51 research outputs found
The Stolen Poem of Saint Moling
No full textIt’s a truism of copyright scholarship that the modern concept of the author didn’t exist until the modern era. The medieval and Renaissance author was a vehicle for the text, but the modern author is the creator of the text. And in the eighteenth century, the Romantic movement transformed authorship into self-expression. This individualization of authorship enabled the creation of copyright. While the printing press made commercial publishing possible, the modern concept of the author created “literary property.” But is the truism entirely true? The concept of the author has certainly changed over time, and taken different forms in different places at different times. But is the modern concept of the author truly unique to the modern era, or does it merely reflect a particular literary economy? In other words, did our concept of the author create our literary economy, or did our literary economy shape our concept of the author? Surely, the answer is a bit of both. But a medieval Irish legend at least suggests that the modern concept of the author is only a particular expression of an economic phenomenon. This article uses an episode from the B—rama, a twelfth-century Irish legend written in Leinster, to reflect on the concept of literary ownership in medieval Ireland. Saint Moling composed a praise-poem for the High King of Tara, in order to convince him to lift the b—rama or cattle-tax levied on Leinster. Moling’s reciter Tollchenn stole ahead and presented the poem to the king as his own, and when Moling arrived, the king accused him of plagiarizing the poem. Moling ordered Tollchenn to recite the poem again, but he could not, proving that Moling was the author. While the story has no basis in historical fact, it reflects the concept of literary ownership at the time it was written. The currency of the poet was novel poems, which they composed and recited for kings. Accordingly, poets needed to be able to claim ownership of the poems they composed, in order to claim the value of those poems. By contrast, other genres of literary works were often unattributed or attributed to historical figures, presumably because they lacked economic value as literary works. This suggests that the attribution and the concept of literary ownership were a function of economic interests.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lawfac_book/1032/thumbnail.jp
Mycobacterium marinum, a further infectious agent associated with sarcoidosis: The polyetiology hypothesis
No full textResonances of the SD oscillator due to the discontinuous phase
No full textResonance phenomena of a harmonically excited system with mul-tiple potential well play an important role in nonlinear dynamics research.In this paper, we investigate the resonant behaviours of a discontinuous dynamical system with double well potential derived from the SD oscillator to gain better understanding of the transition of resonance mechanism. Firstly,the time dependent Hamiltonian is obtained for a Duffing type discontinuous system modelling snap-through buckling. This system comprises two subsystems connected at x = 0, for which the system is discontinuous. We constructa series of generating functions and canonical transformations to obtain the canonical form of the system to investigate the complex resonant behavioursof the system. Furthermore, we introduce a composed winding number to explore complex resonant phenomena. The formulation for resonant phenomena given in this paper generalizes the formulation of n Omega0 = m Omega used in the regular perturbation theory, where n and m are relative prime integers, Omega 0 and Omega are the natural frequency and external frequencies respectively. Understanding the resonant behaviour of the SD oscillator at the discontinuousphase enables us to further reveal the vibrational energy transfer mechanism between smooth and discontinuous nonlinear dynamical system
A Group of Texts Shared by <i>S</i> and <i>O</i>
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In his discussion of the Oxford collection, Revd Charles Plummer refers to ten texts where the recension of S is identical with that in O. Characteristically, he lists the Irish saints in alphabetical order: Baithéne, Ciarán of Saigir, Coemgen, Colmán of Dromore, Comgall, Fintán alias Munnu, Moling, Molua, Senán, and Tigernach. Plummer lists texts where S and O cover much the same ground, but show another recension. The Lives he mentions in this connexion are those of SS. Aed mac Bricc, Ailbe, Cainnech, Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Colmán Elo, Columba of Terryglas, Finán, Finnian of Clonard, Fintán of Clonenagh, Flannán, Fursu, Maedóc, and Ruadán. The qualifications added in the footnotes remove the impression that this second list consists of texts which all exhibit a similar relationship to one another. One of the extant manuscripts of O was written before the S-collection was assembled.</jats:p
Position estimates for existing trenchless installations
No full textThe position and alignment of existing cables and ducts, previously installed by trenchless technologies, has not always been recorded with sufficient accuracy for new works to be safely conducted close to existing installations. Inaccurate or missing registration in the past, manual data entry, previous activities in the same areas, can all lead to deviations between recorded and actual location. Location detection is often hampered by the depth of installations, especially in the case of HDD. The Netherlands Society for Trenchless Technologies (NSTT) has conducted a survey of the accuracy of trenchless installation techniques over the past decades, and of external factors influencing the position of existing cables and ducts, to get an estimate of the positional accuracy of older TT installations. This paper gives an overview of estimated accuracies for cables and ducts installed by HDD, micro-tunnelling, impact moling/ramming, auger boring and other TT installation techniques, taking soil conditions and the state of technology at the time of installation into account. The paper also gives an overview of which TT came to the Dutch market in which period.Geo-engineerin
The Bórama: the poetry and the hagiography in the Book of Leinster
No full textThis thesis is the first attempt at analysing the Bórama with a detailed analysis of the poetry read alongside the prose, as well as a detailed discussion on the hagiographical material found at the core of the text.
