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Journal articles on the topic "Samuel Selvon"
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González, LaVerne. "Review: Moses Ascending by Samuel Selvon." Explorations in Ethnic Studies ESS-5, no. 1 (1985): 73–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ess.1985.5.1.73.
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Bowen‐Chang, Portia, and Marsha Winter. "Samuel Selvon under scrutiny: an annotated bibliography of selected criticism of Selvon's novels." Collection Building 27, no. 1 (2008): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01604950810846233.
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Liu, Tingxuan. "Hybridization in Political Civilization in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 5 (2016): 1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0605.14.
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Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is a great pioneer in Creole literature. His writing in the Moses trilogy is very representative because of his preoccupation with issues of identity and culture. The Lonely Londoners, published in 1956, and Moses Ascending, published in 1975, are two of them. These two books telling Creole immigrants’ story have been recognized as a great masterpiece in Caribbean literature, which have a far-reaching influence on postcolonial literature. This thesis attempts to employ Homi Bhabha’s theory of hybridity to illustrate the Creoles’ struggle against colonization and the construction of political hybridity. The thesis consists of three parts. Part One is Introduction, which presents a short introduction to the author Samuel Selvon, his two works, the theoretical framework. Part Two depicts the process of the Creoles’ struggle against colonization in political civilization. In the aspect of politics, the Creoles experience the process from unawareness of politics to pursuing their political dream. They attempt to construct their own political system on the basis of the British mode. Part Three is Conclusion. Based on the above analyses, the thesis draws the conclusion that different cultures can influence each other. The effective way to realize decolonization is the construction of political hybridity.
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Liu, Tingxuan. "Hybridization in Economic Activities in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 7 (2019): 865. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0907.17.
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Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is a representative writer in Caribbean literature. His Moses trilogy is famous for the preoccupation with issues of identity. My paper employs Homi Bhabha’s theory of hybridity to construct the identification of Creoles’. From the perspective of economic, The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending deal with the fractured and disjointed economic activities on the Londoners and Moses’ economic life, which cover from general economic life to personal economic behavior. The hybridization of economic activities helps Creoles walk out of the tough period and be able to support themselves. It is an effective way for them to be free from colonization economically.
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Liu, Tingxuan. "Construction of Hybrid Identity in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 7, no. 6 (2016): 1198. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0706.18.
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Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is an outstanding figure in Caribbean literature. His Moses trilogy is very famous because of his preoccupation with issues of identity and culture. His two representative works The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending giving a vivid description of Creole immigrants’ life in London, have a far-reaching influence on postcolonial literature. The thesis attempts to employ Homi Bhabha’s theory of hybridity to elaborate the formation of cultural identity. The thesis consists of three parts. Part One is Introduction, which gives a brief introduction to the author, his two works, the theoretical framework. Part Two presents the dilemma in which the Creoles have to face on cultural identity. In the aspect of cultural identity, the Creoles experience the process from identical crisis to the construction of hybrid identity. Part Three is Conclusion. Based on the above analyses, the thesis draws the conclusion that different cultures can influence each other. The effective way to solve identical crisis is to build the hybrid identity.
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Anyang Agbor, Sarah. "Globalization and Multiculturalism: Defining the New Universalism in Selected Texts of Samuel Selvon, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai." ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY 2, no. 3 (2015): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajp.2-3-3.
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Buzelin, Hélène. "Traduire l’hybridité littéraire." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 18, no. 1 (2006): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.18.1.06buz.
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Si l’hétérolinguisme littéraire est aujourd’hui une chose reconnue et un phénomène amplement étudié par les critiques, les défis qu’implique la traduction, au sens le plus concret, de cette esthétique ont été encore peu abordés. Cet article tente d’apporter une contribution dans ce sens. Fondé sur un cas particulier, ma tentative de traduire en français The lonely Londoners, roman de l’écrivain indo-trinidadien Samuel Selvon, il interroge les enjeux esthétiques et éthiques de la pratique de la traduction littéraire dans un contexte minoritaire et un paradigme interprétatif fondé sur la valorisation de l’hybridité linguistique et culturelle des œuvres. Cette étude débouche sur une critique des positions défendues par Antoine Berman et Lawrence Venuti. Elle vise plus particulièrement à souligner que la traduction de l’hybridité linguistique dans le littéraire soulève des questions et exige des prises de position allant bien au-delà du choix entre le travail sur la lettre/foreignizing ou la traduction ethnocentrique/domesticating. Pour les traductologues, l’étude de ces phénomènes littéraires invite à concevoir le processus de traduction selon une perspective moins binaire et à repluser de la notion même de sujet traduisant.
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Bandia, Paul. "Buzelin, Hélène. 2005. Sur le terrain de la traduction. Parcours traductologique au cœur du roman de Samuel Selvon The Lonely Londoners. Préface de Gillian Lane-Mercier." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 21, no. 2 (2009): 370–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.21.2.09ban.
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KITLV, Redactie. "Book Reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 80, no. 3-4 (2008): 253–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002497.
