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Letter from Frederic L. Kirgis, U.S. National Park Service
No full textLetter from solicitor Frederic L. Kirgis on behalf of his clients filing claims in regards to the fire started on government-owned apartments in the Grand Canyon
A Spin Wave Based Approximate 4:2 Compressor Seeking the most energy-efficient digital computing paradigm
No full textsponsorship: This work received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program within the Future and Emerging Technologies Open project Spin Wave Computing for Ultimately-Scaled Hybrid Low-Power Electronics, under grant 801055. It has also been partially supported by IMEC's industrial affiliate program on beyond-CMOS logic. Frederic Vanderveken acknowledges financial support from Flanders Research Foundation through grant 1S05719N. (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program within the Future and Emerging Technologies Open project Spin Wave Computing for Ultimately-Scaled Hybrid Low-Power Electronics|801055, IMEC's industrial affiliate program on beyond-CMOS logic, Flanders Research Foundation|1S05719N)status: Publishe
The Early History of the Fraser River Mines
No full textby Frederic W. Howay.Memoirs (Provincial Archives of British Columbia) ; 6
The Novels of Harold Frederic
No full textI do not intend to defend the obviously untenable thesis that Frederic was a great writer and is not appreciated because of the nature of his subject matter. The author of The Damnation of Theron Ware seldom shows any sign of genius. What Frederic does, and often in a rather workmanlike manner, is tell a story of small-town and country people in upper New York state. In his early works, Seth\u27s Brother\u27s Wife and The Lawton Girl, the author writes about things he knows and has done. The works written about the same time as the two mentioned have a delightful simplicity and naïveté, and incidentally come very close to the realistic tradition in the novel. The majority of Frederic\u27s later works are tinged with a pseudo-sophistication, an artiness which just does not belong, and these elements detract from such an otherwise good thing as The Damnation of Theron Ware
Danube River Development Strategy: Interim Report
No full textThe Danube is an essential Inland Water Transport (IWT) corridor, particularly for the hinterland connection for the Port of Constantza. This port became one of the largest and busiest ports on the Black Sea, due to its strategic location at the cross roads of Europe and Asia and due to its capacity to handle large volumes of different types of cargoes. With the ongoing economic reforms in Romania it is expected that the Port of Constantza will develop into a gateway for Eastern and Central Europe and efficient IWT hinterland connections are therefore required. The project "Danube River Development Strategy" aims to formulate a strategy and to define measures to increase the competitive position of IWT and to improve the navigability of the Romanian stretch of the Danube between the Iron Gates II and Giurgeni. The approach of the project can be characterized as strategy formulation to create a high capacity transport corridor at minimum investment costs. The project comprises two phases, i.e. River Status Phase and Strategy Development Phase. The first phase of the project has been completed in September 1994 with the submission of the River Status Report, which describes the present status of the Danube river followed by the generation of alternative development strategies for the Danube. In the second project phase selected strategies are analyzed followed by the selection of the preferred river development strategy. This Interim Report for the Strategy Development Phase includes the analyses of the various alternative development strategies. The report will be presented to and discussed with the Romanian authorities to select and further define the preferred development strategy. This preferred strategy will then be further analysed and reported in the Draft Final Report. The main objective of the Danube River Development Strategy project is to improve the navigation conditions of the Romanian section of the Danube between the Iron Gates II (rkm 869) and Giurgeni (rkm 239) in order to create a competitive IWT hinterland connection for the Port of Constantza. Various alternative development strategies have been considered. The strategies are rated on multiple criteria, where it appeared that all considered strategies are economically viable. The alternatives combi-c3 and combi-c4 appeared to have the best results. For description of all the alternatives we refer to the report.Danube River Development Strateg
Bourdieu and Data Analysis: Methodological Principles and Practice
No full textPierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in the French Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic trajectory took him to the leading academic training schools of Paris. Eventually, he was nominated as ‘Chair’ at the College de France; that most prestigious institution which groups together just 52 of leading French academics, philosophers and scientists.Bourdieu’s output was voluminous. Beginning with ethnographies of the Bearn and Algeria he went on to offer extensive studies of education, culture, art, and language. For much of this time, Bourdieu was regarded as a sociologist, and he had a major influence in this academic field. However, increasingly he became a public figure rivalling the reputations of such writers as Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Foucault as the ‘public intellectual’. His interventions in politics became more frequent and he took up with a number of pressure groups in mounting what he called ‘acts of resistance’ to the dominant political, economic and social trends of the day. Later, he published further work on the media, painting, economics and gender politics. In 1992, he also published The Weight of the World, an extensive series of accounts of ‘social suffering’ across French society. This work projected Bourdieu into the media limelight and became a bestseller. From this point, Bourdieu increasingly offered his theory and practice as a kind of ‘philosophy for everyman’, as a way of coping with contemporary living.Bourdieu therefore had influence in both an academic field, across several disciplines, as well as being of interest to the general public. There are now several commentaries on his work. However, it is generally agreed that the future of Bourdieusian studies and applications lays in developing methodological techniques for use in such work. Bourdieu used qualitative/ ethnographic approaches extensively; he also had recourse to statistics, in particular, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), and other Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) techniques.The book draws on an extensive field of specialists who are all publicly recognised from previous publications on Bourdieu for using his ideas in their empirical research. It is offered as an edited volume. However, it includes a series of linking narratives, which make the book very much an integrated text. The editors have also provided concise guidelines to contributing authors in order to aim for a commonality