Exploding Magazines: Byron’s The Siege of Corinth, Francesco Morosini and the Destruction of the Parthenon

This paper links several threads connected to Byron‟s least regarded Turkish Tale. Why, when the English Parliament decided in June 1816 to purchase the Elgin Marbles for the British Museum, did Byron appear to be silent on a subject that he had expressed strong feelings about some years earlier? Why, when he attacked Lord Elgin on the Parthenon marbles, did he not link him in infamy with Francesco Morosini, who had fired the shot that blew up the Parthenon? And why, in The Siege of Corinth, did Byron intentionally depart from the account in his historical source?My paper argues that The Siege of Corinth, one of his Turkish Tales that includes a conflict between Venetians and Turks, a siege, and an explosion, contains within it Byron‟s reflections on these issues The Siege of Corinth, in short, has more layers than have previously been explored

A Selected Fiction? Lawrence Durrell and the Overgrown Typescript of Bitter Lemons

This article looks at previously unmined archival documents in order to explore the preand post-publication history of Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons, a travelogue written during the ‘emergency years’ of the EOKA campaign against British rule and for union with Greece. It examines the ways in which paratextual documents surrounding this publication history illuminate the awkward, sometimes contradictory, relationship between Durrell’s book and the last years of the British colonial government in Cyprus, a government for which Durrell worked as an employee in the Public Information Office

A Cell-Specific Analysis Of Gene Expression In The Neural Crest Of Zebrafish.

This thesis presents a new approach to the rapid and systematic identification of genes expressed differentially between specific cell types. The approach is based upon the hybridization of amplified tissue or cell-specific complex cDNA probes to robotically arrayed cDNA libraries and the computer-assisted analysis ('electronic subtraction') of the resulting hybridization patterns. This approach was applied to two populations of cultured zebrafish neural crest cells, as well as to tissue from ventral trunk neural tube. Sets of cDNA clones were assembled that putatively represent genes expressed in early-migrating trunk neural crest cells (390 clones), late-migrating trunk neural crest cells (422 clones), or both neural crest cell populations (292 clones), but not in ventral trunk neural tube. The procedures and techniques used were tested for reproducibilty and initial conclusions are made about the feasibility and validity of the approach. A critical assessment of the techniques apphed suggests aspects of the approach which might be improved in its future application

Long-Time Behaviour and Self-Similarity in a Coagulation Equation with Input of Monomers

For a coagulation equation with Becker-Doring type interactions and time-independent monomer input we study the detailed long-time behaviour of nonnegative solutions and prove the convergence to a self-similar function.Comment: 30 pages, 5 Figures, now published in Markov Processes and Related Fields 12, 367-398, (2006

The Post-Gelation Behaviour of the Coagulation Equation with Product Kernel

It is well known that solutions of the coagulation equation do not conserve mass if the coagulation kernel grows too rapidly. The phenomenon whereby conservation of mass breaks down in finite time is known as gelation and is physically interpreted as being caused by the appearance of an infinite "gel" or "superparticle". In this paper we discuss the post-gelation behaviour of the coagulation equation with product kernel. [DOI: 10.1685/CSC06150] About DO

Remote sensing applications in forestry. The development of an earth resources information system using aerial photographs and digital computers photographs and digital computers

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Absence of gelation and self-similar behavior for a coagulation-fragmentation equation

The dynamics of a coagulation-fragmentation equation with multiplicative coagulation kernel and critical singular fragmentation is studied. In contrast to the coagulation equation, it is proved that fragmentation prevents the occurrence of the gelation phenomenon and a mass-conserving solution is constructed. The large time behavior of this solution is shown to be described by a self-similar solution. In addition, the second moment is finite for positive times whatever its initial value. The proof relies on the Laplace transform which maps the original equation to a first-order nonlinear hyperbolic equation with a singular source term. A precise study of this equation is then performed with the method of characteristics