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Advertisement for C.F. Martin & Co.: "Billy, wherever you are, please come home."
No full textAdvertisement offering various types of customization for Martin guitars. C.F. Martin & Co., founded in 1833 and headquartered in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, is the world\u27s oldest surviving producer of guitars and the largest producer of acoustic guitars in the United States
Letter from C.F. Ronayne to Hagan
No full textTypescript letter with handwritten additions signed 'S.' [C.F. Ronayne, Dublin], to 'my dear Hickey' [Hagan, although ostensibly to College student]. Wondering whether he received his last letter with the newspaper enclosure [16 August]; reiterating request. His chief reaches Plymouth on Friday. 'Sister Katherine' [Keohane] will be disappointed that Hagan will not be able to visit Ireland. Concerning 'Convent number one' [the Blue Nuns] the papers are ready and will be brought to Paris by Fr. Moloney; they will wait until Ronayne himself comes to Rome. The nuns are in great spirits and ready for a hard struggle in the Upper House. Concerning 'convent number 2' [the Irish republican party], he will try to see Mother General [DeValera] and might see light then, as Hagan suggests. Agreeing that the 'poor nuns' have no other alternative right now; they are certainly getting recognition for having stuck to the 'cane and to the instruments' when the holy pious ones were for yielding. There was 'something to be said for the methods of punishment on which you and I and Uncle Elias [P.E. Magennis] were brought up'. (Compare other correspondence for 'Hickey', as of 16 August.) [between 6 and 10 September] 192
Spatio-temporal variation in the elemental compositions of otoliths of southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii in the Indian Ocean and its ecological implication
No full textThe elements Na, Mg, Mn, Ca, Sr and Ba in otoliths of southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii, collected from their feeding ground in the central Indian Ocean and spawning ground between southern Java and north-western Australia were measured by laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) and compared among sampling locations and developmental stages. The Na, Mg and Mn to Ca concentration ratios were significantly higher at the larval stage than at the adult stage, and the ratio reached a peak at the first inflection point of the otolith, mean ±s.d. 43·3 ± 4·9 days after hatching and decreased sharply to a low level thereafter. The temporal change of the elements:Ca ratios in the first inflection point corresponded to the life stage transition from larva to juvenile, indicating that the uptake rate of elements from ambient waters was significantly influenced by the ontogenetic change in the fish. The elemental composition at the otolith edge differed significantly in sub-adults on the feeding grounds and adults on the spawning grounds. Thus, the otolith elemental composition can be used as a biological tracer to study the time of the ontogenetic shift and to reconstruct the past migratory environmental history of T. maccoyii. In addition, the elemental composition of the otolith core of the adult was similar between feeding and spawning grounds, indicating that the fish in the Indian Ocean had the same larval origin, which is consistent with the single spawning population hypothesis
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Full text linkThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Formal synthesis of analytic controllers for sampled-data systems via genetic programming
No full textThis paper presents an automatic formal controller synthesis method for nonlinear sampled-data systems with safety and reachability specifications. Fundamentally, the presented method is not restricted to polynomial systems and controllers. We consider a periodically switched controllers based on a Control Lyapunov Barrier-like function. The proposed method utilizes genetic programming to synthesize these function in analytic form, as well as the controller modes. Correctness of the controller are subsequently verified by means of a Satisfiability Modulo Theories solver. Effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated on multiple systems.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Team Tamas Keviczk
Why you don't need to write much to be the world's bestselling author
Full text linkAn account of my use of stylometry to analyse the works of James Patterson, written for a public audience
Checking recognition: do you remember and do you know in talk-in-interaction
Full text linkThis dissertation examines how speakers check recognition of knowledge and memory they presume to be shared by their co-participants. In this conversation analytic study, I analyze recognition checks with (do you) remember (Chapter 3), (do) you know (Chapter 4) in American English and German everyday conversation, and in English classroom interaction, specifically, in teacher talk (Chapter 5). Independent of their sequential position or their position within a turn, do you remember and do you know in both English and German are expansions of talk that help to structure sequences and turns to avoid problems of intersubjectivity (Auer, 1984; Schegloff et al., 1977) and to establish common ground among participants.
Chapter 1 introduces the topic of this study. Chapter 2 reviews the notions reference, knowledge and memory and describes the major characteristics of spoken German and teacher talk. Chapter 3 investigates English and German do you remember recognition checks in everyday conversation. I show how speakers back up their claims or (counter-)challenge their coparticipant with do you remember using memory that is assumed to be in the knowledge domain of the recipient (Antaki & Leudar, 1990; Golato, 2012). Chapter 4 explores English and German do you know constructions in everyday interaction. For both English and German do you know constructions, speakers initiate topic shifts and pursue a response after no or insufficient uptake from the participants (Bolden et al., 2012). Chapter 5 examines do you remember and do you know as employed in teacher talk. While do you remember organizes classroom talk by giving step-by-step information or connecting old with new information, do you know either self-repairs teacher talk by reformulating or making a previous teacher question more specific. Chapter 6 summarizes the major findings of this dissertation focusing on a comparison of the two constructions under investigation. It also discusses the limitations of this study and the avenues of future research. This dissertation addresses issues relevant to the field of conversation analysis, pedagogy, second language acquisition research, linguistics, cognitive science and sociology.Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin ([email protected]) on 2014-10-16T19:15:41Z
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You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights? Understanding and Protecting Your Rights As an Author
No full textWhen you publish a journal article, you sign a copyright or licensing agreement. Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign it?
Different journals have different policies: Some journals require you to relinquish your copyright. (You then have to ask permission or even pay to share your article with students and colleagues!) Some journals allow you to retain some rights (e.g., the right to post online). Some journals leave copyright in your hands. (You simply give the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article.)
How can you find out a journal’s policy? How can you negotiate your contract to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, and author? This presentation covers how you can protect your rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work you create
What You Show is What You Get!: Gestures for Microtask Crowdsourcing
No full textCrowdsourcing is a valuable tool to gather human input which enables the development of reliable artificial intelligence systems. Microtask platforms like Prolific and Amazon's Mechanical Turk have flourished by creating environments where crowd workers can provide such human input in a diverse and representative manner. Such marketplaces have evolved to support several hundreds of workers in earning their primary livelihood through crowd work. Crowd workers, however, often perform these tasks in sub-optimal work environments with poor ergonomics. Additionally, many of the various microtasks require input via the standard method of a mouse and keyboard and are repetitive in nature. As such, crowd workers who primarily earn their livelihoods in microtask marketplaces are at risk of injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. By changing the input modality from a mouse and keyboard to gesture-driven input, crowd workers can complete their work while simultaneously improving or safeguarding their physical health. Through three distinct microtasks, we constructed a dataset that enables the exploration of the physical and mental health of crowd workers while using gestures. In this work, we present the process of constructing this dataset, how we applied it, and the future applications we foresee. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Web Information System
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