180,167 research outputs found
Recommended from our members
Western Life series
No full text“The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die,” says author John R. Erickson. On the one hand he is a common man: a laborer, a hired hand who works for wages. Yet in his lonely struggle against nature and animal cunning, he becomes larger than life. Who is this cowboy? Where did he come from and where is he today? Erickson addresses these questions based on firsthand observation and experience in Texas and Oklahoma. And in the process of describing and defining the modern working cowboy—his work, his tools and equipment, his horse, his roping technique, his style of dress, his relationships with his wife and his employer—Erickson gives a thorough description of modern ranching, the economic milieu in which the cowboy operates. The first edition of this book was published in 1981. For this second edition Erickson has thoroughly revised and expanded the book to discuss recent developments in cowboy culture, making The Modern Cowboy the most up-to-date source on cowboy and ranch life today. “We meet the modern cowboy (his dress depends on weather, chores, and vanity) and follow him through the year: spring roundup, branding and ‘working’ the calves; spotting problem animals and cutting them from the herd; repairing windmills and mending fences; fall roundup, and feeding animals in winter. . . . This is a lively portrait, sure to appeal to all Western buffs.”— Publishers Weekl
Letter Written by Herbert E. Erickson to the Bryant College Service Club Dated July 31, 1942
No full text[Transcription begins]
Sgt. Herbert E. Erickson, #31008619 Hq. VI Army Corps, APO #306 Dilworth, N. C.
July 31, 1942
Chairman, Bryant Service Club c/o Bryant College Providence, R. I.
Dear Sir:
The cigarettes you so kindly sent me arrived today at our maneuver camp. Thank you very much for this very pleasant surprise and the little message that came with it. Your interest in the old alumni is very much appreciated.
They may not remember me, but anyway, please give my best regards to Mr. Lee and Mr. Ripley, and to your fellows and girls of the Club, best of luck; and if you happen to be “called,” I hope it’s to serve in the branch you would have selected yourselves.
Sincerely yours,
Herbert E. Erickson [Transcription ends
C. A. Erickson, City, Tire Shop Operator
No full textPhotograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When C. A. Erickson, who operates a tire shop at 1301 NW 23, goes fishing or hunting he closes up business.
Effective stimulus parameters for directed locomotion in Madagascar hissing cockroach biobot
No full textREADME – MHC biobot stimulus-response data files.
This archive consists of (sub)directories, one for each test experiment. The date on which the experiment was performed is indicated in the top level folder in YYYYMMDD form. Typically subfolders are named ROACH_. Some folders contain a further suffix such as _I or _V to denote current vs. voltage stimuli.
Folders contain data for:
• Motion tracking with 2 optical mice. Filenames are: mouse{1,2}XY_.txt. The two files are for two orthogonal mice.
• Electric stimulus pulse parameters. Filenames are: pulseparams{1,2}XY_.txt
• Experimental timing parameters (such as length of a single trial, time at which stimulus delivery begins, etc.). Filenames are: expparams{1,2}XY_.txt
Note that not all directories contain all of these file types as some were added during later experiments (generally, earlier experiments are missing expparams files).
A MATLAB code archive is included to aid analysis and visualization. There are many automated functions and scripts to process large data sets. A good point of entry is to use the GUI interface, which allows the user to quickly scan through trials for a given test subject to view linear and angular responses to a given stimulus. Type >> help roachgui.m for more information.
Core file-loading functions are:
• twomouseXY.m (loads optical mouse tracking data)
• readpulseparams.m (reads a pulse parameters file)
• readexpparams (reads information in expparams file)
Another core analysis function is roachda.m, which automates processing of linear and angular responses for all trials in a single directory.
For more information on how to use these and other function, consult the help in MATLAB, or contact Jon Erickson, [email protected]
Effective stimulus parameters for directed locomotion in Madagascar hissing cockroach biobot
No full textREADME – MHC biobot stimulus-response data files.
This archive consists of (sub)directories, one for each test experiment. The date on which the experiment was performed is indicated in the top level folder in YYYYMMDD form. Typically subfolders are named ROACH_. Some folders contain a further suffix such as _I or _V to denote current vs. voltage stimuli.
Folders contain data for:
• Motion tracking with 2 optical mice. Filenames are: mouse{1,2}XY_.txt. The two files are for two orthogonal mice.
• Electric stimulus pulse parameters. Filenames are: pulseparams{1,2}XY_.txt
• Experimental timing parameters (such as length of a single trial, time at which stimulus delivery begins, etc.). Filenames are: expparams{1,2}XY_.txt
Note that not all directories contain all of these file types as some were added during later experiments (generally, earlier experiments are missing expparams files).
