799 research outputs found
Home in the Holy Land. A tale illustrating customs and incidents in modern Jerusalem By MRS Finn. London James Nisbet and Co., 21 Berners street. M.D.CCC. L.XVI
No full textDedication: by the author to the Countess of GriffordContent description: TitleIllustration: 4 (portraits ,varia ,)Pagination: PP8+520PVolumes: 1Text Genre:ProseIllustration: 4 (πορτραίτα ,άλλα θέματα ,
The future of pornography - panel debate. Speakers | Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell
No full textMany believe that porn's dark fantasies risk corrupting relationships and society. Has this arisen because pornography is largely created by men? Could feminist pornography featuring authentic sex, diverse bodies and female perspectives offer a truly liberating alternative? Or is porn fundamentally incompatible with intimacy and a problem for all of us until its abolished? Feminist thinker Finn Mackay, author of Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl Brooke Magnanti, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling imagine the future of pornography.In association with the New College of the Humanities
Author response: critical condition: replacing critical thinking with creativity by Patrick Finn
No full textFollowing Jodie Matthews’s review of his new book Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity, author Patrick Finn offers a response to Matthews’s reflections on his work. Finn outlines his approach to writing Critical Condition: a text that is designed to serve as an accessible ‘thought experiment’ that speaks across disciplines in order to explore its object, ‘critical thinking’. For Finn, critical thinking is a concept that appears integral to academic practice, yet remains under-defined and in need of further elucidation. Critical Condition therefore seeks to inspire collective reflection on critical thinking and its relationship with creativity
Francis J. (Francis James) Finn memorial holy card
No full textFuneral prayer card for Francis J. (Francis James) Finn, 1859-1928. The front of the card contains a photograph of Father Finn and biographical information. The back of the card contains a prayer for the repose of his soul and a prayer from St. Ignatius. This card was made by an unknown publisher. Finn was an associate pastor of St. Xavier Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), a member of the board of trustees at Xavier University, (Cincinnati, Ohio), and the author of many books for adolescents.https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/jesuit_holy_cards/1019/thumbnail.jp
Solitude versus sharing : author-ity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
No full textThis essay will explore how Twain, as author, makes use of Huck as the “author” of his own life story to portray a child’s character and morality. In conjunction with this portrayal, it will also explore the literary techniques of narrative style pertaining to the unreliable first-person narrative and the use of the vernacular, as well as the construction of experience in a book that is narrated episodically. The themes of isolation versus community and authorship as discussed through John Donne’s epigraph contribute to an understanding of these formal aspects of Twain’s style in Huckleberry Finn. Just as its composition has been informed by various life sources and experiences, a reading of the book cannot simply be informed by one analysis, but by multiple perspectives. The essay will also briefly discuss the issue of cultural and context specificity involved in Huckspeech. In line with this issue, the narrative will be compared, in part, to Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street which also employs a culturally-bound child narrator similar to Huck. The comparisons with her work further inform Huckspeech as a blend of cultural and linguistic forms as both novels combine the literary and linguistic techniques of the child’s perspective, retrospective narration and the vernacular.Bachelor of Art
A Different Story - Seduction, Conquest, and Discovery
No full textIn 'A Different Story,' Finn Janning uses the Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad trilogy: 'The Seducer', 'The Conqueror', and 'The Discovery' as a fictional frame that organizes his as understanding, analyzing and critique of contemporary HRM and Leadership-Practices
progress report FY 2004-2005
No full textPI: Michael Qian, Oregon State University ; collaborators: Chad Finn, USDA-ARS HCRL, Jan-Marie Schroeder, Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Improving the usability and scalability of FINN, a DNN compiler for FPGAs
