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Letter from D.J. O'Doherty to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from D.J. O'Doherty, 8 Gracepark Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin, to Hagan, offering sympathies over the loss of O'Riordan; wishing him every success. Stating that the pronouncements of [the Bishop of] Clonfert regarding national questions at his recent consecration satisfied the younger clergy present. Mentioning that he might need Hagan's good offices to dispose of the ring he had made for the bishop, since he received another one that he could not refuse. He might visit Rome when the Archbishop of Manila comes next spring. Hoping that the 'native breezes' do not develop into a hurricane. Offering to be of assistance
Proposed revision of the Famennian (Upper Devonian) standard conodont zonation
No full textThe proposed revision of the Famennian part of the Late Devonian Standard Conodont Zonation of
Ziegler & Sandberg (1990) is the result of two main different kind of considerations. The first is
philosophical, and consists in refusing: (1) the equivalence between biozones and time, and (2) the presumed phyletic concept on which this zonation was based. The second is practical, and deals with: (1) solving difficulties arose in the recognition of some biozones defined by Last Appearance Datum (LAD), (2) simplifying the zonation eliminating the zonal groups named after only one taxon.
This revision is largely based on the zonation of Ziegler (1962) and the Late Devonian Standard
Conodont Zonation of Ziegler & Sandberg (1990) using mostly the same zonal markers, therefore it is
perfectly correlatable with them. Modifications have been only made when strictly necessary, as the aim of the proposal is not to destroy what was previously well done, but to improve and simplify the Standard Conodont Zonation, keeping stability over more than 50 years of conodont studies. The 22 zones constituting the revised zonation are defined by the First Appearance Datum (FAD) of species and subspecies whose stratigraphic ranges are well known, and have wide geographic distribution (Fig. 1), most of which have already been used as markers. Each zone is named after the species or subspecies whose FAD defines the lower boundary. The main changes regard the upper part of the Famennian, and take into account proposals already made by other authors, at least for regional zonation (Corradini, 2008; Kaiser et al., 2009; Hartenfels, 2011; Corradini et al., submitted). The stratigraphic distribution of most Famennian conodont taxa has been updated on data available in literature, and unpublished information of the authors.
The lower boundary of the Famennian is identified as proposed by Klapper (2007), a revision of the current
definition of the base of the Famennian is therefore suggested. The definition of the upper boundary (base of the Carboniferous System) is currently under discussion and study
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
[Mrs. D.J. Young]
No full textPhotograph of 1 female, Mrs. D.J. Young. There are two images of the same woman in two similar bust poses. She is wearing a sheer, beaded jacket over a camisole, and a beaded necklace
D.J. Moore with 104.5 - Post-South Carolina 10/20/07
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Vanderbilt Athletics Podcast - D.J. Moore with 104.5 - Post-South Carolina 10/20/07 - Listen to cornerback D.J. Moore talk with 104.5 the Zone following Vanderbilt's 17-6 win over No. 6 South Carolina." By CSTV
Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont zonation: revised global standard.
