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New York City Police Department Youth Program In-Service Training
No full textNew York City Police Department Youth Program In-Service Training. Includes a letter from Theresa M. Melchionne, Deputy Commissioner, Community Relations, New York City Police Department to Austin H. MacCormick, Citizens' Committee for Children, in which discusses the enclosed documents
Total photoabsorption cross sections for H-1, H-2 and He-3from 200 to 800 MeV
No full textThe total photoabsorption cross sections for 1H, 2H, and 3He have been measured for incident photon energies ranging from 200 to 800 MeV. The 3He data are the first for this nucleus. By using the large acceptance detector DAPHNE in conjunction with the tagged photon beam facility of the MAMI accelerator in Mainz, cross sections of high precision have been obtained. The results show clearly the changes in the nucleon resonances in going from 1H to 3He. In particular, for the D13 region the behavior for 3He is intermediate between that for 1H, 2H, and heavier nuclei. This will provide a strong constraint to the theories that are presently being developed with a view to explaining the apparent ‘‘damping’’ of higher resonances in heavy nuclei
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
On Law and Morality. Reflections on Neil D. MacCormick's Philosophy of Law
No full textThis Seminar analyses the legal and political theory of Neil D. MacCormick. It is structured over four days. On the first day, people will be provided with an advanced summary of the main issues covered by MacCormick’s work, especially focused on his conception of sovereignty and democracy; his theory of legal argumentation and his institutional theory of law, as reflected in his last three-volume opus Questioning Sovereignty (1999), Rhetoric and the Rule of Law (2005), and Institutions of Law (2007). On the second through fourth day (7-9.11), the seminar will adopt the workshop format. International scholars will make short presentations of papers especially commissioned for the workshop, which will be made available one to two weeks in advance. The workshop will be structured around six sections. The first day will open with a section on law as an institution, and the dynamic relationship between law and politics. Particular attention will be placed on MacCormick’s criticisms of the “classical legal positivism” advocated by Herbert Hart, and the progressive development of his institutional and post-positivistic conception of law. The second section that day will be devoted to law as practice, and will cover MacCormick’s ground-breaking work on the theory of legal argumentation and legal rhetorics. The second (and third) day will focus on a favourite applied topic in the works of Scottish legal theorists, namely, the law and politics of European integration. The third day will revolve around the post-sovereign paradigm of political communities favoured by MacCormick, and will critically engage with his inspiring theory of liberal nationalism, as a comprehensive political theory capable of upholding a degree of independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom, and simultaneously, a deep commitment to further European integration. We conclude the third day of the workshop with a roundtable on Europe’s constitutional future
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
Critical approach of ontological proposals for the Institutional Theory of Law
No full textThe article describes the ontological proposals of Institutional theory of law, especially, exist-ence of entities, created by N. MacCormick and O. Weinberger, as well as polish representative of this theory – M. Smolak. Fundamental issue is existence material beings and ideal constructs – raw facts and institutional facts – theory created byG. E. M. Anscome and J. Searle, developed in Institutional Theory of Law.
The author makes a critical analysis of this proposals – especially duality of existence. Author identified lack of consistency in distinguishing material (real) beings and ideal existences and error of the identification of what is an ontological problem and which is part of other issues
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