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Letter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen Mather
No full textLetter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen T. Mather about expenses and reconstruction of the Kaibab Trail
Reference to the index of papers of Robert Mather (1782-1855) and the Mather Family
No full textRobert Mather (1782-1855) settled in V.D.L. in 1822 with his family. He had married in 1811 Ann Benson (1786-1831), daughter of Rev. Joseph Benson, and their children were: Sarah Benson, who married George Washington Walker in 1840, Joseph Benson, Robert Andrew, John, Samuel.
See also M.l0 and R.7 for other papers of the Mather family.
Papers include letters of various Mather family members to other family members and friends; marriage and birth certificates and obituaries; notes on the history of Quakers; other miscellaneous Quaker correspondence; Andrew Mather Drapery business and the Friends School
Mather, R R, VX48689
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/402046Surname: MATHER. Given Name(s) or Initials: R R. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX48689. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 5003.221692
Item: [2016.0049.34339] "Mather, R R, VX48689
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen Mather
No full textLetter from J. R. Eaking to the National Park Service director about changes to the Grand Canyon National Park boundaries, and access to water near the Buggeln property on Desert View road
General procedure to initialize the cyclic soil water balance by the Thornthwaite and Mather method Critério geral para iniciar o balanço hídrico pelo método de Thornthwaite e Mather
No full textThe original Thornthwaite and Mather method, proposed in 1955 to calculate a climatic monthly cyclic soil water balance, is frequently used as an iterative procedure due to its low input requirements and coherent estimates of water balance components. Using long term data sets to establish a characteristic water balance of a location, the initial soil water storage is generally assumed to be at field capacity at the end of the last month of the wet season, unless the climate is (semi-) arid when the soil water storage is lower than the soil water holding capacity. To close the water balance, several iterations might be necessary, which can be troublesome in many situations. For (semi-) arid climates with one dry season, Mendonça derived in 1958 an equation to quantify the soil water storage monthly at the end of the last month of the wet season, which avoids iteration procedures and closes the balance in one calculation. The cyclic daily water balance application is needed to obtain more accurate water balance output estimates. In this note, an equation to express the water storage for the case of the occurrence of more than one dry season per year is presented as a generalization of Mendonça's equation, also avoiding iteration procedures.O método original de Thornthwaite e Mather, proposto em 1955 para calcular o balanço hídrico semanal, é utilizado com freqüência devido à baixa exigência de dados de entrada e da obtenção de estimativas coerentes dos parâmetros do balanço. Como valor inicial para o início dos cálculos, geralmente assume-se que o armazenamento de água encontra-se na capacidade de campo ao fim do último mês da estação chuvosa. Ele será menor que a capacidade de campo em casos de climas áridos e semi-áridos. Para fechar o balanço, muitos ciclos iterativos podem ser necessários, o que pode ser complicado em muitas situações. Para climas áridos e semi-áridos com apenas uma estação seca, Mendonça desenvolveu em 1958 uma equação para quantificar o armazenamento no último mês da estação chuvosa, que permite fechar o balanço em um ciclo apenas. O balanço hídrico diário torna-se necessário para se obter estimativa de saídas mais precisas. Nessa nota, é apresentada uma rotina para expressar o armazenamento de água para o caso da ocorrência de mais de uma estação seca, uma situação que é bastante relevante quando é feito o balanço em escala diária, em regiões áridas e semi-áridas
Mather, R G (Ronald George), NX4563
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/402044Surname: MATHER. Given Name(s) or Initials: R G (RONALD GEORGE). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX4563. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 39653.221690
Item: [2016.0049.34337] "Mather, R G (Ronald George), NX4563
Richard Mather of Dorchester
No full textMather is a well-known name in the persons of Increase and Cotton Mather. Here for the first time is a biography of the father and grandfather, respectively, of those two great figures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Richard Mather left few personal records of his life in the form of letters, diaries, or autobiographical writings. In his research, Mr. Burg sought out little used ecclesiastical records in England, pieced together events from inferences and deductions, and analyzed by sociological, psychological, and anthropological methods the life of this seventeenth-century divine. As a result, Mather here emerges from the historical evidence in brief but brilliant flashes, revealing a man with a desperate need to verify his own personal worth and to make valid the way he had chosen to direct his life and to worship his God. Through this study of Richard Mather, Mr. Burg illuminates the struggles of the first generation settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Mather was the author of a considerable corpus of unpublished and published writings. Ever seeking to enhance his reputation as a polemicist and biblical exegete, he spent much of his time penning theological treatises that set forth the true faith of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While he was sought out a number of times by his colleagues to defend the religious practices of the new colony to those who had remained in the mother country, the task of writing the major defenses of New England doctrine and polity was entrusted to clerics such as John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Thomas Shepard—a situation that continually irritated the Dorchester clergyman.
Mather’s career, although marked by minor victories, was in his own estimation characterized by major defeats. It was on those defeats, affronts, and rejections that Richard Mather built his life. The reconstruction of his experiences—both in England and in America—reveals a man of the preindustrial world whose very ordinariness makes his life significant. His biography provides a broader understanding of the ordinary pastors and teachers in seventeenth- century Massachusetts Bay.
B. R. Burg is associate professor of history at Arizona State University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_new_religious_movements/1000/thumbnail.jp
Discrete approximation of stochastic Mather measures
No full textIn this paper, we construct measures which minimize a discrete version of the stochastic Mather problem associated to a Tonelli Lagrangian
L:\T^d\times\R^d\to\R, where \T^d=\R^d/\Z^d is the flat --dimensional torus.
We show that the discrete variational problems approximate the stochastic Mather problem
as the step of the discretisation goes to zero, in the sense that the minima of the discrete problems converge to the minimum
of the stochastic Mather problem and the discrete minimizing measures converge to the unique stochastic Mather measure
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
No full text[2], x, xiv, 239, [7] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)Running title: Remarkables of Dr. Increase Mather.Dedication "to the illustrious University of Glasco" signed: Cotton Mather.Signatures: A-R^8 (R8 verso blank).Increase Mather bibliography, p. 234-239."Epitaphium"--p. [240-244].Errata note, p. [245], names as printer " ... the nephew of him whose name stands in the title page ... ". This is Timothy Green, Jr
Motion-form interactions beyond the motion integration level: evidence for interactions between orientation and optic flow signals
No full textMotion and form encoding are closely coupled in the visual system. A number of physiological studies have shown that neurons in the striate and extrastriate cortex (e.g., V1 and MT) are selective for motion direction parallel to their preferred orientation, but some neurons also respond to motion orthogonal to their preferred spatial orientation. Recent psychophysical research (Mather, Pavan, Bellacosa, & Casco, 2012) has demonstrated that the strength of adaptation to two fields of transparently moving dots is modulated by simultaneously presented orientation signals, suggesting that the interaction occurs at the level of motion integrating receptive fields in the extrastriate cortex. In the present psychophysical study, we investigated whether motion-form interactions take place at a higher level of neural processing where optic flow components are extracted. In Experiment 1, we measured the duration of the motion aftereffect (MAE) generated by contracting or expanding dot fields in the presence of either radial (parallel) or concentric (orthogonal) counterphase pedestal gratings. To tap the stage at which optic flow is extracted, we measured the duration of the phantom MAE (Weisstein, Maguire, & Berbaum, 1977) in which we adapted and tested different parts of the visual field, with orientation signals presented either in the adapting (Experiment 2) or nonadapting (Experiments 3 and 4) sectors. Overall, the results showed that motion adaptation is suppressed most by orientation signals orthogonal to optic flow direction, suggesting that motion-form interactions also take place at the global motion level where optic flow is extracted
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