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Grey Systems Analysis
No full textThis open access book is the 2nd edition involving the update on data, methods and models of Grey Systems. It covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems from across the world, and vividly presents the reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier research. Many of the concepts, models and methods in the book are original by the author, including kernel, degree of greyness of grey number, simplified form of grey number, general grey number and the operation system; the axiomatic system of buffer operators and a series of weakening and strengthening buffer operators; a series of grey relational analysis models, including grey absolute, relative, synthetic, similarity, closeness, negative, three dimension, and grey relational analysis model for cross-sequences, etc.; grey fixed weight clustering model, grey evaluation models based on center-point and end-point mixed possibility functions; original difference grey model (ODGM), even difference grey model (EDGM), discrete grey model (DGM), fractional grey models, self-memory grey models; multi-attribute weighted intelligent grey target decision models, kernel weight vector group and the weighted comprehensive clustering coefficient vector, and spectrum analysis of sequence operators, etc. The revision includes: (1) Added new achievements made in recent years, such as the moving average denoise operator, a series of negative grey relational models, grey relational model for cross-sequences, standard uncertainty numbers and their operations, adaptive Grey Prediction Models and so on; (2) Important data related to the development of grey system theory has been updated; (3) Research reviews have been added to each chapter, and a large number of references have been added; (4)Updated application examples of commonly used models and methods. This book will be appropriate as a reference and/or textbook for courses of grey system theory for graduate students or high level undergraduate students, majoring in various fields of natural sciences, social sciences and engineering technology. It can also be utilized by researchers and technicians in research institutions, business entities, and government agencies
Tied Up In Knots: Irony, Ambiguity, and the 'Difficult' Pleasures of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
No full textUpon its release in February 2015, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey met with vehement critical derision, finding itself reproached on both artistic and ideological grounds. While the precise focus of this indignation varied between reviews, complaints broadly fell into three categories: (1) it isn’t titillating enough (2) it
is misogynistic, and (3) the love story and characters are clichéd and unrealistic.
In this article, however, I demonstrate that the film is far more sophisticated than it has been given credit for. Each of these ‘failings’, I argue, is in fact a symptom of its unconventional identificatory strategy, whereby the film aligns the spectator with Ana’s (Dakota Johnson) subjectivity and invites us to share in her
fluctuating and often contradictory emotions. Seen from this perspective, for example, Christian’s (Jamie Dornan) misogyny becomes the central problem to be resisted and tackled, not an ideological position that we are unproblematically asked to accept.
I combine my analysis of the film’s ‘difficult’ identificatory strategy with an exploration of its critical reception, in order to open up a discussion of how and why critics negotiated these ostensibly negative emotions. Doing so, I argue, requires a considerable amount of interpretive labour, especially in the context of the
film’s widespread critical dismissal, but also because of the complex way in which the movie uses irony both to distance and engage the spectator (cf. Sconce 2002; Plantinga 2009; Lübecker 2015). I argue that the result of these contradictions and ambiguities is that it is often difficult to know how one is supposed to feel towards
these two characters and their relationship at any one time.
Ultimately, the article is an exploration of the interpretive processes involved in taking pleasure from a ‘difficult’, ambiguous and often contradictory film
[Additional Report on Officer's Duties by Marvin Johnson #1]
No full textAdditional information on the Report on Officer's duties by Marvin Johnson, in regards to the President's murder. The information is concerning the distance between the Texas School Book Depository, Market Hall, Parkland Hospital, and the Grey Hound Bus Station
[Additional Report on Officer's Duties by Marvin Johnson #2]
No full textAdditional information on the Report on Officer's duties by Marvin Johnson, in regards to the President's murder. The information is concerning the distance between the Texas School Book Depository, Market Hall, Parkland Hospital, and the Grey Hound Bus Station
Zane Grey photograph
No full textThis photograph shows Zane Grey and one of his two sons, Lauren or Romer, looking at a map. Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Grey), (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author born in Zanesville, Ohio. He wrote popular adventure books and stories of the American frontier.
After marrying his wife, Lina Elise (Dolly) Grey (1883-1957), the couple settled Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. In addition to raising their three children, Lina became Grey's manager and supporter, and edited his manuscripts.
