637 research outputs found

    The nightingale has a lyre of gold, the lark's is a clarion call [first line]

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    through-composedpiano and voiceads on back cover for The Boston Music Company stock852Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 148, Item 167Poem by W.E. Henley. Music by Benjamin Whelpley

    The nightingale has a lyre of gold, the lark's is a clarion call [first line]

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    through-composedpiano and voiceads on back cover for The Boston Music Company stock852Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 148, Item 167Poem by W.E. Henley. Music by Benjamin Whelpley

    The plunge into secession: The Presbyterian schism of the Reverends. Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell and Benjamin Morgan Palmer

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    The Presbyterian Church had one of the largest pro-slavery clergy of any antebellum Protestant church. These men extracted verses and passages from the Bible to prove God sanctioned slavery. Many Southern Presbyterian ministers including Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell and Benjamin Morgan Palmer used the pulpit to defend slavery and advocate secession, collapsing political and religious boundaries. I focus on the 1855-1861 debates about slavery in the Presbyterian Church led by Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell, and Benjamin Morgan Palmer. I reorient the argument from the usual political and economic accounts of the antebellum secession discussions and build upon current scholarship on the influence of churches in encouraging secession through their cultural and spiritual justification of slavery. Further examination of the role that nineteenth-century theologians created for themselves provides an insight into the cultural and spiritual reasons religious Southerners found compelling as they embraced the political call for secession

    Climate driver informed short-term drought risk evaluation

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    Key Points Climate driver informed short‐term drought risk methodology is introduced Risk evaluated in each time step conditioned on climate driver & initial storage Traditional approaches underestimate the severity and duration of drought risk Benjamin J. Henley, Mark A. Thyer, and George Kuczer

    Towards the prediction of multi-year to decadal climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere

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    Multi-year (2-7 years) and decadal climate variability (MDCV) can have a profound influence on lives, livelihoods and economies. Consequently, learning more about the causes of this variability, the extent to whichit can be predicted, and the greater the clarity that we can provide on the climatic conditions that will unfold over coming years and decades is a high priority for the research community. This importance is reflected in new initiatives by WCRP, CLIVAR, and in the Decadal Climate Prediction Project (Boer et al., 2016) that target this area of research. Here we briefly examine some of the things we know, and have recently learnt, about the causes and predictability of Southern Hemisphere MDCV (SH MDCV), and current skill in its prediction.Fil: Power, Scott. Bureau Of Meteorology; AustraliaFil: Saurral, Ramiro Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera; ArgentinaFil: Chung, Christine. Bureau Of Meteorology; AustraliaFil: Colman, Rob. Bureau Of Meteorology; AustraliaFil: Kharin, Viatcheslav. Environment And Climate Change Canada; CanadáFil: Boer, George. Environment And Climate Change Canada; CanadáFil: Gergis, Joelle. University of Melbourne; AustraliaFil: Henley, Benjamin. University of Melbourne; AustraliaFil: McGregor, Shayne. Monash University. Faculty Of Science; AustraliaFil: Arblaster, Julie. Monash University. Faculty Of Science; AustraliaFil: Holbrook, Neil. University of Tasmania; AustraliaFil: Liguori, Giovanni. Georgia Institute Of Technology; Estados Unido

    Evaluation of performance, energy, and computation costs of quantum-attack resilient encryption algorithms for embedded devices

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    The accelerated development of quantum computers poses a direct threat to all current standards of public key encryption, for example, the Shor algorithm exploits the superposition state of the qubits to solve the problem of integer factorization in polynomial time, rendering all systems whose security relies on this hard mathematical problem not secure. Public key encryption algorithms are used in a multitude of applications that form the core of the digital world (e.g., emails, banking, digital currency, defense, and communication.). The prospects of a quantum machine that can break such systems are too risky to ignore, even if such a computer still needs thirty years to build. This is because adversaries can be storing data now to decrypt later aka. SNLD attack, moreover, some systems have an operational lifetime that spans more than thirty years (e.g., defense, aviation industry). Consequently, the work has already started to develop quantum-attack resilient security schemes. The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is expected to be around 29 billion in 2030, forming a significant portion of all computing machines. Most of these will be implemented as embedded systems with limited resources. Consequently, assessing the energy and computational overheads of the quantum-attack resilient security schemes is vital. This work presents a comprehensive study that evaluates the energy and performance costs of the proposed solutions in resource-constrained devices, in comparison with the existing schemes. This was achieved through the development of a testbed that emulates a client-server configuration, wherein both devices perform mutual authentication and then agree on a shared key using the TLS protocol. A Raspberry Pi 3b+ was used as a server, and a client in the first set of experiments. Raspberry Pi Pico W was the client in the second group of tests. The results of the evaluation have shown that Kyber1-Dilithuim-2 is the most resource-efficient solution, it outperforms all other PQC algorithms, including the current scheme that uses elliptic curve cryptography. Our study has also shown the digital signature scheme Sphinx+ is associated with significant latency and energy costs so may not be suitable for IoT-type devices.</p

    National models for CPD: The challenges of C21st knowledge management

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    Teacher quality is the most critical factor in improving educational outcomes (McKinsey, 2007). This paper proposes analytical frameworks for national models for continuing professional development (CPD). It examines the unacknowledged problem of the quality and extent of the evidence base underpinning teachers’ CPD. In the 21C through the use of ICTs the research and evidence base underpinning educational practice surely could be made accessible to all teachers and all providers of initial teacher training and CPD. The evidence base available internationally appears to be patchy. Yet this is taken for granted in the literature, and is rarely if ever acknowledged in the discourse about school and system improvement. This lack of research based professional knowledge, is a particular problem for subject specialist issues and is further compounded by the fact that research published in journals is not generally designed around questions teachers want answered. In short, the knowledge that is produced and the management of it within the education sector is lacking systemic organisation and dissemination. The paper outlines opportunities which exist for low cost interlinked national and international e-infrastructures to be developed to support knowledge sharing, but such collaboration may pose an insurmountable challenge for national and international agencies
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