A Calculable Success

Shin Sawada brings the power of an ancient tool to children in the surrounding community

William Faulkner and the oral text

The disjunction between the oral and the literate in the works of William Faulkner reveals the different ways these distinct modes of organization combine to structure a text. The oral in Faulkner\u27s fiction makes its presence known not only as offset speech but also as a mode of action and narrative whose logic is conjunctive rather than disjunctive. According to the literate mode, a form organizes novelistic matter. According to the oral mode, forces that function as signs rather than organizers of their form rule the action and narrative. When the disjunction between the oral and the literate is so complete that oral experience may be displayed and contained but not spoken, the result is the disorienting structures of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!. Yet examination of each of these novels in terms of the relationship between the oral and the literate reveals their apparently unstable structures as ordered nonetheless. Go Down, Moses presents the problem of story and its transmission at a meta-narrative level, according to which each chapter is the part of a whole whose interrelations remain unmediated either by the oral or the literate. As a result, the message transmitted from the past to the present remains embedded within a collage that cannot itself speak it. At the same time, Go Down, Moses contemplates the matter of the oral and the literate at the level of story more explicitly than in the earlier novels, revealing Faulkner\u27s growing respect for an orality that obtains in a literate world. Finally, in The Reivers, Faulkner presents a text in which the literate and the oral are triply enfolded within a narrative technique that allows for the articulation both. And while this technique preserves the fundamental ordering principle of each, it ironically comments upon the limitations of either revealing, in the end, that for Faulkner the literate text is always already oral

Mostly Harmful? Phragmites australis and Typha angustifolia in a study of the meaning of invasiveness in an abandoned limestone quarry and beyond

Purpose Statement: The purpose of this work is to study the language used in invasive species biology, to examine the meaning of the invasive label, and to apply these considerations to a geographical 9 study of Phragmites australis and Typha angustifolia. I will explore current issues with the study of invasive species and present the kind of study for which I advocate. The implications of this work fall into politics, science writing, and resource management. Throughout the work I will be interrogating the definition of invasive species and the associated language used for plants that are called invasive. After an introduction to some of the drawbacks the presence of Phragmites australis and Typha angustifolia have been shown to have in past studies, I will attempt to put aside, until the conclusion of the paper, any preconceived biases against invasive species as a group to fully consider the questions at hand. In my studies I have found that designations authoritatively applied are not so clear as they imply. Given such a lack of clarity, I will argue that the harmfulness of Phragmites australis, Typha angustifolia, and all invasive species must be proven in context. Universal harmfulness cannot be assumed due to an organism’s status as invasive species while this term remains ill-defined and linguistically loaded. The last section of this work will focus on the quarry floor as a landform that is undergoing primary succession which will lead to a climax community which is yet to be determined and the Phragmites australis and Typha angustifolia mapping project that I performed in the fall of 2020 and past students have undertaken in the last fifteen years

The LMP Process: Layered Metal Prototyping of Titanium from Condensed Thin-Films for Microelectromechanical Devices

Layered prototyping of three-dimensional titanium micromechanical components was demonstrated using selected area laser photolysis of liquid-phase organo-metallic and metal halide thin films. Scanning KrF and XeF excimer lasers were employed at 248 and 351 nm, respectively, generating solid titanium traces from condensed precursor films. Multiple layers were patterned to produce high-aspect ratio titanium lines. Laser pulse repetition rate, scan rate, pulse energy, and layer thickness were related to the resulting layer topography. This process is a first step toward layered metal rapid prototyping ofelectronic packaging microstructures and microelectromechanical systems.Mechanical Engineerin

Comparative structural Analysis of Acme and Square thread Screw jack using Autodesk Inventor

A screw jack is a device used to lift the vehicle above the ground level in order to ease repairs. A power screw is designed to translate radial motion to linear motion. Many users are familiar with manually operated car jack which still included as standard equipment in cars. A car jack is an important device in vehicle to change flat tire in our journey. Every year near about 160 injuries are associated with car jacks. The correct use of jacks can prevent the accidents and injuries. Improvement in Design of car jack is really important to make the tool more efficient and user friendly with high safety features. The objectives of this paper is to critically analyze and compare between ACME and SQUARE threads from stress and strain perspective in order to improve the performance from safety and durability point of view for developments in the field of thread design. In this paper selection of two different types of screw threads namely Square and Acme threads. The square threads are named after their square geometry. They are the most efficient power screw, but also the most difficult to machine, thus most expensive. The Acme threads are machining with multipoint cutting tool on thread milling machine, it is an economical operation. Acme threads have more thickness at core diameter than of Square threads therefore a screw with Acme threads is stronger than equivalent screw with Square threads

Geodesic bipancyclicity of the Cartesian product of graphs

A cycle containing a shortest path between two vertices $u$ and $v$ in a graph $G$ is called a $(u,v)$-geodesic cycle. A connected graph $G$ is geodesic 2-bipancyclic, if every pair of vertices $u,v$ of it is contained in a $(u,v)$-geodesic cycle of length $l$ for each even integer $l$ satisfying $2d + 2\leq l \leq |V(G)|,$ where $d$ is the distance between $u$ and $v.$ In this paper, we prove that the Cartesian product of two geodesic hamiltonian graphs is a geodesic 2-bipancyclic graph. As a consequence, we show that for $n \geq 2$ every $n$-dimensional torus is a geodesic 2-bipancyclic graph