10,252 research outputs found
Marzia Grassi, Rabidantes : comércio espontâneo transnacional em Cabo Verde, Lisbon, Imprensa de ciências sociais/Praia (Cape Verde), Spleen Edições, 2003
No full textPitcher M. Anne. Marzia Grassi, Rabidantes : comércio espontâneo transnacional em Cabo Verde, Lisbon, Imprensa de ciências sociais/Praia (Cape Verde), Spleen Edições, 2003. In: Lusotopie, n°11, 2004. Médias pouvoir et identités. pp. 428-430
Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer
No full text‘Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer’ is a critical and creative answer to the question: How do we construct Anne Shirley, and what does she mean to us? This creative research submission is a work of fanfiction, specifically a mash up based on Anne of the Island, L.M.M. Montgomery’s sequel to Anne of Green Gables. In this short work of fiction (under 4 thousand words) Anne is revealed as a changeling, one of the Faerie Folk, and also a being not strictly male or female; sometimes neither, sometimes both. The mash up is based on the last two chapters of Anne of the Island, the scenes in which Gilbert Blythe is seriously ill and Anne realises she loves him. This realisation causes Anne, in this version, to reveal to Gilbert that she is both non-human and not a girl, and to use Faerie magic to save Gilbert’s life. Anne’s revelation causes Gilbert a great relief, as he has been keeping a secret also - that he too is queer. The piece has an accompanying research statement and reflection, that reflects on the ways the contributor/author interprets Anne, as a being troubled by gender, and not strictly gender conforming. The much-loved scene from Anne of Green Gables in which Anne realises she is not wanted by the Cuthberts because she is not a boy is inserted into the mash up (as a memory) as this scene is the principal cause for the contributor’s identification with Anne as a gender non-conforming figure who resists gender expectations. Overall, this creative and critical work and reflection queers both Anne as a character and the Anne of the Island novel.Book chapter - work of fiction with a critical reflective essa
Kelly M. Askew & Anne M. Pitcher (eds), « African Postsocialism »
No full textCe numéro spécial d’Africa, présenté comme un livre collectif, est dirigé par Kelly Michelle Askew, professeure associée d’anthropologie à l’université du Michigan, spécialiste de la Tanzanie et de la culture swahilie, et par M. Anne Pitcher, professeure de sciences politiques à Colgate University (New York) et spécialiste du Mozambique et plus généralement des transitions néolibérales en Afrique. Outre l’introduction, deux articles traitent de la fin de l’État-Providence en « Afrique sociali..
Pitcher, M. Anne. - Politics in the Portuguese Empire. The State, Industry and Cotton, 1926-1974
No full textCahen Michel. Pitcher, M. Anne. - Politics in the Portuguese Empire. The State, Industry and Cotton, 1926-1974. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 35, n°137, 1995. La démocratie déclinée. pp. 290-293
M. Anne Pitcher, Transforming Mozambique. The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000, 2002
No full textHibou Béatrice. M. Anne Pitcher, Transforming Mozambique. The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000, 2002. In: Lusotopie, n°10, 2003. Violences et contrôle de la violence au Brésil, en Afrique et à Goa, sous la direction de Camille Goirand . pp. 526-529
Pitcher geometry facilitates extrinsically powered ‘springboard trapping’ in carnivorous <i>Nepenthes gracilis </i>pitcher plants
No full textCarnivorous pitcher plants capture insects in cup-shaped leaves that function as motionless pitfall traps. Nepenthes gracilis evolved a unique ‘springboard' trapping mechanism that exploits the impact energy of falling raindrops to actuate a fast pivoting motion of the canopy-like pitcher lid. We superimposed multiple computed micro-tomography images of the same pitcher to reveal distinct deformation patterns in lid-trapping N. gracilis and closely related pitfall-trapping N. rafflesiana. We found prominent differences between downward and upward lid displacement in N. gracilis only. Downward displacement was characterized by bending in two distinct deformation zones whist upward displacement was accomplished by evenly distributed straightening of the entire upper rear section of the pitcher. This suggests an anisotropic impact response, which may help to maximize initial jerk forces for prey capture, as well as the subsequent damping of the oscillation. Our results point to a key role of pitcher geometry for effective ‘springboard' trapping in N. gracilis
Interview with Anne Russell
No full textInterview with Anne Russell, playwright and author of several books on local history, including Wilmington: A Pictoral History
A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
No full textThis thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister's (1791-1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne's writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the 'fairer sex' (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne's sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature's Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women's historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne's sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women's historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne's sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne's sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne's everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824-25, I have focused upon Anne's textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendome and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman's engagement with early nineteenth century British culture
Data from: Pitcher geometry facilitates extrinsically powered 'springboard trapping' in carnivorous Nepenthes gracilis pitcher plants
No full textCarnivorous pitcher plants capture insects in cup-shaped leaves that function as motionless pitfall traps. Nepenthes gracilis, evolved a unique 'springboard' trapping mechanism that exploits the impact energy of falling raindrops to actuate a fast pivoting motion of the canopy-like pitcher lid. We superimposed multiple computerized micro-tomography images of the same pitcher to reveal distinct deformation patterns in lid-trapping N. gracilis and closely related pitfall-trapping N. rafflesiana. We found prominent differences between downward and upward lid displacement in N. gracilis only. Downward displacement was characterised by bending in two distinct deformation zones while upward displacement was accomplished by evenly distributed straightening of the entire upper rear section of the pitcher. This suggests an anisotropic impact response, which may help to maximize initial jerk forces for prey capture, as well as the subsequent damping of the oscillation. Our results point to a key role of pitcher geometry for effective 'springboard' trapping in N. gracilis.Dataset 1 includes (1) 33 CT scans as *.tif stacks and their scanning information; (2) coordinate data that was extracted from the CT scans as *.csv-files; (3) a python-script to analyse the coordinates and calculate curvature and visualise the data; and (4) an additional python-script to summarize this data.
