Character

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Distribution within Life Sciences

Kinds of Character

  • acceptor character
  • acoustic character
  • anatomical character
  • apomorphic character
  • aromatic character
  • basic character
  • behavioural character
  • bond character
  • chemical character
  • chinese character
  • common character
  • covalent character
  • dental character
  • derived character
  • diagnostic character
  • diagnostic morphological character
  • different character
  • discrete character
  • distinctive character
  • dynamic character
  • ecological character
  • embryological character
  • female character
  • fictional character
  • floral character
  • genital character
  • hydrophilic character
  • hydrophobic character
  • important character
  • individual character
  • informative character
  • kanji character
  • key character
  • larval character
  • life-history character
  • lipophilic character
  • main character
  • many character
  • metallic character
  • micromorphological character
  • molecular character
  • moral character
  • morphological character
  • morphometric character
  • multistate character
  • national character
  • natural character
  • new character
  • odor character
  • other character
  • phenomenal character
  • phenotypic character
  • phylogenetic character
  • plesiomorphic character
  • plumage character
  • regional character
  • relevant character
  • reproductive character
  • resistance character
  • secondary sexual character
  • seed character
  • several character
  • sexual character
  • shell character
  • social character
  • specific character
  • structural character
  • synapomorphic character
  • taxonomic character
  • transfer character
  • unique character
  • virtual character

  • Terms modified by Character

  • character animation
  • character change
  • character coding
  • character dimension
  • character displacement
  • character evolution
  • character inventory
  • character matrix
  • character motion
  • character optimization
  • character set
  • character state
  • character states
  • character trait
  • character transformation
  • character type
  • character used

  • Selected Abstracts


    1. THE DEFINING CHARACTER OF CHINESE HISTORICAL THINKING1

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 2 2007
    CHUN-CHIEH HUANG
    ABSTRACT Imbued with profound historical consciousness, the Chinese people are Homo historiens in every sense of the term. To be human in China, to a very large extent, is to be historical, which means to live up to the paradigmatic past. Therefore, historical thinking in traditional China is moral thinking. The Chinese historico-moral thinking centers around the notion of Dao, a notion that connotes both Heavenly principle and human norm. In view of its practical orientation, Chinese historical thinking is, on the one hand, concrete thinking and, on the other, analogical thinking. Thinking concretely and analogically, the Chinese people are able to communicate with the past and to extrapolate meanings from history. In this way, historical experience in China becomes a library in which modern readers may engage in creative dialogues with the past. [source]


    CHARACTER, RELIABILITY AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY

    THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 223 2006
    Jason Baehr
    Standard characterizations of virtue epistemology divide the field into two camps: virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism. Virtue reliabilists think of intellectual virtues as reliable cognitive faculties or abilities, while virtue responsibilists conceive of them as good intellectual character traits. I argue that responsibilist character virtues sometimes satisfy the conditions of a reliabilist conception of intellectual virtue, and that consequently virtue reliabilists, and reliabilists in general, must pay closer attention to matters of intellectual character. This leads to several new questions and challenges for any reliabilist epistemology. [source]


    RAPID ANTAGONISTIC COEVOLUTION BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS IN HORNED BEETLES

    EVOLUTION, Issue 9 2008
    Harald F. Parzer
    Different structures may compete during development for a shared and limited pool of resources to sustain growth and differentiation. The resulting resource allocation trade-offs have the potential to alter both ontogenetic outcomes and evolutionary trajectories. However, little is known about the evolutionary causes and consequences of resource allocation trade-offs in natural populations. Here, we explore the significance of resource allocation trade-offs between primary and secondary sexual traits in shaping early morphological divergences between four recently separated populations of the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus as well as macroevolutionary divergence patterns across 10 Onthophagus species. We show that resource allocation trade-offs leave a strong signature in morphological divergence patterns both within and between species. Furthermore, our results suggest that genital divergence may, under certain circumstances, occur as a byproduct of evolutionary changes in secondary sexual traits. Given the importance of copulatory organ morphology for reproductive isolation our findings begin to raise the possibility that secondary sexual trait evolution may promote speciation as a byproduct. We discuss the implications of our results on the causes and consequences of resource allocation trade-offs in insects. [source]


