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C. Reid Nichols
Get PDFCol C. Reid Nichols USMCR (Ret) founded Marine Information Resources Corporation (MIRC) in 1998 to provide applied oceanographic services for operational organizations. He holds a 100-Ton USCG Masters License and Project Management Professional credentials. He plans and executes coastal and estuarine research, worldwide. He supports SURA as the Coastal and Environmental Research Program Manager. Current MIRC projects involve technical support to industry
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
Get PDFBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Newbigging Pottery Musselburgh, Scotland c 1800 - c 1930 Ceramic Resource Disc 1
No full textThe Newbigging ceramic material, listed and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (FD 2004.1.1 to 507. This small and fairly commonplace ceramic assemblage derives from a pottery of 19th and early 20th century date. The shards have been divided by fabric type, form and decoration into 6 folders and 58 files. The majority of the pottery was recovered during a small rescue excavation and salvage operation funded by Historic Scotland. Most of the on site work was carried out by Alison McIntyre, Alan Radley and the author over a three week period at the end of December 1987 and beginning of January 198
Molyneux’s question and the phenomenology of shape
Get PDFWilliam Molyneux raised the following question: if a congenital blind person is
made to see, and is visually presented with a cube and a globe, would he be able to
call the shapes before him a cube and a globe before touching them? Locke,
Berkeley, Leibniz, and Reid presented their phenomenological view of shape
perception, i.e. their view as to what it is like to perceive shape by sight and touch, in
responding to Molyneux’s Question. The four philosophers shared the view that
visual perception delivers no solid shape. This view would provide a premise for an
argument for immaterial objects. The purpose of my thesis is to reject that argument.
Kant’s view and John Campbell’s externalist account offer a way to reject the
premise of the argument in question. However, my strategy is not to adopt their view.
I pursue Reichenbach’s view that the there is no congruence or incongruence
involved in the visual phenomenology. I develop his view, and propose the view that
visual perception delivers no flat or solid shape. Although my view endorses the
premise in question, I can offer a way to reject the argument. This is because my
view is compatible with a form of externalism about perception (which differs from
Campbell’s). My view can also do full justice to the phenomenological views
presented by the four philosophers
Soft biometrics for surveillance: an overview
Get PDFBiometrics is the science of automatically recognizing people based on physical or behavioral characteristics such as face, fingerprint, iris, hand, voice, gait and signature. More recently, the use of soft biometric traits has been proposed to improve the performance of traditional biometric systems and allow identification based on human descriptions. Soft biometric traits include characteristics such as height, weight, body geometry, scars, marks and tattoos (SMT), gender, etc. These traits offer several advantages over traditional biometric techniques. Soft biometric traits can be typically described using human understandable labels and measurements, allowing for retrieval and recognition solely based on verbal descriptions. Unlike many primary biometric traits, soft biometrics can be obtained at a distance without subject cooperation and from low quality video footage, making them ideal for use in surveillance applications. This chapter will introduce the current state-of-the-art in the emerging field of soft biometric
Interview of Alfred H. George by Karen Nichols Brewster
No full text1. Christian T. Elvie – p. 2, 13, 14, 39, 42, 43, 54
2. Glen Stanley – p. 3
3. _ McCall – p. 3
4. Lief Aurrend – p. 14, 44
5. C. Gordon Little – p. 14, 16, 44
6. Sidney Chapman – p. 14, 23, 49
7. Catherine Chapman – p. 14, 15, 22, 23
8. Gian Carlo Rumi – p. 15, 16, 19, 45
9. Vic Hessler – p. 15, 34, 46
10. William Abbott – p. 15, 48
11. Wes Britton – p. 15-48
12. Margaret Weiss – p. 15
13. Ray Roof – p. 15
14. Brina Kessel Roof – p. 15
15. Alford Bork – p. 15, 51
16. “Tiger” – p. 21
17. Joe Cain – p. 21
18. Neil Davis – p. 21, 41
19. Al Balon – p. 21
20. Wally Murkee – p. 21
21. Howard Bates – p. 21
22. Carol Jades – p. 21
23. Bucky Wilson – p. 21, 49
24. Eugene Westcott p. 22
25. Jerry Romick – p. 22
26. Bob Leonard – p. 22
27. Harold Leinback – p. 22, 24, 50
28. Syun-Ichi Akasofu – p. 22-23
29. George Reid – p. 23
30. Senator Greening – p. 37
31. Edward Teller – p. 37
32. Robert McNamara – p. 43
33. Hildia Haight – p. 43
34. Richard Feinman – p. 51
35. Max Brewer – p. 54
36. John Schindler – p. 54
37. _ Gavorra – p. 62The media can be accessed at the links below.Audio Part 1: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Al_George_1.mp3Audio Part 2: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Al_George_2.mp3Audio Part 3: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Al_George_3.mp3After college at Oregon State and three years in military service, Alfred George spent 11 years in the U.S. Forest Service, at the Mt. Hood National Ranger District. He worked in fire control and office management. He went to work for the Geophysical Institute in Alaska as an administrator prior to the IGY.
Obtaining money for the projects of the Geophysical Institute and the tracking of the projects was difficult. Examples of conflicts between the researchers and the auditors were cited. Another problem was obtaining and maintaining the specialized equipment needed by each researcher. Interaction with other federal agencies was difficult because of variations in administrative procedures. The Geophysical Institute had its own business office; George believed that this was because the people in the University business office did not comprehend research grants. He gives an example to illustrate this issue.
