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Three future stockmen on Lake Nash Station, Northern Territory [picture] /
No full textTitle from caption supplied by photographer.; Condition:good; Part of the Arthur Groom collection
Nash House Walk Through with J.E. Nash, Jr. Prior to Restoration
No full textThis personal video was created in 2004 and features Jesse E. Nash, Jr. and George Arthur walking through the Rev. J.E. Nash house describing the different rooms and historical details prior to the Nash house restoration. Jesse E. Nash, Jr. passed away in 2016.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/nash-house/1000/thumbnail.jp
Jere Nash Interview with Joey Langston
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with trial lawyer Joey Langston in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Langston\u27s family, background, and law practice; Richard Scruggs; tobacco litigation; Langston working for John Arthur Eaves\u27s campaigns in 1979 and 1987; Ray Mabus; Bill Waller; Cliff Finch; Jim Roberts; Mike Moore; and tort reform. End of the recording contains several minutes of casual conversation with an unidentified man
Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Jere Nash and Andy Taggart Interview with Haley Barbour (Part 2 of 2)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Barbour running for reelection as governor; Hurricane Katrina; Toyota\u27s decision to locate a plant in north Mississippi; tort reform; John Arthur Eaves Jr.; contemporary Mississippi politics; Trent Lott; and Roger Wicker\u27s appointment to the Senate
Jere Nash Interview with Steve Patterson (Part 2 of 3)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Steve Patterson in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Steve Patterson is a former state Democratic Party chairman, Mississippi State Auditor, and unsuccesful candidate for Congress in 1988. Topics covered include Patterson\u27s unsuccesful race for the Senate in the Democratic primary of 1987; Mike Espy; Jesse Jackson; role of southern Democratic Party chairs in the national party; Johnnie Walls; allegation of Bill Allain\u27s homosexuality; Patterson\u27s race for State Auditor; Kirk Fordice; William Winter\u27s 1979 campaign for governor; John Arthur Eaves; Cliff Finch; and the Winter administration
Dr. Arthur Pindle, Spelman College, April, 2012
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Arthur Pindle. Dr. Pindle talks about his book, "Bayou St. John". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Inscriptions of Arthur and Edmund Poole in the Beauchamp Tower
No full text'INSCRIPTIONS OF ARTHUR AND EDMUND POOLE, IN THE BEAUCHAMP-TOWER. Drawn by F. Nash. Engraved by W. Smith. London, Published March 6, 1821, by T. Cadell, in the Strand. Printed by McQueen & Co. Proof.' Above right 'PLATE XVIII.
Learning Strict Nash Equilibria through Reinforcement
No full textThis paper studies the analytical properties of the reinforcement learning model proposed in Erev and Roth (1998), also termed cumulative reinforcement learning in Laslier et al (2001). This stochastic model of learning in games accounts for two main elements: the law of effect (positive reinforcement of actions that perform well) and the law of practice (the magnitude of the reinforcement effect decreases with players' experience). The main results of the paper show that, if the solution trajectories of the underlying replicator equation converge exponentially fast, then, with probability arbitrarily close to one, all the realizations of the reinforcement learning process will, from some time on, lie within an " band of that solution. The paper improves upon results currently available in the literature by showing that a reinforcement learning process that has been running for some time and is found suffciently close to a strict Nash equilibrium, will reach it with probability one.Strict Nash Equilibrium, Reinforcement Learning
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