channel length with more relaxed lithography
The policy background to Sure Start
No full textBook synopsis: Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) was a major strategic effort by New Labour towards ending child poverty. By changing the way services were delivered to children under four and their families, through targeting and empowering highly-deprived small geographic areas, SSLPs were intended to enhance child, family and community functioning. Following 5 years of systemic research exploring the efficacy and impact of this grand experiment, this book pulls together, in a single volume, the results of the extensive National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS).
The book reviews the history of policies pertaining to child health and well being which preceded and set the stage for Sure Start. It provides insight into how SSLPs were expected to function and how they actually operated, both in terms of their strengths, weaknesses and costs. The contributors examine the nature of the communities in which these programmes were situated and how they changed over time; present the early effects of SSLPs on children and families, with evidence highlighting some small beneficial effects and some small deleterious ones and extract specific features of SSLPs that contributed to whether individual programmes benefited children and families, providing a guide for the revision of programmes and policies.
With a foreword from Naomi Eisdenstadt, former Director of the Sure Start Programme and concluding chapter by Prof. Sir Michael Rutter, member of the government's scientific advisory board overseeing NESS, this book provides an insightful critique of SSLP policy and NESS that will be of interest to students of child development, families and communities, as well as policymakers and policy scholars, local and national providers of services to children and families and evaluation specialists
Asymmetric gate induced drain leakage and body leakage in vertical MOSFETs with reduced parasitic capacitance
No full textVertical MOSFETs, unlike conventional planar MOSFETs, do not have identical structures at the source and drain, but have very different gate overlaps and geometric configurations. This paper investigates the effect of the asymmetric source and drain geometries of surround-gate vertical MOSFETs on the drain leakage currents in the OFF-state region of operation. Measurements of gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) and body leakage are carried out as a function of temperature for transistors connected in the drain-on-top and drain-on-bottom configurations. Asymmetric leakage currents are seen when the source and drain terminals are interchanged, with the GIDL being higher in the drain-on-bottom configuration and the body leakage being higher in the drain-on-top configuration. Band-to-band tunneling is identified as the dominant leakage mechanism for both the GIDL and body leakage from electrical measurements at temperatures ranging from ?50 to 200?C. The asymmetric body leakage is explained by a difference in body doping concentration at the top and bottom drain–body junctions due to the use of a p-well ion implantation. The asymmetric GIDL is explained by the difference in gate oxide thickness on the vertical (110) pillar sidewalls and the horizontal (100) wafer surface
Single, double and surround gate vertical MOSFETs with reduced parasitic capacitance
No full textThe vertical MOSFET structure is one of the solutions for reducing the channel length of transistors under 50nm. Surround gates can be easily realised in vertical MOSFETs which offer increased channel width per unit silicon area. In this paper, a low overlap capacitance, surround gate, vertical MOSFET technology is presented. A new process that uses spacer or fillet local oxidation is developed to reduce the overlap capacitance between the gate and the source/drain electrodes. Electrical characteristics of surround gate n-MOSFETs are presented and compared with characteristics from single gate and double gate devices on the same wafer. Transistors with channel length down to 100nm have been realised. They show good symmetry between the source on top and source on bottom configuration and subthreshold slope down to 100mV. The short channel effects of the surround gate MOSFETs are investigated
創新生態系統的建構 : 以TED為例
No full text碩士世界正由知識經濟轉型成內容(或創意)經濟。創新的重要性也因而一直逐漸被重視與珍視。提到創新，就想到TED。截至2012年底，TED Talks觀看次數已累積有十億。TED吸引那些願意學習與分享點子的人。這些人集結起來成為一個群體，我們稱之為TED社群。TED社群成為TED創新中強而有力的基石。本研究意圖從生態系統的角度來探討創新。這方面的先驅者非英國BOP Consulting主席John Howkins莫屬，其於2009年提出創意生態的概念。由於目前針對創新生態系統的研究仍然屈指可數，因此本研究試著以TED為例子建構創新生態系統。
本研究採用質化研究中個案研究的方法。資料蒐集的方法有觀察法、次級資料法、訪談法。研究者藉由參加TEDx活動獲得TED體驗以及聆聽John Howkins講座來進行現場觀察。此外，研究者找尋所有TED相關資料以刻劃出本研究之研究架構。最後，從被訪談人身上蒐取相關初級資料。被訪談人及單位包含了John Howkins、兩位TEDx活動的策展人、一位TED的高階主管以及HP公司。
最後，本研究建立以TED為中心的創新生態系統的研究架構。本研究認為群眾、光線、慾望這三個元素支持這個創新生態系統運作。而群眾中的六個角色則是生態系統中的有機體。而這生態系統也具有自給自足、自我組織、自我修復以及人才培育等四項特質。研究架構以TED為中心，因而本研究也設想此觀點能否運用至TED與企業的合作。因而另外探討了TED的延伸構造以及TED的創新在企業創新策略上的應用。首先，本研究認為企業能透過TED聯繫TED社群，也可以直接與間接的接觸到非TED社群。第二，本研究運用IPO模型，認為企業可以成功的將TED融入其創新策略裡。The knowledge economy is shifting into the content (or creative) economy. The importance of innovation has been increasingly accentuated and valued. When it comes to innovation, TED is what pops into everyone’s mind. At the end of 2012, TED Talks have hit one billion views. TED draws those who are willing to learn and share ideas into its community, the so-called TED community. The TED community, therefore, becomes the solid foundation of TED’s innovation. The study attempts to study innovation from the perspective of ecosystem. John Howkins (2009), the Chairman of BOP Consulting and the forerunner in that regard, advanced the creative ecologies. In addition to his theory, there is little research on innovation ecosystem. With a view to this, the research essays to construct the innovation ecosystem, based on TED.
