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Siles, S.S., Letter to Mary Knight, September 20, 1863
No full textStiles, S.S., Letter to Mary Knight, September 20, 1863. MS/52 William Knight Civil War Letters, Box 1, Folder 3. Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. 1 PDF and 2 scans. Includes transcript.The letter, dated September 20, 1863, is from Camp Lee and addressed to Mary. The author, identified as S.S. Siles, expresses relief that William has returned home and hopes for his quick recovery. Siles mentions the difficulties faced by women who visit camps to bring their sick husbands home, noting that officers rarely pay them any attention.
Siles laments the poor condition of the tents, which are old and worn, failing to provide adequate shelter from rain. He mentions that the Quarter Master tried but failed to secure new tents in Savannah. The letter also touches on the precarious state of the Confederate army, suggesting that its future may hinge on an upcoming battle in Northern Georgia. Siles fears that a defeat could lead to mass desertions.
The letter describes the men as being very sickly, attributing this to their poor diet of only beef and cornmeal. Siles himself is not in good health, suffering from chest pains and fevers, but continues to perform his duties as an acting Orderly Sergeant. He urges Mary to tell William to write to him and to keep him updated with news
Declaration of Intention for Orazio Colletto
No full textDeclaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by Orazio Colletto. Applicant lists himself as a 58 year old farmer residing in Hammonton, New Jersey, born in Bordenaro, Italy on 17 January 1857, who sailed on the US bound vessel S.S. Prince. Declaration submitted and sworn June 3, 1915
ZAVIČAJNO OPREDJELJENJE S.S. KRANJČEVIĆA
No full textHrvatski pjesnik S.S. Kranjčević (1865-1908), iako stvaralac nacionalnih i univerzalnih dimenzija, u određenom broju svojih pjesama iskazivao je na osebujan način svoje zavičajno određenje. Te njegove pjesme prožete snažnim emocijskim nabojima predočavaju njegovo viđenje ondašnje hrvatske nacionalne sudbine na prostoru njegova rodnog grada Senja u kontekstu uskočke tradicije koja je Senjane i Hrvate toliko nadahnjivala slobodarstvom i otporom tuđinskim porobljivačkim nasrtajima.The Croatian poet S.S. Kranjčević (1865-1908), though an author of national and universal dimensions, expressed his own native disposition in a number of his poems. Those of his poems, which are imbued with a strong emotional charge, present his own seeing of the Croatian national desetiny of the time in the area of his native town of Senj, and in the context of the Uskok (fighters against the Venetians and Turks) tradition which so much insipred the inhabitants (of Senj) and Croats in general with the love of freedom and resistance to the foreign enslaving assaults
Real-space Manifestations of Bottlenecks in Turbulence Spectra
No full textAn energy-spectrum bottleneck, a bump in the turbulence spectrum between the inertial and dissipation ranges, is shown to occur in the non-turbulent, one-dimensional, hyperviscous Burgers equation and found to be the Fourier-space signature of oscillations in the real-space velocity, which are explained by boundary-layer-expansion techniques. Pseudospectral simulations are used to show that such oscillations occur in velocity correlation functions in one- and three-dimensional hyperviscous hydrodynamical equations that display genuine turbulence
Bending dynamics of semi-flexible particles in turbulent flows
No full textWe study the Lagrangian dynamics of semi-flexible particles in laminar as well as in homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flows by means of analytically solvable stochastic models and direct numerical simulations. The statistics of the bending angle is qualitatively different in laminar and turbulent flows and exhibits a strong dependence on the topology of the velocity field. In particular, in two-dimensional turbulence, particles are either found in a fully extended or in a fully folded configuration; in three dimensions, the predominant configuration is the fully extended one
Low Reynolds Number Effects on Jets from Round, Square and Elliptical Orifices
No full textAn experimental study was undertaken to investigate low Reynolds number effects on mixing characteristics and turbulent transport phenomena in the near and intermediate regions of free orifice jets. The cross-sections examined were round, square and ellipse of aspect ratio 3. For each orifice cross-section, detailed velocity measurements were obtained at the following 4 Reynolds number based on the equivalent diameter and maximum velocity: 2500, 4300, 8500 and 17000. A high resolution particle image velocimetry was used to conduct measurements in the symmetry planes that extend from the exit to 15 equivalent diameters. Preliminary results show that an axis-switching happens at 2.7 equivalent diameters in the case of ellipse nozzle which leads to a higher spread rate compared to square and round ones. Also increase in Reynolds number decreases the jet widths
