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Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Money piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Author
No full textMoney piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, about the increased availability of credit for Maine\u27s small businesses
Calibration and uncertainty of a head-discharge relationship for overshot gates under field conditions
No full text2019 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.Adjustable overshot gates (pivot weirs) are commonly used to control discharge and water levels in irrigation water delivery networks. The degree to which this control can be achieved depends upon reliable relationships between flow rate and the hydraulic head upstream and downstream of the gate. Moreover, such relationships also can be used for flow measurements. This study aims to develop a head-discharge equation for free flow over a overshot gate, to describe its uncertainty, and to examine the impact of gate submergence on the equation. Previous research on the flow characteristics of overshot gates has been performed primarily in laboratories, with very little investigation of performance in the field. This thesis provides a report of a field study conducted on four Obermeyer-type pneumatically automated overshot gates, which were operated for irrigation water delivery in northern Colorado. Utilizing both classical and amended forms of the sharp-crested weir equation, Buckingham-Pi dimensional analysis, and incomplete self-similarity theory, head-discharge equations for free flow have been developed which are alternately dependent on and independent of the gate inclination angle. To estimate the flow rate, three fully-suppressed Obermeyer-type overshot gates with crest widths of 22 ft, 20 ft, and 15 ft, and respective lengths of 5 ft., 6.3 ft., 6.08 ft , were inspected for eight different inclination angles (α = 22.8°, 23.6°, 29.7°, 32.6°, 34.6°, 35.3°, 38.9°, 40.4°), under free flow conditions. The best-performing equation is of classical form and contains a discharge coefficient dependent on gate inclination angle. It can be used to relate the discharge to upstream hydraulic head with about ± 10 % (standard deviation range of residual error) for free flow conditions. This equation is applicable for inclination angles between 20° and 40° and for flow rates ranging from 20 to 330 ft3/s. To reduce uncertainty of the discharge coefficient and to prevent the misleading consequences of neglecting the velocity head in the approaching flow, the total upstream energy head was employed in the equation. The effect of velocity head was significant for flow estimation. Dependency of the equation on the gate and field characteristics was examined by testing the equation with field data for a different type of overshot gate. Alternate equations were developed which altered the classical form for a sharp-crested weir to include both a coefficient and an exponent that are dependent upon gate inclination angle, and which preserved the classical form and treated the discharge coefficient as a constant independent of gate inclination. Although, satisfactory results were obtained for these alternative forms, inclusion of the angle in the discharge coefficient alone was recommended for higher accuracy of flow rate estimation, particularly for larger overshot gates with inclination angles ranging from about 20° to about 40°. Furthermore, the modular limit of the overshot gates was investigated for a fourth Obermeyer gate with a crest width of 17 ft and a length of 5.8 ft. Up to a submergence ratio of 0.51, the submergence effect was not observed to decrease the flow rate over for the gate. More data for a higher submergence conditions are required to develop a modular limit and a head-discharge equation for submerged flow
t-pollington/developments_tau_statistic: First release
No full textCode release archived on Zenodo from the following paper:
@ARTICLE{Pollington2021, author={Pollington, T.M. and Tildesley, M.J. and Hollingsworth, T.D. and Chapman, L.A.C.},
volume = {42},
pages = {100438},
year = {2021},
note = {Towards Spatial Data Science},
issn = {2211-6753},
title={{Developments in statistical inference when assessing spatiotemporal disease clustering with the tau statistic}},
journal={Spatial Statistics},
doi={10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100438},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211675320300324},
keywords = {Second order dependence, Pointwise confidence interval, Bias corrected accelerated BCa, Percentile confidence interval, Spatial bootstrap, Graphical hypothesis test} }Please contact Timothy M Pollington as corresponding author on [email protected] for any assistance.
TMP, LACC & TDH gratefully acknowledge funding of the NTD Modelling Consortium by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) (grant number OPP1184344) and LACC acknowledges funding of
the SPEAK India consortium by BMGF (grant number OPP1183986). Views, opinions, assumptions
or any other information set out in this article should not be attributed to BMGF or any person
connected with them. TMP's PhD is supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research
Council, Medical Research Council and University of Warwick (grant number EP/L015374/1). TMP
thanks Big Data Institute for hosting him during this work
Timothy Meyer serves as a contributing author for UN report
No full textAssistant Professor Timothy Meyer served as a contributing author for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization\u27s report titled Networks for Prosperity: Connecting Development Knowledge Beyond 2015. The document, which was released during November, analyzes the nexus between the global connectedness of a country and its economic success, sustainability and government effectiveness. Meyer was one of only approximately 20 academic and practical experts from around the world selected to serve as a contributor after a global call for proposals.
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Selected Contributions of Sister Mary Berenice Beck, O.S.F. to Nursing in the United States, 1923-1956
No full textby Sister M. Timothy Costello.Typescript.Thesis (M.S.N.)--Catholic University of America.Bibliography: leaves 44-47.Also available in microfilm
Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis is a study of the rewriting of history in the work of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it.
Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between postmodernism and postcolonialism. I suggest that each writer engages with postmodemist aesthetics often in an attempt to produce critical histones that bear witness to the voices of those hitherto silenced in conventional historiography. However, these novelists remain anxious as to the potential consequences of mobilising postmodernist models of history, particularly as to the problems this creates concerning historical reference. The thesis aims to
identify the range of related attitudes to postmodernist critiques of history at this particular juncture of contemporary fiction in English.
I approach the specific position of the novelists under study through Homi Bhabha's work on the confluence of the postmodern and the postcolonial, focusing in particular on his suggestion that the postmodem refutation of Western epistemology enables a postcolonial space where a new range of histories emerge. Because each writer works between at least two cultures, and primarily within Britain, they negotiate from within received epistemology in an attempt to locate a space at its boundaries where conventional forms of knowledge no longer have efficacy. However, in contrast to Bhabha, these writers struggle to reach this space and remain sceptical as to the usefulness of postmodernism in making available new forms of
historiography. Ultimately, their work enables a critique of current ways of theorising the relationship between the postmodem and the postcolonial in literary studies
The Baptismal Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
No full textTimothy A. Curtin.Typescript.Thesis (S.T.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1971.Bibliography: leaves 368-393
Five minutes with Timothy Gowers: “academics can publish journals of the highest quality without a commercial entity”
No full textFields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics. Discrete Analysis is an arXiv overlay journal, which means articles are submitted and hosted via the preprint server arXiv first. The journal coordinates peer-review and publishes via Scholastica with no cost to reader or author. Gowers reflects here on his vision for the future of editor-owned journals
First person – Timothy Cummins
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Timothy Cummins is the first author on ‘PAWS1 controls cytoskeletal dynamics and cell migration through association with the SH3 adaptor CD2AP’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Timothy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine Clinical Proteomics Center, which focuses on identifying biomarkers of kidney diseases by using quantitative mass spectroscopy.</jats:p
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