144 research outputs found
Devi, Vimala. Monsoon. Tradução Paul Melo e Castro. Introdução Jason Keith Fernandes. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull, 2019.
No full textMonsoon (2019) is an English translation of the short story book Monção (1963/2003) by the Goan Portuguese-speaking author, Vimala Devi, by the professor of Portuguese language literature Paul Melo e Castro (University of Glasgow). The book features an introduction written by Dr. Jason Keith Fernandes, a note on the translation by Melo e Castro and a glossary of terms in Concani, the official language of Goa, and in Portuguese, translated into English. For the literary value of the work and the quality of the translation, Monsoon appeared on The New York Times\u27 2019 Globetrotter List
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Session C9: Cle Elum Dam Fish Passage: Novel, Research Driven Designs to allow Downstream Passage for Juvenile Salmonids
No full textPresenting Author Bio: Jason Wagner, P.E. is the lead Civil and Hydraulic Designer for the Cle Elum Dam Fish Passage Facility Designs. In addition, he was the lead designer for the fish ladder system at Coleman National Fish Hatchery, the largest salmon hatchery on the west coast. He has designed numerous fish ladders, fish screens, fish barriers, as well as the juvenile fish passage facility at Cle Elum Dam. He works for the Bureau of Reclamation, in Denver, Colorado.Abstract: When Cle Elum Dam (Washington, USA) was constructed, a highly productive sockeye salmon fishery was lost. As part of the proposed Yakima Basin Integrated Plan, fish passage will be restored at this site. For the migrating adults, a trap and haul fish collection facility will be constructed. For downstream juvenile salmon passage, a selective level outlet works, helical fish slide, and outfall will be constructed. The juvenile passage features groundbreaking research; primarily that of the helical fish slide. The presentation will cover aspects of the history of the project, the research driven designs, and the final designs (to be completed in 2015). The presentation can include computational fluid dynamics videos, descriptions of the physical modeling, renderings of the 3D facilities, and suitability of this design for other locations
Sea Ice Observations at Wilkes, 1963
No full textProgress Code: completedObservations of the sea ice cover at Wilkes base in Autumn-Winter 1963. Includes water temperature, air temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, relative humidity, and general notes.<br/><br/>These documents have been scanned and are available for download from the provided URL. The download contains one file:<br/><br/>Glaciology Sea Ice Observations, Wilkes 1963.pd
Sastrugi Observations on Law Dome/Wilkes Land, 1963
No full textProgress Code: completedDetailed sastrugi observations (length, width, depth, orientation, etc) made on Law Dome and Wilkes Land as part of the traverse work done in 1963.<br/><br/>These data have been scanned and are available for download from the provided URL. The dataset download contains the following file:<br/><br/>Glaciology Sastrugi Observations Wilkes Land and Law Dome 1963.pd
S2 Pit and Strain Grid Measurements, 1962-1963
No full textProgress Code: completedMeasurements (and re-measurements) from the pit at the strain grid at S2, on Law Dome, in 1962 and 1963.<br/><br/>The hard copy of this document has been scanned and is available for download from the provided URL. The download contains one file:<br/><br/>Glaciology S2 Pit and Strain Grid Measurements 1962-1963.pd
The suspension of disbelief in videogames
Full text linkThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityThis thesis explores the ways in which suspension of disbelief works in digital games. Primarily concerned with how players relate imaginatively to the often major dissonance between gameplay and narrative in digital games, this thesis questions how the literate players of games reconcile these complex texts imaginatively. Proposing that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's concept of suspension of disbelief is a complicated process often cited rhetorically rather than given its theoretical due, this thesis aims to rehabilitate the term and turn it into a useful, sharpened tool for games studies. Digital games themselves are also seen to be an intense new realm of possibilities for the suspension of disbelief, and textual analysis of games which approach the fourth wall or the suspension of disbelief on their own terms helps to make this clear.
