94 research outputs found
Milo Miloradovich Demonstrating Cooking with Anne Russell
No full textAn image scanned from a black and white photograph autographed, To Charley Miller, the outdoor expert, from Milo Miloradovich. A typed caption on the back reads, Milo Miloradovich, author of that most complete cookbook on fish and shellfish \u27The Art of Fish Cookery,\u27 demonstrates the art of peeling raw, jumbo shrimp on Television\u27s \u27Market Melodies\u27 over WJZ-TV Channel 7. Anne Russell, M.C., looks on and learns how it\u27s done. No date.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/4523/thumbnail.jp
A Complementary Approach for Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia: Intensional Hypertext
No full textIn this paper we describe a methodology and an authoring/publishing tool for adaptable Web documents (user-determined adaptable Web pages) as a complementary approach to Adaptive Hypermedia. Our approach is based on intensional logic, the logic of assertions and expressions, which vary over a collection of contexts or possible worlds. In our approach the contexts are sets of values for parameters which specify the current user profile as supplied by the current Web page URL, and the latest user input. The author produces generic (multi-version) source in the form of HTML with extra markup delimiting parts that are sensitive (in various ways) to the parameters. This source (in what we call Intensional Markup Language) is translated into a Perl-like language called ISE (Intensional Sequential Evaluator). To generate the appropriately adapted individual pages, the server runs the ISE program in the appropriate context. The program produces HTML that, when displayed in the user's browser, is rendered into the desired adaptation of the requested page. Although this intensional approach was originally designed to work without any explicit user model, we can extend it (and make the documents adaptive as well as adaptable) simply by incorporating a user model that monitors the user and computes some of the profile parameters
A general understanding of shape grammar for the application in architectural design / Een generiek begrip van shape grammar als de toepassing in een architectonisch ontwerpproces van een Montessori lyceum in Amersfoort
No full textShape grammars are systems of transformational rules that describe the design of a shape. Most studies towards the application of shape grammar are analytical in describing a specific building style. The main part of this research will describe a comparison of the rule systems and rule structures of four different grammars: the Prairie house, Queen Anne house, Palladian villa, and Malagueira house. This comparison leads to a generic rule system that can be used as basis for creating an own grammar. Based upon the transformation of a predefined grid, different sections will be created based upon the orientation.ExplorelabArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
The chemistry of iron in hydrothermal plumes
No full textThis thesis investigates the role of submarine hydrothermal vents in the global marine Febudget. While debate continues over the sources of dissolved Fe to the global deep-oceandissolved Fe budget, it had been presumed, until recently, that all the Fe emitted fromhydrothermal vents precipitates and sinks to the seafloor close to the vent source.However, in the open ocean, dissolved Fe exists at concentrations greater than thepredicted solubility because of the presence of organically complexed Fe. If similarcomplexes were formed in the hydrothermal systems then there would be the potential fordissolved Fe export via hydrothermal plumes to the deep-ocean.To investigate the fate of hydrothemally sourced Fe, samples were collected from hightemperaturehydrothermal vent-field plumes at 9°N on the East Pacific Rise and at 5°S onthe Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The samples from the East Pacific Rise were analysed for Fe anddissolved and particulate organic carbon. Although hydrothermal systems are presumed tobe inorganically dominated, elevated concentrations of dissolved organic carbon comparedto background seawater were detected in near-field buoyant plumes and the concentrationof organic carbon appeared to relate to the total Fe concentration, consistent with thepresence of some organic-Fe interaction.Non-buoyant plume samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were analysed for totaldissolvable and dissolved Fe and Mn as well as speciation studies on a subset of thedissolved Fe samples using Competitive Ligand Exchange – Cathodic StrippingVoltammetry. The dissolved Fe concentrations in the dispersing plume were higher thanpredicted from dissolved Fe(II) oxidation rates alone. Further investigation into thespeciation of the dissolved Fe revealed the presence of stable Fe-ligand complexes, similarto those detected in the open ocean, but with higher concentrations. If these Fe-ligandcomplexes were representative of all hydrothermal systems, submarine venting couldpotentially provide between 11 to 22% of the global deep-ocean dissolved Fe budget.Buoyant plume samples from the same vent site were analysed for total dissolvable anddissolved Fe and Mn as well as particulate Fe, Mn, P, V, Cu, Zn and the rare earthelements. Fe isotopes were also analysed in the particulate fraction, as a potential tool fortracing the biogeochemical cycle of Fe in the ocean. The forms of particulate Fe wereelucidated using the particulate trace element data, enabling the isotope fractionationcaused by Fe sulfide precipitation to be determined. A diagnostic isotope signature for apotential stabilised dissolved Fe fraction was predicted to be isotopically heavier than theoriginal vent fluid, potentially enabling Fe inputs from hydrothermal vents to be tracedthroughout the ocean
The Web of Community Trust - Amateur Fiction Online: A Case Study in Community Focused Design for the Semantic Web
No full textThis thesis describes a case study online community: online amateur authors. Taking this case study community as a base, this thesis considers how the concept of community is applied within the Semantic Web domain. Considering the community structures that can be demonstrated through the case study, this thesis makes the case for the recognition of a specific type of social network structure, one that fulfills the traditional definitions of ‘community’. We argue that this sub-type occupies an important position within social networks and our understanding of them due to the structures required for them to be so defined and that there are assumptions and inferences which can be made about nodes within this type of community group but not others. Having detailed our case study community and the type of network it represents, this thesis goes on to consider how the community could be supported beyond the mailing lists and journalling sites upon which it currently relies. Through our investigation of the community’s issues and requirements, we focus on identity and explore this concept within the context of community membership. Further we analyse the community practice of metadata annotation, in comparison to other metadata systems such as tagging, and as it related to the development of the community. We propose a number of ontological models which we argue could assist the community and, finally, consider ways in which these models could be made available to the community in keeping with current practice and level of technical knowledge as evidenced by the community
