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Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 2;
Love will fly, Tim Furness 3;
Untitled, Palmer Hoovestal 4;
The wave, Jerome Lightbourne 6;
The land*lord, R. Lea 7;
Song of the newborn, Heidi Muller 8;
Untitled, Mary Ostervold 9;
Good crops, Gina Larson 10;
Come, challenge the sea, Paula Schafer 12;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 14;
Untitled, Eric Peterson 16;
A flight of fancy, Tony Schaan 17;
Ode upon a london tube, Kit Warfield 18;
Sponge, Debbie Court 19;
Untitled, Debbie Court 20;
Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 21;
Untitled, Joyce Lowry 21;
Untitled, Mary Taft 22;
Thank you, Lord [unidentified author] 23;
From generation to generation, Denise Marsh 24;
Untitled, S. M. 25;
Untitled, M. F. 26;
Brain Cramp, Francine Bergeron 27;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 28;
Untitled, Tom Mertes 30;
Untitled, John I. C. Ramirez 31;
Untitled, Dolores Bock 31;
Untitled, Christopher Perez 32;
Untitled, Pat Dooris 33;
Echoes of Innocence, Kelly Cosgrove 35;
Beloved, M. Bowen 36;
Untitled, Mary Ostervold 36
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
No full textPulitzer Prize-winning author and former Georgia Law professor Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture Thursday, April 2, 2015
Writer: Camie Williams, 706-583-0728, [email protected] Contact: Meg Amstutz, 706-542-0383, [email protected]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson to present UGA Charter Lecture
Athens, Ga. – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar Edward Larson will return to the University of Georgia to deliver a Charter Lecture titled “George Washington and America\u27s Second Revolution.”
The lecture, open free to the public, will be held April 23 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel.
Larson is University Professor of History and Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. Focusing on the issues of law, science and politics from a historical perspective, he is the author of more than 100 articles and nine books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.” His latest book, “The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789,” has reached The New York Times best-sellers list.
Larson taught at UGA for two decades, serving as chair of the history department as well as the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and holder of the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law. In 1992, he received the Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early career teaching honor.
“Dr. Larson joins a long and distinguished line of Charter lecturers, and we are delighted to have him back on campus to share his insights on a pivotal moment in our nation’s history,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
Larson has lectured on four continents and has served as a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and as a visiting professor teaching American constitutional law at the University of Melbourne. He has delivered endowed or named lectures at more than 40 colleges or universities and is interviewed frequently by broadcast and print media.
Larson was a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in 1996; held the Fulbright Program’s John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001; delivered the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Sarton Award Lecture in 2000; participated in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Writers and Artists program in 2003 and 2004; served as an inaugural Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon in 2013 and 2014; and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 2004. From 2006 to 2009, he was a panelist on the National Institutes of Health’s Study Section for Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project.
UGA’s Charter Lecture Series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that created UGA as the first chartered state university in America. The series, sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, brings to campus speakers who discuss ideas of general importance to a free society. Previous speakers have included James R. Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence; award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; as well as poet laureates, scientists, medical experts, leading attorneys and religious leaders. For a list of past Charter lecturers, seehttp://provost.uga.edu/documents/charter_lecture_history-rev2014.pdf.
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Pelagic Sargassum events in Jamaica:Provenance, morphotype abundance, and influence of sample processing on biochemical composition of the biomass
No full textPelagic Sargassum species have been known for centuries in the Sargasso Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. In 2011, a new area concentrating high biomass of these brown algae started developing in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Since then, massive and recurrent Sargassum influxes have been reported in the Caribbean and off the coast of Western Africa. These Sargassum events have a major negative impact on coastal ecosystems and nearshore marine life, and affect socio-economic sectors, including public health, coastal living, tourism, fisheries, andmaritime transport. Despite recent advances in the forecasting of Sargassum events, and elucidation of the seaweed composition, many knowledge gaps remain, including morphotype abundance during Sargassum events, drift of the seaweeds in the months prior to stranding, and influence of sample processing methods on biomass biochemical composition. Using seaweeds harvested on the coasts of Jamaica in summer of 2020,we observed that S. fluitans III was themost abundantmorphotype at different times and sampling locations. No clear difference in the geographical origin, or provenance, of the Sargassummats was observed. Themajority of Sargassumbacktracked fromboth north and south of Jamaica experienced ambient temperatures of around 27 °C and salinity in the range of 34–36 psu before stranding.We also showed that cheap (sun) compared to expensive (freeze) drying techniques influence the biochemical composition of biomass. Sun-drying increased the proportion of phenolic compounds, but had a deleterious impact on fucoxanthin content and on the quantities of monosaccharides, except for mannitol. Effects on the content of fucose containing sulfated polysaccharides depended on the method used for their extraction, and limited variation was observed in ash, protein, and fatty acid content within most of the sample locations investigated. These observations are important for the storage and transport of the biomass in the context of its valorisation
Catalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments.
