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Deltatheridium pretrituberculare Gregory & Simpson 1926
No full text<p> <i>Deltatheridium pretrituberculare</i> Gregory & Simpson, 1926</p> <p> Gregory & Simpson (1926); Rougier <i>et al.</i> (1998).</p>Published as part of <i>Suarez, Catalina, Forasiepi, Analia M., Babot, María Judith, Shinmura, Tatsuya, Luque, Javier, Vanegas, Rubén D., Cadena, Edwin A. & Goin, Francisco J., 2023, A sabre-tooth predator from the Neotropics: Cranial morphology of Anachlysictis gracilis Goin, 1997 (Metatheria, Thylacosmilidae), based on new specimens from La Venta (Middle Miocene, Colombia), pp. 497-572 in Geodiversitas 45 (18)</i> on page 541, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a18, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8434228">http://zenodo.org/record/8434228</a>
Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory & Simpson 1926
No full text<p> <i>Deltatheroides cretacicus</i> Gregory & Simpson, 1926</p> <p> Gregory & Simpson (1926); Rougier <i>et al.</i> (2004).</p>Published as part of <i>Suarez, Catalina, Forasiepi, Analia M., Babot, María Judith, Shinmura, Tatsuya, Luque, Javier, Vanegas, Rubén D., Cadena, Edwin A. & Goin, Francisco J., 2023, A sabre-tooth predator from the Neotropics: Cranial morphology of Anachlysictis gracilis Goin, 1997 (Metatheria, Thylacosmilidae), based on new specimens from La Venta (Middle Miocene, Colombia), pp. 497-572 in Geodiversitas 45 (18)</i> on page 541, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a18, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8434228">http://zenodo.org/record/8434228</a>
Alphadon Simpson 1927
No full text<p> <i>Alphadon</i> Simpson, 1927</p> <p>Lillegraven (1969); Fox (1979b); Montellano (1988).</p>Published as part of <i>Suarez, Catalina, Forasiepi, Analia M., Babot, María Judith, Shinmura, Tatsuya, Luque, Javier, Vanegas, Rubén D., Cadena, Edwin A. & Goin, Francisco J., 2023, A sabre-tooth predator from the Neotropics: Cranial morphology of Anachlysictis gracilis Goin, 1997 (Metatheria, Thylacosmilidae), based on new specimens from La Venta (Middle Miocene, Colombia), pp. 497-572 in Geodiversitas 45 (18)</i> on page 541, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a18, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8434228">http://zenodo.org/record/8434228</a>
Book review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author.
No full textBook review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University
Press. 1986. Pp. xi, 347. Reviewed by: Charles A. Lofgren.Lofgren, Charles A.. (1988). Book review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/164965
Language Understanding in the Wild: Combining Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning
No full textSocial media has led to the democratisation of opinion sharing. A wealth of information about public opinions, current events, and authors’ insights into specific topics can be gained by understanding the text written by users. However, there is a wide variation in the language used by different authors in different contexts on the web. This diversity in language makes interpretation an extremely challenging task. Crowdsourcing presents an opportunity to interpret the sentiment, or topic, of free-text. However, the subjectivity and bias of human interpreters raise challenges in inferring the semantics expressed by the text. To overcome this problem, we present a novel Bayesian approach to language understanding that relies on aggregated crowdsourced judgements. Our model encodes the relationships between labels and text features in documents, such as tweets, web articles, and blog posts, accounting for the varying reliability of human labellers. It allows inference of annotations that scales to arbitrarily large pools of documents. Our evaluation shows that by efficiently exploiting language models learnt from aggregated crowdsourced labels, we can provide up to 25% improved classifications when only a small portion, less than 4% of documents has been labelled. Compared to the six state-of-the-art methods, we reduce by up to 67% the number of crowd responses required to achieve comparable accuracy. Our method was a joint winner of the CrowdFlower - CrowdScale 2013 Shared Task challenge at the conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2013)
The fall of partnerships: a commercial decision or a tax decision?
No full textThe fundamental question addressed in this thesis is: can the fall of the ordinary partnership be attributed to commercial (non-tax) considerations, or is it, at least in part, due to the distortionary effects of the tax system? The author seeks to establish, primarily using new empirical research, that the tax system is highly likely to have had a significant role to play in the demise of partnerships. That is not to say that genuine commercial considerations are irrelevant but, given that basic principles of good tax design require that taxation should not affect business form selection, the present situation must be regarded as unsatisfactory. The need for systemic reform, or at the very least steps towards it, is clear.
