1,449 research outputs found
Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Quasi-phase-matched materials for active sensing in the mid-infrared waveband
No full textThis thesis aims to fabricate a new method of achieving nonlinear conversion via quasiphase-matching in GaAs structures. CASE sponsors DSTL sought a means of achieving broadband wavelength conversion across the infrared spectrum using a GaAs device that would be available in the UK without the export restrictions imposed by currently available technologies or the laborious processing steps presented in other methods. To meet the goal of QPM in GaAs, a new fabricated structure - ‘Zip-GaAs’ - was created via a dicing saw to create periodic trenches of required QPM periodicity. Dicing parameters were optimised for GaAs to produce surface roughnesses as low as 2.4 nm using a feed rate and spindle speed of 0.5 mm/s and 30 kRPM respectively. Controlling pitch and depth of cut, along with blade characteristics allowed successful mating of two combs of opposite crystal orientation to form the Zip-GaAs device. In order to address micron-scale air gaps between periodic structures, trials were performed with chalcogenide glasses, GaSb and processes involving no intermediate materials - these had limited success and thus a new development was made using Indium and Bismuth as deposited materials on GaAs substrates. The metals were diffused in a tube furnace to create a bond between GaAs plates. One trial used 112 nm of both metals, deposited sequentially on a GaAs wafer; two plates from this wafer were contacted and thermally diffused at a temperature of 964◦C for 1 hour forming a robust bond. This process resulted in transmission of the bonded stack of ≈ 2/3 the transmission of GaAs across the measured window of 1.6 - 18 µm. Some Zip-GaAs devices were fabricated by dicing at Brewster’s angle as an alternative to bonding. Structures with 50 domains showed transmission < 0.1% in GaAs and LiNbO3 and it is thought depth of cut and form of diced trenches are responsible. In this thesis, precision dicing is shown to create low surface roughness facets without the need for polishing in multiple optical materials. This, combined with Brewster’s angle machining, can lead to optical component manufacturing without the need for AR coating
Charlie Turner and Ralph Cosabaum and Salmon Arm power house
No full textUp at back, Charlie Turner, down in front Ralph Cosabaum, this is now the central firehall. See Photographic Memory, page 129. See Salmon Arm Scrapbook, page 135
Charlie Lovett Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Charlie Lovett, author of the bestselling novel The Bookman's Tale. Charlie is the son of Wake Forest Professor Emeritus Robert Lovett, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library rare books collection and special collections reading room were an inspiration for his novel
Meghan Daum
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs
Recommended from our members
Florence Turner
No full textWhat did it mean to be a film star in the second decade of film’s existence, at a time when the idea of film stardom itself was just beginning to take shape? The career of Florence Turner offers an illuminating opportunity to consider this question, especially as she has been identified as one of the two “first big movie stars” (the other being Florence Lawrence) by no less an authority than Eileen Bowser (Bowser 1994). Aside from sharing the same first name, Turner and Lawrence both found themselves initially identified with the companies producing their motion pictures: Lawrence came to be known as “the Biograph Girl” while Turner gained fame as “the Vitagraph Girl.” The two were also among the first actors to make personal appearances in promotion of their films, ushering in an era when performers were enlisted to publicize themselves, thereby aiding in the emergence of cinema as an institution
A systematic review of how researchers characterize the school environment in determining its effect on student obesity
No full textBackground: obesity in early childhood is a robust predictor of obesity later in life. Schools provide unparalleled access to children and have subsequently become major intervention sites. However, empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of school-based interventions against childhood obesity is of limited scope and unknown quality. The aim of this systematic review is to critically assess how researchers have characterized the school environment in determining its effect on childhood weight status in order to improve the quality and consistency of research in this area. We conducted a narrative review with a systematic search of the literature in line with PRISMA guidelines (2009). Original peer-reviewed research articles in English were searched from Medline, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL and PsycINFO databases from earliest record to January 2014. We included empirical research that reported at least one measure of the primary/elementary school environment and its relationship with at least one objective adiposity-related variable for students aged 4-12 years. Two authors independently extracted data on study design, school-level factors, student weight status, type of analysis and effect.Results: five studies met the inclusion criteria. Each study targeted different parts of the school environment and findings across the studies were not comparable. The instruments used to collect school-level data report no validity or reliability testing.Conclusions: our review shows that researchers have used instruments of unknown quality to test if the school environment is a determinant of childhood obesity, which raises broader questions about the impact that schools can play in obesity prevention.</p
Dataset underpinning "Quasi-Phase-Matched Materials for Active Sensing in the Mid-Infrared Waveband"
No full textData collected as part of the Southampton University Doctoral Thesis "Quasi-Phase-Matched Materials for Active Sensing in the Mid Infrared Waveband". Includes metrology and transmission data of various methods of machining and bonding GaAs and BK7 structures. Additionally spectral information relating to nonlinear generation in a PPLN OPO, RTA OPA and InF3 fibre. This dataset represents raw measured data used to generate many of the graphs and figures in the thesis.</span
BLAKE TURNER Viola SENIOR RECITAL Assisted by Charlie Tauber, piano Saturday, November 17, 2012 3:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textPROGRAM: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 / Johannes Brahms -- Concerto for Viola, Sz. 120, BB 128 / Bela BartokThis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music
- …
