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Samogitian author Neveravičius's issues of noble identity
No full textFabijonas Neveravičius (1900–1981) priskirtinas prie tų netipiškų mūsų kultūros asmenybių, kurių gyvenimas, kūryba leidžia plačiau suvokti XX amžiaus pirmoje pusėje vykusius istorinius procesus, kultūrinę situaciją ir idėjinio pasirinkimo galimybes politinių pervartų akivaizdoje. Žemaitijoje, Pužų dvare, gimęs rašytojas priklausė nelabai gausiam būriui Lietuvos bajorų, perėmusių lietuvių tautinio sąjūdžio idėjas ir aktyviai įsiliejusių į visuomeninį bei kultūrinį nepriklausomos Lietuvos gyvenimą. Šiame straipsnyje mėginama plačiau pažvelgti į Neveravičiaus bajoriškosios savimonės problemą, siekiant atskleisti jo turėtas vertybes. Ne mažiau svarbu parodyti, kaip bajoriškoji savimonė atsiskleidžia jo kūryboje, nepamirštant glaudžių jos ryšių su lenkų kultūra, kurios aplinkoje augo būsimasis rašytojas. Pagaliau, pagrindinis šio straipsnio tikslas – pasitelkus Neveravičiaus asmenybę parodyti bajoriškojo patriotizmo pavyzdį XX amžiuje. Neveravičiaus apsisprendimas skirti visas jėgas visuomeninei, rezistencinei veiklai, kurios išeivijoje jis ėmėsi su dideliu tikėjimu ir atsidavimu, nedavė trokštamų vaisių ir nepaliko tokio ryškaus pėdsako kaip jo atlikti grožinių kūrinių vertimai ir jo paties originalioji kūryba. Vertingiausią jos dalį sudaro šiame straipsnyje aptartieji istoriniai romanai, kuriuose rašytojas pamėgino grąžinti į lietuvių tautą bajorų luomą, parodyti jo nuopelnus Lietuvai, taip pat atkurti tautos gyvenimui būtiną istorinį tęstinumą, įtraukdamas į literatūros tradiciją ir istorinę atmintį XVIII amžiaus pabaigos – XIX amžiaus pirmos pusės laikotarpį. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Bajorija; Bajoriškoji tapatybė; Fabijonas Neveravičius; Lenkų ir lietuvių santykiai; Lietuvių istorinis romanas (XX a.); Patriotizmas; Fabijonas Neveravičius; Lithuanian historical novel (20th century); Nobility; Noble identity; Patriotism; Polish-Lithuanian relationsFabijonas Neveravičius's life, creation and philosophy allows deeper and wider understanding of historical processes that occurred in the first half of the 20th century in Lithuania, as well as of a cultural situation and possibilities for an ideological choice in view of political turnovers. Neveravičius working for the good of modern Lithuania had never retreated from his noble identity which mostly revealed itself in his historical novels. The article analyses the problem of Neveravičius's noble self-awareness in order to disclose his values, their origin and impact on his choices. The display of his noble self-awareness in his works has also been discussed. Therefore, the article mainly aims at showing an example of noble patriotism in the 20th century through Neveravičius's personalit
The Noble Limestone Member (Conemaugh Group, Pennsylvanian): New Occurences in Noble And Guernsey Counties, Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Sears Library, Case Western Reserve UniversityOriginally described from limited exposures in central Noble County, Ohio, the Noble Limestone Member (Congemaugh Group, Pennsylvanian) has recently been discovered at three additional localities in northern Noble County and eastern Guernsey County. The Noble Limestone Member overlies the fresh-water Ewing Limestone Member and occurs beneath the Rock Riffle Run Limestone Member, at a position about thirty feet below the Ames Limestone Member. Both lithology and fossil content serve to distinguish the limestone and shale of the Noble Limestone Member from that of other Conemaugh marine members. The Noble Limestone Member is now known to occur in an outcrop belt at least 25 miles long and is deserving of recognition as a formal rock-stratigraphic unit
Three-way Catalysis with Noble Metal-Substituted La(Fe,Co)O3 Perovskites - the Role of Noble and Base Metal Components
No full textLa(FexCo1-x)O3 perovskites with noble metals incorporated (Pd in different amounts, Pt, Rh; with Pd
at x = 1, 0.7, 0) were
prepared via the dry citrate method and examined with respect to their behavior in three-way
catalysis (lean and stoichiometric
model feeds containing CO, propene, NO, and O2) in the as-prepared state and after redox stress of
different severity (at
temperatures up 1173 K). Results were compared with data obtained with a commercial Pd-based
three-way catalyst.
