617 research outputs found
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Biographies of Members
No full textA list of all the people who were initiated into the Order of the Golden Dawn at its temples in London, Bradford and Edinburgh between 1888 (the year it began) and 1901, along with biographies of many, but not all.
The list of names is based on the data in "The Golden Dawn Companion", R A Gilbert, The Aquarian Press, 1986. Gilbert transcribed all the signatures written on the Golden Dawn’s Membership Roll. However, research by this author on the original Members’ Roll resulted in corrections to some incorrect spellings and the addition of one person who was on the Members’ Roll but not in Gilbert's book
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Biographies of Members
No full textA list of all the people who were initiated into the Order of the Golden Dawn at its temples in London, Bradford and Edinburgh between 1888 (the year it began) and 1901, along with biographies of many, but not all.
The list of names is based on the data in "The Golden Dawn Companion", R A Gilbert, The Aquarian Press, 1986. Gilbert transcribed all the signatures written on the Golden Dawn’s Membership Roll. However, research by this author on the original Members’ Roll resulted in corrections to some incorrect spellings and the addition of one person who was on the Members’ Roll but not in Gilbert's book
Author's personal copy Male black-capped chickadees begin dawn chorusing earlier in response to simulated territorial insertions
No full textVariation in the level of competition for mates and territories is likely to influence the behaviour of competitors. The start of the dawn chorus in songbirds is influenced by a variety of internal factors (e.g. circadian rhythms) and external factors (e.g. light levels, social cues). Here we investigate whether the start time of the dawn chorus is influenced by the singing behaviour of conspecific competitors. Using an Acoustic Location System, we recorded the dawn chorus in neighbourhoods of 5e10 blackcapped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus. We used playback to simulate an unfamiliar male performing a dawn song bout within an existing male's territory. Playback began 15 min before the earliest song sung by any male on the preceding day. Focal males began singing a mean AE SE of 4.3 AE 1.6 min earlier on the day of playback (time relative to sunrise), significantly earlier than on the previous day. We also found a significant communication network level response where neighbouring males began singing 2.3 AE 0.8 min earlier in response to playback. Dawn song bouts of males that received playback were longer, but ended at a similar point relative to sunrise. As this effect of a simulated conspecific on chorus start time is on the scale of only a few minutes, other factors probably play a significant role in shaping the timing of dawn chorus onset. Our results show that animals adjust the timing of their sexual communication in response to increased levels of competition.
False Dawn: The Fading Hope of Democracy in the Middle East
No full textThe first decade of this century showcased hopeful popular revolts across the Middle East as people poured into the streets to demand change. Today, hopes for democracy in the region have all but disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of civil wars, Libya has descended into anarchy, the Islamic State army has been defeated on the battlefield but remains a threat, and Turkey has flipped from a heralded model of democracy to autocracy. Middle East expert Steven Cook chronicles the rise and fall of the Middle East's democratic movement.
Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's gold medal in 2012; and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey.Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2017). False Dawn: The Fading Hope of Democracy in the Middle East. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/218768
Spatial distribution of rolled up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices at Earth's dayside and flank magnetopause
No full textThe Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) can drive waves at the magnetopause. These waves can grow to form rolled-up vortices and facilitate transfer of plasma into the magnetosphere. To investigate the persistence and frequency of such waves at the magnetopause we have carried out a survey of all Double Star 1 magnetopause crossings, using a combination of ion and magnetic field measurements. Using criteria originally used in a Geotail study made by Hasegawa et al. (2006) (forthwith referred to as H2006), 17 candidate events were identified from the entire TC-1 mission (covering similar to 623 orbits where the magnetopause was sampled), a majority of which were on the dayside of the terminator. The relationship between density and shear velocity was then investigated, to identify the predicted signature of a rolled up vortex from H2006 and all 17 events exhibited some level of rolled up behavior. The location of the events had a clear dawn-dusk asymmetry, with 12 (71%) on the post noon, dusk flank suggesting preferential growth in this region
Geologic map of the northern hemisphere of Vesta based on Dawn Framing Camera (FC) images
