327 research outputs found
Analysis of the relationship between yield in cereals and remotely sensed fAPAR in the framework of monitoring drought impacts in Europe
Get PDFThis study focuses on the relationship between satellite-measured fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) and crop yield cereals in Europe. Different features of the relationship between annual yield and multiple time series of fAPAR, collected during different periods of the year, were investigated. The two key outcomes of the analysis are the identification of the period: (i) from March to October as the one having the highest positive correlation between fAPAR and yield and (ii) from February to May as the period characterised by most of the estimated negative correlation. While both periods align well with the commonly assumed dynamic of the growing season, spatial differences are also observed across Europe. On the one hand, the Mediterranean regions report the highest correlation values (r > 0.8) and the longest continuous periods with positive statistically significant results (up to 7 months), covering most of the growing season. On the other hand, the central European region is characterised by the most limited positive correlation values, with only 2 months or less showing statistically significant results. While marked differences in the overall capability to capture the full dynamic of yield are observed across Europe, fAPAR anomalies seem capable of discriminating low-yield years from the rest in most of the cases
Supplemental Material - Radiomics; Contemporary Applications in the Management of Anal Cancer; A Systematic Review
No full textSupplemental Material for Radiomics; Contemporary Applications in the Management of Anal Cancer; A Systematic Review by Hugo C. Temperley, Niall J. O’Sullivan, Caitlin Waters, Alison Corr, Brian J. Mehigan, Grainne O’Kane, Paul McCormick, Charles Gillham, Emanuele Rausa, John O. Larkin, James F. Meaney, Ian Brennan, and Michael E. Kelly in The American Surgeon.</p
Ceum air Cheum: Cruinneachadh de dhàintean nas fhaide = Step by Step: A Book of Longer Poems
No full textThis is Christopher Whyte's sixth collection. Ceum air Cheum features 12 longer poems. Its European range, modernity of tone and challenging subject matter mark this book out as a major event in Gaelic poetry. Facing translations into English are by Niall O’Gallagher and the author
Alexandria: A City and Myth
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Alexandria was one of the most important cities of the ancient world, with achievements in the arts, sciences and religion. For the first time the author seeks to understand the wider picture, the longer period of evolution as a city, as both an urban concept and a literary and historical ideal. He does this by bringing together the disciplines of archaeology (including his own recent fieldwork), anthropology, history, geography, oral history, art and literature. As a result Alexandria is seen as a unique example of African urbanism, an Egyptian city facing the wider Mediterranean world, which became an archetype for social, religious and cultural cosmopolitanism. A work for undergraduates and postgraduates in the disciplines of classical and Egyptian archaeology, historical geography, art history, oriental studies and general history
Deleuze and the author
No full textThis thesis argues that Gilles Deleuze, as philosopher, reader, and critic, recognised the
central importance of a defined authorial subjectivity, closely associated with a
philosophical or intellectual project, and that his analyses of philosophy, literature, visual art
and cinema were shaped and determined by his recognition of that authority. In this
respect, my reading challenges those critics who find in the work of Deleuze an assault on
‘author-centric’ interpretations of texts, and more generally on the concept of a unified self,
and which uphold experimentation on the part of the reader or critic rather than
interpretation. I argue that Deleuze has a coherent and meaningful conception of an author
as a consciousness which persists through time, learns, plans and makes projects,
differentiates itself from the work of other authors, is inspired and creative, takes positions
in relation to the inheritance of artistic and philosophical traditions, and which is capable of
entering into collaboration with others.
