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Gloria Swanson Ready for Her Close-Up
No full textGloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful characters-including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim-she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit lines-"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"-the realGloria Swanson never looked back.Cover -- CONTENTS -- 1 Glory -- 2 Funny Girl -- 3 Triangle -- 4 The Lions' Den -- 5 In the Family Way -- 6 The Great Moment -- 7 Her Gilded Cage -- 8 East Coaster -- 9 French Idyll -- 10 American Royalty -- 11 Declaration of Independence -- 12 Let It Rain -- 13 The Swamp -- 14 People Will Talk -- 15 The Crash -- 16 Mad about the Boy -- 17 Perfect Misunderstanding -- 18 Reinventing Herself -- 19 "You Used to Be Big" -- 20 Dressing the Part -- 21 Not Ready for Her Retrospective -- 22 Last Act -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- FILMOGRAPHY -- WORKS CITED -- PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZGloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful characters-including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim-she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit lines-"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"-the realGloria Swanson never looked back.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Extracting Boer-Mulders functions from p+D Drell-Yan processes
No full textWe extract the Boer- Mulders functions of valence and sea quarks in the proton from unpolarized p + D Drell- Yan data measured by the FNAL E866 Collaboration. Using these Boer- Mulders functions, we calculate the cos2 phi asymmetries in unpolarized pp Drell- Yan processes, both for the FNAL E866/ NuSea and the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider experiments. We also estimate the cos2 phi asymmetries in the unpolarized p (P) over bar Drell- Yan processes at GSI.Astronomy & AstrophysicsPhysics, Particles & FieldsSCI(E)37ARTICLE5null7
Supplemental_Materials – Supplemental material for Can Difficulties in Language Acquisition and Specific Learning Disabilities Be Separated Among English Learners?
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_Materials for Can Difficulties in Language Acquisition and Specific Learning Disabilities Be Separated Among English Learners? by H. Lee Swanson, Jennifer Kong, Stefania D. Petcu and Monica Fiorella Ascencio Pimental in Exceptional Children</p
Association of a polymorphism in intron 13 of the monoamine oxidase B gene with Parkinson disease
No full textMonoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) is an enzyme that has relevance for Parkinson disease (PD) because of its roles in catabolizing dopamine and potentially activating exogenous neurotoxicants. A polymorphism of the gene encoding MAO-B has been identified as a single base change (A or G) in intron 13 of the X chromosome. The A allele was previously associated with an approximately twofold risk of PD. The present study compared A and G allele frequencies between newly diagnosed idiopathic PD cases and a control group free of neurodegenerative diseases. All study subjects were Caucasian. Cases were 37 men and 25 women, age 37-80 years; controls were 50 men and 29 women, age 45-82 years. MAO-B genotype was determined by the allele-specific polymerase chain reaction on DNA extracted from peripheral lymphocytes. In complete contrast to previous studies, elevated risks were detected with the G allele. The age-adjusted odds ratio for the G allele in males was 1.87 ((95% confidence interval) 0.78-4.47). Among females the age-adjusted odds ratios were 5.00 ((95% confidence interval) 1.13-22.1) for the GA genotype and 5.60 ((95% confidence interval) 1.01-30.9) for the GG genotype. These findings, although of limited statistical precision, suggest that the G allele of this MAO-B polymorphism may relate to PD risk
Rasahus nesiotes Swanson 2018, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Rasahus nesiotes</i> sp. nov. <p>(Fig. 1)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b>: Easily separated from all other species of <i>Rasahus</i> by the small size, the black connexiva, and the presence of a small pale macula occupying the apex of the medial cell of the hemelytral membrane.</p> <p> <b>Coloration</b>: Black, except the following reddish-testaceous: all antennal segments (lighter apically), femora to tarsi of all legs (but these, especially the femur, suffused with both slightly lighter red and black), and fossula spongiosa of protibia and mesotibia. Connexiva and abdominal tergites suffused with dark castaneous. Second and third rostral segment also slightly lighter, becoming dark castaneous but may be due to preservation. The following spots of the hemelytra tawny or luteous: apical third of clavus, adjacent portion of corium covering apical half of claval margin, faint short vitta on membrane adjacent to corial apex, and oval spot well-contained in medial cell of membrane.</p> <p> <b>Structure</b>: Anteocular region covered on all surfaces with short silvery pile. Interocular region with width subequal to width of eye, with setae and silvery pile dorsally. Postocular region with short longitudinal sulcus reaching cephalad from transverse sulcus. Neck laterally and ventrally with short pile.</p> <p> Antennae: as per description under <i>Rasahus</i>.</p> <p>Eyes in lateral view nearly reaching dorsal margin and not reaching ventral margin.</p> <p>Ocelli moderate-sized, slightly raised, separated from each other by slightly more than diameter of one ocellus and from eye by approximate width of one ocellus.</p> <p> Rostrum: as per description under <i>Rasahus</i>.</p> <p>Pronotum: Anterior pronotal lobe with sulci distinct and granulate within, sparse short and long setae in sulci. Posterior pronotal lobe with small granules immediately posterior to transverse pronotal suture on apical third of disc medially, this granulate area diminishing laterally, otherwise smooth, with few scattered setae near lateral and posterior margins.</p> <p>Scutellum obscured by pin, apex prolonged in apically-rounded spine.