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Bachelors of a different sort
The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.
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Amoral Gower
Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in Gower’s writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to modern debates about the ethics of criticism.
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Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship
The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates the creative ways in which William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer engaged with prophecy to cultivate their own identities and to speak to the problems of their age.
Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship examines the prophetic reputations of these well-known medieval authors whose fame made them especially subject to nationalist appropriation. Kimberly Fonzo explains that retrospectively co-opting the prophetic voices of canonical authors aids those looking to excuse or endorse key events of national history by implying that they were destined to happen. She challenges the reputations of Langland, Gower, and Chaucer as prophets of the Protestant Reformation, Richard II’s deposition, and secular Humanism, respectively.
This intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works successfully makes the case that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in medieval authorial self-representations.
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Two clusterings to capture basketball players’ shooting tendencies using tracking data: clustering of shooting styles and the shots themselves
Studies to understand the shooting preferences of basketball players relied exclusively on data on shot location, which did not lead to concrete understandings because they contained no information on how they moved to that location. Therefore, this study tried to cluster the players' shooting tendencies using the tracking data of the players' movements during the game. To do this, we first created hand-crafted shot features that included information on the pre-shot movement. Using those features, the dissimilarity of shooting tendencies between players was computed by considering the shot set of each player as a probability distribution and calculating the Wasserstein distance between them. The clustering based on their dissimilarity resulted in more clusters than in previous studies and allowed for specific shooting styles to be defined. Clustering using Gower distance as a dissimilarity measure for shot features, including a categorical feature, extracted clusters of shots that are useful for understanding players' more detailed shooting tendencies. These results prove that it is not only the shot location but also how the player moved before the shot that is important to capture the player's shooting preferences.
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Turing instability for a Leslie–Gower model
The aim of this paper is to investigate a reaction-diffusion Leslie–Gower predator–prey model, incorporating the intraguild predation and both self and cross-diffusion. The longtime behaviour of the solutions is analysed, proving the existence of an absorbing set. The existence of patterns is investigated by looking for conditions guaranteeing that an equilibrium, stable in the absence of diffusion, becomes unstable when diffusion is allowed.
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Mathematical Modeling of Forest Biomass Dynamics: A Focus on Seedling Contribution in Case of Wonsho Woreda (Kileye and Gishere), Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia
In this study, we introduce a mathematical ecology model that describes the interactions among forest biomass, the human population, various development activities, and seedlings. The study applies modified Leslie‐Gower and Holling type II functional responses to capture these interactions. Quantitative analyses, such as the existence and stability of potential equilibrium points, are examined. These points represent the different dynamics that may occur within the model. The persistence of the system is established, indicating that the ecosystem can sustain itself over time despite interactions such as competition or disturbances. The presence of a Hopf bifurcation near an equilibrium point is also confirmed. Data for this study were collected from two forest areas in Wonsho Woreda, Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia. The data were fitted to the model, and the parameters were estimated using the least squares method. Based on the estimated parameters, the results were validated through numerical simulations performed using the MATLAB ODE solver ode45. The findings show that forest biomass declines as the human population increases and as development activities expand. Conversely, increasing seedling application and promoting alternative resources lead to a higher equilibrium level of forest resources. Summary Based on our investigation results, we bring the following points to the attention of management: Implement planting seedling in degraded forest areas and ensure adequate postplanting care to improve survival rates and forest biomass recovery. Regulate human population and development activities threats near forest ecosystems prevent excessive forest resource depletion. Awareness programs should be conducted for both local communities and policymakers to highlight the key factors leading to forest biomass depletion such as development activities and human population. Future research should focus on developing alternative Ecology modeling approaches to support forest resource professionals in implementing mathematical strategies for controlling and preventing forest depletion.
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Fear effect in prey and hunting cooperation among predators in a Leslie-Gower model
The predation strategy for predators and the avoidance strategy of prey are important topics in ecology and evolutionary biology. Both prey and predators adjust their behaviours in order to gain the maximal benefits and to increase their biomass for each. In the present paper, we consider a modified Leslie-Gower predator-prey model where predators cooperate during hunting and due to fear of predation risk, prey populations show anti-predator behaviour. We investigate step by step the impact of hunting cooperation and fear effect on the dynamics of the system. We observe that in the absence of fear effect, hunting cooperation can induce both supercritical and subcritical Hopf- bifurcations. It is also observed that fear factor can stabilize the predator-prey system by excluding the existence of periodic solutions and makes the system more robust compared to hunting cooperation. Moreover, the system shows two different types of bi-stabilities behaviour: one is between coexisting equilibrium and limit cycle oscillation, and another is between prey-free equilibrium and coexisting equilibrium. We also observe generalized Hopf-bifurcation and Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation in two parameter bifurcation analysis. We perform extensive numerical simulations for supporting evidence of our analytical findings.
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