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Embracing the unintended [Reflections upon the value of the Watson Fellowship year abroad].
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/ccde0985-fcbb-4cd5-8d02-736344aa8f96/thumb/128.jpgComments by 16 of the 48 Watson Fellows from Reed, illustrated with their photographs, along with a full list of the past winners and a note about the Fellowships in this 25th anniversary year. Those who commented are John E. Peck ’88, Steven C. Hankin ’75, Ian Merwin ’69, Rebecca Braslau ’81, Saïd Nuseibeh ’81, Fred R. Fenton ’77, Adam L. Penenberg ’86, Monica Sage Irons Gross ’83, Stephanie P. Sakellaris ’91, Peter Child ’75, Lisa Kemmerer ’88, Steven D. Raichlen ’75, Zohra Judith Kalinkowitz ’70, James J. Stewart ’77, George D. Weiblen ’92, and Eileen Bailey Wasow ’69
Nominating Candidates under New Rules in Italy and Japan: You Cannot Bargain with Resources You Do Not Have
No full textThe paper is organized as follows. First, we describe the nomination processes in the two countries (sections 2 and 3). Next we compare the countries with respect to the characteristic that most clearly distinguishes them, the mobility of SMD candidates in Italy and their stability in Japan (section 4). In section 5 we ask why the nomination processes under such similar systems differed so widely. We analyze differences in the details of the two electoral systems (section 6) but argue that the difference was not to be found in the details but in the context and that the context was determined by historical experience (section 7)
Instructive Alchemies [Reviews of Philip Levine, Daniel Hoffman, George Keithley, J. Michael Yates, Annie Dillard]
No full textJOHN R. REED teaches English at Wayne State University and is the author of many poems, critical essays, and reviews, which have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Modern Poetry Studies, and Poetry. His books include Old School Ties and Perception and Design in Tennyson\u27s Idylls of the King
Love Poem
No full textJOHN R. REED teaches English at Wayne State University and is the author of many poems, critical essays, and reviews, which have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Modern Poetry Studies, and Poetry. His books include Old School Ties and Perception and Design in Tennyson\u27s Idylls of the King
Studying Electoral Engineering via a Double-Barrelled Natural Experiment: Comparing the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan
No full textDrawing on a comparison of the origins and effects of the electroal systems in Italy and Japan in the early 1990s that led to the implementation of a mixed electoral systems in both countries, we look at the extent to which changes in electoral systems are mere paper tigers in terms of having important impacts on party systems and ways of doing political business
Restrictions on the weight distribution of binary linear codes imposed by the structure of Reed-Muller codes
No full textAbstmcf-The words of a binary linear [n,k] code C whose weights belong to a given subset I C { 0, 1,..., n} constitute a word in a certain Reed-Muller code!R!Dl((r, k). Appropriate choices of I result in low values of the order r and thus yield restrictions on the weight distribution of C. Index I?"- Binary linear d e, affine code, weight distribution, Reed-Muller code. I
Parameter identification and modeling for the prediction of voltage distortion
No full textThesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111).by Christopher Reed Laughman.M.Eng
Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection
No full textThis 1973 correspondence, from Congressman Roy A. Taylor to Doug Reed, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Congress of tf)e SJm'teb Matzz
House of Eeprtsentatibes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
orrKX! liafifjmgton, 23.C. 20515
April 10, 1973 R E C C 1 V il D
APR 13 1973
Mr. Doug Reed
Public Relations & Development
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee,
North Carolina 28723
Dear Doug:
Pursuant to your telephone conversation with Luther
earlier today I am very pleased to enclose a letter
I received today from Mr. Hadley agreeing to my
recommendation that the Horace Kepart books and
journals be preserved at Western Carolina University.
We will assume that Mr. Ellis will be contacting
the University to work out the transfer arrangements.
If it develops that we can be of assistance in this
regard, just let us know.
Sincerely,
Roy A. /Taylor
Member'of Congres
Using the First Order Reed-Muller Code for Channels With Unknown Offset
No full textWhile the Minimum Euclidean Distance detection is known to be optimal for channels affected by Gaussian noise, it has been shown that Minimum Pearson Distance detection (MPD) may perform better when the channel is also affected by an unknown offset, though for a good performance some adaptations for classical binary block codes are necessary. It is shown for cosets of first order Reed-Muller codes R(1,m) containing words of weight d/2, where d is the code's distance, that the minimum Pearson distance is always low for m≤4. However, it is possible to find cosets where the minimum Pearson distance is higher for m≥5.Applied Mathematic
Non-Intrusive Fault Detection in Reciprocating Compressors
No full textThis research presents techniques developed for non-intrusive sensing and fault detection in reciprocating compressors driven by induction motors. These procedures are “non-intrusive” because they rely only on voltage and current signals measured on the compressor power cable. The electrical sensor based method allows for easy and non-intrusive determination of many fault sensitive signals that usually require complicated, expensive, and time consuming operations to measure. The electric signals are processed and used with the inverted dynamic motor model equations and motor parameters (which are also determined non-intrusively) to recover the instantaneous angular speed of the compressor shaft, as well as the torque of electromagnetic origin provided by the motor. These two intermediate signals and compressor parameters such as crank shaft inertia are then used to solve for the compressor load torque. This load torque signal has high fault diagnostic value because it is composed of pressure and friction torques, and these signals are close to mechanical phenomena of diagnostic interest in the compressor. All these signals are recovered at a fine resolution giving high level of detail on a sub-shaft revolution basis. The use of the load torque signal in determining faults and additional diagnostic information is also given. A procedure for determining the cylinder suction and discharge pressure from the load torque signal and knowable cylinder parameters such as cylinder volume, crank arm length, and gas coefficients is discussed. The load torque signal is also useful directly: for the two piston machine used in the research, symmetry of the twice per rotation peak of the load torque is a valuable diagnostic measure. Reed valve leakage faults were investigated by drilling small holes of varying sizes in one cylinder’s suction reed. The asymmetry in each cylinder’s pressure torque peak increases with increasing leak size, providing both an indication and measure of leakage severity
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