Dean J. Franco, Race, Rights & Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969

Dean J. Franco's book is divided into two sections and six chapters; there is also a long introduction and an epilogue. Each of the six chapters is ostensibly concerned with the works of a single author—“works” because Franco discusses short stories, essays, a memoir, and a play as well as novels. The authors are: Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint), Cynthia Ozick (various works but mainly “The Pagan Rabbi”), Allegra Goodman (Kaaterskill Falls), Lore Segal (Her First American), Tony Kushman (Ho..

Dean J. Franco, Race, Rights & Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969

Dean J. Franco's book is divided into two sections and six chapters; there is also a long introduction and an epilogue. Each of the six chapters is ostensibly concerned with the works of a single author—“works” because Franco discusses short stories, essays, a memoir, and a play as well as novels. The authors are: Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint), Cynthia Ozick (various works but mainly “The Pagan Rabbi”), Allegra Goodman (Kaaterskill Falls), Lore Segal (Her First American), Tony Kushman (Ho..

Using Virtual Reality to increase technical performance during rowing workouts

Technology is advancing rapidly in virtual reality (VR) and sensors, gathering feedback from our body and the environment we are interacting in. Combining the two technologies gives us the opportunity to create personalized and reactive immersive environments. These environments can be used e.g. for training in dangerous situations (e.g. fire, crashes, etc), or to improve skills with less distraction than regular natural environments would have. The pilot study described in this thesis puts an athlete who is rowing on a stationary rowing machine into a virtual environment. The VR takes movement from several sensors of the ergo-meter and displays those in VR. In addition, metrics on technique are being derived from the sensor data and physiological data. All this is used to investigate if, and to which extent, VR may improve the technical skills of the athlete during the complex sport of rowing. Furthermore, athletes are giving subjective feedback about their experience comparing a standard rowing workout, with the workout using VR. First results indicate better performance and an enhanced experience by the athlete

Using history to help refine international business theory: ownership advantages and the eclectic paradigm.

In John Dunning’s eclectic paradigm firms need to have ownership, location, and internalisation advantages in order to cross borders and engage in foreign direct investment. By drawing on historical evidence on the evolution of a group of leading marketing-based multinationals in consumer goods, this paper claims that, despite its richness, the eclectic paradigm, and in particular the concept of ‘ownership advantages’, needs to be revised and extended, to take into account different levels of institutional analysis. For the eclectic paradigm to give a rounded view of the internationalising firm it needs to acknowledge the critical importance of firm-specific ownership advantages such as the role of the entrepreneur

Negative ions formed in N₂/CH₄/Ar discharge – a simulation of Titan's atmosphere chemistry

The formation of negative ions produced in a negative point-to-plane corona discharge fed by a Ar/N2//CH4/ gas mixture has been studied using mass spectrometry. The measurements were carried out in flowing regime at ambient temperature and a reduced pressure of 460 mbar. The CN ? anion has been found to be the most dominant negative ion in the discharge and is believed to be the precursor of heavier negative ions such as C3/N ? and C5/N ? . The most likely pathway for the formation of such molecular anions is H-loss dissociative electron attachment to HCN, H3/CN and H5/CN formed in the discharge. These same anions have been detected in Titan's atmosphere and the present experiments may provide some novel insights into the chemical and physical mechanisms prevalent in Titan's atmosphere and hence assist in the interpretation of results from the Cassini Huygens space mission

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