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Portrait of Gil K. Dinnie
No full textPortrait of Gil K. Dinnie at Murdoch University.
The complete set of 2 negatives is available at the Murdoch University Library.
These images are part of the History of Murdoch University Collection
Jere Nash Interview with Gil Carmichael
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gil Carmichael as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. A Republican, Gil Carmichael unsuccessfully ran for a state senate seat in 1967; incumbent U.S. Senator James O. Eastland\u27s seat in 1972; Mississipp governor in 1979; and Lieutenant Governor in 1983. Topics covered include his family; education; military service in World War II and Korea; his automobile dealership and real estate businesses; joining the Republican Party in Mississippi; Rubel Phillips; influence of election commissioners; Prentiss Walker; Charlie Sullivan; Republican National Convention in 1968; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Hurricane Camille redevelopment commission; James O. Eastland; school desegregation; James Meredith; Robert Clark; Charles Evers; Ellis Bodron; Walter Brown; Clark Reed; Haley Barbour; Spiro Agnew; appointment to Highway Safety Advisory Committee and the Department of Transportation; need for a new Mississippi Constitution; gun control issue; Leon Bramlett; Gerald Ford; Sonny Montgomery; and James Meredith
Dominance of capacities by k-additive belief functions
No full textIn this paper we deal with the set of -additive belieffunctions dominating a given capacity. We follow the lineintroduced by Chateauneuf and Jaffray for dominating probabilities and continued by Grabisch for general -additive measures.First, we show that the conditions for the general -additive case lead to a very wide class of functions and this makes that the properties obtained for probabilities are no longer valid. On the other hand, we show that these conditions cannot be improved.We solve this situation by imposing additional constraints on the dominating functions. Then, we consider the more restrictive case of -additive belief functions. In this case, a similar result with stronger conditions is proved. Although better, this result is not completely satisfactory and, as before, the conditionscannot be strengthened. However, when the initial capacity is a belief function, we find a subfamily of the set of dominating -additive belief functions from which it is possible to derive any other dominant -additive belief function, and such that theconditions are even more restrictive, obtaining the natural extension of the result for probabilities. Finally, we apply these results in the fields of Social Welfare Theory and Decision Under Risk.Linear programming, decision analysis, capacity,dominance, k-additivity, belief functions
A study on the optimal PPP model for transport: the case of road and rail in South Korea
No full textIn recent decades the Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been widely regarded as an innovative way to construct transport infrastructures and to improve the quality of service. As the number of PPP cases has increased, many countries have tried to standardise PPP models to minimise the costs of trial and error. South Korea, where 426 PPP projects have been undertaken since 1994, usually preferred the BTO (Build-Transfer-Operate) model for transport. In the BTO model, the private sector recoups its investment by charging end users directly and hence should bear the traffic demand risk. However, the Korean Government shared the demand risk through a minimum revenue guarantee to induce private sector involvement, and this led to many criticisms of the BTO model. Tariffs in the BTO case were much higher than those of public operators, but the Government still had to pay large amounts of guaranteed revenue. Thus, BTL (Build-Transfer-Lease), where the demand risk is on the public sector, has become an alternative model. The BTL is the “service sold to the public sector” model which is similar to the DBFO (Design-Build-Finance-Operate) in the UK. This thesis examines which of the BTO and the BTL PPP models is optimal to save governmental expenditure for transport infrastructures such as road and rail. Appropriate traffic demand risk sharing, which a particularly controversial issue in South Korea, is explored. These research objectives are examined through five case studies: the Incheon Airport Expressway and the Oksan-Ochang Expressway cases for road PPP; the Incheon Airport Railway, the Daegok-Sosa Railway and the Seoul Metro 9 cases for rail PPP. Through a detailed literature review and five case studies, the thesis shows that the optimal PPP model, which is measured by the VFM (Value for Money) assessment, needs to satisfy the interests of public sector, private sector, and end users. Based on these assessments and including these three viewpoints, it is concluded that the optimal PPP model for road can be the BTL where the public sector can save expenditure or reduce the level of tariff. Traffic demand risk for roads is relatively low, so the public sector does not have to transfer it to the private sector with high profit rate. In the case of rail, the limited revenue and high cost make a project difficult to be financially free standing by the BTO model. However, the BTO can be a better option in urban rail if traffic demand risk is shared appropriately
Gil-Blas de Santillana /
No full textProposes Antonio Solís y Rivadeneyra as the true author of Gil Blas.Photocopy.Mode of access: Internet
Gil Vicente e a teatralização das linguagens
No full textThe author attempts to show that the polyglottic nature and the linguistic «gibberish» of Gil Vicente's theatre does not intend to imitate the authenticity of its characters but to «carnivalise» the text, thereby making it a kind of manipean satire, which was in vogue at the time. The author intends to demonstrate that the theatre of Gil Vicente is not a «theatre of signifiers» (i.e. Gil Vicente's writing is not imitative in the aristotelic sense, but figurative)
Emilio Gil: Diseño en tres tiempos
No full textBefore this research started, a major issue was faced: the lack of bibliography in Spanish language, either that written in Spanish or translated into Spanish from other language.
