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The Struggle of Matchmaker to Find Love as Seen in Jane Austen's Emma
No full textThis thesis is entitled The Struggle of Matchmaker to Find Love as Seen in Jane Austen's Emma. The formulation of the problem in this research is how the extrinsic elements that builds the story outside the novel. How the psychology of personality of a matchmaker in finding love. The background of this research problem is in the writing of a novel created by an author, there is an author personality in creating characters in the story. Knowing the extrinsic elements that build a story will make it easier to conduct research on the psychology of the character in the story. The purposes of this research are describe the extrinsic elements that builds a novel from outside and to analyze the psychology of Emma' personality as a matchmaker in finding love.
The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data are in the form of sentences and statements in the Emma and Biography of Jane Austen. The technique used in analyzing data is content analysis. The steps taken in analyzing are reading and understanding the psychology and story in the novel. This step will make it easier to research using theory extrinsic element theory of Renne Wellek and Austin Warren (1948) and personality psychology from Freud's (1962).
The results of this research there are extrinsic elements of the author which consists of literary relation with the biography, psychology, society, and idea of an author. The extrinsic elements influenced the author in creating a work on personality psychology Emma as a matchmaker in finding love consists of Id, Ego ad Superego. This research it was found that the personality of Id from Emma is more dominant and the Ego tends to follow the wishes of the Id. Superego about the principle of values and morals are also widely found. Emma really holds the values and morals of how she acts in society
Handheld-Impedance-Measurement System with seven-decade capability and potentiostatic function
No full textThis paper describes design and test of a new impedance-measurement system for nonlinear devices that exhibits a seven-decade range and works down to a frequency of 0.01 Hz. The system is specifically designed for electrochemical measurements, but the proposed architecture can be employed in many other fields where flexible signal generation and analysis are required. The system employs an unconventional signal generator based on two pulsewidth modulation (PWM) oscillators and an autocalibration system that allows uncertainties of less than 3% to be obtained over a range of 1 kΩ to 100 GΩ. A synchronous demodulation processing allows the noise superimposed to the low-amplitude input signals to be made negligibl
Afrasura emma Durante, sp. n.
No full text<i>Afrasura emma</i> Durante sp. n. <p>(Figs. 14, 49)</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>. 3. Nigeria, Port Harcourt, 31-1-1996. Durante legit. Genitalia prep. n. 400 AD. In coll. MSNS.</p> <p> <b>Paratype</b>: 3. Nigeria, Port Harcourt, 31-1-1996. Durante legit. In coll. AD.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The only described species of <i>Afrasura</i> lacking a cornutus.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> 3 wingspan 16 mm. Forewing upperside ground colour yellow; pattern deep brown in colour. Two well marked dots at base, one on costa, and on anterior cell vein; two basal bands formed by small dots and shifted distally to antemedian area; median band thin; sub-marginal series formed by eight dots, numbers 1–3 and 5 more pronounced; marginal dots absent; discal dot inside concavity of postmedian band well marked; costa yellow with its distal fifth brown. Hindwing upperside ground colour straw yellow; termen and anal margin darker. There are four apical dots: two costal and two marginal, not always well discernible. Forewing underside ground colour as in upperside, with the discal region suffused with red; bands as in upperside, but faded except for postmedian band and submarginal dots. Costa yellow with its proximal fourth and its distal fifth brown. Hindwing underside as in upperside, but with larger deep yellow border to the costal, outer and inner margins. The four apical dots well marked, the inner costal one is Z-shaped. Forewing fringes deep brown; hindwing fringes yellow. Head yellow with one brown dot on vertex; labial palpi porrect, not extending beyond frons (in the paratype the third element has a brown dot). Antennae ciliated yellow. Patagia yellow with brown dot; tegulae yellow with brown dot. Thorax and abdomen yellow, mesoscutum with two brown dots, mesoscutellum with one brown dot. Forelegs yellow with distal and proximal ends of femur and tibia brown; midlegs yellow with tibial endings brown, hindlegs yellow with tibial distal end brown. In all legs the last (i.e., distal) two tarsomeres are brown. Spurs 0, 2, 4. Coremata between A7 and A8 sterna large, double-sac shaped with two large tufts of androconial hairs; held ventrally by a filiform thickening that arises from the anterior margin of tergum eight. Eighth sternum and tergum membranous, the latter with anterior edge with two small apodemes directed cephalad. Female unknown. 3 lacking a cornutus; uncus slender with pointed end; tegumen slender; vinculum forming a quite deep saccus. The two basis valvae join ventrally to form a pseudosaccus. Dorsally the plica centripetalis of one valva meets the other to form a W-shaped transtilla. Valvae joined to the vinculum except at the costal margin. Supravalva with characteristic costal undulation and finger-like distal ending; ala valvae with slender distal ending, sclerotized, pointed and turned inside. Aedeagus with vesica with three clusters of small thorns</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Dedicated to the author’s daughter, Emma.</p>Published as part of <i>Durante, Antonio, 2009, Revision of the Afrotropical species of Asura Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Lithosiinae), with the description of a new genus, pp. 27-52 in Zootaxa 2280</i> on page 43, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/275270">10.5281/zenodo.275270</a>
