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Jack Alive / Martin Dead : The Location of the "Author" in Jack London\u27s Martin Eden
No full textThis essay is an attempt to read Martin Eden, Jack Londonʼs autobiographical novel, in terms of the inextricable relationship between the author and the protagonist. Critics have often taken the unbalanced plot and the lack of ironic distance between narrator and character in Martin Eden as the technical weakness of London, but this paper argues that the achievement of this novel owes a great deal to the attachment of London to Martin. The unbalanced structure is a necessary product of the severe struggle of the author to kill his romantic alter ego. // Martin, who aspires to win Ruth Morse, tries to cross class boundaries by making a career of a writer. Even after realizing the emptiness of Ruth, who turns out to be nothing but a typical figure of the bourgeoisie, he somehow persists in loving her. The notion underlying here is that, for Martin, love, career and art are fundamentally inseparable. He objects to the aestheteʼs view of Brissenden on account of his separation of art from career. Martinʼs identity and life consist only in the triunity of love/career/art; the alternative is the repudiation of life. Thus, the unnatural delay of his disappointment in love can be regarded as Londonʼs strategy to set the suicide of Martin as the necessary consequence of the story. // By finishing the story and killing Martin, London finally detaches himself from Martin, reconstructs his self, and, unlike Martin, survives as a professional writer. In this sense, Martin Eden is a story about “writerʼs self-reconstruction.
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Letter from Martin Chizzick
No full textCongratulations to Duane Pearsall for receiving the Enterpreneur of the Year award; note on the letter was written by Pearsall and it mentions that Martin, the author of the letter, died in a airplane accident
Robert Martin Tiffin's Mystery Man Newspaper Articles
No full textAdvertiser-Tribune newspaper clippings featuring a story about Robert Martin (written by Nancy Kleinhenz), a local author from Tiffin (Ohio) who wrote under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts, and two of his short stories. Martin wrote mystery novels in his spare time, creating more than 22 mystery novels. For more information about Robert Martin and a list of books go to http://www.mysteryfile.com/RMartin/JBennett.html
Molten Carbonate Electrolyte Based Thermocell for High Temperature Waste Heat Recovery
No full textIndustrial processes for the production of metals and alloys by metallurgical and electrochemical methods generate a lot of waste heat due to irreversible losses. This waste heat could be used as a power source to produce electricity. An inexpensive molten carbonate electrolyte based thermocell demonstrated the possibility to use this waste heat as a power source. A thermocell is an electrochemical cell with two symmetrical electrodes placed in an electrolyte solution, but a difference in temperature is established between the electrodes. The temperature difference creates a potential difference between the electrodes by ion migration in the electrolyte, and electrical energy may be generated. The ion-conducting molten carbonate electrolyte with two symmetrical gas (CO2|O2) electrodes in the thermocell delivers a high Seebeck coefficient (~ -1 mV/K). It shows the advantage to harvest industrial waste heat at high temperatures and utilize the available CO2 rich off-gases from metal producing industries. In this thesis, the molten carbonate thermocell components were further optimized to enhance the Seebeck coefficient and power conversion efficiency, which was not studied systematically before.
First, the flow rate of the gas supply to the electrodes and content of solid oxide in the molten electrolyte mixture were optimized. The dispersion of solid oxide in the molten carbonate was found to reduce the heat flux and enhance the conditions for thermoelectric conversion. The change in Seebeck coefficient was reported for various ratios of eutectic (Li,Na)2CO3 and dispersed solid oxide MgO and for varying gas (CO2|O2) flow rates to the electrode/electrolyte interfaces.
The surface charge of the dispersed solid oxide plays a crucial role in thermocell behavior. So, the change in electrical and thermal conductivities of the electrolyte mixtures dispersed with a different surface area of MgO were measured. AC impedance spectroscopy technique was used to measure the electrical conductivity (σ) of the electrolyte mixture at 550 °C by constructing a conductivity cell with capillary electrodes. A simple heat flux DSC was used to measure the thermal conductivity (λ) of molten electrolyte with solid oxide mixture for the first time. The determined thermal and electrical conductivities and thermocell Seebeck coefficient (-1.7 mV/K) were used to estimate the figure of merit. The electrolyte mixture dispersion with a larger surface area of solid MgO provides a better (σ/λ) ratio and enhanced figure of merit (ZT) of 1.1. The ZT was comparable to the semiconductor thermoelectric materials.
