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Author(s): Xiaoyan Li, Minlong Deng, Xue Wang, Hongfang Li, Miao Yu
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2019, p. 275 - 279
Type: Article
Hexagonal CdS and Fe-doped CdS nanorods were synthesised by a facile hydrothermal method and characterised by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, UV–vis absorption, photoluminescence, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The magnetic properties of undoped and Fe-doped CdS nanorods were investigated at room temperature. The experimental results demonstrate that the ferromagnetism of the Fe-doped CdS nanorods differs from that of the undoped CdS nanorods. The remanence magnetisation (M r) and the coercive field (H c) of the Fe-doped CdS nanorods were 4.9 × 10−3 emu/g and 270.6 Oe, respectively, while photoluminescence properties were not influenced by doping. First-principle calculations show that the ferromagnetism in Fe-doped CdS nanocrystal arose not only from the Fe dopants but also from the Cd vacancies, although the main contribution was due to the Fe dopants.
Refluxing synthesis of Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles and their applications in dielectric ceramics
Author(s): Ye Zhao, Fan Tong, Rong Yang, Xiao Qu, Mao-Hua Wang
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 14, Issue 2, February 2019, p. 182 - 185
Pure and manganese (Mn)-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) (0, 1, 2 and 4 wt%) nanoparticles are synthesised by refluxing method. The as-synthesised nanoparticles are characterised by X-ray powder diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The results show that pure and Mn-doped ZnO nanoparticles have a hexagonal wurtzite structure and the (101) diffraction peaks position of Mn-doped ZnO shift toward the smaller value of diffraction angle compared with pure ZnO powders, confirming that the Mn2+ were well incorporated into ZnO crystal lattice. Moreover, Mn doping also restrained the growth of particles and the size decreased from 14.9244 to 13.1196 nm with the increase in doping concentration from 0 to 4 wt%. The EDS analysis for 2 wt% Mn-doped ZnO confirms the presence of Mn in ZnO nanocrystal. The dielectric measurements show that Mn-doped ZnO ceramics exhibit higher dielectric constant, while dielectric constant and dielectric loss increased continuously with the temperature increased. In addition, 2 wt% Mn-doped ZnO ceramics showed the high dielectric constant (23 × 103) and low dielectric loss (0.95) at 125°C after sintering at 1000°C for 2 h.
Antibacterial and photocatalytic activity of anatase phase Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles
Author(s): Mahsa Madadi, Mohammad Ghorbanpour, Atabak Feizi
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 13, Issue 11, 2018 , p. 1590 - 1593
A simple and new solid-state molten-salt method to synthesise silver (Ag)-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles for solar light-induced photocatalytic applications is examined. Ag-doped TiO2 nanoparticles with varied Ag content ranging from 3 to 10% were synthesised by a single-step molten-salt synthesis method. The effect of Ag content on the antibacterial and photocatalytic activity of nanoparticles was tested. The prepared nanoparticles were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectrometry, ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) diffusive reflectance spectrometer (UV–vis DRS) and powder X-ray diffraction. The SEM image of nanoparticles clearly showed the presence of agglomerated spherical particles. The EDX analysis of the particles confirmed successful doping of particles in the presence of the Ag in the particles. The doping of Ag in TiO2 produced TiO2 pure anatase phase. According to UV–vis DRS results, increasing Ag-doped content in the Ag-doped TiO2 resulted in a higher visible absorption capability of the materials. Ag doping also improved the antibacterial and photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanoparticles. The maximum photocatalytic activity under light irradiation was observed for 5% Ag-doped TiO2.
Cu-doped CdS QDs for sensitisation in solar cell
Author(s): Abhigyan Ganguly, Siddhartha S. Nath, Madhuchhanda Choudhury
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 13, Issue 8, 2018 , p. 1188 - 1191
Copper (Cu)-doped cadmium sulphide (CdS) quantum dots (QDs) sensitised zinc oxide photoelectrodes have been fabricated for a solar cell (SC). For the synthesis of QDs, simple chemical methods have been adapted and the QDs were prepared on poly-vinyl alcohol capping agent. The influences of doping on structural properties of QDs have been studied using X-ray diffraction analysis and transmission electron microscopy images. Ultraviolet–visible absorption spectroscopy reveals an enhanced optical absorption in doped QDs. The photovoltaic performance of the Cu-doped CdS QDs was studied by measuring the current density–voltage (J–V) characteristics of the fabricated SC. An enhanced photo-conversion efficiency was observed in doped CdS QDs compared with the undoped QDs sensitised SC.
Low Pr-doped Bi2O3 photocatalyst with long-wavelength response: mechanisms by first-principles calculation
Author(s): Guoying Wang, Xuefu Chen, Lan Li, Gaofeng Shi
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 13, Issue 5, 2018 , p. 657 - 660
The low Pr-doped Bi2O3 photocatalyst was prepared via the acrylamide polymerisation method. The photocatalytic activity of prepared samples was evaluated by degrading methyl orange under visible-light irradiation. In comparison to α-Bi2O3 nanoparticles, 4% Pr-α-Bi2O3 photocatalyst exhibit obviously enhanced photocatalytic performance. The theoretical calculation and experimental results show that Pr doping can extend the optical absorption range from 436 to 518 nm and improve the photocatalytic efficiency from 40.9 to 70.4%. This long-wavelength response can be happened because of Pr doping that gives rise to the modification of electron structure and the hybridisation of the energy levels.
Synthesis of visible and near-infrared light responsed Sn1−x Bi x S2 for efficient degradation of high concentration rhodamine B
Author(s): Hui Li, Xiang-Feng Wu, Mai-Tuo Yu, Yi-Jin Wang, Chen-Xu Zhang, Jun-Zhang Su, Jia-Rui Zhang, Ying Zhang, Jun-Cheng Pan, Chao Wang, Yan-Mei Feng
Visible and near-infrared light responsed Sn1−x Bi x S2nanosheets was synthesised via a simple hydrothermal method. Rhodamine B was adopted to evaluate the degradation efficiency of the as-prepared samples. Experimental results showed that the doping content of Bi3+ could obviously affect the degradation efficiency of SnS2. It was first increased and then decreased with increasing the Bi3+ content under the visible light irradiation. When the mole fraction of doping Bi3+ was 5%, the as-prepared Sn0.95Bi0.05S2 with a bandgap of 0.38 eV had the highest degradation efficiency of 95.9% in 120 min. Moreover, the as-prepared composites possessed more effective electron–hole pair separation than that of pure SnS2. In addition, a possible degradation mechanism of the as-prepared Sn0.95Bi0.05S2 was proposed.
The role of graphene oxide in ZnO:Al/silicon solar cells
Author(s): L. Lancellotti, L. Sansone, E. Bobeico, M. Casalino, M. Della Noce, A. De Maria, M. Iodice, M. Giordano, P.D. Veneri
Source: 20th Italian National Conference on Photonic Technologies (Fotonica 2018), 2018, p. 49 (4 pp.) - 49 (4 pp.)
