Femspec is a feminist academic journal specializing in speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, mythic explorations in poetry and post-modern fiction, and horror.

Within this strategic orientation, focus is retained on the academic programme and, more specifically, on three axes of work, namely: Attitude and Behaviour, centred both on academic factors and on increasing the competitiveness of degree courses, in the constant pursuit of quality, excellence and merit ; Research for Chile which seeks in-depth commitment and involvement with the country aimed at achieving insertion, integration and participation between the Public-and Private Sectors, in which academic research and findings based upon truth, goodness and the beauty of human beings, society and nature aspire to contribute to the formation of social innovators of vision and realism ; and The Development of International Links which, through the differentiation of professors and students from a Latin American perspective, endeavours to work in foreign markets ( student and academic staff exchanges ).

When academic critics attempted to define magical realism with scholarly exactitude, they discovered that it was more powerful than precise.

Instead they chose to adopt various — in some cases academic — styles of realism in depicting American urban and rural scenes.

On the show's depiction of Jewish characters, academic Vincent Brook stated, " Curbs commitment to Jewish identification greatly enhances its storytelling capacity, as it lends greater realism and dimension to the characters and opens the show up to episodes with meaningful Jewish themes.

The concept of ‘ good international citizenship ’ has been specifically attributed to Evans in academic writing ; its ‘ idealistic pragmatism ’ has been seen as a way of bridging or transcending rival doctrines of realism and idealism in international relations theory ; and the idea has been advanced as mapping a possible ‘ third way for British foreign policy ’.

Hugh Robert Mill, the Royal Geographical Society's librarian, who was present at the Congress, reported reactions to the speech: " His blunt manner and abrupt speech stirred the academic discussions with a fresh breeze of realism.

Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism … it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.

After working six years as a commercial artist, he enrolled in 1914 at the Munich Academy in Germany where he learned to paint in the style of academic realism.

The exhibition had a twofold effect of communicating to American artists that artmaking was about expression, not only aesthetics or realism, and at the same time showing that Europe had abandoned its conservative model of ranking artists according to a strict academic hierarchy.

In 1925, Gerasimov returned to Moscow and set up a studio, combining techniques of academic realism with an Impressionistic light touch.

In a 1997 academic paper called " Staged, faked and mostly naked: Photographic innovations at the Evening Graphic, 1924 – 1932 " and a shorter online essay, " The Evening Graphic's Tabloid Reality ," Radford University professor Bob Stepno points out that the Graphic was published before improvements in photojournalism technology and standards that made possible the photo realism of Magnum Photos, Black Star and others during World War II.

Many foreign artists studied there, and Munich School is a term used in the history of Greek art, and sometimes also of American art, for the styles that were influenced by the Academy in the 19th century, including that of academic realism.

He was dissatisfied with the orientalist style and the limitations of European academic style and this led him towards realism.

After 1905 he devoted himself exclusively to painting the portraits in the style of academic realism for the rich clientele, and he became very famous thanks to them.

Instead they chose to adopt academic realism in depicting American urban and rural scenes.

The strong academic tradition of Juniata College is made apparent in the success of its students.

He introduces a new member of the damned: Edith Cordelia Barrington ( Annette Crosbie ), an academic and historian who has recently arrived in Hell after having apparently committed suicide due to an apparent overdose of barbiturates while watching Midsomer Murders.

It soon becomes apparent to Lake that Hurley, a friendly and professional doctor with a strong academic background, is nevertheless incompetent as a surgeon and regularly bungles surgical procedures, to the detriment of his patients.

A crisis in academic publishing is " widely perceived "; the apparent crisis has to do with the combined pressure of budget cuts at universities and increased costs for journals ( the serials crisis ).

* In academic discourse a problem is a challenge to an assumption, an apparent conflict that requires synthesis and reconciliation.

Sagan's involvement with the project was apparent from his application for an academic scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley's Miller Institute in 1959.

In the beginning the program was exclusively an academic year program for Japanese ; however, as it became apparent that this resulted in smaller class sizes, the administration expanded the program to allow students to choose to stay for only a semester.

He died of an apparent stroke on September 12, 1876, on the first day of classes of the third academic year at the university he helped found.

Noboru appears as an academic in the beginning, becomes a politician in the story, and has no apparent personal life.

