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Weekly Reader Radio Interview: Joanne E. Gates Discusses Elizabeth Robins with Suzanne Bunkers
No full textThis audio interview and its accompanying transcript capture the early years of Joanne E. Gates\u27 research and publications on Elizabeth Robins. The interview aired on KMSU in May, 1996, subsequent to a Gates\u27 appearance on campus for a scheduled Brown Bag Lunch event May 7, 1996, noon to 1:00, sponsored by the Women\u27s Center of Mankato State University. Gates sketches the aspects of Robins\u27 complex life: her acting, her pseudonymous fiction, her suffrage advocacy, and a few of the famous people who admired her. Also discussed: the shaping of the first published biography and the rich archive of her private papers, including the extensive correspondence with Florence Bell and her rich diary records.
Gates announces here two important editing projects that have since been realized. In the same year as the interview, the release of Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s. included the Robins play, Votes for Women, edited by and with introduction by Joanne E. Gates. The volume was edited by Katherine E. Kelly (Routledge, 1996). Also, Gates served as co-editor, with Victoria Joan Moessner, of The Alaska Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900 (published by University of Alaska Press, 1999).
In addition, the interview gives the hope and hint of a future Elizabeth Robins website, now realized after decades of Gates\u27 dedication to the project. Gates and Bunkers, the editor of several volumes on women\u27s diaries and a scholar of Katherine Anne Porter, discuss the responsibilities of a first biographer, how to shape the life, and the planning and creative touches that lend to the biography a style of novelization, or Bio-Fiction.
Permissions to archive the interview at this site were secured from KMSU station director and from Suzanne Bunkers
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the Iron Gates, Southeast Europe:Calibration and dietary issues
No full textThis paper discusses an aquatic reservoir effect present in Mesolithic human bone samples from the Iron Gates section of the River Danube. Its magnitude has been calculated from a comparison of the 14C ages of human bones and terrestrial mammal bones from Schela Cladovei, equivalent to 545±70 years for a 100% aquatic diet. From this, using the δ15N value of human bone collagen to estimate the proportion of aquatic food in diet, a correction factor can be applied to the human bone 14C ages. Reservoir correction makes the resultant 14C age less precise but more accurate. The reservoir effect is derived from the inclusion of aquatic resources from the River Danube in the diets of the Mesolithic inhabitants. On the basis that the Black Sea became marine around 7400 cal BC, the possibility that part of the reservoir effect derives from anadromous fish species cannot be discounted. Human remains are abundant in the Iron Gates sites and therefore potentially important for construction of archaeological chronologies. Our ability to correct for the aquatic reservoir affect has important implications for establishing accurate chronologies, especially at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition, which was marked by a significant change in diet and subsistence
Calculation of Contraction Coefficient under Sluice Gates and Application to Discharge Measurement
No full textThe contraction coefficient under sluice gates on flat beds is studied for both free flow and submerged conditions based on the principle of momentum conservation, relying on an analytical determination of the pressure force exerted on the upstream face of the gate together with the energy equation. The contraction coefficient varies with the relative gate opening and the relative submergence, especially at large gate openings. The contraction coefficient may be similar in submerged flow and free flow at small openings but not at large openings, as shown by some experimental results. An application to discharge measurement is also presented
Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of dietary change from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in the iron gates: New results from Lepenski Vir
No full textA previous radiocarbon dating and stable isotope study of directly associated ungulate and human bone samples from Late Mesolithic burials at Schela Cladovei in Romania established that there is a freshwater reservoir effect of approximately 500 yr in the Iron Gates reach of the Danube River valley in southeast Europe. Using the delta(15)N values as an indicator of the percentage of freshwater protein in the human diet, the C-14 data for 24 skeletons from the site of Lepenski Vir were corrected for this reservoir effect. The results of the paired C-14 and stable isotope measurements provide evidence of substantial dietary change over the period from about 9000 BP to about 300 BR The data from the Early Mesolithic to the Chalcolithic are consistent with a 2-component dietary system, where the linear plot of isotopic values reflects mixing between the 2 end-members to differing degrees. Typically, the individuals of Mesolithic age have much heavier delta(15)N signals and slightly heavier delta(13)C, while individuals of Early Neolithic and Chalcolithic age have lighter delta(15)N and delta(13)C values. Contrary to our earlier suggestion, there is no evidence of a substantial population that had a transitional diet midway between those that were characteristic of the Mesolithic and Neolithic. However, several individuals with "Final Mesolithic" C-14 ages show delta(15)N and delta(13)C values that are similar to the Neolithic dietary pattern. Provisionally, these are interpreted either as incomers who originated in early farming communities outside the Iron Gates region or as indigenous individuals representing the earliest Neolithic of the Iron Gates. The results from Roman and Medieval age burials show a deviation from the linear function, suggesting the presence of a new major dietary component containing isotopically heavier carbon. This is interpreted as a consequence of the introduction of millet into the human food chain
Recovery at Morvin: SERPENT final report
No full textRecovery from disturbance is poorly understood in deep water, but the extent of anthropogenic impacts is becoming increasingly well documented. We used Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to visually assess the change in benthic habitat after exploratory hydrocarbon drilling disturbance around the Morvin well located at 380m depth in the Norwegian Sea.An ROV, launched directly from the rig drilling the well in 2006 was used to carry out video transects around the well before drilling and immediately after. On a return to the site three years after disturbance a larger survey was conducted with a ship-launched ROV in 2009. Transects were repeated at the disturbed area and random background transects were taken. Visible drill cuttings were mapped for each survey, and positions and counts of epibenthic invertebrate megafauna were determined, revealing a fauna dominated by Cnidaria (45% of total observations) and Porifera (33%).Immediately after disturbance a visible cuttings pile extended to over 100m from the well and megafaunal density was significantly reduced (0.07 individuals m-2) in comparison to pre-drill data (0.23 ind. m-2). Three years later the visible extent of the cuttings pile had reduced in size, reaching 60m from the well and considerably less in some headings. In comparison to background transects (0.21 ind. m-2), megafaunal density was significantly reduced on the remaining cuttings (0.04m-2), but beyond the visible disturbance there was no significant difference (0.15m-2). The investigation at this site shows a return to background densities of megafaunal organisms over a large extent of the area previously disturbed. However a central area, where the initial cuttings pile was deepest, demonstrated reduced sessile megafaunal density which persisted three years after disturbance. Elevated Barium concentration and reduced sediment grain size suggests persistence of disturbance beyond the remaining visibly impacted area which may result in changes to the infaunal communities undetectable by ROV video survey
Blood Groups and Physiognomy of British Columbia Coastal Indians:
No full textby R. Ruggles Gates, and Geo. E. Darby.Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. LXIV, Jan.-June 1934
Effect of Variability in SWCNT-Based Logic Gates
No full textThis work is concerned with Carbon Nanotube diameter variations and the resulting uncertainties on the behavior of logic gates made from Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs). Monte Carlo simulations were performed for logic gates based on CNTs of different mean diameters using the Stanford CNFET model. Delay characteristics of logic gates (NOT, NAND, NOR) are studied. This work reveals that logic gates employing SWCNTs with mean diameters greater than about 1.2 nm, show less variation in their timing characteristics, provided that a CNT diameter standard deviation of less than 0.1nm can be guaranteed by a technology process
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