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Adam H. Whetstone diary, W.0080
No full textAbstract: Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, AlabamaScope and Content Note: Adam H. Whetstone, a member of the Fifty-third Alabama Regiment, wrote the entries in his diary between July 24, 1864, and his parole and return home on May 17, 1865. He described the regiment's movements through Georgia and South Carolina. With the exception of a narrow escape and a skirmish near Atlanta on November 9, 1864, there are few mentions of interaction with Union forces. Instead, many of Whetstone's diary entries describe the social excursions that he participated in with other soldiers. While Whetstone recorded little direct military action within his own regiment, he did discuss war-related news. Notable entries include Whetstone's reactions to the evacuation of Richmond and General Lee's surrender.The diary ends with a final update written on December 25, 1865, in which Whetstone reported the death of his only son. "Since the 17th of May I have wrote nothing, but have seen more trouble than in all my life before," Whetstone wrote.Biographical/Historical Note: Adam H. Whetstone was born on December 2, 1824, in Autauga County, Alabama. On June 10, 1842, he married Mary L. Huie and had three children. After her death, he married Mary L. Hine (1825-1895) and had three more children. During the Civil War, Whetstone served as a corporal in the Fifty-third Regiment of Alabama Partisan Rangers. Whetstone died on October 20, 1905
Development of a Decision Support System for the structural degradation analysis of RC buildings supported by user-reported data and modern Information Technologies
No full textExposure to aggressive environmental agents and aging can seriously harm reinforced concrete (RC) structures and affect the building’s service life. In particular, many buildings built during the extensive dissemination of RC construction technique present criticalities regarding performance and durability due to many issues: inadequate design of technical details, incorrect execution method, inadequate materials, improper maintenance or intrinsic limits and vulnerability of concrete.
Consequently, management and monitoring of existing buildings is a complex issue for holders and administrators that are responsible for the building operability and user safety. On the other hand, large-scale degradation analysis and maintenance procedures present critical points: i) non-uniform building knowledge, ii) need of performing several inspections, iii) complexity of the diagnostics related to the subjectivity of the surveyor, iv) vastness and deployment of buildings in the region. Such issues become particularly complex for public or private administrators, who usually have limited resources and often cannot rely methodologies and tools to face the problem. This thesis proposes an innovative approach for detecting building criticalities. In order to achieve the new system, four synergistically related methods are suitably developed and listed as follows: i) a novel DSS methodology for buildings’ assessment supported by modern Internet of Things tools (smart devices) and Information Technologies; ii) an innovative Optimized AHP (O-AHP) based on a Mathematical Programming problem; iii) a calibration procedure based on the Tuutti model to consider the damage evolution of reinforcements’ corrosion and tune the KPIs; iv) a Test Site involving 131 building on the Valencian coasts to test the DSS. In particular, the proposed DSS includes an innovative software application (APP) implemented on mobile devices and a web service–based Quality Detection Platform (QDP) that stores and processes data. The APP allows the building users to report criticalities through photographic acquisition and to answer a specific questionnaire. Collected data are processed by the QDP, which quantifies critical issues through the set of key performance indices (KPIs). The DSS allows monitoring buildings at the regional scale and provides a classification of the most damaged buildings, which is useful for civil protection aims and for the prioritization of interventions
06 Adam H. Levin: "Spent Fuel Management at Exelon Nuclear"
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "engineering - Parker Symposium - 06 Adam H. Levin: 'Spent Fuel Management at Exelon Nuclear.'" By Vanderbilt University. Composer is Regan Brown. Levin describes storage of spent nuclear fuel.School of Engineerin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Vorlesungen über die deutsche Wissenschaft und Literatur / Von Adam H. Müller
Full text linkVORLESUNGEN ÜBER DIE DEUTSCHE WISSENSCHAFT UND LITERATUR / VON ADAM H. MÜLLER
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Fünfte Vorlesung (38)
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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