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Julia Winne Riggs
No full textVerso: [imprinted] Blessing & Co., 174 Tremont Street, Galveston, Texas; [handwritten] [?] Julia Winne Riggs, c. 1875, Warner Brad Rigg
Marriage record of Riggs, Jasper T. and Green, Alma
No full textMarriage license for Jasper T. Riggs and Alma Green. F.R. Graves was the officiant
Interiors : works by Gregor Bell, Geoff Kleem, Ted Riggs, Derek Smith, Alex Wanders, Geoff Weary
No full textInteriors : works by Gregor Bell, Geoff Kleem, Ted Riggs, Derek Smith, Alex Wanders, Geoff Wear
How Marlon T. Riggs Queered the Documentary Form
No full textMarlon T. Riggs’s documentary films and their paratextual elements are rooted in his intersectional identities as a Black and gay man. His activist goal of Black gay liberation was based on what he saw as deeply engrained internal and external racist and homophobic societal structures that subjugated Black queers. In this thesis, I place research from Black cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies in conversation with one another to show how Riggs’s filmography is an example of queer form. In doing so, I attempt to redefine the focus of the scholarship on Riggs from an avant-garde filmmaker of the New Queer Cinema to include a modern feminist narratological framework with the focus of destigmatizing Black queer love. I link his work with the feminist methodologies of Angela Y. Davis, bell hooks, and the women of the Combahee River Collective to show how he aimed towards the deconstruction of Black essentialist masculinity. The writings of Kobena Mercer and Uri McMillians underpin my examination of Riggs’s Black cultural aesthetics in the production of Black cultural capital. Previous scholarship on Riggs by Rhea Combs, Leah Anderst, and David Gerstner undergird my analysis of how Riggs performed both as the subject and object of his films, and what this ultimately meant for audience engagement. This thesis attempts to repay a cultural debt owed to Marlon Riggs by broadening the lens through which academic scholarship views his filmography and his contribution to today’s Black queer narrative landscape
Supplier selection using performance self assessment reporting in the automotive industry : executive summary
No full textThe automotive industry has adopted the use of third party quality
management certification as the main quality approval mechanism for its
supply base. In addition, most organisations have a system of supplier
monitoring to measure their existing supplier's performance and this approach
makes it difficult for suppliers to gain new business because their quality
capability is unknown to the customer.
Two case studies were conducted to determine whether or not suppliers
certified to one of the automotive quality management standards had
improved quality performance compared to those with the generic ISO 9001/2
standard. The research concluded that the additional certification
requirements and increased costs associated with the automotive standards
resulted in no quality benefit. Furthermore, a third case study using second
party quality assessment results demonstrated that there was no correlation
between these audit results and achieved quality performance.
Therefore the research set out to answer the question :
How can the current supplier selection practices used within the
automotive industry be improved to ensure effective decision-making?
The Supplier Performance Evaluation Datasheet (SPED) process was
developed from a synthesis of current practice and input from industry experts.
It incorporates adaptations of best practices in non-quality assessment
methods. Three key elements of the SPED process are:
- Performance reporting
- Minimum performance standards
- Stakeholder engagement
The proposed process was evaluated through two case studies at Cosworth
Technology Ltd and from an expert opinion survey of industry experts in the
field of supplier management.
The conclusion of this study was that the SPED process would enable
customers to select new suppliers with high levels of confidence. It would add
value to all organisations taking part and it is easy to implement.
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[Quanah Parker and W. C. Riggs, Fat Stock Show, Fort Worth, Texas]
No full textDescriptive information verso indicates that the photograph was taken at the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, Texas, March 19th, 1909. There is also biographical information about Quanah Parker and W. C. Riggs. Riggs was born in Izard Co. Arkansas in 1856. His parents John and Jane Riggs, were murdered by Comanche Indians in Post Oak Branch, Bell County, Mar 16th and buried at Sugarloaf Cemetery, Coryell County, Texas, March 17th, 1859.Verso: [handwritten] copy and make 1 doz post cards 1.00 due. [handwritten note and address not transcribed]
Dedication Tablet for Riggs Library in Georgetown University's Healy Hall
No full textRiggs Library was a memorial to E. Francis Riggs’ s father, George W. Riggs, whose love of books was well-known, and to his brother, T. Lawrason Riggs, who had attended Georgetown from 1874 to 1876. The marble dedication tablet located near the door to the Library has been translated from Latin into English as: 'When Elisha Francis Riggs had finished this library at his own expense, he chose it to bear the name of his father, George W., and of his brother, Thomas L., and to serve as a perpetual token that he holds them in affectionate remembrance. The President and Directors of Georgetown College, in grateful accord with the loving thought, have erected this tablet in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
The importance of search strategy for finding targets in open terrain
No full textA number of real-world search tasks (i.e. police search, detection of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)) require searchers to search exhaustively across open ground. In the present study, we simulated this problem by asking individuals (Experiments 1a and 1b) and dyads (Experiment 2) to search for coin targets pseudo-randomly located in a bounded area of open grassland terrain. In Experiment 1a, accuracy, search time, and the route used to search an area were measured. Participants tended to use an ‘S’-shaped pattern with a common width of search lane. Increased accuracy was associated with slower, but also variable, search speed, though only when participants moved along the length (as opposed to across the width) of the search area. Experiment 1b varied the number of targets available within the bounded search area and in doing so varied target prevalence and density. The results confirmed that the route taken in Experiment 1a generalizes across variations in target prevalence/density. In Experiment 2, accuracy, search time, and the search strategy used by dyads was measured. While dyads were more accurate than individuals, dyads that opted to conduct two independent searches were more accurate than those who opted to split the search space. The implications of these results for individuals and dyads when searching for targets in open space are discussed
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Riggs National Bank Check Signed by Robert Lincoln, January 8, 1921
No full textThis Riggs National Bank check, dated January 8, 1921, is written out to Grace Lincoln Temple for two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars. The check is signed by Robert T. Lincoln. The check bears the image of a the Riggs National Bank entrance and has visible perforation marks in the center of the check.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1234/thumbnail.jp
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