232 research outputs found
R.D Blackmore Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textLetter from R. D. Blackmore [Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
English novelist, author of Lorna Doone] to Mannington Caffyn, on
the origin of the title Cradock Nowell. 18 Feb. 1890
Letter from E. A.Nowell to Mr Morton secretary of Royal Society
of Tasmania enclosing Blackmore's letter.
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Present and future shipwrecks
No full textEntrevista a Josiah Blackmore, autor del libro “Manifest perdition: shipwreck narrative and disruption of Empire” (2002).Interview with Josiah Blackmore, author of the book “Manifest perdition: shipwreck narrative and disruption of Empire” (2002).Entrevista com Josiah Blackmore, autor do livro “Manifest perdition: shipwreck narrative and disruption of Empire” (2002)
sj-zip-1-ipe-10.1177_20416695221116652 - Supplemental material for Evaluating the integration of eye-tracking and motion capture technologies: Quantifying the accuracy and precision of gaze measures
No full textSupplemental material, sj-zip-1-ipe-10.1177_20416695221116652 for Evaluating the integration of eye-tracking and motion capture technologies: Quantifying the accuracy and precision of gaze measures by Rhys Hunt, Tim Blackmore, Chris Mills, and Matt Dicks in i-Perception</p
Richard Blackmore and his Treatise on the English Spleen
No full textEn 1725, el poeta y médico inglés sir Richard Blackmore publicó A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours. Esta obra estaba dedicada a lo que el autor denominaba el "spleen inglés", un trastorno físico y mental, históricamente asociado con la melancolía que, según él, dominaba de manera universal y tiránica sobre los hombres y las mujeres de Inglaterra. Este artículo ofrece una edición crítica del prefacio del tratado de Blackmore. En la introducción, se presenta una semblanza del médico y se contextualiza el documento inscribiéndolo en dos debates de principios del siglo XVIII en los que participó sir Richard: la Querella entre los Antiguos y los Modernos y una polémica poco conocida acerca de la función fisiológica del bazo.In 1725, the English poet and physician Sir Richard Blackmore published A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours. This work was dedicated to what the author called the "English spleen", a physical and mental disorder, historically associated with melancholy, which, according to him, ruled universally and tyrannically over the men and women of England. This article offers a critical edition of the preface to Blackmore's treatise. In the introduction, a profile of the doctor is presented and the document is contextualized by registering it in two debates from the beginning of the 18th century in which Sir Richard participated: the Litigation between the Ancients and the Moderns and a little-known controversy about the physiological function of the spleen.Fil: Gattinoni, Andrés Juan. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Save Now [Y/N]? Machine Memory at War in Iain Banks’ <i>Look to Windward</i>
No full text Creating memory during and after wartime trauma is vexed by state attempts to control public and private discourse. Science fiction author Iain Banks’ novel Look to Windward proposes different ways of preserving memory and culture, from posthuman memory devices, to artwork, to architecture, to personal, local ways of remembering. </jats:p
Upper-respiratory infection triggers experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis onset in autoimmune prone t-cell receptor transgenic mice
No full textMultiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. Most MS patients experience a disease course characterized by periods of symptom exacerbation (relapses) followed by periods of partial recovery (remission). Relapse contributes to disability but the processes that trigger relapses are poorly understood. Upper-respiratory viral infection increases the risk for relapse. Here, we tested the hypothesis that upper respiratory infection is sufficient to cause glial activation, promote immune cell trafficking to the CNS and trigger pathology in an autoimmune-prone T cell receptor transgenic mouse line. To test this hypothesis we infected 2D2 mice and monitored for symptoms of inflammatory demyelination (EAE). Clinical and histological EAE was observed in ~29.2% of infected 2D2 mice which closely resembles the incidence of upper-respiratory infection-induced relapse in MS patients. Chemokine production in brain resident glial cells, primarily astrocytes was induced by TNF and IL-1β stimulation which may assist in the trafficking of immune cells to the CNS. Furthermore, pharmacological inhibitors of JNK, ERK1/2, p38, and NF-κB modulated the levels of chemokines secreted by astrocytes in response to cytokine stimulation. Increased levels of serum IFN-γ were observed in C57BL/6 mice infected with influenza as well as increased CD4+ T-cells in the choroid plexus. Finally, we observed immunosurveillance of the brain by T-cells and CD45highCD11b+ cells in C57BL/6 mice after influenza inoculation. This immunosurveillance could prove detrimental to MS patients.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Stephen Blackmore, accepted the attached license on 2016-12-02 at 08:12.The student, Stephen Blackmore, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-12-02 at 08:19.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-12-05 at 14:10.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10412 on 2017-02-28 at 14:37:13Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T16:37:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A Novel Two-Degree-of-Freedom Gimbal for Dynamic Laser Weeding: Design, Analysis and Experimentation
