174 research outputs found
1951 Varsity Football Team
No full textThese football players were students at Jacksonville State Teachers College (now Jacksonville State University). Shown dressed in football uniforms the varsity squad is shown in the College Bowl. Shown from left are, first row, Bob Shelley, Harold Bentley, Graham Boyd, Ben Miller, Charlie Siebold, Ray Horne, Harry West, Johnny Howell, Jodie Connell, Jack Kines, Guy Simms, Whit Wyatt, second row, John Meadows, Dick Greer, Bob Wallace, Ray Campbell, Travis Walker, Aubrey Tinsley, Buddy White, Bobby Harris, Bernard Hammett, Bob Henderson, Don Mauldin, Charlie Stough, Bob Baker, Charles Gilmer, Paul Quinn, Phil Woodward, third row, Kenneth Conway, Slashburg Winchester, Carlton Hosmer, Judson Whorton, John Hammel, Rosy Williams, Bobby Dobbs, Ernest Goggans, Bill Nolan, Morris Britt, Bobby Jones, Bill Gobert, Frank Johnson, fourth row, Robert Machen, Frank Bice, Charles McCarty, Bob Coley, Thomas Poe, Ernest Robinson, Earl Bates, Jack Stewart, Duel Johnson, Byrd Tucker, John Sherley, Wayne Hardeman, Paul Thompson, Junior Holder, Bull Bailey. (circa September 26, 1951)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/8813/thumbnail.jp
Building new monetary services indices: methodology and source data
No full textThis paper is second of two from the Monetary Services Indices (MSI) Project at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The first paper, Working Paper 96-007B, surveys the microeconomic theory of the aggregation of monetary assets. This paper describe a new database of monetary services indices (MSI) for the United States. The MSI measure the flow of monetary services received each period by households from their holdings of monetary assets; the levels of the indices are often also referred to as Divisia monetary aggregates. In addition to indices of the flow of monetary services, the database contains dual user cost indices, measures of potential aggregation error in the monetary services indices, and measures of the stock of monetary wealth. An overview of the Project and the concept of monetary aggregation is included here as a preface.Monetary theory
Evaluation of cameras and image distance for CNN-based weed detection in wild blueberry
No full textAgricultural herbicide application efficiency can be improved using smart sprayers which provide site-specific, rather than broadcast, applications of agrochemicals. The YOLOv3-Tiny convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained to detect two weeds, hair fescue and sheep sorrel, in images captured from wild blueberry fields throughout Nova Scotia, Canada. An evaluation was performed in three commercial wild blueberry fields in Nova Scotia to examine the effects of camera selection and target distance on detection accuracy. A Canon T6 DSLR camera, an LG G6 smartphone, and a Logitech c920 webcam were used to capture RGB images at varying distances from target weeds. Mean F1-scores for each combination of camera and image height were analysed in a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement for hair fescue and a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement for sheep sorrel. Images captured from 0.98 m with the LG G6 and Canon T6 produced F1-scores of up to 0.97 for detection of at least one hair fescue tuft. Images captured with the LG G6 and Canon T6 DSLR from 0.57 m achieved F1-scores of 0.94 and 0.93, respectively, for detection of at least one sheep sorrel plant per image. Sheep sorrel was undetectable in images from the Logitech c920 under 19 of 27 parameter combinations. Future work will involve using the CNN to control herbicide applications with a real-time smart sprayer. Additionally, the CNN will be used in a web-based application to detect target weeds and provide site-specific information to aid management decisions. Using a CNN to detect weeds will create improvements in management techniques, resulting in cost-savings and greater sustainability for the wild blueberry industry
Sustainable ecotourism in the village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park, Thailand
No full textPlan BSustainable ecotourism is often considered to be effective for supporting the local communities’ economy and promoting the conservation of protected areas in developing countries. By establishing economic benefits for impoverished villagers or their communities, sustainable ecotourism is utilized to encourage local guardianship of natural resources. To assess sustainable ecotourism’s impact on the revenue of local residents in the Village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park, and its effects on the environmental preservation of the Khao Luang National Park in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand, the researcher randomly conducted surveys of then visitors’ attitudes about rewarding experiences during their village and park visits. Biologists and Ecologists were interviewed about sustainable ecotourism’s role in supporting environmental preservation in the village and national park. Also, local residents in the village, as beneficiaries, were asked by the researcher to provide their perceptions about the relationship of sustainable ecotourism to cultural disruption. To examine the sustainable ecotourism in the village and the national park and learn whether it provides the visitors with rewarding experiences, a qualitative research was conducted in the Village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park at Karom Unit, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. The visitors were asked to state their opinions via questionnaires after their village and national park visits. Sustainable ecotourism in the Village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park were investigated as to whether it helped support environmental conservation. The national park staff and the villagers were randomly selected for personal interviews by the researcher. A comprehensive literature review was conducted about tourism in protected areas, the tourists and ecotourists, host community and sustainable ecotourism, local attitudes, economic impacts, social impacts and environmental impacts caused by tourism, carrying capacity, tourism and sustainable development, and tourism and recreation in remote and sensitive destinations. The research methodology in this study centered upon on-site