The thermocell performance was also investigated with various selected solid oxides dispersed in the electrolyte mixture. The thermal and chemical stability of the dispersed solid oxides and the electrolyte mixtures were systematically analyzed. The solid oxides of Al2O3 and LiAlO2 showed a significant chemical reactivity to the carbonate melt compared to MgO and CeO2, and subsequent changes on the thermocell Seebeck coefficient was experienced. The electrolyte containing the MgO and LiAlO2 gave a Seebeck coefficient of -1.8 mV/K at Soret equilibrium (after 100 h), which are -1.6 (MgO) and -0.9 (LiAlO2) mV/K at initial time. Thus, the solid MgO with larger surface area offered the better conditions for the thermoelectric conversion and high chemical stability.
The thermo-physical and physicochemical properties of the electrolyte mixture may be tuned to reduce the liquidus temperature to ~ 400 °C in order to operate the molten carbonate thermocells below 500 °C (liquidus temperature of (Li,Na)2CO3). The multi-component (ternary and quaternary) carbonates mixtures were studied to achieve a low liquidus temperature, by mixing the molten (K and Ca) carbonate and LiF additives into binary (Li,Na)2CO3. Still, the Seebeck coefficient of the thermocells remains larger (-1.5 mV/K) for the multi-component carbonates electrolyte mixture.
In the above-mentioned preliminary experiments, a metallic gold was used as the current collector for the gas (CO2|O2) electrodes to avoid the formation of interference oxide layers during operation. Finally, for further reduction in energy generation cost, an inexpensive and stable alternative metal current collector was identified to replace the gold. The present compositions of the electrolyte mixture and electrode gas of the thermocell were analogous to the cathode side half-cell of the molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC). So, in this study the suitability of the MCFC’s nickel-based cathodes to operate the molten carbonate thermocell was investigated. Thus, in this thesis a thermocell with non-critical and inexpensive molten carbonate-based electrolyte mixtures with reversible (CO2|O2) gas electrodes was demonstrated to recover the high temperature (> 400 °C) waste heat to produce electricity
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
Hans Martin Schwarz Collection 1934 - 1938
No full textThis collection contains clippings of articles by Hans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), published between 1934 and 1938 in German-Jewish newspapers on a wide variety of subjects such as sports, emigration, the political situation in Germany, and religious attitudes of the young. It also contains reviews of his books "Einer wie Du und Ich" and "Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches."digitizedHans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), was a journalist and author. In Germany during the 1930s, he published in a variety of German-Jewish periodicals, primarily the Israelitisches Familienblatt. After immigrating to the United States in 1938, he changed his name to Martin Ebon, and published dozens of books in the areas of world affairs and parapsychology.Processe
Interview with Father James Martin
No full textIn May 2011, the Ignatian Faculty Scholars at Regis University conducted a Skype interview with Father James Martin, S. J., author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything. The Scholars had used Father Martin’s book as a text for their year of study, which focused on Ignatian Spirituality, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and teaching and learning at a Jesuit university. The interview was transcribed and is printed below. Father Martin reflects on the book, and responds to questions about the book itself, about finding God in all learners, and about the Church
Benefits of a Classification Scheme of Granitic Pegmatites Based on Petrogenetic Considerations.
No full textOral presentation-
Communicating author: Martin RF
WHY IS AMAZONITIC K-FELDSPAR AN EARMARK OF NYF-TYPE GRANITIC PEGMATITES?
No full textOral presentation- Communicating author: Martin R
Hiram Martin Chittenden, author, with his burro, ca.1900-1920
No full textPhotograph of Hiram Martin Chittenden, author, with his burro, ca.1900-1920. He has a long dark beard and wears a long jacket and dark wide-brimmed hat. He holds the packed burro by the reins. They stand in the middle of an residential dirt street. A church is visible among the buildings at right
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