534 research outputs found
Shadows of the East; or slight sketches of Scenery, Persons, and cusoms, from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854 in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece. By Catherine Tobin with maps and illustrations. London Longman, Brown, Green, and Lo
No full textPreface: by the authorDedication: by the author to James Lord Bishop of CorkIllustration: 20 (Maps ,Views ,varia ,)Pagination: PP12+256P+16PPVolumes: 1Text Genre:JournalEpilogue: as conclusionIllustration: 20 (χάρτες ,τοπία ,άλλα θέματα ,
Margaret Breen giving a talk on Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
No full textPhoto of Margaret Breen (University of Connecticut) discussing author Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson. Breen gave a talk titled “Queer Translations: Prime-Stevenson’s Imre (1906) and The Intersexes (1908) and the Emergence of Homosexual Identity”. This talk was from the event German Discovery of Sex: Medicine, Activism, Literature which took place on April 16, 2011 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2010-2011 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobindiscphotos/1009/thumbnail.jp
The tobin tax: A review of the evidence
No full textAbstract: The debate about the Tobin Tax, and other financial transaction taxes (FTT), gives rise to strong views both for and against. Unfortunately, little of this debate is based on the now considerable body of evidence about the impact of such taxes. This review attempts to synthesise what we know from the available theoretical and empirical literature about the impact of FTTs on volatility in financial markets. We also review the literature on how a Tobin Tax might be implemented, the amount of revenue that it might realistically produce, and the likely incidence of the tax. We conclude that, contrary to what is often assumed, a Tobin Tax is feasible and, if appropriately designed, could make a significant contribution to revenue without causing major distortions. However, it would be unlikely to reduce market volatility and could even increase it. JEL Classification: G15, G18, H22, H27 Key Words: Tobin tax, financial transaction taxes, volatility, revenue, incidence, feasibility The corresponding author. We are grateful for the participants of a Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation workshop for useful comments and suggestions. Stacey Townsend has provided excellent administrative support. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from DFID for the research undertaken in this paper
The involvement of actin, calcium channels and exocytosis proteins in somato-dendritic oxytocin and vasopressin release
No full textHypothalamic magnocellular neurons release vasopressin and oxytocin not only from their axon terminals into the blood, but also from their somata and dendrites into the extracellular space of the brain, and this can be regulated independently. Differential release of neurotransmitters from different compartments of a single neuron requires subtle regulatory mechanisms. Somato-dendritic, but not axon terminal release can be modulated by changes in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]) by release of calcium from intracellular stores, resulting in priming of dendritic pools for activity-dependent release. This review focuses on our current understanding of the mechanisms of priming and the roles of actin remodelling, voltage-operated calcium channels and SNARE proteins in the regulation somato-dendritic and axon terminal peptide release
The Tobin site - 36Cw27: an archaic manifestation in northwest Pennsylvania
No full textAuthor presents the results of arhaeological excavations of the Tobin Site and concludes that this site represents a summer camp
of a small band or extended family group of the Brewerton
or closely related culture of the Late Archaic period. Illustrations and maps are included
Sexuality and Textuality (Fall 1999) (Whitman College)
No full textThis course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities. Several of the courses he developed at Whitman would make the transition to Clark, where they continued to evolve.
Sexuality and Textuality seeks to examine the ways in which sexuality has an effect upon literary texts. It questions whether an author\u27s sexuality affects their writing, whether a reader\u27s sexuality affects their reading, and to what extent one can analyze the sexuality of literary characters or even works. Along these lines, it will ask whether it is fair to try to determine from a literary text whether its author is gay or not, or whether one can say that a particular work or aesthetic is in some way queer . At the same time, however, it will ask whether textuality , broadly defined as verbal constructions, affects sexuality. Can one say that certain linguistic, rhetorical, and literary formulations have changed and altered sexuality
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
No full textNobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney\u27s poetry and the first to study Heaney\u27s entire body of work (including his recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level ). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney\u27s guiding preoccupations. According to Tobin, the growth of Heaney\u27s poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of the center, a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin\u27s work examines Heaney\u27s poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.
