cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice: The Victorian Woman’s All-Consuming Predicament
Creators: name: Coar (University Of Leicester), Lisa
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2012

description: Haunted by the hunger of Eden’s infamous apple-eater, women have long had to contend with condemnatory attitudes towards female patterns of consumption. Nineteenth-century conduct writer Elizabeth Pennell was certainly eager to assert that when Eve stretched forth to taste the Forbidden Fruit, she unconsciously thrust the female appetite into ‘ill-repute’. ‘Foolish fasting,’ she argued, was suddenly ‘glorified,’ until ‘a healthy appetite [â€¦] passed for a snare of the devil, and its gratification meant eternal damnation’.1 With the devil presiding over the dinner-table to consume, or not to consume, became a question which plagued angelic house-dwellers troubled by a grumbling stomach. However, the uneasiness surrounding women’s hunger was far more than a mere dinner-table phenomenon. It entered the boudoir, becoming an indicator of sexuality, and saturated the social domain. With the birth of a consumer-crazed culture, it was assumed that women were hungry for things“, corsets and crinolines, diamonds and dinner-plates, tea-cups and carriages, commodities galore. This article analyses nineteenth-century variations on the notion of consumption and all its lexical derivatives. Using Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market“ (1862) and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“ (1865) as literary stimuli, this article ultimately exposes the perils of allowing consumer curiosity and hunger to collide in the public sphere. I broaden the discussion to include Rossetti’s other ‘consumer’ skewed works and, more briefly, George Du Maurier’s Trilby “(1894). My analysis charts the dissolution of the boundary between consumer and consumed, contemplates visual consumption and its specular economies and, finally, traces ‘vampiric’ veins throughout the era’s consumptive corpus, focusing on the Pre-Raphaelites. 1 Elizabeth Robins Pennell, The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman“ (London: John Lane, 1896), p. 9.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 1: Summer 2012
Decays of Zb -> Upsilon + pi via triangle diagrams in heavy meson molecules
Creators: name: Ohkoda, Shunsuke
name: Yasui, Shigehiro
name: Hosaka, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bottomonium-like resonances Zb(10610) and Zb'(10650) are good candidates of hadronic molecules composed of BBbar* (or B*Bbar) and B*Bbar*, respectively. Considering Zb (Zb') as heavy meson molecules, we investigate the decays of Zb(')^+ -> Upsilon (nS) pi^+$ in terms of the heavy meson effective theory. We find that the intermediate B (B*) and Bbar (Bbar*) meson loops and the form factors play a significant role to reproduce the experimental values of the decay widths. We also predict the decay widths of Zc^+ -> J/ψpi^+ and psi(2S) pi^+ for a charmonium-like resonance Zc which has been reported recently in experiments.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Collecting Men: Masculinity and Cultural Capital in The Woman in White“
Creators: name: Hallum (University Of Otago), Kirby-Jane
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2012

description: This essay seeks to extend the study of male consumption in the Victorian period, focusing specifically on the practice of aesthetic collecting in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White“ (1860). I compare male characters in this text, in terms of class and gender identity, in order to offer a pre-Wildean understanding of the Victorian male consumer. The novel’s treatment of the aristocracy and the middle classes offers substantial textual evidence of a relationship between consumption and masculinity, especially with regard to the collection of art as the acquisition of cultural capital. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, I clarify the connection between class position and the possession of cultural capital in nineteenth-century Britain, and explore other cultural assumptions concerning aesthetic proficiency, social status and consumer behaviour. I consider the theory of cultural capital in its relation to practices of collecting by taking into account the aesthetic tastes and cultural goods ascribed to the nineteenth-century collector figure. In this way, a collector’s embodied cultural capital translated into a capacity to identify the aesthetic properties of artistic objects. The recognised ownership of such culturally-valued works of art represents the collector’s objectified cultural capital. How a collector comes to be in the position to distinguish, or indeed to own, art objects reflects his own social situation in terms of his class status, education and access to economic capital. My argument, in brief, is that the very notion of the collection differs between the classes. I argue that the practices of aesthetic collection carried out in The Woman in White“ validate the notion of cultural capital.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 1: Summer 2012
William Hone and the Reading Public, 1825-26
Creators: name: Hodgetts (University Of York), Lucy
