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کریگ کنسیڈائن: تعارف اور سیرت نگاری: Craig Considine: Introduction and Seerah Study
No full textThis paper will cover Craig Considine, an Irish-Italian sociologist who has published extensively on interfaith, Islamic studies, and the life of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). It follows his initial studies in Massachusetts and further training in international relations and sociology, and more collaborative work with luminaries such as Akbar Ahmed. Because of global events like 9/11, Considine became fascinated by Islam, which led him to pioneer research and publications connecting Christian-Muslim relations. His notable works include books stressing the humanity of Prophet Muhammad and the historical relations between Christians and Muslims. His research and teaching demonstrate a commitment to intercultural dialogue and understanding
Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
No full textWe explore the thermal state of the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant using the recent result of Ho & Heinke that the thermal radiation of this star is well described by a carbon atmosphere model and the emission comes from the entire stellar surface. Starting from neutron star cooling theory, we formulate a robust method to extract neutrino cooling rates of thermally relaxed stars at the neutrino cooling stage from observations of thermal surface radiation. We show how to compare these rates with the rates of standard candles – stars with non-superfluid nucleon cores cooling slowly via the modified Urca process. We find that the internal temperature of standard candles is a well-defined function of the stellar compactness parameter x=rg/R, irrespective of the equation of state of neutron star matter (R and rg are circumferential and gravitational radii, respectively). We demonstrate that the data on the Cassiopeia A neutron star can be explained in terms of three parameters: f?, the neutrino cooling efficiency with respect to the standard candle; the compactness x; and the amount of light elements in the heat-blanketing envelope. For an ordinary (iron) heat-blanketing envelope or a low-mass (? 10?13 M?) carbon envelope, we find the efficiency f?? 1 (standard cooling) for x? 0.5 and f?? 0.02 (slower cooling) for a maximum compactness x? 0.7. A heat blanket containing the maximum mass (?10?8 M?) of light elements increases f? by a factor of 50. We also examine the (unlikely) possibility that the star is still thermally non-relaxe
Marine mammal and fishery interactions on the Copper River Delta and in Prince William Sound, Alaska
No full textThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1980An assessment of rate of damage to netted fishes and to fishing gear caused by marine mammals, and of rate of incidental catch and kill of marine mammals by fishermen, was undertaken for the salmon drift gillnet fisheries of the Copper River-Prince William Sound area, Alaska, in 1977 and 1978. Amounts of damage to netted fishes ranged from approximately 1.8 to 8.3 percent of the total catch. Damages were attributed to Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), which also were responsible for the majority of damages to nets, and to harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Of the approximately 1000 mammals incidentally killed in 1978, about half were harbor seals and 40% were sea lions; the remainder were harbor and Dali porpoises (Phocoena phoccoena and Phocoenoides dalli) and sea otters (Enhydra tutris). Recommendations are made for modification of fishing methods to reduce the damages by and incidental kill of marine mammals
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
No full text: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome, confirming previous studies (on both paid and unpaid OA), is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%, 4% of it correlated with other article variables such as number of authors, references and pages). The author infers that the size of the OA advantage in this biomedical sample has been shrinking annually from 2004-2007, but the data suggest the opposite. In order to draw valid conclusions from these data, the following five further analyses are necessary: (1) The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis. (2) The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account. (3) Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article “citation-bracket” need to be taken into account. (4) The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period. (5) The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded. Davis proposes that an author self-selection bias for providing OA to higher-quality articles (the Quality Bias, QB) is the primary cause of the observed OA Advantage, but this study does not test or show anything at all about the causal role of QB (or of any of the other potential causal factors, such as Accessibility Advantage, AA, Competitive Advantage, CA, Download Advantage, DA, Early Advantage, EA, and Quality Advantage, QA). The author also suggests that paid OA is not worth the cost, per extra citation. This is probably true, but with OA self-archiving, both the OA and the extra citations are free
A morte de Edward Gordon Craig: visualidades místicas de um pensamento Über
