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[Flowing oil at Smartt No. 1]
No full textUndated image of oil spewing from pipe. PBPM 79-039.041
Inscription (on back): Smartt No. 1, an early Mitchell County, Texas producer in the Westbrook Field responding to swabbing operations. This well was completed during the early 20's. As I recall, Sam Sloan had an interest in this well.
Lee Jones, Jr.
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Madison Smartt Bell, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMadison Smartt Bell is the author of 13 novels and two collections of short stories, including Barking Man, Save Me, Joe Louis, and Ten Indians. In 2002, his novel Doctor Sleep was adapted as a film, Close Your Eyes. Forty Words For Fear, an album of songs co-written by Bell and Wyn Cooper, was released in 2003. All Souls\u27 Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf award for the best book of 1996 dealing with race. Bell\u27s latest novel, The Color of Night, appeared in 2011
Evolution in crop plants
No full textLe gombo est un légume-fruit tropical cultivé dans toute la zone intertropicale. Ce texte constitue une des monographies compilées dans la 2ème édition du livre "Evolution des plantes cultivées" de J. Smartt et N.W. Simmonds. Les auteurs S. Hamon (ORSTOM) et D.H. Van Sloten (IPGRI) ont contribué au cours des années 80 à développer des travaux sur cette plante. Dans cet article sont exposées les principales connaissances sur l'évolution de la systématique, les indications taxonomiques, les connaissances cytogénétiques, les données agronomiques et génétiques de base. (Résumé d'auteur
Spectropolarimetry of superlumious supernovae: insight into their geometry
No full textWe present the first spectropolarimetric observations of a hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN) at z = 0.1136, namely SN 2015bn. The transient shows significant polarization at both of the observed epochs: one 24 days before maximum light in the rest-frame, and the other at 27 days after peak luminosity. Analysis of the Q - U plane suggests the presence of a dominant axis and no physical departure from the main axis at either epoch. The polarization spectrum along the dominant axis is characterized by a strong wavelength dependence and an increase in the signal from the first to the second epoch. We use a Monte Carlo code to demonstrate that these properties are consistent with a simple toy model that adopts an axisymmetric ellipsoidal configuration for the ejecta. We find that the wavelength dependence of the polarization is possibly due to a strong wavelength dependence in the line opacity, while the higher level of polarization at the second epoch is a consequence of the increase in the asphericity of the inner layers of the ejecta or the fact that the photosphere recedes into less spherical layers. The geometry of the SLSN is similar to that of stripped-envelope core-collapse SNe connected to GRB, while the overall evolution of the ejecta shape could be consistent with a central engine
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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