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Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mt Hehuan treeline ecotone change
No full textThis dataset details landcover change interpreted from historic aerial photography from the treeline ecotone of Mt. Hehuan, Taiwan, enabling change in the position and area of montane forest to be calculated at the elevational limit of the montane forest of Taiwan. The associated R files can be run to calculate change statistics presented in the paper 'Montane forest expansion at high elevations drives rapid reduction in non-forest area despite no change in mean forest elevation.' published in Journal of Biogeography - DOI: 10.1111/JBI.13951.The dataset is interpreted from four sets of aerial photography (P1-4) collected in 1963(P1), 1980(P2), 2001(P3) and 2016(P4) across a study are measuring 4072 ha from the Mt hehuan area of the Taiwanese Central Mountain Range. A proportional stratified random sampling design was used to assess change in forest distribution at the treeline ecotone. Sample plots were created that measure 15 x 15 m and slope orientation was used as a basis for stratification using 12 categories of slope aspect and incline attributes calculated from a high-resolution TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model. Strata were based on four cardinal compass directions (± 45° in either direction) and three inclination classes (0-20°, 21-45° and > 46°). The number of samples taken in each stratum was proportional to the area of the study region occupied by the aspect-incline combination and a total of 2,785 sample plots were interpreted, equivalent to 1.54 % of the study area. Each sample is assigned one of four vegetation classes for each year in the change survey. Areas that meet the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (2018) criterion of a forest as an area with at least 10 % canopy cover and trees greater than 5 m in height are classified here as forest. Areas with small trees present within the plot that do not meet the thresholds of a forest as set out by the FAO definition were categorised as establishing forest. The scale of the aerial photography (≤0.5 m pixel size) is sufficient to discriminate differences in tree size based on crown size. Areas with partial removal of the forest canopy between time periods are categorised as disturbed and treeless areas are categorised here as non-forest areas. The R files provided carry out the change assessment for the results presented in the paper publised in Journal of Biogeography (DOI: 10.1111/JBI.13951 ). R files should be run from the master script to as this will set up the change analysis to account for the stratification of sample plots and will then subsequently calculate change statistics for the study area as a whole and by each aspect or incline class
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Portrait of Peter J. Jerry.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27With all good wishes - Peter J. Jerry\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1241/thumbnail.jp
Joseph Bimeler letter to Peter Kaufmann, June 8, 1844
No full textLetter from J. M. Bimeler (by Christian Weibel) to Peter Kaufmann, acknowledging receipt of Bibles and spelling books and ordering more Bibles. He repeats his statement from his letter of April 31, 1844, of a preference for Bibles that embrace the Apocrypha. The letter also requests a catalog of books on hand at Kaufmann's establishment.
Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left Germany and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar, in which each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. After decades of economic prosperity, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society.
Peter Kaufmann was a German immigrant and intellectual. He arrived first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1820; in 1826 he became professor of languages at the Harmony Society town of Economy, Pennsylvania. In 1827, Kaufmann led the establishment of Teutonia, a utopian community in Columbiana County, Ohio, and published its weekly titled "Teutonia: The Herald of a Better Time." Following this he moved to Canton, Ohio, where he became translator and editor of "Der Vaterlandsfreund und Geist der Zeit" under Solomon Sala. Additionally, Kaufmann wrote a number of books on education, as well as a German almanac. He was also an influential Democrat, counting President Van Buren among his friends, and knew Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mock, Col. Alfred J., July 20, 1993 [Interview]
No full textCol. Alfred J. Mock was interviewed on July 20, 1993, by Michael Birkner and David Hedrick about his relationship with Gettysburg graduate Stephen H. Warner, a Public Information Officer killed in the Vietnam War.Pyle, Ernie; Safer, Morley; Rather, Dan; Arnett, Peter; Warner, Stephen H.; Abrams, Gen. Creighton; Westmoreland, Gen. William C.; Goralski, Robert
Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power”
No full textContent downloaded from open-access journal, The Asia-Pacific Journal, on Jan 5, 2016. http://japanfocus.org/-Peter-J--Kuznick--Yuki-Tanaka/3521/article.pd
Influences of host community characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence in Blacklegged ticks