    THE PHYLOGENY OF THE PENTASCHISTIS CLADE (DANTHONIOIDEAE, POACEAE) BASED ON CHLOROPLAST DNA, AND THE EVOLUTION AND LOSS OF COMPLEX CHARACTERS

    EVOLUTION, Issue 4 2007
    C. Galley
    We construct a species-level phylogeny for the Pentaschistis clade based on chloroplast DNA, from the following regions: trnL-F, trnT-L, atpB-rbcL, rpL16, and trnD-psbA. The clade comprises 82 species in three genera, Pentaschistis, Pentameris, and Prionanthium. We demonstrate that Prionanthium is nested in Pentaschistis and that this clade is sister to a clade of Pentameris plus Pentaschistis tysonii. Forty-three of the species in the Pentaschistis clade have multicellular glands and we use ancestral character state reconstruction to show that they have been gained twice or possibly once, and lost several times. We suggest that the maintenance, absence, loss, and gain of glands are correlated with leaf anatomy type, and additionally that there is a difference in the degree of diversification of lineages that have these different character combinations. We propose that both glands and sclerophyllous leaves act as defense systems against herbivory, and build a cost/benefit model in which multicellular glands or sclerophyllous leaves are lost when the alternative defense system evolves. We also investigate the association between leaf anatomy type and soil nutrient type on which species grow. There is little phylogenetic constraint in soil nutrient type on members of the Pentaschistis clade, with numerous transitions between oligotrophic and eutrophic soils. However, only orthophyllous-leaved species diversify on eutrophic soils. We suggest that the presence of these glands enables the persistence of orthophyllous lineages and therefore diversification of the Pentaschistis clade on eutrophic as well as oligotrophic soils. [source]


    CLIMATIC AND TEMPORAL EFFECTS ON THE EXPRESSION OF SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS: GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS

    EVOLUTION, Issue 3 2004
    Dany Garant
    Abstract Despite great interest in sexual selection, relatively little is known in detail about the genetic and environmental determinants of secondary sexual characters in natural populations. Such information is important for determining the way in which populations may respond to sexual selection. We report analyses of genetic and large-scale environmental components of phenotypic variation of two secondary sexual plumage characters (forehead and wing patch size) in the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis over a 22-year period. We found significant heritability for both characters but little genetic covariance between the two. We found a positive association between forehead patch size and a large-scale climatic index, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, but not for wing patch. This pattern was observed in both cross-sectional and longitudinal data suggesting that the population response to NAO index can be explained as the result of phenotypic plasticity. Heritability of forehead patch size for old males, calculated under favorable conditions (NAO index median), was greater than that under unfavorable conditions (NAO index < median). These changes occurred because there were opposing changes in additive genetic variance (VA) and residual variance (VR) under favorable and unfavorable conditions, with VA increasing and VR decreasing in good environments. However, no such effect was detected for young birds, or for wing patch size in either age class. In addition to these environmental effects on both phenotypic and genetic variances, we found evidence for a significant decrease of forehead patch size over time in older birds. This change appears to be caused by a change in the sign of viability selection on forehead patch size, which is associated with a decline in the breeding value of multiple breeders. Our data thus reveal complex patterns of environmental influence on the expression of secondary sexual characters, which may have important implications for understanding selection and evolution of these characters. [source]


    DETECTING CORRELATION BETWEEN CHARACTERS IN A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH UNCERTAIN PHYLOGENY

    EVOLUTION, Issue 6 2003
    John P. Huelsenbeck
    Abstract., The importance of accommodating the phylogenetic history of a group when performing a comparative analysis is now widely recognized. The typical approaches either assume the tree is known without error, or they base inferences on a collection of well-supported trees or on a collection of trees generated under a stochastic model of cladogenesis. However, these approaches do not adequately account for the uncertainty of phylogenetic trees in a comparative analysis, especially when data relevant to the phylogeny of a group are available. Here, we develop a method for performing comparative analyses that is based on an extension of Felsenstein's independent contrasts method. Uncertainties in the phylogeny, branch lengths, and other parameters are accommodated by averaging over all possible trees, weighting each by the probability that the tree is correct. We do this in a Bayesian framework and use Markov chain Monte Carlo to perform the high-dimensional summations and integrations required by the analysis. We illustrate the method using comparative characters sampled from Anolis lizards. [source]


