920 research outputs found
Ave atque vale : F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe—and Charles Scribner’s Sons
No full textDiscusses Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe as the three principle writers contributing to Scribner’s “Golden Age.” Cites Maxwell Perkins’s role as the representative of the publishing house during this era and explores his relationship with each author. Catalogs the advertising and sales history of works by each writer
Evil in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe
No full textiii, 40 p.The following essay is the result of a three-month study of the
works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Little use has been
made of secondary materials in order that the study might be the
thoughts of one student.
I have concentrated on relating incidents and mentions of evil
in the writings of each author in order to offer the reader evidence
that each man did have a concept of evil and that this concept was
important in his world-view. The conclusions I have drawn in the
following pages are my reactions to this evidence, but these same
conclusions are not a final statement on this subject or on the
authors themselves
Variance-reduced stochastic Frank-Wolfe method with away-steps for non-strongly convex problems
No full textM.Phil.We consider the problem of minimizing [includes formula] over a compact polyhedron P which can be represented by [x ∈ Rᵖ : Cx≤d} for some C ∈ Rmxp, d ∈ Rm. And we assume each f(.) to be strongly convex and has continuous gradient. As a result, F(x) will also have continuous gradient but is not necessarily strongly convex.We use variance reduction for stochastic Frank-Wolfe method with away-steps and we prove that the expected objective value converges to the optimal value at a linear rate when the batch size is larger than some constant.We do numerical experiments to compare our algorithm with Goldfarb's semi-stochastic Frank-Wolfe method with away-steps in graph guided fused LASSO and Hazan's variance reduced stochastic Frank-Wolfe method in multiclass classification problem. In the experiments, we observed that our algorithm always works better than Frank-Wolfe method without away-steps and decreases more quickly than methods without variance reduction. Moreover, our algorithm performs well in multiclass classification problem which means it works for other convex domain.我们考虑的问题形式是在一个紧的多面体P上求函数[附方程式]的最小值。其中集合P可以表示成[x ∈ Rᵖ : Cx≤d}的形式，C ∈ Rmxp, d ∈ Rm。我们假设每个小的函数fᵢ(.)是强凸的并且导数是Lipschitz连续的，这意味着目标函数F(x)的导数也是Lipschitz连续的，但是不一定是强凸函数。在文章中我们将方差降低的方法应用到带away-steps的Frank-Wolfe算法，并证明出在批量大小大于某个定值的时候，目标函数的值在期望意义下能达到线性的收敛速度。我们做了两种数值实验与前人的算法进行比较，分别是GFLASSO和多标签分类问题。实验结果表明我们的算法比没有方差降低或没有away-steps的算法收敛速度更快，并且能在一般的紧凸集上应用。Zhu, Yongyang.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2017.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 25, October, 2019)
Heliopolis: Lisa Jarnot’s rewriting of a legendary city
No full textIn her second book Ring of Fire, American poet Lisa Jarnot offers the reader a dynamic sixteen-poem sequence entitled Heliopolis. Jarnot’s Heliopolis uses the legendary City of the Sun as a starting point, but rather than describe or depict the life of antiquity, Jarnot considers the city as an ongoing posthuman vortex where animals perform a range of implausibly or absurdly anthropomorphic actions. Moreover, Jarnot’s recursive poetic structures both heighten the rhythmic and ludic qualities of the actions described while toggling between poignant humor and ethical confrontation. This essay seeks to examine what the social and ethical implications are in Jarnot’s reimagining of this legendary city. Moreover, the work of Cary Wolfe, Donna Haraway, and others within posthumanist discourse will be considered as a critical lens into how Jarnot is leveraging playfulness and anthropomorphism. Why does Jarnot consistently (re-)present non-human animals in her poems? How do her stylistic gestures collapse distinctions between physical and temporal [email protected] of LodzAgamben, G. 2004. The Open. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Bachelard, G. 2015. The Poetics of Space. New York: Penguin.Bentham, J. 1907. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Dobrowolska, A. & Dobrowolski, J. 2006 Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun. Cairo: the American University in Cairo Press.Gass, W. 1973. “Introduction” for Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind. 24-25. New York: Vintage.Gombrowicz, W. 1989. Diary (vol. 2). Evanston: Northwestern University Press.Haraway, D. 2008. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Jarnot, L. 2001. Ring of Fire. Boston: Zoland Books.Johnston, D. 2002. Book review. Chicago Review, vol. 47, no. 3: 139-141.Kaufmann, D. 1999. Repetition, noise, and pleasure, or why I like John Yau and Lisa Jarnot. English Matters, no.1. 1-7.Maso, C. 1995. The Art Lover. New York: Ecco Press.Perloff, M. 1979. Poetry as Word-System: the Art of Gertrude Stein. American Poetry Review, vol. 8, no. 5 (Sept/Oct.): 33-43.Raimi, S. 1995. The Quick and the Dead. Film.Selby, N. 2005. Mythologies of ‘Ecstatic Immersion’: America, the Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot. In: W. Blazek & M. K. Glenday (eds.), American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature, 202-225. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press.Stein, G. 1914. Tender Buttons. New York: Claire Marie.Tardi, M. 2019. ‘Dressed Like Stars in the Blades of Night’: On Lisa Jarnot’s Poetics of Nonhuman Animals. In: P. Austin & E. Rokosz-Piejko (eds.), Re-Imagining the Limits of
