671 research outputs found
Naissance d'une normanité (Nick Webber, Evolution of Norman identity : 911-1154)
No full textPinson Luc. Naissance d'une normanité (Nick Webber, Evolution of Norman identity : 911-1154). In: Études Normandes, 55e année, n°3, 2006. Des Normands à l'épreuve. pp. 76-77
Elizabeth Webber Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a handwritten postcard sent in 1940 with Webber\u27s date and place of birth, a letter typed to Miss Margaret Fallin Eicks, whose cookbook review had been noticed by the Maine State Library, requesting information concerning Webber, a letter typed on Boston Evening Transcript, Editorial Rooms, stationery from woman\u27s page editor Eicks, providing Webber\u27s Cambridge, Massachusetts, street address, a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library to Webber about the Maine Author Collection, a typed letter of reply from Webber on Dinner Is Served ---- Your Room is Ready, A Pocket Guide to Smart Tea Rooms, Hotels and Inns, stationery inked in blue with a Quimper design, concerning the forthcoming publication of a spiral-bound book of recipes sent by east coast managers, of foods relished by guests -- an enlargement of her annual June pocket guide, with news of the opening of the Buttercup Hill Tea Room, and some information concerning her years at the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine, a typed letter from the Maine State Library thanking Webber for the Dinner Is Served Cook Book for the Maine Author Collection, and a prepublication, biographical, book review newspaper clipping
Implementing models of financial derivatives : object oriented applications with VBA
No full text"A practical, step-by-step introduction to the design of pricing engines with VBA This book teaches students and practitioners the numerics and design of a powerful pricing tool in VBA. It leads the reader through the basics of VBA, from simple procedural code to the advanced design of systems and object-style applications. It also covers Monte Carlo and lattice methods and their implementation in VBA. Full implementation methods and code are provided for all methods discussed, making this an invaluable guide for portfolio managers, risk managers, and fund managers. Nick Webber (Warwick, UK) is a lecturer in finance at Warwick Business School. He specializes in interest rate modeling and computational finance"--
"This book teaches students and non-quant practitioners numerics and the design of a powerful pricing tool in VBA"-
Panel C: Author-Meets-Readers Session
No full textAuthor David Webber discusses his book The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor\u27s Last Best Weapon published on Harvard University Press
Introduction to \u3ci\u3eWe All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber\u3c/i\u3e
No full text[Excerpt] Who was this Amos Webber who assumed such a prominent role in this public, regional celebration of the black presence in American life? That he was a veteran was clear, but that alone did not account for his prominent position in that day\u27s events. Certainly James Monroe Trotter, the eminent musician, author, and politician, William H. Carney, and William Dupree were all more widely known in the black North. How did a man such as Amos Webber, unknown beyond his own circle, the recipient of no awards or editorials in the local or national press, achieve such prominence in May 1886? Was this an extraordinary moment whose shining aura all but obliterated the previous sixty years of common routines? Or did his involvement that May reflect a singular role, but one that emerged from and reflected a lifetime of organizational activism and public political commitment?
In the biography that follows, I have tried to explore as many of those clues as possible. In the process I have come to see that, for all of his lack of national renown, Amos Webber was a lifelong activist among the black residents he lived with in both Philadelphia and Worcester. His public commitments reflected a moral vision that insisted on both individual rectitude and social justice. Over time he claimed as his own a very specific understanding of what it meant to be an American. With fellow blacks he rescued fugitives, fought Confederates, and demanded full civil and political rights. With them he built institutions designed to provide internal structure and direction for a black population confronted with frequent, intense antagonism from whites. It was also in this collective setting that Webber struggled to understand the persistent, complex pain inherent in being both black and American
Introduction to <i>We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber</i>
No full text[Excerpt] Who was this Amos Webber who assumed such a prominent role in this public, regional celebration of the black presence in American life? That he was a veteran was clear, but that alone did not account for his prominent position in that day's events. Certainly James Monroe Trotter, the eminent musician, author, and politician, William H. Carney, and William Dupree were all more widely known in the black North. How did a man such as Amos Webber, unknown beyond his own circle, the recipient of no awards or editorials in the local or national press, achieve such prominence in May 1886? Was this an extraordinary moment whose shining aura all but obliterated the previous sixty years of common routines? Or did his involvement that May reflect a singular role, but one that emerged from and reflected a lifetime of organizational activism and public political commitment? In the biography that follows, I have tried to explore as many of those clues as possible. In the process I have come to see that, for all of his lack of national renown, Amos Webber was a lifelong activist among the black residents he lived with in both Philadelphia and Worcester. His public commitments reflected a moral vision that insisted on both individual rectitude and social justice. Over time he claimed as his own a very specific understanding of what it meant to be an American. With fellow blacks he rescued fugitives, fought Confederates, and demanded full civil and political rights. With them he built institutions designed to provide internal structure and direction for a black population confronted with frequent, intense antagonism from whites. It was also in this collective setting that Webber struggled to understand the persistent, complex pain inherent in being both black and American.Salvatore2_Introduction_We_All_Got_History_post_print.pdf: 196 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
LitCrit: exploring intentions as a basis for automated feedback on Related Work.