    IMAGINING CONFUCIUS: PARADIGMATIC CHARACTERS AND VIRTUE ETHICS

    JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2005
    SOR-HOON TAN
    [source]


    COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL MODEL ENSEMBLES FOR AUTONOMOUS VIRTUAL CHARACTERS

    COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, Issue 2 2010
    Jeffrey S. Whiting
    Cognitive and behavioral models have become popular methods for creating autonomous self-animating characters. Creating these models present the following challenges: (1) creating a cognitive or behavioral model is a time-intensive and complex process that must be done by an expert programmer and (2) the models are created to solve a specific problem in a given environment and because of their specific nature cannot be easily reused. Combining existing models together would allow an animator, without the need for a programmer, to create new characters in less time and to leverage each model's strengths, resulting in an increase in the character's performance and in the creation of new behaviors and animations. This article provides a framework that can aggregate existing behavioral and cognitive models into an ensemble. An animator has only to rate how appropriately a character performs in a set of scenarios and the system then uses machine learning to determine how the character should act given the current situation. Empirical results from multiple case studies validate the approach. [source]


    Transferring the Rig and Animations from a Character to Different Face Models

    COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 8 2008
    Verónica Costa Orvalho
    I.3.7 Computer Graphics: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism. Animation Abstract We introduce a facial deformation system that allows artists to define and customize a facial rig and later apply the same rig to different face models. The method uses a set of landmarks that define specific facial features and deforms the rig anthropometrically. We find the correspondence of the main attributes of a source rig, transfer them to different three-demensional (3D) face models and automatically generate a sophisticated facial rig. The method is general and can be used with any type of rig configuration. We show how the landmarks, combined with other deformation methods, can adapt different influence objects (NURBS surfaces, polygon surfaces, lattice) and skeletons from a source rig to individual face models, allowing high quality geometric or physically-based animations. We describe how it is possible to deform the source facial rig, apply the same deformation parameters to different face models and obtain unique expressions. We enable reusing of existing animation scripts and show how shapes nicely mix one with the other in different face models. We describe how our method can easily be integrated in an animation pipeline. We end with the results of tests done with major film and game companies to show the strength of our proposal. [source]


    Six-Membered N-Heterocyclic Carbenes with a 1,1,-Ferrocenediyl Backbone: Bulky Ligands with Strong Electron-Donor Capacity and Unusual Non-Innocent Character

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 31 2009
    Ulrich Siemeling
    Abstract The stable, crystalline N-heterocyclic diaminocarbene fc[N(CH2tBu)-C-N(CH2tBu)] (2d, fc = 1,1,-ferrocenediyl) was prepared by deprotonation of its formamidinium precursor fc[N(CH2tBu)-CH-N(CH2tBu)][BF4] (1d) and used for the preparation of the 16 valence electron complexes [Mo(2d)(CO)4], [RhCl(2d)(cod)] (cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) and [RhCl(2d)(CO)2]. 1d, 2d and [RhCl(2d)(cod)] were structurally characterised by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. The electrochemical properties of 2d, its 2-adamantyl analogue 2c, its complex [RhCl(2d)(CO)2] and of the precursors 1d and 1,1,-bis(neopentylamino)ferrocene were investigated by electrochemistry. The carbenes are easily oxidised to the corresponding radical cation, whose persistent nature is unprecedented in the chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes. The spin density is located at the Fe atom and the carbene C atom according to the results of EPR spectroscopic studies and DFT calculations.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2009) [source]


    Form and Substance in European Constitutional Law: The ,Social' Character of Indirect Effect

    EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, Issue 4 2010
    Leone Niglia
    This article proposes to understand the constitutional discourse about individuals, rights and enforcement, as developed in the courtrooms, in relation to historic and contextual circumstances. It focuses on the interface between indirect effect and social policy, and argues that the creation of indirect effect has been integral to a judicial strategy centred on the key concern for sustaining the balance between market freedom and interventionism as achieved in the political process. [source]


    Documentary Evidence of an Economic Character as a Source for the Study of Meteorological and Hydrological Extremes and their Impacts on Human Activities

    GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2006
    Rudolf Brázdil
    Abstract This paper deals with documentary evidence of an economic character as a proxy for direct study of meteorological and hydrological extremes. Taxation records and reports of those who administrated domains and estates are described with respect to information about meteorological and hydrological extremes. Based on data from eight domains or estates from Moravia (in the Czech Republic), frequency series of floods and convective storms (including hailstorms) were developed for the period 1650,1849. One example of disastrous weather, which took place on 10 August 1694 in the Pern,tejn domain, is used to demonstrate the potential for such studies of the intensity of extremes and their impact on human activities. The importance of economic evidence in the instrumental period is shown through tax rebate data contingent upon hailstorm damage in Moravia (1896,1906). The benefits of employing documentary economic evidence for historical climatology and the study of the impact of meteorological and hydrological extremes on human activities are discussed. [source]


    The Comedy of National Character: Images of the English in Early Eighteenth-Century French Comedy

    JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 3 2010
    RUSSELL GOULBOURNE
    Abstract This article examines how various stereotypes of the English were expressed on the French comic stage in the first half of the eighteenth century. Focusing on the prolific and successful dramatist Louis de Boissy, four of whose comedies, written over a period of more than twenty-five years, explore the comic potential of national stereotypes, the article demonstrates that the comic theatre did not simply offer distorted perspectives on the English for straightforwardly satirical effect; rather, it also offered possibilities for a more complex exploration of the issues of cultural difference that were being discussed elsewhere in the period. [source]


    The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity

    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2008
    INGMAR PERSSON
    abstract As history shows, some human beings are capable of acting very immorally.1 Technological advance and consequent exponential growth in cognitive power means that even rare evil individuals can act with catastrophic effect. The advance of science makes biological, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction easier and easier to fabricate and, thus, increases the probability that they will come into the hands of small terrorist groups and deranged individuals. Cognitive enhancement by means of drugs, implants and biological (including genetic) interventions could thus accelerate the advance of science, or its application, and so increase the risk of the development or misuse of weapons of mass destruction. We argue that this is a reason which speaks against the desirability of cognitive enhancement, and the consequent speedier growth of knowledge, if it is not accompanied by an extensive moral enhancement of humankind. We review the possibilities for moral enhancement by biomedical and genetic means and conclude that, though it should be possible in principle, it is in practice probably distant. There is thus a reason not to support cognitive enhancement in the foreseeable future. However, we grant that there are also reasons in its favour, but we do not attempt to settle the balance between these reasons for and against. Rather, we conclude that if research into cognitive enhancement continues, as it is likely to, it must be accompanied by research into moral enhancement. [source]


    Character of long-chain branching in highly purified natural rubber

    JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 6 2010
    Sureerut Amnuaypornsri
    Abstract The nature of long-chain branching in natural rubber (NR) from Hevea brasiliensis was analyzed for NR purified by enzymatic deproteinization in the latex state followed by acetone extraction in the solid state to remove the proteins and neutral lipids, respectively. The treatment of purified NR in a toluene solution with a polar solvent, such as methanol or acetic acid, resulted in a clear decrease in the molecular weight, gel content, and Huggins' constant; this was caused by the decomposition of branch points in the purified rubber. This finding clearly showed that long-chain branching in the purified NR was mainly derived from the association of phospholipids linked with both terminal groups in the rubber chain via hydrogen bonds. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2010 [source]


    State, Citizen, and Character in French Criminal Process

    JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2006
    Stewart Field
    This paper charts some major differences in the way in which evidence of the defendant's character is treated in France when compared with practice in England and Wales. Such evidence is more pervasive and visible (especially in the most serious cases) and its relevance is more broadly defined. Further, its presentation is shaped by a developed and positive conception of the French citizen. In part, these differences may be explained by differences in procedural tradition: the unitary trial structure in France, the dominance of fact,finding by the professional judiciary, and the rejection of general exclusionary rules of evidence. But a full explanation requires French legal culture to be understood in the context of French political culture. This reveals a very different conception of relations between state and citizen to that of Anglo-Saxon liberalism. As a result the legitimacy of trial is seen in terms of the rehabilitation of the accused as a citizen of the state rather than simply the punishment of a particular infraction. [source]


    The Apparent Banality of Evil: The Relationship between Evil Acts and Evil Character

    JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2003
    Todd Calder
    First page of article [source]


