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SvePy src v1.0
No full textSvePy Saint Venant Solver Python version 1.0
author: Ben R. Hodges
National Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management
University of Texas at Austin
Copyright (c) 2019 Ben R. Hodges
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File organization:
/src source code for SvePy
/input input files needed for test cases
/restart restart files used for Waller Creek test cases
/documentation code documentation (limited)
/outbin_### output binary files from test cases
/outtxt_### output text files from test cases
/FigureProcessingMatlab scripts used to produce figures in Hodges and Liu (2019)
Note: documentation of the code is limited to the comments within the code,
the technical report in the /documentation folder, and the following papers:
Hodges, B. R. (2019).
Conservative finite-volume forms of the Saint-Venant equations for hydrology and urban drainage.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,
23, 1281-1304.
doi: 10.5194/hess-23-1281-2019
Hodges, B. R., and F. Liu, (2019).
Timescale interpolation and no-neighbor discretization for a 1D finite-volume Saint-Venant solver.
Journal of Hydraulic Research
(submitted July 2019)
The top-level scripts for running the code are labeled Run_### <br
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Economic utopia of the Torah. Economic concepts of the Hebrew Bible interpreted according to the Rabbinical Literature
No full textHebrew Bible offers alternative Economic utopia for building Theocratic society. In this paper, various economic concepts and themes are presented, as found in the Hebrew Bible. These economic concepts include taxation, property rights, labor market, social policy, banking, years of Sabbath and Jubilee, and business cycles. Most economic issues of the Bible are found in the texts of Torah, also known as five Books of Moses. These texts are analyzed by using classical Rabbinical commentaries for better insight. Contrary to the modern Economic theory which is based on the assumptions of scarcity of resources and unlimited needs of consumers, Economics of the Torah is based on God’s resources which are enough for all true needs of His people.Hebrew Bible, History of Economics, History of Economic Thought, Ancient Israel, Judaism
J. Willard Marriott Library Information Visualization Lecture Series presents Dr. Kirsten R. Butcher... Dr. Frank A. Drews, ... James Agutter, ... Dr. Ben Fry
No full textPoster publicizing the "Information Visualization Lecture Series" held during Winter Semester of 2013 in the Gould Auditorium of the J. Willard Marriott Library. Presenters included Dr. Kirsten R. Butcher (Educational Psychology), Dr. Frank A. Drews (Cognitive Psychology); James Agutter (College of Architecture and Planning); and Dr. Ben Fry (author of "Visualizing Data.
Population differences in immune responses to Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination in infancy.
No full textBacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination induces a marked increase in the interferon (IFN)-gamma response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis purified protein derivative (Mtb PPD) in UK adolescents, but not in Malawian adolescents. We hypothesized that Mtb PPD-induced IFN-gamma after BCG vaccination would be similar in infants from these 2 countries. Infants were vaccinated with BCG during the first 3-13 weeks of life. Three months after BCG vaccination, 51 (100%) of 51 UK infants had an IFN-gamma response to Mtb PPD, compared to 41 (53%) of 78 of Malawian infants, in whom responses varied according to their season of birth. We conclude that population differences in immune responses after BCG vaccination are observed among infants, as well as among young adults
Geophysical exploration of the West Sardinian continental margin and Sardo-Provençal oceanic basin (West Mediterranean Sea)
No full textGeophysical exploration of the West Sardinian continental margin and Sardo-Provencal oceanic basin (West Mediterranean Sea).
Del Ben A.1, Geletti, R.2, Zgur F.2, Brancatelli G.2, Camerlenghi A.2, Dal Cin M.2, Fais S. 3,
Forlin E.2, Lanzoni A.1, Romeo R.2
1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste.
2 Istituto Nazionale do Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale OGS, Trieste.
3 Dipartimento di Ingegnaria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura, University of Cagliari
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Keywords: West-Sardinian margin, Sardo-Provencal Basin, Seismic reflection, Messinian, Evaporites
The Sardo-Provencal Basin and its eastern continental West Sardinian margin represents one of the less explored Italian sea. During the year 2010 the Explora acquired a new geophysical dataset (W-Sardinia_2010) represented by seismic reflection and chirp profiles and Multibeam and Magnetic data. The dataset acquisition was designed on the base of results provided by previous seismic profiles of the MS (Mediterranean Sea), CROP (CROsta Profonda) and ViDEPI (Visibility of Petroleum Exploration Data, public data available in the Sardinian offshore, near the shoreline) projects. Integration of all the different dataset allowed us to interpret the main geological structures produced during the Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene, when the rifting phase was followed by the oceanic opening of the West Mediterranean Sea. On the continental margin seismic waves have explored the whole sedimentary sequence, reaching the geological basement and showing the horst and graben system produced by the extensional tectonics (Geletti et al., 2014; Dal Cin et al., 2016; Del Ben et al., 2018).
On the oceanic abyssal plain the MS and CROP profiles depicted some deep reflectors, generally ascribed to the top of the basaltic basement, while not good information is available about the Moho reflector. The new W-Sardinia_2010 dataset, due to its higher resolution, highlights very clearly the Messinian evaporate sequence, characterized by the typical Messinian trilogy (Rehault et al., 2004).
The evaporate sequence is represented by i) a high amplitude stratified upper unit (UU), of mainly gypsum lithology, ii) a transparent salt unit (MU for Mobile Unit), characterized by strong halocinetic tectonics, and iii) a stratified lower unit (LU), never crossed by boreholes, probably also represented by gypsum. This trilogy gradually onlaps the lower continental slope, disappearing toward east, substituted by a marked erosional truncation (MES, for Margin Erosional Surface: Lofi et al., 2011) representing a variable hiatus, locally evident also in the Sardinia onshore.
