21,330 research outputs found
MusicSpace: improving access to musicological data
No full textEfforts over the past decade to digitize scholarly musicological materials has revolutionized the research process, however online research in musicology is now held back by the segregation of data into a plethora of discrete and disparate databases, and the use of legacy or ad hoc metadata specifications that are unsuited to modern demands. Many real-world musicological research questions are rendered effectively intractable because there is insufficient metadata or metadata granularity, and a lack of data source integration. The "musicSpace" project has taken a dual approach to solving this problem: designing back-end services to integrate (and where necessary surface) available (meta)data for exploratory search from musicology's key online data providers; and providing a front-end interface, based on the "mSpace" faceted browser, to support rich exploratory search interaction. We unify our partners' data using a multi-level metadata hierarchy and a common ontology. By using RDF for this, we make use of the many benefits of Semantic Web technologies, such as the facility to create multiple files of RDF at different times and using different tools, assert them into a single graph of a knowledge base, and query all of the asserted files as a whole. In many cases we were able to directly map a record field from a partner's dataset to our combined type hierarchy, but in other cases some light syntactic and/or semantic analysis needed to be performed. This small amount of work in the pre-processing stage adds granularity that significantly enriches the data, allowing for more refined filtering and browsing of records via the search UI. Significantly, although all the data we extract is present in the original records, much of it is neither exposed to nor exploitable by the end-user via our data providers' existing UIs. In musicSpace, however, all data surfaced can be used by the musicologist for the purposes of querying the dataset, and can thus aid the process of knowledge discovery and creation. Our work offers an effective generalizable framework for data integration and exploration that is well suited for Arts and Humanities data. Our benchmarks have been (1) to make tractable previously intractable queries, and thereby (2) to accelerate knowledge discovery
University Arena - The Pit - exterior - Mc David Lounge
No full textBldg #:302; Name(s): The Pit; Function(s): Basketball Arena; Completed: 0/12/67; Architect: Joe Boehning; UNM Style: -; Preservation Listing: --. Sign in front of building reads "UNM Arena, Lobo Basketball, Mc David Lounge.
David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power : Might, Money, and Minds
No full textMc Cormick Barrett L., Bardon Séverine. David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power : Might, Money, and Minds. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°107, 2009. 1989, une rupture dans l'histoire chinoise? pp. 133-135
Spreading Code Design for a MC-CDMA Based GNSS Pilot Signal
No full textMC-CDMA can represent an alternative to classical DS-CDMA for the design of GNSS ranging signals. A first requirement MC-CDMA signals must fulfill is that their generation on a satellite payload be feasible. It is well known, indeed, that multicarrier signals have a high Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio (PAPR) and GNSS signals, as well as other signals used in satellite communications, must have PAPR values much lower than values usually considered acceptable in other applications. Therefore, maintaining the PAPR of a MC-CDMA ranging signal within acceptable limits is a fundamental issue in any signal GNSS signal design using a multicarrier technique. The main contribution of this work is to propose a way of designing a MC-CDMA pilot signal based on Huffman codes. Such approach allows to shape the autocorrelation (or equivalently the power spectrum) of the pilot signal according to the specific needs of a GNSS service, guaranteeing arbitrary small PAPR values in all cases
Interactively using Semantic Web knowledge: Creating scalable abstractions with FacetOntology
No full textThe amount of knowledge accessible on the Semantic Web is growing, and there is a need for a scalable solution to facilitate exploring that data. Currently approaches to exploring Semantic Web data either focus on exploring resources individually, following links during exploration, and making little use of collated data, or take the approach of collating and aligning multiple sources into one store for one purpose, and hand-crafting a specific browsing interface onto it. We present an approach that provides a scalable browsing interface, which can browse knowledge from the Semantic Web at will. Our approach creates abstractions of knowledge, collated into facets, which are described using FacetOntology. FacetOntology facilitates describing facets from RDF data, suitable for use in creating datasets for faceted browsing
