95 research outputs found
Letter, General Winfield S. Hancock to Spencer Richardson and Thompson, July 20, 1862
No full textThis handwritten letter, dated July 20, 1862, is from General Winfield S. Hancock, a Union general in the American Civil War, to Spencer Richardson and Thompson. The letter requests some things for his uniform. There is writing up the middle of the page and the back includes the author\u27s name and the date. This letter was found tipped into volume seven, between pages 254-255 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-documents/1039/thumbnail.jp
Seeing the Invisible Scientist: Alumni Profiles and Perspectives on STEM and the Impact of Undergraduate Research at Spelman College
No full textSeeing the Invisible Scientist profiles Spelman College alumnae who worked in the Winfield Laboratory and provides a snapshot of how undergraduate research at the College served as a springboard for alumnae to pursue diverse and interesting career paths
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
No full textAfrican American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic subjectivity intertwined with corporeal motion. The subsequent emancipatory journey to freedom, as recited in slave narratives, decentred the coercive migrations of the slave trade by coupling the subversive act of self-directed movement through geographical space with a collective understanding of liberty. Wanderings in the period after the Civil War, followed by the momentous collective Great Migratory journeys of the twentieth century, as well as the countless and ongoing voyages to the ancestral continent of Africa spanning four centuries, has only deepened the criticality of travel to African American history and cultural production. However, African American travel writing has received only a small amount of scholarly attention. Moreover, of that scant consideration, the focus has tended to be on narratives of involuntary or economically necessitated movement. Thorough academic study of the contemporary literature of African American travel beyond these domains is rare, despite the potential rewards of such an endeavour for researchers interested in the contemporary (re)construction of African American subjectivity and in the continuing artistic evolution of the changeable and indeterminate travel book form
Whether a disciplinary action is a weapon in the hands of the employer in India - Judicial Superstructure & Constitutional perspective
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Development of a device for T-wave feature extraction and rapid baseline nulling
No full textThe T-wave of the electrocardiogram electrically represents ventricular repolarization – the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle. Discrete states of abnormal T-wave morphology are known to be associated with both pathologic and non-pathologic causes. The links between causative factors and morphologic effects, however, are described as sensitive, but not specific. This thesis aimed to develop a device that could accurately quantify the T-wave’s characteristic morphologic features on a beat-to-beat basis, in real-time, to improve specificity. T-wave feature data were extracted with minimal noise using a novel analog electronic device design that allowed corrections for baseline drift and motion artifacts. T-wave morphologies were then approximated by geometric composite figures constructed from each T-wave’s constituent data, namely, its height and leading and trailing edge slopes. It was hypothesized that the T-wave approximation figures would convey clinically relevant information to an observer, notwithstanding their composition from highly compressed data. Simulated T-wave monitor designs were tested on 2,604 T-waves from thirty-two real and synthetic ECG data sources. Results from the study concluded that over 88% of the geometric composite figures were reasonable approximations of T-wave morphology. Noise on the T-wave signal was the primary cause for less-than-reasonable approximations. Feature accuracies were found to have less than 3% error when tested against a smaller subset of 260 T-wave controls. Clinical meaningfulness of the composite figures was demonstrated by observation of T-wave alternans and the effects of oxygen saturation levels on T-wave morphology. Average baseline drift was held to within 0.010 mV across a wide variety of input conditions. Complete transient response recovery from ±300 mV input pulses sometimes occurred in less than one heartbeat. The present novel methodology employed in the successfully tested T-wave monitor design can be extended to other ECG components, and has the potential to improve the accuracy of arrhythmia detection and classification in future applications.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby David Winfield Smit
Inferential profiles emerging from reading for summarization and reading for translation tasks: an exploratory study
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014.Abstract: The present research is an exploratory study, which intended to investigate the influence of reading purpose and readers' experience on task products and inferential processes in two study conditions, namely reading for summarization and reading for translation. The theoretical background guiding this study stemmed from models of discourse processing that have been established in the field (Graesser et al., 1994; Kintsch & van Dijk, 1978; van den Broek, Risden & Husebye-Hartman, 1995; van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983). Six participants took part in this research, two of them were professional translators and four of them were undergraduate students from the seventh semester of the Letras Course at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Two narrative texts in English, (L2), were read, then summarized and translated into Portuguese, (L1). In addition, keylogging data stemming from the study tasks (i.e., reading for summarization and reading for translation) were collected using Translog 2006, and retrospective verbal protocols