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Oliver H. P. Scott Civil War letter
No full textThis collection contains a letter written by Maj. Oliver H. P. Scott, commanding the 3rd Iowa Cavalry at Helena, Ark., to Maj. John W. Noble commanding a detached unit of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry at Yazoo Pass, Mississippi
American Literary Naturalism in H. P. Lovecraft
No full textWhile many traditional gothic authors focused on the horrors of a forgotten past, H. P. Lovecraft centered his works around the terror of an undiscovered future. There must have been some major epistemic shift that yielded the difference between Lovecraft and his claimed influences. For my research project, I hypothesized that the distinguishing factor between Lovecraft and the canon of American gothic literature was human progress. At the turn of the century American gothic was shaped and changed into the unique cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft. This major shift in thinking can be seen in the movement known as American literary naturalism. My project aimed to tie together the commonly dissociated elements of traditional American gothic and literary naturalism. I postulated that the epistemic shift, which caused the literary naturalism movement, affected the American gothic genre to form the unique style of horror seen in the writings of Lovecraft. Therefore, to analyze the structures that comprise Lovecraft’s works, I first began with the influences of traditional American gothic horror. From there, I moved forward into the 20th century and broke down the components of American literary naturalism to examine the extraneous variables that worked to produce the new type of horror showcased in the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Reasoning about Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm using Probabilistic wp
No full textGrover's search algorithm is designed to be executed on a quantum-mechanical computer. In this article, the probabilistic wp-calculus is used to model and reason about Grover's algorithm. It is demonstrated that the calculus provides a rigorous programming notation for modeling this and other quantum algorithms and that it also provides a systematic framework of analyzing such algorithms
Letter from D. McCord and others to Alden Partridge, approximately 1838
No full textUndated invitation to a public dinner at Clark's Hotel (location otherwise unknown), signed by D. McCord, W. Hampton, H. Legare, A. P. Butler, W. Thompson, and William B. Pringle; may have been written in 1838.Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Connerly, W. P. H.
No full textSee entry in Butler County, volume 1, page 52: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/111
Oliver, H. P.
No full textSee entry in Butler County, volume 1, page 62: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/112
The contribution of steps to the optical properties of vicinal Diamond (100):H surfaces
No full textWe apply reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) to high-quality atomically smooth H/C(100) 2×1 surfaces. The optical signal of the H/C(100) 0° flat surface, and of the H/C(100) 2° and H/C(100) 4° vicinal surfaces, is investigated in terms of single and double steps. A comparison of experimental and theoretical results obtained from ab initio calculations shows that, in the energy range considered (1–5 eV), the RAS response can be interpreted in terms of single height SB and double height DA steps
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