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Jack D. L. Holmes papers, W.0001
No full textAbstract: Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and author. The correspondence is primarily between Arrow Printing Company and Holmes about his book,
Honor and fidelity; the Louisiana Infantry Regiment and the Louisiana militia companies, 1766-1821. Most of the articles, papers, and newspaper clippings relate to his research on the early history of the Gulf Coast States, specifically Dauphin Island, Alabama, and Louisiana.One manuscript is in Spanish and is a compilation of approximately ten Spanish documents, edited by Holmes and published in 1963. The documents relate to the settlement of Louisiana, and include a description of the territory written by Governor Esteban Miro and a diary written by Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos.Another manuscript is a typescript copy of Holmes's English translation (done in 1980) of "Spanish New Orleans and Louisiana" by Jose Montero de Pedro and Marques de Casa Mena, published in October 1979 by the Centro de Cooperations Iberoamericana.Biographical/Historical Note: Jack David Lazarus Holmes was a Latin American studies historian and writer who often researched topics relating to colonial Gulf Coast history. He was a faculty member in the University of Alabama at Birmingham History Department.Holmes was born on 4 July 1930, in Long Branch, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's degree from Florida State University, master's degree from the University of Florida, and doctorate from the University of Texas. Dr. Holmes died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1990
Library Lecture. Shadows on the Wall: Colonel W. C. Falkner in Legend
No full textJack D. Elliott, Jr. is the author of To the Ramparts of Infinity: Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad, forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi (November 2022)
From the ‘freedom of the streets’: a biographical study of culture and social change in the life and work of writer Jack Common (1903-1968)
No full textThe author assesses the life and work of the Newcastle upon Tyne born writer Jack Common in the light of the massive social, economic and cultural changes which have affected the North East of England and wider society through the period of Common's life and afterwards. He seeks to point out the relevance of Common to the present day in terms of his ideas about class, community and the individual and in the light of Common's sense of rebelliousness influenced by a process of grass-roots education and self-improvement. In addition, he draws upon his own extensive experience in community arts and education, looking, in particular, at the work he and others have carried out on Common over the last thirty years and assessing its value in the light of recent political changes. The author draws together the range of biographical and literary criticism carried out by a range of individuals over this period of time and brings into print hitherto unpublished material about Common's life and work by interviewing family members and associates, exploring the Common Archive at Newcastle University and other largely ignored sources, and studying Common's significant association with George Orwell in great detail. Through all of this, he seeks to argue that Common's life and ideas remain worthy of close attention in the present day
Jack Halberstam
No full textPhotograph of academic and author Jack Halberstam of University of Southern California with the Sigmund Freud statue on Clark University\u27s campus green. He was there as part of the Higgins School of Humanities Dialogue Symposium Embracing Failure , a series of events that embrace the topic of failure, exploring its boundaries and possibilities. Halberstam gave a talk called “Gltch in the Machine: The Queer Art of Failure”.
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Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 01: Spring 2009
No full textThis podcast features an interview with Dr. Jack E. Davis. He is the author of An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, published by the University of Georgia Press. In this podcast, he discusses his article “Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel,” which appeared in this issue.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1000/thumbnail.jp
A procedure for determining parameters of a simplified ligament model
No full textThe final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.10.037 © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/A previous mathematical model of ligament force-generation treated their behavior as a population of collagen fibres arranged in parallel. When damage was ignored in this model, an expression for ligament force in terms of the deflection, x, effective stiffness, k, mean collagen slack length, μ, and the standard deviation of slack lengths, σ, was obtained. We present a simple three-step method for determining the three model parameters (k, μ, and σ) from force-deflection data: (1) determine the equation of the line in the linear region of this curve, its slope is k and its x -intercept is -μ; (2) interpolate the force-deflection data when x is -μ to obtain F0; (3) calculate σ with the equation σ=2πF0/k. Results from this method were in good agreement to those obtained from a least-squares procedure on experimental data – all falling within 6%. Therefore, parameters obtained using the proposed method provide a systematic way of reporting ligament parameters, or for obtaining an initial guess for nonlinear least-squares.Jack P. Callaghan is supported by the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Spine Biomechanics
Jeff M. Barrett is supported by an NSERC PGS-D Scholarshi
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[Draft for letter from an unknown author to Dr. R. William McCarter and Dr. D. Jack Davis, March 1996]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter draft from an unknown person within Denton ISD offices to Dr. R. William McCarter and Dr. D. Jack Davis. The focus of the letter is the inclusion of Denton ISD in the 1992 Summer Institute program. They also list the contributions that the district is able to make. Included are two pages from a longer document detailing the activities and charges for the program. Following this is a roster for the campuses in the district
Characterization and structure in the development of Tudor comedy
No full textThe role of characterization in dramatic structure is assessed by theoretical criteria.