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2012

description: This article will offer a detailed understanding of the cultural, literary and political space occupied by William Hone’s popular anthology The Every-Day Book“ (1825-26) within the literary marketplace of the early nineteenth-century. I will be focusing on aspects of The Every-Day Book“ which contribute to Hone’s notion of “the peopleâ€ as a political and commercial entity, beginning by outlining the diverse literary attitudes towards the growth of the reading public at this time. The article will go on to explain Hone’s attempts to combat this tension with his own egalitarian definition of the common readership and its new commercial and political character. I will detail the journalistic methods of compilation and circulation which Hone exploited in order to anchor his anthology within the tradition of print publication. The article also aims to open up a new critical discourse on literary consumption by considering pre-Victorian figures such as Hone alongside later chroniclers of popular culture, whilst also giving credence to the anthology in its own right. Comparing accounts of Greenwich Fair by Hone and Dickens will illuminate a topography of influence across the period. I also address the dearth of material on Hone’s antiquarian endeavours. Critical interest in radical literary culture has surged in recent years, but there is little attempt to address the broader implications of the radical underpinnings of Hone’s later work. This article aims to elevate The Every-Day Book“ beyond its current status as a footnote in literary history.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 1: Summer 2012
Penning-Trap Mass Measurement of Helium-4
Creators: name: Sasidharan, Sangeetha
name: Bezrodnova, Olesia
name: Rau, Sascha
name: Quint, Wolfgang
name: Sturm, Sven
name: Blaum, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-Ion Trap (LIONTRAP), a high-precision Penning-trap mass spectrometer, was used to determine the atomic mass of $^{4}$He. Here, we report a 12 parts-per-trillion measurement of the mass of a $^{4}$He$^{2+}$ ion, $m(^{4}\text{He}^{2+}$) = $4.001\:506\:179\:651 (48)$ u. From this, the atomic mass of the neutral atom can be determined without loss of precision: $m(^{4}\text{He})$ = $4.002\:603\:254\:653 (48)$ u. This result is slightly more precise than the current CODATA18 literature value but deviates by 6.6 standard deviations. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in PRL. The final version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.093201.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Phonograph, Shorthand, Typewriter: High Performance Technologies in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Creators: name: Page (English And Film Studies, University Of Alberta), Leanne
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: The theoretical concept of technological performance has emerged only recently with the publication of Jon McKenzie's Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance“ in 2001. McKenzie develops a general theory of performance based around the development of three performance paradigms: cultural performance, organizational performance (or performance management), and technological performance. In his examination of the techno-performance paradigm, he focuses primarily on late twentieth and early twenty-first century 'high performance' technologies such as computers, guided missiles and space shuttles. While he acknowledges that the concept of performance does not apply only to technologies in this period, his analysis implicitly suggests that high performance technologies are a unique invention of the modern age. This essay confronts McKenzie's restriction of techno-performance to the post-WWII period by demonstrating how technologies performed and were seen to perform in the late nineteenth century through a techno-performance reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula“ (1897). The late Victorian period saw startling innovations in information and communication technology (such as the overseas telegraph, the typewriter, and the gramophone), which were marketed as high performance technologies, though not in those words. To contextualise my reading of Dracula“, I examine contemporary Victorian advertisements for communication technologies to demonstrate how such technologies were viewed as high performance products by Victorian advertisers and consumers. Technology in Dracula“ has usually been read as a metaphor. I employ McKenzie's concept of techno-performance to examine the performative functions of technology in Dracula“ that have not yet been explored by Victorianist scholarship. McKenzie notes two challenges posed by techno-performance: first, the challenge posed by a developer to his/her technological product, to perform or be classified as obsolete; and, second, the challenge posed by technology to its user to perform or be regarded as outmoded. I argue that Stoker's Dracula“ takes up both of these challenges. Emergent technologies sometimes perform in unexpected and potentially disruptive ways, much like the space shuttle Challenger cited by McKenzie; at the same time, such technologies oblige their users to perform in unexpected and disruptive ways. This essay examines emergent technologies in Dracula“ to highlight the relationship between individual and technological performance in the late nineteenth century.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 2: Winter 2011
