ABSTRACTS

AbstractThe purpose of this department is to give sufficient information about the subject matter of each publication to enable users to decide whether to read it. It is our intention to cover all books, articles, and other materials in the field.Books for abstracting and eventual review should be sent to this department. Materials should be sent to Prof. David E. Zitarelli, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, U.S.A. (e-mail: [email protected])Readers are invited to send reprints, autoabstracts, corrections, additions, and notices of publications that have been overlooked. Be sure to include complete bibliographic information, as well as transliteration and translation for non-European languages. We need volunteers willing to cover one or more journals for this department.In order to facilitate reference and indexing, entries are given abstract numbers which appear at the end following the symbol #. A triple numbering system is used: the first number indicates the volume, the second the issue number, and the third the sequential number within that issue. For example, the abstracts for Volume 20, Number 1, are numbered: 20.1.1, 20.1.2, 20.1.3, etc.For reviews and abstracts published in Volumes 1 through 13 there are anauthor indexin Volume 13, Number 4, and asubject indexin Volume 14, Number 1.The initials in parentheses at the end of an entry indicate the abstractor. In this issue there are abstracts by Vı́ctor Albis (Bogotá), Irving Anellis (Ames, IA), Thomas L. Bartlow (Villanova, PA), David Bressoud (St. Paul, MN), Catherine Goldstein (Paris), Herbert Kasube (Peoria, IL), Albert C. Lewis (Hamilton), Laura Nurzia (Reading, GB), James V. Rauff (Decatur, IL), Paul Wolfson (West Chester), and David E. Zitarelli

Battle of the Brains: Election-Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age

This dissertation examines journalists' early encounters with computers as tools for news reporting, focusing on election-night forecasting in 1952. Although election night 1952 is frequently mentioned in histories of computing and journalism as a quirky but seminal episode, it has received little scholarly attention. This dissertation asks how and why election night and the nascent field of television news became points of entry for computers in news reporting. The dissertation argues that although computers were employed as pathbreaking "electronic brains" on election night 1952, they were used in ways consistent with a long tradition of election-night reporting. As central events in American culture, election nights had long served to showcase both news reporting and new technology, whether with 19th-century devices for displaying returns to waiting crowds or with 20th-century experiments in delivering news by radio. In 1952, key players - television news broadcasters, computer manufacturers, and critics - showed varied reactions to employing computers for election coverage. But this computer use in 1952 did not represent wholesale change. While live use of the new technology was a risk taken by broadcasters and computer makers in a quest for attention, the underlying methodology of forecasting from early returns did not represent a sharp break with pre-computer approaches. And while computers were touted in advance as key features of election-night broadcasts, the "electronic brains" did not replace "human brains" as primary sources of analysis on election night in 1952. This case study chronicles the circumstances under which a new technology was employed by a relatively new form of the news media. On election night 1952, the computer was deployed not so much to revolutionize news reporting as to capture public attention. It functioned in line with existing values and practices of election-night journalism. In this important instance, therefore, the new technology's technical features were less a driving force for adoption than its usefulness as a wonder and as a symbol to enhance the prestige of its adopters. This suggests that a new technology's capacity to provide both technical and symbolic social utility can be key to its chances for adoption by the news media

The Carnegie curve

The Earth’s fair weather atmospheric electric field shows, in clean air, an average daily variation which follows universal time, globally independent of the measurement position. This single diurnal cycle variation (maximum around 19UT and minimum around 03UT) is widely known as the Carnegie curve, after the geophysical survey vessel of the Carnegie Institution of Washington on which the original measurement campaigns demonstrating the universal time variation were undertaken. The Carnegie curve’s enduring importance is in providing a reference variation against which atmospheric electricity measurements are still compared; it is believed to originate from regular daily variations in atmospheric electrification associated with the different global disturbed weather regions. Details of the instrumentation, measurement principles and data obtained on the Carnegie’s seventh and final cruise are reviewed here, also deriving new harmonic coefficients allowing calculation of the Carnegie curve for different seasons. The additional harmonic analysis now identifies changes in the phasing of the maximum and minimum in the Carnegie curve, which shows a systematic seasonal variation, linked to the solstices and equinoxes, respectively