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Ileana Rodríguez; Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles (Stuart McLean)Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf (eds.); Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (Peter A. Coclanis)Michael A. Gomez; Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (James H. Sweet)Brian L. Moore, Michele A. Johnson; Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 (Gad Heuman)Erna Brodber; The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944 (Michaeline A. Crichlow)Steeve O. Buckridge; The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760- 1890 (Jean Besson)Deborah A. Thomas; Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Charles V. Carnegie)Carolyn Cooper; Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (John D. Galuska)Noel Leo Erskine; From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology (Richard Salter)Hilary McD Beckles; Great House Rules: Landless Emancipation and Workers’ Protest in Barbados, 1838‑1938 (O. Nigel Bolland)Woodville K. Marshall (ed.); I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford (Douglas Midgett)Nathalie Dessens; Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (Lomarsh Roopnarine)Michelle M. Terrell; The Jewish Community of Early Colonial Nevis: A Historical Archaeological Study (Mark Kostro)Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth; Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation (Grace Turner)David Beriss; Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean ethnicity and Activism in Urban France (Nadine Lefaucheur)Karen E. Richman; Migration and Vodou (Natacha Giafferi)Jean Moomou; Le monde des marrons du Maroni en Guyane (1772-1860): La naissance d’un peuple: Les Boni (Kenneth Bilby)Jean Chapuis, Hervé Rivière; Wayana eitoponpë: (Une) histoire (orale) des Indiens Wayana (Dominique Tilkin Gallois)Jesús Fuentes Guerra, Armin Schwegler; Lengua y ritos del Palo Monte Mayombe: Dioses cubanos y sus fuentes africanas (W. van Wetering)Mary Ann Clark; Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications (Elizabeth Ann Pérez)Ignacio López-Calvo; “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (Lauren Derby)Kirwin R. Shaffer; Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Jorge L. Giovannetti)Lillian Guerra; The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Jorge L. Giovannetti)Israel Reyes; Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature (Nicole Roberts)Rodrigo Lazo; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (Nicole Roberts)Lowell Fiet; El teatro puertorriqueño reimaginado: Notas críticas sobre la creación dramática y el performance (Ramón H. Rivera-Servera)Curdella Forbes; From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender (Sue Thomas)Marie-Agnès Sourieau, Kathleen M. Balutansky (eds.); Ecrire en pays assiégé: Haiti: Writing Under Siege (Marie-Hélène Laforest)In: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG), 80 (2006), no. 3 & 4
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KITLV, Redactie. "Book Reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 80, no. 3-4 (2006): 253–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-90002497.
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Ileana Rodríguez; Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles (Stuart McLean)Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf (eds.); Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (Peter A. Coclanis)Michael A. Gomez; Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (James H. Sweet)Brian L. Moore, Michele A. Johnson; Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920 (Gad Heuman)Erna Brodber; The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944 (Michaeline A. Crichlow)Steeve O. Buckridge; The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760- 1890 (Jean Besson)Deborah A. Thomas; Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Charles V. Carnegie)Carolyn Cooper; Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (John D. Galuska)Noel Leo Erskine; From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology (Richard Salter)Hilary McD Beckles; Great House Rules: Landless Emancipation and Workers’ Protest in Barbados, 1838‑1938 (O. Nigel Bolland)Woodville K. Marshall (ed.); I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford (Douglas Midgett)Nathalie Dessens; Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (Lomarsh Roopnarine)Michelle M. Terrell; The Jewish Community of Early Colonial Nevis: A Historical Archaeological Study (Mark Kostro)Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth; Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation (Grace Turner)David Beriss; Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean ethnicity and Activism in Urban France (Nadine Lefaucheur)Karen E. Richman; Migration and Vodou (Natacha Giafferi)Jean Moomou; Le monde des marrons du Maroni en Guyane (1772-1860): La naissance d’un peuple: Les Boni (Kenneth Bilby)Jean Chapuis, Hervé Rivière; Wayana eitoponpë: (Une) histoire (orale) des Indiens Wayana (Dominique Tilkin Gallois)Jesús Fuentes Guerra, Armin Schwegler; Lengua y ritos del Palo Monte Mayombe: Dioses cubanos y sus fuentes africanas (W. van Wetering)Mary Ann Clark; Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications (Elizabeth Ann Pérez)Ignacio López-Calvo; “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (Lauren Derby)Kirwin R. Shaffer; Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Jorge L. Giovannetti)Lillian Guerra; The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Jorge L. Giovannetti)Israel Reyes; Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature (Nicole Roberts)Rodrigo Lazo; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (Nicole Roberts)Lowell Fiet; El teatro puertorriqueño reimaginado: Notas críticas sobre la creación dramática y el performance (Ramón H. Rivera-Servera)Curdella Forbes; From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender (Sue Thomas)Marie-Agnès Sourieau, Kathleen M. Balutansky (eds.); Ecrire en pays assiégé: Haiti: Writing Under Siege (Marie-Hélène Laforest)In: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG), 80 (2006), no. 3 & 4
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Samuel Selvon"
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Buzelin, Hélène. "Sur le terrain de la traduction." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38469.
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Based on a joint process of analysis and translation, this research explores the challenges of translating into French a novel by Samuel Selvon titled The Lonely Londoners (1956), one of the first and few English Caribbeans novels entirely composed in a vernacular style and sold to an international English-speaking audience. Using a Bourdieusian methodology of praxis, the thesis analyses the interaction between the various levels of decision-making and the linguistic, political and aesthetic factors that interfere with the translation process, from the interpretation of the text to its rephrasing. It consists of six chapters that, from the second to the fifth, trace the stages of the translation process. Through a review of the critical reception of Selvon's novel, the second chapter examines the stakes of translating The Lonely Londoners from a theoretical perspective. Via a close reading of the text, the third delves into some of the interpretative suggestions made by recent critics. In a discussion leading to the layout of a translation project, the fourth explores the relation between the linguistic and cultural constituents interacting in Selvon's text and those that are likely to play a role in translation. Commenting on some of the translation strategies chosen, the fifth presents part of the formal realization of this project. The opening and closing chapters enlarge the framework by inscribing the object in a wider perspective. While the first chapter offers a panorama of the place of English Caribbean fiction in French translation, the final chapter reflects on the translation process undertaken in order to address more political/ethical issues. In the final analysis, the author concludes that for linguistic and political reasons as much as aesthetic ones, it is necessary to refocus the ongoing debate on the ethics and politics of translation, a debate traditionally dealt with in terms of particular translation strategies, on the interpretative process
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Vickers, Kathleen. ""This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06182009-160955/.