A widely used approach to reduce the charge recombination and improve the performance of a silicon based Schottky barrier solar cell (SBSC) is to use an interfacial layer between metal and Si. In the present work we have investigated the role of graphene oxide (GO) as interfacial layer for p doped Si (p-Si) based SBSC utilizing AZO (Aluminum doped ZnO) as transparent top contact. The not obvious compatibility of the different layers combined in the solar device results clear from the improvement of all the electrical parameters measured in the AZO/GO/p-Si solar cell respect to the simple AZO/p-Si device used as reference. In particular dark IV characterization put in evidence the majority carrier blocking properties of the GO in this type of structure, with an increment of 140 meV in the barrier height respect to the device without GO, resulting in a 100% enhancement in the final solar cell efficiency.
Carrier mobility extraction method in ChGs in the UV light exposure
Author(s): Mehdi Saremi
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 11, Issue 11, 2016 , p. 762 - 764
One of the significant advantages of the ultraviolet (UV) light exposure of chalcogenide glasses (ChGs), photodoping process, is in the application of programmable metallisation cells (PMCs) as a novel non-volatile resistive memory. The memory state of a PMC is dictated by the formation or dissolution of a metallic filament in a ChG film between active metal and inert metal contacts. Owing to relatively rigid covalent bonds mixed with soft van der Waals interconnections, ChGs are able to form acceptor-like traps where electrons are absorbed, and therefore electron mobility decreases compared with crystallised structures. The role of electrons in the interaction with ionic species in ChGs is inevitable. One the other hand, holes are considered as majority carries and their role in interaction with the system is also significant. Therefore, knowing carrier mobility in ChGs is essential. To extract carrier mobilities, for the first time a circuit setup accompanying with time constant extraction method for Ge30Se70 as a ChG material without and with UV light exposure is proposed. Owing to being straightforward, this method can be applied to other ChG materials as well as other light sources or even ionising radiation particles.
Silicon photodetectors with triple p–n junctions in CMOS technology at 650- and 850-nm wavelengths
Author(s): Y.-C. Tsai, Y.-N. Zhong, F.-P. Chou, C.-A. Huang, Y.-M. Hsin
Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 52, Issue 20, September 2016, p. 1707 - 1708
A triple p–n junction Si photodetector using 0.25-μm standard CMOS process at 650- and 850-nm wavelengths is presented and investigated. Triple p–n junctions are formed vertically by n+-implant/p-well (N+/HVPW), p-well/n+-buried layer (HVPW/NBL), and n+-buried layer/p-substrate (NBL/P-sub) junctions to attain a wavelength-dependent response. The responsivity and pulse response were characterised in different bias schemes. Measured photocurrents from HVPW/NBL and NBL/P-sub junctions under reverse biasing and a floating electrode on N+-HVPW showed the smallest FWHM values. The −3 dB bandwidth of 1.9 GHz converted from pulse measurement is the highest result ever reported in 654-nm wavelength using standard CMOS technology. The proposed triple p–n junction Si photodetector with bias schemes shows combined excellent performance in 650- and 850-nm wavelengths.
Effect of manganese doping on optical and magnetic properties of titanium dioxide nanostructures prepared by hydrothermal technique in the presence of thiourea
Author(s): Golnoush Zamiri, A. Zakaria, M.Z.B. Hussein, R. Zamiri, A. Rebelo, H. Abbastabar Ahangar
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 9, Issue 12, 2014 , p. 906 - 908
Manganese (Mn)-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures were synthesised by hydrothermal reaction of TiO2 and Mn acetate with ethylenediamine and thiourea. The prepared samples were characterised by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Characterisation of samples confirmed the formation of pure and crystalline nanostructures. Photoluminescence spectroscopy was carried out to study the optical properties of the pure and Mn-doped TiO2 nanostructures. A vibrating sample magnetometer was used to study the magnetic properties of the prepared Mn-doped TiO2 nanostructures.
Photocatalytic activity of Cu doped TiO2 nanoparticles and comparison of two main doping procedures
Author(s): Mohammad A. Behnajady, Hatam Taba, Nasser Modirshahla, Mohammad Shokri
Source: Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 8, Issue 7, 2013 , p. 345 - 348
In this reported work, TiO2 nanoparticles containing anatase-rutile and pure rutile phases were prepared by sol–gel and hydrolysis in acidic solution methods, respectively. Two general procedures, doping during synthesis (DDS) via a hydrolysis method and doping on the provided TiO2 nanoparticles (DOP) that is performed by the impregnation method have been studied by doping copper to these nanoparticles. The photocatalytic activity was evaluated by photodegradation of C.I. Acid Red 27 as a model contaminant. The prepared samples were characterised by X-ray diffraction, atomic absorption flame emission spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. It is found that the photosensitised degradation activity can be enhanced by doping an appropriate amount of Cu. Photocatalytic activity results indicated that samples that have been doped by the DDS procedure show higher photocatalytic efficiency than samples doped by the DOP procedure.
Surface-activating-bonding-based low-resistance Si/III-V junctions
Author(s): J. Liang, S. Nishida, M. Morimoto, N. Shigekawa
Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 49, Issue 13, June 2013, p. 830 - 832
The electrical properties of pn junctions, with various semiconductor materials with different doping concentrations fabricated by using surface-activated-bonding (SAB), were investigated by measuring their current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. The I-V characteristics of p +-GaAs/n ++-Si, p +-GaAs/n +-Si, p +-Si/n +-Si, p ++-Si/n +-InGaP, and p +-Si/n +-InGaP junctions showed ohmic-like properties. The interface resistance and the resultant electrical loss decreased with increasing impurity concentration at the interface. These results demonstrate the significance of SAB for fabricating tandem solar cells.
Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 49, Issue 2, January 2013, p. 81 - 81
Arsenic diffusion in boron-doped germanium
Author(s): T. Liu, M. K. Orlowski
Source: Electronics Letters, Volume 49, Issue 2, January 2013, p. 154 - 156
Arsenic (As) diffusion in germanium (Ge) has been studied by implanting As in a Ge substrate with high boron (B) background doping. The high hole density induced by the B doping suppresses negatively charged vacancies (V) in Ge. Under this condition, we have investigated the dependence of As diffusion on the dopant-vacancy pairs As+V0 by secondary ion mass spectroscopy. After rapid thermal annealing at 600−750°C, the chemical profiles of As do not change in the highly B doped Ge. Experimental results suggest that the As+V0 pairs are not the diffusion vehicles of As in Ge. Activation energy of the As+V0 pairs has to be larger than 3.25 eV.
N, C-codoped BiOCl flower-like hierarchical structures
Author(s): Ping-Quan Wang, Yang Bai, Jan-Yi Liu, Zhou Fan, Ya-Qin Hu
N, C-codoped BiOCl (BiOCl–NC) flower-like hierarchical structures were synthesised by an one-pot solvothermal process and characterised by X-ray diffraction patterns, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectra, transmission electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. As-synthesised BiOCl–NC showed higher photocatalytic activity in an aqueous RhB photodegradation system than pure BiOCl under visible light irradiation. The trapping experiments of active species during the photocatalytic reaction showed that the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in the BiOCl–NC system proceeds through direct hole transfer and O2•− rather than •OH.