No full textThe appeal to plasticity is one of the fundaments of the visual proposition from the new scenic art inaugurated by Eduard Gordon Craig in the beginning of the 20th century. This appeal has an unusual pivot, based on a world view particular from its author: the mysticism. By developing his multifaceted work, Craig created a mystical universe in which he would deliberate on the limits of theatrical languages, but also on the chinks between life, non-life, and death. Two of his most important achievements – the staging of Hamlet and the idealization of his Übermarionette – offer definitive arguments about the role of Death in Gordon Craig’s work.O apelo à plasticidade é um dos fundamentos da proposta visual da nova arte da encenação inaugurada por Edward Gordon Craig no início do século XX. Esse apelo possui um eixo central inusitado, baseado em uma visão de mundo particular de seu autor: o misticismo. Ao desenvolver sua obra multifacetada, Craig criou um universo místico em que refletia sobre os limites da linguagem teatral, mas também sobre as frestas entre a vida, a não vida e a morte. Duas de suas realizações mais importantes – a montagem de Hamlet e a criação do Übermarionette – oferecem argumentos definitivos em relação ao papel da Morte na obra de Gordon Craig.El llamado a la plasticidad es uno de los pilares fundamentales de la propuesta visual del nuevo arte de la puesta en escena inaugurado por Edward Gordon Craig a principios del siglo XX. Este llamado tiene un eje central inusual, basado en una cosmovisión particular de su autor: la mística. Al desarrollar su obra multifacética, Craig creó un universo místico en el que ponderó los límites del lenguaje teatral, pero también las fisuras entre la vida, la no vida y la muerte. Dos de sus realizaciones más importantes –el montaje de Hamlet y la creacón del Übermarionette– ofrecen argumentos definitivos sobre el papel de la Muerte en su obra
Lepadichthys bilineatus Craig, Bogorodsky and Randall, new species
No full textLepadichthys bilineatus Craig, Bogorodsky and Randall, new species Figure 1; Table 1 Holotype: BPBM 36336, 23.5 mm SL, Oman, southeastern coast, Rahah Bay, 16 ° 57 ’N, 54 ° 49 ’E, tidal pool (0–1.5 m), rotenone, J.E. Randall and I. McLeish, 6 February 1993. Diagnosis. A species of Lepadichthys with origins of dorsal and anal fins posterior on body and lacking a membrane connecting them to caudal fin; dorsal-fin rays 16; anal-fin rays 13; pectoral-fin rays 23; principal caudal-fin rays 10, total caudal-fin rays 18; gill rakers 10; head large, its length 3.1 in SL; body depth 8.0 in SL; disc single; disc length 6.6 in SL; disc width 6.5 in SL; color when fresh as in Fig. 1 A, color in alcohol uniform tan (Fig. 1 B). Description. Dorsal-fin rays 16; anal-fin rays 13; pectoral-fin rays 23; principal caudal-fin rays 10; upper and lower procurrent caudal-fin rays 4; gill rakers 10 on second and third arches; vertebrae 34; body long and slender, its depth 8.0 in SL; head length 3.1 in SL; head width 6.5 in SL; snout length 3.4 in HL; eye diameter 5.1 in HL; caudal-peduncle depth 0.8 in its length. Disc simple, lacking fattened papillae characteristic of the genus (although may be a result of damage to the disc), single and small, length 6.6 in SL, and width 6.5 in SL; anus slightly nearer to origin of anal fin than posterior edge of disc. Mouth inferior, slightly oblique, and small; upper-jaw length 10.9 in SL; front of jaws with conical teeth. Upper attachment of gill membrane opposite eighth pectoral-fin ray. Origin of dorsal fin slightly anterior to origin of anal fin; predorsal distance 1.5 in SL; postdorsal-caudal distance 5.8 in dorsal-fin length; preanal-fin distance 1.4 in SL. Color of holotype when fresh (Fig. 1 A): body grayish blue, grading ventrally and posteriorly to brownish orange, and to brownish red on about posterior fourth of body; head dark brown dorsally, abruptly yellowish on ventral half, becoming bright yellow on chin; two bluish white lines extending posteriorly and angling slightly ventrally from eye, one dorsally and one ventrally from eye; pupil encircled by a distinct red ring, with a pale blue dash below; outer two-thirds of pectoral fins translucent yellowish, basal third of fin orangish brown, grading to red ventrally on chest; disc yellow; dorsal and anal fins reddish yellow with a narrow pale blue-green margin and a maroon submarginal band; caudal fin colored like body on basal fifth, followed by vertical zones of yellow and dark reddish brown, the reddish brown of rays extending anteriorly into yellow zone; outer two-fifths of fin translucent whitish. Color of holotype in alcohol uniform tan (Fig. 1 B). Etymology. The species name bilineatus (Latin for “two lines”) is used in reference to the two parallel bluish white lines that extend posteriorly across the head. Remarks. The book Coastal fishes of Oman (Randall 1995) includes species accounts of two gobiesocid fishes, the distinctive long-snouted Diademichthys lineatus, usually found sheltering among the branches of coral or the spines of sea urchins, and Lepadichthys lineatus Briggs 1966, commensal in a crinoid (as Discotrema lineatum; see Craig & Randall (2008) for discussion of the nomenclatural history of this species). Fish collections for the book in 1993 also included single specimens of two unidentified clingfishes. One of these was described as the new genus and species, Briggsia hastingsi by Craig & Randall in 2009; the second specimen is described here as Lepadichthys bilineatus. We regret describing these two species from single specimens. We know of no plans for additional collections. The holotype of L. bilineatus is too desiccated to determine sensory pore number and arrangement, however we assume a similar arrangement and the same number of each pore sensu Shiogaki & Dotsu (1983). Lepadichthys bilineatus superficially resembles L. sandaracatus Whitley 1943 and L. frenatus, two species that Briggs (1955) considered as possibly conspecific. The three species share a relatively small disc, 16 dorsal-fin rays, and 13 anal-fin rays. Lepadichthys bilineatus differs in lacking a membrane connecting dorsal