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This thesis considers how contemporary British literature helps us negotiate better ways of being in an increasingly diverse world. Britain understood itself as a relatively homogenous white society and reacted badly when commonwealth citizens unexpectedly began to return following World War II. Colonial migrants increasingly large presence, particularly as many settled and had children, challenged the myth of a pure Anglo-Saxon Britain and forced a re-conceiving of what it is to be British. This thesis particularly examines how colonial immigrants found ways to (re)negotiate their identities as British in the face of hostility in their mother country. Chapter One looks at how Sam Selvons The Lonely Londoners depicts ways early West Indian immigrants found to endure in immediate post-war, nationalist, Britain. I argue that while working class migrants found ways to survive, they did so at the expense of personal growth. Nevertheless, their tenacity laid down the foundations of a new Britishness on which future generations could build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishis The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishis novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of being British via their heritage and immediate family, but also with peers, and across various boundaries including those of class, gender, and culture. Chapter Three considers Zadie Smiths White Teeth. I argue that this novel suggests how immigrants negotiate their identities across even more boundaries and increasingly take advantage of the changing circumstances of life in Britain. This literature indicates reasons for some minority groups disaffection and subsequent behavior and so helps us to better understand and negotiate difference. In the Afterword, I reiterate that, starting from Britains nationalistic fear of hybridity in the 1950s, the novels in this study show the trajectory of how colonial immigrants found ways of being accepted as British. While it must remain vigilant to possible peril, Britains social imaginary has expanded to understand the benefits of multiculturalism and of valuing all citizens as equal.
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Luc-Cayol, Agnès. "Les Comportements des Antillais dans leur milieu d'origine et à Londres, à travers quatre romans de Samuel Selvon, "A Brighter Sun", "Turn Again Tiger", "The Lonely Londoners", "Moses Ascending"." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37599263p.
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Luc-Cayol, Agnès. "Les comportements des antillais dans leur milieu d'origine et à Londres à travers quatre romans de Samuel Selvon : A brighter sun, Turn again tiger, The lonely londoners et Moses ascending." Dijon, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986DIJOL007.
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A Trinidad, cette ile qui est présentée dans A brighter sun et Turn again tiger comme un lieu rongé par la pauvreté, l'ignorance et les préjugés, chacun doit porter le lourd fardeau du quotidien, enfermé entre un passé colonial qui persiste et le choc du monde moderne qui pénètre au plus profond du pays. Les individus se soumettent parfois aux pressions sociales et psychologiques qui s'exercent sur eux, mais plus souvent, ils tentent d'échapper à leurs conditions en se montrant indifférents ou en niant la réalité. On les voit alors qui essayent de copier des modèles occidentaux ou qui s'enivrent de rhum, de rêves et de religion. Leur fuite peut aussi aboutir à l'exil, comme le suggèrent The lonely londoners et Moses ascending. Dans ces romans, le pathétique et le tragique de leur existence filtrent sous l'humour apparent de Samuel Selvon. Confrontés à un environnement nouveau et hostile, les antillais, devenus des immigrés noirs à Londres, continuent à se mettre un masque et à vivre comme dans un rêve. Ils essayent de recréer les Antilles en plein cœur de Londres; ils prennent goût à la bouffonnerie; ils deviennent resquilleurs, séducteurs, leaders révolutionnaires, mégalomanes. . . La grande ville devient un théâtre, et tous les rôles qu'ils y jouent leur servent d'exutoire pour survivre. Cependant, les comportements des antillais dans les romans de Samuel Selvon ne se limitent pas à la soumission, à la fuite ou à l'exil. A brighter sun et Turn again tiger font aussi apparaitre un autre type de réaction: une lutte au quotidien contre les maux qui paralysent l'ile de Trinidad, pendant et même après la deuxième guerre. Mais c'est un héros plutôt modéré et idéaliste qui exprime ce combat. Enfin, A brighter sun, Turn again tiger, The lonely londoners et Moses ascending révèlent l'attitude personnelle de Samuel Selvon: un esprit lucide associé à l'humour et à la tolérance. Loin d'être agressifs et tout en dénonçant de nombreux problèmes graves, ses livres montrent son profond attachement à un peuple qu'il nous fait aimerIn Trinidad, this island presented in A brighter sun and Turn again tiger as a place eaten up with poverty ignorance and prejudices, people have to bear the heavy burden of everyday life, confined between a persisting colonial past and the shock of the modern world which penetrates deep into the country. They sometimes accept the social and psychological pressures exerted on them, but more often, they try to escape their conditions through indifference and a denial of reality. They are seen attempting to copy western models or becoming inebriated with rum, dreams and religion. Their escape may also end in exile, as it is suggested in The lonely Londoners and Moses ascending. In these novels, the pathos and tragedy of their lives permeate through Samuel Selvon's surface humour. Confronted with a new and hostile environment, the West Indians who are now black immigrants in London still put on a mask and they live as in a dream. They try to re-create the West Indies in the heart of London, they take to clownery, they become hustlers, seducers, revolutionary leaders, megalomaniacs. . . The big city is made a theatre, and the various parts they play provide an outlet for them to survive. However, people's attitudes in Samuel Selvon's novels are not limited to submission, escape or exile. A brighter sun and turn again tiger are also concerned with another type of reaction: a daily fight against the pressures that cripple Trinidad during the second world war and even after; but this is expressed through a moderate and idealistic hero. Finally, A brighter sun, Turn again tiger, The lonely Londoners and Moses ascending reveal Samuel Selvon's own attitude: a lucid mind combined with humour and tolerance. Far from being aggressive, and though they denounce various serious problems his books show his deep attachment to a people he makes us love
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Casimir, Ulrick Charles 1973. "Conceptualizing the Caribbean: Reexportation and Anglophone Caribbean cultural products." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8508.
