scholarly journals «Og det er ikkje vits i å seie noko» – om Jon Fosses "Eg er vinden"

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-115
Author(s):  
Zsófia Domsa
Keyword(s):  
Zero Point ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Death Wish ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Modern

I Am the Wind is one of the last works Jon Fosse wrote for theatre. The piece was first staged during the Bergen Festival in 2007. Even though it was only a few years later that Fosse declared the end of his dramatic career, his playwriting with this play is clearly moving on its way out of the theatre and into a borderland between thought and action; it manifests an extremely subjective and the physical presence in which items from Fosse’s poetry are more clearly seen. In this article, I want to read I Am the Wind primarily as a theatre piece, that is, a text written for the stage, and emphasize the use of poetic elements. The piece’s sections of dialogue revolve around existential and individual psychological questions at the boundary of the banal; it thematizes both the need and the fear of loneliness. It also deals with nature’s magical attraction to humans and with the importance of silence on several levels. The work stages the death wish of late modern humanity, and provides lyrical and language-philosophical interpretations of this, which I wish to read into the apparently simple plot of the piece. I Am the Wind can be described through a number of features that also characterize both earlier and later pieces of Fosse’s writing. Simply put, the play is about two people’s voyage to the open sea in a boat; one of the characters jumps overboard and commits suicide. The situation in the play takes place either in the head of the one who witnesses the suicide, or there is a meeting between the two characters after death. Either way, this is a basic situation which assumes that the expectations of a realistic stage action are to be set aside. But what is the reason why Fosse shifts his piece against a dramatic zero point? What is the purpose of reducing the stage expression to a lyrical outline that almost destroys the theatrical form? Fosse often opts for silent moments in his pieces. I Am the Wind is an infinite and enigmatic boat trip that requires us to look at the play as a landscape without being forced to define it in words: for the words disappear during the boat trip; they are taken and gone with the wind; “there is no point in saying anything.”

HOMOLOGOUS RADIOIMMUNOASSAY OF THYROTROPHIN IN RAT PLASMA

1974 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Kieffer ◽  
Bruce D. Weintraub ◽  
Walter Baigelman ◽  
Susan Leeman ◽  
Farahe Maloof
Keyword(s):  
Zero Point ◽  
Rat Plasma ◽  
Cross Reaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
List Type ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
The One ◽  
Bovine Tsh ◽  
Tsh Levels

ABSTRACT An homologous radioimmunoassay (RIA) using the highly purified rat thyrotrophin (TSH) and anti-rat TSH recently made available by NIAMDD is described in detail. Evidence that the assay measures TSH and only TSH includes the following: Treatment of rats with TSH-releasing hormone (TRH) caused a significant increase (averaging 12-fold) and treatment with T4, a significant decrease (averaging 4.5-fold), in plasma TSH. Points for TSH standards and those for dilutions of plasma from TRH-treated rats fell on the same line, and regression lines calculated separately for standards and dilutions of plasma did not depart significantly from parallelism. At 14 days after gonadectomy of male rats, a time when plasma LH and FSH levels are known to be high, the assay showed no increase in plasma TSH. Moreover, reduction of plasma TSH levels by T4 was as great in gonadectomized rats as in controls. Assay of rat LH, rat FSH and rat prolactin, in 7 concentrations each, showed that cross-reaction averaged less than 1 % in all cases. Other workers have calculated values greater than 1 % for TSH contamination of rat LH and FSH. The slopes of regression lines for the 3 hormones tested for cross-reaction did not differ significantly from the slope for TSH standards. This result strengthens the hypothesis that the apparent slight cross-reactions are due to TSH contamination. Findings for T4-treated rats and saline-treated controls show that the homologous RIA is more sensitive than previous, heterologous assays: In previous studies, plasma TSH levels of most or all of rats treated with T4 were not clearly greater than zero. By contrast, in the homologous RIA reported here, values for such rats did not overlap the range of the zero point on the one hand, nor the range for saline-treated controls on the other. Thus, distinct ranges were defined for both normal and low TSH levels. In view of the 1:20 final dilution of plasma during assay, it does not seem likely that non-specific effects of plasma were primarily responsible for the low TSH values of T4-treated rats. Additionally, the useful range of the homologous assay (about 200-fold) is greater than that of earlier assays (about 70-fold, or less). Finally, the use of highly purified rat TSH for standards has avoided inconsistencies previously encountered with bovine TSH standards.

