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Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Athaliah and Alexandra: Gender and Queenship in Josephus [Author Accepted Manuscript]
No full textAthaliah and Alexandra were the only two women to rule as queens of Judah/Judaea in their own right and both women’s reigns are reported in Josephus’ writings. Despite their uniqueness, however, Athaliah and Alexandra are rarely compared in scholarship; the former is usually dismissed, and focus centred on the latter. This article contends that there are historical similarities between the two, but literary differences. Josephus could have referred to Athaliah or used elements of her portrayal in his presentation of Alexandra but does not, creating the impression that Alexandra was completely different to her predecessor. It may be instructive, therefore, to consider why Josephus literarily isolates the queens and what this means for his interpretation of Alexandra
Ferromagnetism and magnetic anisotropy in exfoliated flakes of CrTe2
No full textAuthor Alexandra Wagner, BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Scoloplos acutissimus Hartmann-Schroder 1991
No full textScoloplos acutissimus Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 (Figs 1, 2, 12 A) Scoloplos acutissimus Hartmann-Schröder, 1991: 48 –49, figs 73–80. Type material. Holotype: ZMH P– 20562 (photographed). Other material examined. AM W. 44175, MI QLD 2366 (photographed); AM W. 44175.001, tissue for molecular study; MI QLD 2340, unregistered posterior end used for molecular analysis; AM W. 44248, MI QLD 2373; AM W. 46090, MI QLD 2376 (3, 1 photographed); AM W. 46091, MI QLD 2378 (6); AM W. 46092, MI QLD 2422 (12); AM W. 46096, MI QLD 2429 (20, 1 photographed using SEM); AM W. 46097, MI QLD 2432 (3); AM W. 44940, MI QLD 2433 (6); AM W. 44942, MI QLD 2439 (3, 1 photographed). Examination of type material. Holotype incomplete, thoracic width 0.8 mm, with flattened thorax. Eighteen thoracic chaetigers on right side and 19 thoracic chaetigers on left side. Branchiae starting from chaetiger 17. Three or four rows of hooks and one posterior row of capillary chaetae in thoracic neuropodia; thoracic neuropodia with one podal papilla, no subpodal papillae. Anterior abdominal neuropodia with very big subpodal flange and developed subpodal notch, well developed long subequal outer and inner lobes. Notopodial lobes narrow, digitiform. Branchiae longer than notopodia. In posterior abdominal segments neuropodia with shorter lobes, inner lobes round and wider than outer. Description. (Lizard Island material) Body long, slender; thorax slightly flattened, abdomen cylindrical (Figs 1 A, 2 A). Colour in life pale yellowish-brown with red blood vessels and yellow gut content (Fig. 12 A). Thoracic width up to 0.9 mm. Prostomium sharply conical with drawn out tapering tip (Fig. 2 B). Peristomium with pair of dorso-lateral nuchal organs (Fig. 2 B). Thoracic chaetigers numbering 14–20 (usually 17–19) (Table 3). Branchiae starting from penultimate thoracic chaetiger (Fig. 1 A, Table 3), usually chaetiger 16–18 (13 in smallest specimen). First branchiae small and digitiform; becoming larger and triangular in anterior abdomen; then long, strap-like, markedly wider and longer than notopodia, in middle and posterior abdomen (Figs 1 G, H, 2 I). Thoracic postchaetal lobes well developed from chaetiger 1 (neuropodia) or 2 (notopodia) (Figs 1 D, E, 2 B). Notopodial lobes short and papilliform in anterior thorax; gradually increasing in length, becoming digitiform, as long as branchiae in posterior thorax (Figs 1 A–C, E–G, 2 C, D, F). Lateral organs below notopodia of all segments well developed (Fig. 2 B, D). Thoracic neuropodial postchaetal lobes round papilliform, in posterior thorax becoming elongated and arising from low ridge, more developed below papilla (mammiform shape) (Figs 1 C, E–G, 2 C, D, F). No subpodal or stomach papillae. Abdominal notopodial lobes narrow, lanceolate, shorter than branchiae (Figs 1 H, 2 I). Abdominal neuropodia supported one thin acicula and bilobed with subequal lobes; inner lobe rounded, slightly longer and thicker than outer one (Figs 1 H, I, 2 C, I). Parapodial flange well developed, with deep notch and round upper margin without flange papilla (Fig. 1 H, I). Ciliated dorsal organs with two short ciliated strips present middorsally (Fig. 2 I, J). Thoracic notopodia bearing only crenulate capillary chaetae; neuropodia with 3–4 anterior rows of hooks and one posterior row of capillaries, neuropodial lobe located on same level as capillary chaetae in middle of row (Figs 1 C, E–G, 2 B–G); hooks in anterior chaetigers slightly curved, serrated with 4 denticles; in posterior thoracic chaetigers hooks almost straight, smooth, hooded, very short in anterior row; in one or two last thoracic chaetigers hooks replaced by capillary chaetae (Figs 1 C, E–G, 2 B–G). In abdomen both rami bearing thin capillaries, besides forked chaetae present in notopodia (Fig. 2 H) and flail chaetae in neuropodia (Fig. 1 H, J). Pygidium with two long anal cirri (Fig. 2 K). Remarks. Scoloplos acutissimus was described by Hartmann-Schröder (1991) from Gladstone, Queensland and has not been recorded since this study. Re-examination of holotype revealed higher number of thoracic chaetigers (18 / 19 vs 17) than originally reported. Lizard Island material had up to 20 thoracic chaetigers (Table 3). The newly collected specimens correspond well with the original description and the type material which was examined. The variability in the number of thoracic chaetigers and in the location of the first pair of branchiae was investigated for 26 specimens (Table 3). The pygidium and anal cirri are described for the first time. Type locality. Gladstone, Queensland. Distribution. Gladstone, Lizard Island, Queensland. Molecular analyses. The analysis of the sequence data for the 18 S rRNA, 16 S rRNA and CO 1 gene has shown (with a good support for 18 S and 16 S) that all trees include the clade that contains Scoloplos armiger, S. acmeceps, and Leitoscoloplos pugettensis (Figs 13–15). In CO 1 analysis this clade also included S. acutus. In the CO 1 and 16 S analyses Scoloplos acutissimus joined the Scoloplos armiger-S. acmeceps-Leitoscoloplos pugettensis clade (Figs 14, 15). However the analysis of the sequence data for 18 S rRNA gene (Fig. 13) showed that Scoloplos acutissimus was not included in this clade, but with low support it was likely in the same clade as representatives of the genera Nainereis, Orbinia, Leodamas, Phylo and others instead; the same clade contains Scoloplos dayi, S. normalis, Leitoscoloplos robustus and L. fragililis.Published as part of Zhadan, Anna, Stupnikova, Alexandra & Neretina, Tatiana, 2015, Orbiniidae (Annelida: Errantia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia with notes on orbiniid phylogeny, pp. 773-801 in Zootaxa 4019 (1) on pages 779-781, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.27, http://zenodo.org/record/23840
Alexandra Walsham, Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain
No full textSince the publication of her Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England (1993), the prolific Alexandra Walsham has never stopped adding nuances to our understanding of early modern English Catholicism. She is also the author of Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford UP, 1999), Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England 1500-1700 (Manchester UP, 2006) and The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Mode..
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