1,108 research outputs found
Linking Local Knowledge and Satellite-Derived Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Information In Krabi Province, Thailand
No full textThis study was designed to gain an understanding of the linkage between development and sustainability of mangrove forest conversion in three coastal communities in Thailand. It presents a methodology that could potentially aid coastal communities in determining sustainable land use conversion approaches by considering the viewpoint of villagers. A remote sensing analysis of Landsat satellite images from 1989, 2001 and 2007 showed the results of a moderate, but sustained shrimp farming industry that only partially exploited mangrove forests. The three villages experienced a range of changes in mangrove forest area. The villagers\u27 perceptions (collected through field surveys) did not match the results from the remote sensing analysis and varied significantly. A logit multiple regression model was utilized to study the factors influencing whether villagers\u27 estimates agreed or disagreed with the remote sensing analysis. Results showed that the only variables statistically significant at the 0.10 level were age, occupation, and proximity to the mangrove resource. There is a widespread belief that one of the main negative effects of the development of shrimp farms is the pollution of water and, as a consequence, the reduction of wild catch. In this study, a majority of fishing households reported a reduction in wild catch, with nearly all attributing it to shrimp farms. A relatively small number of households noted positive effects from shrimp farming and listed these as an increase of income as a result of working at shrimp farms. The most common negative effects identified by the locals were water pollution, followed by a decrease in wild catch, and an increase in the number of mosquitoes. Although shrimp farm developers promised many benefits from this enterprise, very few were realized by the villagers. Integrating information from household surveys with data on land-cover change derived from remote sensing improves our understanding of the causes and processes of land cover change, and the perceptions of such changes. Integrating these two data sources illustrated that while shrimp farms did not have very many positive effects on the villagers, they were not as directly harmful to the mangrove forests as many believed
Reading: Ishmael Reed
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 20, 1975, as part of the 6th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Spirit of Place,” Ishmael Reed reads a selection of poems and an excerpt from Flight to Canada. The poems Reed reads include “Feral Pioneers,” “There\u27s a Whale in my Thigh,” “I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra,” “Betty\u27s Ball Blues,” “Monsters From the Ozarks,” “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem,” “Dualism,” “The Difference Between My Heart & Your Intellect,” “[In San Francisco They are Taking Up a Collection],” “Caledonia,” “Sky Diving,” “\u27Sputin,” “Untitled,” “Return of Julian the Apostle to Rome,” “Sky Diving Part Two,” “If I Had a Nickel,” “The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday,” “Mystery First Lady,” “Jacket Notes,” and “Skirt Dance.
The Godawfuller Anthology, Volume I, Spring 1928
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/812f9554-a787-4d01-b69d-bc9e0222e3dd/thumb/128.jpgThe Godawfullers Society (or God Awfullers, or Gawdawfullers) was a poetry group that flourished between 1928 and 1935 at Reed. The group was a gathering of students--mostly women--interested in poetry, who met at the home of English Professor Victor L. O. Chittick [1921-1948] and also later at the home of Professor Lloyd Reynolds [1929-1969], who taught creative writing when first at Reed. The students would read their poetry and prose pieces to the group and sometimes discuss the work of published poets. The name came from Chittick's reference to the complete silence, the "Godawful Silence", that would meet his invitation to criticize. Members of the group included poet and Sappho translator Mary Barnard, author and poet Claudia Lewis, Dorothy Gill Wikelund, siblings Cecilia and Joe Gunterman, author Carolyn Bilderback, and many others
Assessment of capacity-building activities for forest measurement, reporting, and verification, 2011–15
No full textCorrespondence regarding Horace Kephart collection
No full textThis 1973 correspondence, from Congressman Roy A. Taylor to Doug Reed, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Congress of tf)e SJm'teb Matzz
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April 10, 1973 R E C C 1 V il D
APR 13 1973
Mr. Doug Reed
Public Relations & Development
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee,
North Carolina 28723
Dear Doug:
Pursuant to your telephone conversation with Luther
earlier today I am very pleased to enclose a letter
I received today from Mr. Hadley agreeing to my
recommendation that the Horace Kepart books and
journals be preserved at Western Carolina University.
We will assume that Mr. Ellis will be contacting
the University to work out the transfer arrangements.
If it develops that we can be of assistance in this
regard, just let us know.
