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Shane MacCausland (éd.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, en association avec la Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2003
No full textKerlan-Stephens Anne. Shane MacCausland (éd.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, en association avec la Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2003. In: Études chinoises, n°23, 2004. pp. 513-519
Shane MacCausland (éd.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, en association avec la Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2003
No full textKerlan-Stephens Anne. Shane MacCausland (éd.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, en association avec la Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2003. In: Études chinoises, n°23, 2004. pp. 513-519
3-D mapping of groundwater TDS using borehole geophysics and historical produced water geochemistry at the Midway-Sunset oil field, Kern County, California
No full textIn California, a vast population and agricultural industry rely on groundwater for their main water supply source. Recent drought conditions have placed a higher demand on groundwater resources, and in order to preserve this resource for future use, groundwater must be managed carefully. In areas where oil fields are located, there is concern that petroleum extraction operations and produced wastewater disposal are negatively impacting groundwater that may qualify as protected. To protect these waters, it is essential to know their location and extent. To accomplish this, we develop maps that locate the distribution of groundwater containing less than 10,000 parts per million (ppm) total dissolved solids (TDS) since these waters are more likely to qualify as protected. To map groundwater TDS at the Midway-Sunset oil field, we use the Stephens et al., [2018] method which relies on produced water geochemical measurements, TDS calculated using the RP method, and ordinary kriging. However, unlike the areas mapped by Stephens et al., [2018], the Midway-Sunset oil field presents unique challenges to mapping groundwater TDS. At the Midway-Sunset oil field, decades of enhanced oil recovery operations have led to significant variations in the geothermal gradient, while detrital diatomite in the sediments causes geophysical porosity logs to overestimate total porosity. This is a problem because TDS calculations require resistivity, temperature, and porosity data. The following thesis addresses these challenges to mapping groundwater TDS at Midway-Sunset in several key ways. Thermal effects from enhanced oil recovery were removed by only considering a subset of wells that were unaffected by thermal processes while three different porosity models were developed and tested for different regions of the field in order to remedy the diatomite-porosity-problem. The resulting calculated TDS values were then combined with existing geochemical measurements of TDS and kriged to generate salinity maps and cross sections for the Midway-Sunset oil field. In the northern portion of the field, the TDS maps and cross sections reveal that the depth to the 10,000 ppm TDS boundary extends to greater than ~-1500 feet elevation, while in the southern region the boundary is much shallower, with a maximum depth of ~150 feet elevation. In the study area, stratigraphy, faults, and freshwater recharge appear to control the distribution of groundwater TDS
Cult: A Composite Novel
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The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Immaculate catalogues, indexes and monsters too…: David E. Bennett reports on the three-day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 13-15 September 2006.
Get PDFDynamics and folding of single two-stranded coiled-coil peptides studied by fluorescent energy transfer confocal microscopy
No full textWe report single-molecule measurements on the folding and unfolding conformational equilibrium distributions and dynamics of a disulfide crosslinked version of the two-stranded coiled coil from GCN4. The peptide has a fluorescent donor and acceptor at the N termini of its two chains and a Cys disulfide near its C terminus. Thus, folding brings the two N termini of the two chains close together, resulting in an enhancement of fluorescent resonant energy transfer. End-to-end distance distributions have thus been characterized under conditions where the peptide is nearly fully folded (0 M urea), unfolded (7.4 M urea), and in dynamic exchange between folded and unfolded states (3.0 M urea). The distributions have been compared for the peptide freely diffusing in solution and deposited onto aminopropyl silanized glass. As the urea concentration is increased, the mean end-to-end distance shifts to longer distances both in free solution and on the modified surface. The widths of these distributions indicate that the molecules are undergoing millisecond conformational fluctuations. Under all three conditions, these fluctuations gave nonexponential correlations on 1- to 100-ms time scale. A component of the correlation decay that was sensitive to the concentration of urea corresponded to that measured by bulk relaxation kinetics. Thetrajectories provided effective intramolecular diffusion coefficients as a function of the end-to-end distances for the folded and unfolded states. Single-molecule folding studies provide information concerning the distributions of conformational states in the folded, unfolded, and dynamically interconverting states.Author manuscript. Published in final edited form as: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 November 21; 97(24): 13021-13026.The final published version of this article is located at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/97/24/13021NIH GM54616; to William F. DeGradoNIH GM12592; to Robin M. HochstrasserNIH GM48130; to William F. Degrado and Robin M. HochstrasserThis work was supported by GM54616 (to W.F.D.), GM12592 (to R.M.H.) and GM48130 (to W.F.D. and R.M.H.) with instrumentation developed under RR01348. D.S.T. was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NRSA F32-GM18589.Also available in PubMed Central. PMCID:PMC2717
An Impact Study of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in the Six ACP Regions
Get PDFThis article intends to present a very detailed analysis of the trade-related aspects of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations. We use a dynamic partial equilibrium model – focusing on the demand side – at the HS6 level (covering 5,113 HS6 products). Two alternative lists of sensitive products are constructed, one giving priority to the agricultural sectors, the other focusing on tariff revenue preservation. In order to be WTO compatible, EPAs must translate into 90 percent of bilateral trade fully liberalised. We use this criterion to simulate EPAs for each negotiating regional block. ACP exports to the EU are forecast to be 10 percent higher with the EPAs than under the GSP/EBA option. On average ACP countries are forecast to lose 70 percent of tariff revenues on EU imports in the long run. Yet imports from other regions of the world will continue to provide tariff revenues. Thus when tariff revenue losses are computed on total ACP imports, losses are limited to 26 percent on average in the long run and even 19 percent when the product lists are optimised. The final impact on the economy depends on the importance of tariffs in government revenue and on potential compensatory effects. However this long term and less visible effect will mainly depend on the capacity of each ACP country to reorganise its fiscal base.Preferential Trade Agreements, Africa, EPAs, Partial Equilibrium Simulations, International Relations/Trade,
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981 and twentieth-century evangelicalism.