Chapter 1 presents the statistical background to the thesis. Chapter 2 considers the economic viability of the partnership as an alternative to incorporation for businesses involving more than one owner-manager, highlighting the limited liability illusion. Chapter 3 addresses the failing of the LLP, notwithstanding some initial optimism that the form would be highly attractive to businesses of all sizes. Chapter 4 explores the unfortunate truth that numerous acts of incorporation are, and have been, driven by tax considerations, rather than the sound commercial reasons discussed in Chapter 2. The availability of a double tax saving – perhaps exaggerated by artificial income splitting – in the corporate form for would-be partners leaves the partnership as the most vulnerable form for tax-motivated incorporation. Chapter 5 presents the case for a disincorporation relief as a way out for owner-managers locked into the company structure and concludes the thesis. Annexes A-D provide supplementary information, whilst Annex E provides a postscript on a more controversial proposal involving the decoupling business form and tax treatment
Contributions to Dynamic Behaviour of Materials Professor John Edwin Field, FRS 1936–2020
No full textProfessor John Edwin Field passed away on October 21st, 2020 at the age of 84. Professor Field was widely regarded as a leader in high-strain rate physics and explosives. During his career in the Physics and Chemistry of Solids (PCS) Group of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, John made major contributions into our understanding of friction and erosion, brittle fracture, explosives, impact and high strain-rate effects in solids, impact in liquids, and shock physics. The contributions made by the PCS group are recognized globally and the impact of John’s work is a lasting addition to our knowledge of the dynamic effects in materials. John graduated 84 Ph.D. students and collaborated broadly in the field. Many who knew him attribute their success to the excellent grounding in research and teaching they received from John Field.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Novel Aerospace Material
Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama.
No full textSeated, left to right: Judge C. J. Coley, Chairman of the Board; Shirley D. McCrary. Standing, left to right: Morris W. Savage; James E. Simpson, Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb; Robert E. Steiner, III; George P. Evans; Edwin C. Bridges, Director
Edwin Edwards: A study in ethos
No full textIn November 1971, Edwin Edwards entered the final stages of his bid for the Louisiana governorship. Leading a long list of contenders in the fall democratic primaries and emerging as party victor in the December elections, Edwards seems the most promising candidate for the highest state office. The "Cajun Congressman" possesses an extraordinarily high level of ethos with men and women of widely varying ages and occupational categories. The sixteen-year veteran of politics has never lost an election; if he dominates in the February contest, he will be the first south Louisianian in thirty years to inhabit the governor"s mansion. Edwin Edwards claims that the major vehicle that he has used in building his image has been the good-will speech. His role as U. S. Congress man gave him the opportunity to use this medium to reach his bayou state constituency. Almost two years ago when Edwards embarked on an active, albeit unannounced, gubernatorial campaign, the author began this study in an attempt to answer the question- "What factors explain the ethical appeal of Edwin Edwards, Louisiana congressman, in his good-will speechmaking, 1968-1970?", Discovering the answer to this question involved taking three major steps- (1) Part one of the thesis describes the general nature of the good-will speaking of the Congressman, evaluates Edwards in the role of the good-will speaker, and examines a seven-month schedule of Edwards" occasional speechmaking. A knowledge of the specific environment within which Edwards acted out his role and built his ethos is preliminary to an under standing of the specific factors within that environment that account for his success. (2) Part two consists of a detailed description of several specific instances demonstrate the nature of audience responses to the Congressman; general press and interview commentaries concerning Edwards" appeal as a speaker; and a content analysis of interviews with individual members, illustrating opinions of Edwards as a speaker. This section is an attempt to prove that Edwards does indeed enjoy an unusually high level of ethos. (3) Part three is a critical search for the bases of Edwards" ethical appeal, involving examination of biographical data on Edwards; comments by press personnel and political associates; statements by members of the audiences at several of the speaking occasions; self-analysis of the speaker; a study of one speech in the context of the total environment in which Edwards delivered it; and texts of good-will speeches delivered in the past.Communication, Jack J. Valenti School o
Academic authorship: who, why and in what order?
No full textWe are frequently asked by our colleagues and students for advice on authorship for scientific articles. This short paper outlines some of the issues that we have experienced and the advice we usually provide. This editorial follows on from our work on submitting a paper1 and also on writing an academic paper for publication.2 We should like to start by noting that, in our view, there exist two separate, but related issues: (a) authorship and (b) order of authors. The issue of authorship centres on the notion of who can be an author, who should be an author and who definitely should not be an author, and this is partly discipline specific. The second issue, the order of authors, is usually dictated by the academic tradition from which the work comes. One can immediately envisage disagreements within a multi-disciplinary team of researchers where members of the team may have different approaches to authorship order
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