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An analysis of benefits from the use of the RAPTOR and Bridge geographic information systems
No full textThe Richard Zerbe and Associates analysis team was contracted by Multnomah County, Oregon, to perform a return-on-investment study for two GIS platforms - RAPTOR and Bridge - used for emergency response.The RAPTOR and Bridge projects -- Methods -- Findings : RAPTOR -- Findings : Bridge -- These findings are conservative -- References -- The RAPTOR program survey -- The Bridge program surveyRyan Bodanyi, Adonis Ducksworth, Tyler Scott, Pradeep Singh, Richard ZerbeTitle from PDF title page (viewed on April 5, 2022)This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposesIncludes bibliographical references (page 23)Supported by a grant from Multnomah County, OregonMode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications CollectionText in Englis
Explaining Evil: The Holocaust in Hannah Arendt’s \u3cem\u3eEichmann in Jerusalem\u3c/em\u3e
No full textAbout the author Scott Richard St. Louis is a student of history, political science, and French in the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where he serves as the Student Senate Vice President for Educational Affairs. He also works as a Digital Archive Technician for the GVSU Veterans’ History Project
Geologic map of the Dog River and northern part of the Badger Lake 7.5ʹ quadrangles, Hood River County, Oregon
No full textReport -- Map -- Spreadsheets.Jason D. McClaughry, William E. Scott, Carlie J. M. Duda, and Richard M. Conrey.Title from PDF cover (viewed on January 8, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Belonging and not belonging : understanding India in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and V.S. Naipaul.
No full textPhDThis thesis is essentially about the "how" and "why" of the Indian
experience as documented in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
and V S Naipaul. The study points to the difficulty of arriving at any
conclusive definition of the country and its people. I show that
differences in attitudes, responses or behaviour are both overt and
subtle, and depend upon whether the writer or the character identifies
with the situation or community with which he or she interacts. It is
the individual's sense of belonging or not belonging to his or her own
group - be this along racial, cultural or gender lines - that accounts
for the differing perspectives evident in these novels. The points-of-
view of the outsider and the insider can therefore be seen as
mutual comments upon the other.
Since the struggle between belonging and not belonging becomes acute
when the old meets the new, focus is centred on communities
experiencing change. These include the British in India, West-Indian
Indians and westernised Indians. Despite their differences, all three
communities share similar reasons for either an acceptance or
rejection of the 'Other'. The thesis argues that the need for
emotional stability compels allegiance to the traditional group, while
the desire for individuality encourages surrender to the new. The
former nurtures a sense of belonging while, it is argued, that the
latter is perceived as the hallmark of those who do not belong.
Tensions arise when both these needs demand to be met. What I show to
be ironic in this struggle between belonging and not belonging is that
those things which individuals overtly reject are often unexpressed
parts of their personal pysche. The barrier between "them" and "us" is
therefore very fragile
Article on developing the creative economy, with a focus on the $500,000 secured
No full textArticle on developing the creative economy, with a focus on the $500,000 secured by Rep. John Eder, Green-Portland, to establish a creative economy incubator in Portland. Thirteen local artists give their views on how they would like to see the money spent. With comments by: Joe Brien of Foreside Studios in Falmouth; Scott Conley, owner of Conley Guitars in Bowdoinham; James Hoban, actor at Portland Stage Company; Dan Ho, founder and publisher of Rescue Magazine; Susan Danley, curator of contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art; Tanja Hollander, photographer and artist; Greg Parker, a painter; Richard Lawlor, former marketing director of Maine Arts; Eli Cayer, co-director of MENSK; Rick Lowell, owner of Casablanca comics; Sam Peisner, promoter; Monica Wood, author; and Anita Stewart, executive and artistic director of Portland Stage Company
Research data management education for future curators
No full textScience has progressed by “standing on the shoulders of giants” and for centuries research and knowledge have been shared through the publication and dissemination of books, papers and scholarly communications. Moving forward, much of our understanding builds on (large scale) datasets, which have been collected or generated as part of the scientific process of discovery. How will this be made available for future generations? How will we ensure that, once collected or generated, others can stand on the shoulders of the data we produce?Educating students about the challenges and opportunities of data management is a key part of the solution and helps the researchers of the future to start to think about the problems early on in their careers. We have compiled a set of case studies to show the similarities and differences in data between disciplines, and produced a booklet for students containing the case studies and an introduction to the data lifecycle and other data management practices. This has already been used at the University of Southampton within the Faculty of Engineering and is now being adopted centrally for use in other faculties. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the case studies and the guide, and reflect on the reception the guide has had to date
Depression and Gender: The Expression and Experience of Melancholy in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis thesis investigates the life and work of six eighteenth-century writers, two male and four female. It explores their experience of depression through their letters and other autobiographical material, and examines the ways in which they represent melancholy in their poetry and prose. The subject of Chapter Two is Thomas Gray, whose real life persona as the lonely intellectual is also identifiable in his poetry. The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson is studied in Chapter Three. Fergusson’s lively and vigorous mind was shattered in the months leading up to his death, during which time some of his writing became darkly nihilistic. Chapter Four looks at Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, a lifelong depressive who often wrote about her feelings of despair in her poetry. Chapter Five explores Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a courageous and controversial figure, but despite her resilience, on occasion in her letters she reveals her vulnerability and susceptibility to low spirits, a mood which is sometimes expressed in her creative writing. Sarah Scott, whose life and work have not yet been considered in relation to the subject of melancholy, is examined in Chapter Six. Her novel includes several low-spirited and depressed female characters who are continually seeking asylum from a hostile world. Chapter Seven analyses Charlotte Smith, a mother of twelve children whose unhappy marriage ended in separation. Smith wrote extensively about her depression in her letters, prefaces, poetry and novels.