STRUCTURAL, ELECTRONIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ZnxSy (x + y = 2 TO 4) NANOCLUSTERS: A B3LYP-DFT STUDY

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 341-344
Author(s):  
P. S. YADAV ◽  
D. K. PANDEY ◽  
S. AGRAWAL ◽  
B. K. AGRAWAL
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Visible Region ◽  
Zero Point ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Ultraviolet Region ◽  
Point Energy ◽  
Electronic And Optical Properties ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
Homo Lumo

The stability, structural, electronic, and optical properties have been studied for most stable zinc sulfide nanoclusters Zn x S y (x + y = n = 2 to 4). A B3LYP-DFT/6-311G(3df) method is employed to optimize the geometries, and a TDDFT method is used for the study of the optical properties. The binding energies (BE), HOMO–LUMO gaps and the bond lengths have been obtained for all the clusters. We have considered also the zero point energy (ZPE) corrections ignored by the earlier workers. For a fixed value of n, we designate the most stable structure the one, which has maximum final binding energy per atom. The adiabatic and vertical ionization potentials (IP) and electron affinities (EA), charge on atoms, dipole moment, and optical properties have been investigated for the most stable structures. The nanoclusters containing large number of S atoms for each "n" are found to be most stable. Except for ZnS nanocluster, the HOMO–LUMO gap increases with the number of S atoms. Similarly, except for ZnS , IP and EA fluctuate with the cluster size but reveal downward trend. The optical absorption is quite weak in visible region but is strong in the ultraviolet region in most of the nanoclusters except a few. The growth of most stable nanoclusters may be possible in the experiments.

scholarly journals ‘Manœuvres to Ensure the Avoidance of Collision’

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-370
Author(s):  
Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Precise Definition ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Following the publication of E. S. Calvert's Manœuvres to Ensure the Avoidance of Collision (Journal, 13, 127) a number of people closely concerned with the problem of collision at sea were invited to comment on Mr. Calvert's ideas. This comment was published in Vol. 13, Nos. 3 and 4 (pp. 350–352 and 455–464). Mr. Calvert here replies to some of the criticisms. The paper he refers to as his latest will be published in the October number of the Journal.to Captain H. D. HarriesWithout a more precise definition of ‘open sea’ and ‘crowded waters', I doubt if any figure for the proportion of collisions in each has much meaning. (The same kind of difficulty arises in defining a ‘near miss’.) More precise figures might possibly be obtained by giving the proportion of collisions which occur within so many miles of the mouth of a channel, a channel being defined as an area where local or ‘edge’ rules are in force, or where the traffic is controlled. However, I doubt whether the use which could be made of such statistics would justify the trouble of collecting them. In my latest paper, i.e. the one to be published in the next issue of the Journal, I have given what I believe to be the only possible solution to the crowded-water situation, in so far as rules can provide a solution.

scholarly journals Women, Mothers and Citizens: Lone Mothers' Narratives in the Context of New Zealand Welfare Reform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lesley Gail Patterson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
The People ◽  
Real Material ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Modern

<p>As in other late modern societies with a history of liberal welfarism, 'lone mothers' in New Zealand occupy contested subject positions. On the one hand, lone parenting is understood as the outcome of broader changes in family life and gender relations, and in particular, the emergence of new forms of intimacy as people seek relationships to sustain individual identity projects. On the other hand, in the context of neo-liberal welfare discourses, lone mothers are constructed as a problematic Other, categorically different to 'ordinary' women, mothers and citizens. In New Zealand, welfare reform discourses have constructed women who parent alone as 'particular types of people', and subjected lone mothers to welfare reforms that have had real material effects in their everyday lives. The construction of lone mothers as Other is not only a product of neo-liberal welfare reform discourses. Rather, the ways in which women who parent alone are 'made up' as particular types of people is historically specific. This thesis situates current discourses around lone mothering in New Zealand in the context of a hierarchy of maternal legitimacy that has produced historically specific subjects through a number of traditional, modern and late modern subjectification discourses. Discourses have effects, both materially and in terms of the subjectivity and experience of the people 'made up'. This thesis offers an analysis of the narratives of twenty-one lone mothers in the context of New Zealand welfare reform. In particular, the ways in which women who parent alone make sense of becoming lone mothers, of being 'different' in negotiating the social identity of mother, and of the materiality of the experience of parenting alone are examined. The thesis argues that when narrating experience, women who parent alone enact particular narratives in the form of validation stories. Validation stories are drawn from an amalgam of discourses that both construct lone mothers as particular types of people and shape the material conditions of lone mothers' lives. In enacting validation stories, women who parent alone negotiate these discourses, producing narratives to make sense of their experience and position themselves as ordinary women, mothers and citizens. In this sense, validation stories are narratives that ameliorate the oppressive effects of welfare reform discourses that relentlessly shape lone mothers' lives. The thesis concludes that although validation stories make the lives of lone mothers more 'liveable', sociological theorising around changes in family life must critique claims of individualization as a benign tendency of late modernity, and attend empirically to the ways in which persistent gendered inequalities in family life are both discursively legitimated and reproduced, and continue, for example, to discriminate against lone mothers.</p>

scholarly journals Karya Ulama Sumatera Barat: Krisis Basis dan Generasi Penerus

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 501
Author(s):  
Ridwan Bustamam
Keyword(s):  
Boarding Schools ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Books ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
The One

