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Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
Get PDFThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Space, Representation and Practice in the Formation of Izmir During the Long Nineteenth Century
No full textFrom elite decision-makers to sailors, migrants have long followed trade flows and contributed to the emergence of spatial and cultural patterns in port cities. Connecting the actual places of the port with the representation of these spaces and the practices of cosmopolitan port families, this contribution explores how the interactions of human actors (immigrants like the members of trading families) and non-human actors (such as buildings and industrial spaces, trade, economies) constructed a port city culture that is both generic and particular to each location. This contribution uses the historical depiction and transformation of Izmir, an ancient port city located on the western coastline of Turkey, as a case study to examine the feedback loops that produced and expanded port city spaces and cultures. Exploring the intersecting histories of the French Girauds and the British Whittalls, key merchant families who intermarried over generations, the article traces the spatial networks of their commercial activities, public service, social life, domestic practice, and cultural engagement during the long nineteenth century.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.History, Form & Aesthetic
Author correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function
Get PDFChristina M. Lill, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article
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Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function
Get PDFChristina M. Lill, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article
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Cyclododecane: how dangerous is it?
Get PDFThis paper summarises a short presentation delivered at the conference ‘Volatile Binding Media in Heritage Conservation’. The author, a health and safety advisor, was asked to comment on the safety of cyclododecane (CDD) to human health, given recent debate about this issue. This paper discusses the possible routes of exposure to CDD for conservators, and looks at these in the light of known safety data. The author concludes that CDD is not hazardous to use
A Study On the Management Company and FPC Mold Key Success Factors\ue2Case of F Co.
No full textThe author of this article has been managed FPC tooling factory for almost two decades. Based on F Company is a conventional industries small enterprise and does not have so-called \ue2company prospect \ue2, or \ue2growing target \ue2. F Company just always provide what her clients\ue2 demands and satisfy clients demand.
\ue3\ue3Only if wants F Company can grow steady and profit normally, we need to inspected F Company\ue2s core value, competitive capability, and the problems are facing during operation. So, we use F Company as a research subject matter; analyze and understand what the best competitive capability at FPC market.
This research studied F Company as subject, analyze F Company grow up progress. We also use Porter five forces analysis her in cost, difference and value chain from exterior competitive.
\ue3\ue3To analyze with in theory on resource-based view (RBV) from competitive capability. We verify FPC tooling market situation and discuss F Company running progress and her strategy. We also learn successful elements from F Company, in order for us to find out how to let F Company can compete at this keen competition market and build up unique operation as for FPC tooling company as reference.
After studied, F Company is under keen competition situation, she should adopt cost-lead at short-term period, technology service difference. The number will still grow at FPC market, but, technology difference has been very close between competitions. Market is also compete as low price to secure clients. So, F Company should considerate cost-lead and technology service difference at short-term period.
F Company should use her best resource as base, vertical integrated foundry, cut back subcontract and use self-made instead. It could save processing time, cost down and increase competitive capability. Therefore, F Company should active improve change working procedure and head to develop new products and new market.
\ue3\ue3We other suggest F Company use her core value wisely, and search, study market to fill product development. Or, to have her own brand if that is possible. It must be very difficult to execute those plans; even has her own brand. But, if F Company wants to have her place at market, this difficult path has to execute in order to avoid foundry nightmare and price-cutting all the time
Purification of laboratory chemicals / Wilfred L.F. Armarego, Christina Li Lin Chai.
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Proceedings of the 8th Annual Thompson Rivers University Undergraduate Research and Innovation Conference
Get PDFPeer reviewedProceedingsContents: Animal Biodiversity Survey of Inks Lake, BC, Canada / Alex R. Lapierre. -- Military Ideology in 17th Century England: Departure From, or Continuation of Tradition? / Preston Arens. -- Quantitative Analysis of Bisphenol A and Bisphenol F Leaching Out of Baby Feeding Bottles Using Capillary Electrophoresis / Christina Drescher. -- Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder / Jennifer Ju. -- Crime Data Visualization Using GIS and Augmented Reality / Khalid Alomar
Rapid Situation Analysis: a hybrid, multi-methods, qualitative, participatory approach to researching tourism development phenomena
No full textThis study develops a hybrid, bottom-up approach to field research, namely Rapid
Situation Analysis, and implements it in Ghana. It draws on elements from two existing
participatory methodological approaches: Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory
RuralAppraisal. The approachwas developed to suit the particular needs of investigating
corporate social responsibility practices, sustainable development and poverty reduction
through tourism, a fragmented sector which tends to be ambiguous and unstructured and
lack cohesion (unlike, for example, agriculture or primary health care, both of which
are familiar territory for Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal). The
Rapid Situation Analysis bottom-up approach to data gathering was underpinned by
supporting methods, including participant and direct observation, in-depth interviews,
stakeholder focus groups and informal conversations. Moreover, the multiple methods
were further enriched by the collection of visual data in the form of moving and still
images. These research findings were fed back to the communities at the centre of the
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The politics of strategic budgeteering
Get PDFThis paper analyzes how opportunistic governments choose between alternative fiscal policies
in order to increases their chances of re-election. To increase the provision of public goods
shortly before elections – and thus, to generate a fiscal political business cycles –
governments may either increase deficits or redistribute governmental resources from longterm
efficient sources to short-term efficient public programs. We argue that incumbents who
face highly competed elections principally have an incentive to spend more on public goods
even though these investments are not efficient in the long term. In principal, they would do
so by increasing the deficits (with re-balancing the budget after the election). However, our
model demonstrates that incumbents would even electioneer at the cost of long-term
investments if the extent of fiscal transparency does not allow them to finance the provision of
public goods with higher deficits. In other words, if elections are close and voters may
observe the governmental deficit, then governments tend to increase the provision of public
goods – and consequently, their electoral prospects – by a redistribution of budget resources
from long-term efficient investment to a short-term provision of public goods. We test the
predictions with new data on the composition of government consumption for 17 OECD
countries over 35 years. The preliminary findings suggest that governments indeed reshuffle
resources from long-term efficient investment to short-term public goods before elections
especially if elections are contested
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