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Statement from the Division of Referred Claims
No full textA statement from the Division of Referred Claims, Paymaster General's Office in Washington, D.C., addressed to Captain Philemon C. Carter. The document indicates that Captain Carter's discharge paperwork and a check for the amount of $236.91 were enclosed. The statement is signed by United States Paymaster, Major Nicholas Vedder
Statement from the Division of Referred Claims
No full textA statement from the Division of Referred Claims, Paymaster General's Office in Washington, D.C., addressed to Captain Philemon C. Carter. The document indicates that Captain Carter's discharge paperwork and a check for the amount of $236.91 were enclosed. The statement is signed by United States Paymaster, Major Nicholas Vedder
Towards pose invariant gait reconstruction
No full textRecently, a lot of research has been conducted into the usefulness of gait for identification at a distance. Since the gait of a person is readily identified when extracted from a canonical side view, most algorithms work with the premise that the motion is frontoparallel in nature, or require some knowledge of the camera calibration. Realistically people will always walk along different trajectories to the camera. In this paper we show that gait has sufficient properties that allows us to exploit the structure of articulated motion within single view sequences, in order to remove the unknown subject pose and reconstruct the underlying gait signature, with no prior knowledge of the camera calibration
The Carter intermediate readers : book one- /
No full textBook three, by Anna H. Carter and Sarah C. Broooks.Mode of access: Internet
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A variational method for the calculation of spin-rovibronic energy levels of any triatomic molecule in an electronic triplet state
No full textThe triatomic spin-rovibronic variational code RVIB3 has been extended to include the effect of two uncoupled electrons, for both (3)Sigma(-) and (3)Pi (Renner-Teller) electronic states. The spin-orbital-rotational kinetic energy is included in the usual way, via terms (J+L+S). The phenomenological terms AL.S and lambda 2/3(3S(z)(2)) are introduced to reproduce the 3 spin-orbit and spin-spin splittings, respectively. Calculations are performed to evaluate the spin-rovibronic energy levels of CCO (X) over tilde (3) Sigma(-) and CCO (A) over tilde (3) Pi for which the Born-Oppenheimer potentials are derived from high-accuracy ab initio calculations
The Carter Chronology
No full textThis paper proposes the Carter Chronology, a systemic realignment of the Hebrew Exodus within the mid-18th Dynasty of Egypt. Central to this model is the 1494 BC birth of Moses, which establishes a 1414 BC Exodus under Amenhotep II. By applying the "Rule of Inclusive Logic," the author demonstrates that the 480-year span of 1 Kings 6:1 represents a cumulative regnal total rather than linear solar time, resolving the 32-year variance to the 966 BC Temple foundation.
Furthermore, the paper offers a forensic analysis of the Amarna Correspondence, identifying the "Habiru" incursions as the primary archaeological signature of the Israelite Conquest (c. 1374 BC), specifically addressing the Shechem and Hazor synchronisms. Finally, the author defends the "Rameses" toponym (Exodus 1:11) as a scribal anachronism for the 12th-15th Dynasty site of Avaris, supported by the administrative reforms of Senusret III. This synthesis provides a 98/100 correlation between the biblical record and the archaeological strata of the Levant
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
Human Perambulation as a Self Calibrating Biometric
No full textThis paper introduces a novel method of single camera gait reconstruction which is independent of the walking direction and of the camera parameters. Recognizing people by gait has unique advantages with respect to other biometric techniques: the identification of the walking subject is completely unobtrusive and the identification can be achieved at distance. Recently much research has been conducted into the recognition of frontoparallel gait. The proposed method relies on the very nature of walking to achieve the independence from walking direction. Three major assumptions have been done: human gait is cyclic; the distances between the bone joints are invariant during the execution of the movement; and the articulated leg motion is approximately planar, since almost all of the perceived motion is contained within a single limb swing plane. The method has been tested on several subjects walking freely along six different directions in a small enclosed area. The results show that recognition can be achieved without calibration and without dependence on view direction. The obtained results are particularly encouraging for future system development and for its application in real surveillance scenarios
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