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Social values of biodiversity conservation for the endangered loggerhead turtle and monk seal
No full textThe Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) are two species on the priority list for conservation in Greece due to their dwindling populations worldwide. Hence the issue of estimating willingness to pay for their conservation is germane to any protection initiative. Zakynthos Island in Greece has created a marine park for the conservation of such species. We report the results of a survey of visitors and residents of this island who were asked about making one-time donations in the form of either a tax for residents or a plane landing fee for tourists. We find that all people were willing to pay to protect these species; however, residents were willing to pay more than tourists. We then tested whether there was a sequence or ordering effect if the seal questions came before the turtles as well as if the turtle questions came before the seals. Such effect was found when turtle questions were presented first, but not when seal questions were presented first. Due to the extensive interest, it is recommended that an increase in the airplane landing fee to Zakynthos could be used to contribute towards funds for loggerhead turtle and monk seal protection
Lettre de James Monk à H. W. Ryland sur le désir de Monk de recevoir une pension en tant qu'ancien juge en chef du Bas-Canada
No full text4 pages, originalLettre de J[ames] Monk à H. W. Ryland sur : le désir de Monk de recevoir une pension en tant qu'ancien juge en chef du Bas-Canada ; la recommandation de lord Bathurst à la Chambre d'Assemblée à ce sujet ; la pension de [William] Osgoode ; les pensions des juges en Écosse, en Angleterre et en Nouvelle-Ecosse ; un voyage de Monk dans le sud de la France ; la santé d'[Isaac] Ogden
Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
Author Meets Reader Session: 'Not the Marrying Kind'
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
Stabilized interior penalty methods for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations
No full textWe propose stabilized interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for the indefinite
time–harmonic Maxwell system. The methods are based on a mixed formulation of the
boundary value problem chosen to provide control on the divergence of the electric field.
We prove optimal error estimates for the methods in the special case of smooth coefficients
and perfectly conducting boundary using a duality approach.Supported in part by the NSF (Grant DMS-9807491) and by the Supercomputing Institute
of the University of Minnesota. This work was carried out when the author was visiting
the School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Monk Picnic
No full textOn his first day in Bhutan, the author remembers witnessing a sunrise and meeting monk Tenzin. They embark on a journey to a monk picnic, welcomed warmly by Buddhist nuns into a van. The author’s clumsy attempt to offer khadar causes laughter, but the accomplished master kindly corrects him. They enjoy a colorful feast, share laughter, and forget their ride home. Tenzin expresses gratitude, and the author reciprocates, walking back, shoes muddy but heart aglow. The author considers the sunset\u27s promise of many more suns and moons to come in the Kingdom. A tale of friendship, laughter, humility and cultural exchange
Mrs. B. D. Monk and Mrs. Forrest Park with paintings
No full textMrs. B. D. Monk (left) and Mrs. Forrest Park (right) are packing paintings for their joint exhibit for the Texas Federation of Women\u27s Clubs in the federation headquarters in Austin. The women are photographed with multiple of paintings propped up by a car with Mrs. Monk examining the paintings. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning edition February 3, 1962.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/1722/thumbnail.jp
Monk Montgomery oral history interview
No full textPage numbers here indicate page numbers for "Read Online" interface. Page numbers listed on transcripts may differ.
Tape 1 Side 1...pp. 1-22
Tape 1 Side 2...pp. 22-44
Tape 2 Side 1...pp. 44-68 - Audio unavailable
Tape 2 Side 2...pp. 68-88 - Audio unavailable
Tape 3 Side 1...pp. 88-108 - Audio unavailable
Tape 3 Side 2...pp. 108-127 - Audio unavailable(b Indianapolis, 10 Oct 1921; d Las Vegas, NV, 20 May 1982). Bass player. He began to play double bass at the age of 30, but he changed to electric bass guitar in order to make an international tour with Lionel Hampton's big band (1951 - 3) and became the first jazz musician to specialize and record on the instrument (1953). Thereafter he played in the Montgomery - Johnson Quintet with his brothers (2) Wes and (3) Buddy Montgomery, the tenor saxophonist Alonzo Johnson, and the drummer Robert Johnson (1955 - 6). He moved to Seattle, where he was soon joined by Buddy, and the two musicians then moved to San Francisco, where they continued to play together (occasionally with Wes) in the Mastersounds (1957 - 60) and the Montgomery Brothers (1960 - spring 1962); the latter was a quartet involving a number of different drummers. During the early 1960s Montgomery again played double bass, but he returned to the electric instrument while with Cal Tjader (1966). In 1970 he settled in Las Vegas, where he worked with Red Norvo's trio (1970 - 72), founded the Las Vegas Jazz Society (1975), and promoted jazz as a disc jockey. In 1974 he visited South Africa as the leader of an African-American jazz group. He published The Monk Montgomery Electric Bass Method.Portions of the publicly available digital files for this transcript have been altered to restore them to their original state
The Monk Line Segmentation (MLS) Dataset
No full text<p>Overview</p>
<p>The MLS dataset available from this page consists of 31 handwritten page scans. The dataset contains medieval, historical and contemporary manuscripts, and has the purpose of testing line-segmentation algorithms. The collection contains a wide variation of the common problems in handwriting recognition: lines with overlapping ascenders/descenders, slightly rotated scans and curved base lines. <br>
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<p>Download</p>
<p>The MLS dataset was collected from the Monk system as of Friday May 17 14:15:04 CEST 2013. It was collected by Lambert Schomaker in May 2013 at the Institution of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE), University of Gronigen. </p>
<p>The tar.gz file contains the image dataset for historical manuscripts. For more details please refer to the README file in the tar.gz file. The dataset downloaded for research use only. © 2013 Copyright. <br>
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<p>@INPROCEEDINGS{Surinta:2014:ICFHR,<br>
author = {O. Surinta and M. Holtkamp and M. F. Karaaba and JP. van Oosten and L. R. B. Schomaker and M. A. Wiering},<br>
title = {A* Path Planning for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents},<br>
booktitle = {Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on},<br>
year = {2014},<br>
month = {Sep},<br>
pages = {175-180},<br>
numpages = {6},<br>
isbn = {978-1-4799-4335-7},<br>
issn = {2167-6445},<br>
publisher = {IEEE},<br>
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.37},<br>
}</p>
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