13 research outputs found
Self-made Sorcerer: the Modernization of Merlyn in Jack Whyte\u27s the Camuhod Chronicles
No full textWhen Geoffrey of Monmouth put his pen to paper to record the King Arthur legend as a part of his The History of the of Kings of Britain, he brought to life for the first time since the old Welsh Legends the character of Merlin. But Merlin\u27s development did not stop there. In version after version of the Arthurian legend he continued to appear, taking on many roles, from tutor to madman, but always maintaining an essential Merlin character of magic, wisdom, and power. One modern author who uses Merlin as a significant character in his re telling of the Arthurian story is Jack Whyte in his The Camulod Chronicles. It is no surprise that Whyte\u27s Merlyn differs from the Merlin of medieval texts, because Whyte intends to suggest to his audience the possibility of truth in his Arthurian tale, which means not placing as much weight on Merlyn as magical since that is not accepted as feasible today as it was by medieval audiences
A study of the differences in school achievement of September and February registrants enrolled in a first grade, 1954-1955, 1956
No full textLucy Guerin Inc returns to Malthouse, An intriguing exploration of a very 2010 phenomenon [Review]
No full textThe Theatre and Dance Platform holds a digital copy (PDF) of the archived clipping in the Lucy Guerin Inc collection.Review of the premiere season of Lucy Guerin's Human Interest Story at Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, VIC, 23 July 2010. Author unknown
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Decwar, Version 2.3 [Tops 10 port]
No full textA browser-based version of this game can be played at: http://malthus.dyndns.org:4040. Instructions for logon are as follows: 1) Hit enter a few times, 2) When greeted, type "log public". To enter the game, 1) Type "p [1,27]" and press enter, 2) Then type "run decwar" and press enter.
The same procedures can be followed through a telnet client, at malthus.dyndns.org 2020DECWAR 2.3 is a sophisticated real-time space battle game designed to be played by from 1 to 10 people on the DEC-10 model mainframe computer. Decwar was originally written at the University of Texas at Austin circa 1979-1980, primarily by Jeff Potter and Bob Hysick, and it originated from a game called WAR, which came from the CDC-6600/6400 system at UT-Austin, author unknown. The files represented here were ported by Merlyn Cousins from Harris Newman's Decwar 2.3 source code to a Simh/Tops 10 emulator environment. Newman's 2.3 version reflected changes made to the UT-developed Decwar, which were made so the game could be installed on a Compuserve (CIS) system, circa 1981.Dolph Briscoe Center for American Histor
Link dancer hits the main stage [Article]
No full textThe Theatre and Dance Platform holds a digital copy (PDF) of the archived newsletter in the Lucy Guerin Inc collection.Article on WAAPA graduate dancer Talitha Maslin, who performed in the premiere season of Lucy Guern's Human Interest Story, Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, VIC, 23 July 2010. Author unknown
The reproduction of the reactionary fascist and nationalist ideas in Venezuela
No full textTras realizar un recorrido por las raíces históricas del fascismo y del nacionalismo reaccionario que sustentaron las dos dictaduras vividas en Venezuela durante el siglo xx, el autor analiza el protagonismo de los medios de comunicación como vehículos de las ideas fascistas desde sus inicios en manos de la Iglesia Católica, hasta su participación en la consolidación de la ultraderecha y de los partidos extremistas que combaten al chavismo en la actualidad. Una de las primeras consideraciones del trabajo, aún en curso, es que la irrupción de corrientes políticas de pensamiento extremista, ha dejado en evidencia elementos de continuidad histórica como la diferenciación del otro a partir de la «clase», el «nivel social», el color de piel, el idioma o la cultura.After a review for the historical roots of the fascism the fascism and of the reactionary nationalism that sustained both dictatorships lived in Venezuela during the 20th century, the author analyzes the protagonism of the mass media as vehicles of the fascist ideas from his beginnings, in hands of the Catholic Church, up to his participation in the consolidation of the ultraright one and of the extremist parties that attack the chavismo at present. Some of the first considerations of this work, still in progress, is that the emergence of political currents of extremist thinking, has revealed elements of historical historical continuity and differentiation from the other based on the «class», «social level», skin color, language or cultura.Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Socia
LASER-INDUCED SINGLE VIBRONIC LEVEL FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA OF PROPYNAL VAPOR
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, U. of Arizona; Department of Physics, U. of Georgia; Department of Chemistry, Davidson CollegeSingle vibrational levels (SVLs) in the state of propynal vapor have been populated by tuned, pulsed laser excitation in room temperature ``bulb” experiment. Time-resolved fluorescence spectra for the origin level, five SVLs corresponding to a single quantum of one mode, and two combination SVLs have been recorded and assigned. Mode 4 has the greatest spectral activity and displays an anharmonicity of in the ground state. Spectral evidence supports the activity of all modes except mode 1. After mode 4, the most prominent vibrational modes in the origin spectrum are 9 and 12, which contrasts with the prominence of modes 5, 6 and 10 and relative unimportance of modes 9 and 12 in the absorption spectrum. As expected, it is found that the same transitions which occur in the origin spectrum are observed in all other spectra. The spectral structure in all spectra consists of (1) fundamentals or overtones of single modes, (2) fundamentals or overtones of single modes in combination with a progression member, or (3) fundamentals or overtones of two modes in combination with a progression member
