587 research outputs found
In Defence of "the Lesser Cousin of History": An Interview with Rohan Wilson
No full textFew branches of postcolonial literature are as contested \ud
as the historical fiction of settler societies. This interview with the Australian historical novelist Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party (2011) and To Name Those Lost (2014), explores the intersections between truth, accuracy, and existential authenticity in his fictional accounts of nineteenth-century Tasmania. Wilson offers \ud
a nuanced yet robust defence of fiction’s role in narrating colonial history. He explains his intentions in writing two linked yet distinctive novels of the frontier—one that focuses on the “Black War” of the 1820s and 1830s, and another that explores how racial violence is refracted by capitalism in subsequent decades
Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan
No full textAn overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in
Examining the gap between science and policy
No full textThis 47-minute video sets out the case that there is an urgent need to diversify the types of science we use to examine how Australian society can adapt to climate change.To date, most public funding for climate-related science has focused on predictive modelling of future climate conditions. This information is important to demonstrate that climate change is occurring, and that it has largely been induced by emissions of greenhouse gases associated with human activity since the industrial revolution. Slowly the nature of the public debate has changed from identifying the problem of climate change, to finding solutions to adapt to it. This presentation discusses how institutional inertia in undertaking scientific research to characterise the climate change problem can make it difficult for research to realign with changing societal needs and policy decisions. For natural resource management, the policy context is diverse and is not just about climate. In agriculture and natural resource management, decision makers need to look at how climate interacts with other threats to the resource base (for example, biophysical threats such as weeds and salinity; economic and market threats and; social issues). Dr Rohan Nelson explores the question of what the policy needs for climate science might be and how to make science more relevant to policy. Discussing these questions means that the ‘relevance gap’ between the types of questions science is answering, and those being asked by people throughout society, can be reduced. In this presentation, Dr Nelson explores the evolution of this idea of a potential policy relevance gap surrounding climate change in Australia. He explores how different approaches to integrating science into policy making can lead to very different outcomes for decision makers in agriculture and natural resource management and shows how innovative interdisciplinary forms of science can be used to inform policy and decision making around the complex mix of human and environmental problems and opportunities created by a changing climate. Watch the video here>
Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows
No full textNázev práce: Optimalizace tvaru kanálu v úlohách nestlačitelného proudění Autor: Zuzana Záhorová Katedra: Katedra numerické matematiky Vedoucí diplomové práce: Doc. Dr. Ing. Eduard Rohan e-mail vedoucího: [email protected] Abstrakt: V předložené práci studujeme problém tvarové optimalizace pro úlohy vnitřního proudění ve 3D. Uvažováno je laminární, nestlačitelné, stacionární proudění popsané Navier- Stokesovými rovnicemi. Jsou popsány stabilizace Navier-Stokesových rovnic potřebné pro řešení úloh s nízkou viskozitou. Předloženy jsou teoretické poznatky týkající se problému tvarové optimalizace včetně důkazu existence řešení. Je popsána adjungovaná metoda pro řešení optimalizační úlohy. Odvozena je analytická analýza citlivosti. Představujeme postupy využité při výpočtech a numerický software pro řešení optimalizačních úloh. Jsou prezentovány výsledky pro stabilizované i nestabilizované řešení Navier-Stokesových rovnic. Představíme výsledky zahrnující lineární omezení geometrie oblasti. Klíčová slova: Nestlačitelné Navier-Stokesovy rovnice, SUPG/PSPG stabilizace, Adjun- govaná metoda, Analýza citlivosti Title: Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows Author: Zuzana Záhorová Department:..
Data and Code for "Universal Constraints on Protein Evolution in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli"
No full textinput data files are located in the data/ directory.
source code is located in the src/ directory.
code and data for the LTEE 60,000 generation metagenomics dataset are located in the LTEE-metagenomic-repo/ directory.
results from running the source code are located in the results/ directory.
for all inquiries: contact the author at rohan dot maddamsetti at duke dot ed
KŌDA ROHAN\nTsuyu Dandan and Nineteenth Century English Literature
No full textpdfKōda Rohan recorded explanatory notes for Tsuyu Dandan (1889) as follows. "One: The ineptitude of the writing aside, to say that my literary devices are quite something and that Edward George Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray are really nothing is a big lie, for in fact I indulge in mere magic tricks. The discerning reader will quickly penetrate them."
Here with the coyness of a neophyte author, a self-assertive attitude which emphasizes the use of as a narrative technique can be seen. This study will deal with four questions.
① What function did Kōda Rohan think that narrative technique had in Edo popular fiction? I will first investigate the topology of , clarifying this technique which overflows the boundaries of , , in connection with Lytton and Thackeray. Naturally, this will result in ③ an investigation as to whether or not Lytton and Thackeray were borrowed from Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shōsetsu shinzui, Tō sei shosei katagi, or translations. If so,④ the question of why it was not George Eliot or Charles Dickens naturally arises. Through questions ② to④ I would like to clarify the relationship between Koda Rohan and nineteenth century English literature and to capture anew the stratifications of Rohan's literature.conference pape
'Nicely Boiled and Scraped': Medicine, Radicalism, and the "Useful Body" in a Lloyd Penny Blood
No full textThe publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in waysthat have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloydshaped the modern popular press: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other ’penny dreadfuls’, which became bestsellers. Lloyd’s publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music
Metrics for analytics and visualization of big data with applications to activity recognition
No full textActivity recognition systems detect the hidden actions of an agent from sensor measurements made on the agents' actions and the environmental conditions. For such systems, metrics are important for both performance evaluation and visualization purposes. In this thesis, such metrics are developed and illustrated. For human activity recognition datasets, a reporting structure is described to visualize the metrics in a systematic manner. The other contribution of this thesis is to describe a visualization tool for estimating the orientation (attitude) of a rigid body from streaming motion sensor (accelerometer and gyroscope) data. A feedback particle filter (FPF) is implemented algorithmically to solve the estimation problem.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Rohan Arora, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-25 at 10:47.The student, Rohan Arora, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-25 at 10:48.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-27 at 15:05.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9459 on 2016-07-07 at 14:17:57Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:18:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Rodacker, Sadie Carroll (Birth, 1881-07-27)
No full textAddress: 496 Eastern Ave.4370/Pg 173/1881/F W/U.S./U.S./Wm. N. Nelson, MD.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'ROBINSON,J-ROHAN'
Adaptive scheduling in Spark
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 33).Because most data processing systems are distributed in nature, data must be transferred between machines. Currently, Spark, a prominent such system, predetermines the strategies for shuffling this data, but in certain situations, different shuffle strategies would improve performance. We add functionality to track metrics about the data during the job and appropriately adapt the shuffle strategy. We show improvements in ShuffledRDD performance, joins using Spark's RDD interface, and joins in Spark SQL.by Rohan Mahajan.M. Eng
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