25 research outputs found
Boundless Venus: the Crossover of the Conscious and Unconscious in the Works of Haruki Murakami
No full textThe objective of this thesis, Boundless Venus, is to examine consciousness in the
works of the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Principally the
discussion concerns itself with the unconscious, its conduits, its benefits upon the
conscious; which lead to the transformation of the self and structure of the literature.
Although the subject has been touched upon before, the conscious and unconscious
have previously been examined as exclusive concepts in Murakami. This research
will be looking at the recent change in the ‘crossover’ between these concepts,
which makes the concepts no longer two mutually exclusive concepts but ‘inclusive
concepts’. This is vital to understanding Murakami’s more recent works and the
nature of his influence on literature.
Boundless Venus explores the entire works of Haruki Murakami, principally his
most recent novel 1Q84 (2011) and his novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World (1991) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997). It approaches the
work from a psychoanalytic and critical point of view and focuses on significant
narrative techniques, character development, and themes such as sex, music, and
dreams, used by Murakami to explore the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious and to narrate the crossover between the two
Temporal and spatial movement patterns of striped bass in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy
No full textThe Bay of Fundy's Minas Passage (5-6 km wide) is currently the site for in-stream tidal energy turbine testing, but it is also a passageway for many commercially and recreationally important migratory fish species. Among these are striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a recently listed endangered species. The objectives of this project were to determine the movement patterns of sub-adult and adult striped bass within the passage, and to assess the potential risk of interaction with tidal turbines. A total of 40 transmitter-tagged striped bass (20 adults and 20 sub-adults) were tracked using 29 bottom-moored VEMCO acoustic receivers. Two lines of receivers spanned the width of the Minas Passage and a third line spanned the turbine test area. All recovered receivers (n=27) logged valid detections, with the highest number of detections occurring in July. Of the 40 striped bass tagged, 25 were detected, with more adults detected (75%) than sub-adults (50%). Adult fish were detected at depths throughout the water column, while sub-adults were detected only in the top 25 m (above turbine height). Fifteen striped bass (mostly adults) were shown to move back and forth through the passage at a mean swimming speed of 2.35 ± 0.71 m/s. Fish were detected more often at night than during the day. Detection frequency was higher during neap tidal cycles than during spring tidal cycles and was negatively correlated with current speed. Slightly more detections were during ebb tides than during flood tides. Unexpectedly, individual striped bass were shown to make multiple crossings of the Minas Passage during summer. In addition, many passed through the turbine test site at depths that include turbine hub height. The ability of striped bass to detect and avoid tidal turbines when travelling at high speed remains unknown
Patterns in the movement and distribution of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in Minas Basin and Minas Passage
