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Grace in Spoofax
No full textGrace is a programming language that aims to be an example of a contemporary object-oriented language, to be used for teaching university level students. The language specification of Grace is informal, and its various implementations are difficult to comprehend and change. Spoofax Grace is an implementation of the Grace programming language, meant to serve both as a reference implementation, but also a specification, that can be easily read, understood and changed. Spoofax Grace is implemented using the Spoofax language workbench, providing a declarative grammar, program transformations and dynamic semantics. From these specifications a language interpreter is generated that can execute Grace programs. The system covers the core aspects of Grace, yet a number of language features remain unimplemented. The implementation can be correlated to the informal Grace specification, and can be changed or extended at will.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceSoftware TechnologyProgramming Language
Grace Aguilar’s historical romances
No full textPhDMy dissertation looks critically at Grace Aguilar’s historical romance novels and short
stories, and investigates English writers’ uses of history in early- to mid-nineteenth century
fiction. Shifting the current critical emphasis on Aguilar’s Jewish texts, I
have analyzed the ways in which Aguilar revises the genres of the national tale, the
gothic romance, and the medieval romance in order to demonstrate her participation
in the construction of nineteenth-century domestic values.
In Chapter One, I introduce to critical debate Aguilar’s juvenilia, relying on
unpublished manuscripts and novels published only in the twentieth century to
establish the origins of Aguilar’s interest in history and historical writing. Locating
Aguilar’s narrative style in the early nineteenth-century national tale, I show that as a
child Aguilar envisioned the English and Scottish nations as a family, making
domesticity both a private and a public—a female and a male—value.
Chapter Two focuses on Aguilar’s use of history to express nineteenth-century
domestic ideals in her version of the gothic romance. Deploying the setting of the
Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, Aguilar writes gothic tales that unite
Jewish and Protestant gender values. She makes heroic the Jewish female martyr to
suggest not only that nineteenth-century Protestants and Jews share similar domestic
principles, but also that Jewish women could be seen as ideal models for Protestant
women.
Finally, in Chapter Three I explore Aguilar’s participation in the nineteenth-century
medievalist tradition by reflecting on her revision of nineteenth-century literary
idealizations of the Middle Ages. In these short stories, Aguilar fictionalizes the
sixteenth-century European chivalric ethos, looking critically at the role of women in
court society at the end of the Middle Ages. Deploying the tropes prevalent in
popular nineteenth-century anti-medievalist fiction, Aguilar debunks celebrations of
the Middle Ages by showing how chivalry is antagonistic to nineteenth-century
domesticity
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
Not All Grace Periods Are Created Equal: Building a Grace Period From the Ground Up
No full textThe grace period for patent application filing is the amount of time a patent applicant has to file the application after the invention has been disclosed to the public. The rules and amount of time allowed vary greatly among countries. This comment explores the theoretical justifications for a grace period, the structural elements of a grace period, and other approaches to a grace period used in countries outside of the United States. The author proposes an ideal grace period model that would create international harmonization
. 43 Tomo XIV (1961) Sexta Época (1939-1966). Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
No full textPublicación que recopila y difunde cien años de trabajo de la antropología en México (1877-1977), integrada por documentos y manuscritos arqueológicos, antropológicos, históricos, geológicos, botánicos y lingüísticos.- Información general de las actividades del Instituto Nacional de antropología e Historia durante el año 1961 por Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado. - Exploraciones arqueológicas en Palenque: 1957 por Alberto Ruz Lhuillier. - Exploraciones arqueológicas en Palenque: 1958 por Alberto Ruz Lhuillier. - La calzada de Iztapalapa por Francisco González Rul y Federico Mooser. - Un curioso refinamiento en la cerámica zapoteca por Dudley T. Easby y Elizabeth K. Easby. - Una nueva categoría de urnas "acompañantes" por Frank H. Boos. - Antecedentes históricos del cambio social y económico en el México contemporáneo por Wigberto Jiménez Moreno. - Industrias y tejidos de Tuxpan, Jalisco, México por Irmgard Weitlaner, Jean B. Johnson y Grace C. Beardsley. - Estudio de las clases sociales en la Ciudad de México. Experiencias con un grupo obrero. (Apéndice de los autores y de Carlos M. Raggi. Sociografía de la clase media) por Beatriz Barba A. y Julio César Olivé Negrete. - Notas sobre la educación rural en México por Margarita Nolasco Armas. - Control médico de un grupo de niños en estudio antropológico por Rosa María Puente Prieto. - La prueba de disociación de movimientos. Comunicación preliminar por Felipe Montemayor. - Formas pronominales del maya-yucateco por Moisés Romero Castillo. - El pima bajo ('obnók) por Roberto Escalante H