Highly reproducible tunnel currents in MBE-grown semiconductor multilayers
Author(s): C. Shao, P. Dasmahapatra, J. Sexton, M. Missous, M.J. Kelly
Tunnel currents through semiconductor tunnel barriers have proved very difficult to control to the extent that device-to-device variability and wafer-to-wafer irreproducibility have prevented electronic devices based on tunnelling from ever going into production. With reference to a single tunnel barrier of AlAs in a GaAs multilayer structure with an asymmetric doping profile, it is shown that, with careful attention to detail, diodes from equivalent sites on three separate wafers can be produced whose average current in forward bias is within 1 % while the total in-wafer standard deviation of current at the same fixed bias (0.5 V) is 6 %, dominated by a systematic cross-wafer variation that is described. This level of reproducibility now enables these devices to be used in pick-and-place systems for the manufacture of low-cost hybrid integrated microwave circuits.
Influence of Al nitrate and Al chloride doping sources on structural and optical properties of sol–gel derived Al:ZnO nanoparticles
Author(s): R. Ebrahimifard, H. Abdizadeh, M. Reza Golobostanfard
Al-doped ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesised via sol–gel method. Aluminum nitrate and aluminum chloride, as two widespread doping sources, have been compared in various Al/Zn molar ratios of 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2 and 5. After sol preparation, all samples with different Al content have been aged and then dried at 120°C. The resultant grinned powders calcined at different temperatures of 400, 500, and 600°C. X-ray diffraction (XRD) method has been used to investigate crystallisation behaviour and structural properties of samples. Less crystallinity in chloride source samples is detected compared to the nitrate source; however, identical distortion of hexagonal wurtzite unit cell in both sources was evident in XRD results. Field emission scanning electron microscopy demonstrates semisphere morphology of ZnO nanoparticles with particle size less than 60 nm. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was conducted to find possible chemical reactions and complexes during the sol–gel process in different Al source samples. UV-vis spectroscopy was carried out to find optical properties of the Al:ZnO samples. The results represent different optical properties in Al chloride and Al nitrate sources.
Tunable bandgap opening in the proposed structure of silicon-doped graphene
Author(s): M.S. Sharif Azadeh, A. Kokabi, M. Hosseini, M. Fardmanesh
A specific structure of doped graphene with substituted silicon impurity is introduced and ab initio density-functional approach is applied for the energy band structure calculation of the proposed structure. Using the band structure calculation for different silicon sites in the host graphene, the effect of silicon concentration and unit cell geometry on the bandgap of the proposed structure is also investigated. Chemically, silicon-doped graphene results in an energy gap as large as 2 eV according to density-functional theory calculations. As the authors will show, in contrast to previous bandgap engineering methods, such structure has significant advantages including wide gap tuning capability and its negligible dependency on lattice geometry.
Synthesis of p-type ZnSe nanowires by atmosphere compensating technique
Author(s): Shanying Li, Yang Jiang, Binbin Wang, Di Wu, Junwei Li, Yugang Zhang, Ben Yang, Xianan Ding, Hongyang Zhou, Honghai Zhong
The atmosphere compensating technique with an individual selenium source is, first, used in the growth of phosphorus-doped p-type ZnSe nanowires. The morphology and structure characterisations reveal that the as-synthesised ZnSe nanowires have a wurtzite structure with a diameter of about 160 nm, a growth direction of [001]. The electrical properties' characterisations demonstrate that the selenium atmosphere compensation technique assisted with phosphorus-doping leads to a substantial action in p-type conductivity of ZnSe nanowires with a high mobility of 1.25 cm2 V−1 S−1 and carrier concentration of 1.47×1018 cm−3. The photoluminescence measurements show a dominant emission and two donor–acceptor pair emission.
Synthesis, structural and optical properties of water-soluble Mn-doped CdS nanocrystals
Author(s): Hui Zhai, Lixin Cao, Ge Su, Wei Liu, Bohua Dong
Water-soluble Mn-doped CdS nanocrystals were synthesised by an aqueous colloidal synthetic technique. X-ray diffraction identifies that the Mn-doped CdS nanocrystal is a cubic structure without impurity phase. Transmission electron microscopy suggests a narrow size distribution of the nanocrystals with an average particle size of ∼3.6 nm. Moreover, UV–vis absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the nanoparticle were also measured. PL results show that Mn-doped CdS nanocrystals have a distinct Mn2+ related emission well-separated from the trap state emission. Reaction variables such as the 3-Mercaptopropionic acid/Cd (MPA/Cd) ratio, reaction temperature and Mn2+ doped concentration were systematically investigated to evaluate the impact of these variables on particle size and optical property. The results indicate that the 2 mol% Mn-doped CdS nanocrystals synthesised at 70°C and the MPA/Cd ratio of 3.5 have the highest PL intensity.


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Using temperature scanners as a screening mechanism in offices, restaurants and at airports is unreliable and inaccurate, researchers have stated.
Experts in human physiology published a scientific article on the usefulness of thermometers which scan a person's skin, mostly often the forehead, to detect a fever.
They say this process is fundamentally flawed as the equipment produces a large number of false negatives, as well as some false positives, and also because not all people infected with the coronavirus develop a fever.
A fever is defined as a temperature of greater than or equal to 100.4F (38°C) if spotted outside of a healthcare environment.
In healthcare settings, such as a hospital, a fever is technically defined as anything greater than or equal to 100.0F (37.8°C).
Using temperature scanners as a screening mechanism in offices, restaurants and at airports is unreliable and inaccurate, researchers have stated (stock photo)
Instead of using thermal technology on the forehead to gauge body temperature, the researchers say adapting the apparatus to get temperatures from the fingertip and eye would be a quick fix that has drastic improvements to reliability (pictured)
Forehead-scanning thermometers have become ubiquitous as a way of detecting a fever, the most common symptom of coronavirus infection.
But Professor Mike Tipton from the University of Portsmouth, co-author of the research published in the journal Experimental Physiology, points to four major issues with the current scanners.
Detecting an elevated body temperature itself is an unreliable indicator of coronavirus infection, as at least 11 per cent of those with Covid-19 do not have a fever, they say.
This drops to less than half for people with Covid admitted to hospital.
Also, the researchers point out, if a person does produce a high body temperature, this is not a guarantee they have Covid-19, as it could be the result of another infection, the weather, recent exertion or consumption of alcohol, for example.
As well issues with the fever as a symptom, the non-contact infrared gadgets being employed also do not give an accurate measure of 'deep' body temperature.
To get a true gauge of a person's internal body temperature a catheter is the best possible technique, with rectal thermometers the next best substitute.
This, the researchers say, is impractical as a Covid-19 screening method as it is highly-invasive and time-consuming.
Also, taking a single measurement is always fraught with reliability issues, and taking two measurements from different parts of the body would instead be better, the new study states.
For example, using retinal temperatures in conjunction with measurements taken from the fingertip would be a more robust method, the academics advise.
Professor Tipton said: 'Using a surface temperature scanner to obtain a single surface temperature, usually the forehead, is an unreliable method to detect the fever associated with Covid-19.
'Too many factors make the measurement of a skin temperature a poor surrogate for deep body temperature; skin temperature can change independently of deep body temperature for lots of reasons.
'Even if such a single measure did reflect deep body temperature reliably, other things, such as exercise can raise deep body temperature.
'The pandemic has had a devastating global effect on all aspects of our lives, and unfortunately, it's unlikely to be the last pandemic we face.
'It's critical we develop a method of gauging if an individual has a fever that's accurate and fast.'
