449 research outputs found
Historic archaeology at Champoeg State Park
No full textDavid Brauner of Oregon State University leads a systematic excavation of historic artifacts at Champoeg State Park.producer, H. Delight Stone, M.A."Video funded by a private anonymous contributor and Oregon State Parks, as a special appropriation from the Oregon Legislative Assembly."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Electronic reproduction. 2018.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.In English
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No full textAnonyme/r Künstler/inAuf dem Unterlagenblatt mit brauner Tinte vermerkt: "David Schulthess 1778"Das Blatt steht wahrscheinlich im Zusammenhang mit Johann Caspar Lavater: Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnisse und Menschenliebe, Leipzig und Winterthur 1775-177
Securing public transportation systems: an integrated decision analysis framework for the prevention of terrorist attacks as example
No full textFlorian Brauner addresses the risk reduction effects of security measures (SecMe) as well as economic and social effects using terrorist threats in public transportation as use case. SecMe increase the level of security but cause interferences and restrictions for customers (e.g. privacy). This study identifies the interferences and analyzes the acceptance with an empirical survey of customers. A composite indicator for the acceptance of different SecMe is developed and integrated into a risk management framework for multi-criteria decision analysis achieving the right balance of risk reduction, costs, and social acceptance. Contents Assessment of Security Measures for Risk Management Measurement of Objective Effectiveness of Security Measures Against Terrorist Attacks Determination of Subjective Effects of Security Measures (Customer Acceptance Analysis) Cost Analysis of Security Measures Multi-Criteria Decision Support Systems Target Groups Scientists with Interest in Civil Security Research Providers and Security Experts of Critical Infrastructures and Companies Risk Management Experts and Security Authorities The Author Florian Brauner studied Rescue Engineering with focus on Civil Protection. For several years, he has been researching the effects of security measures. He currently works as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wuppertal and as security expert for Critical Infrastructures
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The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon
No full textSite ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant, an unique example of a territorial period home. In the years since 1859, the original building construction has not been significantly modified, nor have the grounds been looted or substantially altered. Dr. David Brauner and the Oregon State University Anthropology Department began an archaeological project at this location in anticipation of the destruction, the first time in Oregon that archaeologists have excavated the interior of a standing house. The longevity of occupation, site taphonomy, and episodes of floor repair over the years created a mixed context. The research direction for this thesis matches a statistical and descriptive analysis of a sample of the material culture with information gathered from published and unpublished archival data from the Smith house. The thesis examines cultural material found on this site and provides a basis for comparison with other similar archaeological sites. Dayton history is discussed, to provide a broad context within which to interpret the archaeological data. Occupancy background on the various residents is provided. This thesis provides a general analysis of the 10,609 artifacts and their associated provenience. This thesis is a cautionary tale for historic archaeologists working on domestic sites. Examination of material by room points out how little can really be said based only on artifact presence. On this site, oral and written histories often proved to be better sources of information than the artifacts on many subjects
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Nambu–Goldstone bosons in quantum many-body systems
No full textSpontaneous symmetry breaking is a general principle that constitutes the underlying concept of a vast number of physical phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism and superconductivity in condensed matter physics to the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of elementary particles. I focus on manifestations of spontaneously broken symmetries in systems that are not Lorentz invariant, which include both nonrelativistic systems as well as relativistic systems at nonzero density, providing a self-contained review of the properties of spontaneously broken symmetries specific to such theories. Topics covered include: (i) Introduction to the mathematics of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Goldstone theorem. (ii) Minimization of Higgs-type potentials for higher-dimensional representations. (iii) Counting rules for Nambu–Goldstone bosons and their dispersion relations. (iv) Construction of effective Lagrangians. Specific examples in both relativistic and nonrelativistic physics are worked out in detail
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Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852
No full textIn 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic Mission in the Pacific Northwest. What they found was a cellar belonging to nuns who ran a boarding school for the daughters of the French-Canadians between 1844 and 1852. These women were upper-middle class Belgians belonging to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order. The purpose of this research was to examine the archaeological data recovered from this project to see whether this novel situation was recognizable in the archaeological record. Secondly the objective was to intensively review the written record to determine details regarding the daily lives of these women. The final objective was to see what the combination of literature and archaeology can reveal about the texture of their lives. The research was divided into three phases: field archaeology, literature search, and artifact analysis. Field archaeology was accomplished over two field seasons and included pedestrian survey and surface collection and test pit and block excavation. Artifact analysis was loosely structured on a functional classification developed by Roderick Sprague. Artifacts were broken into three study units: block excavation, surface collection, and test pit excavation. Six Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur set foot on the shores of the Oregon Territory on August 1, 1844. They were the first Catholic nuns to come to the Pacific Northwest. Coming at the invitation of Father Francis Norbert Blanchet, they set up a boarding school for the daughters of the retired French-Canadian fur trappers who had settled in the Willamette Valley. Their school was in the small Catholic community of St. Paul. During their short stay in St. Paul they taught school while learning to survive. They developed skills such as bread-making, clothes washing, carpentry, livestock husbandry, and gardening. They left the Willamette Valley in 1852 and moved to San Jose in California where they established a college. The written record shows that the site where the Sisters lived served a dual function as a religious and educational facility and as a homestead. Archaeological evidence exists for the educational facility and homestead, but the religious aspect of the site was not apparent. The historical record shows that the inhabitants of the site were unique individuals within the location of French Prairie. The archaeology supports this, but does not definitively indicate gender, class, or ethnicity
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No full text[David Herrliberger]Zustand vor der Schrift. Unterhalb der Ansicht befindet sich ein verziertes Schriftband mit der Massstabsangabe. Druckgraphiken mit Schrift unter den Signaturen STF III, 31 und ZH, Stadt II H, 373b der Graphischen SammlungUnten rechts in brauner Feder bezeichnet "gegen dem Richt Haus"; weitere Bezeichnung auf dem Unterlagenblatt von fremder Hand "Prospect des Rathhauses zu Zürich gegen dem Richthauss
Oleksander Ileksandrovych Brauner, a naturalist, explorer of the nature of the Northern Black Sea region
No full textAn essay on the tireless explorer of the nature of the Black Sea region, the successor of the traditions of K. F. Rulie, zoologist, faunist, morphologist and zoogeographer, author of numerous (more than 180) publications in the field of zoology, nature conservation and nature management, animal husbandry, organizer of the Agricultural Institute of Odessa and its professor, an encyclopaedic scientist who showed his creativity not only in many fields of science, but also in the field of science popularization, the author of works on the beauty and exciting power of nature of his native land
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