2,046 research outputs found
‘Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Thresholds of Perception in Joseph Cornell, John Ashbery and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’
No full textChapman_Supplementary_File_2_R1 – Supplemental material for Practice review: Evidence-based and effective management of pain in patients with advanced cancer
No full textSupplemental material, Chapman_Supplementary_File_2_R1 for Practice review: Evidence-based and effective management of pain in patients with advanced cancer by Emma J Chapman, Zoe Edwards, Jason W Boland, Matthew Maddocks, Lucy Fettes, Catherine Malia, Matthew R Mulvey and Michael I Bennett in Palliative Medicine</p
Chapman_Supplementary_File_1_R1 – Supplemental material for Practice review: Evidence-based and effective management of pain in patients with advanced cancer
No full textSupplemental material, Chapman_Supplementary_File_1_R1 for Practice review: Evidence-based and effective management of pain in patients with advanced cancer by Emma J Chapman, Zoe Edwards, Jason W Boland, Matthew Maddocks, Lucy Fettes, Catherine Malia, Matthew R Mulvey and Michael I Bennett in Palliative Medicine</p
Calibration of ERS-2, TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Microwave Radiometers using GPS and Cold Ocean Brightness Temperatures
No full textSea-level change studies from altimetric satellites are reliant on range stability of the sea-surface heights computed from the orbital positioning and geophysically corrected data. One such correction, namely the wet tropospheric delay induced by the highly variable atmospheric water vapour content, is provided by radiometers onboard ERS-2, TOPEX/Poseidon and its follow on mission Jason-1. In this study the long term stability of ERS-2 and TOPEX radiometers are investigated together with radiometer performance to date of Jason-1. Each of the three microwave radiometers is investigated with observed drift in the brightness temperatures approximated by reference to the coldest tempertures over the oceans. For example the TOPEX radiometer investigations show that the dominant drift is about 0.2 k/year in the 18GHz channel over the first 7-8 years stablising and even decreasing slightly thereafter. In contrast, the 21GHz and 37GHz channels are comparitively stable. Utilising correc6tion formulae a modified wet tropospheric range is inferred from \u27small-change\u27 analysis of the radiometric correction given on the altimetric Geophysical Data Records. This investigation undertakes the validation of the accuracy of this formulism by independant comparison against GPS derived wet tropospheric delays inferred at 14 coastal IGS stations with neat continuous data from Sept. 1992 through to the present day. Early comparison between GPS results and ERS-2 and TOPEX shows the ERS-2 radiometer measuring ~14mm long. Additionally for TOPEX, the altimetric range stability is revisited by comparison against time series from the global network of tide gauges
TECHNE Issue 02
No full textThe second issue of TECHNE, an annual publication of student work from the Department of Architecture at the New York City College of Technology. Edited by faculty members Ting Chin, Michael Duddy, and Jason Montgomery, this issue includes contributions from Danny Batista, Jason Sai Hung, Heidi Cherubin, Michelle Yang, Laura Calle, Carlos Jacome, Carolina Walters, Hito Rodriguez, Carlin Baez, Brendan Sigvardsson Cooney, Mimu Sakuma, Anton Sukaj, Marie Baretsky, Tatiana Zheludkova, Moises Reyes, Brendan Edwards, Desiree Andrade, Felipe Arellano, Shadeen Dixon, Tam Huiying, Melissa Benitez, Carlos Jacome, Kilton Shehu, Daniel Mego, Marie Baretsky, Jin Chen, Heraldi Sadmojo, Luiza De Souza, Kate Sanko, Bertol Dragani, Charles Happel, Rithol Clytus, Maria Genao, Bertoli Dragani, Jason Ng, Michelle Matthews, Anastasiia Shaiukova, Enny Filpo, Vladislav Valentinov, Raymond Jimenez, Catherine Brito, Andrea Garrido, Genaro Cobar, Batista Rodriguez, and Nicole Ordonez.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTIONS Introduction Ting Chin, Assistant Professor--p. 7 Abstraction and Architecture Jason Montgomery, Assistant Professor--p. 801 DIAGRAMMING--p. 16
02 ITERATION--p. 30
03 MODELING/ MASSING--p. 42
04 REPRESENTATION--p. 54
05 DESIGN CONCEPT--p. 98
06 THE CITY--p. 124On the Abstract and the Real in the Urban Architecture Design Studio Amira Joelson, Associate Adjunct Professor--p. 128 Reflection on the City and Urban Design Bertol Dragani, Third Year Student--p. 131
07 DIGITAL DESIGN--p. 15
Truce grace is divine : special grace as participation in divine fullness in the thought of Jonathan Edwards