The researchers looked through the vast reems of research now available on the symptoms of Covid-19 in patients and found that in a February 2020 study from China, fever was the most common symptom of 55,924 confirmed Covid-19 cases.
But one in ten did not have a fever and people were infectious several data before they developed a fever. These individuals would therefore have a window where they would pass thermal screening while spreading the virus to others.
Infrared scanners are ineffective as a screening tool for Covid-19 and have done very little to prevent the spread of the disease, experts said previously (file)
Forehead-scanning thermometers have become ubiquitous as a way of detecting a fever, the most common symptom of coronavirus infection
Instead of using thermal technology on the forehead to gauge body temperature, the researchers say adapting the apparatus to get temperatures from the fingertip and eye would be a quick fix that has drastic improvements to reliability.
A recent MailOnline investigation found thermal-scanning devices registering temperatures up to 1.4°C (2.5°F) lower than recommended methods.
MailOnline tested seven thermometers and obtained readings for the same healthy person which ranged from 36.2°C to 37.6°C. The infrared readings were the farthest from the measure considered most reliable by experts.
A reading greater than or equal to 38°C (100.4F) is considered a fever when taken outside of a healthcare environment, and a high temperature is cited by the NHS as one of the main symptoms of coronavirus.
In an opinion piece published in December, Dr William Wright at the Johns Hopkins University and Dr Philip Mackowiak, Emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, criticised the use of thermal screening and said the devices 'lull people into a false sense of security'.
Dr Mackowiak told MailOnline the true reading for body temperature can only be obtained via a highly invasive procedure, reserved solely for seriously ill hospital patients, which inserts a thermometer into the pulmonary artery via a catheter.
He said a rectal thermometer was the next most accurate method, but its obvious practical limitations make it unsuitable for screening. He suggested an oral reading is the most accurate option.
But, again, it 'would not be practical in massive screening applications, especially when you're concerned with a highly infectious pathogen such as Covid-19'.
Experts slam the use of infrared forehead-scanning thermometers
Leading doctors have warned against the use of infrared thermometers that scan a person's forehead to check for coronavirus infection.
Such technology was widely deployed by shops, restaurants and workplaces as a form of screening to spot signs of fever, one of the main symptoms of Covid-19.
But Dr William Wright at the Johns Hopkins University and Dr Philip Mackowiak, Emeritus, professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, have questioned their accuracy, and rubbished claims the devices are an effective tool in preventing the spread of Covid-19.
'Readings obtained with non-contact infrared thermometer are influenced by numerous human, environmental and equipment variables, all of which can affect their accuracy, reproducibility and relationship with the measure closest to what could be called the "body temperature" – the core temperature, or the temperature of blood in the pulmonary vein,' says Dr Wright.
'However, the only way to reliably take the core temperature requires catheterisation of the pulmonary artery, which is neither safe nor practical as a screening test.'
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Martina Giselle Ramirez, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. She previously served as Biology Department Chair (2006-2007); Director of Undergraduate Research (2014-2015); Special Assistant to the Provost for Technology-Enhanced Learning (2015-2018); and Co-Director of the McNair Scholars Program (2017-2018). Dr. Ramirez received her B.S. in biology from LMU in 1981, and her Ph.D. in biology from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1990. Prior to LMU, Dr. Ramirez was a professor at Pomona College, CA (1991-1993); Bucknell University, PA (1993-1996); Denison University, OH (1996-1998); and East Stroudsburg University, PA (1998-1999). Dr. Ramirez received the Rudinica Award for Student-Faculty Research from LMU's Seaver College of Science and Engineering (2012); a Biology Mentor Award from the Council on Undergraduate Research (2013); and an LGBTQ+ Mentor Award from LMU's LGBT Student Services Office (2016).
Jessica Lee, Ed.D., is the Associate Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and a part-time faculty member for the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Dr. Lee's areas of research and instruction include online learning and education, instructional design, educational technology, and digital teaching, learning and scholarship. Dr. Lee received her Doctorate in Educational Leadership in K-16 Education from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation and research focused on the perspectives of learning from the student and instructor in a synchronous online environment. After starting and successfully running a private K-16 learning center in Santa Clarita for 10+ years, Dr. Lee joined higher education after teaching at the University of California Riverside. Dr. Lee now focuses on faculty development at LMU and pedagogically sound approaches to teaching and learning through hybrid and online modalities that enhance student engagement and active learning in a meaningful way.
Emily Jarvis is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at LMU. Her main area of teaching includes thermodynamics, kinetics, and quantum mechanics, but she also enjoys teaching the Chemistry of Wine and other special topics. Emily received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCLA. After graduate school, she worked as a science policy fellow in the U.S. Senate on a variety of issues including the space program, antimicrobial resistance, organic and food safety standards, wireless technology, communicating science topics, promoting STEM and reading skills in K-12 education, and research funding. She worked as a research scientist funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and later at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She was a professor on the East Coast prior to joining LMU in 2010. Her research involves developing fundamental understanding of materials and molecules for clean, alternative energy applications employing first principles quantum mechanical calculations collaborating with experimental scientists and engineers domestically and internationally. Her experience in science policy, collaborative research, and teaching technical subjects has made her particularly interested in developing courses that draw on expertise from varied disciplines and promote student engagement and critical thinking. These topics will be the focus of her CTE events as a Faculty Associate. Emily lives in Santa Monica with her husband Jason and sons Lincoln and Peter and enjoys swimming, running, biking, travel, reading, food and wine, art and music.
Professor Oliver, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, currently teaches courses in communication studies on pro-social behavior and the rhetoric of women. These focus on the values inherent in building relationships and communities for individual and collective growth. Emphasis is on understanding behaviors that promote effective and cooperative communication and developing a working knowledge of the communication theory behind pro-social behavior. Professor Oliver is an experienced evaluator of the communication skills of student teachers. She has taught intercultural communication in urban settings and courses on mainstreaming children with disabilities into regular classrooms. She was the first female chair of LMU's Communication Arts Department (School of Film and Television), and former chair of LMU's Communication Studies Department. Professor Oliver served as LMU's first University Sexual Harassment Compliance Advisor, Vice President and Member of the Executive Board of the Faculty Senate, and member of the Sexual Harassment Committee and Racial Discrimination Mediation Panel. She has served on the LMU Committee on Excellence in Teaching. Last year she served as Chair of the University Grievance Committee. Professor Oliver received the LMU Teacher of the Year Award, the Crimson and Blue (student) Outstanding Teacher Award and the Michael Mulvilhill Difference Maker Award. Professor Oliver's research is on developing mentoring to facilitate learning and build communities, particularly among the underprivileged. Her research has taken her from religious communities in Northern California to villages in rural Namibia. She has mentored countless students, student organizations, and faculty. However, her mentoring focuses on the classroom and the encouragement of collaboration through shared assignments, group research and reporting, and small group discussions within class. These approaches are designed to promote community building in and out of the classroom and to contextualize scholastic achievement within a community setting. Professor Oliver's work documents successful mentoring and peer mentoring strategies for students and instructors. Her research aims to identify teaching methods that help students build academic skills and foster classroom interaction. She continues to gather data from participant observations and interviews at WLAC (West Los Angeles College) and LMU and to theorize about those aspects of interpersonal and instructional communication, central to mentoring, that improve students' confidence, performance and grades, especially for students struggling with academic success. She also examines how exposure to underrepresented students can provide insight and understanding to more privileged students about underrepresented communities and their struggles for representation and power.


