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Military Geoscience: A Multifaceted Discipline
No full textMilitary geoscience is defined as the application of geology and geography to the military sphere. Geology was first taught in military academies in the
mid-nineteenth century, although military geologists and geographers were not
employed by Western nations as such until the First World War (WWI). These were
few in number, and their use was significantly increased during the Second World
War, particularly in Germany. Academic interest developed primarily after WWI
and has increased since, resulting in a series of conferences, beginning in 1994.
These conferences, 13 in number, initially stressed military geology, but beginning
in 2000, military geography and conflict archaeology, among other subjects, were
incorporated. The International Association for Military Geosciences was established in 2013 and now sponsors biennial International Conference on Military
Geoscience (ICMG) throughout the world. A book series was established by
Springer in the same year. This volume is the seventh in that series and contains
papers spanning time from 490 BC into the twenty-first century based on presentations given at the 13th ICMG in June 2019 in Padua, Italy. Emphasis is placed on2
Italian military geoscience research dealing with WWI, although other topics are
also address
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
The World War I Tactical Maps of the Italian Army: Proposals for a Typological Classification, an Interpretation of Symbols and a Digital Analysis of the Cartographies in the Historical Archive of the Third Army
No full textInnovations in military operations during the First World War have been widely documented by international historiography. The necessities of trench warfare and their consequences in the production of military maps, however, still require in-depth study. Accordingly, this paper addresses military maps preserved in the Historical Archives of the Italian Third Army in Padua, Italy. The Third Army had a crucial role in the conflict, as it settled along the Piave River after the Retreat of Caporetto and later led the final advance toward Istria. We focus on tactical maps, i.e., maps that were continuously updated during battle, to show the evolution of frontline positions and activities. The analysis of this map collection opens a new research path for interpreting map symbols and typological classification categories depicted on military maps. Major attention has been paid to the Italian Istituto Geografico Militare printed maps that were continuously updated by hand on the battlefield during military operations. First, the map corpus is described; second, a typological classification and semiotic decoding (based on interpretation of the map symbols) is carried out; and finally, a digital analysis using georeferencing and data vectorization of troop movements and battlefield dynamics is presented
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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