Grey self-published his first book "Betty Zane" in 1903 only to become the bestselling fiction author in the world during his lifetime, his most respected work being "Riders of the Purple Sage", published in 1912. In 1918 the Greys moved to California where the author formed his own motion picture company. Grey was a very prolific writer. During his 37 years of writing career, Grey published close to 70 novels, 12 non-fiction books, 250 short works, and 4 boy books. A number of his novels were converted into over 100 Western movies. He is considered to be one of the major literary influences on the film industry in Hollywood.
The Greys' house in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania has been preserved as the Zane Grey Museum and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Zane Grey on horseback
No full textZane Grey pictured on horseback on the set of the film version of Riders of the Purple Sage, 1918.
Grey, born Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939), was an American author born in Zanesville, Ohio. He wrote popular adventure books and stories of the American frontier. After marrying his wife, Lina Elise (Dolly) Grey (1883-1957), the couple settled Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. In addition to raising their three children, Lina became Grey's manager and supporter, and edited his manuscripts. Grey self-published his first book "Betty Zane" in 1903 only to become the bestselling fiction author in the world during his lifetime, his most respected work being Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912. In 1918 the Greys moved to California where the author formed his own motion picture company. Grey was a very prolific writer. During his 37 years of writing career, Grey published close to 70 novels, 12 non-fiction books, 250 short works, and 4 boy's books. Over 100 Western movies were made using his novels as source material, and he is considered to be one of the major literary influences on the film industry in Hollywood
Zane Grey living room photograph
No full textThis photograph shows Zane Grey's living room in his Avalon, Catalina Island, California house, built in 1925. The house now serves as the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel.
Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Grey), (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author born in Zanesville, Ohio. He wrote popular adventure books and stories of the American frontier.
After marrying his wife, Lina Elise (Dolly) Grey (1883-1957), the couple settled Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. In addition to raising their three children, Lina became Grey's manager and supporter, and edited his manuscripts.
Grey self-published his first book "Betty Zane" in 1903 only to become the bestselling fiction author in the world during his lifetime, his most respected work being "Riders of the Purple Sage", published in 1912. In 1918 the Greys moved to California where the author formed his own motion picture company. Grey was a very prolific writer. During his 37 years of writing career, Grey published close to 70 novels, 12 non-fiction books, 250 short works, and 4 boy books. A number of his novels were converted into over 100 Western movies. He is considered to be one of the major literary influences on the film industry in Hollywood.
The Greys' house in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania has been preserved as the Zane Grey Museum and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Zane Grey playing baseball photograph
No full textThis photograph shows Zane Grey playing baseball, ca. 1895-1905. It was taken from a scrapbook kept during Grey's youth. Grey, an author of popular western novels, was from Zanesville, Ohio
The author/respondent relationship with grey literature : a study in unperformed informal communication
No full textThe author/respondant relationship with grey literature: a study in unperformed informal communication Grey literature is generally supposed to be a medium for informal scientific communication. I shall present the results of an empirical survey of the Information Centre for the Social Sciences (Bonn, F.R.G.) with 1,600 Social Scienctists showing a rather strange and contradictory situation: Although there are strong efforts towards the dissemination of grey literature, there is only very little feed back by the receivers of the papers no matter whether they are personally known to the author or not. The strangest result, however, is that the authors hardly make any use of this feed back, of critical remarks or suggestions, although they make strong efforts towards reworking their papers for subsequent formal publications. They change each and everything - text, data/tables, appendices etc. -, but communication does not seem to have any remarkable influence. So, what is the production and dissemination of GL for? What are the reasons and expectations of authors disseminating their papers (and ignoring the rare responses)? And, what are the normative orientations of the receivers responding or - usually - not responding to the literature? Are there perhaps orientations completely different from those that are suggested by our theories? A convincing answer, I presume, cannot been given as long as we conceptualize the whole connexion as a system only dedicated to one cognitve goal, i.e. informal communication. Instead, we have to admit that there is a complex, multi-functional system consisting of cognitive as well as of social functions, tasks, normative orientations etc.Includes: Conference preprint, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa
Zane Grey sports scrapbook
No full textThis is a photograph of a two-page spread of the sports scrapbook kept by a young Zane Grey, ca. 1890. Prior to becoming a well-known author of western novels, Ohio native Zane Grey was also a dentist and a semi-professional baseball player, with teams including the Orange Athletic Club and the Newark (New Jersey) Colts
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