Coherence and inclusion in the Life-Writing of Romantic-period London

This article considers the ways in which London lives were written together during the Romantic period, considering representations across different genres and media including: poetry by William Wordsworth, Richard Horwood’s house-by-house Plan of the city (1792-9), Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners ([?1789]), the 1788 volume of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, Richard Phillips’ Modern London (1804) and Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1820-1). It pays particular attention to recovering evidence of marginalised individuals, whose lives were never written at book or article length, but of whom traces survive in glimpses and in aggregated forms such as plate series and directories. It also discusses the life-writing of communities through the representation of common knowledge and the use of statistics, contrasting the confident assertions of knowledge made in guides, mapping and topography with the more conflicted and fragmented modes common in poetry and novels. Through examining these issues, it contends that there are considerable benefits in thinking of life-writing as being intrinsic to a far wider range of discourses than the standard biographical and autobiographical modes, arguing that a broader conception is invaluable for recovering occluded existences, modelling collective experience and understanding the hierarchies implicit in the ways in which lives are culturally inscribed

Accumulating London

Advances in print technologies, a growing consumer base and the interventions of clever entrepreneurs led to a burgeoning of prints of London in the 18th and 19th century. Matthew Sangster considers the ways in which these prints represented and organised the city, placing them onto a digital map of London to reveal the geographical and cultural patterns they trace

Richard Allen

Richard Allen lived his scholarship, politics and passions as an integrated whole. A historian, social activist and teacher of immense intelligence, integrity, compassion and decency, Richard passed away in March of 2019, just as his most recent book of essays, Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies: The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada, was to be launched

Revisiting objective tests: A case study in integration at honours level

This paper examines the background to computer‐assisted assessment and shows how certain misconceptions or ‘myths’ have arisen around its use. It then discusses an actual implementation of computerized multiple‐choice question (MCQ) tests, addressing both the main theoretical issues, and the practicalities of the design and administration process. It confirms that honours‐level learning can be appropriately assessed using summative computer‐based objective tests, not just in the eyes of the adopting academic, but also in the eyes of the students. Care should, however, be taken to adopt a flexible implementation that is responsive to unforeseen problems

CALCULATION OF ABSOLUTE DIFFUSION RATES IN OXIDES

The authors have calculated the absolute rate of diffusion for Mg2+ and Fe3+ ions in MgO using atomistic modelling. The calculations use a shell model, incorporating tested interatomic potentials, and exploit recent advances in computer codes. The agreement is extremely good where experimental data are available for comparison. For Mg2+ in MgO at 1400 degrees C they predict a pre-exponential factor of 32.9 THz using simple Vineyard theory (experiment 18+or-7 THz after correction for the important volume dependence of the activation energy) and an activation energy of 2.26 eV (experiment 2.3+or-0.2 eV). Close inspection of the energy changes for displacements from the saddle point normal to the jump path shows that within kT of the saddle point energy there are significant departures from the harmonic dependence required for validity of Vineyard theory. Corrections by both analytical methods and numerical integration improve agreement with experiment, predicting 23-25 THz overall. For Fe3+ much slower diffusion is predicted even though the jump path bifurcates to give two saddle points. The authors do not predict the rapid Fe3+ motion reported in aggregation experiments and conclude that other mechanisms are involved. They have also used the dynamical theory of Rice and Slater which gives similar, but by no means identical, predictions for the diffusion rates

CATION DIFFUSION IN ALKALINE-EARTH OXIDES

Absolute jump rates for cation-vacancy interchanges in MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO are calculated from a set of model inter-ionic potentials. Internal energies and vibrational entropies over a wide range of temperatures (i.e. at expansions which within the models correspond to these temperatures in the quasi-harmonic approximation) are evaluated and, from these, migration enthalpies and pre-exponential frequency factors are deduced. Correlations between these two diffusion parameters for the family of oxides are investigated

The metabolism and disposition of trans-Anethole and p-Propylanisiole in rodent species and in man

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Vibrational pocket modes: predictions by the embedded crystallite method and their experimental observation

Simulation studies based on the embedded crystallite method are used to predict, with no free parameters, complex dynamical behavior for a simple alkali halide defect system, Na+ in KI. Far infrared spectroscopic measurements, including uniaxial stress, confirm the predicted vibrational properties, indicating that this methodology can readily be used for complex and extended defects in ionic crystals

Evaluation of the Concept that Pumahuasi Veins Indicate a Potential for the Existence of Underlying Undiscovered Sedex Deposits, Northern Argentina

Fil: Sangster, Alan L. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.Fil: Sangster, Donald F. Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales; Argentina.We have been asked by SEGEMAR to comment on the possibility that the Pumahuasi veins (Figure 1) may be mobilized Sedex mineralization and that their presence indicates an exploration potential for Sedex base metal deposits, similar to the Aguilar deposit, in the Pumahuasi area

You cannot judge a book by its cover: the problems with journal rankings

Journal rankings lists have impacted and are impacting accounting educators and accounting education researchers around the world. Nowhere is the impact positive. It ranges from slight constraints on academic freedom to admonition, censure, reduced research allowances, non-promotion, non-short-listing for jobs, increased teaching loads, and re- designation as a non-researcher, all because the chosen research specialism of someone who was vocationally motivated to become a teacher of accounting is, ironically, accounting education. University managers believe that these journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty publish top-quality research on accounting regulation, financial markets, business finance, auditing, international accounting, management accounting, taxation, accounting in society, and more, but not on what they do in their ‘day job’ – teaching accounting. These same managers also believe that the journal ranking lists indicate that accounting faculty do not publish top-quality research in accounting history and accounting systems. And they also believe that journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty write top-quality research in education, history, and systems, but only if they publish it in specialist journals that do not have the word ‘accounting’ in their title, or in mainstream journals that do. Tarring everyone with the same brush because of the journal in which they publish is inequitable. We would not allow it in other walks of life. It is time the discrimination ended