'The Usual Palm Tree': Lovers in the Conservatory on the Late Victorian Stage
Creators: name: Chouhan (School Of English, University Of Leicester), Anjna
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: In the late nineteenth century, urban gardens, parks and conservatories had become fashionable as well as culturally and socially accessible. Creating pockets of nature within towns fused the spheres of countryside and city into one location. The escapism inherent in nature is a common theme in literature and art, as well as the theatre. Because the countryside within drama often functions as an escapist location, the late-Victorian penchant for faux or urban nature posed important questions for dramatists of the period. The dramatic paradigm of escape to the pastoral and return to the town, notable in Shakespearean plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream“ and As You Like It“, hinges around the idea that identity can be established by the act of travelling. However, the fascination with urban gardens and conservatories challenged conceptions of territorial shifts as integral to the process of self-discovery. It was, therefore, within the realm of the urban conservatory that the late century playwrights Arthur Wing Pinero and Oscar Wilde subverted the traditional theatrical pastoral escape. In Pinero's farce The Schoolmistress“ (1886), and Wilde's society comedy An Ideal Husband“ (1895), rather than retreating to the countryside, characters retire to the palm trees in the conservatory to find escape and, more importantly, lovers. This paper is an exploration of how these playwrights used the domesticated conservatory to negotiate the concepts of escape and return. By addressing the image of the conservatory as a late Victorian substitute for the pastoral escape, and probing the construct of the off-stage space, this article ultimately argues that romantic escapism, particularly within the parameters of the stage, does not necessarily require travel to a rural or idyllic location. Rather, the whole construct of the dramatic pastoral escape for lovers hinges not so much on 'usual', physical territory as the idea of imaginary experience.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 2: Winter 2011
'She Had Her Role to Play': The Performance of Servanthood in East Lynne and Other Sensation Novels
Creators: name: Steere (University Of Georgia), Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: In its original novel form and subsequent theatrical versions, Ellen Wood's East Lynne“ (1861) tells the story of Lady Isabel, who infiltrates her former home disguised as a servant. This essay explores Isabel in the context of other acting heroines of sensation novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins. These actresses give performances as servants as an unexpected means to gain access to the domestic space and to achieve personal independence. While the servant who acts and dresses above her station has been recognized as a stock character of sensation fiction, the lady-qua-servant merits equal attention. The servant and the actress share an ambiguity of class and the stigma of sexuality that make them a natural fit for sensation fiction's tropes of illicit behaviour, secret identities, and forbidden romance. The actress-servant is able to use her attention to costume, her emotional control, and her performance of helplessness to deflect suspicion from her true motives. While the other actresses largely use their servant roles for mercenary purposes, Isabel poses as a governess to reclaim her titles of 'mother' and 'wife', literalising the subservience she previously performed as a 'lady.'
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 2: Winter 2011
Automatic Reference Models Development: A Framework
Creators: name: Al-Khiaty, Mojeeb Al-Rhman
name: Ahmed, Moataz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software reuse allows the software industry to simultaneously reduce development cost and improve product quality. Reuse of early-stage artifacts has been acknowledged to be more beneficial than reuse of later-stage artifacts. In this regard, early-stage reference models have been considered as good tools to allow reuse across applications within the same domain. However, our literature survey reported in this paper reveals that the problem of automatically developing reference models from given instances has not caught enough researchers attention yet. Accordingly, in this paper we propose a framework for building a reference model that captures the common and variable analysis/design practices, across the different applications in a domain. The framework considers multi-view models in assessing the commonalities and variabilities among given instances. The proposed framework incorporates learning capabilities to allow improving the quality and re-usability of the reference model as it is being used.