David and Wendy Miller interview, June 10, 2015 (transcript)
No full textDavid and Wendy Miller interview, June 10, 2015 (transcript) - David Miller was a uranium geologist who worked for Lucky Mc / Pathfinder Mines starting in the 1970s. His career is almost exclusively driven by Wyoming’s uranium industry. This interview is about his experiences in this industry
Self Applied Orientation Test for Central Boston
No full textSelf interview conducted by David Crane as part of the Perceptual Form of the City, a research project investigating the individual’s perception of the urban landscape
A reading of Thoreau's walking as a travel narrative
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.This thesis analyzes Henry David Thoreau's essay "Walking," first published after his death in 1862, with respect to the history of the United States and European travel accounts in Imperial times. Attentive reader of European nature writers and explorers, Thoreau was recalled by poets and literature writers, and also became celebrated by the field of environmental studies, being referred as founder of ecology. Thoreau's walks in wilderness, accounted in "Walking," contradict and at the same time endorse the means through which the United States people were running west at the time: he frequently goes in the same direction, but shows no hurry to get at any place, and calmly searches for what is "holy" along the path. Thoreau's emphatic discourse against private property confronts the main United State's principles, while the author creates his figure as a hero of the individual rebelliousness, a defendant of his own way to walk. Like in other travel accounts where the narrator finds himself in an uncivilized space, the "I," who is the hero of the narrative, sees his western horizon as empty of culture, a place to be founded, this time, upon a new mythology grounded on nature. "Walking" is read here as a transcendental manifesto about movement and perception that is much related to the history of its composition and to its readings since then. Esta dissertação analisa o ensaio "Walking", de Henry David Thoreau, publicado após sua morte em 1862, sob a ótica dos relatos de viagens europeus de tempos imperiais e da história dos Estados. Leitor atento de narrativas de viagens e textos naturalistas Europeus, Thoreau foi retomado por poetas e também celebrado no campo dos estudos ambientais, sendo considerado por estudiosos da área como fundador da ecologia. Suas caminhadas na natureza selvagem relatadas em "Walking" contradizem e ao mesmo tempo reiteram os meios pelos quais os Estados Unidos avançavam à oeste naquele tempo: apesar de Thoreau frequentemente caminhar na mesma direção, ele não demonstra ansiedade em chegar à algum destino específico, mas busca calmamente aquilo que aos seus olhos pode ser sagrado ao longo do caminho. O discurso enfático de Thoreau contra a propriedade privada confronta os princípios morais de seu país, ao passo que Thoreau se promove como o herói símbolo da rebeldia individualista, um defensor da sua própria maneira de caminhar. Como em outras narrativas de viagem onde o narrador se vê em território não-civilizado, o "eu", herói da narrativa, enxerga seu horizonte à oeste como um espaço vazio de cultura onde uma nova mitologia, desta vez baseada na natureza, está para ser fundada. "Walking" é lido aqui como um manifesto transcendental sobre movimento e percepção que está intrinsecamente ligado à história de sua composição e à suas leituras desde então
Growth Morphologies and Mechanisms of Non-Equilibrium Solidified MC Carbide
No full textGrowth morphologies and mechanisms of the carbide of group IVB and VB elements (MC carbide), a typical faceted crystal, were studied with an estimated cooling rate from 102 to 105 K/s. Results showed that although the growth morphologies of the MC carbide vary remarkably with solidification cooling rate, the solid/liquid interface is always atomically smooth, and the growth mechanisms are always lateral growth. The growth mechanism transition from lateral to continuous growth mode, which was predicted by the classic crystal growth theory, was not observed for the TiC type MC carbide within the estimated cooling rate range of 102?105 K/s
Orientation Trip - Done During Walk (April)
No full textTape transcription of David Crane's orientation field trip Massachusetts
General Hospital to South Station. The field trip was conducted as part of the
Perceptual Form of the City, a research project investigating the individual’s
perception of the urban landscape
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