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    Anna Lee and Phoebe Ann Wheeler Interview (part 3)

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    An interview with Anna Lee Wheeler and Phoebe Ann Wheeler of Alexandria, Kentucky discussing their experiences as daughters of a veteran of the Vietnam War on April 3, 1998

    Anna Lee and Phoebe Ann Wheeler Interview (part 1)

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    An interview with Anna Lee Wheeler and Phoebe Ann Wheeler of Alexandria, Kentucky discussing their experiences as daughters of a veteran of the Vietnam War on April 3, 1998

    Anna Lee and Phoebe Ann Wheeler Interview (part 2)

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    An interview with Anna Lee Wheeler and Phoebe Ann Wheeler of Alexandria, Kentucky discussing their experiences as daughters of a veteran of the Vietnam War on April 3, 1998

    ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY

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    Adam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,

    How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?

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    Adam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.

    SDSS MARCS model atmosphere grid

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    This is a repackaged version of the SDSS grid of model atmospheres generated by the MARCS code. The values needed for Korg to to interpolated model atmospheres have been extracted and packed in an HDF5 file. The original data is here: https://dr17.sdss.org/sas/dr17/apogee/spectro/speclib/atmos/marcs/MARCS_v3_2016

    Lee and Ray Wheeler with their collection of arrowheads, 1956.

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    Lee and Ray Wheeler with their collection of arrowheads, 1956.WSJ 12-3-56 p.5

    ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?

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    The conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,

    Phase-field modeling of multi-phase solidification

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    A phase-field model for a general class of multi-phase metallic alloys is now proposed which describes both multi-phase solidification phenomena as well as polycrystalline grain structures. The model serves as a computational method to simulate the motion and kinetics of multiple phase boundaries and enables the visualization of the diffusion processes and of the phase transitions in multi-phase systems. Numerical simulations are presented which illustrate the capability of the phase-field model to recover a variety of complex experimental growth structures. In particular, the phase-field model can be used to simulate microstructure evolutions in eutectic, peritectic and monotectic alloys. In addition, polycrystalline grain structures with effects such as wetting, grain growth, symmetry properties of adjacent triple junctions in thin film samples and stability criteria at multiple junctions are described by phase-field simulations
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