Themen und Genretrends der irischen Gegenwartsliteratur : dargestellt an Frank McCourt, Jamie O’Neill und Roddy Doyle mit Filmadaption und einem Ausstellungsprojekt

Inhalt der hier vorgestellten Diplomarbeit ist die moderne irische Belletristik der letzten 20 Jahre, wobei diese schwerpunktmäßig durch die drei Beispiele Die Asche meiner Mutter von Frank McCourt (dt. 1996: Englische Originalausgabe: Angela’s Ashes, 1996), einem autobiographischen Roman, Die Commitments von Roddy Doyle (dt. 2002; Englische Originalausgabe: The Commitments, 1988) und dem historischen Roman Jamie O’Neills Im Meer, zwei Jungen (dt. 2003; Englische Originalausgabe: At Swim, Two Boys, 2001) dargestellt wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird jeweils kurz auf die Biographie der Autoren und deren Gesamtwerk eingegangen. Dabei werden insbesondere Verbindungen zu den besprochenen Romanen aufgezeigt. Zur Orientie-rung wird der Interpretation der drei Werke ein Grobüberblick über die Entwicklung der irischen Literatur allgemein vorangestellt, wobei die Genres Autobiographie bzw. auto-biographischer Roman und historischer Roman fokusiert werden. Im Vergleich der drei Romane werden Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede herausgearbeitet, die schließlich in dem Versuch münden, ein Profil der Gegenwartsliteratur Irlands zu erstellen mit Be-antwortung der Frage, inwiefern allgemeine Tendenzen in der heutigen Entwicklung der irischen Romane, auch für die Zukunft, zu erkennen sind. Insgesamt wird außer-dem der jeweilige historische und gesellschaftliche Hintergrund bzw. die wirtschaftliche Situation Irlands berücksichtigt, soweit dies fur die drei Werke von Bedeutung ist. In die Diplomarbeit sind auch Kurzdarstellungen der Filmadaptionen Alan Parkers von Die Asche meiner Mutter und Die Commitments integriert, die mit den Romanvorlagen ver-glichen werden sowie eine Kurzbiographie des Regisseurs. Ergänzend und abschlies-send erfolgt als Anregung die Grobskizzierung eines möglichen Ausstellungsprojektes zum Thema Irische Autoren der Gegenwartsliteratur mit einer exemplarischen Auflis-tung repräsentativer Romane als Ausstellungsobjekte

Re-branding the leper colony: Challenges of changing culture and managing difficult people: Working paper series--09-10

Anika, a new manager, is confronted by a dysfunctional organizational culture characterized by employee disrespect, insubordination, and low performance. Her charge is to "to turn the place around". The case takes place in a service organization, a testing range run by the US Department of Defense. The staff is a combination of federal and contract employees who test clients' high-tech systems in a sometimes dangerous, desert environment. In addition, there are three vignettes that give a portrait of dysfunctional individual behaviors. Frequently, the response students want to make is "I'd just fire the guy." Unfortunately, it is not so simple

Managing the Effects of Noise From Ship Traffic, Seismic Surveying and Construction on Marine Mammals in Antarctica

