317 research outputs found
Groundwater and surface water interactions in the Catherine Creek Watershed, Oregon - results and analysis from the 2011 seepage run
No full textby Jonathan La Marche, Karl Wozniak, Shad Hattan, Josh Hackett.Title from PDF cover (viewed on March 3, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-34).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Intelligent Equalisation Principles and Techniques for Minimising Masking when Mixing the Extreme Modern Metal Genre.
No full textThe intensity, complexity and energy of performance, combined with the power and density of the tones involved are characteristics of the extreme metal genre. These characteristics present numerous problems when striving to achieve the clarity, definition and hyper-realism of performance required for this genres production. Avoiding masking in a mix is a fundamental
aspect of clarity, definition, intelligibility and perceived loudness and due to the fact that masking especially occurs in a dense mix, and is more pronounced in low frequencies, is particularly applicable to mixing the downtuned extreme metal genre. Masking in simple terms is the ability of frequencies of one sound to obscure or inhibit (i.e. mask) the frequencies of
another sound. This paper will draw upon the first author’s eight years of experience producing within the metal genre, including releases through Sony and Universal and working with the likes of Colin Richardson and Andy Sneap
A Conversation with Jonathan Franzen
No full textJonathan Franzen, arguably the best living American novelist, began his career in the late eighties. His first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, is a thriller set in his hometown of St. Louis. Franzen’s second novel, Strong Motion, tells the story of the Holland family, who live in a Boston that is beset by earthquakes. But it wasn’t until 2001, with The Corrections, that the author found a wider readership. This book sets the Lambert family’s conflicts and anxieties against the backdrop of larger social issues, like the changing economy of the ’90s, and the rampant use of psychopharmaceuticals. When Franzen expressed ambivalence at having The Corrections selected as an Oprah’s Book Club pick, the ensuing flurry of media coverage secured his foothold in mainstream culture. The author’s fourth novel, Freedom, interweaves the story of the Berglunds with subplots that examine mass consumerism and environmental issues. Franzen’s oeuvre also includes two collections of essays, How to Be Alone, and Farther Away, and a personal history, The Discomfort Zone. His most recent book is The Kraus Project, a translation with commentary of the work of the nineteenth-century Austrian critic, Karl Kraus.
Franzen’s visit to Butler University—as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series—was three-fold: a reading for the general public, a Q&A for Butler students, and an interview with Booth. As the MFA candidate/reader for Booth who was to interview Mr. Franzen, I attended his reading and Q&A so as to get a better sense of what the author is like. Many articles profiling the novelist cast him as a cranky contrarian, but the Jonathan Franzen I saw didn’t fit into any of my preconceived ideas. During his reading he seemed intent on entertaining the crowd. Afterwards he fielded questions from the audience and responded genially. He smiled. He said thank you. When someone asked Franzen if he wanted his work to be a catalyst for social change, the novelist said he wasn’t opposed to the idea, but added, “I’m just trying to give the reader a good time.”
The undergraduates who attended the author’s Q&A had questions about The Discomfort Zone. Franzen said that the first thirty pages he wrote were awful because he was ashamed of his innocence. “Shame is the worst substance on the page, the most contagious of all feelings,” he said. After he rewrote the material using humor, casting himself as a “ridiculous figure,” he was able to let go of that shame. When Franzen was asked about his intense interest in birding, he told the crowd—most of them in their late teens and early twenties—that he didn’t start to grow up until he was in his forties. “I was so self-conscious for so much of my life, especially as a teenager,” he said, adding that it was through birding that he learned how to be in the moment and enjoy it. After the undergraduates left, Jonathan Franzen sat down with me to share some of his thoughts on literature, social media, and infamy
Growth of amorphous tungsten silicide and study of the proximity effect at low dimensions for superconducting applications
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).In this thesis we successfully fabricate Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) out of a hybrid film with layers of both niobium nitride (NbN) and amorphous tungsten silicide (WSi). These hybrid devices use the proximity effect to potentially be more efficient than either of the materials alone. In order to make these devices, we first grew high quality samples of tungsten silicide and characterized them before growing hybrid films useful for nanoscale devices. We tested a hybrid chip with a number of nanowire devices expecting more efficient and faster detectors than the material alone. Though the findings are promising with the devices having reset times of around 2 ns and jitter of around 50 ps the devices did not saturate indicating that further experiments are needed to characterize the hybrid devices.by Jonathan Jacob Surick.M. Eng
"Have you really read Job? Read him, read him again and again" : Kierkegaard, Vischer, and Barth on the book of Job
No full textThis thesis explores the reception history of the book of Job, particularly in Søren
Kierkegaard’s Three Upbuilding Discourses and Repetition, Wilhelm Vischer’s “Hiob, ein
Zeuge Jesu Christi,” and Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. It examines the hermeneutical
presuppositions of these three scholars and how the scholars themselves fit into the history
of interpretation, showing that they use a post-critical allegorical interpretation in order to
explore the freedom of God and humanity.
