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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
Get PDFCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Richard K. Cook
No full textRichard K. Cook
Inducted: 2006
Citation: For research in physical acoustics, reverberant acoustic fields, and infrasonics, and for derivation and demonstration of the absolute calibration of microphones.
Tenure: 1935-1966 and 1971-1976
Birth: 1910, Chicago, Illinois
Death: 2006
Education:
University of Illinois, BS (Physics), 1931
University of Illinois, MS (Physics), 1932
University of Illinois, PhD (Physics), 1935
Positions held:
Physicist, 1935-1942
Chief of the Sound Section, 1942-1966
Special Assistant to the Director, 1971-1976
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal (1964)
Washington Academy of Sciences and Engineering Award: Distinguished scientific achievement by a researcher under 40 (1949)
Acoustical Society of America Gold Medal (1988)
Memberships:
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, President (1957-58)
Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences, President (1972-73)
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Publications:
More than 60 publications in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America including:
Cook, R. K., �Absolute Pressure Calibration of Microphones,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 12, 415 (1941); republished in abridged form from Journal of Research National Bureau of Standards 25, 489 (1940).
Cook, R. K. and Edelman, S., �Correlation Coefficients as Criteria for Randomness of Reverberant Sound Fields,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 22, 678 (1950).
Cook, R. K., Greenspan, M., and Thompson, M. C. Jr., �Free-Molecule Propagation of Sound Through Gases,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 25, 192 (1953).
Cook, R. K. and Young, J. M., �Radiation from Subsonic Surface Waves,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 35, 1894 (1963).
Cook, R. K., �Infrasound from the Epicenter of the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 39, 1261 (1966).
Cook, R. K. and Proctor, T. M., �A Standing-wave Tube as an Absolutely Known Source of Sound Power,� The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 65, 1542 (1979)
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Cook, K A, 418227
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Cook, K T, 430973
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Land, water and tourism in Aitutaki, Cook Islands
No full textMost island governments in the South Pacific have placed a great deal of faith in a continued annual increase in numbers of tourists as a guarantee of national economic growth. This is particularly the case in the Cook Islands. The response by local, mostly small-scale entrepreneurs has been to invest in the building of tourist accommodation, not only on the main island of Rarotonga, but also on the island of Aitutaki. Until recently the piecemeal development of accommodation on that island has occurred with little reference to the impact on the environment
Development of a low cost cook-off test for assessing the hazard of explosives
Get PDFA low cost Cook-Off experimental facility has been established to provide a convenient method of ranking explosives in their response to Cook-Off by the time to event under two widely different heating rates and at two different scales. This thesis describes the literature review undertaken as preparation for the purposed study and all the experimental work developed comprising the design of the trials vehicles, the demonstration of their suitability for Fast and Slow Cook-Off trials with confined explosive systems, the preparation of the samples and test vehicles to be trialled as well as the set-up of adequate facilities to undertake the scheduled firing programme. Results are reported for Cook-Off tests on TNT, RDX, and their mixtures.
The emphasis of the study is on time to event, and temperature at event, and in addition a qualitative assessment of the violence of the event was made by examination of the fragments of the vehicles, although it is accepted that the relatively light and low cost design of the vehicle may lead to variable confinement in the early stages of the explosive event, and hence to a wider spread of responses than would be obtained from a more heavily confined and more costly vehicle.
The test vehicles give results, which differentiate between the various explosives and explosive mixtures trialled and between the scales. More experiments are required to establish the reproducibility of the measurements. The design of the equipment makes this a relatively inexpensive undertaking.
The experiment was modelled using published kinetic data, but the calculated time to event differed from that observed to different extents at the two scales. It is hypothesised that the mechanism may change over the prolonged heat soaks and that quantitative scaling is not possible with the available information.
