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Ode to Cary Field
No full textChristopher Robins, September 13, 2009: "I know it sounds quaint today, but believe it or not, I resisted opportunities for personal publicity or to capitalize on my 15 minutes of fame because I felt it would "pollute the cause" (my words). I felt pretty strongly about the issue at the time, and was simply expressing myself in the only way I could. Because there was so much money behind the proposal, most regular people felt helpless in opposition. I confess I took great secret pride in that the "tongue-in-cheek" message was often misconstrued by the many of the targets themselves. I was woken up early on a snowy morning and
asked to play and sing this thing outdoors for a real retro-60s style protest rally, complete with incendiary speeches. Directly in front of me was a cluster of football team members. Instead of the terrible fusillade of snowballs and abuse I expected, I had the surreal experience of the whole group singing the lyrics back at me, word for word, the totality of the crowd drowning out the feeble PA setup." Contemporary newspaper articles about Robins and his song are available in the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary."Ode to Cary Field" was written and performed by College of William and Mary student Christopher Robins accompanied by fellow student Beth Meade. The song was written to protest the proposed expansion of the stadium at the College of William and Mary. An audio cassette tape of the song was digitized by Swem Library staff in August 2009. The original cassette tape is accession 1980.135 from the University Archives Audiovisual Collection
Evaluating the long term impacts of transport policy: the case of passenger rail privatisation in Great Britain
No full textBritain’s national rail system was ‘privatised’ as a result of the 1993 Railways Act, with most of the organisational and ownership changes implemented by 1997. This thesis examines the long term impacts of the privatisation initiative on the passenger rail service. A key issue when examining long term changes is that of the counterfactual – what would have happened if the changes had not occurred? A simple econometric model of the demand for passenger rail services was developed and used in conjunction with extrapolative methods for key variables such as fares, train kms and GDP to determine demand-side counterfactuals. Extrapolative methods were also used to determine counterfactual infrastructure and train operation costs. Although since privatisation rail demand has grown strongly, the analysis indicates that transitional disruptions suppressed demand by around 4% over a prolonged period (1994/95 to 2005/6), whilst the Hatfield accident reduced demand by about 5%, albeit over a short period (2000/1 to 2005/6). A welfare analysis indicates that although consumers gained as a result of privatisation, for most years this has been offset by increases in costs. An exception is provided by the two years immediately before the Hatfield accident. Overall the loss in welfare since the reforms were introduced far exceeds the net receipts from the sale of rail businesses. It is found that although the reforms have had advantages in terms of lower fares and better service levels than otherwise would have been the case, this has been offset by adverse transitional effects and high costs, which in turn may be linked with higher transaction costs
Modelling extreme concentration from a source in a turbulent flow over rough wall
No full textThe concentration fluctuations in passive plumes from an elevated and a groundlevel
source in a turbulent boundary layer over a rough wall were studied using
large eddy simulation and wind tunnel experiment. The predictions of statistics
up to second order moments were thereby validated. In addition, the trend of relative
fluctuations far downstream for a ground level source was estimated using
dimensional analysis. The techniques of extreme value theory were then applied
to predict extreme concentrations by modelling the upper tail of the probability
density function of the concentration time series by the Generalised Pareto Distribution.