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xi, 180 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This dissertation examines the relationship between British and American conceptualizations of the Anglophone Caribbean and the way that Anglophone Caribbean fiction writers and filmmakers tend to represent the region. Central to my project is the process of reexportation, whereby Caribbean artists attain success at home by first achieving renown abroad. I argue that the primary implication of reexportation is that British and American conceptualizations of the Anglophone Caribbean have had a determining effect upon attempts by Anglophone Caribbean fiction writers and filmmakers to represent the region. Chapter I introduces the dissertation. Chapter II, "The 'Double Audience' of Samuel Selvon and The Lonely Londoners ," concerns Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon, who--along with George Lamming, Derek Walcott, and V. S. Naipaul--is cited as being among the most important and influential of the West Indian authors who began publishing in the 1950s. Although I consider all of Selvon's ten novels in that chapter, my main concern is The Lonely Londoners (1956), Selvon's best known and perhaps most pivotal and misread novel. Chapter III, "Contrapuntally Re-reading Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, " features a reevaluation of the Jamaican filmmaker's 1972 motion picture, which in many complex ways remains the Caribbean film. Chapter IV, " Pressure and the Caribbean," focuses on Trinidadian filmmaker Horace Ove's Pressure (1975), which I deliberately treat as a Caribbean film although it is still best known as Britain's first feature-length dramatic movie with a "black" director. Vital secondary texts include selected works by Edward Said, Mikhail Bahktin, and Richard Dyer, as well as Kenneth Ramchand, Keith Warner, and D. Elliott Parris. The three existing book-length analyses of Selvon's fiction are the main voices with which the Selvon chapter is in discourse. David Bordwell's work in cinematic narrative theory and Marcia Landy's contribution to the study of British genres are essential to the frameworks through which I read the cinematic primary texts.
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Charlin, Sophie. "Les résidus d'image : processus d'imagement dans le texte selon Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett et Henri Michaux." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082433.
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Une expérience de lecture est à l’origine de ce travail : des effets d’image sont apparus à la lecture des textes de Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett et Henri Michaux. Pour rendre compte de leur inscription dans le texte, nous avançons la notion de résidu d’image : ces images amoindries persistent comme produit d’un processus textuel. Le processus machinique emprunté à Deleuze permet de suivre l’élaboration de l’imagement. Le texte manipule un matériau figuratif, des motifs (traits de figuration élémentaires) que le processus imageant met en rapport selon un montage visuel fondé sur la discontinuité et la répétition. L’image apparaît chez nos trois auteurs comme un trait consubstantiel à l’écriture. S’écartant des théories de la poétique et de la rhétorique, l’analyse montre l’aspect inépuisable de l’imagement et l’impossibilité de « faire l’image » une fois pour toutes. Le résidu d’image s’impose dès lors comme une forme passagère et plurielle, un dépôt, un reste ou une dépouilleThis work originates in an reading experience : image effects have appeared while reading texts by Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett and Henri Michaux. To account for their inscribing in the text we produce the notion of image residue: those diminished images last as though the product of textual process. The machinic imaging process borrowed from Deleuze allows us to follow this development. The text operates a figurative material, motives (basic figurative features). The imaging process consists in connecting these motives as if in a visual editing, itself based on discontinuity and repetition. The image appears according to our authors as a feature consubstantial with writing. The analysis, distinct from poetics and rethorics theories, shows the inexhaustible aspect of imaging and the impossibility to “make the image” once and for all. The image residue therefore proves to be a plural and passing form, a sediment, a leftover or a remain
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Joseph, Anthony Derek. "The liminal text : exploring the perpetual process of becoming, with particular reference to Samuel Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and George Lamming's 'The Emigrants', &, Kitch : a fictional biography of the calypsonian Lord Kitchener." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/19159/.
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This practice-as-research thesis is in two parts. The first, Kitch, is a fictional biography of Aldwyn Roberts, popularly known as Lord Kitchener. Kitch represents the first biographical study of the Trinidadian calypso icon, whose arrival in Britain onboard The Empire Windrush was famously captured in Pathé footage. In the critical essay, contextualising Kitch, I argue that rite of passage theory, in particular, liminality theory, as defined and developed by Victor W. Turner, offers a valuable alternative to theories of hybridity and fragmentation hitherto applied to the postcolonial Caribbean and its literature. To support this position I offer close readings of two iconic works of postwar migratory fiction; George Lamming’s The Emigrants (1956) and Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), showing how aspects of rite of passage and liminality theory illuminate these novels. My critical reflection on Kitch examines the marked absence of auto/biographical work on or by calypso artists in ethnomusicology or mainstream publishing. This absence is disproportionate both to the numerous studies of the calypso which approach the form homogeneously, at the expense of its individual artists, and, to the socio-historical importance of the calypso to the Caribbean and its disapora. Since Kitch is a fictionalised biography, I provide a brief exploration of the genre by drawing on the work of Michael Ondaatje and Earl Lovelace. My argument here is that the multitudinous and liminal approach of Kitch offers a more plausible alternative to linear, single narrator approaches since it mirrors both the process of research, and the manner in which a community of non-hierarchical voices may contribute to the construction and memorialisation of a calypsonian’s life.
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Hoertel, Nicolas. "Effets des pathologies psychiatriques sur le risque de tentative de suicide : similitudes et différences selon l’âge au sein d’une cohorte en population générale Mental disorders and risk of suicide attempt: a national prospective study A dimensional liability model of age differences in mental disorder prevalence: evidence from a national sample Effects of psychiatric disorders on suicide attempt: similarities and differences between older and younger adults in a national cohort study A comprehensive model of predictors of suicide attempt in depressed individuals and effect of treatment-seeking behavior: results from a national 3-year prospective study." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB007.
