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Princess Alexandra greets Australian athletes [picture] /
No full textInscription: "At a reception in Sydney on September 9 Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent, who is on her first visit to Australia, chats with two famous athletes - Betty Cuthbert (centre) and Marlene Mathews (right).--Caption on reverse.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3075748
Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
Full text linkCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Author Rights Workshop
Full text linkLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Athaliah and Alexandra: Gender and Queenship in Josephus [Author Accepted Manuscript]
No full textAthaliah and Alexandra were the only two women to rule as queens of Judah/Judaea in their own right and both women’s reigns are reported in Josephus’ writings. Despite their uniqueness, however, Athaliah and Alexandra are rarely compared in scholarship; the former is usually dismissed, and focus centred on the latter. This article contends that there are historical similarities between the two, but literary differences. Josephus could have referred to Athaliah or used elements of her portrayal in his presentation of Alexandra but does not, creating the impression that Alexandra was completely different to her predecessor. It may be instructive, therefore, to consider why Josephus literarily isolates the queens and what this means for his interpretation of Alexandra
Ferromagnetism and magnetic anisotropy in exfoliated flakes of CrTe2
No full textAuthor Alexandra Wagner, BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Aux racines du « nouveau cinéma suisse » ? Le projet de Tanner, Brandt et Goretta pour l’Exposition nationale de 1964
Full text linkL’article offre une lecture documentée de deux lettres. L’une est signée d’Alain Tanner, Henry Brandt et Claude Goretta, la seconde de Tanner seul. Alors qu’une loi sur le cinéma est sur le point de s’élaborer et que la mise sur pied de l’Exposition nationale de 1964 bat son plein, les trois cinéastes élaborent un projet de films qui, à l’aide de cette manifestation, donnerait un nouveau souffle au cinéma national. Ces lettres, sources inédites et jusqu’ici pratiquement inexploitées, constituent un témoignage précieux. Elles contiennent d’une part une dénonciation de l’absence de soutien national au cinéma suisse, d’autre part, elles portent en elles tout l’espoir de réaliser un cinéma indépendant grâce à son intégration dans le cadre officiel, national et donc légitime qu’est l’Exposition de 1964. L’initiative de Tanner, Brandt et Goretta constitue ainsi un jalon dans l’avènement de ce qui est trop communément appelé le « nouveau cinéma suisse », notion dès lors revisitée. En regard de ces deux lettres, l’article évoque les premiers films de Tanner, Brandt et Goretta et effectue un survol de la réception critique romande de ce cinéma. Une ébauche d’un réseau culturel gravitant autour de la production locale met en lumière les alliances nécessaires au développement du cinéma helvétique. Par l’évocation de ces dimensions contextuelles, il est possible de cerner les arguments et les enjeux des lettres, et de mesurer la force de conviction de leurs auteurs lettres, et de mesurer la force de conviction de leurs auteurs.This article proposes a documented reading of two letters. One is signed by Alain Tanner, Henry Brandt and Claude Goretta, the other is by Tanner alone. At the time when a law on cinema is about to appear and the National Exhibition of 1964 is in full swing, the three filmmakers present a film project that, helped by the context of the exhibition, will breathe new life into the national cinema. These letters, previously unpublished and until now virtually unstudied, are a precious historical source. On the one hand they denounce the lack of support for a national Swiss cinema, on the other they express the ambition to establish an independent cinema via its integration into the official, national and legitimate framework of the 1964 exhibition. The initiative of Tanner, Brandt and Goretta is therefore a milestone in the arrival of what is too often called ‘new Swiss cinema’, the idea of which is reconsidered here. In relation to the two letters, the article evokes the early films of Tanner, Brandt and Goretta and provides an overview of the francophone Swiss reception of these films. A sketch of the cultural network surrounding the local production highlights the alliances that were necessary for the development of Swiss cinema. By evoking these contextual factors, we can better grasp the arguments and concerns of these letters, and we can measure the strength of conviction of the three authors
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