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Abby Pearce Casey, approximately 1862
No full textHandwritten on verso: Mrs. B Casey.
PH Coll 654.22Abby Pearce Casey was the wife of Union Major General Silas Casey.To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see:
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Strategic Communications for Influence: Lessons From the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Its KIDS COUNT Initiative
No full text· This article describes how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is using the KIDS COUNT Network in a new way: as a strategic communications tool in its focused efforts toward policy change, broad social change, and improved conditions for vulnerable children and families. An outcome map illustrates links between this strategy and the intended outcomes.
· Case illustrations of KIDS COUNT grantee activities surrounding the release of the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book describe the efforts of grantees in six states where the quantity and quality of media coverage surrounding the national data book reflected the kind of coverage that Casey believes will help achieve its desired outcomes.
· Strategic communications approaches such as relationships with journalists, use of locally relevant information, use of locally relevant media advocacy strategies, good preparation, and a solution orientation were present in states demonstrating desirable media coverage.
· Prescribing specific communications tactics matters less than supporting the network’s general capacity to engage in year-round strategic communications approaches to create conditions (e.g., reputations, relationships) that will contribute to successful media advocacy related to a specific event such as the release of the national data book
African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
Peer Networking and Community Change: Improving Foundation Practice
No full text· This article brings together the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 15 years of experience with peer networking— examining through two research studies the process of peer networking and its impact, both with community-based and funder groups.
· Peer networking helps people with common interests to exchange information, disseminate good practices, and build a leadership structure for work they do together, such as a community change initiative.
· Casey’s research identified 10 good practices for effective peer networking, as well as 10 challenges that can affect its success; a four-level model was created to provide context for these findings.
· The research indicates that peer networking can have significant impact for communities and in meeting philanthropic goals, but it is costly and must be carefully structured if it is to be successful.
· Casey is working to synthesize its peer networking practices into a more strategic framework, and other foundations might use some of its lessons learned to enhance their own practices in this area
The Family History of Casey Christall
No full textCasey Christall authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2020 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Euclid: Searches for strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural nets in Early Release Observations of the Perseus field
No full textR. Pearce-Casey et al. -- This paper is published on behalf of the Euclid Consortium.The Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) is predicted to find approximately 170 000 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses from its lifetime observation of 14 000 deg2 of the sky. Detecting this many lenses by visual inspection with professional astronomers and citizen scientists alone is infeasible. As a result, machine learning algorithms, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been used as an automated method of detecting strong lenses, and have proven fruitful in finding galaxy-galaxy strong lens candidates, such that the usage of CNNs in lens identification has increased. We identify the major challenge to be the automatic detection of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses while simultaneously maintaining a low false positive rate, thus producing a pure and complete sample of strong lens candidates from Euclid with a limited need for visual inspection. One aim of this research is to have a quantified starting point on the achieved purity and completeness with our current version of CNN-based detection pipelines for the VIS images of EWS. This work is vital in preparing our CNN-based detection pipelines to be able to produce a pure sample of the >100 000 strong gravitational lensing systems widely predicted for Euclid. We select all sources with VIS IE < 23 mag from the Euclid Early Release Observation imaging of the Perseus field. We apply a range of CNN architectures to detect strong lenses in these cutouts. All our networks perform extremely well on simulated data sets and their respective validation sets. However, when applied to real Euclid imaging, the highest lens purity is just ∼11%. Among all our networks, the false positives are typically identifiable by human volunteers as, for example, spiral