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Circling Marilyn : text, body, performance

Obrazy
Autor
Clara Juncker
Place of publication
Odense
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION - CIRCLING MARILYN . . 7

CHAPTER I - TEXT
Everybody's Marilyn . . 13
DiMaggio and Marilyn . . 26
Miller and Marilyn . . 40

CHAPTER II - BODY
Marilyn's Bodies . . 53
The Disciplined Body . . 57
The Mirroring Body . . 63
The Communicative Body . . 66
The Fin de Siecle Body . . 70

CHAPTER III - MARILYN PERFORMING
Oates's Actress . . 75
Ethnic Marilyn . . 85
Natural Marilyn . . 96

CHAPTER IV - PERFORMING MARILYN
Be Marilyn! . . 111
Madonna's Marilyn . . 123
Gay Marilyn . . 129

POSTSCRIPT . . 141
NOTES . . 147
WORKS CITED . . 167

Series
(University of Southern Denmark Studies in Literature ; Vol. 56)

Innovative applications and developments of micro-pattern gaseous detectors

Obrazy
Autor
Tom Francke, Vladimir Peskov
Place of publication
Hershey
Publication date
2014
Table of Contents

Preface . . X
Acknowledgment . . XIX
Introduction . . XX

Chapter 1 - The Physics of Operation of Gaseous Detectors and their Main Designs . . 1
1. INTRODUCTION: ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS . . 1
2. CREATION OF PRIMARY ELECTRONS INSIDE GASEOUS DETECTORS BY CHARGED PARTICLES . . 2
3. CREATION OF PRIMARY ELECTRONS IN GASEOUS DETECTORS BY ENERGETIC PHOTONS . . 4
4. DIFFUSION . . 10
5. AVALANCHE MULTIPLICATION . . 12
6. TRADITIONAL GASEOUS DETECTORS . . 15
7. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 26
8. DISCHARGES IN GASEOUS DETECTORS . . 26

Chapter 2 - Microstrip Gas Counters . . 31
1. INTRODUCTION . . 31
2. MICROSTRIPGAS COUNTERS MANUFACTURING . . 32
3. DISCHARGES IN MSGCS . . 33
4. CHARGE UP EFFECTS, RATE CHARACTERISTICS AND AGING . . 41
5. OTHER DESIGNS OF STRIP-TYPE DETECTORS . . 44
6. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 48

Chapters 3 - Pixel and Microdot Detectors . . 52
1. MAIN DESIGNS AND OPERATING PRINCIPLE . . 52
2. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 56
3. WHY IS THE MAXIMUM ACHIEVABLE GAS GAIN SO HIGH IN SOME DESIGNS OF MICRODOT 
   DETECTORS? . . 57

Chapter 4 - Micromegas . . 60
1. INTRODUCTION . . 60
2. DETECTOR DESIGN AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS . . 61
3. COMPARISON BETWEEN MICROMEGAS AND PPAC . . 64
4. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 71
5. THE ULTIMATE POSITION RESOLUTION OF MICROMEGAS . . 72

Chapter 5 - Hole-Type Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM) . . 76
1. EARLY WORK ON HOLE-TYPE ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS . . 76
2. GAS ELECTRON MULTIPLIER . . 79
3 GEM AS A PREAMPLIFICATION STRUCTURE AND CASCADED GEMS . . 85
4. POSITION AND TIME RESOLUTIONS OF A MULTI-GEM . . 87
5. TRIPLE GEM STABILITY AND AGING . . 89
6. OTHER GEM-LIKE DETECTORS . . 92
7. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 96

Chapter 6 - Some Interesting Work on Capillary Glass Detectors . . 103
1. INTRODUCTION . . 103
2. THE USE OF CAPILLARY PLATES OPERATING IN A GAS FLOW . . 104
3. FIRST TESTS OF CAPILLARY PLATES AS DETECTORS OF VISIBLE LIGHT . . 106
4. CONCLUSION . . 112

Chapter 7 - Other Early Designs of Micropattern Detectors Developed 
                    Between 1998 and 2003
. . 114
1. INTRODUCTION . . 114
2. SOME ORIGINAL DESIGNS: THE MICROWIRE AND MICROSLIT DETECTORS . . 115
3. OTHER MICROWIRE DETECTOR DESIGNS . . 117
4. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PARALLEL-PLATE TYPE AND HOLE-TYPE MICROPATTERN DETECTORS . . 121
5. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 124
6. CAN WIRE CHAMBERS COMPETE WITH A PRINTED CIRCUIT DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY? . . 125 