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Dismaland, Ashley Madison and Duplicitous Fantasy
Posted on August 24, 2015 | 1 Comment
A friend of mine recently told me that his wife was often depressed by "looking at Instagram and seeing how happy every couple seemed." The endless array of beautifully posed people, gleefully posting about their #blessed, #best and #NBD adventures on beaches and balconies, discouraged her. Compared with the carefree, happy-as-can-be photos that filled her social streams, her marriage seemed rocky by comparison; hardly Instagram-worthy.
She's not alone. Who of us hasn't struggled with the insecurities and comparisons that arise from the world of social media posturing. And who of us, if we're honest, hasn't perpetuated the problem by posting only the photos we've carefully selected, cropped and edited to present the best picture of our enviable lives?
Technology is making it easier and easier to live in a world of facades and false perfections. As we exist more and more in a world of digital mediation, a rupture widens between who we are and who we choose to be online, as perceived by the anonymous hordes. A rupture also widens between the reality of knowing and being known in embodied community, and the fantasies of disembodied escapism and false intimacy that can characterize life in the solitude of our iScreens.
Ashley Madison is just one byproduct of this widening rupture; just one (particularly brazen) example of the unreal escapism and supposed anonymity that characterizes so much of our lives online. The hack that lifted the curtain on Ashley Madison may elicit a "they had it coming" response from us, but the truth is we're participants in the same brand of duplicitous fantasy with every exaggerated, embellished or painstakingly posed photo we post online. By slapping a happy hashtag and a Valencia filter on something and presenting it as real, we too are widening an identity chasm that may one day be too big to traverse.
Last week Banksy lifted the curtain on another sort of corrosive fantasy, albeit one that didn't involve hacking and publishing adulterers' e-mails. But with his Disneyland sendup Dismaland–a "bemusement park" installation billed as "the latest addition to our chronic leisure surplus"–he is exploring similar territory in the landscape of what he calls "post modem-ism."
Though a predictable critique of a too-easy target, Dismaland (like all of Banksy's art) is nevertheless right about the duplicitous fantasy that characterizes much of today's Amusing Ourselves to Death world. It's a "reality TV" world where "real" and "fantasy" are ever more conflated, where warzones make for good movies and movie theaters make for good warzones; where comedy substitutes for news reporting and news reporting is inadvertently comedic; where Donald Trump is thought to be a serious politician, baby dismemberment is considered polite lunchtime conversation and ISIS beheading videos show up in our newsfeeds in between Batman vs. Superman trailers and Farmville ads.
I'm reminded of Jean Baudrillard's classic book Simulacra and Simulation, in which he famously says of Disneyland:
"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle."
Bansky's "Dismaland" confronts us with the blatant simulacra of not just Disneyland but of the entertainment-industrial-complex broadly and its mass machinations of fantasy. And even though Dismaland is itself (as a bourgeois "art event" for dilettante consumption) a part of this entertainment-industrial-complex–anti-consumerism as consumer good (there's a big market for it!)–its critique still has some merit. In amusing fashion it highlights the paradoxes and disconnects of our reality-confused, duplicitous age. Banksy's clever installation is simply a more ironic and intentional version of the same observation offered (unintentionally) by Megyn Kelly's FoxNews banter with Donald Trump. Both are highly amusing artifacts of a culture where "real" and "fantasy" have all but lost their semiotic difference.
Ashley Madison may not seem to have much in common with Instagram, Disneyland or Donald Trump, but they're all connected; all products of the fantasyland in which we presently live, blissfully avoidant of reality until reality (inevitably) hits home… or gets hacked.
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One response to "Dismaland, Ashley Madison and Duplicitous Fantasy"
Reuben Posthuma | August 26, 2015 at 4:32 pm | Reply
This is unbelievably poignant after this morning's shooting, and this post from Mr Robot (https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsMrRobot/posts/971146529618957). Its kinda what you were talking about with news and entertainment crossing over. It took the entertainment sector's post for me to feel the weight of the reality's gruesomeness.
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"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not "perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him." (John 3:16-17)
"In the relation to God, unconditional exclusiveness and unconditional inclusiveness are one. For those who enter into the absolute relationship, nothing particular retains any importance—neither things nor beings, neither earth nor heaven—but everything is included in the relationship. For entering into the pure relationship does not involve ignoring everything but seeing everything in the You, not renouncing the world but placing it upon its proper ground. Looking away from the world is no help toward God; staring at the world is no help either; but whoever beholds the world in him stands in his presences…" (from I and Thou)
"When I attempted a few minutes ago, to describe our spiritual longings, I was omitting one of their most curious characteristics. We usually notice it just as the moment of vision dies away, as the music ends, or as the landscape loses the celestial light… For a few minutes we have had the illusion of belonging to that world. Now we wake to find that it is no such thing. We have been mere spectators. Beauty has smiled, but not to welcome us; her face turned in our direction, but not to see us. We have not been accepted, welcomed, or taken into the dance. We may go when we please, we may stay if we can, no one cares. Now, a scientist may reply that since most of the things we call beautiful are inanimate it is not very surprising that they take no notice of us. That, of course, is true. It is not the physical objects that I am speaking of, but that indescribable Something of which they become for a moment the messengers. And part of the bitterness which mixes with the sweetness of that message is due to the fact that it so seldom seems to be a message intended for us, but rather something we have overheard. By bitterness I mean pain, not resentment. We should hardly dare to ask that any notice be taken of ourselves. But we pine. The sense that in the universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, the bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret." (from The Weight of Glory)
Badlands (1972)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The New World (2005)
"Truth is the truth of Being. Beauty does not occur alongside and apart from this truth. When truth sets itself into the work, it appears. Appearance—as this being of truth in the work and as work—is beauty. Thus the beautiful belongs to the advent of truth, truth's taking of its place. It does not exist merely relative to pleasure and purely as its object." (from "The Origin of the Work of Art.")
"Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." (I Corinthians 13:12)
"All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered." (from The Medium is the Massage)
And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid
(from "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.")
"And as I sat there brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's long dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it, He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." (from The Great Gatsby)
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo Story (1953)
"All representations, even the most abstract, infer a rendezvous with intelligibility or, at the least, with a strangeness attenuated, qualified by observance and willed form. Apprehension (the meeting with the other) signifies both fear and perception. The continuum between both, the modulation from one to the other, lie at the source of poetry and the arts." (from Real Presences)
Paul Tillich
"What is the nature of a being that is able to produce art? Man is finite. He is, as one could say, mixed of being and nonbeing. Once he was not. Now he is and some time he will not be. He is not by himself, but thrown into existence and he will be thrown out of existence and cease to be for himself. He is delivered to the flux of time which runs from the past to the future through the ever-moving point which is called the present. He is aware of the infinite. He is aware that he belongs to it. But he is also aware that he is excluded from it… Out of the anxiety, and the double awareness that we are finite and that we belong to infinity from which we are excluded, the urge arises to express the essential unity of that which we are in symbols which are religious and artistic." (from On Art and Architecture)
"Poets have, indeed, often communicated in their own mode of expression truths identical with the theologians' truths; but just because of the difference in the modes of expression, we often fail to see the identity of the statements." (from The Mind of the Maker)
What a beautiful piece of heartache this has all turned out to be.
