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Why Fantasy Matters Too Much, Jack Zipes

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Why Fantasy Matters Too Much" Jack Zipes proposes that fantasy in contemporary culture functions as a celebrity and money-making machine. Fantasy mobilizes and instrumentalizes the fantastic to form and celebrates spectacles as illusions of social relations based on power. Thus, spectacles violate and drain our imagination by glorifying social relations of power made spectacular and involve the magic of fetishism. Generally, the results bring about delusion and acclamation of particular sets of social relations that are commodified, sold, and consumed. We acclaim commodities that we do not know and products not of our own making we consume …

Solutions In Folded Geometries, And Associated Cloaking Due To Anomalous Resonance, Graeme W. Milton, Nicolae-Alexandru P. Nicorovici, Ross C. Mcphedran, Kirill Cherednichenko, Zubin Jacob

Birck and NCN Publications

Solutions for the fields in a coated cylinder where the core radius is bigger than the shell radius are seemingly unphysical, but can be given a physical meaning if one transforms to an equivalent problem by unfolding the geometry. In particular, the unfolded material can act as an impedance matched hyperlens, and as the loss in the lens goes to zero finite collections of polarizable line dipoles lying within a critical region surrounding the hyperlens are shown to be cloaked having vanishingly small dipole moments. This cloaking, which occurs both in the folded geometry and the equivalent unfolded one, is …

Transformation Optics: Approaching Broadband Electromagnetic Cloaking, Alexander V. Kildishev, W Cai, U K. Chettiar, V. M. Shalaev

Birck and NCN Publications

An approach to broadband cloaking of light waves is analysed for a simplified case of a scaling transformation for a general cylindrical coordinate system. The proposed approach requires metamaterials with specifically engineered dispersion. The restriction on the signs of gradients in the dispersion dependencies of the dielectric permittivity and the magnetic permeability for different operational wavelengths is revealed and is shown to cause difficulties unless additional gain-assisted compensation for losses or electromagnetically induced transparency is introduced in the cloaking system.

Optimizing Greenhouse Rice Production: Is The Use Of Field Soil Required?, Robert Eddy, Daniel T. Hahn

Purdue Methods for Rice Growth

This document is one entry in a series of questions and answers originally posted to the Purdue University Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture’s Plant Growth Facility Web site [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/facilities/greenhouse/RiceMethod.shtml] regarding best practices for rice plant growth in a greenhouse. Controlled studies were conducted with the goals of optimizing growth and yield; developing standardized methodology using readily available commercial materials; and providing recommendations for large-scale high-throughput production. Digital images showing treatment differences are included. A summary of recommendations; materials and methods description; and a reference list are available in separate documents.

Optimizing Greenhouse Rice Production: How Can Leaf Yellowing Be Avoided?, Robert Eddy, Daniel T. Hahn

Purdue Methods for Rice Growth

This document is one entry in a series of questions and answers originally posted to the Purdue University Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture’s Plant Growth Facility Web site [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/facilities/greenhouse/RiceMethod.shtml] regarding best practices for rice plant growth in a greenhouse. Controlled studies were conducted with the goals of optimizing growth and yield; developing standardized methodology using readily available commercial materials; and providing recommendations for large-scale high-throughput production. Digital images showing treatment differences are included. A summary of recommendations; materials and methods description; and a reference list are available in separate documents.

Optimizing Greenhouse Rice Production: What Is The Best Watering Method?, Robert Eddy, Daniel T. Hahn

Purdue Methods for Rice Growth

This document is one entry in a series of questions and answers originally posted to the Purdue University Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture’s Plant Growth Facility Web site [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/facilities/greenhouse/RiceMethod.shtml] regarding best practices for rice plant growth in a greenhouse. Controlled studies were conducted with the goals of optimizing growth and yield; developing standardized methodology using readily available commercial materials; and providing recommendations for large-scale high-throughput production. Digital images showing treatment differences are included. A summary of recommendations; materials and methods description; and a reference list are available in separate documents.

Analyses Of Expressed Sequence Tags From The Maize Foliar Pathogen Cercospora Zeae-Maydis Identify Novel Genes Expressed During Vegetative, Infectious, And Reproductive Growth., Burton H. Bluhm, Braham Dhillon, Erika A. Lindquist, Gert Hj Kema, Stephen B. Goodwin, Larry D. Dunkle

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

Background

The ascomycete fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis is an aggressive foliar pathogen of maize that causes substantial losses annually throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite its impact on maize production, little is known about the regulation of pathogenesis in C. zeae-maydis at the molecular level. The objectives of this study were to generate a collection of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from C. zeae-maydis and evaluate their expression during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth.

Results

A total of 27,551 ESTs was obtained from five cDNA libraries constructed from vegetative and sporulating cultures of C. zeae-maydis. The ESTs, grouped into 4088 clusters and 531 …

Electronic Structure And Transmission Characteristics Of Sige Nanowires, Neerav Kharche, Mathieu Luisier, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck

Other Nanotechnology Publications

Atomistic disorder such as alloy disorder, surface roughness and inhomogeneous strain are known to influence electronic structure and charge transport. Scaling of device dimensions to the nanometer regime enhances the effects of disorder on device characteristics and the need for atomistic modeling arises. In this work SiGe alloy nanowires are studied from two different points of view: (1) Electronic structure where the bandstructure of a nanowire is obtained by projecting out small cell bands from a supercell eigen-spectrum and (2) Transport where the transmission coefficient thrugh the nanowire is computed using an atomistic wave function approach. The nearest neighbor sp3d5s* …

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Trends: Health Sciences And Biomedical Sciences Content, Ramune K. Kubilius

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People Profile: Melissa Nasea, Editor

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Atg Deadlines, Editor

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Back Talk -- Academic Libraries In China, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

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As I See It! -- Abstracting And Indexing Services -- The Ostriches Of Information, John Cox

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Biz Of Acq -- Budget 101 Or Here We Go Again, Joe Badics

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Preparing To Honor The Past In The Future: Collection Development In The History Of The Health Sciences, Melissa M. Nasea, Ruth M. W. Moskop Ph.D.

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People Profile: Patricia Pinkowski, Editor

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Trends In Consumers' Health Information Needs And Expectations, Patricia Pinkowski

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Something To Think About -- Losing The Past!, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey

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Biz Of Acq -- Quick Tips For Media Selection And Acquisitions, Part Ii, Matt Bailey, Anita Grommesh, Vicki Burgess

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Ebooks In Health Sciences Circa 2008 -- What Have We Got For Our Journey Now?, Meg White

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From Your (Frantic) Editor, Katina Strauch

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Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Staff Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch

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Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

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Full Page Ads, Editor

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From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson

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Wandering The Web -- Hobby Sites: Purls Of Beauty -- The Art Of Knitting, Lesley L. R. Montgomery

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Media Minder -- Building A Video Game Collection: Resources To Help You Get Started, Philip Hallman

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