Perovskites outperformed the reference in CO oxidation but were less active in propene oxidation
and NO reduction. While
their oxidation activity was rather stable, their NO reduction activity suffered severely from the
redox treatments unlike that of the
reference. It was concluded that oxidation and reduction reactions are catalyzed by different
sites. While the presence and the
nature of the noble metal were mostly irrelevant for oxidation reactions, in particular for CO
oxidation, NO reduction was
dominated by the contribution of the noble metal component. The inferior NO reduction activity
despite noble metal contents
of up to 2.5 wt% and the dominance of the perovskite surface in propene oxidation (compared with
high oxidation activity of Pd
in the reference catalyst) suggest that the metal component was not well exposed in the perovskite
catalysts
The Limits of Empathy and The Promise of Sex in Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe (Part 1)
No full textProfessor Noble\u27s teaching and research interests include American literature, culture studies, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on the construction of sexuality in nineteenth-century American women\u27s literature. She is the author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton UP 2000), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award. She has recently published articles on gothic and sentimental literature and is currently working on a book entitled Sympathy and the Quest for Genuine Human Contact In American Romanticism
Some Comments About the Noble Parliamentary Assemblies of the 18th Century
No full textAutor wiele lat badał sejmiki ziemskie. Zna liczne dokumenty sejmików i napisał na temat sejmików sporo prac. Aktualnie ukazały się dwa duże tomy dotyczące sejmików. Jeden to wydane drukiem dokumenty sejmikowe z XVIII w. Drugi to obszerna monografia sejmiku poznańskiego dotycząca lat 1764–1793. W związku z tym autor przekazuje swoje przemyślenia na temat sejmików XVIII w. Stwierdza, że generalnie przeważają prace o sejmikach dotyczące XVII stulecia i ewentualnie początków wieku XVIII. Był to bowiem okres największego znaczenia zgromadzeń ziemskich (sejmików). Okresowi lat 1764–1793 poświęcono mniej uwagi. Tym cenniejsze są przeto dwa wydane ostatnio tomy. Celem artykułu jest konfrontacja dawnych ustaleń autora z treścią obecnie wydanych dwóch tomów dotyczących sejmików XVIII w. W szczególności odnosi się to do monografii sejmiku poznańskiego z lat 1764–1793. Autor podkreślił, że do 1764 r. niewiele było aktów prawnych regulujących ustrój (organizację i funkcjonowanie) sejmików. Zmieniło się to w okresie licznych reform w latach 1764–1793. Autor podkreśla, że liberalizm i demokracja szlacheckiej Rzeczypospolitej realizowały się w znacznym stopniu poprzez zgromadzenia szlacheckie. Toteż sejmiki stanowią kluczowy problem badawczy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Autor zwraca uwagę, że to była nie tylko instytucja państwowa, ale też pewna idea polityczna. Sejmiki były ważnym fragmentem polskiej kultury politycznej.The author studied noble parliamentary assemblies for many years. He knows a lot of their documents and he wrote a lot of works on noble parliamentary assemblies. Currently, two large volumes on noble parliamentary assemblies have been published. One is printed noble parliamentary assemblies’ documents from 18th century. The other is a Poznan noble parliamentary assembly’s monograph concerning the years 1764–1793. In connection to this, the author shares his thoughts on 18th century noble parliamentary assemblies. The author states that in general there are more works on 17th and the beginning of 18th century noble parliamentary assemblies. This is because this was the period of the greatest importance of noble parliamentary assemblies. The years 1764–1793 received less attention. Therefore the two volumes published recently are even more valuable. The aim of the article is to confront the author’s former findings with the content of the two published volumes regarding the noble parliamentary assemblies of the 18th century; in particular, when it comes to the Poznan noble parliamentary assembly’s monograph concerning the years 1764–1793. The author emphasized that until year 1764 there existed not many legal acts regulating the organization and functioning of the assemblies. This changed in the period of numerous reforms between 1764 and 1793. The author points out that liberalism and noble democracy in the Republic (Rzeczpospolita) were mainly realized to a large extent through the noble assemblies. Therefore, the noble parliamentary assemblies are a key research problem of the old Republic. The author points out that it was not only a state institution, but also a political idea. The noble parliamentary assemblies were an important part of the Polish political culture
The poetics of being
No full textThe aim of The Poetics of Being is to inquire into how the apperception of the Being of beings is produced. We will recognize this production not primarily in philosophy, but in a medium accessible to us all, theatre. Although the Romantic tradition of literary criticism from Herder to Bloom has noted that Shakespeare produces an exceptional sense of what is [true], so much so that he is said to create the impression of nature or life, no one has so far attempted to show how precisely Shakespeare affects this experience. Contrary to T. S. Eliot, who is unable to discern any kind of poetics in Shakespeare's plays, we have discovered an insistent and consistent pattern of inadequation, a kind of mismatch. The thesis argues, that the predominant tropes of inadequation are falsity, dissimilarity, nothing, indefinition, elision and substitution. We shall show that these figures of inadequation are the universal means by which Shakespeare, almost imperceptibly, compels the spectator to infer the apperception of what is [true].