Data obtained from both the simulations and experiments were analysed in
this manner. The predicted maximum concentration (?0) normalized by the local
mean concentration (Cm) or by the local r.m.s of concentration fluctuation (crms),
was extensively investigated. Values for ?0/Cm and ?0/crms as large as 50 and 20
respectively were found for the elevated source and 10 and 15 respectively for the
ground-level source
Large-eddy simulation of dispersion: comparison between elevated source and ground level source
No full textLarge-eddy simulation (LES) is used to calculate the concentration fluctuations of passive plumes from an elevated source (ES) and a ground-level source (GLS) in a turbulent boundary layer over a rough wall. The mean concentration, relative fluctuations and spectra are found to be in good agreement with the wind-tunnel measurements for both ES and GLS. In particular, the calculated relative fluctuation level for GLS is quite satisfactory, suggesting that the LES is reliable and the calculated instantaneous data can be used for further post-processing. Animations are shown of the meandering of the plumes, which is one of the main features to the numerical simulations. Extreme value theory (EVT), in the form of the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD), is applied to model the upper tail of the probability density function of the concentration time series collected at many typical locations for GLS and ES from both LES and experiments. The relative maxima (defined as maximum concentration normalized by the local mean concentration) and return levels estimated from the numerical data are in good agreement with those from the experimental data. The relative maxima can be larger than 50. The success of the comparisons suggests that we can achieve significant insight into the physics of dispersion in turbulent flows by combining LES and EVT
Pioneer personal history questionnaire, Martha Allen Robins
No full textHandwritten answers about Martha Allen Robins for a questionnaire filled out for Utah Works Progress Administration\u27s "Pioneer personal history" survey. Answers by her granddaughter, Mrs. Roetta Kilfoyle, interviewed by Hazen P. Mathews on July 25, 195
Utah pioneer interviews, Elisabeth Swenson Robins
No full textHandwritten answers by Elisabeth (Swenson) Robins of Provo, Utah, for a questionnaire filled out for Utah Works Progress Administration\u27s "Pioneer personal history" survey. Born at Mount Pleasant, Utah, in 1868, she and her family moved to Provo. Interviewed and typed by (???) Fechser of Provo, Utah, in 1937 or 193
Dysomma goslinei Robins & Robins 1976
No full textDysomma goslinei Robins & Robins, 1976 ARaUª Dysomma goslinei Robins & Robins, 1976: 261, figs. 3, 6, 7 c, 8 (type locality: Indian Ocean, 14 ° 52 'N, 96 ° 39 'E). Shen et al., 1993: 109; Chen & Mok, 2001: 79; Ho et al., 2015 d: 94. Remarks. A rare species represented by several specimens in Taiwan.Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on pages 177-178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/24365
Oil palm: a global history Flows, migrations, and exchanges./ Jonathan E. Robins.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day"--The oil palm in Africa -- Early encounters across the Atlantic world -- From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa" -- Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution -- Machines in the palm groves -- African smallholders under colonial rule -- The plantation complex in southeast Asia -- From colonialism to development -- Industrial frontiers -- The oil palm's new frontiers -- Globalization and the oil palm boom.1 online resource
BRINK with Zoe Laughlin and Freddie Robins
No full textThis conversation focuses on contemporary thoughts about play, making and breaking, entitled Brink as a frame for playing with stuff up to and even beyond breaking point in part to understand material, its form, functions, processes and meanings. And perhaps sometimes just for the hell of it! Brought together because of their shared interests and practices, which include investigating the properties and conventions of matter, from the mundane to the magical, the contributors are Zoe Laughlin, a designer and materials engineer who studied Art then Science and co-founded the Institute of Making, and Freddie Robins an award-winning artist and educator who challenges the perception of knitting as a benign, undervalued domestic activity, pushing it into sculptural and metaphorical territories
Atractodenchelys Robins & Robins 1970
No full textGenus <i>Atractodenchelys</i> Robins & Robins, 1970 <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Body entirely scaleless; pectoral fins present; anus moderately forward; trunk usually shorter, sometimes equal to or slightly longer, than head length; gill openings on the lower side of the body, well-separated from each other; lateral line well developed; no pore on supratemporal canal of the head; oval patch of teeth on intermaxillary; single row of 5–8 large compound teeth on vomer; and multiple rows of teeth on both jaws (Robins & Robins, 1970; this study).</p>Published as part of <i>Vo, Quang Van & Ho, Hsuan-Ching, 2020, A new species of Atractodenchelys (Synaphobranchidae, Anguilliformes) from Vietnam, pp. 588-594 in Zootaxa 4742 (3)</i> on page 589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.12, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3677937">http://zenodo.org/record/3677937</a>
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