127 research outputs found
LEIBBRANDT, Sidney Robey Inventory of documents
No full textCOVERAGE 1933-1965; 31 Files; 1,44 metres.
AUDIO CASSETTES IN ARCA COLLECTION = 2Private papers of S.R. Leibrandt, represented SA at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, SA Heavy Weight Boxing Champion [1936], National Socialist who received a life sentence in 1943, but was liberated in 1948 after the National Party victory, founder of the Anti-Kommunistiese Beskermingsfront in 1962, author of a series of pamphlets titled Ontwaak Suid-Afrika
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
No full textThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
EARTHQUAKE’S INSURABILITY
No full textIn the following pages, Mr. Robey introduces his subject by saying that we know the
earthquake event will occur and will cause important damage, but we do not know
when it will happen. Because we know its realisation, we can keep the damage to a
minimum. Since we know for sure that the earthquake will happen, cushioning the economic
impact and speeding recovery afterwards are just as important, and this is where
the insurance industry comes in.The author retraces the origin of protection against earthquake. He explains that the
trouble with earthquake insurability is determining a scientific model, making that
catastrophe event difficult to be rated and to be transferred to the reinsurance market.
He is questionning what the insurance industry does after such an event and also the
role il can play in loss mitigation.Dans les pages qui suivent, M. Rabey commence par mentionner que le risque de tremblement
de terre est bien connu et qu’il va se manifester de façon certaine et provoquer
des dommages importants. La seule inconnue est que nous ignorons la date exacte de
cette manifestation. Sachant en toute certitude qu’ils vont se produire, nous pouvons
donc maintenir les dommages au minimum, en modelisant leur impact économique et les
mesures subséquentes de recouvrement en toute célérité. Tel est l’objet de l’assurance.L’auteur retrace les origines de l’assurance des tremblements de terre. Il explique que
le problème de l’assurabilité de ce risque est de déterminer un modèle scientifique à la
mesure d’un tel événement scientifique difficile à évaluer et à transférer au marché de
la réassurance. Finalement, il s’interroge sur ce que peut faire l’industrie de l’assurance
suite à la réalisation du risque de tremblement de terre et du rôle qu’elle peut
jouer en minimisant les pertes
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
On the Design, Implementation, and Use of a Volume-of-fluid Interface Tracking Algorithm for Modeling Convection and Other Processes in the Earth’s Mantle
No full textIn this dissertation we describe the design, implementation, and use of a two-dimensional, second-order accurate volume-of-fluid interface tracking algorithm in the open source finite element software package ASPECT, which is designed to model convection and other processes in the Earth's mantle. This involves the solution of the incompressible Stokes equations coupled to an advection-diffusion equation for the temperature, a Boussinesq approximation that governs the dependence of the density on the temperature, and an advection equation for composition or some other quantity, such as volume fraction, which is passively advected in the underlying flow field. Our volume-of-fluid method is is fully parallelized and integrated with ASPECT's adaptive mesh refinement algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, the volume-of-fluid method has not yet been implemented in any other software, which is designed to model convection or other processes in the Earth's mantle. Furthermore we are not aware of any interface tracking methods that have been implemented in a finite element method code for use by the computational mantle convection community. In fact, we are only aware of one other interface tracking algorithm designed to model convection and other processes in the Earth's mantle and this interface tracking algorithm is implemented in a finite difference method rather than a finite element method. We review the history of the volume-of-fluid method and then describe in detail the the design and implementation of our volume-of-fluid algorithm in ASPECT. After introducing the underlying partial differential equations we use to model mantle convection, we present the results of several interface tracking benchmarks designed to demonstrate numerically that our volume-of-fluid methodology is indeed second-order accurate on smooth flows, as it was designed to be. In addition we demonstrate that our methodology accurately reproduces two benchmarks that are commonly used in the computational mantle convection community. We also present the results of two more realistic computations in geodynamics. The first of these problems is a survey of the behavior of a computationally stratified fluid for varying values of a nondimensional buoyancy parameter. This model problem is intended to provide insight into how thermal plumes, which eventually reach the Earth's surface where they melt to form ocean island basalts separate from structures near the core-mantle boundary, which are denser than the surrounding mantle. These structures, known as Large Low Shear wave Velocity Provinces or ``LLSVPs''. LLSVPs lie in parts of the lowermost portion of the Earth's mantle and are characterized by slow shear wave velocities and higher density than the surrounding mantle. They were first discovered by seismic tomography of the deep Earth. The second problem in computational mantle convection we present is that of a subducting slab. This computation is a basic model of, for example, the subduction of the Pacific tectonic plate beneath the South American tectonic plate. This problem involves a more complex material model than the other problems presented in this dissertation. The slab consists of an overriding crustal layer on top of a layer consisting largely of harzburgite thereby demonstrating how, with the aid of adaptive mesh refinement, one can use our volume-of-fluid methodology to track more than two materials in a single problem