Chapter 8 - Operation of Micropattern Gaseous Detectors . . 129
1. INTRODUCTION . . 129
2. OTHER PHENOMENA CONTRIBUTING TO THE RAETHER LIMIT . . 131
3. FEEDBACK INDUCED BREAKDOWNS . . 136
4. CASCADED DETECTORS . . 137
5. DISCHARGE PROPAGATION TO THE READOUT PLATE FOR A SINGLE GEM IRRADIATED 
   SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH X-RAY AND ALPHA PARTICLES . . 143
6. INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS . . 145
7. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM DISCHARGE PROPAGATION STUDIES . . 148
8. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 149
9. CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF THE DISCHARGE PROBABILITIES IN 
   MICROMEGAS AND GEM IN HADRON BEAMS . . 149

Chapter 9 - Recent Developments of Micropattern Detectors . . 156
1. INTRODUCTION . . 156
2. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN GEM . . 157
3. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN MICROMEGAS . . 163
4. SPARK-SAFE MICROPATTERN DETECTORS WITH RESISTIVE ELECTRODES . . 167
5. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 186

Chapter 10 - The Capability of Key Micropattern Detectors to Suppress Ion Back Flow . . 195
1. INTRODUCTION . . 195
2. GEM AS A MULTIPLICATION AND THE IBF SUPPRESSION STRUCTURE . . 197
3. ION BACK FLOW IN MICROMEGAS BASED TPCS . . 208
4. COMPARISON BETWEEN GEM AND MICROMEGAS FOR TPC READOUT . . 212
5. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 212

Chapter 11 - Comparison between Various Designs of Micropattern Detectors . . 216
1. INTRODUCTION . . 216
2. GAIN CHARACTERISTICS . . 216
3. POSITION RESOLUTION . . 219
4. ENERGY RESOLUTION . . 220
5. TIME RESOLUTION . . 221
6. STABILITY AND AGING OF MICROPATTERN GASEOUS DETECTORS . . 221
7. MAIN DESIGNS OF MICROPATTERN DETECTORS USED TODAY AND PERSPECTIVES OF THEIR 
   COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION . . 223
8. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 224

Chapter 12 - Applications . . 228
1. INTRODUCTION . . 228
2. TRADITIONAL APPLICATIONS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS EXPERIMENTS . . 229 
3. DEVELOPMENTS WHICH MAY LEAD TO NEW APPLICATIONS . . 234
4. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS . . 248
5. THE RD-51 COLLABORATION: INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF 
   MICROPATTERN DETECTORS AND PROMOTION OF THEIR APPLICATIONS . . 249

Conclusion . . 257
Glossary . . 258
Related References . . 260
Compilation of References . . 284
About the Contributors . . 301
Index . . 302

Series
(Advances in Chemical and Materials Engineering (ACME) Book Series)

Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Philip Hardie ; [aut.: Rebecca Armstrong et al.]
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2009
Table of Contents

List of Illustrations . . ix
List of Contributors . . xi

1. Introduction: Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture . . 1
2. Horace's Ars Poetica and the Marvellous . . 19
3. Where the Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall Painting . . 41
4. Against Nature? Some Augustan Responses to Man-made Marvels  . . 75
5. Virgil: A Paradoxical Poet? . . 95
6. The Question of the Marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil . . 113
7. In Search of the Lost Hercules: Strategies of the Fantastic in the Aeneid . . 126
8. Thaumatographia, or 'What is a Theme?' . . 145
9. Phaethon and the Monsters . . 163
10. Prodigiosa mendada uatum: Responses to the Marvellous in Ovid's Narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) . . 189
11. Encountering the Fantastic: Expectations, Forms of Communication, Reactions . . 213
12. Constructing a Narrative of mira deum: The Story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8) . . 231
13. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51: noua monstra and the foedera naturae . . 248
14. Latrator Anubis: Alien Divinities in Augustan Rome, and how to Tame Monsters through Aetiology . . 268
15. Ordering Wonderland: Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan Vision . . 288
16. Delusions of Grandeur: Lucretian 'Passages' in Livy . . 310
17. The Strange Art of the Sententious Declaimer . . 330

