192 research outputs found
Profile of author and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, a New Yorker who summers in Cas
No full textProfile of author and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, a New Yorker who summers in Castine
Hartmann Wavefront Sensors for Advanced LIGO
No full textOSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper SW3M.5.
From the session Beam Control & Measurement (SW3M)The operation and sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detector are degraded by absorption-induced wavefront distortion. We describe the use of ultra-sensitive Hartmann wavefront sensors to tune detector operation and optimize sensitivity.Peter Veitch, Aidan Brooks, Won Kim, Carl Blair, Huy Cao, Greg Grabeel, Terra Hardwick, Matthew Heintze, Alastair Heponstall, Craig Ingram, Jesper Munch, David Ottaway and Thomas V
Social and urban study of Carlton : programme
No full textProject No. 3 :Urban Studies Investigation Programme1. Analysis of survey and census material / by R. Billard -- 2. Analysis of survey and census material / by C. Hardwick -- 3. Census data: Drummond and Palmerston Streets / [Author unknown] -- 4. Census data, 1966 / [Author unknown] -- 5. Carlton urban study / G. Marshall -- 6. Carlton: population characteristics /J. Wade
Elizabeth of Hardwick and epistolary negotiations : | author: Madeline Chatfield.: noblewomen and sixteenth-century English politics
No full textThis thesis analyses the ways in which English noblewomen used epistolary conventions and letter-writing to engage as agents in the political sphere of sixteenth-century England. It provides a long-term historical context to current discourses, both public and scholarly, about the place and function of women as actors in the political sphere. This thesis presents a case study of one English noblewoman, Elizabeth of Hardwick, whose life marked a gradual ascent from the landed gentry to the heights of the English aristocracy, and who remains one of Tudor England’s most prolific letter writers. Through a close reading of Elizabeth’s correspondence, this thesis will demonstrate how it was possible for noblewomen toact as political agents in sixteenth-century England while simultaneously being historically disenfranchised individuals. I argue that Elizabeth of Hardwick utilised epistolary conventions such as gendered appeals to motherhood and textual structures based on the Ciceronian tradition of public political language in letters to members of her social network to maintain powerful political connections and to exert influence upon institutional political processes
Cool For You: Joan Didion, Renata Adler, and Elizabeth Hardwick
No full text© 2025 Isabella Imogen Constance Gullifer-LaurieCool is a term that defies conceptual fixity, evoking both intensity and restraint. In the latter half of the twentieth century, cool moved from being synonymous with the counterculture to the mainstream. Within the North-American cultural imaginary it signified a nonchalance and ironic rebelliousness at the same time as it summoned the effort of calculated detachment and conforming reserve. This thesis engages with this expansive, supple category of cool to consider the reception of the authorial persona and the textual production of three writers who shaped public discourse during this period: Joan Didion, Renata Adler, and Elizabeth Hardwick. Taking cool as an object of analysis, this thesis develops an embodied, biographical, paratextual literary criticism in order to produce new critical encounters with these writers, examining the relationship of style and celebrity to fiction, screenwriting, journalism, and criticism, with a focus on three novels: Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970), Adler’s Speedboat (1976), and Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights (1979). This thesis elaborates on three aspects of coolness to advance its theoretical and textual engagement with each author, studying Didion’s allure, Adler’s attitude, and Hardwick’s authority
The Invasion of Sexual Privacy
No full textThis Article critiques the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Bowers v. Hardwick. The author examines the roots of sexual privacy and argues that the Hardwick case presented a simple right to privacy issue, but that the Court twisted the issue into a moral one. As a result, the author concludes that homosexuals were singled out for moral condemnation at the expense of a fundamental liberty
High Power and Optomechanics in Advanced LIGO Detectors
No full textIn September 2015, a new era of astronomy began with the first direct detection of grav- itational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. The event was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, comprised of two long-baseline interferometers, one in Livingston, LA and one in Hanford, WA. At the time of the first detection, the interferometers were part way through an upgrade to an advanced configuration and were operating with a strain sensitivity of just better than 10−23/Hz1/2 around 100Hz. The full Advanced LIGO design calls for sensitivity of a few parts in 10−24/Hz1/2.
This thesis covers the detector upgrade to double the input power, thereby reducing quantum shot noise, which currently limits LIGO strain sensitivity above 100Hz. First, it presents the design of the interferometer and the noises – fundamental, technical, and environmental – which contribute to the full sensitivity curve, motivating the need for high power. The details of the high power laser upgrade are discussed. Second, it presents select side effects of high power, which can result in overall losses and heighten specific classical noise couplings. The work particularly focuses on a three-mode opto-mechanical interaction that can become unstable at high power, threatening the operational ability of the detector; multiple successful mitigation technique are presented and compared.
The results of this work, combined with the collaborative work of many others, allow the Advanced LIGO detectors to achieve a strain sensitivity better than 5 × 10−24/Hz1/2 during the third observation run
A case and follow-up study of the retarded children seen in the child guidance clinic, Washington, D.C. between June 1, 1946 and December 31, 1949, 1951
No full textBirmingham News sleeve BN0037537
No full textWillie Morris and Irwin Gluster / Need photo of Willie Morris, author of new book on the South. / Smith and Hardwick bookstore on 20th Street / [Work order included
A Sonata for two women performance and performativity in the works of Renata Adler and Elizabeth Hardwick
No full textUniversity of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.This dissertation examines the correlations between the acts of reading and writing and concepts of performance and/or performativity via case studies of North American authors Renata Adler and Elizabeth Hardwick. I argue that Adler and Hardwick’s literary works, in varying ways, exemplify or illuminate theatrical concepts that underscore the acts of reading and writing, as theorised by Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Iser.
The novels that act as primary texts in this study – Adler’s (2013) [1976] and (2013) [1983], and Hardwick’s (2001) [1979] – emerged during a wave of American metafictional and postmodernist literature. They utilise an author-as-persona and feature literary allusions, essayistic meditations, self-reflexive and/or metafictional references, and overt autobiographical references. Crucially, they also emerged during the same period that the terms “performance” and “performativity” proliferated inside and outside of the academy. Hardwick addressed the inherent theatricality of literary forms such as letters and journals. Adler, in , situates language in terms of performativity. Despite these correlations, there is currently no scholarship that analyses Adler and Hardwick’s work using this critical framework. My case studies combine close readings with archival research, establishing Adler and Hardwick’s texts in their literary historical contexts and drawing on recent author-generated material. Along with Bakhtin and Iser, my analysis is also informed by theorists working in the fields of poststructuralism, postmodernist studies, performance studies, and post-classical narratology.
This PhD includes a minor creative component – a novella titled – influenced by Adler and Hardwick’s fragmented prose style and thematically shaped by one of the major recurring themes to emerge from this research project: doubling. Spilt into two parts ( is set in Sydney and at a convent in an unnamed country), ruminates on the interrelated subjects of identity and fiction-making. Throughout the novella, certain storylines, characters, and images are mirrored as the narrative follows the lives of two different protagonists. responds to questions raised in the critical component via thematic undercurrents that speak to ideas concerning performance, persona, and the addresser/addressee relationship in the acts of reading and writing
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