868 research outputs found
Home in the Holy Land. A tale illustrating customs and incidents in modern Jerusalem By MRS Finn. London James Nisbet and Co., 21 Berners street. M.D.CCC. L.XVI
No full textDedication: by the author to the Countess of GriffordContent description: TitleIllustration: 4 (portraits ,varia ,)Pagination: PP8+520PVolumes: 1Text Genre:ProseIllustration: 4 (πορτραίτα ,άλλα θέματα ,
The future of pornography - panel debate. Speakers | Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell
No full textMany believe that porn's dark fantasies risk corrupting relationships and society. Has this arisen because pornography is largely created by men? Could feminist pornography featuring authentic sex, diverse bodies and female perspectives offer a truly liberating alternative? Or is porn fundamentally incompatible with intimacy and a problem for all of us until its abolished? Feminist thinker Finn Mackay, author of Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl Brooke Magnanti, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling imagine the future of pornography.In association with the New College of the Humanities
Author response: critical condition: replacing critical thinking with creativity by Patrick Finn
No full textFollowing Jodie Matthews’s review of his new book Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity, author Patrick Finn offers a response to Matthews’s reflections on his work. Finn outlines his approach to writing Critical Condition: a text that is designed to serve as an accessible ‘thought experiment’ that speaks across disciplines in order to explore its object, ‘critical thinking’. For Finn, critical thinking is a concept that appears integral to academic practice, yet remains under-defined and in need of further elucidation. Critical Condition therefore seeks to inspire collective reflection on critical thinking and its relationship with creativity
Francis J. (Francis James) Finn memorial holy card
No full textFuneral prayer card for Francis J. (Francis James) Finn, 1859-1928. The front of the card contains a photograph of Father Finn and biographical information. The back of the card contains a prayer for the repose of his soul and a prayer from St. Ignatius. This card was made by an unknown publisher. Finn was an associate pastor of St. Xavier Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), a member of the board of trustees at Xavier University, (Cincinnati, Ohio), and the author of many books for adolescents.https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/jesuit_holy_cards/1019/thumbnail.jp
Solitude versus sharing : author-ity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
No full textThis essay will explore how Twain, as author, makes use of Huck as the “author” of his own life story to portray a child’s character and morality. In conjunction with this portrayal, it will also explore the literary techniques of narrative style pertaining to the unreliable first-person narrative and the use of the vernacular, as well as the construction of experience in a book that is narrated episodically. The themes of isolation versus community and authorship as discussed through John Donne’s epigraph contribute to an understanding of these formal aspects of Twain’s style in Huckleberry Finn. Just as its composition has been informed by various life sources and experiences, a reading of the book cannot simply be informed by one analysis, but by multiple perspectives. The essay will also briefly discuss the issue of cultural and context specificity involved in Huckspeech. In line with this issue, the narrative will be compared, in part, to Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street which also employs a culturally-bound child narrator similar to Huck. The comparisons with her work further inform Huckspeech as a blend of cultural and linguistic forms as both novels combine the literary and linguistic techniques of the child’s perspective, retrospective narration and the vernacular.Bachelor of Art
A Different Story - Seduction, Conquest, and Discovery
No full textIn 'A Different Story,' Finn Janning uses the Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad trilogy: 'The Seducer', 'The Conqueror', and 'The Discovery' as a fictional frame that organizes his as understanding, analyzing and critique of contemporary HRM and Leadership-Practices
progress report FY 2004-2005
No full textPI: Michael Qian, Oregon State University ; collaborators: Chad Finn, USDA-ARS HCRL, Jan-Marie Schroeder, Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Improving the usability and scalability of FINN, a DNN compiler for FPGAs
No full textFINN is a framework developed by Xilinx Research Labs that compiles Deep Neural Network software descriptions into fast and scalable dataflow architectures for inference acceleration on FPGAs. The dataflowarchitectures are network dependent, sized according to the user-defined throughput requirements, and constrained by available resources on the user-specified FPGA board. Synthesising large neural network designswith a high degree of configurability leads to large build times, spanning from hours to days, to build an entire network. Thus, the first objective of this thesis is to explore and propose a modified FINN accelerator construction methodology that can substantially reduce the build times. The main idea behind our proposal is to reduce the granularity of the architecture to reduce the size of synthesis jobs and to enable logic reuse within and across neural network layers. Using this method, up to 12× speedup in High-Level Synthesis times and up to 2× speedup in end-to-end build times of accelerator networks are achieved.The second limitation that this work addresses relates to the performance scalability of FINN generated architectures. There are two modes of parallelism in FINN that currently provide performance scaling in convolution operations. The first factor, which modifies the number of Processing Elements (PEs), parallelises along the input channels of a convolutional layer and the second factor, that modifies the number of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) lanes present in each PE, parallelises along the number of output channels ofthe convolution. Computations are currently not parallelisable across the non-depth dimensions of images, i.e., the side containing pixels of images that faces the viewer. This limitation can restrict the achievable performance for networks that contain layers with large image dimensions and shallow depth dimension. The second part of this work leverages the fine-grained construction methodology to augment FINN performance scaling. The proposed approach introduces a generic FINN modification that enables pixel-level parallelism,i.e., multiple output pixels of a convolutional layer can be processed simultaneously by performing Multiple Matrix Vector (MMV) multiplications at the same time. Using this generic method, MMV number of pixels can be processed simultaneously, an MMV times throughput increase can be obtained at the cost of less than MMV × additional resources
Stasimopus finni Brandt & Sole & Lyle 2023, sp. nov.
