288 research outputs found
Maynard to James E. Edmonds (12 April 1893)
No full textDiscusses history of Sir James\u27s plantation and the town\u27s history and connection with the Choctaw.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/edmonds/1006/thumbnail.jp
The potters’ legacy: production, use and deposition of pottery in Kent, from the middle Bronze Age to the early Iron Age
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive study of prehistoric pottery throughout the region of Kent. Research will focus specifically on middle Bronze Age through to early/middle Iron Age pottery, a date range of approximately 1500 to 400 BC. The study of pottery offers a wealth of information relating to many aspects of the past and yet despite this, prehistoric pottery has been under-researched in Kent. A growing number of important pottery assemblages have been excavated and recent development-led archaeology has produced a great deal of new evidence from excavation and evaluation. This offers an important key to understanding the chronology and interpretation of settlement and burial sites.The basis of this study is to analyse pottery assemblages in order to develop an understanding of the societies who produced and consumed the ceramics, and to provide the foundation for a ceramic typological and chronological framework. This was undertaken through the study of some 77,000 pottery sherds from 66 sites across the region. The data was collected from personally recording and illustrating large assemblages of pottery sherds and by using data from ‘grey literature’, published reports and research by a number of pottery specialists. A form type series was devised, which demonstrates the range of pottery types present in Kent from the middle Bronze Age to early/middle Iron Age. A chronological sequence has been tentatively suggested, which is in need of refinement when more radiocarbon dates are available. A fabric series has been created and presents a brief summary of the types of fabrics used to make the vessels.Key areas were studied, namely, the production and distribution of the ceramics across Kent and how this compares to surrounding regions. Changes in both pottery form types and fabrics over 1000 years of potting history are evident and offer insights into the changing nature of social practises and settlement patterns. Consideration of how the ceramics have been deposited may also offer glimpses into the past, and also serve to highlight the complexities of site formation.This study contributes to a growing body of research on the prehistory of Kent. The limitations are also addressed and the scope for further research
Babies First! client's experience with care, 2004 PHDS reduced version survey
No full textprepared for: Department of Human Services, Health Services, Office of Family Health, Child Health Section ; prepared by: Joyce K. Edmonds, RN, MPH, Principal Contributor, Alfred E. Ferro, Research Analyst, Eve D. Pepos, MURP Research Analyst.Title from PDF cover (viewed on January 21, 2020)."Promoting Healthy Development Survey Reduced Version Modified for Public Health Nurse Services."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 74).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Oh the places we went! : creating and teaching Dr. Seuss : then and now! : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textFor my Honors thesis project I chose to create and teach an honors colloquium, Dr. Seuss: Then and Now! under the direction of Dr. Tony Edmonds, professor of history. As a social studies education and history major I was grateful to have the opportunity to gain some teaching experience while also broadening my content knowledge. The course focused on the life and works of Theodor Geisel (better known as "Dr. Seuss") as well as his continuing legacy as a children's author and illustrator. It was offered during the fall 2008 semester, during which time fifteen students from a wide variety of majors participated in the class. The intention of this course was to help students better understand the significance of Geisel's works and to develop a greater appreciation for them. In preparing and teaching this course, Claire learned valuable strategies and skills that helped her to become a more effective as well as more knowledgeable teacher.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Assessing the Performance of Two Immune Inspired Algorithms and a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Function Optimisation
No full textDo artificial immune systems (AIS) have something to offer the world of optimisation? Indeed do they have any new to offer at all? This paper reports the initial findings of a comparison between two immune inspired algorithms and a hybrid genetic algorithm for function optimisation. This work is part of ongoing research which forms part of a larger project to assess the performance and viability of AIS. The investigation employs standard benchmark functions, and demonstrates that for these functions the opt-aiNET algorithm, when compared to the B-cell algorithm and hybrid GA, on average, takes longer to find the solution, without necessarily a better quality solution. Reasons for these differences are proposed and it is acknowledged that this is preliminary empirical work. It is felt that a more theoretical approach may well be required to ascertain real performance and applicability issues
The Stick-e Note Architecture: Extending the Interface Beyond the User