References . . 350
Indexes . . 381

An introduction to the pronunciation of North American English

Obrazy
Autor
Jørgen Staun
Place of publication
Odense
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Preface . . 11

PART 1 . . 17

1 Introduction to American English  . 19
1.1 American English Dialects . . 19
1.2 The delimitation of a reference dialect . . 25
1.3 Summary of the main points . . 34

2 The phoneme and the phoneme inventory of North American English . . 37
2.1 Introduction . . 37
2.2 The phoneme and the linguistic hierarchy . . 37
2.3 Phonemes and allophones . . 43
2.4 The phoneme as an organising unit of sound structure . . 46
2.5 Establishing the phoneme inventory of NAERD. . . 47
2.6 Summary . . 50

3 Obstruent consonants in American English . . 53
3.1 Articulatory, acoustic and auditory descriptions . . 53
3.2 The organs of speech and their three systems: articulatory, phonatory and respiratory . . 54
3.3 The classification of the consonant system . . 58
3.4 Classes of obstruents in NAERD - stops . . 63
3.5 The individual stops . . 70
3.6 Classes of obstruents in NAERD - fricatives . . 80
3.7 The individual fricatives . . 85
3.8 Summarising the obstruent consonants of NAERD . . 94

4 Sonorant consonants in American English . . 97
4.1 Types of sonorant consonants . . 97
4.2 The individual sonorants . . 99
4.3 Syllabic consonants . . 113
4.4 Summarising the sonorant consonants of NAERD . . 115

5 Vowels in American English . . 117
5.1 How to describe vowels . . 117
5.2 Subclasses of vowels . . 120
5.3 Ongoing vowel changes in American English . . 130
5.4 The individual vowels . . 132
5.5 Vowels in unstressed syllables . . 142
5.6 Summarising the vowels of NAERD English . . 151

PART II . . 153

6 Syllable structure in American English . . 155
6.1 Prosodic or suprasegmental phenomena . . 155
6.2 Introduction to syllable structure . . 157
6.3 The structure of the syllable . . 158
6.4 The sonority sequencing principle . . 162
6.5 Permissible onsets and codas in NAERD . . 163
6.6 The syllabification of polysyllabic words . . 172
6.7 Summary of syllable structure . . 175

7 Word stress in American English . . 177
7.1 Introduction to word stress . . 177
7.2 Stress rules in non-compounds . .178
7.3 Stress in compounds and compound-like combinations . . 184
7.4 Rhythm . . 188

8 Intonation in American English . . 193
8.1 The nature and function of intonation . . 193
8.2 What is represented between the two horizontal lines? . . 197
8.3 The tone group - structure and demarcation . . 199
8.4 The classification of nucleus types . . 209
8.5 The use of the NAERD nuclei . . 214
8.6 Some communicative implications of the nucleus types . . 220
8.7 Simplified transcription . . 224
8.8 The intonation of some characteristic syntactic constructions . . 227
8.9 Summary of the main points . . 236

PART III . . 239

9 Variation and change . . 241
9.1 Types of inter-segment influence . . 241
9.2 Types of assimilation . . 243
9.3 Elision and epenthesis . . 248
9.4 Diachronic change . . 252

10 Survey of American English dialects . . 269
10.1 Introduction . . 269
10.2 The main dialect areas . . 271
10.3 The North . . 273
10.4 The Midland and the West . . 278
10.5 The South . . 282
10.6 The East . . 288
10.7 Canada . . 297
10.8 Summing up North American dialects . . 300

Bibliography . . 305
Index . . 307

Series
(University of Southern Denmark Studies in Linguistics ; Vol. 19)

Principles of neural design

Obrazy
Autor
Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin
Place of publication
Cambridge

Publisher

Publication date
2015
Table of Contents

Preface . . IX 
Acknowledgments . . XI 
Introduction . . XIII 

1 What Engineers Know about Design . . 1 
2 Why an Animal Needs a Brain . . 11 
3 Why a Bigger Brain? . . 41 
4 How Bigger Brains Are Organized . . 57 
5 Information Processing: From Molecules to Molecular Circuits . . 105 
6 Information Processing in Protein Circuits . . 125 
7 Design of Neurons . . 155 
8 How Photoreceptors Optimize the Capture of Visual Information . . 195 
9 The Fly Lamina: An Efficient Interface for High-Speed Vision . . 235 
10 Design of Neural Circuits: Receding Analogue Signals to Pulsatile . . 265 
11 Principles of Retinal Design . . 277 
12 Beyond the Retina: Pathways to Perception and Action . . 323 
13 Principles of Efficient Wiring . . 363 
14 Learning as Design/Design of Learning . . 399 
15 Summary and Conclusions . . 433 

