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Statement by Bishop Henry W. Cleary
No full textHolograph statement by Bishop Henry W. Cleary of Auckland, Rome, reviewing the Italian translation of Goblet's L'Irlande dans la crise universelle 1914-1920 'the best of the many books, dealing with that critical period, that have come under my notice'. The author possesses both the historic sense and a dramatic instinct
Portrait of Beverly Cleary
No full textPortrait of well-known children's author Beverly Cleary. She grew up near Yamhill, Oregon, but spent some of her childhood visiting relatives in the Banks area.[caption] Beverly Cleary Children's Librar
Kate M. Cleary a literary biography with selected works
No full textIn 1884 Kate Cleary moved from Chicago to Hubbell, Nebraska, where she bore six children and helped support her family by publishing hundreds of stories, poems, and articles. After her return to Chicago in 1898, Cleary continued to write stories about the American West. Susanne K. George's absorbing account recovers the life and works of a fascinating western American author. She vividly portrays Cleary's arduous decade and a half on the frontier and her last, tragic years in Chicago, where she died in 1905, at the age of forty-two. George also describes how Cleary's career reflects the difficulties faced by women authors at the end of the nineteenth century and the unique perspectives that such women brought to the art of fictionThe second part of the book is a collection of Cleary's writings. Some of these eighteen short stories, essays, and sketches are somber, even grim, depictions of homestead and small-town life in Nebraska, with special emphasis placed on the experience's of women. Others are humorous, ironic accounts of life on the western frontier. Also included is a sampling of Cleary's vers
A sectional soot formation kinetics scheme with a new model for coagulation efficiency
No full textA sectional scheme for soot formation is combined with a novel model for coagulation efficiency based on the thermal rebound concept and involves the minimisation of the Lennard-Jones potential energy between two colliding particles. Here, a novel generalisation of the interaction potential well depth is formulated for particles of any size or material composition that contains a free parameter which is related to the soot particle void fraction. A simplification that expresses the coagulation rate in an Arrhenius-like form is proposed so that the entire gas-phase and soot kinetics can be easily coupled and integrated using existing chemical kinetics solvers. The model is included in the sectional scheme, which accounts for nucleation, surface growth/oxidation, coagulation and fragmentation, and is validated against experimental data for a series of ethylene burner stabilised stagnation (BSS) premixed flames and a methane laminar coflow diffusion flame. The soot kinetics is discretised into lumped species according to soot particle size (or number of carbon atoms) and the soot evolution follows a 23-step abstract reaction scheme that is a reduced form of an existing multisectional soot kinetics scheme (Sirignano et al., Energy & Fuels 27, 2013). Overall, the model predictions produce a satisfactory agreement with the experimental data but there is considerable sensitivity to . In particular, has a strong effect on the soot particle size distribution (PSD) in the BSS flames. or 1.25 lead to an overprediction of large particle concentrations but result in the correct transition to a bimodal PSD as the stagnation plate separation distance increases, whereas is found to produce accurate predictions for nascent soot but suppresses the transition to a bimodal PSD. In the methane coflow diffusion flame increasing reduces the soot volume fraction but the predictions are also found to be very sensitive to the chosen numerical threshold for the lower soot size detection limit and results are presented for 2 nm and 7 nm thresholds for comparison against both laser-based and probe-based experimental data
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No full textIntegrity in Publishing: Some Considerations for Dealing with Complaints about Author Misconduct
No full textComplaints made to editors about an author’s unethical behaviour relating to work submitted for publication or work that has already been published must be dealt with in accordance with The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Despite the ramifications of breaches of ethical practice, there is little published information about how complaints relating to author misconduct are managed. This paper provides an overview of the subject and will be of interest to authors and would-be authors
Review of \u3ci\u3eKate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works\u3c/i\u3e By Susanne K. George
No full textSometimes it seemed to her that she could endure everything save the silence. Thus begins Kate McPhelim Cleary\u27s 1893 short story, Feet of Clay ; like many of her best stories, it captures Plains settlers\u27-and Cleary\u27s-pervasive sense of isolation in the harsh environment of the Midwest at the turn of the century. Having moved nine years earlier from Chicago to Hubbell, Nebraska, Cleary in her life and writings adds to our growing understanding of middle-class homesteaders who migrated to the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, and to our recognition of the important contributions of Midwestern women writers to nineteenth-century US literature. Suzanne George\u27s meticulous biography and editing of selected works makes a notable contribution to the field.
