A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature

The word kaleidoscope comes from a Greek phrase meaning to view a beautiful form, and this report makes the leap of faith that all scholarship is beautiful (Ayers 2005b). This review is divided into three major sections. Part I offers a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature and identifies the prevailing concerns of specialists in the field as expressed during interviews conducted between July 2004 and May 2005. Part two of the report consolidates the results of these interviews with an exploration of resources currently available to illustrate, on the one hand, a kaleidoscope of differing attitudes and assessments, and, on the other, an underlying design that gives shape to the parts. Part three examines six categories of digital work in progress: (1) quality-controlled subject gateways, (2) author studies, (3) public domain e-book collections and alternative publishing models, (4) proprietary reference resources and full-text primary source collections, (5) collections by design, and (6) teaching applications. This survey is informed by a selective review of the recent literature, focusing especially on contributions from scholars that have appeared in discipline-based journals

Pathways To Civil War

This dissertation is about conflict escalation to civil war, and examines why some political confrontations escalate and why principal conflict actors continue fighting rather than reaching a number of political arrangements at various points of the course of conflict. Unlike previous studies, this study treats the progression to civil war as one of complex alternate paths. In so doing, building on the perspective of asymmetric information (i.e. uncertainty) problems as a cause of war, this study claims that involving each conflict actor\u27s cognitive variances about its opponent\u27s willingness to resolve and military strength would bolster either side\u27s costly military mobilization and boil over into civil war. Four extant hypotheses on conflict escalation and two specific propositions from a two-sided uncertainty perspective are tested with ordered and binary multiple logistic regression analyses against state-year aggregated data on government repression and armed resistance levels as well as civil war onset from 1976 to 2000. A comparative case illustration of the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1976 and the Northern Ireland conflict of 1970-1998 further illuminates the internal conflict dynamics toward or away from civil war, examining the emergence of principal and secondary armed actors in the course of conflict. Both the quantitative and qualitative studies provide evidence for the roles of uncertainty in either government leaders\u27 or armed rebel leaders\u27 decisions to fight or make certain concessions, while demonstrating that structural, institutional, demographic, and insurgent-favorable factors help explain the causes and persistence of `initial\u27 communal violence, armed resistance, and government repression. The study concludes with substantive policy implications for preventing conflict escalation and calls for stepping up efforts at establishing actor-based theoretical underpinnings to understand civil war as multi-interdependent reciprocal processes

Volume 18, Issue 2 (Fall 1982)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Law Day 1982 Attorney General Bowers Distinguished Service Scroll Faculty Research and Service Student News Roster of Employment, 1981 Alumni Features Advocate Index New Endowment Funds Announcement

Trinity College Alumni Magazine, May 1960

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Alternative Methods to Standby Gain Scheduling Following Air Data System Failure

The United States Air Force has advanced fighter aircraft that lose the ability to operate in a large portion of their operating flight envelope when an air data system failure is experienced. These aircraft are reverted to a fixed set of standby-gains that limit their maneuverability, degrade handling qualities, and increase susceptibility to departure. The purpose of this research was to determine if three alternative methods of standby-gain-scheduling could provide robust control with minimal performance degradation despite the lack of air data. To accomplish this, three methods of standby-gain-scheduling were developed, integrated, and tested in the Infinity Cube simulator at the Air Force Research Laboratory/RBCD building. The first method improved upon an algorithm which used inertial data to estimate an aircraft\u27s true velocity used to drive the gains in an F-16 controller. This algorithm was validated by post-processing high-fidelity simulator data and actual flight data. The second method simply used inertial velocities to drive the gains in an F-16 controller. The final method used a disturbance observer controller which controlled aircraft dynamics without the use of gain-scheduling. The results showed the potential for effective aircraft control with minimal performance degradation following an air data system failure. Potential benefits to this research include eliminating the need to make switch actuations to correctly schedule the standby-gains; improving aircraft performance when flying with standby-gains; allowing the pilot to continue with a combat mission instead of returning to base with an air data system failure; and helping contribute to the removal of Pitot tubes in an attempt to eliminate a failure mode and to reduce the radar cross section of an aerial vehicle

Arts and Sciences Explorer 2010

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Arts and Sciences Explorer 2010

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