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Social values of biodiversity conservation for the endangered loggerhead turtle and monk seal
No full textThe Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) are two species on the priority list for conservation in Greece due to their dwindling populations worldwide. Hence the issue of estimating willingness to pay for their conservation is germane to any protection initiative. Zakynthos Island in Greece has created a marine park for the conservation of such species. We report the results of a survey of visitors and residents of this island who were asked about making one-time donations in the form of either a tax for residents or a plane landing fee for tourists. We find that all people were willing to pay to protect these species; however, residents were willing to pay more than tourists. We then tested whether there was a sequence or ordering effect if the seal questions came before the turtles as well as if the turtle questions came before the seals. Such effect was found when turtle questions were presented first, but not when seal questions were presented first. Due to the extensive interest, it is recommended that an increase in the airplane landing fee to Zakynthos could be used to contribute towards funds for loggerhead turtle and monk seal protection
Lettre de James Monk à H. W. Ryland sur le désir de Monk de recevoir une pension en tant qu'ancien juge en chef du Bas-Canada
No full text4 pages, originalLettre de J[ames] Monk à H. W. Ryland sur : le désir de Monk de recevoir une pension en tant qu'ancien juge en chef du Bas-Canada ; la recommandation de lord Bathurst à la Chambre d'Assemblée à ce sujet ; la pension de [William] Osgoode ; les pensions des juges en Écosse, en Angleterre et en Nouvelle-Ecosse ; un voyage de Monk dans le sud de la France ; la santé d'[Isaac] Ogden
Stabilized interior penalty methods for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations
No full textWe propose stabilized interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for the indefinite
time–harmonic Maxwell system. The methods are based on a mixed formulation of the
boundary value problem chosen to provide control on the divergence of the electric field.
We prove optimal error estimates for the methods in the special case of smooth coefficients
and perfectly conducting boundary using a duality approach.Supported in part by the NSF (Grant DMS-9807491) and by the Supercomputing Institute
of the University of Minnesota. This work was carried out when the author was visiting
the School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Mrs. B. D. Monk and Mrs. Forrest Park with paintings
No full textMrs. B. D. Monk (left) and Mrs. Forrest Park (right) are packing paintings for their joint exhibit for the Texas Federation of Women\u27s Clubs in the federation headquarters in Austin. The women are photographed with multiple of paintings propped up by a car with Mrs. Monk examining the paintings. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning edition February 3, 1962.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/1722/thumbnail.jp
Monk Montgomery oral history interview
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Tape 3 Side 2...pp. 108-127 - Audio unavailable(b Indianapolis, 10 Oct 1921; d Las Vegas, NV, 20 May 1982). Bass player. He began to play double bass at the age of 30, but he changed to electric bass guitar in order to make an international tour with Lionel Hampton's big band (1951 - 3) and became the first jazz musician to specialize and record on the instrument (1953). Thereafter he played in the Montgomery - Johnson Quintet with his brothers (2) Wes and (3) Buddy Montgomery, the tenor saxophonist Alonzo Johnson, and the drummer Robert Johnson (1955 - 6). He moved to Seattle, where he was soon joined by Buddy, and the two musicians then moved to San Francisco, where they continued to play together (occasionally with Wes) in the Mastersounds (1957 - 60) and the Montgomery Brothers (1960 - spring 1962); the latter was a quartet involving a number of different drummers. During the early 1960s Montgomery again played double bass, but he returned to the electric instrument while with Cal Tjader (1966). In 1970 he settled in Las Vegas, where he worked with Red Norvo's trio (1970 - 72), founded the Las Vegas Jazz Society (1975), and promoted jazz as a disc jockey. In 1974 he visited South Africa as the leader of an African-American jazz group. He published The Monk Montgomery Electric Bass Method.Portions of the publicly available digital files for this transcript have been altered to restore them to their original state
Mr. Leonard M. Logan III, and Mrs. B. D. Monk
No full textMr. Leonard M. Logan III, of the Texas Christian University (TCU) art department, is shown standing next to Mrs. B. D. Monk, the Women\u27s Club Art Department chairman, as he uses her as a model for a lecture-demonstration on Terra Cotta Portrate making . Published in the evening edition, May 2, 1950.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/3583/thumbnail.jp
D. N. Gellner, Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest. Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual
No full textToffin Gérard. D. N. Gellner, Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest. Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual. In: L'Homme, 1996, tome 36 n°139. pp. 179-180
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Philippe de Vigneulles and the double-sexed monk from Issoire
No full textBibliothèque intercommunale d’Epinal-Golbey, ms 139 (via https://missmediablog.fr/manuscrits-messins-depinal/). Sara McDougall brought to my attention a short passage in the famous chronicle of Philippe de Vigneulles (d. 1528) concerning a 'double-sexed' monk giving birth to a child in 1478. The same story was reported by Jean de Roye († 1495) and other chroniclers, and it may be the same monk Jean Molinet († 1507) claimed to have seen (see here and here). In the Auvegne, the monk was remembe..
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