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W. J. Stevens
No full text"Cpl. W.J. [(Ja]ck) Stevens C. Coy [7th] Aust inf Btn [V]X 118516 [Da]rwin area 42 - Oct 43".Corporal W.J. [(Ja]ck) Stevens. C. Companyy [7th] Australian Infantry Battalion [V]X 118516 [Da]rwin area, 42 - October 43
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
World War I record of service survey for Clarence L. Stevens, signed 13 August 1926.
No full textQuestionnaire about Clarence Lee Stevens' service in World War I, 1917-1919, signed by Stevens on 13 August 1926.Questionnaire originally part of a survey of Norwich University alumni conducted by a “Norwich in the World War” committee consisting of Charles N. Barber (chairman), Carl V. Woodbury, K.R.B. Flint, and Gustaf A. Nelson. Data from these questionnaires may have been used in a chapter of "Vermont in the world war, 1917-1919" by Harold P. Sheldon (1928)
Introduction: Justice John Paul Stevens
No full textPrior to a lecture by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on October 3, 2012, IIT Chicago-Kent Professors Carolyn Shapiro, Steven Heyman and Nancy Marder introduce, and highlight Stevens\u27 distinguished history with the U.S. Supreme Court from his first, and only, argument in front of the court in 1962 to a key decision in Payne v. Tennessee regarding the eighth Amendment.
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A survey of the choral music of Halsey Stevens
No full textAlthough Halsey Stevens is a distinguished American composer whose works are widely accepted, and although he has forty-one published works for various choral combinations to his credit, of which four are conceived for combined choral and instrumental forces, there is at present no survey of this choral literature in existence. Since this music receives wide acceptance, the author has felt the need to provide a survey in the hope that the discussions and descriptions will enable choral conductors to discover a source of beautiful music, and to choose works pertinent to their own needs from this body of literature.Chapter I consists of a review of literature pertinent to Stevens and his style.Chapter II is an overview of analysis, including a discussion of analysis in relation to choral music.Chapter III presents a summary of stylistic characteristics as found in Stevens’ choral music. A discussion of the author’s conclusions ends the chapter.The survey is presented in chapters IV and V. Chapter IV deals with the short works. Those which are longer in duration, principally comprising combinations of choral and orchestral forces, constitute chapter V. Campion Suite, for a cappella choir, has been included with this section of longer works, since it is the author’s opinion that it is best performed as an entity.A brief data summary precedes discussion of each work. This summary includes publication information, date of composition, place of composition, any dedicatory information, voicings and instrumentations, sources of text, vocal ranges, and timings. The discussion of the work following the summary is intended to provide a succinct description, sufficient to enable a prospective director to decide whether the work is suitable to his performance needs. Musical examples are included to illustrate various aspects of Stevens’ style as well as to show unusual and interesting features of his music.Appendix I contains the musical examples referred to in the survey, while appendix II lists the published choral music in chronological order.Thesis (D.A.
Hoboken - Edwin A. Stevens Hall on the Campus of Stevens Institute of Technology
No full textNamed in honor of the university�s founder, the Edwin A. Stevens Hall serves as the home of Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering & Science, the largest school at Stevens comprising eight academic departments that span engineering and science.
In addition to administrative offices and classrooms, this building also houses DeBaun Auditorium, the site of theatrical, musical and dance performances, as well as special events and university lectures.
It has a rich historical and architectural pedigree. Dating back to when the university first opened its doors in 1870 as the first school of mechanical engineering in the nation, Edwin A. Stevens Hall has been the cornerstone building on the Stevens campus.
