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Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction.
The article investigates various approaches to seascape in selected poems of the contemporary Irish poet, Derek Mahon, set against the background of references to Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney or Odysseus Elytis. The sea provides a perspective that cannot be overestimated in trying to get an insight into the communication and the clash between the culture of the South and the North. The two nations have often glimpsed at their reflection in the mirror of the surrounding seas, their history and mentality determined by their geographical position and largely insular experience. Elements such as the isolation from the mainland; the perception of the sea as a personification of the force ruling over life and death, as a threat and a promise; or the focus on some characteristic natural phenomena such as light or surface dominate the seascape imagery both in Greek and Irish literature. The sea often constitutes a border of antagonistic and complementary worlds: dream and reality, light and darkness, male and female, the real world and the underworld â and the vantage point of the poet changes accordingly. Some poems under discussion also explore a series of myths linked with the sea, the best known of which, the Odyssey, has remained a frame of reference for numerous contemporary Greek and Irish poets. Elytis's Cyclades or Longley's Mayo provide us with examples of 'private homelands'. As Longley once observed, âhis part of Mayoâ reminds him of Ithaca (sandy and remote) and of Greece in general: âIâve often thought that that part of Ireland . . . looks like Greece. Or Greece looks like a dust-bowl version of Ireland,â which triggers further deliberations on seascape as the common ground for the two countries.
Just as Elytis's Cyclades or Longley's Mayo, Mahonâs Cyclades provide us with examples of 'private homelands'. The focus of this article is Derek Mahonâs seascapes: purely Greek (âAphroditeâs Poolâ), Irish seen through the prism of the Greek ones (âAchillâ) and purely Irish (âRecalling Aranâ). The level of abstraction in the last category is compared with Odysseus Elytisâs imagery of the Cyclades, while the first poem demystifies a practice which I termed as âmyth tradingâ, one of consumerist tourism techniques
Analysis of nitrogen tetroxide samples Final report
Chemical analysis of nitrogen tetroxide trace impuritie
Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
We report a case of a Clostridium septicum empyema in an immunocompetent woman following operation for an incarcerated internal hernia. The patient was successfully treated with pleural decortication and an extended course of postoperative antibiotics. This is the first report of such an infection in the medical literature
An experimental investigation of the flow fields about delta and double-delta wings at low speeds
Low speed wind tunnel analysis of flow fields about delta and double delta wing
Further experimental investigations of delta and double-delta wing flow fields at low speeds
Low speed wind tunnel investigations of delta and double-delta wing flow fields and relationship to aerodynamic forc
Learning intrinsic excitability in medium spiny neurons
We present an unsupervised, local activation-dependent learning rule for
intrinsic plasticity (IP) which affects the composition of ion channel
conductances for single neurons in a use-dependent way. We use a
single-compartment conductance-based model for medium spiny striatal neurons in
order to show the effects of parametrization of individual ion channels on the
neuronal activation function. We show that parameter changes within the
physiological ranges are sufficient to create an ensemble of neurons with
significantly different activation functions. We emphasize that the effects of
intrinsic neuronal variability on spiking behavior require a distributed mode
of synaptic input and can be eliminated by strongly correlated input. We show
how variability and adaptivity in ion channel conductances can be utilized to
store patterns without an additional contribution by synaptic plasticity (SP).
The adaptation of the spike response may result in either "positive" or
"negative" pattern learning. However, read-out of stored information depends on
a distributed pattern of synaptic activity to let intrinsic variability
determine spike response. We briefly discuss the implications of this
conditional memory on learning and addiction.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figure
Statement of Fred W. Garmone
This is a transcript of statements by Attorney, Fred W. Garmone (Counsel for Sam Sheppard) regarding a short in-chambers conference pre-trial with the Honorable Judge Blythin. Mr. Garmone stated to Judge Blythin, because of the fact that his son (Ed Blythin) at the time of trial was a member of the Homicide Unit, and was actively engaged in the investigation of this death of Marilyn Sheppard, that it was his feeling that he should withdraw or disqualify himself as the Judge to hear the case.
Along with Mr. Garmone\u27s statement is a brief question/answer exchange between members of the Prosecution and the Sheppard Counsel present; conversation exchange inquires of pre-trial defense attorney dissension or discord and whether there was a formal affidavit of prejudice against Judge Blythin for his personal connection to the criminal investigation. These inquiries prompted negative responses from Mr. Garmone
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