267 research outputs found
Words for Future Generations: Celebrating Alaska History and Study with Terrence and Dermot Cole
No full textPlease join us to celebrate The Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole, an eclectic collection of work created to honor Alaska's beloved public historian. Edited by Frank Soos and Mary Ehrlander and published by University of Alaska Press, the inspired collection of essays, authored by Terrence's students, colleagues and friends, highlight research spanning the humanities and social sciences. Included are essays by University of Alaska professors Stephen Haycox, Ross Coen, Sherry Simpson, Katherine Ringsmuth, Frank Soos and Lee Huskey. Terrence Cole is Emeritus Professor of History and Northern Studies, UAF, and the director of the UAF Office of Public History. He is author of numerous books and essays, including Banking on Alaska: A History of the National Bank of Alaska; The Cornerstone on College Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Alaska Fairbanks; Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp; Nome: City of the Golden Beaches; and Fighting for the 49th Star: C.W. Snedden and the Crusade for Alaska Statehood. Dermot Cole is a journalist and former columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He is author of several books, including North to the Future: The Alaska Story 1959-2009; Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds; Frank Barr: Alaskan Pioneer Bush Pilot and One-Man Airline. This event sponsored by UAA Campus Bookstore and Tundra Vision
An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior
No full textThis is the author-version of article published as: Brown, Terrence and Davidsson, Per and Wiklund, Johan (2001) An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior. Strategi
Variation and the evolutionary drivers of diversity in the genus Paranthropus
No full textCraniodental robusticity in Paranthropus has led many researchers to posit that all the species in this genus share a common adaptation to a diet of hard foods. Recent research on craniodental morphology, microwear, biomechanics, and isotopes, by contrast, has suggested that substantial variation exists within the genus Paranthropus, both in terms of ecological niches occupied by the three recognized species within the genus and the amount of consumed hard and compliant foods. Rather than pointing to a common adaptive suite, these studies suggest that the species were adaptively distinct from each other. However, current approaches to understanding craniodental morphology do not present a clear picture of how these speciesspecific adaptations differ. It is also not clear whether all aspects of morphology that have been attributed to adaptation are indeed adaptive, rather than the products of non-adaptive processes. This study examines variation across the three known Paranthropus taxa (P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus; N=39) using an approach that tests for adaptive morphology against a null hypothesis of random change (i.e. drift). Extant species (Homo sapiens (N=150), Gorilla gorilla (N=150), Pan troglodytes (N=143) act as analogues for Paranthropus variance/covariance (V/CV). Results reveal a high magnitude of variation within and between species across mandibular and cranial regions, especially when including the P. robustus individuals DNH 7 & 8 from Drimolen. Drift cannot be rejected for the bulk of comparisons. Neutrality tests detect adaptive divergence between P. robustus and the other two species, but not between P. aethiopicus and P. boisei. Reconstructed selection vectors indicate that both positive and negative directional selection have driven diversification in mandibular and tooth dimensions and in the cranium, resulting in variable morphological responses including considerable evidence for correlated selection
Machine made: Irish America, Tammany Hall, and the creation of modern New York politics
No full textAlthough Tammany Hall was founded as a social club just after the American Revolution, it exists in memory as the quintessential American political machine, run by and for Irish-American political operatives more concerned with power than ideas. This dissertation seeks to re-interpret Tammany in the context of a transatlantic Irish experience of hunger, dislocation, and alienation. Irish immigrants brought with them distinct political narratives which were incorporated into Tammany Hall’s pragmatic but progressive ideology during the first quarter of the 20th Century. These political narratives, centered on the experience of powerlessness and oppression in Ireland and inextricably linked to Catholicism, led Irish immigrants to regard reformers in New York as American versions of their traditional enemies, the well-born Anglo-Protestant. The Irish arrived in New York with an understanding of the power of mass politics thanks to Daniel O’Connell’s campaign for Catholic Emancipation in the 1820s. Few studies of Tammany Hall attempt to link O’Connell’s mobilization of the Irish peasantry to Tammany’s ability to turn out the vote, especially after the Famine exodus of 1845-52. Likewise, the critical role of John Hughes, the first Catholic archbishop of New York and a native of Ireland, remains outside the story of Irish-American politics, despite the key role he played in organizing the Irish vote behind transatlantic grievances. This dissertation seeks to show how a particularly Irish experience in both Ireland and New York helped to mobilize a new kind of politics which emphasized cultural pluralism, populist rhetoric, and practical solutions to social injustice. A child of a Famine immigrant, Charles Francis Murphy, transformed Tammany into a force for social change during the Progressive Era. Murphy’s forgotten role in nurturing politicians such as Alfred E. Smith and Robert Wagner has been forgotten, but this dissertation will show that his embrace of change helped set the stage for the rise of Franklin Roosevelt and the implementation of the New Deal.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Terrence Golwa
Signed, Bilal Khayr, Your Respectful Slave: Letters from a Family Archive
No full textTerrence Walz has extensively researched the history of slavery in the Middle East. He is the author of The Trade between Egypt and Bilad As-Sudan (IFAO, 1978) as well as co-editor, with Kenneth Cuno, of Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Ninteenth Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean (AUC Press, 2010) as well as the author of numerous articles on the history of slavery. In this Qahwa and Kalam talk he will discuss several letters purportedly written by slaves and found in a private family archive in Egypt, which he is currently studying
"Ut pictura movens poesis": Análisis transversal de la obra de Bill Viola y Terrence Malick