No full textMinas Passage (Bay of Fundy, NS) is a migratory pathway for many fish species and is also the site of tidal in-stream energy conversion (TISEC) device testing. The impact of this development on fish moving in the area is unknown. Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), a recreationally fished, anadromous species, is of concern due to its migratory use of Minas Passage and designation as "endangered" by COSEWIC (2012). In this study, acoustic telemetry was used to identify spatial and temporal movement and distribution patterns of Striped Bass in near-shore waters of Minas Basin (summer and fall) and in Minas Passage (summer, fall and winter) during 2011-2013. Striped Bass (0.38 – 0.87 m fork length, FL) were tagged on the Stewiacke River spawning grounds (n=27), and in the Southern Bight of Minas Basin (n=58); 99% of tagged Striped Bass were detected by at least one acoustic receiver. Striped Bass tagged in the Southern Bight tended to remain in that area throughout the summer-fall foraging period, while Stewiacke-tagged Striped Bass showed no site preference in Minas Basin. Fifty-four percent of all tagged Striped Bass were detected in Minas Passage over a total of 250 days during the two-year study period. Ninety-nine of these detection days were during the cold winter months (<5°C water temperatures), when activity levels would have been reduced. Striped Bass were typically detected throughout the upper 50m of the water column in Minas Passage, with diel vertical migration more evident during the summer-fall foraging period than during winter. Travel rates of Striped Bass through Minas Passage exceeded known critical swimming speeds, indicating that travel was current-assisted. These findings inform risk assessment, FORCE's environmental effects monitoring program, and management of Striped Bass in the Bay of Fundy
Dialogical Skirmishes
No full textTan was guest editor for 'And Now China?', a special print edition of the Ctrl+P journal, which critically responded to the celebratory rhetoric’s of ‘China Now’ and other celebratory markers of China's global ascent in 2008. As well as the introductory article 'Dialogical Skirmishes', Tan also interviewed Hans Ulrich Obrist
Correction: SMAD6 variants in craniosynostosis: genotype and phenotype evaluation (Genetics in Medicine, (2020), 10.1038/s41436-020-0817-2)
No full textThe version of the Article previously published did not acknowledge Freya Boardman-Pretty17,18 and the Genomics England Research Consortium in the author list. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Keeping to William Hazlitt
No full textThat style mattered to Hazlitt cannot be in doubt. ‘An author’s style’ he judged ‘not less a criterion of his understanding than his sentiments’; a test of character, as of sensations and ideas, it bodied forth the perpetually shifting relationships between human beings and the objects of their love, hatred, and indifference (in Hazlitt, even the absence of feeling is vehemently felt). An author who lacked style therefore lacked sympathetic involvement with other people, the greatest failing imaginable, since ‘Whatever interests, is interesting’
The 'disembodied voice' in fin-de-siècle British literature : its genealogy and significances
No full textA particular kind of voice recurs in fin-de-siècle British literature.
It is a voice without a human body, a voice whose source is either
invisible or non-human. This study explores the historical factors
underlying the literary representation of such a voice.
Chapter 1 examines Arthur Symons' phrase, 'the disembodied voice
of a human soul,' and sets up the context for the subsequent discussion
by teasing out the four major implications of the fin-de-siècle
disembodied voice: the socio-political, the aesthetico-linguistic, the
techno-scientific, and the sexual-somatic. Chapter 2 first outlines the
modern origin of the disembodied voice in the Gothic-Romantic culture
of the late eighteenth century, where the frequent description of the
disembodied voice is linked to the rise of the nostalgia for premodernity;
the chapter then analyzes the disembodied voice in Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness both in terms of Gothic culture and of the
fin-de-siècle situation. The Romantic aesthetico-linguistic
prioritization of the aural-oral, which we call 'melocentricism,' the
fin-de-siècle consumerism and colonialism, and the then influential
scientific concept of ether receive scrutiny. Chapter 3 addresses Oscar
Wilde's Salome. Apart from the factors that this play shares with
Conrad's novella, the disembodied voice in Salome secretly expresses a
longing for the homosexual-cum-communal.
