926 research outputs found
Precast Concrete Elements for Accelerated Bridge Construction Final Report, Volume 1-1. Laboratory Testing of Precast Substructure Components: Boone County Bridge: TR-561, January 2009
No full textIn July 2006, construction began on an accelerated bridge project in Boone County, Iowa that was composed of precast substructure elements and an innovative, precast deck panel system. The superstructure system consisted of full-depth deck panels that were
prestressed in the transverse direction, and after installation on the prestressed concrete girders, post-tensioned in the longitudinal direction. Prior to construction, laboratory tests were completed on the precast abutment and pier cap elements. The substructure testing was to determine the punching shear strength of the elements. Post-tensioning testing and verification of the precast deck system was performed in the field. The forces in the tendons provided by the contractor were verified and losses due to the post-tensioning operation were measured. The stress (strain) distribution in the deck panels due to the post-tensioning was also measured and analyzed. The entire construction process for this bridge system was documented. Representatives from the Boone County Engineers Office, the prime contractor, precast fabricator, and researchers from Iowa State University provided feedback and suggestions for improving the constructability of this design
Edna Boone
No full textInscribed on back: \u27Edna Boone - 1994 AAUW Conference, Regional - Gulfcoast MS\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lwv_photo/1071/thumbnail.jp
Larry Boone
No full textThis 1965 photograph shows Larry Boone and was sent to Hubert and Leona Hayes during the 17th Mountain Youth Jamboree. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Daniel Boone: An American Life
No full textThe embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.
Michael A. Lofaro is Lindsay Young Professor of American and Cultural Studies and American literature at the University of Tennessee. A recognized authority on the early frontier and importance of frontier heroes such as Boone and Crockett in American life, he is the author or editor of twelve books, an online database, and over seventy-five articles.
Lofaro’s work solidifies Daniel Boone both as man and American icon. --Choice
Lofaro’s compact biography of Daniel Boone gives us that American icon all bone and sinew and without a trace of myth. It’s a worthy addition to the literature of Manifest Destiny. --Washington Times
Well researched and well written. . . . Does much to bring this legendary figure to life. --Avery Journal-Times
This is the best recent biography of Boone. Carefully documented with attractive illustrations, a detailed bibliography and even a partial genealogy of the Boone family, it is recommended to all who have an interest in the history of our state. --Bowling Green Daily News
A book any serious early Americanist should buy for a personal collection or order for the library. It\u27s readable, entertaining, full of useful and fascinating information, and short. --East-Central Intelligencer
Lofaro uses 30 years of research to realistically portray the master woodsman, a natural leader who was respected even by Native Americans, as he helped guide settlers and \u27blazed trails\u27 through the thick and wild undergrowth of Virginia, Kentucky, and other lands. --Kentucky Monthly
Distills the essence of the man, showing the historical pattern that serves as the basis for Boone’s ambivalence toward civilization and, in so doing, illustrating the impact of the American Revolution on the Kentucky frontier. . . . A solid first book on Boone for both students and general readers. --Library Journal
Lofaro has written the most readable, succinct, and useable biography about Daniel Boone. . . . A pleasure to read. --Missouri Historical Review
Lofaro carefully sifts through the facts and stories to draw a detailed picture of the Kentucky pioneer. . . . A great read. --New York Sun
Lofaro has skillfully and authoritatively mapped the roots and routes of this wilderness wanderer who could not control his ‘itching foot.’ . . . Striding through battles and bloodshed, Boone breathes and lives in this work, lightened with humorous anecdotes and descriptions of frontier customs and traditions. Lofaro’s exhaustive research is evident on every page. --Publishers Weekly
Lofaro\u27s accessible and quintessentially decent survivor, a Boone who lived among violently discordant worldviews yet charted a humane, middle way between them, deserves serious consideration. --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
An excellent factual narrative that is well-written, every bit as interesting and exciting as the tall tales, and with just enough references to the alternative legendary accounts to keep the reader grounded in facts. --Richmond Times-Dispatch
Discredits some present-day assumptions about the life of the famous ‘Long Hunter,’ leaving in their place a more nuanced impression of Boone that surpasses the one-dimensional myths and lending complexity to the image of a frontier hero and the dynamic era in which he lived. --Union County Advocate
Shot through with impressive scholarship that takes Boone, as much as possible, from myth and tall tales (and television-inspired error) and puts him into realistic historical perspective. --Times of Acadiana
Concise and readable, Lofaro’s book seeks to escort Boone out of the realm of folklore and legend and seat him in the American pantheon next to his contemporary, George Washington. --Virginia Quarterly Review
Boone was one of the early nation’s most influential figures. Lofaro’s highly readable and lively biography does this frontier hero justice and does not shirk on providing historical context. --Ellen Eslinger, DePaul University
Boone the trailblazer, patriot, land speculator, politician, and Indian fighter, are fairly represented in the important American portrait. --Journal of the West
Full of artfully woven vignettes, stories, and anecdotes. --Ohio Valley History
A personable, touching literary portrait of the famed yet enigmatic explorer. --Profile
This brief and balanced book effectively distills what we know about Boone\u27s life story into a crisply paced narrative. --Journal of Southern History
A good read. . . . The story of Daniel Boone, full also of soldiering, hunting and exploring, has been told before; and maybe each time it gets a little better, and even a little more accurate. --Edmonson News
Piecing together the truth from second- and third-person reports is not an easy task, and no original Boone autobiography and few firsthand interviews are in existence. -- Andrea Watkins, H-Net Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1156/thumbnail.jp
Looking at pore scale processes in geomaterials using time-resolved 3D imaging and multi-scale imaging
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Challenging Male Hegemony: A Case History of Women's Experiences in British and US Higher Education, 1970-2002
No full textThis thesis is located within the discipline of history, and centres around the
experiences of women in US and British universities. Higher education in both the US and
the UK, as throughout the world, has historically been male-led and male-controlled. This
male hegemony of higher education continues to the present, as evidenced by the low
percentage of women in the upper echelons of academia (for example, professors).