No full textStasimopus finni sp. nov. (Figures 5B, 11B, 13A, 14, 15) Type material: Holotype Ô SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape Province, Somerset East (-32.9386, 25.6612), 14.v.2018, S. Brandt, C. Sole, E. Engelbrecht and E. Brand, (NCA 2019/605). Etymology: The specific epithet is patronym in honour of Finn Robert Pirk the son of the third author, who loves all creepy crawlies. Diagnosis: The males of S. finni sp. nov. are distinguishable from other members of the genus occurring in the Karoo based on the following combination of characters. It is differentiated from S. astutus, S. erythrognathus, S. malesociatus sp. nov., S. patersonae, S. steynsbergensis, S. karooensis sp. nov. and S. mandelai based on the pedipalp not reaching the tarsus of leg I. Distinguished from S. palpiger as the pedipalp is longer than leg I, which S. finni sp. nov. is not. The species has denser cheliceral denticles (>11) than S. schrieneri (<5), S. ignis sp. nov. (<5) and S. maraisi (<10). Stasimopus finni sp. nov. is in general more spinose on the legs than S. dylani sp. nov. (Tibia of leg I and IV). Description: Based on the holotype Ô (NCA 2019/605). Remarks: Ô: The left AME is reduced in size, making some eye measurements unreliable. ♀: Known only from the type male. General: Ô: (Fig 5B) Medium bodied spider, 10.84 total length. Carapace: Ô: Carapace length 4.76; width 4.05. Deep red-brown colouration, thoracic region with rugose texture. Fovea procurved, 0.81 in length. Ocelli: Ô: (Fig 11B) AME diameter 0.14, PME diameter 0.19, MOQ anterior width 1.22 (may not be accurate due to deformity), MOQ posterior width 1.71; AME-AME 0.31 (may not be accurate due to deformity)., AME-ALE 0.10, ALE-ALE 0.65, PME-PME 0.79, PME-PLE 0.16, PLE-PLE 1.14. AER procurved, PER recurved. Chelicerae: Ô: (Fig 13A) Two teeth rows present, 4 teeth proventral row, 4 in retroventral row; 11–13 cuspules between rows. Sternum, labium and maxillae: Ô: (Fig 14C) Sternum length 2.66; sternum width 2.19. Sternum shape has distinct impressions of where the coxa are situated. Sigilla in the shape of a fused arrow, distal end fused, proximal end 0.69 apart; cuspules on labium absent; maxilla absent. Abdomen: Ô: (Fig 5B) Abdomen length 6.08; width 4.30. Pale beige colouration with dark grey banding, smaller band near carapace, followed by broader and wider band, then a narrower band, lastly two shorter bands next to one another. Pedipalps: Ô: (Fig 14A, B) Total length 16.03; Segment lengths 1.57, 5.42, 4.15, -, 4.88. Spines absent. Bulb oval, embolus elongated, tapering retrolaterally into sharp point. Legs: Ô: Length order: I, IV, II, III. I Total length 17.40; Segment lengths 5.54, 2.36, 4.22, 3.93, 1.35; Spination: spines absent on femur, with sparse setae. Patella v - 2–3 spines distally. Tibia (Fig 14D) v - 16–18 large spines extend pl & rl, denser distally. Metatarsus (Fig 14D) v - 15–16 large spines extend pl & rl. Tarsus (Fig 14D) pl & rl - 1–2 small spines, v - scopulate. II Total length 15.53; Segment lengths 4.77, 2.23, 3.63, 3.57, 1.33; Spination: spines absent on femur, with sparse setae. Patella v - 2–3 spines distally. Tibia v - 16 large spines extend pl & rl, denser distally. Metatarsus v - 14–16 large spines, 1 distinctly large spine distally on pl and rl aspects. Tarsus pl & rl - 2–3 small spines, v - scopulate. III Total length 11.75; Segment lengths 3.01, 1.54, 1.38, 3.68, 2.14; Spination: spines absent on femur, with sparse setae. Patella do - 11 small spines. Tibia pl - 1 spine, almost v, do - 2 unorganised rows of red spinules (11 pl / do; 8–9 rl / do). Metatarsus do - 8 spines in two 2, v (Fig 14E)—18 spines, 3 are large and distal. Tarsus v (Fig 14E)—7 small spines, extend pl & rl, dense setae covering spines. IV Total length 17.38; Segment lengths 4.27, 2.31, 3.66, 4.85, 2.29; Spination: spines absent on femur, with sparse setae. Patella do - short dense red spines proximally, less dense distally; interspersed with fine black setae. Tibia pl / v - 2–3 small spines. Metatarsus pl - 8 spines, v (Fig 14F)—I5 spines (4 large spines distally), spines extend pl. Tarsus (Fig 14F) pl - 11–14 spines, extend v, v - 7 small spines. Distribution and environment notes: The species is found in the localities indicated in Figure 15. The species is only known from the type locality near Somerset East in the Eastern Cape province. The location was a flat between small hills. The vegetation was dominated by low shrubs and aloe plants. The soil was very hard, chalky and pale. The specimen was found in a short burrow (Approx. 10cm deep). FIGURE 15. Map of the locality where the Stasimopus finni sp. nov. specimen was collected. Numbers match the site numbers in Figure 1. Map created in QGIS version 3.4.8-Madeira (2019), available at: http://qgis.osgeo.org.Published as part of Brandt, Shannon, Sole, Catherine & Lyle, Robin, 2023, An integrative taxonomy of the genus Stasimopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) of the Karoo with the description of nine new species and a Stasimopus maraisi Hewitt 1914 male, pp. 1-60 in Zootaxa 5341 (1) on pages 24-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832374
Maher, Inf. (Death, 1883-03-23)
No full textAddress: Evans St.562/Pg 13/1883/MW S/Ohio/Dr. F. Lyle/Finn/St. Joseph's NewOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'MACK, R-MAIN'
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