No full textCopyright © 2022 the author(s). Current robotic laser weeding systems mostly rely on serial mechanisms with one or two actuated axes, which can barely meet the requirements of high precision and dynamic performances. In this article, a novel laser weeding gimbal is proposed based on a two-degree-of-freedom 5-revolute rotational parallel manipulator to perform a dynamic intrarow laser weeding operation. Comprehensive analyses consisting of kinematics, workspace, singularity, and dynamics are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed design. Finally, experimental tests were conducted both in lab and field environments and the results are provided, in which the positioning accuracy has been evaluated as in average errors of 0.62 mm in position at the distance of 535 mm, and the dynamic weeding efficiency is around 0.72 s/weed with a dwell time of 0.64 s at the tracking speed of 0.1 m/s. The effectiveness of the proposed dynamic intrarow weeding mechanism has been evaluated in a real field trial.Innovate U.K. (Grant Number: 101817, Hyperweeding project)
Groundwater vulnerability to potential contamination in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
No full textThe Geological Survey of Canada, in conjunction with various partners, has been undertaking a groundwater characterization project in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia for the past three years. This thesis contributes towards this project through the modelling of groundwater vulnerability in the Annapolis Valley region. The groundwater vulnerability modelling utilized the concept that the degree of potential vulnerability to contamination can be mapped as a function of selected hydrologic conditions. A regional view of the vulnerability to potential contamination of groundwater resources within the Annapolis Valley was modelled using the DRASTIC methodology. This index-overlay method included the seven hydrogeologic parameters of Depth to water, net Recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of the vadose zone, and hydraulic Conductivity, and was programmed using object modelling available in ArcGIS. Several groundwater vulnerability scenarios were determined to take into account issues with data quality, data quantity, and potential hydrogeologic conditions variability. The resulting groundwater vulnerability for both bedrock and surficial aquifers was examined for each scenario and compared. This exercise indicated that the vulnerability model produced by the DRASTIC method can be significantly altered by seemingly minor variations in data precision and accuracy for discreet parameters. Some of those parameters that have the highest impact in the results (net recharge, depth to water, and impact of the vadose zone) commonly exhibit low dataset precision and accuracy, which is an important consideration in the establishment of groundwater protection and monitoring programs. Vulnerability results vary according to, and within, each geological unit, although generally surficial units are significantly more vulnerable than bedrock units. The bedrock (Wolfville and Blomidon formations) and surficial (sand and gravel) units believed most promising in terms of aquifer quantity and quality were found to be the units potentially most vulnerable to contamination
Camelot’s Killers: Gordon Dickson’s Rhetorical Cleansing of America
No full text Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King – Else, wherefore born… Tennyson, Idylls of the King Writing Around the TableThe idea of Camelot was a lance stuck in the side of American culture – the eruption that followed spilled some of the best and the brightest blood in Southeast Asia and Africa. In the science fiction community, Gordon Dickson’s well-liked Childe Cycle1 published between 1960 and 1994, made a fictional Camelot that paralleled Kennedy’s New Frontier. In this paper, I argue that the series functions to make war bloodless and palatable, to mirror the rhetorical postures of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier and its political aftermath. A line can be drawn from Kennedy’s rhetoric to the creation of the Peace Corps, the space race, and the deepening involvement in Vietnam. This paper understands Kennedy’s rhetoric to be a step in the direction of American foreign policy that began in Vietnam and extended to other global conflicts. However, Dickson’s writing reflects the early heroic part of the mission: the part we most typically associate with Kennedy’s New Frontier. </jats:p
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