375 research outputs found
Consent form_John Manley
No full textThe hardcopy of this document can be found in Dr. Nagle's files at NYU.Copy of the signed consent form that certifies that the interview conducted with John Manley on 2007 can be published
The Manley Arts: Literary Blood
No full textDiscusses author feuds throughout history, including Hemingway’s brawl with Max Eastman and his biting criticism of the Fitzgeralds in A Moveable Feast
Semiconductor devices based on the carrier domain principle
No full textA programme of research has been carried out in order to investigate the viability of two novel types of bipolar semiconductor device based on the Carrier Domain principle: an analogue multiplier and a magnetometer. A carrier domain device consists of an elongated bipolar transistor within which emitter current injection is restricted to a small region, known as a domain. The domain can be moved in the device subject to an external signal, and so novel devices whose functions are directly governed by their geometry can be designed. The Carrier Domain principle and the basic design of the two devices investigated were suggested by B. Gilbert. Several different structures have been proposed for the implementation of the analogue multiplier. A series of computer programs has been developed by the author and used in a comparative study of these structures. Practical operation of a prototype carrier domain multiplier is described. The multiplication errors of the device have been measured, and the physical causes of these errors have been investigated. The prototype carrier domain multiplier has an X non-linearity of around 2% and a Y non-linearity of around 0.2% of full scale. A magnetic field sensor which utilizes the rotation of carrier domains in a circular semiconductor device subject to a magnetic field, has been made and operated-by the author. The device produces current pulses at a frequency proportional to the normal magnetic flux density for flux densities above a certain threshold level. The threshold effect has been investigated and shown to be due mainly to spatial variation of the pap transistor current gain. Other anomalous aspects of the device's operation, such as sensitivity to bias parameters and temperature, are described. The prototype device has a sensitivity of around 14KHz/tesla and operates down to 0.3 teals. An improved carrier domain magnetometer designed by the author is described. This device has a higher magnetic sensitivity (up to 200KHz/tesla) and operates down to approximately 0.1 tesla. The temperature sensitivity of the device's operation has been measured. A technique is described whereby small a.c. magnetic fields can be measured with the carrier domain magnetometer by using a steady magnetic field to bias the device above threshold.</p
Occupational mobility and living in deprived neighbourhoods : housing tenure differences in ‘neighbourhood effects’
No full textThis research was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects). The authors also acknowledge the Marie Curie programme under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant n. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most studies investigating such effects only identify correlations between individual outcomes and their residential environment and do not take into account that selection into neighbourhoods is a non-random mechanism. This paper investigates occupational mobility between 1991 and 2001 for those who were employed in Scotland in 1991 by using unique longitudinal data from Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). We add to the existing literature by investigating neighbourhood effects on occupational mobility separately for social renters, private renters and home owners. We find that ‘neighbourhood effects’ are strongest for home owners, which is an unexpected finding. We argue that the correlation between characteristics of the residential environment and occupational mobility can at least partially be explained by selection effects: homeowners with the least resources, who are least likely to experience upward mobility, are also most likely to sort into the most deprived neighbourhoods. Social housing tenants experience less selective sorting across neighbourhoods as other than market forces are responsible for the neighbourhood sorting mechanism.Peer reviewe
Regenerative sustainability and geodesign in Byron Shire
No full textByron Shire, NSW, Australia, aims to transition to zero emissions within ten years in five sectors - energy, buildings, transport, land use and waste. This study investigates the potential of Geodesign to effectively map the shire during this transition. A contextual study of the shire\u27s residential pockets is initiated using open source Geographic Information System (GIS) data and a typical case study site selected based on demographic information. CO2 equivalents from current electricity usage and offsets from renewable energy systems are added to the database and visualized in ArcGIS software. Site specific benchmarks are derived as the first step of developing a Regenerative Sustainability Design (RSD) strategy using Geodesign tools. The tenets of RS require each building to use systems that enhance overall ecosystem health by achieving positive outcomes for energy, waste, water, biodiversity, etc. ArcGIS is a system for designing built and natural environments in an integrated process. It enables evaluation of RSD alternatives against their impacts, collaborative decision making and community engagement (via apps, online surveys). Vector data can be directly quantified, multiple parameters accounted for and the onground situation presented to stakeholders in a legible and easy to understand format. Complex datasets can be quickly accessed and visualized in order to identify opportunities for positive contributions to the community. This work shows the value of Geodesign for community planning processes to drive positive change. ArcGIS can assist in holistic assessments to identify the most effective retrofit opportunities, monitor the transition to zero emissions over time and inform policy
The Windhover and Evening Hawk Shudder in Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Penn Warren
No full textThe author traces the philosophical and poetic similarities between Robert Penn Warren and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In doing so, he addresses the meditative process that Warren and Hopkins use in their work in order to demonstrate human connectedness to each other and nature in the form of what could be called a mystic unity. Integral to this meditative process is Hopkins’ idiosyncratic concepts of “inscape” and “instress,” which are defined and explored by the author while demonstrating how Warren’s work is in dialogue with these concepts, particularly in his 1968 collection of poems, Incarnations
Divine, Philosophical, and Existential dimension of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry
No full textThe research paper aims to exhibit and explore pious, philosophical, and existential aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ selected poems which remain an invaluable contribution to the shape and development of the Christian thought both for theologians and academic critics. The author of the article emphasizes that Hopkins’s challenging, highly ambitious and complex works, filled with spiritual anxiety, dualism and struggle between reason and sensuality, harmony and violence, happiness, and suffering, were mostly reject able by the Victorian audience and critics. Hopkins’s “model of the world” (Barańczak 1981), his depiction of tragic human existence and the presentation of two contradictory facets of God meet more the expectations of contemporary readers and are more appreciable by today’s thinkers, philosophers, and critics
Access to Information
No full textThe Chapter outlines the relevant provisions governing access to information concerning quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal products in the European Union. taking steps from the principle of transparency as enshrined in the treaty establishing the European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the author flags the constantly increasing demand for transparency and how the European institutions and the European regulators, namely the European Medicines Agency, has progressively moved from a reactive (i.e. upon receiving request for access to documents and information) to proactive disclosure of relevant information concerning medicinal products which they consider of public interest. An additional part of the paper is devoted to the criteria to be applied in order to strike the right balance between the demand for transparency and the need to protect commercial confidential information in order to mitigate the risk that leakage of confidential information may seriously undermine the proprietary rights of pharmaceutical industry. The new transparency principles set by the EU Regulation 536/2014 on clinical trials and administrative and judicial remedies are also tackle
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