262 research outputs found
Irish modernism in an international frame: Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel Beckett in the 1930s.
No full textPhDIn 1930s Ireland, modernist writing developed at a conjuncture of national and
international influences. The second generation of Irish modernism responded to national
culture in the context of international debates about literary form. The purpose of this
thesis is to present a nuanced understanding of the relationship between Irish and
European literary discourse in the work of Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel
Beckett: three writers who formulated Irish writing within a self-consciously international
frame.
Drawing on recent critical approaches to modern Irish writing and on contemporary
theories of modernism, this thesis argues that Irish writing in the 1930s reflected many of
the debates and tensions in international modernism. In the first decades of independence,
attitudes to literary form, to cultural nationalism, and to the role of the writer in the public
sphere were being reshaped. These attitudes formed the basis of alternative formulations
of Irish modernism. The three writers considered here approached the relationship
between Ireland and Europe from different perspectives, and figured the possibilities of
international influence on national literary culture in diverse ways. Consideration of the
national and international networks of influence underlying the aesthetic projects of
MacGreevy, O'Faolain and Beckett illuminates their 1930s writing, and has broader
implications for the understanding of Irish literary culture.
The first chapter argues that MacGreevy's critical writing formulated a national version of
conservative modernism. MacGreevy combined Catholic and republican attitudes with a
high modernist approach to the role of art in mass democracy. The second chapter focuses
on O'Faolain's realist aesthetic in relation to contemporary debates about modernism and
realism. O'Faolain's attitude to national culture developed from a conflict between artistic
integrity and social responsibility which reflected tensions in both national and
international literary discourse. The third chapter contextualises Beckett's 1930s fiction in
the avant gardist elements of Irish literary culture, and argues that his aesthetic developed
as a specifically national manifestation of late modernism
DETERMINACIÓN DE LA COMPOSICIÓN QUÍMICA DE LAS ROCAS MINERALES EN LAS PROVINCIAS O´CONNOR Y GRAN CHACO
No full textLos suelos dedicados a la producción agrícola, por lo general tienen escasa cantidad de elementos minerales útiles a las plantas, debido a la práctica agrícola extractiva que se realiza en la mayor parte de las explotaciones, esto repercute en bajos rendimientos de los cultivos hasta el extremo de no llegar a cubrir los costos de producción ni el uso defertilizantes químicos, además de su elevado costo ocasionan problemas de contaminación de los suelos y agua; la utilización de harina de roca como fertilizantes, libre de un proceso químico de alto costo, es una alternativa para resolver el problema de la reducción de la fertilidad de los suelos.Por esta razón surgió la necesidad de llevar adelante este proyecto denominado Determinación de la Composición Química de las Rocas Minerales en las provincias O’Connor y Gran Chaco, cuyo total de muestras son 10, las cuales sólo fueron recolectadas en la provincia O`Connor ya que la provincia Gran Chaco es un área protegida debido a la granimportancia del Cerro Aguaragüe.Los objetivos propuestos fueron, identificar de manera preliminar los yacimientos de rocas con cualidad nutricional a través de su georreferenciación, realizar la valoración química de las muestras desde el punto de vista de su uso en agricultura y realizar una estimación de los costos de procesamiento de los minerales identificados.Los resultados establecen que las mejores muestras fueron la número 2, 8, 10 y 12. El trabajo consistió en un diagnóstico para la obtención de datos que sean de ayuda para todo el Departamento, así crear alternativas que estén al alcance de la población
The Efficacy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Imagery and Remote Sensing
No full textOver the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as “drones,” have gained popularity and use in many activities. One such activity is using UAVs for imagery and remote sensing. UAVs provide two major benefits over other options such as aerial photography and ground surveys: they have low cost and high maneuverability, due to their small size and low energy usage. The cost of a UAV is variable, ranging from inexpensive with a poor camera (or no camera) around 1000-400. Purchasing a UAV is possible online with little difficulty.
Unmanned aerial vehicles have already proven useful in many different tasks and areas of geological research. UAV’s have been successfully used in such places as Galicia, Spain, to track boulder movement along beaches and provide high-resolution images of those boulders. They have also proven useful for landslide and rock fall monitoring and response. They can reach active or past events quickly, and provide a 3D assessment and images of the area. In Greenland, they have been used to monitor glacial calving events and processes. UAV’s have been used to make qualitative assessments and create high-quality magnetic intensity maps of the ground surface. In this use, they are just as capable as ground measurement and can overcome hazardous terrains. Researchers have also used UAV’s to capture high-resolution images of archaeological sites in Mexico.
The possibilities for UAV use in geological research are extensive, and have been shown to be a reliable resource for imagery and remote sensing. Per their abilities, the use of UAVs can and should be expanded to other areas of geological research
De Ignacio Aldecoa a Andrés Neuman LOS ZIGZAG DE LA HISTORIA RECIENTE DEL CUENTO ESPAÑOL
No full textEs probable que el cuento español que nos resulta más cercano, aquel que seguimos teniendo en la memoria, arranque con Ignacio Aldecoa y llegue hasta el joven Andrés Neuman. Son cuatro o cinco las hornadas de narradores (recuérdese aquello que comentaba Sánchez Ferlosio: “las generaciones son el redondeo de la literatura”) que han venido cultivando el relato, entre los extremos del realismo y lo fantástico, ya sean narraciones cerradas o abiertas, en torno a los caminos que han venido trazando Poe y Cortázar, Chéjov, Raymond Carver y Robert Coover, sin olvidar a los autores norteamericanos de la generación perdida, o a cuentistas tan significativos como Henry James, Isak Dinnesen, Joyce, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O´Connor, John Cheever, Borges, Juan Rulfo y Mercè Rodoreda, por citar sólo unas pocas referencias que resultan imprescindibles; mientras que si nos atenemos al presente más rabioso, los nombres indiscutibles quizá pasarían por Alice Munro, Amy Hempel, David Foster Wallace, Lorrie Moore y Quim Monzó
Senior Recital: Ethan Machamer, Trombone; Lu Witzig, Piano; Joseph Buczko, Trombone; Connor Franke, Trombone; Peyton Gray, Trombone; Nick Sisson, Trombone; Charlie Machamer, Piano; Jack O\u27Mahony, Bass; Sean Duffy, Drums; April 6, 2024
No full textKemp Recital HallApril 6, 2024Saturday Evening4:00 p.m
Metered Cryospray™: a novel uniform, controlled, and consistent in vivo application of liquid nitrogen cryogenic spray
No full textThomas I Mulcahey,1 James E Coad,2 Wei Li Fan,1 Daniel J Grasso,1 Brian M Hanley,1 Heather V Hawkes,1 Sean A McDermott,1 John P O’Connor,1 Ellen E Sheets,1 Charles J Vadala1 1CSA Medical Inc., Lexington, MA, 2Pathology Laboratory for Translational Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA Abstract: In this article, a novel cryotherapy approach using a uniform, controlled, and consistent in vivo application of liquid nitrogen (LN2) spray as a Metered Cryospray™ (MCS) process is described. Although MCS may be used for many potential clinical applications, this paper focuses on the development that led to the controlled and consistent delivery of radial LN2 cryogen spray in order to generate a uniform circumferential effect and how the amount of MCS can be adapted to specifically ablate targeted diseases within a patient’s lumen such as an airway or esophagus. Keywords: Metered Cryospray™, cryoablation, rejuvenative healing, LN2 spray cryotherap
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