© 2019 Erbe, Dähne, Gordon, Herata, Houser, Koschinski, Leaper, McCauley, Miller, Müller, Murray, Oswald, Scholik-Schlomer, Schuster, Van Opzeeland and Janik. The Protocol on Environmental Protection of the Antarctic Treaty stipulates that the protection of the Antarctic environment and associated ecosystems be fundamentally considered in the planning and conducting of all activities in the Antarctic Treaty area. One of the key pollutants created by human activities in the Antarctic is noise, which is primarily caused by ship traffic (from tourism, fisheries, and research), but also by geophysical research (e.g., seismic surveys) and by research station support activities (including construction). Arguably, amongst the species most vulnerable to noise are marine mammals since they specialize in using sound for communication, navigation and foraging, and therefore have evolved the highest auditory sensitivity among marine organisms. Reported effects of noise on marine mammals in lower-latitude oceans include stress, behavioral changes such as avoidance, auditory masking, hearing threshold shifts, and—in extreme cases—death. Eight mysticete species, 10 odontocete species, and six pinniped species occur south of 60°S (i.e., in the Southern or Antarctic Ocean). For many of these, the Southern Ocean is a key area for foraging and reproduction. Yet, little is known about how these species are affected by noise. We review the current prevalence of anthropogenic noise and the distribution of marine mammals in the Southern Ocean, and the current research gaps that prevent us from accurately assessing noise impacts on Antarctic marine mammals. A questionnaire given to 29 international experts on marine mammals revealed a variety of research needs. Those that received the highest rankings were (1) improved data on abundance and distribution of Antarctic marine mammals, (2) hearing data for Antarctic marine mammals, in particular a mysticete audiogram, and (3) an assessment of the effectiveness of various noise mitigation options. The management need with the highest score was a refinement of noise exposure criteria. Environmental evaluations are a requirement before conducting activities in the Antarctic. Because of a lack of scientific data on impacts, requirements and noise thresholds often vary between countries that conduct these evaluations, leading to different standards across countries. Addressing the identified research needs will help to implement informed and reasonable thresholds for noise production in the Antarctic and help to protect the Antarctic environment

Fundamental investigations of double-negative (DNG) metamaterials including applications for antenna systems

The postulated characteristics of double-negative (DNG) materials--i.e., materials with simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability (ε < 0, μ < 0)--and recent attempts to realize those characteristics with synthetic metamaterials are briefly reviewed. Investigations into the causality of signal propagation in a DNG medium are then presented. Previous research in this topic is examined, and it is verified that a DNG medium must be dispersive in order to be causal. An accurate time-domain description of propagation in a DNG medium is shown to be elusive due to the presence of dispersion, though approximate solutions and recommendations for future analytical research are provided. The results of numerical investigations into this topic are then discussed, and the anticipated combination of causal signal transmission and a negative phase shift are observed in the numerical data. Potential applications of DNG metamaterials to antenna systems are then presented. A DNG shell is observed to reduce the intrinsic reactance sensed by an infinitesimal electric dipole, thereby increasing the dipole's radiated power. Analytical expressions for the fields in the dipole--DNG shell system are derived, and numerical results for a variety of DNG shell configurations are discussed. The presence of a DNG shell is shown to increase the dipole's radiated power by orders of magnitude in some cases. A circuit model of the dipole--DNG shell system is additionally presented and used to interpret the system's physical behavior. The scattering properties of nested metamaterial shells are then analyzed. Various layering combinations of DNG, double-positive (DPS) and single-negative (SNG) shells are observed to produce resonant scattering of an incident, fundamental radial transverse-magnetic (TMᵣ) wave. Reciprocity between the metamaterial configurations that exhibit TMᵣ scattering resonances and those shown to maximize the power radiated by the infinitesimal electric dipole is demonstrated. Several additional metamaterial configurations are shown to produce both resonant TMᵣ scattering and resonant dipole radiation. A resonant configuration with one epsilon-negative (ENG) shell is especially appealing due to its manufacturability. The effects of a DNG layer on the creeping waves scattered by a small metal sphere are also discussed as a minor yet curious offshoot to the scattering analyses

FROM THE COLLEGES

From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New

TELEMETERING SYSTEM FOR THE UA SATELLITE

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, CaliforniaThis student paper was produced as part of the team design competition in the University of Arizona course ECE 485, Radiowaves and Telemetry. It presents a telemetering system proposed for UASat, a small satellite being designed for launch in the year 2004. The overall system architecture is described, including the transducers used by each subsystem, the command and telemetry packet formats, the antennas and modulation schemes, the link budget, and some hardware recommendations. A discussion of the data analysis is also included.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection