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Bringing in the hay
No full textColin Swain and some Aboriginal men stacking hay.Cheater, F. and Cheater, K.Date:1957-0
Keith Cheater with some children from Croker Island
No full textChildren from Croker Island going to homes in South. Keith Cheater and Colin Wright at rear. MMA DC3 VH-MMK behind group. Darwin Airport.Cheater, F. and Cheater, K.Date:195
Melissa Fay Greene, 20th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMelissa Fay Greene has twice been a National Book Award finalist and has won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Lillian Smith Award, the Chicago Tribune Hartland Prize, the QPB New Voices Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is author of Praying for Sheetrock, the story of the political awakening of the rural African-American community of Coastal McIntosh County and the downfall of the corrupt courthouse gang, and The Temple Bombing, about the attack on an Atlanta synagogue in October of 1958
Experimentos exploratórios: os contextos da descoberta e da justificativa nos trabalhos de Gray e Du Fay
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Científica e Tecnológica, Florianópolis, 2015.A experimentação é normalmente entendida, no ensino de ciências, como um meio para refutar ou corroborar uma teoria e todo o seu processo dinâmico foge a uma reflexão metodológica. Principalmente na física, uma ciência experimental, é natural que as relações entre hipótese e experimentação estejam intimamente ligadas ao processo de construção do conhecimento. Entretanto, como enfatiza a literatura, é essencial refletir sobre esses vínculos que passam, muitas vezes, despercebidos tanto no âmbito da própria ciência como no procedimento pedagógico. Desta forma, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi evidenciar a dinâmica entre hipótese e experimentação na construção do conhecimento científico. Para tanto se desenvolveu um módulo de ensino que discute o conceito de experimentação exploratória (STEINLE, 1997; 2002) e a relação entre o contexto da descoberta e o contexto da justificativa, a partir dos estudos de Stephen Gray e Charles Du Fay em um momento incipiente da história da eletricidade. O módulo é constituído por um texto, dois artigos, três trechos de vídeos, seminários e uma atividade experimental, realizada em sala de aula. No primeiro semestre de 2013, ele foi implementado em um dos segmentos de uma disciplina sobre História da Ciência da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Os dados obtidos através de um questionário aberto, em termos gerais, mostraram que a proposta é eficaz, promovendo uma satisfatória articulação entre o conteúdo histórico e aspectos específicos da filosofia da ciência.Abstract : Experimentation is usually understood in the teaching of science as a means to refute or corroborate a theory and all its dynamic process flees to a methodological reflection. Especially in physics, an experimental science, it is natural that the relationship between hypothesis and experimentation are closely linked to the knowledge construction process. However, as emphasized by the literature, it is essential to reflect on those ties that are often overlooked both in the science itself as the pedagogical procedure. Thus, the objective of this research was to demonstrate the dynamic between hypothesis and experimentation in the construction of scientific knowledge. Therefore developed a teaching module that discusses the concept of exploratory experimentation (STEINLE 1997, 2002) and the relationship between the context of discovery and the context of justification, from the studies of Stephen Gray and Charles Du Fay at a time incipient history of electricity. The module consists of a text, two articles, three sections of videos, seminars and experimental activity conducted in the classroom. In the first half of 2013, it was implemented in one of the segments of a course in the History of Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina. The data obtained through an open questionnaire, in general, showed that the proposal is effective, promoting a sound relationship between the historical content and specific aspects of the philosophy of science
Fay Weldon: bliss is.. editing
No full textFor acclaimed author Fay Weldon the bliss of editing comes after the labour of invention; the close, concentrated, rewarding work of changing this word for that, that semi-colon for this full stop. The text springs to life
Fay
No full textA Novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin Books hardcover, 14.00, ISBN: 0743205383; 4/2001) The search for love and family has seldom been portrayed with such harsh realism as in this almost literally stunning fourth novel by the highly acclaimed Mississippi author. Brown\u27s first substantial female protagonist, Fay Jones, is a 17-year-old virginal beauty who runs away from her mean and drunken father and impoverished family (migrant workers camped near Oxford, Mississippi) in a vividly detailed opening sequence that recalls the beginning of Faulkner\u27s classic Light in August. Fay is a complete innocent, can scarcely read, has never seen a movie or used a pay phone. State trooper Sam Harris finds her hitchhiking and brings her home, where his wife Amy (still grieving over the accidental death of their teenaged daughter) essentially adopts her. But a chain of bizarre coincidences ends this idyllic family relationship, and Fay is soon on the road again, now pregnant, and easy prey (as she moves south, to Biloxi) for a hard-bitten waitress who pushes her toward stripping, then for easygoing Aaron Forrest, who turns out to be an unstable drug dealer. The story builds terrific momentum as things continue to go hopelessly wrong for Fay. She leaves Aaron, attempting to return to Sam, and the three converge in a skillfully deployed and violent finale that confirms Brown\u27s close kinship both with crime novelist Jim Thompson and with that underrated master of literate southern melodrama, Erskine Caldwell. The novel is probably too long, and it goes egregiously over the top at least once (in depicting an airplane pilot\u27s fate). But it\u27s filled with spare, precise, musical, observantly detailed prose and hair-raising extended scenes (an account of the effort to rescue a gas-truck driver from a flaming wreck is a piece of action writing few contemporary authors could match). Fay herself is an intensely real character, and Brown (Father and Son, 1996, etc.) tells her lurid, sorrowful story magnificently. Close to a masterpiece. ―Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1120/thumbnail.jp
Development and leadership in computer-mediated collaborative groups
No full textComputer-mediated collaboration is an important feature of modern organisational and educational settings. Despite its ever increasing popularity, it is still commonly compared unfavourably with face-to-face collaboration because non-verbal and paralinguistic cues are minimal. Although research on face-to-face group collaboration is well documented, less is known about computer-mediated collaboration.
