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The Faster Redder Road The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones
No full textEdited by Van Alst, this collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. The Faster Redder Roadfeatures excerpts from Jones’s novels—including The Last Final Girl, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Not for Nothing, and The Gospel of Z—and short stories, some never before published in book form. Examining Jones’s contributions to American literature as well as noir, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s introduction puts Jones on the literary map.
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. is an assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana and the former assistant dean and director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University. He is a chapter contributor in the work Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film. Stephen Graham Jones is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Colorado. He is the author of twenty-one books, including The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Ledfeather, The Gospel of Z, and Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. The honors his work has received include the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. He is the recipient of the Writers’ League of Texas Fellowship in Literature and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature
A Writer Speaks: An Interview with Lorenz Bell Graham
Get PDFMissionary, teacher, professor, strikebreaker, cook, waiter, and author are embodied in the national treasure interviewed here. Lorenz Graham received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater forty-seven years after receiving the B.A. degree. He is almost as old as the twentieth century in years of age and as young as a college freshman in spirit. Graham is a recognized giant as a writer of literature for young readers. His major works include South Town (Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1958), North Town (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965), Whose Town: (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969), Return to South Town? (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976), and John Brown: A Cry for Freedom (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1980). In the following interview Graham shares aspects of his life with those who share the dream of a better society
The DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
No full textThis article reviews and critiques the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (FSAD). An overview of how the diagnostic criteria for FSAD have evolved over previous editions of the DSM is presented and research on prevalence and etiology of FSAD is briefly reviewed. Problems with the essential feature of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis — “an inability to attain, or to maintain…an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement” — are identified. The significant overlap between “arousal” and “desire” disorders is highlighted. Finally, specific recommendations for revision of the criteria for DSM-V are made, including use of a polythetic approach to the diagnosis and the addition of duration and severity criteria
Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas
Get PDFNewing, A., Clarke, G.P. and Clarke, M. 2014. Exploring small area demand for grocery retailers in tourist areas. Tourism Economics, 20(2), pp.407-427This paper uses data from a major loyalty card scheme to draw insights about the characteristics of grocery expenditure by tourists. The authors explore the volume, value and composition of store based visitor expenditure using consumer data from the loyalty card scheme. They focus on grocery spending at selected stores in Cornwall, a popular tourist destination in South West England. Theloyalty card data provide a valuable source rarely available for academic investigations. The authors are able to analyse visitor spend by socio-economic and geodemographic characteristics, drawing a range of comparisons with residential demand from within the store catchment areas. They demonstrate that visitor grocery expenditure is complex and varies by store, destination and type of customer. The paper presents evidence to suggest that the current approaches used to estimate sales uplift and local-level economic impact from visitor demand are unable to account for the complexities of this form of expenditure. Based on these insights, the authors recommend that sophisticated modelling is employed to estimate the impact of visitor expenditure
The DSM diagnostic criteria for female orgasmic disorder
No full textThis is the post-print version of the article. The official published version can be found at the link below.This article reviews the DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD). Following an overview of the concept of female orgasm, research on the prevalence and associated features of FOD is briefly reviewed. Specific aspects of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for FOD are critically reviewed and key issues that should be considered for DSM-V are discussed. The DSM-IV-TR text on FOD focused on the physiological changes that may (or may not) accompany orgasm in women; one of the major recommendations here is that greater emphasis be given to the subjective aspects of the experience of orgasm. Additional specific recommendations are made for revision of diagnostic criteria, including the use of minimum severity and duration criteria, and better acknowledgment of the crucial role of relationship factors in FOD
Asexuality: Classification and characterization
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be obtaineed at the link below.The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test predictors of asexual identity. A convenience sample of 1,146 individuals (N = 41 self-identified asexual) completed online questionnaires assessing sexual history, sexual inhibition and excitation, sexual desire, and an open-response questionnaire concerning asexual identity. Asexuals reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate. Content analyses supported the idea that low sexual desire is the primary feature predicting asexual identity