On the basis of these tropes of inadequation the thesis makes the fundamental philosophical claim that the cognition of Being through non-Being is a negative form of what Heidegger calls the ontological difference. We call this the negative ontological difference. The thesis demonstrates that with the exception of some Pre-Socratic thinkers, Plato in the Sophist, the work of Pseudo-Dionysius, and the writings of Derrida, the bulk of the tradition of Western philosophy has argued Being in terms of positivities. While the thesis does not question the possibility of realizing the ontological difference in a positive fashion, as does Heidegger's philosophy of unconcealment, the thesis claims that the negative ontological difference, or ontological contradiction, is the more forceful process by which we become aware of what is [true]
Complex systems modeling for supply and demand in health and social care
No full textThis paper introduces a major new cross-disciplinary research project that looks at the UK health and social care system, as part of an ambitious, broader initiative to apply methods from complexity science to a range of key global challenges. This particular project aims to develop new, integrated models for the supply and demand of both health and social care, in the context of the societal change brought about by migration, mobility and the ageing population. We discuss the background to the work, and the broad way in which we intend to leverage complexity science. This is made more specific with a brief discussion on existing demographic models, and some examples of model-building in progress. We conclude with a glimpse into the subtly difficult problems of fostering such innovative interdisciplinarity
The Living Sign. Reading Noble from a Biosemiotic Perspective
No full textThe author argues that the reductionist illusions of the Modern Synthesis, which Noble criticizes in his target article, are to a large extent resulting from a mere syntactical notion of biological information, neglecting the pragmatic and semantic dimension of information. Although the syntactical notion, introduced by Shannon, has been applied with much success in information theory and computer technologies, it is too narrow to understand biological reality. Biosemiotics can help to clarify the problems identified by Noble, and offers a more adequate biological information concept, which not only may help to overcome these problems in the life sciences, but may also serve to integrate natural-scientific and humanities approaches to life
Slab-derived halogens and noble gases illuminate closed system processes controlling volatile element transport into the mantle wedge
No full textHalogen and noble gas systematics are powerful tracers of volatile recycling in subduction zones. We present halogen and noble gas compositions of mantle peridotites containing H2O-rich fluid inclusions collected at volcanic fronts from two contrasting subduction zones (the Avacha volcano of Kamchatka arc and the Pinatubo volcano of Luzon arcs) and orogenic peridotites from a peridotite massif (the Horoman massif, Hokkaido, Japan) which represents an exhumed portion of the mantle wedge. The aims are to determine how volatiles are carried into the mantle wedge and how the subducted fluids modify halogen and noble gas compositions in the mantle. The halogen and noble gas signatures in the H2O-rich fluids are similar to those of marine sedimentary pore fluids and forearc and seafloor serpentinites. This suggests that marine pore fluids in deep-sea sediments are carried by serpentine and supplied to the mantle wedge, preserving their original halogen and noble gas compositions. We suggest that the sedimentary pore fluid-derived water is incorporated into serpentine through hydration in a closed system along faults at the outer rise of the oceanic, preserving Cl/H2O and 36Ar/H2O values of sedimentary pore fluids. Dehydration–hydration process within the oceanic lithospheric mantle maintains the closed system until the final stage of serpentine dehydration. The sedimentary pore fluid-like halogen and noble gas signatures in fluids released at the final stage of serpentine dehydration are preserved due to highly channelized flow, whereas the original Cl/H2O and 36Ar/H2O ratios are fractionated by the higher incompatibility of halogens and noble gases in hydrous minerals
Noble gas and carbon isotopic compositions of petit-spot lavas from southeast of Marcus Island
No full textWe measured noble gas isotopic compositions of quenched lavas sampled from seamounts, so-called petit-spot volcanoes, on the 160-million-year-old northwestern Pacific Plate. The samples He-3/He-4 and Ar-40/Ar-36 ratios were, respectively, 2.5-8.3 Ra and up to 1735, where Ra stands for atmospheric He-3/He-4, which are analogous to or lower than those of MORB. Considering narrow sampling regions, a secondary effect might be responsible for variation of the data. During ascent and subsequent cooling of magma in the oceanic lithosphere, chemical components in the magma will be assimilated with those in the lithosphere. Correlation between CO2/He-3 ratios and carbon isotopic ratios suggests that carbon was affected by the incorporation of seafloor carbonate. The same would be true of noble gases. The mixing of noble gases among a mantle source, an atmospheric component dissolved in seawater and a radiogenic component can explain the data distribution. No He-3/He-4 ratio exceeds the MORB-like value. The mantle source of the petit-spot magma was likely to have had a MORB-like He-3/He-4 ratio originally. The eruption of petit-spot magma shows a close relation with the bending of subducting oceanic plates. The MORB-like He-3/He-4 ratio supports the hypothesis that the petit-spot magma is derived from the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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