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Pointon, R K, TX3573
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/411119Surname: POINTON. Given Name(s) or Initials: R K. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: TX3573. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 31561.226832
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Pointon, R B (Ronald Bruce), QX13094
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/411118Surname: POINTON. Given Name(s) or Initials: R B (RONALD BRUCE). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: QX13094. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 21529.226831
Item: [2016.0049.43384] "Pointon, R B (Ronald Bruce), QX13094
Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
No full textThe research for this book was commenced with a fellowship from the British Academy (1995). In that year the author gave the Haley Memorial Lecture at Princeton University on the subject of jewels; the following year she was awarded a Leverhulme fellowship. Subsequently Pointon was in receipt – specifically for the research for this book – of the following fellowship awards: Winterthur Research Institute, Delaware (1999); Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2004); Yale Center for British Art (2004); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2005). The final work was completed thanks to a senior fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2006). The Mellon Centre, for whom the book was published by Yale University Press, paid for illustrations. In 2009 the book won the single author post-c.1800 book prize of the Historians of British Art, a society affiliated to the College Art Association of America.
The appearance of this large format book with 371 mainly colour plates might easily seem to belie the depth and breadth of scholarship within its 471 pages, of which 38 are footnotes in small print. Pointon’s research for the first time establishes ‘jewels’ as a significant category through which cultural, economic, religious and aesthetic history can be mapped and evaluated. Drawing on primary sources textual and material in four European languages, Pointon opens up insights into the role of jewels in belief systems and cultural practices in France, England, Switzerland and Italy, with reference also to Germany and Flanders
‘‘Charming Little Brats’: Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Portraits of Children’ in Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), edited by Cassandra Albinson, Peter Funnell and Lucy Peltz, 55-83.
No full textThis chapter, published in 2010 by Yale University Press for the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is a contribution to a book that accompanied a major exhibition that was shown at both venues. The chapter builds on Pointon’s work on portraiture (and takes into new ground research on eighteenth-century child portraiture initiated by the author in ‘Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-century England’, 1993). Pointon was the only invited contributor (the three editors and other authors all being curators at the NPG and the YCBA). The book was awarded the 2012 book prize in the edited/ multi-authored category by the Historians of British Art, a society affiliated to the College Art Association of America
‘Material Manoeuvres: Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and the Power of Artefacts,’ Art History, 32:3 (June 2009), pp. 485-515.
No full textThis article focuses on artefacts that played an important part in the life of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough’: the jewels
she amassed, the Turkish tent that her husband the Duke of Marlborough had used on the battlefield, and a sculpture of Queen Anne
that she erected at Blenheim. While the life of this supremely powerful woman and her role in the construction of Blenheim Palace, has
been extensively explored by historians, nobody had hitherto paid any attention to her acquisition and deployment of things. Drawing on
a wide range of manuscript and contemporary sources from her own correspondence and contemporary biographies to caricature,
Pointon examines how an elite woman of immense wealth, but little formal education, strategically employed material things to exert
influence socially and politically. The author made a special journey to Berlin to see a surviving Turkish campaign tent.
The article situates Marlborough through her universally acknowledged achievements, and in relation to the difference between her and
others of her class and era who attained independent reputations as successful women. The article examines how material things
played a part in unconventional forms of communication and in the exercise of power. It is highly significant in that it bridges studies in
material culture, seventeenth-century British political history, and popular culture. This is a period and topic relatively neglected by
historians of British art. The research benefited from time spent in 2007 as Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art
and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT. It was first presented at the conference ‘Brilliant Women:
Gender, Intellect and Representation in Eighteenth-century Britain’, National Portrait Gallery, London (25-26.04.2008)
Searching for an Agile Approach to Methods and Methodology in the Mobile Arena
No full text"This paper describes an investigation into the synthesis of user information behavior models and technological models of mobile computing to provide a new approach to smart/mobile user testing. Smartphone take-up has exploded growing faster than any consumer technology in history. This technology has altered the way we communicate and has become a key source of information that has surpassed email as the core communication mechanism (Naughton, 2012). To design tests for mobile applications that are workable and useful to a Smartphone user there needs to be an appreciation of the many situations and contexts. Tests need to consider different technological configurations and environments, ignoring these factors could have serious implications on use and device interaction. It has been noted that many mobile testing practices ""lack the realism"" (Kjeldskov & Stage, 2004). With a field evolving rapidly researchers are developing new test methods and adapting existing ones to support these technological advancements. These methods need to be continually challenged to support the mobile development community."yesMade available in DSpace on 2014-02-25T19:32:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Quantifying the zone of influence of the impact roller
No full textRolling dynamic compaction (RDC) involves traversing the ground by means of a non-circular module consisting of 3, 4 or 5 sides. Over the last few decades, a number of studies have been carried out in an effort to quantify the effectiveness of RDC. In this study, the zone of influence of the 4-sided ‘impact roller’ was measured in a systematic fashion in the field by means of a series of earth pressure cells (EPCs) embedded in the ground, in situ density measurements and dynamic cone penetration tests. Measurements obtained from the field trial, which was conducted at an open-cut mine in South Australia, suggest that the depth of influence for which there is significant and quantifiable improvement with the roller is approximately 2.1 m below the ground surface and this corresponded to soil stress readings of between 150 and 200 kPa. Positive pressure readings due to RDC were also measured by the EPCs buried up to 3.85 m below the ground surface, indicating that the actual zone of influence (for which there is improvement) extends beyond this depth.M. B. Jaksa, B. T. Scott, N. L. Mentha, A. T. Symons, S. M. Pointon, P. T. Wrightson and E. Syamsuddi
Language, Truth, and Rhetoric
No full textThe words of Martin Heidegger are no example of the lowest form of wit. His sentence is meant to be interpreted in two important ways that utilize different meanings of the word truth. Our common understanding of the word truth is not something innate but a product of history and culture that stretches back through the Romans to the ancient Greeks. Alētheia in ancient Greek was translated to veritas in Latin. The translation included an interpretation--as all translations do (which is why translation is rhetorical in nature)--of alētheia as a Platonic entity. Alētheia was interpreted as something transcendent; something that remains constant no matter what culture, language, time, class, gender, race, etc., one comes from. Alētheia/veritas/truth is out there somewhere and we just need to find it. We often think of truth in this way. It\u27s at the heart of phrases like the moral of the story is, or the author\u27s message is, or what the novel is really about is, --as if we fully know the author\u27s intent and that the text contains one absolute point
POLARISATION OF THE S - PHASE OF SEISMOGRAMS
No full textIn earthquakes recorded at moderate distances it lias been ohservedthat S phase appears first as SII, folloived some 10 to 14 seconds laterby SV. The object of tliis paper is to try to decide ichether doublérefraction is likely to be the explanation of tliis jìlwnomenon.A simpie model to consider ivould be a « transversely isotropie »material, symmetrical about the radiai direction. Formulae for thevelocities of SII and SV waves are available; tliese velocities dependon the angle that the ray makes ivi t li the norma!. It is unlikely thatthe Eartli could be as markedly anisotropie as the minerai beryl, whichis transversely isotropie; aceordingly, this material, of ivhich the fi veclastic constants are knoivn is taken as an extreme example, andthe velocities of SH and SV for different angles of incidence are« scaled down » so as to match the velocity of distortional ivaves ingranite. It is then possible to calcitiate the difference in the timo takenby ivaves from one point of the surface of the Earth to anotlier pointon the surface according as the S wave in the surface layer is of SHor SV type
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