Differential diffusive instabilities of miscible two-layer stratifications in porous media and Hele-Shaw cells
No full textIn porous media, a stratification of a given solution on top of another miscible solution can be buoyantly unstable because of an unstable density stratification or because of differential diffusive effects. The former is the well known Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mechanism wherein the interface is destabilized by the denser solution overlying a less dense one in the gravity field. Whereas the latter is of particular interest in the field of oceanography, when the upper solution is less dense than the lower one with the lower component diffusing faster than the upper one, resulting in a double diffusive (DD) instability. Similarly, a diffusive-layer convection (DLC) instability has also been observed for a stable density stratification with the upper solute diffusing faster than the lower one. Though the literature on differential diffusion effects is pretty vast, very few studies have managed to establish a connection, both qualitatively and quantitatively, between numerical simulations and experimental observations, which is the basis of the present study. We report our findings in a broad parameter range where the instability mechanism could be triggered by an unstable density stratification or due to differential diffusive effects, or even both, resulting in mixed modes
Personal Archive Fund of S.S. Aydarov (1928–2014)
No full textThe paper describes the personal archive fund of a famous architect, author of a number of studies on the architecture of Volga Bolgaria and Khan's Kazan, author of restoration projects for architectural monuments: Bilyar, Bolgar fortified settlements, Sviyazhsk, Kazan Kremlin. The fund (No. 18) consists of 8 inventories. Inventory 1 includes study materials: materials for theses, scientific publications, as well as materials on the Bolgars, Sviyazhsk, Kazan and the Kazan Kremlin. Inventory 2 reveals S.S. Aydarov s scientific and organizational activities: research work at Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering , reports of the research and production restoration workshop, documents related to the development of the General Plan of Kazan, development of the Republican Humanitarian Innovative Program “Borders of the Republic of Tatarstan - the Historical Boulevard of Kazan”, as well as conference materials, documents related to teaching activities: student lectures, graduation projects, thesis reviews. Inventory 3 contains biographical materials: characteristics, awards, diplomas, certificates of honor. Inventory 4 consists of correspondence. Inventory 5 features visual materials represented by drawings of architectural monuments. Inventory 6 consists of materials by others students of S.S. Aydarov, and extracts from literature about Kazan. Inventory 7 is represented by various documents: newspaper extracts, notebooks with notes, synopses on architecture. Inventory 8 contains materials about S.S. Aydarov, such as articles, and materials about his family
Rapid growth of Coalescing Droplets and Observation of Fine Structures in Turbulent Flow
No full textI will present our results on size-growth dynamics of coalescing droplets in simulation of isotropic turbulent flow. In the short time limit, we observe very fast growth due to correlations of these droplets which can be related to the interaction between their inertia to turbulent advection (this work is done with colleagues at affiliations 1 \& 2). In a later part, I will describe our attempt to experimentally observe the intermittent fine structures of turbulence flow using high resolution Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique (this work is done with colleagues at affiliation 3)
Gender dynamics in data collection on reproductive health: field experiences in Kerala, India
No full textReproductive health researchers tend to choose interviewers of the same sex as those interviewed. In many societies, it is considered unacceptable for men to interview women on topics of an intensely personal nature like sexuality or contraceptive use. In this paper, the author analyzes 21 interviews and 16 focus group discussions (FGDs) undertaken during a field study on the Quality of Services in the Indian Family Welfare Programs conducted in Kerala. The analysis was based on the model which identifies the principal participants in the interview as the respondent and the interviewer. In all these cases the contradiction between the gendered roles of the interviewer and interviewee are visible. However, if viewed in the context of the model provided by Briggs, it is clear that these contradictions are due to the differences in the social roles that the interviewers assumed and that the respondents ascribed to them and in the interactional goals of the interviewers and the respondents. Contradictions were also experienced during the FGDs. Educational sessions on contraception are a good tool for gathering sensitive information instead of the conventional interview, where the gendered roles are so crucial to the information gathering exercise itself
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