Beginning by defining the differences of games compared to other media, the thesis goes on to define suspension of disbelief in both its historical and modern contexts and see how it fits with games, isolating three key problems with uniting the concept with the medium. The three chapters which follow looked in more depth at the problems of the skilled reader, fundamental activity and dissonance through investigations into games’ textual construction, the mindsets they engender in players and their reformulation of the fourth wall. The final section looks at the conclusions working together to achieve the dual aims of proposing a new model for game reading which centres around a willed disavowal of presence on the part of the gamer combined with the gamer's taking up of a role offered by the game-text, and rehabilitating both the term and the concept of suspension of disbelief
Stratigraphy of Ice Cores Along Law Dome/Wilkes Land Traverse, 1963
No full textProgress Code: completedRecorded stratigraphy of ice cores taken along traverse over Law Dome and Wilkes Land in 1963. Includes details of method used, and notes on ice temperature, hardness, density and grain.<br/><br/>Some hand-written notes are included in the log. As best can be determined, here is an extract of those:<br/><br/>Stratigraphy<br/>1) The values and figures given with the accompanying log are sufficient to enable stratigraphy diagrams to be drawn.<br/>2) These were collected on the spring traverse in 1963 by observer K. Gleeson. Note, code number 250/sr refers to 250 miles passes sr along traverse route.<br/>3) Temperatures are given in degrees C.<br/>4) Hardness was carried out using the small penetrations (miniature spring loaded rammsondes you might say) included in the SIPRE fields kit. These values then will only give relative values which can be calibrated absolutely (if desired) by comparison with observation comments.<br/>5) Density is calculated by weighing sample taken with core sampler of volume 219.9 ccs. However, many density values could not be obtained because of the hardness bending the sampler.<br/>6) Grain structure comment "Type 8 grouped" refers to SIPRE reference card in SIPRE field kit.<br/>Note - temperature profile is also included here. Note: the linear (apparently) nature of the graph. This sounds a bit fishy, but looks very convincing.<br/><br/>The hard copy of this document has been scanned and is available for download from the provided URL. The download contains one file:<br/><br/>Glaciology Stratigraphy of Cores Along Law Dome-Wilkes Land Traverse, 1963.pd
The yagé aesthetic of William Burroughs: the publication and development of his work 1953-1965
No full textPhDMy concern in this thesis is to show that a reconstruction of the publishing history of
the work of William Burroughs offers a new, critical perspective on his experiments
with psychoactive substances and their connection to his developing practice.
I begin with an exploration of the publication of The Yage Letters (1963) and Naked
Lunch (1959), and reveal how the complexities of their publishing histories shaped
their critical reception. I examine the legal defence of Naked Lunch as it developed
from the Big Table Post Office hearing through to the 1965 Boston trial and
demonstrate the degree to which censorship came to define the published text. The
legal defence of Naked Lunch, as it was incorporated into the Grove publication,
emphasised the issue of opiate addiction. The way in which Burroughs’ 1953 letters to
Allen Ginsberg were reworked as The Yage Letters did much to conceal the
significance of yagé for Burroughs’ later work. Together, these publishing histories
have obscured the relationship between his use of psychoactive substances and his
evolving aesthetic.
At the same time many of Burroughs’ most experimental - and important - works
appeared only in small, ephemeral magazines. His adoption of avant-garde strategies
such as collaboration and collage and his dedication to multimedia experimentation
with the non-chemical alteration of consciousness made conventional book
publication problematic or unsuitable. These experiments in aesthetic production, I
argue, are central to our understanding of Burroughs. His main published writings
must be re-evaluated as one element in this collage of multimedia activities.
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I argue that Burroughs’ experiences with yagé, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine
exerted an influence on his shift to experimentalism in the early 1960s, which sought
to replicate the experience of these altered states of consciousness. That this is so is
evident from a study of two collections of correspondence - Burroughs’ letters to
Ginsberg held at Columbia University Library and his letters to Brion Gysin in the
William S. Burroughs Papers held at the New York Public Library. My reading of
these letters forms an important component of my argument, working to reveal what
the conventional ‘published’ Burroughs serves to conceal.Arts and Humanities research Board.
Queen Mary University of London English Department
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