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Journal articles on the topic "White male character"
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Yang, Qinyi. "A Study of Negotiation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth." Review of Educational Theory 3, no. 4 (2020): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/ret.v3i4.2420.
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This study examined the power relationships between male and female characters, between the white female character and women of color, and women of color’s power relationship to each other in White Teeth through analyzing sequential moves in dialogues.The exchange structure reveals that male characters are in dominance in their relationship with female characters, and female characters suffer sexual discrimination. It is also found that in their relationship to the white female character, women of color experience the discriminations of racism and classism, but they tried hard to battle against these discriminations. In addition, even within the community of women of color, women had to fight against oppressive stereotypes.
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Hudson, Barbara. "Beyond white man's justice." Theoretical Criminology 10, no. 1 (2006): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480606059981.
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This article proposes three principles which justice should incorporate if it is to move beyond the closures and exclusions of white man's justice. After a brief review of feminist and critical race theory literature that establishes the white, male character of justice in modern liberal societies, the principles of discursiveness, relationalism and reflectiveness are explained and discussed. Their implications for restorative justice are discussed. Oppression and inequality are suggested as concepts that can guide the operation, context and limits of discursiveness, relationalism and reflectiveness. In the final section, the problem of relativism against universalism is discussed, and its relevance to the development of restorative justice suggested.
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Crous, M. "White masculine desire and despair in The good doctor by Damon Galgut." Literator 31, no. 2 (2010): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i2.44.
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The purpose of this article is to examine the representation of masculinity in Damon Galgut’s novel, “The good doctor”, and in particular the interaction between the two male characters, namely Frank and Laurence. The character Frank suppresses his feelings of intimacy towards the younger Laurence through his machismo and his cruelty towards the latter. The question arises whether there is a homoerotic relationship between the two men in this postapartheid setting, or whether it is merely a mutual attempt at finding intimacy and closeness in their bleak existence. Furthermore, following Horrell (2005), the concepts of desire and despair with regard to white masculinity as portrayed in the novel will be examined.
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Worthington, Marjorie. "“We'll Make Magic”: Zen Writers and Autofictional Readers in A Tale for the Time Being." Genre 54, no. 1 (2021): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8911524.
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Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being is an autofiction—a novel whose protagonist is a characterized version of its author and thereby straddles the line between memoir and fiction. In an American literary context, autofiction is a genre dominated by white male authors. This article argues that Ozeki's approach to autofiction is vastly different from that of most of her white, male counterparts in that the author-character “Ruth” does not lay sole claim to authorial authority, but rather works collaboratively with other characters to share creative power and the responsibility that comes with it. This innovative tactic helps chart a potential course for autofiction by women writers and writers of color.
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Lein, M. Ross, and Kendall W. Corbin. "Song and plumage phenotypes in a contact zone between subspecies of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 12 (1990): 2625–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z90-366.
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We examined the transitions in a plumage character (lore color) and a learned behavioral character (song pattern) across a 400 -km intergrade zone between two subspecies of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) in southwestern Alberta. The proportion of birds with black lores, characteristic of Z. l. oriantha, shifted gradually from over 80% in southernmost localities to less than 20% at the northern end of the zone, where most individuals had grey lores, characteristic of Z. l. gambelii. The song pattern of males also showed a complete transition across the zone, but the change was significantly more abrupt than for lore color, occurring over 50–100 km in the center of the intergrade zone. We suggest that this apparent difference in degree of introgression between the two characters may result either from differential dispersal of males and females or from switches in the song patterns of young males that immigrate into populations in which a different song type predominates. Our findings indicate that male song pattern may not be an accurate indicator of the genetic history of populations in this species.
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Rohwer, Sievert, Christopher Wood, and Eldredge Bermingham. "A New Hybrid Warbler (Dendroica Nigrescens × D. Occidentalis) and Diagnosis of Similar D. Townsendi × D. Occidentalis Recombinants." Condor 102, no. 3 (2000): 713–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/102.3.713.
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Abstract We use 13 color characters to describe the first known Dendroica nigrescens × D. occidentalis hybrid. Because this specimen was collected in the southeastern Cascade Mountains of Washington during the breeding season, D. townsendi, D. occidentalis, and D. nigrescens are the only plausible parents for a hybrid male falling within the black-throated clade of Dendroica warblers. Multiple character states in the hybrid refute the alternative parental combinations, townsendi × occidentalis and townsendi × nigrescens. Two characteristics of this hybrid suggested further tests of the parentage of 38 problematic hybrids that were treated previously as townsendi × occidentalis recombinants by assumption only. These hybrids lack yellow on their breast, the only character that refutes a nigrescens × occidentalis parentage. The new hybrid is intermediate between nigrescens and occidentalis in the color of its posterior face and its anterior crown; thus, we scored these new characters in the 38 problematic hybrids. None of these 38 specimens was intermediate or white in either of these regions, and there was no correlation between having tinges of white in these regions and the extent of flank streaking. These results fail to support nigrescens in the parentage of these 38 specimens; furthermore, none of the problematic hybrids carried a nigrescens mitochondrial DNA haplotype. Thus, we conclude that all are unusual recombinants of townsendi × occidentalis hybridization, rather than nigrescens × occidentalis hybrids.
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Schlueter, Jennifer. "“How you durrin?”: Chuck Knipp, Shirley Q. Liquor, and Contemporary Blackface." TDR/The Drama Review 57, no. 2 (2013): 163–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00266.