Through close reading of Deleuze’s texts, I demonstrate that he consistently relies on the
authorial function to impose unity and coherence on the distinctive - and often remarkable
- body of work of an individual theorist or practitioner. I argue that the historical, political
and social situation of an author is of great importance to the analysis of a text. Finally,
unlike Roland Barthes or other critics invested in the ‘death’ or displacement of the author, I
argue that Deleuze considers the competing interpretations of a text advanced by the
reader or spectator to be of little or no importance
Posthumous Parleys: Chatting Up the Dead in the Ancient Novels
No full textFormal consultations with the dead in Heliodorus and in a tale narrated within Apuleius’s Golden Ass allow us to develop a typology for novelistic necromancy that includes a necromancer, a ritual involving both words and magical substances, a difficult reanimation, and a testable prophecy. Apuleius includes another, less obviously necromantic posthumous parley between Aristomenes and Socrates at the beginning of the Golden Ass that may have significant implications for the interpretation of the work’s ending and therefore for the novel as a whole. Niall W. Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, is the author of Reading Petronius (Johns Hopkins 1990), Plautus in Performance (Princeton 1985, 2nd ed. Harwood 2000), and Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (Penn 2002). Currently he is writing a Duckworth Companion to Euripides\u27 Alcestis
The value of the historic urban landscape in post-industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey
No full textThis thesis examines the historic preservation issues facing Paterson, a post-industrial city in northern New Jersey. The role of Paterson’s local government is discussed in its actions and advocacy regarding the economic, social, and historic fabric of the city. The Paterson Historic Preservation Commission and Division, Department of Economic Development, Department of Community Development (CD), and the Housing Authority of the City of Paterson (HACP) are discussed in terms of their historic preservation strategies, policies, and decisions. This thesis additionally examines Lowell, a post-industrial city in Massachusetts, as a comparison study. Paterson and Lowell share similarities such as industrial heritage, population size, and economic decline that can offer insight into Paterson’s historic preservation strategies.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Niall Conwa
"Imperium” in thought of Niall Ferguson
No full textNiall Ferguson jest jednym z najbardziej znanych historyków brytyjskich, który
w swoich rozważaniach analizuje historią imperiów – w szczególności imperium rzymskim oraz brytyjskim. W swoich licznych artykułach i książkach zajmuje się On percepcją pojęcia „imperium”, jak również uważany jest przez grono naukowców na całym świecie za twórcę koncepcji „imperium dobra”. Opisując wielkie imperia świata, ich potęgę zarówno „twardych” jak i „miękkich czynników siły”, przestrzega on Imperium Americanum przed popełnionymi błędami poprzedników oraz zwraca uwagę na wypieranie się przez Stany Zjednoczone swojej imperialności, a więc prawdziwego przywództwa. Autor bada w swych rozważaniach o istocie imperium, nie tylko te mocarstwa, które dysponują wielkim terytorium, siłą militarną i gospodarczą, ale przede wszystkim mocą oddziaływania swoich wartości, a także całej kultury w celu zachęcenia innych podmiotów środowiska międzynarodowego do krzewienia idei uniwersalistycznych. Miarą potęgi imperialnej nie jest więc tylko imperialność, rozumiana jako poszerzanie swojego terytorium, ale koncepcja „dobrego imperium”, które nie tylko dba o swój wąsko pojęty interes narodowy, lecz przede wszystkim przewodzi światu dbając o całą społeczność międzynarodową, otaczając inne podmioty swą opieką i chęcią współpracy, a nie agresją i byciem najlepszym za wszelką cenę.Niall Ferguson is one of the most known British historians, who analyses the history
of empires – with particularly the Roman empire and British. In his numerous articles
and books, he reflect and compose the perception of empire and also he is creator of conception " liberal empire ”. Describing great empires of world, both hard and soft sources of power, he warns Imperium Americanum before commited mistakes its predecessors and pays back the attention on imperialism – dispace it and true leadership. The Author takes into consideration in his research on nature of empire, not only these power, which they have great territory, military power and economic, but first of all power of influence, values, and also whole culture. The main aim is encouraging different members of international arena to promote universal ideas. It can show that, the measure of imperial power is not only spread on hegemony on territory, but conception of the "liperal empire ” (imperium of good), which does not care of national interest but also, at first takes care about international affairs and leads the Wolrd. Surrounding different actors desire of co-operation, and not the aggression and being the best for every price
‘Writing the Self in More-Than-Human Worlds: Niall Williams and Christine Breen’s Memoir: In Kiltumper, a Year in an Irish Garden (Bloomsbury, 2021)’
No full textInternational audienceThis chapter focuses on Niall Williams and Christine Breen’s memoir of their lives in Kiltumper, in the house and on the land where Christine’s grandfather was born in Co. Clare. Both are writers and gardeners and Niall is also the author of the novel History of the Rain (2014 Man Booker Prize Long List) and This is Happiness (2020), as well as plays performed in Dublin and Galway in the 1990s. In the memoir they wrote together and which tells of the life and work they have been sharing on the farm since 1985, their personal experiences as human beings, as a family, as writers and farmers/gardeners mingle. The aim of this chapter is to question the ways in which the writing of the self is intertwined with the material experience of the more-than-human world around the two writers. The mode of writing the self, which might look as a very intimate affair, actually raises essential questions regarding the politics of ecology and the politics of place, in particular domestic place. It also raises issues about the relationships between human beings and more-than-human worlds. Delving into pioneering theories such as developed in Donna Haraway’s or Baptiste Morizot’s books on more-than-human worlds, this chapter questions the interlacing of the two authors’ voices as they draw their readers attention to their lives on the land they have been staying on for more than three decades, interweaving their narratives with that of the various species they share the land, the water and the air with. The question of creative non-fiction and its link with the subject of life-writing in a context of climate change will also be broached upon
Raizal Writing: Cristina Bendek on Colombian, Caribbean and Creole Literature
No full textSeminar Online, and room G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. 6 October 2022, 1:00PM - 2:00PM. Speakers : Cristina Bendek (author), Niall Geraghty (UCL). Contact: [email protected] Further informations HER
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