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Replication Data for: "Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus"
No full textCode and data for reproducing results in "Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus" by Grant Storey, Cultural Analytics 2020. textCounts.zip includes the token counts for all texts that were part of the analysis. All code is included at the top level (see https://github.com/twopis/twopis to download it all at once)
Alan Storey : Drawing Machines
No full textBédard’s analysis of seven “drawing machines” by Storey (created during a 15-year period) focuses on the technical and mechanical processes used by the artist, as well as the relationships between machines and exhibition sites. The author also reflects on how the caustic function of the kinetic sculptures relates to perception. Includes excerpts from Storey’s notebooks. Text in French and English. Biographical notes. 15 bibl. ref
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Twentieth-century Texas: a Social and Cultural History
No full textTexas changed enormously in the twentieth century, and much of that transformation was a direct product of social and cultural events. Standard histories of Texas traditionally focus on political, military, and economic topics, with emphasis on the nineteenth century. In Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History editors John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley offer a much-needed corrective. Written with both general and academic audiences in mind, the fourteen essays herein cover Indians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, women, religion, war on the homefront, music, literature, film, art, sports, philanthropy, education, the environment, and science and technology in twentieth-century Texas. Each essay is able to stand alone, supplemented with appropriate photographs, notes, and a selected bibliography. In spite of its ongoing mythic image of rugged ranchers, cowboys, and longhorns, Texas today is a major urban, industrial society with all that brings, both good and bad. For example, first-rate medical centers and academic institutions exist alongside pollution and environment degradation. These topics, and more, are carefully explored in this anthology. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural development of the state. It will also prove useful in the college classroom, especially for Texas history courses
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Response to invitation to the prize ceremony: Part 1
No full textReplies to invitations to the award ceremony from shortlisted author David Storey and judge Elizabeth Bowe
Review of \u3ci\u3eTwentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History.\u3c/i\u3e Edited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley
No full textGiven such a large body of scholarship, editors John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley admit, another study of Texas seems hardly necessary. Nevertheless, they contend, Twentieth Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History (a collection of fifteen essays) fills a weakness in the Lone Star State\u27s history bibliography, arguing that social and cultural subjects have received short shrift in survey texts. Moreover, Storey and Kelly justify their volume because it focuses solely on the past century, bringing the story up-to-date.
All students of Texas\u27s past will enjoy this collection. Summary histories of Mexican Texans, blacks, women, literature, education, and cinema are worthwhile for those beginning their study of twentieth-century Texas. For more knowledgeable students, the collection introduces topics they can pursue in articles or books by the same authors. For example, Kelley ( Private Wealth, Public Good: Texans and Philanthropy ) and Ralph A. Wooster ( Over Here: Texans on the Home Front ) have written books on these themes.
Teachers will find Twentieth-Century Texas useful as a source of information and a stimulus for new classroom topics. Perhaps the most beneficial article for lecture details is Storey\u27s compilation of data on Texans\u27 religious diversity in Pagodas amid the Steeples: The Changing Religious Landscape. Michael R. Grauer\u27s Wider Than the Limits of Our State: Texas Art in the Twentieth Century synthesizes the essentials on an understudied subject. Gary Hartman\u27s From Yellow Roses to Dixie Chicks: Women and Gender in Texas Music History suggests an entertaining and informative lesson (just add music). On the other hand, the book\u27s bulk (480 pages) means Twentieth Century Texas is not a narrow reader helpful as a supplement to a textbook
Timing of hot spot-related volcanism and the breakup of Madagascar and India
No full textWidespread basalts and rhyolites were erupted in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous. These are considered to be related to the Marion hot spot and the breakup of Madagascar and Greater India. Seventeen argon-40/argon-39 age determinations reveal that volcanic rocks and dikes from the 1500-kilometer-long rifted eastern margin of Madagascar were emplaced rapidly (mean age = 87.6 ± 0.6 million years ago) and that the entire duration of Cretaceous volcanism on the island was no more than 6 million years. The evidence suggests that the thick lava pile at Volcan de l'Androy in the south of the island marks the focal point of the Marion hot spot at 88 million years ago and that this mantle plume was instrumental in causing continental breakup.<br/
These sporting lives: David Storey, Barry Hines, and the case of the author-athlete
No full textThis article introduces the concept of the ‘author-athlete’ as a mechanism for examining the sporting narratives produced by authors who have experienced high level sport. This concept is examined through the careers of David Storey and Barry Hines, two authors from Yorkshire who were prominent in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and who turned to writing after careers in Rugby League and football respectively. The article draws on archival material alongside analyses of both writers’ sporting narratives to identify common features and to reflect on the particular qualities of sporting narratives produced by ex-athletes. In the case of Hines and Storey, it is argued that the concept of the author-athlete enables an understanding to emerge of the ways in which essentialist narratives of Northern sporting heroism and masculinity can be challenged
At limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica
No full textData source: Supporting information, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044578#s5Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth. In this study, we describe and interpret the linkage between the diversity of different trophic level communities to the geological morphology and soil geochemistry in the remote Transantarctic Mountains (Darwin Mountains, 80uS). We examined the distribution and diversity of biota (bacteria, cyanobacteria, lichens, algae, invertebrates) with respect to elevation, age of glacial drift sheets, and soil physicochemistry. Results showed an abiotic spatial gradient with respect to the diversity of the organisms across different trophic levels. More complex communities, in terms of trophic level diversity, were related to the weakly developed younger drifts (Hatherton and Britannia) with higher soil C/N ratio and lower total soluble salts content (thus lower conductivity). Our results indicate that an increase of ion concentration from younger to older drift regions drives a succession of complex to more simple communities, in terms of number of trophic levels and diversity within each group of organisms analysed. This study revealed that integrating diversity across multi-trophic levels of biotic communities with abiotic spatial heterogeneity and geological history is fundamental to understand environmental constraints influencing biological distribution in Antarctic soil ecosystems.Catarina Magalhães, Mark I. Stevens, S. Craig Cary, Becky A. Ball, Bryan C. Storey, Diana H. Wall, Roman Tűrk and Ulrike Ruprech
Optimization of Stiffness and Damping for Multi-storey Structures
No full textAbstractEfficiency of structural control for dynamic systems is highly dependent on the frequency contents of the excitation and structural frequency. For a given excitation, structural response control can be achieved by optimizing the stiffness and damping of the structure. The structural storey stiffness can be reduced using negative stiffness devices, while damping can be increased by using viscous dampers. A five-storey structure is considered in which stiffness and damping for every storey is optimized for minimum response. It is seen that for the response control, in some cases, storey stiffness is optimized for lesser value than the original storey stiffness. The results indicate that considerable structural control can be achieved for initially soft structures, whereas for very stiff structures, the optimization technique is ineffective
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