No full textI t is the purpose o f th is d issertation to present the resu lts of a detailed examination made by th is author of fo rty -th re e nineteenthcentury B ritish brass instruments from the C ollection — s lid e trumpets, a hand horn, keyed bugles, an ophicleide, an a l t horn, cornopeans, cornets, a trumpet, a flugelhorn, a French horn, a lto horns, tenor horns, trombones, and tubas — made by the leading nineteenth-century B ritis h makers: Besson, B ilto n , Boosey, G a rre tt, Grayson, Higham, Kohler, M e tzle r, Pace, and R iviere & Hawkes
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Morocco
No full textThis paper tries to uncover the reasons underlying the performance of the Moroccan economy. The author argues that wage moderation and judicious monetary policies were instrumental in restraining inflation. With one brief exception in 1983, monetary authorities remained firmly committed to eschew any inflationary financing of the budget deficit. This strategy could only succeed however because of the wide ranging system of credit and monetary regulations which worked to channel domestic funds toward the Treasury at relatively low costs. The prospects for the continuation of such a strategy are not favourable however. As far as the growth performance is concerned, it appears that it can be attributed to an outstanding export response to the new trade regime on the one hand and a set of favourable supply shocks, including a string of recordagricultural harvests and the collapse of real oil prices, on the other. The paper studies the evolution of the budget and its different components and argues that the reluctance by Morocco's policy makers to monetize existing budget deficits is well explained by the sharply unfavourable trade-offs between higher monetization and inflation existing in Morocco. It analyzes the implications that continuing budgetary disequilibria has on investment and saving decisions and finds that such implications may be substantial, even though they may not work their way exclusively through traditional interest rates channels.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
Three-way tiling sets in two dimensions.
No full textIn this article we show that there exist measurable sets W subset of R-2 with finite measure that tile R-2 in a measurable way under the action of a expansive matrix A, an affine Weyl group (W) over tilde, and a full rank lattice (Gamma) over tilde subset of R-2. This note is follow- up research to the earlier article "Coxeter groups and wavelet sets" by the first and second authors, and is also relevant to the earlier article "Coxeter groups, wavelets, multiresolution and sampling" by M. Dobrescu and the third author. After writing these two articles, the three authors participated in a workshop at the Banff Center on "Operator methods in fractal analysis, wavelets and dynamical systems," December 2-7, 2006, organized by O. Bratteli, P. Jorgensen, D. Kribs, G. Olafsson, and S. Silvestrov, and discussed the interrelationships and differences between the articles, and worked on two open problems posed in the Larson-Massopust article. We solved part of Problem 2, including a surprising positive solution to a conjecture that was raised, and we present our results in this article
Review Of Daughters Of Light: Quaker Women Preaching And Prophesying In The Colonies And Abroad, 1700-1775 By R. Larson
No full textLarson has written the first comprehensive account of the role of 18th-century Quaker women ministers. Emphasizing a collective portrait rather than any individual woman, Larson shows the importance of female ministers in expanding Quakerism, holding the movement together, and helping to initiate major reform movements of the 1750s in England and America. Although considered witches during the 1650s, within a century Quaker women ministers had become respected in the general society--even more popular than male Quaker ministers in preaching to outsiders. Those who disapproved of Quakerism nevertheless admired the natural gifts of the ministers. Sympathizers, including many New Lights, saw the female preachers as inspired by God. Readers are left with the problem of why a struggle for women\u27s public speaking, seemingly won in the 18th century, had to be fought again after 1830. The book\u27s lively style, reasonable price, and many illustrations show that author and publisher aimed for a general audience. Daughters of Light will also be useful for scholars of women\u27s history because it shows how itinerant women ministers created a visible public role, exercising authority within and outside the Quaker meeting. For the Quaker historian, the book\u27s major value is in providing a nuanced discussion of theory and practice of women\u27s ministry
Uncertainty and the price for crude oil reserves