Science and the Liberal Arts at Ursinus College

Science trend: Moving beyond industrialism • Founders\u27 Day address: Small colleges nurture young scientists well • Physics mentor changed a life • Complex world a challenge for scientists • In government, chemist finds his niche • Ursinus helps non standard student bloom • Ursinus let him explore inner space • Finding the problem is scientist\u27s hardest task • Most wanted: Insatiable curiosity • Real research: Practical or esoteric? • Flexibility is a matter of degree • Liberal arts education prepares minds • The way to encourage young scientistshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/founders_programs/1053/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 27, 1941

Opera stars sing arias; Hocker tells of company aims • Dr. James appeals for basic study of man; award two degrees at Founders\u27 Day service • Varied program shows life of Christ with songs and readings • Grads to return on Saturday for game, alumni luncheon, and dance • \u27Nervous system\u27 and \u27x-rays\u27 are pre-med movie subjects • Frosh foil fifteen foolish frolicers in indecorous invasion intrigue • Carter and Miller visit G-burg to attend historical conclave • Fireside chats to discuss campus, world citizenship • Defense training class enrolls 150 workers in free night school • Miss Snell\u27s charges down Temple Friday, 2-1, to remain undefeated • Baker\u27s booters bow to West Chester Rams; JV\u27s shade Perkiomen • Steinmetz\u27s cubs fall before superior beef of engineer freshmen • Clawing dragons tame reluctant bears, 14-7, in second half scraphttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1767/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 6, 1941

Coulter launches sales campaign for 1942 annual • Enrollment here drops fifty below last year\u27s peak • Adams speaks at first Y vespers; Kooker sings solo • President McClure depicts the role Ursinus can play in defense • Dr. J. L. Barnard passes away after sudden illness • Booster comm. plans Pete Stevens\u27 day and a pep rally Friday • Ursinus offers varied courses in night school for workers in defense • Four attend debate conclave to formulate questions for debate • Terrorized freshman redcaps survive rigors of initial week • Grizzly Gridder due Friday; features Pete Stevens\u27 Day • Ursinus committee wins national prize for essay on The next decade of American foreign policy • Over 750 delegates attend seven summer conferences • Frosh find handbook a directory to campus • Twelve from Ursinus attend June conference at Eagles Mere • Faculty changes made; new prof in physics • Mertz represents Ursinus • Red Devils conquer Stevens\u27 bears in opener by 20-7: Rookie Rehor\u27s passing downs bears Saturday • Forecaster sees good percentage of bear victories • Owls drub bear soccermen 12-0 in game Saturday • Miss Snell drills veteran squad for full schedule • New football coach more than mere grid mentor • Steinmetz to coach Jr. varsity football squad • Ex-Ursinus \u2742, Dick Dennis, lets bride marry best manhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1764/thumbnail.jp

Annual reports of the town and school officials of the town of Warren, New Hampshire 1982.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Annual report of officers town of Piermont, New Hampshire for the year ending December 31, 2009.

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La Salle Magazine Fall 1994

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The Ursinus Weekly, January 11, 1937

$100,000 Ursinus scholarship fund planned by county committee in honor of Omwake • Junior week-end chairmen chosen • Winspear speaks at Sunday forum • Getting married to be presented on Feb. 3 • Fred Wrigley\u27s band at frat-sorority ball • Weekly board approves election of new reporters • Pancoast sets final date on$3.50 Ruby subscription • Ursinus Circle to give tea for girls on Wednesday afternoon • Alumnus kills fox on campus; Poum quits chase, is foxed • Fenton and Roberts scholarships are established at high schools • McClure addresses chamber of commerce at Souderton • Directors discuss retirement annuity plan at fall meeting • Barnard represents Ursinus at social studies convention • Roving reporter interviews male students on pertinent topics; poll discloses Simon and Rogers most popular actresses and Camels the favored cigarette • New radio program affords opportunity for college talent • Bear basketeers swamped in first league games by strong F. & M. & G-burg teams • Grizzly grapplers ready for Penn on Saturday • Cubs to meet Brown Prep in season\u27s opener Wed. • Grizzlies meet Lebanon Valley Wednesday; Albright Saturday • Brodbeck gets undisputed lead of inter-dorm basketball loop • Banquet for hockey team • Council on activities sets evening for annual Lorelei • Roller skating party held tonight by Phys. Ed Club • Frosh elect Dave Hartman to men\u27s student council • May pageant deadline sethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1917/thumbnail.jp