Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in the African

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Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett

‘I have a great deal to say, and I mean to say it. As for my work being taken seriously, we shall see about that’. Arnold Bennett, 1909 (Bennett, letter to Pinker dated 17 May 1909, in Letters, Vol. I, p. 123.) Arnold Bennett occupies a somewhat anomalous position as an Edwardian realist in a century dominated by modernist aesthetics. Pigeonholed by critics who have tended to adopt an overly formalist approach when considering his fiction, Bennett’s critical acclaim has predominantly been restricted to his Five Towns novels and has been advocated through readings which arrogate to him a slavish homage to nineteenth-century French naturalism and a quasi-documentary representation of particular locales. This dissertation aims to challenge Bennett’s categorisation as a merely provincial author, and as an Edwardian deserving of the canonical segregation initially proposed by Virginia Woolf, which separates his work from – and subordinates it to – that of his early twentieth-century or early Modernist contemporaries. To this end, I will demonstrate that Bennett was in fact, readily incorporating early twentieth-century themes and techniques, and actively engaging with various aspects of individual, social and national politics in comparable ways to other Modernists. I will also contend – contrary to critics who have regarded the war as having killed Bennett’s creativity – that the war occasioned a shift in Bennett’s agenda that, though not appreciated in his time or in the years after his death, is now in need of re-evaluation. With respect to methodology, this dissertation contextualises Bennett’s artistic strategies in light of early twentieth-century aesthetic concerns, and it demonstrates that his prose techniques serve social and/or political purposes. The thesis is divided into three chapters, each of which explores a stage of Bennett’s literary career. Chapter I covers 1898, the year of publication for Bennett’s first novel, The Man from the North, to 1913, also analysing A Great Man (1904) and Buried Alive (1908). Chapter II attends to Bennett’s fictional and non-fictional writings of the War years, including The Roll-Call (1919) – which begins in 1901 and culminates in 1914 – Liberty (1914), and Over There (1915). Chapter III examines Bennett’s writing from 1919 onwards, focusing on three novels: Riceyman Steps (1923), Lord Raingo (1926), and Accident (1929)

Quaternary Cu2ZnSnSe4 thin films for solar cells applications

Polycrystalline thin films of Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) were produced by selenisation of Cu(Zn,Sn) magnetron sputtered metallic precursors for solar cell applications. The p-type CZTSe absorber films were found to crystallize in the stannite structure (a = 5.684 Ã… and c = 11.353 Ã…) with an electronic bandgap of 0.9 eV. Solar cells with the structure were fabricated with device efficiencies up to 3.2%

Use of combinatorial analysis for the study of new material for solar cells applications

This paper presents a combinatorial method for the deposition and characterization of new metallic precursors for photovoltaic materials. Onedimensional thin film alloy “libraries” were electrodeposited on Mo-coated glass. The library elements were deposited in two consecutive baths and then heated in a reducing atmosphere to promote interdiffusion of the elements. At the end of this process, the libraries possessed a composition gradient along their lengths, with single elements at their two opposite ends and one or more alloys and/or a solid state solution in between. This continuous range of compositions can therefore be considered a collection of specific precursors that can be interrogated by examining their corresponding locations, with the crystallographic structure along the library changing in accordance with the phase diagram for the metals. The libraries were then sulphurised or selenised by heating in a sulphur-rich or selenium rich atmosphere; this converted the metallic precursors in a continuous range of materials, candidates for potential solar cells absorbers. The libraries were analysed by X-ray diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry. The X-ray diffraction results show phase changes across the libraries, which can be correlated with the original precursor concentration at that particular p

Lemankoa 1920-1980 : a study of the effects of health care interventions on the people of a pre-industrial village in North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea

Dissertação de mestrado em Marketing, apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Arnaldo Fernandes Matos Coelho.Hoje em dia, a inteligência emocional tem uma pluralidade de definições, no entanto, cada uma delas próximas o suficiente para sustentar a ideia de que têm desempenhado um papel fundamental, tanto no contexto organizacional como no dia á dia das pessoas. Saber gerir as suas emoções e saber lidar com as dos outros tem-se revelado uma competência principal e de grande importância. Resumindo, a inteligência emocional traduz-se na capacidade de racionalizar as emoções através dos processos cognitivos que envolve a perceção das próprias emoções e também a dos outros, a regulação e uso das emoções, no sentido da sua eficácia funcional, ou seja, a tomada de decisão (Wong e Law, 2002). Com isto, este estudo tem como objetivo entender qual o impacto da inteligência emocional na liderança autêntica uma vez que um líder deve ser visto como um exemplo e tem influência nas pessoas com quem colabora e/ou está em contacto. Um líder com elevada inteligência emocional terá provavelmente mais sucesso e uma maior vantagem competitiva comparativamente com outro líder que tenha uma inteligência emocional menos evidente. Na liderança autêntica necessita-se do uso da inteligência emocional para, assim, conseguir alcançar os seus objetivos e chegar ao sucesso individual, para além de, no contexto organizacional, se pretender um desempenho individual mas também coletivo. Esta investigação insere-se no contexto organizacional e na forma como a inteligência emocional pode ser usada promovendo uma liderança autêntica eficaz chegando a gerar sucesso individual através do impacto que este pode ter nas atitudes. Para a realização deste estudo, foi efetuado um questionário a cerca de 367 pessoas que desenvolviam naquele momento uma atividade profissional. A recolha dos dados decorreu via online. Esta investigação mostrou que há um impacto da inteligência emocional na liderança autêntica e nas variáveis mediadoras, à exceção do comportamento ético. Através destas conclusões é possível fornecer um conjunto de orientações para que os indivíduos dêem mais ênfase à sua inteligência emocional dado o impacto que ela pode ter de forma direta ou indireta na automotivação, na criatividade, na superação no trabalho, no comprometimento afetivo organizacional e na liderança autêntica