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Twentieth-century poetry and science : science in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Judith Wright, Edwin Morgan, and Miroslav Holub
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures’ and the ‘science wars’. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards’s Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid’s late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard’ technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan’s work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub’s work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion
Statement, Memories of Toledo High School by Hugh L. Allen (1885-1975)
No full textThis memoir is a hand written account by Hugh L. Allen (1885-1995). It is undated, although the author refers to some dates in his recollections of Toledo High School. His parents moved from Fayette, Ohio, in 1888, and his family lived at 10th and Madison Streets near the school. He recalls playing and sledding on the grounds, and also attended the school from 1900-1904
A model of photosynthesis and photo-protection based on reaction center damage and repair
No full textPhytoplankton photosynthesis under the rapidly fluctuating irradiance which results from turbulent mixingthrough the vertical light gradient is poorly understood. Ship-based measurements often apply the fast repetitionrate fluorescence (FRRF) technique in situ or in vivo to gauge the physiological state of the phytoplanktoncommunity and infer some of the physical properties of the water column (such as mixing time scales). We describethe development and validation of a model of photosynthetic electron turnover at photosystemII with considerationof downstream limitation, based on the redox state of photosystem II. We also include empirical formulations forslower processes such as photo-protection (from nonphotochemical quenching) and photo-inhibition. Byconfronting the simple model with laboratory data for Dunaliella tertiolecta, we were able to refine the model sothat it faithfully produced rates of photosynthetic electron transfer determined by FRR fluorescence. Further, wewere able to validate the model estimates of linear photosynthetic electron transfer rates against completelyindependent measurements obtained using 14C-bicarbonate assimilation in photosynthesis-light curves
I Am Proud to be a Spanish-American War Veteran by Hugh L. Stephenson (Broadside 70)
No full textBroadside listing the reasons why the writer is Proud to be a Spanish-American War Veteran. The author of the piece is Hugh L. Stephenson, and it was printed by the William McKinley Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans of Long Beach, Calfironia. The item features blue ink text with red highlights.https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/tlw_secondary/1013/thumbnail.jp
URI Disambiguation in the Context of Linked Data
No full textThe Linked Data initiative has given rise to an increasing number of RDF datasets, many of which are freely accessible online. These resources often arise as a result of database exports; however sufficient consideration may not be given to the unseen implications caused when they are used in the wider context of the Semantic Web. This paper investigates two popular resources, DBLP and DBpedia, and discusses whether the issues regarding identity management and co-reference resolution have been suitably addressed. We find that a large percentage of authors in DBLP have been conflated, and that disambiguation pages have been incorrectly linked using owl:sameAs within DBpedia. Systems for dealing with these issues are presented, and directions are given for future research
Reconciling Versioning and Context in Hypermedia Structure Servers
No full textContextual structure servers and versioning servers share a similar goal in allowing different views on a stored structure according to the viewer’s perspective. In this paper we argue that a generic contextual model can be used to facilitate versioning. In order to prove our hypothesis we have drawn on our experiences with OHP-Version to extend FOHM’s contextual model
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