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Author Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The baby book" at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The Baby Book." Introductory remarks are provided by MSU Professor Telaina Eriksen and MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library and sponsored by the MSU Department of English and the Center for Gender in Global Context
Enigmas
No full textArising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved
Leaf dry matter content predicts herbivore productivity, but its functional diversity is positively related to resilience in grasslands.
No full textThis paper addresses whether the ecosystem service of animal production from grasslands depends upon plant functional identity, plant functional diversity or if the resilience of production is a function of this diversity. Using the results of nine grazing experiments the paper shows that productivity is highly dependent on one leaf trait, leaf dry matter content, as well as rainfall. Animal (secondary) productivity is not dependent on plant functional diversity, but the variability in productivity of grasslands is related to the functional diversity of leaf dry matter content. This and a range of independent studies have shown that functional diversity is reduced at high levels of grassland productivity, so it appears that there is a trade-off between productivity and the resilience of productivity in the face of environmental variation
Interview of Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University professor of English and head of the creative writing program, on her broad publishing credits, balancing between an academic career and a writing career, and blurring lines between different genres
No full textAuthor Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University professor of English and head of the creative writing program, talks about her broad publishing credits and how she balances an academic career with a writing career. She comments on her memoir "Texas girl," suggests that clear genres are going away as lines between them become more blurred, and explains the differences between memoir, autobiography, and the novel. Silbergleid is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
The cascading impacts of livestock grazing in upland ecosystems : a 10-year experiment
No full textACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank The Woodland Trust, Scotland for permission to use the Glen Finglas Estate. Sally Burgess, Timothy Conner, Charlie Gardner, Ian Joyce,Fi Leckie, Elaine McEwan, Ruth Mitchell, Gabor Pozsgai, Gina Prior and others assisted with the collection and sorting of samples at different stages of the project. S. M. Redpath, R. J. Pakeman, P. Dennis and D. M. Evans designed the study; D. M. Evans, N.Villar, N. A. Littlewood, S. A. Evans and J. Skartveit collected the data; D. M. Evans and N. Villar analyzed the data; D. M. Evans and N. Villar co-wrote as joint-first authors the first draft of the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to revisions.Peer reviewe
The Robin problem for the Helmholtz equation in a starlike planar domain
No full textThe interior and exterior Robin problems for the Helmholtz equation in starlike planar domains are addressed by using a suitable Fourier-like technique. Attention is in particular focused on normal-polar domains whose boundaries are defined by the so-called “superformula” introduced by J. Gielis. A dedicated numerical procedure based on the computer algebra system Mathematica© is developed in order to validate the proposed approach. In this way, highly accurate approximations of the solution, featuring properties similar to the classical ones, are obtained. The computed results are found to be in good agreement with the theoretical findings on Fourier series expansion presented by L. Carleson.TelecommunicationsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Cervico-thoracic kyphosis in a girl with Pierre Robin sequence
No full textCongenital cervico-thoracic kyphosis has been encountered in a girl with Pierre Robin sequence. The constellation of the spine malformation complex such as incomplete development of the vertebral bodies associated with defective ossification of the cervico-thoracic pedicles causing effectively the development of complete spinal cord injury at the kyphotic level of C7/T1 were present. Congenital kyphosis secondary to vertebral body hypoplasia has not been reported in connection with Pierre Robin sequence
Round-robin tests of porous disc models
No full textNine research teams organized a round-robin measurement campaign of the wake of two porous discs in a homogeneous and "low-turbulent' flow. Mean streamwise velocity and turbulence intensity profiles at four diameters downstream of the discs were measured and compared through such metrics as the maximum of velocity deficit, the maximum of turbulence intensity, the wake width and the thrust coefficient. The dependence of these metrics on the inflow conditions (freestream turbulence intensity and Reynolds number based on the disc diameter) is discussed.Team Jan-Willem van WingerdenDesign Conceptualization and CommunicationWind Energ
Pulmonary thromboembolism. 1. Current concepts in pathogenesis and diagnosis.
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The human factor: results of a small-angle scattering data analysis round robin
No full textA round-robin study has been carried out to estimate the impact of the human element in small-angle scattering data analysis. Four corrected datasets were provided to participants ready for analysis. All datasets were measured on samples containing spherical scatterers, with two datasets in dilute dispersions and two from powders. Most of the 46 participants correctly identified the number of populations in the dilute dispersions, with half of the population mean entries within 1.5% and half of the population width entries within 40%. Due to the added complexity of the structure factor, far fewer people submitted answers on the powder datasets. For those that did, half of the entries for the means and widths were within 44 and 86%, respectively. This round-robin experiment highlights several causes for the discrepancies, for which solutions are proposed.RST/Neutron and Positron Methods in Material
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