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Les troubles mentaux sont associés à un risque accru de tentative de suicide. Or, la comorbidité entre les troubles psychiatriques est fréquente et peut être expliquée par des modèles où ces troubles sont appréhendés comme des manifestations de dimensions latentes de psychopathologie. Nous avons cherché à évaluer si le risque de tentative de suicide est dû à certains troubles psychiatriques ou à certaines dimensions de psychopathologie (internalisée ou externalisée) ou à un facteur de psychopathologie générale. Au sein d’une cohorte en population générale suivie sur une période de trois ans, nous avons utilisé des modèles d’équation structurelle afin de distinguer les effets spécifiques des effets partagés des différents troubles mentaux sur le risque de tentative de suicide. La structure dimensionnelle globale des troubles psychiatriques était invariante selon l'âge et leurs effets sur le risque de tentative de suicide étaient médiés principalement par une dimension de psychopathologie générale représentant un effet commun partagé, quel que soit le groupe d'âge. Cet effet était significativement plus faible chez les adultes d’au moins 50 ans comparativement aux sujets les plus jeunes. Les résultats étaient similaires en utilisant différentes approches de modélisation de la comorbidité psychiatrique, ainsi que dans un modèle incluant la plupart des facteurs de risque cliniques de tentative de suicide dans le sous-groupe de sujets présentant un épisode dépressif caractérisé. Nos résultats suggèrent que le facteur de psychopathologie générale a un rôle majeur et devrait être considéré comme une cible thérapeutique privilégiée afin de permettre une meilleure prévention du suicidePas de résumé
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Tressler, Gretchen E. "Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2592.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean literature, usually when a character chooses to celebrate and emphasize her/his freedom from the physical, emotional, and societal constraints that normally keep the body in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often emerges in chorus with aesthetic bodily movement and analyzes the symbolic force and political significance of Caribbean dance--both celebratory (as in Carnival) and defensive (as in warrior dances). Furthermore, this study observes how the weight of Western views on dance influences Caribbean transmutations and translations of cultural behavior, ritual acts, and spontaneous movement. The novels studied include Samuel Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), Earl Lovelace's "The Dragon Can't Dance" (1979), Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" (1983), and Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable" (2006).
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Popovici-Toma, Cosmin. "De l'absolu littéraire au neutre : les fins de la littérature selon Maurice Blanchot et Samuel Beckett." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20461.
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The novels of Samuel Selvon: A critical study. Greenwood Press, 2001.
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Selvon, Samuel. Christened with snow: A conversation with Samuel Selvon. Eletheria Press, 1994.
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Austin, Clarke. A passage back home: A personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon. Exile Editions, 1994.
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A passage back home: A personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon. Exile Editions, 1994.
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Dotti, Alessandra. Illusione e identita nella narrativa di Samuel Selvon: Tesi di laurea. [typescript], 1988.
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Sur le terrain de la traduction: Parcours traductologique au coeur du roman de Samuel Selvon, The lonely Londoners. Editions du Gref, 2005.
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Lefebvre, Philippe. Livres de Samuel et récits de résurrection: Le messie ressuscité selon les écritures. Cerf, 2004.
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Salick, Roydon. Samuel Selvon (Writers and Their Work). Northcote House Publishers, 2013.
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Zehnder, Martin. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Essays on Samuel Selvon. Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2003.
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From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender. University of West Indies Press, 2005.
Book chapters on the topic "Samuel Selvon"
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Erll, Astrid. "Selvon, Samuel Dickson." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_17008-1.
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Breitinger, Eckhard, and Astrid Erll. "Selvon, Samuel Dickson: The Moses Trilogy." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_17009-1.
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Jansen, Bettina. "The West Indian Immigrant Community: Samuel Selvon." In Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94860-7_3.
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Bryden, Mary. "Nomad Selves: Women of the Later Prose." In Women in Samuel Beckett’s Prose and Drama. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12881-5_6.
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Hughes, Mine Ucok, Karen Kaigler-Walker, and Wendy Bendoni. "Young Children as Parents’ Extended Selves." In Marketing Dynamism & Sustainability: Things Change, Things Stay the Same… Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10912-1_196.
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Barachini, Franz, and Christian Stary. "Embodying Social Behavior." In From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96412-2_12.
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AbstractStarting out with human behavior variability in the context of a sample case, we demonstrate positioning algorithmic twin execution utilizing the findings from Part II and thus embodying socio-emotional intelligence.
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Gekara, Victor Oyaro. "Can the UK Tonnage Tax Minimum Training Obligation Address Declining Cadet Recruitment and Training in the UK?" In The World of the Seafarer. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49825-2_4.
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AbstractThis chapter presents a critical analysis of the capacity of the nation-state to develop and implement effective policy interventions on behalf of national labour interests in highly globalized industries. This follows the consistent observation that, under neoliberal capitalism, governments have lacked the power and/or will to implement pro-labour legislation in the same way as they have done for capital (Fourcades-Gourinchas and Babb 2002; Peck 2004; Kotz 2015). This discussion is developed with reference to the Tonnage Tax policy, introduced by the UK government in 2000, as the key policy strategy to revitalize the ailing shipping industry (Department for Transport 1998). In the broadest terms, the strategy is a tax concession designed to attract British ship owners to re-flag their ships to the UK national register, retain the majority of their ship management in the UK and train British seafarer cadets (Selkou and Roe 2002; Brownrigg et al. 2001; Gekara 2010). The core of the strategy, i.e. the tax element, represents an alternative system of calculating corporation tax for shipping companies based on fixed rates and with reference to a shipping company’s total operating tonnage per year rather than its total income, which represents a highly reduced rate of taxation. To specifically address the decline in the British national seafarer labour market and the supply of British officers, a Minimum Training Obligation (MTO) was included for all British-registered ships, which simultaneously incentivized and compelled shipping companies to increase their cadet recruitment and training activities (Selkou and Roe 2002).
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Köngeter, Anja, Martin Jungkunz, Eva C. Winkler, Christoph Schickhardt, and Katja Mehlis. "Sekundärnutzung klinischer Daten aus der Patientenversorgung für Forschungszwecke – Eine qualitative Interviewstudie zu Nutzen- und Risikopotenzialen aus Sicht von Expertinnen und Experten für den deutschen Forschungskontext." In Datenreiche Medizin und das Problem der Einwilligung. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62987-1_10.