    Characterization of the Grain-Boundary Character and Energy Distributions of Yttria Using Automated Serial Sectioning and EBSD in the FIB

    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, Issue 7 2009
    Shen J. Dillon
    A dual-beam focused ion beam scanning electron microscope was used to collect a series of parallel electron backscatter diffraction maps of polycrystalline yttria. Using characteristics of the triple junctions, the individual layers were aligned and the geometries of the grain-boundary planes between the layers were determined. This information was used to calculate the five-parameter grain-boundary character distribution (GBCD) and grain-boundary energy distribution (GBED). The GBCD derived from the three-dimensional data was qualitatively the same as that derived from a stereological analysis of the same data. The anisotropy in the GBCD of yttria is relatively weak compared with other ceramics and is inversely correlated to the GBED. [source]


    A four-fold humanity: Margaret Mead and psychological types

    JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2004
    Gerald SullivanArticle first published online: 19 MAR 200
    Beginning in 1933, while working in New Guinea, Margaret Mead developed her so-called squares hypothesis. Mead never published its terms, though she made a brief comment on it in her autobiography, Blackberry Winter (1972), and the arguments found in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) and the research leading to Balinese Character (Bateson & Mead, 1942) bore its imprint. Beginning with William McDougall's distinction between temperament (innate predispositions) and character (learned organization of habit), Mead articulated a morphological approach to the interplay between biology and culture that yielded four primary and four intermediary personality types. Under specified but not inevitable circumstances, the conscious choices of a given people could render one or another of these types characteristic or predominantly stable within their population, giving each of the other types a definite relation to the dominant type and thereby the cultural ethos of its society. Persons of each type followed a developmental path specific to their type different both from that of other types and in its manifestations given the various relations of the individual's type to the dominant type. Mead's hypothesis was, therefore, a vision of the unity and diversity of a single human species as well as an approach to the differing psychological positioning of individuals in cultures. In examining Mead's hypothesis, this essay also takes up Mead's debts to several leading psychologists (McDougall, C. G. Jung, and Erik Erikson), and (provisionally) how her vision differed from that of Ruth Benedict. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]


    An Assessment of the Terminology Used by Diplomates and Students to Describe the Character of Equine Mitral and Aortic Valve Regurgitant Murmurs: Correlations with the Physical Properties of the Sounds

    JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE, Issue 3 2003
    Jonathan M. Naylor
    Twenty students and 16 diplomates listened to 7 recordings made from 7 horses with either aortic (n = 3) or mitral valve (n = 4) regurgitant murmurs. A total of 30 different terms were used to describe the character of these murmurs. However, only 4 terms were used in a repeatable and consistent manner. Most people described the character of a given mitral or aortic valve murmur with 1 or 2 terms. Diplomates drew from a pool of terms that was about half the size of that used by students,.1 ±2.0 terms for diplomats (mean ±1 SD) versus 13.1 ±1.8 terms for students (P < .001). Only blowing, honking, buzzing, and musical were markedly associated with the recording played. Frequency analysis of the murmurs allowed them to be classified as containing harmonics (n = 4) or not containing harmonics (n = 3). Blowing was used to describe murmurs without harmonics on 39 of 48 occasions and corresponds to the term noisy used in some older descriptions of equine murmurs. Honking, musical, and buzzing were markedly associated with murmurs that contained harmonics; these terms were used 23, 13, and 12 of a possible 64 times, respectively. The frequency of buzzing and honking murmurs (72.7 ±9.3 and 88.4 ±46.3 Hz, respectively) was markedly lower than that of musical murmurs (156.8 ±81.1 Hz) (all P values <.01). Honking murmurs (0.392 ±0.092 seconds) were shorter than those described as buzzing or musical (0.496 ±0.205 and 0.504 ±0.116 seconds, respectively). The data suggest that the terminology for the character of aortic and mitral regurgitant murmurs should be restricted to 4 terms: blowing, honking, buzzing, and musical. Honking, buzzing, and musical describe murmurs with a peak dominant frequency and harmonics; blowing describes murmurs without a peak frequency. Effective communication could be enhanced by playing examples of reference sounds when these terms are taught so that nomenclature is used more uniformly. Key words: Cardiac; Heart; Learning; Meaning. [source]