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F. Charles “Chuck” Knipp claims his portrayal of Shirley Q. Liquor, a saucy, middle-aged Louisiana black woman, is more “an extended drag comedy character” than a minstrel routine. But the most salient feature of the live performances by Knipp—a gay, white male—is his blackface makeup.
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Griffin, Dana, Joseph M. Williams, and Julia Bryan. "School–Family–Community Partnerships for Educational Success and Equity for Black Male Students." Professional School Counseling 25, no. 1_part_4 (2021): 2156759X2110400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156759x211040036.
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Throughout the past decade, scholars have argued that the persistent achievement gap between Black male students and their White peers is a result of unequal and inadequate educational opportunities instead of inherent differences in their capability or character. School counselors can help support Black males by using equity-focused school–family–community partnerships that provide a strong network of support, resources, and increased educational opportunities—all of which contribute to positive academic outcomes and help eliminate barriers caused by systemic racism. In this article, we apply a step-by-step partnership process model to a case in which a school counselor used partnerships to advocate for Black students facing racism and educational inequities in a school district.
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Logvinov, S. V., Ye Yu Varakouta, A. V. Potapov, Ye P. Mikhoulya, and A. A. Zhdankina. "Morphologic changes of retina cellular elements under long low intensity light exposure." Bulletin of Siberian Medicine 5, no. 3 (2006): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2006-3-31-36.
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Structural changes of eye retina in 40 male white rats under the influence of light with intensity of 200 lk during 1, 7, 14 and 30 days were studied using electron microscopy method and morphometric analysis. Structural changes of all cell elements of retina were revealed which were particularly expressed in neurosensory cells and in radial gliocytes. Maximum number of neurosensory cells with destruction of nucleus was observed after 7 days of exposure and achieves its maximum (4,6 ± 0,3)% compared to controls (0,40 ± 0,02)%. Changes of radial glial cells have both regressive and progressively -proliferative character. Changes of neurons of retina internal layers have mainly reversible character.
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Hara, Marcos R., and Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha. "A new species and new distribution records of Pickeliana (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnidae)." Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25, no. 3 (2008): 515–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0101-81752008000300019.
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A new species of Pickeliana Mello-Leitão, 1932, P. albimaculata sp. nov., is described from Jussari, Bahia, Brazil. It can be easily distinguished from the already described species by the presence of white spots on mesotergal area I and anal opercle. It is similar to P. pickeli Mello-Leitão, 1932 by the presence of a large, ventro-apical pointed tubercle on femora III-IV. A cladistic analysis was performed adding a new character to the available character matrix, the presence of a large and ventro-apical pointed tubercle on male femur IV. According to this analysis, P. albimaculata sp. nov. is sister species of P. pickeli. Additionally, we present an identification key and an update on the geographical distribution of species of this genus in northeastern Brazil.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "White male character"
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Borthwick, Hannah. "When the known world dissolves : representations of the white male on the South African stage in the transitional years (1980-2000)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86336.
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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the representation of the white male character in various South African plays from the period 1980–2000, a time when South Africa was experiencing severe changes and upheavals as a result of the crumbling of the apartheid state and the dawning of a new, democratic and „free‟ South Africa. Taking into account a number of appropriate philosophical and sociological theories (for example 20th century western concepts of whiteness and masculinity), the thesis looks at the way in which such an enormous social and political transformation was able to influence the life and reality of the individual white man and his reactions to it. By considering the interaction of collective and personal identity within the framework of a changing South Africa, the study explores some of the ways in which such interactions may create insecurity and threaten the foundations of a particular cultural or ethnic group. . The focus of the study is an analysis of selected works by playwrights Paul Slabolepszy, Greig Coetzee, André P. Brink and Deon Opperman, and focusses specifically on three predominant themes identified in the plays, namely: recognition, dangerous insecurity (ressentiment) and the ever-present past. These themes are used to explore and illustrate a particular cultural group‟s psyche (as well that of its individuals members) during a specific period in South African history and, to a certain extent, their attempts to redefine their identities. These are characters (and thus, one may infer, playwrights) who were all trying to make sense of a tumultuous past, an insecure present and an uncertain future, and trying to understand their own contribution to and place in it. The final conclusion is that the South African white male was going (is going?) through a form of collective, existential, “mid-life crisis”, one in which they needed to accept that they had become outnumbered and were in a sense alone in their crisis. They were forced to compromise their collective identity in this new reality, a situation epitomised by the way they seek to construct (new) personal identities in order to adapt. A final conclusion is that this is an ongoing process clearly displayed by the new work on offer at contemporary arts festivals.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bekyk die uitbeelding van die wit man as 'n karakter in verskeie Suid-Afrikaanse toneelstukke gedurende die jare 1980 tot 2000. In hierdie tyd het Suid-Afrika drastiese veranderings ondergaan as gevolg van die val van die apartheid staat en die onstaan van 'n demokratiese, "vrye" land. In die studie word dan, in die lig van toepaslike filosofiese en sosiologiese teorieë (soos bv 20ste eeuse westerse konsepte van manlikheid en witheid) meer spesifiek ondersoek ingestel na die impak van sodanige ekstreme politieke en sosiale omwentelings in 'n land op die lewe en realiteit van die individuele wit man, en sy respons daarop. In die proses word daar verder ook gefokus op die wisselwerking tussen kollektiewe en persoonlike identiteite in die raamwerk van 'n veranderende Suid-Afrika en hoe hierdie wisselwerking selfs 'n sekere kulturele of etniese groepering se fondamente kan laat wankel. Die ondersoek word onderneem aan die hand van ontledings van enkele toepaslike toneelstukke van Paul Slabolepszy, Greig Coetzee, André P. Brink en Deon Opperman, en daar word spesifiek gekyk na drie oorheersende temas wat in die stukke geïdentifiseer is: herkenning (“recognition”), gevaarlike onsekerheid (“dangerous insecurity” of “ressentiment”) en die altyd teenwoordige verlede (“ever-present past”). Hierdie temas word gebruik om die psige van 'n spesifieke kulturele groep (asook sy indivdue) te illustreer gedurende 'n spesifieke tydperk in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis en om tot 'n sekere mate sy identiteit te help her-definieer. Hierdie karakters (en selfs dramaturge) probeer sin maak uit hul onstuimige verlede, komplekse hede en onseker toekoms en hul eie bydrae tot en plek daarin. Die gevolgtrekking word bereik dat die Suid-Afrikaanse wit man wat hier uitgebeeld word 'n tipe kollektiewe eksistensiële krisis ervaar het (of steeds ervaar?) waarin hulle moes aanvaar dat hulle die minderheid was en ook op hierdie manier alleen is in hulle krisis. Hulle word geforseer om hul kollektiewe wese (=identiteit) te probeer wysig om in te pas by die nuwe realiteit waarin hulle hulself bevind. Dit word geïllustreeer deur hul soeke na (nuwe) persoonlike identiteite. 'n Finale gevolgtrekking is dat hierdie proses 'n aanhoudende een is, soos gedemonstreer deur heelwat nuwe werke wat te sien is op hedendaagse kunste feeste.
