178,862 research outputs found
Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
Crystal morphology and surface reactivity studies of calcium hydroxide
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Calcium hydroxide samples, obtained as a precipitate from the mixing of solutions of sodium hydroxide with a variety of calcium salts in the optional presence of ethanol and a silylating agent, have been characterised by the techniques of nitrogen adsorption, water vapour adsorption , thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier-transform infra-red spectroscopy, ultra-violet spectroscopy and electron microscopy. The morphology of the samples varied from octahedral crystals to hexagonal prisms to sheets. The individual morphology depends on the conditions of precipitation, the nature and concentration of the calcium salt(s) and the nature of the precipitation medium. It has been shown that a large excess of sodium hydroxide results in octahedral forms, calcium salt(s) in approximate equimolar amount or in large excess to the sodium hydroxide results in hexagonal forms, and sheets are formed in the presence of ethanolic precipitation medium. A poisoning mechanism has been suggested in terms of the morphological properties of the samples. It has been found that the sheet forms of calcium hydroxide can be stabilised by reaction with a silylating agent, resulting in greater thermal stability and chemical stability of the surface. Silylation was found not to occur by direct contact between the precipitated calcium hydroxide samples and silylating agents. Silylation only occurred when precipitation was carried out in the presence of a solution of the silylating agent in absolute ethanol. The silylation of the surface of calcium hydroxide has been found to stabilise the material. Reaction of this with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane formed an intermediate which subsequently reacted with p-nitrobenzoyl chloride to form an inorganic - organic composite. The technique of thermogravimetric analysis has been employed to measure the thermal stability of the samples. It has been found that the samples exhibit major weight losses at around 688K for the non-silylated samples and around 918K for the silylated samples. The BETnitrogen and the BET-H20 surface areas of the samples range typically from --1 to 43 m2g-1 , and from 9 to 798 m2g-1 respectively. On the basis of this evidence, taken together with the isotherm shapes it has been shown that: the samples are non-porous; non-silylated calcium hydroxide samples are more hydrophobic than the silylated samples, but upon heat-treatment in air below the decomposition temperature the silylated samples became more hydrophobic, whereas the non-silylated samples became more hydrophilic; samples heated in air at above the decomposition temperature exhibit a dramatic increase in hydrophilicity, the H 20-BET surface areas becoming —800 m2g-1 for non silylated samples, compared to 368 - 600 m 2g-1 for silylated samples, indicative of chemisorption following decomposition of the calcium hydroxide to form calcium oxide
50 shades of black music: The mixtape
No full textA web-based digital media publication in collaboration with Carlton Mackey, founder of the community-engaged, art-based platform “50 Shades of Black” and graphic artist C. Flux Sing, created as a comprehensive curation of the history and diversity of Black music traditions
I teoremi di Schur-Horn e di Sing-Thompson
No full textIn questo lavoro ci occuperemo di dare una dimostrazione del Teorema di
Schur-Horn e del Teorema di Sing-Thompson. Per il primo Teorema seguiremo
la trattazione datane nel libro di Horn e Jhonson [3]. Per il secondo
Teorema utilizzeremo:
a) per la sufficienza nel caso 2 x 2 e per la necessita' nel caso n x n (tranne
l’ultima disuguagliaza) il lavoro di Sing [7];
b) per completare la necessita' nel caso n x n il lavoro di Thompson [8];
c) per la sufficienza nel caso n x n il lavoro di Chu [1], utilizzato anche per
una interpretazione geometrica del caso 2 x 2 reale.openCorso di Laurea in Matematic
Sing Sing, Holsworthy Internment Camp, Holsworthy, New South Wales, probably 1918 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Part of the collection: World War I Australian military images from overseas and within Australia, 1915-1919.; Inscriptions: "First part of general view of Sing Sing"--In pencil on reverse.; Condition: Yellowing, faded.; Sing Sing was a high security jail which was part of the Holsworthy Internment camp where the most troublesome prinsoners were housed.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6387606
The modification of activated carbon cloth by alumina deposition
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The impregnation of mesoporous carbon cloth with alumina has been studied. The most successful method of impregnation resulted from preparation of the alumina phase by a sol/gel route. This method involves a boehmite intermediate, and the heating environment for the thermal transition of boehmite to the final alumina was investigated. Heat treatment of the boehmite intermediate under flowing N2, flowing
air and vacuum was found to give a different pore size distribution for the final alumina than did still air heat treatment. For the former environments the transition from boehmite to alumina was not accompanied
by the usual increase in pore size. Alumina/carbon composites were made by dipping pieces of mesoporous carbon cloth in a boehmite sol. The distribution of boehmite about the carbon cloth was found to be improved by pre-wetting the carbon cloth and by the use of ultrasonic dispersion during boehmite impregnation. Dried boehmite/carbon composites, with loading levels of up to 180wt.%, were heated under vacuum to 5000 C. In this manner alumina/carbon composites of up to 60wt.% alumina were fabricated. The distribution of the alumina phase about the carbon cloth was investigated by electron microscopy and by gas adsorption techniques. Nitrogen isotherm data indicated that the mesopores of the carbon cloth were not blocked by the deposited alumina, rather the pore volume of the carbon cloth was increased by the clustering of porous alumina about the pore entrances of the carbon cloth. Water isotherms were determined for the composite materials. The water activity of the composite, particularly at low relative pressures, was found to be significantly greater than that of the carbon cloth as a result of the
presence of alumina. CO2 activity of the composites was investigated by a gas chromatographic technique. The CO2 activity of the composite material was found to be up to 500 times greater than that of virgin
carbon cloth.This study is funded by a research grant from ALCOA
Sing! Sing! Birds on the Wing
No full textFirst Line: I heard the nightingale singingFirst Line of Chorus: Sing, sing! Birds on the wingKey: C Majo
Sing, Kate, sing
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]Miss Katie O'Shane was a plain looking dame [first line]Sing, Kate, sing [first line of chorus]D [key]Waltz time [tempo]Popular song ; waltz [form/genre]Red parrot woman music notes [illustration]De Takacs [graphic artist]Publisher's advertisement on inside front and back cover [note
- …