A prolific writer whose career was necessary to her family\u27s survival, Cleary moved easily between witty anecdotal sketches (especially of the fictional Bubble, Nebraska ) and strikingly realistic portrayals of loss and desolation. George captures the personal and economic pressures Cleary faced as her husband\u27s health and economic ventures began to collapse; she struggled to write for profit while caring for ailing children and coping with the death of two daughters. Not surprisingly, Cleary\u27s own health suffered, and she endured painful periods of depression. Yet, as George convincingly argues, Cleary\u27s prolific endeavors in the years following her children\u27s deaths, her husband\u27s long absence for ill health, and her own suffering suggest that she viewed her writing as a psychological barrier against grief and not oY{ly an economic necessity. Though her poetry is largely conventional and some of her essays, such as A Nebraska Hired Girl, reveal Cleary\u27s class biases, the best of her writings reveal her keen eye for the unique nature oflife on the Plains. Her women characters are gender-bound, struggling against social restrictions as much as against nature\u27s devastating harshness; but largely her stories capture the sense of women and men laboring and surviving. Her early novels were hindered by undue sentimentalism, but in 1897 she published a mystery, Like a Gallant Lady, that focuses on an insurance scam and vividly describes Plains life. Like the poem, To Nebraska, that introduces the novel, Cleary\u27s writings as a whole reveal what George calls her love/hate relationship with the plains.
George\u27s biography offers the fullest picture to date of Cleary, an author whose contribution to literature of Midwestern women settlers deserves comparison to the betterknown Caroline Kirkland, Hamlin Garland, and Willa Cather. Anyone interested in American literature or more specifically the literature of Nebraska should read Kate M. Cleary
Multiple mapping conditioning in homogeneous reacting flows
No full textMultiple mapping conditioning (MMC) is used to model local extinction and reignition phenomena in homogeneous, isotropic decaying turbulence. It is recognized that mixture fraction alone is not sufficient to account for turbulent scalar fluctuations and that more than one reference variable needs to be introduced. We introduce a second reference variable with a dual character: the second variable is a dissipation-like variable that emulates the intermittent behaviour of scalar dissipation and it is therefore the cause for local extinction in our modelling. However, the second variable is also used to match the scalar variance of a reaction progress variable to ensure consistency in temperature flucutations of the MMC model and Direct Numerical Simulations. The resulting model provides a (fully) closed formulation for the modelling of local extinction and re-ignition events and predictions of the joint probability distribution of mixture fraction and sensible enthalpy, of reactive species and of the global conversion rates are good and clear improvments over conventional mixture fraction based methods that use mixture fraction as the only conditioning paramenter
Writing research impact statements
No full textResearch drives innovation by generating new ideas or ways of doing things and, in turn, contributes to society (Chapman, 2014). Increasingly, attention is being given to demonstrating and measuring the return on research investment and the benefits generated from research, for example, by the Australian Research Council (ARC) especially in terms of environmental, economic, and social impact (ARC, 2015). In a perfect world all research undertaken would have impact (Cleary, Siegfried, Jackson, & Hunt, 2013). However, the ARC definition of impact requires the researcher to make a demonstrable contribution “to the economy, society, culture, national security, public policy or services, health, the environment, or quality of life, beyond contributions to academia.”
Measuring research impact is known to be challenging and takes many years to achieve (Cleary et al., 2013). Equally, making judgements about research impact is fraught with complexity although frameworks exist that may guide determinations (Morgan, 2014). Jaffe’s (2015) impact evaluation framework is designed to inform decision-makers about the scope of potential research outcomes and has ready applicability for nursing research. The five components of the framework are:
- capability (improvements in workforce capability);
- environmental (enhancements in the natural environment);
- financial (creation of job opportunities or improved services);
- public policy (impacts relating to legislation, public policy, or regulations); and
- social, cultural or community (benefits enhancing cultural values, health and safety, international reputation and contribution).
Whilst it will not necessarily be possible for all research to be evaluated according to the elements of this framework, this tool nonetheless may assist researchers (and authors) in identifying potentially important evidence of the impact of their work as well as facets that might otherwise have been overlooked. The framework and associated impact measures are also useful for funding providers to inform decisions about financial resources to be dedicated to research (Jaffe, 2015).
There is an increasing expectation that researcher(s) will plan (aspirational) impact when undertaking research. This includes more than traditional research outputs (publications and competitive funding), but the need to demonstrate impact such as knowledge transfer (e.g., collaborations), application of research to practice, community benefit and the impact of the research on policies, laws, and regulations (eg see https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment) (King, 2011). This is increasingly crucial in any research assessment including research grant applications (Cleary et al., 2013)
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