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Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Ep. #181 - Nigel Clark
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic discuss a strange effort to police sugar packet play on this week’s podcast. Then (15:52) we are delighted to welcome Nigel Clark to the conversation. Nigel is Chair of Social Sustainability and Human Geography at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/nigel-clark ). He is the author of Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet (2011) and co-editor of Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (2012), Material Geographies (2008) and Extending Hospitality(2009). We start things off by talking about a new book he is working on called The Anthropocene and Societythat he is working on with Bron Szerszynski and what it means to rethink humanity through planetary strata, flows, and multiplicity. We turn from there to Australian feminism, phosphates, Aotearoa New Zealand as a space of settler grassland experiments, wealth, and geocide. Then we touch on fire and its excess, our brittle life on an earth’s surface caught between solar and geothermal vitalities, metamorphosis, the early connection between gunpowder and combustion engines and European geotrauma. A special birthday week shout-out to our very own eternal Cymene Howe :
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A study of the microstructure and condition of thin sheets of painting support ivory using SEM and ESEM
No full textThis paper outlines a study of the microstructure of thin sheets of ivory used as a painting support for portrait miniatures. Warping of the ivory support is one of the main problems commonly found in portrait miniatures from the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Portrait miniatures from this period are painted on very thin sheets of ivory that are often only 0.2 mm in thickness. Warping can lead to cracking of the ivory and can also accentuate flaking of the paint layer. The problem of warping in ivory has thus been of long-term interest to conservators who deal with portrait miniatures, including those at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum. The causes of warping are complex. However, it should be noted that artists normally stuck the thin ivory sheets onto paper or card before commencing the painting. The possible causes of warping therefore are thought to relate to the differential reactions of the ivory/adhesive/paper or card layers to changes in relative humidity (RH). It is well known that ivory is hygroscopic and anisotropic.1 However, only a few scientific studies have been carried out related to this subject and systematic analyses of the morphological and microstructural changes due to changes in RH or moisture in such thin sheets of ivory have yet to be investigated
Social theory and the sociological imagination: an interview with Nigel Dodd (1 of 2)
No full textPart I of our interview with Nigel Dodd, interviewed by Riad Azar. Nigel Dodd is Professor in the Sociology Department at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at the University of Liverpool before joining the LSE in 1995. Nigel’s main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His most recent book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2014
Pekarskaja Ludmila V., Kidd Dafydd, mit Beiträgen von Michael Cowell, Istvan Erdelyi, Janet Lang, Marlia Mundell Mango, Nigel Meeks, Oleg M. Prichodnjuk, Der Silberscbatz von Martynovka (Ukraine) aus des 6. und 7. Jahrhundert, Monographien zur Fruhgeschichte und Mittelalterarchäologie, Herausge-geben Falko DAIM, 1, 1994
No full textKazanski Michel. Pekarskaja Ludmila V., Kidd Dafydd, mit Beiträgen von Michael Cowell, Istvan Erdelyi, Janet Lang, Marlia Mundell Mango, Nigel Meeks, Oleg M. Prichodnjuk, Der Silberscbatz von Martynovka (Ukraine) aus des 6. und 7. Jahrhundert, Monographien zur Fruhgeschichte und Mittelalterarchäologie, Herausge-geben Falko DAIM, 1, 1994. In: Archéologie médiévale, tome 27, 1997. pp. 299-301
Maine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s M
No full textMaine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, which has sold over 90,000 copies, and a number of other books, including The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean and Cuba: A Cruising Guide
Modern vacuum practice
No full textModern Vacuum Practice is an easy-to-understand introduction to high vacuum technology suitable for anyone using high vacuum as a tool. The author provides a fundamentally non-mathematical treatment of the subject, assuming little or no prior vacuum knowledge throughout. With its emphasis always on providing practical information, the book gives the reader the knowledge to set up, use, maintain and troubleshoot a vacuum system
Technological characterisation of egyptian blue
No full textThe principal aim has been to obtain information on the procedures used in antiquity to produce the different fabrics, ranging from soft and friable to hard and semi-vitrified, which are composed of Egyptian Blue. Four pieces of Egyptian Blue from Egypt and Mesopotamia have been examined using the scanning electron microscope and have been compared with Egyptian Blue produced in the laboratory. The results show that Egyptian Blue can be satisfactorily synthesized by firing an appropriate mixture to 900-1000°C for a few hours and to produce pieces comparable in hardness and microstructure with the ancient samples, a single firing in this temperature range is sufficient for the softer fabrics. However, to produce the harder fabrics it is necessary to fire for a second time after grinding and remoulding the material from the first firing.L'objectif principal a été d'obtenir des informations sur les procédés employés dans l'antiquité pour produire les différentes pâtes, allant du tendre et friable au dur et semi-vitrifié, qui sont composées de Bleu Egyptien. Quatre objets de Bleu Egyptien d'Egypte et de Mésopotamie ont été examinés au microscope électronique à balayage et ont été comparés avec du Bleu Egyptien produit au laboratoire. Les résultats montrent que le Bleu Egyptien peut être synthétisé de manière satisfaisante en chauffant un mélange approprié à 900-1000°C pour quelques heures et qu'on peut produire des pièces comparables en dureté et en microstructure avec les échantillons antiques, une seule chauffe dans cette gamme de température est suffisante pour les pâtes tendres. Cependant, pour produire les pâtes les plus dures il est nécessaire de chauffer une deuxième fois après avoir broyé et remodelé le produit du premier chauffage.Tite Michael S., Bimson Mavis, Meeks Nigel D. Technological characterisation of egyptian blue. In: Revue d'Archéométrie, n°1, 1981. Actes du XXe symposium international d'archéométrie Paris 26-29 mars 1980 Volume III. pp. 297-301
The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
Semiometrics: Applying Ontologies across Large-Scale Digital Libraries
No full textAs large-scale digital libraries become more available and complete, not to mention more numerous, it is clear there is a need for services that can draw together and perform inference calculations on the metadata produced. However, the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model, while efficiently constructed and optimised for many business structures, does not necessarily cope well with issues of concurrent data updates and retrieval at the scale of hundreds of thousands of papers. At the same time the growth of RDF and the increasing interest in Semantic Web technologies perhaps begins to present a viable alternative at a scalable, practical level. This paper considers a specific application of large-scale metadata analysis and conducts scalability tests using real-world data. It concludes that RDF technologies are both a scalable and performance-realistic alternative to traditional RDBMS approaches. It also shows that for relationship-based queries on large-scale metadata stores, RDF technologies can significantly out-perform traditional RDBMS approaches by allowing both retrieval and updating of data in a timely manner
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