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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Bees collect polyurethane and polyethylene plastics as novel nest materials
No full textPlastic waste pervades the global landscape. Although adverse impacts on both species and ecosystems have been documented, there are few observations of behavioral flexibility and adaptation in species, especially insects, to increasingly plastic-rich environments. Here, two species of megachilid bee are described independently using different types of polyurethane and polyethylene plastics in place of natural materials to construct and close brood cells in nests containing successfully emerging brood. The plastics collected by each bee species resembled the natural materials usually sought; Megachile rotundata, which uses cut plant leaves, was found constructing brood cells out of cut pieces of polyethylene-based plastic bags, and Megachile campanulae, which uses plant and tree resins, had brood cells constructed out of a polyurethane-based exterior building sealant. Although perhaps incidentally collected, the novel use of plastics in the nests of bees could reflect ecologically adaptive traits necessary for survival in an increasingly human-dominated environment.We thank Dr. Laurence Packer, Sheila Dumesh, Bahar Salehi and Erik Glemser for comments and discussion for the manuscript. Funding was provided by Dr. Packer’s NSERC Discovery Grant and an NSERC-CGS awarded to the first author. J. S. MacIvor
conceived and implemented the study, found the bee nests and reared the larvae. A. E. Moore analyzed the M. campanulae cells. J. S. MacIvor compiled and wrote the manuscript, A. E. Moore collaborated on the methods. A. E. Moore provided the graphs for the figures. J. S. MacIvor imaged the brood cells. Both authors critically revised the manuscript and approved it for publication. Publication was made possible by the York University Libraries' Open Access Author Fun
Lisa Moore receives Lt. Tim Price Memorial Scholarship
No full textLisa M. Moore of Christiansburg, Va., a junior majoring in crop and soil environmental sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, was awarded the university's Lt. Timothy Price Memorial Scholarship for her academic accomplishments and leadership in her Soil Survey and Taxonomy class
Psychotria frondosa S. Moore
No full text<i>Psychotria frondosa</i> S.Moore <p> NEW CALEDONIA. Col d’Amien, Mont Pembai 800 m, foret humide schistes, 14 iv 1976, <i>H. S. McKee</i> 31039.</p>Published as part of <i>Turner, Ian M, Brearley, Francis Q, Trethowan, Liam A & Utteridge, Timothy M A, 2021, A SURVEY OF ALUMINIUM ACCUMULATION IN EUMACHIA (RUBIACEAE), pp. 1-10 in Edinburgh Journal of Botany 78 (335)</i> on page 10, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2021.335, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10590975">http://zenodo.org/record/10590975</a>
Psychotria lolokiensis S. Moore
No full text<i>Psychotria lolokiensis</i> S.Moore <p> PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Near south-east side of Little Mt Lowes, c. 16 miles north of Port Morseby, 25 iv 1967, <i>R. Pullen</i> 6813.</p>Published as part of <i>Turner, Ian M, Brearley, Francis Q, Trethowan, Liam A & Utteridge, Timothy M A, 2021, A SURVEY OF ALUMINIUM ACCUMULATION IN EUMACHIA (RUBIACEAE), pp. 1-10 in Edinburgh Journal of Botany 78 (335)</i> on page 10, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2021.335, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10590975">http://zenodo.org/record/10590975</a>
On Continuous Images of Moore Spaces
No full textIn [4-8], the author has obtained several counterexamples to conjectures involving chain conditions, normality conditions, completeness, and the existence of point countable bases in Moore spaces. Each of these examples was obtained by constructing, by various means, a Moore space based on another space X0. In this paper, the author unifies these construction techniques and states some of the relationships between the original spaces and the derived Moore spaces.</jats:p
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textLetter to Linnet White from M. C. V. The author writes of his travels, the people and places he's been visiting, and a train station
Data Archive for: "Exploring 3D Landscapes Across the Solar System" Outreach Activity
No full textThis archive contains data associated with an outreach activity to look at 3D landscapes on Earth and Mars, initially designed by Tim Goudge (The University of Texas at Austin) for STEM Girl Day at UT Austin (https://girlday.utexas.edu/). This activity challenges K-8th grade students to match 3D printed models with 2D images of the same landscapes. This archive contains all the digital materials necessary to replicate this outreach activity, which is further described in the following abstract: Goudge, T. A., M. D. Nelson, L. Turner, J. Gulick, E. Cote, E. C. Hiatt, R. D. Moore, and M. A. Carrington (2025), Planetary Surface Exploration Teaching and Outreach with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 1367. Please feel free to use these data to recreate this activity for your own outreach event!! If you do so, I (Tim Goudge) would love to hear from you about how it goes
On the existence of point countable bases in Moore spaces
No full textIn this paper, the author answers in the negative two questions raised by E. E. Grace and R. W. Heath concerning the existence of point countable bases in Moore spaces. These answers are obtained by a general construction technique developed by the author which associates to each first countable
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