Built in the high Victorian Gothic style, the 80,000-square-foot, five-story masonry building was designed by Civil War architect Richard Upjohn, famous for the design of Trinity Church in New York CityOriginal file name 512457255_125d0ca336_o (1).jp
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation Building (BMC)
No full textFacade from the junction of Dadabhai Naoroji Road and Mahapalika Marg; The building houses the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai, which is now named the Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika. On December 9, 1884, the foundation stone for the new building of the Bombay Municipal Corporation was laid opposite Victoria Terminus (now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, also by Stevens), by the then Viceroy, Lord Ripon. The building is V shaped to accommodate the site and plaza facing the railway station. It has similar polychrome Gothic Revival ornamentation, with Minton tiles and stained glass in the interior. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/29/2015
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
A Generalised RBF Finite Difference Approach to Solve Nonlinear Heat Conduction Problems on Unstructured Datasets
No full textRadial Basis Functions have traditionally been used to provide a continuous interpolation of scattered data sets. However, this interpolation also allows for the reconstruction of partial derivatives throughout the solution field, which can then be used to drive the solution of a partial differential equation. Since the interpolation takes place on a scattered dataset with no local connectivity, the solution is essentially meshless. RBF-based methods have been successfully used to solve a wide variety of PDEs in this fashion. Such full-domain RBF methods are highly flexible and can exhibit spectral convergence rates Madych & Nelson (1990). However, in their traditional implementation the fully-populated matrix systems which are produced lead to computational complexities of at least order-N2 with datasets of size N. In addition, they suffer fromincreasingly poor numerical conditioning as the size of the dataset grows, and also with increasingly flat interpolating functions. This is a consequence of ill-conditioning in the determination of RBF weighting coefficients (as demonstrated in Driscoll & Fornberg (2002)), and is described by Robert Schaback Schaback (1995) as the uncertainty relation; better conditioning is associated with worse accuracy, and worse conditioning is associated with improved accuracy. Many techniques have been developed to reduce the effect of the uncertainty relation in the traditional RBF formulation, such as RBF-specific preconditioners Baxter (2002); Beatson et al. (1999); Brown (2005); Ling & Kansa (2005), or adaptive selection of data centres Ling et al. (2006); Ling & Schaback (2004). However, at present the only reliable methods of controlling numerical ill-conditioning and computational cost as problem size increases are domain decomposition Hernandez Rosales & Power (2007); Wong et al. (1999); Zhang (2007); Zhou et al. (2003), or the use of locally supported basis functions Fasshauer (1999); Schaback (1997); Wendland (1995); Wu (1995). In this work the domain decomposition principle is applied, forming a large number of heavily overlapping systems that cover the solution domain. A small RBF collocation system is formed around each global data centre, with each collocation system used to approximate the governing PDE at its centrepoint, in terms of the solution value at surrounding collocation points. This leads to a sparse global linear system which may be solved using a variety of standard solvers. In this way, the proposed formulation emulates a finite difference method, with the RBF collocation systems replacing the polynomial interpolation functions used in traditional finite difference methods. However, unlike such polynomial functions RBF collocation is well suited to scattered data, and the method may be applied to both structured and unstructured datasets without modification. The method is applied here to solve the nonlinear heat conduction equation. In order to reduce the nonlinearity in the governing equation the Kirchhoff integral transformation is applied, and the transformed equation is solved using a Picard iterative process. The application of the Kirchhoff transform necessitates that the thermal property functions be transformed to Kirchhoff space also. If the thermal properties are a known and integrable function of temperature then the transformation may be performed analytically. Otherwise, an integration-interpolation procedure can be performed using 1D radial basis functions, as described in Stevens & Power (2010). In recent years a number of local RBF collocation techniques have been proposed, and applied a wide variety of problems (for example; Divo & Kassab (2007); Lee et al. (2003); Sarler & Vertnik (2006); Wright & Fornberg (2006)). A more comprehensive review of such methods is given in Stevens et al. (2009). Unlike most local RBF collocation methods that are used in the literature, the technique described here utilises the Hermitian RBF collocation formulation (see section 2 for more details), and allows both the PDE-boundary and PDE-governing operators to be included within in the local collocation systems. This inclusion of the governing PDE within the basis functions is shown in Stevens et al. (2009) to significantly improve the accuracy and stability of solutions obtained for linear transport problems. Additionally, the incorporation of information about the convective velocity field into the basis functionswas shown to have a stabilising effect, similar to traditional upwinding methods but without the requirement to alter the stencil configuration based on the local convective field. The standard approach to the solution of linear and nonlinear heat conduction problems is the use of finite difference and finite volume methods with simple polynomial interpolants Bejan (1993); Holman (2002); Kreith & Bohn (2000). Due to the dominance of diffusion in most cases, central differencing techniques are commonly used to compute the heat fluxes. However, limiter methods (such as the unconditionally stable TVD schemes) may be used for nonlinear heat conduction problems where the effective convection term, which results from the non-zero variation of thermal conductivity with temperature, can be expected to approach the magnitude of the diffusive term (see, for example, Shen & Han (2002)). Full-domain RBF methods have also been examined for use with nonlinear heat conduction problems (see Chantasiriwan (2007)), however such methods are restricted to small dataset sizes, due to the computational cost and numerical conditioning experienced by full-domain RBF techniques on large datasets. The present work demonstrates how local RBF collocation may be used as an alternative to traditional finite difference and finite volume methods, for nonlinear heat conduction problems. The described method retains freedom from a volumetric mesh, while allowing solution over unstructured datasets. A central stencil configuration is used in each case, and the solution is stabilised via the inclusion of the governing and boundary PDEs within the local collocation systems (“implicit upwinding”), rather than by adjusting the stencil configuration based on the local solution field (“traditional upwinding”). The method is validated using a transient numerical example with a known analytical solution (see section 4), and the ability of the formulation to handle strongly nonlinear problems is demonstrated in the solution of a food freezing problem (see section 5)
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