Chapter 1 examines the text, with particular attention on issues of composition, chronological order or disorder and other temporal anomalies, as well as the connection with other texts, especially those situated within the Book of Leinster (LL) manuscript. This is to address the issue of what the purpose of the text is, to support the argument that this is a compiled text, possibly by a single author or compiler, drawing on an extensive knowledge of literary works. It examines what the central focus of the text is and also illustrates Moling as the central character of the text, and crucial to the text in whole. In addition it will discuss the issue of classification, something that scholars have contended with for many years.
The poetry of the Bórama serves as the focal point of Chapter 2. There I demonstrate the various metres represented in the poetry, and cover a broad discussion on the issues the poems raise in the debate on the Bórama. It illustrates that the poems are an integral part of the text, and that without them the understanding of the text has been severely affected.
The following chapter, Chapter 3, is devoted to the numerous saints who occur in the poetry of the Bórama. In the poems, interspersed throughout the text of the Bórama, there is a great number of saints mentioned at various instances with varying purposes. The purpose of their inclusion as well as in which situation they are represented in the text is discussed extensively. Their locality and affiliations will, as far as possible, be explored in terms of their connection to Leinster or Moling.
Chapter 4 will be dedicated to the discussion of Moling, the central character of the text. It will explore how he is represented in the text of the Bórama, as compared to other texts where he is also a key figure. It will be shown that the Bórama, in LL, is a central text to his hagiographical corpus. Material concerned with Moling will also be looked at in terms of what they contribute to his legend. It will draw together the traits Moling exhibits in the extant sources and how his literary persona develops. The chapter will then conclude with the suggestion that LL was invaluable to the development of the legend of Moling.
In the final final section of the thesis I will draw together the main issues of each chapter in order to provide a conclusion and iron out any remaining issues. I will also highlight the numerous issues this thesis has raised during the course of the research undertaken and which would serve as future projects centred on the text
A New Design of Horizontal Electro-Vibro-Impact Devices
No full textThis paper presents a development in design, mathematical modeling, and experimental study of a vibro-impact moling device, which was invented by the author before. A vibratory unit deploying electromechanical interactions of a conductor with oscillating magnetic field has been realized and developed. The combination of resonance in an RLC circuit including a solenoid is found to create a relative oscillatory motion between the metal bar and the solenoid. This results in impacts of the solenoid on an obstacle block, which causes the forward motion of the system. Compared to the former model which employs impact from the metal bar, the improved rig can offer a higher progression rate of six times when using the same power supply. The novel geometrical arrangement allows for future optimization in terms of system parametric selection and adaptive control. This implies a very promising deployment of the mechanism in ground moling machines as well as other self-propelled mobile systems. In this paper, insight to the design development based on physical and mathematical models of the rig is presented. The coupled electromechanical equations of motion then are solved numerically, and a comparison between experimental results and numerical predictions is presented.</jats:p
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