4,191 research outputs found
Porter, Barry. Dale Jarvis interviewing Barry Porter regarding lighthouses, September 11, 2009.
No full textDale Jarvis interviewing Barry Porter regarding lighthouses, September 11, 2009. The informant discusses his life as a lighthouse keeper, where he worked, the characteristics of the lights, a typical work day, the fog horn system, and the difference between manned and unmanned lighthouses
Katherine Porter and Kitty Barry Crawford, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Carlsbad, Texas, circa 1917-1918
No full textA photograph of Katherine Porter and Kitty Barry Crawford at Texas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Carlsbad, Texas, circa 1917-1918
Ep194 Lighthouses and Lighthouse Keepers
No full textWe're all about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers this week on Living Heritage. Grab a cup of tea, and listen to tales told by Barry Porter, as well as by archival audio from Jack Roberts and Theresa Colbourne, who were both born at lighthouse stations. Plus, an archival recording of Cyril Myrick and a mystery involving the Cape Race lighthouse, plus news of a very strange phenomenon said to happen at the Long Point Light in Twillingate
Porter Bagley (Data Science Student and Youtuber) on Data Literacy
No full textDid you know Data Scientist was named the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century by a 2012 Harvard Business Review article? As the author of our most downloaded article for Winter 2020, Porter Bagley—a BYU Senior in the Applied and Computational Math program—shares his experience in the hot field of data science. Join Porter and Andrea Cabrera in their dynamic discussion about data science, followed by Porter\u27s experience with Working with Lemons —a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 Million subscribers that brings Disney, Star Wars, and Broadway favorites to life
Morrill Hall
No full textOverall view, south end and facade facing Arts Quad; Morrill Hall was named after Sen. Justin Morrill of Vermont, author of the Land Grant Act of 1862. It was opened on October 7, 1868 and cost $70,111. The Second Empire French structure was divided into three sections to represent the three original functions of the building. The center section contained classrooms, a library, and a large auditorium, while the north section contained student residences arranged in suites and the south side professors' and the President's offices. An interesting historical note is that these three sections were not interconnected within the building itself until much later, so movement from section to section required going outside of the building. The building was originally named South University Building, and is made of bluestone quarried from the base of Libe Slope. Along with White Hall and McGraw Hall, it reveals the original plan to have the University face the valley and western slopes of Ithaca. Cyrus Kinne Porter (1828-January 30, 1910) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. In 1865 Porter moved to Buffalo, entering into partnership with H. M. Wilcox as Wilcox & Porter. Source: Cornell University [website]; http://www.cornell.edu/ (accessed 4/21/2011
[Letter] Sunday Morning, Weymouth Street [to] Chinnery[?], Manchester Square / Jane Porter.
No full textPorter thanks the recipient for her letter and states that nothing but extreme illness could have kept her from responding "and even now I write from my Bed. I am sufficiently better not to be confined within it, but I am not strong enough to remain off it." She hopes to be able to receive her visitor as her illness is nothing to alarm: a combination of nervousness and rheumatism, "both of which torments wreaked their utmost malice on my unhappy head." Porter wishes her friend a pleasant two-month stay on the Continent and asks about her traveling companions. She promises to present her friend to her brother upon his return from his travels in 18 months and makes some observations on society and human nature. Porter is remembered as the author of novels like _Thaddeus of Warsaw _ (1803) and _The Scottish Chiefs_ (1804) about William Wallace. The brother referred to here may be Robert Ker Porter, the painter, to whom Jane was devoted
Finding Aid to the Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters
No full textBern Porter (1911–2004) was an artist, writer, philosopher, and scientist who was involved in the development of the cathode ray tube, the Saturn V rocket, and the Manhattan Project, which he renounced upon learning of the bombing of Hiroshima. Also a pioneer in the arts, he is known for his landmark work as an author and publisher. He was an early practitioner of mail art and found and performance poetry and experimented with typography, sculpture, photography, artists’ books, and collage throughout his life. Porter lived and worked in New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, California, Guam, Alabama, and Tasmania. He finally settled in his native Maine, where he ran for governor and established the Institute for Advanced Thinking. In 1979, Porter was given a major retrospective at Franklin Furnace in New York City, and a show of Porter’s work in the The Museum of Modern Art Library was shown at MoMA in 2010. - Mark Melnicove, 2010
Unpublished materials (approx. 70 linear feet) include correspondence between Porter and his contemporaries, scrapbooks and other works “of, by or about” Porter, and manuscripts given to him. There is a small amount of material related to Porter\u27s childhood in Houlton, Maine
Gene Stratton Porter
No full textIn 1886, author, naturalist and photographer, Geneva Grace Stratton, married Charles D. Porter, a druggist and banker from Geneva. She wrote several popular novels including Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, Laddie, and A Daughter of the Land
Profile of Portland resident Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chicks Guide to
No full textProfile of Portland resident Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics, a light-hearted guide to a macrobiotic diet and lifestyle. Porter, who is co-host of the WMPG radio show Cinema Hits and Misses, as well as an actress and stand-up comic, reads at Longfellow Books in Portland, on Dec. 16
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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