Assimilating GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage observations into a hydrological model
No full textBased on satellite observations of Earths time variable gravity field from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), it is possible to derive variations in terrestrial water storage. Tiny variations of gravity from monthly into a decade time scales are mainly due to redistributions of water mass inside the surface fluid envelops of our planet (Ramillien et al., 2008). This allows us to derive variations in TWS (Terrestrial Water Storage) from satellite observations of the gravity field. Firstly, the Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and the Ensemble Kalman smoother (EnKS) have been applied to assimilate the GRACE TWS variation data into the HBV-96 model, a conceptual rainfall-runoff model over the Rhine river basin. Based on prior work on this field, in this thesis it was intended from the very beginning the improvement of methods used, starting from the study period, which was extended from February 1st 2003 to December 26st 2006. Afterwards, newer versions of TWS variation estimates were inferred from three sets of GRACE solutions, one from DEOS TU Delft, and another from CSR - University of Texas. A third dataset named as RBF, based on radial basis function was also included. All of the solutions use different filtering methods which yield different estimates. The following step was to change the state vector and how it is updated. In this way a more realistic method for the individual stores of the Terrestrial Water Stores was used. Finally the Ensemble Moving Batch Smoother have been applied to assimilate the GRACE data into the HBV-96 model. This new assimilation smoother uses observations beyond the estimation time, which are also useful in the estimation.Msc GeomaticsWater Resources DepartmentCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Cutting'aesthetic teeth' : Flannery O'Connor's habit of art
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoEste trabalho foi sugerido pela afirmação de Flannery O'Connor que sua "dedicação estética" nasceu através do contato com Art and Scholasticism de Jacques Maritain. O propósito foi chegar a uma interpretação do sentido da frase. Uma investigação detalhada foi feita do conteúdo de Art and Scholasticism, posteriormente contrastada com os resultados de uma pesquisa feita em seus ensaios e suas cartas, o que revelou numerosos ecos de diversos trechos constando no texto de Maritain. Três pontos principais foram escolhidos como critérios na análise do hábito artístico de O'Connor: 1) a prática de arte implica uma luta; 2) a arte somente pode ser percebida pelos sentidos; e 3) a prática de arte exige do artista a dedicação indivisa à obra nascente. O estudo conclui que, para O'Connor, o brotar da dentição estética, através da leitura de Art and Scholasticism, significou que, ao perceber na análise da natureza da arte algo com que podia concordar, ela reconheceu tanto sua própria capacidade de tornar-se uma artista literária, quanto sua vontade de assumir a tarefa de desenvolver em sua pessoa o hábito de arte
IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol. 34, no. 2
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Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
No full textThis thesis examines the juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and question gender identity. The introduction outlines commentaries on the story cycle and considers definitions of the form. It includes case studies of earlier twentieth-century cycles by American women: cycles such as Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps that have been passed over by critics of the form.
Chapter One presents Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples as a cycle paradigm, examining conventions such as the form's metafictional dimension and its preoccupation with communal identity. Chapter Two argues that Grace Paley's scattered Faith narratives set a standard for more dispersed versions of the form. Chapter Three considers how Joyce Carol Oates uses the sequential cycle to represent gender identity as a social construct. Chapters Four and Five examine the macrocosmic cycles of Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich and consider changes in their form and gender politics. The final 'composite' chapters explore postmodern versions of the form such as Susan Minot's Monkeys. The prose works of Sandra Cisneros stretch across the story cycle continuum, whilst Toni Morrison's Paradise is universally regarded as a novel. Readings of contemporary cycles by Melissa Bank, Elissa Schappell and Emily Carter demonstrate that American women are re-invigorating the form to facilitate the plural identity of the postmodern heroine
IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol.34, no.2
No full textNewsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome
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