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Tufvesson, Måns. "Selection for sexual male characters in White Leghorn chickens : an evolutionary interpretation /." Uppsala : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1998. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/1998/91-576-5466-2.gif.
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Tufvesson, Bernice. "Use of selection to enhance comb hyaluronic acid production in White Leghorn cockerels and correlated effects on male and female characters /." Uppsala : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1998. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/1998/91-576-5464-6.gif.
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.<br><p>Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)</p>
Books on the topic "White male character"
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man: The white male body and the challenge of modernity in America. Hill and Wang, 2001.
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man: The white male body and the challenge of modernity in America. Hill and Wang, 2001.
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Moreno, James. Brown in Black and White. Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928187.013.60.
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In 1956, the Mexican American modern dance choreographer José Limón presented The Emperor Jones, an all-male dance based on the 1920 Eugene O’Neill play. Limón’s Emperor loosely follows the plot of O’Neill’s play, which famously tells the story of an African American Pullman porter who makes himself emperor of a “West Indies” island. To portray O’Neill’s characters, Limón put himself and his all-male cast in black body paint. Limón’s painted body is examined as three bodies: a brown Mexican body; a white “American” body (with the privilege to represent the Other); and the black body of the Brutus Jones character. Focusing on Limón’s homosocial casting, performance techniques, and engagement with minstrelsy, this article shows how Limón’s freedom to dance as a brown, black, and white body did not reveal the decline of raced and gendered borders, but rather their resilient presence as part of the field on which his dances were produced.
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Kasson, John F. Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. Hill and Wang, 2002.
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Beeston, Alix. Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690168.003.0004.
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This chapter interprets the serialized narration and characterization of John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer (1925) in line with the figuring of female bodies through the photographic apparatus of advertisement and celebrity that was ancillary to popular Broadway entertainments in the early twentieth century. Unpacking the image of Ellen Thatcher, Dos Passos’s central character, as a photograph at the end of the multilinear novel, it accounts for Dos Passos’s critique of the patriarchal, white-centric specular economy of the modern city. The photographic freezing of the wealthy, white Ellen registers her imprisonment to the male gaze and her resistance to those who are ethnically and socially other to her. Yet by the additive construction of its female characters, Manhattan Transfer undercuts Ellen’s sense of her essentialized difference from the novel’s other women.
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Meyer, Stephen. Fashioning Dense Masculine Space. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040054.003.0006.
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This chapter demonstrates how American workers created and maintained a dense masculine culture at the workplace. Though a variety of masculine cultures existed, age, ethnicity, and race determined their construction. Most important, the dominant culture was white and male. Workers constructed and reconstructed their public postures of manhood in their relations with each other, with their employers, and with women. At the workplace, the male culture of aggression flourished; fighting, cursing, drinking, and all manner of manly misbehavior prevailed. Numerous union grievances captured the dense male culture that revealed the details of the male character of the shop floor, and many such grievances often typified workers' manly quest for dignity and worth.
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Guest, Deryn. Judging Yhwh in the Book of Judges. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.14.
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Narrative approaches initiated a sea-change in Judges studies. Narrative approaches, however, require additional tools if they are to challenge the text’s ideology. While several narrative critics combined their expertise with feminist theory, scholars are yet to engage fully with the critical study of masculinities or with queer studies that offer a new, rich vein of research focused on how gender and sexuality is an integral aspect of character. YHWH has largely evaded the kind of attention given to other, more earthly, characters. This chapter discusses YHWH’s alpha-male qualities and how they create gender trouble for the cast of male characters in Judges; how YHWH is caught up with the cultural dictates of honor and shame; how object-relations theory can be fruitful in understanding the relationship dynamics between YHWH and Israel. Attention finally returns to the narrator and his stake in this representation of the deity.
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Attridge, Steve. Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806516.003.0006.
