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Excimer laser micromachining of inorganic materials
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Proceedings of the meeting on Research based on Ordnance Survey small-scales digital data
No full textPreface:Ordnance Survey digital data captured from 1:50 000 or smaller scale source maps will differ from the coded features of the large scale data in that it will be node structured and should thus support research of a methodological and applied nature. This meeting was organised to publicise the characteristics of the data available for experimental purposes. to give some indication of the types of systems within which such data may become used and to report on recently completed and on-going R & D based on these experimental databases. The aims were to promote multidisciplinary research and to encourage andassist researchers. who are not already involved. to make a contribution to R & D in this area.The programme included two papers by staff of the OS. Mike· Mayes outlined past , present and future OS small - scales digital development. Peter Haywood described the rationale underlying the specification of Lhe OS 1:50 000 experimental database; the specification is included in this volume. The capture of OS digital data was oriented towards. and was subsidised by map production in the past. This is not the case with the 1:50 000 database. OS has no requirement to produce maps from the 1:50 000 database. Consequently, the data has to pay for itself. The specification therefore only includes a requirement for major features and much of the minor detail has been omitted initially. The aim, at this experimental stage, was to produce a data model which will allow computer analysis of the data. The proposed model is described in Haywood's paper. The data structure will be explicit in everypossible way for objects which the OS traditionally supply , e.g. the hierarchy of administrative areas. However, the OS will only go part way up the model for some other objects and the user will have to complete this.Small scale databases will continue to be available for purposes of research and experimentation. Peter Haywood invited researchers to provide feedback without which the 1:50 000 database project may become jeopardised. The OS should not be viewed as a map production organisation but as a producer of an information base.Two papers were on uses of small-scale digital topographic data.Helen Mounsey described her experience in using the 1:625 000 experimental database for producing basemaps on videodisc within an on- going project, namely the BBC's Domesday Project. Steve Druitt showed the manner in which small-scale data. from sources other than the OS. are used together with a highway database in highway applications undertaken on behalf of the ScottishDevelopment Department. He found microcomputers to be adequate for providing medium resolution graphic front - ends to database systems. This provided some indication of the ways in which OS small - scale data may become used wjth the user's own data in personal research .There were four shorter technical papers covering coding and classification by Peter Dale, data structures by Phillip Wade, automatic name placement by Tony Cook and various projects at the Polytechnic of Wales by Chris Jones. Other on- going research was listed in the paper by Mike Mayes. The OS invite other researchers to become involved in their R & D efforts (see Summary of Discussions)
Proceedings of the meeting on Research based on Ordnance Survey small-scales digital data
No full textPreface:Ordnance Survey digital data captured from 1:50 000 or smaller scale source maps will differ from the coded features of the large scale data in that it will be node structured and should thus support research of a methodological and applied nature. This meeting was organised to publicise the characteristics of the data available for experimental purposes. to give some indication of the types of systems within which such data may become used and to report on recently completed and on-going R & D based on these experimental databases. The aims were to promote multidisciplinary research and to encourage andassist researchers. who are not already involved. to make a contribution to R & D in this area.The programme included two papers by staff of the OS. Mike· Mayes outlined past , present and future OS small - scales digital development. Peter Haywood described the rationale underlying the specification of Lhe OS 1:50 000 experimental database; the specification is included in this volume. The capture of OS digital data was oriented towards. and was subsidised by map production in the past. This is not the case with the 1:50 000 database. OS has no requirement to produce maps from the 1:50 000 database. Consequently, the data has to pay for itself. The specification therefore only includes a requirement for major features and much of the minor detail has been omitted initially. The aim, at this experimental stage, was to produce a data model which will allow computer analysis of the data. The proposed model is described in Haywood's paper. The data structure will be explicit in everypossible way for objects which the OS traditionally supply , e.g. the hierarchy of administrative areas. However, the OS will only go part way up the model for some other objects and the user will have to complete this.Small scale databases will continue to be available for purposes of research and experimentation. Peter Haywood invited researchers to provide feedback without which the 1:50 000 database project may become jeopardised. The OS should not be viewed as a map production organisation but as a producer of an information base.Two papers were on uses of small-scale digital topographic data.Helen Mounsey described her experience in using the 1:625 000 experimental database for producing basemaps on videodisc within an on- going project, namely the BBC's Domesday Project. Steve Druitt showed the manner in which small-scale data. from sources other than the OS. are used together with a highway database in highway applications undertaken on behalf of the ScottishDevelopment Department. He found microcomputers to be adequate for providing medium resolution graphic front - ends to database systems. This provided some indication of the ways in which OS small - scale data may become used wjth the user's own data in personal research .There were four shorter technical papers covering coding and classification by Peter Dale, data structures by Phillip Wade, automatic name placement by Tony Cook and various projects at the Polytechnic of Wales by Chris Jones. Other on- going research was listed in the paper by Mike Mayes. The OS invite other researchers to become involved in their R & D efforts (see Summary of Discussions)
The Concept of Genius in D. A. Granin’s Work (Based on the Novel “Evenings with Peter the Great”)
No full textThe article deals with D. A. Granin’s concept of history as presented in the novel “Evenings with Peter the Great”. The author of the novel argues that historical process is driven and streamlined by people endowed with rare gifts and deep urge to create such as the first Russian emperor Peter the Great
Serious religion and the improvement of public manners : the scope and limitations of Evangelicalism in Hull 1770-1914.