The Plio-Quaternary sequence, clearly depicted by the seismic reflection, was highly deformed, especially during the Lower Pliocene, by halocinetics. Sometimes this process is still active, producing some circular structures in the sea bottom, which are well imaged in detail by the chirp and multibeam data.
The different resolution of the available data represents the best condition to study the whole sedimentary sequence and to correlate deep structures with their local effect on shallow youngest sediments.
References
Dal Cin M., Del Ben A., Mocnik A., Accaino F., Geletti R., Wardell N., Zgur F. & Camerlenghi A. (2016) - Seismic imaging of Late Miocene (Messinian) evaporites from Western Mediterranean back-arc basins. Petr. Geosci. 22, 297–308.
Del Ben, A., Mocnik A., Camerlenghi A., Geletti R., Zgur F., 2018. – 9.A-D- Western Sardinia. In: J. Lofi, Ed., Seismic atlas of the Messinian Salinity Crisis markers in the Mediterranean sea. Volume 2. - Mem. Soc. geol. fr., n.s., 2018, t. 181, and Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 32-35.
Geletti R., Zgur F, Del Ben A. , Buriola F. , Fais S., Fedi M., Forte E., Mocnik A., Paoletti V., Pipan M., Ramella R.,. Romeo R., Romi A. (2014) - The Messinian Salinity Crisis: new seismic evidence in the West-Sardinian Margin and Eastern Sardo-Provençal Basin (West Mediterranean Sea). Marine Geology, 351, 76–90.
Lofi, J., Deverchère, J., Gaullier, V., Gillet, H., Gorini, C., Guennoc, P., Loncke, L., Maillard, A., Sage, F., Thinon, I. (2011). Atlas of the Messinian seismic markers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Memoir Societe Geologique de France n.s. 179 and World Geological Map Commission (72 pp.).
Rehault, J.P., Boillot, G., Mauffret, A., 1984. The Western Mediterranean Basin geological evolution. Marine Geology 55, 447–477
Ben Jonson Across Cultures: Bartholomew Fair’s Italian Adaptation
No full textBartholomew Fair, the Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson (1614), was recently adapted and translated into Italian, in particular into Genoese dialect, by the Italian playwrights Mario Bagnara and Bartolomeo Rottondo. In this article, the author discusses their project by comparing the English source text (ST) and the Italian target text (TT), and by analysing Bagnara and Rottondo’s translational choices. In particular, the author applies the new methodology of translational stylistics, together with translation studies, stylistics and pragmatics, in order to examine the figure of and the very first lines uttered by Ursula, the “pig-woman” (BF, The Persons of the Play), and in order to study Jonson’s presentation of a Jacobean working woman and Bagnara and Rottondo’s linguistic and cultural translation of this figure
The margin and the mainstream : positioning Harry Partch's theories within the broader discourse of musical aesthetics
No full textBibliography: leaves 102-106.The dissertation examines the broader musical value of microtonal composer Harry Partch's musical theories by locating his critique of abstract music within mainstream compositional theory and aesthetics. This contextualisation aims to deconstruct Partch's iconoclastic image so as to understand his contribution within a wider realm of critical discourse. The work of composers that follow in Partch's footsteps becomes important in this context, especially that of his one-time student Ben Johnston whose own microtonal aesthetic is firmly rooted in European aesthetics from Debussy to Schoenberg. By a study of Johnston's utilisation of Partch's theory of just intonation the dissertation attempts to arrive at a more inclusive compositional theory, one which continues to address those aspects of Partch's theories that serve as a valid and constructive critique of traditional musical values. Taking Adorno's view that musical critique must deal with the problem of reification at the level of musical materials, the author proposes a reading of Partch's corporeal philosophy that is applicable beyond the confines of narrative musical drama. By creating a distinction between historical models of organisation and 'second nature' forms of musical presentation, it is suggested that critique does not necessarily prefigure alienation from the mainstream, but can rather be situated within musical discourse in such a way that a new image of the latter's forms results. On a practical level, the dissertation explores the validity of expanded just intonation as a means of achieving this immanent critique, both in the realm of compositional theory and, implicitly, in that of analytical theory, concluding with the description of a tuning system with the capacity to synthesise the range of compositional theories explored
Chas. White, author of Story of Australian bushranging ; Dr. Pechey, present at Keightly episode ... [picture] /
No full textIncludes portrait of Captain Starlight from: Robbery under arms / by Rolf Boldrewood.; Exhibited: "Bushrangers and Bandits", National Museum of Australia, June 2002 - June 2003.; Exhibited: "In the Line of Duty: Policing in Australia 1788 - 2006", Old Parliament House, August 2006 - February 2007. AuCNL. Portraits and inscriptions (top L to R): Chas. White author of Story of Australian bushranging; Dr. Pechey present at Keightly episode; Hipkiss gave Ben Hall first death wound at Billabong 5th May -65; Ver. Rev. Dr. Gibney heroic rescue at Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Superintnt Hare author of Last of the bushrangers; Ben Hall; Lowry; Starlight; T. Clarke; Rutherford; Martin Cash Tasmanian outlaw after sentence lived a respected farmer; Const. Bracken escaped from Kellys Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Insr Stephenson daring capture & shooting of Lowry; McKinley [McKinlay?], Burns & Day daring shooting & capture of Angel & Thurston; J. Hawthorne now a squatter Wee Waa daring capture of Dunne
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