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Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Letter re: Aviation Writers Association party
No full textLetter from Richard M. Mock, president of LEAR, Inc., to Amon Carter expressing regret that he was unable to attend the barbecue dinner at Shady Oak Farm honoring Aviation Writers Association
Richard M. Sheirich research collection : materials about Richard Beer-Hofmann 1866-2002
No full textThis collection consists of Richard M. Sheirich’s materials pertaining to his research on Richard Beer-Hofmann’s private correspondence and works. In addition to the original papers, correspondence, notes, and photos of Richard Beer-Hofmann and his family that Richard M. Sheirich gathered, the collection contains Sheirich’s correspondence with Richard Beer-Hofmann’s daughter Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens, his and other scholars’ works on Beer-Hofmann, several photocopies of the original Beer-Hofmann papers, and Sheirich’s notes.Richard M. Sheirich's book, 'Der Briefwechsel mit Paula 1896-1937’ is available in the LBI Library.Richard M. Sheirich was born on October 9, 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He studied German at Colgate University, Northwestern University and at Universität Hamburg, and earned a Ph. D. in German at Harvard University in 1965; his dissertation was titled “Die Historie von König David.”After teaching German at the University of California at Berkeley, Richard M. Sheirich became a faculty member at Pomona College in 1962 and retired from the same institution in 1996. Sheirich’s research interest was the Austrian literary movement Das Junge Wien and specifically Richard Beer-Hoffman’s work. He started working on Beer-Hofmann’s writings in the 1950s. His work in this field was the preparation of an inventory of the Richard Beer-Hofmann papers for Harvard University. As part of his research, Sheirich travelled to Vienna, Austria several times and conducted a long correspondence with Richard Beer-Hofmann’s daughter Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens. Alongside other smaller publications, the result of Sheirich’s research was the publication of Der Briefwechsel mit Paula, 1896-1937, Richard Beer-Hofmann’s correspondence with his wife Paula.Richard M. Sheirich died at his home in Claremont on Dec. 11, 2011.Richard Beer-Hofmann was a Viennese author, poet, dramatist and theater director.Processeddigitize
Severe vivax malaria: Newly recognised or rediscovered?
Get PDFStephen Rogerson and Richard Carter discuss two new studies that challenge current dogma by suggesting that vivax malaria can cause severe disease
On a three-dimensional gait recognition system
No full textThe University of Southampton Multi-Biometric Tunnel is a high performance data-capture and recognition system; designed with airports and other busy public areas in mind. It is able to acquire a variety of non-contact biometrics in a non-intrusive manner, requiring minimal subject cooperation. The system uses twelve cameras to record gait and perform three-dimensional reconstruction; the use of volumetric data avoids the problems caused by viewpoint dependence - a serious problem for many gait analysis approaches. The early prototype by Middleton et al. was used as the basis for creating a new and improved system, designed for the collection of a new large dataset, containing gait, face and ear. Extensive modifications were made, including new software for managing the data collection experiment and processing the dataset. Rigorous procedures were implemented to protect the privacy of participants and ensure consistency between capture sessions. Collection of the new multi-biometric dataset spanned almost one year; resulting in over 200 subjects and 2000 samples.Experiments performed on the newly collected dataset resulted in excellent recognition performance, with all samples correctly classified and a 1.58% equal error rate; the matching of subjects against previous samples was also found to be reasonably accurate. The fusion of gait with a simple facial analysis technique found the addition of gait to be beneficial -- especially at a distance. Further experiments investigated the effect of static and dynamic features, camera misalignment, average silhouette resolution, camera layout, and the matching of outdoor video footage against data from the Biometric Tunnel. The results in this thesis prove significant due to the unprecedented size of the new dataset and the excellent recognition performance achieved; providing a significant body of evidence to support the argument that an individual's gait is unique.L. Middleton, D. K. Wagg, A. I. Bazin, J. N. Carter and M. S. Nixon. A smart environment for biometric capture. Automation Science and Engineering, Proceedings of IEEEInternational Conference on, 57-62, 2006
View Invariant Gait Recognition
Get PDFRecognition by gait is of particular interest since it is the biometric that is available at the lowest resolution, or when other biometrics are (intentionally) obscured. Gait as a biometric has now shown increasing recognition capability. There are many approaches and these show that recognition can achieve excellent performance on large databases. The majority of these approaches are planar 2D, largely since the early large databases featured subjects walking in a plane normal to the camera view. To extend deployment capability, we need viewpoint invariant gait biometrics. We describe approaches where viewpoint invariance is achieved by 3D approaches or in 2D. In the first group the identification relies on parameters extracted from the 3D body deformation during walking. These methods use several video cameras and the 3D reconstruction is achieved after a camera calibration process. On the other hand, the 2D gait biometric approaches use a single camera, usually positioned perpendicular to the subject’s walking direction. Because in real surveillance scenarios a system that operates in an unconstrained environment is necessary, many of the recent gait analysis approaches are orientated towards viewinvariant gait recognition
FIGURE 6 in On the identity of Lophostoma silvicolum occidentalis (Davis & Carter, 1978) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
No full textFIGURE 6. Map showing collecting localities of Lophostoma occidentalis (circles) and the type localities of L. aequatoriolis (star) and L. occidentalis (triangle).Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Cadenillas, Richard, 2011, On the identity of Lophostoma silvicolum occidentalis (Davis & Carter, 1978) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2962 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20728
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Richard M. Murray [People in Control]
No full textThis issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine speaks with Richard Murray, the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Control Systems Award; Yongxin Chen, the lead author of the paper that received the 2017 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award; and Joseph Bentsman, the chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Technical Committee on Power Generation
Gosser to Carter
No full textLabor leader Richard Gosser also addresses Carter in writing about Carl Joseph, focusing on his positive character
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