Chapter 4 explores the fin-de-siècle imperial and homosexual
implications, and the 'melocentric' pre-history, of the phonographic
voice in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Chapter 5 teases out the hidden
political dimension of the technological voice, phonographic and
wireless, in Kipling's Kim and '"Wireless".' Chapter 6 compares the
fin-de-siècle voice with an instance of the early twentieth-century, the
wireless voice in D. H. Lawrence's Ladv Chatterley's Lover, a voice now
involved in the global network of broadcasting. It is concluded that
the disembodied voice is inseparable from important aspects of fin-de-siècle
British culture as well as the question of modernity
Winter presence and temperature-related diel vertical migration of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in an extreme high flow passage in the inner Bay of Fundy
No full textDuring a multi-year fish tracking study, sub-adult and adult life stages of Shubenacadie River Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) were detected throughout winter in the well-mixed, hypertidal waters of the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. Thirty-five percent of the Striped Bass tagged with Vemco V16 transmitters were detected by two Minas Passage receiver arrays. Transmissions were received on 82% of winter days (December to April) and by all receivers spanning the width of the passage. Tagged Striped Bass were detected largely within the top 20-40 m during the day. The extent of vertical migration to shallower waters at night showed a strong relationship with water temperature, however, there was no diel vertical movement pattern observed at water temperaturesThe accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Author Correction: Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach
No full textAccurate assessments of biodiversity are crucial to advising ecosystem-monitoring programs and understanding ecosystem function. Nevertheless, a standard operating procedure to assess biodiversity accurately and consistently has not been established. This is especially true for meiofauna, a diverse community (>20 phyla) of small benthic invertebrates that have fundamental ecological roles. Recent studies show that metabarcoding is a cost-effective and time-effective method to estimate meiofauna biodiversity, in contrast to morphological-based taxonomy. Here, we compare biodiversity assessments of a diverse meiofaunal community derived by applying multiple taxonomic methods based on comparative morphology, molecular phylogenetic analysis, DNA barcoding of individual specimens, and metabarcoding of environmental DNA. We show that biodiversity estimates are strongly biased across taxonomic methods and phyla. Such biases affect understanding of community structures and ecological interpretations. This study supports the urgency of improving aspects of environmental high-throughput sequencing and the value of taxonomists in correctly understanding biodiversity estimates.The meiofauna workshop in Panama was funded to F.L. primarily by the Global Genome Initiative (GGI) Award (Grant No. GGI-Rolling-2015-020).
The research was also supported by a Smithsonian Institute Buck GGI Fellowship (to F.L.) and Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GOMRI) Grant 16-052 (to W.K.T.).
In consideration of partial funding by GOMRI, data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org (https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-szj8-1531).
We are grateful to Juan Mate and Lil Camacho of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution for their scientific support; the director of Achotines Laboratory Facility, Vernon P. Scholey, and all his staff for hosting the workshop; Marcelo Lamour of Laboratório de Oceanografia Geológica (UFPR) for supporting the sedimentological analysis; Ester Eckert for sharing the DNA extraction protocol for metabarcoding.
The molecular work was performed at both the Laboratory of Analytical Biology (LAB) at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Washington D.C.) and Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS) at the University of New Hampshire. Illumina HiSeq2500 at HCGS was funded by National Science Foundation Grant DBI 1229361 to W.K.T
Evaluating socio-economic and conservation impacts of management: A case study of time-area closures on Georges Bank.
No full textGlobally, economies and marine ecosystems are increasingly dependent on sustainable fisheries management (SFM) to balance social, economic, and conservation needs. The overarching objectives of SFM are to maximize both conservation and socio-economic benefits, while minimizing short-term socio-economic costs. A number of tools have been developed to achieve SFM objectives, ranging from fishery specific to ecosystem-based strategies. Closures are a common SFM tool used to balance the trade-off between socio-economic and conservation considerations; they vary in scope from small-scale temporary closures to large-scale permanent networks. Unfortunately, closures are frequently implemented without a plan for monitoring or assessing whether SFM objectives are met. In situations in which a monitoring plan is not in place we propose that commonly available fishery data can often be used to evaluate whether management tools are effective in meeting SFM objectives. Here, we present a case study of closures on Georges Bank that shows how fishery data can be analyzed to perform such an assessment. Since 2006, on the Canadian side of Georges Bank, seasonal scallop fishery closures have been implemented with the aim of reducing by-catch of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectes ferruginea) during spawning. In lieu of data from a dedicated monitoring program, we analyzed data from Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), fishery logbooks, and a scallop survey to assess the impact of these closures on the scallop fishery, and use observer data (i.e. by-catch) to assess the effectiveness of these closures in meeting their conservation objective. While compliance for these time-area closures was high, the closures did not significantly displace fishing activity and overall there was limited evidence of an impact on the scallop fishery. Further, the discard rates for both cod and yellowtail were above average when their respective closures were active. These results suggest that improvements to the closures design and/or other measures may be required to achieve the desired SFM objectives
