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Neil Swift collection of Australian and New Zealand booksellers tickets, plus various bookplates.
No full textAlbum of book-labels created using a Sands & McDougall "Returns" ledger, purchased from John Dean 28th June 2004. Neil Swift was a bookseller in Footscray. These are predominately bookseller's labels.A bookplate is a small print or decorative label added to a book, usually the inside front cover, to indicate the book's owner
Recent Results from Swift
No full textGehrels, Neil. (2013). Recent Results from Swift. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/158171
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory studies of supersoft novae
No full textThe rapid response capabilities of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, together with the daily planning of its observing schedule, make it an ideal mission for following novae in the X-ray and UV bands, particularly during their early phases of rapid evolution and throughout the supersoft source interval. Many novae, both classical and recurrent, have been extensively monitored by Swift throughout their supersoft phase and later decline. We collect here results from observations of novae with outbursts which occurred between the start of 2006 and the end of 2017
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory studies of supersoft novae
No full textThe rapid response capabilities of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, together with the daily planning of its observing schedule, make it an ideal mission for following novae in the X-ray and UV bands, particularly during their early phases of rapid evolution and throughout the supersoft source interval. Many novae, both classical and recurrent, have been extensively monitored by Swift throughout their supersoft phase and later decline. We collect here results from observations of novae with outbursts which occurred between the start of 2006 and the end of 2017
Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
Swift-XRT Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Triggers in the Second Advanced LIGO/Virgo Observing Run
No full textThe Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory carried out prompt searches for gravitational wave (GW) events detected
by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) during the second observing run (“O2”). Swift performed extensive
tiling of eight LVC triggers, two of which had very low false-alarm rates (GW 170814 and the epochal GW
170817), indicating a high confidence of being astrophysical in origin; the latter was the first GW event to
have an electromagnetic counterpart detected. In this paper we describe the follow-up performed during O2
and the results of our searches. No GW electromagnetic counterparts were detected; this result is expected,
as GW 170817 remained the only astrophysical event containing at least one neutron star after LVC’s later
retraction of some events. A number of X-ray sources were detected, with the majority of identified sources
being active galactic nuclei. We discuss the detection rate of transient X-ray sources and their implications in the
O2 tiling searches. Finally, we describe the lessons learned during O2, and how these are being used to improve
the Swift follow-up of GW events. In particular, we simulate a population of GRB afterglows to evaluate our
source ranking system’s ability to differentiate them from unrelated and uncatalogued X-ray sources. We find
that ≈ 60 − 70% of afterglows whose jets are oriented towards Earth will be given high rank (i.e., “interesting”
designation) by the completion of our second follow-up phase (assuming their location in the sky was observed),
but that this fraction can be increased to nearly 100% by performing a third follow-up observation of sources
exhibiting fading behavior
Why Privacy Matters: An Interview with Neil Richards
No full textProfessor Daniel J. Solove discusses the book \u27Why Privacy Matters\u27 and the future of privacy with the author, Professor Neil Richards
Reading Swift and Ireland, 1720-1729 : constituences, contexts and constructions of identity in Jonathan Swift's occasional writings of the 1720s
No full textThe 1720s was a decade of crisis in Ireland. Jonathan Swift's occasional writings from these years extend the country's political and economic crises into
dramas of personal and national identity. Part One of this thesis investigates the material conditions of the relationship between Swift, his Irish audience, and the
underlying problems of identity that such an audience simultaneously poses and occludes. Part Two is an anatomy of the literary modes through which that relationship is figured.
The first chapter offers the 1720 Declaratory Act as an important subtext for Swift's 'inaugural' work of the decade, the 1720 Proposalfor the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture. Challenging retrospective constructions of the author's textual and political authority, the chapter examines how Swift the 'Hibernian patriot' was largely an invention of the crisis surrounding the act. Chapter Two
argues that The Drapier's Letters reconfigure the language that had been used in the past to depict the Catholic threat to Protestant Ireland, and use it to depict the
threat emerging from England.
Part Two moves to the question of identity, which Chapter Three designates a kind of 'style', both a mode of expression and a trend in polite society. The writing of history and the social signification of language are the
main concerns of this chapter, which investigates how Irish historiography becomes the focus for a range of concerns in the 1720s. Chapter Four nominates the pastoral genre as an alternative vehicle for the reading and writing of history
in Swift's Ireland. It identifies a Virgilian dialectic of expropriation and protection by a patron as an important method of 'reading' oneself into history and identity. Looking at various manifestations of crisis in Ireland in 1729 - famine, fuel shortages and emigration, the final chapter argues that A Modest Proposal uses techniques of allegory to produce a crisis of interpretation. By
promoting and perpetuating misreading, it mirrors the pervasive climate of error that produced this text.
As a whole the thesis documents three transitions. It traces the emergence of a parodic method of literary and political representation which eventually overwhelms any claims Swift's writing might once have made to positive
advocacy. Once considered the dominant and definitive voice of 1720s Ireland, Swift is re-appraised as one writer among many, and his writing as a product of his society rather than an authoritative comment on it. Finally, the Presbyterians of Ireland are shown to emerge by the end of the decade as the primary focus for the anxieties and aggressions that animate Swift's occasional writings
Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”
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Jere Nash Interview with Neil McMillen (Part 2 of 2)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with University of Southern Mississippi history professor Neil R. McMillen in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics discussed include Aaron Henry; race relations after the civil rights movement; and William Winter
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