269 research outputs found
The impact of climate change on the archaeology of New Zealand’s coastline
No full textAbstract: With rising sea levels, changes in precipitation patterns and an increased incidence of severe weather events being predicted as a result of global climate change, the Department of Conservation commissioned a study to determine the potential impacts of these effects on New Zealand’s archaeological sites, which are mostly located near the coast. A Geographic Information System (GIS)-based case study examined the distribution of archaeological sites in the Whangarei District and assessed the risk to the archaeological resource primarily from sea level rise associated with future climate change.The results of the analysis are fairly conclusive. Currently, the major threats to archaeological sites in coastal areas are erosion, flooding and ground instability, and some sites are at risk from more than one of these threats. Approximately one-third of the recorded site locations in the Whangarei District are potentially threatened by these hazards, regardless of any future climate change effects. Climate change will exacerbate existing coastal hazards, and increase the likelihood and severity of impacts on archaeological sites. An additional 2.5–10% of archaeological sites might be affected by increased threats due to predicted changes in climate, including rising sea levels. The types of sites that are most likely to be affected in the Whangarei District are coastal midden and small habitation sites relating to Māori occupation. Although these could be affected by all three of the major hazards identified, they are particularly susceptible to coastal erosion. Land stability issues and flooding are likely to affect a greater range of sites, including larger sites such as pā and sites relating to early European settlement. It is not possible to quantify the risk to sites from increased land instability as a result of global climate change, but it is noted that any increase in extreme weather events would not be confined to coastal areas. These sites potentially hold significant information relating to the history of both the district and New Zealand. The implications of the study are that coastal sites are already under considerable threat, and that important archaeological information is being lost at a rate that may increase significantly in the future. Action is needed now to protect or retrieve the information from significant sites under threat in coastal areas before these sites disappear completely
Government House jetty being built. Rod Dalgleish supervising, Canberra [transparency] /
No full textTitle from accession record.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an14324452-426
Kodan shiroishi banashi.
No full textNot reproduced in Nanako Yamada's reference books.; English title devised by cataloguer based on unpublished notebooks by Richard Clough.; Printmaker's seal and signature present.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6263476; 880-05 The print was produced as a kuchie frontispiece for a novel titled Kodan shiroishi banashi by Tamada Gyokushusai.; Richard Clough notebook v. 3, no. 45; Title, novel's author and date of publication written on the Library copy.Women with wrestlers, one tattoe
Operations of the Press Division of the Office of Censorship
No full text Mr. Clough is the managing editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, now on leave from his newspaper to serve on the staff of the government's censorship agency. He is the author of “William Alien White of Emporia.” </jats:p
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Book Ownership and Authorial Identity: Reconstructing the (Im)Personal Library of Arthur Hugh Clough
No full textDescribes the different evidence that survives for the personal libraries owned by two Victorian poets, Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hugh Clough, and discusses the ways in which such book-ownership is (and is not) usable as evidence about the author\u27s thought and writing. This paper was originally presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2005
The Disappearing Guns of Auckland
No full textThe coastal fortifications of the port of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1885 to 1925 are studied in depth, from an historical archaeology perspective. An understanding of their wider context is essential to an understanding of the sites themselves, so a study is made of European artillery and fortification practice and technology from the 14th century onwards, with an emphasis on the coastal artillery practices of the British Empire in the 19th century. On this foundation, coastal fortification practices in New Zealand in the 19th century are examined, and the political background to the construction of coastal forts is outlined. The social and economic impact of the defences are studied, and the resources used in their construction detailed. Land acquisitions for the defence works in Auckland are examined. With a thorough understanding of their background and context (both national and international), Forts Resolution, Bastion, Takapuna, Victoria, Cautley and the submarine mining depots are then studied in detail, with limited excavations, extensive field survey, and the use of comprehensive archival sources. Fina1ly, it, is concluded that the forts built in Auckland between 1885 and 1925 were a product of the colonial experience, in that, they were a complex technological product of imperial demands and needs, and had little relevance to the realities and requirements of a small and remote colony 20,000 km away from the imperial centre. The thesis is a study of the ‘disappearing gun’ period of coastal fortification, and also an acknowledgement that much of the evidence of this once socially and economically significant activity has been destroyed. To assist the reader, there is a large bibliography, and appendices containing a comprehensive glossary, a list of New zealand defence schemes from 1840 to 1914, a list of site record numbere, and biographical details of the key fort builders
Foreign pupils, bad citizens: the public construction of difference in a Roman school
No full textIn the case study here presented, the author shows that the negative social connotation associated with a primary school in the periphery or Rome (where more than 80% pupils have a non-Italian citizenship) was first "ethnicized" in numerical terms and then transformed into a question of national identity,via the efforts of various interested parties and institutions: the "local moms", the school management team, the regional director of education, a member of the Italian parliament and the minister for public education
VIBRATION-ROTATION EFFECTS ON THE INTENSITIES OF WATER: APPLICATION TO
No full textS. A. Clough, Y. Beers, G. Klein, and L, S. Rothman, J. Chem. Phys. 59, 2254 (1973).Author Institution: Air Force Cambridge Research LaboratoriesThe expansion of the dipole moment projection operator as a function of the rotational operators for a type B band using the notation of clough et al., is given through third order as \begin{array}{ll}\underline{M}&={C}_{b}\Phi_{b}+{C}_{ca}\{\Phi_{c}, {P}_{a}\}+{C}_{ca}\{\Phi_{a}, {P}_{c}\}+{C}_{bbb}\{\Phi_{b}, {P}^2_{b}\}\\ &+{C}_{bbc}\{\Phi_{b}, {P}^2_{c}\}+{C}_{baa}\{\Phi_{b}, {P}^2_{a}\}+{C}_{cab}\{\Phi_{c}, \{{P}^2_{a}{P}^2_{b}\}\}\\&+{C}_{abc}\{\Phi_{c}, \{{P}_{b}{P}_{c}\}\}\end{array} for a C molecule. The rigid rotor line strength is obtained from [T where T ()are the eigenvectors for the chosen value of In this work the correct eigenvectors of the upper and Lower states have been used for giving the result . Since the constants C appear linearly in this calculation, they may be readily obtained using a least squares method on the square root of the experimental line strengths. This procedure requires the assumption of the phase of the transition moment of the given transition. The effect of using rigid rotor and ground state eigenvectors will be discussed and A comparison of the experimentally obtained constants with theoretical values will be made
THE ROTATION VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF THE AND BANDS OF OZONE IN THE 9-MICRON REGION
No full textS.A. Clough, Symposium on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 11-15-1962, Paper K4.Author Institution: Block Associates; AFCRALA computational procedure previously has been utilized in the determination of constants for the and bands of ozone. Four hundred lines have been fitted by the method of least squares to each band and an absorption contour has been calculated which is in excellent agreement with the observed spectrum in this region between 8.7 and 10.0 microns. The transition frequencies and intensities up to J=50 have been calculated by diagonalizing the asymmetric rotor Hamiltonian with distortion included. Final constants for both bands will be presented
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