No full textFINN is a framework developed by Xilinx Research Labs that compiles Deep Neural Network software descriptions into fast and scalable dataflow architectures for inference acceleration on FPGAs. The dataflowarchitectures are network dependent, sized according to the user-defined throughput requirements, and constrained by available resources on the user-specified FPGA board. Synthesising large neural network designswith a high degree of configurability leads to large build times, spanning from hours to days, to build an entire network. Thus, the first objective of this thesis is to explore and propose a modified FINN accelerator construction methodology that can substantially reduce the build times. The main idea behind our proposal is to reduce the granularity of the architecture to reduce the size of synthesis jobs and to enable logic reuse within and across neural network layers. Using this method, up to 12× speedup in High-Level Synthesis times and up to 2× speedup in end-to-end build times of accelerator networks are achieved.The second limitation that this work addresses relates to the performance scalability of FINN generated architectures. There are two modes of parallelism in FINN that currently provide performance scaling in convolution operations. The first factor, which modifies the number of Processing Elements (PEs), parallelises along the input channels of a convolutional layer and the second factor, that modifies the number of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) lanes present in each PE, parallelises along the number of output channels ofthe convolution. Computations are currently not parallelisable across the non-depth dimensions of images, i.e., the side containing pixels of images that faces the viewer. This limitation can restrict the achievable performance for networks that contain layers with large image dimensions and shallow depth dimension. The second part of this work leverages the fine-grained construction methodology to augment FINN performance scaling. The proposed approach introduces a generic FINN modification that enables pixel-level parallelism,i.e., multiple output pixels of a convolutional layer can be processed simultaneously by performing Multiple Matrix Vector (MMV) multiplications at the same time. Using this generic method, MMV number of pixels can be processed simultaneously, an MMV times throughput increase can be obtained at the cost of less than MMV × additional resources
MILP optimering av BESS som multitjenestebatteri for en industribedrift Med utgangspunkt i Ny Plast i Aremark
No full textHovedspørsmålet i denne oppgaven er hvilke insentiver en bedrift har for å kjøpe og
installere en battericontainer (BESS) som et multi-tjenestebatteri, og hvordan batteri-
et bør drives og hvilke tjenester det også tilfører en BRP. For å kunne besvare denne
problemstillinger, ble det laget en MILP modell for å finne den optimale driften av en
BESS ved å maksimere profitt med å kombinere tilgjengelige tjenester. Tjenestene inklu-
derer implisitt fleksibilitet som lastflytting, reduksjon av effektopper og prisarbitrasje
i tillegg til eksplisitte fleksibilitetstjenester som deltakelse i FFR, FCR-N og mFRR.
Batteridegradering er ikke inkludert i oppgaven eller modellen.
Med utgangspunkt i bedriften Ny Plast i Aremark som har 190 kWP eak solcelleanlegg
og en BESS på 1,1 MWh / 1 MW har det blitt vist at besparelsene i strømregningen
kan være opp til omkring 450 000 - 1 000 000 kroner i året sammenlignet mot å ikke
gjøre noen tiltak. Dette er beregnet uten inkluderingen av kostnader til en aggregator.
Denne analysen viser at det alltid lønner seg å delta i FFR Profil. Inntektene fordeler
seg omtrent likt mellom implisitte og eksplisitte fleksibiltetstjenester. Fra BRP’en sin
side, ble det funnet at BESSen bør delta i balansemarkedene nærmere to tredjedeler av
tiden, som antyder attraktive markeder.The main question in this thesis is what incentives a company has to buy and install a
battery energy storage system (BESS) as a multi-service battery, and how the battery
should be operated, and what services it provides to a BRP. To answer these questions,
a MILP model was created to find the optimal operation of a BESS by maximizing
profit by combining available services. The services include implicit flexibility such as
load shifting, peak shaving and price arbitrage, in addition to explicit flexibility services
such as participation in FFR, FCR-N and mFRR. Battery degradation is not included
in this thesis or MILP model.