No full textInnovations in futures, options, and derivative instruments permit active trading, speculating and hedging - linking markets for physical petroleum products with financial markets. These derivative markets continuously value petroleum delivered today and for future dates, providing a market price for inventories. Underground petroleum reserves are also an inventory defined by exploration surveys and development drilling. Thus, observable market information can be used to value these reserves. Option - valuation models can be used to price reserves using observable markets, but are dependent on unexplained convenience yields revealed by the term structure of futures prices. The authors apply a general inventory pricing model to petroleum inventories and generate an empirical model of the returns to storage for petroleum markets. They examine the determinants of the crude oil convenience yield using a stochastic control model. They specify optimal production and inventory conditions using a third-order cost function and estimate them using monthly observations. Their inventory arbitrage condition embodies the Hotelling principle and Kaldor's convenience yield, and includes a premium on the dispersion in crude oil prices. The empirical results suggest that returns to storage contain both a cost-reducing component and often sizable premiums associated with the dispersion of petroleum prices. Their findings suggest that crude oil markets differentiated by quality and location provide similar premiums. The premiums associated with the dispersion of petroleum prices may account for persistent backwardation in crude oil prices. This finding may also explain the wide discrepancies between Hotelling values and transaction prices found in previous studies.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Markets and Market Access,Labor Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Oil Refining&Gas Industry,Environmental Economics&Policies,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Economic Theory&Research
Impacts of a weakened AMOC on precipitation over the Euro-Atlantic region in the EC-Earth3 climate model
No full textGiven paleoclimatic evidence that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may affect the global climate system, we conduct model experiments with EC-Earth3, a state-of-the-art GCM, to specifically investigate, for the first time, mechanisms of precipitation change over the Euro-Atlantic sector induced by a weakened AMOC. We artificially weaken the strength of the AMOC in the model through the release of a freshwater anomaly into the Northern Hemisphere high latitude ocean, thereby obtaining a ~ 57 weaker AMOC with respect to its preindustrial strength for 60 model years. Similar to prior studies, we find that Northern Hemisphere precipitation decreases in response to a weakened AMOC. However, we also find that the frequency of wet days increases in some regions. By computing the atmospheric moisture budget, we find that intensified but drier storms cause less precipitation over land. Nevertheless, changes in the jet stream tend to enhance precipitation over northwestern Europe. We further investigate the association of precipitation anomalies with large-scale atmospheric circulations by computing weather regimes through clustering of geopotential height daily anomalies. We find an increase in the frequency of the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO+), which is associated with an increase in the occurrence of wet days over northern Europe and drier conditions over southern Europe. Since a ~ 57 reduction in the AMOC strength is within the inter-model range of projected AMOC declines by the end of the twenty-first century, our results have implications for understanding the role of AMOC in future hydrological changes. © 2023, The Author(s)
The MediaEval 2016 Context of Experience Task: Recommending Videos Suiting a Watching Situation
No full textIn this paper we present an overview of the Context of ExperienceTask: recommending videos suiting a watching situationwhich is part of the MediaEval 2016 Benchmark. Theaim of the task is to explore multimedia content that iswatched under a certain situation. The scope of the thisyears task lies on movies watched during a flight. We hypothesizethat users will have different preferences for moviesthat are watched during a flight compared to when a movieis watched at home or the cinema. This is most probablyinfluenced by the context and the devices used to watch. Inthe case of being on a flight, the context is clearly differentto normal situation (noise, compact, bad air) and also thedevices differ (small screens, bad audio quality). The maingoal of the task is to estimate if a person would like to watcha certain movie on the airplane or not. As dataset we providea large collection of movies, collected from an airline,including pre-extracted visual, text and audio features.Multimedia Computin
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