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Letter Written by Leo P. Blais to the Bryant College Service Club Dated April 3, 1944
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Monday April 3, 1944
Dear Bryant Service Club,
I received your Easter gift today and was very pleased with it. Cigarettes are one thing which we can always use. I often think of the pleasant times that I had at Bryant. After the war, I am looking forward to going back and finishing my course.
I have been corresponding with many fraternity brothers and former classmates of Bryant and most of them feel the same way about it as I do. So you can expect to see us all back again some day, which I hope will be soon.
At this moment, I am going to school but will finish in about four weeks. Soon after, I expect to be sent overseas. Once again I want to thank you I think the service club is a swell organization and I hope that it keeps up its good work.
A former Bryant student
Pfc. Leo P. BlaisClass of “43”ΦΣΝ
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Newspaper clipping for the death of Leo P. Flynn.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Saldatura Laser di Leghe di Titanio e Alluminio
No full textLa saldatura del titanio è largamente diffusa nei vari settori dell’industria metalmeccanica e aerospaziale. Negli ultimi anni è aumentata la necessità di saldare il titanio ad altre leghe leggere ferrose e non come l’alluminio. Le maggiori difficoltà nella saldatura eterogenea del titanio sono dovute alla formazione di un ossido superficiale che si può opporre alla fusione o alla saldobrasatura con metalli dissimili.
In questa memoria sono riportati i risultati relativi alla saldatura con laser a fibre del titanio Ti6Al4V con una lega d’alluminio 5754. I due metalli sono saldati mediante un irraggiamento laser della superficie del titanio in prossimità del giunto con l’alluminio. Quest’ultimo fonde a causa dell’onda di calore che si trasmette dalla zona fusa del titanio verso l’alluminio. La caratterizzazione metallurgica e meccanica del giunto dimostra la possibilità di arrivare così a un giunto di qualità accettabile senza particolari preparazioni delle superfici a contatto
First stellar spectroscopy in Leo P
Full text linkWe present the first stellar spectroscopy in the low-luminosity (M_V ~-9.3 mag), dwarf galaxy Leo P. Its significantly low oxygen abundance (3% solar) and relative proximity (~1.6 Mpc) make it a unique galaxy to investigate the properties of massive stars with near-primordial compositions akin to those in the early Universe. From our VLT-MUSE spectroscopy we find the first direct evidence for an O-type star in the prominent HII region. The spectroscopic confirmation of such a massive star supports arguments that the upper limit to the initial mass function, even if sparsely sampled, is not signficantly influenced by the low star-formation rate of Leo P. We classify 14 further sources as massive stars (and 17 more as candidate massive stars), most likely B-type objects. From comparisons with published evolutionary models we argue that the absolute visual magnitudes of massive stars in very metal-poor systems such as Leo P and I Zw 18 may be fainter by ~0.5 mag compared to Galactic stars. We also present spectroscopy of two carbon stars identified previously as candidate asymptotic-giant-branch stars. Two of three further candidate asymptotic-giant-branch stars display CaII absorption, confirming them as cool, evolved stars; we also recover CaII absorption in the stacked data of the next brightest 16 stars in the upper red giant branch. These discoveries will provide targets for future observations to investigate the physical properties of these objects and to calibrate evolutionary models of luminous stars at such low metallicity. The MUSE data also reveal two 100pc-scale ring structures in Halpha emission, with the HII region located on the northern edge of the southern ring. Lastly, we report serendipitous observations of 20 galaxies, with redshifts ranging from z=0.39, to a close pair of star-forming galaxies at z=2.5
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