Modernity

Punter, David

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“…These optimizations are carried out at the Hartree‐Fock level, but can be transferred to other levels of calculation. This code is publicly available …”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudopotential‐fragment spectroscopy for organic molecules and carbon allotropes

Punter

Nava

Carissan

2020

Int J of Quantum Chemistry

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Following on from a previous work (Punter et al., IJQC 2019, 119, 23), pseudopotential sets are developed and tested for a variety of sp 2 and sp 3 carbon fragments. These fragments contain only one or two explicit protons and electrons, and make use of non-atom-centered potentials. They are tested with density functional theory calculations in a selection of chemical environments in which several physical characteristics, including orbital and first ionization energies, are found to be well reproduced.They are then employed in the reproduction of molecular absorption spectra for large organic molecules and carbon allotropes, and are found to recreate both absorption and electronic circular dichroism spectra to a high accuracy. They are also found significantly to increase the computational efficiency of time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations in which they are used. K E Y W O R D S electronic circular dichroism, electronic structure, hybridized carbon, pseudopotentials, spectroscopy |fflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl{zfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl} atom-centred potentialswith Y 0, 0 the s spherical harmonic, Y 1, m the p spherical harmonics (across all m), and r 0 J the relative fixed position of the Jth potential with respect to the origin of the pseudoatom to which the potentials are assigned.

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“…These optimizations are carried out at the Hartree‐Fock level, but can be transferred to other levels of calculation. This code is publicly available …”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudopotential‐fragment spectroscopy for organic molecules and carbon allotropes

Punter

Nava

Carissan

2020

Int J of Quantum Chemistry

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“…45 It was never purely new, as its newness was defined in opposition to the past and inevitably contained elements of it. 46 Neither was it purely modern in the Latin sense of 'just now', 47 as 'now' was continually becoming 'then'. It was constantly re-inventing itself to remain 'modern' and retain its cutting edge.…”

Section: German Modernity: Responses By Dorothy Richardson D H Lawmentioning

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Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Bayley

2019

Literature & History

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Historians have tended to focus on propaganda when assessing Edwardian attitudes towards Germans, but a shift of focus to fiction reveals a rather different picture. Whereas propaganda created the cliché of ‘the Hun’, fiction produced non- and even counter-stereotypical figures of Germans. An analysis of German governess characters in a selection of short stories, performances, novels, and cartoons indicates that the Edwardian image of Germans was not purely negative but ambivalent and multifarious. Imagined German governesses appeared as patriots and spies, pacifists and warmongers, spinsters and seducers, victims and evil-doers. A close look at characterisations by Saki [H. H. Munro], M. E. Francis [Margaret Blundell], Dorothy Richardson, D. H. Lawrence, Radclyffe Hall, Frank Hart and others reveals not only their variety but also their metaphorical use as responses to Germany’s aggressive militarism and avant-garde modernity. Each governess figure conveyed a positive, negative or ambivalent message about the potential impact of German militarism and modernity on England and Englishness. The aggregate image of German governesses, and by inference Germans, was therefore equivocal and demonstrates the mixed feelings of Edwardians toward their ‘cousin’ country.

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“…Modernity is not a single coherent thing that arrived fully formed in different locations. Even in those places that underwent a modernizing process, this did not necessarily produce the same types or extent of change (Lyon, 1999;Punter, 2007). For my purposes, I treat modernity as entailing a series of distinctive changes in the nature of science, commerce (the rise of capitalism), urbanism, the mass media and personal identity.…”

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Modern serial killers

Haggerty

2009

Crime, Media, Culture

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The study of serial killing has been dominated by an individualized focus on the aetiology and biography of particular offenders. As such, it has tended to downplay the broader social, historical and cultural context of such acts. This article addresses this lacuna by arguing that serial killers are distinctively modern. It highlights six modern phenomena related to serial killing: (a) the mass media and the attendant rise of a celebrity culture; (b) a society of strangers; (c) a type of mean/ends rationality that is largely divorced from value considerations; (d) cultural frameworks of denigration which tend to implicitly single out some groups for greater predation; (e) particular opportunity structures for victimization; and finally (f) the notion that society can be engineered. Combined, these factors help to pattern serial killing in modernity’s own self-image, with modernity setting the parameters of what it means to be a serial killer, and establishing the preconditions for serial murder to emerge in its distinctive contemporary guise.

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Modernity

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Pseudopotential‐fragment spectroscopy for organic molecules and carbon allotropes

Pseudopotential‐fragment spectroscopy for organic molecules and carbon allotropes

Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Modern serial killers

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