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ZusammenfassungDer Verwendung klinischer Daten zu Forschungszwecken wird großes Potenzial für verschiedene Arten von nicht-interventionellen, datengetriebenen Studien zugeschrieben. In Deutschland stellt eine solche Sekundärnutzung klinischer Daten allerdings bisher die Ausnahme dar. Für die Entwicklung eines entsprechenden nationalen Rahmenkonzeptes gilt es Nutzen und Risiken der Verwendung klinischer Daten zu Forschungszwecken abzuschätzen. Hierzu ist eine fundierte Abwägung von Nutzen und Risiken durch die Expertise und Erfahrungen relevanter nationaler Akteursgruppen erforderlich, um anhand deren Handlungspraxis die oftmals auf Hypothesen beruhende Literatur zu komplementieren. Die sozialempirische Forschung hat die Perspektive dieser Akteure in Deutschland bisher allerdings nicht systematisch beleuchtet. Ziel der vorliegenden empirischen Studie ist es daher, die Wahrnehmungen und Erwartungen der relevanten Akteursgruppen darzustellen und spezifische Bedarfe im Kontext wahrgenommener Nutzen- und Risikopotenziale der Sekundärnutzung aufzuzeigen.Eine qualitative Interviewstudie (leitfadengestützte Experteninterviews; purposive sample; n = 21 aus den Bereichen Forschung, Versorgung, Medizininformatik, Patientenvertretung und Politik) mit anschließender qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse wurden durchgeführt, um das breite Spektrum an Nutzen- und Risikopotenzialen abzubilden sowie entsprechende Bedarfe abzuleiten. Den analytischen Rahmen bilden vier Anwendungsfelder für die Verwendung klinischer Daten: klinische (nicht-interventionelle) Forschung, Public Health Forschung, Versorgung zur Qualitätsverbesserung und explorative Verwendung.Vor dem Hintergrund eines zunehmenden Verschwimmens der Grenzen von Forschung und Versorgung hofften Expert*innen aller Akteursgruppen auf einen mittelbaren Nutzen für Patient*innen durch eine verbesserte Gesundheitsversorgung aufgrund eines gezielteren und schnelleren Rückflusses der Forschungsergebnisse in die Versorgung. Direkt beteiligte bzw. betroffene Akteursgruppen erwarteten unmittelbare Nutzenpotenziale für die eigenen Forschungsgebiete. Vor allem die Möglichkeit die gesamte Patientenpopulation in Studien einzubeziehen weckte die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Versorgung selten untersuchter Studienpopulationen. Generell hielten sich die Expert*innen mit Konkretisierungen und Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeiten möglicher Risiken zurück. Im Mittelpunkt standen weniger interne oder externe Risiken wie Datenverlust oder Datenmissbrauch. Die Expert*innen äußerten vielmehr Bedenken hinsichtlich einer vermutlich nicht ausreichenden Qualität klinischer Daten für Forschungszwecke, die Gefahr von gesellschaftlichen Exklusionsmechanismen durch benachteiligende Effekte datengetriebener Forschung oder eines möglichen Verlusts an informationeller Selbstbestimmung der Patient*innen. Insbesondere dem Anwendungsfeld der explorativen Verwendung wurde perspektivisch sowohl hohes Nutzen- als auch Risikopotenzial zugeschrieben.Die von den Akteursgruppen geäußerten Nutzen- und Risikopotenziale konnten spezifischen Bedarfen und Herausforderungen im Kontext der Sekundärnutzung zugeordnet werden. Die sechs identifizierten Themenkomplexe verweisen auf Desiderate, denen sich zukünftige Forschung mit Blick auf die Ausgestaltung und Regulierung der Sekundärnutzung klinischer Daten widmen sollte. Für eine ethische und rechtliche Bewertung sowie die Ausarbeitung von gesellschaftlich akzeptierten Empfehlungen für Entscheidungsträger aus Politik und Praxis liefern die vorgestellten Analysen grundlegende Hinweise.
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"3. Beyond the Kala-Pani: The Trinidad Novels of Samuel Selvon." In Writing in Limbo. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501722936-005.
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"Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli." In Elaborate Selves. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315810102-5.
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Tingxuan, Liu. "Hybridization in Economic Activities in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending." In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.133.
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Shulaev, G. M., and R. K. Milushev. "IMPROVMENT THE BIOLOGICAL VALUE OF PORK." In INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/itno.2020.467-471.
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The purpose - improve the quality of pig farming production through the use of functional feed additive at the final stage of feeding. The additive ingredients (in %): vitamin E - 0,32; vitamin D₃ - 0,30; vitamin C - 0,30; vitamin B₄ - 1,56; vitamin B₁₂ - 0,004; betaine - 10,00; %; bentonite - 77,166; Omek J – 0,15%; selen - 0,2 %; soya flour (filling substance) - 10,00. Components activity: vitamin E-50,0 of %; D₃ - 0,15,0 thousand ME in 1g; B₄ - 60,0 %; B₁₂ - 1,0%; Omek J - 2,0%; seleno-KI - 0,2 %. The functional feed additive is approved on fattened pigs of large white breed. Animals from control group received the mixed fodder constantly used in a factory, skilled - same as well as control, but the containing 1 % of the additive within 10 days before slaughter. Growth, some indicators of a metabolism, quality of meat are studied.
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Adhika, Damar Rastri, Atsarina Larasati Anindya, Viny Veronika Tanuwijaya, and Heni Rachmawati. "TEKNIK PENGAMATAN SAMPEL BIOLOGI DAN NON-KONDUKTIF MENGGUNAKAN SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY." In Seminar Nasional Instrumentasi, Kontrol dan Otomasi. Pusat Teknologi Instrumentasi dan Otomasi ITB, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5614/sniko.2018.9.
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Scanning electron microscope (SEM) banyak dimanfaatkan untuk mengamati struktur morfologi permukaan sampel dalam perbesaran yang tinggi dengan menggunakan berkas elektron berenergi tinggi. Pengamatan berbagai jenis material dengan beragam karakter dan properti fisis yang berbeda dapat dilakukan menggunakan SEM, namun tentu saja diperlukan pertimbangan dan pendekatan yang khusus untuk setiap jenis sampel yang berbeda agar pengamatan menggunakan SEM dapat dilakukan serta mampu memberikan hasil pengamatan SEM dengan kualitas yang baik dan mampu memberikan informasi keadaan struktur sampel yang sebenarnya. Pembahasan dalam makalah ini akan berfokus pada teknik-teknik khusus yang perlu ditempuh dalam melakukan pengamatan sampel biologi menggunakan SEM yang relatif lebih sulit untuk dilakukan daripada pengamatan sampel konduktif seperti logam. Pengamatan SEM dilakukan dalam kondisi vakum yang tinggi sehingga cukup sulit untuk mengamati sampel biologi yang secara alami memiliki kandungan air yang tinggi dan memiliki struktur yang rapuh karena memiliki banyak pori didalamnya. Selain itu penembakan berkas elektron secara terus menerus pada permukaan sampel membuat sampel biologi menjadi bermuatan negatif karena elektron terlalu banyak tersimpan pada sampel dan tidak dapat dialirkan keluar karena sifat sampel biologi yang tidak konduktif. Beberapa teknik preparasi, pengaturan nilai parameter pengamatan, dan beberapa jenis SEM yang dapat digunakan untuk mengamati sampel-sampel biologi dan non-konduktif akan dibahas disini.
