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System Description Document for Project Watchman Maritime Smart Environment (WMSE) upgrade including the system integration with the: Wireless Smart Sensor Network (WSSN)
No full textAuthor name (Davis) is listed as Davis, Cledo L. on thesis, here: https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/5352System description documen
Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal
No full textBased on the debate in the research literature since Herbert Gutman first reintroduced Richard L. Davis to the world in 1968 and a historical analysis of 170 letters written by Davis, many recently discovered by the author, this presentation of Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900 (2016) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company), will focus on the remarkable life of Richard L. Davis. Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Davis was an early mine labor organizer from Rendville, Ohio, a racially integrated “free space” community in Appalachian Southeast Ohio founded by William P. Rend, a Chicago coal operator. One year after the 1884 Great Hocking Valley Coal Strike, which lasted nine months, Davis wrote the first of his many letters to the National Labor Tribune and the United Mine Workers Journal. Davis was one of two African Americans at the founding convention of United Mine Workers of America, which was held in Columbus, Ohio, in January 1890. After having served for five years on the Executive Board of District Six, Ohio, he was elected as a member of the National Executive Board in 1886 and 1897. Davis ardently and incessantly called upon white and black miners to unite against wage slavery. This presentation will provide a detailed portrait of one of America’s more influential labor organizers and how his struggle to break the color line continues to hold deep significance for us today
Gemmeleg. Performance for the Feral Cello. Sound Music Computing Conference, Helsinki... 5 Jul 2017-8 Jul 2017
No full textGemmeleg by Laura Reid performed on the "Feral Cello" developed by Tom Davis at SLC Helsinki July 201
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Number 3 in the North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
No full textJames M. Davis is a retired businessman who lives in Midland, Texas, with his wife of over six decades, Jean. He served on active duty in the U.S. Army Air Forces for more than two and a half years during World War II, and then in the Air Force reserves until 1961. David L. Snead, the editor, is an associate professor of history at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia and is the author of The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War and George E. Browne: An American Doughboy in World War I
Mrs. Beeman Fisher, Mrs. L. R. Elliott, Mrs. Frank Davis, and George C. Sumner of the Friends of the Library
No full text(From the left) Mrs. Beeman Fisher, chairman; Mrs. L. R. Elliott, Mrs. Frank Davis, and George C. Sumner (standing), getting ready to mail announcements for special events. Mr. Sumner is seen holding a stack of papers, Mrs. Fisher is writing down information, Mrs. Elliott is showing Mrs. Fisher cards, and Mrs. Davis is photographed with a stack of papers in front of her, invitation for a book and author luncheon during the National Library Week celebration. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning edition April 8, 1962.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/1750/thumbnail.jp
Working-Class Mobilization and Political Control: Venezuela and Mexico
No full textHistorically, Latin American political regimes have sought to postpone far-reaching economic reforms and improvements in living standards in order to facilitate the accumulation of private capital. These goals have led to exclusion of the lower classes from the political process altogether or to efforts to control their political mobilization. The ability of governments to maintain such control has often been attributed to the lack of political sophistication by the working class or to the distribution of benefits through patron-client networks designed to preserve the hegemony of ruling parties.
Using new survey data from 500 industrial workers in Mexico and Venezuela, Charles L. Davis now questions these conventional explanations and two others: that industrial workers are part of a labor aristocracy and are therefore content with the performance of the capitalist regimes, and that political control is exercised through restriction of partisan competition and thus of opportunities for workers to challenge developmental priorities and public policy goals.
Davis\u27s study demonstrates that working-class mobilization is more firmly controlled in Mexico\u27s one-party dominant political system than in Venezuela\u27s two-party system. He finds little evidence that political participation in either country is guided by labor unions with ties to dominant parties. Nor are these workers content with the performance of the regimes or lacking in political sophistication. The primary explanation for their psychological disengagement from politics and avoidance of protest voting appears to be the lack of meaningful electoral options.
Davis\u27s two case studies provide important new insights into an issue that appears certain to remain ex-plosive as dissident labor leaders in Latin America seek to mobilize working-class opposition to existing state developmental strategies.
