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Alumnus Matthew William Del Gaudio receiving citation
No full textAlumnus Matthew William Del Gaudio receiving Alumni Citation from Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell,
Alumni Banquet, Hotel Statler, October 6, 1956.image/tif; 100-70 Burdell_Alumni Banquet Hotel Statler0015.tif; 30,204,306 bytesHP Scanjet 8300; 600ppi; 8-bit grayscaleMitsuko Brook
Pavarotti, Luciano -- 1982-88 -- Correspondence, Individual -- letter, 1982-08-10
No full textLetter from Matthew, William M. to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1982-08-10.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Pavarotti, Luciano -- 1982-88 -- Correspondence, Individual -- letter, 1982-11-30
No full textLetter from Matthew, William M. to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1982-11-30.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Perlman, Itzhak -- 1982-90 -- Correspondence, Individual -- letter, 1981-11-09
No full textLetter from Matthew, William M. to Deans, Department Heads, Program Directors and Administrative Officers dated 1981-11-09.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Matthew William Clinton papers, MSS.0318
No full textAbstract: Text of a speech on Alabama's state capitals prepared for a 1946 Daughters of the American Revolution meeting and includes a sketch of an architect's plans for improvement of the capitol grounds.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains a typescript copy of the text of a speech on Alabama's state capitals, prepared for a 1946 Daughters of the American Revolution meeting. It includes a sketch of an architect's plans for improvement of the capitol grounds.Biographical/Historical Note
Aluminium alloys for battery anodes in alkaline systems
No full textStandard electrochemical techniques have been used to study the behaviour of pure aluminium and tin, as well as some alloys of aluminium containing tin and magnesium in sodium hydroxide solutions of varying strength. The materials studied are of particular significance as anodes for alkaline battery systems. The effect of additions of tin, in the form of stannate, on the behaviour of aluminium and an aluminium/magnesium alloy in 1M NaOH was also investigated. The growth and dissolution of anodic films on the materials was followed in-situ in 1M NaOH by means of an automated, null-seeking ellipsometer using a wavelength of 6329A*. Complex models of theoretical film systems were constructed in order to try to interpret the results, and these models have been correlated with observations made by scanning electron microscopy. Cyclic voltammetry has demonstrated the phenomena of `superactivation' and `hyperactivation' of aluminium by tin, both as an alloying dopant and an electrolyte additive, in 1M, 4M and 8M NaOH. Hyperactivation of pure aluminium has also been observed in 8M NaOH. Electrochemical studies of pure tin have confirmed that the superactivation of tin-containing alloys of aluminium in alkaline electrolytes is controlled by the electrochemical behaviour of tin. The presence of magnesium as an alloying addition was found to have no effect on either pure aluminium or aluminium/tin alloy. Ellipsometric investigation of the growth and dissolution of anodic oxide films on pure aluminium and aluminium/tin alloy in 1M NaOH demonstrated the porous nature of the films in this medium. The results were found to be very sensitive to solution turbulence. Film growth is essentially self-limiting under pumped-flow conditions but stagnant solutions produce deceptive ellipsometric traces due to tenuous layers at the film/electrolyte interface or localised solution effects. Magnesium-containing alloys of aluminium produced complex ellipsometric traces suggestive of a thick top layer of low refractive index. SEM examination has confirmed the presence of thick films of hydrated material on the surface of such specimens. The passivation of tin in alkaline media proved unsuitable for ellipsometric study due to difficulty in separating film growth processes from roughening of the metal surface. Theoretical models have been devised for the growth of anodic oxide films on pure aluminium which incorporate initial substrate roughening and graded refractive index due to the porous nature of the material. Further work needs to be done in the case of magnesium-containing alloys to produce a model for the top layer which gives a good fit with the experimental results.</p
The psychological validity of formational parameters in native and non-native signers of British sign language
No full textThis thesis presents four experimental studies that aim to assess the validity of formational parameters as psychological constructs. The studies employ two experimental paradigms - ordered recall of lists and form priming - with three groups of experimental participants - hearing sign language learners, deaf people who learned sign as a first language (native signers), and deaf people who learned sign language after the age of 6 years (non-native signers). The studies were designed to assess whether sign language was internalised as a formational or morphological code.Findings from the studies using ordered recall of lists are equivocal, supporting neither formational nor morphological coding. It is proposed that (a) more accurate measures of similarity are required, and (b) it is important to consider the number of items recalled from a list when assessing the effect of list similarity on order errors - findings reported in previous studies have failed to do this.The study employing a form priming procedure produced more substantive findings. Clear differences were evident in how signs were processed by native and non-native signers. Non-native signers appeared to process signs in terms of global visual characteristics, whereas native signers processed signs in terms of formational parameters. The role of morphological parameters was not assessed. It is concluded that form priming procedures stand to offer more valid and valuable insights than list recall studies, and a model of access to the sign lexicon is proposed for further empirical investigation.</p
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
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