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Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural
History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between
artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect
Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with leading
Pre-Raphaelite artists on the design and decoration of the
building. The decorative art was modelled on the Pre-Raphaelite
principle of meticulous observation of nature, itself indebted to
science, while individual artists designed architectural details
and carved portrait statues of influential scientists. The entire
structure was an experiment in using architecture and art to
communicate natural history, modern science and natural theology.
'Temple of Science' sets out the history of the campaign to build
the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum
itself. It looks at the facade and the central court, with their
beautiful natural history carvings and marble columns illustrating
different geological strata, and at the pantheon of scientists.
Together they form the world's finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite
sculpture. The story of one of the most remarkable collaborations
between scientists and artists in European art is told here with
lavish illustrations.
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship
between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this
companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and
up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual,
material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western
culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes
were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a
cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development
was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of
literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this
companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the
field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for
the interactions between literature and science, how science
affected different genres of writing, and the importance of
individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary
culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The
volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by
the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of
nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his
sonnet sequence The House of Life. Over the next twenty years,
dozens of poets wrote thousands of sonnets resulting in the
greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John
Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study explores the
causes behind this remarkable outpouring, illuminating the
contributions of the leading late Victorian sonneteers to the
poetry and culture of their age. The sonnet sequence had
traditionally engaged with questions of religious belief, sexual
love and selfhood. By the 1860s, belief was threatened by radical
scientific theories, while sexual attraction had been complicated
by shifting gender relations and emerging ideas of sexuality. Poets
such as Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, John Addington
Symonds, Augusta Webster and Rosa Newmarch drew on the heritage of
the sonnet sequence to create poetic self-portraits that are
unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his
sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the
greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John
Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how
leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington
Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early
twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke,
addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and
doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late
Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence,
the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their
subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.
Just over thirty years after Holland first presented the outline
for Learning Classifier System paradigm, the ability of LCS to
solve complex real-world problems is becoming clear. In particular,
their capability for rule induction in data mining has sparked
renewed interest in LCS. This book brings together work by a number
of individuals who are demonstrating their good performance in a
variety of domains.
The first contribution is arranged as follows: Firstly, the main
forms of LCS are described in some detail. A number of historical
uses of LCS in data mining are then reviewed before an overview of
the rest of the volume is presented. The rest of this book
describes recent research on the use of LCS in the main areas of
machine learning data mining: classification, clustering,
time-series and numerical prediction, feature selection, ensembles,
and knowledge discovery.
Decreasing the magnetic field signature of a naval vessel will
reduce its susceptibility to detonating naval influence mines and
the probability of a submarine being detected by underwater
barriers and maritime patrol aircraft. Both passive and active
techniques for reducing the magnetic signatures produced by a
vessel's ferromagnetism, roll-induced eddy currents,
corrosion-related sources, and stray fields are presented.
Mathematical models of simple hull shapes are used to predict the
levels of signature reduction that might be achieved through the
use of alternate construction materials. Also, the process of
demagnetizing a steel-hulled ship is presented, along with the
operation of shaft-grounding systems, paints, and alternate
configurations for power distribution cables. In addition, active
signature reduction technologies are described, such as degaussing
and deamping, which attempt to cancel the fields surrounding a
surface ship or submarine rather than eliminate its source. Table
of Contents: Introduction / Passive Magnetic Silencing Techniques /
Active Signature Compensation / Summary
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship
between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this
companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and
up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual,
material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western
culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes
were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a
cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development
was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of
literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this
companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the
field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for
the interactions between literature and science, how science
affected different genres of writing, and the importance of
individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary
culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The
volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by
the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of
nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
Surface ship and submarine magnetic field signatures have been
exploited for over 80 years by naval influence mines, and both
underwater and airborne surveillance systems. The generating
mechanism of the four major shipboard sources of magnetic fields is
explained, along with a detailed description of the induced and
permanent ferromagnetic signature characteristics. A brief
historical summary of magnetic naval mine development during World
War II is followed by a discussion of important improvements found
in modern weapons, including an explanation of the damage mechanism
for non-contact explosions. A strategy for selecting an optimum
mine actuation threshold is given. A multi-layered defensive
strategy against naval mines is outlined, with graphical
explanations of the relationships between ship signature reduction
and minefield clearing effectiveness. In addition to a brief
historical discussion of underwater and airborne submarine
surveillance systems and magnetic field sensing principles,
mathematical formulations are presented for computing the expected
target signal strengths and noise levels for several barrier types.
