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Fort Meigs Hotel, architectural drawings, 1930s
No full textArchitectural drawings of the Fort Meigs Hotel designed for The Sam Davis Co. These drawings are pencil on tracing paper and were created by architect Stephen M. Jokel of Toledo, Ohio. The commission number for this project is listed as #906. The drawings include a floor plan of the second floor and as well as elevations for the grill room. The Fort Meigs Hotel was built by Sam Davis in 1927 and was demolished in 1966
Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation
No full textThis dataset includes .csv files of the network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.The data included here are supplemental data associated with the dissertation "Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks." by Kristina Golubiewski-Davis. The dissertation is an examination of Late Bronze Age sword smiths wherein the author uses shape data as an indication of manufacture choices to reconstruct possible social networks. Included are .csv files of the Network matrices, blade profile .bmp images, Fourier transform data, and the data gathered for statistics. Also included is the annotated SAS routine used to analyze the data. The Data were analyzed using SHAPE V1.3, SAS 9.4, and GEPHI 0.8.2. The data is being released with the publication of the dissertation.Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork GrantHella Mears Summer FellowshipSummer Research Grant in Austrian/Central European Studies, University of Minnesota Center for Austrian StudiesGolubiewski-Davis, Kristina M. (2016). Supplementary Data for Reconstructing Past Craft Networks: A case study using 3D scans of Late Bronze Age swords to reconstruct specialized craft networks, PhD. Dissertation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6PK5C
The limits to tree height
No full textGeorge W. Koch, Stephen C. Sillett, Gregory M. Jennings, Stephen D. Davis (2004): The limits to tree height. Nature 428: 851-854, DOI: 10.1038/nature0241
Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis
No full textWhen an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona. Lydia Davis translated six books by Maurice Blanchot, including fiction and theoretical writings. Blanchot’s concept of the récit privileges non-conventional forms of narrative and it can be considered to have influenced Davis, a view shared in critical writing about Davis. However, responses to his fiction can also be found in Davis’s work. This article reads Lydia Davis’s story “Story” as a response to Maurice Blanchot’s récit, La Folie du jour, translated by Davis as “The Madness of the Day”. Both texts develop a narrative that questions the possibility of arriving at a single story: Blanchot’s narrator cannot tell the story of how he came to have glass ground into his eyes, while Davis’s narrator must try to understand a contradictory story told to her by her lover. However, Davis responds to Blanchot by reversing the perspective in the story: where Blanchot’s narrator must and cannot create a story that explains his situation in a judicial/medical context, Davis’s narrator is struggling to understand her lover’s story which does not explain the situation that they find themselves in. Davis’s narrator is therefore motivated by an emotional need to find an acceptable story that is absent from Blanchot’s narrator. This difference in motivation is central to the difference between Davis’s and Blanchot’s approach, and complicates any reading of his influence on her because she responds to his text in her own
Figure 2 in The limits to tree height
No full textFigure 2 Variation in leaf structure with height in redwood. Leaf length and the angle between the long axis of the leaf and supporting stem segment both decrease with height. Numbers denote the sample height in m. Scale divisions are cm.Published as part of George W. Koch, Stephen C. Sillett, Gregory M. Jennings & Stephen D. Davis, 2004, The limits to tree height, pp. 851-854 in Nature 428 on page 852, DOI: 10.1038/nature02417, http://zenodo.org/record/140103
The pragmatic constructions of Deleuze, Guattari and Miles Davis
No full textThe aim of the following investigation is two-fold. Firstly, the project takes as its focus the growing corpus of secondary literature written on the work of the French philosophers and theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, whose work has generated a great deal of
interest in recent years and a proportionate amount of controversy. Much of this controversy can be attributed to simplifications and misunderstandings on the part of
commentators who have in some instances neglected to approach Deleuze and Guattari with sufficent rigour and care, resulting in the perpetuation of so many misunderstandings regarding their work.
Secondly, the project will seek to redress some of these misunderstandings by recourse to a pragmatic embodiment of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts and ideas through a case-study based on the life and work of the African-American jazz musician Miles Davis. In attempting to provide a new and challenging case as the basis for this investigation, the overriding aim is to assess the pragmatic remit of Deleuze and Guattari's thought, in terms of aesthetics, ethics and politics, whilst remaining sensitive to the potential limitations and dangers of their project
An evaluation of two strains of Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands as natural enemies of the aquatic weeds salvinia molesta Mitchell and Salvinia minima Baker
No full textThe floating aquatic weeds common salvinia (Salvinia minima Baker) and giant
salvinia (Salvinia molesta Mitchell) degrade aquatic systems through fast, mat forming
growth. The Salvinia specialist weevil Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands has
been used to reduce the severity of giant salvinia infestations and associated with
reduced severity of common salvinia infestations. Genetically, morphologically and
biologically distinct strains of C. salviniae exist, but their relative potential for success as
biological control agents of Salvinia species has not been evaluated. This thesis (1)
describes a recirculating water system designed for conducting such studies and (2)
reports the results of C. salviniae strain comparisons.
