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Maurice Keating, Duncan McEachern, and Very Rev. Christopher Keating, ca.1960
No full textdigital photograph (jpeg)Excellent condition.L-R: Maurice E. Keating (Administration of Education), Duncan McEachern (Student), unknown man, and Very Rev. Christopher J. Keating (SMU President from 1940-1943)
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865
Get PDFInterview with Richard R. Duncan Interviewed by Christopher Childers Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Why did Winchester\u27s citizens believe that slavery was so interwoven in our social, domestic, and industrial life, that any sudden change would be destructive to us when ...
An exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting
Get PDFAn exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting.
This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of the life and trial of 20th century Scottish medium Helen Duncan, entitled Hellish Nell, and a thesis which reflects the process of writing the script using Linda Aronson's flashback narrative structures.
The central focus of this thesis is to explore the applicability of Aronson's theoretical frameworks first circulated in Screen writing Updated in 2000 through the various stages of script development.
The Introduction examines what a flashback is and its uses. It sets out Linda Aronson's theoretical framework on flashback narrative structure, in particular her theory on case history and thwarted dream. It also reviews the historical sources of my screenplay and examines the creative practice of exploring through biographic drama a complex and unresolved historical figure.
Chapter One investigates Aronson's flashback theory in more detail, how it is assessed and applied. It also explores the issues attendant upon writing biographical drama with specific reference to Aronson's framework. It also examines her three sub-sets and explains why they were excluded from my development work. Finally it covers what areas will be investigated in more detail in the rest of the thesis.
Chapter Two sets up the background and story of Helen Duncan, the Scottish medium and psychic. It then focuses on Aronson's thwarted dream and case history narrative structures, and the results that arose from testing their applicability against my own writing practice. The first section deals with the examination of Aronson's thwarted dream narrative structure through the development of Surfacing for Air, my initial attempt at a screenplay. The results were of paramount importance as it was through this initial investigation that the significance of theme and genre were first identified. It also painted to the crucial role of point-of-view. This led to these areas of concern being explored further in the examination of Aronson's case history narrative structure, through the development of the final screenplay, Hellish Nell. The second section explores the development of this screenplay and also assesses the applicability of case history to my own script and writing practice. It illustrates the details of the amendments and the decisions involved in those changes and an analysis of the stages of my research development. It also investigates the impact of genre and theme in determining the content of the links between present and past stories.
Chapter Three analyses four contemporary films which involve flashbacks in the light of Aronson's theoretical framework and tests the impact of genre and theme when deciding where the dramatic connections should be between past and present stories and in determining their content.
The conclusion provides a modified version of Aronson's flashback theory in the light of the research and analysis undertaken. It also provides new additional questions based on the use of genre and theme when assessing the content of flashback sequences
Semiometrics: Applying Ontologies across Large-Scale Digital Libraries
No full textAs large-scale digital libraries become more available and complete, not to mention more numerous, it is clear there is a need for services that can draw together and perform inference calculations on the metadata produced. However, the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model, while efficiently constructed and optimised for many business structures, does not necessarily cope well with issues of concurrent data updates and retrieval at the scale of hundreds of thousands of papers. At the same time the growth of RDF and the increasing interest in Semantic Web technologies perhaps begins to present a viable alternative at a scalable, practical level. This paper considers a specific application of large-scale metadata analysis and conducts scalability tests using real-world data. It concludes that RDF technologies are both a scalable and performance-realistic alternative to traditional RDBMS approaches. It also shows that for relationship-based queries on large-scale metadata stores, RDF technologies can significantly out-perform traditional RDBMS approaches by allowing both retrieval and updating of data in a timely manner