Charles L. Davis is associate professor of political science at the University of Kentucky Center at Fort Knox and author of numerous articles on Latin American politics and labor.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_latin_american_history/1001/thumbnail.jp
Data Integrity Problems in an Open Hypermedia Link Service
No full textA hypermedia link service is system which stores the information describing hypertext links in a database which is separate from the data content over which the links are intended to operate. One of the first open hypermedia link services was Microcosm, which takes this philosophy to the extreme, storing not only the links in a separate database, but also the information about the endpoints of the links. The most important advantage of such an organisation is that the system remains open so that hypertext functionality may be extended to third party applications. The first part of this thesis describes the background to open hypermedia link services and describes the Microcosm system, which was developed by the Multimedia Research Group at the University of Southampton. The major problem with storing all the information about links separately from the content is that such a scheme introduces many opportunities for the introduction of inconsistencies and the loss of integrity of the hypermedia data model. The second part of this thesis examines these problems, and proposes a number of solutions. It concludes that no one solution can resolve all the problems, and that in order to ensure integrity it is necessary to impose some conditions which limit the degree of openness
Party setting out to deliver mail, 5 November 1927
No full textFour men on horseback in downtown Northfield, Vermont, photographed immediately before setting out for Montpelier to deliver mail on on 5 November 1927, as part of the response to the Flood of 1927. Includes: Henry G. Learnard (Class of 1930), Ivan J. Davis of Northfield, Postmaster W. G. White of Northfield, and Richard L. Goss (Class of 1927). The photograph was received in a box of items from Jason B. Hart (Class of 1917).Detached from original matt. Belonged to Jason Budd Hart, Class of 1917
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
No full text: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome, confirming previous studies (on both paid and unpaid OA), is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%, 4% of it correlated with other article variables such as number of authors, references and pages). The author infers that the size of the OA advantage in this biomedical sample has been shrinking annually from 2004-2007, but the data suggest the opposite. In order to draw valid conclusions from these data, the following five further analyses are necessary: (1) The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis. (2) The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account. (3) Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article “citation-bracket” need to be taken into account. (4) The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period. (5) The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded. Davis proposes that an author self-selection bias for providing OA to higher-quality articles (the Quality Bias, QB) is the primary cause of the observed OA Advantage, but this study does not test or show anything at all about the causal role of QB (or of any of the other potential causal factors, such as Accessibility Advantage, AA, Competitive Advantage, CA, Download Advantage, DA, Early Advantage, EA, and Quality Advantage, QA). The author also suggests that paid OA is not worth the cost, per extra citation. This is probably true, but with OA self-archiving, both the OA and the extra citations are free
Burkholder–Davis–Gundy Inequalities in UMD Banach Spaces
No full textIn this paper we prove Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequalities for a general martingale M with values in a UMD Banach space X. Assuming that M= 0 , we show that the following two-sided inequality holds for all 1 ≤ p' ∞: [Figure not available: see fulltext.] Here γ([[M]]t) is the L 2-norm of the unique Gaussian measure on X having [[M]]t(x∗,y∗):=[⟨M,x∗⟩,⟨M,y∗⟩]t as its covariance bilinear form. This extends to general UMD spaces a recent result by Veraar and the author, where a pointwise version of (⋆) was proved for UMD Banach functions spaces X. We show that for continuous martingales, (⋆) holds for all 0 ' p' ∞, and that for purely discontinuous martingales the right-hand side of (⋆) can be expressed more explicitly in terms of the jumps of M. For martingales with independent increments, (⋆) is shown to hold more generally in reflexive Banach spaces X with finite cotype. In the converse direction, we show that the validity of (⋆) for arbitrary martingales implies the UMD property for X. As an application we prove various Itô isomorphisms for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to general martingales, which extends earlier results by van Neerven, Veraar, and Weis for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to a Brownian motion. We also provide Itô isomorphisms for vector-valued stochastic integrals with respect to compensated Poisson and general random measures. Analysi
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