A MATLAB code archive is included to aid analysis and visualization. There are many automated functions and scripts to process large data sets. A good point of entry is to use the GUI interface, which allows the user to quickly scan through trials for a given test subject to view linear and angular responses to a given stimulus. Type >> help roachgui.m for more information.
Core file-loading functions are:
• twomouseXY.m (loads optical mouse tracking data)
• readpulseparams.m (reads a pulse parameters file)
• readexpparams (reads information in expparams file)
Another core analysis function is roachda.m, which automates processing of linear and angular responses for all trials in a single directory.
For more information on how to use these and other function, consult the help in MATLAB, or contact Jon Erickson, [email protected]
Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage: where are we now?
No full textCitation: Poole, D. C., & Erickson, H. H. (2016). Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage: where are we now? Veterinary Medicine-Research and Reports, 7, 133-148.
https://doi.org/10.2147/vmrr.s120421As the Thoroughbreds race for the final stretch, 44 hooves flash and thunder creating a cacophony of tortured air and turf. Orchestrated by selective breeding for physiology and biomechanics, expressed as speed, the millennia-old symphony of man and beast reaches its climax. At nearly 73 kilometers per hour (45 mph) over half a ton of flesh and bone dwarfs its limpet-like jockey as, eyes wild and nostrils flaring, their necks stretch for glory. Beneath each resplendent livery-adorned, latherin-splattered coat hides a monstrous heart trilling at 4 beats per second, and each minute, driving over 400 L (105 gallons) of oxygen-rich blood from lungs to muscles. Matching breath to stride frequency, those lungs will inhale 16 L (4 gallons) of air each stride moving >1,000 L/min in and out of each nostril - and yet failing. Engorged with blood and stretched to breaking point, those lungs can no longer redden the arterial blood but leave it dusky and cyanotic. Their exquisitely thin blood-gas barrier, a mere 10.5 mu m thick (1/50,000 of an inch), ruptures, and red cells invade the lungs. After the race is won and lost, long after the frenetic crowd has quieted and gone, that blood will clog and inflame the airways. For a few horses, those who bleed extensively, it will overflow their lungs and spray from their nostrils incarnadining the walls of their stall: a horrifically poignant canvas that strikes at horse racing's very core. That exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) occurs is a medical and physiological reality. That every reasonable exigency is not taken to reduce/prevent it would be a travesty. This review is not intended to provide an exhaustive coverage of EIPH for which the reader is referred to recent reviews, rather, after a brief reminder of its physiologic and pathologic bases, focus is brought on the latest developments in EIPH discovery as this informs state-of-the-art knowledge, the implementation of that knowledge and recommendations for future research and treatment
(Re)Imagining Los Angeles: five psychotopographies in the fiction of Steve Erickson
No full textThe thesis investigates psychotopography: the dynamic interrelationship of emotions,
landscape, and the individual. Psychotopography suggests an all-encompassing connection
between landscape and emotion and attempts to outline the intricacies of this, subsequently
providing new ways of mapping the landscape, in particular, a re-mapping of emotional and
psychic responses to the urban space. The aim of psychotopography is to create new
understandings of ourselves, the ways in which we interact with the city, and the identities that
arise as a result, through an exploration of the psychotopographic states and tendencies of a
place, as identified in creative processes such as fiction, art and film.
This study is done with particular reference to the landscape of Los Angeles and
individuals relationship with it. Psychotopography is a term specifically used by Los-Angeles
based American novelist Steve Erickson, and therefore the thesis approaches psychotopography
principally through Erickson’s writings, using studies of five psychotopographic states identified in
his work: emotion, happiness, numbers, liquidity and apocalypse. These five main chapters deal
with themes that are significant not only in Erickson’s writings but as part of the experience of Los
Angeles and the surrounding area, and the interrelation between these themes, their motifs and
the notion of psychotopography.
The psychotopography of Erickson’s novels and characters is intricately woven through all
aspects of his writing and therefore the methodology used during the study of Erickson’s writing is
close thematic analysis. This allows a highly detailed and deliberate exploration of both the
mechanics and concepts within Erickson’s fiction.
The thesis will develop the notion of psychotopography both within the novels and the
wider context of the Los Angeles and Southern Californian landscape, going on to suggest how
this notion might be applied to other disciplines and mediums
Supplemental Material to Erickson et al., 2018
No full textSupplemental Figures S1-S8 and Supplemental Tables S1-S3 for Erickson et al., 201
- …
