263 research outputs found
Portrait of Dymphna Cusack, author [picture]
No full textCondition: Good.; Part of collection: Ion Idriess glass plate negative collection.; Title from signature on image.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3299415. "My love, Dymphna Cusack 1954"--signature on image
Jeremy Cusack's Quick Files
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Jeremy Cusack's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
AUT786721_Lay_Abstract – Supplemental material for Making the future together: Shaping autism research through meaningful participation
No full textSupplemental material, AUT786721_Lay_Abstract for Making the future together: Shaping autism research through meaningful participation by Sue Fletcher-Watson, Jon Adams, Kabie Brook, Tony Charman, Laura Crane, James Cusack, Susan Leekam, Damian Milton, Jeremy R Parr and Elizabeth Pellicano in Autism</p
Honour and recognition in the German novel of banditry ca 1800
No full textThis article performs a reading informed by Honneth’s theory of recognition of the two best-known German novels of banditry of the 1790s, Johann Heinrich Zschokke’s Abaellino der große Bandit (1794) and Christian August Vulpius’ Rinaldo Rinaldini (1799) in an effort to understand how popular literature participates in and reflects upon the discourse on honour and recognition around 1800. Its status as popular genre makes the novel of banditry (Räuberroman) a potentially interesting source on shifts in the theory and practice of honour as experienced by ordinary Europeans at the turn of the 19th century. The genre was found to relate to the honour discourse not directly, but in the manner of a heterotopia, simultaneously located outside that discourse and referentially connected to it. Taken in isolation, the novel of banditry is not an informative source on the changing role of honour and new patterns of intersubjective recognition in late 18th century Europe. Seen as part of a particular constellation of textual production and reception, however, the genre sheds light on the aporias of honour experienced by those socially marginal ‘new readers’ intent on exploiting literature in the struggle for enhanced social recognition.Peer reviewe
Deutsch-britische Kulturvermittlung in Mary Shelleys Reisebericht Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)
No full textMary Shelly's travelogue Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) is usually read as a travelogue of Italy and its significance as the author's political manifesto is emphasized (Moskal 2003). Indeed, Shelly deals with the Italian struggle for freedom and expresses her own political views. This was made possible not least by the genre of the travelogue, which, in its position between fact and fiction, also enabled women of the time to penetrate the otherwise male-dominated political sphere (Butler 2021).
However, Rambles is not only a political book, but also a very personal one, as critics have noted. Around 20 years after the death of her husband, Shelley travels to Italy again for the first time with her adult son and his friends (and again two years later, both trips are described in Rambles), making it an emotionally charged journey. The author also takes an in-depth look at art and life in Italy.
However, the travelogue is not only about Italy, but also, as the title suggests, about Germany and Austria. Shelley does not stay long in the latter country; it is after all one of the oppressors of the Italians striving for freedom and is therefore often mentioned critically in the text. And yet the author records her positive impressions of the Salzkammergut and Tyrol.
In 1842, Shelley took a six-week cure for her persistent headaches in (Bad) Kissingen, and part of her report is devoted to this stay and the other stops in Germany (including Frankfurt, Mainz, Berlin, Weimar and Dresden). The stay at the spa forms the middle piece of the travelogue and thus lies "within the book's trajectory to Rome" (253), as Jeanne Moskal has noted. However, Shelley's chapters on Germany not only offer insights into the world of German spas, whose descriptions, as Beth Dolan Kautz has shown, are characterized by military metaphors. The author also visits museums – in Berlin and Dresden – and reports on the works of art she has seen. She also listens to music and visits the homes of Goethe and Schiller in Weimar. She comments on all this with references to the authors' works and her own assessment of their works.
