The Ambiguous Graveyard: Religious Sympathy and Erotic Desire in Sir John Everett Millais\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Vale of Rest\u3c/i\u3e

The Vale of Rest, 1859, despite or because of its oddities—two nuns digging a grave—was in its own day understood as a touchstone for Sir John Everett Millais and his career. Its critical reception in 1859 was hostile, with charges of “ugliness,” but by 1897, it was hanging in the Tate museum. Scholars and biographers have accordingly seen it as a turning point in Millais’s abandonment of Pre-Raphaelite realism for a more aestheticized and bourgeois style. The subject of nuns has led other scholars to investigate Millais’s sympathies with the Oxford Movement, the midcentury effort to reform the Anglican church and bring it closer to Catholicism, to understand how The Vale of Rest’s initial rejection and ultimate acceptance might fit into Victorian attitudes toward religion. It is the goal of this project to bridge the gap between what is commonly understood about this painting and a historical, biographical, and political context that supply the work with a less ambiguous narrative. Millais’s biography, his place within the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the public’s reaction to the Oxford Movement, and the suspicion of private burial under new reform laws together illuminate this painting’s place in British history while simultaneously creating a curious duality. The engagement with realism and symbolism, masculinity and femininity, and ultimately religious sympathy and erotic desire destabilizes the seemingly conventional reading of this work as a memento mori. What this research concludes is that the painting’s elusiveness, created by the tension between its contemporaneity and its symbolism, continues to be the most important signifier of its meaning. Its ambiguity meant it could satisfy Millais’s own psyche, Pre-Raphaelite challenges to social reform, and finally ‘modern’ demand for art that penetrated beyond appearances. Advisor: Wendy Kat

Cobweb Adjustment and the Market for new Lawyers

This paper will investigate whether or not the law school enrollment trends reflect economically responsive supply behavior according to factors such as salary and other market indicators. Specifically, this paper will determine whether or not the supply trends of law students reflect “cobweb-like” labor market adjustments due to the time lag associated with entering the labor market. The second section will review the relevant literature and provide a theoretical framework in which to analyze enrollment trends. In the third section, the empirical model will be discussed and an explanation of the data will be given. The fourth section will provide the results and conclusions of the paper

Light Of The World : Reverie

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Characterization of soil and postlaunch pad debris from Cape Canaveral launch complex and analysis of soil interaction with aqueous HCl

Soil samples were fractionated and analyzed in order to assess the physical and chemical interactions of entrained soil with solid-rocket exhaust clouds. The sandy soil consisted primarily of quartz (silica) particles, 30 to 500 microns in diameter, and also contained seashell fragments. Differential and cumulative soil-mass size distributions are presented along with mineralogy, elemental compositions, and solution pH histories. About 90 percent of the soil mass consisted of particles 165 microns in diameter. Characteristic reaction times in aqueous HC1 slurries varied from a few minutes to several days, and capacities for reaction under acidic conditions varied from 10 to 40 g HCl/kg soil, depending on particle size. Airborne lifetimes of particles 165 microns are conservatively 30 min, and this major grouping is predicted to represent a small short-term chemical sink for up to 5% of the total HC1. The smaller and more minor fractions, below a 165 micron diameter, may act as giant cloud condensation nuclei over much longer airborne lifetimes. Finally, the demonstrated time dependency of neutralization is a complicating factor; it can influence the ability to deduce in-cloud HCl scavenging with reaction and can affect the accuracy of measured chemical compositions of near-field wet deposition

Effectiveness of an Integrated Pre-capstone Project in Learning Information Systems Concepts

The inherently interdisciplinary nature of electronic commerce makes it an ideal basis for an integrative course in information systems. This paper describes the initial design and implementation of a project-based pre-capstone course for undergraduate MIS majors, and assesses the impact of the course on student perceptions of their MIS skills. As defined here, a pre-capstone course integrates the major technologies and operational issues underlying electronic commerce for a class of students of varying skills and classroom experiences, with the intention of providing the students with a more meaningful experience earlier in the MIS program. We discuss the specific issues and lessons learned from our initial implementation of this type of course, which provided the students with a creative learning experience that allowed them to discover deficiencies in their knowledge and address those deficiencies through communicating and learning within student teams. We also present survey results indicating how the more realistic context of the course impacted students\u27 perceptions of their knowledge and abilities compared to the perceptions of students who learn MIS concepts and skills in isolation. We found that through the use of student teams containing a variety of students with somewhat different backgrounds, the learning experience can become more meaningful. This allowed students to become more aware of gaps in their knowledge, and should make them better realize the significance of their future courses

Computer Simulation of Cytoskeleton-Induced Blebbing in Lipid Membranes

Blebs are balloon-shaped membrane protrusions that form during many physiological processes. Using computer simulation of a particle-based model for self-assembled lipid bilayers coupled to an elastic meshwork, we investigated the phase behavior and kinetics of blebbing. We found that blebs form for large values of the ratio between the areas of the bilayer and the cytoskeleton. We also found that blebbing can be induced when the cytoskeleton is subject to a localized ablation or a uniform compression. The results obtained are qualitatively in agreement with the experimental evidence and the model opens up the possibility to study the kinetics of bleb formation in detail.Comment: To appear in Physical Review

Long-term monitoring of Molonglo calibrators

Before and after every 12 hour synthesis observation, the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) measures the flux densities of ~5 compact extragalactic radio sources, chosen from a list of 55 calibrators. From 1984 to 1996, the MOST made some 58 000 such measurements. We have developed an algorithm to process this dataset to produce a light curve for each source spanning this thirteen year period. We find that 18 of the 55 calibrators are variable, on time scales between one and ten years. There is the tendency for sources closer to the Galactic Plane to be more likely to vary, which suggests that the variability is a result of refractive scintillation in the Galactic interstellar medium. The sources with the flattest radio spectra show the highest levels of variability, an effect possibly resulting from differing orientations of the radio axes to the line of sight.Comment: 18 pages, 9 embedded EPS files. To appear in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. Data available electronically at http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/astrop/scan

If Violets Bloomed as Sweet as You

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A Task-Centered, Multiple Method Approach To Teaching Fraud Risk Assessment

This manuscript provides an approach to teaching fraud risk assessment that is based on an analysis of the task and relevant research in education, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Fraud risk assessment (FRA) in financial reporting is an important and difficult task that must be performed in every financial statement audit. When auditors fail to detect fraudulent financial reporting (FFR), they are likely to become targets of shareholder and creditor litigation. Although FFR has a low occurrence rate considering the large number of financial statement audits conducted, it has a devastating impact on the investors, creditors and the profession

Ultra-Fast List-Mode Reconstruction of Short PET Frames and Example Applications

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