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Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
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No full textAndrew S. Ellis is annoying, infuriating, agitating, provoking, engaging, encouraging, and all the things that make a person interesting. His poetry and short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Teen Ink, the Ohio Poetry Association Common Threads, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. He is a graduate of Wright State University, earning a BA in Religion. He lives in Ohio and survives primarily off of peanut M&Ms and mountain Dew
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Velocity Dispersions and Dynamical Masses for a Large Sample of Quiescent Galaxies at z > 1: Improved Measures of the Growth in Mass and Size
No full textWe present Keck LRIS spectroscopy for a sample of 103 massive (M > 10^(10.6) M☉) galaxies with redshifts 0.9 < z < 1.6. Of these, 56 are quiescent with high signal-to-noise absorption line spectra, enabling us to determine robust stellar velocity dispersions for the largest sample yet available beyond a redshift of 1. Together with effective radii measured from deep Hubble Space Telescope images, we calculate dynamical masses and address key questions relating to the puzzling size growth claimed by many observers for quiescent galaxies over the redshift interval 0 < z < 2. Our large sample provides the first opportunity to carefully examine the relationship between stellar and dynamical masses at high redshift. We find this relation closely follows that determined locally. We also confirm the utility of the locally established empirical calibration which enables high-redshift velocity dispersions to be estimated photometrically, and we determine its accuracy to be 35%. To address recent suggestions that progenitor bias—the continued arrival of recently quenched larger galaxies—can largely explain the size evolution of quiescent galaxies, we examine the growth at fixed velocity dispersion assuming this quantity is largely unaffected by the merger history. Using the velocity dispersion-age relation observed in the local universe, we demonstrate that significant size and mass growth have clearly occurred in individual systems. Parameterizing the relation between mass and size growth over 0 < z < 1.6 as R ∝ M^α, we find α = 1.6 ± 0.3, in agreement with theoretical expectations from simulations of minor mergers. Relaxing the assumption that the velocity dispersion is unchanging, we examine growth assuming a constant ranking in galaxy velocity dispersion. This approach is applicable only to the large-dispersion tail of the distribution, but yields a consistent growth rate of α = 1.4 ± 0.2. Both methods confirm that progenitor bias alone is insufficient to explain our new observations and that quiescent galaxies have grown in both size and stellar mass over 0 < z < 1.6
Shifting formic acid dimers into perspective: vibrational scrutiny in helium nanodroplets
No full textDiscovery of a strongly lensed massive quiescent galaxy at z = 2.636: spatially resolved spectroscopy and indications of rotation
No full textWe report the discovery of RG1M0150, a massive, recently quenched galaxy at z = 2.636 that is multiply imaged by the cluster MACSJ0150.3-1005. We derive a stellar mass of log M* = 11.49 +0.10/-0.16 and a half-light radius of Re,maj = 1.8 ± 0.4 kpc. Taking advantage of the lensing magnification, we are able to spatially resolve a remarkably massive yet compact quiescent galaxy at z > 2 in ground-based near-infrared spectroscopic observations using Magellan/FIRE and Keck/MOSFIRE. We find no gradient in the strength of the Balmer absorption lines over 0.6Re - 1.6Re which are consistent with an age of 760 Myr. Gas emission in [N ii] broadly traces the spatial distribution of the stars and is coupled with weak Hα emission (log [N ii]/Hα = 0.6 ± 0.2), indicating that OB stars are not the primary ionizing source. The velocity dispersion within the effective radius is σe, stars = 271 ± 41 km s-1. We detect rotation in the stellar absorption lines for the first time beyond z ~ 1. Using a two-integral Jeans model that accounts for observational effects, we measure a dynamical mass of log Mdyn = 11.24 ± 0.14 and V/σ = 0.70 ± 0.21. This is a high degree of rotation considering the modest observed ellipticity of 0.12 ± 0.08, but it is consistent with predictions from dissipational merger simulations that produce compact remnants. The mass of RG1M0150 implies that it is likely to become a slowly rotating elliptical. If it is typical, this suggests that the progenitors of massive ellipticals retain significant net angular momentum after quenching which later declines, perhaps through accretion of satellites
A live vaccine against Neospora caninum abortions in cattle
No full textCommentaryMichael P. Reichel, Dadín P. Moore, Andrew Hemphill, Luis M. Ortega-Mora, J.P. Dubey, John T. Elli
The Grouped Author-Topic Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution
No full textThis paper describes a generative approach for tackling the problem of identity resolution in a completely unsupervised context with no fixed assumption regarding the true number of identities. The problem of entity resolution involves associating different references to authors (in a paper's author list, for example) with real underlying identities. The references may be written in differing forms or may have errors, and identical references may refer to different real identities. The approach taken here uses a generative model of both the abstract of a document and its list of authors to resolve identities in a corpus of documents. In the model, authors and topics are associated with latent groups. For each document, an abstract and an author list are generated conditioned on a given group. Results are presented on real-world datasets, and outperform the best performing unsupervised methods.</p
U.S. Congressional delegation, including Congressman Henry M. Jackson, at an airbase on a tour of Pacific naval bases, Hawaii, July 13, 1945
No full textStamped on verso: Fourteenth Naval District. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. Fourteenth Naval District Photo Lab.
Handwritten on verso: Compliments of 14th Naval District Public Information Office.
Caption filed with photograph: Pearl Harbor, T.H. - This was the fist stop on a tour of Pacific naval bases by the above Congressional party. The Congressman represent committtees on Naval Affairs, Merchant Marine and Fisheries and Appropriations. From left are: Delegate Joseph R. Farrington (R. Hawaii); C.W. Bishop (R. Ill.); Albert Gore (D. Tenn.); Andrew Biemiller (D. Wis.); Chairman Ed. V. Izac (D. Calif.); Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.); Herbert C. Bonner (D. N.Car.); and Ellis E. Patterson (D. Calif.). (Official U.S. Navy Photograph
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Testing the Presumed Effects of Service Performance, Theme, Personalization, and Multisensory Appeal on Quality of Structured Experiences
No full textGary Ellis is professor and Bradberry Chair in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences in the Texas A&M University System. His research focuses on immediate, structured experiences for tourists, park visitors, and youth.
Andrew Lacanienta is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. His research interests include immediate experiences, co-creation, and applications of role-playing.
Patti Freeman is a professor of Experience Design and Management and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at Brigham Young University. Her current research focuses on understanding and explaining targeted outcomes of participating in structured recreation experiences. Her work has been published in several journals.
Brian Hill, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Experience Design and Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He teaches a large undergraduate course titled Creating a Good Life through Experience Design. His current research considers experiences in their various forms.Oral PresentationTesting the Presumed Effects of Service Performance, Theme, Personalization, and Multisensory Appeal on Quality of Structured Experiences Abstract We evaluated service quality and experience structuring performance on subjective quality of experience in Hawaii. Two trained teams of education tourists visited major attractions on three Hawaiian Islands. One team (four members) evaluated service quality and experience structuring performance at each of 23 attractions while the other team (14 members) independently completed measures of the quality of their experiences at each attraction. Two hundred forty-seven experience equality observations were collected. Service quality was evaluated using the SERVQUAL dimensions identified by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry and “experience industry” strategies identified by Pine and Gilmore. Quality of experience indicators included measures of prevalence of deep structured experience during the visit, perceived value of time invested, and delight with the experience. Results revealed a significant relation between service quality and the experience quality measures. The hypothesis that service quality performance interacts with experience structuring performance to affect experience quality was supported
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