No full textabstract: The Dawn Framing Camera (FC) has imaged the northern hemisphere of the Asteroid (4) Vesta at high spatial resolution and coverage. This study represents the first investigation of the overall geology of the northern hemisphere (22–90°N, quadrangles Av-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) using these unique Dawn mission observations. We have compiled a morphologic map and performed crater size–frequency distribution (CSFD) measurements to date the geologic units. The hemisphere is characterized by a heavily cratered surface with a few highly subdued basins up to ∼200 km in diameter. The most widespread unit is a plateau (cratered highland unit), similar to, although of lower elevation than the equatorial Vestalia Terra plateau. Large-scale troughs and ridges have regionally affected the surface. Between ∼180°E and ∼270°E, these tectonic features are well developed and related to the south pole Veneneia impact (Saturnalia Fossae trough unit), elsewhere on the hemisphere they are rare and subdued (Saturnalia Fossae cratered unit). In these pre-Rheasilvia units we observed an unexpectedly high frequency of impact craters up to ∼10 km in diameter, whose formation could in part be related to the Rheasilvia basin-forming event. The Rheasilvia impact has potentially affected the northern hemisphere also with S–N small-scale lineations, but without covering it with an ejecta blanket. Post-Rheasilvia impact craters are small (<60 km in diameter) and show a wide range of degradation states due to impact gardening and mass wasting processes. Where fresh, they display an ejecta blanket, bright rays and slope movements on walls. In places, crater rims have dark material ejecta and some crater floors are covered by ponded material interpreted as impact melt.NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in ICARUS. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in ICARUS, 244, 41-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.01.03
Euclid preparation. The Cosmic Dawn Survey (DAWN) of the Euclid Deep and Auxiliary Fields
No full textEuclid will provide deep NIR imaging to 26.5 AB magnitude over 59
deg in its deep and auxiliary fields. The Cosmic DAWN survey complements
the deep Euclid data with matched depth multiwavelength imaging and
spectroscopy in the UV--IR to provide consistently processed Euclid selected
photometric catalogs, accurate photometric redshifts, and measurements of
galaxy properties to a redshift of . In this paper, we present an
overview of the survey, including the footprints of the survey fields, the
existing and planned observations, and the primary science goals for the
combined data set.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&A; Updated references; Updated
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“It was just a prank, Han!”: Wendibros, Girlfriend Woes, and Gender Politics in Until Dawn
No full textHorror video games utilize conventional stereotypes to replicate the hegemonic power structures of the cultures from which they are produced. Using the 2015 award-winning horror video game Until Dawn as a case study, the author unpacks the construction of hegemonic masculinity and interrogates the impact of traditionally marginalized traits such as race and mental illness against the idealized role of the white, male saviour stereotype using an intersectional content analysis.
The thesis begins with an exploration of the game studies literature around gender and marginalization before transitioning into a consideration of hegemony in horror media, including video games. From there, the author contextualizes R. W. Connell’s conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity and combines it with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional lens. The literature is encapsulated in a summarization of Until Dawn’s characterization of masculinity, as determined by the theoretical framework provided, as a white (male) saviour archetype.
The author dedicates the three subsequent chapters to analyzing, via content analysis, the game’s key forms of marginalization: gender, race, and mental illness In each chapter, the content of Until Dawn is dissected to determine to what degree each marginalized attribute impacts a character’s ability to meet the game’s metric for hegemonic masculinity. The game content considered includes visuals, dialogue, object access and usability, combat scenarios, and storyline.
Hegemonic masculinity, mental illness, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture must be critically analyzed; this research adds a necessary consideration of several problematic and harmful representations that are often overlooked in current game studies literature
Controlling risk for the telecommuting workforce with an emphasis on ergonomics
No full textPlan BTen million people or nearly 4.5 % of the United States workforce characterized themselves as telecommuters at the end of 1998. Telecommuting generally involves extensive use of a personal computer workstation. Ergonomic risk factors identified as repetition, awkward postures, force, and the combination of these factors exist in the traditional office workplace. These risk factors are expected to be present in the telecommuters work situation as well. To maintain the health of employees and reduce potential corporate liability due to employee injuries, risk professionals must control ergonomic risk factors faced by the telecommuter. United States corporations have developed a number of different strategies to address ergonomic risks and they are presented in this study. Two specific strategies used are providing in-home workstation evaluations and furniture for the telecommuter. Several large US companies were informally surveyed to determine whether or not they provide these services to their telecommuting workforce. Similarly, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been evaluating different methods to control employee injuries associated with ergonomic factors in the office workplace through regulation. These regulatory strategies are also described in this investigation. Document collection and literature review was used as the primary data collection method throughout the study. In addition to the reviews, a set of questions was prepared to provide a framework for informal interviews with several companies. This interview process was used to collect information on the strategies the selected companies employ to control general and ergonomic risks faced by their telecommuting workforces. Data covering general risks associated with telecommuting was presented in paragraph format. Information collected on corporate risk control strategies was provided in a table format. Finally, a time line was created to present OSHA information related to telecommuting
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