847 research outputs found
Marriage record of Smith, Mack and Brown, Sarah E.
No full textMarriage license for Mack Smith and Sarah E. Brown. R.S. Quarterman was the officiant
Memo from John E. Mack to Wilbert E. Locklin (February 19, 1969)
No full textA memo from John E. Mack to Wilbert E. Locklin, President of Springfield College, dated February 19, 1969. The subject of the memo is the demand by Black students to admit more minority students. On the back are hand-written notes. The author of the notes is not known
Tiny beginnings. Catastrophic endings. One unforgettable night - Public Lecture featuring Dr Katie Mack
No full textThe Big Bang theory tells us how the universe began—but how does it end?
In this talk, Dr Katie Mack dives into modern astrophysics to uncover the ultimate fate of the cosmos. From heat death and vacuum decay to the Big Crunch and more, she takes us on a journey through the wildest physics, catastrophic scenarios, and mind-bending possibilities that await the universe. If you’ve ever wondered how reality itself might unravel—and what it would look like to those still around to witness it—this is the lecture for you.
This lecture took place on Tuesday 15th July 2025 at Swinburne's Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre (AMDC), located at Hawthorn campus.
About Dr Katie Mack
Dr Katherine (Katie) Mack holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Her research focuses on dark matter, the early universe, and the fate of the cosmos. A passionate science communicator, she’s the author of the book The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) and a regular contributor to Scientific American, Slate, BBC Science Focus, and Cosmos Magazine. Katie is also a recognisable voice in science communication online, with hundreds of thousands of followers across BlueSky, Instagram, and Facebook.
Learn more about Katie's work: https://www.astrokatie.com/boo
Using Poetry to Teach Grammar
No full textVisual Thesaurus spoke to Nancy Mack, author of Teaching Grammar with Playful Poems, to find out how she was inspired to use poetry as an innovative entry point for teaching grammatical patterns to young students
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Portrait of Mack McKinney
No full textM.H. "Mack" McKinney, Jr., Ph.D. - askSam Software Designer of askSam Software - 1985 -Dr. M.H. McKinney, Jr. was the CEO of Seaside Software and the author/designer of askSam. Dr. McKinney has been associated with the computer industry for twenty four years both in industry and in academia. While an employee of the IBM Corporation, he served as a Programmer, a Systems Analyst, and a Manager of Systems and Programming
Portrait of Amy Mack (Mrs Lancelot Harrison) [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on reverse.; Condition: Fair, glued to card.; Inscriptions: "Amy Mack (Mrs. Lancelot Harrison) author of 'A bush calendar', 'Bush days', etc. photo. J. S. P. Ramsay" --In ink on reverse
New perspectives and challenges for interpretation
No full textTechnological progress and globalization processes are radically changing traditional working models – including those for professional intercultural mediation. This also affects all forms of written and oral translation, e.g.for terrestrial or satellite-broadcast television programmes. This aspect ist often neglected by international and intercultural communication studies. As translation is at the same time an agent and a symptom of linguistic and cultural exchange (and change), it is important to state the social and ethical responsibility involved in its use, and the consequent need to improve our understanding of its working mechanisms.
The author is conducting a study on the modalities of oral interlingual mediation used in Italian television since the sixties. The project aims at the collection of a corpus of examples of tv-interpreting and its analysis for descriptive and didactic purposes. The theoretical background is a pragmatic approach to interpreting as a complex and ‚artificial‘ comunication phenomenon and a social phenomenon with multiple economic and sociological implications. In previous research television interpreting has often been considered simply as a variety of conference interpreting performed under severer circumstances, in spite of the profoundly different performances expected from television interpreters. The theses of the author are that: television interpreting is substantially different from interpreting in traditional conference settings (and, on the other hand, from ordinary face-to-face communication); most of the specific differences between traditional interpreting and television interpreting have not yet been sufficiently investigated; the norms of behaviour internalised by professional conference interpreters are not always adequate to television communication, and this can even lead to conflicts about the perception of interpretation quality.