From there, it is only one more step to the astounding conclusion that Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the war of conquest and extermination that followed were " objectively speaking "- one can hardly believe one's eyes -" a preemptive war ... An even closer connection between academic and political interests is apparent in Andreas Hillgruber's Zweierlei Untergang, where the plight of the German Army on the Eastern Front and the civilian population of eastern Germany is treated without any countervailing consideration for the fate of the Jewish and Slavic " subhumans ", the members of the German opposition, and incarcerated groups, or indeed for the Europeans subject to German occupation, and the German people themselves, all caught up in a senselessly prolonged " total war ".

Steve Moysey, a U. S .- based British academic, who researched and published a highly detailed history of the IRA campaign in London, and the resulting Balcombe Street siege, was puzzled by apparent inconsistencies and contacted John Purnell, who with his partner Phil McVeigh, were the first policemen to confront the Balcombe Street gang.

However, despite this apparent overlapping, academic authors believe that they are distinct branches of research and application, with each having its own research methods and directions.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

As one of the earliest of the Church fathers whose works have survived, he is the subject of a significant amount of recent academic work, mainly focusing on the relationship between his thought and non-Christian philosophy and his influence on Origen.

The president acts as the chief executive officer of the university responsible to the Board of Governors and to the Senate for the supervision of Dalhousie's administrative and academic works.

It is asserted that, as a result, most major academic libraries in the US do not use the DDC because the classification of works in those areas is not specific enough, although there are other reasons that may truly be more weighty, such as the much lower expense of using a unique " pre-packaged " catalog number instead of having highly skilled staff members engaging in the time-consuming development of catalog numbers.

Having lost their academic home in May 2003, they increasingly cross genres and print write-ups of all books and media received, as well as of events that feature creative works that imaginatively challenge gender such as intentional communities, performance events, and film festivals.

In his popular book, The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) and in subsequent academic works, Hayek argued that socialism required central economic planning and that such planning in turn leads towards totalitarianism.

Permissive libre, copyfree, copycenter or academic licences are those libre licences which do not require derivative works to be licensed under the same licence as the original work.

Alfonso was successful in promoting Castilian society and culture through his emphasis on the use of Galaico-Portuguese and Castilian, in academic, juridical, diplomatic, literary, and historical works.

This emphasis, on languages other than Romance languages, also had the effect of reducing the universality of his translated works and original academic writings, as Latin was the lingua franca in both Iberia and Europe ; yet Alfonso never desisted in his promotion of the Castilian vernacular.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

His first study of mathematics, which would later lead to its incorporation into his art works, began with George Pólya's academic paper on plane symmetry groups sent to him by his brother Berend.

Murray's later books were written for a more popular audience and in a style that was far more imaginative and entertaining than standard academic works.

During the Civil War period, he published several theoretical economic works, including the popular primer The ABC of Communism ( with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, 1919 ), and the more academic Economics of the Transitional Period ( 1920 ) and Historical Materialism ( 1921 ).

Formal, academic critiques of postmodernism can also be found in works such as Beyond the Hoax and Fashionable Nonsense.

Pembroke also works with the University of California, Irvine to host annual 5 week-long University of California Summer Sessions and Japanese universities to provide academic programmes specifically tailored for their students.

Although Descartes was well known in academic circles towards the end of his life, the teaching of his works in schools was controversial.

Although refactoring code has been done informally for years, William Griswold's 1991 Ph. D. dissertation is one of the first major academic works on refactoring functional and procedural programs, followed by William Opdyke's 1992 dissertation on the refactoring of object-oriented programs, although all the theory and machinery have long been available as program transformation systems.

In 1882, one of Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius Schröer, suggested Steiner's name to Joseph Kürschner, chief editor of an important new edition of Goethe's works, who asked Steiner to become the edition's natural science editor, a truly astonishing opportunity for a young student without any form of academic credentials or previous publications.

The principle of linguistic relativity and the relation between language and thought has also received attention in varying academic fields from philosophy to psychology and anthropology, and it has also inspired and colored works of fiction and the invention of constructed languages.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

In addition to electronic resources, printed books and journals, the Library also acquires works in microform, sound recordings, videos and other media consistent with the University's academic programme needs.

Such orientation was followed in Sinological works until the 1950s or 60s, when it started to be gradually replaced by right apostrophes (< font face =" Times New Roman ">’</ font >) in academic literature.

Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in interest in Gregory's works from the academic community, which has resulted in challenges to many traditional interpretations of his theology.

After graduating from Cambridge, Powell stayed on at Trinity College as a Fellow, spending much of his time studying ancient manuscripts in Latin and producing academic works in Greek and Welsh.