No full textThis paper proposes a redefinition of the human-computer interface, extending its boundaries to encompass interaction with the user's physical environment. This extension to the interface enables computers to become aware of their context of use and intelligently adapt their activities and interface to suit their current circumstances. Context-awareness promises to greatly enhance user interfaces, but the complexity of capturing, representing and processing contextual data, presents a major obstacle to its further development. The Stick-e Note Architecture is proposed as a solution to this problem, offering a universal means of providing context-awareness through an easily understood metaphor based on the Post-It note
Household composition and the response of child labor supply to product market integration: evidence from Vietnam
No full textMarket integration raises the relative price of a community's export product. The author examines how the response of child labor supply to an increase in the relative price of a primary export product varies with a child's household composition. The specific context for his study is the liberalization of rice markets in Vietnam in the 1990s. Between 1993 and 1998, Vietnam lifted export restrictions on rice, allowing the domestic price to rise toward international levels, and eliminated internal restrictions on the flow of rice between regions of Vietnam. So, the relative price of rice increased overall in Vietnam, but the degree of price change varied across communities with the lifting of restrictions on internal flows. The author finds that the response of child labor supply to rice price increases is increasing the amount of time children work. Thus, household composition attributes that are associated with higher levels of child labor are also associated with larger declines in child labor with rice price increases. The results are consistent with girls particularly benefiting from product market integration because they work more than boys do. The results suggest that economic factors associated with economic reform may attenuate differences in the activities of siblings that are typically associated with cultural traditions and norms.Children and Youth,Labor Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Markets and Market Access,Children and Youth,Youth and Governance,Access to Markets,Street Children,Environmental Economics&Policies
Simulating the Social Processes of Science
No full textScience is the result of a substantially social process. That is, science relies on many inter-personal processes, including: selection and communication of research findings, discussion of method, checking and judgement of others' research, development of norms of scientific behaviour, organisation of the application of specialist skills/tools, and the organisation of each field (e.g. allocation of funding). An isolated individual, however clever and well resourced, would not produce science as we know it today. Furthermore, science is full of the social phenomena that are observed elsewhere: fashions, concern with status and reputation, group-identification, collective judgements, social norms, competitive and defensive actions, to name a few. Science is centrally important to most societies in the world, not only in technical, military and economic ways, but also in the cultural impacts it has, providing ways of thinking about ourselves, our society and our environment. If we believe the following: simulation is a useful tool for understanding social phenomena, science is substantially a social phenomenon, and it is important to understand how science operates, then it follows that we should be attempting to build simulation models of the social aspects of science. This Special Section of <i>JASSS</i> presents a collection of position papers by philosophers, sociologists and others describing the features and issues the authors would like to see in social simulations of the many processes and aspects that we lump together as "science". It is intended that this collection will inform and motivate substantial simulation work as described in the last section of this introduction.Simulation, Science, Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Processes
The Folly of a Normative Account of 'Constructivist Agents'
No full textOpen peer commentary on the article “Plasticity, Granularity and Multiple Contingency - Essentials for Conceiving an Artificial Constructivist Agent” by Manfred Füllsack. Upshot: The target article is criticised on four counts. It fails to make clear what is meant by the phrase “constructivist agent,” and whether the author is trying to define “constructivist agent” or arguing what the minimal criteria for this are (there are problems with either. It does not make clear whether weak or strong emergence is intended (there are problems with either. The arguments for a minimal level of granularity are incoherent. To summarise, the whole project has a normative flavour that seems odd given the constructivist stance it intends to argue from
1985-86 Marshall-Wythe Law School of Law Faculty
No full textLeft to Right - Front Row: Edmund P. Edmonds, Elmer J. Shaefer, Walter S. Felton, Jr., Charles H. Koch, Jr., Jayne Barnard, Walter L. Williams, Jr., John M. Levy, B. Glenn George, Emeric Fischer, Doug R. Rendleman, John E. Donaldson, John W. Lee, III, Lynda L. Butler, Dean Timothy J. Sullivan.
Second Row: R. Kent Greenawalt, Richard A. Williamson, Robert C. Palmer, Paul A. LeBel, I. Trotter Hardy, Jr.
Third Row: Gene R. Nichol, Jr., Ronald H. Roseberg, Glenn E. Coven, Jr., David Coar.
Fourth Row: John B. Corr, Michael G. Hillinger.https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facultyphotos/1000/thumbnail.jp
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