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Joan M. Keane, 72
No full textJoan Margaret Keane, a Los Altos resident who was a nurse at Stanford Hospital and various other hospitals, has died. She was 72. Keane, who died on Aug. 3, was born in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 1947, to John and Margaret Keane. She attended St. Emydius Elementary School, Mercy High School and the University of San Francisco, where she earned a bachelor's in nursing and a master's in health care administration
Keane, M S, SX4287
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.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/396337Surname: KEANE. Given Name(s) or Initials: M S. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: SX4287. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 30594.232784
Item: [2016.0049.28630] "Keane, M S, SX4287
Keane, J M, SX13825
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.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/396336Surname: KEANE. Given Name(s) or Initials: J M. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: SX13825. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 45009.232783
Item: [2016.0049.28629] "Keane, J M, SX13825
Second-order cone programming formulations for a class of problems in structural optimization
No full textThis paper provides efficient and easy to
implement formulations for two problems in structural
optimization as second-order cone programming
(SOCP) problems based on the minimum compliance
method and derived using the principle of complementary
energy. In truss optimization both single and
multiple loads (where we optimize the worst-case compliance)
are considered. By using a heuristic which is
based on the SOCP duality we can consider a simple
ground structure and add only the members which
improve the compliance of the structure. It is also
shown that thickness optimization is a problem similar
to truss optimization. Examples are given to illustrate
the method developed in this pape
Statistical energy analysis of multiple, non-conservatively coupled systems
No full textIn what follows, the analysis of Keane [1] for the energy flows around an arbitrary configuration of coupled multi-modal subsystems is extended to the case of non-conservative coupling. Here, the joints between any two subsystems are modelled by a spring and a damper, thus allowing for dissipation of energy to occur at the joint. The aim of this study is to give greater insight into the problem of energy flows through non-conservative couplings which has not been extensively discussed in the literature. Interest is focused on the effect of damping in the joints on the magnitudes of energy flows between, and energy levels in, each subsystem. The model derived is used to demonstrate the well known fact that selecting the correct level of damping in the joints surrounding a driven subsystem may cause a large percentage of the power input to the subsystem to be dissipated in these joints. This minimizes the overall power dissipated within the subsystems and thus the system total energy level. A Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) model for non-conservatively coupled systems is then suggested, in which coupling damping loss factors are introduced into the main SEA energy balance equations to account for the energy dissipation in the joints. This model is shown to be exactly correct for the limiting case of weak coupling. Numerical examples which illustrate these various ideas are presented, with the use of parameters adopted in previous studies
Potter, M J K (Michael James Keane), SX2701
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/411344Surname: POTTER. Given Name(s) or Initials: M J K (MICHAEL JAMES KEANE). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: SX2701. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 31471.227055
Item: [2016.0049.43608] "Potter, M J K (Michael James Keane), SX2701
An introduction to the fiction of Molly Keane (M. J. Farrell)
No full textMolly Keane began writing stylish witty novels in the 1920\u27s under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. The Anglo-Irish society which she was born into was receding to a distant vanishing point in the memories of the last survivors. As a young writer Keane sensed that this was a unique culture that was worth writing about and she did so in fourteen novels and four plays over a sixty-year career. This dissertation is intended to be a general introduction to Keane\u27s fiction, examining the novels in chronological sequence, identifying the controlling ideas, literary techniques and image patterns. The author\u27s work is considered in the context of the Irish Big House novel. Keane\u27s early romance novels focus on the thrill of the fox hunt as much as the thrill of young love. But in the 1930\u27s her novels take on a darker hue. Her wit becomes more pungent and her irony more penetrating. The powerful figure of the cruel matriarch emerges and casts a shadow over those Ascendancy families living in decaying splendor. In the 1940\u27s Keane widened her audience, writing country house farces for London\u27s West End. Then at the high point of her popularity she was left a widow with two children. She eventually stopped writing and didn\u27t produce another novel for thirty years. Good Behavior, a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1981, launched Keane on a successful return to the literary scene as an octogenarian. As Vera Kreilkamp and other critics have pointed out, Keane is not merely elegizing the lost golden age of a culture, rather she is expressing with measured compassion and irony the arrogance and improvidence of a doomed aristocracy. Keane exposes, with a certain spite and malice, the cruelty and heartlessness that often passes as good behavior. Furthermore, the author records with an insider\u27s perception the tensions that prevailed within families as well as between the Anglo-Irish gentry and the subject Catholic population. Her writing captures the texture and the taste of a carefully designed life-style, one that bore the seeds of its own destruction
Multi-variable geometry repair and optimization of passive vibration isolators
No full textA range of techniques are considered for the search of a high dimensional design landscape with extensive, unknown and disjointed regions of infeasibility. We present the use of a hybrid genetic-algorithm / gradient-descent search of the objective function / feasibility problem. The genetic algorithm is used to optimize the vibration isolation of a novel passive structure concept, while the gradient descent method is used to repair infeasible geometries. For a more complicated structure the gradient search fails to find feasible geometries and we resort to a non-dominated sorting multi-objective genetic algorithm which searches the vibration isolation and geometry feasibility simultaneously. Although the complicated geometry is more difficult to optimize, there is potential for significant improvements in vibration isolation
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