No full textThis project is an exploration of Jonathan Edwards’s doctrine of grace as divine participation, with the aim of providing resources for Reformed engagement with soteriological participation thought. Soteriological participation, often termed theosis or divinisation or deification, is favoured in a range of theological traditions. Edwards scholars increasingly characterise Edwards’s thought with the term theosis. This study modifies this characterisation by arguing that Edwards’s soteriological participation thought is best captured in his category of divine or true grace. This divine grace is a communication and participation in divine fullness, where the divine fullness is both infinitely above created nature and yet not the divine essence. This concept allows Edwards to navigate the creator-creature distinction in ways that support key Reformed interests. Edwards’s soteriological participation (grace) is not a departure from his tradition, but rather a sympathetic development of it for the purposes of its support and defence. I demonstrate this by showing Edwards’s distinction between created nature and divine fullness, which allows him to promote Reformed understandings of gratuity. At the same time divine fullness is carefully distinguished from the divine essence, preserving divine transcendence while at the same time allowing intimacy between creator and creature. Edwards navigates this creatorcreature distinction and relation, in part, by employing two complementary approaches to participation thought: one is ontological participation that undergirds created nature, and the other is a relational participation that explains divine grace. Created nature finds its teleological fulfilment in this relational, soteriological participation in the divine Trinity. Thus, nature is fulfilled in grace. This work helps clarify how true grace differs from both created nature and the divine essence, and yet relates them relationally and teleologically. In so doing it provides Reformed theology with new resources for engaging soteriological participation thought from the vantage point of its own tradition
The Protracted Dispute over the Edwards Aquifer: Revisiting and Reframing Multiparty Stakeholder Conflicts in Management, Regulation, Allocation, and Property Rights
No full textThe 2011 drought was the worst single-year climatic occurrence in Texas’ recorded history. Texas must meet residential and economic development requirements of a population that will nearly double state wide over the next 50 years, and potentially grow over 300 percent along the IH 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio and the Hill Country where the Edwards Aquifer is located. Extreme population growth increases stress on existing natural resources and will require dramatic improvements in water conservation and reuse, as well as preservation of land held in conservation to protect water quantity and quality. Located in the south-central region of Texas, the Edwards Aquifer is an underground karst formation with water flowing through it that has been at the center of controversy for over 60 years. As the sole source water supply for nearly two million people in San Antonio and the Edwards Aquifer region, the controversy over the use of the Edwards Aquifer water centers on four major concerns: its limited physical structure, its multiple users, its potential contamination, and the potential loss of endangered species. This research revisits and builds on a previous study by Putnam and Peterson (2003) who explored a multi-issue protracted debate from 1980 to 1997 by diverse stakeholders concerning management and water allocation of the Edwards Aquifer. The Putnam and Petersen study inspired and guided this research which examines multi-party issues surrounding the Edwards Aquifer since 1997, and assesses the degree to which the original debate has changed. In doing so, this research provides substantial background to the evolution of the dispute, and centers it within the history of changing climate patterns unique to the State of Texas. The research approach is primarily qualitative in nature and employed “Interactional Frame Theory” to demonstrate “characterization” and “identity” framing of stakeholders’ issues surrounding the aquifer from 1997 to present day. In addition, the concept of “framing” allowed for shaping, organizing, and focusing on new agendas of today’s stakeholders. The results of this study identified key stakeholder groups in the Edwards Aquifer region that, as a result of Texas Senate Bill 3 in 2007, through a consensus-based approach have successfully mitigated the intractable environmental conflict of the aquifer. The stakeholder process has implemented a Habitat Conservation Plan to protect spring flows, downstream economic interests, and endangered species. However, lingering problems related to property rights issues and potential “takings” liability, as well as a voting rights lawsuit brought by the League of United Latin American Citizens and enjoined by the San Antonio Water System, threaten to unravel the process. This research is significant in that it demonstrates how different stakeholder groups use the same repertoire in describing their “frames” and perspectives on managing an environmental natural resource. Ostensibly, understanding how different stakeholder groups frame environmental issues will facilitate consensus building and engender success in establishing agreements and common purposes for natural resource management. Understanding how past and present conflicts arise and evolve will also contribute towards mitigating “intractable” environmental conflicts concerning all aspects and issues of land and water resource management and conservation.Geography and Environmental Studie
