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Field investigation of bedform morphodynamics under combined flow
No full textFieldwork was conducted at the Red Cliff sandbar located in the upper Humber Estuary in order to investigate bedform dynamics under different hydrodynamic conditions related to combinations in tidal and wave-generated currents. A fixed mooring was deployed to obtain current flow and wave properties across the sand bar site at both spring and neap tidal flows and during conditions of high wind generated waves. A terrestrial laser scanner was used to scan the sandbar during low water across the various forcing conditions, acquiring detailed information of ripple geometries. Under spring tide and calm wave conditions, two-dimensional asymmetrical ripples with straight crest lines were generated on the sandbar. Surveys were also conducted during strong winds. Prior to high-wind-waves, two-dimensional symmetrical and washed-out ripples were observed, during spring and neap tidal conditions respectively. The lengths of these ripples were almost the same as those generated under current only conditions, but their heights were relatively smaller. After the strong wind periods, 2D current-induced ripples were replaced by flatbed conditions and 2D symmetrical wash-out ripples, which indicates wave-induced bed shear stress is enhanced by the presence of a tidal current. Most pertinently our study reveals discrepancies between field observations and existing predictions of bed configurations that are largely based on laboratory investigations. This is likely due to a larger grain size distribution in field conditions and due to turbulence dampening by high concentrations of suspended clay particles. The study thus highlights a need to extend a range of field investigations that explore the current deficiencies in our abilities to predict bedforms and bedform dynamics in estuarine systems
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast 34: Summer 2017
No full textIn this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews author Derek R. Everett, a faculty member at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and Colorado State University. In the interview, Everett discusses his article titled, “The Mouse and the State House: Intersections of Florida Capitols and Walt Disney World,” that was published in the Summer 2017 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1034/thumbnail.jp
Translation technique and textual studies in the Old Greek and Theodotion versions of Daniel.
No full textThis thesis focuses on two separate, but related areas: the analysis of translation technique and the Greek texts of Daniel. Foremost in the research of Translation Technique (TT) in the Septuagint is the need for a model that is appropriate for the analysis of different ancient languages. In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the features of literalism in a translation, but it is argued in this thesis that the focus on literalism is inadequate as a methodology for the analysis of TT. The contention of this thesis is that the analysis of TT should incorporate insights from modem linguistic research. Therefore, the main purpose of this thesis is to develop and apply such a model to the Old Greek (CG) and Theodotion (Th)versions of Daniel. The existence of two complete Greek versions of the book of Daniel that are closely related to the same Vorlage (at least in chapters 1-3 and 7-12), furnish ideal examples for the application of the methodology. Unfortunately, it is no straightforward matter to employ the OG of Daniel, because the available critical edition can no longer be regarded as reliable. The most important witness to the OG version of Daniel is Papyrus 967, and large portions of this manuscript have been published since the appearance of the critical edition of the OG of Daniel in 1954. Therefore, in order to analyze and compare the two Greek texts of Daniel, it is necessary to evaluate all of the variants of Papyrus 967 in order to establish a preliminary critical text of OG. Once a critical text is established the proposed methodology for translation technique is applied to selected passages in the OG and Th versions of Daniel. An analysis and comparison of TT in OG and Th makes it possible to: 1) characterize the TT employed by OG and Th in detail; 2) determine Th's relationship to OG, i.e. is it a revision or independent translation; 3) demonstrate how the Greek texts can be employed effectively for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. On the basis of the analysis of Th's text it is also possible to determine Th's relationship to the body of works, which exhibit a close formal correspondence to the Masoretic text, known as Kaige-Theodotion
Water and suspended sediment discharges for the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (2005-2015)
No full textThis dataset describes hourly time series of discharge and suspended sediment flux at four sites in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (Chau Doc, Tan Chau, Can Tho and My Thaun) for the period 2005 – 2015. This data was calculated from historic Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (aDcp)data obtained as part of routine flood monitoring conducted by the Vietnamese Hydrological Agency. The data were collated by the authors.
The data were processed to back out sediment fluxes through the delta through calibration of the acoustic backscatter signal to suspended sediment concentrations collected in Chau Doc (May 2017) and Can Tho (September 2017). For each aDcp instrument acoustic backscatter signal was calibrated to observed suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs). These concentrations values were then matched to measured acoustic backscatter values (dB) from the depth at which each sample was taken to generate power law calibration curves. To generate daily fluxes, the point specific ADCP fluxes were used to generate sediment ratings curves between sediment flux (kg/s) and discharge (m3/s). These ratings curves were then propagated over recorded daily discharge values measured by the Vietnamese hydrological agency to provide daily fluxes over the period of record.
The work was funded through NERC grant reference NE/P008100/1 - Deciphering the dominant drivers of contemporary relative sea-level change: Analysing sediment deposition and subsidence in a vulnerable mega-delta</span
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
No full textIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Reply to discussion of Imran et al. on "The orientation of helical flow in curved channels" by Corney et al., Sedimentology, 53, 249–257
No full textThe definitive version may be found at www.wiley.comRansome K. T. Corney, Jeff Peakall, Daniel R. Parsons, Lionel Elliott, James L. Best, Robert E. Thomas, Gareth M. Keevil, Derek B. Ingham and Kathryn J. Amo
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Sociology and the nation-state : beyond methodological nationalism
No full textThe equation between society and the nation-state in sociology has been subject to
severe criticisms in recent times. This equation has been given the name of
‘methodological nationalism’ and is underpinned by a reading of the history of
sociology in which the discipline’s key concept, society, and modernity’s major sociopolitical
referent, the nation-state, allegedly converge. At the critical level, my thesis
argues that this is too restrictive a view of the history of the discipline and at the
positive level it reconstructs the conventional version of sociology’s canon in relation
to nation-states. The first part of the thesis surveys the main trends in the current
sociological mainstream, reviews the rise of the critique of methodological nationalism
and establishes a distinction between a referential and a regulative role of the idea of
society in sociology. The body of the thesis constructs a history of the sociology of the
nation-state in its classical (K. Marx, M. Weber and E. Durkheim), modernist (T.
Parsons and historical sociology) and cosmopolitan (U. Beck and M. Castells)
moments. As an essay on the history of sociology, this thesis seeks to uncover how the
conceptual ambivalences of sociology reflect the actual ambivalences in the position
and legacy of nation-states in modernity
Key to the genera of Buprestidae of the western United States of America
No full textDaniel R. Clark, Joshua J. Vlach, James R. Labonte, Oregon Department Of Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 11, 2020).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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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