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Data for: Precise determination of Ar, Kr and Xe isotopic fractionation due to diffusion and dissolution in fresh water
No full textThis .zip file contains:-MS Excel spreadsheet with results of three sets of laboratory experiments carried out this study-MATLAB code and MS Word overview document for fitting observations to model for rapid-cooling experiments (RCEs) to determine kinetic isotopic fractionation factors
Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
In Alan Turing’s Name: Pardoning the Dead, Forgetting the Living
No full textThis special panel discussion brought together authorities on Alan Turing and the statutory pardon legislation intended to honour him. Leading academics, in conversation with those who have unsuccessfully petitioned to have offences disregarded, were joined by the Turing Bill’s author
Bernard Williams
No full textAn edited multi-author volume assessing the moral philosophy of the late British philosopher Bernard Williams. Contributors: Adrian Moore, John Skorupski, Alan Thomas, Robert B Louden, Michael Stocker, A. A. Long, Edward Crai
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
UVic ESCM Pre-industrial and LGM simulations of inert gases in global ocean
No full text<p>Model simulation results for:</p>
<p>Global Ocean Cooling of 2.3 ⁰C during the Last Glacial Maximum<br>A.M. Seltzer, P.W. Davidson, S.A. Shackleton, D.P. Nicholson, and S. Khatiwala</p>
<p>Freely available for public use. Please cite above publication.</p>
<p>Contents:<br>.mat files containing steady-state monthly climatologies for Ar, Kr, Xe, Ne, and N2 throughout global ocean. Concentrations in mol/kg.</p>
<p>.xlsx file containing processed model output and configuration details</p>
<p>30 experiments and corresponding files are included, described in Table S1 of publication. </p>
<p>File format is: </p>
<p>"A_Output" + Circulation/T/S type + Gas exchange parameterization + ice fields + winds</p>
<p>where Circulation/T/S type could be PIC or LGM, gas exchange can be either L13b1 or L13b2 (Liang et al., 2013) with original or doubled bubble fluxes, ice can be PIC, LGM, or LGMplus (equatorward extension by 1.8 deg latitude), and winds can be:</p>
<p>(nothing) = unchanged from PIC</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>05 through 15 = multiplied by scalar (0.5 through 1.5) for all latitudes poleward of 50 deg</p>
<p>Also included are climatological UVic ESCM potential temperature and salinity for PIC and LGM (files called "Theta..." or "Salt...")</p>
Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art
No full textThe book is the catalogue of the exhibition Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, which the author curated from the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Arts Council, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and private collections. The author provided three essays, 'The Geometry of Modern British Art', 'West Country Constructivism', and 'Abstract Art and the Decline of Modernism' to advance critical histories of three distinct moments of importance in the development of British abstract art. A fourth, edited by him, was by a research student under his supervision (Alan Fowler) and covered Systems Art and Constructionism
MATLAB code package for Noble Gas Paleotemperature Reconstruction
No full textInstructions for running MATLAB Noble Gas Temperature model:
Files needed (all in the same folder or added to MATLAB path):
-NGT_Database.xlsx: MS Excel database of groundwater noble gas records
-RunNGTModel.m: **use this script to run the model**
-NGsol.m: returns noble gas solubilities in water (Jenkins et al., 2019)
-CE_Model.m: implements Closed-system Equilibrium model (Aeschbach-Hertig et al., 2000)
-PR_Model.m: implements Partial Re-equilibration Equilibrium model (Stute et al., 1995)
-OD_Model.m: implements Oxygen Depletion model (Hall et al., 2005)
-readRecord.m: reads in selected record from MS Excel database
-NeHe_excess.m: calculates dissolved neon superaturation and radiogenic helium-4 excess
[Following two scripts available from Roberta Hamme's website: https://web.uvic.ca/~rhamme/download.html]
-vpress.m: (credit: Roberta Hamme) returns vapor pressure of water
-gas_diffusion.m: (credit: Roberta Hamme) returns noble gas diffusion coefficients in water
Overview:
1. Simply enter study number (1-32, per MS Excel database) into marked field in RunNGTModel.m and hit run!
Support:
Please email Alan Seltzer ([email protected]) with any questions, comments, or concerns.Please freely use this code package, but we'd appreciate it if you'd cite the associated publication:
Seltzer et al., 2021. Widespread six degrees Celsius cooling on land during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03467-
Observations on the music and life of pianist/composer Herbie Hancock
No full textAn analysis of Hancock's musical style, pianism and biographyM.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Alan SimonIncludes discograph
Interview with Alan Pisarski, January 2015
No full textThis document contains the content of an oral history interview and is part of a series of interviews conducted by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC). These interviews are personal, experiential, and interpretative, reflecting the memories and associations of individuals. All reasonable attempts are made to ensure accuracy, but statements should not be interpreted as facts endorsed by Rutgers University, the Edward J. Bloustein School, or VTC. The associated website also contains links to other resources, but does not endorse or guarantee their content
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