125 research outputs found
Kairab wins Beaird Closing Argument Competition
No full textFirst-year law student Haley K. Kairab is the winner of the School of Law\u27s 2020 J. Ralph Beaird 1L Closing Argument Mock Trial Tournament. Congratulations to all who competed, including finalist Donavan C. Juleus, on their performances
Kairab wins Beaird Closing Argument Competition
No full textFirst-year law student Haley K. Kairab is the winner of the School of Law\u27s 2020 J. Ralph Beaird 1L Closing Argument Mock Trial Tournament. Congratulations to all who competed, including finalist Donavan C. Juleus, on their performances
"These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead": redefining racial passing in the twentieth and twenty-first century literary imagination
No full textInstead of concurring with most critics that racial passing literature reached its apex during the Harlem Renaissance, this project highlights its persistence, as evidenced in the texts examined from 1900 to 2014. Using psychoanalysis, this dissertation recovers non-canonical and white-authored narratives that critics overlook, thus reconceptualizing the genre of passing literature to forge a new genealogy for this tradition. This new genealogy includes novels, life writings, and short stories. In arguing for the genre’s continued relevance and production, this project offers a rejoinder to critics who contend that racial passing literature is obsolete. Part one of this dissertation complicates the notion that characters pass only in response to witnessing a lynching or to improve their socioeconomic status, by asserting that racial passing begins in the classroom for male characters and at home for their female counterparts. It thus precedes the threat of violence or middle class aspirations. Whereas the first half of this project is preoccupied with the gendered beginnings of racial passing, the second half examines its effects, on both writing and death. This project explores racial passing in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (1900), James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun (1929), Vera Caspary’s The White Girl (1929), Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s The Stones of the Village (1988), Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1999), Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000), Bliss Broyard’s One Drop (2003) and Anita Reynolds’ American Cocktail (2014).Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Donavan L. Ramo
Magnetic Measurements on Superconductors and Heavy Fermions.
No full textMagnetization and de Haas - van Alphen (dHvA) measurements have been made on the high temperature superconductor Ba\sb{0.6}K\sb{0.4}BiO\sb3 and the heavy fermion CeB\sb6. First ever observations of the dHvA effect in Ba\sb{0.6}K\sb{0.4}BiO\sb3 are reported. Two dHvA spectrometers (pulsed field and field modulation) were used to measure two samples. Four frequencies are found in the field modulation data with the 11.6 kT orbit in good agreement with band structure calculations. The three lowest frequencies were measured with the pulsed field spectrometer. All dHvA measurements were made in the superconducting mixed state. These measurements indicate that Ba\sb{0.6}K\sb{0.4}BiO\sb3 has a Fermi surface. Magnetization measurements on Ba\sb{0.6}K\sb{0.4}BiO\sb3 suggest a superconducting to normal state phase transition of an order greater than two given that both the specific heat and susceptibility discontinuities across T\sb{c} and H\sb{c2} are zero. All thermodynamic critical fields exhibit a positive curvature as the temperature approaches zero. The present measurements suggest that the value of H\sb{c2}(T = 0) is higher than previously thought with the possibility that it diverges at zero temperature. Measurements on CeB\sb6 at temperatures as low as 25 mK and in fields as high has 50 T reveal that the dHvA frequency of the belly orbit in the (100) direction changes as a function of field, decreasing in frequency with increasing applied field. This is evidence that the Fermi surface of CeB\sb6 is polarized. Fermi surface polarization together with the observed magnetic field dependence of the cyclotron mass adequately account for the measured frequency shift. Additionally, the observed frequency shift can be modeled with a form of the Lifshitz-Kosevich equation modified to allow for the effects of strong correlations
Thou Shalt Not Consume the Rivals: Rivalry Effects on Behavioural Intentions of Sports Celebrity Brand Offerings
No full textSince, humans’ inclusion in the list of consumption items (Solomon, 2006) the celebrity brand notion has been
gaining academic ground. Celebrity brands, “the subject[s] of marketing communications efforts” (Carlson &
Donavan, 2013, p. 193) and media objects, are also viewed as “cultural intermediaries” (Brownlie, Hewer, &
Kerrigan, 2015, p. 454). Thanks to their appeal, celebrities not only do sell themselves as objects but also as
instruments (Zarkada, Tzoumaka, Siomkos, & Panigyrakis, 2014) and most importantly the lifestyle they follow
thus transforming culture into an economic sphere of its own(Moeran, 2003).
On the basis of McCracken’s meaning transfer theory (1989) celebrities carry a multitude of meanings. For sports
celebrities such meaning stems from the team a player currently competes for, has competed in the past or has linked
his career with. Teams are a source of power to their athletes (Carlson & Donavan, 2008) and fan identification with
them is associated with positive sports celebrity brand outcomes (Carlson & Donavan, 2013; Tzoumaka, Tsiotsou, &
Siomkos, 2014). Accordingly, but viewing the team effect oppositelyas in the out-group favouritism (Tajfel &
Turner, 1986), rivalry, has been identified as a meaning that may be transferable to both sponsors (Bee & Dalakas,
2015) and athletes(Chien, Kelly, & Weeks, 2016).
