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Morris E. Boss letters, W.0078
No full textAbstract: Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.Scope and Content Note: These thirteen letters were written between 1861 and 1865 by Morris E. Boss of Binghamton, New York, and members of his family. Most of the letters were sent from Morris E. Boss to his brother, Homer B. Boss. A member of the Sixty-first New York Infantry, Morris's letters include brief accounts of the Battle of Seven Pines and Chancellorsville. His letters also describe camp life, including notable discussions of payroll backlogs, the draft, and the execution of deserters. In his last letter, dated June 20, 1865, Morris describes the discharge process and notes that he is owed $575.00 in back pay.The remaining letters are written by or addressed to other members of the Boss family; these letters also relay war news and updates on Morris's health and wellbeing. A letter from Charles Boss to Homer B. Boss written in December 1861 discusses Morris's enlistment and lists the names of other local recruits. Another letter from S. E. Sarrabu presumably addressed to Morris's sister Louisa M. Boss (incorrectly addressed as S. M. Boss) reports that Morris is missing and presumed injured after a shell exploded near him during a skirmish at Appomattox.Transcriptions of the letters are included, although there is no information as to who provided the transcriptions.Biographical/Historical Note: The son of carriage maker Ela W. Boss and Louisa Butler Boss, Morris E. Boss was born on April 7, 1844, in Fabius, New York. On November 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company I in the New York Sixty-first Infantry, later transferring to Company F. During the war, Morris received two commissions, advancing to full corporal on March 11, 1863, and full second lieutenant on December 15, 1864. He was discharged on July 15, 1865.After the war, Boss returned to New York, settling in Binghamton. City directories published between 1883 and 1899 list Boss as the owner and proprietor of a a number of hotels, billiard parlors, and saloons. Boss died between 1899 and 1900
The BOSS online submission and assessment system
No full textComputer programming lends itself to automated assessment. With appropriate software tools, program correctness can be measured, along with an indication of quality according to a set of metrics. Furthermore, the regularity of program code allows plagiarism detection to be an integral part of the tools that support assessment. In this paper, we describe a submission and assessment system, called BOSS, that supports coursework assessment through collecting submissions, performing automatic tests for correctness and quality, checking for plagiarism, and providing an interface for marking and delivering feedback. We describe how automated assessment is incorporated into BOSS such that it supports, rather than constrains, assessment. The pedagogic and administrative issues that are affected by the assessment process are also discussed
Cooperative Games arising from Information Sharing Situations
No full textRelations are established between information sharing (IS) situations and IS-games on one hand and information collecting (IC) situations and IC-games on the other hand. It is shown that IC-games can be obtained as convex combinations of so-called local games. Properties are described which IC-games possess if all related local games have the respective properties. Special attention is paid to the classes of convex IC-games and of k-concave IC-games. This last class turns out to consist of total big boss games. For the class of total big boss games a new solution concept is introduced: bi-monotonic allocation schemes.cooperative games;information;big boss games;bi-monotonic allocation scheme
Pendulum Front Boss 6.1 m/s
No full textSimulation vs experimental testing output comparison for the
Hybrid III head form pendulum impacts (PI) impact location Front Boss 6.1 m/s.</p
Pendulum Front Boss 3.0 m/s
No full textSimulation vs experimental testing output comparison for the
Hybrid III head form pendulum impacts (PI) impact location Front Boss 3.0 m/s.</p
Pendulum Front Boss 4.6 m/s
No full textSimulation vs experimental testing output comparison for the
Hybrid III head form pendulum impacts (PI) impact location Front Boss 4.6 m/s.</p
Stellar masses of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies at z~0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models
No full textWe calculate stellar masses for ∼400 000 massive luminous galaxies at redshift ∼0.2–0.7 using the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Stellar masses are obtained by fitting model spectral energy distributions to u, g, r, i, z magnitudes, and simulations with mock galaxies are used to understand how well the templates recover the stellar mass. Accurate BOSS spectroscopic redshifts are used to constrain the fits. We find that the distribution of stellar masses in BOSS is narrow (Δlog M ∼ 0.5 dex) and peaks at about log M/M⊙ ∼ 11.3 (for a Kroupa initial stellar mass function), and that the mass sampling is uniform over the redshift range 0.2–0.6, in agreement with the intended BOSS target selection. The galaxy masses probed by BOSS extend over ∼1012 M⊙, providing unprecedented measurements of the high-mass end of the galaxy mass function. We find that the galaxy number density above ∼2.5 × 1011 M⊙ agrees with previous determinations. We perform a comparison with semi-analytic galaxy formation models tailored to the BOSS target selection and volume, in order to contain incompleteness. The abundance of massive galaxies in the models compare fairly well with the BOSS data, but the models lack galaxies at the massive end. Moreover, no evolution with redshift is detected from ∼0.6 to 0.4 in the data, whereas the abundance of massive galaxies in the models increases to redshift zero. Additionally, BOSS data display colour–magnitude (mass) relations similar to those found in the local Universe, where the most massive galaxies are the reddest. On the other hand, the model colours do not display a dependence on stellar mass, span a narrower range and are typically bluer than the observations. We argue that the lack of a colour–mass relation for massive galaxies in the models is mostly due to metallicity, which is too low in the models
Fuzzy Clan Games and Bi-monotonic Allocation Rules
No full textClan game;Big boss game;Core;Decision making;Fuzzy coalition;Fuzzy game;Monotonic allocation rule
Artist Boss: Anthony Caro [curators]
No full textCurated by J. Dunseath and Dr M. Wilsher at New Art Centre, Roche Court.
This exhibition looks at the role of studio assistants raising questions concerning the status of production, originality, authenticity, and authorship within the tradition of twentieth-century British sculpture.
It presents new work by former studio assistants with Caro's work in the grounds. The work of John Gibbons, Ian Dawson, John Wallbank & Guy Martin demonstrates the individual ways in which the evolution of sculptural language has been negotiated.
All unified by the shared experience of starting a career in Caro’s studio. Together the works offer a range of perspectives on issues of ownership and authorship, prevalence of making and the prominence of the studio
BOSS Studytour 2002. Mexico City
No full textThis report presents the experiences of students and staff during a study tour through Mexico City. This tour took place from June 28 till July 14, 2002, and has been organized by the Building Organization Student Society (BOSS). BOSS is the student’s organization of the Department of Real Estate and Project management of the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. The aim of the study tour was to extend the education program with research abroad. The tour focused on six themes: Mexican architecture, urban (re)development, ground politics, infrastructure & logistics in building construction, investment, and actors and interactions. After a chapter with facts and figures, all themes are briefly discussed. The report ends with some concluding remarks
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