Communicating Mission and Building Library Brand Using Taglines, Slogans, or Logos

We live in a visual society. Everywhere you go, you can see various eye-catching logos, trademarks, service marks, and other identifying marks for organizations. These extend to the Internet, perhaps the most eye-appealing resource ever, where librarians increasingly use its power and reach to communicate with their publics using Flash, animated GIFs, and both audio and video messages

The development and evaluation of exercises in meaningful word practice in first grade,

Research chapter for this study will be found in Ash, Dorothea: "Development and evaluation of silent reading exercises in grade one" Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ: Messages About Masculinities and Fame in Online Video Conversations

With the availability of relatively easy-to-use tools for online video creation and distribution, people are increasingly producing videos not just for artistic expression, but also as a form of communication. This article examines two types of online video conversations, one within a specific online subculture, and one a series of responses to one particularly wellknown video. Videos lend themselves to the expression of ambiguity, contradictory meanings, taboo topics, and emotions. Within these two video conversations, topics include discussions of masculinity, identity, and fame.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

A Direct Multigrid Poisson Solver for Oct-Tree Adaptive Meshes

We describe a finite-volume method for solving the Poisson equation on oct-tree adaptive meshes using direct solvers for individual mesh blocks. The method is a modified version of the method presented by Huang and Greengard (2000), which works with finite-difference meshes and does not allow for shared boundaries between refined patches. Our algorithm is implemented within the FLASH code framework and makes use of the PARAMESH library, permitting efficient use of parallel computers. We describe the algorithm and present test results that demonstrate its accuracy.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal; minor revisions in response to referee's comments; added char

New York Rally Speech

Speech for campaign rally at Temple Kehilath Jeshrun, New York, NY, October 29, 1984.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_speeches_1984/1075/thumbnail.jp

A general hybrid radiation transport scheme for star formation simulations on an adaptive grid

Radiation feedback plays a crucial role in the process of star formation. In order to simulate the thermodynamic evolution of disks, filaments, and the molecular gas surrounding clusters of young stars, we require an efficient and accurate method for solving the radiation transfer problem. We describe the implementation of a hybrid radiation transport scheme in the adaptive grid-based FLASH general magnetohydrodynamics code. The hybrid scheme splits the radiative transport problem into a raytracing step and a diffusion step. The raytracer captures the first absorption event, as stars irradiate their environments, while the evolution of the diffuse component of the radiation field is handled by a flux-limited diffusion (FLD) solver. We demonstrate the accuracy of our method through a variety of benchmark tests including the irradiation of a static disk, subcritical and supercritical radiative shocks, and thermal energy equilibration. We also demonstrate the capability of our method for casting shadows and calculating gas and dust temperatures in the presence of multiple stellar sources. Our method enables radiation-hydrodynamic studies of young stellar objects, protostellar disks, and clustered star formation in magnetized, filamentary environments.Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted to Ap

Raleigh Rally Speech

Speech for campaign rally in Raleigh, NC, October 1, 1984.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_speeches_1984/1041/thumbnail.jp

Greensboro Rally Speech

Speech for campaign rally in Greensboro, NC, October 1, 1984.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_speeches_1984/1040/thumbnail.jp

Moving boulders in flash floods and estimating flow conditions using boulders in ancient deposits

Boulders moving in flash floods cause considerable damage and casualties. More and bigger boulders move in flash floods than predicted from published theory. The interpretation of flow conditions from the size of large particles within flash flood deposits has, until now, generally assumed that the velocity (or discharge) is unchanging in time (i.e. flow is steady), or changes instantaneously between periods of constant conditions. Standard practice is to apply theories developed for steady flow conditions to flash floods, which are however inherently very unsteady flows. This is likely to lead to overestimates of peak flow velocity (or discharge). Flash floods are characterised by extremely rapid variations in flow that generate significant transient forces in addition to the mean-flow drag. These transient forces, generated by rapid velocity changes, are generally ignored in published theories, but they are briefly so large that they could initiate the motion of boulders. This paper develops a theory for the initiation of boulder movement due to the additional impulsive force generated by unsteady flow, and discusses the implications. Keywords