</p> <p>Pleura: Propleuron with integument granulate, delimited laterally from dorsal face by distinct carina. Mesopleuron with integument more sparsely granulate. Metapleuron with integument conspicuously granulate, glabrous except coxal sheath densely silvery pilose, metapleural sulcus narrow between carinae.</p> <p>Sterna: Metasternum convex medially, more or less rounded posteriorly.</p> <p>Hemelytra reaching apex of seventh tergite, base of corium (usually veins) and outer margin of clavus with rows of distinct black setae.</p> <p>Forelegs: Profemur with ventral setae arranged in two rows. Protibia slightly thickened apically, with thick brush of setae at anterior face at apex, fossula spongiosa long, covering almost three-fourths length of tibia.</p> <p>Middle legs: Tarsus with thick black spinose setae ventrally, second tarsal segment longest. All else as forelegs.</p> <p> Hind legs: as per description under <i>Rasahus</i>.</p> <p>Abdomen with connexiva with long thin seta at posterolateral angle, disc of seventh ventrite densely pubescent.</p> <p>Female genitalia: Of general peiratine form. Visible portion of eighth tergite short, posterior margin convex. Ninth tergite trapezoidal. Tenth tergite trapezoidal to subtriangular, apex subrounded. Lobes of valvifer 1 (=part of eighth segment) hemispherical. Valvulae 1 somewhat elongate, convex apicolaterally, apex roundly acute. All segments with integument smooth (except few rugulae ventrally on valvifer 1), lacking spines or tubercles, with abundant short pale appressed pubescence and sparse scattered long semi-erect setae. Tenth tergite with long golden setae of moderate length, more densely so along lateral and apical margins.</p> <p>Male: unknown.</p> <p>Measurements (in mm): total length (apex of head to apex of hemelytra): 13.3; head length: 2.4; head width (across eyes): 1.5; anteocular length: 1.2; postocular length: 0.4; neck length: 0.4; scape length: 1.0; pedicel length: 2.1; basiflagellum length: 2.2; distiflagellum length: 2.3; antennal segment ratio: 1.0: 2.1: 2.2: 2.3; eye length: 0.8; eye width: 0.5; rostral segment 1 length: 0.9; rostral segment 2 length: 1.5; rostral segment 3 length: 0.9; rostral segment ratio: 1.0: 1.7: 1.0; prothorax length: 3.2; prothorax width (across humeri): 3.2; anterior pronotal lobe length: 2.3; posterior pronotal lobe length: 0.9; scutellum length: 1.6; scutellum width (at base): 1.4; hemelytra length: 8.7; procoxa length: 1.7; protrochanter length: 0.9; profemur length: 3.1; protibia length: 2.8; protibial fossula spongiosa length: 2.6 (0.6 of which overhangs tibial apex); protarsi length: 1.2; protarsal segment ratio: approximately 1.0: 1.5: 1.7; mesocoxa length: 0.7; mesotrochanter length: 0.7; mesofemur length: 2.9; mesotibia length: 2.5; mesotibial fossula spongiosa length: 2.1; mesotarsi length: 1.4; mesotarsal segment ratio: approximately 1.0: 2.0: 1.5; metacoxa length: 1.0; metatrochanter length: 1.0; metafemur length: 4.1; metatibia length: 4.4; metatarsi length: 2.4; metatarsal segment ratio: approximately 1.0: 3.0: 2.0; abdomen length: 7.1; abdomen (widest) width: 4.1.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b>: [THE BAHAMAS:] Grand Bahama Island: 27–28 December 1965, R. D. Alexander [1 female, holotype] (UMMZ).</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b>: Known only from the type locality (Fig. 4).</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>: The specific epithet, a noun in apposition, comes from the Greek νησιώτης, Latinized <i>nesiotes</i>, ‘islander’ and references the type locality.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>: This species is easily referred to the complex of species with a circular macula well-contained in the medial cell of the hemelytral membrane (= <i>hamatus</i> group; see Key to Species of <i>Rasahus</i> and <i>Froeschnerisca</i>). This group consists of <i>R. amapaensis</i>, <i>R. angulatus</i>, <i>R. arcitenens</i>, <i>R. arcuiger</i>, <i>R. argentinensis</i>, <i>R. biguttatus</i>, <i>R. grandis</i>, <i>R. hamatus</i>, <i>R. limai</i>, <i>R. thoracicus</i>, and <i>R. scutellaris</i> <b>stat. rev.</b> (see next section).</p> <p> Among these, it seems that <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is most closely related to <i>R. hamatus</i>, based on a more similar color pattern, including the lack of a pale arcuate spot of the cubital cell and the black costal margins, as well as close geographical proximity. However, <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from <i>R. hamatus</i> in various ways. First, the female holotype of <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (ca. 13 mm) is much smaller than females of <i>R. hamatus</i> (17–18 mm). The spots of the hemelytra differ subtly as well. In <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, the postscutellar macula is limited to the apical third of the clavus and is essentially obsolete in the basal third of the adjacent part of the corium. Conversely, the postscutellar macula occupies the apical half of the clavus and reaches to the bases (although narrowed) in the adjacent region of the corium in <i>R. hamatus</i>. The round spot of the membranal medial cell also differs in size between the two species, being smaller and clearly not occupying most of the cell in <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> versus essentially filling the cell in <i>R. hamatus</i>. Lastly, the connexiva of <i>R. nesiotes</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> are wholly black, whereas they are either wholly stramineous (males) or distinctly bicolorous yellow-black (females) in <i>R. hamatus</i>.</p> <p>This is the only peiratine species currently known from the Bahamas.</p>Published as part of <i>Swanson, Daniel R., 2018, Three new species of Rasahus, with clarifications on the identities of three other Neotropical corsairs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae), pp. 446-472 in Zootaxa 4471 (3)</i> on pages 450-451, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/1439906">http://zenodo.org/record/1439906</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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