The qualifications for a science administrator are discussed. George felt that a scientist should study budgeting and managing people before advancing to an administrative position. He was Associate Comptroller for research at the University of Alaska for seven years and University Land Manager for eight years. He enjoyed working with people and felt that contributed to his success.
Leading Themes:
1. George wad educated in Oregon.
2. After military service in WWII, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service at Mt. Hood.
3. In 1956, he started with the Geophysical Institute and moved to Alaska.
4. He describes the role of the data reduction center.
5. The problems of processing surplus materials are discussed.
6. Some of the problems in obtaining funding from the Geophysical Institute are discussed.
7. The petroleum companies wanted drilling data but were unwilling to share data.
8. He describes the qualifications for a good science administrator.
9. Managing personnel of other cultures is discussed.
10. George briefly discusses many different scientists by name.
11. The different uses of data by scientists, industry and the Department of Defense are discussed.Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Literacy, sustainability and landscapes for learning
No full text‘Place’ as an organising principle is being increasingly mobilised in literacy research (Prinsloo, 2005; Donehower, Hogg & Schell, 2007; Kerkham & Comber, 2007, 2013; Comber, 2011; Green, 2011; Green & Corbett, 2013;), expanding the concept of situatedness and ‘local literacies’ associated with New Literacy Studies (NLS). In documenting what people in particular places do with literacy, NLS recognises literacy practices as being different in Iran (Street, 1995) or inner London (Pahl, 2002) or Puerto Rico (Gregory, Long & Volk, 2004) because they are enacted in communities that have distinctive socio-cultural histories. However, while local practices are significant for these studies, place as a lens through which to construct knowledge is rarely reflected in their work. Recent scholarship that brings together the fields of literacy education and environmental education takes literacy studies towards a more place-conscious framing of ‘the local’ (e.g., Comber, Nixon & Reid, 2007; Cormack & Green, 2007; Cormack, Green & Reid, 2007; Nixon, 2007) and consequently provides new perspectives on what is entailed in ‘reading the world and the word’ (Freire, 1970; Freire & Macedo, 1987). When the local consequences of escalating global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity, growth in population, poverty and geopolitical instability – make almost daily news, ‘reading the world and the word’ confronts us with questions of social and environmental sustainability, and the necessity of reimagining how to live in local places in globalising times
The impact of sports programmes on youth crime
Get PDFThis thesis examines how and why sports programmes working with young people might contribute to crime reduction. The research focused on three case study programmes, selected with reference to a mechanism of crime reduction through pro-social development, and contrasting those working with high and low risk clients. The research was informed by the methodology of scientific realism. Analysis was at the level of each programme, at the level of individual participants, and across the three programmes. The mechanism of crime reduction through pro-social development was most apparent in the programme working with the highest risk level of participants. There was little support for this mechanism in the programmes working with lower risk participants, where diversion from crime was more important. The position of the programme on the continuum between high and low risk participants determines programme design and the relative importance of different mechanisms of crime reduction. Programmes impact on crime by more than one mechanism and may have multiple objectives. This contributes to the difficulties of programme evaluation, as do the greater inherent difficulties in researching a mechanism of pro-social development, especially in programmes working with low risk participants. Policy led by evidence might devalue programmes where such evidence is inherently more difficult to produce and values of academics and policy makers will continue to inform views of the validity of evidence. A critique of scientific realism confirms the value of the notion of generative causality, and notes implications for interview conduct, but also limitations
Comparing diagnoses from expert systems and human experts
No full textThis paper discusses a comparison of one heuristic and two Bayesian belief network based expert systems used to aid veterinarians in the process of differential diagnoses of equine diseases where coughing is the presenting clinical sign. Each implementation infers the likelihood of the presence of a number of diseases based on information on the presence or absence of certain clinical signs. The Bayesian belief network approaches are similar except that one includes the use of prior information in the form of disease prevalence estimates. Both are implemented using the Hugin software package. The three approaches were compared using test cases and the lists of resulting diagnoses were examined for agreement using a measure of concordance. The results indicated a difference between the heuristic approach which used the rule-based scoring mechanism and the Bayesian systems. There was, however, little difference between the diagnoses produced by the two Bayesian implementations, indicating that the incorporation of prevalence data makes little difference in diagnostic systems of this type. The findings were also compared with those of clinical experts. The analysis indicated that clinicians were not always in agreement. Moreover, using the same set of test cases the experts were more in agreement with the Bayesian approaches than with the heuristic approach
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
Get PDFAbstract Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to the inequities among women that are caused by racism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, and able-bodism, is confronting feminist health researchers and activists. Researchers are seeking new conceptual frameworks that can transform the design of research to produce knowledge that captures how systems of discrimination or subordination overlap and "articulate" with one another. An emerging paradigm for women's health research is intersectionality. Intersectionality places an explicit focus on differences among groups and seeks to illuminate various interacting social factors that affect human lives, including social locations, health status, and quality of life. This paper will draw on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of the processes involved in applying an intersectionality paradigm. We begin with a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. We then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity. In the analysis of these examples, we focus on a largely uninvestigated aspect of intersectionality research - the challenges involved in the process of initiating and developing such projects and, in particular, the meaning and significance of social locations for researchers and participants who utilize an intersectionality approach. The examples highlighted in the paper represent important shifts in the health field, demonstrating the potential of intersectionality for examining the social context of women's lives, as well as developing methods which elucidate power, create new knowledge, and have the potential to inform appropriate action to bring about positive social change.</p
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