Die Entwicklung der ungarischen Kirchen in Rumänien von 1944 bis 1989
Creators: name: Fónyad, Gábor
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
Zukunftsperspektiven der Evangelischen Kirche Lutherischen Bekenntnisses in Brasilien (IECLB)
Creators: name: Brakemeier, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
Literature and the Ecological Imagination: Richard Jefferies and D. H. Lawrence
Creators: name: Welshman (University Of Exeter), Rebecca
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: This paper suggests that early twentieth-century representations of the pastoral were informed by late nineteenth-century environmentalism. Richard Jefferies, Victorian author and journalist, was one of the earliest proponents of an ecological movement that warned against humans losing connection with nature. Jefferies' spiritual autobiography, The Story of my Heart“, published in 1883, attempted to defy the passive response to late-Victorian ecological ignorance and boldly anticipated the more dynamic literary forms of the Modernist era. Although Jefferies' expression of the relationship between the psyche and the natural world has been labelled as 'pantheistic', 'pretentious' and a 'failure', a similar strain of dramatic self-consciousness is recognisable in the work of early Modern authors. D. H. Lawrence stated that he 'didn't like' The Story of My Heart“. However, close readings of passages from the autobiography, and from Jefferies' post-apocalyptic novel After London“ (1885) compared with close readings from Lawrence's The Rainbow“ (1915) highlight latent affinities between the late work of Jefferies and the work of D. H. Lawrence. These affinities include imaginative connections between the psyche and the natural worldâ€”which afforded partial consolation for the post-Romantic loss of equilibrium between man and nature, and the potential implications of ecological imbalance for the relationship between man and womanâ€”in particular the struggle for individual identity within an increasingly industrial environment. Considering these affinities in the context of the broader literary transition between late-nineteenth century realism and the more reactionary genres of the early twentieth century, this paper concludes that continuity between late nineteenth-century environmentalism and early modernist ecological narratives afforded a more imaginative understanding of the relationship between the self and the natural world.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 1: Special Bulletin
"likelihood_ttbar_ljets_13TeV.tar.xz" of "Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section in the lepton+jets channel at $\sqrt{s}=13\;$TeV with the ATLAS experiment"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2020

description: Archive of full likelihoods in the HistFactory JSON format described in ATL-PHYS-PUB-2019-029. Provided are 2 statistical models one representing the inclusive fit stored in 'likelihood_ttbar_ljets_13TeV_inclusive.json' file and the second one representing the fiducial fit stored in 'likelihood_ttbar_ljets_13TeV_fiducial.json' file
description: The $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section is measured in the lepton+jets channel using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$. Events with exactly one charged lepton and four or more jets in the final state, with at least one jet containing $b$-hadrons, are used to determine the $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section through a profile-likelihood fit. The inclusive cross-section is measured to be ${\sigma_{\text{inc}} = 830 \pm 0.4 \text{(stat.)} \pm 36 \text{(syst.)}\pm 14 \text{(lumi.)} \mathrm{pb}}$ with a relative uncertainty of 4.6 %. The result is consistent with theoretical calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD.
Resilience of Adolescent Rohingya Refugees in Chicago
Creators: name: Batchelor, Analiese
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: youth development
subject: immigration
subject: Rohingya refugees
subject: adolescent resilience
subject: public health

description: The Rohingya have a long history of persecution in Myanmar. Those who have escaped from their homeland are relatively safe, but continue to suffer different hardships as refugees. Resilience is the positive adaptation to past extreme stress and adversity, making it an interesting topic of research for Chicago’s Rohingya population. The purpose of my research was to determine whether or not adolescent Rohingya refugees who have settled in Chicago have similar resilience as their non-refugee peers. Resilience was measured by using a quantitative approach in the form of a survey and a qualitative method in the form of interviews. The adolescent Rohingya refugees of the Rohingya Culture Center boys’ soccer team demonstrated that they were equally as resilient as their non-refugee soccer-playing peers, and also exhibited many positive traits of resilience, like self-reliance, optimism, and confidence. Since research has shown that resilience is a malleable trait, a strength-based approach can be adopted to boost resilience at the individual and community levels. This preliminary study provides important information about how trauma-exposed adolescent Rohingya refugees in Chicago might develop robust resilience by playing on a sports team and belonging to the Rohingya Culture Center. A broader application of this research would be to cultivate refugee-specific strategies to help future adolescent refugee populations resettling in Chicago.
Die spirituellen und charismatischen Bewegungen in der Schlesischen Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Tschechien
Creators: name: Tyrlík, Tomáš
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
Die spirituellen und charismatischen Bewegungen als Herausforderungen an die Kirchen in Siebenbürgen
Creators: name: Zoltán Adorjáni, Dezsö
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
Chaotic Variations of AES Algorithm
Creators: name: Pradhan, Chittaranjan
name: Bisoi, Ajay Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm is considered as a secured algorithm. Still, some security issues lie in the S-Box and the key used. In this paper, we have tried to give focus on the security of the key used. Here, the proposed modified algorithms for the AES have been simulated and tested with different chaotic variations such as 1-D logistic chaos equation, cross chaos equation as well as combination of both. For the evaluation purpose, the CPU time has been taken as the parameter. Though the variations of AES algorithms are taking some more time as compared to the standard AES algorithm, still the variations can be taken into consideration in case of more sensitive information. As we are giving more security to the key used for AES algorithm, our proposed algorithms are very much secured from unauthorized people.
