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Portrait of Fiona Foley, 1991 [picture] /
No full textTitle from label on back of print.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Australian artists 1968-1993.; Reference print at P641/11/R.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an12119202
Author, Geraldine Brooks at the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author, Geraldine Brooks during her visit to the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Summer of Service: Greg Jao
No full textGreg Jao, Vice President of Campus Engagement for InterVarsity, speaks on Nehemiah and the importance of investing where God has placed you.
A second-generation Chinese American, Greg helped develop The Daniel Project, a leadership acceleration program for Asian American InterVarsity staff, and formerly served as National Field Director for InterVarsity in the Northeast. He has emceed several Urbana conferences, speaks often to student groups, and is a volunteer preacher at his church. Greg is the author of Your Mind’s Mission, The Kingdom of God, and Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents (all IVP)
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 1 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 2 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Greg Bottoms, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Bottoms is the author of the memoir Angelhead, which was named one of the best five works of nonfiction of 2000 by Esquire magazine. His second book, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Tales, was released in September 2001 by Context Books. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including The Beacon Best of 1999, Creative Nonfiction, and Esquire. He is currently the Teaching and Writing Fellow at Sweet Briar College
Greg Larson, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Larson is an author, editor, and stand-up comedian in Austin, Texas. His memoir, Clubbie (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), was his graduate thesis for Old Dominion University’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Library Journal called it “[A] necessary addition to current baseball literature.” He has since been featured by NPR, CBS Sports Radio, ESPN, and the MLB Network. He has edited clients’ work that has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List, the USA Today Bestseller List, and more
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Dead-end and crossflow microfiltration of yeast and bentonite suspensions: experimental and modelling studies incorporating the use of artificial neural networks
No full textThe applicability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and semi-empirical modelling techniques for correlation and prediction of the filtration characteristics of microfiltration systems was assessed.
ANNs were developed to correlate specific cake resistance and steady state flux of dried yeast suspensions in dead-end microfiltration for a range of operating parameters. Trained networks were used in predicting filtration characteristics of previously unseen data, with excellent agreement. Network weights were interpreted for both the specific resistance and flux networks with the effective contribution of each input parameter showing trends that were as expected.
A novel neural network technique was developed for the prediction of dynamic flux data in batch stirred microfiltration of bentonite (a clay which forms an aqueous suspension with non-Newtonian rheology), based on eliminating the use of the time series explicitly as an input to the network. This approach reduces the size and complexity of network necessary for correlation and prediction of time series data, thus reducing processing times required, while achieving excellent R2 values for prediction of previously unseen data. This novel approach was also used in the correlation and prediction of batch crossflow microfiltration of bentonite.
Drawbacks of the artificial neural network approach include the lack of information obtainable about the physical characteristics of a given system, and the models obtained in this manner are empirical in nature. Although a legitimate approach especially in the modelling of complex systems, the development of physical models to describe these systems is a more fundamental chemical engineering approach to the problem. The use of physical modelling especially in batch systems where the concentration in the system is changing as a function of time is an interesting problem and gives more qualitative insight into what is happening in the system. Semi-empirical models based on the idea of simultaneous particle deposition and cake removal were developed to describe stirred microfiltration, batch crossflow and continuous crossflow of bentonite suspensions.
The basic model incorporating a cake removal rate constant k was found to fit qualitatively to stirred filtration data, however the predicted specific cake resistance was over-estimated when compared with experimentally determined values. The basic model was modified by the introduction of two extra terms - a critical flux, J*, below which cake removal by shearing does not take place, and an instantaneous membrane fouling constant, b.
The modified model was found to give reasonable approximations to the experimentally determined specific cake resistance for the stirred system, including accurate prediction of the effect of increasing crossflow velocity leading to a decrease in specific cake resistance. Reasonable trends in the model parameters were seen in some but not all cases for the stirred system.
On application of this model to batch crossflow filtration data the specific cake resistance was largely overestimated, and this and the model parameters were not found to follow consistent trends. This finding was attributed in part to changing flow regimes in the system due to increases in concentration and crossflow velocity.
The modified model incorporating irreversibility was applied to continuous laminar crossflow filtration, and crossflow experiments were extended by flushing of the membrane after filtration to investigate the irreversibility of cake formation in the system. The model was found to fit well to flux decline data, with sensible trends in the specific cake resistance and the model parameters; however, the cake removal by the flushing phase was not well represented by the model
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