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Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
IJsverslag: Winter 1963-1964, Winter 1964-1965, Winter 1965-1966 en Winter 1966-1967
No full textWinter 1963-1964 De winter was wat de maanden december, januari en maart betreft aan de koude kant. Vier vorstperioden, met ijsvorming op alle vaarwegen. De winter bedroeg in De Bilt 76 vorstdagen (min. temperatuur onder 0 graden) en 18 ijsdagen (max. temperatuur onder 0 graden). In de eerste twee ijsperioden ondervond de scheepvaart vrij veel hinder van het ijs. Van 23 december tot 26 december was de ijstoestand zodanig, dat alleen nog op de kanalen in het westen, midden en zuiden van het land vaart, in beperkte maten, mogelijk was. Winter 1964-1965 Deze winter was wat betreft de maanden december en maart aan de koude kant. Er waren twee ijsperioden. De winter bedroeg in De Bilt 67 vorstdagen (min. temperatuur onder 0 graden) en 7 ijsdagen (max. temperatuur onder 0 graden). Er was ijsvorming op de meeste kanalen, het IJsselmeer en de Waddenzee. De scheepvaart ondervond enige hinder van het ijs, maar uiteindelijk zijn geen van de grote kanalen gestremd geweest. Winter 1965-1966 In de winter zijn er drie ijsperioden geweest, nl 17 t/m 18 november (periode A), 10 t/m 31 januari (periode B) en 11 t/m 23 februari (periode C). In de perioden A en C werd er geen grote hinder ondervonden voor de scheepvaart op de grote kanalen. In periode B (januari) kwam vrijwel op alle vaarwegen ijs voor. De meeste van deze kanalen waren voor enige tijd gestremd. Belangrijke kanalen konden open gehouden worden m.b.v. ijsbrekers. Het ijs op de grote rivieren was echter van geen grote betekenis. De winter bedroeg in De Bilt 65 vorstdagen (min. temperatuur onder 0 graden) en 19 ijsdagen (max. temperatuur onder 0 graden). Winter 1966-1967 In de winter was er één ijsperiode van 7 t/m 12 januari. De scheepvaart heeft hier praktisch geen hinder van ondervonden. De winter bedroeg in De Bilt 31 vorstdagen (min. temperatuur onder 0 graden) en 2 ijsdagen (max. temperatuur onder 0 graden).IJsversla
The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart
No full textLady Arbella Stuart, a woman nearly forgotten in history and literature and yet a woman who lived a full and exciting life which is well documented in her letters to her family, friends and royalty (both Queen Elizabeth I and James VI and I). Arbella Stuart was born in 1575 to Elizabeth Cavendish and Charles Darnley and was brought up by her maternal grandmother, Bess of Hardwick. She was educated from birth about her proximity to the throne (there was a chance she could have been queen when Elizabeth died) and the important role she had in life. There have been several biographies written about Stuart over the years and most recently an excellent text of her existing letters by Sara Jayne Steen which is the primary source of information for this thesis. This thesis examines Stuart’s tone, rhetoric and style in a selection of letters written over the course of her life, where possible using manuscripts viewed in the British Library and Hardwick Hall, as well as the published text. Part of what makes Stuart such an interesting subject is her ability to manipulate her reader and assume different personae, depending on whom she was writing to. The young Stuart writes passionately and often without thinking first, putting her thoughts on paper and then quickly sending them off to the Queen and her advisers. An older and wiser Stuart writes from James VI and I’s court and is very formal in her letters to the King. She is more relaxed when writing to her Aunt and Uncle and depicts court life in a lively informal fashion giving us a valuable insight into what life as a courtier would have been like at this time. Finally the thesis examines Stuart’s last letters written from imprisonment, the work of a desperate woman, fighting for her freedom. Stuart, like most of us, had a multi-faceted personality. She was at times an apparently submissive and subservient subject of the King; a well read and educated woman who adopted the guise of humility and deference to those in authority, the patriarchal order in place. This thesis will depict the many different sides to Stuart and give a brief overview of her exciting and turbulent life, told through her letters
The Crow and the Pitcher
No full textHere are 180 numbered bilingual fables. Sometimes a monochrome reproduction of a Milo Winter illustration faces the two texts, English and Chinese. There is a bilingual T of C at the beginning. From a reading of the first fables, I would say that the transcription of the English is unusually well executed here. A trademark of this book is the flowery brown pattern on the outside of pages. Is that perhaps a Chinese AI at the end of the book?Language note: Bilingual: Chinese/EnglishNo Autho
Correction to: When terminology hinders research: the colloquialisms of transitions of control in automated driving (Cognition, Technology & Work, (2022), 10.1007/s10111-022-00705-3)
No full textIn the original article, author affiliation published with error. The correct affiliations are: Davide Maggi—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Richard Romano—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Oliver Carsten—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Joost C. F. De Winter—Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. The original article has been corrected.Human-Robot Interactio
Decomposable approximations of nuclear <i>C</i><sup>*</sup>-algebras
No full textWe show that nuclear <i>C</i><sup>*</sup>-algebras have a refined version of the completely
positive approximation property, in which the maps that approximately factorize
through finite dimensional algebras are convex combinations of order zero maps.
