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[Portrait of Fran Vick]
No full textPhotograph of Fran Vick for potential use as an author photo in 2007. Vick is sitting down, looking at the camera and smiling
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[Portrait of Fran Vick, 3]
No full textPhotograph of Fran Vick for potential use as an author photo in 2007. Vick is sitting in a rocking chair, facing to the left and looking directly at the camera. She is smiling slightly. Both of her hands are resting on the left arm of the chair. A shelf full of books can be seen in the background behind her
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[Portrait of Fran Vick, 2]
No full textPhotograph of Fran Vick for potential use as an author photo in 2007. Vick is sitting in a rocking chair, facing to the left of the camera and smiling. She is resting both hands on the left arm of the chair. A shelf full of books can be seen in the background behind her
Cowboy Hall of Fame inductee Vick Blackstone with friends Joe G Warner and Page and Betty Youngblood
No full textCowboy Hall of Fame inductee Vick Blackstone, with friends Manatee County cattleman and author Joe G. Warner, Parrish residents Page and Betty Youngblood. They are standing in the parking area of the Parrish Fire Station. The Parrish fire department hosted a community party for Vick to celebrate his induction to the Natiohnal Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Faye Blackstone, his wife, was also inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. Vick was born in Natalia, Texas on December 21, 1912. He began rodeoing at age 18. He and Faye moved to Parrish in 1951. Vick died in 1987
Surveillance des micropolluants hydrophiles dans les eaux à l’aide d’échantillonneurs intégratifs passifs: Développement d’une méthode pour prendre en compte l’influence des conditions hydrodynamiques
No full textLa possibilité d’obtenir de manière efficiente des résultats d’analyse représentatifs de la qualité des eaux de surface est aujourd’hui une nécessité pour avoir une vision globale, dans le temps et dans l’espace, de la présence de micropolluants hydrophiles (tels que les pesticides ou produits pharmaceutiques) dans les eaux. Cet objectif est actuellement encore difficile à atteindre car les contraintes matérielles, humaines et financières rendent compliqué le suivi à large échelle des contaminations des eaux. Cela est d’autant plus vrai pour les petits cours d’eau pour lesquels la mise en place de stratégies d’échantillonnage représentatives est pratiquement impossible avec les méthodes traditionnelles (échantillonnage actif).
Cette thèse de doctorat a permis le développement d’une méthode innovante d’échantillonnage intégratif passif permettant de prendre en compte l’influence des conditions hydrodynamiques sur l’accumulation des micropolluants hydrophiles par les capteurs de type Chemcatcher. Elle est basée sur la dissipation de composés de référence (PRC) chargés sur des capteurs pour composés hydrophobes (silicone) déployés en parallèle de capteurs pour composés hydrophiles (Chemcatcher). Cette méthode présente l’avantage de pouvoir être implémentée facilement dans un grand nombre de cours d’eau sans nécessiter d’infrastructures complexes ou couteuses et elle apparaît alors comme une solution idéale pour suivre les concentrations de micropolluants hydrophiles dans les eaux de surface.
Obtaining representative results for the quality of surface waters is now a necessity in order to have a global view, in time and space, of the presence of hydrophilic micropollutants (such as pesticides and pharmaceuticals) in water. This goal is still difficult to achieve because of material, human and financial constraints. Those constraints make it difficult to monitor water contamination on a large scale. This is all the more true for small rivers for which the implementation of representative sampling strategies is practically impossible with traditional (active) sampling methods.
This doctoral thesis led to the development of an innovative passive sampling method that take account of the influence of hydrodynamic conditions on the accumulation of hydrophilic micropollutants by Chemcatcher-like samplers. It is based on the dissipation of performance and reference compounds (PRC) loaded on samplers for hydrophobic compounds (silicone rubber) co-deployed in parallel to samplers for hydrophilic compounds (Chemcatcher). This method presents the advantage of being easily implemented in a large number of water bodies without requiring complex or expensive infrastructures and thus it appears to be an ideal solution for monitoring the concentrations of hydrophilic micropollutants in surface waters
Ronnie, Vick, and Cathy Smith
No full textThis 1964 photograph, taken by Asheville Citizen-Times photographer June Glenn, Jr. (1921-2006), shows Ronnie, Vick, and Cathy Smith from Franklin, North Carolina after performing their composition “Someone in a Log Cabin” in honor of Hubert Hayes at the Mountain Youth Jamboree. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
An improved Chemcatcher-based method for the integrative passive sampling of 44 hydrophilic micropollutants in surface water – Part A: Calibration under four controlled hydrodynamic conditions
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Implementing Lexical And Creative Intentionality In Synthetic Personality
No full textCreating engaging, interactive, and immersive synthetic characters is a difficult task and evaluating the success of a synthetic character is often even more difficult. The later problem is solved by extending Turing\u27s Imitation Game thusly: computational construct should be evaluated based on the criteria of how well the character can mimic a human. In order to accomplish a successful evaluation of the proposed metric, synthetic characters must be consistently believable and capable of role-appropriate emotional expression. The author believes traditional synthetic characters must be improved to meet this goal. For a synthetic character to be believable, human users must be able to perceive a link between the mental state of the character and its behaviors. That is to say, synthetic characters must possess intentionality. In addition to intentionality, the mental state of the character must be human-like in order to provide an adequate frame of reference for the human users\u27 internal simulations, to wit, the character\u27s mental state must be comprised of a synthetic model of personality, of personality dynamics, and of cognition, each of which must be psychologically valid and of sufficient fidelity for the type of character represented. The author proposes that synthetic characters possessing these three models are more accurately described as synthetic personalities. The author proposes and implements computational models of personality, personality dynamics, and cognition in order to evaluate the psychological veracity of these models and computational equivalence between the models and the implementation as a first step in the process of creating believable synthetic personalities
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