194 research outputs found
(400127) Charles Stuart Blain
No full textThis three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria
(400119) Bertram Stuart Blain
No full textThis three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria
Testing the evolutionary link between submillimetre galaxies and quasars: CO observations of QSOs at z~2
No full textWe have used the IRAM Plateau de Bure millimetre interferometer and the UKIRT 1–5 μm Imager Spectrometer (UIST) to test the connection between the major phases of spheroid growth and nuclear accretion by mapping CO emission in nine submillimetre-detected QSOs at z= 1.7–2.6 with black hole (BH) masses derived from near-infrared spectroscopy. When combined with one QSO obtained from the literature, we present sensitive CO(3–2) or CO(2–1) observations of 10 submillimetre-detected QSOs selected at the epoch of peak activity in both QSOs and submillimetre (submm) galaxies (SMGs). CO is detected in 5/6 very optically luminous (MB∼−28) submm-detected QSOs with BH masses MBH≃ 109–1010 M⊙, confirming the presence of large gas reservoirs of Mgas≃ 3.4 × 1010 M⊙. Our BH masses and dynamical mass constraints on the host spheroids suggest, at face value, that these optically luminous QSOs at z= 2 lie about an order of magnitude above the local BH–spheroid relation, MBH/Msph, although this result is dependent on the size and inclination of the CO-emitting region. However, we find that their BH masses are ∼30 times too large and their surface density is ∼300 times too small to be related to typical SMGs in an evolutionary sequence. Conversely, we measure weaker CO emission in four fainter (MB∼−25) submm-detected QSOs with properties, BH masses (MBH≃ 5 × 108 M⊙), and surface densities similar to SMGs. These QSOs appear to lie near the local MBH/Msph relation, making them plausible ‘transition objects’ in the proposed evolutionary sequence linking QSOs to the formation of massive young galaxies and BHs at high redshift. We show that SMGs have a higher incidence of bimodal CO line profiles than seen in our QSO sample, which we interpret as an effect of their relative inclinations, with the QSOs seen more face-on. Finally, we find that the gas masses of the four fainter submm-detected QSOs imply that their star formation episodes could be sustained for ∼10 Myr, and are consistent with representing a phase in the formation of massive galaxies which overlaps a preceding SMG starburst phase, before subsequently evolving into a population of present-day massive ellipticals
Logic, emotion, and the sublime
No full textDouglas College student research essay submitted as partial requirement for English 2117 course. Faculty sponsor to submit this essay to DOOR: Dr. Diane Stiles.
A recurring theme during the romantic period, spanning from 1785-1832, is the sublime. There is no readily available description of the sublime that would do it justice, as it is an almost entirely abstract concept that is conceptualized differently by each individual. It is a mysterious force that has gripped the minds of many, not uniquely in the romantic period. “To a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats both focus on the song of the skylark and nightingale to makes connections about the sublime, and “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins uses the flight of the titular bird; therefore all three use bird imagery to discuss the sublime. However, these three poems suggest that experiences of the sublime somewhat depend on how it is approached. Interestingly, Hopkins was writing about a romantic period theme in the victorian era, when it was not being written about, in a manner that reaches back to the middle ages and forward to the 20th century. Hopkins' transcendence of time somewhat reflects the prolonged obsession with the mystery of the sublime. The sublime is not uniquely a romantic period theme, and is taken up again in the 20th century, however readers and writers alike seem no closer to understanding it than they were before. The sublime recedes as it is approached. From “To a Skylark” readers learn it cannot be conceptualized logically or with intent to control. “Ode to a Nightingale” demonstrates that it can be experienced through a emotion and senses, and readers can seemingly conclude that all of the unconventional uses of opposing sense experiences can eventually lead to the sublime. Then finally, those conclusions are challenged by “The Windhover” who employs a blending of logic and emotion while ultimately experiencing the sublime with almost no mention of senses. Experiencing the sublime is as mysterious as the sublime itself, by beginning with opposites and then arriving at paradoxes it is an ephemeral topic with no clear conclusion, and those writing about it employ various strategies to attempt do so.Not peer reviewe
The erased pharaoh
No full textDouglas College student research essay submitted as partial requirement for Anthropology 2112 course. Faculty sponsor to submit this essay to DOOR: Dr. Laurie Beckwith.
