534 research outputs found
The Rights Provisions of a Book Publishing Contract
No full textWhen signing a publishing contract, an author makes decisions which directly affect the book's availability. In order to decide judiciously which rights to retain and which to transfer to a publisher, she needs an understanding of U.S. copyright law and the author-publisher partnership. In this article, Melody Herr, PhD, a scholarly communications professional who has over 16 years of experience in academic publishing and who has authored six books herself, explains the rights provisions of a book contract. First, she discusses copyright ownership and describes the ways in which copyright's components apply to scholarly books. After enumerating the benefits and drawbacks of allocating specific rights to a publisher, she highlights contract wording to watch for and suggests the rights an author may wish to retain by negotiating an addendum. She then explains how an author may reclaim rights granted to a publisher through reversion or termination of transfer. In the conclusion, she recommends that outreach programs target scholars at critical moments when they face decisions regarding publication of their work
Cycling on the Verge? Exploring the Place of Utility Cycling in Contemporary New Zealand Transport Policy
No full textEfforts to increase cycling as a mode of transport (utility cycling) occur at central, regional and local levels of government through a range of supportive strategies, research, and guidelines. Despite these efforts, utility cycling levels in New Zealand have remained persistently low. This thesis examines the apparent disparity between policy intent and policy result, using a discourse analytical approach. It examines how cycling is positioned in contemporary New Zealand transport policy documents, and explores whose priorities are shaping transport policy with what implications for utility cycling.
This study uses a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to analyse the land transport documents from across the institutions of government. The CDA approach, grounded in the work of van Dijk and Fairclough, draws on ideas from the interpretive tradition of discourse analysis, inspired by Foucault’s concepts of knowledge and power. This approach reveals the position of utility cycling by exposing the framing, dominant discourses, and discursive strategies that privilege certain transport objectives and activities over others.
The findings show transport is promoted almost exclusively by central government as an activity to facilitate economic growth and efficiency, despite its potential (and actual) impacts on health and well-being, social justice, and environmental sustainability. The discursive practices of the government privilege private motor vehicle use, helping to both legitimate and maintain that privilege at all levels of government, while positioning utility cycling as a marginalised mode of transport.
This thesis contributes to scholarship on utility cycling and land transport policy in New Zealand by identifying how the discursive strategies of government control the position of utility cycling in New Zealand. This study underscores the need for a central government-led, long-term strategic vision for a genuinely integrated, multi-modal transport system, in order for the benefits of utility cycling to be fully maximised
Student Recital (December 12, 2017)
No full textGioite al Canto mio / Jacopo Peri Benjamin Gaffey, bass
Sonatine / Maurice Ravel I. Modéré Lannah Fitzgerald, saxophone
Auf dem grünen Balkon / Hugo Wolf Xavier Cosme, baritone
Wild Rider / Robert Schumann Daniel Smith, bass
Lydia, Op. 4, no. 2 / Gabriel Fauré Patrick Dauwer, baritone
La Donna é mobile (Rigoletto) / Giuseppe Verdi Joshua Estrada, tenor
Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 94 / Sergei Prokofiev Andantino Ian Maguire, flute
Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus) / Johann Strauss Taylor Eckstrom, sopranohttps://vc.bridgew.edu/student_concerts/1123/thumbnail.jp
The tenters; or, Mountain-side stories told in verse, by Horace Dumont Herr; illustrations by the author.
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The Vietnams of Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien: Tales of Disintegration and Integration
No full text Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there. -Michael Herr, Dispatches Things may be viewed from many angles. From down below, or from inside out, you often discover entirely new understandings. -Major Li Van Hgoc, Going After Cacciato Two of the most important books that have emerged thus far from the American involvement in Vietnam are Michael Herr's "journal" Dispatches and Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato.1 Both writers vividly depict the horror and brutality of the Vietnam War, and both, either implicitly or explicitly, decry our past military entanglement in that conflict. Yet, each writer, in attempting to present his own peculiar experience of the war, handles his subject matter differently. Dispatches chronicles Michael Herr's experiences as a war correspondent for Esquire Magazine from his arrival in Vietnam in November 1967 to his departure in October 1968. The journal format provides Dispatches with a basically chronological organization and sup- posedly limits Herr to reporting what he saw and to what he was told by others. Dispatches, however, is not simply the result of a random camera eye impersonally recording events, but it is, like most journals, thoroughly infused with the thoughts and emotions of its author. Dispatches is an interpretation of what Herr experienced in Vietnam. It is not exactly history; it is not exactly fiction either. </jats:p
A biography of and interview with Patricia Thomson Herr
No full textPerson interviewed: Patricia Thomson Herr. Interviewers: Smith, Donald F. and Peirce, Dana. Interview date: June 12, 2010. Interview location: Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Date biography was written: July 2010.Patricia Thomson is one of three women who graduated in Cornell’s veterinary class of 1960. Originally from Schenectady, N.Y., Trish entered Cornell’s agriculture program as a pre-veterinary student in fall 1954 and matriculated in the veterinary program two years later. Dr. Thomson’s first job after graduation was with Dr. Joseph Engle ’26 in Summit, New Jersey. Engle was a leading small animal veterinarian of the time and a founder of the American Animal Hospital Association. Dr. Thomson returned to Cornell in 1962 and served for one year as small animal interne. She married Dr. Donald Herr ’63, and they eventually moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where they built and operated the Manheim Pike Veterinary Hospital. Dr. Thomson became the first woman president of the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association. She has been active on various Cornell University activities and is an avid decorative arts historian and author
WELL-POSEDNESS AND SCATTERING FOR THE ZAKHAROV SYSTEM IN FOUR DIMENSIONS
