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Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Alien Registration- White, Timothy F. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Symbolic Computations in Geometry
No full textCrapo, Henry; Havel, Timothy F.; Sturmfels, Bernd; Whiteley, Walter; White, Neil L.. (1988). Symbolic Computations in Geometry. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/4762
President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speak to reporters about plans to close corporate tax loopholes and crack down overseas tax havens
No full textPresident Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speak about reforming U.S. tax codes at the White House. They intend to close tax havens and remove tax incentives which cause jobs to be shipped overseas. Obama also discusses foreign tax cheats and the need to cut the loopholes which encourage them
Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis is a study of the rewriting of history in the work of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it.
Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between postmodernism and postcolonialism. I suggest that each writer engages with postmodemist aesthetics often in an attempt to produce critical histones that bear witness to the voices of those hitherto silenced in conventional historiography. However, these novelists remain anxious as to the potential consequences of mobilising postmodernist models of history, particularly as to the problems this creates concerning historical reference. The thesis aims to
identify the range of related attitudes to postmodernist critiques of history at this particular juncture of contemporary fiction in English.
I approach the specific position of the novelists under study through Homi Bhabha's work on the confluence of the postmodern and the postcolonial, focusing in particular on his suggestion that the postmodem refutation of Western epistemology enables a postcolonial space where a new range of histories emerge. Because each writer works between at least two cultures, and primarily within Britain, they negotiate from within received epistemology in an attempt to locate a space at its boundaries where conventional forms of knowledge no longer have efficacy. However, in contrast to Bhabha, these writers struggle to reach this space and remain sceptical as to the usefulness of postmodernism in making available new forms of
historiography. Ultimately, their work enables a critique of current ways of theorising the relationship between the postmodem and the postcolonial in literary studies
Romance, op. 50
No full textMore Author/Title Info: Ludwig van Beethoven ; editions for double bass and piano by Timothy Cobb.
Uniform Title: Romances, violin, orchestra, op. 50, F major; arranged
Physical Description: 2 scores (10 pages) + 2 parts (4 pages) ; 28 c
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
No full textScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
Seminal contributions of Timothy J. Crow
No full text© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge
University Press. This is an Open Access article,
distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution licence (http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which
permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and
reproduction, provided the original article is
properly cited.We recall the life and work of Timothy J. Crow, whose contributions provided great insights into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and continue to shape many questions in the field. We compile his key works relating to psychotic disorders, focusing on the trajectory of his theoretical stance. Our account is interlaced with our own interpretation of the evidence that influenced Crow's arguments over the years as well as his scientific method. Crow has had a significant impact on the neuroscience of schizophrenia. Many of his observations are still valid and several questions he raised remain unanswered to date.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/seminal-contributions-of-timothy-j-crow/25B0EA70F496D0D3351937E44ADDD45
Sound fields in two small experimental test arenas: a comparison
No full textLab-based bioacoustics experiments on fish enable control of confounding factors, yet these experiments often use small tanks that are spatially complex in terms of particle motion and sound pressure levels (SPL). One solution is to submerge an arena in water so the influence of the walls on the acoustic environment is greatly reduced. The experiment answered the following: (1) Can the sound pressure homogeneity in small tanks be improved? (2) Can the particle acceleration (PA) levels in small tanks be reduced? (3) Does submerging small tanks allow the sound field to be reliably described by progressive plane waves? The first setup consisted of a rectangular tank surrounded by air (in-air tank) and the second setup was a cylindrical arena submerged in water (submerged arena). Measurements of a 1 s, 125 dB tone at 400–2000 Hz were taken and mapped. The submerged arena possessed less heterogeneity in SPL and lower levels of PA than the in-air tank. The predicted PA (calculated to fulfill research question three) was a better approximation to the submerged arena than the in-air tank. This study demonstrates that the submerged arena gave greater control over the stimulus that a fish experiences in lab-based experiments
Hypotheses regarding exploitation of bubble acoustics by cetaceans
No full textBubbles are the most acoustically active naturally occurring entities in the ocean, and cetaceans are the most intelligent. Having evolved over tens of millions of years to cope with the underwater acoustic environment, cetaceans may have developed extraordinary techniques from which we could learn. This paper outlines some of the possible interactions, ranging from the exploitation of acoustics by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in bubble nets to trap prey, to techniques by which coastal dolphins (e.g. of the genus Cephalorhynchus) could successfully echolocate in bubbly water (a hypothesis which has led to the development of a man-made sonar which can penetrate bubble clouds, and a range of possibilities for homeland security). ©2008 Acoustical Society of America<br/
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