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When King Arthur met the Venus : Romantic Antiquarianism and the Illustration of Anne Bannerman’s “The Prophecy of Merlin”
No full textThe first edition of Bannerman’s Tales of Superstition and Chivalry (1802) contained an erotic engraving of a naked Venus figure, which was declared ‘offensive to decency’ by Scottish audiences in the poet’s native Edinburgh. Garner’s account investigates the controversy surrounding the engraving and the puzzling disparity between it and the ballad it illustrated: the Arthurian-themed ‘Prophecy of Merlin’. Using evidence from Bannerman’s correspondence with noted Scottish male publishers and antiquarians, this essay argues that decision to include the dangerous engraving was symptomatic of current anxieties surrounding a female-authored text which threatened to encroach on antiquarian and Arthurian enquiry.Peer reviewe
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Letter to Philippe-Antoine Merlin, 1802 November 12.
No full textLetter to Philippe-Antoine Merlin, concerning a conflict involving charges of plagarism between the author and C. Laucuouque, dated "21 brumaire, an 11." The author's signature is not entirely legible. Accompanying enveloped shows traces of red wax seal
"Thank me therefore": Social Prestige, Probity and Self-determination of Nymue's character in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur"
No full textQadratic Simulations of Merlin Arthur Games
No full textThe known proofs of MA C PP incur a quadratic overhead in the running time. We prove that this quadratic overhead is necessary for black-box simulations; in particular, we obtain an oracle relative to which MA-TIME (t) C P-TIME (o(t2)). We also show that 2-sided-error Merlin-Arthur games can be simulated by 1-sided-error Arthur-Merlin games with quadratic overhead. We also present a simple, query complexity based proof (provided by Mika Göös) that there is an oracle relative to which MA C NPBPP (which was previously known to hold by a proof using generics)
Lord Thomas and fair Ann; Brown Girl and Fair Ellenteret; Fair Ellender; Fair Analee; Lord Thomas; Brown Girl and Fair Ellenter
No full textvoiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler
Mrs. May Kennedy McCord
Springfield, Mo.
Sept. 16, 1950
Reel 66, Item 1
The Brown Girl
("I learned it from old Aunt Polly Goudge. I couldn't have
been more than twelve or thirteen. She said it was sometimes called
Fair Ellender. And I remember particularly that she explained to
me that the Brown Girl's name wasn't Brown - she says her face was
brown. From a child I can remember that, and I can remember this
song and the sort of Irish jig, rollicky tune it had, with all its
blood and thunder.")
The version Mrs. McCord sang for M. Mitchell was almost exactly
like the text she sang for V. Randolph (See OFS I:103-106) except
that she sang the following stanza at the beginning; and that
she did not repeat the last word of the fourth line but sang the
syallable on three notes. Here is the introductory stanza she did
not sing for VR:
Lort Thomas he was a gay gentleman,
The lord of many a belle,
Fair Ellender was a gay young lady,
Lord Thomas he loved her we-e-ell
Lord Thomas he loved her well.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Apoptosis-inducing molecules and uses therefor
No full textThis invention relates generally to methods and agents for modulating adiposity-related conditions. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use of TRAIL death receptor agonists, including nucleic acids such as TRAIL polynucleotides, peptides and polypeptides including TRAIL polypeptides, TRAIL DR agonist antigen-binding molecules, TRAIL DR peptide agonists as well as small molecule TRAIL DR agonists in compositions and methods for treating or preventing adiposity-related conditions such as obesity, diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrom
A study of the behaviour and interactions of the novel FERM protein Willin
No full textWillin is a novel member of the Four-point-one Ezrin Radixin Moesin
(FERM) protein superfamily, containing an N-terminal FERM domain most like the
Ezrin-Radixin-Moesin (ERM) family but also the closely related protein Merlin.
Willin was initially discovered as a yeast two-hybrid binding partner of
neurofascin155, and this interaction has now been confirmed by both co-localisation
studies and the use of two different biochemical methods. Like neurofascin155,
Willin also localises to detergent resistant membranes, and like the ERM family, it is
able to bind to phospholipids. The expression of Willin appears to be toxic as the
production of cell-lines stably expressing Willin proved to be not possible and this
appears to be because it induces apoptosis in cultured cells. This is a proliferation
control function consistent with the suggestion that Willin is the human homologue of the Drosophila tumour suppressor ‘Expanded’. Three antibodies to Willin were also characterised and a novel splice variant, Willin2, subcloned into a GFP-tagged
plasmid for comparison with the original form
Radio jets in NGC 1068 with e-MERLIN and VLA: structure and morphology
No full textWe present new high-sensitivity e-MERLIN and Very Large Array (VLA) radio images of the prototypical Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 at 5, 10, and 21 GHz. We image the radio jet, from the compact components north-east (NE), C, S1, and S2 to the faint double-lobed jet structure of the NE and south-west (SW) jet lobes. We map the jet between 15 kλ and 3300 kλ spatial scales by combining enhanced-Multi Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (e-MERLIN) and VLA data for the first time. Components NE, C, and S2 have steep spectra indicative of optically thin non-Thermal emission domination between 5 and 21 GHz. Component S1, which is where the active galactic nucleus resides, has a flat radio spectrum. We report a new component, S2a, a part of the southern jet. We compare these new data with the MERLIN and VLA data observed in 1983, 1992, and 1995 and report a flux decrease by a factor of 2 in component C, suggesting variability of this jet component. With the high angular resolution e-MERLIN maps, we detect the bow shocks in the NE jet lobe that coincide with the molecular gas outflows observed with ALMA. The NE jet lobe has a jet power of 6.7 × 1042 erg s-1 and is considered to be responsible for driving out the dense molecular gas observed with ALMA around the same region.</p
Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity
No full textTo overcome the ever-growing demand for software, software development organizations strive to enhance the productivity of their developers. But what does productivity mean in the context of software development? A substantial amount of work on developer productivity has been undertaken over the past four decades. The majority of this work considered productivity from a top-down perspective (the manager view) in terms of the artifacts and code created per unit of time. Common examples of such productivity measures are the lines of source code modified per hour, the resolution time for modification requests, or function points created per month. These productivity measures focus on a single, output-oriented factor for quantifying productivity, and do not take into account developers’ individual work roles, practices and other factors that might affect their productivity, such as work fragmentation, the tools used, or the work/office environment. In our research, we investigated how productivity could be quantified from the bottom-up, following a mixed-methods approach that involved more than 800 software developers. By investigating developers’ individual productivity, it is possible to better understand the individual work habits and patterns, how they relate to the productivity perceptions and also which factors are most relevant for a developer’s productivity
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