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Other title: Samuel M. Williams, Acting Secretary of Revenue
No full text"February 1, 2017."
Confirmation hearing of the Kansas Legislature, Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation, for Samuel M. Williams, Acting Secretary of Revenue, Kansas Department of Revenue.Confirmation presentation of Samuel M. Williams "explaining who I am, how I work, and what I desire to accomplish, not for me but the people of this great state, Kansas.
Armon Williams
No full textThe Oklahoma A&M College World War I Veterans collection captures the memories and experiences of the men and women of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College who served in World War I. In 1919, a project headed by Maude Cass, the editor of the 1919 Redskin; Professor Maroney of the Department of History; Margaret Walters, Librarian; and J.W. Cantwell, the College President, was undertaken to survey these veterans. The surveys were returned along with photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings documenting these veterans’ experiences during World War I
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[Photograph of Byrd Williams III]
No full textPhotograph of Byrd Williams III, husband of Doris Williams who photographed him sitting on a park bend at the Breckenridge Park in San Antonio. On the back of the photograph in Doris Williams handwriting it reads, "I took the pictures - DSW. B. M. Williams III, Breckenridge Park, San Antonio, Texas. 1949." Doris also crossed out the wrong photographic information on the back
Decisions made on scant information: overview
No full textThis chapter brings an overview to an edited book that looks at how decisions can be made at the front-end of major projects, in circumstances where information is usually scant. The book examines how projects can be successfully aligned with the desired direction; how sufficient, appropriate and valid information can be gathered at the front-end; how information can be analysed; and finally how decisions can be made. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert in the field, and each chapter speaks for itself. However, some key themes run throughout the book. These include the need for alignment between organisational strategy and the project concept; dealing with complexity, in particular the systemicity and interrelatedness within project decisions; consideration of the ambiguity implicit in all major projects; taking into account psychological and political biases within estimation of benefits and costs; consideration of the social geography and politics within decision-making groups; and preparation for the turbulence within the project environment, including the maintenance of strategic alignment
Monoportula P. A. Sims & D. M. Williams, nov. gen.
No full text<i>Monoportula</i> P.A.Sims & D.M.Williams nov. gen. <p> <b>Registration</b>: http://phycobank.org/103661</p> <p> Type species:— <i>Monoportula uralensis</i> (Strelnikova) P.A.Sims & D.M.Williams nov. comb.</p> <p>Frustules cylindrical, valve face circular, flat. Valve face bordered by expanded marginal ridge separating it from vertical mantle. Areolae poroid, on valve face arranged in interrupted radial and sub-radial rows extending from off-centre hyaline area from which a stout spine extends. Scattered spinules cover valve face disturbing areolar arrangement. Mantle areolae in vertical rows situated between hyaline marginal ridge and hyaline valve margin. Mantle areolae covered by network of anastomosing costae. Internally areolae sunk in rows between hyaline ribs, areolae becoming more numerous towards valve margin. One (1) rimoportula present, its external opening through stout tube expanded at its summit, internally as slit between raised lips.</p>Published as part of <i>Williams, David M., Sims, Pat A. & Witkowski, Jakub, 2023, Notes on the rare Cretaceous species Syndetocystis uralensis Strelnikova leading to the description of a new monotypic genus Monoportula P. A. Sims et D. M. Williams nov. gen., pp. 219-224 in Phytotaxa 595 (2)</i> on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7905940">http://zenodo.org/record/7905940</a>
Spontaneous and cued gaze-following in autism and Williams syndrome
No full textBackground: From a young age the typical development of social functioning relies upon the allocation of attention to socially relevant information, which in turn allows experience at processing such information and thus enhances social cognition. As such, research has attempted to identify the developmental processes that are derailed in some neuro-developmental disorders that impact upon social functioning. Williams syndrome (WS) and Autism are disorders of development that are characterized by atypical yet divergent social phenotypes and atypicalities of attention to people. Methods: We used eye tracking to explore how individuals with WS and Autism attended to, and subsequently interpreted, an actor’s eye gaze cue within a social scene. Images were presented for three seconds, initially with an instruction simply to look at the picture. The images were then shown again, with the participant asked to identify the object being looked at. Allocation of eye-gaze in each condition was analyzed by ANOVA and accuracy of identification was compared with t-tests. Results: Participants with WS allocated more gaze time to face and eyes than their matched controls both with and without being asked to identify the item being looked at; while participants with Autism spent less time on face and eyes in both conditions. When cued to follow gaze, participants with WS increased gaze to the correct targets, while those with Autism looked more at the face and eyes but did not increase gaze to the correct targets, while continuing to look much more than their controls at implausible targets. Both groups identified fewer objects than their controls. Conclusions: The atypicalities found are likely to be entwined with the deficits shown in interpreting social cognitive cues from the images. WS and Autism are characterised by atypicalities of social attention that impact upon socio-cognitive expertise but importantly the type of atypicality is syndrome-specific
Evaluation of the sums
No full textsummary:The convolution sum is evaluated for and all . This completes the partial evaluation given in the paper of J. G. Huard, Z. M. Ou, B. K. Spearman, K. S. Williams
Raymond Williams and the limits of cultural materialism
No full textCultural materialism has become an influential discipline in recent
years, particularly so in 'Renaissance' studies, but also more generally in
'English', as well as departments defined as practising 'cultural' or
'communications' studies. The phrase is usually linked with the name of
Raymond Williams, but a cursory examination of Williams's own work
quickly establishes that it is a phrase he rarely uses, and only schematically
attempts to define. The thesis therefore takes the form of an investigation into
the way cultural materialism has come to be understood, by examining in
detail the trajectory of Raymond Williams's theoretical development, and how
his own engagement with various theoretical positions has helped to set
'limits' on the meaning of cultural materialism.
