A new fantasy of crusade : Sarras in the vulgate cycle.

The Lancelot-Grail Cycle was written at a critical juncture for the crusading movement, twenty years after the fall of Jerusalem. Its popularity rose through the 13th and 14th centuries during which the last crusader kingdom of Acre fell. With its combination of religious and chivalric themes and repeated motif of Christian knights in the East, the Cycle draws many parallels between its Arthurian narrative and the crusades. Despite this, the city of Jerusalem is almost completely absent from the text, overshadowed by Sarras, a nonexistent city. As the text’s most important eastern location, Sarras serves as a commentary on Jerusalem, Islam and the crusades. By examining text of the History of the Holy Grail and Quest for the Holy Grail and comparing Sarras to contemporary crusade sermons, polemics, and chronicles, it is possible to better understand the message of the Cycle as well as one potential reason for its popularity

Choosing the Fall to Rise Up: Gender Consumption and Eve’s Culinary World

Even as Paradise Lost imposes John Milton’s own values of gender roles to construct Eden, notably allocating the responsibilities of the feminized, bodily domestic sphere to Eve, while Adam is granted masculinized, intellectual labor, Eve manages to resist and trouble this gendered division. Mastering her role and making it her own, Eve finds solace and happiness within what I call her new “culinary world,” a sphere in which Eve conjoins labor to intellectual and emotional creation through the processes of food—including everything from harvesting, to preparation, to eating. The culinary world thus comes to encompass Eve’s agency, and she uses food-based skills to defend against Adam’s desire to overconsume her. I argue that Adam’s aggressive consumption of Eve and rigid dependence on constructing and upholding gender binaries not only leads Eve to seek out her own culinary world; it also informs her eventual choice to eat the apple in order to create a new foundation of equality in which she hosts the necessary skills to defend herself. Eating the apple provides Eve with the knowledge needed to ensure she is not overconsumed by Adam even beyond the space of Eden. In deconstructing gendered binaries, she goes beyond establishing a proficient defense mechanism and gains access to a world-making ability of her own. She succeeds

Towards a cost-effective biorefinery : production of activated carbons from residual biomass for energy storage devices.

Biomass processing for industrial products and biofuels has gained an increasing presence as society looks to using sustainable resources for manufacturing and renewable fuels for energy. However, these sustainably produced materials and products cannot gain a competitive edge because of the manufacturing expenses that are a result of high process temperatures and pressures. In order to lower these costs, theoretical modeling has described a value-added co-product strategy as one of the best ways to combat high bioprocessing prices. Biomass has been shown to make effective carbons for energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries. These carbons, with the right qualities, would be considered high value and have the potential to bring in large revenues. In this work, corn fiber in the form of Dried Distiller’s Grains and soy hulls that have been subjected to a hydrolysis process to remove 5-Carbon sugars were carbonized with KOH as an activating agent. The carbons were then characterized to explore the effect of hydrolysis on the carbons made from both pre and post-hydrolysis biomass. In addition, the carbons were tested in three energy storage applications: supercapacitors, solar cells, and hydrogen storage modules. Based on the characterization, device testing, and further economic analysis, it was determined that these carbon materials could provide substantial revenues that would allow for reduction in processing costs, ultimately lowering biofuel or bioproduct consumer prices. This research has also established baseline data on which different biomasses can be explored, opening the door to research with other biomasses of interest

Quad Bike Related Deaths and Injuries Australia 2011 Media Monitors Report

This report provides a summary of uad bike related deaths and serious injuries reported in the media throughout 201

Quad Bike Related Deaths and Injuries - Australia 2010: Media Monitors Report

This brief report looking at media coverage of quad bike related deaths and injuries in Australia throughout 2010 indicates that there were at least nine deaths and 43 serious injuries. This is almost certainly an underestimate as not all incidents are reported in the media. Rollover events were responsible for 50% of the deaths and 36% of serious injuries.Core funding for the Centre is derived from the Hunter New England Local Health Networ

Quad Bike Related Deaths and Injuries Australia 2012 Media Monitors Report

This report outlines the fatal and non-fatal quad bike cases reported in the Australian print media for 201

Farm Related Injury Reported in the Australian Print Media 2010

This report reviews the data identified in the Australian print media throughout 2010, where an on-farm injury death or injury has occured

Farm related injuries reported in the Australian print media 2012

This report documents the non-intentional farm deaths and injuries that were identified in the Australian print media in 2012