description: IJCCMS, 7 pages
Die Wirksamkeit des Heiligen Geistes nach den Anschauungen der Alten Kirche
Creators: name: Fitschen, Klaus
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
"It Is Impossible That All This Should Be Lost": Victorian Narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness“
Creators: name: Walker Edin (Southern Methodist University), Kayla
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: Critics debate the designation of Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella Heart of Darkness“ as either "Victorian" or "Modern." The novella's protagonist embodies Victorian notions of British imperialism, whilst Conrad's experimental style and content pre-figure modernist sensibilities. I suggest that the final scene of the novella illuminates Conrad's simultaneous embodiment and interrogation of Victorian narrative convention. Kurtz's fiancà©e shows an astonishing degree of agency in constructing a master narrative apart from the tale that Marlow tells his masculine audience. Such a close-up view of the construction of this narrative exposes the frailty of narratives in general and the dependence of "truth" upon prescribed gender roles. This article discusses how Conrad's tale of gender and period crossings centres around the attempts of Marlow and Modernism to leave behind feminine and Victorian "delusions." These attempts inevitably fail because such delusions are themselves essential to masculine and Modern self-invention.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 1: Special Bulletin
Precise radial velocities of giant stars -- XVII. Distinguishing planets from intrinsically induced radial velocity signals in evolved stars
Creators: name: Spaeth, Dane
name: Reffert, Sabine
name: Trifonov, Trifon
name: Kaminski, Adrian
name: Albrecht, Simon
name: Grundahl, Frank
name: Andersen, Mads Fredslund
name: Quirrenbach, Andreas
name: Pallé, Pere L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From a long-term Doppler monitoring campaign of 373 giant stars, we have identified ten giants with periodic radial velocity variations that are challenging to associate with planets. Similar cases in the literature are attributed to poorly understood intrinsic processes. Our goal is to confirm or refute the presence of planets around these ten evolved stars. Additionally, we evaluate the reliability and sensitivity of planet-confirmation metrics when applied to giant stars and present cases of intrinsically induced radial velocity variations, aiming to enhance the physical understanding of the phenomenon. We combined 25 years of radial velocity data from the Hamilton/Lick, SONG, and CARMENES spectrographs. To assess consistency with Keplerian models, we examined the residuals and tracked changes in statistical significance as new data were incorporated. Additionally, we compared radial velocity amplitudes across optical and infrared wavelengths, searched for periodic variations of activity indicators, and examined their correlations with radial velocities. Seven of the ten giants exhibit intrinsically induced radial velocity variations. The strongest arguments against planets orbiting the giants are guided by long-term radial velocity monitoring that detects changing periodicity on long timescales or detects systematics close to the original period in the radial velocity residuals. While activity indicators offer some support, their signals are generally weak. Comparing optical and infrared radial velocity amplitudes also proves insufficient for confirming or refuting planets. We find HIP 64823 remains a promising candidate for hosting a giant exoplanet with orbital period $P\sim$ 7.75 yr. For two stars, the evidence remains inconclusive. Long-term radial velocity monitoring is essential for distinguishing planetary companions from intrinsic variations in evolved stars.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, 4 appendices, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Abstract abridged for arXiv submission
The weak Haagerup property
Creators: name: Knudby, Søren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the weak Haagerup property for locally compact groups and prove several hereditary results for the class of groups with this approximation property. The class contains a priori all weakly amenable groups and groups with the (usual) Haagerup property, but examples are given of groups with the weak Haagerup property which are not weakly amenable and do not have the Haagerup property. In the second part of the paper we introduce the weak Haagerup property for finite von Neumann algebras, and we prove several hereditary results here as well. Also, a discrete group has the weak Haagerup property if and only if its group von Neumann algebra does. Finally, we give an example of two II_1 factors with different weak Haagerup constants.