We use this to show that a separable nuclear <i>C</i><sup>*</sup>-algebra A which is closely
contained in a <i>C</i><sup>*</sup>-algebra B embeds into B
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown cooled the subtropical ocean
No full textObservations show that the upper 2 km of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean cooled throughout 2010 and remained cold until at least December 2011. We show that these cold anomalies are partly driven by anomalous air-sea exchange during the cold winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 and, more surprisingly, by extreme interannual variability in the ocean's northward heat transport at 26.5°N. This cooling driven by the ocean's meridional heat transport affects deeper layers isolated from the atmosphere on annual timescales and water that is entrained into the winter mixed layer thus lowering winter sea surface temperatures. Here we connect, for the first time, variability in the northward heat transport carried by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to widespread sustained cooling of the subtropical North Atlantic, challenging the prevailing view that the ocean plays a passive role in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system on monthly-to-seasonal timescales
Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras
No full textWe prove that faithful traces on separable and nuclear C*-
algebras in the UCT class are quasidiagonal. This has a number of
consequences. Firstly, by results of many hands, the classification of
unital, separable, simple and nuclear C*-algebras of finite nuclear dimension
which satisfy the UCT is now complete. Secondly, our result
links the finite to the general version of the Toms-Winter conjecture
in the expected way and hence clarifies the relation between decomposition
rank and nuclear dimension. Finally, we confirm the Rosenberg
conjecture: discrete, amenable groups have quasidiagonal C*-algebras
Letter copy-book
No full textLetter copy-book (18 sheets, 7 blank); includes:Letter (copy)
From: George Winter, Lafayette, June 26, 1863
To: Lasselle
LS, 3 p.
Requesting assistance in tracing the origin and meaning of the name "Wabash." G.W. does not think it is a Potawatami word, for reasons he details.
Letter (copy)
From: G.W., Lafayette, June 27, 1863
To: Biddle
LS, 4 p.
Requesting Biddle to persist in attempting to learn the name of O-ga-mass' wife. G.W. knew them when he spent a few weeks at Kee-waw-nay village in 1837. Description of O-ga-mass'
appearance, status, the meaning of his name, and his tendency to drunkenness. G.W. would also like the name of We-wiss-ea's mother; description of him (of whom G.W. has a sketch). Rumour that his mother was killed by the family during the emigration of 1838. Suggests that Biddle question General Grover about this, as he was with the emigration. A portrait G.W. had made of Barron was published in Harper's Magazine, July 1863, without his permission or payment to him. The author of the article had visited G.W.'s studio and admired his sketches of Tippecanoe Battleground and Prophetstown, done in 1840. That author also made erroneous statements regarding Barron's activities and neglected the role of Capt. (later General) Walter Wilson.
Letter (copy) From: G.W., Lafayette, June 22, 1863 To: Genl. N. D. Grover, Logansport LS, 70. (4 sheets)
G.W. was commissioned by James Walker of Rhode Island to sketch the Potawatamis mentioned in treaties, and to bind these images
in book form together with manuscripts relating to those individuals. G.W. was to be paid only enough to cover expenses; recalling the happy days of 1837 would be payment enough. Requests Grover to write a short MS on his days among the Indians of the Wabash, particularly dealing with the treaties and payments with which he was involved. G.W. would give Grover credit in his Journal for any such information. Also lists a number of Indian names for which he requests clarification. Walker died nearly a year ago, but G.W. is continuing his work on the book. Wishes he had a patron to finance his work; some of his ideas will never be able to be developed, and will be lost. Deplores the materialism of the world, which does not properly respect such efforts. Grover would be particularly interested in his sketch of Brute's last sermon at Horney's Mill. G.W. found it difficult to sketch many Miamis, due to their superstitions, but does have portraits of Francis Godfroy, Jim Godfroy, Beau-ri-ette, Kill-com-manch-a-ah, Sach-hum, Pee-waw-pay-O, C. Carter, Ben Smith, Frances Slocum, and others
The impact and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in Scotland for those aged 65 and over during winter 2003/2004
No full textBackground: For winter 2003/2004 in Scotland, it was recommended that all those aged 65 and over be eligible to receive 23-valent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine (23vPPV), which has been shown to be effective in reducing the risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We assessed the success of the vaccination programme by examining the age specific incidence rates of IPD compared to four previous winter seasons and estimating vaccination effectiveness.Methods: Winter season incidence rates of IPD for vaccine targeted (65 years and over) and non-targeted (0–4, 5–34, 35–49,50–64) age bands were examined for the Scottish population in a retrospective cohort design for winter 2003/2004. Details of all IPD cases were obtained from the central reference laboratory and population vaccine uptake information was estimated from a GP sentinel practice network. Based on the preceding four winter seasons, standardised incidence ratios (SIR) for invasivepneumococcal disease were determined by age-band and sex during winter 2003/2004. Vaccination effectiveness (VE) wasestimated using both screening and indirect cohort methods. Numbers needed to vaccinate were derived from VE results using equivalent annual incidence estimates for winter 2003/2004.Results: Overall vaccination effectiveness using the screening method (adjusted for age and sex) in those aged 65 and over was 61.7% (95%CI: 45.1, 73.2) which corresponded to a number needed to vaccinate of 5206 (95%CI: 4388, 7122) per IPD case prevented. Estimated effectiveness for the same age group using the indirect cohort method was not significant at 51% (95%CI:-278, 94). Reductions in the winter season incidence rate of IPD were highly significant for all those aged 75+: males SIR = 58.8(95%CI: 41.6, 80.8); females SIR = 70.0 (95%CI: 55.1, 87.8). In the 65–74 years age-group, the reduction for females was significant: SIR = 60.3 (95%CI: 39.3, 88.4), but not for males: SIR = 74.8 (95%CI: 50.8, 106.3). There was no significant protective effect on mortality.Conclusion: The introduction of 23vPPV for those aged 65 and over in Scotland during winter 2003/2004, was accompaniedwith a reduction of around one third in the incidence of IPD in this age group. Vaccination effectiveness estimates were comparable with those from other developed countries
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