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Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
No full textThis is the first chapter in Timothy Killeen's meticulously researched two-volume study of the challenges facing the fight to preserve the Amazon rainforest. A comprehensive work that will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in this critically important subject
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
No full textVital reading for all those interested in the conservation of the world’s most important ecosystem. In a lucid style backed by encyclopaedic knowledge, Killeen unpicks the extremely complex ecological and socio-political threads that comprise the recent history and the vital future of the Pan Amazon region. The fight to save the Amazon is a fight for sustainability that is emblematic of the entire future of human co-existence with Nature on Earth. Killeen is an authoritative and impassioned guide, eschewing soundbites in favour of a clearsighted and highly nuanced picture of the realities on the ground. Only in understanding present realities and how they came to pass, he argues, can we proceed hopefully into the future. Events of the last ten years are discussed in detail, because future events will have to build upon – or modify – the cultural and economic forces driving events in the Pan Amazon. Nonetheless, the text provides a longer historical perspective to show how policies create legacies that reverberate over decades, long after they have been recognised as being fundamentally flawed
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
No full textVital reading for all those interested in the conservation of the world’s most important ecosystem. In a lucid style backed by encyclopaedic knowledge, Killeen unpicks the extremely complex ecological and socio-political threads that comprise the recent history and the vital future of the Pan Amazon region. The fight to save the Amazon is a fight for sustainability that is emblematic of the entire future of human co-existence with Nature on Earth. Killeen is an authoritative and impassioned guide, eschewing soundbites in favour of a clearsighted and highly nuanced picture of the realities on the ground. Only in understanding present realities and how they came to pass, he argues, can we proceed hopefully into the future. Events of the last ten years are discussed in detail, because future events will have to build upon – or modify – the cultural and economic forces driving events in the Pan Amazon. Nonetheless, the text provides a longer historical perspective to show how policies create legacies that reverberate over decades, long after they have been recognised as being fundamentally flawed
Money piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Author
No full textMoney piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, about the increased availability of credit for Maine\u27s small businesses
Timothy Meyer serves as a contributing author for UN report
No full textAssistant Professor Timothy Meyer served as a contributing author for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization\u27s report titled Networks for Prosperity: Connecting Development Knowledge Beyond 2015. The document, which was released during November, analyzes the nexus between the global connectedness of a country and its economic success, sustainability and government effectiveness. Meyer was one of only approximately 20 academic and practical experts from around the world selected to serve as a contributor after a global call for proposals.
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Selected Contributions of Sister Mary Berenice Beck, O.S.F. to Nursing in the United States, 1923-1956
No full textby Sister M. Timothy Costello.Typescript.Thesis (M.S.N.)--Catholic University of America.Bibliography: leaves 44-47.Also available in microfilm
Mentoring Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Courses
No full textWithin a multidisciplinary context, mentoring can improve student learning and raise levels of interest in the sciences. Such an approach can even be used in large class settings where the use of faculty teams and new instructional technologies can be applied.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34806/1/10_ftp.pd
Neutral wind vortices in the high-latitude thermosphere.
No full textAn investigation into the neutral dynamics of the high-latitude thermosphere has been carried out using measurements obtained from the Dynamics Explorer-2 spacecraft and ground-based Fabry-Perot interferometers located in Greenland, and numerical simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research - Thermosphere/Ionosphere General Circulation Model (NCAR-TIGCM). In this thesis, large-scale mean neutral wind patterns under various geophysical conditions have been determined through extensive analysis of the neutral wind observations made by the DE-2 spacecraft. The mean neutral wind observations demonstrate the existence of coherent, large-scale neutral wind vortices in the high-latitude thermosphere and show that these vortices are persistent features in the mean neutral wind circulation. The mean neutral wind vortices in the high-latitude thermosphere are shown to vary spatially depending on the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and the level of geomagnetic activity. In this work, the NCAR-TIGCM has been used to provide numerical simulations of the high-latitude neutral circulation corresponding to the geophysical conditions under which the averaged neutral wind patterns from DE-2 observations were organized. The high-latitude neutral wind vortices determined from the DE-2 observations and simulated by the NCAR-TIGCM have been analyzed in detail in this thesis by determining the kinematic properties of the wind fields. This analysis has shown that the dynamics of the high-latitude neutral thermosphere is dominated by rotational motion, imparted primarily through the ion-drag force, rather than by divergent motion, imparted primarily through the pressure gradient force set up by Joule and solar heating. The numerical simulations of the NCAR-TIGCM provide information on the forces which generate the neutral wind forces in the high-latitude thermosphere. The force analysis illustrates that the ion-drag force contributes significantly to the local time rate of change of the non-divergent component of the neutral wind, while the pressure gradient, Coriolis, and momentum advection forces, as well as the ion-drag force contribute to the local time rate of change of the irrotational component of the neutral wind. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)PhDPhysics, Atmospheric SciencePure SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/128602/2/9034528.pd
The Baptismal Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
No full textTimothy A. Curtin.Typescript.Thesis (S.T.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1971.Bibliography: leaves 368-393
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