of approach across the chapters. The book sets out to do what no other does: namely to bring together experts in the respective qualitative and quantitative Bourdieusian research fields.A General Introduction to the book sets the scene in terms of the methodological challenges of operationalising Bourdieu in practice. A General Conclusion summarises key methodological points. The rest of the book is then divided into Three parts. Parts II and III can be seen very much as practical exemplification of Bourdieusian methodology. However, the book overall locates these in the context of his Theory of Practice. Specifically, Part I is an extended introductory essay. This chapter shows how issues of method and technique sit within Bourdieu’s social philosophy. Here, his major concepts are explained, together with their underlying epistemology. The way his conceptual framework guides an overall research strategy is also set out: Constructing the Research Object; Field Analysis; and Participant Objectivation. In this essay the demands of Qualitative and Quantitative approaches in working with Bourdieu’s philosophical ideas and practical ambitions are considered.Part II then deals with Qualitative approaches; Part III with Quantitative and MCA/ GDA. The chapters in these parts are constructed around particular empirical examples: and a range of topics analogous to many of Bourdieu’s own studies is offered – Education, Economics, Language, Politics, Culture and Art. Each is exemplified by detailed data analysis. In this way, the book is not just a series of stand-alone chapters. Parts II and III are each also preceded and followed up with expert, specialist commentaries on the particular methodological approach under consideration, raising issues concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the specific techniques deployed. In this way, the book focuses on methodological procedures and techniques in order to highlight the potential and limitations of the various designs and instruments of analysis when set within a Bourdieusian framework.The book aims to show how a selection and integration of approaches and techniques need to be adopted if we are to make the most of Bourdieu’s conceptual framework.<br/
Frederic Chopin – 4 Balladia : raportti konsertin toteutuksesta
No full textThe author made his thesis in a concert form. The concert “Frederic Chopin – Four Ballades” was held on 10.10.2017 at Tampere Music Academy’s Pyynikki Hall. The concert consisted of only Chopin’s music and all the works were performed by the author of the thesis. The program was following: Frederic Chopin – Four Ballades: No.1 in G minor, Op. 23, No.2 in F major, Op. 38, No.3 in A-flat major, Op. 47, and No.4 in F minor, Op. 52. After the Ballades, Frederic Chopin's Mazurka in A minor Op. 17 No.4 was performed as an encore.
The main objective of this thesis was to delve into making a musically interesting and professional concert, which includes the whole cycle of works by one composer. The aim of this written report was to clarify the practicing process and the progress of the concert itself. In the report, the author tells about the composer, introduces the pieces played in the concert more closely, and explain the working process in detail. The ways of practising were gathered by participating in piano master-classes and collecting the advices of many teachers from different countries.
More attention has been paid to author’s own ideas and experience. As sources the author used biographies, general dictionaries, music analyses of composer’s works and different music scores. The poster, program and the video of the concert are found as attachments in the thesis. The results show that the performer and members of the audience were satisfied with the performance and the evaluator’s opinions gave interesting information for the developing process
Frederic A. Woll (1874-1955), Optometric Practitioner, Educator, and Author
No full textFrederic Albert Woll (1874-1955) had a distinguished career in optometry and as a member of the faculty in the Department of Hygiene at City College of New York. Woll was an optometry instructor for many years at Columbia University and wrote four books significant in optometry. He played a pivotal role in the establishment of standards in optometric education and in the evaluation of optometry schools in the 1920s and 1930s
Painting "Saddling a Bronco", by Frederic Remington, ca.1908
No full textPhotograph of a painting "Saddling a Bronco", by Frederic Remington, ca.1908. The painting shows a frightened horse out of control. Two men are trying to gain control of the horse while another looks on from the background.; "Frederic Remington was born in nearby Canton, NY in 1861. His father was a Civil War Hero and his mother came from a prosperous family. Frederic demonstrated great interest in horses and military things at an early age, and was sent to the Highland Military Academy in Massachusetts for secondary schooling. Developing an insatiable appetite for art, Remington received his first formal art training at Yale and the Art Students League, but left college before graduating to pursue the adventure and excitement of the western frontier. He gathered information, made sketches and took photographs which he later used at his home in New Rochelle, NY to create his paintings and bronzes. He died in 1909 of complications following an appendectomy, and is buried in Canton, NY.Remington's paintings and sculptures are owned by museums and private collectors throughout the world, with the largest collection located here in Ogdensburg at the Frederic Remington Art Museum. Through his heroic and savage depictions of cowboys, soldiers and indians, Remington glorified the theme of the West as the American Frontier." -- unknown author
“I am not joking” : a reconsideration on Frederic Henry and the lovely critics who laugh at him.
No full textAlmost no other American author is critically revered and equally dismissed as Ernest Hemingway. This essay surveys the prevailing critical views of the protagonists in A Farewell to Arms and investigates how these views have inhibited our understanding of the individual characters. By exploring the similarities in the male and female protagonists' scholarships, this essay takes up the question of critical determinism in Frederic Henry’s scholarship. I analyze Hemingway’s construction of his male protagonist’s sense of humour and show how it reveals a contrasting portrait of Frederic Henry compared to the portrait we derive of him from his critical scholarship. This essay addresses on the prevailing biases against Frederic Henry in current scholarship. I suggest that present critics fail to appreciate Frederic Henry’s positive attributes because they view Catherine Barkley as an opposition to Frederic Henry. I will also briefly study Frederic Henry’s use of black humour during the couple’s escape to Switzerland because compared to Catherine Barkley his humour is not critically acknowledged as one of the strengths of his character. Instead of laughing at Frederic Henry, present Hemingway scholars should bequeath irony and pity on Frederic Henry and reassess his critical identity in Hemingway scholarship.Bachelor of Art
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