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Method development and generation of profiles for selected phenolics from apple cultivars used for processed products
No full textProfiles of selected phenolic constituents of 2 apple cultivars, Northern Spy and Ida Red, commonly used for processed products Were compared. Although chlorogenic acid was the principal phenolic in both cultivars, there were significant quantitative differences. A new solid-phase extraction (SPE) and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) separation using polymeric resins was developed for this experiment. Quantification was by ultra-violet (UV) absorbance using a diode array detector. The performance of this new method was compared with that of a published liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) method, based on linearity of detector response, limits of detection, reproducibility of analysis, and recoveries from spiked apple samples.PT: J; CR: *SAS I INC, 1999, SAS ONL DOC VERS 8 AGBOREGBE T, 1990, J SCI FOOD AGR, V51, P215 AMIOT MJ, 1992, J FOOD SCI, V57, P958 AMIOT MJ, 1993, ACTA HORTIC, V343, P67 ANDRADE PB, 1998, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V46, P968 AWAD MA, 2000, SCI HORTIC-AMSTERDAM, V83, P249 BILYK A, 1988, J LIQ CHROMATOGR, V11, P2829 BURDA S, 1990, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V38, P945 CILLIERS JJL, 1990, J FOOD SCI, V55, P1458 COSETENG MY, 1987, J FOOD SCI, V52, P985 ESCARPA A, 1999, J CHROMATOGR A, V830, P301 JAWORSKI AW, 1987, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V35, P257 LEE CY, 1987, AM J ENOL VITICULT, V38, P277 LEE HS, 1996, HDB FOOD ANAL, V1, P821 LEE HS, 2000, FOOD ANAL HPLC, P775 LISTER CE, 1994, J SCI FOOD AGR, V64, P155 MACHEIX JJ, 1990, FRUIT PHENOLICS, P1 MARQUES L, 1995, ENZYMATIC BROWNING I, P90 MARTINEZ MV, 1995, TRENDS FOOD SCI TECH, V6, P195 MATHEIS G, 1984, J FOOD BIOCHEM, V8, P137 MCRAE KB, 1990, J SCI FOOD AGR, V50, P329 MURATA M, 1995, J JPN SOC FOOD SCI, V42, P820 OSZMIANSKI J, 1990, AM J ENOL VITICULT, V41, P204 PEREZILZARBE J, 1991, Z LEBENSM UNTERS FOR, V192, P551 PODSEDEK A, 2000, EUR FOOD RES TECHNOL, V210, P268 SINGLETON VL, 1986, PHYTOCHEMISTRY, V25, P2127 SPANOS GA, 1990, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V38, P1572 SPANOS GA, 1992, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V40, P1478 TOMASLORENTE F, 1992, J AGR FOOD CHEM, V40, P1800 VAMOSVIGYAZO L, 1981, CRC CRIT REV FOOD SC, V15, P49 WALKER JRL, 1995, ENZYMATIC BROWNING I, P8 WHITAKER JR, 1995, ENZYMATIC BROWNING I, P2 WILSON EL, 1981, J SCI FOOD AGR, V32, P257 ZAWISTOWSKI J, 1991, OXIDATIVE ENZYMES FO, P217; NR: 34; TC: 0; J9: J FOOD SCI; PG: 8; GA: 615PDSource type: Electronic(1
"A real actress": Theatre and selfhood in Antonia White's Frost in may quartet
No full textThe novels of British author Antonia White (1899–980) have been mined primarily for themes of psychosis, sexual trauma, and spiritual faith and doubt, whilst simultaneously marginalized as “autobiographical fiction.” This chapter freshly illuminates her work by analysis through the lens of theatre, revealed as a trope shaping the Frost in May quartet: theatre manifests in formal productions and, metaphorically, to express a profoundly unstable sense of self. I argue that theatre's intertwining of supposed “oppositions”—self and role, real and pretended, felt and faked—explains its fascination for the author, synthesizing qualities she found terrifyingly antithetical. White's own encounters with the stage also reflect the changing face of British theatre in the twentieth century: from conservatism to experiment, towards a more holistic model joining realism and abstraction, creativity and technique, corporeality and the text
Faith and the face-off: John F. Kennedy, religion, and averting nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis
No full textThe decisions made by President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 likely prevented the outbreak of World War III. Understanding the president’s possible motivations behind those decisions, including any possible religious motivations, is key to a more complete understanding of the eventual peaceful resolution of the crisis. Kennedy’s was a complex religiosity from childhood, further complicated by anti-Catholic prejudice and his own assertions of the firm separation of church and state during the 1960 presidential campaign. While keeping his religiosity a private matter, those closest to the president documented their memories of his words and actions during the crisis. Using these recollections, it is possible to get a sense of what things the commander in chief may have taken into consideration when deciding which course of action to pursue. From statements made by the president to the manner of his interactions, evidence of his attitudes and concerns during the crisis provides inferences into the character of his conscience. These inferences suggest that Kennedy’s decisions may have been influenced by the empathy he was able to feel for others, that he may have been guided by a conscience of peace formed, in part, by his religious faith, and that he may have weighed his actions using tenets of the Catholic Church, particularly the four cardinal virtues: prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude. The papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII in April 1963, Pacem in Terris, lays out as official Church doctrine the need for universal peace through Catholic virtues such as justice and truth. This encyclical appears to echo some of the attitudes that, according to those closest to him, President Kennedy took on during the Cuban crisis, further supporting the idea that Kennedy’s faith influenced his decisions.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alison L. Davi