Chapters 1 and 2 deal with some of Williams's earliest work,
particularly Reading and Criticism, as a way of investigating how reasonable
it is to tag him as a 'Left-Leavisite', arguing that Leavis's undoubted
influence is resisted (though not entirely rejected) from a very early stage. The
first chapter considers in detail Leavis's work at Cambridge, the influence of
Eliot, and the significance of the 'Organic Community'. Chapter 2, which is
based around a comparative analysis of Williams's and Leavis's readings of
Dickens, argues that Williams rejects the 'organic community' in favour of his
'knowable community'. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with specific 'theoretical'
issues: the first, based around a reading of Terry Eagleton's critique of
Williams's use of the Marxist metaphor of 'base and superstructure', shows
some of the problems which arise from Williams's cultural model, as well as
suggesting refinements; the second deals with the influence of Volosinov's
theories on Williams. Chapter 6 comes out of Williams's readings of the
'Country-House' poems in The Country and the City, showing how his
practice of literary criticism relies on an acceptance of 'ideology' apparently
denied in his more 'theoretical' writings. This analysis is extended as a result
of investigations into the 'De L'Isle' manuscripts relating to the Penshurst
estate. Chapter 7 argues that it is possible to see the work of Fredric Jameson
as developing Williams's cultural materialism into Jameson's debates on
postmodernism.
In the Introduction and Conclusion, I have taken the opportunity to
look briefly at the activity of cultural materialism as it has developed since
Raymond Williams's death in 1988. The Introduction emphasizes what I see
to be important methodological differences between 'cultural materialism'
and 'new historicism'; the Conclusion deals with the continuing debate over
the value of a cultural materialist approach by considering the 'appropriation'
of Shakespeare
Ulnaria longissima Van de Vijver & D. M. Williams 2022
No full text<i>Ulnaria longissima</i> (W.Sm.) Van de Vijver & D.M.Williams 2022: 2 <p> Basionym: <i>Synedra longissima</i> W.Sm. 1853: 72, pl. 12, fig. 95</p> <p> Synonyms: <i>Synedra ulna</i> var. <i>longissima</i> (W.Sm.) Grunow 1862: 395</p> <p> <i>Syndera ulna</i> var. <i>longissima</i> (W.Sm.) Brun 1880: 126</p> <p> <i>Synedra pulchella</i> var. <i>longissima</i> (W.Sm.) H.Schönf. 1907: 104</p> <p> <i>Ctenophora pulchella</i> var. <i>longissima</i> (W.Sm.) H.Schönf. 1907: 104, 248</p> <p> TYpe:— ENgLaND, “ POND iN BOtaNic GaRDeN, BeLfast, 1850, <i>Dr. Dickie</i> ” <b>BR</b> VI-46-B11, lectotype; BM 23758–60, BM 25314, BM 51036, isolectotypes.</p>Published as part of <i>Williams, David M. & Vijver, Bart Van De, 2023, The diatom genus Ctenophora: A discussion on its morphology, relationships, and some species, pp. 1-26 in Phytotaxa 632 (1)</i> on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10435352">http://zenodo.org/record/10435352</a>
Incomplete contracts, vertical integration and product market competition
No full textThis paper adopts an incomplete contracts approach to vertical integration, relating the choice of ownership structure explicitly to the investment incentives of self-interested agents. In particular, we focus on the dependence of equilibrium industry ownership structure on two key influences: the relative effectiveness of upstream (versus downstream) investment and the toughness of final product market competition. Concentrating asset ownership in downstream hands encourages specialisation in final good production, at the expense of valuable investment in input production. The attractions of foreclosure-inducing integration are found to decrease with the relative effectiveness of upstream investment, but vary non-monotonically with increases in the toughness of competition
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