Modern bias is a huge obstacle within archaeology, due to the nature of studying the far away past by people born in the near present. The understanding of gender is heavily effected by modern bias, and often researchers interpret gender of the past in the same way that they understand it today. Gender is a social construct with many connotations of what it means to be feminine and to be masculine, and those connotations have seemingly always looked different as well as the conceptualization of gender in general. Matić (2016) argues that Ancient Egypt has been interpreted as having a binary understanding of gender, but recently feminist and queer theories have begun re-interpreting gender in Ancient Egypt outside of that binary theory. He ultimately argues that evidence for a ‘third gender’ in Ancient Egypt is scarce, but that it still did not function exactly like today as he cites, among other instances, the warrior goddess Neith who is said to be two thirds male and one third female. Gender can also be represented differently in death, as men were sometimes seen as the regenerative sex, and it is conjectured that if women wanted to be reincarnated they needed to be represented as a man once buried (Cooney, 2010). Moreover, in ancient Egyptian law men and women of the same status were treated as mostly equal, as women could own property, and try or be tried in court (Tyldesley, 2012). Yet, the role of women is still under appreciated in modern literature such as Tyldesley’s (2012, pp. 5) characterization of believing that the man was not in total control of his household as a “naive” belief.Not peer reviewe
The effects of higher oxygenates on methanol synthesis
No full textIn the current investigation the effects of higher oxygenate species on the methanol synthesis performance of various methanol synthesis catalysts were examined. Experiments were performed whereby a selected higher oxygenate (such as a carboxylic acid) was co-fed into a methanol synthesis system at low concentrations, and the results monitored by on-line GC analysis. Bulk changes in the morphology of the catalysts post reaction were investigated using XRD. Temperature programmed oxidations (TPO’s) were also performed on the catalysts post reaction to determine if carbon deposition occurred during reaction.
Catalysts investigated include Rh/SiO2, Ir/SiO2, Pd/SiO2, Pd/Ca/SiO2 and an industrial methanol synthesis catalyst of a Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 formulation.
The effect of the feed gas on the behaviour of the higher oxygenates were also investigated by varying the feed gas composition
Analysis of Homeland Security Regulations, Small Steps Forward, Giant Leaps to Go
No full textThis paper reviews the use of cost-benefit analysis in evaluating homeland security regulations. Until the recent use of "break-even analysis" by the Department of Homeland Security, analysis of regulations to reduce the risk of a terrorist attacks have been severely lacking. The costs were likely to be understated particularly because the costs of restrictions on immigration and of the curbing of civil liberties are omitted. Benefits were often left uncalculated leaving it impossible to meaningfully evaluate the policies being promulgated. The use of break-even analysis has improved the ability to evaluate homeland security policy. However, DHS needs to provide this information in a more consistent format in order to allow comparison of regulatory initiatives. DHS also needs to provide its own assessment of what the break-even analysis tells us about the likelihood that the benefits of their regulations outweigh their costs.
New Mythological Hybrids Are Born in "Bande Dessinée": Greek Myths as Seen by Joann Sfar and Christophe Blain
No full textClassical Antiquity has been abundantly present in French comic book universe since it was conquered by Uderzo and Goscinny’s hero Asterix the Gaul in 1959. While Asterix & Co. have been poking gentle fun at contemporary French society for over five decades, the twenty-first-century newcomers Joann Sfar & Christophe Blain took a gloves-of approach to Olympic gods and their entangled progeny, creating in their 2002–2009 trilogy, Socrates the half-dog, son of Zeus’ dog, as a companion to the brainless and bursting with testosterone Heracles who is soon joined by equally preposterous versions of Odysseus and Oedipus. Édouard Cour, a younger French author combining responsibilities for writing and drawing, dares to rescue Heracles from this assault on honour by putting him again through the paces of the twelve labours, performed for the glory of Hera.The volume gathers the results of a stage of the programme Our Mythical Childhood, supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives and an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Open Access at Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH at https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7874-5/Marciniak_Ed_Chasing_Mythical_Beasts_PDF/
book/ hardcover ISBN: 978-3-8253-6995-8
Series: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur/Studies in European Children's and Young Adult Literature, Volume No.: 8
Information about Our Mythical Childhood is available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/
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