Dataset 2 includes 20 overlaid jpg-images to measure lid displacement and the *.xlsx-file that summarises the measurements and data analysis for this data.
Further instructions are in the README.txt
Funding provided by: Royal SocietyCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000288Award Number: University Research Fellowship (UF150138)Funding provided by: Royal SocietyCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000288Award Number: Enhancement Award (RGF/EA/180059)Dataset 1
N. gracilis (n = 6) and N. rafflesiana (n = 5) pitchers were freshly harvested and CT-scanned immediately.
To this end, they were embedded up to a third of their height in an upright position in a container filled with sand and the sand was moistened to solidify and keep the pitchers in place. The lid of the container had a custom-built mechanism that was attached to the lid of the pitcher and allowed to manipulate the lid position in between scans (neutral lid position, pushed down lid and pulled up lid). Each pitcher was scanned in a computerized tomography scanner (Nikon XT H 225 ST, Nikon Metrology Inc., Brighton, US). Scans were conducted with 3141 projections, 70 kV, 354 ms exposure time, without averaging over multiple scans and resulted in a voxel size of 30 µm (all N. gracilis and 1 N. rafflesiana pitcher) and 38 µm (all other N. rafflesiana pitchers). Scan time was limited to 20 minutes per scan to minimize dehydration of the tissue.
The three image stacks of the same pitcher with different lid positions were imported into 3D Slicer 4.11.20210226 (https://www.slicer.org/) and superimposed using a least square fit on the coordinates of five identical features in the lower part of the scan. The scans were segmented via thresholding (at grey value = 15000) and viewed as 3D overlays to identify locations of major deformation. 2D images were taken from the image stacks to visualize major deformations in the dorsal spine (longitudinal section), over the pitcher body and neck (horizontal cross-sections) and through the lid (vertical cross-sections). 2D images from the same slice with three different lid positions were overlaid in GIMP 2.10.30 (https://wwww.gimp.org/).
Further analysis was conducted along the major axis of deformation, the dorsal spine (visible in the longitudinal section). 100 equidistant points were placed along the spine and exported. From those the curvature and curvature difference between lid displacements were calculated with a custom Python script.
As this resolution of spacing led to a very high noise in the curvature data, a convergence study was conducted on one N. gracilis pitcher and the 100 equidistant points were resampled to 10, 20, 30 and 50 points. The final analysis with all samples was conducted on a spacing of roughly 30 points, with 6 points being in the pitcher lid and between 7 and 21 points in the pitcher body, depending on the pitcher height, excluding the attachment point of the lid manipulation mechanism. A separate script was written to visualise the data from all pitchers and both species.
Dataset 2
A second experiment was conducted on 10 fresh N. gracilis pitchers to investigate the anisotropic loading response of the lid. A weight of 3.5 g was attached to the lid, and the pitcher was imaged with and without the weight, using a Canon D5 Mark3 DSLR camera and 90 mm macro lens. Then the pitcher was turned upside down and the experiment was repeated. Each two corresponding images were overlaid with GIMP 2.10.30 and the lid displacement measured with ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/)
Editor's inscription in Valentine Duval : an autobiography of the last century
No full textEditor Anne Manning's gift inscription to author William Stebbing (1832–1926), "To William Stebbing from his affectionate friend the editor Nov. 2, 1860".Manning, Anne, 1807-1879
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