Further work is also suggested using a different type of Cook-Off test vehicle, which will in our opinion reduce even further the cost of Cook-Off testing, due to reduction in man-hours of preparation involved and manufacture cost of the Cook-Off test vehicles, and consequently of ranking of explosives
Cook, K C, [No Service Number]
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Where Participatory Approaches Meet Pragmatism in Funded (Health) Research: The Challenge of Finding Meaningful Spaces
Get PDFThe term participatory research is now widely used as a way of categorising research that has moved beyond researching "on" to researching "with" participants. This paper draws attention to some confusions that lie behind such categorisation and the potential impact of those confusions on qualitative participatory research in practice. It illuminates some of the negative effects of "fitting in" to spaces devised by other types of research and highlights the importance of forging spaces for presenting participatory research designs that suit a discursive approach and that allow the quality and impact of such research to be recognised. The main contention is that the adoption of a variety of approaches and purposes is part of the strength of participatory research but that to date the paradigm has not been sufficiently articulated. Clarifying the unifying features of the participatory paradigm and shaping appropriate ways for critique could support the embedding of participatory research into research environments, funding schemes and administration in a way that better reflects the nature and purpose of authentic involvement
Djeboa unimaculata Cook 1966
No full textDjeboa unimaculata (Cook, 1966) (Figs. 34 A–F, 40 K–L) Mideopsis (Djeboa) unimaculata Cook, 1966: 236. Material examined: Type series: FMC, Liberia; holotype female, one mile north of Suehn, stream, 30.vi. 1958, Cook (Coll. 99); paratypes: same site as holotype, 20.ii. 1958 (Coll. 96); Coll. 88, 2/0/0 (details see Cook 1966). New records: Côte d’Ivoire, River N’zi near Fetekro (F), drift day, 13.i. 1977 Statzner 0/ 1 /0 (mounted); Ghana: Namini stream, Kakum NP, 5 º 23.396 N, 1 º 23.294 W, 12.ii. 2013 Smit 1 /0/0; Ankasa River, Ankasa NP, 5 º 13.011 N, 2 º 39.126 W, 13.ii. 2013 Smit 1 /0/0; tributary of Oguntwe, Ankasa NP, 5 º 16.563 N, 2 º 38.733 W, 78 m asl., 14.ii. 2013 Smit 0/ 1 /0; Ankasa Exploration Base stream, Ankasa NP, 5 º 16.413 N, 2 º 38.810 W, 81 m asl., 14.ii. 2013 Smit 1 / 1 /0; Ankasa Exploration Base trail stream, Ankasa NP, 5 º 16.415 N, 2 º 38.751 W, 80 m asl., 14.ii. 2013 Smit 1 / 1 /0; Plunge pool, Tsatsudo Falls, 7 º 07.390 N, 0º 23.365 E, 179 m asl., 22.ii. 2013 Smit 0/ 2 /0. General features: Dorsal shield oval (L/W ratio 1.1), with medial depression; muscle scars with little pronounced thickenings, located anterior and posterior to the postocularia; colour pattern consisting of an anterior blue patch (Figs. 40 K–L); gnathosomal bay Y-shaped, noticeably narrowing in posterior half; tips of Cx-I ending posterior to frontal margin; medial margin of Cx-IV reduced to a median angle; Cx-III and -IV with a series of longitudinal striae (four or five pairs on Cx-IV). Palp (Fig. 34 D): P- 1 with a dorsal seta; P- 2 with straight ventral and convexly bowed dorsal margin; P- 3 proximally thicker than distally, ventral margin concave; P- 4 slender, equally narrowing from the base to tip. Legs: I-L (Fig. 34 E) with I-L- 6 L/H ratio 2.0– 2.3, ventral margin strongly protruding; IV-L: Fig. 34 F. Remarks: The dorsal colour pattern of D. unimaculata resembles that of D. multidentata K. Viets, 1911, but in the latter the patch is violet in colour. Furthermore, the idiosoma of D. multidentata is much smaller and proportionally narrower and the palp segments are proportionally much shorter (Cook 1966). Distribution: Liberia (Cook 1966), Côte d’Ivoire (first record), Ghana (first record).Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Cook, David, Gerecke, Reinhard & Smit, Harry, 2013, The water mite family Mideopsidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a contribution to the diversity in the Afrotropical region and taxonomic changes above species level, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 3720 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3720.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/28502
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