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The role of educative thought in the life and work of Antonio Gramsci
No full textMany philosophers have propounded a vision of an improved society, what distinguishes Antonio Gramsci is his continuous effort to make it happen by understanding the process in order to put into practice. Gramsci's conviction about the importance of educative development came from both theory and experience. While there has been considerable examination of Gramsci's work in relation to the Prison Notebooks, this study will seek to address a lacuna in Gramsci scholarship. Using Gramsci's philological method, I analyse Gramsci's pre-prison activity; his pre-prison articles and letters, which, together with his letters from prison, formed part of his educative mission. This educative process was necessary, in order to construct a new party which would develop a collective will, collaboratively, with the masses.In this study therefore, I explore the contexts and formative experiences of the first part of his life together with the intellectual sources from which Gramsci developed his later theories, making central hitherto underemphasised connections between them which informed his writing and ideas. I intend to illustrate that Gramsci's underlying purpose in his writing, and political activity, was not only practical, on how to create a new socialist ruling class, but also educative in forming the mindset and values of his comrades. So that in addition to outlining his vision of a new order, he implicitly guided or explicitly explained the processes by which the necessary changes in social relations and moral climate could be made in order to achieve it. Each person had to engage with the values of the new order so that each could contribute to the construction of a new robust state. It was essential to build a hegemony at the most profound level, one which was dependent on collective understandings and a collective will
The tail of the Jurassic fish Leedsichthys problematicus (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii) collected by Alfred Nicholson Leeds - an example of the importance of historical records in palaeontology
No full textThe specimen of the tail of <i>Leedsichthys problematicus</i>, now in The Natural History Museum, London, was one of the most spectacular fossil vertebrates from the Oxford Clay Formation of Peterborough, but as an isolated find it shares no bones in common with the holotype of the genus and species. However, a letter from Alfred Nicholson Leeds and related documents cast valuable new light on the excavation of the tail, indicating that it was discovered with cranial bones, gill-rakers, and two pectoral fins, thereby including elements that can potentially be compared with those of the holotype. The documents also clearly indicate that The Natural History Museum's specimen is not part of the same individual as any other numbered specimen of <i>Leedsichthys</i> as had been speculated on other occasions. The maximum size of the animal represented by The Natural History Museum's specimen was possibly around 9 metres, considerably less than previous estimates of up to 27.6 metres for <i>Leedsichthys</i>. Historical documentary evidence should therefore be rigorously checked both when studying historical specimens in science, and in preparing text for museum display labels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Rear of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Ysleta, Texas
No full textTyped caption: ''Ysleta Church picture taken by Mrs. W.L. Nicholson, c/o Tri State Music Company. Picture taken during Winter of 1904. Rear View, showing West side of Mission. Note old tower. Lady standing is Mrs. Oscar H. Baum. Copies of this picture sent to Rev. Fr. Decorme and Joe Driscoll. I have negative. Old family album loaned to me by Mrs. Nicholson returned to her. --Cleofas Calleros, January 31, 1936.'
A. O. P. Nicholson of Tennessee: Editor, Statesman, and Jurist
No full textPreface: Tennessee has had its share of notable sons, most of whom have found their Boswell and had their deeds and contributions duly recorded. A striking exception is A. O. P. Nicholson. State legislator, U. S. senator, and state chief justice, as well as the holder of numerous minor posts, Nicholson has never rated even a scholarly monograph. Although he may be an apt subject for a biography, the primary emphasis in this study is on the political aspects of his career, with some attention to his role as editor and jurist. Since time and space do not permit, his legal career, his journalism, his presidency of the State Bank of Tennessee, and his role in developing the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad are not studied in depth.