Carbanion and enol intermediates in c-nitrosation and halogenation
Get PDFA kinetic study of the mtrosation of ethyl cyanoacetate, diethyl malonate and malononitrile, in acidic water/dioxan solution, by nitrous acid, at 25ºC, was under taken. Catalysis of this reaction was obtained by the addition of nucleophilic catalysts; chloride ion, bromide ion, thiocyanate ion and thiourea. The results were consistent with a mechanism where malononitrile reacted exclusively via the carbanion intermediate. Within the pH range used, pH 0∙7 to pH 3∙3, ethyl cyano acetate and diethyl malonate reacted either through a carbanion intermediate, at higher acidity, or an enol intermediate, at lower acidity. Values of the second order rate constant for the attack of the nitrosating species upon the carbanions were obtained. The carbanions of malononitrile and diethyl malonate reacted at the diffusion limit, in the presence of catalysts. Nitrosation of ethyl cyanoacetate, via its carbanion, showed an already established trend in the reactivity of the nitro sating species, NOSC(NH(_2))(_2) < NOSCN < NOBr < NOCl. A kinetic study of the nitrosation of malonic and methylmalonic acids, and of the iodination and bromination of these two acids as well as ethylmalonic and phenylmalonic acids, in aqueous acidic solutions, at 25ºC, was also undertaken. At high acidity nitrosation was shown to proceed via an enol intermediate and at lower acidities via a carbanion. Nitrosation of the intermediate was rate determining. Under certain conditions, in nitrosation, it was possible to make the enolisation rate limiting. lodination and bromination, by the halogen molecules, involved rate determining enol formation. lodination by triiodide ion involved rate determining iodination of the enol. Values of the enolisation rate constant, kg, were obtained for all four of the acid substrates, these were in reasonable agreement for the different electrophilic processes. Between pH 0 and pH 2 the results fitted an intramolecular acid catalysed enolisation mechanism. At higher pH values (2 to 4) the results fitted a change in mechanism to include, additionally, base catalysed enolisation and enol carboxylate formation pathways
Constrained control and estimation : and optimization approach / Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron, and José De Doná.
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An Argentine Child’s Wake, with Music and Dancing – As seen by Alfred Ébélot and R. B. Cunninghame Graham
No full textThe French engineer Alfred Ébélot in 1870s Argentina helped lay out a ditch 300-plus kilometres long across the grasslands – the pampa – of the huge Province of Buenos Aires. This was to hinder Indian raiders seeking to make off south with white captives and huge numbers of animals. Somewhere Ébélot witnessed a traditional child’s wake, accompanied by music and dancing. Graham, fluent Spanish speaker and expert horseman, was in the 1870s utterly captivated by the unfenced pampa and by its cow-herders, the gauchos. He too witnessed a child’s wake with music and dancing.
“El Velorio” (The Wake), the first of Ébélot’s vignettes in La Pampa (1890), describes such a child’s wake. In 1894 W. H. Hudson, the Argentine-born naturalist and author, recommended La Pampa to his friend Graham, advising him to switch his writing focus to short sketches based on his pampa experiences. In 1899, Graham’s “El Angelito” (The Little Angel) is a five-part description of a child’s wake very similar in design to Ébélot’s “El Velorio”. Ébélot, a positivist, is more critical than Graham of the commercialisation of the child’s wake tradition. Graham’s passion for the pampa and especially his ability to highlight compelling details give the literary edge to Graham’s sketch. Ébélot’s La Pampa proved a useful help to Graham in his rapid development in the late 1890s as a writer of literary sketches.
In 1870, two foreigners landed in Argentina for the first time – the Frenchman Alfred Ébélot and the Scotsman Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham. In different places each witnessed a traditional child’s wake accompanied by music and dancing. This article compares their experiences of Argentina and their literary interpretations of an intriguing piece of Hispano-Argentine folklore
Geodesic X-Ray Transform on Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation contains work of the author and joint work with C. Robin Graham concerning the geodesic X-ray transform in the setting of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. It is divided into three self contained chapters, each addressing a different question. The topic of the first chapter is the local injectivity of the X-ray transform, extending a result proved by Uhlmann and Vasy on compact manifolds with boundary. Assuming knowledge of the X-ray transform for geodesics contained in a small neighborhood of a boundary point we show local injectivity for asymptotically hyperbolic metrics even modulo O(\rho^5) in dimension 3 and higher. In the second chapter we construct examples of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics demonstrating that in the asymptotically hyperbolic setting absence of conjugate points does not suffice to exclude boundary conjugate points. The construction uses techniques developed by Gulliver and clarifies the definition of a simple asymptotically hyperbolic manifold, formulated by Graham, Guillarmou, Stefanov and Uhlmann. In the third chapter we show a stability estimate for the X-ray transform on simple asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds, extending to this setting the work of Stefanov and Uhlmann on simple compact manifolds with boundary
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