183 research outputs found
Laurie Ramirez
No full text"Laurie Ramirez Alf Ramirez Jnr Beryl Ramirez Evelyn Ramirez evacuated 16.2.42 'Koolinda' Reine Ramirez evacuee Joe Ramirez Butcher Koolpinya Alf Ramirez Wharfie Addie Rogers Telegraph Officer Beatie Rogers evacuated"
Article about Beryl Bainbridge: Part 3
No full textArticle profiling 1973 Booker shortlisted author Beryl Bainbridg
The impact of projected greenhouse gas-induced climate change on the Australian wine industry
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2006 Dr. Leanne Beryl WebbThe IPCC Third Assessment report (IPCC 2001a) concludes that Australia has significant vulnerability to the changes in temperature and rainfall projected over the next decades to 100 years. Agriculture and natural resources were two of the key sectors identified as likely to be strongly affected. Climate change will add to the existing, substantial pressures on Australia’s grape and wine industry sector. Vineyards have a life of thirty plus years so right now, when selecting vineyard sites, or when managing existing vineyards, consideration of the changing climate is prudent. (For complete abstract open document
Live From Bangalore
No full textIn this article, the author, Beryl Graham, discusses her experience traveling in India while writing an article for a US magazine. She wrote this article while on a train traveling between Bangalore and Mumbai on a research trip to Delhi in December 2000. The article was then emailed to the editors from the Cyberia web cafe in Bangalore. The author uses three countries, United Kingdom, United States, and India, to compare the use of new media and the fact that they share divisions within their basic socio-economic structures which leads to similar access to ideas and facilities. However, the author acknowledges that artists in India will generally know more about artists working in the West than the West would know about artists based in India. For example, Graham discusses the work of Indian artist Vivan Sundaram who has been making video installations and site specific work for many years but is not as well recognized in the US. The article discusses educational, social and commercial ventures which symbolizes the differences in cultures by media and personal diaspora. For example, the Indian Directory of Electronic Art CD-ROM magazine was produced in Delhi with limited resources, but was able to be circulated worldwide through the Media Art Industry
Beryl Bainbridge and her novels
No full textBeryl Bainbridge is a successful contemporary novelist who has produced ten novels over the past fifteen years, and her writing career shows every sign of extending well into the future. -- This Thesis comprises an introduction to this prolific writer by presenting some biographical data which shed some light on the author, her interests, the way she regards her own work, the background of each of her novels, and her views on contemporary life. It examines the accomplishment of Bainbridge up to the present by providing a critical survey of her novels in order of publication. An attempt has been made to find themes and ideas consistent in her work and to show how she has developed. -- She is an empirical writer whose emotionally traumatic childhood had a seminal influence on her fiction which is evidenced in her tacit admiration for intensity of feeling. -- Under her father's influence, Bainbridge developed a reverence for the past - a preoccupation which is particularly apparent in her early novels where she patterned her fictional characters on memories of her own family and depicted the odd little incidents of family life in the Forties. Her strong nostalgia for the past includes place as she sensitively evokes her native Lancashire. -- Mr. Bainbridge also instilled in his daughter a deep awareness of the essential loneliness of man, an obsession which accounts for the recurrent themes of isolation, loss and departure so prominent in her work. -- Bainbridge recognizes imperfections. She acknowledges failure, ugliness, squalor and corruption as an inescapable part of life. In later novels she becomes more absorbed in the ills of contemporary society. Declining moral standards, increase in crime and violence, and disregard for law and order are the conditions under which hapless characters succumb to falling standards in spite of themselves. Seldom actively pursuing evil, they are contaminated by an evil world. -- She finds humanity varied, unpredictable, full of short-comings and all too vulnerable in a perplexing world. She repeatedly stresses the oddness and incomprehensibility of people and life. Her realistic concerns, original views, polished style and delightful humour make Beryl Bainbridge a fine novelist.Bibliography: leaves 237-24
Reproductive plasticity and the evolution of the insect societies
No full textA fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how novel traits arise. Eusociality represents an extreme form of social organization which has evolved independently a number of times across insects and is characterized especially in the Hymenoptera by a novel polyphenism between reproductive (queen) and non-reproductive (worker) castes. While a growing body of research continues to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of these castes, less is known about how castes evolved from solitary ancestors. In this dissertation, I leverage naturally-occurring social plasticity in two species of bees to shed light on potential mechanisms of caste evolution across social insects. In Chapter 1, I provide a detailed overview of the work contained within this dissertation. In Chapter 2, I develop a perspective on how ancestral behavioral plasticity may have facilitated the evolution of castes through genetic accommodation. In Chapter 3, I present a de novo transcriptome assembly for Megalopta genalis, a facultatively eusocial sweat bee that exhibits multiple social phenotypes within one population and may therefore represent a transition between solitary and social reproduction. I use this transcriptome in Chapter 4 to identify gene expression differences associated with social phenotypes of M. genalis, and compare these to genes involved in caste determination of other eusocial species as well as genes implicated in the evolution of eusociality through comparative studies of bees. In Chapter 5, I use a high-resolution behavioral tracking system to discover a previously undescribed form of colony organization in honey bees that occurs after a colony loses and is unable to replace its queen and some workers begin to lay eggs. Surprisingly similar to the social variation observed across nests of M. genalis, these colonies of honey bee workers display multiple levels of social plasticity, evoking transitional stages in eusocial evolution associated with the venerable Ovarian Ground Plan Hypothesis. Finally, in Chapter 6, I use transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analyses of bees in laying worker colonies to explore how changes in brain gene regulation may contribute to variation in colony social organization, with comparative analyses to place this variation in the broader context of caste evolution across social insect lineages.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Beryl Jones, accepted the attached license on 2019-03-10 at 12:12.The student, Beryl Jones, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-03-10 at 12:28.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-03-11 at 14:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13418 on 2019-08-22 at 16:20:16Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 7
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STEM performance and supply: assessing the evidence for education policy
No full textThe relationship between education policy and workforce policy has long been uneasy. It is widely believed in many quarters of American society that the U.S. education system is in decline and, what’s more, that it bears significant responsibility for a wide range of social ills, including stagnant wages, increasing inequality, high unemployment, and overall economic lethargy. However, as analyzed in this paper, the preponderance of evidence suggests that the U.S. education system has produced ample supplies of students to respond to STEM labor market demand. The “pipeline” of STEM-potential students is similarly strong and expanding.Peer reviewe
"Three tales" by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot : sounds, samples and representations
No full textThe article deals with a multimedia project by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot called Three Tales (2002). This unique collaboration is a three-part musical piece accompanied by visuals created with digital techniques. Each part is an individual story about the risks and dangers of technological progress. Their subjects are respectively, the famous Hindenburg disaster, atomic bomb experiments at the Bikini Atoll, and the cloning of Dolly, the sheep. The author of the article attempts to show how musical and visual elements of the piece correspond with each other, and how Reich uses this unique compositional technique. Three Tales goes beyond standard visualisation with video projection accompanying the music. Reich and Korot managed to create an "audio-visual opera" in which sonic and visual strategies are connected in a much deeper sense. The piece traces the development of audio-visual technologies in the 20th century, and shows how the relationship between reality, its representation, and finally simulation changes in time
Chatsworth Country Club Scrapbook - 06
No full textBooklet - Chatsworth Country Club History. A four page history written by Beryl Tovell for the 55th Anniversary celebrations, near Vermilion, AB (4 pages)199
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