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While Lord Kitchener was lauded at home for his self-sacrificial qualities, in the field he implemented scorched-earth policies and pioneered the use of concentration camps. Writers including Rudyard Kipling exposed the cruel practices on which the British Army depended in the course of the Boer Wars (1899–1902), critiquing the military leadership. A space then opened in fictional narrative for the representation of a new type of protagonist—the rebel, the self-reliant adventurer or irregular who could make personal sacrifices through individual ethical choice rather than as a consequence of military expediency: in response, the regular Army sought to maintain a monopoly on the representation of heroism (occasionally scapegoating irregulars). Arguably, this period sees the high watermark of the popularity of tropes of military sacrifice in the nineteenth century, but also points towards later changes, where large armies face guerrilla bands fighting in their own homelands.
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Leunissen, Mariska. The Science of Natural Character. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190602215.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 offers a brief but speculative suggestion for how Aristotle might think lawgivers can identify future citizens with good natural character traits in practice, by turning to physiognomic passages in Aristotle. I argue that while the Prior Analytics discusses only the logical and ontological conditions that would make a science of physiognomy possible, thus leaving it in the middle whether Aristotle actually thinks such a science is possible or is one he practices himself, his treatment of physiognomic signs in the History of Animals as basic facts about the faces of animals provides evidence for Aristotle’s own use and endorsement of physiognomy in a biological context. There was a widespread practice among physicians and philosophers of Aristotle’s time to appeal to physiognomy for diagnostic purposes, and it is at least possible that Aristotle did too.
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Bromwich, David. How Words Make Things Happen. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199672790.001.0001.
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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker’s control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that “poetry makes nothing happen”) together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen. But they cannot be counted on to produce the result they intend. The argument is enriched by examples from speakers and writers of various sorts, with close readings of the quoted passages. Chapter 1 considers the theory of speech acts propounded by J. L. Austin. “Speakers Who Convince Themselves” is the subject of Chapter 2, which interprets two soliloquies by Shakespeare’s characters, two by Milton’s Satan, and a character’s inward meditation in a novel by Henry James. The oratory of Burke and Lincoln comes in for extended treatment in Chapter 3, while Chapter 4 looks at the rival tendencies of moral suasion and aestheticism in the poetry of Yeats and Auden. The final chapter, a cause of controversy when first published in the London Review of Books, supports a policy of unrestricted free speech against contemporary proposals of censorship. Since we cannot know what our own words are going to do, we have no standing to justify the banishment of one set of words in favour of another.
Book chapters on the topic "White male character"
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Megale, Teresa. "L’ombra di Don Juan Tenorio sulla scena barocca partenopea: indizi d’archivio e canoni drammaturgici." In Studi e saggi. Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-150-1.13.
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This paper highlights archival evidence and dramaturgic mythemes in order to reconsider the historiographical issues related to the XVIIth-century theatrical reception of El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra outside of Spain. Among the crossroads of theatrical practices alive in XVIIth-century Naples, Don Juan underwent a rapid process of assimilation and transformation. The chronology of its Neapolitan debut at the Teatro di San Bartolomeo is re-examined in this paper, while unfolding some new and possible scenarios interweaving history and dramaturgy, the stage and the historical political events of the Kingdom of Naples during the first decades of the XVIIth century. This study examines the Mediterranean basis consolidating the myth of Don Juan – the character with «feet made of wind» (Garboli) – and defining its dramaturgic status all around Europe.
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Engles, Tim. "About Schmidt’s Whiteness." In The Construction of Whiteness. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496805553.003.0008.
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Drawing on recent work in affect studies and on analyses of white masculinity in European American literature and other modes of cultural production, this essay explicates the depiction in Louis Begley’s novel About Schmidt (1996) of a contemporary white male psyche in crisis. Begley’s protagonist, 60-year old widower and recently retired lawyer Albert Schmidt, embodies and enacts the emotional atrophy and consequent “ugly feelings,” in Sianne Ngai’s terms, of a late-twentieth century, self-declared and self-sabotaging White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. In this satiric, traditionally literary novel, the central character demonstrates that in part because, in Thandeka’s psychoanalytic terms, he has “learned to be white” via identity-forming imaginings of racialized others, he has yet to achieve a mature degree of compassionate humanity
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Mittermeier, Sabrina, and Jennifer Volkmer. "‘We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Helps Me Remember’." In Fighting for the Future. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621761.003.0017.
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This Chapter argues that Captain Gabriel Lorca, upon first look, is the archetype of the Starfleet Captain in the vein of Kirk and Picard: a white, middle-aged, (presumably) heterosexual man. However, his reveal as a Terran effectively recasts the character from a capable leader to a white supremacist sociopath, and is thus powerfully subverting the trope of the action hero, and in turn, that of the Starfleet Captain. Discovery thus actively criticizes pervasive ideals of masculinity of the genre (and beyond) through Lorca. It further does so via the character Ash Tyler, who also represents an alternative concept to the traditional action hero. Unlike Lorca, whose sexual prowess is referenced often, Tyler engages in a romantic relationship, an aspect usually neglected in on-screen romances of male heroes. Additionally, he is a rape survivor, again successfully subverting the established gender roles of the genre. This chapter discusses both Lorca and Tyler in order to highlight Discovery’s engagement with, and subversion of genre tropes, and its criticism of traditional ideas of masculinity.
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Mann, Nicola. "From SuperOther to SuperMother: The Journey toward Liberty." In The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.003.0006.
