634 research outputs found
We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition
No full textIn this piece, author and critic Kit Dobson discusses and analyzes the composition of his debut novel, We Are Already Ghosts (University of Calgary Press, 2024). He analyzes the novel along at least three axes: first, as a novel that can be classified as a character-driven “summer read”; second, as a work of experimental fiction; and, third, as a text that analyzes and interrogates the spaces that make up the Canadian province of Alberta. Dobson notes influences on the novel from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse; to the poetics of bpNichol; to the tension between settler and Indigenous understandings of land, territory, haunting, and presence. Throughout, Dobson notes that the time in which the novel is set, between 1996 and 2011, marks a period of transition for the Briscoe-MacDougall family members who populate the book, and for the world and society that these characters represent
All the Feels / Tous les sens
No full textAll the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently.
Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière, Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré, Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert, Jeanette den ToonderPublishe
Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes
No full textWhat happens once the rogue rides off into the sunset? This cross-genre essay considers the figure of the rogue’s decline and gradual dismemberment in the face of the pressures of the world. Beginning with the “rogue” digits and other body parts lost by the men who surrounded him in his youth—especially his grandfather—Dobson considers the costs of labour and poverty in rural environments. For him, the rogue is one who falls somehow outside of cultural, social, and political norms— the one who has decided to step outside of the establishment, outside of the corrupt élites and their highfalutin ways. To do so comes at a cost. Turning to the life of writer George Ryga and to the poetry and fiction of Patrick Lane, this essay examines the real, physical, material, and social costs of transgression across multiple works linked to rural environments in Alberta and British Columbia. The essay shows the ways in which very real forms of violence discipline the rogue, pushing the rogue back into submission or out of mind, back into the shadowy past from whence the rogue first came. Resisting nostalgia while evincing sympathy, this essay delves into what is at stake for one who would become a rogue
Letters on the existence and character of the Deity, and on the moral state of man.
No full textiv, [1], 6-144 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)Attributed to Thomas Dobson by Evans, who notes "229th Pennsylvania Copyright issued to Thomas Dobson, as author, 23 April, 1799.
Fast spatial interference canceller based on the Dobson algorithm
No full textThe Dobson algorithm, an algorithm for adaptive antenna arrays, was first described in 1988. In this work only narrow-band signals were assumed and a brief look was taken at the theoretical aspects of the algorithm. In the simulations non realistic signal to noise ratios, SNR, were assumed. This report contains a presentation of a theoretical analysis of the Dobson algorithm. Furthermore, the theory was extended to wide band systems and a criterion is presented which detects jammers in noisy signals. This criterion is based upon predicting the expected noise power at the output of the array. Simulation results are given for realistic SNR ( 10-20 dB). Simulation results support the theory. The power of the jammers can easily be suppressed, to a level of the same order as the noise power. The problems that may arise with the implementation of the algorithm are discussed. A new application for a semi-mobil system is presented. At this moment no results of experiments with systems using the Dobson algorithm are available. Therefore the next step in the research should be the implementation and testing of a system based on the Dobson algorithm.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceTelecommunicatie- en Verkeersbegeleidingssysteme
Transnationalism, Activism Art
No full text"Banksy is known worldwide for his politically subversive works of art, but he is far from the only artist whose creations are infused with internationally relevant, activist themes. How else can the arts help activate citizen participation in social justice movements? Moreover, what is the role of culture in a globalizing world?" -- Publisher's website
DS1_JVDI_10.1177_1040638719867743 – Supplemental material for DNA purification increases PCR-amplifiable DNA extracted from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded canine mast cell tumors for routine KIT mutation detection
No full textSupplemental material, DS1_JVDI_10.1177_1040638719867743 for DNA purification increases PCR-amplifiable DNA extracted from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded canine mast cell tumors for routine KIT mutation detection by Vanessa S. Tamlin, Elizabeth C. Dobson, Lucy Woolford and Anne E. Peaston in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation</p
Targeted knockdown of canine KIT (stem cell factor receptor) using small interfering RNA
No full textA Balancing that is Beyond the Scope of the Common Law: A Discussion of the Issues Raised by Dobson v. (Litigation Guardian of) Dobson
No full textThis article examines whether a child should have the legal right to sue its mother for harms alleged to have been caused by her negligence during pregnancy. The author begins with an overview of relevant jurisprudence on the legal status of the fetus and on the right of children to sue a third party for pre- birth injury. Jurisprudence on the right of a child to sue its mother for pre-birth injury is also outlined.
The author then critically examines the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Dobson (Litigation Guardian of) v Dobson where the court held, on public policy grounds, that a child did not have the legal right to sue its mother. In the author\u27s view, this decision is correct given the limitations of the common law, although it does not appropriately balance the interests of pregnant women with those of injured children who require compensation for their special needs.
She advocates legislative reform because the legislature is better equipped to deal with polycentric issues and would be able to provide a particularized, results-oriented response. Specifically, the author recommends legislation, patterned on the United Kingdom\u27s Congenital Disabilities Act, 1976, which would allow a child to sue its mother only where the alleged negligence relates to the operation of a motor vehicle. The author argues that such legislation is the best way to provide children like Ryan Dobson with the care they need, while avoiding the harmful consequences of imposing a general tort liability on pregnant women vis-a-vis their fetuses
A Balancing that is Beyond the Scope of the Common Law: A Discussion of the Issues Raised by Dobson v. (Litigation Guardian of) Dobson
No full textThis article examines whether a child should have the legal right to sue its mother for harms alleged to have been caused by her negligence during pregnancy. The author begins with an overview of relevant jurisprudence on the legal status of the fetus and on the right of children to sue a third party for pre- birth injury. Jurisprudence on the right of a child to sue its mother for pre-birth injury is also outlined.
The author then critically examines the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Dobson (Litigation Guardian of) v Dobson where the court held, on public policy grounds, that a child did not have the legal right to sue its mother. In the author\u27s view, this decision is correct given the limitations of the common law, although it does not appropriately balance the interests of pregnant women with those of injured children who require compensation for their special needs.
She advocates legislative reform because the legislature is better equipped to deal with polycentric issues and would be able to provide a particularized, results-oriented response. Specifically, the author recommends legislation, patterned on the United Kingdom\u27s Congenital Disabilities Act, 1976, which would allow a child to sue its mother only where the alleged negligence relates to the operation of a motor vehicle. The author argues that such legislation is the best way to provide children like Ryan Dobson with the care they need, while avoiding the harmful consequences of imposing a general tort liability on pregnant women vis-a-vis their fetuses
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