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Rapa Nui (Easter Island)’s Stone Worlds
No full textThis article explores the spatial, architectural and conceptual relationships between landscape places, stone quarrying, and stone moving and building during Rapa Nui’s statue-building period. These are central themes of the ‘Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project’ and are discussed using aspects of the findings of our recent fieldwork. The different scales of expression, from the detail of the domestic sphere to the monumental working of quarries, are considered. It is suggested that the impressiveness of Rapa Nui’s stone architecture is its conceptual coherence at the small scale as much as at the large scale. </div
Data to generate corundum RSF factors for 18 trace elements
No full textThis dataset is to support an article submitted to the journal Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research entitled Accurate trace element reporting in corundum: development of secondary ion mass spectrometry relative sensitivity factors. The dataset includes the raw SIMS depth profile ascii datasets for the 18 trace elements studied
Jennifer Aniston and Emma Stone arriving, 2014 (87th) Academy Awards ceremony
No full textJennifer Aniston, left, and Emma Stone arriving at the 2014 (87th) Academy Awards ceremony. Color tiff
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Celebration
No full textDramatic reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with UAA English faculty: Toby Widdicombe, Sharon Emmerichs, Jennifer Stone, and others
Ruth Stone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRuth Stone is the author of six books or chapbooks of poetry: In an Iridescent Time, 1960; Topography and Other Poems, 1971; Unknown Messages, 1973; Cheap, 1975; American Milk, 1986; Second-Hand Coat: New and Selected Poems, 1987. Three new books will be published this year: Who is the Widow\u27s Muse?; The Yasha Poems, and The Solitary. We were very fortunate that Ruth Stone taught creative writing as a visiting faculty member at Old Dominion University during 1989-90
Tacit knowledge, learning and expertise in dry stone walling
No full textThis is a detailed study of learning in the context of dry stone walling. It examines
what happens in the learning situation. The aim of this work was:
'To understand the nature of expertise in dry stone walling, how it is understood
by those practising the craft, and how it is transmitted to others'.
The main research questions were, therefore:
What happens when dry stone wallers are learning their craft?
How do they acquire expertise in dry stone walling?
How is this learning communicated?
This process necessitated developing a way of engaging with the practitioners,
eliciting descriptive data about what they were doing, and why they were doing it,
through interviews (or conversations) with both individuals and groups, whilst
they practiced their skill. Twenty three wailers were interviewed as they worked,
building walls.
The material obtained was analysed under seven different themes:
'Knowing how'
The use of tacit knowledge or intuition
'Flow'
Constant decision making, reflection and learning from mistakes
Individual and subjective variations and experiences
The relevance of emotion
The use of 'rules of thumb' or maxims.
Learning walling does not fit simply into any of the seven themes. It is
contextualised, complex and individual. It demonstrates tacit knowledge and
intuition. It involves emotion, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. It involves
memory, problem solving, and learning from mistakes, and reflection. Maxims or
'rules of thumb' were a key element in the learning process at all stages. Linear
stages of learning were not evidenced. Deep understanding of the practice is
evidenced, and the wider learning and teaching implications are explored
Focussing acoustic waves with intent to control biofouling in water pipes
No full textThe colonisation of water pipes by macro-fouling organisms,such as barnacles and mussels, has presented a significant problem toindustries drawing water from infested sources. Some of these creatureshave been shown to be sensitive to low frequency sound and vibration,which have the potential to disrupt settlement and control populationgrowth without the need for chemical interventions. The applicability ofacoustic techniques to this problem is critically dependent on the achievablerange of guided waves in the fluid or pipe wall which attenuate withdistance from the actuation position due to mechanical losses.In this paper, fluid waves are considered owing to their typically lowerattenuation rates. A fluid-filled pipe is modelled analytically as a 2D rigidwalled duct. Higher order acoustic waves, which are dispersive immediatelyabove cut-on, are focussed at a target position using a transient excitation.The input waveform is obtained by filtering and time-reversingthe impulse response so as to compensate for dispersion thereby compressingthe signal in time and space. Simulations show that peak pressurescan be obtained that are more than an order of magnitude higherthan those achievable by harmonic excitation. Future work will modelfocussing of waves in a 3D pipe with fluid-structure coupling for whichexperimental validation will be sought
Joyful Readers: The New Webster Series
No full textThe Monkey and the Glasses (162) is listed as from Russia. Krylov, its author, seems not to be mentioned. The story is well told, with two nice colored illustrations. Though this fable is in good condition, the rest of the book has suffered somewhat from young hands. Do not miss the streamlined train engine on 16! The book is copyrighted, apparently, in 1932 and 1939.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Clarence R. Stone and Odille Ousle
Jennifer Little taking photos
No full textPhotograph from Dimen Village of Jennifer Little sitting on the stone steps that lead to the well at Tang Gung Temple taking a photograph.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/3274/thumbnail.jp
No. 3, "Jennifer"
No full text"Jennifer" discusses her experiences moving from California to Provo, Utah at age 16 in the 1980s. The Mormon Homelands Young Women Project audio-visual collection (2014-2017) consists of oral history interviews with LDS young women about their experience moving from Mormon-minority communities to Mormon-majority communities. Their moves occurred from 1975-2000, when narrators were from 12 to 19 years of age. All interviewees have been anonymized and given pseudonyms
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