No full textLearning the skill of academic writing is critical for post-graduate (PG) students to
be successful, yet many struggle to master the required standard. Feedback can play a formative role in developing these skills, but many students do not find sufficiently helpful the kinds of feedback available to them. As the Related Work section is known to be particularly difficult for PG students to master that is the focus of this thesis.
To date, models of academic writing have been built on observational studies of
academic articles. In contrast, we carry out a user study to explore what content experts look for in Related Work and how this differs from PG students. We claim that by understanding what experts look for in Related Work and what aspects PG students struggle with, a useful author intention model can be developed to support writing feedback for Related Work sections. Our work demonstrates reliable annotation of the model intentions. Developing on existing algorithms, designed to identify rhetorical intentions in academic writing, we build a supervised machine learning classifier, showing how features focused on Related Work sections improve recognition of content aspects. Carrying out a study to rate the quality of Related Work, we demonstrate that the model is a good proxy for predicting quality, validating the choice of intentions in our model. In addition to recognising author intentions, we automate the generation of feedback based on observations of intentions that are present and missing, taking into account areas that PG students struggle to recognise.
The thesis also contributes a new prototype writing analytic tool, called LitCrit,
that supports visualising the intention narrative of Related Work and presents feedback. We claim this visualisation approach changes the PG student’s perception of Related Work, and demonstrate through a user study that it does draw attention to aspects previously missed bringing PG student responses in line with experts. Finally, we explore the performance of our classifier, originally set within the Computational Linguistics discipline, to that of Computer Graphics. This shows us that while performance may be lower when care is taken to understand those features which are discipline dependent, there is scope for improvement. Also, while a discipline may have the same intentions present in a section, their structural presentation may differ impacting feature choice
Burden of liver disease in Europe: epidemiology and analysis of risk factors to identify prevention policies
No full textBackground & Aims:
The burden of liver disease in Europe continues to grow. We aimed to describe the epidemiology of liver diseases and their risk factors in European countries, and identify public health interventions that could impact on these risk factors to reduce the burden of liver disease.
Methods:
As part of the HEPAHEALTH project, commissioned by EASL, we extracted information on historical and current prevalence and mortality from national and international literature and databases on liver disease in 35 countries in the WHO European region, as well as historical and recent prevalence data on their main determinants; alcohol consumption, obesity and hepatitis B and C virus infections. We extracted information from peer-reviewed and grey literature to identify public health interventions targeting these risk factors.
Results:
The epidemiology of liver disease is diverse and countries cluster with similar pictures, although the exact composition of diseases and the trends in risk factors which drive them is varied. Prevalence and mortality data indicate that increasing cirrhosis and liver cancer may be linked to dramatic increases in harmful alcohol consumption in Northern European countries, and viral hepatitis epidemics in Eastern and Southern European countries. Countries with historically low levels of liver disease may experience an increase in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the future, given the rise of obesity across the majority of European countries. Interventions exist for curbing harmful alcohol use, reducing obesity, preventing or treating viral hepatitis, and screening for liver disease at an early stage.
Conclusions:
Liver disease in Europe is a serious issue, with increasing cirrhosis and liver cancer. The public health and hepatology communities are uniquely placed to implement measures aimed at reducing their causes: harmful alcohol consumption, child and adult obesity prevalence and chronic infection with hepatitis viruses, which will in turn reduce the burden of liver disease.
Lay summary:
The European region has seen dramatic increases in liver disease mortality and morbidity in recent decades as a result of changes in the underlying risk factors: excessive alcohol consumption, obesity and viral hepatitis. However, there are highly effective ways to combat these, for example increasing the price of alcohol, making it less readily available, reducing the number of calories, sugar and fat in foods we consume, or screening people earlier to treat them more effectively. The time is now for governments, the health system and individuals to implement the changes required to substantially reduce the burden of liver disease
In conversation with M.G.Leanord
No full textVerity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects
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