Sexual dimorphism in diaphyseal cross-sectional shape in the Medieval Muslim population of Écija, Spain and Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford, UK
No full textDifferences in adult male and female activity patterns may influence levels of sexual dimorphism in physical dimensions, including the cross-sectional shape of long bone diaphyses. Previous studies of archaeological populations have demonstrated significant differences in diaphyseal shape between males and females. In this study, dimorphism in external diaphyseal shape of upper and lower limb bones (reflected in indices of external diaphyseal diameters), and bilateral asymmetry in these indices, were examined in two medieval populations: Muslim Écija (Spain) and Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford (UK). Attempts were made to relate observed patterns to documentary and other osteological evidence for differences in male and female activity patterns. While few significant differences in upper limb bone cross-sectional shape were observed in either population, significant differences in shape were found in the lower limb diaphyses at Écija at the femoral midshaft and tibial foramen and midshaft levels, and at the tibial midshaft for Great Chesterford. Comparison with published data suggests that these differences are marked for Écija, and perhaps fairly high for Great Chesterford compared with other populations with an agriculture-based economy. This is consistent with documentary and osteological evidence suggesting marked gender differences in behaviour in medieval Muslim Spain. No significant differences in bilateral asymmetry were found, but the effects of small sample size cannot be ruled out
Contested Identities: Urbanisation and Indigenous Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon
No full textThis thesis is a study of indigenous urbanisation and ethnic identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Taking as its focus Shuar urban residents of the rainforest city Sucúa, it argues that urban indigenous residents feel simultaneously more and less ‘indigenous’ than their more ‘rural’ counterparts.
On the one hand, the experience of living in a multiethnic city, on the ‘boundary’ of the Shuar ethnic group (Barth 1969), increases urban Shuar residents’ awareness of their ethnic identity, as Shuar and as ‘indigenous’. Furthermore, they want to identify as indigenous, as they are aware of the value that is placed on this identity by, for example, international organisations, NGOs, environmental activists, eco-tourism agencies, and indigenous political leaders. On the other hand, indigenous identity in urban areas is formed via a ‘play of mirrors’ (Novaes 1997) as a result of which urban Shuar are exposed to a variety of contradictory perspectives on what it means to be ‘indigenous’. These tend towards romanticisation and exoticisation of indigenous peoples as ‘ecologically noble savages’ (Redford 1993), creating the image of a ‘hyperreal Indian’ (Ramos 1992) that urban Shuar cannot hope to emulate. This leads many urban Shuar residents to feel that they are ‘not indigenous enough’. Nevertheless, with increased international migration and rising levels of education and professional achievement, a new urban indigenous middle class is acquiring the economic, cultural and social capital (Bourdieu 1984) to throw off the ‘burden of heritage’ (Olwig 1999) and determine for themselves what it means to be ‘indigenous’. Finally, I argue in this thesis for an anthropology of Amazonia that addresses the significant changes which are taking place in Amazonian peoples’ lives. If we continue to depict Amazonian groups as isolated, small-scale societies existing in an eternal ‘ethnographic present’ (Rubenstein 2002) we risk ignoring or misrepresenting the very real challenges and transformations that are increasingly facing our informants
Electronic structure analyses and activation studies of a dinitrogen-derived terminal nitride of molybdenum
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 2004.Vita.Includes bibliographical references.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Chapter 1: Complexes obtained by electrophilic attack on a dinitrogen-derived terminal molybdenum nitride: Electronic structure analysis by solid state CP/MAS ¹⁵N NMR in combination ... Chapter 2. Carbene chemistry in the activation of a dinitrogen-derived terminal nitride of molybdenum ... Chapter 3. Nitrogen atom transfer from dinitrogen into an organic nitrile via the anionic ketimide complex (THF)²Mg[O(Ph)C¹⁵NMo(N[tBu]Ar)₃]₂ ...by Emma Louise Sceats.S.M
The Debate on European Values and the Case of Cultural Diversity. EDAP 1/2004
No full text‘Values’ have become a topic of discussion at the European level. This article tries to briefly track the reasons for this phenomenon as well as to detangle the foggy notion of ‘values’ in this context. The author differentiates between founding values, European ideas and common legal principles. All these different forms of European values differ in their respective legal and political character. Most importantly, they require a different level of European conformity. Special emphasis is given to the value of cultural diversity which can be considered, at most, a ‘self-restrictive’ value since it can be perceived from an inclusive perspective (including diversity within the states) or from an exclusive perspective (diversity amongst the states). Placing too much emphasis on the inclusive reading endangers the exclusive reading, and vice versa. In this context, the author refers to the new constitutional motto of the European Union as proposed by the constitutional treaty. Unlike the situation in Indonesia and South Africa (which both use the same motto) it does not seem to address subnational diversity. Instead, "united in diversity" aims at protecting national identities against excessive integration,and thus seems the very opposite of the US constitutional motto of "E pluribus unum"
