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Letter from Alex P. Murgotten to John Muir, 1907 Mar 25.
No full text[letterhead]San Jose, California 3/25 1907.Mr John MuirDear Sir:You received with [illegible], and $5 for Clubhouse. You are the first, to respond to the latter with Com. Hope it will be the nucleus of a successful house for our Club. You will be kept advised as matter progress[illegible]Alex. P. MurgottenF. [illegible] will send you receipt for a #1 -03855https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/29709/thumbnail.jp
Chronicles of the Cariboo: Dunlevy's Discovery of Gold on the Horsefly:
No full textwritten by Alex P. McInnes.Being a true story of the first discovery of gold in the Cariboo District on the Horsefly River by Peter C. Dunlevey
Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity : a study of Indonesian and Thai cities
No full textThis research project followed an earlier similar project on Nigeria, applying the same methods. A sample of manufacturers was surveyed to document their responses to infrastructure deficiencies in electricity, water, transport, telecommunications, and waste disposal. They found the manufacturers undertook significant expenditures to offset deficiencies in publicly provided infrastructure services, and that changing public policy toward privately supplied infrastructure and changing the pricing of public infrastructure could yield significant savings in social costs. Thailand and Indonesia have made significant strides in following the policies for private sector participation in infrastructure provision. Nigeria, where public infrastructure monopolies still dominate, lags behind, yet stands to benefit most from such policy reform. Government policy toward the industrial organization and pricing of infrastructure sectors can significantly help a developing economy realize the benefits of private sector participation in the provision of infrastructure services.Banks&Banking Reform,Decentralization,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Municipal Financial Management,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Urban Services to the Poor,Urban Services to the Poor,Public Sector Economics&Finance
Alex Ciorogar, Ascensiunea autorului în epoca globalizării digitale, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2025, 418 p.
No full textAlex Ciorogar’s book, published in 2025, takes on the complex task of sifting through theories of authorship that have emerged on the academic scene over the past fifty years. Ciorogar notices the strange place that the author occupies today in the literary field. After the death of the author, consecrated in the essays of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, the academic world seems to have gotten stuck, unable to go further and propose new theories. Although the two philosophers’ works are crucial, they have been “more quoted than read” (2), Ciorogar says, arguing that a new approach is needed, which requires “the death of the myth of the author’s return” (12)
The once and future publishing library
No full textThis report looks at topic of libraries as publishers, with investigations mainly in the U.S. research institution context.
Specifically, we reviewed existing literature and conducted a survey of members of the Library Publishing Coalition, seeking to learn the kinds of activities they are undertaking as publishing, the business models they are using, their definitions of success, and their attitudes tow ard open access or end-user pay models. Our aim was to better under - stand this emerging sphere of library activity and its possible future in the scholarly communication and publishing sphere. Will library publishing grow and be sustainable? Will libraries play a new and permanent role? If so, in what way and what will be required?
When we refer to libraries as publishers, we consider the range of transactions in which library leaders and staff conceive, evaluate, support, and ultimately produce what we now call content for broad public dissemination, in whatever medium. We say this in full awareness that different observers will draw in different places the line between “publication” and something less structured, coherent, or significant. That ambiguity is an implicit theme of what follows.
We consulted the growing number of articles and other publications (Appendix A) to better understand the range of ideas that underlie library-as-publisher discourse. Distinguishing the different strains of activity and expectation that animate current conversa - tions can help us understand not only the present moment but also the varied possibilities that loom ahead. We also look at the sub-topic of funding the library publishing enterprise, as well as the sustainability of today’s endeavors, so we present results from a small survey of about 50 librarie
Correction to: The ‘can do, do do’ concept in COPD; quadrant interpretation, affiliation and tracking longitudinal changes
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the authors identified a mistake in the author names, as both forename and initials were stated. Initially published author names: A. J. Alex van ’t Hul, E. H. Noortje Koolen, H. W. Jeroen van Hees, B. Bram van den Borst and M. A. Martijn Spruit Correct author names: Alex J. van ‘t Hul, Noortje H. Koolen, Jeroen W. van Hees, Bram van den Borst, Martijn A. Spruit. The original article has been corrected.</p
Agilent FTIR Mosaic Image File Reader
No full text<p>This MATLAB source code will read an Agilent FTIR hyperspectral mosaicked image file set.</p>
<p>Version 6. Release_1.0</p>
<p>Source code and further information is available here: https://bitbucket.org/AlexHenderson/agilent-file-formats/ Please check before use to see whether there is an updated version.</p>
<p>The Agilent (formerly Varian) file format consists of a number of files with extensions: .dms, .dmt, .drd, .dmd. This function will import that data into MATLAB.</p>
<p>The source code is licenced under the GPL v3 licence. This means if you change it, and release your new version, you MUST release the source code too. If you would like to use the code under different licensing conditions, please contact the author.</p>