Women in the US and the UK have been challenging this male hegemony since their
admittance to higher education institutions in the nineteenth century. They faced fierce
opposition in their efforts to open higher education to women. This opposition was later
echoed in the resistance to twentieth-century feminists' efforts to found women's studies
programmes.
The male hegemony of higher education is evident in the case histories of the
experiences of women at Appalachian State University (ASU) and the University of
Gloucestershire (UG) in the latter part of the twentieth century. ASU and UG, although
located in different countries, have similarities which make a comparison interesting. The
male hegemony of the institutions, and women's challenges to it, is especially illustrated
when analysing three areas: residence hall life (living), staff issues (working), and the
women's studies programmes (teaching and learning).
Women students at both institutions experienced, and successfully challenged,
strict residence rules through the 1960s. National influences, such as the change in the age
of majority, and pressure from the students themselves brought a loosening of these rules
in the 1970s and 1980s. The conservative nature of the institutions also influenced the
experience of women academic staff. Institutional management was not proactive
regarding women's issues, and there is strong evidence of a `glass ceiling' at both
institutions. The male hegemony of the institutions was also illustrated in the struggle to
found and maintain women's studies programmes
X-ray micro-computed tomography based X-ray particle tracking velocimetry dataset in a porous glass filter
No full textAuthors: Tom Bultreys, Stefanie Van Offenwert, Wannes Goethals, Matthieu N. Boone, Jan Aelterman and Veerle Cnudde; Ghent University (Belgium)
Date: 8th February 2022
For any usage, please cite the accompanying publication: T. Bultreys, S. Van Offenwert, W. Goethals, M. N. Boone, J. Aelterman and V. Cnudde, "X-ray Tomographic Micro-Particle Velocimetry in Porous Media", Physics of Fluids, 34, 042008 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088000
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Dataset of a micro-computed tomography based particle tracking velocimetry experiment performed on a glass filter (ROBU P0; sample size 4 mm diameter by 1 cm).
- The main data is contained in the directory "TimeFrames", containing the reconstructed 3D images at 59 time steps (35 seconds interval), with a voxel size of 11.8 µm, in 3D .tif format. This can be opened in for example Fiji/ImageJ.
- The directory "clearFrame" contains a high-quality pre-scan taken before the main experiment, which was registered and resampled to the time frame images, in the same format and with the same voxel size as the time frame images.
- The directory "SegmentedImage" contains two binary 3D images (same format as images before) which was created by segmenting the clearFrame image. There are two versions: the original segmentation, and a version where pores were eroded. The eroded segmentation was used to mask the pore space during particle detection (this avoids spurious detections near pore walls, caused by minor mis-alignments of the clearImage).
- The original segmentation was used as input to simulate the velocity fields in the directory "simulatedVelocityFields", which contains 3D .tif images that represent the three components of the velocity vector field (the X-direction was the axis of the sample, equaling the flow direction). There is also an input text file and an output text file. The simulation was performed with the code from single-phase OpenFOAM implementation from Ali Raeini and others at Imperial College London: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/earth-science/research/research-groups/perm/research/pore-scale-modelling/
- The trackingOutput folder contains the experimentally determined velocity points (.csv, only particles that could be tracked at least 20 time frames) and the experimentally determined velocity magnitude field (.tif, voxel size 23.6 µm
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