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The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Well-known trade mark protection: confusion in EU and Japan
No full textIn this thesis concerning the protection of well-known trade marks against confusion in the European Community Trade Mark (CTM) and Japanese trademark systems, the author critically considers the difficulties in comprehensively defining ‘well-known trade mark’ in the relevant international trade mark instruments. After critical analysis of various definitions of both ‘trade mark’ and ‘well-known trade mark’, she undertakes a comparison of the definitions of the parallel concepts of ‘trade mark of repute’ and ‘syuchi-syohyo’, and also undertakes an assessment as to the extent to which these trade marks are protected against confusion and kondo in the CTM and Japanese systems, respectively. It is concluded that the protection of well- known trade marks against confusion in the CTM and Japan cannot be said to be completely clear, and the author identifies some areas for legal refor
The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Boiling Heat Transfer of R-1234yf in Horizontal Circular Small Tubes
No full textAn experimental study for heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop with two-phase flow phase change was conducted with R-1234yf in horizontal circular small tubes. The experimental facilities have been used to take data under various flow conditions with intensive study. The test section is made of stainless steel tubes with inner tube diameters of 1.5 mm and 3.0 mm, the length of 1000 mm and 2000 mm each. The small tubes were uniformly heated by engaging an electric current directly to the single tubes; all components were well insulated to prevent heat losses. Local heat transfer coefficients and pressure drop were obtained for a heat flux of 5-40 kW m-2, a mass flux of 50-600 kg m-2 s-1, saturation temperatures of 0, 5, and 10℃ and quality of up to 1.0. The effects of mass flux, heat flux, saturation temperature, and inner tube diameter on heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are reported. Nucleate boiling heat transfer contribution was predominant, especially at low quality region, and laminar flow appeared in the evaporative small tubes. A new boiling heat transfer coefficient correlation for R-1234yf was developed
Telegram, 1936 Aug. 25, Burbank Calif., to Edward C. Elliott
No full textTelegram from Amelia Earhart to Edward Elliott "Convocation Ok as far as now possible to foresee (STOP) do greet old friend of mine at Mark Hopkins Mrs. Ambrose Diehl (STOP) I planning leave for east day after tomorrow if can get few final details cleared up cheerio A E 235 P," August 25, 1936
Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force
No full textThe collection development role of the academic librarian in the research university library is increasingly subject to significant change as opportunities to build new types of library collections proliferate, particularly with respect to research data. A Purdue Libraries task force was charged with building faculty-produced collections for a data repository prototype. One purpose of the project was to inventory and characterize the resources and skills required of the libraries and its data-collecting librarians. This paper examines the librarian roles and activities that were identified during the project and suggestsways the experience of the task force can inform the roles and activities of librarians who are similarly charged
Spaceborne Demonstration of P-Band Signals of Opportunity Remote Sensing: Instrument Modeling and Validation
No full textSignals of Opportunity (SoOp) reflectometry allows the reuse of existing communication signals as sources of illumination for remote sensing. The Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation (SNOOPI) mission is a spaceborne technology demonstration of a P-Band SoOp receiver. P-Band frequencies allow for deeper penetration depths for soil moisture sensing than conventional L-Band radar instruments. P-Band also allows for higher precision in applications requiring phase unwrapping such as Snow Water Equivalent measurements. To support the SNOOPI instrument development and analysis, a bit-level simulator was developed to verify the microwave instrument and digital signal processor unit. A groundmonitoring station was developed to monitor the SoOp source’s Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP), background noise sky-map verification, and self-ambiguity function monitoring. An overview of tower based instruments implementing the SoOp receiver technique is also provided
Test and application of gravitational theories in astronomical systems
No full textThe motivation of our analysis is to put constraints, beyond making them unlikely, on a variety of Newtonian perturbations that could conspire to imitate the timing effects of the relativistic two-body model. This will provide an assessment on the quality of the evidence that the decay of the pulsar\u27s orbital period is caused by the energy loss of the binary pulsar system in the form of gravitational radiation. A timing model for the binary pulsar system PSR 1913+16 which includes both relativistic timing effects and the effects of conceivable rotational and tidal distortions of the pulsar\u27s companion star was developed. The deformation of the companion star would modify its Newtonian gravitational field which affects the orbit of the pulsar. In addition to secular perturbations discussed in previous work our analysis calculated the periodic perturbations that occur at harmonics of the pulsar\u27s orbital period. These characteristic periodic effects can generally indicate distinctively the presence of rotational and tidal distortions of the pulsar\u27s companion star. Our analysis shows that the timing effect of the gravitational red shift and second order Doppler shift and the effect of the Shapiro propagation delay of the pulse can be isolated from all these effects. They can be used to obtain a reliable estimate of the masses of the pulsar and its companion star whatever the nature of the companion. This new constraint can rule out any possibility that the pulsar\u27s companion is a helium star and it sharply constrains the rotational distortion of a conceivable white dwarf companion. Another subject of this thesis concerns with the deflection of star light by the gravitational field of the sun. The gravitational field generated by currents of matter within a body influences the deflection of light by the body. We show that in metric theories of gravity the Einstein equivalence principle implies a deeper connection than had been realized between this deflection and the Lense-Thirring dragging of inertial frames. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.
Digest of Proceedings: Farm Equipment Institute Industry Research Conference, May 27-29, 1959, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
No full textmatthew-p-brown/E_cells_2023: E_cells_2024
No full text<p>This page contains the code used to analyze behavior and voltage imaging data from <strong>Brown et al., 2024</strong>. Further questions can be sent to the corresponding author, Dr. Mark N. Wu ([email protected]).</p>
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