Based on the company Ny Plast in Aremark, which has a 190 kWP eak solar PV system
and a BESS of 1.1 MWh / 1 MW, it has been shown that the savings in electricity
bills can be up to around NOK 450,000 - 1,000,000 per year compared to not taking
any measures. This is calculated without the inclusion of costs to an aggregator. This
analysis shows that it always pays to participate in FFR Profile. Revenues are roughly
split equally between implicit and explicit demand response services. From the BRP’s
point of view, it was found that the BESS should participate in the balancing markets
close to two thirds of the time, which suggests attractive markets
The death of Finn mac Cumaill
No full textFinn mac Cumaill (Fionn Mac Cumhaill) has always been a popular figure in Gaelic tradition, coming to full prominence during the Early Modern period, as Fenian stories (tales of Finn and his fían, or fianna, known as fianaigecht in Old Irish and fiannaíocht in Modern Irish) become ever more popular in manuscript form. Despite the popularity that both Finn and the Finn Cycle have enjoyed in Gaelic literature, mentions of Finn's death are scant and tales recounting the event are even rarer. In the extant medieval Irish literature, the pinnacle of the corpus, Acallam na Senórach, not only holds the events in relative obscurity but its presentation of the circumstances of Finn's death may even be said to be conflicting. In looking at other tales in the fíanaigecht corpus, while we find a number of references to the fact than Finn dies, only a few depict his demise, namely Aided Finn and Tesmolta Cormaic ocus Aided Finn. To this short list of narratives detailing Finn's death and the events preceding it, we can add the tale designated 'The Chase of Síd na mBan Finn and the Death of Finn' (henceforth 'The Chase') preserved in a single manuscript, London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782. Although the tale breaks off with Finn still alive, albeit weary and bloodied and standing alone encircled by his adversaries, his death is a logical next element in the narrative, not least because there is repeated mention of a prophecy of his demise throughout the tale. This tale, which spans eight manuscript pages, seems to be the longest engagement with the idea of Finn's death in the medieval and Early Modern Irish corpora, yet has been the subject of very little scholarly investigation to date. This regrettable lacuna in scholarship on Fenian literature is the starting point for this thesis, which presents a three-pronged investigation of 'The Chase'.
Following a fuller introduction to the topic in Chapter 1, the history of the manuscript is examined afresh in Chapter 2 as new evidence, particularly from the works of the scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin, has shed new light on the manuscript's history and on the tale of 'The Chase'. This is then employed to examine the section of the manuscript in which 'The Chase' is to be found, a section consisting of four tales thought to be from the now lost manuscript, Cín Dromma Snechtai, and four fíanaigecht tales. It is investigated if the unit may be considered a deliberate anthology and whether thematic and/or other concerns motivated the unit's compilation.
Next, the study turns to the tale of 'The Chase' itself, examining its place within a continuum of traditions found in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish treatments of Finn's death. Based on my own linguistic work on 'The Chase', a semi-diplomatic edition of which is included as an appendix to this thesis, it is demonstrated in Chapter 3 that the author of 'The Chase' seems to have been aware of several accounts of Finn's death, either those which are now extant or sources akin to them, and sought to bring together many of the elements present in other accounts of Finn's death in a single tale, perhaps in what was intended to be a comprehensive death tale for Finn. The various elements of the tale which resonate with the event of or events leading up to Finn's death, however, have not merely been cobbled together. Rather it is illustrated that the composition skilfully treats of the themes of death, prophecy and youth versus age, making regular allusion to the audience's presumed knowledge of other tales of the Fenian corpus, while adhering to the norms of earlier written fíanaigecht literature, a trait not always found in Early Modern tales of the Finn Cycle.
The last study which forms part of this thesis, Chapter 4, arose from the recognition that although 'The Chase' appears to be the longest extant engagement with Finn's death, there exists no study that details what material on Finn's death has circulated in the modern period. This section provides a comprehensive overview of modern engagements with Finn's death in post-1650 manuscripts and folklore collections. All the modern accounts that I have found to date in which Finn's death is recounted or in which it is presumed that Finn is dead, which are usually mentions of Finn's grave, are therefore identified, presented, and where applicable, translated. While it becomes clear that no other engagement with Finn's demise across the eleven centuries during which his death excited the Gaelic imagination is as long or as complex as 'The Chase', common or notable motifs in the modern accounts are identified, and similarities between the different treatments of Finn's death in the modern narratives are discussed. It is shown that a small number of the motifs and events treated in the medieval accounts of Finn’s death and in 'The Chase' are also treated in the modern tales of his demise, thus indicating some thematic continuity between medieval and modern approaches to relating how Finn died. With this in mind, some further relationships between the modern accounts of Finn's death and other medieval and modern Fenian literature are explored
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