The R Journal (December 2010) 2(2): Complete Issue
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Solving Differential Equations in R, Karline Soetaert, Thomas Petzoldt and R. Woodrow Setzer
Source References, Duncan Murdoch
hglm: A Package for Fitting Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models, Lars Rönnegård, Xia Shen and Moudud Alam
dclone: Data Cloning in R, Péter Sólymos
stringr: Modern, Consistent String Processing, Hadley Wickham
Bayesian Estimation of the GARCH(1,1) Model with Student-t Innovations, David Ardia and Lennart F. Hoogerheide
cudaBayesreg: Bayesian Computation in CUDA, Adelino Ferreira da Silva
binGroup: A Package for Group Testing, Christopher R. Bilder, Boan Zhang, Frank Schaarschmidt, and Joshua M. Tebbs
The RecordLinkage Package: Detecting Errors in Data, Murat Sariyar and Andreas Borg
spikeslab: Prediction and Variable Selection Using Spike and Slab Regression, Hemant Ishwaran, Udaya B. Kogalur, and J. Sunil Rao
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Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
No full textHigh-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of an entire scientific discipline to a much greater extent. Similarly, 'impact' metrics using citation count alone are, it is argued, not adequate for determining the scientific influence of papers, authors or small groups of authors. Although valid, they remain controversial when used to determine influence of larger groups or journals. While the term 'impact' has become closely linked to a journal's citation-based Journal Impact Factor score, this thesis uses the term 'influence' to describe the wider effectiveness of research, combining citation and metadata analysis to allow richer calculations to be performed over large-scale document networks. As a result, more qualitative influence ratings can be determined and a broader outlook on scientific disciplines can be produced. These ratings are best applied using an ontology-based data source, allowing more efficient inference than under a traditional RDBMS system, and allowing easier integration between heterogeneous data sources. These metrics, termed 'Semantic Bibliometrics' or 'Semiometrics', can be applied at a variety of levels of granularity, allowing a compositional framework for impact and influence analysis. This thesis describes the process of data preparation, systems architecture, metric value and data integration for such a system, introducing novel approaches at all four stages, thereby creating a working semiometrics system for determining influence at different semantic levels of granularity
Atlantic anthology
No full textAtlantic AnthologyLetters patents from King Henry VII to John Cabot -- Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland / by Edward Haie -- East Coast: Canada / by Elizabeth Brewster -- Old St. John's / by L.E.F. English -- The Beothucks / by L.E.F. English -- Four thousand years of history / by J. Russell Harper -- An early account of a North American sea serpent / by Richard Hakluyt -- The shark / by E.J. Pratt -- How soon when the day is white / by Christopher Pratt -- The fruits of toil / by Norman Duncan -- Newfoundland today / by Joseph R. Smallwood -- Two Maritime ballads -- The Newfoundland dog: a living legend / by Jack A. White -- The romance of Newfoundland's story / by Albert B. Perli
Modelling public intentions to use innovative EV chargers employing hybrid energy storage systems: a UK case study based upon the technology acceptance model
No full textThe current study investigates public intentions to use an innovative, off-grid renewably powered EV charging technology called FEVER (Future Electric Vehicle Energy networks supporting Renewables). We report the findings of a questionnaire-based survey (QBS) conducted at a zoo in the south of England, exploring the prospect of demonstrating FEVER. The QBS was designed around a context-specific technology acceptance model (TAM) and administered both face-to-face (n = 63) and online (n = 158) from April to May 2023. The results indicate that most participants were willing to pay to use FEVER, particularly where revenue would benefit the zoo. The participants agreed they intended to use the chargers, and that they would be useful and easy to use. The participants agreed that there would be normative pressure to use the chargers, but that their use would be enjoyable. Of greatest concern was that the chargers would be blocked by others. The participants were ambivalent about concerns over charging duration and charge sufficiency. Structural equation modelling confirmed that the context-specific TAM explained 58% of people’s use intentions. The core relationships of the TAM were confirmed, with ‘perceived usefulness’ additionally predicted by subjective norms and ‘perceived ease of use’ additionally predicted by anticipated enjoyment. Of the other variables, only concern that the chargers would be blocked was retained as a marginal predictor of ‘perceived ease of use’. The implications of these findings for the co-design and demonstration of FEVER are discussed
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