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The Buried Madonna: Matricide and Maternal Power in the Novels of Michele Roberts.
No full textThe article presents literary criticism of the books "Daughters of the House" and "Impossible Saints" by Michèle Roberts. It references the psychoanalytic theory of the dead psychic mother as developed by philosopher André Green. According to the author, Roberts' novels highlight the denigration of maternity in popular culture and point to ways in which maternal power can be reimagined as a positive force. Particular focus is given to themes of death and matricide in Roberts' work
Post-colonial Antarctica
No full textThis chapter explores how postcolonial perspectives have informed and contributed to ‘critical Antarctic studies’.\ud
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Shortly after Dodds published an essay in Polar Record entitled ‘Post- colonial Antarctica: an emerging engagement’, leading postcolonial theorists posited the ‘The end of post- colonial theory?’ in the journal PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association). Lambasting postcolonial theory as irrelevant, parochial and Anglo-centric, 1 their piece captured a powerful current of discontent. But for Robert Young, a leading theorist of post- colonialism and author of field- setting introductions to postcolonial theory and practice, such an obituary seemed out of place and time..
Jacksonville, Neosho County
No full textDane Roberts, “Jacksonville, Neosho County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/88.The author uses historic documents and newspaper accounts to piece together the brief history of the town of Jacksonville, Neosho County, Kansas
Solving eigenvalue response matrix equations with nonlinear techniques
No full textThis paper presents new algorithms for use in the eigenvalue response matrix method (ERMM) for reactor eigenvalue problems. ERMM spatially decomposes a domain into independent nodes linked via boundary conditions approximated as truncated orthogonal expansions, the coefficients of which are response functions. In its simplest form, ERMM consists of a two-level eigenproblem: an outer Picard iteration updates the k-eigenvalue via balance, while the inner λ -eigenproblem imposes neutron balance between nodes. Efficient methods are developed for solving the inner λ-eigenvalue problem within the outer Picard iteration. Based on results from several diffusion and transport benchmark models, it was found that the Krylov-Schur method applied to the λ -eigenvalue problem reduces Picard solver times (excluding response generation) by a factor of 2–5. Furthermore, alternative methods, including Picard acceleration schemes, Steffensen’s method, and Newton’s method, are developed in this paper. These approaches often yield faster k-convergence and a need for fewer k-dependent response function evaluations, which is important because response generation is often the primary cost for problems using responses computed online (i.e., not from a precomputed database). Accelerated Picard iteration was found to reduce total computational times by 2–3 compared to the unaccelerated case for problems dominated by response generation. In addition, Newton’s method was found to provide nearly the same performance with improved robustness
The global knowledge economy in question
No full textPurpose – The aim of this paper is to bring into question the idea of the global knowledge economy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the characteristics of the knowledge economy, as elaborated by academics and policy makers concerned with knowledge in the contemporary global business environment. A range of available data is reviewed concerning the global distribution of investments in knowledge, information and communications technologies (ICTs), international transactions in knowledge-intensive services and royalty and licensing fees, employment by sector and literacy rates. Such data provide a basis for an initial critical evaluation of the notion of the global knowledge economy.
Findings – The use of the term “global knowledge economy” fails to acknowledge the uneven distribution of knowledge-based economic activity. Moreover, as currently constituted, the idea of a global knowledge economy, which focuses on knowledge as conceptualised in the commercial activities of advanced countries, overlooks the diversity of knowledges present in the world today.
Originality/value – This paper provides the first attempt to question and critically explore the global knowledge economy
The Actor in New York
No full text170 p.Describes three months in New York City including the business of auditioning and landing a part on Broadway. The author performed as the narrator in Morna Murphy's musical, Shelley, at The Court Repertory Theatre.Johnson-Liff Casting AssociatesIntroduction -- Housing -- Apartment Life -- Working -- Pictures & Resumes -- Rounds -- Agents -- Auditions -- Showcases -- Classes -- Unions -- Conclusion
Bruce-Roberts numbers and quasihomogeneous functions on analytic varieties
No full text[EN] Given a germ of an analytic variety X and a germ of a holomorphic function f with a stratified isolated singularity with respect to the logarithmic stratification of X, we show that under certain conditions on the singularity type of the pair (f,X), the following relative analog of the well-known K. Saito¿s theorem holds true: equality of the relative Milnor and Tjurina numbers of f with respect to X (also known as Bruce¿Roberts numbers) is equivalent to the relative quasihomogeneity of the pair (f, X), i.e. to the existence of a coordinate system such that both f and X are quasihomogeneous with respect to the same positive rational weights.The work of the first author was supported by Grant PID2021-124577NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF A way of making
Europe . The work of the second author was partially supported by the
UK EPSRC [EP/W009455/1], and also by the Research Foundation of São Paulo (FAPESP) Grant No. 2017/2355-9. The work of the third author was partially
supported by FAPESP Proc. 2019/21181-0 and CNPq Proc. 305695/2019-3.Bivià-Ausina, Carles;Kourliouros, K.;Ruas, MAS. (2024). Bruce-Roberts numbers and quasihomogeneous functions on analytic varieties. Research in the Mathematical Sciences. 11(46):1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40687-024-00458-7S123114
The tame-wild principle for discriminant relations for number fields
No full textabstract: Consider tuples (K[subscript 1],…,K[subscript r]) of separable algebras over a common local or global number field F
F, with the K[subscript i] related to each other by specified resolvent constructions. Under the assumption that all ramification is tame, simple group-theoretic calculations give best possible divisibility relations among the discriminants of K[subscript i]∕F. We show that for many resolvent constructions, these divisibility relations continue to hold even in the presence of wild ramification
Author reply to Hettiarachchi et al. (re Helicobacter pylori resistance in Australia…)
No full textLetter to the EditorJonathon P. Schubert, Paul R. Ingram, Morgyn S. Warner, Christopher K. Rayner, Ian C. Roberts-Thomson, Samuel P. Costello and Robert V. Bryan
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