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Correspondence regarding the possiblity of a Kephart Memorial
No full textThis 1968 correspondence, between Jackson E. Price and Dan Davis, discusses the possibility of “Memorial Center” to Horace Kephart (1862-1931), noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Comparison of Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer and fine resolution Antarctic model results in the South Atlantic
No full textThe motions of eight Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (ALACE) floats released near 750 m depth in Drake Passage and followed through the South Atlantic are described and compared with emulations made by advecting model floats through 12 monthly snapshots of velocity from the fine resolution Antarctic model (FRAM). Both ALACEs and FRAM reproduce the major features of the general circulation as follows: strong intermediate depth flow in Drake Passage, bifurcation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) passing over the Falkland Plateau, a strong Falkland Current, its confluence with the Brazil Current, and moderate zonal flow across the South Atlantic. FRAM versus ALACE comparisons are made in both the Eulerian frame and using observed and modeled trajectories. In Drake Passage, where float velocities agree with earlier observations, FRAM velocities are about twice too big. Both FRAM and ALACE velocities are consistent with an O(100 Sv) Falkland Current. In the central South Atlantic the few available float observations indicate the ACC and South Atlantic Current (SAC) to be more localized than in the model. Eddy kinetic energy is much stronger in the observations than in FRAM. Float dispersion in both the model and observations is due primarily to mean shear. Initial RMS particle separation of 100 km grows to nearly 1000 km after 1 year, but most of this is associated with floats that take different paths of the general circulation. The observations indicate that eddy effects are particularly important near the Falkland-Brazil Current confluence in allowing Antarctic Intermediate Water to transfer from the ACC to the SAC, from which they may enter the subtropical gyre
Legal experts shed light on Davis\u27 path to chamber
No full textProfessor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding the Troy Davis execution case and Davis\u27 attorneys\u27 failure to present Sylvester Coles after asserting that he was responsible for the shooting death of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. The article was written by Allen G. Breed and Russ Bynum and appeared on 9/23/11
Interview of John Davis by Jonathan Wight
No full textJohn B. Davis is Professor of Economics, Marquette University, and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge, 2011), and co-author with Marcel Boumans of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (Palgrave, 2010). He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Erasmus University, and Duke University. He is a former editor of the Review of Social Economy, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and the Routledge book series Advances in Social Economics. He is a past president or chair of the History of Economics Society, the International Network for Economic Method, the Association for Social Economics, and past vice-president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He is a Tinbergen Institute Fellow, and has taught two dozen different courses
Troy Davis: How did we get here?
No full textProfessor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was quoted in The Miami Herald regarding the history of the Troy Davis case and the events leading up to Wednesday night\u27s execution. The article was written by Allen G. Breed and Russ Bynum of the Associated Press and appeared on 9/21/11
Reconciling Versioning and Context in Hypermedia Structure Servers
No full textContextual structure servers and versioning servers share a similar goal in allowing different views on a stored structure according to the viewer’s perspective. In this paper we argue that a generic contextual model can be used to facilitate versioning. In order to prove our hypothesis we have drawn on our experiences with OHP-Version to extend FOHM’s contextual model
Troy Davis case full of murky legal questions
No full textProfessor Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was quoted in the Washington Examiner regarding the recent habeas corpus hearing of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. The article was written by Russ Bynum from the Associated Press and appeared on 7/5/10.
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David Rabinowitch : Constructions métriques, 1988-1991
No full textDavis analyzes this Canadian sculptor's "metrical constructions," developing the concepts of plane (as a field of standpoints from which to view), "metricality" (referring to proportion and measure), and global perception. The author compares the sculpture of Rabinowitch to the minimalism of Morris, the Amerindian totem, and the architecture of Romanesque churches. Biographical notes. 69 bibl. ref
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
No full text: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome, confirming previous studies (on both paid and unpaid OA), is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%, 4% of it correlated with other article variables such as number of authors, references and pages). The author infers that the size of the OA advantage in this biomedical sample has been shrinking annually from 2004-2007, but the data suggest the opposite. In order to draw valid conclusions from these data, the following five further analyses are necessary: (1) The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis. (2) The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account. (3) Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article “citation-bracket” need to be taken into account. (4) The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period. (5) The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded. Davis proposes that an author self-selection bias for providing OA to higher-quality articles (the Quality Bias, QB) is the primary cause of the observed OA Advantage, but this study does not test or show anything at all about the causal role of QB (or of any of the other potential causal factors, such as Accessibility Advantage, AA, Competitive Advantage, CA, Download Advantage, DA, Early Advantage, EA, and Quality Advantage, QA). The author also suggests that paid OA is not worth the cost, per extra citation. This is probably true, but with OA self-archiving, both the OA and the extra citations are free
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 01: Spring 2009
No full textThis podcast features an interview with Dr. Jack E. Davis. He is the author of An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, published by the University of Georgia Press. In this podcast, he discusses his article “Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel,” which appeared in this issue.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1000/thumbnail.jp
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