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In “From SuperOther to SuperMother: The Journey toward Liberty,” Nicola Mann studies the character Martha Washington from Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons’ limited series comic Give Me Liberty (1990). A single mother from Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project here rises to the status of lauded war hero. As an African-American woman, argues Mann, Washington not only re-scripts the familiar trope of the white male superhero, but also offers an alternate vision of the children of urban single mothers. Her success story speaks to contemporary real-world political claims-to-agency for young black women. In particular, the chapter explores the formal voyeurism implicit in Give Me Liberty’s panel sequences. Through the “gutter”—the blank white space between comic book panels—the reader becomes a silent accomplice in deciphering and linking the singular moments described in the panels into a series of topological connections, and, eventually, a continuous unified whole.
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McGunnigle, Christopher. "Rule 63." In Gender and the Superhero Narrative. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496818805.003.0007.
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Genderswapped characters are rarely a canonical part of a company’s intellectual property, but rather a concoction of fan creativity. However, as Rule 63 made its way around the internet, variations in its wording showed a bias in the adage’s primacy of gender. The male character and his female genderswapped version is shown to be the rule while female to male genderswapping is an often-missing corollary. Such a gendered hegemony is present not only online but also in general fan culture. This chapter interrogates the processes that underpin this and also investigates the nature of cosplay through ethnography.
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Saks, Michael J., and Barbara A. Spellman. "Character Evidence." In The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law. NYU Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479880041.003.0006.
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The basic rule limiting character evidence is quite sensible. Personality traits predict less than most people (including jurors) realize; situations, and person-by-situation interactions, are more potent forces. As the law suspects, people tend to perceive the behavior of others through lenses of propensity; consequently, they over-attribute and over-predict consistency between character and conduct. In fashioning the character evidence rules, common law judges correctly diagnosed a problem and took steps to temper those attributional tendencies to avoid inaccurate and unfair verdicts. The rules allow numerous exceptions, admitting some character evidence out of fairness or to permit helpful evidence while barring its most misleading variants. For example, defendants in criminal cases are permitted to offer evidence of their own character or the character of a victim. Other exceptions are made to assist factfinders to evaluate witness credibility. A special class of that rule deals with witnesses’ criminal records: a maze of sub-rules governs admissibility of prior crimes. Research finds that people tend to rely on prior crime evidence for its improper propensity purpose, contrary to judicial instructions about the limited use to which it may be put. A relatively new set of rules permits prior criminal sexual conduct to be admitted, allowing factfinders to draw inferences about “any matter to which it is relevant.” These rules are controversial because they invite jurors to engage in the very propensity thinking that centuries of evidence doctrine prohibited. Moreover, behavioral data do not support the theory behind a special rule for prior criminal sexual conduct.
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Shoemaker, Nancy. "Chief of All the White Men." In Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740343.003.0004.
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This chapter narrates David Whippy's turn away from dependence on Fijians as he engineered the emergence of an independent foreign community. Living in a Fijian village, dressing as a Fijian in wartime, and marrying Fijian women integrated Whippy into Fijian society but deceptively so since he retained a more profound loyalty to his own kind. As the number of foreigners in Fiji increased with each passing decade, he directed his energies toward meeting their needs. The relationships he formed with traders, missionaries, naval officers, and other beachcombers had at least three outcomes. His eagerness to help them earned him their accolades and gratitude. His efforts on others' behalf enabled them to fulfill their myriad intentions and make inroads on Fijian cultural and political autonomy from all directions. Lastly, his ties to other foreigners made him less dependent on Fijian patronage and fed the emergence of an independent enclave of “white men” at Levuka with Whippy as “their chief.” Indeed, he was commended for his usefulness and good character.
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Honeck, Mischa. "The White Boy’s Burden." In Our Frontier Is the World. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716188.003.0001.
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Waging war in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates rarely got a chance to relive the lighter days of his youth. One such moment came on July 28, 2010—a day of celebration at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia. The year marked the one-hundredth birthday of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and Gates’s keynote address set the tone for a big patriotic show featuring flags, paratroopers, antiaircraft cannons firing blank shots, and a flyover of F-16 jets. Despite the jubilant occasion, the Pentagon chief had not come to spin campfire yarn. Amid the cheers of almost fifty thousand Scouts gathered at the army installation, Gates, an Eagle Scout from 1958, reaffirmed the movement’s intergenerational contract that promised a relationship of mutual allegiance between boys and men. “I believe that today, as for the past 100 years, there is no finer program for preparing American boys for citizenship and leadership than the Boy Scouts of America.” Reciting the themes of crisis, anxiety, and salvation that supporters of the nation’s foremost youth organization had evoked since its founding, Gates extolled scouting as the best remedy for an America “where the young are increasingly physically unfit and society as a whole languishes in ignoble moral ease.” While many youths had degenerated into “couch potatoes,” the BSA continued to make men and leaders, men of “integrity and decency … moral courage” and “strong character—the kind of person who built this country and made it into the greatest democracy and the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world.” More was at stake than the fate of the nation. “The future of the world itself,” said Gates, depended on the “kind of citizens our young people” would become. Only with the ...
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Pumphrey, Nicholaus. "Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and Marvel Now!" In Ms. Marvel's America. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827029.003.0013.
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In 2012, Marvel Comics created a diversity campaign called Marvel Now! Several new characters were developed in order to add diverse superheroes to the Marvel Universe in an attempt to attract new fans through representation. This introduction of new heroes brought readers a Pakistani-American, Muslim Ms. Marvel in Kamala Khan, as well as Miles Morales, a Spider-Man of Black and Latino heritage. Given the stereotype that the majority of comic book fans are white, cisgender males, there was considerable resistance from traditional readers regarding these two new characters. This chapter examines the responses that arose from the assumed threat to white, cismale identity, the gatekeeping within comic book readership, and the toxic culture of the white, male fanboy.
