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Prof. Stephen K. Robinson
No full textProf. Stephen K. Robinson
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis
Dr. Stephen K. Robinson spent 37 years at NASA, where he worked as a wind-tunnel mechanic, research scientist, aerospace engineer, research manager, and then served 17 years as an astronaut. Robinson flew on four space shuttle missions, including three spacewalks, and has extensive expertise in spacecraft systems, risk management, human/systems integration, space robotics, aerodynamics, and fluid physics. He has held visiting scholar positions at Princeton and MIT, and has received numerous awards, including NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. Robinson is a UC Davis alumnus in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering (B.S., 1978) and received his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) from Stanford University in Mechanical and Aero/Astro Engineering. Dr. Robinson returned to the University of California in 2012, and is currently Director of the UC Davis Center for Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration and Performance.
NASA Bio: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/robinson.htmlhttps://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2016/1061/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with F. Willard "Robbie" Robinson
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with F. Willard “Robbie” Robinson. Robinson tells the story of Albert K. Earnest. Robinson shares an anecdote of how Earnest came to be in the Navy rather than the Army Air Corps. Earnest completed flight training and received his Naval commission in November 1941. In 1942 he was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was one of six pilots to volunteer to fly from Hawaii to Midway. He participated in a mission to attack Japanese carriers. Flying a disabled plane, he made a harrowing flight back to Midway where he crash landed. Because Torpedo Squadron 8 sustained heavy losses, it was reorganized and assigned as a USS Saratoga (CV-3) air group. He flew missions to provide cover for the invasion of Guadalcanal. He was also credited with helping to sink the Japanese carrier Ryūjō. While the USS Saratoga's torpedo damage was repaired, he served with Torpedo Group 8 in the Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal. Earnest was sent to Sand Point Naval Air Station when returned to the U.S. in 1942. It was there that Robinson met Earnest. They served together in Composite Squadrons 31 and 7. When the war ended, Earnest continued his military career, retiring with the rank of Captain
Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
No full textDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
Ernest Thompson Seton: an unforgettable personality, by Edgar M. Robinson
No full textThis piece, titled “Ernest Thomas Seton: an unforgettable personality”, gives a first hand interpretation of who Ernest Thompson Seton (it is believed that whoever put the cover on this document spelled his name wrong) was through the eyes of Edgar Robinson. Robinson explains what a strong relationship the two of them had and what a strong mentor Seton was to Robinson. Ernest Thompson Seton was an author and illustrator of more than 50 works, and was largely responsible for the American Indian influence in the Boy Scouts of America that offered young people knowledge of an outdoor life based on Native American Indian customs, legends and beliefs. Seton was Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America from 1910 to 1915. Edgar M. Robinson was a 1901 graduate from the YMCA Training School, now Springfield college, where he later returned to serve on the faculty as the Honorary Director of Boys Work Courses and the Adviser in Methods and Principles in Work with Boys from 1927-1937.For biographical information on Edgar M. Robinson, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/554
For more information on Ernest Thompson Seton, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/553On the bottom of page number 1 there is a rip, which prevents part of the bottom two lines from being read. On that back of page number one appear the numbers "46757" written in pencil
Robinson Crusoe
No full textDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter I-Start in Life -- Chapter II-Slavery and Escape -- Chapter III-Wrecked on a Desert Island -- Chapter IV-First Weeks on the Island -- Chapter V-Builds a House-The Journal -- Chapter VI-Ill and Conscience-Stricken -- Chapter VII-Agricultural Experience -- Chapter VIII-Surveys his Position -- Chapter IX-A Boat -- Chapter X-Tames Goats -- Chapter XI-Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand -- Chapter XII-A Cave Retreat -- Chapter XIII-Wreck of a Spanish Ship -- Chapter XIV-A Dream Realised -- Chapter XV-Friday's Education -- Chapter XVI-Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals -- Chapter XVII-Visit of Mutineers -- Chapter XVIII-The Ship Recovered -- Chapter XIX-Return to England -- Chapter XX-Fight between Friday and a Bear -- Copyright PageDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Uniform Embedding of Robinson Similarity Matrices
No full textA Robinson similarity matrix is a symmetric matrix where the entry values on all rows and columns increase toward the diagonal. Decompose the Robinson matrix into the sum of k {0, 1}-matrices, then these k {0, 1}-matrices are the adjacency matrices of a set of nested unit interval graphs. Previous studies show that unit interval graphs coincide with indifference graphs. An indifference graph has an embedding that maps each vertex to a real number, where two vertices are adjacent if their embedding is within a fixed threshold distance. In this thesis, consider k different threshold distances, we study the problem of finding an embedding that, simultaneously and with respect to each threshold distance, embeds the k indifference graphs corresponding to the k adjacency matrices. This is called a uniform embedding of a Robinson matrix with respect to the k threshold distances. We give a sufficient and necessary condition on Robinson matrices that have a uniform embedding, which is derived from paths in an associated graph. We also give an efficient combinatorial algorithm to find a uniform embedding or give proof that it does not exist, for the case where k = 2
Oral History Interview with F. Willard "Robbie" Robinson
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with F. Willard “Robbie” Robinson. Robinson tells the story of Albert K. Earnest. Robinson shares an anecdote of how Earnest came to be in the Navy rather than the Army Air Corps. Earnest completed flight training and received his Naval commission in November 1941. In 1942 he was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was one of six pilots to volunteer to fly from Hawaii to Midway. He participated in a mission to attack Japanese carriers. Flying a disabled plane, he made a harrowing flight back to Midway where he crash landed. Because Torpedo Squadron 8 sustained heavy losses, it was reorganized and assigned as a USS Saratoga (CV-3) air group. He flew missions to provide cover for the invasion of Guadalcanal. He was also credited with helping to sink the Japanese carrier Ryūjō. While the USS Saratoga's torpedo damage was repaired, he served with Torpedo Group 8 in the Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal. Earnest was sent to Sand Point Naval Air Station when returned to the U.S. in 1942. It was there that Robinson met Earnest. They served together in Composite Squadrons 31 and 7. When the war ended, Earnest continued his military career, retiring with the rank of Captain
Personal Letter from Arthur Robinson [01]
No full textLetter mentions missing Robinson in London in August, 1934, and goes on to comment on Robinson not getting a chance in direct touch with their father
Robinson, K A, 55266
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/413840Surname: ROBINSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: K A. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 55266. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-3165.232572
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