Lord knows we've learned the hard way all about healthy apathy.
And I use these words pretty loosely.
There's so much more to life than words.
(from "Latter Days")
"He will grant thee a hiding place within Him, and once hidden in Him he will hide thy sins. For He is the friend of sinners... He does not merely stand still, open His arms and say, 'Come hither'; no, he stands there and waits, as the father of the lost son waited, rather He does not stand and wait, he goes forth to seek, as the shepherd sought the lost sheep, as the woman sought the lost coin. He goes--yet no, he has gone, but infinitely farther than any shepherd or any woman, He went, in sooth, the infinitely long way from being God to becoming man, and that way He went in search of sinners." (from Training in Christianity)
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"In what belongs to the deeper meanings of nature and her mediation between us and God, the appearances of nature are the truths of nature, far deeper than any scientific discoveries in and concerning them. The show of things is that for which God cares most, for their show is the face of far deeper things than they; we see in them, in a distant way, as in a glass darkly, the face of the unseen. It is through their show, not through their analysis, that we enter into their deepest truths. What they say to the childlike soul is the truest thing to be gathered of them." (from The Voice of Job)
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He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere.
He told himself he didn't care,
pushed the window open wide,
Felt an emptiness inside
to which he just could not relate
Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
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"What is the malaise? You ask. The malaise is the pain of loss. The world is lost to you, the world and the people in it, and there remains only you and the world and you no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." (from The Moviegoer)
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"Whenever I think of Edward, I think of playing catch in a hot street and that wonderful weariness of the arms. I think of leaping after a high throw and that wonderful collaboration of the whole body with itself and that wonderful certainty and amazement when you know the glove is just where it should be. Oh, I will miss the world!" (from Gilead)
"Preaching the gospel means announcing Jesus as Lord of the world; and, unless we are prepared to contradict ourselves with every breath we take, we cannot make that announcement without seeking to bring that lordship to bear over every aspect of the world." (from What Saint Paul Really Said).
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It's weird to think of all the things
That have not been keeping up with the times
It's ten o' clock the sun is down
Just begun to set the western hills on fire
I hear that you don't change
How do you expect to keep up with the trends
You won't survive the information age
Unless you plan to change the truth to accommodate the brilliance of man
The brilliance of man
(from "Letter From a Concerned Follower")
"Gazing at some detail like a bird or a cloud, we can all ignore its awful blue background; we can neglect the sky; and precisely because it bears down upon us with an annihilating force it is felt as nothing. A thing of this kind can only be an impression and a rather subtle impression; but to me it is a very strong impression made by pagan literature and religion. I repeat that in our special sacramental sense there is, of course, the absence of the presence of God. But there is in a very real sense the presence of the absence of God. We feel it in the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry; for I doubt if there was ever in all the marvelous manhood of antiquity a man who was happy as St. Francis was happy." (from The Everlasting Man)
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"I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves. He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime; moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor--it is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by." (Ecclesiastes 3:10-15).
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." (from On the Road)
"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee..."
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The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
February 20, 2020 February 20, 2020 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
I adore the glamorous Hollywood years of the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. I love old movies and old stage shows. One of my very favorite stars of all time is Grace Kelly. She was so beautiful and so talented (and if my mother was here she'd add that she came from a "nice, Catholic family") that I always thought it was fitting that she became a princess. I couldn't wait to read this fictionalized account of Grace's life. I truly enjoyed it as Ms. Maher made Grace Kelly and all her family members come to life so vividly and so humanly. Princess Diana always reminded me a bit of her. How tragic that they both died too young, keeping them young and beautiful in our memories forever.
Thank you for my ARC.
A life in snapshots…
Grace knows what people see. She's the Cinderella story. An icon of glamor and elegance frozen in dazzling Technicolor. The picture of perfection. The girl in white gloves.
A woman in living color…
But behind the lens, beyond the panoramic views of glistening Mediterranean azure, she knows the truth. The sacrifices it takes for an unappreciated girl from Philadelphia to defy her family and become the reigning queen of the screen. The heartbreaking reasons she trades Hollywood for a crown. The loneliness of being a princess in a fairy tale kingdom that is all too real.
Hardest of all for her adoring fans and loyal subjects to comprehend, is the harsh reality that to be the most envied woman in the world does not mean she is the happiest. Starved for affection and purpose, facing a labyrinth of romantic and social expectations with more twists and turns than Monaco's infamous winding roads, Grace must find her own way to fulfillment. But what she risks–her art, her family, her marriage—she may never get back.
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay
I really enjoy Juliette Fay's writing and was thrilled to receive her City of Flickering Light, about the early days of Hollywood, via Net Galley! It tells the story of three friends who are a bit down and out and head to Hollywood to make their fortunes, having a lot of adventures and ups and downs along the way.
Here's the overview from NG:
Juliette Fay—"one of the best authors of women's fiction" (Library Journal)—transports us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the raucous Roaring Twenties, as three friends struggle to earn their places among the stars of the silent screen—perfect for fans of La La Land and Rules of Civility.
It's July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry.
At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth—iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating—and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn't come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life.
With her "trademark wit and grace" (Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer's Daughters), Juliette Fay crafts another radiant and fascinating historical novel as thrilling as the bygone era of Hollywood itself.
One fun thing in this novel is the return of one of the Tumbling Turner sisters from Ms. Fay's earlier novels! Reviewed here by me:https://drbethnolan.com/2016/06/11/the-tumbling-turner-sisters-by-juliette-fay/
While it took me a few chapters to get into this story, I ended up really enjoying it and loving the characters. I look forward to more great historical fiction from Ms. Fay and I hope to meet her sometime as she lives just a few towns over from me!
THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE by Melanie Benjamin
January 28, 2018 January 27, 2018 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
I love Melanie Benjamin's writing, so I was excited to find this book on Net Galley. If you know me, you know I LOVE reading about the heyday of Hollywood. This novel is a fictionalized account based on the true story of the relationship between Frances Marion and Mary Pickford. I didn't know any of this and found it both interesting, and a bit sad. If you like reading about old Hollywood, you'll enjoy this one!
"Girls could not be more timely—or troubling—about the treatment of women in the workplace. . . . [A] rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies."—USA Today
"One of the pleasures of The Girls in the Picture is its no-males-necessary alliance of two determined females—#TimesUp before its time."—NPR
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers"—the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all.
In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title "America's Sweetheart." The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution.
But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender—and their astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the world's highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered.
With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino, and Lillian Gish, The Girls in the Picture is, at its heart, a story of friendship and forgiveness. Melanie Benjamin perfectly captures the dawn of a glittering new era—its myths and icons, its possibilities and potential, and its seduction and heartbreak.
The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott
I love books by Kate Alcott, so I was thrilled to see that she wrote one about the heyday of Hollywood. The Hollywood Daughter is told from the point of view of the daughter of a publicist who represents, among others, Ingrid Bergman. Jesse idolizes Ingrid Bergman and when Bergman comes to her school to film The Bells of St. Mary, Jesse's strict Catholic upbringing and her Hollywood family life collide.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe
In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Arc—has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity, Bergman's fall shocked her legions of American fans.
