The New Orleans Opera Association

This detailed report of a registration internship at the New Orleans Opera Association includes an organizational profile, a description of the activities performed during the internship, an analysis of an organization, recommendations for improvement, and a discussion of the short and long term effects of the internship

Goddard Visiting Scientist Program for the Space and Earth Sciences Directorate

A visiting scientist program was conducted in the space and earth sciences at GSFC. Research was performed in the following areas: astronomical observations; broadband x-ray spectral variability; ground-based spectroscopic and photometric studies; Seyfert galaxies; active galactic nuclei (AGN); massive stellar black holes; the differential microwave radiometer (DMR) onboard the cosmic background explorer (COBE); atmospheric models; and airborne and ground based radar observations. The specific research efforts are detailed by tasks

A Structure-Model for the Hamlet-Tradition

The hero-as-fool structure-model for the Hamlet-story proposed by William F. Hansen is modified into an Amlethan structure-model with five major elements: ( 1) the Usurpation; (2) the First Test (of the Maiden); (3) the Second Test (of the Mother); (4) the Third Test (of the Journey); and (5) the Revenge. The first and last elements emphasize the avenging son aspect of the story whereas the middle three elements emphasize the hero-as-fool aspect. The Amlethan structure-model is then re-applied to the two essential texts in the tradition, Saxo Grammaticus\u27 narrative of Amleth (c. 1200) and William Shakespeare\u27s play Hamlet (c. 1600). Several contrasting themes within the tradition (truth/seeming, moderation/excess, Christian/pagan) are explored, as is the recurring use of sea and growth-cycle imagery and the effects that these themes and imagery have on characterization. After brief introductions to several Hamlet-texts as they occur in narrative, dramatic, and lyric modes, the Amlethan structure-model and theme-analysis is applied more fully to three Hamlet-texts: Henry Treece\u27s 1966 novel The Green Man; Michael O\u27Brien\u27s 1995 play Mad Boy Chronicle; and Ambroise Thomas\u27 1868 opera Hamlet

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education: A guide to record series supporting epidemiologic studies conducted for the Department of Energy

This guide describes record series that pertain to epidemiologic and health-related studies at the Center for Epidemiologic Research (CER) of the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). These records document the health and safety monitoring of employees and contract employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor organizations, the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). History Associates Incorporated (HAI) prepared this guide as part of DOE`s Epidemiologic Records Inventory Project. This introduction briefly describes the Epidemiologic Records Inventory Project, HAI`s role in the project, the history of the DOE and its epidemiologic research program, and the history of the Oak Ridge Reservation and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. It also furnishes information on the procedures that HAI sued to select, inventory, and describe pertinent records; the methodology used to produce the guide; the arrangement of the record series descriptions; the location of the records; and procedures for accessing records repositories

Rethinking the risk matrix

So far risk has been mostly defined as the expected value of a loss, mathematically PL (being P the probability of an adverse event and L the loss incurred as a consequence of the adverse event). The so called risk matrix follows from such definition. This definition of risk is justified in a long term “managerial” perspective, in which it is conceivable to distribute the effects of an adverse event on a large number of subjects or a large number of recurrences. In other words, this definition is mostly justified on frequentist terms. Moreover, according to this definition, in two extreme situations (high-probability/low-consequence and low-probability/high-consequence), the estimated risk is low. This logic is against the principles of sustainability and continuous improvement, which should impose instead both a continuous search for lower probabilities of adverse events (higher and higher reliability) and a continuous search for lower impact of adverse events (in accordance with the fail-safe principle). In this work a different definition of risk is proposed, which stems from the idea of safeguard: (1Risk)=(1P)(1L). According to this definition, the risk levels can be considered low only when both the probability of the adverse event and the loss are small. Such perspective, in which the calculation of safeguard is privileged to the calculation of risk, would possibly avoid exposing the Society to catastrophic consequences, sometimes due to wrong or oversimplified use of probabilistic models. Therefore, it can be seen as the citizen’s perspective to the definition of risk

University of Windsor Undergraduate Calendar 2000-2001

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Library buildings around the world

"Library Buildings around the World" is a survey based on researches of several years. The objective was to gather library buildings on an international level starting with 1990