Chapter one offers a defense of using reception history in biblical studies. By
walking through Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on great time and the chronotope, it argues that
great texts continue to live and grow even after their completion and canonization. During
this “afterlife,” their meaning expands as more readers participate in their interpretations.
Chapter two examines the afterlife of the book of Job in the hands of Christian exegetes,
focusing on allegory and freedom in the interpretations by Gregory the Great, Thomas
Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Immanuel Kant. Chapter three looks at the
unusual and rich interpretations of Job by Kierkegaard—the autonymous upbuilding
discourse on Job’s response to his suffering in the prologue and the novella Repetition as an
interpretation of the dialogue between Job and his friends. Chapter four examines the
interpretation of the book of Job in Vischer’s mini-commentary. Vischer sees the character
of Job as one whose devotion to God goes beyond the laws that God purveys and the
doctrine that seeks to explain God. Referring specifically to the works of Kierkegaard and
Vischer, Karl Barth’s work on Job—the focus of chapter five—sees the book of Job as
illustrative of Jesus Christ’s relationship to God and humanity. All three scholars
incorporated allegory while ruminating on the freedom of God in the book of Job. The final
chapter evaluates their interpretations while addressing their similarities and differences
Restricting consumer credit access: household survey evidence on effects around the Oregon rate cap
No full textMany policymakers and some behavioral models hold that restricting access to expensive credit helps consumers by preventing overborrowing. The author examines some short-run effects of restricting access, using household panel survey data on payday loan users collected around the imposition of binding restrictions on payday loan terms in Oregon. The results suggest that borrowing fell in Oregon relative to Washington, with former payday loan users shifting partially into plausibly inferior substitutes. Additional evidence suggests that restricting access caused deterioration in the overall financial condition of the Oregon households. The results suggest that restricting access to expensive credit harms consumers on average.Consumer credit
Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Mid-thoracic Vertebral Corridors in Normal French Bulldogs
No full textObjectives: (1) To report internal measurements of thoracic vertebral bone morphology and (2) identify safe and clinically applicable surgical implant corridors in the T7-T9 thoracic vertebrae of French Bulldogs.
Study Design: Observational, cross‐sectional, descriptive study.
Sample Population: Seven client-owned French Bulldogs with normal thoracic vertebrae.
Methods: Computed tomographic (CT) studies of normal French Bulldogs were reviewed. Multiplanar reconstruction of the CT images was used to determine thoracic vertebral corridors. Corridor measurements included the width, length, insertion distance off midline, and angle off midline (sagittal) for each thoracic vertebra. One‐way analysis of variance was used to detect differences between groups.
Results: Measurements of vertebral corridor width (p>0.9848), length (p>0.8113), implant center (p>0.9282) and angle (p>0.3609) did not differ between each vertebra. The average vertebral corridor width was 4.5 ± 0.7 mm. The average corridor length was 17.2 ± 2.5 mm. The average corridor angle was 22.3 ± 1.9 °. The mean distance the proposed implant center was from the vertebral midline was 8.2 ± 1.1 mm. Inter-observer agreement of corridor length and implant center was good but poor for corridor angle and width.
