459 research outputs found
Marcia Langton and Peter Robb in conversation
No full textFollowing a Monthly profile on Indigenous academic Marcia Langton by author Peter Robb (\u27Midnight in Sicily\u27, \u27M\u27, \u27Street Fight in Naples\u27), Langton and Robb come together on stage at the Sydney Writers’ Festival for an intimate conversation about the common themes of their lives: difficult early years in Australia, exciting times abroad and life back in Australia subsequently. Presented by the Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 2011
A calm and peaceful land
No full textUPEI 091; [sound recording] / P. Batchilder, M. Hennessey, C. Perry.; 2 sound cassettes (125 min.; Contents : Introductions (Grant & Robb) -- The Belfast riots (Batchilder) -- "The artist" (Hennessey) -- Rum running days (Perry).; Introduction : William Grant ; Andy Robb.; Recorded at the Confederation of the Arts Centre, 13 March 1977.; The Belfast riotsSource type: Electronic(1
Matters of life and death. by Peter Robb
No full textThe author joins Doctor John McCarthy and his team in Australia's most successful intensive care unit
The Social Cost-of-Living: Welfare Foundations and Estimation
Get PDFWe present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of- living indices. Common social cost-of-living indices can be understood as aggregator functions of approximations of individual cost-of-living indices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the expenditure-weighted average of first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index. This is troubling for three reasons. First, it has not been shown to have a welfare economic foundation for the case where agents are heterogeneous (as they clearly are.) Second, it uses an expenditure-weighted average which downweights the experience of poor households relative to rich households. Finally, it uses only first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index, and thus ignores substitution effects. We propose a “common-scaling” social cost-of-living index, which is defined as the single scaling to everyone’s expenditure which holds social welfare constant across a price change. Our approach has an explicit social welfare foundation and allows us to choose the weights on the costs of rich and poor households. We also give a unique solution for the welfare function for the case where the weights are independent of household expenditure. A first order approximation of our social cost-of- living index nests as special cases commonly used indices such as the CPI. We also provide a nonparametric method for estimating second- order approximations (which account for substitution effects).Inflation, Social cost-of-living, Demand, Average Derivatives
Robb M. Thomson
No full textRobb M. Thomson
Inducted: 2000
Citation: For leadership of research on failures of and failure avoidance in materials and management of the NIST postdoctoral program.
Tenure: 1971-1995
Birth: 1925, El Paso, Texas
Education:
University of Chicago, MS, 1950
Syracuse University, PhD (Physics), 1953
Positions held:
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Applied Technology
Program Coordinator for Failure Avoidance
NIST Post Doctoral Program Director
NBS/NIST Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
Post retirement: Emeritus Fellow
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal, 1980; Gold Medal, 1987
Memberships:
American Physical Society (Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Metals
American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers
Publications:
Author of technical papers, book chapters and encyclopedia articles on the theory of imperfections in solids and their mechanical properties and one book: Physics of Solids, McGra
The Social Cost-of-Living: Welfare Foundations and Estimation
Get PDFWe present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of-living indices. Common social cost-of-living indices can be understood as aggregator functions of approximations of individual cost-of-living indices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the expenditure-weighted average of first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index. This is troubling for three reasons. First, it has not been shown to have a welfare economic foundation for the case where agents are heterogeneous (as they clearly are.) Second, it uses an expenditure-weighted average which downweights the experience of poor households relative to rich households. Finally, it uses only first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index, and thus ignores substitution effects. We propose a “common-scaling” social cost-of-living index, which is defined as the single scaling to everyone’s expenditure which holds social welfare constant across a price change. Our approach has an explicit social welfare foundation and allows us to choose the weights on the costs of rich and poor households. We also give a unique solution for the welfare function for the case where the weights are independent of household expenditure. A first order approximation of our social cost-of-living index nests as special cases commonly used indices such as the CPI. We also provide a nonparametric method for estimating second-order approximations (which account for substitution effects).Inflation, Social cost-of-living, Demand, Average derivatives
I have a sister Sarahy, She's younger than I am
No full textvoiceSung by Sue Robb and Barbara Weatherall Ft. Smith, Ark.
July 15, 1965 Reel 374 Item 15
Collected by Sue Robb For M.C. Parler Folklore Class Sing-A-Bout Transcribed by Linda Humphrey
Take Her Out of Pity
I have a sister Sarahy,
She's younger than I am Had so many sweethearts,
She had to ___________________.
Ask your sister Sarahy,
You know she hasn't many,
And if you knew her heart,
She's grateful for any.
The tinsman, the pins man, a tinker or a tailor,
Doctor or lawyer, a soldier or a sailor,
Rich man or poor man, a fool or a witty,
Don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity.
We had a sister Sally, she was ugly and we shamed her,
By the time she was sixteen years old, she was taken,
By the time she was eighteen, a son and a daughter, Sarah's almost twenty-nine and never had an offer.The tins man, the pins man, a tinker or a tailor,
Doctor or lawyer, a soldier or a sailor,
Rich man or poor man, a fool or a witty,
Don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity
She never would be scoldin',
She never would be jealous;
Her husband would have nerve To go to the ale house.
While he was there a- spending,
She'd be home to save it;
I'll leave it up to you,
If she's not worth having.
The tins man, the pinsman, a tinker or a tailor,
Doctor or lawyer, a soldier or sailor,
Richman or poor man, afool or a witty,
Don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity
Take Her Out of Pity continued
Learned from Janet Cheepleton of Batesviller, La. who learned it from her great aunt.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
John Donald Robb’s Imperative to Collect: Towards an Archival Ethnography of the Robb Archive of Southwestern Music
Get PDFJohn Donald Robb (1892-1989) was a mid-career and extremely successful New York City lawyer when he decided to radically alter his career path in 1941 by becoming head of the University of New Mexico’s Music Department and completely devoting himself to music as a composer, educator and pioneering collector of folk music. This project is focused on this last facet of his adventurous and multi-faceted professional life. His impressive collection of approximately 3,000 songs and oral histories is housed at the University of New Mexico’s Robb Archive of Southwestern Music. Why did Robb devote so much time and effort to gathering this collection of music field recordings? Why did he deem his efforts important? What did he think his efforts would yield for the communities he studied and the society at large? What pleasures, victories, disappointments and frustrations did the process of collecting provide him at the personal level—as a collector, as a scholar, as a family man and as an musician? What impact did his passion for collecting have on his professional and personal life? Important clues to answering these questions are in the myriad lectures, notes, correspondence, interviews, autobiographical writings, and oral histories that are part of the J.D. Robb Papers, 1915-1989 at UNM’s Center for Southwest Research. This project is simultaneously a biographical exploration of Robb and a first step towards an archival ethnography of the Robb Archive of Southwestern Music.
Raquel Z. Rivera is Affiliated Scholar of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City. Co-editor of the anthology Reggaeton (Duke University Press 2009), she is also author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan 2003) and numerous articles on Latino popular and folk cultures. Her areas of scholarly interest also include race and ethnicity, nation and diaspora, and the intersections between Latino and Africana studies.
Raquel was awarded the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar travel grant for October 31-November 21, 2011. This grant is made possible by a generous gift to the LAII from Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf, and is intended to provide scholars who specialize in Latin America the opportunity to work with one of the largest and most complete library collections on Latin America in the United States.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/greenleaf_scholars/1004/thumbnail.jp
Numerical methods in marine ecology 2. Gradient analysis of rocky shore samples from False Bay
Get PDFZoologica Africana 5(2): 191-21
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