Growing up in Hollywood, Jessica Malloy watches as her PR executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick Studio. Over years of fleeting interactions with the actress, Jesse comes to idolize Ingrid, who she considered not only the epitome of elegance and integrity, but also the picture-perfect mother, an area where her own difficult mom falls short.
In a heated era of McCarthyism and extreme censorship, Ingrid's affair sets off an international scandal that robs seventeen-year-old Jesse of her childhood hero. When the stress placed on Jesse's father begins to reveal hidden truths about the Malloy family, Jesse's eyes are opened to the complex realities of life—and love.
Beautifully written and deeply moving, The Hollywood Daughter is an intimate novel of self-discovery that evokes a Hollywood sparkling with glamour and vivid drama.
There are lots of themes in this book, and they are all wrapped up in the era of Hollywood and the events of the 1940's and 50's. I love love love reading about Hollywood, and this was a fun read in this respect. However, there is a whole lot more to this book, and some of it is symbolized in Jesse's relationship and reliance on her Catholic faith. Her Catholicism plays a pivotal role in the novel and at first I wondered why. It comes to represent (or at least I feel it does!) her relationship with her parents. When she was young, she accepted everything they told her unquestioningly and she had a blind faith in her own father, as she did in her church. Disappointments prevailed and by adulthood Jesse finds herself isolated both from her mother and from the church. It was an interesting parallel.
Highly recommended if you enjoy books of this time period as I do!
Thank you for my review e-copy, received via Net Galley!
Review of THE BIG BRUSH-OFF by Michael Murphy
March 8, 2016 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
This was a fun find from Net Galley!
I love a retro mystery and this one takes place in the 1930's.
Description (via Net Galley)
The irresistible Jake & Laura return in Michael Murphy's witty, fast-paced mystery series—perfect for readers of Dorothy Cannell and Christopher Fowler. In The Big Brush-off, the charming and indomitable duo heads to the Midwest to solve a chilling cold case of a young girl's murder.
Blackie Doyle is dying. That's what Jake Donovan's literary agent tells him. Sales are falling, and the rough draft of Jake's latest Blackie novel doesn't look promising. Maybe Jake has been distracted by a recent barrage of real-life homicides, or by his marriage to the beautiful up-and-coming actress Laura Wilson, now slated for a part opposite Clark Gable himself. Whatever the reason, Jake decides to return to his roots. Which is why he and Laura hop the next train to the small town in Pennsylvania where Jake once worked as a Pinkerton detective.
Ten years ago, the murder of a teenage girl interrupted life in quiet, God-fearing Hanover. The unsolved case has always gnawed at Jake, and it seems no coincidence that as soon as he starts digging up old ghosts, he's once again writing like a dervish. Nor is it surprising that some townfolk would rather see the truth stay buried—and maybe even Jake and Laura with it. But the glamorous crime-solving pair refuse to leave before sorting through a bevy of suspects—and at long last nailing the one who almost got away with the not-so-perfect crime.
Praise for Michael Murphy's Jake & Laura mysteries
"Glittering with a hint of Nick and Nora, Michael Murphy's 1930s Manhattan provides a witty setting for murder and mayhem."—Mary Daheim, bestselling author of The Alpine Yeoman, on The Yankee Club
"[Jake and Laura] are fun, witty, and charming, and [All That Glitters] is filled with the same kind of 1930s Hollywood glamour that made the film of The Thin Man such a classic."—Popcorn Reads
"The third installment in Murphy's series is just as much fun as the first. The mystery is full of twists with an ample amount of red herrings, suspects, and action."—Mystery Please!, on Wings in the Dark
I loved this story and I loved the characters of Jake and Laura. It's a cozy, and you know how I love cozies. Mysteries can be thrilling and fun and they don't need to be gory or nightmare-worthy. I would love to see this series made into a series — BBC style — as I can imagine viewers loving the story lines and the period aspects (costumes, cars, etc.).
While this was my first Jake and Laura mystery, it won't be my last!
Thank you for my invitation to review it!
Audiobook Review: ALL THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS by Adriana Trigiani
November 17, 2015 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
I recently had the chance to get ALL THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS with my Audible credit for the month. I LOVE Adriana Trigiani's books and I was quite excited to listen to her new one. This is a wonderful story, set in the golden age of Hollywood and involving familiar and beloved classic stars.
Gretchen Young took the screen name "Loretta Young" and spent her life as an actress. Witty and hardworking, Gretchen and her sisters all worked in the movies, supporting themselves and their mother, from early childhood into adulthood. In her early twenties and recently having her marriage annulled, she is coming off an infatuation with the already married Spencer Tracy, when Loretta finds herself drawn to the always irresistible Clark Gable (another married man). Her strict Catholic upbringing makes her unable to engage in an open affair, and she fights her attraction to him, all while they are filming The Call of the Wild together. However, weeks after filming Loretta discovers she is pregnant and has to decide how she will proceed in her life — both personally and professionally.
While I knew Loretta Young from the movies, I had no idea she had a child by Clark Gable (true). The whole story is something Hollywood-esque. (However, there are also stories that she later said she was date raped by Gable — decidedly not exciting/romantic/humorous/okay if that's true). If you know me, you know I LOVE stories of classic Hollywood, and I love anything to do with movie stars and Hollywood, especially in the old days (I also love plays and theater and Broadway but that's for another day).
Trigiani does her usual excellent job in evoking a sense of place and personality here — doubling challenging as she is taking on the personas of living legends. Even the minor characters are exciting — Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, etc. (and I want Myrna Loy for a friend!).
The audible version was read by Blair Brown and she does an amazing job in telling the story, pitching her voice with variety, and pulling the reader in. Truly, this was one of the best "aud-itions" of a novel that I've experienced.
While this book released recently, it is EVERYWHERE! Get yours pronto and let me know how you like it!
HFVBT for THE FORGOTTEN FLAPPER by Laini Giles
August 12, 2015 August 9, 2015 / drbethnolan	/ 2 Comments
I'm a stop on the historical fiction blog tour for Laini Giles' novel: THE FORGOTTEN FLAPPER. I absolutely loved this creative novel which focuses on Olive Thomas, a real life star of stage and early film. In the novel, the ghost of Olive is living at the New Amsterdam Theater in NYC. She delves into her past and tells her story, from growing up in the midwest to becoming a star, to her work with some of the biggest names of the day. She focuses on her marriage to Jack Pickford (Mary Pickford's brother) and then her untimely death. Her character and voice is so strong throughout this story, that I looked up Olive Thomas afterwards and found out more about her. Here's a picture of her, taken from google images:
I found Olive fascinating and just like the novel's ghost, she continues to haunt me. I love just about any story about the early days of Hollywood and the heyday of big name classic movie stars, but this one is a stand out. It looks like it's the start of a series of books about actresses so I can't wait for the next one! Thank you for my review e-copy and making me part of the tour!
Here's what HFBVT has to say:
The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas (Forgotten Actress Series, Volume 1)
by Laini Giles
Publication Date: August 1, 2015
Publisher: Sepia Stories Publishing
Formats: eBook & Trade Paperback
Genre: Historical Fiction/Biographical
A presence lurks in New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she's the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie's ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five.