These days, while many a book is being written, on the one hand publishing houses find less to appreciate while, on the other, really scholarly books on religion are becoming still more scarce. In spite of some difficulties, this study has managed to uncover 104 scholarly works in West Sumatra alone: 22 karya tulis di PPMTI Batang Kabung, Padang; 1 karya tulis di Perguruan Diniyah Putri Padang Panjang; 5 karya tulis di PPMTI Pasir, Agam; 45 karya tulis koleksi perpustakaan ahli waris Abdul Latif Syakur di Balai Gurah, IV Angkat, Agam; dan 30 karya tulis koleksi pribadi Buya Apria Putra di Payakumbuh. Research shows that many original scholarly works are to be found on the premises of boarding schools. The works of such devoted scholars as these are perhaps more evident today in the physical presence of madrassah, pesentran, mosques and so on, than they are in the field of writing. In fact, it is to these scholars that government and publishing houses should go for more specifically religious books. The work of these scholars would thus reach a larger public. Keywords: inventory, writing, ulama, West Sumatra. Saat ini, masih banyak karya ulama yang belum terpublikasi secara luas, di satu sisi para pengambil kebijakan maupun usaha penerbitan kurang mengapresiasi mereka, di sisi lain ulama yang mampu menulis buku juga semakin langka. Meskipun bersifat lanjutan, penelitian inventarisasi berperspektif kualitatif ini berhasil mengungkap 104 karya ulama di Sumatera Barat, yaitu 22 karya tulis di PPMTI Batang Kabung, Padang; 1 karya tulis di Perguruan Diniyah Putri Padang Panjang; 5 karya tulis di PPMTI Pasir, Agam; 45 karya tulis koleksi perpustakaan ahli waris Abdul Latif Syakur di Balai Gurah, IV Angkat, Agam; dan 30 karya tulis koleksi pribadi Buya Apria Putra di Payakumbuh. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa makin langkanya ulama yang menulis buku, terutama di lingkungan pesantren. Karya para ulama yang lebih menonjol saat ini hanya berbentuk karya fisik seperti bangunan madrasah, pesantren, masjid, dan sejenisnya. Oleh karena itu, pemerintah dan penerbit buku perlu merangsang mereka untuk menulis buku keagamaan. Tujuannya, agar karya tulis para ulama dapat dibaca masyarakat secara lebih luas. Kata Kunci: inventarisasi, karya tulis, ulama, Sumatera Barat.

scholarly journals Assessing theory with practice: an evaluation of two aspectual-semantic classification models of gerundive nominalizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Fonteyn
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Classification Models ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Semantic Aspect

AbstractThis study present a corpus-based comparison of two aspectual-sematic classification models proposed in theoretical literature (unidimensional vs. bidimensional) by applying them to a set of nominal and verbal gerunds from the Modern English period. It (i) summarises the differences between unidimensional and bidimensional classification models and (ii) the potential problems associated with them. Despite the difficulties of studying semantic aspect in Present-day as well as historical data, this study will argue that, (iii) at least for deverbal nominalization patterns, it is possible to take a bidimensional approach and maintain a clear distinction between, on the one hand, aspect features of the nominalized situation (stativity/dynamicity, durativity/punctuality, and telicity/atelicity), and temporal boundedness of that situation. The question of which semantic classification model to use, then, is not so much one of which one is practically feasible in a corpus analysis, but rather which one is best suited to describe the attested variation. In order to determine the best model (in terms of parsimony and descriptive accuracy), (iv) the models were compared by means of ‘akaike weights’. To describe the variation between nominal and verbal gerunds in Early and Late Modern English, the bidimensional model outperformed the unidimensional one, showing that (v) the aspectual-semantic distinctions between Modern English nominal and verbal gerunds are a matter of both aspect and temporal boundedness.

scholarly journals Producing social mobility. Class and Travel in the Romanian Novel 1901-1932

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Ovio Olaru
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The One