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Wilkins, Heidi. "The Alienated Male: Silence and the Soundtrack in New Hollywood." In Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406895.003.0004.
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In this chapter, I explore the audible link between masculinity, silence and soundtrack by focusing on a selection of silent, alienated male characters from renowned New Hollywood films. In this discussion, the ‘type’ of silence I often refer to is that described by Paul Théberge as ‘a kind of silence that is produced when, for example, music is allowed to dominate the soundtrack while dialogue and sound effects – the primary sonic modes of the diegetic world – are muted’. I explore the specific use of silence in these texts as well as the ways in which non diegetic music and diegetic sound are used to express meanings not divulged by the male characters, due to their limited dialogue. I argue that this acoustic construction contributes to a projected sense of alienation of male characters and that it can also be linked to the blurring of gender boundaries often accounted for by the counter-culture movements taking place in America throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Conference papers on the topic "White male character"
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Gallimore, Jennie J., Blake Ward, Adrian Johnson, et al. "Human Perceptions of Nonverbal Behavior Presented Using Synthetic Humans." In ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2012-82641.
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Synthetic humans are computer-generated characters that are designed to behave like humans for the purpose of training or entertainment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of subjects interacting with synthetic humans to determine their responses to nonverbal behaviors, realism, and character personality. This study was part of a research program to develop a virtual game to train awareness of nonverbal communication for cross-cultural competency (3C). Three synthetic humans were created with different levels of realism with respect to their facial movements and skin textures. Low realism characters were defined as models purchased from the company Evolver, with additional facial action units (FAU) added to the character’s face. High realism characters were created based on a model of a real person’s head using 3D imaging cameras and a digital video camera. The same FAUs available in the Evolver characters were also coded into the high realism character as well as more realistic skin texture. During a virtual scenario the subject was asked to interview three characters in the U.S. Army. The subject interviewed each character one-on-one. The three computer characters included two white males, and one black female. The results of this study showed that it is possible to create synthetic humans that include nonverbal behaviors and personalities that are perceived by subjects, and that the subject’s own personal lens affected how they perceive the character. For example, the character Brent was rated similarly by most subjects with respect to personality traits as defined by the Big Five Factor Model. However, half the subjects indicated they liked him (friendly and confident), while about half the subjects did not like him (too confident as to be arrogant).
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Vieira, Miguel, Kenji Shimada, and Tomotake Furuhata. "Local Least Squares Fitting for Surface Mesh Fairing in Automobile Panel Design." In ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2002/dac-34074.
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Three-dimensional laser scanning equipment is being used more frequently to convert clay model automobile designs to large, detailed meshes for computer-aided design of outer-body panels. The panels are generally composed of large, constant curvature patches with small local features, called character lines, superposed to give the car a distinctive look. Although modern laser scanners are very accurate and precise, their tolerances nevertheless admit meshes with geometric flaws that destroy the constant curvature of patches and make character lines nearly invisible in a reflection simulation. Thus, we require an algorithm to fair the mesh by restoring the intended curvature while minimizing the vertex displacemtents. Existing approaches such as Laplacian and curvature flow operators are not suitable because they tend to shrink the mesh and introduce a bias toward planar geometries. Our approach aims to solve both of these problems by fitting a least squares surface to a set of vertices adjacent to the target vertex and moving the target vertex vertically onto the least squares surface in a local coordinate system. This algorithm has linear time complexity in the number of vertices and makes convergence likely while eliminating the planar bias of other operators. We show the effectiveness of our operator with both geometric and real-world mesh examples.
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Mobley, Dave. "Multi-Agent Systems of Inverse Reinforcement Learners in Complex Games." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/755.
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Real-world problems exhibit a few defining criteria that make them hard for computers to solve. Problems such as driving a car or flying a helicopter have primary goals of reaching a destination as well as doing it safely and timely. These problems must each manage many resources and tasks to achieve their primary goals. The tasks themselves are made up of states that are represented by variables or features. As the feature set grows, the problems become intractable. Computer games are smaller problems but also are representative of real-world problems of this type. In my research, I will look at a particular class of computer game, namely computer role-playing games (RPGs), which are made up of a collection of overarching goals such as improving the player avatar, navigating a virtual world, and keeping the avatar alive. While playing there are also subtasks such as combatting other characters and managing inventory which are not primary, but yet important to overall game play. I will be exploring tiered Reinforcement Learning techniques coupled with training from expert policies using Inverse Reinforcement Learning as a starting point on learning how to play a complex game while attempting to extrapolate ideal goals and rewards.
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Iorio, C. S., C. Perfetti, Q. Galand, and S. Van Vaerenbergh. "Numerical Study of Solutal and Thermal Instabilities in Mini-Channels for Membrane-Less Applications." In ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm-icnmm2010-31173.
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Many industrial processes make extensive use of membranes to separate fluxes while allowing some of the constituent species to diffuse into each other. In recent years, high production and maintenance costs induced by fouling, poisoning and clogging of the membrane pores due to impurities have create conditions to study alternative way of making liquid and/or gaseous streams interact and diffuse without the presence of a physical barrier. One of the possibilities is offered by the essentially laminar character of the flow in microfluidic devices that allows two or more different fluid streams to merge without mixing in a large range of experimental and industrial conditions. In this work, we will study, numerically, the case of two streams of different composition merging in a micro-channel. The upper and lower sides of the micro-channel are heated differentially and the inlet velocity of the streams is set independently in the range 0–1m/s. Simulations are carried out in 2D and 3D while fluids are chosen by considering their industrial importance and application. The main results are that the stability of the streams is very sensitive to the inlet conditions and that it is possible to modulate the mixing layer thickness by acting on thermal gradients, geometrical constraints and slip flow conditions.
