Contaminated Sediment Transport During Floodsl

Over the past 48 years, operations and waste disposal activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have resulted in the contamination of parts of the White Oak Creek catchment. The contaminants presenting the highest risk to human health and the environment are particle reactive and are associated with the soils and sediments in the White Oak Creek drainage system. The erosion of these sediments during floods can result in the transport of contaminants both within the catchment and off-site into the Clinch River. A data collection program and a modeling investigation are being used to evaluate the probability of contaminated sediment transport during floods and to develop strategies for controlling off-site transport under present and future conditions

Character Recognition Using A Modular Spatiotemporal Connectionist Model

We describe a connectionist model for recognizing handprinted characters. Instead of treating the input as a static signal, the image is scanned over time and converted into a time-varying signal. The temporalized image is processed by a spatiotemporal connectionist network suitable for dealing with time-varying signals. The resulting system offers several attractive features, including shift-invariance and inherent retention of local spatial relationships along the temporalized axis, a reduction in the number of free parameters, and the ability to process images of arbitrary length. Connectionist networks were chosen as they offer learnability, rapid recognition, and attractive commercial possibilities. A modular and structured approach was taken in order to simplify network construction, optimization and analysis. Results on the task of handprinted digit recognition are among the best report to date on a set of real-world ZIP code digit images, provided by the United States Postal Service. The system achieved a 99.1% recognition rate on the training set and a 96.0% recognition rate on the test set with no rejections. A 99.0% recognition rate on the test set was achieved when 14.6% of the images were rejected

The RAFOS System

The RAFOS float is a small neutrally buoyant subsurface order, which, like its big brother the SOFAR float, uses the deep sound (or SOFAR) channel to determine its position as a function of time. Whereas the SOFAR float transmits to moored receivers, the ∼12 kg glass pipe RAFOS float listens for accurately timed signals from moored sound sources to determine its position. The acoustic signal detection and norm of data are all handled by a CMOS microprocessor in the float. The data are recovered at the end of its mission when the float surface and telemeters its memory contents to Systeme Argos, a satellite-borne platform location and data collection system. Just a few sound sources provide navigation for an arbitrary number of floats

Déporter : politiques de déportation et répression en France occupée : 1940-1944

Deportations by means of large-scale transports of 1,000 people, small convoys of 50 prisoners, killing executions, reckless slaughter. ... German repression in Occupied France took many forms. The measure of this repression that claimed the largest number of victims in Occupied France from 1940 to 1944 was deportation. Tens of thousands - at least 60,500 people from France's northern and southern occupied zones - were subject to this enormous forced transfer to the Reich's concentrationary and prison systems. This study demonstrates that to comprehend deportees as a group, we must first focus on the steps involved in their deportation. The concept of deportation policies has enabled us to think through such a process. By envisaging deportation as a congeries of policies, we can examine the objectives of the Germans, specify transfer conditions, and explain their results. Further, this work offers an indispensable contextualization by placing these deportation policies within the larger framework of the repressive methods established in Occupied France. Finally, because this subject could not be delimited and explored using this approach after the World War Il, we discuss the function of representations and of memory, as well as their ramifications for historiography.Déportations dans des grands transports de mille personnes, petits convois d'une cinquantaine de détenus, fusillades, massacres aveugles ... La répression allemande en France occupée fut multiforme. La déportation fut une forme de cette répression, celle qui fit le plus de victimes en France occupée entre 1940 et 1944. Ce fut un vaste transfert forcé de dizaines de milliers de personnes vers le système concentrationnaire et carcéral du Reich: d'au moins 60 500 personnes depuis les zones nord et sud occupées. Ce travail entend démontrer que pour connaître le groupe de ces déportés, il faut d'abord cerner les processus à l'œuvre dans leur déportation. Pour cela, nous avons pensé le processus grâce à la notion de politiques de déportation. Elle permet de réfléchir aux objectifs des acteurs allemands, de cerner les procédures des transferts et d'exposer leurs résultats. Ce travail propose également une indispensable mise en perspective de ces politiques de déportation avec l'ensemble du dispositif répressif mis en place en France occupée. Enfin, parce que cet objet n'avait pu être défini et travaillé après la guerre en suivant cette approche, nous expliciterons 1e rôle des représentations, des mémoires et leurs conséquences sur l'historiographie