The characteristics of interpreter-mediated discourse in tv are analyzed according to eight categories recognized by Hymes as variables pertaining to every form of comunication event and identified by the acronym SPEAKING (situation, participants, ends, act sequeces, key, instrumentralities, norms of interaction e genres). The main differences of television interpreting versus more traditional form of interpreting are related to the loss of interpersonal character of communication; the reproducibility of oral discourse in the age of electronic media; staging (where the selection of viewpoints and the restructuring of discourse implicitly include a pre-selection of meaning); the secondary character of orality on television, conflicting with the interpreter’s genuine fresh talk; and the loss of a clear-cut profile of the type of mediation and mediators required
Montalbano e la voce dell’interprete
No full textUno degli ultimi romanzi del ciclo di Montalbano (L'altro capo del filo 2016) vede tra i protagonisti un medico e una giovane donna tunisini che, nel contesto degli sbarchi di migranti in Sicilia, fungono da interpreti per il commissario. Il contributo svolge un'analisi di queste due figure all'interno della struttura narrativa del romanzo e della sua collocazione nella realtà dell'Italia contemporanea. I tratti salienti dei due personaggi di Camilleri vengono analizzati da diversi punti di vista, ricorrendo anche all’analisi della conversazione, e messi a confronto con caratteristiche della figura dell'interprete percepite da gruppi di utenti reali di servizi di interpretazione. In particolare si farà riferimento ad alcuni studi recenti seguiti dall’autrice, tra cui uno sull'interpretazione per il contingente italiano stanziato in Libano e uno sull'interpretazione per bambini e adolescenti condotto all'interno di una serie di progetto di ricerca europea sull'interpretazione in ambito penale. Il confronto rivela sorprendenti analogie nella rappresentazione dell'interprete nella finzione letteraria e la sua percezione in contesti reali.One of the last novels by Andrea Camilleri starring inspector Montalbano (L'altro capo del filo 2016), set in the context of the landings of migrants in Sicily, features two Tunisians, a physician and a young woman who act as lay interpreters. This paper sheds light on these two figures within the narrative structure of the novel and its place in the reality of contemporary Italy. Salient traits of the two characters are analysed from different points of view, using also conversation analysis, and compared with characteristics of the interpreter role perceived by groups of real-life users. In particular, reference is made to some recent studies by the author, including one on interpretation for Italian soldiers deployed in Lebanon and one on interpretation for children and adolescents in criminal justice settings carried out as part of a European research project. The comparison reveals surprising similarities in the representation of the interpreters in literary fiction and their perception in real contexts
Reliable methods for predicting the sound from clustered rocket engines
No full textHigh area ratio rocket engines generate strong vibro-acoustic loads primarily during transient operations, like start-up and shut-down of the engine. These loads can adversely affect the launch vehicle and its payload. Thus, an accurate prediction of the loads produced during engine start-up is pertinent to the safety and reliability of the launch vehicle. The present work focuses on developing a robust framework for predicting these loads using laboratory scale rocket nozzles tested in the fully anechoic chamber at The Uni- versity of Texas at Austin. This encompasses corrections for the observer position relative to the prominent source region, as well as scaling factors to correct for geometric factors. The test campaign encompasses single, two, three and four nozzle clusters, as well as differences in nozzle geometry and operating conditions (nozzle pressure ratio)
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A survey of the choral arrangements of Mack Wilberg and musical analyses of representative arrangements
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine and describe the published choral arrangements of Mack Wilberg and to analyze a representative sample of his arrangements. Chapter one is a biography of Wilberg. Chapter two is a discussion of the composer's perspective on his own works and the arranging process. Chapter three contains a survey of Wilberg's thirty-six currently published arrangements. Chapter four is a study and conductor's analysis of the eleven arrangements that make up the representative sample.Appendices include transcripts of the author's interviews with Mack Wilberg, a catalogue of Wilberg's choral arrangements, and a discography. The author conducted a performance of the eleven representative arrangements on April 26, 2000.</p
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