11 research outputs found
How Water Heater Works
No full textTake a look inside a typical water heater so you can understand how it works -- and why it sometimes doesn't. Author Marshall Brain gives a fairly comprehensive look at this everyday appliance. Images, videos and text guide the user along and help them to better understand its workings
The color of jazz
No full textIn the book THE STORY OF JAZZ, author Marshall Stearns (1956) tells the story of a conference of musicologists. During a conversation following the conference, a representative from the classical music world told another from the jazz world that it wasn\u27t that he hated jazz music, it was the fact that its musicians and patrons treated the music as if it were holy. The jazz person pointed out the same could be said about people in the classical world. The classical person\u27s response to this accusation was simply, Ah, BUT CLASSICAL MUSIC IS
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformation in Early-modern Europe
No full textSuccession: are you ready?
No full textA leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for your inevitable leadership transition? In this concise book, leading executive coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith offers candid advice on succession from the outgoing executive's perspective. From choosing and grooming a successor while sidestepping political minefields, to finally handing over responsibility, Goldsmith walks you through each step in the succession process. Done right, your successor can enter to applause while you gracefully bow out and start the next chapter of your life
Artificial Intelligence and Social Credit System In China
No full textThe world we are living in today feels lots of similarities to wonderlands. As American
author Marshall Brain’s utopian novel, Manna, which touches upon information technology,
automation, differentiating user interfaces, robots and so on, humankind has been experiencing
technology and extraordinary processes. It has been more and more common to have self-driving
cars, image recognizing mobile phones, and self-cleaning vacuums. All of these developments in
different fields that make everyday life easier are the blessings of the artificial intelligence (AI),
which is commonly defined as “imitating intelligent human behavior” (Kok, Kosters, Boers, Putten,
& Poel, 2021, p.2). This concept, defined in its most general form, is essentially the ability of a
system to interpret external data accurately, learn from it, and use these learnings to achieve
specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation (IBM, 2020).M.S. - Master Of Science Without Thesi
Thieleella Bandel 1998
No full textThieleella Bandel, 1998 Thieleella Bandel, 1998: 35. + Pagodella Bandel, 1998: 2. [nomen nudum]. Type species. Scissurella amoena Thiele, 1912 (OD). Etymology. Named after Johannes Thiele (1860–1935: Bieler & Boss, 1991). Description. Identical to Anatoma, but protoconch with reticulate sculpture. Differential diagnosis. Thieleella has a protoconch with honeycomb pattern, whereas Anatoma is either smooth or with flocculent ornamentation. It is virtually impossible to distinguish members of these two genera under the light microscope. The recognition of Thieleella as distinct from Anatoma is debatable. There is only a single character, protoconch sculpture, that separates the two genera. In an exploratory phylogenetic analysis of shell and limited radular characters (no radular data available for any Thieleella species), the Thieleella species grouped together as a grade (Geiger, 2003). Additionally, in Scissurellinae, protoconch sculpture was demonstrated to be highly homoplastic, casting further doubt on the diagnostic value of protoconch sculpture used to recognize Thieleella. Thieleella is tentatively retained in agreement with actions taken by an other recent author (Marshall, 2002).Published as part of Geiger, Daniel L. & Jansen, Patty, 2004, Revision of the Australian species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda), pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 415 (415) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.415.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/522832
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GPP Version 6 User's Guide A General-Purpose Postprocessor for Wind-Turbine Data Analysis
No full textGPP (pronounced ''jeep'') is a general-purpose postprocessor for wind turbine data analysis. The original author, Marshall Buhl, a member of the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), developed GPP to postprocess test data and simulation predictions. Norman Weaver of InterWeaver Consulting is responsible for coding most of the recent additions to Version 6. GPP reads data into large arrays and allows the user to run many types of analyses on the data stored in memory. It runs on inexpensive computers common in the wind industry. One can even use it on a laptop in the field. We wrote the program in such a way as to make it easy to add new types of analyses and to port it to many types of computers. Although GPP is very powerful and feature rich, it is still very easy to learn and easy to use. Exhaustive error trapping prevents one from losing valuable work caused by input errors. We believe that GPP can make a significant impact on engineering productivity in the wind industry
Beyond Feudalism - Research Brief #1
No full textBeyond Feudalism is a 96 page Research Brief for the Chapman University\u27s Center for Demographics and Policy. It is always a pleasure to work with them and help showcase all their hard work in a way that makes it easier to understand and more compelling. This is their second brief on California\u27s middle class Feudalism. My student design assistant Cassandra Taylor, BFA GD \u2719 in the Chapman University Ideation Lab worked on the first part.
This brief was authored by: Joel Kotkin (co-author), Marshall Toplansky (co-author), Wendell Cox (demographic researcher), Mike Christensen (education), Karla López del Río (research), Zina Klapper (editor), Alicia Kurimska (copy editor), and Chad Lonski (researcher). The Chapman Research team, headed by graduate Alex Thomas, did outstanding work on this project. Doug Havard and Luke Edwards, both currently enrolled in the school, contributed greatly to our efforts.