The Influence of National Culture on Evacuation Response Behaviour and Time: An Agent-Based Approach
No full text“How does culture, in combination with cues, settings and affiliation, influence response-phase behaviour and time and total evacuation time?”. A questionnaire and an agent-based model for a case study of a library evacuation in Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey and the UK have been developed to answer this question. Our questionnaire, conducted among 442 respondents (N = 105 from Czech Republic, N = 106 from Poland, N = 106 from Turkey and N = 125 from the United Kingdom), shows significant differences in the number of performed response tasks per culture - whereby Turkish respondents perform the most response tasks and British the least - and the results were directly implemented in our agent-based model. Simulation results show: (1) these differences - in combination with emergent effects for task choice and agent interactions - directly translate into the average response and evacuation times being highest for Turkey, followed by Poland, Czech Republic, and the UK, (2) cues, setting and affiliation influence response and evacuation time - such as being informed by staff giving a negative correlation and evacuating in groups a positive correlation with response time -, while the magnitude of these effects differ per culture. Our results suggest that faster response times might be related to dimensions of national culture, such as weak uncertainty avoidance and high individualism.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.System Engineerin
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Ethnohistory in Mexico: Origin and Trajectory
No full textAdams, Richard N. (1962); “Etnohistoric research methods: Some Latin American Features”, Etnohistory, vol. 9, núm. 2, pp. 179-205.Aguirre Beltrán, Gonzalo (1970); El proceso de aculturación y el cambio sociocultural en México, México, Comunidad/Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, UIA.Barjau Martínez, Luis (2002); “La etnohistoria: reflexiones y acotaciones en torno a su definición”, Ciencia. Revista de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, vol. 53, núm. 4, pp. 40-53.Dahlgren, Bárbara, Emma Pérez Rocha, Lourdes Suárez Diez, Perla valle (1982); Corazón de Cópil, México, INAH.Jiménez Moreno, Wigberto (1976); “Memorándum proponiendo la creación de un Departamento de Etnohistoria”.Jiménez Núñez, Alfredo (1972); “El método etnohistórico y su contribución a la antropología americana”, Revista Española de Antropología Americana, vol. 7, núm. 1, pp. 163-196.Martínez Marín, Carlos (1976); “La Etnohistoria un intento de explicación”, Apuntes de Etnohistoria, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, año I, núm. 1, pp. 5-25.Monjaráz Ruiz, Jesús (1998); “A veinte años de la Dirección de Etnohistoria”, en Antropología. Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, nueva época, abril-junio, pp. 71-77.Monjaráz Ruiz, Jesús, Emma Pérez Rocha (1988); “La etnohistoria”, en Carlos García Mora y Ma. de la Luz del Valle Berrocal (coords.), La antropología en México. Panorama histórico, México, INAH, vol. 5, pp. 111-129.Monjaráz Ruiz, Jesús, Emma Pérez Rocha, Ma. Teresa Díaz Covarrubias y Perla Valle (s/f), “Panorama general de la etnohistoria y su posible aplicación en la historia regional”, en Apuntes de Etnohistoria, año 1, núm. 2, pp. 33-40.Monjaráz Ruiz, Jesús, Emma Pérez Rocha, Perla Valle (1995); “Etnohistoria”, en Julio César Olivé Negrete (coord.), INAH. Una historia, México, INAH, vol. 1, pp. 170-182.Monjaráz Ruiz, Jesús y Ma. Teresa Sánchez Valdés (1981); “Presentación”, en Luz Pereira B. (coord.), Memoria del Congreso conmemorativo del X Aniversario del Departamento de Etnohistoria, Cuaderno de Trabajo del Departamento de Etnohistoria, 4, México, pp. 7-12.Sierra Carrillo, Dora (en prensa); “La Dirección de Etnohistoria del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, su trayectoria, los investigadores y sus proyectos”.Se presenta un recorrido cronológico a lo largo de la conformación y el surgimiento de la etnohistoria, al principio como rama adjunta a la historia y la etnología y después en su conformación como disciplina de estudio independiente. El análisis revisa la definición del concepto, las dificultades iniciales para darle cabida en el quehacer científico nacional y su posterior incorporación formal a los estudios emprendidos dentro de los centros de enseñanza e investigación en México. Además, se incluye detallado informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en los diversos estudios etnohistóricos llevados a cabo recientemente.We present a chronological survey tracing the formation and emergence of ethnohistory, first as a branch of history and ethnology and then its formation as an independent discipline of study. The analysis reviews the definition of the concept, the initial difficulties to accommodate it in the panorama of scientific work in the country, and its subsequent formal incorporation into studies undertaken at centers of teaching and research in Mexico. In addition, a detailed report includes the results of various recent studies in ethnohistory
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