198 research outputs found
The Making of a Book: The Debby Atwell Project: A Lessonn in Stewardship
No full textVideo accompanying the book, Many Friends, by the children of Peaks Island Elementary School, under the guidance of author/illustrator Debby Atwell. Videography by Don Perry. Music by Peaks Island musicians. Spring 2001.This bookmaking project and the videotaping were funded by a grant from MBNA to the Peaks Island Branch of the Portland Public Library with additional support from Peaks Island Lions Club, Peaks Island School, Peaks Island School PTA, and the Friends of the Peaks Island Library.Running time: 20 minutes.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_vhs/1001/thumbnail.jp
Memorial Sketches of Rev. George B. Atwell
No full textThe Rev. George B. Atwell was a Baptist minister in Connecticut until his death in 1879. There is a frontispiece of him at the age of 85. His serious look sets him a long way from Aesop playing with kids in the street! This book is composed of fifteen chapters written by his children as biographical sketches of periods of his life. During his pastoral duty, he wrote a series of original fables, a few of which were published. He meant to title the collection Pearls for the Poor, Contained in Proverbs and Parables, in Which Fact Is Drawn from Fable. (In fact, Pearls for the Poor still is at the bottom of the cover of this book.) Chapter X, Pearls, offers a good selection of these fables (89-126). Some of the fable subjects include the wrangling of vowels and consonants (90), an argument between the sword and the plough (94), the refusal to share of a man who has stood on another's shoulders to get grapes (95), and an argument between snow and ice (98). The latter takes a good turn when the sun dissolves both, and they find themselves becoming one. There is something humorous about The Short Man and Long Shadow (93). A man sensitive about his height notices at dawn that he now casts a long shadow. Wondering whether the shadow reflects reality, he decides to wait until sunset to check again whether his shadow has become long. Atwell enjoys punning, as when the river tells the fire that he has two banks, from which the fire will receive a check for all that is demanded of him. A turn of the screw worthy of the fable tradition occurs when a hen being sued for custody of her children has a fox as a lawyer, who pleads brilliantly and then demands the children as his fee (109). Atwell likes to pun and play with letters and sounds as when U and I square off in Woman's Rights (116).This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Told by John Walle
Interview with drummer Colin Bailey, who worked with Winifred Atwell in the 1950s
No full textBailey was born in Swindon in 1934. Now lives in California. In Australia in the early 1960s he was a member of the Australian Jazz Quartet. Became an American citizen in 1970. Playing, recording and touring nationally and internationally with Atwell in the early 1950s was a major early break in his music career. As he said to me more than once, ‘I wouldn’t be where I am if hadn’t been for Winnie’. In his jazz, recording and performing career in the US, Bailey has worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Pass (with whom he recorded 14 albums), Miles Davis (depping for the teenaged Tony Williams who was too young to get a club licence—‘one of the thrills of my life’), George Shearing, Benny Goodman, and many others. He is author of influential drum technique books, and a former music lecturer at North Texas State University. In 1978 (?) Bailey was flown out to Australia from the US as a special surprise guest for Atwell’s appearance on the Australian television version of This Is Your Lif
Passive Neutron Measurements: Some Early Mir/Space Shuttle Results
No full textBellevue, WashingtonWilliam Atwell, Retired Boeing Technical Fellow, Boeing Research & Technology, USAGautam Badhwar, NASA Johnson Space Center, USAThe 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Bellevue, Washington, USA on 12 July 2015 through 16 July 2015.The origins of this paper date back to 1999 when a draft was prepared by the Authors, but was
not published primarily due to the untimely death of Dr. Gautam Badhwar in 2001. In 2013 the Co-Author, Bill Atwell, resurrected the draft and added some additional neutron measurement data. There has been an increase interest in radiation exposures from neutrons not only due to the biological effects to flight crews, but also the effects to avionics systems. The neutron measurements reported herein extends from 1993-1997 that include measurements on both the Russian Mir space station and the US Space Shuttle. Neutron measurements were made using 1) nuclear emulsions, 2) metal foils, 3) TLD-600 and TLD-700 combination – thermal, 4) CR-39 electrochemical etching, 5) combination of TLD-600, TLD-700, CR-39, and Markofoil detectors, 6) Bonner spheres, and 7) bubble detectors. We present the results of these numerous neutron measurements along with several poignant conclusions including some recent neutron measurements taken on the Mars Science Laboratory
A Word Hypothesis Lattice Corpus - a benchmark for linguistic constraint models
No full textIntroduction In response to an input sentence, a typical recognition system (be it speech or handwriting) will build and output a word-hypothesis recognition lattice. That is a sequence of word candidate sets, where each word position is composed of a number of candidate words proposed by the recogniser. For example, on `hearing' the sentence "Stephen left school last year", an English speech recognition system might produce the following lattice: Stephen stiffens left lift loft school scowl scull lest last lust least yearn your year To disambiguate such a lattice, a standard technique is to use a language model to constrain the possible choices, so that the chosen sequence of words is the most linguistically plausible (See, for example, Jelinek 90, Atwell et al 93, Rose and Evitt 92, Keenan 93, also other papers in this Proceedings). Unfortunately, no standard method exists for evaluating and comparing the relative effectiveness of the various linguistic con
Annotated Corpus of Arabic Al-Quran Question and Answer
No full textAQQAC is a collection of approximately 2224 questions and answers about Al-Al-Quran. Each question and answer is annotated with the question ID, question word (particles), chapter number, verse number, question topic, question type, Al-Quran ontology concepts (Alqahtani & Atwell, 2018) and question source. The aim of this corpus is to provide a Question-Answering taxonomy for questions about Al-Quran. Additionally, this corpus might be used as a data set for testing and evaluating Islamic IR systems. The text of Al-Quran questions and answers were extracted from trusted two islamic sources: (1000 Su'al Wa Jawab Fi ALKORAN) was compiled by the famous Islamic scholar Ashur (2001). This book contains 1000 questions and answers about Al-Quran written in the Arabic language. Islam – Al-Quran and Tafseer is a website about Al-Quran that includes a description and a translation of Al-Quran and the reciting rules, the “Tajweed”. Additionally, this website has approximately 1224 questions and answers about Al-Quran in the Arabic language extracted from the Altabari Tafseer. Currently, this dataset contains 1224 annotated question-answers and the missing data that hasn’t been shared is due to copyright concerns
Schopenhauer on the character of the world: the metaphysics of will
No full textThe most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation , and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies
Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and NLP tools in investigations of religious prose
No full textIncreasing our ignorance of language:identifying language structure in an unknown 'signal'
No full textThis paper describes algorithms and software developed to characterise and detect generic intelligent language-like features in an input signal, using natural language learning techniques: looking for characteristic statistical "language-signatures" in test corpora. As a first step towards such species-independent language-detection, we present a suite of programs to analyse digital representations of a range of data, and use the results to extrapolate whether or not there are language-like structures which distinguish this data from other sources, such as music, images, and white noise. Outside our own immediate NLP sphere, generic communication techniques are of particular interest in the astronautical community, where two sessions are dedicated to SETI at their annual International conference with topics ranging from detecting ET technology to the ethics and logistics of message construction (Elliott and Atwell, 1999; Ollongren, 2000; Vakoch, 2000)
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