DEVELOPING THE NATURE-BASED TOURISM SECTOR IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
No full textThe purpose of this study was to: 1) identify opportunities for expanding the tourism sector in southwestern North Dakota, 2) identify challenges and obstacles facing the area's tourism businesses, and 3) frame key issues and outline potential options for area decision makers (the primary clientele for the study). The findings reveal some basic characteristics of businesses in the region's tourism sector, identify some of the key constraints to expansion and development, and identify respondents' perceptions of opportunities for growth and expansion.nature-based tourism, agritourism, North Dakota, economic development, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Nitrogen-fixation potential in bacteria associated with the sea anemone, Exaiptasia pallida
No full textThe coral holobiont, which consists of the animal, associated algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae, prokaryotes, and other associated microbes, efficiently cycles nutrients to allow corals to thrive under oligotrophic conditions. Within this diverse microbial community are diazotrophs, which are nitrogen-fixing bacteria that make nitrogen available for organismal use. Nitrogen fixation is highly prone to environmental changes, such as temperature, and has impacted various coral species in contrasting ways. Increased diazotrophic activity enables some coral species to maintain photosynthetic rates and become resilient to rising ocean temperatures, while other coral species exhibit bleaching symptoms. Hence, our comprehension of diazotrophs and their activity in corals demands further investigation. This study used the sea anemone Exaiptasia pallida (commonly known as 'Aiptasia'), a powerful model organism for coral-symbiosis research, to explore diazotrophic activity in symbiotic and aposymbiotic states. In doing so, this provides an indirect comparison to healthy and bleaching corals, respectively, to identify potential nitrogen-fixing trends impacting the holobiont. The nifH gene—a biomarker for diazotrophs—was amplified in symbiotic and aposymbiotic anemones using a degenerate primer set, Ueda19F and R6, which generated a ~394 bp PCR product. nifH was under-expressed in symbiotic and aposymbiotic anemones, as determined by qPCR analysis. Diazotrophic activity was indirectly evaluated in symbiotic and aposymbiotic anemones by an acetylene reduction assay under ambient condition (27°C) and thermal elevation (34°C). Under ambient conditions, diazotrophic activity was not detectable. However, diazotrophic activity was detectable under thermal elevation, and slightly greater in aposymbiotic than symbiotic Aiptasia. The low presence (or complete absence) of diazotrophic activity may be indicative of Aiptasia's dependency on heterotrophy instead to obtain nitrogen. Thermal elevation appeared to stimulate nitrogen-fixing potential in diazotrophs associated with symbiotic and aposymbiotic Aiptasia but requires further evidence for confirmation. This increase in nitrogen fixation may be a potential strategy to supply additional nitrogen and encourage nutrient transfer with other members of the holobiont. This study lays the foundation for the use of Aiptasia to distinguish how nitrogen-fixation patterns affect the cnidarian host in different symbiotic states
Low thrust propulsion in a coplanar circular restricted four body problem
No full textThis paper formulates a circular restricted four body problem (CRFBP), where the three primaries are set in the stable Lagrangian equilateral triangle configuration and the fourth body is massless. The analysis of this autonomous coplanar CRFBP is undertaken, which identies eight natural equilibria; four of which are close to the smaller body, two stable and two unstable, when considering the primaries to be the Sun and two smaller bodies of the solar system. Following this, the model incorporates `near term' low-thrust propulsion capabilities to generate surfaces of articial equilibrium points close to the smaller primary, both in and out of the plane containing the celestial bodies. A stability analysis of these points is carried out and a stable subset of them is identied. Throughout the analysis the Sun-Jupiter-Asteroid-Spacecraft system is used, for conceivable masses of a hypothetical asteroid set at the libration point L4. It is shown that eight bounded orbits exist, which can be maintained with a constant thrust less than 1:5 10􀀀4N for a 1000kg spacecraft. This illustrates that, by exploiting low-thrust technologies, it would be possible to maintain an observation point more than 66% closer to the asteroid than that of a stable natural equilibrium point. The analysis then focusses on a major Jupiter Trojan: the 624-Hektor asteroid. The thrust required to enable close asteroid observation is determined in the simplied CRFBP model. Finally, a numerical simulation of the real Sun-Jupiter-624 Hektor-Spacecraft is undertaken, which tests the validity of the stability analysis of the simplied model
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