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A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
Derek Walcott: A Shipwrecked Mind
No full textThe paper addresses Derek Walcott's Collected Poems, reading the persistence of images like harbors, islands, shipwrecks and sails as the poetic response that the author offers to the uncomfortable questions of cultural identity and language in the Caribbean archipelago, where the brutal experience of colonial enslavement has left a destiny of creolization behind
Building a consensus on 'national security' in Britain: terrorism, human rights & 'core values' - the Labour Government (a retrospective examination)
No full textTranslating reinforcer dimensions and behavioral economic demand to inform incentive delivery in organizational behavior management
No full textRecent research has effectively translated behavioral economic demand curve analyses for use with work-related behavior and workplace incentives (e.g., Henley, DiGennaro Reed, Reed, & Kaplan, 2016). The present experiments integrated a hypothetical and experiential demand preparation into a computerized task for use with Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers to evaluate the effects of parametric manipulations of reinforcer dimensions on performance using a behavioral economic demand framework. The first experiment examined the effects of three incentive magnitudes (0.10, and $0.20) on performance assessed with a progressive ratio schedule. Results indicate responding on the hypothetical and experiential demand assessments was sensitive to incentive magnitude, with higher responding in the higher incentive magnitude conditions. Participant responses on the hypothetical assessment were in general agreement with observed responding in the experiential assessment. The second experiment extended the methods of Experiment 1 to evaluate the effects of three parametric values of reinforcer probability (10%, 50%, and 90% probability of earning incentives). Responding was generally comparable for all three probability conditions. Experiment 3 evaluated the effects of three delays to incentive receipt (1, 14, and 28 days). Responding was higher in the condition in which incentives were delayed by 1 as compared to 28 days. Results of the current studies may inform the development of novel methods for measuring reinforcer efficacy in organizations
Tilting at Windmills : BLDSC and the UK Higher Education Community
No full textPurpose - To provide an overview of, the relationship between the British Library and higher education libraries in the 1990s, with particular relation to document supply. It also goes on to explore current developments in scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach - The author played a role in several of the events described and uses the available literature to enlarge on a personal view of that decade. Findings - The paper shows that the relationship was a strained one caused in part by a mismatch of resources, but is in any case dwarfed by the larger external forces and changing opportunities and technologies for scholarly communication. Originality/value - Provides a record of the period
Cooperation and Productivity in a Simulated Small Group Work Task
No full textIn the present experiments, I evaluated effects of antecedent- and consequent-based manipulations on cooperation and productivity in a novel group work task. Participants worked in three-person teams on a computer-based task where they could allocate time toward scoring points or assisting teammates. In both experiments, teams were assigned to a restricted (no communication allowed during trials) or unrestricted (communication allowed throughout the experiment) communication condition. In Experiment 1, two teams participated and completed the task in 180-s trials for one of three incentive types: (a) fixed incentive, delivered independent of performance; (b) individual incentive, delivered based on individual score; and (c) collective incentive, based on team total score and divided equally amongst teammates. Probability of incentive delivery also varied and was set to 10% or 100%. I conducted Experiment 2 in a similar manner with eight teams, the fixed and individual incentive types only, and incentive probability was always 100%. Cooperative response requirement also increased across six levels within each trial for both experiments. In Experiment 1, the team in the unrestricted condition engaged in more cooperative responses and was more productive than the team in the restricted condition. No main effects of incentive type manipulations were observed, potentially due to the multiple condition types. Results of Experiment 2 did not replicate the effect of the communication manipulation. However, participants engaged in fewer cooperative responses and were more productive in the individual incentive condition than in the fixed condition. Finally, demand curve analyses were used to evaluate responding across response requirements. Findings demonstrate the utility of the current methodology for examining variables that commonly affect workplace performance
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Fly With Me: Cell-ECM Interactions as Regulators of D. melanogaster Neuron Morphology
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/b822bff7-e740-437e-8eb5-6d0f73aae3d7/thumb/128.jpgThe extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a crucial role in guiding and transmitting developmental signals to cells, especially highly motile cells like neurons that grow intricate branched structures. Responsible for sequestering soluble ligands and sometimes playing a direct role in cellular signaling as ligands to growth factor receptors, ECM proteins are an important and dynamic part of cell signaling systems. Interactions between the ECM and diverse cell-surface receptors coordinate the cytoskeleton to enable cell-surface adhesion and migration. These are critical processes for every cell in your body, but are especially important to neuronal innervation in the compartments of the developing brain. The present research continues experiments with the Applewhite lab's *Drosophila* primary neuronal cell culture system to investigate the specific roles of the cellular adhesion factor syndecan. Cells are grown on a conventional *in vitro* substrate, ConA, and on purified ECM proteins. Prior research in the Applewhite lab has indicated a difference in cells' ability to form focal adhesions to these substrates consistent with what we know about the affinities of syndecan and integrins. *Drosophila* syndecan function is interrogated using transgenically expressed RNAi, and the effect of knockdown on neuron growth and morphology is examined by visualizing the cytoskeleton with TIRF microscopy. Syndecan was found to be necessary for maintaining adhesion and cell morphology for neurons grown on the ECM substrate, while knockdown had no effect on adhesion or morphology for cells grown on ConA and actually increased neurite growth. These results indicate a role for Syndecan in *Drosophila* neuronal cytoskeletal development and establish the need for further research into the mechanisms of FA formation in *Drosophila* neurons. The results corroborate that cells grown on ConA do so without engaging endogenous cell adhesion machinery
STAN4 : a hybrid planning strategy based on subproblem abstraction
No full textPlanning domains often feature subproblems such as route planning and resource handling. Using static domain analysis techniques, we have been able to identify certain commonly occurring subproblems within planning domains, making it possible to abstract these subproblems from the overall goals of the planner and deploy specialized technology to handle them in a way integrated with the broader planning activities. Using two such subsolvers our hybrid planner, stan4, participated successfully in the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS'00) planning competition
An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Therapeutic Horseback Riding on the Behavior of Children with Autism
No full textThe current study experimentally evaluated the effects of therapeutic horseback riding on the behavior of children with autism using a multiple baseline across participants design and a wait-list control group for comparison purposes. Participants were observed weekly in an after school program during four center-based activities and during therapeutic horseback riding lessons. They were also observed during home visit probes throughout the study. Self-report data as well as parent surveys were used to corroborate direct observation methods. Time-series results indicate that despite anecdotal parent reports of improvements, therapeutic horseback riding did not have an effect on affect, language, off-task behavior, compliance, or problem behavior; however, participants' posture did improve. The current study supports the claims that therapeutic horseback riding does not meet the criteria for evidence-based practices. Implications for this study within evidence-based practices, single-case design, and therapeutic horseback riding literature are provided, as well as directions for future research
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