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Sarudin, Anida, Mazura Mastura Muhammad, Muhamad Fadzllah Zaini, Zulkifli Osman, and Muhammad Anas Al Muhsin. "Collocation Analysis of Variants of Intensifiers in Classical Malay Texts." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.11-3.
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In this paper, the authors discuss the findings of a study carried out to examine good lexical collocation in classical Malay texts. For the study, two corpora were used, namely Petua Membina Rumah and Korpus Rujukan Berita Harian. The former had 14,644 tokens and 2,080 types while the latter had 1,058,722 tokens and 39,632 types. Only 100 distributions of lexical collocations of the word ‘baik’ were chosen, given that such a word was most widely used in adjectival sentences. Collocation analysis was carried out using MI (Mutual Information), T score, and logDice. The findings showed such lexical collocations had metaphorical meanings based on two main categories of intensifiers, namely amplifier and downtoner. The former was made up of booster and maximizer while the latter consisted of approximator, compromisers, diminisher, and minimizer. Such findings indicate that the Malay society has a unique linguistic identity in that they converse with a good lexicon of intensifying words or intensifiers whose function is to amplify the meanings of sentences. Each variant of intensifiers of the Malay language occurs in various adverbial characters. Such a phenomenon shows that the unique adverbial intensifier of the Malay language plays an important role as an indicator to identify metaphors.
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Daniel, Ryszard A., and Timothy M. Paulus. "Handling Accidents and Calamities in Hydraulic Structures." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.2181.
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<p>Hydraulic closures in dams, navigation locks and flood barriers belong to the most heavily loaded structures built by people. While ensuring their sufficient strength is the main engineers’ concern, one must also be prepared to adequately handle their failures. Identifying and reducing the risks of failures is an issue of wider scope than structural analysis alone. Once an accident happens, proper investigations, handling the losses and planning the repair become primary goals. This paper gives a general guidance on these issues reflecting the European (mainly Dutch) and American practice. The discussion includes both handling the situations immediately after the accidents, and the choice between repair and replacement of a damaged structure. Accidents are infrequent events of very diverse causes and consequences, therefore this discussion has an engineering rather than statistical character.</p><p>Both authors contributed to resolving accidents and failures of hydraulic structures, in the roles varying from investigation or design leader to repair manager. They were also consulted or made part of crisis teams in a number of other so-called “upset events”. This paper combines the highlights of their own experience and the practices being followed by the waterway administrations in the USA and the Netherlands. The selected examples are also from these countries, but can be seen as reflecting issues and concerns anywhere.</p>
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Geier, Sebastian M., Peter Wierach, Thorsten Mahrholz, and Michael Sinapius. "Carbon Nanotube Strain Measurements via Tensile Testing." In ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smasis2014-7572.
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Discovering and characterizing new smart materials is an urgent need to close the performance-gaps of standard active materials. There is still the demand for a material providing high modulus, low density and large strain. Carbon materials catch scientific attention since a while but one sort among these is of special interest, carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Beside excellent material properties another interesting feature was first mentioned 1999 — the active behavior of paper-like mats made of CNTs. The CNT-papers are electrical activated using a double-layer interaction of ions provided by an electrolyte and the charged high surface area of the paper formed by carbon tubes. Until now the mechanism behind the strain generation of CNT-based architectures is unknown. The principle of the mechanism reveals the potential of carbon tubes to be or not to be a resilient smart material in order to use the strong carbon bonds instead of weak van der Waals force as linking between the tubes. This paper presents further investigations about the mechanical composition of CNT-papers as well as vertical aligned CNT-arrays using an actuated tensile test set-up. For better comparison the experiments are conducted in dry, wet and wet/charged conditions. Especially in the case of CNT-arrays it is essential to preload the specimens because their curly CNT-structure superimposes the vertical orientation of the arrays. While the CNT-paper is tested in an one molar sodium chloride solution, the hydrophilic character of CNT-arrays requires an ionic liquid (IL). It is found that the mechanical properties of CNT-papers drop significantly by wetting and further more by charging what indicates an electrostatic dominated effect. In contrast the CNT-arrays show similar results independent of their test-conditions and an active, reversible behavior of tube-elongation by charging. These results indicate strongly a quantum-mechanical effect of the single tubes.
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Tang, Xiang, Yiqiang Li, Zhihao Yu, Miaomiao Xu, and Rui Zhou. "Experimental Investigation of CO2 Huff and Puff Process Based on Three-Dimensional Physical Models." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-21309-ms.
