Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ‘60s by Mark A. Cheetham

Review of Mark A. Cheetham\u27s Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the \u2760

Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada by Claire Campbell

Review of Claire Campbell\u27s Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada

Losing Yourself: Cults, Greeks, and Sociological Theories of Self and Identity

This thesis is theoretical in nature. It is an exploration of sociological theory using cults and greek life as case studies for examining the construction of the self in the context of powerful social groups

An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1940 PLEASE NOTE: pages 72, 76, 86, 91, and 102 were cut off in course of the scanning process. Pages 80 and 95 are missing from the physical thesis. We apologize for the inconvenience.An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy would quite naturally begin with a study of the influences which were prominent in the formative years of his thinking. Since the readings of the Orientals- chiefly the "Bhagavad-Gita", "The Laws of Menu", "The Veda", and portions of Confucius -had such profound effect upon each of the two books published in his lifetime, as well as the fourteen or so volumes of his Journals, comprising everything he put down on paper - it has seemed proper to begin this thesis with a study of the Oriental influences. Thoreau began the readings of the Hindu literature shortly after his graduation from Harvard, when he was twenty years old. He repeatedly refers to these sacred works in all of his writings. In the first chapter of this study of Thoreau an attempt has been made to discover similarities between his philosophy and that of the Orientals whom he read so faithfully. In this correlation various phases of his philosophy have been considered - his attitude toward duty, solitude, nature, philanthropy, asceticism,freedom of the individual. Since a possible model for the famous "horse and hound" enigma has been found in Confucius's writings, a discussion of this passage is included in the chapter or Orientalism. The fact that a modern Oriental - Mahatma Ghandi - has utilized some of Thoreau's doctrines, admitting his indebtedness especially to "Civil Disobedience", is significant. Hence, a discussion of this subject is in the Oriental chapter. Thoreau was a self-confessed Transcendentalist. He was too close a follower of Emerson not to incorporate in his philosophy the principles of the American School of Transcendentalism. He was not interested, however, in formulating any system of Transcendentalism, as was Emerson, but his thinking was influenced a great deal by that school of philosophy so active in Concord in 1845. It is impossible to study Thoreau and extract Transcendentalism. A knowledge of the American version of Transcendentalism is based on the understanding of its forerunner - German Romanticism. Hence a brief consideration of the chief exponents of German Romanticism - Kant, the Schlegels, Navalis, Schleiermacher, Fichte, Jacobi - has been made in Chapter Two. Following this is a discussion showing the relation of bits of Thoreau's philosophy to German Romanticism and American Transcendentalism. Thoreau is the prophet of the new freedom which Americans in 1845 were just beginning to experience. An attempt has been made in Chapter Three to analyse Thoreau's various writings on freedom: his Harvard Commencement Address; his two greatest negatives, "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle"; "A Plea for Captain John Brown"; excerpts from "Walden", et cetera. The Chapter on Friendship and Love could not have been written with such a full understanding of some periods in Thoreau's life without the aid of Mr. Canby 's recent erudite biography. His research has put some new light on this facet of Thoreau' s personality. No longer can Thoreau be dismissed as a hermit, at odds with his fellowman, or as an abnormal person cold to human friendships and love. A casual reader of the facts of Thoreau's life might conclude he had no religion. But no unbiased person who knows Thoreau - if only through his most familiar writings, "The Week" and "Walden", can deny the profundity of his searchings for God in Nature; his numerous corrrrnents concerning his belief in an after life cannot be ignored. It is true his religion as far as practice was concerned was not the orthordox religion of 1845 Concord. Indeed, Christianity on the whole seemed to him to have hung its heart upon the willows; it seemed unable to sing its song in a strange land. A nearer approach to God, as far as Thoreau was concerned, was accomplished in the Hindu sacred writings. Thoreau objected to the many disciples of Christianity who showed the white of their eyes on Sunday and the black all the rest of the week. As he observed it, infidelity, not Christianity, prayed and kept the Sabbath and rebuilt the churches. It is not strange, then, to find in so good-natured a book as "The Week" Thoreau's trenchant essay on Christianity. In a final Chapter this phase of his thinking has been considered, for to see the full stature of Thoreau, one must study and understand his philosophy in its relation to religion

Warm or Chilly? An Assessment of the Relationships Between Campus Climate and Gender Identity Among Transgender and Nonbinary College Students

This research is a mixed-methods analysis of the relationship between campus climate and gender identity for transgender and nonbinary college students. Snowball and convenience sampling were used to obtain a sample of trans and nonbinary college students. Thirty surveys and six interviews were completed. I applied Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory and Risman’s gender structure theory to analyze how macrosystems, microsystems, and the chronosystem (time) affected trans students’ gender identity, whether positively or negatively. Participants were ambivalent about the effects of college on their gender identity; on one hand, college gives trans students freedom from their previous environments. However, participants described a lack of structural supports and chilly microsystems, resulting in their feelings of alienation from their institutions. The chronosystem greatly impacted students’ responses as interviews were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants’ recommendations for college administrators are discussed, including being able to change one’s name in colleges systems and the need for greater trans representation

