Book review: Dear Sweet Harry

This article reviews the book: “Dear Sweet Harry”, by Lynn Jenner

The Return of the Ring (2016), edited by Lynn Forest-Hill

Book review, by Dennis Wilson Wise, of The Return of the Ring (2 vols, 2016), ed. by Lynn Forest-Hil

Ariel - Volume 12(13) Number 4

Co-Editors Gary Fishbein Lynn Solomon Business Manager Rich Davis Assistant Business Manager Jeff Lavanier Layout Editors Paul J. Berlin Tracy A. Glauser Photography Editor Ben Alma

Ariel - Volume 12(13) Number 2

Editor Gary Fishbein Production & Business Manager Rich Davis Layout Editor Lynn Solomon Assistant Layout Editors Bessann Dawson Tonie Kline Becky A. Zuurbier Photography Editor Ben Alma

Forensic hypnosis

Hypnosis has long generated controversy as a recall enhancement method. Concerns about hypnosis are warranted by findings of a tradeoff between the number of memories recalled and memory accuracy. Moreover, witnesses often express confidence in hypnotically augmented remembrances, regardless of their accuracy, increasing the risk jurors will be biased based on convincing yet inaccurate information. Although misleading questions appear to be equally or more problematic, raising concerns about singling out hypnosis as a uniquely prejudicial technique, other recall improvement methods (e.g., cognitive interview and asking individuals to do their best to recall target events) appear to pose less memory risks than hypnotic procedures

Faculty of Sciences

A comprehensive study of fuzzy rough sets and their application in data reductio

Medieval Irish and computational linguistics

This paper will consider the application of some NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques to Medieval Irish texts to provide an alternative perspective on linguistic analyses of such texts. Using Táin Bó Fraích as a case study, I present the outcome of some preliminary experiments. The pilot study starts with the creation of an annotated lexicon as a basis of automated text analysis. Linguistic features such as part of speech information are recorded in a machine-readable representation to assist with subsequent linguistic analysis of this well-studied text. Using CELT’s electronic version of Meid’s 1974 edition, I conduct both statistical and linguistic analyses of textual features such as sentence structure, lexical frequency and grammatical types. I use the results of this analysis to raise some tentative suggestions regarding Táin Bó Fraích, and in particular the frequently noted relationship between the two distinct sections. On this basis I hope to make some suggestions about the potential usefulness of applying some NLP techniques to Medieval Irish

[Business Receipt], 1868, June 8, Lynn and Boston Express, Boston, Mass., [to] D.A. Blackington

A receipt of payment, issued June 8, 1868 from Lynn and Boston Express of Boston, Mass., issued to Mr. D.A. Blackington of Lynn, Mass. 12 x 21 cm

Precise Measurements of Atmospheric Muon Fluxes with the BESS Spectrometer

The vertical absolute fluxes of atmospheric muons and muon charge ratio have been measured precisely at different geomagnetic locations by using the BESS spectrometer. The observations had been performed at sea level (30 m above sea level) in Tsukuba, Japan, and at 360 m above sea level in Lynn Lake, Canada. The vertical cutoff rigidities in Tsukuba (36.2 N, 140.1 E) and in Lynn Lake (56.5 N, 101.0 W) are 11.4 GV and 0.4 GV, respectively. We have obtained vertical fluxes of positive and negative muons in a momentum range from 0.6 to 20 GeV/c with systematic errors less than 3 % in both measurements. By comparing the data collected at two different geomagnetic latitudes, we have seen an effect of cutoff rigidity. The dependence on the atmospheric pressure and temperature, and the solar modulation effect have been also clearly observed. We also clearly observed the decrease of charge ratio of muons at low momentum side with at higher cutoff rigidity region.Comment: 35 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Astroparticle Physic