were carried out after each study task. Analytical procedures involved triangulation of quantitative data from scores of the task products and total task times recorded in Translog 2006, with qualitative data from retrospective protocols. Verbalizations were categorized using a framework adapted from Graesser & Kreuz (1993) in order to help identify inference types generated for narrative texts under the aforementioned study conditions. The previous experience variable indicated positive tendencies for the translators' group and some trend towards beneficial effects for both undergraduate students. Qualitative data analysis resulting in the identification of inferential profiles was carried out to help explain efficient and strategic use of inferences in narrative comprehension. Implications of this study results led to pedagogical practices that foster the explicit teaching of inferences with a view to raising students' awareness about inferences possibilities and functions for reading, summaries and translations.Esta pesquisa é um estudo exploratório, o qual pretendeu investigar a influência do propósito de leitura e a experiência dos leitores sobre os produtos das tarefas do estudo e processos inferenciais em duas condições de estudo, ou seja, leitura para resumo e leitura para tradução. O referencial teórico que norteia este estudo originou-se nos modelos de processamento do discurso que estão consagrados neste campo de conhecimento (Graesser et al., 1994; Kintsch & van Dijk, 1978; van den Broek, Risden & Husebye-Hartman, 1995; van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983). Seis participantes fizeram parte desta pesquisa, duas delas eram tradutoras profissionais e quatro delas eram estudantes de graduação do sétimo semestre do curso de Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Dois textos narrativos em inglês, (L2), foram lidos, resumidos e traduzidos para o português, (L1). Além disso, foram coletados dados de movimento de teclado gerados durante realização das tarefas do estudo (ou seja, leitura para resumo e leitura para tradução) por meio do programa Translog©2006. Após cada tarefa do estudo, foram realizados protocolos verbais retrospectivos. Os procedimentos analíticos envolveram a triangulação de dados quantitativos a partir de pontuações dos produtos do estudo e tempos totais de tarefas registrados no Translog©2006 com dados qualitativos dos protocolos verbais. As verbalizações foram categorizadas por meio de uma taxonomia adaptada a partir da tipologia proposta Graesser e Kreuz (1993) para que se identificassem os tipos de inferências geradas para textos narrativos sob as condições supracitadas do estudo. Os resultados relacionados à experiência prévia indicaram tendências positivas entre participantes e tarefas. A análise qualitativa dos dados resultou na identificação de perfis inferenciais, a qual foi realizada para ajudar a explicar o uso estratégico e eficiente de inferências na compreensão de narrativas. Os resultados sugerem que perfis inferenciais dinâmicos e abrangentes foram associados a processos e produtos de tarefas de resumo e tradução mais satisfatórios. As implicações dos resultados do estudo levaram a práticas pedagógicas que incentivem o ensino explícito inferências com o propósito de conscientizar os estudantes sobre as possibilidades e funções das inferências para leitura, resumo e tradução
The Mentoring Experiences of Black STEM Professionals: Learning the Unwritten Rules of a Racialized Game.
No full text[Photograph 2012.201.B1233.0109]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Winfield, Kan., author, researcher and Lecturer will arrive Friday for weekend talks at New Age Canter, 145 NE 14.
Papers, 1834-1865 [manuscript].
No full textCorrespondence, diaries (1834, 1836, 1851-1855), scrapbook, literary manuscript, and other papers, of Meek and of his brother, Samuel Mills Meek, lawyer, of Columbus, Miss. A. B. Meek's papers include diaries describing social life, his law studies and reading, a debating society, a moot court, the Florida expedition against the Seminole Indians (1836), and other matters; and manuscript of "To Egeria" and "The Nuptual Fête," published in "Songs and Poems of the South" and "The Red Eagle." The papers of S. M. Meek include a diary (1851-1855) concerning travels, weddings and social events in Mississippi, political rallies, organizations, current reading, and other matters, and a scrapbook concerning national politics at the close of the Civil War. Correspondents and persons and firms mentioned include Duncan L. Clinch, Henry Stuart Foote, James S. Hamm, Julia A. Mildred Harris, John M. Robinson, Winfield Scott, and Pfister's Book Store, Tuscaloosa, Ala.For a more complete description see Davis and Miller, "Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University" (1980).Correspondence, diaries (1834, 1836, 1851-1855), scrapbook, literary manuscript, and other papers, of Meek and of his brother, Samuel Mills Meek, lawyer, of Columbus, Miss. A. B. Meek's papers include diaries describing social life, his law studies and reading, a debating society, a moot court, the Florida expedition against the Seminole Indians (1836), and other matters; and manuscript of "To Egeria" and "The Nuptual Fête," published in "Songs and Poems of the South" and "The Red Eagle." The papers of S. M. Meek include a diary (1851-1855) concerning travels, weddings and social events in Mississippi, political rallies, organizations, current reading, and other matters, and a scrapbook concerning national politics at the close of the Civil War. Correspondents and persons and firms mentioned include Duncan L. Clinch, Henry Stuart Foote, James S. Hamm, Julia A. Mildred Harris, John M. Robinson, Winfield Scott, and Pfister's Book Store, Tuscaloosa, Ala.Mode of access: Internet..Author and journalist, of Tuscaloosa, Ala
Old Naumkeag : an historical sketch of the city of Salem, and the towns of Marblehead, Peabody, Beverly, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester, Topsfield, and Middleton /
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