    Margins of Poetry: The Character of Character in Melville's "The Temeraire"

    LEVIATHAN, Issue 3 2006
    Dan Fineman
    [source]


    Philanthropic Taste: Race and Character in The Confidence-Man

    LEVIATHAN, Issue 1 2005
    JAMES SALAZAR
    [source]


    The Reintroduction of Ethics to Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies

    LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 7 2010
    Elizabeth Kraft
    The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a ,turn to ethics' in literary criticism in general and in criticism of the literature of the long 18th century in particular. Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep was instrumental in turning our attention to the relationship between books and readers, a relationship that he figured as a ,friendship' with the kinds of ethical demands that attend all friendships. A highly regarded work, Company influenced subsequent studies, such as my Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction, but it was not until critics such as Melvyn New and Donald Wehrs began to situate literary analysis in terms drawn from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas that ,ethical criticism' of the field would become an identifiable ,school' of 18th-century studies. Building on, but diverging from, the political emphases of race, class, and gender, ethical critics insist on the ,otherness' of the text and its resistance to our ideologies and assumptions. My Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, for example, reads the works of women writers as statements of ethical agency rather than as evidence of political objectification. Edward Tomarken's Genre and Ethics similarly attends to the voices of literary works in their own contexts, meeting them face-to-face (in Levinasian terms) before asking questions regarding political implications or assumptions. The ,turn to ethics' is not a turn away from politics, however, for the impact of the ethical encounter will have real-world consequences. Therefore, ecocriticism and disability studies are likely to become growth areas in 18th-century ethical readings in the near future as these concerns surfaced in the period itself and are two subjects that dominate our own social, political, and ethical lives as well. [source]


    A Shakespearean Character on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Recognizing Perdita

    LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2010
    Emily Hodgson Anderson
    Shakespeare's characters have always fascinated readers and viewers, yet for the past several decades ,character criticism' has been unpopular among Shakespearean scholars. Recently, although, ,character' has made a resurgence, especially in the context of performance studies. The 18th-century stage presents a good venue from within which to examine this new critical approach, as 18th-century audiences were enamored both with Shakespeare's plays and the offstage lives of the actors they came to see. Building from this fact, this essay examines the influence of the actor/role relationship on popular theories of characterization; in particular, it focuses on the actress Mary Robinson and the character of Perdita. By asking what it meant for audiences to recognize Robinson as ,Perdita', and ,Perdita' as Mary Robinson, the essay provides one example of how attention to performance history can enrich our analysis of Shakespearean characters today. [source]


    Public Perceptions of Natural Character in New Zealand: Wild Nature Versus Cultured Nature

    NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHER, Issue 2 2002
    BRONWYN M. NEWTON
    ABSTRACT Results of empirical research undertaken in New Zealand to determine public perceptions of natural character in the biophysical environment are presented and related to recent theoretical literature. The research comprised two distinct case studies using Q method and photographs, in which participants evaluated natural character in terms of their own landscape experiences by ranking the photographs in order of preference. The results confirm prevailing responses to nature recently specified in North American literature, and have some policy implications for environmental management in New Zealand. [source]


    Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature

    PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2007
    Article first published online: 17 MAY 200
    First page of article [source]


    Moral Cognitivism and Character

    PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Issue 3 2005
    Craig Taylor
    It may seem to follow from Peter Winch's claim in ,The Universalizability of Moral Judgements' that a certain class of first-person moral judgments are not universalizable that such judgments cannot be given a cognitivist interpretation. But Winch's argument does not involve the denial of moral cognitivism and in this paper I show how such judgements may be cognitively determined yet not universalizable. Drawing on an example from James Joyce's The Dead, I suggest that in the kind of situation Winch envisages where we properly return a different moral judgement to another agent it may be that we accept their judgement is right for them because we recognise that it is determined by values that, simply because of the particular people we are, we could never know or understand in just the same way. [source]


    Keeping the Church in Its Place: The Church as Narrative Character in Acts , By Richard P. Thompson

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2009
    Matthew L. Skinner
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    The Narrative Function of the Holy Spirit as a Character in Luke-Acts , By William H. Shepherd, Jr

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2006
    Steven R. Matthies
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    Science and Virtue: An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character.

    THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2008
    By Louis Caruana
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]