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"PhD, meet QPR": the quality in postgraduate research conference and the development of doctoral education
No full textResearch and theory paperPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the relationship between the quality in postgraduate research conference (QPR) and the developing doctoral education agenda, as well as serving as an introduction to this special edition of the International Journal for Researcher Development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a conceptual and rhetorical approach. Findings – The paper argues that, over its two decades of existence, the QPR conference has been at the forefront of developments in doctoral education and has also influenced practice and policy in the area. Originality/value – The paper is the first to review the QPR conference and its place in the development of doctoral education.Alistair McCulloch, Michelle Yvette Picar
Grocery receipt given to Vernal Walker by A. P. McCulloch
No full textCyrus Walker was the oldest son of the early Oregon Territory missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. He grew up at Tshimakain in the 1830s-40s, where he learned the native Spokane language. After joining the U.S. army during the Civil War and then attempting to make a living as a farmer, he became a teacher at the Warm Springs Indian Agency. These letters, documents and clippings shed light on his experiences as a missionary, a soldier, a pioneer and a teacher at Warm Springs. This collection was donated to Pacific University by Betty Thorne, a descendant of the Walkers
R. P. Ray and General L. N. Baugh
No full textA photograph of R. P. Ray and Gneral L. N. Baugh at Camp Ben McCulloch reunion
Eating out: Food as a troupe of exclusion in the novels of Zakes Mda
No full textEating out: Food as a troupe of exclusion in the novels of Zakes Mda
McCulloch A & Radia P (eds): Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp 31-43,
ISBN 978-1-4438-4154-2In his novel Ways of Dying (1995), the South African writer Zakes Mda uses food as a
marker of tension between spatial access and exclusion. The trope fuses social and
economic spaces from which his characters are barred by material deprivation. The only
access they have is through a satirically drawn imaginative feast of their own
construction. In a modification of the trope, diet is used to mark out a space of
carnivalesque identity for Toloki, the protagonist of this novel. Related devices are used
in Mda’s subsequent novels The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and The Whale Caller
(2005). This raises the question whether wishfulness can energise sufficient social
agency, or whether a strategy of transcendence can be justified, in a literature of
deprivation. Indeed, Mda has been criticised for refusing the documentary burden of antiapartheid
radicalism while writing about life in black townships so constrained by
poverty that their present economic disenfranchisement resembles the political exclusion
of apartheid. I argue that Mda collapses the opposition between engaged and
carnivalesque writing, retaining a critique of apartheid and its post-apartheid aftermath
while resisting the rhetoric of engagement
Eating out: Food as a troupe of exclusion in the novels of Zakes Mda
No full textEating out: Food as a troupe of exclusion in the novels of Zakes Mda
McCulloch A & Radia P (eds): Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp 31-43,
ISBN 978-1-4438-4154-2In his novel Ways of Dying (1995), the South African writer Zakes Mda uses food as a
marker of tension between spatial access and exclusion. The trope fuses social and
economic spaces from which his characters are barred by material deprivation. The only
access they have is through a satirically drawn imaginative feast of their own
construction. In a modification of the trope, diet is used to mark out a space of
carnivalesque identity for Toloki, the protagonist of this novel. Related devices are used
in Mda’s subsequent novels The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and The Whale Caller
(2005). This raises the question whether wishfulness can energise sufficient social
agency, or whether a strategy of transcendence can be justified, in a literature of
deprivation. Indeed, Mda has been criticised for refusing the documentary burden of antiapartheid
radicalism while writing about life in black townships so constrained by
poverty that their present economic disenfranchisement resembles the political exclusion
of apartheid. I argue that Mda collapses the opposition between engaged and
carnivalesque writing, retaining a critique of apartheid and its post-apartheid aftermath
while resisting the rhetoric of engagement
Euclichthys polynemus McCulloch 1926
No full text<i>Euclichthys polynemus</i> McCulloch, 1926 <p>Figs 1A, 2, 4B, 5, 6, 9B; Tables 1–3</p> <p> <i>Euclichthys polynemus</i> McCulloch, 1926: 174, Pl. 44 (fig. 2).</p>Published as part of <i>Last, Peter R. & Pogonoski, John J., 2020, Revision of the fish family Euclichthyidae (Pisces: Gadiformes) with the description of two new species from the Western Pacific, pp. 231-256 in Zootaxa 4758 (2)</i> on page 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3734408">http://zenodo.org/record/3734408</a>
IPS861021_French_Spanish_abstract – Supplemental material for Power-sharing: A gender intervention
No full text Supplemental material, IPS861021_French_Spanish_abstract for Power-sharing: A gender
intervention by Allison McCulloch in International Political Science Review </p
Discount curve estimation by monotonizing McCulloch Splines
No full textIn this paper a new and very simple method for monotone estimation of discount curves is proposed. The main idea of this approach is a simple modification of the commonly used (unconstrained) Mc-Culloch Spline. We construct an integrated density estimate from the predicted values of the discount curve. It can be shown that this statistic is an estimate of the inverse of the discount function and the final estimate can easily be obtained by a numerical inversion. The resulting procedure is extremely simple and we have implemented it in Excel and VBA, respectively. The performance is illustrated by three examples, in which the curve was previously estimated with an unconstrained McCulloch Spline. --
Reduced hole mobility due to the presence of excited states in poly-(3-hexylthiophene)
No full textCopyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 93, 233306 (2008) and may be found at
Phase diagram of the 1D Kondo lattice model
No full textWe determine the bounday of the fully polarized ferromagnetic states in, the one dimensional Kondo lattice model at partial conduction electron band filling by using a newly developed infinite size DMRG method which conserves the total spin quantum numbers. The obtained paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase bounday is bellow J approximate to 3.5 for the whole range of band filling. By this we solve the controversy in the phase diagram over the extent of the ferromagnetic region close to half filling
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