<p>If you find this code fails for whatever reason, please let the author know using the issues section of the BitBucket website: https://bitbucket.org/AlexHenderson/agilent-file-formats/issues</p>
<p>If you make use of this file in your work, please consider citing this repository deposition: <a>DOI:10.5281/zenodo.399238</a></p>
<p>Alex Henderson <[email protected]></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Usage Information </p>
<p>% Function: agilentMosaic<br>
% Usage: <br>
% [wavenumbers, data, width, height, filename, acqdate] = agilentMosaic();<br>
% [wavenumbers, data, width, height, filename, acqdate] = agilentMosaic(filename);<br>
% [wavenumbers, data, width, height, filename, acqdate] = agilentMosaic(filename, keepme);<br>
%<br>
% Purpose:<br>
% Extracts the spectra from an Agilent (formerly Varian) .dmt/.dms/.dmd<br>
% file combination. Plots an image of the total signal.<br>
%<br>
% input:<br>
% 'filename' string containing the full path to the .dms file (optional)<br>
% 'keepme' vector of wavenumber values in pairs indicating the limits of regions to retain (optional)<br>
% <br>
% output:<br>
% 'wavenumbers' is a list of the wavenumbers related to the data<br>
% 'data' is a 3D cube of the data in the file ((fpaSize x X) x (fpaSize x Y) x wavenumbers)<br>
% 'width' is width in pixels of the entire mosaic<br>
% 'height' is height in pixels of the entire mosaic<br>
% 'filename' is a string containing the full path to the .dms file<br>
% 'acqdate' is a string containing the date and time of acquisition<br>
%<br>
% *******Caution******* <br>
% This code is a hack of the Agilent format and the location of the data<br>
% within the file may vary. Always check the output to make sure it is<br>
% sensible. If you have a file that doesn't work, please contact Alex.<br>
%<br>
% Copyright (c) 2011 - 2017, Alex Henderson <br>
% Contact email: [email protected]<br>
% Licenced under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3<br>
% http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html<br>
% Other licensing options are available, please contact Alex for details<br>
% If you use this file in your work, please acknowledge the author(s) in<br>
% your publications. <br>
%<br>
% version 6 March 2017<br>
</p>Work relates to EPSRC Grant number EP/L012952/1 Clinical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Network (CLIRSPEC)
http://clirspec.org
Multi-Objective Calibration For Agent-Based Models
No full textAgent-based modelling is already proving to be an immensely useful tool for scientific and industrial modelling applications. Whilst the building of such models will always be something between an art and a science, once a detailed model has been built, the process of parameter calibration should be performed as precisely as possible. This task is often made difficult by the proliferation of model parameters with non-linear interactions. In addition to this, these models generate a large number of outputs, and their ‘accuracy’ can be measured by many different, often conflicting, criteria. In this paper we demonstrate the use of multi-objective optimisation tools to calibrate just such an agent-based model. We use an agent-based model of a financial market as an exemplar and calibrate the model using a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The technique is automated and requires no explicit weighting of criteria prior to calibration. The final choice of parameter set can be made after calibration with the additional input of the domain expert
Development of the Zimbabwe family planning program
No full textFamily planning was introduced in Zimbabwe as a voluntary movement in the 1950s. Volunteers formed a Family Planning Association in the mid-1960s. The government became interested in family planning in the late 1960s after analysis of the 1961 population census. It gave the Family Planning Association an annual grant, allowed contraceptives to be available through Ministry of Health facilities, and allowed nonmedical personnel to initiate and resupply family planning clients with condoms and pills. But before Zimbabwe achieved independence in 1980, family planning was viewed with great suspicion by the black majority, so the program's effectiveness was limited to the urban few. A new era began after independence. The new government took over theFamily Planning Association and changed its outlook completely. Through government and international donor support, the family planning program was restructured and expanded. The number of family planning personnel more than doubled in some units. More service delivery points were set up - particularly in rural areas. And the information, education, and communication and evaluation and research units were established. Through a World Bank-assisted project (with grant funding from Norway and Denmark), the Ministry of Health began strengthening its family planning capabilities. These efforts helped increase the contraceptive prevalence rate from about 14 percent in 1982 to 43 percent in 1988. But the program's growth is beginning to stall. More effort and resources are needed if the program is to grow or even maintain its present status. Particularly important are the following: designing innovative strategies to reach hard-to-reach populations; giving more emphasis to information, education, and communication, especially for men and youths, using multimedia; involving other sectors in the delivery of family planning services; broadening the mix of contraceptive methods (especially promoting long-term and permanent methods); making use of alternative family planning delivery systems, such as the use of depot holders, volunteers, and government extension workers; establishing a national population policy; and considering cost recovery and other measures for self-sustainment and program growth.Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,ICT Policy and Strategies,Gender and Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Adolescent Health
Correction: Sloshing Wing Dynamics - 2nd Year Project Overview
No full textCorrection Notice Alex Skillen added to the Author list as he contributed significantly to the project and paper.</p
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