Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry) and the opposition to women's suffrage

This essay begins to develop a critical and contextual framework to account for the importance that the writings of anti-suffragist novelists have often had for the women reader, and suggests ways in which their work may be usefully mined by historians and literary scholars interested in the history of the vote. The author analyses the tensions and contradictions in the work of the conservative writer and social reformer, Mary Augusta Ward and her role in the development of a constructive anti-suffragism designated as the 'forward policy'. Ward's representation of the suffragette in her novel, Delia Blanchflower (1915), is discussed. Concentrating on Ward's principled support for women and her reforming imagination, the article shows how she shared much in common with feminists of her day and suggests ways in which her writing may be mined by historians and literary scholars interested in the history of women's suffrage

‘Lucid Abnormality’: A New Literary History of the 1940s

Review of Gill Plain's book: Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and ‘Peace’, 2013

Evaluation of a novel primary tapped transformer in a high frequency isolated power converter topology

Abstract The concept of primary tapped transformers is new in high frequency power electronic converters. This paper evaluates a new converter topology which has been developed to implement a high frequency primary tapped transformer. It is shown that this topology can maintain a load voltage for a much wider source voltage variation without major sacrifices in efficiency. The effect of efficiency with variation of source voltage and duty cycle as well as the power quality of the converter is analyzed experimentally. This new topology is evaluated in terms of complexity, capability, feasibility and reliability. The power quality aspects are also addressed. Possible end users of such a topology design are also taken into consideration

Teaching Shape Recognition to Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities

Little research on teaching mathematics to students with significant intellectual disabilities exists, and that which does exist is largely in the areas of number and money skills. All students, including students with significant intellectual disabilities, need mathematics skills to lead productive and independent lives. Geometry skills help students make sense of the world around them. Mastery of shape recognition is a beginning geometry skill that is necessary for progressing to more advanced topics in geometry. The purpose of this study was to teach beginning shape recognition skills by combining evidence-based practices in shape recognition instruction with best practices in teaching mathematics to students with significant intellectual disabilities. This study utilized a small sample, interrupted time series (single-case) multiple-probe design across four behaviors that were (a) matching identical shapes, (b) matching shapes that are different sizes, (c) matching shapes that have different orientations, and (d) shape recognition. Although no students reached mastery criteria, all students showed some improvement, and much was learned regarding teaching mathematics to students with significant intellectual disabilities. Limitations, suggestions for future research, and the implications of these findings are discussed

Designing for Disconnection: Changing Intentions and Uses of the Waterfront in Post-Erie Canal New-York City

Until recently the New York City waterfront experienced decades of disuse and abandonment. The very field of urban design largely came about as a re-imagining of urban waterfronts, and the conversation about New York's water's edge is not a new one. What this thesis seeks to convey is the changing intentionality of nineteenth century urban planning and design in this space before and after the construction of the Erie Canal. The project attempts to flesh out implications for both physical-spatial and psychological disconnections from the waterfront in terms of land use and transportation patterns. Though much discourse takes place surrounding waterfront planning and design, what has not been so proliferous are investigations of the changing land uses or transportation networks intersecting with the waterfront. By the same token, in the field of history, specifically, though much scholarship exists about the importance of the Erie Canal to economic development in New York City, State, and the nation, studies of the impacts of the Canal on the physical space of the NYC waterfront are lacking. This thesis uses historic maps and plans of New York City in an attempt to begin a conversation on the changing waterfront with the hope of inciting further interest in the subject matter from students of history and urban planning

Miniature integrated co-axial current shunt for high frequency switching power electronics

Abstract: Power electronic converters are now able to operate at very high frequencies due to the development in GaN and SiC power semi-conductor technologies. Measuring such high frequencies with rise and fall times of a few nanoseconds requires specialised instruments and a good knowledge of measurement techniques. This paper introduces a current shunt designed to be integrated into these high frequency power electronic converters. The shunt is required to have a high bandwidth in order to reduce the measurement error

Exploring the Relationship between Media Influence and Policy Output: A State Comparative Study

Through the years, various forms of media have become political institutions able to influence the public policy agenda. Analyzing policy helps to promote a better understanding of how the policy process works, how problems appear on the political agenda, and why governments choose to act or not to act on particular policy problems. This research utilizes Baumgartner and Jones’s (1993) Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium (PET) to examine the ways in which media attention influenced public policy on marijuana in the states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Vermont between 1996 and 2016. Using qualitative research methods, the researcher conducted an exploratory, comparative case study of the states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Vermont to find whether disproportionate attention, changes in policy image, and changes in policy output affected marijuana legislation. Data sources were archival, gathered from Newsbank and from the websites of Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Vermont state legislatures. A total of 4,244 sources were collected for in-depth content analysis. The results of the study provide evidence to support the applicability of the PETmodel to the understanding of state-level marijuana policy change and the role of themedia in this process. The stability of prohibitive legislation related to marijuana spanning multiple decades contrasts with the sharp increase in legislative activityregarding decriminalization, medicinal legalization, and recreational legalization whichoccurred to varying degrees in the three states examined during the 20-year study period

Book review: James Smith (ed.). 2019. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930 s. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 250 pp., £ 74.99.

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