Sincerely,
Roy A. /Taylor
Member'of Congres
Corporate computer gifts expand college resources. By Michaele Wilk Houston
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/f7befb62-15ab-4b18-89a1-8d1cd3312a75/thumb/128.jpgArticle about an earlier hardware gift to the college of illegal pinball machines which, in the early 1960s, chemistry professor John Hancock proceded to dismantle and use the parts in his DIMWIT I (Dodecahedron Isomer Machine with Internal Translation), a forerunner of the computer. The author, director of corporation and foundation gifts, goes on to tell the rest of the history of computers at Reed up to the present
Restrictions on the weight distribution of binary linear codes imposed by the structure of Reed-Muller codes
No full textAbstmcf-The words of a binary linear [n,k] code C whose weights belong to a given subset I C { 0, 1,..., n} constitute a word in a certain Reed-Muller code!R!Dl((r, k). Appropriate choices of I result in low values of the order r and thus yield restrictions on the weight distribution of C. Index I?"- Binary linear d e, affine code, weight distribution, Reed-Muller code. I
Who Should Regulate Extremist Content Online?
No full textAs liberal democracies grapple with the evolution of online political extremism, in addition to governments, social media and internet infrastructure companies have found themselves making more and more decisions about who gets to use their platforms, and what people say online. This raises the question that this paper explores, who should regulate extremist content online? In doing so the first part of the paper examines the evolution of the increasing role that social media and internet infrastructure companies have come to play in the regulating extremist content online, and the ethical challenges this presents. The second part of the paper explores three ethical challenges: i) the moral legitimacy of private actors, ii) the concentration of power in the hands of a few actors and iii) the lack of separation of powers in the content regulation process by private actors.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Reed-Solomon codes and applications
No full textXazev praee: Reed-Solomonovy kody a jejich aplikaco Autor: Pavel Iloral Katcdra (ustav): Katedra Algebry Vedouci bakalafsko prace: Doc. RNDr. Ales Drapal. CSc. c-nia.il vedoiiciho: drapar^karlin.mil', cuni.cz Abstrakt: Prace podava ucelenon definici klasiekyeh Reed-Solomonovych kodn, vcetne potfobuyeh zakladu tcxjric1 k()du. Je dokazana cykliciiost RS kodn delky q - I . Na cyklienosti jsou pak zalozeny tri inx'zontovane dekcklovac'i algoritmy fPetersonnv, Rorlrkain])-Mas.seyuv a Enklidi'iv dekodova.ci algoritmns), vcetne. dukazfi existcniee feseni. V ])oslodni ka])itole uvadiin nckolik a.]>likaci RS kodu, vcetne nejznainejyiho standardu CIRC' pouzivancho na Imdebnich CD. Klieova alova: .s;nnoo])ravny k(5d.1'X'C, Reed-Solomon. Pcterstm, Berlekanip-Massey. Euklid. CIRC1 Title: Rood-Solomon codes and applications Author: Pavel llora.1 Department: Department of Algebra Supervisor: Doc. HXDr. Ales Drapal, CSc. Supervisor's e-mail address: drapal (fkarlin.nirl.ouni.c/ Alislracl: This work presents compact definition of classic Heed-Solomon codes with necessary elements of coding theory. The ryclicity of RS codes of length q - 1 is prooved and there are comletely described three decoding algorithms (Peterson's, Berlekamp-Ma,ssoy and Euclid decoding algorithm) based on RS cyclirity. I also in- troduce a few RS..
Fatigue crack growth mechanisms in superalloys: an overview
No full textFatigue studies on disc and blade nickel based superalloys by the author and co-workers are reviewed. Crack initiation in single crystal turbine blade alloys is dominated by interdendritic porosity with oxidation processes affecting initiation position. Lifetime trends can be modelled using a multipart Paris type lifing approach. Orientation, loading state, temperature and environment determine stage I/II crack growth mechanisms and the resulting crack path and should be considered in lifing. Mechanistic insights on how complex stress states, subsurface failures and different temperatures/environments affect fatigue processes can thus improve turbine blade lifing, and direct alloy development programmes. In polycrystalline disc alloys
cracks at high temperature may initiate at oxidised subsurface carbides or porosity. Grain size controls cycle and time dependent crack growth: the benefits of increased grain size in resisting
grain boundary attack mechanisms predominate over those of gamma' distribution variation. Optimising grain boundary character and gamma' distribution should yield the best alloy design strategy for high
temperature fatigue performance in turbine discs
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