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Doiron, Ted. "Dimensional Metrology, Intermediate Precision and Uncertainty." In NCSL International Workshop & Symposium. NCSL International, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.51843/wsproceedings.2015.05.
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Uncertainty has proven difficult to implement in calibrations labs. The subject has advanced mathematics and statistics that are often needed for scientific research, but are seldom needed to develop uncertainty budgets for routine calibrations. There is, however, a second path to uncertainty that does not require such mathematical skills, only patience. This method, using check standards to sample the sources of variability is actually part of the GUM, albeit a small part.
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McMorrough, Julia. "All Access: Better Fits for Architecture." In 2019 Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.70.
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In 1975, disability activist Victor Finkelstein modestly but pointedly proposed an “imaginary example which turns the world upside down,” where wheelchair users lived together in a village no longer obliged to accommodate the able-bodied, who found themselves comparatively disabled by their ill fit into their surroundings. That same year, Peter Eisenman’s pointedly disorienting House VI was completed, intentionally confounding inhabitation by even the most robust physical specimens. Nearly two decades earlier, in 1956, Selwyn Goldsmith contracted polio in the same year he earned his degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture. With his drawing hand paralyzed, his life and career had to adjust themselves accordingly. His life’s work would engage his insights into both realms –architecture and disability – and in his seminal work, Designing for the Disabled, he upended established views on ‘medical disability,’exposing instead the idea that architecture was responsible for the creation of disabling environments, and, further, that “the architect can prevent people from being disabled when they use buildings.”
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Seurin, Mathieu, Florian Strub, Philippe Preux, and Olivier Pietquin. "Don’t Do What Doesn’t Matter: Intrinsic Motivation with Action Usefulness." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/406.
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Sparse rewards are double-edged training signals in reinforcement learning: easy to design but hard to optimize. Intrinsic motivation guidances have thus been developed toward alleviating the resulting exploration problem. They usually incentivize agents to look for new states through novelty signals. Yet, such methods encourage exhaustive exploration of the state space rather than focusing on the environment's salient interaction opportunities. We propose a new exploration method, called Don't Do What Doesn't Matter (DoWhaM), shifting the emphasis from state novelty to state with relevant actions. While most actions consistently change the state when used, e.g. moving the agent, some actions are only effective in specific states, e.g., opening a door, grabbing an object. DoWhaM detects and rewards actions that seldom affect the environment. We evaluate DoWhaM on the procedurally-generated environment MiniGrid against state-of-the-art methods. Experiments consistently show that DoWhaM greatly reduces sample complexity, installing the new state-of-the-art in MiniGrid.
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Rodríguez, Germán, Carlos Guedes Soares, and José Carlos Nieto Borge. "Exploring Distributional Properties of the Maximum Wave Height in a Sea State." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-78778.
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Location, dispersion, and asymmetry variability of the probability distribution of the maximum wave height from a set of N individual wave heights are examined in terms of the spectral peakedness and the duration of the sea states through the use of robust statistical parameters. The capability of various empirical and theoretical models to reproduce the observed features is also explored. The study is based on the analysis of numerically simulated Gaussian wave records with given target spectra to fulfill the long duration and stationarity jointly required conditions, seldom found in nature. Results indicate a clear dependence of the probability distribution structure and location on the record length and the spectral narrowness. Furthermore, it is observed that theoretical models based on the statistical independence of individual waves in a sea state and the knowledge of its population distribution assumptions are not able to characterize the structure and variations induced by these factors on the empirical distribution. However, the observed features can be reproduced by a simple empirical model depending on the sample quartiles.
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Szasz, Gyorgy, and Karen K. Fujikawa. "Comprehensive Piping Vibration Monitoring Programs." In ASME 2007 Power Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2007-22178.
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Though piping is one of the largest and most expensive types of components in a plant, piping vibration is seldom monitored in a routine manner. Piping itself rarely fails due to vibration, but the same can not be said for related components such as supports, welds, valves, etc. Typically the only time piping vibration is monitored is if high vibration is perceived by operators or is expected due to plant operational changes such as uprates or major component replacements. The procedure for a comprehensive piping vibration monitoring program is thus not as widely known as that for other components such as rotating machinery. This paper presents the steps involved with monitoring piping vibration, obtaining meaningful data and ways to interpret the data. It could be viewed as a primer to those who have never been involved with vibration testing on piping, or as a guideline and checklist for those who have.
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Mehra, Neha, Sandhya Rani, Promila Sharma, and Pratibha Joshi. "Ergonomic Assessment of Activities of Front Office Worker in Selected Hospitality Units and Record Related Health." In Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference. AHFE International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100150.
