7,498 research outputs found
Peter J. LaValle Papers, 1958-1966
No full text.42 linear feet (1 box). Gift of Peter J. LaValle.Correspondence, minutes, reports and a menu from Gaidos restaurant pertaining to the establishment of the Texas Maritime Academy located in Galveston with the help of legislators and local businessmen. The correspondence documents the efforts to get both national and state support for the Academy, the appointment of the Board of Visitors as advisors, and attempts to recruit male students from the high schools.
Correspondents include: Joseph Jefferson Burris (Texas State Navy); George W. Anderson, Jr. (Admiral, U.S. Navy); Rear Admiral Sherman B. Wetmore; Captain Bennett Dodson (first superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy); and Earl Rudder (President of Texas A&M University)
Analysis of the fitness landscape for the class of combinatorial optimisation problems
No full textAnatomy of the fitness landscape for a group of well known combinatorial optimisation problems is studied in this research and the similarities and the differences between their landscapes are pointed out. In this research we target the analysis of the fitness landscape for MAX-SAT, Graph-Colouring, Travelling Salesman and Quadratic Assignment problems. Belonging to the class of NP-Hard problems, all these problems become exponentially harder as the problem size grows. We study a group of properties of the fitness landscape for these problems and show what properties are shared by different problems and what properties are different. The properties we investigate here include the time it takes for a local search algorithm to find a local optimum, the number of local and global optima, distance between local and global optima, expected cost of found optima, probability of reaching a global optimum and the cost of the best configuration in the search space. The relationship between these properties and the system size and other parameters of the problems are studied, and it is shown how these properties are shared or differ in different problems. We also study the long-range correlation within the search space, including the expected cost in the Hamming sphere around the local and global optima, the basin of attraction of the local and global optima and the probability of finding a local optimum as a function of its cost. We believe these information provide good insight for algorithm designers
Peter J. LaValle Papers, 1958-1966
No full text.42 linear feet (1 box). Gift of Peter J. LaValle.Correspondence, minutes, reports and a menu from Gaidos restaurant pertaining to the establishment of the Texas Maritime Academy located in Galveston with the help of legislators and local businessmen. The correspondence documents the efforts to get both national and state support for the Academy, the appointment of the Board of Visitors as advisors, and attempts to recruit male students from the high schools.
Correspondents include: Joseph Jefferson Burris (Texas State Navy); George W. Anderson, Jr. (Admiral, U.S. Navy); Rear Admiral Sherman B. Wetmore; Captain Bennett Dodson (first superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy); and Earl Rudder (President of Texas A&M University)
sj-docx-1-pus-10.1177_09636625231205005 – Supplemental material for Neuroscience explanations really do satisfy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the seductive allure of neuroscience
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pus-10.1177_09636625231205005 for Neuroscience explanations really do satisfy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the seductive allure of neuroscience by Elizabeth M. Bennett and Peter J. McLaughlin in Public Understanding of Science</p
[Review of the book A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett-Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice, by Sue Taffe]
No full textReview(s) of: A white hot flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett - Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice, by Sue Taffe, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne 2018, Pp. 46
Face-maker : the negotiation between screen performance, extra-filmic persona and conditions of employment within the career of Peter Lorre
No full textPeter Lorre often described his acting as merely "face-making". This disparaging attitude is
reflected within critiques which read the life of Peter Lorre as a tragic narrative of wasted
opportunities and his career as a screen performer as restricted by the nature of his
employment in studio-era Hollywood. Working in the United States, he was unable to escape
from the notoriety of his first major role in the German film, M (1931), or from the murderous
persona that evolved from his portrayal of a psychopathic serial killer. His status as an emigre
positioned him as a European "artist" whose talent was misused by American filmmaking
practices which typecast the actor in line with his nefarious public image.
This thesis proposes to investigate the accuracy of these perceptions which approach the actor
via a binary split between "person" and "persona". It will offer an alternative methodology for
analysing the career of the screen actor which recognises that persona-based analyses can
obscure complex negotiations between performance, image and the conditions of employment.
Rather than attempting to reveal the "real" Peter Lorre behind the image, the context of Lorre's
mutable position as an employee within the Hollywood industry and the misconstrued
association between his screen labour and his public persona will be examined. The creative
agency of the actor will also be examined in order to question Lorre's definition of himself as
"face-maker" whose work was reliant upon performative gimmicks.
This alternative approach to the screen actor will be pursued through a chronological
investigation of Lorre's professional labour. Also necessary are an exploration of the features of
Lorre's persona and an understanding of the role played by other media in the construction of
this public image. My methodology will combine close textual analysis of Lorre's screen
performances, archival research into the terms of his employment and extensive analysis of
promotional discourses pertaining to the actor throughout his career.
My historiography of Lorre will consider the relationship between the actor and a number of his
employers to suggest that conditions of employment help to shape screen performance. Lorre's
status as a "face-maker" will also be challenged through a demonstration of the actor's use of
complex performative techniques within his film work. This thesis will demonstrate the limitations
of interpreting Lorre's career as Hollywood's mismanagement of a problematic performer.
Instead, his career can be considered indicative of industrial strategies that exist between acting
labour, promotional personas and employers. One consequence of my research is the reevaluation
of Lorre's persona as "extra-filmic" and his career as "transmedial". As such, this
thesis highlights how the significant labour of a screen performer can potentially become
superseded by the personas used by employers to promote actors away from the cinema
screen
The doomsday lobby: hype and panic from sputniks, martians, and marauding meteors
No full textFrom the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. Ripped from the headlines, Bennett offers a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking perspective on political influence in scientific research and its implications for a democratic society. Praise for The Doomsday Lobby "During the Nineteenth Century, almost entirely on private funding, American science grew from practically nothing to world class. Now, however, over fifty percent of American science is funded by the federal government. Dr. Bennett traces the path, "crisis" after "crisis," by which American science became practically an arm of the federal government. His tale is a cautionary one, warning against future "crisis mongers" who would extend the government's already majority control of American science even further. His warning is a timely one, and it should be heeded." Joseph P. Martino, author of Science Funding: Politics and Porkbarrel "Bennett's latest book offers a challenging interpretation of the rise of the American federal science establishment since World War II. Focusing primarily on the growth of the space program, Bennett argues that crisis, real or imagined, is the source of state power and state funding for science. The Doomsday Lobby offers what no doubt will be viewed as a controversial contribution to the history of American science policy, and more broadly to an understanding of the role of the state in society." James D. Savage, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Funding Science in America James T. Bennett is Eminent Scholar and William P. Snavely Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at George Mason University, and Director of The John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Unhealthy Charities, The Politics of American Feminism, Stifling Political Competition, and Not Invited to the Party
Supplemental material - Unplanned Admissions, Emergency Department Visits, and Epilepsy After Critical Neurological Illness Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children
No full textSupplemental material for Unplanned Admissions, Emergency Department Visits, and Epilepsy After Critical Neurological Illness Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children by Matthew B. Spear, Kristen Miller, Craig Press, Christopher Ruzas, Jaime LaVelle, Peter M. Mourani, Tellen D. Bennett, and Aline B. Maddux in The Neurohospitalist</p
Clinical pharmacology / Peter N. Bennett , Morris J. Brown.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.x, 694 pages. :This book is about the rational scientific basis and practice of drug therapy. Doctors need to understand the psychological and medical area in which they prescribe to deliver what patients have a right to expect, i.e. maximum benefit with minimum ris
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