The initial focus of this thesis was an in-depth analysis of a case study of a computer-mediated collaborative group. The case study was a large international group of volunteer researchers who collaborated on a two-year research project using asynchronous communication (email). This case study was a window on collaborative dialogue in the early 1990s (1992-94) at a time when information and communication technologies were at an early stage of development.
After identifying the issues emerging from this early case study, another case study using technologies and virtual environments developed over the past decade, was designed to further understand how groups work together on a collaborative activity. The second case study was a small group of students enrolled in a unit of study at Murdoch University who collaborated on a series of nine online workshops using synchronous communication (chat room). This case study was a window on collaborative dialogue in the year 2000 when information and communication technologies had developed at a rate which few people envisioned in the early 90s.
The primary aim of the research described in this thesis was to gain a better understanding of how computer-mediated collaborative communities develop and grow. In particular, the thesis addresses questions related to the developmental and leadership characteristics of collaborative groups.
Internet research requires a set of assumptions relating to ontology, epistemology, human nature and methodological approach that differs from traditional research assumptions. A research framework for Internet research - Complementary Explorative Data Analysis (CEDA) - was therefore developed and applied to the two case studies.
The results of the two case studies using the CEDA methodology indicate that computer-mediated collaborative groups are highly adaptive to the aim of the collaborative task to be completed, and the medium in which they collaborate. In the organisational setting, it has been found that virtual teams can devise and complete a collaborative task entirely online. It may be an advantage, but it is certainly not mandatory to have preliminary face-to-face discussions. What is more important is to ensure that time is allowed for an initial period of structuration which involves social interaction to develop a social presence and eventually cohesiveness. In the educational setting, a collaborative community increases pedagogical effectiveness. Providing collaborative projects and interdependent tasks promotes constructivist learning and a strong foundation for understanding how to collaborate in the global workplace. Again, this research has demonstrated that students can collaborate entirely online, although more pedagogical scaffolding may be required than in the organisational setting. The importance of initial social interaction to foster a sense of presence and community in a mediated environment has also been highlighted.
This research also provided greater understanding of emergent leadership in computer-mediated collaborative groups. It was found that sheer volume of words does not make a leader but frequent messages with topic-related content does contribute to leadership qualities.
The results described in this thesis have practical implications for managers of virtual teams and educators in e-learning
Rachellfay/lifehistory_pop: V1
No full textProvide R functions to access the mean fitted relationships from Shocket et al. 2020
Author: R. L. Fay [email protected] and A.C. Keyel [email protected]
Equations and parameters taken from Mordecai et al. 2019 and Shocket et al. 2020
Fay Hyland, Josselyn Botanical Society Member
No full textAn image scanned from a black and white photograph of Fay Hyland, a professor at the University of Maine in Orono, member of the Josselyn Botanical Society, and as a handwritten caption notes, was the author of Woody Plants of Maine with Dr. F. H. Steinmetz. Professor Hyland succeeded Steinmetz as President of the Josselyn Botanical Society. This photo was taken during an annual society meeting in North Bridgton in 1946.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/4213/thumbnail.jp
The Fay relations satisfied by the elliptic associator
No full textLet denote the elliptic associator constructed by Enriquez, a power
series in two non-commutative variables defined as an iterated integral
of the Kronecker function . We study a family of {\it Fay relations}
satisfied by , derived from the original Fay relation satisfied by the
. The Fay relations of were studied by Broedel, Matthes and
Schlotterer, and determined up to non-explicit correction terms that arise from
the necessity of regularizing the non-convergent integral. Here we study a
reduced version mod . We recall a different construction
of in three steps, due to Matthes, Lochak and the author: first
one defines the reduced {\it elliptic generating series} which
comes from the reduced Drinfeld associator and whose
coefficients generate the same ring as those of ; then
one defines to be the automorphism of the free associative ring
defined by and
; finally one shows that the reduced elliptic associator
is equal to .
Using this construction and mould theory and working with Lie-like versions of
the elliptic generating series and associator, we prove the following results:
(1) a mould satisfies the Fay relations if and only if a closely related mould
satisfies the "swap circ-neutrality" relations defining the elliptic
Kashiwara-Vergne Lie algebra , (2) the reduced elliptic generating
series satisfies a family of Fay relations with extremely simple correction
terms coming directly from those of the Drinfeld associator, and (3) the
correction terms for the Fay relations satisfied by the reduced elliptic
associator can be deduced explicitly from these
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