No full textLyme disease is a major vector-borne bacterial disease in the USA. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted among hosts and humans, primarily by blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). The ~25 B. burgdorferi genotypes, based on genotypic variation of their outer surface protein C (ospC), can be phenotypically separated as strains that primarily cause human diseases – human invasive strains (HIS) – or those that rarely do – and are non-randomly associated with host species. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which phenotypic outcomes of B. burgdorferi could be explained by the host communities fed upon by blacklegged ticks. In 2006 and 2009, we determined the host community composition based on abundance estimates of the vertebrate hosts, and collected host-seeking nymphal ticks in 2007 and 2010 to determine the ospC genotypes within infected ticks. We regressed instances of B. burgdorferi phenotypes on site-specific characteristics of host communities by constructing Bayesian hierarchical models that properly handled missing data. The models provided quantitative support for the relevance of host composition on Lyme disease risk pertaining to B. burgdorferi prevalence (i.e., overall nymphal infection prevalence, or NIPAll) and HIS prevalence among the infected ticks (NIPHIS). In 2006, we found positive associations of the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews with NIPAll. We also found positive associations of NIPHIS with shrews, and with host community diversity (H’), but negative associations with mice, and with chipmunks. In 2009, the relative abundance of mice showed a positive association with NIPAll, whereas the relative abundance of shrews and of H’ showed a negative association. With NIPHIS, only H’ showed a positive association, whereas the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews, had negative associations. Our study highlights the variability between two years in the effects of host composition on B. burgdorferi genotypes. More importantly, our results highlight how disease risk inference, based on the role of host community, changes when we examine risk overall or at the phenotypic level. Long-term studies will be necessary to detect any consistent effects of host community composition on genotypic variation in the Lyme disease spirochetes
The Anadyomene Movement: metamorphics of figure-ground
No full text‘Figure-ground’ is about the production of meaning based on the perception of contrasts or binary oppositions and segregations. Viewers of my paintings, and of the kind of paintings that interest me, have the impression that the ‘figure’ subsides or slips or fades into ‘ground’, or that the ‘ground’ is more powerful or dominant than the ‘figure’, or that the ‘figure’ is insecurely attached, suggesting it is incapable, unwilling, too acquiescent or complicit to fully differentiate itself from the ‘ground’. I address flux, mutation, indistinctness and complementarity within the visual field of painting. I develop and extend the heuristic context for the interpretation of my studio practice and for work of a similar kind, and then feedback this new context into my practice in order to generate new works, also in the process shedding a new light on my interpretative models. Beyond this, I also make a more general argument for the re alignment of the relationship between art theory and practice - one that can better incorporate a sense of in between-ness, indistinctness or liminality. My approach is comparative: I look at East Asian art and ideas and, in particular, deploy the writings of the French Sinologist and philosopher François Jullien, in whose work there is the attempt to expand Western epistemology, ontology, semantics and aesthetics via a discussion of Chinese thought and aesthetics. Jullien proposes a paradigm that draws the ‘in-out’ respiratory rhythm or pulse within the perceptual field towards the centre of a theory of representation, a theory that seeks to account for consciousness from the ‘inside’ rather than the ‘outside’. The consequence of this relocation of agency is an interpretative framework that is firmly grounded in a nondualistic and holistic approach, foregrounding affect and empathetic relationships between artist and work, viewer and work, and self and the world. Traditional East Asian thought begins with similar premises to poststructuralism in the West: the ‘self’ is an illusion and the possibility of knowledge of reality independent of thought is dismissed as untenable because there is no objective reality accessible to us. Everything depends on the bias of the mind, rather than on anything we can identify as an innate attribute of reality itself, thus there is no escape from our lived experience, and we are profoundly limited by the interpretive knowledge of our mind; we are trapped within the ‘prison house of language’. But within the different recursive orientations that characterize ‘East’ and ‘West’ the interpretation and consequences of these insights are understood in quite different ways. I explore why this should be the case and what some of the consequences are, both theoretically through the written text and performatively through my studio work
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