field observation and mailed and personal interview surveys. Visitors to the village and the national park were asked to complete the survey questionnaires, which were designed and prepared in Thai and English versions. Experts in environmental biology and ecology and local residents were interviewed by the researcher in person with the questions in both Thai and English. The survey was taken during the two-month stay in the village from September 6th to November 6th, 2000. After completing the data collection, the researcher brought the raw results to the United States of America for compilation and analysis. The survey information was analyzed to describe the sustainable ecotourism in the Village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park in terms of rewarding experiences, environmental preservation, social and cultural impacts and economic benefits. Suggestions and recommendations about maintaining and improving sustainable ecotourism in the destinations were established by the findings. The findings were evaluated using proposed sustainable ecotourism elements in the village and park. Besides providing visitors rewarding experiences, sustainable ecotourism became an instrument in natural resource conservation such as water use. The village tourism brought benefits and income to most local residents with tourism involvement. The local residents agreed with the village and park tourism that they needed more education to support the village and park tourism. Tourism improved access, stimulated new services and conveniences like roads but social problems also could be found. Numerous implications for concessions, national park and protected areas management, local participation, relationships between the village and park, environmental and cultural impacts caused by tourism were discussed
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Moving Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Thrasher's Threat-Cohesion Hypothesis
No full textabstract: Frederic Thrasher's early work with youth gangs in Chicago continues to influence contemporary gang research. Thrasher's basic premise, that conflict with outside groups facilitates strong interpersonal ties between adolescents, has yet to undergo quantitative analysis. Using data from Wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ("Add Health"), this conflict is measured by the aggregate number of juvenile arrests for property and violent crimes in a community. Multivariate regression is conducted to explore the impact of police threat on number of friendship nominations, while logistic regression is conducted to see if police threat is impacting relationship strength between respondent's first male and female friend. The results from both the multivariate and logistic regressions do not support Thrasher's hypothesis. Implications for future research are discussed.Dissertation/ThesisM.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice 201
Revisions to user costs for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis monetary services indices
No full textThis analysis discusses recent changes to the user cost figures that are computed as part of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis monetary services indices (MSI). The authors first introduce an alternative splicing procedure, robust to differences in scale between series, for those price subindices which, individually, have a time span shorter than the overall MSI but are spliced to span the entire period. They then correct an error in the calculation of user costs for money market mutual funds that caused these funds' user costs to be based, for a considerable period of time, on the last-reported value for one input data series. Finally, the authors also restore the yield-curve adjustment for composite assets, which they removed from published data during 2004 as they explored the unusual behavior of the user cost data for small-denomination time deposits.Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ; Monetary theory
Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences, 2022, volume 101.
No full textProceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 2022, Volume 101 The Proceedings of the One-Hundred-Seventh (107th) Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science held on October 29, 2022, include full papers submitted for presentation and abstracts of research papers and posters submitted. The Presidential Address titled Promoting the South Dakota Academy of Science: A New Vision was delivered by Tim R. Mullican. Complete Senior Research Papers Data Signature of Surface and Underground Events – Continuous Environmental Monitoring in a Former Underground Gold Mine by Stephen Gabriel, Purushotham Tukkaraja, Srivatsan Jayaraman Sridharan, and Akash Adhibari; and Microrhopala laetula LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) on Silphium perfoliatum (Linnaeus) (Asterales: Asteraceae) in Eastern South Dakota by Paul J. Johnson and Arvid Boe. Abstracts of Research Papers and Posters Semiconducting Polymer Dots L-Lactate Transducer by Enzymatic Cascade Reaction System by Shuyi He and Steven Wu; Fate of Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) Seeds When Exposed to Seed-Feeder Arthropods by Julienne Korst, Colin Sachen, Alexander Smart, Arvid Boe, and Lan Xu; Extension of the CL&P Ionic Liquid Force Field to Pyrazolium Ionic Liquids by Adam Sturlaugson; Thirty-Four Years of Chemistry Outreach and Chemical Education at the University of South Dakota by M. D. Koppang; Experimental Validation of a Wideband Hybrid Monopole by Thomas P. Montoya and Cherokee M. Winkler; Bumble Bee (Bombus Latreille) Species Diversity in Native and Traditional Plantings at South Dakota State University by Max Miller, Jack Rabern, and Abigail P. Martens; Bumble Bee (Bombus Latreille) Species Diversity in Mature and Recently Established Native Plantings in Brookings, SD by Jack Rabern, Max Miller, and Abigail P. Martens; Ever-Changing Farm Crop Types and Practices in the North American Waterfowl Production Areas of North America Are Presenting Some New Impacts on Nesting Ducks by Kenneth F. Higgins (retired); and Pathogenicity, Detection, and Prevention of Pythium Seed Rot in Alfalfa by Oleksandra Rachynska, Travis Rebstock, Conner Tordsen, Jennifer Giles, and Andrew Sathoff
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