1,144 research outputs found
Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 14, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Dr. Samuel Cohen.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2010.This thesis examines the relationship between trauma and the literary mode of the fantastic. While the fantastic has historically been understood as an escapist mode or a literature of wish fulfillment, it may also play an important role in how victims of trauma construct their narratives. The fantastic does not simply leave trauma behind or provide pleasant alternatives to actual experiences; rather, it can constitute the acting out of trauma, facilitate working through, and even enable victims to bear witness to the traumatic past. After a brief overview of both trauma theory and the effects of combat trauma, this study offers readings of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, John A. Williams' Captain Blackman, and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato to show that fantastic elements in trauma narratives can be read as responses to and manifestations of trauma. The second chapter returns to O'Brien's novel to examine the fantastic mode as a means of healing. The study concludes with an analysis of the fantastic as bearing witness to real historical events in addition to those that make up the experience of trauma itself.Includes bibliographical references
Coupling light into optical fibres near the diffraction limit
The burgeoning field of astrophotonics explores the interface between
astronomy and photonics. Important applications include photonic OH suppression
at near-infrared wavelengths, and integrated photonic spectroscopy. These new
photonic mechanisms are not well matched to conventional multi-mode fibres and
are best fed with single or few-mode fibres. We envisage the largest gains in
astrophotonics will come from instruments that operate with single or few-mode
fibres in the diffraction limited or near diffraction limited regimes. While
astronomical instruments have largely solved the problem of coupling light into
multi-mode fibres this is largely unexplored territory for few-mode and
single-mode fibres. Here we describe a project to explore this topic in detail,
and present initial results on coupling light into single and few-mode fibres
at the diffraction limit. We find that fibres with as few as ~5 guided modes
have qualitatively different behaviour to single-mode fibres and share a number
of the beneficial characteristics of multi-mode fibres.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Proc. SPIE 6269 Ground-based
and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronom
DAzLE: The Dark Ages z (redshift) Lyman-alpha Explorer
DAzLE is an near infrared narrowband differential imager being built by the
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, in collaboration with the Anglo-Australian
observatory. It is a special purpose instrument designed with a sole aim; the
detection of redshifted Lyman-alpha emission from star forming galaxies at z>7.
DAzLE will use pairs of high resolution (R=1000) narrowband filters to exploit
low background `windows' in the near infrared sky emission spectrum. This will
enable it to reach sensitivities of ~2E-21 W/m^2, thereby allowing the
detection of z>7 galaxies with star formation rates as low as a few solar
masses per year. The design of the instrument, and in particular the crucial
narrowband filters, are presented. The predicted performance of DAzLE,
including the sensitivity, volume coverage and expected number counts, is
discussed. The current status of the DAzLE project, and its projected timeline,
are also presented.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5492,
Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronom
The Australian Space Eye: studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat
The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U
CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors
achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy
measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface
brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator
for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical
observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture
clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the
i and z bands.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication as Proc. SPIE 9904,
9904-56 (SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016
Dwarfism on Dwarf Millets
Our research team studied the effect of Dwarf mutations on Millet plant growth. To study these effects a plant hormone named Gibberellin was periodically added to the plants. Gibberellin is a hormone used in plants to grow, elongate, and flower the plant stems. With the addition of Gibberellin to millet plants, we compared the elongation of Millet stem length (cm) to the Millet wild-type generations. We hypothesized the implementation of Gibberellin would boost the growth rate and size of dwarf mutated millet
Spray Printing of Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals
Single-crystal semiconductors have been at the forefront of scientific interest for more than 70 years, serving as the backbone of electronic devices. Inorganic single crystals are typically grown from a melt using time-consuming and energy-intensive processes. Organic semiconductor single crystals, however, can be grown using solution-based methods at room temperature in air, opening up the possibility of large-scale production of inexpensive electronics targeting applications ranging from field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes to medical X-ray detectors. Here we demonstrate a low-cost, scalable spray-printing process to fabricate high-quality organic single crystals, based on various semiconducting small molecules on virtually any substrate by combining the advantages of antisolvent crystallization and solution shearing. The crystals’ size, shape and orientation are controlled by the sheer force generated by the spray droplets’ impact onto the antisolvent’s surface. This method demonstrates the feasibility of a spray-on single-crystal organic electronics
Luminescent 1,8-Naphthalimide-Derived ReI Complexes: syntheses, spectroscopy, X-ray structure and preliminary bioimaging in fission yeast cells
A series of picolyl-functionalised, fluorescent 1,8-naphthalimide ligands (L) have been synthesised and coordi-nated to ReI to form luminescent cationic complexes of the general form fac-[Re(phen)(CO)3(L)]BF4. The complexes were characterised by using a range of spectroscopic and analytical techniques. One example of a complex was also characterised in the solid-state by using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, reveal-ing a distorted octahedral coordination sphere at ReI and Re– C/Re–N bond lengths within the expected ranges. All ligands were shown to be fluorescent, with the 4-amino derivatives showing intramolecular charge transfer in the visible region (511–534 nm). The complexes generally showed a mixture of ligand-centred and/or 3MLCT emission depending upon the na-ture of the coordinated 1,8-naphthalimide ligand. For selected complexes, confocal fluorescence microscopy was undertaken by using fission yeast cells (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) and showed that the structure of the 1,8-naphthalimide ligand influ-ences the uptake and localisation of the rhenium complex
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