After winning a contest for "The Most Beautiful Girl in New York," shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artists in New York, and then went on to become the toast of Broadway. When Hollywood beckoned, Ollie signed first with Triangle Pictures, and then with Myron Selznick's new production company, becoming most well known for her work as a "baby vamp," the precursor to the flappers of the 1920s.
After a stormy courtship, she married playboy Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford's wastrel brother. Together they developed a reputation for drinking, club-going, wrecking cars, and fighting, along with giving each other expensive make-up gifts. Ollie's mysterious death in Paris' Ritz Hotel in 1920 was one of Hollywood's first scandals, ensuring that her legend lived on.
A native of Austin, Texas, Laini Giles grew up the daughter of bookworms, and became a Nancy Drew devotee early on. When she realized there might be no escape from hairy tarantulas and bad guys with guns, she put her detective dreams on hold and wrote about them instead, finishing her first mystery novel with custom illustrations when she was eight. It was this love of mystery combined with a love of old MGM musicals and The Marx Brothers that led her to check Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon out of the library during her formative years. Ideas began to simmer.
A graduate of the University of North Texas, she put the writing on hold for a while when real life got in the way (i.e.—she met and married her Canadian husband and headed north for maple-flavored goodies and real beer). She highly recommends moving to another country and not being able to work for a year for finishing any novels you may have laying around.
Laini and her husband live in Edmonton, Alberta with their three gray girl cats, nicknamed The Supremes.
For more information visit Laini Giles' website and blog. You can also find her on Twitter andGoodreads.
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Review: ABSOLUTELY TRUE LIES by Rachel Stuhler
July 1, 2015 April 20, 2019 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
The fine folks at Touchstone (Simon and Schuster) kindly sent me a review copy of ABSOLUTELY TRUE LIES several weeks ago. I love, love, love stories about Hollywood and celebrities (I find them fun). This one centers on a young woman who is hired (rather haphazardly) to be the ghostwriter of a famous teen star's autobiography.
Holly Gracin is out of luck and out of a job when she gets a phone call from a friend of her uncle about a writing project. The next thing she knows, she is the ghost writer for a famous teen pop star and part of the inner circle of the entertainer's daily life. But nothing is easy for poor Holly, and she finds herself chasing after Daisy and her entourage and often in the spotlight herself (not in a flattering way either!). Holly has to figure out a few things about her own life's direction, too.
I just loved this book, which was laugh-out-loud funny. Holly's "voice" and her humor come through strongly, yet you can tell that she is a good person at heart – and not incredibly mature herself either. Poor Daisy is a bit of a puppet, held by those who make money off of her. Stuhler used her own experiences as a Hollywood ghost writer as inspiration for the novel. I found it to be a quick read – I enjoyed it so much I didn't want to put it down. This is Stuhler's first novel, and I'm sure there will be more.
It looks like this may be just the first of number of Holly Gracin stories. I look forward to the next!
Review: A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
March 27, 2015 March 27, 2015 / drbethnolan	/ Leave a comment
I found this fun story on Net Galley. I've always been a fan of classic movies and this story sounded so neat: a young woman moves to Hollywood from Indiana since she wants to be a screenwriter. She becomes a personal assistant to Carole Lombard and spends time with Lombard and Butler as the filming of "Gone with the Wind" is taking place.
I've read Kate Alcott's other two books — both I actually listened to as audiobooks in the car (The Daring Ladies of Lowell and The Dressmaker). I liked this novel more than either of those two (which I also enjoyed). TOUCH OF STARDUST focuses on Julie Crawford, who I was rooting for throughout the story. She is seeking independence and wants to be a screenwriter in a male-dominated industry. She meets a young man, Andy, whom she is drawn to and starts dating. Andy is Jewish and this ties in to the more global story of the war in Europe (it is 1938) and Andy's concern for his relatives. The portrayal of Carole Lombard and the other movie people, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, David O' Selznick, etc. is what made the story for me. They truly come alive on these pages. Alcott has done her research and homework into events of the time, issues in the making of the movie, life in Hollywood in the pre-war 30's, and mostly the personalities of these movie icons.
An enjoyable and fun read that I highly recommend if you, like me, are a fan of classic Hollywood.
Thank you for my review copy, Net Galley and Doubleday Books!
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Quick Review: AS YOU WISH by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden
October 22, 2014 April 25, 2019 / drbethnolan	/ 4 Comments
I was more than thrilled when Maria at Simon and Schuster asked me if I'd like to review Cary Elwes' new book, the full title of which is As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride. I just love that movie, and I figured it would be a fun read.
This book starts with Elwes getting cast to play Westley and goes through the entire filming and creation process. Interspersed throughout are pictures, along with quotes and snippets from other cast members, often sharing their view of the same incidents that Elwes writes about. His book is not a self-serving bit of megalomania (a worry I had since it is written by a Hollywood star!) but more of a tribute and a very touching personal recollection of what could be described as the best job of his life. Throughout it you come to intimately know the real people behind the characters, along with Rob Reiner, the director (apparently one of the greatest and most lovable guys in Hollywood). This book was a lovely and fun read, paying homage to a film classic that many of us count in our top ten favorite flicks of all time.
If you love this film, don't miss reading AS YOU WISH.


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package org.apache.activemq.artemis.tests.integration.cluster.failover;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.cluster.qourum.QuorumVoteServerConnect;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.cluster.qourum.ServerConnectVote;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.tests.util.ActiveMQTestBase;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;

@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public class QuorumVoteServerConnectTest extends ActiveMQTestBase {

   private final int size;
   private final int trueVotes;

   @Parameterized.Parameters(name = "size={0} trueVotes={1}")
   public static Collection primeNumbers() {
      return Arrays.asList(new Object[][]{{1, 0}, {2, 1}, {3, 2}, {4, 3}, {5, 3}, {6, 4}, {7, 4}, {8, 5}, {9, 5}, {10, 6}});
   }

   public QuorumVoteServerConnectTest(int size, int trueVotes) {

      this.size = size;
      this.trueVotes = trueVotes;
   }

   @Test
   public void testSuccessfulVote() {
      QuorumVoteServerConnect quorum = new QuorumVoteServerConnect(size, "foo");
      for (int i = 0; i < trueVotes - 1; i++) {
         quorum.vote(new ServerConnectVote("foo", true));
      }

      if (size > 1) {
         assertFalse(quorum.getDecision());
      }
      quorum = new QuorumVoteServerConnect(size, "foo");
      for (int i = 0; i < trueVotes; i++) {
         quorum.vote(new ServerConnectVote("foo", true));
      }
      assertTrue(quorum.getDecision());
   }

   @Test
   public void testUnSuccessfulVote() {
      QuorumVoteServerConnect quorum = new QuorumVoteServerConnect(size, "foo");
      for (int i = 0; i < trueVotes - 1; i++) {
         quorum.vote(new ServerConnectVote("foo", true));
      }

      if (size > 1) {
         assertFalse(quorum.getDecision());
      }
      quorum = new QuorumVoteServerConnect(size, "foo");
      for (int i = 0; i < trueVotes - 1; i++) {
         quorum.vote(new ServerConnectVote("foo", true));
      }
      if (size == 1) {
         assertTrue(quorum.getDecision());
      } else {
         assertFalse(quorum.getDecision());
      }
   }
}

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