and anal fins to caudal fin (dorsal and anal fins joined by membrane to caudal fin in L. sandaracatus and L. frenatus), in having 23 pectoral-fin rays (27–28 in L. sandaracatus and L. frenatus), a smaller eye (4.2, 4.4 and 5.1 in HL in L. sandaracatus, L. frenatus and L. bilineatus, respectively, a narrower head (head width 6.5 in SL in L. bilineatus, 4.8 in SL in L. sandaracatus, and 4.7 in L. frenatus), and a more pointed snout. In addition, the color pattern of L. bilineatus is distinct in having two pale lines from the posterior orbit to the edge of the operculum. The closest geographic congener of L. bilineatus appears to be L. erythraeus. These two species are easily differentiated based on color pattern and morphological characteristics (see account of L. erythraeus below). The skin of the body of the holotype of Lepadichthys bilineatus is slightly wrinkled. We believe this may have resulted from the inadvertent partial drying of the specimen. This gives the faint impression of scales in the photograph (Fig. 1 A), however all clingfishes known at this time lack scales. The holotype of L. bilineatus is too desiccated to determine sensory pore number and arrangement, however we assume a similar arrangement and number of pores as seen in L. erythraeus (see description below). Recently, photographs of an unidentified clingfish taken at Musandam in the Strait of Hormuz (Oman) were presented to the second author by Mr. Patrick Louisy. The fish was seen at a depth of 15 m among spines of diadematid sea urchin. The individual photographed (Fig. 1, C–D) appears similar to L. bilineatus, and if it is indeed that species, would indicate that there is variation in the overall body color of the species and the prominence of the white lines extending along the head. Unfortunately it was not collected; we are unable to confirm that the individual is in fact L. bilineatus.Published as part of Craig, Matthew T., Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Randall, John E. & Mal, Ahmad O., 2015, Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea, pp. 113-122 in Zootaxa 3990 (1) on pages 114-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/23855
An assessment of selected factors affecting the work environment: a case study of the preferences of the employees within the Bureau of Personnel in the City of Atlanta, 1986
No full textCraig Ellwood: materialidad en jaque (1954-1958)
No full textCraig Ellwood, un arquitecto ahora poco conocido, fue durante los años 50 y 60 una referencia internacional para el proyecto de vivienda contemporánea, debida en gran parte a la extraordinaria difusión de su obra por parte de la influyente revista californiana Arts & And Architecture. Con este trabajo se amplía la información gráfica recogida en libros y revistas, muy escasa en todo lo relativo a la implantación de las obras del arquitecto norteamericano en su contexto suburbano y al diseño de detalle de su construcción, tan significativos en todas ellas. Craig Ellwood saltó del anonimato a la fama mundial en tiempo récord, todavía mientras se formaba como arquitecto. Se ha señalado su admiración por el maestro alemán Mies van der Rohe, como también la influencia que el Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) pudo ejercer en su trabajo. Sin embargo, su aproximación a los proyectos, especialmente enfocada a la resolución de condicionantes topográficos o utilitarios y subordinada a unos presupuestos económicos casi siempre ajustados, debería proporcionar al autor un reconocimiento más que merecido, como espero demostrar. Aquí se analizan tres viviendas proyectadas y construidas por Ellwood entre 1954 y 1958, las casas Hoffman, Smith y Hunt, en un periodo dorado de su despacho y junto a la inquietante presencia de su socio Jerrold Lomax, joven arquitecto siempre a la sombra del arquitecto estrella. Se estudia la construcción de los tres edificios, sus materiales, orientaciones o implantación en el terreno, elementos todos imprescindibles para conocer un poco más a su autor. Craig Ellwood, an architect unknown to many, was during the 1950’s and 1960’s an international reference for the contemporary housing project, due to the extraordinary dissemination of his work by the influential Californian magazine Arts & And Architecture. This work expands the graphic information collected in books and magazines, very scarce in everything related to the implementation of the works of the American architect in its suburban context, so significant in all of them. Craig Ellwood leapt from anonymity to world fame in record time, while still training as an architect. His admiration for the German master Mies van der Rohe has been noted, as well as the influence that the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) was able to exert on his work. However, its approach to projects, especially focused on the resolution of topographic or utilitarian constraints and subordinated to an almost always tight economic budget, should give the author a more than deserved recognition, as I hope to prove. Here we analyze three houses designed and built by Ellwood between 1954 and 1958, the houses Hoffman, Smith and Hunt, in a golden period of his office and next to the disturbing presence of his partner Jerrold Lomax, young architect always in the shadow of the star architect. We study the construction of the three buildings, their materials, orientations or implementation on the ground, all essential elements to know a little more the author
Ambrose of Milan\u27S Method of Mystagogical Preaching
No full textAuthor: Satterlee, Craig A. Title: Ambrose of Milan\u27s method of mystagogical preaching. Publisher: Collegeville: Liturgical, 2002
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