No full textThe work of the video artist Bill Viola and the film director Terrence Malick has not been interrelated thus far. But this research will prove that the significant parallelisms about the poetic treatment of the image, the conceptual basis and the philosophical background are not the result of a mere coincidence. Worries about topics conforming both author?s worlds of fantasy, as well as audiovisual sources, are in both cases entirely similar
Análisis de la pélicula El árbol de la vida, de Terrence Malick (2011)
No full textEl árbol de la vida es el quinto largometraje del director estadounidense Terrence Malick, estrenada en Cannes 2011. En este trabajo se analiza el carácter trascendente del film y su relación con el autor francés Robert Bresson, con el que comparte toda una serie de inquietudes y estilo. Además, se revisa la película desde una óptica cristiana, donde Malick nos muestra el origen del universo y el más allá, a la par que las relaciones interfamiliares de una familia tejana en los años 50. Asimismo, el film es una mirada íntima y catártica a la infancia y origen del propio director. De vocación poética, la película se sirve de una serie de recursos formales para conseguir su singular estética, en los que cabría destacar: la iluminación de Emmanuel Lubezki, el diseño de producción de Jack Fisk y el simbólico uso de la música unido a un preciso montaje. Palabras clave: Terrence Malick, El árbol de la vida, película, trascendente, poética.AbstractThe Tree of Life is the fifth feature film by the American director Terrence Malick, which was premiered at Cannes 2011. This work analyzes the transcendent nature of the film and the relationship between Malick and the French author Robert Bresson, with whom he shares a whole series of concerns and style. In addition, the film is reviewed from a Christian perspective, where Malick shows us the origin of the universe and the afterlife, as well as the inter-family relationships of a Texas family in the 1950s. Likewise, the film is an intimate and cathartic look to the childhood and origin of the director himself. With a poetic vocation, the film uses a series of formal resources to achieve its singular aesthetic, in which it is worth highlighting: the lighting by Emmanuel Lubezki, the production design by Jack Fisk and the symbolic use of music combined with a precise montage.Keywords: Terrence Malick, The tree of life, film, transcendent, poetic.<br /
Integrating high-precision U-Pb geochronologic data with dynamic models of earth processes
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2012.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references.Radioisotopic dating can provide critical constraints for understanding the rates of tectonic, dynamic and biologic processes operating on our planet. Improving the interpretation and implementation of geochronologic data by coupling it with numerical modeling studies is the central theme of this thesis. Each chapter works to address a variety of problems in the Earth sciences. In each study, the interpretation of geochronologic data is aided with a numerical model that simulates the long-term behavior and/or initial conditions of the U-Pb system and provides an effective means of exploring the parameters that influence a calculated date. The record provided by geochronologic data is then coupled with models to quantitatively determine rates of geologic process on Earth. This approach permits geochronologic data to move beyond just establishing a relative time line of events. Using this dual modeling approach, Chapters 2-5 work to measure the long-term cooling and erosion rate of the lithosphere, specifically constraining the time scales and rate of transition between the stages of mountain belt formation and stability. Chapter six works to constrain the timing and duration of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province flood basalt volcanism and its relationship to the end Triassic mass extinction. The seventh and final chapter uses high precision U-Pb geochronology to evaluate the reliability of an Ar-Ar standard often used as a fluence monitor. The overall focus of this thesis has been to push the envelope of geochronologic precision and accuracy while coupling the data with modeling studies to yield new insight into Earth systems.by Terrence Blackburn.Ph.D
A Comparative Radiographic Investigation of Facial Projection in Anthropoid Primates
No full textabstract: Facial projection--i.e., the position of the upper face relative to the anterior cranial fossa--is an important component of craniofacial architecture in primates. Study of its variation is therefore important to understanding the bases of primate craniofacial form. Such research is relevant to studies of human evolution because the condition in
Homo sapiens--in which facial projection is highly reduced, with the facial skeleton located primarily inferior (rather than anterior) to the braincase--is derived vis-à-vis other primates species, including others in the genus Homo. Previous research suggested that variation in facial projection is explained by: (1) cranial base angulation; (2) upper
facial length; (3) anterior cranial base length; (4) anterior sphenoid length; and/or (5) anterior middle cranial fossa length. However, previous research was based on taxonomically narrow samples and relatively small sample sizes, and comparative data on facial projection in anthropoid primates, with which these observations could be
contextualized, do not currently exist.
This dissertation fills this gap in knowledge. Specifically, data corresponding to the hypotheses listed above were collected from radiographs from a sample of anthropoid primates (N = 37 species; 756 specimens) . These data were subjected to phylogenetically-controlled multiple regression analyses. In addition, multivariate and univariate models were statistically compared, and the position of Homo sapiens relative to univariate and multivariate regression models was evaluated.
The results suggest that upper facial length, anterior cranial base length, and, to a lesser extent, cranial base angle are the most important predictors of facial projection. Homo sapiens conforms to the patterns found in anthropoid primates, suggesting that these same factors explain the condition in this species. However, a consideration of the
evidence from the fossil record in the context of these findings suggests that upper facial length is the most likely cause of the extremely low degree of facial projection in Homo sapiens. These results downplay the role of the brain in shaping the form of the human cranium. Instead, these results suggest that reduction in facial skeleton size--which may
be due to changes in diet--may be more important than previously suggested.Doctoral Dissertation Anthropology 201
Is Central Asia the eastern outpost of the Neandertal range? A reassessment of the Teshik-Tash child
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