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R. W. Thames, Omar Craig, J. E. Ruffin, Bill Watson, Tommy Everett, Jack Cook, John Correro, Howard Hammill, Charles Weatherly
No full textOfficers of the 1969 MSU Alumni Association are pictured: R. W. Thames, Omar Craig, J. E. Ruffin, Bill Watson, Tommy Everett, Jack Cook, John Correro, Howard Hammill, and Charles Weatherly.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/3975/thumbnail.jp
Two photos. Left photo, Isabel Chavez Wilder, Rita Chavez Esperance; Right photo, Jack Cook, Laura Chavez, Nancy Chavez, Rose?, Cordelia Gonzales Gruber
No full textTwo photographs. Left photo: Isabel Chavez Wilder, Rita Chavez Esperance. Right photo top Jack Cook; bottom L-R Laura Chavez, Nancy Chavez, Rose?, Cordelia Gonzales Grube
Jack Myers, 21st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJack Myers born in Massachusetts, is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Southern Methodist University; he also teaches in the low-residency Vermont College master of fine arts program in writing. He is co-editor of New American Poets of the 90’s, the author of six volumes of poetry, the latest being Blindsided (David R. Godine, 1993), and co-editor of five other reference works on poetry, including A Profile of American Poetry in the 20th Century, The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, and the CD-anthology, Leaning House Poets, Vol. 1. He was a 1985 National Poetry Series Open Competition winner for his book, As Long As You’re Happy (selected by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney), and has received two Texas Institute of Letters awards and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
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
Integral soil-jack-up modelling - Modelling site-specific jack-up response and performing safety assessment
No full textDue to the growing offshore wind energy market and the increasing interest of the oil and gas industry, there is a steadily increasing demand for the use of jack-ups all over the world. Particularly, the number of wind turbine installation vessels has increased from 2 in 2005 to 40 currently, with a yearly growth expectation of 30% till 2020. Accident statistics from the Worldwide Offshore Accident Databank show the necessity for safer designs of jack-ups and other mobile offshore platforms. A better understanding of the soil-structure interaction and an accurate determination of the limiting loading conditions can contribute to the reduction of this failure rate. Due to the growing demand of jack-ups and the necessity for safer designs, an integral parametric model is developed to study the jack-up response comprehensively. The jack-up model combines a force resultant soil-spudcan interaction model with a structural model of the jack-up, both with 6 degrees of freedom. An illustration of the jack-up model is presented in Figure i. Environmental loads (wind-, wave- and current loads) are applied to the structural model to determine the load distribution in the jack-up structure and among the spudcans. Inputs for the jack-up model are structural properties, soil-spudcan interaction parameters, environmental conditions and preload forces. As output, the integral jack-up model provides hull and spudcan displacements for 6 degrees of freedom, internal forces and internal moments at the leg-hull connection and forces and moments applied on the soil. Furthermore, the model checks if the spudcan loads, applied to the soil, stay within the yield surface, which means that the soil response is linear elastic and the elastic soil model is valid. To assess the value of the developed integral soil-jack-up model including the chosen soil-spudcan interaction model, a comparison is made with the jack-up model combined with two other widely used soil-spudcan interaction models: a pinned soil-spudcan connection and a rotational spring connection. The comparison showed that the implemented force resultant soil-spudcan interaction model provides highly accurate results, in contradiction to the pinned and rotational spring connection. The rotational stiffness, included in the soil-spudcan interaction model, reduces the bending moment in the jack-up legs significantly. Use of the pinned soil-spudcan interaction model overestimates the bending moment in the leg. The rotational spring however, underestimates the leg bending moment. The developed jack-up model shows clearly a force distribution among the legs by means of the hull, which has a significant influence on the spudcan loads. Therefore, it can be concluded that an integral soil-jack-up model is preferred over a single leg model. A parametric sensitivity study on the soil stiffness factors showed 2 important facts. First, the rotational soil stiffness (k_r ) is the most important soil stiffness factor, since it has the greatest influence on the system response and load distribution among the legs, regardless of the applied load or reviewed spudcan load. Second, the response of the system approaches an asymptote for stiffness factors around the upper boundary values. For variation in the stiffness factor values around the lower boundary values, the system response appears to be much more sensitive. A parametric sensitivity study on structural properties of the jack-up showed the following. Increasing the spudcan radius has 3 major effects: it decreases the spudcan penetration, increases the spudcan displacements and decreases the mobilization of the rotational spudcan capacity. Adding extra legs to the jack-up results also decreases spudcan penetration and increases hull- and spudcan displacements. However, the torsional displacement and torsional moment of the hull and spudcans is reduced when extra legs are added to the jack-up. For a jack-up with one enlarged leg, the horizontal hull displacement is reduced but the torsional rotation is increased significantly. Enlargement of one leg has also a large effect on the torsional displacement of the spudcans. The enlarged leg attracts more loads than the normal legs. Due to its increased diameter, the total jack-up attracts more environmental loads.Bottom founded structuresOffshore EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