This study shows that the women in particular use their writing on melancholy and depression to express their discontent with the confined way in which they are often expected to live out their lives
Shakespeare and the idea of the book
No full textShakespeare and the Idea of the Book is about the book in Shakespeare's plays; the book as an object, wherein the article may disclose narratives, corroborate stories, expose versions of reality and perspectives of presence; and the semiotic of the book, wherein the language of the book, of holding, touching, turning leaves, opening pages, reading, revealing and closing may simulate an idea of the body or mind in motion. This thesis is about how the metaphorical and material book appears on Shakespeare's stage, and how the physical and figurative presence of the book challenges the imaginative and representational conditions of theatre. Having chosen seven plays for their particularly significant relationship to the book, I explore each play and its books for the demands they make of each other and what such demands reveal. The Introduction outlines the argument of the project and, drawing on a broad range of Shakespeare's plays, sets out the prevalence of the 'book' and an awareness of the potential discourses through which the object is beginning to move in the Elizabethan period. The thesis is then split into five chapters, the first two dealing with two plays each, Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline, and The Taming of The Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost. The following three chapters deal with individual plays, Richard II, Hamlet, and The Tempest. Although the thesis follows, with the exception of Cymbeline, a chronology of the drama, I make no attempt to suggest that Shakespeare forged a linear narrative in his evolving relationship with the book. Rather, my conclusion demonstrates how the book's extraordinary semantics cope resists a continuum or progressive evolution. The ever-changing capacity of the book, its materiality and language, supports the stage in a quest to define and expand the representational relationship between seeing and thinking, moving and being. Shakespeare's books are, I will argue, like Hamlet's players, 'the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time', and, to that end, 'let them be well used)
Interview with Lawrence T. Scott on Fragments of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes: designed synthesis, unusual reactions, and coordination chemistry, edited by Marina A. Petrukhina and Lawrence T. Scott
No full textAs discussed in this interview, Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes brings together international experts in the field to discuss their findings related to all aspects of this fascinating, beautiful and fairly recently discovered form of carbon. Familiarly known as "buckyballs" for their similarity in appearance to the highly symmetrical geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller (and, also, soccer balls), fullerenes, and the related carbon nanotubes, hold out the tantalizing possibility of offering true superconductivity, with the potential to allow us to more efficiently harness our current electricity supply and to power the photovoltaic devices that could decrease our dependence upon oil and electricity. Professor Scott, widely recognized for his early and continued ground-breaking work in the "rational" synthesis of C60 (a spherical fullerene composed of 60 carbon atoms), serves as co-editor of this volume (and co-author of Chapter 9), along with his colleague, and long-time collaborator in the field, Professor Marina Petrukhina (University of Albany). With a foreword by Sir Harold Kroto, awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley, for their discovery of this class of compounds), this volume covers a wide range of topics including current methods of synthesis, molecular geometry, and reactivity with metals, as well as descriptions of newer members of the fullerene family of molecules and related compounds, including open geodesic polyarenes, called fullerene fragments or buckybowls.Title supplied by cataloger
The oral nature of the Homeric simile
No full textThis work, by Dartmouth Professor Emeritus William Scott, centers on Homer\u27s similes as compositions derived from, and dependent on, an oral tradition.
About the Author
William C. Scott is emeritus professor of classics at Dartmouth College. His other publications include The Artistry of the Homeric Simile, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater, Plato\u27s The Republic with Richard W. Sterling, and Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater.
About the Electronic Publication
This electronic publication of The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile was made possible with the permission of the author. The University Press of New England created EPUB and PDF files from a scanned copy of the book.
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