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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.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
Williams, James
No full textMilitary Information: Corporal, 76th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Force.This project was assisted by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State
The name « Guiana »
No full textWilliams James. The name « Guiana ». In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 14-15, 1922. pp. 19-34
The Warau Indians-of Guiana and vocabulary of their language
No full textWilliams James. The Warau Indians-of Guiana and vocabulary of their language. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 20, 1928. pp. 193-252
Land Grant Application- Williams, James (Rutland)
Full text linkLand grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office for James Williams for service in the Revolutionary War.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_mass/1394/thumbnail.jp
Alien Registration- Williams, James (Andover, Oxford County)
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Management of Ankle Fractures: Does the Timing of Surgical Intervention Have an Impact on Patient Outcomes?
Full text link© Copyright 2025 Safdar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Introduction Orthopaedic surgeons frequently manage patients presenting with an ankle fracture. It has been observed that these injuries can be present in both young and elderly patients. Surgical intervention with open reduction and internal fixation is often performed for unstable ankle fractures. Methods This study was performed at a district general hospital in the United Kingdom and is a retrospective cohort study. The electronic database was reviewed from January 2021 to December 2024 to identify and review the notes for the patients to be included in the study. After identifying the patients, they were divided into two groups. The patients who had surgical intervention in less than 10 days were allocated to the early surgery group, and the patients who had surgery at day 10 or after day 10 of the injury were allocated to the delayed surgery group. Results Overall, 96 patients were included in this study, where 29 (30.21%) had early surgical intervention and 67 (69.79%) had delayed surgical intervention. The results were not statistically significant for patient outcomes between the two groups. A correlation was observed between the age of the patients and the length of hospital stay. Conclusion At present, there is no definitive consensus with regards to the optimal timing for surgical intervention of ankle fractures. The results of this study highlight that there was no significant difference for post-operative complications between the two groups, which is consistent with the literature. A study with a larger sample size is required to analyse the long-term patient outcomes
Sensor array signal processing for cross-sensitivity compensation in non-specific organic semiconductor gas sensors
No full textA fundamental limitation of many chemically sensitive organic semiconductor materials is their high susceptibility to cross-interference resulting from interactions with background species other than those actively being detected. Such cross-sensitivities often preclude their use in 'real' sensor applications, particularly where discrete and selective gas sensing systems are required. It has been hypothesised, however, that this lack of specificity can largely be overcome with the adoption of a multi-element sensor array, thereby allowing the compensation of unwanted sensitivities through suitable signal processing.This thesis describes how such a multi-element sensor array of different gas sensitive metallophthalocyanine films, constructed on a single substrate, was used as the sensing element in an 'intelligent' chemical sensor. Since the individual sensors show varying degrees of gas sensitivity, the individual responses of each to any particular analyte will give rise to a characteristic change in the output 'pattern' comprised of each of the sensor resistances. By monitoring the change in this pattern of responses on exposure to specific gases of pre-determined concentration and employing a suitable feature extraction algorithm, the characteristic responses to particular analytes was learnt, and a knowledge base, from which future inferences may be drawn, was constructed.The success of suitable signal processing techniques to accommodate the inherent cross-sensitivities exhibited by these materials is demonstrated. The results demonstrate the viability of pattern recognition methods to analyse gas mixtures by comparing particular features of the combined array response with those previously learnt during a gas recognition training phase
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