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Exploring the New South Agenda in the Records of Southern Colleges and Universities
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Restaurant in which he called for the South to lift itself out of its slump of poverty, backwardness, and defeatism, and make itself over into a New South. In this speech, soon to be known as the New South speech, Grady stated: The Old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement-a social system compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core-a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace-and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex age. The two main goals of the New South agenda, industrialization and agricultural diversification, were thus set forth in this ringing manner
Signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way disc I: The SEGUE stellar sample
It is now known that minor mergers are capable of creating structure in the
phase-space distribution of their host galaxy's disc. In order to search for
such imprints in the Milky Way, we analyse the SEGUE F/G-dwarf and the Schuster
et al. (2006) stellar samples. We find similar features in these two completely
independent stellar samples, consistent with the predictions of a Milky Way
minor-merger event. We next apply the same analyses to high-resolution,
idealised N-body simulations of the interaction between the Sagittarius dwarf
galaxy and the Milky Way. The energy distributions of stellar particle samples
in small spatial regions in the host disc reveal strong variations of structure
with position. We find good matches to the observations for models with a mass
of Sagittarius' dark matter halo progenitor M.
Thus, we show that this kind of analysis could be used to provide
unprecedentedly tight constraints on Sagittarius' orbital parameters, as well
as place a lower limit on its mass.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Revised to reflect accepted versio
The celestial city brought down to earth : Dmitrij Cernákov's interpretation of Rimskij-Korsakov's opera the invisible city of Kitež and the Maiden Fevronia
Rimsky-Korsakov's penultimate opera is tied to the symbolist movement in fin de siècle Russia. Although the composer did not intend it as a mystical work in the wake of Wagner's Parsifal, his symbolist collaborators invested much symbolist thinking in the production. In contemporary reception, however, the eschatological focus of the work is hard to adjust to the expectations of modern audiences. This paper discusses the solutions elaborated by the Russian stage director Dimitry Tcherniakov in his production for the National Opera in Amsterdam. Tcherniakov succeeded to manipulate the work into the direction of a social and psychological drama. This paper analyses the strategies he employed to arrive at such a significant change of meaning without violating its spiritual tone
A gravitational memory effect in "boosted" black hole perturbation theory
Black hole perturbation theory, or more generally, perturbation theory on a
Schwarzschild bockground, has been applied in several contexts, but usually
under the simplifying assumption that the ADM momentum vanishes, namely, that
the evolution is carried out and observed in the ``center of momentum frame''.
In this paper we consider some consequences of the inclusion of a non vanishing
ADM momentum in the initial data. We first provide a justification for the
validity of the transformation of the initial data to the ``center of momentum
frame'', and then analyze the effect of this transformation on the
gravitational wave amplitude. The most significant result is the possibility of
a type of gravitational memory effect that appears to have no simple relation
with the well known Christodoulou effect.Comment: REVTexIV, 15 pages, 2 EPS figure
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Theory-driven learning : using intra-example relationships to constrain learning
We describe an incremental learning algorithm, called theory-driven learning, that creates rules to predict the effect of actions. Theory-driven learning exploits knowledge of regularities among rules to constrain the learning problem. We demonstrate that this knowledge enables the learning system to rapidly converge on accurate predictive rules and to tolerate more complex training data. An algorithm for incrementally learning these regularities is described and we provide evidence that the resulting regularities are sufficiently general to facilitate learning in new domains
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