The above-mentioned issue had a demotivating effect on proceeding with the research work, nonetheless, in order to find solutions to the obstacles it faces and to find out the factors influencing the lack of such bibliography in Spanish, the research was finally carried out.
This study targets the Digital Matte Painting technique: how it works, a brief history of the technique, some authors and films that were elaborated using it.
The way in which this technique has helped in films will also be mentioned. Certain problems related to it will be presented, focusing on its status in Spain.
Throughout his research and scientific experience in the specific technique, the author has been able to identify the obstacles that mostly prevent its consolidation in all areas of its application at the national level (mainly in the film industry). The author therefore provides a set of suggestions that, in his opinion, would contribute in its reinforcement as a digital technique for countless artistic and creative possibilities.Emilio Gil fundó, junto a otros tres socios, Tau Diseño en 1980 a partir de un pequeño estudio anterior cuando se
dieron las circunstancias que hacían necesario profesionalizar la estructura de algo que había venido funcionando
sin una base empresarial hasta entonces.
Entre los cuatro socios fundadores no había ningún titulado en Diseño. Procedían del campo de la Arquitectura, el
Periodismo o incluso un licenciado en Filosofía Pura. En los años en los que Tau Diseño se constituye, lo habitual
era la práctica de la profesión a título individual: pequeños estudios alrededor de una persona que, en algunos
casos, se valía de algún ayudante maquetador o arte finalista. Sin embargo Tau nació con la intención de ser un
grupo de profesionales que se complementaran en sus diferentes especialidades.
El diseñador declara que su intención no era formar un estudio propio sino todo lo contrario: una aventura
compartida que respondía a su concepción del diseño como adecuación a unos objetivos, al margen de un estilo
personal, y no como obra de autor con una impronta de estilo personal.
Fiel a este planteamiento Emilio Gil presenta en este artículo tres proyectos que responden a esas intenciones: un
libro de referencia sobre la historia reciente de nuestro Diseño: Pioneros del Diseño Gráfico en España, la imagen
del Máster de Gestión Cultural de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y el cartel de la edición 75 de la Feria del Libro
de Madrid
On the aberration–retardation effects in pulsars
No full textThe magnetospheric locations of pulsar radio emission region are not well known. The actual form of the so-called radius-to-frequency mapping should be reflected in the aberration-retardation (A/R) effects that shift and/or delay the photons depending on the emission height in the magnetosphere. Recent studies suggest that in a handful of pulsars the A/R effect can be discerned with respect to the peak of the central core emission region. To verify these effects in an ensemble of pulsars, we launched a project analysing multifrequency total intensity pulsar profiles obtained from the new observations from the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Arecibo Observatory (AO) and archival European Pulsar Network (EPN) data. For all these profiles, we measure the shift of the outer cone components with respect to the core component, which is necessary for establishing the A/R effect. Within our sample of 23 pulsars, seven show the A/R effects, 12 of them (doubtful cases) show a tendency towards this effect, while the remaining four are obvious counterexamples. The counterexamples and doubtful cases may arise from uncertainties in the determination of the location of the meridional plane and/or the core emission component. Hence, it appears that the A/R effects are likely to operate in most pulsars from our sample. We conclude that in cases where those effects are present the core emission has to originate below the conal emission region
Voces aragonesas en "Cuentos completos" (2011) de Ramón Gil Novales
No full text73 Aragonese voices that are recorded in Ramón Gil Novales Cuentos completos [Complete Stories] (2011) are collected in this work and the author\u27s linguistic Aragoneseness is valued.Se recogen en este trabajo 73 voces aragonesas que se registran en Cuentos completos (2011) de Ramón Gil Novales y se valora el aragonesismo lingüístico del autor
The fight for accretion : discovery of intermittent mass transfer in BB Doradus in the low state
No full textOur long-term photometric monitoring of southern nova-like cataclysmic variables with the 1.3-m Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) telescope found BB Doradus fading from V∼ 14.3 towards a deep low state at V∼ 19.3 in 2008 April. Here we present time-resolved optical spectroscopy of BB Dor in this faint state in 2009. The optical spectrum in quiescence is a composite of a hot white dwarf with Teff= 30 000 ± 5000 K and a M3–M4 secondary star with narrow emission lines (mainly of the Balmer series and He i) superposed. We associate these narrow profiles with an origin on the donor star. An analysis of the radial velocity curve of the Hα emission from the donor star allowed the measurement of an orbital period of 0.154 095 ± 0.000 003 d (3.698 28 ± 0.000 07 h), different from all previous estimates. We detected episodic accretion events which veiled the spectra of both stars and radically changed the line profiles within a time-scale of tens of minutes. This shows that accretion is not completely quenched in the low state. During these accretion episodes the line wings are stronger and their radial velocity curve is delayed by ∼0.2 cycle, similar to that observed in SW Sex and AM Her stars in the high state, with respect to the motion of the white dwarf. Two scenarios are proposed to explain the extra emission: impact of the material on the outer edge of a cold, remnant accretion disc, or the combined action of a moderately magnetic white dwarf (B1≲ 5 MG) and the magnetic activity of the donor star
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