The major reason for the neglect of Nicholson has been the paucity of personal materials. Though Mrs. Nicholson managed to keep most of her husband\u27s correspondence and records until her death in 1894, they were afterwards scattered. A few documents and Bible records, still in family hands, have been collected and copied by Miss Mary Nicholson, of Columbia, a great-granddaughter, who generously gave of her interest and enthusiasm of the present project. The largest collection of Nicholson letters, mostly of a political nature, are dispersed throughout the collections in the New-York Historical Society. These have been assembled on microfilm by the Tennessee State Library and Archives by Dr. Joseph H. Parks, of the University of Georgia, who made them available for use in this thesis. Photostats from the James K. Polk Papers and the Andrew Jackson Papers in the Library of Congress, in the possession of Mr. William B. Nicholson, of Nashville, were kindly loaned on an indefinite basis and thus materially aide this study. Contemporary newspapers and county records provided two rich primary sources and the numerous volumes of the Tennessee supreme court reports were indispensable for his later career.
For ease in handling the material certain procedures were followed. Since nearly forty years of Nashville and Columbia newspapers were used, the titles varied, Winifred Gregory\u27s Union List of Newspapers was consulted as a guide. The Republican Banner and Nashville Whig, for example, will appear throughout the thesis as the Nashville Republican Banner. Dr. Parks has published in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly many of the Nicholson letters in the New-York Historical Society collections. In order to avoid expanded footnotes, these articles are listed only in the bibliography. For the purposes of this study all of the New-York Historical Society letters will be cited as Nicholson Letters with one exception. Any Andrew Johnson item, no matter what the original source, was used from the Andrew Johnson Project at the University of Tennessee.
Besides individuals already acknowledged, I would like to mention Mrs. Frank L. Owsley, of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, who was extremely helpful in making materials from the state library available. I wish to extend thanks also to my readers, Dr. Stanley J. Folmsbee and Dr. LeRoy P. Graf, for their many useful comments and emendations. I am particularly grateful to my advisor, Dr. Ralph W. Haskins, whose guidance and advice, so often solicited, were of particular benefit in matters of both style and content
The series of carbon-chain complexes {Ru(dppe)Cp*}(2){mu-(Ctriple barC)(x)} (x = 4-8, 11): synthesis, structures, properties and some reactions
No full textabstract not availableMichael I. Bruce, Marcus L. Cole, Benjamin G. Ellis, Maryka Gaudio, Brian K. Nicholson, Christian R. Parker, Brian W. Skelton, Allan H. Whit
Les biblioteques universitàries i el suport a la recerca
No full textThe European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area are currently two key objectives for university learning, teaching and research in all European universities. University libraries must meet the challenges by offering the best library services to the academic community. In drafting the second strategic plan, Rebiun (Network of University Libraries) gathered comments and suggestions from professionals in Spanish university libraries. This article presents the reflections and suggestions contributed by the author regarding the support services that university libraries could offer for university research.L'espai europeu d'educació superior i l'espai europeu d'investigació són actualment dos objectius clau per a l'aprenentatge, la docència i la recerca de totes les universitats europees. Les biblioteques universitàries han de contribuir a aquests reptes, oferint els millors serveis bibliotecaris a la comunitat acadèmica. En la fase d'elaboració del seu segon Pla estratègic, la REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universtarias) va recollir reflexions i suggeriments de diferents professionals de les biblioteques universitàries de l'Estat espanyol. En l¿article següent es presenten les reflexions i els suggeriments aportats per l'autora sobre el suport que les biblioteques universitàries poden oferir a la recerca universitària
Letter from Geo[rge] Nicholson to John Muir, 1903 Nov 13.
No full text[2]traveller and climber has given me urgent invitations to go to him in India, and promises to show me the mountains, so if my health permits I may after all get to Darjeeling &c. I fairly hunger for the mountains and feel sure I should pick up if I got within sight of the eternal snows. This year I have seen nothing beyond the snow clad hills (Lochnagar &c) of Scotland and was only in reality a day in real hilly country. I look forward with great pleasure to a letter from you after your arrival at home and shall look out for your impressions[3]de voyage when published. I wrote Sir Joseph Hooker for a copy of Sir William Hooker\u27s life but he had none left. So I post with this my own copy - I can always refer to another copy at Kew if I want to. L[illegible] Stephens\u27 Playground of Europe also goes by this mail - I hope you will experience as much pleasure in reading it as I did. Sir Joseph Hooker is apparently much better than he was in the early part of the year - I have not seen him myself lately but he has been at work in the Herbarium and the reports given me of him are favorable. As for myselfhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/41115/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Carl Hayden to L. L. Ferrall, Postmaster at Grand Canyon
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to L. L. Ferrall on the favorable conditions for creating a national park and the prospect of the United States entering WW I
Supraglacial debris thickness data from Ngozumpa Glacier, Nepal
No full textThis repository contains:
2 files of measurements of supraglacial debris thickness at two sites (Gokyo and Margin) on the surface of the Ngozumpa Glacier (27°57′N, 85°42′E), Nepal, made using ground penetrating radar (GPR)
1 file of supplementary supraglacial thickness measurements from additional glacier sites using various methods
All files are comma separated text files
Description of Ngozumpa GPR data:
GPR measurements were made between 31st March and 20th April 2016.