description: 41 pages
Walter Pater â€” Imagism â€” Objectivist Verse
Creators: name: Parker (University Of Sussex), Richard
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: In this paper I make a two-fold argument; first that the Objectivist inheritance from modernism is, in a specific sense, Paterian, and secondly, that this Paterian influence (manifested principally in the form of the Paterian aesthetic moment) is not, as might be assumed, in conflict with the political tendencies exhibited by my central examplesâ€”Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofskyâ€”but that the arguably apolitical aesthetic moment is in fact key to their political understandings. I will begin analysing how the Paterian moment lingers in Pound's poetry, especially his Imagist and Vorticist work, and is still at the core of his poetics when he begins The Cantos. I will then go on to argue that this same Paterian aesthetic moment continues in the early work of second-generation Modernists the Objectivists, and will look at the works of Louis as a representative example. I will then argue that this group of poets' Communism is not a break with their engagement with Paterian aestheticism, but that the Paterian moment is in fact alloyed with their understanding of Marxist-Leninism. The engagement with the far left that is generally supposed to mark these writers' defining divide with their modernist forebears will therefore be shown to be more closely linked to the older generation's practices than it might be thought and I will, finally, question the apparently aesthetic basis of Pound's alignment with the far-right.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 1: Special Bulletin
Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts' Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde's Poems in Prose
Creators: name: Mercurio (University Of St Andrews), Jeremiah Romano
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2011

description: The artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term 'Post-Impressionism', his work in book design and illustration exemplifies progressive strategies of decoration that reconfigure the relationship between author and illustrator as one of collaborative authorship. Ricketts' illustrations are autonomous narratives that not only reproduce the meanings of the texts they represent, but also parody and elaborate on them. Moreover, Ricketts' book designs and illustrations represent a complex resistance to and working out of Oscar Wilde's views on art, language, and orality. Wilde regarded visual art as inferior to language because the latter can embody the graphic and is free from the former's fixity in time and materiality. Ricketts' illustrational strategies are designed, not only to reinforce his own autonomy, but also to disprove Wilde's description of visual art as limited compared with language. Ricketts' progressive strategies of design are epitomized by his unpublished illustrations for Wilde's Poems in Prose“ (1894), a text which dramatises the centrality of voice to Wilde's poetic endeavour and allows Ricketts directly to challenge Wilde's denigration of the visual arts. By focusing on two representative examples, Ricketts' drawings for 'The Disciple' and 'The House of Judgment', and by providing close readings of both image and text, this piece traces Ricketts' illustrational methods and reveals their debts to Wilde's own theories of orality, language, and visual arts, charting Ricketts' divergences from Wilde's texts and highlighting the critical dialogue implicit in the illustrations. Ricketts' drawings for the Poems in Prose“, currently held at the Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery in Carlisle, have never been published together as a set, and the juxtaposition of the two drawings here is a preliminary attempt to set these illustrations in conversation with each other.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 3 No. 1: Special Bulletin
Precise and accurate interpolated stellar oscillation frequencies on the main sequence
Creators: name: Ball, Warrick H.
name: Schou, Jesper
name: Gizon, Laurent
name: Marques, João P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-quality data from space-based observatories present an opportunity to fit stellar models to observations of individually-identified oscillation frequencies, not just the large and small frequency separations. But such fits require the evaluation of a large number of accurate stellar models, which remains expensive. Here, we show that global-mode oscillation frequencies interpolated in a grid of stellar models are precise and accurate, at least in the neighbourhood of a solar model.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure. Poster contribution to IAU Symposium 301: Precision Asteroseismology
The Aesthete as a Scientist: Walter Pater and Nineteenth-Century Science
Creators: name: Yannis (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki), Kanarakis
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2010

description: This paper explores the impact of nineteenth-century science on Victorian literature by examining the way Walter Pater, the father of British aestheticism, was influenced by it. Pater adopted the rhetoric of new science and incorporated a wide variety of scientific maxims in his work in order to modernize art and render it timely. This was symptomatic of his anxiety that the sweeping force of nineteenth-century science would render art obsolete. His response to this threat came in the form of a series of suggestions for the role of art and the artist, which eventually comprised a new aesthetic program, aestheticism. Drawing on a plethora of interconnections that scholars have over the past years detected between Pater and the science of his time, my aim in this study is to systematize the interrelationship that the Oxford don established between the scientist and the aesthete, and to explore the grounds on which this association was made. As I shall show, Pater drew on an ethical and a structural kinship between the nineteenth-century artistic movement and contemporary science in order to present the aesthete as a scientist. The implications of this kinship will be addressed as a means of accounting for the fact that aestheticism constitutes a short-lived artistic phenomenon, unable, in the long run, to respond to the call of the times.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 2 No. 1: Summer 2010