A recirculating water system with a high degree of replication and minimal
variation in water flow, temperature and light intensity was used for laboratory
experiments using sixty-day temperature profiles averaging 31.4, 26.5 and 8.0��C
derived from surface water temperatures measured at lakes in expected range of Salvinia
species in the North America. Larval and adult population numbers of two C. salviniae strains (Australia and Florida) were determined for each temperature profile along with
feeding induced plant necrosis on both Salvinia species. Australia C. salviniae had
lower survivorship rates to adulthood on common salvinia than did Florida C. salviniae
at the 31.4 and 26.5��C temperature profiles. Neither strain reproduced, and no
significant between-strain differences in plant necrosis were detected at the 8.0��C
temperature profile. At 31.4��C there were no significant differences in adult counts,
larval counts or plant damage between the two strains on giant salvinia. At 26.5��C,
however, significantly fewer larvae were collected from initially released adults and
significantly less plant necrosis was associated with weevil feeding by Florida strain
compared to Australia strain weevils. These results may have arisen from comparing
Australia weevils from a growing colony to Florida weevils from a declining colony.
Overall, the results indicate that only Florida C. salviniae should be released against
common salvinia. Florida C. salviniae may be equally suitable to Australia C. salviniae
for releases against giant salvinia, but further study is needed to fully assess the potential
for using Florida C. salviniae against giant salvinia
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The Structure Of (+/-)-21-Oxoisopteropodine
No full textMethyl (1'S*,3S*,4a'S*,5a'S*,10a'R*)-3',4a',5a',6',7',8',10',10a'-octahydro-2-hydroxy-1'-methyl-10'-oxospiro[3H-indole-3,6'-[1'H]pyrano[3,4-f]indolizine-4'-carboxylate, (1), C21H22N2O5, M(r) = 382.42, monoclinic, P2(1)/c, a = 12.920 (4), b = 10.342 (4), c = 15.192 (8) angstrom, beta = 105.68 (3)degrees, V = 1954.4 (14) angstrom 3, Z = 4, D(x) = 1.30 g cm-3 (298 K), mu = 0.8738 cm-1, Mo K-alpha radiation, lambda = 0.7107 angstrom, F(000) = 808, T = 298 K, R = 0.0800 for 1000 reflections, F(o) greater-than-or-equal-to 4-sigma(F(o)). The indole NH group is hydrogen bonded to the amide oxygen, O15' (related by x, 0.5 -y, -0.5 + z), of the indolizine moiety with relevant parameters: N...O 2.79 (2) angstrom, H...O 2.02 (15) angstrom, N-H...O 145 (14)degrees. A close, non-bonded contact of 2.28 (8) angstrom is also observed between O15' and H7' A (related by - x, 0.5 + y, 1.5 - z).Robert A. Welch FoundationNational Institutes of Health (GM 25439)Chemistr
An applied paleoecology case study: Bahia Grande, Texas prior to construction of the Brownsville Ship Channel
No full textBahia Grande is a large lagoon located within Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife
Refuge in Cameron County, Texas. When the Brownsville Ship Channel was built along
the southern end of the lagoon in 1936, Bahia Grande was cut off from the marine water
of Laguna Madre. Since that time, Bahia Grande has been primarily dry with only
ephemeral fresh water coming from heavy rainfall events, resulting in a severe decline in
biological productivity. A restoration project led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
has proposed to cut new channels between Bahia Grande and the Ship Channel to restore
the connection with Laguna Madre. This is a large-scale project with major implications
for the water quality, surrounding ecology, and associated biota in the region.
Unfortunately, because very little is known about Bahia Grande prior to isolation, it is
difficult to predict whether the results of the restoration will be comparable to the pre-Ship Channel environment.
Paleoecological data provide the best opportunity to understand what Bahia
Grande was like in the past. This study uses statistical analyses of the molluscan death
assemblages from Bahia Grande to gain a better understanding of the environmental
conditions in the lagoon before it was isolated. The first question addressed is how does Bahia Grande relate to other water bodies on the Texas coast? This may provide a
modern analog to the past conditions in Bahia Grande. The second question inquires
whether there are any local patterns or variations within Bahia Grande and several
smaller surrounding lagoons. These results provide an important baseline for
comparison with the restored lagoon.
The results of this investigation show that, in a regional context, Bahia Grande
was most similar to Alazan Bay and Baffin Bay, which are mostly enclosed shallow bays
with high salinities due to the arid climate and limited freshwater inflow. Within Bahia
Grande, there are several distinct molluscan assemblages. Salinity and water coverage
are the most likely environmental factors responsible for the differences within Bahia
Grande. Additionally, data from surrounding lagoons strongly indicate that some
connections with Bahia Grande existed in the past
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