TIME EVOLUTION OF SHORT-LIVED MOLECULAR SPECIES OBSERVED BY INTRACAVITY LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
No full textAuthor Institution: Laboratoire de Spectcometrie Physique Universite Scientifique et Medicale de Grenoble BP68 38042, Saint Martin d'Heres; Department of Chemistry, Davidson College, Davidson; Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University SyracuseWe report the feasibility of using CW intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy (ICLAS) as a probe in detecting transient species generated by pulsed laser photolysis. The method of detection uses a time-generated CW laser beam and time-resolved spectra which are delayed with respect to the photolysis pulse. Variable time delays and a constant generation time have been used to detect the time dependence of the absorbing species at times as short as a few microseconds. We applied the technique to the study of the time evolution of the formation of the free radical HCO generated by photolysis of gas-phase acetaldehyde at pressures down to tens of mtorr. We have also found that the ultimate sensitivity of the ICLAS technique is limited mainly by the mechanical stability of the cavity. M. Chenevier, M. A. Melieres, F. Stoeckel, to be published G. H. Atkinson, A. H. Laufer and M. J. Kurylo, J. Chem. Phys. 59 (1973) 350. G. H. Atkinson, T. M. Heimlich and M. W. Schuyler, J. Chem. Phys. 66 (1977 5005. A. J. Gill and G. H. Atkinson, Chem. Phys. Letters, 64 (1979) 426. R, J. Gill, W. D. Johnson and G. H. Atkinson, Chem. Phys. 58 (1981) 29
Deciphering Genetics Underlying Stable Anaerobic Germination in Rice: Phenotyping, QTL Identification, and Interaction Analysis
No full text© 2019, The Author(s). Anaerobic germination (AG) is an important trait for direct-seeded rice (DSR) to be successful. Rice usually has low germination under anaerobic conditions, which leads to a poor crop stand in DSR when rain occurs after seeding. The ability of rice to germinate under water reduces the risk of poor crop stand. Further, this allows the use of water as a method of weed control. The identification of the genetic factors leading to high anaerobic germination is required to develop improved DSR varieties. In the present study, two BC1F2:3 mapping families involving a common parent with anaerobic germination potential, Kalarata, an indica landrace, and two recurrent parents, NSIC Rc222 and NSIC Rc238, were used. Phenotyping was done under two environmental conditions and genotyping was carried out through the KASP SNP genotyping platform. A total of 185 and 189 individuals genotyped with 170 and 179 polymorphic SNPs were used for QTL analysis for the two populations, Kalarata/NSIC Rc238 and Kalarata/NSIC Rc222, respectively. A total of five QTLs on chromosomes 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 for survival (SUR) and four QTLs on chromosomes 1, 3 (two locations), and 7 for the trait seedling height (SH) across the populations and over the screening conditions were identified. Except for the QTLs on chromosomes 5 and 8, the parent with AG potential, Kalarata, contributed all the other QTLs. Among the five QTLs for SUR, the second-largest QTL (qSUR6–1) was novel for AG potential in rice, showing a stable expression in terms of genetic background and screening conditions explaining 11.96% to 16.01% of the phenotypic variation. The QTL for SH (qSH1–1) was also novel. Considering different genetic backgrounds and different screening conditions, the QTLs identified for the trait SUR explained phenotypic variation in the range of 57.60% to 73.09% while that for the trait SH ranged from 13.53% to 34.30%
Learning to fail : the tragedy of T.H White’s romance fantasy the once and future king
No full textWhen Cornelia Funke, best-selling author of teenage fantasy fiction, calls The Once and Future King (OFK) the “book of a lifetime”, she meant it in both senses of the phrase. To her, reading White’s novel was a unique and life-changing experience that planted the seeds for her eventual writing career. But she also paid homage to White’s depiction of the entire life story of King Arthur from his youth to his death. It is a “book that grows up” together with its main protagonist, beginning with youthful idealism and gradually maturing towards its tragic denouement (Lupeck 213). It is no secret that White based his fantasy on Thomas Malory’s Arthurian romance Le Morte d’Arthur, having written his bachelor’s thesis on it, but he was not interested in merely re-telling the Arthurian myth. In 1938, White wrote to a friend recounting his excitement, whilst re-reading Malory, at discovering that “(a) The thing was a perfect tragedy, with a beginning, a middle and an end implicit in the beginning and (b) the characters were real people with recognisable reactions which could be forecast” (White 86). However, those were not effectively achieved by Malory and so he set about “the task of interpreting Le Morte d’Arthur for the modern reader, particularly for the young and inexperienced reader who needed to be drawn in to what is still for many people at the present day an inaccessible work” (Brewer 18). This endeavour materialised in a five part volume of works, each depicting an important segment of King Arthur’s development, like the five acts of a Shakespearean tragedy. However, this was eventually published, due to post-war scarcity of resources, as a four-part volume. The last book, The Book of Merlyn, was left out, but not before White transferred key scenes into The Sword in the Stone, the first book of the volume, as well as others. White named his volume of works “The Once and Future King” after the inscription of Arthur’s tombstone in Malory’s compilation: ‘Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus’, which translates to ‘Here lies Arthur, the once and future king’. But while Malory’s work was a compilation of various Arthurian romances, White’s was an endeavour to “bridge the gap between medieval ways of thinking and our own” (Brewer 19).Bachelor of Art
