354 research outputs found
Saint Augustine's Critical Judgment of the Pagan Writers
No full textThe following is an attempt to study Saint Augustine’s attitude toward the Greek and Latin pagan writers. An effort has been made to record all of the direct quotations of the pagan authors used by Saint Augustine in the twenty-two books of his Be Civitate Dei. |I have undertaken to emphasize the fact that the number of times an author has been quoted and the manner in which each author has been described somewhat emphasizes Augustine’s judgment of them. |Therefore, with the chart containing the above mentioned information, I have included short commentaries and recordings of those quotations to indicate Augustine’s appraisal of those who were responsible for them.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
The Alcott Home in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
No full textTime and again writers of fiction have divulged the sources of their story material. Even a cursory glance at these occasional confessions reveals that authors utilize a surprising amount of their personal experiences. Especially do they treat successfully in fictional presentation the happenings of their early life. Indeed, some of the best stories and novels and poems are end-products of childhood activities, thoughts, and imaginative flights. One case in point is that perennial favorite of children and adults alike--Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Here if ever is an instance where the author first lived all that she later transmuted into a narrative of irresistible and unfading charm. |The impact of the Alcott family life was strong upon every one of its members. But we are here mainly concerned with the impressionability of Louisa May. We are furthermore interested not only in how she received impressions but in how she used them for artistic purposes, For this reason we need a survey of the beginning and growth of the whole Alcott family. More specifically, consideration shall be given to the family in general, to the Alcott parents and daughters in particular, to the emergence and development of literary talent in Louisa May, to the manifestation of this talent in Little Women, and finally to a critical evaluation of the famous hook as the synthesis and exemplification of wholesome family living. |ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Some aspects of Lactantius's credibility as seen in the De Mortibus Persecutorum
No full textThe purpose of the present work is to determine through a comparative study of the works of other men the historical accuracy of Lactantius in his De Mortibus Persecutorum. I shall first set forth a biographical sketch of the author, then consider the following questions: What factors may have influenced the thinking of Lactantius? In what points and to what extent does Lactantius agree with other historians? Where does he differ? Along this procedure, I shall follow Lactantius in his treatment of the persecution and the death of the Roman emperors -- Nero, Domitian, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian, and Diocletian with his associates. The Diocletian persecution, however, I shall treat at a greater length.RAL Thesis 1951 S3
Special Order no. 23 (28 January 1864)
Full text linkMajor O.P. Chaffie\u27s release of duty and order to reporthttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/ciwar_milrec/1014/thumbnail.jp
March Of Medicine
No full textDistribution Of First Lesions In Leprosy. Horton,R.J. & Povey, S
Chronic Ill Health From Unrecognised Malaria. Wills, N.E., Turner,P.P. , Somers, K. & Markandya, O.P.
Infant Mortality Due To Congenital Malformations. Landtman, B. and Wallgren, E.
Cuckoo search based optimal mask generation for noise suppression and enhancement of speech signal
No full textIn this paper, an effective noise suppression technique for enhancement of speech signals using optimized mask is proposed. Initially, the noisy speech signal is broken down into various time–frequency (TF) units and the features are extracted by finding out the Amplitude Magnitude Spectrogram (AMS). The signals are then classified based on quality ratio into different classes to generate the initial set of solutions. Subsequently, the optimal mask for each class is generated based on Cuckoo search algorithm. Subsequently, in the waveform synthesis stage, filtered waveforms are windowed and then multiplied by the optimal mask value and summed up to get the enhanced target signal. The experimentation of the proposed technique was carried out using various datasets and the performance is compared with the previous techniques using SNR. The results obtained proved the effectiveness of the proposed technique and its ability to suppress noise and enhance the speech signal
A low complexity based spectrum management algorithm for ‘Near–Far’ problem in VDSL environment
No full textIn digital subscriber line (DSL) system, crosstalk created by electromagnetic interference among twisted pairs degrades the system performance. Very high bit rate DSL (VDSL), utilizes higher bandwidth of copper cable for data transmission. During upstream transmission, a ‘Near–Far’ problem occurs in VDSL system. In this problem the far end crosstalk (FEXT) is produced from near end user degrades the data rate achieved at the far end user. The effect of FEXT can be reduced by properly managing power spectral densities (PSD) of transmitters of near and far users. This kind of power allocation is called dynamic spectrum management (DSM). In this paper, a new distributed DSM algorithm is proposed in which power from only those sub channels of near end user are reduced which create interference to far end user. This power back off strategy takes place with the help of power spectral density (PSD) masks at interference creating sub channels of near end user. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm show an improvement in terms of data rate and approaches near to that of optimal spectrum balancing (OSB) algorithm
A Simple Scheme for Location and Distance Estimation of Wireless Sensor Nodes In Outdoor Environments
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In this paper we suggest a simple, practical and cost effective localization scheme that can be used to manually deploy wireless sensors to form wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We test our scheme exclusively in outdoor environments using commercially available IRIS XM2110 sensor motes. The location discovery of sensor motes deployed in outdoor environments is obtained in accordance with geographical latitude and longitude. The distance between the deployed sensor motes is also computed using the Haversine formula. The proposed scheme is the outcome of experiments performed on data visualization and monitoring tool Mote View 2.0.F developed by Crossbow Technology™. The proposed scheme is easy to implement and requires less number of sensor motes as compared to other manual deployment based schemes. The visualization of location is validated on Google earth geographical information program.</jats:p
Interference Aware Optimisation of Throughput in Cognitive Radio System
Full text linkIn the cognitive radio (CR) system where spectrum sensing and data transmissions are performed simultaneously, the proper selection of frame duration (τ) is of utmost importance. Small τ leads to an increased false alarm probability while large value of it delays implementation of sensing decision of the current frame to the next. The former case decreases the achievable throughput of the CR user while latter one may disturb the licensed user communication. Under the constraints of maintaining a target detection probability of dP, this paper attempts to design a frame duration τ where achieved throughput of the CR system is maximised. To do so, an analysis of achievable throughput with τ was performed which reveals that, initially, with the increase in τ, the achievable throughput increases sharply, but after its certain value, the increments are negligible and achievable throughput appears to maintain a constant value. The performed analysis shows that, it is not possible to perfectly optimize τ, however, a close optimisation can still be performed which can maximise the achievable throughput. From the realistic point of view, the CR system is further modelled under uncertain noise conditions. The achieved simulation results well justify the presented analysis.Defence Science Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4, July 2015, pp. 312-318, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.65.873
A SIMPLE SCHEME FOR LOCATION AND DISTANCE ESTIMATION OF WIRELESS SENSOR NODES IN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
No full textIn this paper we suggest a simple, practical and cost effective localization scheme that can be used to manually deploy wireless sensors to form wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We test our scheme exclusively in outdoor environments using commercially available IRIS XM2110 sensor motes. The location discovery of sensor motes deployed in outdoor environments is obtained in accordance with geographical latitude and longitude. The distance between the deployed sensor motes is also computed using the Haversine formula. The proposed scheme is the outcome of experiments performed on data visualization and monitoring tool Mote View 2.0.F developed by Crossbow TechnologyTM. The proposed scheme is easy to implement and requires less number of sensor motes as compared to other manual deployment based schemes. The visualization of location is validated on Google earth geographical information program
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