No full textThe revision of the Famennian part of the “Late Devonian Standard Conodont Zonation” is based on the in-equivalence
between biozones and time, and the rejection of the presumed single phyletic concept on which the previous zonation
was based. It is also intended to simplify the zonation, eliminating the zonal groups named after only one taxon, and
biozones that are defined by a Last Appearance Datum (LAD). The proposed revision is largely based on the zonation
proposed by Ziegler and Sandberg (1990) and is for the most part correlatable using the same zonal markers. Modifications
have only been made when strictly necessary, as the aim of the proposal is to maintain the stability of over 50 years
of studies. The 22 zones constituting the revised zonation are defined by the First Appearance Datum (FAD) of species
or subspecies that have a well-established stratigraphic range and wide geographic distribution. Each zone is named after
the taxon for which the FAD defines the lower boundary. For each zone an association of other species useful for its
identification is listed
European Union Acts project MIDAS: objectives and progress to date
No full textIntroduction to the ACTS program: Advanced Communications and Technology and Services, known simply as ACTS, is one of the specific programmes of the "Fourth Framework Programme of European Community activities in the field of research and technological development and demonstration (1994-1998)". It provides the main focus of the European Unions research effort to accelerate deployment of advanced communications infrastructures and services, and is complemented by extensive European research in the areas of information technology and telematics. The stated objectives of ACTS are to "develop advanced communication systems and services for economic development and social cohesion within Europe, taking account of the rapid evolution of technologies, the changing regulatory situation and opportunities for development of advanced transeuropean networks and services". Within ACTS, the emphasis of the work has shifted from the exploration of fundamental concepts and detailed system engineering, as it had been in earlier programs such as RACE (Research and development in Advanced Communication technologies for Europe), to issues relating to implementation of advanced systems and generic services, and applications which demonstrate the potential use of advanced communications in Europe. A key feature of the ACTS program is that the research be undertaken in the context of real-world trials. Work within the program is divided into six technical areas: Interactive digital multimedia services, photonic technologies, high speed networking, mobility and personal communication networks, intelligence in networks and services and quality, safety and security of communication systems and services. The total EU budget for the ACTS program is approximately 670 MECU, covering around 160 projects, with over 1000 individual organisations participating within the program, thereby illustrating the scale of the activities. MIDAS is one of five projects in the technical area of photonic technologies concerned with high speed transmission, the others being ESTHER, UPGRADE, HIGHWAY and SPEED, each concerned with various aspects or approaches to the development of 40 GBit/s transmission systems within the European arena. A full list of project descriptions and objectives, as well as those of the ACTS program as a whole, are to be found in Ref [1]. The MIDAS consortium consists of the following organisations: Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), CSELT (Italy), Thomson LCR (France), United Monolithic Semiconductor (France), Telia (Sweden), Kings College London (UK), University of Athens (Greece), ORC University of Southampton (UK). The project started in September 1995 and is currently scheduled to finish in September 1998
On the impact of a radiational open boundary condition on continental shelf resonances
No full textStudies carried out with a one-dimensional model of a continental shelf and deep ocean have shown that the use of a radiational boundary condition doubles the decay rate of the shelf resonances. This note reports on a study using a model of the English Channel and Irish Sea which shows that, in this more realistic model, a radiational boundary condition based on Flather (1976) has a much smaller effect
Task-Aware Connectivity Learning for Incoming Nodes Over Growing Graphs
No full textData processing over graphs is usually done on graphs of fixed size. However, graphs often grow with new nodes arriving over time. Knowing the connectivity information of these nodes, and thus, the expanded graph is crucial for processing data over the expanded graph. In its absence, its inference and the subsequent data processing become essential. This paper provides contributions along this direction by considering task-driven data processing for incoming nodes without connectivity information. We model the incoming node attachment as a random process dictated by the parameterized vectors of probabilities and weights of attachment. The attachment is driven by the existing graph topology, the corresponding graph signal, and an associated processing task. We consider two such tasks, one of interpolation at the incoming node, and that of graph signal smoothness. We show that the model bounds implicitly the spectral perturbation between the nominal topology of the expanded graph and the drawn realizations. In the absence of connectivity information our topology, task, and data-aware stochastic attachment performs better than purely data-driven and topology driven stochastic attachment rules, as is confirmed by numerical results over synthetic and real data.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Multimedia ComputingIntelligent System
People can prefer a policy win for the party they oppose over Congressional gridlock.
No full textParty conflict, gridlock, and dysfunction are common words for describing the US Congress in recent years. In new research, D.J. Flynn and Laurel Harbridge investigate how party conflict— resulting in compromise, victories for one party, or gridlock—shapes public opinion towards Congress. They find that on issues where the parties agree over end goals, gridlock hurts evaluations of Congress even more than legislative victories for the opposing party
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