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An answer to a paper, [electronic resource] : Called A Memorial Of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen and Labourers of the Kingdom of Ireland. By the Author of the Short View of the State of Ireland.
No full textThe author of The short view = Jonathan Swift.An answer to 'To the R-d Dr. J-n S-t, the memorial .. ', by Sir John Browne.Teerink-Scouten,Hanson,Goldsmiths',Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
Full text linkThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
The sentiments of a Church-of-England man : a study of Swift's politics
Full text linkThis contextualist study re-examines the contested critical
question of Jonathan Swift's political character. It is
concerned with the historical meaning of Swift's texts
and attempts to recover their original political impact.
Politically-literate contemporaries claimed to read Jacobite
Tory politics in Swift's texts. Rather than dismiss the
judgement of Swift's contemporaries, this study asks whether
there is anything about Swift's political writing in polemical
context that could have led contemporaries to construe
the politics of his texts as Jacobite Tory. The conclusion
this study reaches is that aspects of Swift's political
rhetoric are consonant with Tory and Jacobite polemic.
While contesting current conceptions of Swift as a Whig,
this study offers a partial revision of that scholarship
which describes Swift as a non-Jacobite Tory.
The thesis is based on an analysis of Swift's prose, poetry
and correspondence and contemporary (mainly printed) sources
books, pamphlets, poems on affairs of state and newspapers.
Some new or neglected polemical contexts and analogues
for Swift's works are suggested. Chapter 1 considers some
of the problems and contested issues in interpretation
of Swift's political biography and writing. Chapter 2
witnesses Swift's combination of High Church attitudes
with a radical political critique of Whig establishment.
Swift is read in juxtaposition with Jacobite Tory authors
such as George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. Chapter 3 relocates
A Tale of a Tub in historical context to reveal the satire's
relation to High Church Tory polemical languages. Chapter
4 discusses the disaffected Tory aspect of Gulliver's
Travels. Chapter 5 attempts to register the complexity
of the textual evidence of Swift's attitude to Jacobitism.
Detailed attention is given to his politically-revealing
attitudes to the Dutch. A coda briefly describes Swift's
discontent with the Revolution settlement, examines this
Church-of-England Man's sentiments on the crucial ideological
issue of resistance, and suggests the importance of Hugo
Grotius in Swift's political thought
Book Review: A monumental contribution to the genre of African philosophy
Full text linkA review of [Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Valuesin African Philosophy].Author: Ada AgadaEditor: Jonathan O. ChimakonamPublisher: Paragon House and 3rd Logic OptionNumber of Pages: 368Reviewer: Joseph N. AGBOSenior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Ebonyi State University, Abakalik
The borwein brothers, pi and the AGM
No full textWe consider some of Jonathan and Peter Borweins contributions to the high-precision computation of ? and the elementary functions, with particular reference to their book Pi and the AGM (Wiley, 1987). Here AGM is the arithmeticgeometric mean of Gauss and Legendre. Because the AGM converges quadratically, it can be combined with fast multiplication algorithms to give fast algorithms for the n-bit computation of ?, and more generally the elementary functions. These algorithms run in almost linear time (Formula Presented), where M(n) is the time for n-bit multiplication. We outline some of the results and algorithms given in Pi and the AGM, and present some related (but new) results. In particular, we improve the published error bounds for some quadratically and quartically convergent algorithms for ?, such as the GaussLegendre algorithm. We show that an iteration of the Borwein-Borwein quartic algorithm for ? is equivalent to two iterations of the GaussLegendre quadratic algorithm for ?, in the sense that they produce exactly the same sequence of approximations to ? if performed using exact arithmetic.The author was supported in part by an Australian Research Council grant DP140101417. Jon
Borwein was the Principal Investigator on this grant, which was held by Borwein, Brent and Baile
Does interpupillary distance (IPD) relate to immediate cybersickness?