Debris thickness was sampled in 36 individual radar transects, covering sloping and level terrain with coarse and fine surface material. The GPR system was a dual frequency 200/600MHz IDS RIS One, mounted on a small plastic sled and drawn along the surface.
Data were collected to a Lenovo Thinkpad using the IDS K2 FastWave software.
The 200 and 600 MHz antennas have separation distances of 0.230 m and 0.096 m respectively.
Data acquisition used a continuous step size, a time window of 100 ms and a digitization interval of 0.024 ns.
The location of the GPR system was recorded simultaneously at 1 s intervals by a low precision GPS integrated with the IDS which assigns a GPS location and time directly to every twelfth GPR trace, and by a more accurate differential GPS (dGPS) system consisting of a Trimble XH and Tornado antenna mounted on the GPR and a local base station of a Trimble Geo7X and Zephyr antenna.
Radargrams were processed in REFLEXW (Sandmeier software)
The reflection at the ice surface was picked manually wherever it was clearly identifiable and was not picked if it was indistinct.
The appropriate signal velocity for the supraglacial debris was obtained by burying a 1.5 m long steel bar to a known depth and then passing the GPR over the buried target and picking the two-way travel time to its reflection. Both fine and coarse material gave similar wave speeds (0.15 and 0.16 m ns-1), the average of which was used for all the radar lines measured
Description of supplementary data:
C1: Ngozumpa glacier (Nepal) about 1km from the terminus, measured using a theodolite survey (Nicholson and Benn, 2012)
C2: Ngozumpa glacier (Nepal) about 7km from the terminus, measured using a theodolite survey (Nicholson and Benn, 2012)
C3: Ngozumpa glacier (Nepal) about 3km from the terminus, measured using a theodolite survey (Nicholson and Mertes, 2017)
C4: Lirung glacier (Nepal), measured with GPR (McCarthy and others 2016)
C5: Suldenferner (Italy), measured with GPR (del Gobbo, 2017)
C6: Suldenferner (Italy), measured by excavation of debris (del Gobbo, 2017)
C7: Arolla glacier, (Switzerland), measured by excavation of debris (Reid and others, 2012)
Details of these datasets can be found in the following publications:
Nicholson, L. I. and Benn, D. I.: Properties of natural supraglacial debris in relation to modelling sub-debris ice ablation, Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38(5), 409–501, doi:10.1002/esp.3299, 2012.
Nicholson, L. I. and Mertes, J. R.: Thickness estimation of supraglacial debris above ice cliff exposures using a high-resolution digital surface model derived from terrestrial photography, J. Glaciol., 1–10, doi:10.1017/jog.2017.68, 2017
McCarthy, M., Pritchard, H. D., Willis, I. and King, E.: Ground-penetrating radar measurements of debris thickness on Lirung Glacier, Nepal, J. Glaciol., 63(239), 534–555, doi:10.1017/jog.2017.18, 2017.
del Gobbo, C.: Debris thickness investigation of Solda glacier, southern Rhaetian Alps, Italy: Methodological considerations about the use of ground penetrating radar over a debris-covered glacier. MSc Thesis, University of Innsbruck, 2017.
Reid, T. D., Carenzo, M., Pellicciotti, F. and Brock, B. W.: Including debris cover effects in a distributed model of glacier ablation, J. Geophys. Res., 117(D18), 1–15, doi:10.1029/2012JD017795, 2012.
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