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Advanced-Financial-Accounting-by-Theodore-E.-Christensen-David-M-Cottrell-Richard-E-Baker.pdf
No full textAdvanced-Financial-Accounting-by-Theodore-E.-Christensen-David-M-Cottrell-Richard-E-Baker.pd
Mary B. Cottrell, (1879-1970), purchased by Richard S. Cottrell on August 13, 1970
No full textDocuments regarding the purchase of a panel on a crypt for Mary B. Cottrell (1879-1970), purchased by Richard S. Cottrell. The style was to duplicate the panel for Sarah E. Cottrell, spouse of C. E. Cottrell. Both rubbings are included. The panel was placed at the C. E. Cottrell mausoleum at Willow Cemetery, Oregon, Ohio
Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Genetic resources of native tree species and their deployment under climate change
Full text linkCurrent and emerging threats to trees and forest ecosystems require a re-evaluation of the
way forest genetic resources are managed. Governments in the United Kingdom and
elsewhere are committed to the restoration, expansion and creation of new woodlands. Tree
populations are often adaptively differentiated from one another, so a key question
underpinning the success of planting schemes is the choice of seed origin. A long held
understanding is that locally sourced seeds will have the best opportunity to tolerate
conditions of the planting site (local provenancing). However, the rate at which the
environment is changing introduces a great deal of uncertainty into decision making and
there is concern that climate change is proceeding at rates faster than those with which
locally adapted trees would be able to cope. As such, there are suggestions that seed
collected from areas already experiencing the anticipated future conditions will improve the
adaptability of forests (predictive provenancing). This thesis investigated outstanding
questions relating to the merits of the local provenancing and predictive provenancing
approaches, and the practical implementation of seed sourcing policy in British forestry.
The validity of existing seed zone boundaries used under local provenancing was analysed
for ancient semi-natural Scots pine Pinus sylvestris L. forests of Scotland. Vegetation description and analyses of climatic covariates revealed that the existing series of seed zones
used to guide selection of planting stock for restoration do not necessarily environmentally
match seed sources to planting sites under current conditions. Additional disparity is
introduced when edaphic variation (or proxies for this) is considered.
To determine whether future adaptation under local provenancing may be restricted by
limited pollen flow among populations of native Scots pine in Scotland, the timing of pollen
production in five populations was estimated by repeatedly measuring strobilus development
on a series of twenty trees over three consecutive springs. Differences in the mean predicted
date of pollen production were found, with populations in the warmer west shedding pollen
earliest each year, although the timing and differences in timing among populations varied
from year to year, with shedding taking place earliest in the warmest of the three years and
latest in the coolest year.
A theoretical multi-patch, ecological genetic individual-based model (IBM) was developed
to investigate the utility of different seed sourcing strategies (local versus non local
provenance) and their capacity to help populations adapt to directional climate change. As
well as being adapted to climate, which varied in a clinal pattern, individuals also had to be
well adapted to the habitat conditions of the planting site in order to survive hard selection at
the seedling stage. The model showed that population size of a new planting was reduced
when planting stock adapted to the future conditions but not to current conditions was
deployed. The differences were most severe when selection acted simultaneously on both the
climate-related and the habitat-related phenotype.
Finally, a series of in-depth qualitative surveys conducted with members of the domestic
forest nursery and seed supply sector in Great Britain found that there are many difficulties
associated with seed sourcing and the supply of trees. These problems arise due to a very
limited ability to predict demand at the time of seed sowing, and lead to waste when demand
is overestimated and importation of planting stock when demand is underestimated.
Confidence and competitiveness in the domestic sector could be greatly improved by
updating seed sourcing guidelines and by simplifying certain aspects of the process by which
forest planting projects are funded
Books piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will b
No full textBooks piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will be presented at Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, on March 5
I Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s disco
No full textI Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s discovery of abundant wild blueberries growing near Rocky Pond in Osborne Plantation
As I See It piece by Richard Ford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author turned East
No full textAs I See It piece by Richard Ford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author turned East Boothbay resident, on how he has learned to fit in in his new home and on the broader implications of being a newcomer
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