Full text linkWidespread adoption of virtual reality (VR) will likely be limited bythe common occurrence of cybersickness. Cybersickness suscepti-bility varies across individuals, and previous research reported thatinterpupillary distance (IPD) may be a factor. However, that workemphasized cybersickness recovery rather than cybersickness imme-diately after exposure. The current study (N=178) examined if themismatch between the user’s IPD and the VR headset’s IPD settingspredicts immediate cybersickness. Multiple linear regression indi-cated that gender and prior sickness due to screens were significantpredictors of immediate cybersickness. However, no relationshipbetween IPD mismatch and immediate cybersickness was observed.This preprint is published as Kelly, Jonathan, Taylor Doty, Michael Dorneich, and Stephen B. Gilbert. 2023. “Does Interpupillary Distance (IPD) Relate to Immediate Cybersickness?.” PsyArXiv. January 6. doi:10.31234/osf.io/ce4tv.CC-By Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Supplemental material located: osf.io/pswt6/</a
A strategy for corporate social responsibility : the case of the withdrawal from South Africa by Barclays Bank
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The Curated Exhibition: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis
No full textThis thesis presents a philosophical and historical analysis of the curated exhibition. It first gives an account of the historical development of the curated exhibition and of the role of the curator as the maker of such exhibitions. Both are relatively recent historical developments. The curated exhibition is shown to emerge during the twentieth century, and the role of the curator, as a figure primarily concerned with the production of such exhibitions develops, from around the 1960s. It then turns to a philosophical analysis of the curated exhibition and the curator. This has three parts. The first part gives a definition of curated exhibitions. In the process it draws a distinction between mere displays, exhibitions, and curated exhibitions. A mere display is a purposeful site-responsive arrangement of items for the attention of an audience. An exhibition is more than this: it is a public thematic display that creates an appreciative context for its items on display. I argue that a curated exhibition is also properly understood a kind of speech act: an utterance, made by the curator, with locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary force. The curated exhibition thus not only informs the visitor and guides their appreciation, the curator communicates something, typically their ideas, views or attitudes. Moreover, in saying something the curator does something; it has illocutionary force. For example, a curated exhibition can be a judgement or an exercise of power. The second part develops an understanding of the role of the curator in making exhibitions. It argues that the curator can be understood as an author, an agent that bears responsibility for the features of their work under a particular sortal description. The third part examines the ontology of curated exhibitions, arguing that they have a hybrid ontology. A curated exhibition is a combined entity, comprising of a concrete artefact, the display, and an abstract artefact, the authored-curatorial utterance. Its identity is determined by this hybrid, meaning that two curated exhibitions are only identical if and only if their authored-curatorial utterances have the same illocutionary force and their display supports that utterance through a similar appreciative context. This allows a solution to the problem of how identical displays can instantiate different exhibitions, and how differing displays can instantiate the same exhibition
Archaeological reconstruction illustrations: an analysis of the history, development, motivations and current practice of reconstructionil lustration, with recommendations for its future development.
No full textInitially, this study examines how archaeological reconstruction drawing evolved into its present form. Its development within the wider context of social and art history is traced from the 15th to the 201h century, with
particular attention to its various applications, and the motivations for its production. The result is a clearer understanding and definition of the present role and purposes of this branch of illustration. Secondly,the study examines how these purposes are achieved in
contemporary reconstruction artwork. By using an experiment in reconstruction, each component of the process is examined in turn: the design brief,illustrator, illustration and audience. The illustrations produced by the experiment are ranked according to performance, using
the aims of the reconstruction as criteria. Aspects are identified which appear to contribute to good performance,using the information obtained about the illustrations and illustrators. Finally, the results are reviewed as a whole to identify present and possible future trends that may be worth exploring, and to inform a set of proposed guidelines for the commissioning and production of archaeological reconstructions. At present, archaeological reconstruction artwork has received very little academic attention, and there appears to be no formal identification of its aims, agenda or working practice. This study provides the groundwork for rectifying this situation, and supplies new information in several dffferent areas
Towards a Framework for Developing Mobile Agents for Managing Distributed Information Resources
No full textDistributed information management tools allow users to author, disseminate, discover and manage information within large-scale networked environments, such as the Internet. Agent technology provides the flexibility and scalability necessary to develop such distributed information management applications. We present a layered organisation that is shared by the specific applications that we build. Within this organisation we describe an architecture where mobile agents can move across distributed environments, integrate with local resources and other mobile agents, and communicate their results back to the user
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