The present article addresses the Romanian novelistic production between 1901 and 1932 in the attempt of identifying a series of patterns regarding the protagonists’ social mobility. Starting with the most mentioned destinations throughout the novels, I analyse how and why the different social classes travel and try to determine the landmarks between which they dispute their physical presence, on the one hand, and their aspirations, on the other. On this basis, the second part of the article conducts a quantitative analysis of the major means of transport in the period – the train, the tramway, the coach/carriage, the automobile, the aeroplane, the ship, and the waggon – and attempts to pinpoint what they convey about the social mobility of the characters that use them.

scholarly journals Arbitration Hearing with Remote Participation: Necessary Innovations that Irreversibly Change Traditions

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Savranskiy ◽  
M. E. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Arbitration Procedure ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Remote Participation

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic forced most arbitration centers in countries with a wide variety of legal traditions to switch to mass arbitration hearings in video conferencing mode in the spring of 2020. It turned out that hearings with remote participation of representatives of the parties, and sometimes arbitrators, have a number of advantages compared to regular hearings. A number of new possibilities arises and thus compensates the loss of certain possibilities adherent in physical presence of arbitration participants at hearings. The authors argue that most of the obstacles and shortcomings of the new format as a whole can be overcome with modern regulatory development, law enforcement, software, and hardware tools. The paper examines, among other things, the experience of the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, whose software and hardware complex and previously modernized arbitration rules made it possible to safely switch to a new mode of operation. New documents of international origin in this area are also being considered, indicating the need to ensure a balance between the effectiveness of arbitration proceedings on the one hand and the right of the parties to due process and fair treatment on the other.The authors conclude that there will not be a complete return to the previous practice with the end of the pandemic. However, a certain part of the meetings, taking into account the circumstances of the disputes, will return offline, the popularity of various mixed (hybrid) options will increase, which will not be difficult to put into practice due to the flexibility of the arbitration procedure. The flexibility of arbitration and the delegation to arbitrators of a number of issues related to the organization and conduct of arbitration proceedings, which require that opinions of the parties should be requested and considered in order to solve the dispute, makes it possible to ensure the optimal “format” of the arbitration procedure given the specific circumstances of the dispute. This procedure provides its participants, among other things, a reasonable and sufficient opportunity to present their positions, ensuring equal treatment of the parties and adversarial while ensuring the real effectiveness of the arbitration procedure, which allows in modern conditions to properly implement the principles on which arbitration is based.

scholarly journals Meaghan Morris Thing

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Hardie
Keyword(s):  
Red Hair ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Modern

Certainly, when people say to me, as they often have done, ‘I can’t remember anything afterward,’ I think, Great, that’s the point! The work is not there to be repeated or identified with, but something works on you.Adam Phillips1 ‘Ironically,’ Meaghan Morris writes, ‘no text is more bleached of cultural particularity than the one which relentlessly theorizes “difference” without ever once stumbling over some stray material fact—a poem, a press photo, a snatch of TV news—that could, in its everyday density, take “theory” by surprise.’2 Ecstasy and Economics itself pops up as a ‘stray material fact’ that took me by surprise as a student more than two decades ago, and it still does. First, consider its surprising contents page: it dedicates what it terms ‘American essays’ to the late Australian poet John Forbes, a pairing at face value as surprising as the pairing of ecstasy and economics. That surprise extends to the pun of its cover photograph, a parody of Max Dupain’s 1937 photo The Sunbaker by Anne Zahalka, an image which recalibrates the photograph’s late Modern complexion by substituting a bleached and blurry beach surround for the deep shadows of the original. This image feels as historical now as the Dupain’s earlier subtlety of tone; Ecstasy and Economics analyses that ‘bleaching’ itself, the ‘stumbling’ into theory (as John Mowitt would say) where the unexpected ‘stray material fact’ renews analysis against sheer stultification.3 In the case of its cover photo the stray fact is hue, shade, distinction: a head of red hair whose capacity to surprise installs difference as surprise.

AQUAMAN THE MOVIE AS A LATE MODERN FAIRY TALE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Kvetanová ◽  
Jana Radošinská
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The Given ◽  
Late Modern

The feature film Aquaman (2018, directed by James Wan) is the most commercially successful superhero movie belonging to the DC Extended Universe. Produced by DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures, the motion picture portrays a rebellious superhero with an extraordinary physical presence. The paper aims to reflect on the movie Aquaman and its ability to function as a late modern fairy tale. Aquaman’s genre structure includes elements of fantasy, science-fiction and action film. However, the authors work with the assumption that the story is, in its nature, a fairy tale involving late modern means of expression. The first part of the text is largely theoretical, outlining the movie’s importance and defining the genre of a fairy tale in the context of late modern culture. Following the given line of thought, the second part of the paper presents a narrative analysis of the film in question, which is based on Propp’s morphology of fairy tales.

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