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Abstract As an important enhanced oil recovery method for tight reservoirs, CO2 huff and puff (HnP) is getting more attention in recent years. It is urgent to systematically study the characters of CO2 HnP. Due to the limitations of numerical simulation, it is more reliable and reasonable to study the development characteristics of CO2 HnP through experiments. The objective of this work is to conduct comprehensive experiments to clarify the characters and main mechanisms of CO2 HnP process based on the three-dimensional (3D) physical models. A 3D physical experimental apparatus with circumstance of high temperature and high pressure has been developed, which is mainly used to support the models with a fixed confining pressure and temperature. Based on the similarity criterion of dimensionless conductivity, two different 3D physical models (30cm×30cm×3.5cm) with a horizontal well and fractures are made from outcrops to imitate the different reservoirs. Under these preconditions, some CO2 HnP experiments were conducted to investigate the development characteristics from the 3D physical models.Also,long core experiments were carried out to establish and verify the production prediction model, combined with expansion test, diffusion test and nuclear magnetic resonance test. The experimental results show that the development process of CO2 HnP can be divided into four stages: CO2 backflow, Gas production with attached oil, High-speed oil production and Decay. The main mechanism of oil production in each stage is different. With the increase of the cycle number, the recovery factors of both models first increase and then decrease, while the oil/gas replacement rates may drop rapidly. The fractures have been proven to increase the oil recovery from 21.2% to 36.7% after ten rounds of CO2 HnP. Based on the analysis of expansion and molecular diffusion, a production prediction model was established, and the average error between the predicted results and the experimental results is 7.7%, which has good applicability and accuracy. In this paper, some large-scale 3D physical model experiments with CO2 HnP for tight reservoir were elaborated. The development characteristics of CO2 HnP were analyzed, and a production prediction model was established. A lot of valuable experimental data and a better understanding on CO2 HnP process in tight reservoir have been obtained.
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Iribarne, Jorge. "The essential purpose of any Urban Project is to define Public Space." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6233.
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In that aspect, buildings role, no matter their architectural qualities, is to shape that void and give it character. If one asks people about their remembrances of cities they have visited, they usually mention places and the activities that took place there. Architecture, great or bad is the referente of Architects. Only some monuments –Eiffel Tower or Sidney´s Opera- which act as the city´s image are worth recalling. The failure of CIAM´s urbanism was not its lack of quality, even vition, as some of Le Corbusier designs clearly demostrate, but its disregard of public space, merely a left over spread between isolated building blocks and highways. A good instrument to understand this fact are the Figure/ Ground plans, in which the basic shape of buildings and voids are drawn in black and white. In the tradicional city renders, the public spaces have a clear definition, a presence of its own. In any CIAM project –mostly- or construction, the public realm is the shapless space left over by buildings, with no hint about use or limits. A clear demonstration is the no-space around the Philarmonic, the National Library and the Art Gallery in Berlin. This knowlege is sufficiently incorporated into the practice of most Western Designers, but two perverse conditions are part of the everyday´s life of entire populations in the World: In poor Countries there is an urgent need to incorporate slums to the city structure, culture and services.In Asian Cities, mainly in China, inmense areas are demolished overnight and its tradicional fabric replaced by endless rows of anonymous high rise blocks amid a maze of transport elevated structures, with no place left for pedestrians. An old text advices not to let the urgent erase the important. In today´culture both conditions are unfortunately simultaneous.
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Noguchi, Mary Goebel. "The Shifting Sub-Text of Japanese Gendered Language." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.12-2.
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Sociolinguists (Holmes 2008; Meyerhof 2006) assists to describe the Japanese language a having gender exclusive elements. Personal pronouns, sentence-ending particles and lexicon used exclusively by one gender have been cataloged in English by researchers such as Ide (1979), Shibamoto (1985) and McGloin (1991). While there has been some research showing that Japanese women’s language use today is much more diverse than these earlier descriptions suggested (e.g. studies in Okamoto and Smith 2004) and that some young Japanese girls use masculine pronouns to refer to themselves (Miyazaki 2010), prescriptive rules for Japanese use still maintain gender-exclusive elements. In addition, characters in movie and TV dramas not only adhere to but also popularize these norms (Nakamura 2012). Thus, Japanese etiquette and media ‘texts’ promote the perpetuation of gender-exclusive language use, particularly by females. However, in the past three decades, Japanese society has made significant shifts towards gender equality in legal code, the workplace and education. The researcher therefore decided to investigate how Japanese women use and view their language in the context of these changes. Data comes from three focus groups. The first was conducted in 2013 and was composed of older women members of a university human rights research group focused on gender issues. The other two were conducted in 2013 and 2019, and were composed of female university students who went through the Japanese school system after the Japan Teachers’ Union adopted a policy of gender equality, thus expressing interest in gender issues. The goal was to determine whether Japanese women’s language use is shifting over time. The participants’ feelings about these norms were also explored - especially whether or not they feel that the norms constrain their ability to express themselves fully. Although the new norms are not yet evident in most public contexts, the language use and views of the participants in this study represent the sub-text of this shift in Japanese usage.
Reports on the topic "White male character"
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Kamminga, Jorrit, Cristina Durán, and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan. Oxfam, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.6959.
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As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that supports the inclusion and meaningful participation of women in the Afghan police. The story portrays the struggles of a young woman from a rural village who wants to become a police officer. While a fictional character, Zahra’s story represents the aspirations and dreams of many young Afghan women who are increasingly standing up for their rights and equal opportunities, but who are still facing structural societal and institutional barriers. For young women like Zahra, there are still few role models and male champions to support their cause. Yet, as Oxfam’s project has shown, their number is growing, which contributes to small shifts in behaviour and perceptions, gradually normalizing women’s presence in the police force. If a critical mass of women within the police force can be reached and their participation increasingly becomes meaningful, this can reduce the societal and institutional resistance over time. Oxfam hopes the fictional character of Zahra can contribute to that in terms of awareness raising and the promotion of women’s participation in the police force. The story is also available on the #IMatter website.