"... macht euch ein neues Herz und einen neuen Geist"
Creators: name: Zoltán Adorjáni, Dezsö
name: Adorjáni, Dezso Zoltán
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
Where 'Things Go The Other Way': The Stereochemistry of Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass World
Creators: name: O'Leary (Rice University), Joanna Shawn Brigid
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2010

description: In the opening scene of Through the Looking-Glass“, Alice asks a feline friend, 'How would you like to live in Looking-Glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-Glass milk isn't good to drink?' Alice's speculation regarding the potability of Looking-Glass milk has long been considered by chemists to be Carroll's subtle reference to stereoisomers“. Discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1848, stereoisomers are molecules that contain the same number and kinds of atoms but differ from each other in spatial orientation. The stereoisomers of lactose (C12H22O11) in milk exist as nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other; therefore, the milk Alice would drink in the Looking-Glass House is of the opposite three-dimensional configuration than the milk of the 'regular' world, and for that reason, Carroll wonders if the former might produce an insalubrious, rather than healthful, effect. While much has been written about this particular representation of stereoisomerism in Through the Looking-Glass“, scientists and literary scholars alike have failed to recognize the potential chemical subtext of the story's other mirror images. In this paper, I will argue that manifestations of stereoisomerism are not just confined to the looking-glass milk scene, and that the ways in which Carroll explores issues of doubling, inversion, and reversibility in the 'mirror world' suggest a far more elaborate contemplation of the implications of stereoisomers. Characters such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty, the notion of 'unbirthdays', and even to some extent Carroll's pseudonymity reflect the author's fascination with, and at times anxiety about, the idea of a dual chemical existence, a world in which every person, place, and thing comprises two like yet non-superimposable forms.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 2 No. 1: Summer 2010
Interventions and measurement instruments used for falls efficacy in community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review
Creators: name: Soh, Leng Hsien Shawn
name: Lane, Judith
name: Lim, Ashleigh Yoke-Hwee
name: Mujtaba, Mariana Shariq
name: Tan, Chee-Wee
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physiotherapy

description: The novel contribution of this article is to highlight that those interventions were applied to address the different fall-related self-efficacies across pre-fall, near-fall, fall landing and completed fall stages. Appropriate measurement instruments need to be used to support empirical evidence of clinical effectiveness.
Membership in social networks and the application in information filtering
Creators: name: Zeng, Wei
name: Zeng, An
name: Shang, Ming-Sheng
name: Zhang, Yi-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the past a few years, users' membership in the online system (i.e. the social groups that online users joined) are wildly investigated. Most of these works focus on the detection, formulation and growth of online communities. In this paper, we study users' membership in a coupled system which contains user-group and user-object bipartite networks. By linking users' membership information and their object selection, we find that the users who have collected only a few objects are more likely to be "influenced" by the membership when choosing objects. Moreover, we observe that some users may join many online communities though they collected few objects. Based on these findings, we design a social diffusion recommendation algorithm which can effectively solve the user cold-start problem. Finally, we propose a personalized combination of our method and the hybrid method in [PNAS 107, 4511 (2010)], which leads to a further improvement in the overall recommendation performance.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Physical Properties of Luminous Dust Poor Quasars
Creators: name: Jun, Hyunsung David
name: Im, Myungshin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify and characterize a population of luminous dust poor quasars at 06 previously. This class of active galactic nuclei has been known to show little IR emission from a dusty structure, but is yet poorly understood in terms of number evolution or of dependence on physical quantities. In order to better understand the luminous dust poor quasar properties, we compiled a rest-frame UV to IR library of 41,000 optically selected type-1 quasars with $L_{bol}>10^{45.7} erg s^{-1}$. After fitting the broad-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with accretion disk and dust components, we find 0.6% of our sample to be hot dust poor with a rest-frame 2.3 micron to 0.51 micron flux density ratio of -0.5 dex or less. The dust poor SEDs are blue in the UV-optical and weak in the MIR, such that their accretion disks are less obscured, and that hot dust emission traces that of warm dust down to the dust poor regime. At a given bolometric luminosity, dust poor quasars are lower in black hole mass and higher in Eddington ratio than general luminous quasars, suggesting that they are in a rapidly growing evolutionary state in which the dust poor phase appears as a short or rare phenomenon. The dust poor fraction increases with redshift, and possible implications for the evolution of the dust poor fraction are discussed.
description: 17 pages, accepted to ApJ, 1 machine-readable table to appear online
"Denn siehe, ich will ein Neues schaffen, jetzt wächst es auf, erkennt ihr's denn nicht?" (Jes 43,19a)
Creators: name: Põder, Andres
name: Pöder, Andres
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 54 (2007): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 54
DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for Technical Drawing Understanding
Creators: name: Ajayi, Kehinde
name: Wei, Xin
name: Gryder, Martin
name: Shields, Winston
name: Wu, Jian
name: Jones, Shawn M.