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The Idaho Forester - 1939 (Vol. 21)
No full textThe Forest Service and the Park Service Work Together, Rosalie Edge 4
The Place of Range Management in Soil Erosion in the Western States, W. R. Chapline 7
The Role of Range Management in Erosion Control, Reed W. Bailey 9
The Place of Range Management in Erosion Control, H. H. Bennet 10
Grazing and Conservation, R. H. Rutledge 11
Opportunity for Cooperation Between Federal and State Governments in Wildlife Restoration, Ira N. Gabrielson 12
Opportunities for Cooperation Between the State and Federal Government in Wildlife Restoration, Newell B. Cook 13
Opportunities for Cooperation Between the Forest Service and Private Industry, W. B. Greeley 15
Opportunities for Cooperation Between the Forest Service and Private Industry, G. D. Cook 16
Chemical Utilization of Wood and Its Relation to Forestry 17
In Memoriam 18
Graduating Seniors 20
Idaho Forester Staff 26
The Associated Foresters, John Peterson 28
Forester's Ball, Jack Buffat 29
Forestry and Conservation Week, Nelson Jeffers 29
The 1939 Summer Camp, Chet Southam 32
The Foresters' Bonfire, William W. Read 32
Leader Duck, Otto Baltuth 33
Range Party, Arthur Peterson 34
Foresters' Banquet, Bob Harris 34
The Spring Barbecue, Joe Harle 35
Our Own Paul Bunyan, Leon R. Nadeau 35
Xi Sigma Pi 37
Faculty 39
The Graduate Students, Ben Spencer 42
Alumni Directory 4
Feasibility of a Virtual Reality Interface for Shaping Compensation During Motor Rehabilitation
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
A custom virtual reality interface was designed to elicit high doses of reaching movements while shaping trunk compensations through real-time feedback. Through a small feasibility study, it was shown to be usable, motivating, engaging, and safe as the basis of a motor intervention.
Primary Author and Speaker: Matthew Foreman
Contributing Authors: Jack R. Engsberg</jats:p
A Conversation with Dennis Cook
No full textDennis Cook is Full Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota. He received his BS degree in Mathematics from Northern Montana College, and MS and PhD degrees in statistics from Kansas State University. He has served as Chair of the Department of Applied Statistics, Director of the Statistical Center and Director of the School of Statistics, all at the University of Minnesota.
His research areas include dimension reduction, linear and nonlinear regression, ex- perimental design, statistical diagnostics, statistical graphics and population genetics. He has authored over 200 research articles and is author or co-author of two textbooks - An Introduction to Regression Graphics, and Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics - and three research monographs, Influence and Residuals in Regression, Regression Graphics: Ideas for Studying Regressions through Graphics and An Intro- duction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics.
He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Associ- ation, The Journal of Quality Technology, Biometrika, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and Statistica Sinica. He is a four-time recipient of the Jack Youden Prize for Best Expository Paper in Technometrics as well as the Frank Wilcoxon Award for Best Technical Paper. He received the 2005 COPSS Fisher Lecture and Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statis- tics. The following conversation took place on March 22, 2019, following the banquetat the conference, "Cook's Distance and Beyond: A Conference Celebrating the Con- tributions of R. Dennis Cook." The interviewers were, Efstathia Bura (Effie), Daniel Pena, Lexin Li, Christopher Nachtsheim (Chris), Claude Messan Setodji, Robert Weiss (Rob), and Bing Li
Factors Influencing Physical Risk Taking in Rock Climbing
No full textThis study was designed to investigate factors influencing physical risk taking in the sport of rock climbing. Specifically, the relationships between physical risk taking, sensation seeking, spheres of control, and desirability of control were examined. One hundred five rock climbers from the United States completed a series of surveys measuring each of the above-mentioned psychological variables. As predicted, physical risk taking demonstrated significant positive relationships to both total sensation seeking and thrill/adventure seeking (TAS). The expected relationships between physical risk taking, personal control and desirability of control were not supported. As hypothesized, no substantive patterns were revealed between physical risk taking and interpersonal control or sociopolitical control. Finally, comparisons between high and low physical risk taking rock climbers revealed significant group differences for total sensation seeking, TAS, and disinhibition. The identification of predictors of physical risk taking is a key step toward identifying individuals likely to engage in high physical risk behavior, and under what circumstances they are likely to do so
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