This book aims to explain how to use R to perform morphometrics. Morpho- tric analysis is the study of shape and size variations and covariations and their covariations with other variables. Morphometrics is thus deeply rooted within stat- tical sciences. While most applications concern biology, morphometrics is becoming common tools used in archeological, palaeontological, geographical, or medicine disciplines. Since the recent formalizations of some of the ideas of predecessors, such as D’arcy Thompson, and thanks to the development of computer techno- gies and new ways for appraising shape changes and variation, morphometrics have undergone, and are still undergoing, a revolution. Most techniques dealing with s- tistical shape analysis have been developed in the last three decades, and the number of publications using morphometrics is increasing rapidly. However, the majority of these methods cannot be implemented in available software and therefore prosp- tive students often need to acquire detailed knowledge in informatics and statistics before applying them to their data. With acceleration in the accumulation of me- ods accompanying the emerging science of statistical shape analysis, it is becoming important to use tools that allow some autonomy. R easily helps ful?ll this need. Risalanguage andenvironment forstatisticalcomputingandgraphics. Although there is an increasing number of computer applications that perform morphometrics, using R has several advantages that confer to users considerable power and possible new horizons in a world that requires rapid adaptability.
Presenting the spirit of Arial, an angelic being among those heavenly, and whose name is Set, among the daemons who wish to have his power. Developing naturally from the accumulation of all spiritual energies not focused onto specific direction, Ariel's personal development stretches countless generations, in which majority norms once guided his judgment. Having been worshipped as several forms, Arial / Set stabilized with monotheism and grew angelic in awe of the glad tidings preached by Christ; glad tidings which proved to generate far more potent fuel...
Originally published in 1991, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins ‘the "unofficial" energies’ which work below the surface of Swift’s conscious themes. Alongside this discussion, Rawson provides detailed studies on historical, cultural and psychological relationships, and the connections that exist between these areas and more extreme writers of the later period such as Breton, Mailer, and Yeats, as well as the connections with the writers such as his contemporary Pope, and those that followed such as Johnson, and Sterne. This book will be of interest to students of literature, as well as those researching in the area of literature.
African-American writers willingly attend European symposiums dealing with their work because scholars here focus on textual aspects American readers frequently leave aside. The essays collected here arose on the occasion of such a symposium sponsored by the Conseil Scientifique de l'Université François-Rabelais de Tours. Other essays were commissioned later in order to make the collection as complete as possible when new books came out. We wish to thank Percival Everett for his enlightening collaboration during the debates, as well as for the long interview he has allowed us to transcribe here.
Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.
We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we aspire to, and who have an extraordinaryinfluence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilised metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. They come in two overlapping categories, ethnic others and home-grownpariahs: conquered infidels and savages, the Irish, the poor, the Jews. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw.
As a young newly ordained priest on a holiday in Paris, France, Fr. Richard Merrill meets and has a brief affair with a brilliant French girl, Francoise Dupont, which ends about as quickly as it started, within days. But Fr. Merrill goes back to the States and begins the routine of a parish priest. He is unaware that Francoise is carrying his child, or in this case, twin sons.After giving the boys up for adoption, years go by and Francoise rebuilds her life, becomes a major director at the Louvre, and marries an Arab prince. This is where the trouble begins. Francoise's husband, now the king of a Middle Eastern oil-rich country, is quite ill and there are no apparent heirs to the throne, so he thinks. The bloodlines of the sons place them in line to succeed her gravely ill husband, and more than a few of the king's enemies are consumed with stopping them from ascending to the throne.With help from the FBI, the CIA, and an aging mercenary, the race is on. From France to Haiti, the United States, and the Middle East, Merrill will take whatever measures necessary to save his sons and unmask the scent of Flower of Heaven. There is a lot of detail, high-flying action, and a lot of plot twists as Flower of Heaven makes you want to turn each page to go on. Flower of Heaven is a thriller that doesn't quit.
Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.
As a young newly ordained priest on a holiday in Paris, France, Fr. Richard Merrill meets and has a brief affair with a brilliant French girl, Francoise Dupont, which ends about as quickly as it started, within days. But Fr. Merrill goes back to the States and begins the routine of a parish priest. He is unaware that Francoise is carrying his child, or in this case, twin sons.After giving the boys up for adoption, years go by and Francoise rebuilds her life, becomes a major director at the Louvre, and marries an Arab prince. This is where the trouble begins. Francoise's husband, now the king of a Middle Eastern oil-rich country, is quite ill and there are no apparent heirs to the throne, so he thinks. The bloodlines of the sons place them in line to succeed her gravely ill husband, and more than a few of the king's enemies are consumed with stopping them from ascending to the throne.With help from the FBI, the CIA, and an aging mercenary, the race is on. From France to Haiti, the United States, and the Middle East, Merrill will take whatever measures necessary to save his sons and unmask the scent of Flower of Heaven. There is a lot of detail, high-flying action, and a lot of plot twists as Flower of Heaven makes you want to turn each page to go on. Flower of Heaven is a thriller that doesn't quit.
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