Get PDFThe purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate the significance of the life and ministry of David Martyn Lloyd-Jones in post-war British evangelicalism and to show that, so far as Protestant churches in England and Wales were concerned, no history of the period can afford to ignore him. It is our contention that despite differences of opinion and self- marginalization Lloyd-Jones was and has remained a major force in evangelical thinking. In order to understand how this developed the thesis has been structured along thematic lines highlighting events, persons and questions. The study begins by setting the stage with a biographical chapter and goes on to examine the kind of impact that Lloyd-Jones's preaching had on Christians of all denominations. He believed preaching to be the greatest need of the day and the position of this thesis is that preaching was Lloyd-Jones's greatest contribution to twentieth- century Christianity. As a preacher he attracted one of London's largest congregations and in chapter three we look at the history and nature of Westminster Chapel comparing it with neighbouring ministries, and establishing the kind of people who went to hear him. Chapters four and five ascertain the factors which shaped Lloyd-Jones's views on the church and show how his Reformed evangelicalism led in a separatist as opposed to an ecumenical direction and finally, to a position which was neither Congregational nor Presbyterian. Our further argument is that while he favoured unity among believers his separatist ecclesiology only exacerbated the situation and left evangelicals more divided than before. Chapters six to eight evaluate Lloyd-Jones's background, the nature of his leadership and the extent of his influence - factors which either shaped or were the outcome of his ministry - and looks at the issues which these questions raise
Corrigendum: Pneumococcal vaccine impacts on the population genomics of non-typeable haemophilus influenzae: (Microbial Genomics 2021; 9, 10.1099/mgen.0.000209)
No full textThere was a change in the author names in the published article. The new list should read: David W. Cleary1,2, Vanessa T. Devine3, Denise E. Morris1, Karen L. Osman1, Rebecca A. Gladstone4, Stephen D. Bentley4, Saul N. Faust1,5, Stuart C. Clarke1,2,6 1Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. 2NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. 3Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine and Clinical Translational Research Innovation Centre, Londonderry, UK. 4Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK. 5NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. 6Global Health Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.</p
Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction
No full textTraditionally, in crime fiction, a series is grounded in the permanence of the protagonist that keeps being the same all through the different stories that are told by the author, possibly evolving over time, but always keeping identifiable and providing the series with its unifying element. It is not so with David Peace. Unversally considered as one of the most brilliant and unusual novelist in contemporary crime fiction, Peace is the author of two series: the so called Red Riding Quartet (set in Yorkshire, UK, and also adapted as a television series) and the Tokyo trilogy (not completed yet, with its third novel still on the way). In both series, Peace chooses to construct a web of interlaced stories where the protagonists are all different while the setting stays the same. In the Red Riding Quartet, this strategy seems even more sophisticated, in that the protagonist of each book ends by either dying or going crazy, to be replaced, in the next novel, by one of the secondary characters that suddenly switches to a primary role.
By his own admission in several interviews, Peace is interested in portraying the many sides of evil. Consequently, this strategic and stylistic choice seems to suggest a very specific stance, an ethic of persuasion that any human being, in given circumstances, may become a criminal.
Just like in Dickens, the story is always well documented and moulded by a sharp awareness of the historic conditions marking the context, be it a small city in Yorkshire, in Thatcher’s years, or the recently defeated Tokyo. The settings are normally overdetermined, and so are also the choices of the characters and their behaviours, that appear tightly, often compulsively oriented by strongly restraining circumstances
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