The Ursinus Weekly, May 5, 1958

Queen, dances, play highlight of May Day • Meistersingers\u27 Spring tour proves successful • Band to present Spring concert May Day weekend • YM-YWCA retreat proves successful • Freshmen women elect soph rulers • Men\u27s student government assoc. elections held Wednesday, May 7 • Bellairs heads WSGA; T. Clair YMCA prexy • Goldsmith\u27s farce staged May 8, 9, 10 • Editorial: Conscience on campus • Road to war • Letters to the editor • Review of a 15 act comedy • UC netmen drop matches; F&M, Haverford victors • Women\u27s tennis teams win opening matches • LeCato takes 2nd in Middle States girls\u27 tennis • Bear cindermen drop four in row • Pancoast wins 100th as Ursinus coach, 5-0 • Delta Mu Sigma sweeps inter-fraternity track • April Library accessionshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1406/thumbnail.jp

Cyclic Sieving of Increasing Tableaux and small Schr\"oder Paths

An increasing tableau is a semistandard tableau with strictly increasing rows and columns. It is well known that the Catalan numbers enumerate both rectangular standard Young tableaux of two rows and also Dyck paths. We generalize this to a bijection between rectangular 2-row increasing tableaux and small Schr\"oder paths. We demonstrate relations between the jeu de taquin for increasing tableaux developed by H. Thomas and A. Yong and the combinatorics of tropical frieze patterns. We then use this jeu de taquin to present new instances of the cyclic sieving phenomenon of V. Reiner, D. Stanton, and D. White, generalizing results of D. White and of J. Stembridge.Comment: 20 page

Perceptions towards aqua-based exercise among older adults with osteoarthritis who have discontinued participation in this exercise mode

Aim: This study aimed to investigate reasons for ceasing participation in aqua-based exercise among older adults with osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: Eleven adults over 60 years of age with OA participated in one of two focus groups, during which they discussed barriers to aqua-based exercise and the potential benefits of this exercise mode. Each focus group was audiotaped, transcribed and then analysed using the general inductive thematic approach. The investigators reached a consensus on all coding categories and then identified themes. Results: Key barriers identified were: a lack of suitable classes; insufficient instructor knowledge, which often led to increased pain; cold water and the changing facilities. Key perceived benefits included increased physical ability in water and social interaction. Conclusions: A greater understanding of reasons for ceasing participation in aqua-based exercise among older adults with OA may help facilitate development of suitable exercise programs that minimise barriers for this group

The Ursinus Weekly, January 20, 1958

Polishuk explains space satellite, jets and rockets • Satchmo to play at Villanova, Feb. 9 • Junior pre-meds to take test May 3 • Work camps in Philadelphia • Final fling well attended • Faculty entertain at fireside chats • Foreign films featured by Philadelphia society • Ursinus Forum announces Spring semester speakers • Ursinus receives grant from du Pont • Chi Alpha to hear talk on Paul Tillich; Schedules discussion of Sartre work • Editorial: Fuel will brighten the Lantern • Power of love • Campus stickouts • Bumble puppy: A new game • UC varsity & JV hoopers bow to Blue Hens, PMC • UC red and black league intramural games begin • UC matmen win 2nd, 3rd as Garnels and Lions fall • Adam and Evesdroppinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1398/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 24, 1958

Martin Zippin to speak at Y seminar on art, Feb. 26 • Grundy crowned; Whitians named at annual Lorelei • Army med service topic at pre-med meeting tonite • Seniors present Gold in the hills March 7 and 8 • Campus Chest \u2758 charities • Ursinus photo enthusiast shows camera art in UC Library foyer • Freshman women get colors at ceremonies • Cub & Key Society requests outlines from junior men • WSGA names May queen - J. Martin; Molitor, manager • Tau Sig and Sig Rho dance held Saturday night • Editorial: Art and the student • Nothing new under Ur sun (us) • Ode to idiots • Letters to the editor • Ursinus wrestlers visit Wilkes for meet, Fri. and Sat. • Swimming and basketball finds belles victorious • U.C. cagers downed again; PMC & Swarthmore victors • Matmen trounce PMC; Record now 5 wins, one loss • Sophomores elect Drummond and Watson to MSGAhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1400/thumbnail.jp