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Romantikler, Ian McEwan ve yazarın kimliği
No full textÇalışma, Romantik dönemden on dokuzuncu yüzyıla, edebî eserin yaratıcısının çağdaş değerlendirmesine kadar,edebî uygulamada ve eleştiri teorisinde yazarın statüsü ve rolüyle ilgili farklı kavramları inceler. Romantizm, anlatımsal yazarlık teorisiyle yazarın üstünlüğü düşüncesinin yükselişini belirlemiştir. Bu düşünce, on dokuzuncu yüzyıl eleştirel fikirleri ile gölgede bırakılmış, yirminci yüzyıl yapısalcılık ve yapısalcılık sonrası savlar, yazarın ölümünü ilân etmiştir. Fakat, içlerinde Ian McEwan’ın da olduğu çağdaş eleştirel ve edebî düşünürler, Wimsatt ve Beardsley, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault gibi eleştirmenlerin metinsellik, okur ve kültürel söylemler üzerindeki vurguları karşısında yazarın önemini ve sınırsız gücünü doğrulamışlardır.The study explores the different conceptions regarding the status and role of the author in both literary practice and critical theory from the romantic period through the nineteenth-century to the contemporary reevaluation of the producer of the literary work. By its expressive theory of authorship, Romanticism marked the rise of the idea of the supremacy of the author, the idea being challenged and surpassed by the nineteenth-century critical opinions, whereas the twentieth century structuralist and post-structuralist points of view proclaimed the death of the author. However, there are contemporary critical and literary voices, among whom Ian McEwan, who reaffirm the importance and omnipotence of the author against all emphases on textuality, the reader, and the cultural discourses by such critics as Wimsatt and Beardsley, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and others
The impact of a child's death; An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis undertaken with five head teachers
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This research explores with five head teachers their views and experiences of a period when a child was terminally ill and subsequently died when in their school community.
The participants were selected purposively from Derbyshire head teachers who had experienced the death of a pupil in their school community. After interviewing the participants using a semi-structured interview schedule the transcribed interviews provided the data for the research.
The interviews were analysed, using the methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, to explore the experiences of each of the participants. Three superordinate themes were identified which were;
Emotions and their management
Interactions with the bereaved family
Interaction with the school community
Additionally, an overarching theme of Elevation was identified.
Each theme is presented and illustrated with abstracts taken from the original data. This is accompanied by interpretation which is also discussed and compared with knowledge from the existing literature.
The research has illustrated the complications that exist for head teachers in managing their emotions and the possibility of these emotions intruding on their personal and family life. It has illustrated the way in which the relationship between the head teacher and the bereaved family changes and how it changes their interactions within the school community.
This research led to the consideration of the influence of the cultural expectation enshrined in the saying, 'De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est' (Of the dead, nothing unless good). Also considered is the behavioural derivative of this saying and how it shapes the responses that head teachers make when managing a school community when a child has died. It also led to the consideration of the implications of the research findings for any support professionals who help schools
Rewriting Modernity
No full textThis article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinctionbetween topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time,and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the“squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor for framing perspectives on the past, present, and future. The analysis deconstructs the topography of the “squared horizon” as a relationality in an unfolding continuum, where spaces exist ontologically and where the immaterial forces of the dromospheric and the atmospheric generate a relational and historical connectedness
Contract farming in Indonesia: Smallholders and agribusiness working together
No full textFarm Management,
A sequential evaluation of left ventricular function in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with chronic severe aortic regurgitation
No full textThe optimal timing of valve replacement surgery in chronic severe aortic regurgitation (AR) has remained a major clinical problem in the management of these patients. Although the onset of symptoms is the generally accepted indication for aortic valve replacement (AVR), the unpredictable development of pre-symptomatic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction as a result of prolonged volume overload has resulted in numerous reports attempting to formulate a risk profile for these patients. Although aortic root and LV cineangiography have been the "gold standard" for defining the severity of AR and its effect on LV performance, serial follow-up by these means is impractical. More recently numerous non-invasive measures of LV size (echocardiogram) and function both at rest and on exercise (echocardiogram and equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography., ERNA) have been serially utilised~ In these endeavours, the thinking has been clouded by a tendency to equate these two measures and failing to appreciate that apparent preoperative LV dysfunction (particularly on exercise) may be rapidly reversible by AVR and the consequent changes in LV loading conditions. This study was a prospective, sequential evaluation of left ventricular