Characters who perform actions necessary for the completion of the narrative sequence are
said to be "bound" to the narrative; those without such obligations are "free". Characters
who maintain a single, constant meaning during the course of a play are said to be "static";
characters who change or develop into new roles are "dynamic". Horatian decorum
demanded that comic characters be static, and the characters of Plautine and Terentian
tradition were almost always bound to narrative intrigue. However, evaluations of six
Tudor comedies show an increasing use of non-classical characterization within the comic
form.
In the early comedies lohan lohan and Roister Doister all characters are bound and
static, yet the impetus to enlarge the role of characterization is evident. The characters of
lohan lohan are expanded from their French source, and Roister Doister includes
extraneous episodes in which Udall displays his braggart hero. Free characters abound in
Misogonus; as well the play brings dynamic characterization into the scope of comedy with
the conversion of its prodigal son.
Free characters offer new possibilities of non-narrative plotting. In comedies of the
1580s favourite traditional characters appear as diversions outside the action, and thematic
arrangements of characters inform the increasingly complex plots. Lyly stresses the
symbolic potential of characters in Endimion, whereas Greene uses dynamic
characterization to heighten the illusion of independent figures in Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay. Love's Labour's Lost exposes the limitations of comic artifice by pulling the
characters between convention and individualization.
By the end of the sixteenth century free and dynamic characters had become
common, and characterization had established a sizable claim on the design of English
comedy. These developments set the English form apart from its neoclassical counterparts
UNUSUAL NEGATIVE MOLECULAR IONS AND DIANIONS AND CHEMICAL BONDS INVOLVING RYDBERG ORBITALS
No full text1. Maciej Gutowski, Piotr Skurski, Kenneth D. Jordan, Jack Simons; Int J. Quant. Chem.; 64, 183 (1997). 2. P. Skurski, M. Gutowski and J. Simons, Int J. Quant Chem. 76. 197 (2000). 3. Alexander I. Boldyrev, Maciej Gutowski, and Jack Simons; Acc. Chem. Res.; 29, 497 (1996). 4. Jack Simons and Maciej Gutowski, Chem. Rev. 91, 669 (1991). 5. A. I. Boldyrev and J. Simons; J. Phys. Chem. 96, 8840 (1992); A. I. Boldyrev and J. Simons. J. Phys. Chem., 103, 3575 (1999).Author Institution: Department of Chemistry and Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of UtahIn this presentation, our work and that of several other groups on the species listed in the title will be discussed. Particular emphasis will be given to: (a) dipole bound (which have also been the subject of numerous experimental studies), (b) dipole bound (which remain theoretical speculation), (c) resonance states of anions that can be made stable via ``solvation'', (d) dianions such as that have extremely high second electron binding (which occur in the solid state and in solution), (e) anions in which the ``extra'' electron occupies a Rydberg-like molecular (which have been seen experimentally), and (f) chemical bonds that arise when a Rydberg-like orbital is
Design and testing of a thick-film dual-modality sensor for composition measurements in heterogeneous mixtures
No full textThe current paper focuses on design and laboratory evaluation of a dual-modality sensor, developed for the needs of oil and gas extraction industry to measure the composition of heterogeneous mixtures in harsh conditions. The sensor combines ultrasonic and electrical measurement techniques, which are non-destructive, rapid and can potentially provide an on-line industrial measurement. Such a ‘dual-modality’ measurement could potentially be reliable in a wider range of process conditions. A distinct feature of the sensors presented here is their construction, which makes use of the thick-film technology, enabling the construction of multi-layered structures of both conductive and non-conductive layers, some of which may exhibit piezoelectric properties for ultrasonic measurement purposes. These are later fired on a ceramic substrate to provide rugged sensors, capable of working in aggressive industrial environments. Laboratory experiments to investigate the feasibility of the dual-modality sensors were conducted and some comparisons with the theoretical predictions are presented
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