Besides the sensor self-noise, equations for estimating
geomagnetic, ocean surface wave, platform, and vector sensor motion
noises will be given along with simple algorithms for their
reduction.
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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Paperback)
George List; Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Juan Sebastian Rojas E; Contributions by Hasan M.El- Shamy
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast
represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told
during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the
semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the
funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive
practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In
this volume these stories are situated within their performance
contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge
that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by
African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist
George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long
fieldwork amongst the rural costenos, a chiefly African-descendent
population, in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a
research team, transcribed and translated them into English before
his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan
Sebastian Rojas E. have worked to bring this previously unpublished
manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and
translations, additional cultural context through a new
introduction, and further typological and cultural analysis by
Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated
texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories,
allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional
telling of the tales for themselves.
Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of
the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining
life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of
traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted
objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social
turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological
collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be
human, the authors place performance at the center of people's
responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of
human beings as they work, independently and together, to address
ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical
perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering
force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to
climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental
catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in
scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the
merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front
lines of today's global emergency. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen,
Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary
Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie
Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
Ferromagnetic models of ships and submarines that predict or
reproduce their magnetic signatures have found applications in the
development of both offensive and defensive military systems from
World War II to the present. The mathematical basis of generalized
coordinate systems will be presented and demonstrated with example
applications to analytic spherical and prolate spheroidal magnetic
ship models. In addition, the advantages and pitfalls of using
complex finite-element- and boundary-element numerical techniques
to predict high-order near-field ship signatures will be discussed,
followed by a short description of the design and testing of
complementary physical scale models. Extrapolation of measured
magnetic signatures from testing environments to threat areas using
semi-empirical math models will be presented, along with an
explanation of their inherent instabilities and methods for
regularizing them. These magnetic ship signature modeling
techniques are used today in designing optimized signature
reduction systems that have a minimum impact on ships and their
systems. The discussion will be closed with an important discussion
of the verification and validation of magnetic models of surface
ships and submarines.
This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and
their close associates put scientific principles into practice
across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In
their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves
to creating a new kind of art modeled on science, in which precise
observation could lead to discoveries about nature and humanity. In
Oxford and London, Victorian scientists and Pre-Raphaelite artists
worked together to design and decorate natural history museums as
temples to God's creation. At the same time, journals like Nature
and the Fortnightly Review combined natural science with
Pre-Raphaelite art theory and poetry to find meaning and coherence
within a worldview turned upside down by Darwin's theory of
evolution. Offering reinterpretations of well-known works by John
Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford
Madox Brown, and William Morris, this major revaluation of the
popular Victorian movement also considers less-familiar artists who
were no less central to the Pre-Raphaelite project. These include
William Michael Rossetti, Walter Deverell, James Collinson, John
and Rosa Brett, John Lucas Tupper, and the O'Shea brothers, along
with the architects Benjamin Woodward and Alfred Waterhouse.
Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
This is a comprehensive study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion,
ecology and the arts. In Darwin's Bards John Holmes argues that
poetry can have a profound impact on how we think and feel about
the human condition in a Darwinian world. Including over 50
complete poems and substantial extracts from several more, Holmes
shows how poets from Tennyson and Browning, through Hardy and
Frost, to Ted Hughes, Pattiann Rogers and Edwin Morgan have
responded to the discovery of evolution. Written for scientists,
philosophers and ecologists, as well as poets, critics and students
of literature, Darwin's Bards is a timely intervention into the
heated debates over Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the
arts. The book will appeal to readers for its discussion of the
existential implications of Darwinism, for its close readings of
poetry, and for the reprinted poems themselves.
Just over thirty years after Holland first presented the outline
for Learning Classifier System paradigm, the ability of LCS to
solve complex real-world problems is becoming clear. In particular,
their capability for rule induction in data mining has sparked
renewed interest in LCS. This book brings together work by a number
of individuals who are demonstrating their good performance in a
variety of domains.
The first contribution is arranged as follows: Firstly, the main
forms of LCS are described in some detail. A number of historical
uses of LCS in data mining are then reviewed before an overview of
the rest of the volume is presented. The rest of this book
describes recent research on the use of LCS in the main areas of
machine learning data mining: classification, clustering,
time-series and numerical prediction, feature selection, ensembles,
and knowledge discovery.
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