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Dilbert-Peter Model of Organization Effectiveness: Computer Simulations
No full textWe describe a computer model of general effectiveness of a hierarchical organization depending on two main aspects: effects of promotion to managerial levels and efforts to self-promote of individual employees, reducing their actual productivity. The combination of judgment by appearance in the promotion to higher levels of hierarchy and the Peter Principle (which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence) results in fast declines in effectiveness of the organization. The model uses a few synthetic parameters aimed at reproduction of realistic conditions in typical multilayer organizations. It is shown that improving organization resiliency to self-promotion and continuity of individual productiveness after a promotion can greatly improve the overall organization effectiveness.Organization Productivity, Peter Principle, Agent Based Modeling
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Copyright & Your Research
No full textAs publishing options increase in number, it is ever more important that university authors manage their copyrights in a way that ensures maximum benefit to them and to the university. Peter Hirtle, Senior Policy Advisor in the Cornell University Library and a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, will give an overview of the sometimes puzzling issues surrounding creating, securing, owning, and using copyrighted works. Topics will include author agreements and contracts, the public access requirements in some federal grants, new publishing options, and the management of your copyrights. The session will benefit those who want to gain a better understanding of the changing nature of scholarly communications. PRESENTATION BY Peter B. Hirtle, Senior Policy Advisor, Cornell University Library, and Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Security and Society, Harvard Universit
Convexity in quasi-metric spaces
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.The principal aim of this thesis is to investigate the existence of an injective hull in the categories of T-quasi-metric spaces and of T-ultra-quasi-metric spaces with nonexpansive maps
Chemical composition of bitter cola (Garcinia kola) seed and hull
No full textThe chemical composition of Garcinia kola seed and hull was determined using standard methods. Results show that crude protein, lipid extract, ash, and crude fibre ratios are: 39.52 and 99.92 g/kg, 43.25 and 42.91 g/kg, 11.42 and 18.62 g/kg, 114.02 and 153.44 g/kg respectively. Carbon : nitrogen ratios for the seed and hull are 57.88 and 29.01, respectively. Garcinia kola hull had significantly higher (p<0.05) protein and fibre but has comparable values for lipid and ash. Potassium and phosphorus were the most abundant mineral elements in Garcinia kola seed (334.82 and 242.61 mg/kg, respectively) while phosphorus predominates in the hull (288.61 mg/kg). The seed had significantly higher values for sodium, potassium, copper and cobalt while chromium, molybdenum, manganese, nickel, selenium, lead and mercury were not detected. The dominant saturated, monosaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acid, in the seed and hull are palmitic (31.55 and 276.01 mg/kg), oleic (38.36 and 52.77 mg/kg) and linoleic acids (36.16 and 235.83 mg/kg) respectively. The hull has significantly higher (p<0.05) a-linolenic acid content. Glutamic acid is the dominant non-essential amino acid in seed and hull (6.80 and 8.10 g/kg, respectively) while lysine and valine (2.40 and 7.10 g/kg, respectively) are the dominant essential amino acids. The proportion of essential amino acid in the total amino acid is 44.52% in the hull and 35.81% in the seed. Garcinia kola seeds and hulls may find use in food and feed formulations by virtue of their chemical composition
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