Integrating Glasser Quality School Concepts Into Online Courses
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to provide information on how William Glasser's quality school concepts can be integrated into online classrooms. The author provides a historical background for the development of Glasser Quality Schools, including the conditions for quality and the criteria for becoming a quality school. The author will provide suggestions for creating online relationships, explain the concept of boss versus lead management, and give examples of how lead management is utilized in a quality school. The importance of making learning useful and relevant will be linked to student motivation. The self-evaluation process of assessment will be discussed and how self-evaluation can be integrated with feedback for continued improvement of outcomes and quality. Finally, the author will provide a problem-solving format that can be used by faculty, administration, and students. </jats:p
Le Cléo sera à la Maison française d'Oxford le 20 mai 2009
No full textMAISON FRANCAISE D'OXFORD is pleased to announce the following seminar: DIGITAL HUMANITIES SEMINAR Wednesday 29 April, 5.00 – 6.30pm ‘Digital Humanism’ Milad Doueihi, University of Glasgow, author of La grande conversion numérique, Paris, Seuil, 2008. * Wednesday 6 May, 10.00am – 6.00pm ‘Philosophy in the Digital Era’ A study day around the European project “Discovery” * Wednesday 13 May, 5.00 – 6.30pm ‘E-Science in the Arts and Humanities’ David Robey, Wolfson Colleg..
Counselor’s Personal Experience with Counseling
No full textApproximately 20 to 30 volunteer and paid community counselors were surveyed in this exploratory study by the author about their experiences with personal therapy and whether they believe they are more effective counselors as a result of their own therapy. The participants in the study were given two surveys. The first survey consisted of five multiple choice questions to measure the counselors own experience with therapy. The second survey consisted of eight short answer questions to measure the counselor’s beliefs about how their own personal therapy has affected their current work as a therapist. The participants in the study ranged from graduate student interns to professional counselors in the fields of counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapists. The author summarizes the prevalence of therapists receiving their own personal counseling, the benefits of counselor’s receiving personal therapy, and the overall affects it has on their effectiveness as a counselor. It should be noted that for this paper the words therapist, counselor, and psychotherapist are used interchangeably.SUNY BrockportCounselor EducationMaster of Science in Education (MSEd)Counselor Education Master's These
Counselor’s Personal Experience with Counseling
No full textApproximately 20 to 30 volunteer and paid community counselors were surveyed in this exploratory study by the author about their experiences with personal therapy and whether they believe they are more effective counselors as a result of their own therapy. The participants in the study were given two surveys. The first survey consisted of five multiple choice questions to measure the counselors own experience with therapy. The second survey consisted of eight short answer questions to measure the counselor’s beliefs about how their own personal therapy has affected their current work as a therapist. The participants in the study ranged from graduate student interns to professional counselors in the fields of counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapists. The author summarizes the prevalence of therapists receiving their own personal counseling, the benefits of counselor’s receiving personal therapy, and the overall affects it has on their effectiveness as a counselor. It should be noted that for this paper the words therapist, counselor, and psychotherapist are used interchangeably
Engaged Participant Observation: An Integrative Approach to Qualitative Field Research for Practitioner-Scholars
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Participant observation is an appropriate research method for engaged practitioner-scholars seeking in-depth insights available from qualitative field research. Conventional approaches to participant observation include ethnography and action research. However, conventional approaches were originally developed with the assumption that the roles of practitioner and scholar are separate. We propose a new approach, engaged participant observation, which recognizes the integration of research and practice roles. We illustrate the application of engaged participant observation, and its special demands, through a completed executive doctoral dissertation conducted by second author and supervised by the first author. We address the specific tensions and demands of engaged participant observation, including issues of identity work, potentially biased interpretation, ethical conduct, and publication. Our analysis provides pragmatic guidance for conducting qualitative data collection and analysis in organizations in which the researcher is an engaged participant
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