134 research outputs found
“Killing Mothers: Decadent Women in James’s Literary Tales”
No full textJames’s stories of writers have been mostly read in terms of male-male relations, whether in the form of an exclusive dedication to art (coded as a male profession) or of a homoaesthetic and homoerotic desire. Women are thus doubly rejected, both as objects of desire and as representatives of the bourgeois world that the artist needs to repudiate if he is to be true to his aesthetic calling.
This essay attempts to probe the function of women as characters and readers in the complex nexus created by aestheticism and homoeroticism. Through an analysis of the textual representation of the two women characters in “The Author of Beltraffio,” it attempts to show that James’s story represents women as in fact deeply involved in the aesthetic sphere on several levels. By self-awarely foregrounding the operation of women’s rejection from the world of art, the story undermines the dichotomous gender arrangement that regulates both the social and the aesthetic sphere
重鉱物による北九州諸炭田の地質学的研究
No full textSince 1955, the author has engaged in a study of heavy minerals in the sandstones from several Tertiary coal fields in northern Kyushu (Figure 1). Results of heavy mineral analyses have already been published in a series of papers (OHARA, J., 1955-1961c). The states of heavy mineral content, heavy mineral composition, and heavy mineral zone in the Paleogene formations in northern Kyushu are summarized in this paper, together with further descriptions of the volcanic activities and migration of the depositional basins in the area during Tertiary time. The total amount of heavy minerals in the sandstones is controlled by some factors such as granularity of sandstone, frequency number of authigenic minerals, sedimentary environments, kinds of source rock (either tuffaceous or not), and so on. Five types of heavy mineral composition and fourteen heavy mineral zones are recognized in the Tertiary formations in the area (Figures 4 and 7). One tyre (tyre A) of the heavy mineral composition, the heavy minerals of which can not be considered to be derived from the basement rocks of the coal fields in northern Kyushu, is widely distributed in the western and southwestern coal fields of the area (Figure 6). Most of the variations in these heavy mineral compositions are probably caused by the crustal movements which took place widely in several coal fields in northern Kyushu. Andesitic volcanisms inferred by the presence of tuffs and tuffites are conspicuous in Paleogene period
Phycocharax Rasbora, A New Genus And Species Of Brazilian Tetra (characiformes: Characidae) From Serra Do Cachimbo, Rio Tapajós Basin
No full textA new genus and species of characid fish is described from rio Braço Norte, a tributary of rio Teles Pires, Tapajós basin, Mato Groso, Brazil. The new taxa can be diagnosed from the remaining characids by a unique combination of characters that includes the presence of a single row of relatively compressed premaxillary teeth, large teeth with four to nine cusps on premaxillary and dentary, absence of pseudotympanum, incomplete lateral line with 7-13 pored scales, sexually-dimorphic males with distal margin of anal fin approximately straight, and presence of a nearly triangular and horizontally elongated blotch from the posterior half of the body to caudal peduncle. The most parsimonious phylogenetic hypothesis, using morphological data, recovered the new genus and species in a clade including Paracheirodon axelrodi and Hyphessobrycon elachys. © 2017 Ohara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.12
The reservation system in India's education, present and difficulties
No full textThe Protective Discrimination Policy has been implemented to decrease the gap between the different classes in India, where a stratification gap exists due to the deep rooted age-old caste system. The reservation system based on caste has been implemented in India since the era of colonization, and has been functioning as one of the important tools of Protective Discrimination Policy in India. The primary purpose of this reservation system is to secure the opportunity for backward classes in India, such as Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the legislative and parliamentary elections, public employment and public education, by reserving seats in proportion to the ratio of their class to the total population. The purpose of this paper is to address the present status and the difficulties of reservation system in education. Firstly, the paper will briefly look at the Protective Discrimination Policy and reservation system. Secondly, the author will look at the one of the most controversial issues of reservation system, reservation for OBCs. Finally, the author will discuss the present status and the difficulties of reservation system in Indian education
Organization of multisynaptic inputs to the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus: retrograde trans-synaptic tracing with rabies virus vector in the rat