Principles of Neural Design . . 445 
Notes . . 447 
References . . 465 
Index . . 519 

Francisco Suárez and his legacy : the impact of Suárezian metaphisics and epistemology on modern philosophy

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Marco Sgarbi
Place of publication
Milano
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Francisco Suarez: Erid of the Scholastic? . . 9
EI 'diriel dėl tiempo'. Tiempo, movimiento y su medida, la teoria de los puritos y la indivLsibilidad, segiin Suarez . . 29
Francisco Suarez and the rationesstudiommofihe Society ofjesus . . 77
Suarez aš a Scotist The Portrait of the DoctorEximius in Losada's Commeritary on the Soul . . 91
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza's (Mis)interpretation of Aquinas . . 105
Tra Fonseca e Suarez. L'ingresso della nozione di ens reale nella Schulmetaphysik . . 141
Suarez, Descartes e la dimostrazione dell'esistenza di Dio . . 169
Totą sua entilaie. Suarez and Leibniz on Individuation . . 205
Francisco Suarez and Christian Wolff. A Missed Intellectual Legacy . . 227
L'eredita nascosta cii Suarez nei sistema hegeliano . . 243
Le occorrenze di Suarėz nell'opera di Brentano . . 261
Quasi umbrae entium. Suarez e Brentano sull'ens rationis . . 271

Series
(Metafisica e Storia Della Metafisica ; 35)

Res lituana : kunigaikštystės bendrija. Kn. 1, Respublikos steigimas

Obrazy
Autor
Darius Kuolys
Place of publication
Vilnius
Publication date
2009
Table of Contents

PRATARMĖ . . 7

I. TAUTA - TAI PASAKOJIMAS . . 15
Prielaidos . . 15
Ištakos . . 22
„Kalba stato Politikos pasaulį" . . 8

II. RESPUBLIKOS STEIGIMAS . . 49
Pirmasis krašto įstatymas . . 52
Horodlės mazgas . . 63
Lietuvos karalystės idėja . . 90
Kunigaikštystės viešpačiai . . 98
1492-ieji . . 113
Pirmasis Statutas: Respublikos telkimas . . 133
Antrasis Statutas: Respublikos įtvirtinimas . . 149
Trečiasis Statutas: Respublikos atstatymas . . 191

SUMMARY . . 254

Space program management : methods and tools

Obrazy
Autor
Marcello Spagnulo, Rick Fleeter with Mauro Balduccini, Federico Nasini
Place of publication
New York