Environmental variables affect fungal diversity on blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) leaf surfaces:
No full textThe economically important blueberry, Vaccinium cyanococcus, is susceptible to a number of diseases, some of which are propagated by fungi living on the leaf surface. The leaf surface (phylloplane) is a cryptic environment that harbors a variety of pathogens and pathogen antagonists, and these populations are affected by many factors including weather, season, host plant location and leaf phenology. Blueberry leaves were collected in April, June, August, and October over two years from bushes in wild areas and cultivated farms along transects perpendicular to the Atlantic City Expressway, to address the hypothesis that pollution from a major highway would influence phylloplane communities. Leaves were washed and plated on potato dextrose agar, and fungal epiphytes were identified using taxonomic keys and microscopy. Epicoccum spp., Alternaria spp., Pennicilium spp., and Curvularia spp. were the most ubiquitous fungi isolated from blueberry leaves. Community structure and species richness changed from site-to-site and month-to-month and from year-to-year. The influence of highway proximity to fungal communities was not significant. Management practices in cultivated sites accounted for much of the variation in species richness and community composition among sites. Leaf age also influenced the community structure of phylloplane fungi communities. Leaves collected in April had significantly lower species richness than those collect in later months (F=19.37, P<0.0001). Yearly differences in species richness and community structure were likely due to differences in meteorological variables. Greater information provided by frequency of occurrence of fungal species would lead to a more informative multivariate analysis as presence or absence would be weighted by abundance, allowing for interpretations of dominance and more detailed analysis of phylloplane fungal communities.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27)by Jason Stanwoo
Assessment of the Jason-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon microwave radiometer performance using GPS from offshore sites in the north sea
No full textThe accuracy and drift of atmospheric path delay due to water vapor as derived from satellite microwave radiometers (MWR) is vital to altimetric measures of sea-level change. In this study a continuous time series of dual frequency GPS data from a number of offshore sites is used to examine the long term stability of the TOPEX/Poseidon radiometer and investigate initial performance of that of Jason-1. The location offshore eliminates the problems associated with land based/coastal locations where extrapolation of the GPS tropospheric correction to subsatellite points offshore are required to avoid background surface heat emissions contaminating the MWR delay measurement. Copyright \ua9 Taylor & Francis Inc
Groundwater ages from the freshwater zone of the Edwards aquifer, Uvalde County, Texas—Insights into groundwater flow and recharge
No full textTritium–helium-3 groundwater ages of the Edwards aquifer in south-central Texas were determined as part of a long-term study of groundwater flow and recharge in the Edwards and Trinity aquifers. These ages help to define groundwater residence times and to provide constraints for calibration of groundwater flow models. A suite of 17 samples from public and private supply wells within Uvalde County were collected for active and noble gases, and for tritium–helium-3 analyses from the confined and unconfined parts of the Edwards aquifer. Samples were collected from monitoring wells at discrete depths in open boreholes as well as from integrated pumped well-head samples. The data indicate a fairly uniform groundwater flow system within an otherwise structurally complex geologic environment comprised of regionally and locally faulted rock units, igneous intrusions, and karst features within carbonate rocks. Apparent ages show moderate, downward average, linear velocities in the Uvalde area with increasing age to the east along a regional groundwater flow path. Though the apparent age data show a fairly consistent distribution across the study area, many apparent ages indicate mixing of both modern (less than 60 years) and premodern (greater than 60 years) waters. This mixing is most evident along the “bad water” line, an arbitrary delineation of 1,000 milligrams per liter dissolved solids that separates the freshwater zone of the Edwards aquifer from the downdip saline water zone. Mixing of modern and premodern waters also is indicated within the unconfined zone of the aquifer by high excess helium concentrations in young waters. Excess helium anomalies in the unconfined aquifer are consistent with possible subsurface discharge of premodern groundwater from the underlying Trinity aquifer into the younger groundwater of the Edwards aquifer
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