galaxies, multiple sources, and artifacts, implying that improvements are still possible, perhaps via a second, more interpretable lens selection filtering stage. There is currently no alternative to human classification of CNN-selected lens candidates. Given the expected ∼105 lensing systems in Euclid, this implies 106 objects for human classification, which while very large is not in principle intractable and not without precedent.This work has made use of the Early Release Observations (ERO) data from the Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), 2024, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-qmocze3. R. Pearce-Casey thanks the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for support under grant ST/W006839/1. V.B. and C.T. acknowledge the INAF grant 2022 LEMON. A.M.G. acknowledges the support of project PID2022-141915NB-C22 funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER/UE. M.W. is a Dunlap Fellow. The Dunlap Institute is funded through an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. SHS thanks the Max Planck Society for support through the Max Planck Fellowship. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (LENSNOVA: grant agreement No 771776). This research is supported in part by the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC2094 – 390783311. L.M. acknowledges financial support from the South African Department of Science and Innovation’s National Research Foundation under the ISARP RADIOMAP Joint Research Scheme (DSI-NRF Grant Number 150551) and the CPRR Projects (DSI-NRF Grant Number SRUG2204254729) This work made use of Astropy: a community-developed core Python package and an ecosystem of tools and resources for astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013, 2018, 2022), NumPy (Harris et al. 2020) and Matplotlib (Hunter 2007). The Euclid Consortium acknowledges the European Space Agency and a number of agencies and institutes that have supported the development of Euclid, in particular the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the Austrian Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft funded through BMK, the Belgian Science Policy, the Canadian Euclid Consortium, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt, the DTU Space and the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Netherlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie, the Norwegian Space Agency, the Research Council of Finland, the Romanian Space Agency, the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI) at the Swiss Space Office (SSO), and the United Kingdom Space Agency. A complete and detailed list is available on the Euclid web site (http://www.euclid-ec.org).Peer reviewe
Rediscovery of the southern California endemic American Keeled Slug <i>Anadenulus cockerelli</i> (Hemphill, 1890) after a 68-year hiatus
No full textFigure 1. Dorsal (A) and ventral (B) images of Anadenulus cockerelli (LACM 178922).Published as part of Richart, Casey H., Chichester, Lyle F., Boyer, Brendan & Pearce, Timothy A., 2019, Rediscovery of the southern California endemic American Keeled Slug Anadenulus cockerelli (Hemphillı 1890) after a 68 - year hiatus, pp. 1515-1531 in Journal of Natural History 53 (25) on page 1520, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1447700, http://zenodo.org/record/367021
Figure 2 in Rediscovery of the southern California endemic American Keeled Slug Anadenulus cockerelli (Hemphillı 1890) after a 68 - year hiatus
No full textFigure 2. Anadenulus cockerelli habitat (A) and microhabitat, including occurrence on woody debris (B) and under moist rocks (C).Published as part of Richart, Casey H., Chichester, Lyle F., Boyer, Brendan & Pearce, Timothy A., 2019, Rediscovery of the southern California endemic American Keeled Slug Anadenulus cockerelli (Hemphillı 1890) after a 68 - year hiatus, pp. 1515-1531 in Journal of Natural History 53 (25) on page 1521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1447700, http://zenodo.org/record/367021
Juvenalia, or How I came to own a Blu-Ray of Point Break
No full textAgony Klub and Publication Studio Vancouver are pleased to present Whitney Houston, vol. 2. A continuation of Whitney Houston, et. al., editor/author Casey Wei invites six writers to reflect on their relationship to popular music in film, keeping in mind that popular music has always been as much about the desire for an image as about the catchiness of a song. The resulting essays on Elliot Smith, Amélie, Real Genius, The Pixies, Drive, and The Conversation explore themes of time, love, and evolution.final article publishedReal Genius (1985
Glaciology Data Report, Casey 1981
No full textProgress Code: completedA collection of the data from the 1981 Glaciology program at Casey, collected from several inland traverses. Measurements include accumulation and density, barometric profiling, ice movement, gravity, ice thickness and bedrock profiling, temperatures at 10m depth, surface density, and oxygen isotopes.<br/><br/>These documents have been scanned and are available for download from the provided URL. The dataset download contains the following file:<br/><br/>Glaciology Data Report Casey 1981.pd
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