name: Kucer, Michal
name: Oyen, Diane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing have been driven by exploiting big data on practical applications. However, these research fields are still limited by the sheer volume, versatility, and diversity of the available datasets. CV tasks, such as image captioning, which has primarily been carried out on natural images, still struggle to produce accurate and meaningful captions on sketched images often included in scientific and technical documents. The advancement of other tasks such as 3D reconstruction from 2D images requires larger datasets with multiple viewpoints. We introduce DeepPatent2, a large-scale dataset, providing more than 2.7 million technical drawings with 132,890 object names and 22,394 viewpoints extracted from 14 years of US design patent documents. We demonstrate the usefulness of DeepPatent2 with conceptual captioning. We further provide the potential usefulness of our dataset to facilitate other research areas such as 3D image reconstruction and image retrieval.
A comparison between Jordan and Einstein frames of Brans-Dicke gravity a la loop quantum cosmology
Creators: name: Artymowski, Michal
name: Ma, Yonnge
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the Jordan and Einstein frames are equivalent to each other in classical Brans-Dicke theory, provided that one and the same metric is employed for the physical space-time. Nevertheless, it is shown in this paper by cosmological models that the loop quantisation in the two different frames will lead to inequivalent effective theories. Analytical solutions have been found in both frames for the effective loop quantum Brans-Dicke cosmology without potential in: (i) vacuum case, (ii) additional massless scalar field case. In Einstein frame the analytical solution for the Brans-Dicke potential $\proptoφ^2$ has been found. In all of those solutions the bouncing evolution of the scale factor has been obtained around Planck regime. The differences between the loop quantisation of the two frames are reflected by: (i) the evolution of the scale factor around the bounce, (ii) the scale of the bounce in the physical Jordan frame.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Beauty as a Terministic Screen in Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man
Creators: name: Holterhoff  (Carnegie Mellon University), Kate
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2010

description: This paper analyzes the term beauty“ in Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man“ (1871) using Kenneth Burke's rhetorical tool, the terministic screen. I argue that by establishing what meanings, ideologies and prejudices the term beauty alternately reveals and conceals in Darwin's prose, scholars can better understand how Darwin reinforced a number of racial, gender, and colonial stereotypes while subtly shifting Victorian British modernity away from anthropocentrism. Although Descent“ analyzes a variety of species to argue for the importance of sexual selection and its frequent instrument beauty, and argues that the principal function of beauty is sexual selection; a truth encompassing the animal kingdom and 'savage' races, yet innovatively stretched to include 'civilised' (i.e.“ European) human beings. Focusing on beauty exposes Descent“'s radical conclusion that while culture differentiates and ranks species, beauty connects and therefore humanity is neither separate from nor superior to the remainder of the animal kingdom. I compare the definitions and roles of beauty formulated by nineteenth-century cultural critics John Ruskin, Edmund Burke, William Paley, and evolution critic George Campbell with those of Darwin to illustrate the complexity of this terministic screen. By using an aesthetic concept familiar in Victorian England, then shifting and adding to this convention, Darwin changed beauty into a term that both filters and mediates meaning, resulting in both the alteration and reinforcement of multiple issues in the accepted ontology of nineteenth-century Europeans. Analyzing the intersection between Darwin's rhetoric and his theories regarding aesthetics in evolution and sexual selection is essential because, far from a passive descriptor of physical objects, the aesthetic terminology in Descent“, and beauty in particular is both a dynamic and fraught terministic screen.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 2 No. 1: Summer 2010
Recent progresses on the pseudospin symmetry in single particle resonant states
Creators: name: Lu, Bing-Nan
name: Zhao, En-Guang
name: Zhou, Shan-Gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pseudospin symmetry (PSS) is a relativistic dynamical symmetry directly connected with the small component of the nucleon Dirac wave function. Much effort has been made to study this symmetry in bound states. Recently, a rigorous justification of the PSS in single particle resonant states was achieved by examining the asymptotic behaviors of the radial Dirac wave functions: The PSS in single particle resonant states in nuclei is conserved exactly when the attractive scalar and repulsive vector potentials have the same magnitude but opposite sign. Several issues related to the exact conservation and breaking mechanism of the PSS in single particle resonances were investigated by employing spherical square well potentials in which the PSS breaking part can be well isolated in the Jost function. A threshold effect in the energy splitting and an anomaly in the width splitting of pseudospin partners were found when the depth of the square well potential varies from zero to a finite value.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; invited talk at the International School on Nuclear Physics, Neutron Physics and Applications, Sep 16-22, 2013, Varna, Bulgaria