The present study investigated whether consumer response to numerous and distinct sports celebrity related
offerings would vary in the presence of rivalry. The European football, which is considered to be the King of sports
accounting for 27.1% of the accumulative sports business revenues globally (Collignon & Sultan, 2014) and in
which severe rivalries between teams are evident (Bergkvist, 2012) was selectedas the context of the study
New polymer precursors from sugars : an evaluation of synthetic routes to halogenated acids and alcohols
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Geometric Models of Twisted K-Theory based Bundle Gerbes and Algebra Bundles
No full textTwisted topological K-theory is a twisted version of topological K-theory in the sense of twisted generalized cohomology theories. It was pioneered by Donavan and Karoubi in 1970 where they used bundles of central simple graded algebras to model twists of K-theory. By the end of the last century physicists realised that D-brane charges in the field of string theory may be studied in terms of twisted K-theory. This rekindled interest in the topic lead to a wave of new models for the twists and new ways to realize the respective twisted K-theory groups. The state-of-the-art models today use bundles of projective unitary operators on separable Hilbert spaces as twists and K-groups are modeled by homotopy classes of sections of certain bundles of Fredholm operators. From a physics perspective these treatments are not optimal yet: they are intrinsically infinite-dimensional and these models do not immediately allow the inclusion of differential data like forms and connections.
In this thesis we introduce the 2-stack of k-algebra gerbes. Objects, 1-morphisms and 2-morphisms consist of finite-dimensional geometric data simultaneously generalizing bundle gerbes and bundles of central simple graded k-algebras for k either the field of real numbers or the field of complex numbers. We construct an explicit isomorphism from equivalence classes of k-algebra gerbes over a space X to the full set of twists of real K-theory and complex K-theory respectively. Further, we model relative twisted K-groups for compact spaces X and closed subspaces Y twisted by algebra gerbes. These groups are modeled directly in terms of 1-morphisms and 2-morphisms of algebra gerbes over X. We exhibit a relation to the K-groups introduced by Donavan and Karoubi and we translate their fundamental isomorphism -- an isomorphism relating K-groups over Thom spaces with K-groups twisted by Clifford algebra bundles -- to the new setting. With the help of this fundamental isomorphism we construct an explicit Thom isomorphism and explicit pushforward homomorphisms for smooth maps between compact manifolds, without requiring these maps to be K-oriented. Further -- in order to treat K-groups for non-torsion twists -- we implement a geometric cocycle model, inspired by a related geometric cycle model developed by Baum and Douglas for K-homology in 1982, and construct an assembly map for this model.Getwistete topologische K-Theorie ist eine getwistete Variante von topologischer K-Theorie im Sinne getwisteter verallgemeinerter Kohomologietheorien. Sie wurde 1970 von Donovan und Karoubi eingeführt, wobei sie Bündel von zentralen einfachen graduierten Algebren zur Realisierung der Twists von K-Theorie benutzten. Ende des letzten Jahrhunderts realisierten Physiker, dass sich D-Brane Charges im Gebiet der Stringtheorie mithilfe von getwisteter K-Theorie untersuchen lassen. Dies führte zu einem neu entfachtem Interesse an gewisteter K-Theorie. Neue Modelle für die Twists und neue Modelle für die entsprechenden getwisteten K-Theorie Gruppen wurden aufgestellt. Der aktuelle Stand der Technik benutzt hierbei Bündel von projektiven unitären Operatoren auf unendlich-dimensionalen separablen Hilberträumen als Twists und modelliert getwistete K-Gruppen mithilfe von Homotopieklassen von Schnitten von bestimmten Bündeln von Fredholmoperatoren. Aus Sicht der physikalischen Motivation sind diese Modelle jedoch noch nicht optimal: Sie sind intrinsisch unendlich-dimensional und erlauben es nicht auf einfache Art und Weise differentielle Daten wie Formen und Zusammenhänge in die Theorie einzuarbeiten.
In dieser Arbeit führen wir den 2-Stack der k-Algebra Gerben ein. Objekte, 1-Morphismen und 2-Morphismen bestehen hier aus endlich-dimensionalen geometrischen Daten, welche gleichzeitig Bündelgerben und Bündel von zentralen einfachen graduierten k-Algebren verallgemeinern, wobei k entweder der Körper der reellen Zahlen oder der Körper der komplexen Zahlen ist. Wir konstruieren explizite Isomorphismen von den Äquivalenzklassen von k-Algebra Gerben über einem Raum X in die volle Menge der Twists von reeller K-Theorie beziehungsweise in die volle Menge der Twists von komplexer K-Theorie. Ferner führen wir um Algebra Gerben getwistete relative K-Theorie Gruppen für kompakte Räume X und abgeschlossene Teilräume Y ein. Diese Gruppen sind dabei direkt mittels 1-Morphismen und 2-Morphismen von k-Algebra Gerben über X modelliert. Wir stellen eine direkte Zurückführung auf die von Donovan und Karoubi eingeführten Gruppen auf und übersetzen ihren Fundamentalisomorphismus -- ein Isomorphismus welcher K-Gruppen über Thom-Räumen mit um Cliffordalgebren getwisteten K-Gruppen in Beziehung setzt -- in unser Modell. Mithilfe dieses Fundamentalisomorphismus konstruieren wir einen expliziten Thom-Isomorphismus und Pushforward Homomorphismus für glatte Abbildungen zwischen kompakten Mannigfaltigkeiten, ohne die K-Orientiertheit für solche Abbildungen zu verlangen. Schließlich -- um K-Gruppen für Nichttorsionstwist umzusetzen -- führen wir ein geometrisches Kozykel Modell ein, welches an ein entsprechendes geometrisches Zykel Modell von Baum und Douglas von 1982 angelehnt ist, und stellen Assemblierungsabbildungen auf
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