This study accepts the case study method of the qualitative research, ergo. Also, this study collected the relevant materials by means of observation, second data study, and interview. The researcher proceeded on-spot observation for acquiring a TED experience by attending TEDx events and gaining insight for creative ecologies by participating in one John Howkins’ speech. Also, the researcher searched for every possible piece of information about TED to carve out frameworks of the research. In the end, the researcher obtained the primary data from the interviewees, pertaining to the research. They include John Howkins, two organizers of TEDx events, one executive officer of TED, and Hewlett-Packard.
Finally, the research established the TED-centered innovation ecosystem. The researcher believes that three elements - crowd, light, and desire - back up the innovation ecosystem of TED. It is interesting that six roles of the crowd provide the organisms in TED''s innovation ecosystem. The ecosystem is self-fueling, self-organizing and self-restoring, and develops talents. The research framework is oriented toward TED. The researcher wondered whether this perspective can be applied to the cooperation between TED and enterprises, so both the extensional structure of TED and TED’s application to the corporate innovation strategy were also discussed. First, the researcher holds that the enterprise can reach out to the TED community via TED and to the non-TED communities directly or indirectly via the TED community. Second, the researcher drew on the IPO (Input-Process-Output) model and had faith in the presumption that an enterprise can successfully merge TED into its corporate strategy on innovation.I. Introduction 1
1.1 General Background Information 1
1.2 Establishing a Niche 4
1.3 Research Purpose 4
1.4 Research Questions 5
1.5 Value of Research 6
1.6 Overview 6
1.7 Research Flow Chart 6
II. Literature Review 8
2.1 Innovation 8
2.1.1 Definition of Innovation 8
2.1.2 Sources of Innovation 10
2.1.3 Types of Innovation 11
2.1.3.1 Management Innovation 11
2.1.3.2 Disruptive Innovation 12
2.1.3.3 Value Innovation 12
2.1.3.4 Open Innovation 13
2.1.3.5 Democratizing Innovation 13
2.1.3.6 Others 14
2.2 Ecosystem 17
2.2.1 Definition of Ecosystem 17
2.2.2 Definition of Business Ecosystem 18
2.2.3 Definition of Innovation Ecosystem 21
III. Methodology 25
3.1 Research Design 25
3.2 Interviewees 27
3.3 Instruments 28
3.3.1 Interview Outline for John Howkins 28
3.3.2 Interview Outline for TEDxTokyo 28
3.3.3 Interview Outline for TED, TEDxTaipei and Enterprise 29
3.4 Data Collection Procedure 30
3.4.1 Observation 30
3.4.2 Second Data Study 32
3.4.3 Interview 32
3.5 Conceptual Framework 33
IV. Research Results and Analysis 34
4.1 TED Conferences, LLC 34
4.1.1 Background 34
4.1.2 TED Initiatives 36
4.1.3 TED Partnerships 40
4.1.4 Development of TED 43
4.1.5 TED’s Magic for Attracting Eager Minds 44
4.1.6 Comments about TED 46
4.1.7 Crowd-Accelerated Innovation and the Online Videos 46
4.2 Results 50
4.2.1 TED-Centered Innovation Ecosystem 50
4.2.2 Extension Structure of TED 54
4.2.3 Application to Corporate Innovation Strategy 61
4.3 Analysis 70
4.3.1 TED-Centered Innovation Ecosystem 70
4.3.2 Extension Structure of TED 73
4.3.3 Application to Corporate Innovation Strategy 78
V. Discussion and Conclusions 83
5.1 Conclusions 83
5.2 Limitations of the Study 84
5.3 Suggestions for Future Research 85
References 87
Appendix A: Interview Outline for John Howkins, the Chairman of BOP Consulting 94
Appendix B: Interview Outline for Patrick Newell, the Cofounder of TEDxTokyo 95
Appendix C: Interview Outline for Jason Hsu, the Curator of TEDxTaipei 97
Appendix D: Interview Outline for Ronda Carnegie, the Head of Global Partnership of TED 100
Appendix E: Interview Outline for Enterprise 104
Appendix F: Photo with Patrick Newell, the Cofounder of TEDxTokyo 106
Appendix G: Photo with Jason Hsu, the Curator of TEDxTaipei 106
Appendix H: Observation of TEDxTaipei Event Themed with “City with Heartbeats” 107
List of Figures
Figure 1-1: Research flow chart 7
Figure 2-1: Elements of the innovation ecosystem 22
Figure 2-2: The innovation ecosystem by Wang 24
Figure 4-1: TED conference attendees by occupation 37
Figure 4-2: Crowd-accelerated innovation 49
Figure 4-3: The framework of TED-centered innovation ecosystem 72
Figure 4-4: Extensional structure of TED 77
Figure 4-5: TED’s application to the corporate innovation strategy 82
List of Tables
Table 3-1: Interviewees whom the research targeted 27
Table 3-2: TEDx Events that the researcher observed 31
Table 3-3: John Howkins’ speech that the researcher observed 31
Table 4-1: 10 things that a partner enterprise can do 41
Table 4-2: TED’s major development 43學號: 600550015, 學年度: 10
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