Conclusion: Based on average corridor width and length, commercially available cortical screws or pins can be utilized for implants in this region of the thoracic spine. The angle of corridor trajectory from a dorsal approach seems most applicable for T7-T9.
Clinical Significance: Vertebral corridors can be measured using CT-MPR, and implant specifications and angles derived. Surgical guides can also be created to guide implant placement. This approach provides a simple and accurate method to guide the placement of thoracic vertebral implants.This article is published as Eby, Adam, Peter Early, Simon Roe, Karl Kraus, Yuan Lingnan, and Jonathan Mochel. "Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Mid-thoracic Vertebral Corridors in Normal French Bulldogs." European Journal of Veterinary Medicine 2, no. 1 (2022): 1-3. DOI: 10.24018/ejvetmed.2022.2.1.21. Copyright 2022 The Author(s). Posted with permission
Luxury and labour : ideas of labouring-class consumption in eighteenth-century England
No full textThis thesis examines changing ideas of labouring-class consumption in eighteenthcentury
England. Recent social and economic history has rewritten eighteenthcentury
England in terms of the formation of a commercial society. Against this
backdrop, intellectual and cultural historians have uncovered the formation of
concepts and practices appropriate for a civilised commercial society. Yet, in spite
of the growing evidence that they were increasingly participating in the
developing world of goods, little work has focused on the public discussion of the
labouring classes' consumer desires.
The study is based on the close analysis of pamphlet literature discussing
the labouring classes. It tracks the ideas through which the propertied classes
viewed labouring-class consumption and attempted to determine the exact status
and function of their desires in a commercial society. From within an early
eighteenth-century position which viewed the appetites of the poor as being a
species of luxury, the thesis tracks the emergence of categories and concepts that
made it possible to recognise the labouring classes' consumer desires as part of
commercial society's progressive development. In the later years of the century,
this optimism faded as the interests of capital accumulation and the demands of
labourers were increasingly recognised to be contradictory.
Ultimately, the thesis argues that we cannot understand the ideological
representation of the needs and desires of the poor without also tracing the
changing conceptualisation of their labour, in the same way that we cannot
understand the formation of a commercial society without reference to
proletarianisation and the attack on customary culture. The coalescing practices of
a commercial society, and their ideological expression, rested upon the ever
greater alienation of the labouring classes, from their human needs and powers
Optimal and receding-horizon path planning algorithms for communications relay vehicles in complex environments
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).This thesis presents new algorithms for path planning in a communications constrained environment for teams of unmanned vehicles. This problem involves a lead vehicle that must gather information from a set of locations and relay it back to its operator. In general, these locations and the lead vehicle's position are beyond line of-sight from the operator and non-stationary, which introduces several difficulties to the problem. The proposed solution is to use several additional unmanned vehicles to create a network linkage between the operator and the lead vehicle that can be used to relay information between the two endpoints. Because the operating environment is cluttered with obstacles that block both line-of-sight and vehicle movement, the paths of the vehicles must be carefully planned to meet all constraints. The core problem of interest that is addressed in this thesis is the path planning for these link vehicles. Two solutions are presented in this thesis. The first is a centralized approach based on a numerical solution of optimal control theory. This thesis presents an optimal control problem formulation that balances the competing objectives of minimizing overall mission time and minimizing energy expenditure. Also presented is a new modification of the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree algorithm that makes it more efficient at finding paths that are applicable to the communications chaining problem. The second solution takes a distributed, receding-horizon approach, where each vehicle solves for its own path using a local optimization that helps the system as a whole achieve the global objective.(cont.) This solution is applicable to real-time use onboard a team of vehicles. To offset the loss of optimality from this approach, a new heuristic is developed for the linking vehicles. Finally, both solutions are demonstrated in simulation and in flight tests in MIT's RAVEN testbed. These simulations and flight tests demonstrate the performance of the two solution methods as well as their viability for use in real unmanned vehicle systems.by Karl Christian Kulling.S.M
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
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