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Richard Thompson
No full textRichard Thompson grew up in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in Montreal. He won the 2016 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award from the Southern Indiana Review, and his poems (some of which do not relate to farming accidents) have also appeared in Empirical Magazine, The Rectangle, and The Avenue
[Letter to George Converse from Richard Thompson]
No full textIn this letter, Secretary of the Navy Richard Thompson orders George Converse to report to Vice Admiral S. C. Rowan at the Navy Department for examination preliminary to promotion
Fixed points of finite groups acting on generalised Thompson groups
No full textWe study centralisers of finite order automorphisms of the generalised Thompson groups Fn, ? and conjugacy classes of finite sub- groups in finite extensions of Fn, ?. In particular we show that centralisers of finite automorphisms in Fn, ? are either of type FP? or not finitely generated. As an application we deduce the following result about the Bredon type of such finite extensions: any finite extension of Fn, ?, where the elements of finite order act on Fn, ? via conjugation with piecewise-linear homeomorphisms, is of type Bredon F?. In particular finite extensions of F = F2,? are of type Bredon F?
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
Bipolar disorder, Type A behavior, and coronary disease
No full textThis paper describes a model for integrating two psychological constructs--bipolar disorder and the Type A behavior pattern--each of which has been associated with enhanced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). It highlights similarities between manic/hypomanic behaviors associated with bipolarity and the behaviors observed in Type A individuals. The proposed model conceptualizes Type A behavior as an alternating pattern of coping with challenging and stressful events. Thus, initial coping efforts are manifested as behavioral hyper-reactivity (including mania/hypomania), but this gives way to hypo-reactivity (including helplessness and depression) after repeated failure to assert control and/or attain relevant goals. This alternation of Type A coping patterns resembles the affective and behavioral transitions often seen in bipolar patients. Future research on psychological, epidemiological, and pathophysiological issues concerning CHD should document areas of commonality and independence between bipolarity and Type A behavior. Such studies would benefit from consideration of a model that identifies psychosocial dimensions common to Type A, mania/hypomania, and depression.Peer reviewedThis is an electronic version of an article published in Glass, David C. and Richard J. Contrada. "Bipolar disorder, Type A behaviour and coronary disease." Health Psychology Review, available online 15 Feb 2011. DOI:10.1080/17437199.2010.531568. Health Psychology Review is available online at: www.tandfonline.co
Books piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will b
No full textBooks piece on a reading by Richard Price, author of Samaritan, which will be presented at Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, on March 5
Bayesian mixture modelling and inference based Thompson sampling in Monte-Carlo tree search
No full textMonte-Carlo tree search is drawing great interest in the domain of planning under uncertainty, particularly when little or no domain knowledge is available. One of the central problems is the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. In this paper we present a novel Bayesian mixture modelling and inference based Thompson sampling approach to addressing this dilemma. The proposed Dirichlet-NormalGamma MCTS (DNG-MCTS) algorithm represents the uncertainty of the accumulated reward for actions in the MCTS search tree as a mixture of Normal distributions and inferences on it in Bayesian settings by choosing conjugate priors in the form of combinations of Dirichlet and NormalGamma distributions. Thompson sampling is used to select the best action at each decision node. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm has achieved the state-of-the-art comparing with popular UCT algorithm in the context of online planning for general Markov decision processe
Blackberries and their hybrids Crop production science in horticulture ;, 26./ edited by Harvey K. Hall (M.S.), Richard C. Funt (Ph. D.).
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.This book contains 18 chapters focusing on the growth and development, climatic requirements, fruit quality, chemical composition and health benefits of blackberries and their hybrids. Information on cultivar development and selection, nursery production, vegetative propagation, site selection, preparation, soil management and planting, soil and water management, fertilizer management, pruning and training and plant pathogens, insect pests and weeds and their control are presented. The importance of the proper postharvest storage, transport and marketing of fruits and the economics of blackberry production are also discussed.1. Blackberries: an introduction / Kim E. Hummer -- 2. Growth and development / Bernadine C. Strik -- 3. Climatic requirements / Fumiomi Takeda -- 4. Blackberry fruit quality components, composition, and potential health benefits / Jungmin Lee -- 5. Cultivar development and selection / Chad E. Finn and John R. Clark -- 6. Nursery production of plants / Ioannis E. Tzanetakis and Robert R. Martin -- 7. Propagation of blackberries and related rubus species / Barbara Reed, Sukalya Poothong, and Harvey K. Hall -- 8. Site selection / Ellen Thompson -- 9. Site preparation, soil management, and planting / Marvin Pritts and Eric Hanson -- 10. Soil and water management / Richard C. Funt and David S. Ross -- 11. Plant nutrient management / Bernadine C. Strik -- 12. Pruning and training / Bernadine C. Strik, Fumiomi Takeda, and Gary Gao -- 13. Diseases, viruses, insects, and weeds of blackberries and their hybrids / Annemiek C. Schilder, Harvey K. Hall, Ioannis Tzanetakis, and Richard C. Funt -- 14. Crop production / Bernadine C. Strik and Michele Stanton -- 15. Postharvest storage and transport of blackberries / Penelope Perkins-Veazie -- 16. Marketing of blackberries / Gail Nonnecke, Michael Duffy, and Richard C. Funt -- 17. Blackberry farm management and economics / Richard C. Funt -- 18. World blackberry production / Harvey K. Hall -- Appendix 1. Windbreaks / Michele Stanton -- Appendix 2. Fertigation and drip irrigation primer / David S. Ross and Richard C. Funt -- Glossary 1. Biological terms / Richard C. Funt and Harvey K. Hall -- Glossary 2. Business terms / Richard C. Funt and Harvey K. Hall.1 online resource
On the harmonization of methods for measuring the occurrence, fate and effects of microplastics
No full textWelcome to this Analytical Methods themed issue on microplastics in the environment, guest edited by Chelsea M. Rochman, Fiona Regan and Richard C. Thompson. The editors hope that this editorial will facilitate discussions that lead toward harmonized methods that are informed by hypotheses, and ultimately produce data that can be synthesized and used to inform effective local and global policies that prevent and mitigate microplastics.</p
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