function using both non-invasive and invasive techniques in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with isolated chronic, severe (4+) AR at cardiac catheterisation. The aims of the study were to (I) Identify differences in the clinical, echocardiographic, resting and exercise haemodynamic and I radionuclide measures of left ventricular function in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with chronic severe A.R. with particular reference to the incidence of presymptomatic development of left ventricular dysfunction. (II) Critically evaluate the role of exercise stress (both isotonic and isometric) in the assessment of patients with chronic severe A.R. (III) Evaluate the influence of time (sequential studies) on the haemodynamic burden in asymptomatic patients. (IV) Study the impact of successful aortic valve replacement on the reversibility of abnormal pre-operative LV function in an attempt to predict which patients would benefit from this therapeutic intervention and whether operation for symptoms alone is the correct clinical practice
Determination of the material property variations across the growth ring of softwood for use in a heterogeneous drying model. Part 2 use of homogenisation to predict bound liquid diffusivity and thermal conductivity
No full textIn this work, the extensive knowledge of wood gained at the Ecole Nationale du Genie Rural des Eaux et Forets by using a combination of microscopic observation and experimental work is being used to postulate material property correlations for a macroscopic heterogeneous "Cerne" growth ring model of softwood. In this second part, the method of homogenisation is used to capture the contrast of property between the gaseous phase and the solid phase. \ud
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Homogenisation problems are computed using a Control Volume formulation. The tracheid model developed in Part 1 has been used to define several elementary representative volumes. Consequently, bound water diffusivity and thermal conductivity can be predicted for each material direction as a function of local wood density. For practical applications, analytical models fitted from the computed values allow these property variations to be easily and accurately determined
Author Correction:A super-massive Neptune-sized planet
No full textIn the version of the article initially published, Ian Crossfield (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) was missing from the author list and is now included, while Fig. 2 has been updated with the correct density values of all the exoplanets. The changes are made in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Determination of the material property variations across the growth ring of softwood for use in a heterogeneous drying model : Part 1 capillary pressure, tracheid model and absolute permeability
No full textIn this work, the extensive knowledge of wood gained at the Ecole Nationale du Genie Rural des Eaux et Forets by using a combination of microscopic observation and experimental work is being used to postulate material property correlations for a macroscopic heterogeneous "Cerne" growth ring model of softwood. Mathematical tools such as image analysis and homogenisation are used to develop models that capture the effect of the density variation within the wood sample of important macroscopic physical parameters. This first part is devoted to mass transfer in wood due to Darcy's law. Capillary pressure correlations as a function of local density are deduced from image analysis. Thereafter, a tracheid model is proposed for softwood. Its shape evolves from earlywood to latewood according to anatomical observations. Liquid and gaseous permeability values are calculated from this model according to Poiseuille's flow within cells and assuming a linear flow-pressure loss relationship through the pits
South African travel writing and bias
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 92-96).This thesis spotlights the travel and leisure magazine industry within South Africa. It contends that the travel writing genre is susceptible to a number of biases, both past and present, which ultimately affect the way its overall content is produced and presented to the public. This work was substantiated through a set of qualitative interviews with key professionals within the South African travel and leisure magazine industry, as well as through a theme- based content analysis of a number of local travel writing publications. This study adds to a rather extensive line of research written on the topic of travel writing regarding a number of older criticisms of bias including 'othering', escapism, and gendering. However, it also focuses on a number of more modem biases such as direct advertising, advertorial usage, as well as the acceptance of 'freebies' and barter agreements, none of which has been given much attention in previous research. The sheer existence of these and other biases within the modem South African travel and leisure magazine industry exhibits an absolute necessity of examination into such a topic, especially given the importance and overall influence that the travel writing industry has on a country's economic standing and overall image
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"Characters in Search of an Author": The Single-Figure Study and the Pritzker Collection
No full textThis chapter explores 'single figure studies' or 'quasi-portraits' in the Rhoda Pritzker collection at the Yale Center for British Art. It argues that Pritzker's collection, though varied in many ways, contains a remarkable amount of 'single figure studies', by artists ranging from Walter Sickert and Gwen John to Kenneth Armitage and Keith Vaughan. The collection offers a fresh perspective on British artists' approach to the figure during the early to mid- twentieth century, drawing together artists whose oeuvres are usually considered separately
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