Publisher

Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

1 Space Activities: A Peculiar Economical, Political. and Industrial Sector . . 1
1.1. Brief History of the First Space Age . . 2
1.2. Brief History of the Space Activities in Europe . . 8
1.3. Brief History of the Space Activities in the Rest of the World . . 10
1.4. The "Governance" of the Activities in Space . . 11
1.5. Definition and Segmentation of the "Space Market" in the World . . 46
2 Space Program Management . . 59
2.1. Characteristics of Space Programs . . 60
2.2. Methods of Defining and Managing Space Programs . . 65
2.3. Implementing Space Programs . . 66
2.4. Start-Up of a Space Program . . 74
2.5. Development Phases of a Space Program . . 83
3 Marketing of Space Programs . . 97
3.1. Notion of Marketing . . 97
3.2. Function of Marketing in a Space Program . . 98
3.3. Marketing of Programs and Services . . 99
3.4. Offer in the Marketing of a Space Program . . 101
3.5. The Space Program Contract . . 110
4 Methods and Tools of Space Programs Management . . 117
4.1. Organization of the Program Team . . 118
4.2. Management of Performance and Margins . . 122
4.3. Configuration Management . . 130
4.4. Assembly, Integration, and Test Management . . 139
4.5. Planning and Schedule Management . . 150
5 Risk Management of Space Programs . . 157
5.1. The Concept of Risk . . 158
5.2. Technical "Reliability and Security" of Space Systems . . 162
5.3. Financial "Reliability and Security" of Space Systems . . 165
6 Cost Management in Space Programs . . 171
6.1. Basic Elements for Economic Evaluations of Space Programs . . 171 
6.2. Definitions and Criteria . . 173
6.3. The Business Plan . . 184
6.4. Example of Cost Analysis for a Space Launcher . . 195
6.5. Example of Cost Analysis fora Satellite . . 210
6.6. Criteria tor Reducing Costs . . 216
References for Chapter 6 . . 219
7 Financial Management of Space Programs . . 221
7.1. Forms of Financing for Space Programs . . 221
7.2 Private Financing . . 222
7.3. "Project Financing" for Space Programs . . 223
8 Management of Small, Low-Cost Space Programs: A New Paradigm . . 247
8.1 Small Space in Perspective . . 247
8.2. Theory and Practice . . 248
8.3 Scaling Management . . 248
8.4. When Complexity Exceeds the Small Team Capability . . 252
8.5. Staffing the Small Space Project . . 252
8.6. How Small Teams Function to Reduce Cost . . 254
8.7. The Integrated Team . . 257
8.8. Parts Selection . . 259
8.9. Testing . . 260
8.10. Integration . . 263
8.11. Elements of the Small Program Plan . . 263
8.12. Case Studies . . 267
8.13. The Requirements Trap . . 275
9 Examples of Management Applied to Different Space Programs . . 277
9.1. Large Civil Governmental Satellite Program: The NASA Advanced Communication Satellite Program Advanced Communications Technology Satellite . . 277
9.2 Multiple Satellite Production Programs: Risk and Organizing Principles in the OrbComm Experience . . 297
9.3. Management of Medium-Sized US Space Programs for DoD . . 315

Acronyms . . 331
Authors' Short Biographies . . 337
Bibliography . . 339
Websites . . 341
Index . . 343

Series
(Space Technology Library ; 28)

Storie di Atene, storia dei Greci : studi e ricerche di attidografia

Obrazy
Autor
a cura di Cinzia Bearzot, Franca Landucci
Place of publication
Milano
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Introduzione . . VII
L'attidografìa come genere letterario . . 3
L'attidografia nella storia degli studi . . 29
L' ... di Ellanico di Lesbo. Una Lokalgeschichte in prospettiva eccentrica . . 53
L'orientamento politico degli attidografi: ancora sul caso di Androzione . . 113
Clidemo di Atene . . 129
L'Atthis di Fanodemo nell'Atene licurghea . . 181
Cecrope il fondatore e le origini della monarchia ateniese nell'Atthis di Filocoro . . 215
Istro il Callimacheo . . 231
L'attidografia dall'erudiziene tardoellenistica agli storici ateniesi Dexippo e Praxagora . . 25

Series
(Storia. Ricerche. Contributi di Storia Antica ; 8)

Verlagsmetropole Breslau 1800-1945

Obrazy
Autor
herausgegeben von Urszula Bonter, Detlef Haberland, Siegfried Lokatis und Patricia Blume
Place of publication
Berlin
Publication date
2015
Table of Contents

Vorwort . . 7
Breslauer Verlage 1800-1945. Historische Desiderate - Forschung - Perspektive . . 9
Ein „solider sowohl als splendider Verleger". Der Breslauer Verlagsbuchhändler Josef Max . . 25
Die Verlagsbuchhandlung Georg Philipp Aderholz . . 139
Verleger, Kulturmissionar und Schmuggler. Ferdinand Hirt und sein Verlag 1832 bis 1879 . . 185
Kleinere und mittlere jüdische Verlage in Breslau. Juden als Verleger - deutsch-jüdische Verlagsgeschichte . . 229
Der Verlag von Eduard Trewendt (1845 -1903). Eine Breslauer Erfolgsgeschichte . . 265
Der Presse- und Buchverlag S. Schottlaender . . 291
M. & H. Marcus Verlag. Zwischen Idealismus und Geschäft . . 335
„Von friderizianischer Tradition erfüllt, sind die Mauern des Hauses". Die letzten Jahre der Buchverlage Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn in Breslau (1929-1945) . . 377
Der Gauverlag NS-Schlesien (1930-1945). Presse-Krake und Buchmarkt-Amateure . . 457

Siglenverzeichnis . . 487
Personenregister . . 489
Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter . . 500

Series
(Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im Östlichen Europa ; Bd. 62)