No full textThe Cauchy problem for the Zakharov system in four dimensions is considered. Some new well-posedness results are obtained. For small initial data, global well-posedness and scattering results are proved, including the case of initial data in the energy space. None of these results are restricted to radially symmetric data.NNSF of China [11371037]; Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project [YETP0002]; Fok Ying Tong education foundation [141003]; German Research Foundation [CRC 701]SCI(E)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Les Fables d'Ésope illustrées
No full textThe subtitle reads: Nouvelle initiation au Grec par l'Image, l'Analyse et les Tableaux synoptiques. It is just over 10½ x 8½ and has 72 pages and twelve tableaux. The 72 pages present nineteen fables. The book offers a number of helps beyond the Greek text. There are simple diagrammatic pictures, translations of phrases, comments, explanations of forms, principal parts of verbs, and grammatical explanations. I think that the author aims at introducing the Greek language through analysis of these fables of Aesop. That is a daunting task, but this book undertakes it well. Long live creative efforts by good teachers! Some of the work may be challenging; I seem to notice that all the noun declensions come at once at the end of the second fable. And there is a full plan of the verb and its parts by the end of the third fable. The fables chosen are good standard ones, beginning with The Fox and the Mask, GA, The Man and the Statue, GGE, and The Stag and the Vine. The tableaux present grammar charts. There is at the beginning a preface by Emile Bréhier and a letter from Emile Chambry. At the end there is an appendix on the Greek alphabet and then a helpful T of C that sets out the nineteen fables and the grammar learned with each of them. This book would be fun to teach or to learn from.Language note: Bilingual: French/GreekTomas Herr Marti
The Appropriation of Autopoiesis in Architecture
No full textThis thesis investigates the merits of cross-disciplinary appropriations of natural-scientific theory in architecture, particularly of the theory of autopoiesis as appropriated in Patrik Schumacher’s two-volume tome The Autopoiesis of Architecture. This investigation began with an interest in perceived connections between urban dynamics and autopoietic processes in biological cells. In this context, Schumacher’s work was expected to offer, but did not deliver, an explanatory theoretical framework. This raised questions about the role of cross-disciplinary appropriations of natural-scientific theory in architecture in general and the appropriation of autopoiesis in architectural theory in particular.
A review of related literature shows that investigations of these questions are confounded by the conceptual broadness granted to theoretical ideas and the indirect route along which autopoiesis has been appropriated in architecture. From its original conception by Maturana et al. in microbiology in the 1970s to its appropriation by Luhmann in sociology in the 1980s, on to the appropriation of its sociological interpretation by Schumacher in architecture around 2011, the phenomena described by the three instances of autopoiesis theory, and their varying grounding in empirical evidence, have changed significantly. Meanwhile, natural-scientific theories inform architectural practice and research across a broad spectrum between metaphorical ambiguity and literal exactitude, from conceptual inspiration in applied design and literal design guidance as is common in biomimicry, to scholarly explanation and empirical prediction. Between these intricacies, the following research question arises: What are the merits of Patrik Schumacher’s appropriation of the theory of autopoiesis from the perspective of academic architectural research?
To address this question from an academic architectural research perspective, this study uses a mixed-method approach, drawing on discourse analysis, close reading, visual interpretation, and inference to the best explanation to analyse 16 pertinent samples from The Autopoiesis of Architecture both individually as well as in aggregate, using previously-established categorisations of language use and merits of theory appropriation. It thereby determines how Schumacher’s theory relates “architecture” to prior (i.e., Luhmann’s or Maturana et al.’s) instances of autopoiesis theory, the degree of literality of these references, and their likely beneficiaries.
The outcomes of this analysis show that the connections drawn between architecture and autopoiesis in The Autopoiesis of Architecture evoke (or at least do not preclude evoking) biological systems rather than aligning exclusively with Schumacher’s conceptualisation of architecture as a social system. They also suggest that a significant portion of these connections appear to benefit the author (Schumacher) rather than the reader by legitimising and obfuscating rather than providing explanatory convergence. Furthermore, the analysis shows how these connections are not committed to a uniform use of language, ranging across literal, metaphorical, analogical, and similised modes. Schumacher thus seems to operate somewhat ambiguously across all analytical frameworks and distinctions applied in this study, taking an approach that may benefit conceptual inspiration of the design practice rather than rigorous descriptions of academic research his theory purports to do. In this view, Schumacher’s theory appropriation appears to enjoy the conceptual tolerance cultivated on the design practice side of the field but seems unlikely to substantially benefit either the professional practice or academic research arms of the discipline
Carbon nanotubes as a 1D template for the synthesis of air sensitive materials: about the confinement effect
No full textCobalt ferrite and cobalt iron nanowires with an average diameter of 50 nm and lengths up to several micrometers were synthesized inside multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) under mild reaction conditions, i.e. 100 °C and atmospheric pressure, using an aqueous nitrate precursor salt filling the tubes. The concept of a confinement effect inside carbon nanotubes has been advanced to explain the formation of CoFe2O4 under such mild reaction conditions. The formation of caps near the tube tips at the beginning of the nitrate decomposition meant that each nanotube was considered as a closed nanoreactor, in which the reaction conditions could be very different to the macroscopic conditions outside the tube. The subsequent reduction of the CoFe2O4 allowed to obtain CoFe nanowires cast in the carbon nanotubes. These nanowires exhibit a high resistance towards oxidation, whereas bulk CoFe is known to undergo oxidation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This phenomenon was attributed to oxygen diffusion problems due to the confinement effect of the carbon nanotubes
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