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Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
Patrick Chamoiseau Recovering Memory
No full textThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Beginnings: The Enigma of Origin -- 2: 'Une tracée de survie': Autobiographical Memory -- 3: Memory Re-collected: Witnesses and Words -- 4: Memory Materialized: Traces of the Past -- 5: Flesh Made Word: Traumatic Memory in Biblique des derniers gestes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.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
Now Playing
No full text―Now Playing‖ is a short film centered around one long music montage, the soundtrack to an isolated girl‘s life. This girl has built walls around her heart, and she has sunk deep into a life she never wanted. In an attempt to control every aspect of her life, with the help of her I-pod, she chooses what to listen to, what to let in and what to close out. The film is directed by Alyiece Moretto. Other crew members include Patrick Watkins, Jessica Nelson, Katie Keenan, and Nick Schanze. Patrick Watkins and Katie Keenan are the starring actors
Patrick and Allied Family Genealogy - Accession 545 - M237 (285)
No full textThe Patrick and Allied Family Genealogy collection consists of photocopies of lineage charts and anecdotes spanning from 1778 through 1982 relating to the following families: Allen, Barksdale, Beatty, Bonner, Browne, Cabell, Campbell, Carroll, Clark, Collins, Copeland, Cowan, Davis, Dyke, Edwards, Enloe, Ewing, Falkner, Faust, Gammy, Gault, Hagler, Hamlin, Howe, Hudspeth, Huffman, Huggin, Inman, Ira, Jaber, Jackson, Jeffries, Johnson, Kearns, Lancaster, Lassiter, Leonard, LeMaster, Lineberger, Littlejohn, Lloyd, Lockhart, Long, McElhaney, McFadden, McKown, McNair, Messer, Moseley, Oates, O’Donnell, Parrot, Patrick, Patterson, Peeler, Poplin, Presto, Price, Proezeale, Quinn, Raygor, Ress, Sarrat, Scheide, Sellers, Smith, Spear, Spencer, Sprunt, Steffy, Stephenson, Strawhorn, Suwannacot, Swilling, Templeton, Thomasson, Walker, Washburn, Watkins, Welch, Wells, White, Whitesides, Wilson, Wood, and Yarborough.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2248/thumbnail.jp
An agent-based model of jaguar movement through conservation corridors
No full textWildlife corridors mitigate against habitat fragmentation by connecting otherwise isolated regions, bringing well established benefits to conservation both in principle and practice. Populations of large mammals in particular may depend on habitat connectivity, yet conservation managers struggle to optimise corridor designs with the rudimentary information generally available on movement behaviours. We present an agent-based model of jaguars (Panthera onca), scaled for fragmented habitat in Belize where proposals already exist for creating a jaguar corridor. We use a leastcost approach to simulate movement paths through alternative possible landscapes. Six different types of corridor and three control conditions differ substantially in their effectiveness at mixing agents across the environment despite relatively little difference in individual welfare. Our best estimates of jaguar movement behaviours suggest that a set of five narrow corridors may out-perform one wide corridor of the same overall area. We discuss the utility of ALife modelling for conservation management
Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market
No full textThe do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck.
Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]
Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market
No full textThe do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck.
Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]
The investigation in "Dora Bruder" of Patrick Modiano
No full textreservedIl presente lavoro si propone di affrontare il tema dell’indagine, dell’inchiesta investigativa nel romanzo “Dora Bruder” dello scrittore francese Patrick Modiano, pubblicato nel 1997. Si tratta del più noto successo editoriale dell’autore, il quale, in una narrazione al contempo biografica ed autobiografica, si mette sulle tracce di Dora Bruder, una giovane ragazza ebrea scomparsa nel 1941, di cui si sono perse definitivamente le tracce. La presente tesi si compone di tre capitoli. Nel primo, si analizzeranno i motivi che spingono l’autore ad occuparsi della vicenda della giovane ragazza scomparsa proprio durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Successivamente, nel secondo capitolo, si passerà ad affrontare come l’autore compie la propria indagine per comprendere che cosa le sia accaduto, diventando una sorta di investigatore su un vecchio caso di scomparsa. Ed infine, nell’ultimo capitolo, si analizzerà quale sarà l’esito della sua indagine.This work proposes to deal with the subject of investigation in the novel "Dora Bruder" by French writer Patrick Modiano, published in 1997. It’s the most known publishing success of the author, which, in a narrative in the meantime biographical and autobiographical, goes on the trail of Dora Bruder, a young Jewish girl disappeared in 1941, of whom all traces have been definitively lost. This thesis is composed by three chapters. In the first, we will analyse the reasons why the author deal with the story of the young girl vanished during the Second World War. Then, in the second chapter, we will approach how the author does his own investigation to understand what happened to her, becoming sort of a detective on an old case of disappearence. Finally, in the last chapter, we focus on which it’ll be the outcome of his investigation
A complex and punctate distribution of three eukaryotic genes derived by lateral gene transfer
No full textAbstract Background Lateral gene transfer is increasingly invoked to explain phylogenetic results that conflict with our understanding of organismal relationships. In eukaryotes, the most common observation interpreted in this way is the appearance of a bacterial gene (one that is not clearly derived from the mitochondrion or plastid) in a eukaryotic nuclear genome. Ideally such an observation would involve a single eukaryote or a small group of related eukaryotes encoding a gene from a specific bacterial lineage. Results Here we show that several apparently simple cases of lateral transfer are actually more complex than they originally appeared: in these instances we find that two or more distantly related eukaryotic groups share the same bacterial gene, resulting in a punctate distribution. Specifically, we describe phylogenies of three core carbon metabolic enzymes: transketolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ribulose-5-phosphate-3-epimerase. Phylogenetic trees of each of these enzymes includes a strongly-supported clade consisting of several eukaryotes that are distantly related at the organismal level, but whose enzymes are apparently all derived from the same lateral transfer. With less sampling any one of these examples would appear to be a simple case of bacterium-to-eukaryote lateral transfer; taken together, their evolutionary histories cannot be so simple. The distributions of these genes may represent ancient paralogy events or genes that have been transferred from bacteria to an ancient ancestor of the eukaryotes that retain them. They may alternatively have been transferred laterally from a bacterium to a single eukaryotic lineage and subsequently transferred between distantly related eukaryotes. Conclusion Determining how complex the distribution of a transferred gene is depends on the sampling available. These results show that seemingly simple cases may be revealed to be more complex with greater sampling, suggesting many bacterial genes found in eukaryotic genomes may have a punctate distribution.</p
Spatially-explicit modelling of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife
No full textLeast-cost and agent-based models present alternative approaches to modelling animal movements, at the population level and individual level respectively. This study introduces and tests a novel integration of adapted least-cost methods into agent-based simulations, in order to analyse connectivity and habitat preferences in two species of mammal. An initial proof-of-concept study built a set of empirically validated least-cost models of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) into a simple agent based model. Agents most closely simulated natural behaviours of dispersing hedgehogs when their movements accounted for temporally-dependent habitat preferences in addition to least-cost pathways informed by the connectivity map. The fitness of these agents increased in more highly fragmented landscapes, in contrast to agents that took least-cost pathways without time-specific preferences. The integration of functional connectivity with individual behaviour combined the advantages of both modelling techniques. Quantitative analysis of the individual-level consequences of moving within different landscape scenarios provides a unique way of applying model outcomes to direct conservation action. A second conceptual study applied integrative methods to the construction of an agent-based simulation scaled for jaguars (Panthera onca) occupying fragmented landscape in Belize. This simulation tested alternative configurations of a wildlife corridor currently under development in Central Belize as part of the intercontinental Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Six alternative corridor configurations and three control conditions differed substantially in their effectiveness at mixing agents across the environment, despite relatively little difference in individual welfare. Best estimates of jaguar movement behaviours suggested that a set of five narrow corridors may out perform one wide corridor of the same overall area. The first two studies set the framework for developing a detailed simulation of jaguar behaviour and population dynamics in a mixed forest and farmland landscape in the south of Belize. This more complex model drew on empirical data on resident jaguars in the region to simulate typical movement, feeding, reproduction and mortality events within a stable natural population. An overview of the construction and application of the model precedes detailed descriptions of its calibration, sensitivity analysis and validation with empirical data. Agents located inside protected forest reserves exhibited higher fitness, expressed in higher fecundity and lower energy- and habitat-related mortality, than agents located outside these reserves. Model validation showed similar patterns to field data in landscape utilisation and the spatial distribution of individuals. This approach to spatial modelling of population dynamics can provide novel insights into effective conservation strategies for large carnivores. Application of the model to the fragmented central corridor region of Belize sets the context for real-world conservation planning. Under current conditions, simulated jaguars formed a small but stable population with various levels of immigration. Implementation of wildlife corridors showed the largest tracts of physically connected reserves increased connectivity between spatially disconnected habitat patches but also increased vulnerability to environmental degradation
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