Northern Territory safe streets audit

This audit examined crime and safety issues in the Northern Territory urban communities of Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs to help inform effective strategies to reduce the actual and perceived risk of victimisation. Abstract This Special Report is a research driven response to community concerns regarding the level of crime and fear of crime in the Northern Territory. The Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) were commissioned by the Northern Territory Police Force (NT Police) to undertake the NT Safe Streets Audit. The purpose of the Safe Streets Audit was to examine crime and safety issues in the Northern Territory urban communities of Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs and to help inform effective strategies to reduce the actual and perceived risk of victimisation. The audit involved a literature review exploring issues impacting on the fear of crime in the Northern Territory, focus groups with a range of stakeholders in Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine, the analysis of media articles on crime and policing, the analysis of incident data from NT Police on assault offences and public disorder incidents, and a rapid evidence assessment of the effectiveness of strategies targeting NT crime problems. Implications for future crime reduction approaches in the Northern Territory were then identified

Comparing methods of category learning: Classification versus feature inference

Categories have at least two main functions: classification of instances and feature inference. Classification involves assigning an instance to a category, and feature inference involves predicting a feature for a category instance. Correspondingly, categories can be learned in two distinct ways, by classification and feature inference. A typical difference between these in the perceptual category learning paradigm is the presence of the category label as part of the stimulus in feature inference learning and not in classification learning. So we hypothesized a label-induced rule-bias in feature inference learning compared to classification and evaluated it on an important starting point in the field for category learning – the category structures from Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins (Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 75(13), 1-42, 1961). They classically found that classification learning of structures consistent with more complex rules resulted in poorer learning. We compared feature inference learning of these structures with classification learning and found differences between the learning tasks supporting the label-bias hypothesis in terms of an emphasis on label-based rules in feature inference. Importantly, participants’ self-reported rules were largely consistent with their task performance and indicated the preponderance of rule representation in both tasks. So, while the results do not support a difference in the kind of representation for the two learning tasks, the presence of category labels in feature inference tended to focus rule formation. The results also highlight the specialized nature of the classic Shepard et al. (1961) stimuli in terms of being especially conducive to the formation of compact verbal rules

Lifting representations of finite reductive groups: a character relation

Given a connected reductive group $\tilde{G}$ over a finite field $k$, and a semisimple $k$-automorphism $\varepsilon$ of $\tilde{G}$ of finite order, let $G$ denote the connected part of the group of $\varepsilon$-fixed points. Then there exists a lifting from packets of representations of $G(k)$ to packets for $\tilde{G}(k)$. In the case of Deligne-Lusztig representations, we show that this lifting satisfies a character relation analogous to that of Shintani.Comment: Minor errors corrected, proofs streamlined. Main result slightly generalized, restated to emphasize analogy with stabilit

An analysis of a large-scale liquid air energy storage system

Liquid air energy storage (LAES) is a class of thermo-electric energy storage that utilises cryogenic or liquid air as the storage medium. The system is charged using an air liquefier and energy is recovered through a Rankine cycle using the stored liquid air as the working fluid. The recovery, storage and recycling of cold thermal energy released during discharge more than double the overall energy efficiency of the cycle. The demand on a storage plant in a grid support application is expected to be irregular and intermittent in response to fluctuating supply from intermittent renewable generators. This will complicate the storage of thermal energy and will mean the energy flow rates in the thermal store will vary from cycle to cycle and the state of charge of the store will also vary. This paper presents an analysis of the LAES cycle. The material and configuration of the cold thermal store is discussed in particular with reference to scale and measures to mitigate losses due to the irregular and intermittent duty cycle. The paper concludes with capital and levelised cost analysis of a reference 20 MW/80 MWh LAES plant and a comparison of the levelised cost with other storage technologies. </jats:p

Pd/ZnO catalysts for direct CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

The direct hydrogenation of CO2 into methanol is crucial for providing a means of CO2 fixation and a way to store cleanly produced hydrogen in a more energy-dense and transportable form. Here we have prepared two series of Pd/ZnO catalysts, both by immobilisation of PVA-protected Pd colloids and by Pd impregnation of PdCl2 to investigate structure activity relationships for direct CO2 hydrogenation. Very different performances were found for the different preparation methods, and the Pd loading and pre-reduction of the catalysts were shown to be important factors for optimising methanol yield. The crucial factor for high methanol yield is the formation of a Pd–Zn alloy, either during the reaction itself, or better by high temperature pre-reduction. The formation of the alloy greatly reduces CO production by the reverse water gas shift reaction. The catalysts prepared by sol-immobilisation were relatively stable to thermal treatment. In contrast, the impregnated catalysts were much less thermally stable, due to the presence of remnant chloride on the surface of the catalyst, which was absent for the case of sol immobilisation preparation. The results illustrate the importance of controlling the PdZn particle size and its surface structure for the catalysts to achieve high methanol selectivity (60%, the rest being CO) and conversion (11%) at 250 °C and 20 bar. Selectivity for sol-immobilised catalysts decreases from 60% at 3 nm average diameter, to 20% at 7 nm