No full textBehavioral, anatomical, and gene expression studies have shown functional dissociations between the dorsal and ventral hippocampus with regard to their involvement in spatial cognition, emotion, and stress. In this study we examined the difference of the multisynaptic inputs to the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus (DG) in the rat by using retrograde trans-synaptic tracing of recombinant rabies virus vectors. Three days after the vectors were injected into the dorsal or ventral DG, monosynaptic neuronal labeling was present in the entorhinal cortex, medial septum, diagonal band, and supramammillary nucleus, each of which is known to project to the DG directly. As in previous tracing studies, topographical patterns related to the dorsal and ventral DG were seen in these regions. Five days after infection, more of the neurons in these regions were labeled and labeled neurons were also seen in cortical and subcortical regions, including the piriform and medial prefrontal cortices, the endopiriform nucleus, the claustrum, the cortical amygdala, the medial raphe nucleus, the medial habenular nucleus, the interpeduncular nucleus, and the lateral septum. As in the monosynaptically labeled regions, a topographical distribution of labeled neurons was evident in most of these disynaptically labeled regions. These data indicate that the cortical and subcortical inputs to the dorsal and ventral DG are conveyed through parallel disynaptic pathways. This second-order input difference in the dorsal and ventral DG is likely to contribute to the functional differentiation of the hippocampus along the dorsoventral axis.© 2013 Ohara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Feature classification of heart rate variability depending on difficulty levels of a puzzle game
No full textÉtica, Escrita e Leitura da História: os problemas da expectativa e da confiança
No full textThe functioning of truth in a history text does not depend only on its episte-mological conditions, but also on an ethical relation between the historian and the reader. Paul Ricoeur proposed that such ethical relation is based upon a tacit reading pact, a contract in which the author ensures his reader that his narra-tive is “true”. On the other hand, Michel de Certeau has worked both with the internal functioning of the machinery that produces truth (the historiographical operation) and with the active character of the reading process. As such, I pro-pose that one should engage with this ethical relationship between author and reader, and that such engagement can benefit from a reflection on the categories of trust and expectation
Competing ground states of a Peierls-Hubbard nanotube
No full textMotivated by iodo platinum complexes assembled within a quadratic-prism lattice, [Pt(C2H8N2)(C10H8N2)I]4(NO3)8, we investigate the ground-state properties of a Peierls-Hubbard four-legged tube. Making a group-theoretical analysis, we systematically reveal a variety of valence arrangements, including half-metallic charge-density-wave states. Quantum and thermal phase competition is numerically demonstrated with particular emphasis on doping-induced successive insulator-to-metal transitions with conductivity increasing stepwise
(Urticaceae)
No full textLaportea bulbifera (Ulticaceae) is a monoecious plant that has a unique sexual expression: female flowers form on the upper part and male flowers on the lower part on an individual shoot. Therefore, for the seed reproduction, pollen needs to be transferred from the lower (male) to the upper (female) flowers. Our observations of male flowers confirmed that pollen was dispersed upward by explosive wind pollination. A male flower has five stamens, and when the petals are open, the stamens are caught in a pistillode. With the growth of the stamens, they are released from the pistillode and then straightened with a spring-like movement of the filament. At the same time, the anthers dehisce, and the pollen is dispersed. The explosive release of pollen from the anthers and light wind in the habitat (forest edge or gap) contributes to wind pollination in L. bulbifera
Temporal skewness of pollination success in the spring ephemeral Trillium camschatcense
No full textPhenological overlap with pollinators is crucial for reproductive success in insect-pollinated plants. In this study, we examined whether pollinator visitation successfully occurred during an entire flowering season in two populations of the insect-pollinated spring ephemeral Trillium camschatcense in the Tokachi region of Hokkaido, northern Japan. We bagged flowers and excluded pollinator visitation during either the first or the last half of the entire flowering season to compare pollination success between the two periods. The two populations have experienced differing levels of climate warming in the last 60 years, which impacted pollinator visitation. In the population experiencing temperature rise more rapidly, fertilization rate and seed set decreased sharply when bagged during the first half period, indicating that pollinator visitation is skewed to the early part of the flowering season. The temporal skewness of pollination success would be an early warning signal of the impacts of climate warming on the reproductive success of T. camschatcense
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