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases
No full textThe SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) provides world-class bioinformatics databases, software tools, services and training to the international life science community in academia and industry. These solutions allow life scientists to turn the exponentially growing amount of data into knowledge. Here, we provide an overview of SIB's resources and competence areas, with a strong focus on curated databases and SIB's most popular and widely used resources. In particular, SIB's Bioinformatics resource portal ExPASy features over 150 resources, including UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, ENZYME, PROSITE, neXtProt, STRING, UniCarbKB, SugarBindDB, SwissRegulon, EPD, arrayMap, Bgee, SWISS-MODEL Repository, OMA, OrthoDB and other databases, which are briefly described in this article
An experimental investigation of existential concerns in point-of-care testing for cardiovascular disease using a terror management theory framework
No full textRecent research in Terror Management Theory (TMT) has found that mortality reminders below conscious awareness can lead to avoidant responses towards cancer-screening. Following this, the current research programme used a TMT framework to evaluate if mortality reminders could result in analogous responses towards a novel device for indicating Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk; the ―CVD Risk Biochip‖. Three central studies (Studies 1, 2 and 4) were designed to examine if various mortality reminders would elicit more avoidant responses towards the ―CVD Risk Biochip‖ than control topics. The third of these studies (Study 4) also investigated whether or not the nature of the device itself served to dissociate an individual towards CVD, thereby moderating existential concerns. An additional study (Study 3) examined whether or not one of the mortality reminders from the first two studies (Heart Attack Salience) leads to the suppression of death-related thoughts. When taken together, the results of these studies demonstrate that devices like the CVD Risk Biochip may have a beneficial effect on the potential uptake of screening behaviours generally and highlight the potential for cross-cultural variability in responses towards TMT methodologies. The findings of the programme also suggest some unique recommendations for the future study of TMT, including the performance of initial qualitative investigations of the cultural worldviews of a particular cohort before examining TMT processes and the necessity of controlling for the confounding effects of word frequency and word ambiguity in future "death-thought accessibility" research
Transgressive femininity: gender in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
No full textThis PhD thesis deals with how new discourses on femininity and gender developed in
Scandinavian literature during the Modern Breakthrough, 1880-1909. Political,
economic and demographic changes in the Scandinavian societies put pressures on the
existing, conventional gender roles, which literature reflects; however, literature also
created and introduced new discourses on gender.
The main focus has been on transgressive female characters in Danish, Swedish
and Norwegian novels, which I have seen as indicators of emerging new forms of
femininity. The study shows how the transgression of gender boundaries is used in the
novels, when presenting their views on what femininity is, should be or could be. In
addition to analysing the textual strategies in the representation of these ‘deviant’
literary characters, I have examined how the relevant texts were received by critics and
reviewers at the time, as reviews are in themselves discursive constructs.
The theoretical basis of this study has mainly been Michel Foucault’s discourse
theory, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity and Yvonne Hirdman’s theory of
gender binarism. I have also used concepts from several (mainly Anglo-American and
Scandinavian) literary gender theorists and historians in the analyses.
The four novels analysed in this study are as follows: 1) Danish author Herman
Bang’s early decadence novel Haabløse Slægter (1880), where I use a queer theory
perspective. 2) Norwegian author Ragnhild Jølsen’s Rikka Gan (1904), where the
strong elements of pre-psychoanalysis are analysed. 3) Swedish author August
Strindberg’s Le Plaidoyer d’un fou (1887-88), where I make a narratological
examination of the narrative voice from a gender perspective. 4) Swedish author Annie
Quiding’s Fru Fanny (1904), analysed as an example of ‘negative’ New Woman
literature.
The thesis shows how literature of the time represented and introduced new forms
of femininity, often in the form of ambiguous female characters, and often to the
disapproval of the critics. It also shows that gender discourses were much alike within
Scandinavia. Furthermore, my study lays bare the skeleton of normative Breakthrough femininity, what can be called the dominant discourse on femininity at the time: a nonexisting
sexual desire, feminine immobility/containment in the home and an imperative,
self-sacrificing motherliness
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
No full textMost common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits(1), but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait(2,3). The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P<0.001). Second, the likely causal gene is often located near the most strongly associated variant: in 13 of 21 loci containing a known skeletal growth gene, that gene was closest to the associated variant. Third, at least 19 loci have multiple independently associated variants, suggesting that allelic heterogeneity is a frequent feature of polygenic traits, that comprehensive explorations of already-discovered loci should discover additional variants and that an appreciable fraction of associated loci may have been identified. Fourth, associated variants are enriched for likely functional effects on genes, being over-represented among variants that alter amino-acid structure of proteins and expression levels of nearby genes. Our data explain approximately 10% of the phenotypic variation in height, and we estimate that unidentified common variants of similar effect sizes would increase this figure to approximately 16% of phenotypic variation (approximately 20% of heritable variation). Although additional approaches are needed to dissect the genetic architecture of polygenic human traits fully, our findings indicate that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways
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