517 research outputs found
The journey is my home
No full textA creative writing thesis consisting of three interrelated essays.M.A.Reckoning -- The rifleman -- Yet another road trip storyby Tess Schaufle
Localizing Sources of Variability in Crowded TESS Photometry
No full textThe Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has an exceptionally large
plate scale of 21"/px, causing most TESS light curves to record the blended
light of multiple stars. This creates a danger of misattributing variability
observed by TESS to the wrong source, which would invalidate any analysis. We
develop a method that can localize the origin of variability on the sky to
better than one fifth of a pixel. Given measured frequencies of observed
variability (e.g., from periodogram analysis), we show that the corresponding
best-fit sinusoid amplitudes to raw light curves extracted from each pixel are
distributed the same as light from the variable source. The primary assumption
of this method is that other nearby stars are not variable at the same
frequencies. Essentially, we are using the high frequency resolution of TESS to
overcome limitations from its low spatial resolution. We have implemented our
method in an open source Python package, TESS Localize
(github.com/Higgins00/TESS-Localize), that determines the location of a
variable source on the sky given TESS pixel data and a set of observed
frequencies of variability. Our method utilizes the TESS Pixel Response
Function models, and we characterize systematics in the residuals of fitting
these models to data. Given the ubiquity of source blending in TESS light
curves, verifying the source of observed variability should be a standard step
in TESS analyses.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted by AJ, software located at
github.com/Higgins00/TESS-Localiz
The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
The Story of Tess
No full textWhenever "human actions are formed to make an art work," human meaning is involved, as the critic, Wayne Booth, points out in his classic, Rhetoric of Fiction (p. 397). One of the tasks that he charges an author with is the need to be clear in his values. He also charges that the author needs to "plumb to universal values about which his readers can really care" (p. 395). Given this, Tess of the d'Urbervilles becomes an intriguing work, for although Hardy draws on certain moral values which his readers can share, he intends to call these values into question. In the novel he endows the heroine, Tess, with certain moral attributes, but he also creates a narrator who, at every step, explains away the meaning of her actions through an amoral ontology. A reader can perceive the narrative's dual function, of showing value but also undercutting it, through a dissonance between Tess and the omniscient narrator. But for the reader, Tess simply comes alive, and takes on a moral significance that the narrator cannot perceive. Writers from time to time speak of such a phenomenon, that in creating a character, they produce something that takes on a life of its own. A character can come to life for a reader, that the author did not intend, and acquire its own authority, when the character’s experiences contradict narrative explanation. The paradox for a reader of Tess is that he or she both accepts and appreciates the story of Tess, but rejects the amoral vision of its implied author. My project is to investigate the conditions under which a reader can dissent ideologically from a work but still value it
An interview with Maine author Tess Gerritsen, who speaks about her acclaimed ne
No full textAn interview with Maine author Tess Gerritsen, who speaks about her acclaimed new novel, Vanish, and recommends books she might give for the holiday season
Profile of Tess Gerritsen of Camden, author of Harvest and Life Support. Ge
No full textProfile of Tess Gerritsen of Camden, author of Harvest and Life Support. Gerritsen, a native of California, is a former physician who writes medical thrillers
Pre-Assumption of Tess' Happy Ending as Seen in Tess of the D'ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
No full textThe object of this research is the struggle of women as reflected by the main character Hardy, namely Tess. The author intends to show how the picture of a woman who never gives up to get a decent life, even though in the end she chose the wrong decision and ended her own life.
The approach used in the analysis of women's struggles is a feminist approach, this is intended to provide an ideal view of women in literary works that are the object of male domination. In this research, the writer uses three methods: data collection by applying library research, data analysis using content analysis method that emphasizes the implied and explicit meaning in the fictional character of the literary work, and data representation by compiling the data obtained in systematic writing, namely thesis.
The author sees that the character of Tess, as a woman who never gives up in her life. He had made several fatal mistakes which later brought misery and his own end. If only Tess hadn't made that mistake her life would have been for the better. First, if Tess hadn't told her she'd been raped then Angel wouldn't have left her. Second, if Tess didn't reject Angel's intention to return then she would live happily with her husband. Third, if Tess hadn't killed Alec, then she wouldn't have been sentenced to death and could live her life with her husband Angel
Arts piece on a review of Maine crime author Tess Gerritsen\u27s new novel The S
No full textArts piece on a review of Maine crime author Tess Gerritsen\u27s new novel The Surgeon, which was written by Tory Haiss and published in the Maine Times issue of Oct. 18. Readers have accused the paper of being unprofessional and even of inciting harassment of Gerritsen. With samples of letters received by Maine Times protesting the Haiss review
Hermits and the Wells
No full textAn interview with children\u27s author Coby McKenzie on her background and illustration and publication process by Tess Hart
Math teacher professional development through lesson study: Chilean teachers’ perspectives
No full textSubmission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo termsThe student, Karie Brown-Tess, accepted the attached license on 2022-04-12 at 15:15.The student, Karie Brown-Tess, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2022-04-12 at 15:30.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2022-04-14 at 16:34.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17638 on 2022-11-14 at 17:33:34This dissertation examines how a team of five elementary mathematics teachers and their administrators engaged in the iterative process of Lesson Study for professional development over the course of a year. I use Andzaldúa’s conception of conocimiento, reimagined for math teacher learning by Gutiérrez, to analyze data and understand the ways this team of teachers co-created knowledge together. I used embedded Case Study design as outlined by Robert Stake, to look closely and responsively at teacher learning throughout the year. Teachers taught kindergarten to 8th grade mathematics. My fieldwork took place over 9 months, one school year, in a mid-sized Chilean town. Teaching experience in the team of teachers ranged from 2 years to 11 years, with an instructional coach (UTP) with 30 years of experience. Data includes recordings from planning meetings, public lessons/lessons, reflection meetings, focus groups and several sets of interviews including member checking interviews. Participant observations and artifacts from teacher notes and student work in the lessons was also captured and coded with themes of conocimiento/conocimiento. My analysis of the data shows how solidarity in the community of teachers provided obstacles and opportunity to engage in meaningful Lesson Study discussion
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