373 research outputs found
Ground-water hydrology of the upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California
No full textby Marshall W. Gannett, Kenneth E. Lite Jr., Jonathan L. La Marche, Bruce J. Fisher, and Danial J. Polette ; prepared in cooperation with the Oregon Water Resources Department.Title from PDF cover (viewed on April 22, 2020).Covers OCLC #1151627285 and OCLC #123900688.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Commercial seafood industry of Oregon: a comparison with other regions of the United States
No full textR. Bruce Rettig and Kenneth J. Roberts.Title from PDF caption (viewed on April 26, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Supported in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( administered by the U. S. Department of Commerce) Institutional Sea Grant GH 97.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
Do wages help predict inflation?
No full textIn the financial press, productivity-related wages are often cited as an inflation indicator. For example, recently slow rates of wage growth have been noted as a factor that will keep inflation rates low in the future. While inflation and wage growth do appear to be highly correlated over longer time periods, it is not clear whether movements in wage growth precede movements in inflation, thereby providing predictive content for future inflation. In this article, Kenneth Emery and Chih-Ping Chang examine the usefulness of wage growth as a predictor of inflation, as well as carry out a stability analysis of the relationship underlying inflation and wages. The results caution against using wage growth as a signal of future inflation in that wage growth has no information content for future inflation. Furthermore, the bivariate relationship between inflation and wage growth is shown to be unstable.Inflation (Finance) ; Wages
Characterization and Explanation of Primary, Return and Onward Interprovincial Migration: Canada, 1976-86
No full textUsing data from the Public Use Sample files of the 1981 and 1986 Canadian censuses, this thesis sets out to characterize and explain primary (migration from the province of birth), return (migration back to the province of birth following an initial migration) and onward (migration to a province other than the province of birth following an initial migration) interprovincial migration within Canada for the 1976-81 and 1981-86 periods. Three major themes are developed and expanded over the course of the thesis. The first theme is one of characterization. In order to study the propensities of in- and outmigration, appropriate in- and outmigration rates are computed (Long, 1988; Rogers and Belanger, 1990). The major finding is that the Canadian migration patterns are similar to those observed in the United States. The second theme is the explanation of return and onward migration amongst non-natives (those whose province of residence was different from their province of birth) aged 22-44 within Canada by applying a three-level nested logit model to the 1976-81 micro data. Research has tended to take either a macro-adjustment or micro-behavioral stance in modeling migration flows, but the complementary frameworks suggest the need for an integrative approach incorporating structural-institutional forces and personal factors. Important factors include mother tongue, level of education, age and family type. Influential provincial attributes include economic variables, distance and cultural similarity. The main finding is that return migrants also responded to interprovincial variations in economic opportunities in a rational way. The final theme is the temporal analysis of primary, return and onward migration through the economic boom of 1976-81 and economic bust of 1981-86. Relative to return migration, primary and onward migration became less important during the period of economic bust, although migration became less important during the period of economic bust, although migration selectively with respect to personal factors remained basically the same. In making migration decisions, non-natives continued to respond to the spatial variation in economic opportunities so that the spatial patterns of migration changed in response to the changing spatial economy.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses
No full textFrank Lloyd Wright, perhaps the most famous architect of all time, and certainly the most well known American architect, has been immensely influential in shaping the course of modern architecture, both in the U.S. and throughout the world. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. In Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses, for the first time, all 291 extant Wright-designed houses are featured in exquisite color photography. Along with Alan Weintraub\u27s stunning photos, lucid principal text by author Alan Hess, and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by some of the field\u27s most highly esteemed Wright scholars and architecture historians, including Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S. Hines, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Kathryn Smith, Margo Stipe, and Eric Lloyd Wright.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_flwbooks/1102/thumbnail.jp
Evaluating carbon offsets from forestry and energy projects
No full textUnder the Kyoto Protocol, industrial countries accept caps on their emissions of greenhouse gases. They are permitted to acquire offsetting emissions reductions from developing countries - which do not have emissions limitations - to assist in complying with these caps. Because these emissions reductions are defined against a hypothetical baseline, practical issues arise in ensuring that the reductions are genuine. Forestry-related emissions reduction projects are often thought to present greater difficulties in measurement and implementation, than energy-related emissions reduction projects. The author discusses how project characteristics affect the process for determining compliance with each of the criteria for qualifying. Those criteria are: 1) Additionality. Would these emissions reductions not have taken place without the project? 2) Baseline and systems boundaries (leakage). What would business-as-usual emissions have been without the project? And in this comparison, how broad should spatial, and temporal system boundaries be? 3) Measurement (or sequestration). How accurately can we measure actual with-project emissions levels? 4) Duration or permanence. Will the project have an enduring mitigating effect? 5) Local impact. Will the project benefit its neighbors? For all the criteria except permanence, it is difficult to find generic distinctions between land use change and forestry and energy projects, since both categories comprise diverse project types. The important distinctions among projects have to do with such things as: a) The level and distribution of the project's direct financial benefits. b) How much the project is integrated with the larger system. c) The project components'internal homogeneity and geographic dispersion. d) The local replicability of project technologies. Permanence is an issue specific to land use and forestry projects. The author describes various approaches to ensure permanence, or adjust credits for duration: the ton-year approach (focusing on the benefits from deferring climatic damage, and rewarding longer deferral); the combination approach (bundling current land use change and forestry emissions reductions with future reductions in the buyer's allowed amount); a technology-acceleration approach; and an insurance approach.Montreal Protocol,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Decentralization,Global Environment Facility,Environmental Economics&Policies,Energy and Environment,Carbon Policy and Trading,Montreal Protocol,Climate Change
Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge
No full textThe name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respect he is virtually immortal. In this book a group of specialists argue for the need to re-centre Linnaean science and de-centre Linnaeus the man by exploring the ideas, practices and people connected to his taxonomic innovations. Contributors examine the various techniques, materials and methods that originated within the ‘Linnaean workshop’: paper technologies, publication strategies, and markets for specimens. Fresh analyses of the reception of Linnaeus’s work in Paris, Königsberg, Edinburgh and beyond offer a window on the local contexts of knowledge transfer, including new perspectives on the history of anthropology and stadial theory. The global implications and negotiated nature of these intellectual, social and material developments are further investigated in chapters tracing the experiences and encounters of Linnaean travellers in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Through focusing on the circulation of Linnaean knowledge and placing it within the context of eighteenth-century globalization, authors provide innovative and important contributions to our understanding of the early modern history of science.List of illustrations and tables
Preface
Notes on naming conventions
List of abbreviations
Introduction: de-centring and re-centring Linnaeus, Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme
1. Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work, Isabelle Charmantier
2. What is a botanical author? Pehr Osbeck’s travelogue and the culture of collaborative publishing in Linnaean botany, Bettina Dietz
3. The price of Linnaean natural history: materiality, commerce and change, Hanna Hodacs
4. In the name of Linnaeus: Paris as a disputed capital of natural knowledge (1730-1789), Stéphane Van Damme
5. On the use and abuse of natural history: Linnaean science in Kant’s Königsberg, Jonas Gerlings
6. The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of Enlightenment thought, Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan
7. Negotiating people, plants and empires: the fieldwork of Johann Gerhard König in South and South East Asia (1768-1785), Niklas Thode Jensen
8. Lives of useful curiosity: the global legacy of Pehr Löfling in the long eighteenth century, Kenneth Nyberg and Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Summaries
Bibliography of works cited
IndexBased on the content of a Conference organised by Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg & Stéphane Van Damme at the European University Institute, Florence, 14 November 2014
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JNDS, Volume 2, Number 2
No full textThis article summarizes and conveys the significance of the book Adventures in Immortality: A Look Beyond the Threshold of Death by George Gallup, Jr. with William Proctor. The author focuses on the book's strengths, its implications, and important findings
WRITER-NOMAD – GEOPOETICAL TREND IN MARIUSZ WILK’S WORK
No full textThe article encompasses an attempt to frame the idea of nomadism and recreate the geopoetical trend in Mariusz Wilk’s work. As far as the idea of nomadism is concerned, a crucial role is played by ‘the nomad writer’ Kenneth White, the author of La Route Bleue and the creator of the term of ‘intellectual nomadism’. Mariusz Wilk holds Ken-neth White’s work in high regard. While White’s deliberations are an inspiration for the author of Tropami rena. Wilk devotes his attention to other ‘nomad writers’ – Bruce Chatwin, Wasilij Golowanow, Henry Miller, Li Bo and others. In his journals the author of Lotem gęsi analyses the works and attitudes of writers who can be described as ‘the poets of the Road’ because following the Road, as well as pondering over it and writing about it is a significant issue in his work
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