The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle

It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a definitive presence in fin de siècle fantastic texts. Literary analysis of the chosen texts registers significant examples of the importance of terror to fantastic writing, and as such functions to extract an “aesthetics of sublime terror” from the margins of critical studies of this often macabre literary mode

Fishing for Understanding: A Mixed Logit Model of Freshwater Angler Preferences

Freshwater fisheries management requires knowledge of not only the resource but angler preferences and the extent to which preferences vary. This paper reports results from an internet-based stated preference survey of anglers in the North Canterbury region. Discrete choice models are used to investigate how the quality of fishery attributes impact anglers’ selection of fishing sites. The models reveal significant preference heterogeneity between anglers for particular fishing site attributes. Furthermore, anglers’ preference intensities for identical attributes vary between sites. Consequently, efficient allocation of resources entails spatial and social components.discrete choice analysis, latent class, mixed logit, angler heterogeneity, New Zealand recreational trout fisheries, Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,

“An Infinite and Endless Liar”: Paroles as a Case Study of the Pragmatics of Lying in Shakespeare

Lying is part of our life and part of our literary canon, the choice to lie, not lie or almost lie is both a moral and linguistic one. In the present paper lying, and related concepts such as deliberate obfuscation and deceptive implicatures, will be examined from a pragmatic, specifically neo-Gricean perspective. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of deception in the process of characterisation, with a particular focus on the form and function of the mendacious language of Paroles, the “infinite and endless liar” in All’s Well That Ends Well. Following the analysis of current pragmatic definitions of lying, this article proposes a distinction between Off-Record Verbal Deception (ORVD) and prototypical lies in the analysis of textual examples, in order to understand how these strategic linguistic choices affect the construction of character

Predictors of children’s understandings of death: Age, cognitive ability, death experience, and maternal competence.

Several factors have been documented as major factors affecting children’s formation of a mature death concept. Among these factors are the child’s age, cognitive ability, and exposure to death in his or her environment. The effects of parent communication patterns on children’s understanding of death have been understudied. This has left a gap in our knowledge of parents’ influence on their children’s conception of death. In addition to the investigation of individual child factors, the present study investigated the relationship between mothers’ styles of communication about death and their children’s understandings of the subconcepts of death (i.e., inevitability, universality, finality, and nonfunctionality). Using Richardson’s (1991) Children’s Questions About Death Scale (CQADS), 37 mothers responded in writing to 16 questions about death that 5-year-old children are likely to ask. Their children (N= 37) responded orally to four yes-or-no questions about the subconcepts of death. The four dichotomous dependent variables, children’s understanding of each of the four subconcepts, were then regressed on maternal total score. Results showed significant relationships between a children’s age and their understandings of death, as well as children’s ability to seriate and their understandings of death. There was also a significant relationship between a a child’s experience death (human and/ or pet) and their understandings of death. There was no statistically relationship between maternal response competence and children’s understanding of death. Implications of the study and for future research are discussed

3D Cephalometric Analysis of Bone Anchored Maxillary Protraction in Growing Class III Patients

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the treatment changes produced by bone anchored maxillary protraction (BAMP) on growing Class III patients using 3D cephalometric measurements. METHODS: CBCT scans were taken before and after treatment on 30 consecutive patients. Dolphin Imaging software was used to calculate linear, angular, and airway measurements. The intraclass correlation coefficient was used to test landmark reliability. One-sample t-tests and Pearson correlations were used to evaluate the treatment changes. RESULTS: The maxillary bone orthopedic effects are coupled with forward growth and response to treatment at zygomatic landmarks. Mandibular changes showed statistically significant closure of the mandibular plane angle bilaterally. Although this study sample presented significant mandibular growth restraint, the airway volume with growth and treatment was significantly increased. CONCLUSIONS: Short term assessment of 3D cephalometric changes with BAMP clearly demonstrated a combination of different skeletal components of midface protraction and mandibular growth restraint without negative effects on airway dimensions