767 research outputs found
Gen. Alex Hays
No full textTitle from unverified information on negative sleeve.Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Alex Hays, In pencil: Alex Hays.Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Aesop Cop, Volume One
No full textThe back cover of this 40-page booklet speaks of an Aesop-inspired morality poem about notable crimes. Is that forward by Handy a deliberate play on the standard foreword? In it Handy, editor of tinytowntimes.com, a blog in Crawford's home town of Ithaca, NY, writes that Crawford chose to versify petty crimes of nominal import then added a quirky, often nonsensical, moral. For Handy it is the art of Stuhmiller that raises this book to art. Each of eighteen stories follows the same two-page format. On the left-hand page is a title and a police report. On the right-hand page is verse and moral set within a full-page illustration. These illustrations remind me of the chromolithographs of Walter Crane. The second story, Grand Farcery, is a good example. Its last lines are O! What a farce when we/Land on our arse and we/Get popped for grand larceny. The moral is Since all the world's a stage, always have an exit strategy. Among the more curious police reports is that in Play It Straight. The report here is of a subject walking strangely and carrying a cello case. Another caller reports finding a fork in her shower. My prize overall goes to The Russian Hairdresser's Boy Toy. All in all, this booklet represents one of the weirdest uses of Aesop's name that I have known.Franklin Crawford, Versifie
A moment's eigenvalue quantization for difference equation models, 1987
No full textFinite difference equations abound in all areas of physics and engineering. In particular, linear difference equation eigenvalue problems define an important class of systems which have been studied through various traditional approaches adapted from continuum space methods. We studied an important subclass of problems involving strong coupling potential interactions which are not amenable to conventional analysis, such as ordinary perturbation theory. We worked with a powerful eigenvalue moment method, developed by Handy et al (C.R. Handy, D. Bessis and T. Morley, Atlanta University preprint, 1987), for generating rapidly converging lower and upper bounds to the eigenvalues of such systems, as previously described. This type analysis focuses on the signature structure of the intended solution in order to define a moment problem. Through the relevant moment problem theorems, tight constraints can be defined which serve to determine (quantize) the physical parameters of the system
Charles Handy: The exemplary guru
No full textAmong many managers Charles Handy might well be described as a ‘world class’ management thinker. He is certainly the first British management author to have achieved international guru status. The author of widely-commended management best-sellers and MBA set texts, known through broadcasting and management videos, he has presented himself more recently as a self-styled ‘social philosopher’. But just how philosophical is he? Does he offer genuinely new ideas? And what explains his vast appeal? Ashly Pinnington considers three works from Handy’s social philosopher period. He argues that they are conservative and focused on the interests of managers and business owners rather than employees or society as a whole. Like a mediaeval friar seeking converts, Handy uses mythic structures and exempla to invest his claims and propositions with plausibility and authority. Drawing on research into management gurus as a phenomenon, Ashly Pinnington concludes that when we read authors like Handy we should attend not merely to the ‘philosophy’ but also to the way narrative techniques are used in conveying ideological and moral messages
Positivity and the quantization of physical systems : the c-shift' moment method, 1991
No full textThe Eigenvalue Moment Method (EMM) of Handy and Bessis is reformulated with special emphasis on the importance of positivity as a general quantization criterion
The-mechanics-of-correlated-variability-in-segregated-cortical-excitatory-subnetworks: Publication release
No full text<p>This release coincides with the publication of
A Negron, MP Getz, G Handy, B Doiron, The mechanics of correlated variability in segregated cortical excitatory subnetworks.</p>
Euclidean-time formulation of the eigenvalue moment method for finite dimensional systems, 1992
No full textThe eigenvalue moment method (EMM), developed by Handy and Bessis is examined from a Euclidean time reformulation. This alternative approach offers a more elegant and rigorous analysis than the conventional EMM theory. We will look at finite matrix analogues for the Euclidean time dependent problem H'F(x,t) = dt^x.t), analyzed from a moments problem perspective. This will enable the generation of converging upper and lower bounds to the "ground state" eigenvalue without the necessity of a discretization ansatz as is the case in conventional EMM theory
An LU-gradient formulation for the eigenvalue moment method, 1995
No full textThe Eigenvalue Moment Method (EMM) has proven to be an effective technique for generating converging lower and upper bounds to the bosonic ground state energy of singular, strongly coupled, quantum systems. An alternate gradient method formulation for the EMM as previously developed by Dr. Carlos Handy is presented. The present method is numerically faster and is based on an LU decomposition formulation for the underlying Hankel-Hadamard moment matrices. The LU-EMM gradient formulation deals with a sequence of functions, each convex over a corresponding subset. The LU-EMM gradient method is applied to the octic, sextic and quartic anharmonic oscillator potentials in one dimension
Bishop W. T. Handy Jr., circa 1991
No full textPortrait of Bishop W. T. Handy Jr. Written on verso: Board Chair Bishop W. T. Handy Jr. April 6, 1990 - April 16, 1993.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
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