Although Shelley's primary interest (and apparently also that of her audience) is Italy – even the chapters on Germany are full of comparisons with the bel paese – an entire section of the three-part travelogue is devoted to Germany. In contrast to most analyses of The Rambles, this contribution focuses on this part and asks about Shelley's role as a cultural mediator between Germany and Britain. Both the text and the reception of the report are used for the analysis
Sinking budgets and ballooning prices: Recent developments connected to military spending
No full textMilitary spending in the West generally declined after the Cold War. Given the economic pressures that many of these states confronted, they can be said to have experienced a fortuitous conjunction of lessening security demands with stable if not rising pressures to allocate more resources to social purposes. However, with declining financial resources a good part of military capital in these countries was reduced and most of what remains is growing obsolete. The excessive rise in relative prices associated with major military capital items, a rise only partially associated with an increase in real effectiveness, poses a challenge for many of these states if they are to retain their capacity to provide in some meaningful way for their own military defense. -- Nach Ende des Kalten Krieges sind allgemein in der westlichen Welt die Militärausgaben gesunken. Angesichts des wirtschaftlichen Drucks, dem sich viele dieser Länder ausgesetzt sahen, kann man sagen, dass dies Ergebnis eines zufälligen Zusammentreffens mehrerer Faktoren ist: geringere Sicherheitsanforderungen treffen auf gleich bleibende bzw. sogar zunehmende Forderungen nach alternativer Budgetverwendung, beispielsweise mehr Mittelausgaben für soziale Zwecke. Durch die verringerten Finanzmittel für die Verteidigung wurde jedoch ein großer Teil der militärischen Waffensysteme reduziert, der verbliebene Rest ist zum größten Teil veraltet. Die relativen Preise für Waffensysteme sind jedoch exzessiv gestiegen, ohne dass diese auf einem gleich großen Anstieg der tatsächlichen Effektivität der Waffensysteme beruhen. So stellt es für viele dieser Staaten eine große Herausforderung dar, wenn sie ihre Fähigkeit bewahren wollen, auf sinnvolle Weise für ihre eigene militärische Sicherheit zu sorgen.Military Spending,Weapon Systems,Military Personnel,Inflation,Conscription,East-West-Conflict
African Journal of Ecology special section-Camera trapping in Africa
No full textFirst paragraph: Camera trapping is now firmly established as one of the most useful tools with which to study biodiversity, and terrestrial mammals in particular. This themed issue brings together reviews and empirical studies that illustrate the breadth and depth of camera trap applications, with a focus on the African continent.Output Type: Editoria
Camera trapping in Africa: Paving the way for ease of use and consistency
No full textFirst paragraph: Camera traps—and the data they generate—continue to revolutionise the way we study and monitor terrestrial mammals across the globe, from its poles to its highest mountain tops. Such monitoring is crucial at a time of unprecedented biodiversity loss (Ceballos, Ehrlich, & Dirzo, 2017) and need for reliable ecological information to support environmental policy. In this context, camera trapping has proven to be a very versatile tool, allowing detailed studies of animal behaviour, species populations and ecological communities, including how these respond to anthropogenic pressures (Burton et al., 2015). This versatility has resulted in a myriad of different camera models, study designs, data treatment software and analysis methods being applied to systems all across the world. While this is good news for small‐scale decision‐making, there is a growing call for the standardisation of camera trap studies globally, including field protocols, databases, metadata and analyses (Steenweg et al., 2017). Such a standardised approach has already provided invaluable insights into global mammal community patterns (Ahumada et al., 2011), mammalian carnivore distribution and co‐occurrence (Davis et al., 2018; Rich et al., 2017), and paved the way for an early warning system for defaunation in tropical rainforests (Rovero & Ahumada, 2017)
J Environ Health
No full textAs part of our continued effort to highlight innovative approaches to improve the health and environment of communities, the | is pleased to publish regular columns from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ATSDR serves the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances. The purpose of this column is to inform readers of ATSDR's activities and initiatives to better understand the relationship between exposure to hazardous substances in the environment, its impact on human health, and how to protect public health. The conclusions of this column are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of ATSDR or CDC. Caroline Cusack is an epidemiologist at ATSDR. Marian Pavuk is a lead epidemiologist at ATSDR. Nina Dutton and Tara Serio are Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellows at ATSDR. Eric Yang is currently a statistical analyst at Aspen Dental Management, Inc.CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States
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