South Atlantic ReviewA thorough analysis of Heaney’s oeuvre to date, one that avoids the limitations of formalism and sectarian ideology. -- Irish Studies Review
World Literature TodayA valuable contribution to modern Irish literary scholarship. . . . Invigorating and commendable. -- Modern Language Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_ireland/1000/thumbnail.jp
Online Role-playing Games and the Definition of Theatre
No full textOnline role-playing games are a form of entertainment in which players create characters and improvisationally perform scenes together within a digital virtual world. It has many theatre-like aspects, which raises the question of whether it is in fact a form of theatre. To answer that question, however, one must first have a definition of theatre – an issue with disciplinary consequences – and in this article Tobin Nellhaus develops a definition founded on social ontology, suggesting that theatrical performance, unlike other social practices, replicates society's ontology. From that perspective, online role-playing meets the definition of theatre. But its digital environment raises another set of problems, since embodiment, space, and presence in online role-playing are necessarily unlike what we experience in traditional theatre. Here, Nellhaus brings these three aspects of performance together through the concept of embodied social presence, showing how they operate in both customary theatre and online role-playing. Tobin Nellhaus is an independent scholar who was Librarian for Performing Arts, Media, and Philosophy at Yale University. He has published mainly on the relationship between theatre and communication practices, and on critical realist theory in theatre historiography. He is the General Editor of the third edition of Theatre Histories (London: Routledge, 2016), and the author of Theater, Communication, Critical Realism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).</jats:p
How Well Do Foreign Exchange Markets Function: Might a Tobin Tax Help?
No full textThe paper offers an examination of the foreign exchange markets as they currently operate,
followed by a consideration of the arguments over the desirability of a Tobin tax. Misgivings
regarding how well the markets are working arise from recent apparent misalignments and
crises, on the one hand, and from a set of seven academic findings, on the other hand.
A review of the structure and size of the foreign exchange markets draws on the most recent
central bank surveys released in September 1995. The BIS figure for the worldwide total is
151 billion/day.
The author does not support a tax of this magnitude. Nevertheless, it is clear that even a
more reasonable tax rate of 0.1 per cent would raise a lot of revenue, $166 billion per year in
one estimate that is presented for the sake of concreteness. Whether this would be desirable
depends heavily on the use to which the funds were put, or the alternative sources of tax
revenue for which they are substituted.
The case against the Tobin tax also has two major components. (1) It might create distortions
and inefficiencies. As noted, it is even conceivable that the fundamental structure of the
foreign exchange market could change, from decentralized and dealer-driven to centralized
and customer-driven. Whether this would constitute a loss or gain in efficiency is difficult to
say. (2) The Tobin tax would be extremely difficult to enforce. Along these lines lie the
author's greatest doubts
Warm brothers : queer theory and the age of Goethe
No full textIn eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art criticism; and admirers and detractors alike of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, felt constrained to comment upon the ruler\u27s obvious preference for men over women. In German cities of the period, men identified as “warm brothers” wore broad pigtails powdered in the back, and developed a particular discourse of friendship, classicism, Orientalism, and fashion. There is much evidence, Robert D. Tobin contends, that something was happening in the semantic field around male-male desire in late eighteenth-century Germany, and that certain signs were coalescing around “a queer proto-identity.” Today, we might consider a canonical author of the period such as Jean Paul a homosexual; we would probably not so identify Goethe or Schiller. But for Tobin, queer subtexts are found in the writings of all three and many others. Warm Brothers analyzes classical German writers through the lens of queer theory. Beginning with sodomitical subcultures in eighteenth-century Germany, it examines the traces of an emergent homosexuality and shows the importance of the eighteenth century for the nineteenth-century sexologists who were to provide the framework for modern conceptualizations of sexuality. One of the first books to document male-male desire in eighteenth-century German literature and culture, Warm Brothers offers a much-needed reappraisal of the classical canon and the history of sexuality
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