This project would not have been possible without the support of Chapman University and our donors. We particularly would like to thank President Daniele Struppa, School of Communications Dean Lisa Sparks, Argyros School of Business and Economics Dean Thomas Turk and Tom Piechota, Vice President of the Office of Research at the University. The project was greatly helped by Mahnaz Asghari who made sure the trains all ran on time, and our team of student researchers who diligently mined data and insights on myriad topics.
Our generous donors include venture capitalists Andy and David Horowitz ; philanthropist Howard Ahmanson; Joe Lozowski, President of Tangram Interiors ; real estate entrepreneurs Irv and Ryan Chase; Dan Heinfeld, President of the architecture firm LPA; and Tom Tait, entrepreneur and former Mayor of Anaheim. We also acknowledge the timely support from the Southern California Gas Company, Orange County’s Credit Union, and CRC, Inc.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/art_creative_works/1349/thumbnail.jp
Historiographical Map of Petroleum Scientific Outputs in Science Citation Index (SCI) through 1990-2011
No full textThe purpose of this study was to map the structure of scientific outputs of petroleum field in Science Citation Index (SCI) accessible via Web of Science (WOS) during 1990 to 2011 and determine the position of Iran. The used research methods were citation analysis and historiography. The results showed that there were totally 26859 records indexed in the petroleum discipline during 1990-2011 in SCI. USA, 7237 documents (27.28%), was the most collaborative country in this research. Iran with 321 documents ranked 21th country among all countries. The American author, Marshall A.G., with 85 documents ranked top among the most productive authors. In Iran, Kharrat from Petroleum University of Technology with 8 documents was the most productive Iranian author in petroleum field. Among the institutes and universities, Chinese Academy of Science was the most productive with 530 documents. Among the institutes and universities at national level, Tehran University has the first place with 53 documents. Energy & Fuels, Organic Geochemistry, and Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society were the most important journals in terms of production and citation (both LCS and GCS) in petroleum field. The scientific map of petroleum field was drawn using HistCiteTM software. The analysis of the map revealed six thematic clusters including “Analysis and evaluation of compounds and elements of molecular structure of petroleum”, “Analysis and evaluation of compounds and elements of molecular structure of petroleum using mass spectrometry”, “reviewing and modeling of conditions of production and formation of source rock”, “survey of petroleum and its compounds biodegradation by bacteria and algae”, “survey of characteristics and history of petroleum reservoir”, and “survey of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)”
MCLUHAN DE BOLSILLO PARA ESTUDIANTES DE LA ESCUELA DE COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL
No full textThis is the first article I am presenting in the series Pensamiento divulgativo de la comunicación for students of the schools of social communication and related disciplines of the Social and Cultural Studies of Communication line of the Communication Research Center of the UCAB. We are encouraged to motivate interest in the authors who have thought about mass media and technologies in all areas of our lives. They can even provide us with some coordinates to improve our relationship with our environment, today, configured by networks, artificial intelligences and algorithms on demand. That is why McLuhan invites you to understand the world we live in through the social representations of the mass media and the Internet. I start from the idea that understanding the communicational ecology, where our experience with the media and virtual realities converge, will probably bring us closer to a more harmonious and genuine coexistence with ourselves and with human beings. Will this not be the supreme cyber-ontology as long as we remain in this world? This being so, we begin with our "pocket" author Marshall McLuhan, an expression that means to have at hand the essential thought of this Canadian intellectual, one of the first to recreate for us his worldview on the digital being of the 21st century through this powerful metaphor "the medium is the message", an extraordinary augury that made voices four decades before the appearance of the Internet and the network-society.Se trata del primer artículo que presento de la serie Pensamiento divulgativo de la comunicación para los estudiantes de las escuelas de comunicación social. En concreto, esta serie ha sido pensada para las asignaturas teoría y sociología de la comunicación. Nos anima el hecho de motivar el interés por los autores que han reflexionado sobre los medios masivos y las tecnologías en todos los ámbitos de nuestras vidas. Es por ello que McLuhan te invita a comprender el mundo en que vivimos a través de las representaciones sociales de los medios masivos y de Internet. Parto de la idea de que comprender la ecología comunicacional, probablemente, nos acercará a una convivencia más armónica y genuina. Siendo así, comenzamos con nuestro autor “Marshall McLuhan de bolsillo”, expresión que significa tener a mano el pensamiento esencial de este intelectual canadiense, uno de los primeros en recrearnos su cosmovisión sobre el ser digital del siglo XXI mediante esta potente metáfora “el medio es el mensaje”, augurio extraordinario que hizo voces cuatro décadas antes de la aparición Internet y de la sociedad-red