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Often when we imagine the kind of workers who get workplace injuries, we think of those who need to exert a lot of physical energy on the job. It is true that employees in these work environments may be at greater risk for injury, but office workers are also at risk. Front Office work is rapidly changing, as new developments in computer technology come along which can make our jobs easier, but which also can present new problems for both management and employees. There is enough information contained here to allow a single employee to set up their own workstation to suit the way they work. This paper provides with the information and tools necessary to analyze office jobs related health problems. A descriptive research enumerates the existing conditions in which the researcher has no control over the variables and can report only actual conditions. The interview schedule was found to be an appropriate tool, which would adequately gather information pertaining to research work. Considering the objective of the study, research was carried out at Pancham Hotel of Bareilly. A sample size is a definite plan for obtaining a sample from a given population. Total sample sizes of 30 were selected. Many office injuries are caused by the repetitive tasks that put strain on our muscles and joints. There are several health related problems faced by office workers which affect their daily working schedule such as chronic back pain, gastric bronchial, asthma, diabetes, depression, arthritis, anaemia and headache. Sixty percent respondents quite seldom suffered from digestion difficulties whereas 12 percent respondents quite often and only 16 percent respondent almost always suffered from digestion difficulties. Several research studies reveals that gastrointestinal complaints of gastric upset, gas, constipation, poor eating etc. are strongly correlated with front office work.
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Sifar, Anjali, and Nisheeth Srivastava. "Imprecise Oracles Impose Limits to Predictability in Supervised Learning (Extended Abstract)." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/661.
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Supervised learning operates on the premise that labels unambiguously represent ground truth. This premise is reasonable in domains wherein a high degree of consensus is easily possible for any given data record, e.g. in agreeing on whether an image contains an elephant or not. However, there are several domains wherein people disagree with each other on the appropriate label to assign to a record, e.g. whether a tweet is toxic. We argue that data labeling must be understood as a process with some degree of domain-dependent noise and that any claims of predictive prowess must be sensitive to the degree of this noise. We present a method for quantifying labeling noise in a particular domain wherein people are seen to disagree with their own past selves on the appropriate label to assign to a record: choices under prospect uncertainty. Our results indicate that `state-of-the-art' choice models of decisions from description, by failing to consider the intrinsic variability of human choice behavior, find themselves in the odd position of predicting humans' choices better than the same humans' own previous choices for the same problem. We conclude with observations on how the predicament we empirically demonstrate in our work could be handled in the practice of supervised learning.
Reports on the topic "Samuel Selvon"
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Scanlan, E. J., M. Leybourne, D. Layton-Matthews, A. Voinot, and N. van Wagoner. Alkaline magmatism in the Selwyn Basin, Yukon: relationship to SEDEX mineralization. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/328994.
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Several sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposits have alkaline magmatism that is temporally and spatially associated to mineralization. This report outlines interim data from a study of potential linkages between magmatism and SEDEX mineralization in the Selwyn Basin, Yukon. This region is an ideal study site due to the close spatial and temporal relationships between SEDEX deposits and magmatism, particularly in the MacMillan Pass, where volcanic rocks have been drilled with mineralization at the Boundary deposit. Alkaline volcanic samples were analysed from the Anvil District, MacMillan Pass, Keno-Mayo and the Misty Creek Embayment in the Selwyn Basin to characterise volcanism and examine the relationship to mineralization. Textural and field relationships indicate a volatile-rich explosive eruptive volcanic system in the MacMillan Pass region in comparison to the Anvil District, which is typically effusive in nature. High proportions of calcite and ankerite in comparison to other minerals are present in the MacMillan system. Cathodoluminescence imaging reveals zoning and carbonate that displays different luminescent colours within the same sample, likely indicating multiple generations of carbonate precipitation. Barium contents are enriched in volcanic rocks throughout the Selwyn Basin, which is predominately hosted by hyalophane with rare barite and barytocalcite. Thallium is positively correlated with Ba, Rb, Cs, Mo, As, Sb and the calcite-chlorite-pyrite index and is negatively correlated with Cu. Anvil District samples display a trend towards depleted mid-ocean ridge mantle on a plot of Ce/Tl versus Th/Rb. Hydrothermal alteration has likely led to the removal of Tl from volcanic rocks in the region. Ongoing research involves: i) the analysis of Sr, Nd, Pb and Tl isotopes of volcanic samples; ii) differentiating magmatic from hydrothermal carbonate using O, C and Sr isotopes; iii) examining sources of Ba in the Selwyn Basin; iv) and constraining age relationships through U-Th-Pb geochronology.
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Pyper, J. W. How do you assure the quality of chemical measurements when you seldom analyze the same kind of sample twice. : Development of the Quality Assurance Plan for the Condensed Matter and Analytical Science Division. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6299498.
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Orning, Tanja. Professional identities in progress – developing personal artistic trajectories. Norges Musikkhøgskole, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.544616.
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We have seen drastic changes in the music profession during the last 20 years, and consequently an increase of new professional opportunities, roles and identities. We can see elements of a collective identity in classically trained musicians who from childhood have been introduced to centuries old, institutionalized traditions around the performers’ role and the work-concept. Respect for the composer and his work can lead to a fear of failure and a perfectionist value system that permeates the classical music. We have to question whether music education has become a ready-made prototype of certain trajectories, with a predictable outcome represented by more or less generic types of musicians who interchangeably are able play the same, limited canonized repertoire, in more or less the same way. Where is the resistance and obstacles, the detours and the unique and fearless individual choices? It is a paradox that within the traditional master-student model, the student is told how to think, play and relate to established truths, while a sustainable musical career is based upon questioning the very same things. A fundamental principle of an independent musical career is to develop a capacity for critical reflection and a healthy opposition towards uncontested truths. However, the unison demands for modernization of institutions and their role cannot be solved with a quick fix, we must look at who we are and who we have been to look at who we can become. Central here is the question of how the music students perceive their own identity and role. To make the leap from a traditional instrumentalist role to an artist /curator role requires commitment in an entirely different way. In this article, I will examine question of identity - how identity may be constituted through musical and educational experiences. The article will discuss why identity work is a key area in the development of a sustainable music career and it will investigate how we can approach this and suggest some possible ways in this work. We shall see how identity work can be about unfolding possible future selves (Marcus & Nurius, 1986), develop and evolve one’s own personal journey and narrative. Central is how identity develops linguistically by seeing other possibilities: "identity is formed out of the discourses - in the broadest sense - that are available to us ..." (Ruud, 2013). The question is: How can higher music education (HME) facilitate students in their identity work in the process of constructing their professional identities? I draw on my own experience as a classically educated musician in the discussion.