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2025 Sub-Librarians Meeting: The Adventure of Lomax the Sub-librarian Featuring Lyndsay Faye
No full textALA Best Historical Award-winning (and twice Edgar Award-nominated) Sherlockian author, Lyndsay Faye, will give a presentation on Lomax--the sub-librarian of the British Library and namesake of the Sherlock Holmes society, the Sub-librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars. Her comments will draw upon her own research and her experience in writing her short story “The Gospel of Sheba,” a bibliomystery centered around a lethal grimoire, narrated via Lomax\u27s private journals. The presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A
There is no me without you: one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children
No full textThis is the archive of a lecture given by Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out
The use of multilevel models to evaluate sources of variation in reproductive performance in dairy cattle in Reunion Island
No full textSources of variation in measures of reproductive performance in dairy cattle were evaluated using data collected from 3207 lactations in 1570 cows in 50 herds from five geographic regions of Reunion Island (located off the cast coast of Madagascar). Three continuously distributed reproductive parameters (intervals from calving-to-conception, calving-to-first-service and first-service-to-conception) were considered, along with one Binomial outcome (first-service-conception risk). Multilevel models which take into account the hierarchical nature of the data were used to fit all models. For the overall measure of calving-to-conception interval, 86% of the variation resided at the lactation level with only 7, 6 and 2% at the cow, herd and regional levels, respectively. The proportion of variance at the herd and cow levels were slightly higher for the calving-to-first-service interval (12 and 9%, respectively) - but for the other two parameters (first-service-conception risk and first-service-to-conception interval), >90% of the variation resided at the lactation level. For the three continuous dependent variables, comparison of results between models based on log-transformed data and Box-Cox-transformed data suggested that minor departures from the assumption of normality did not have a substantial effect on the variance estimates. For the Binomial dependent variable, five different estimation procedures (penalised quasi-likelihood, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, parametric and non-parametric bootstrap estimates and maximum-likelihood) yielded substantially different results for the estimate of the cow-level variance
Examining the Experiences and Unmet Needs of Chassidic Mothers Raising a Child With Autism
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This qualitative study was conducted to understand the needs and priorities of mothers raising a child with autism in the Chassidic community. Five major themes emerged that reflect unique challenges. This research highlights the importance of routines and rituals that define insular communities.
Primary Author and Speaker: Faye Levy
Contributing Authors: M. J. Mulcahey</jats:p
PETIT PAYS DE GAEL FAYE : POÉTIQUE DU TRAGIQUE ET FLOTTABILITÉ IDENTITAIRE
No full textPetit pays permet à Gael Faye d’évoquer le génocide rwandais dont les tribulations alimentent encore la mémoire tragique de l’Afrique post-indépendante. À travers le regard d’un personnage enfant qui rompt rapidement avec le narratif idyllique propre au pays des merveilles, l’auteur présente un imaginaire romanesque spécifique. La nostalgie du pays natal, espace des origines, laisse progressivement place à l’impermanence identitaire. L’identité originelle devient évanescente sous le poids de l’exil. Les nouvelles étiquettes acquises quant à elles, restent insaisissables. La démarche sociocritique de Claude Duchet permettra alors d’explorer l’imaginaire social du roman de Gael Faye qui s’écroule sous le poids des violences ethno-politiques. Ainsi, la poétique du tragique permet à l’auteur de mettre en scène le bouleversement de l’ordre social ayant conduit inexorablement à la déconstruction de soi, et d’exprimer une identité inconstante.Petit pays allows Gael Faye to raise the Rwandan genocide, whose tribulations still feed the tragic memory of post-independent Africa. Through the eyes of a child character who becomes distinct from the idyllic narrative typical of Wonderland, the author presents a specific imaginary novel. Nostalgia for home, the place of origins, gradually gives way to the identity inconstancy. The original identity becomes evanescent due to exile. Newly acquired labels remain elusive. Claude Duchet's sociocritical method allows us to explore the social imaginary of Gael Faye's novel, which is crumbling under the impact of ethno-political violence. In this manner, the poetics of tragedy enable the author to stage the upheaval of the social order leading to stainless stell self dismaintly, and to express an uncertain identity. Article visualizations
The sorcerer's pharmacy
No full textHow do traditions of magic, both practical and literary, interact with texts about plant- and substance-based remedies in ancient Greece and Rome, and what role does genre play in the manifestation and transmission of these traditions? This is the question that my research seeks to answer, through the methods of lexicography, close reading, and comparison of magical texts with pharmaceutical literature from four significant authors. Each chapter represents a case study of one of these authors: Theophrastus and Nicander of Colophon, who wrote in Greek; and Pliny the Elder and Scribonius Largus, who wrote in Latin.
My analysis of the interplay of magic, remedy, genre, and botany in each author has revealed the development, through time, of what I term a pharmaceutical-didactic subgenre, created through the editorial decisions and selective curatorship of writers who sought to educate others in botanical and pharmaceutical topics, and, often, to display their breadth of knowledge in these subjects.
At the heart of this subgenre lies the problem of dangerous or othered information: to what extent is recording it reasonable or unreasonable, ethical or immoral, traditional or subversive? How is it justified or erased, spoken or unspoken? Under what circumstances does an author preserve the sorcerer’s pharmacy? It is my hope that this approach will, beyond the limits of this thesis, prove useful for the examination of other authors of this genre in the classical period, and for their reception in the medieval era.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesElla Faye Wallac
GetUBetter lockout report evaluation
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The #LondonIsOpen campaign : desecuritizing Brexit?
No full textFaye Donnelly is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Securitization and the Iraq War: The Rules of Engagement in World Politics (Routledge, 2013). Her most recent article, ‘The Queen’s Speech: Desecuritizing the Past, Present and Future of Anglo-Irish Relations’ has been published in the European Journal of International Relations. Jasmine K. Gani is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations: Conflict and Cooperation (Palgrave 2014). Her latest article, ‘The Erasure of Race: Cosmopolitanism and the Illusion of Kantian hospitality ’ is forthcoming in Millennium Journal of International Studies. She tweets @JKGani
Mechanical performance of fiber reinforced concrete with papaya (Carica papaya) bast fiber as self-healing agent
No full textIn Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Civil EngineeringPhilippines is located in a region that’s highly susceptible to various natural disasters. Earthquakes, or seismic events, can lead to structural vulnerabilities, particularly the formation of cracks, a significant drawback of concrete infrastructure. Minimizing the expenses associated with repairing these issues has led to the development of self-repairing concrete. This paper investigates how the inclusion of Papaya Bast Fiber (PBF) influences the self-healing capabilities of cement-based composites. The weight percentages of replaced PBF and PSH in the mixture are 1%, 3%, and 5%. Tests for rebound hammer, compressive strength, flexural strength, water absorption, and density were conducted to assess the augmentation effect of physical and mechanical performance of PBF and PSH materials, and an investigation of self-healing capabilities was conducted. Additionally, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermometric analysis (TGA), and Brunauer- Emmett-Teller (BET) surface analysis tests were also performed. Moreover, Visual inspection will be instrumental in observing the healed cracks and evaluating the extent of crack closure. SHM-PBF shows an adequate performance in recovering the damages of the specimen, corresponding to a 37% (PSH1), 83% (PSH3) healing efficiency after 28 days, and 100% (PSH5) in just 14 days
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