Dear Mother, I\u27ll Come Home Again

1. Oh! mother dear I sigh in vain, To live my childhood o\u27er again ... And see thy clear, love beaming eye ... Outshine the stars up in the sky, Oh mother dear bright sunny rays, That give such joy and heav\u27nly bliss, As by thy knee I used to pray, Or climb\u27d to steal affection\u27s kiss. CHORUS: Oh mother dear I sigh in vain To live my childhood o\u27er again, And see thy clear love beaming eye, Outshine the stars up in the sky. Oh! mother dear, Oh! my mother dear. 2. Oh! mother dear, those early scenes, The flow\u27ry fields, and meadows green, As thoughts come back I heave a sigh, And wish for happy days gone by; Long since I left my native shore, But now my heart beats just as then, Tho\u27 miles of sea between us roar, Dear mother I\u27ll come again

Conformation of a horse with respect to gait and draft

Citation: Wilson, Frederick W. Conformation of a horse with respect to gait and draft. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1905.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The legs of a horse are the natural supports and motors of the body. They are segmented and muscled in proportion to the work required of the particular breed to which the horse belongs. They are situated on the lateral faces of the body in front and behind the centre of gravity, the anterior being the nearest to the centre and consequently bear more weight and having a secondary office that of bearing the brunt of concussion. Their propelling action is not marked excepting where the animal is in a slow pace and moving a heavy load. The segments of the leg gradually diminish volume from above to below but they are gradual in number, compactness and resistance. This is very well arranged, for a horse would certainly be clumsy from the weight and inactivity through this combination and would also lower the center of gravity. The posterior members are very different in construction and function to that of the anterior; they bear much less of the brunt of concussion. These members by the inclination of these segments push against the trunk at a given moment where the former are straightened one piece upon the other, thus the angles are obliterated and communicate to the body the needed velocity. These muscles are therefore much larger and numerous than in the fore leg and come more into play when the body is fatigued. This is not so true in the, draft horse because we can easily see by observation that the horse is continually inclined forward when drawing a load. In considering the different angles of the articulations of the horse's limbs we first must recognize that the line of direction should hold certain relations with a vertical line passing through the center of movement

DEVELOPMENT OF A BIAXIAL LOADING FRAME FOR THIN SHEET CRUCIFORM SPECIMENS

Characterization of the evolving yield loci and forming limit diagrams for sheet materials under biaxial loading is necessary for the development of accurate sheet metal forming process simulations. Biaxial tension testing has been shown to have significant advantages over the current computational and experimental methods for such material characterization; however, the few commercially available loading frames are far too large and expensive to be practical for most metal forming research laboratories. To address this problem, the University of New Hampshire’s Mechanics, Materials, and Manufacturing Lab is working to design a practical servohydraulic biaxial loading frame for such metal forming laboratories. The physical system design, fabrication, and component selection was performed previously by a team of mechanical engineering seniors in collaboration with Greenerd Press and Machine Co. To continue the project, this thesis presents the design, implementation, and validation of a PLC-based control system and LabVIEW graphical interface for operating the biaxial loading frame. Experimental data shows that the displacement control system can accurately maintain equal displacement of opposing actuators to within 0.1[mm] for fixed position, 80[mm/min] ramp, and 0.2[Hz] sinusoidal profiles. The selection and mounting position of the hydraulic control valves were found to be the major limiting factor in the abilities of the control system. Preliminary uniaxial and biaxial tension tests with Al-6022-T4 show inconsistent stress-strain responses that cause differing force measurements of up to 8[%] between opposing load cells. The inconsistencies were attributed to the mechanical design of the current frame of the testing machine. Corresponding mechanical, hydraulic, and software/control design improvements are suggested, and plans for the future of the project are discussed

Phase transition in the Ising model on a small-world network with distance-dependent interactions

We study the collective behavior of an Ising system on a small-world network with the interaction $J(r) \propto r^{-\alpha}$, where $r$ represents the Euclidean distance between two nodes. In the case of $\alpha = 0$ corresponding to the uniform interaction, the system is known to possess a phase transition of the mean-field nature, while the system with the short-range interaction $(\alpha\to\infty)$ does not exhibit long-range order at any finite temperature. Monte Carlo simulations are performed at various values of $\alpha$, and the critical value $\alpha_c$ beyond which the long-range order does not emerge is estimated to be zero. Thus concluded is the absence of a phase transition in the system with the algebraically decaying interaction $r^{-\alpha}$ for any nonzero positive value of $\alpha$

Here Today, Gone within a Month: The Fleeting Life of Digital News

In 1989 on the shores of Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with developing technology. TownNews.com has since evolved into an integrated digital publishing and content management system used by more than 1600 newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and web-native publications in North America. TownNews.com is now headquartered on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river in Moline Illinois. Not long ago Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com, noticed that of the 220,000+ e-edition pages posted on behalf of its customers at the beginning of the month, 210,000 were deleted by month’s end. What? The front page story about a local business being sold to an international corporation that I read online September 1 will be gone by September 30? As well as the story about my daughter’s 1st place finish in the district field and track meet? A 2014 national survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) of 70 digital-only and 406 hybrid (digital and print) newspapers conclusively showed that newspaper publishers also do not maintain archives of the content they produce. RJI found a dismal 12% of the “hybrid” newspapers reported even backing up their digital news content and fully 20% of the “digital-only” newspapers reported that they are backing up none of their content. Educopia Institute’s 2012 and 2015 surveys with newspapers and libraries concur, and further demonstrate that the longstanding partner to the newspaper—the library—likewise is neither collecting nor preserving this digital content. This leaves us with a bitter irony, that today, one can find stories published prior to 1922 in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America and other digitized, out-of-copyright newspaper collections but cannot, and never will be able to, read a story published online less than a month ago. In this paper we look at how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. We estimate how much online news is or will soon be forever lost because no one preserves it: not publishers, not libraries, not content management systems, and not the Internet Archive. We delve into some of the reasons why this content is not yet preserved, and we examine the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type. We then suggest a pathway forward, via some initial steps that journalists, producers, legislators, libraries, distributors, and readers may each take to begin to rectify this historical loss going forward

Moments of Assimilation and Accommodation in the Bereavement Counselling Process

Based on the proposition of leading researchers who view grieving as a process of meaning-making and adaptation, the author posited that grief resolution requires learnt adaptation to loss via a process of assimilation and accommodation. This is analogous to constructivist learning seen in children; a view supported by adherents to the psychology of personal constructs. This position was tested with a theory-building case study approach devised by Stiles (2007). An observational protocol was devised which reconciles scientific positivism with relativist methodologies. The counselling sessions of ten bereaved clients were digitally recorded and the transcriptions were subjected to assimilation analysis. Client progress was scored using Stiles’ (2001) Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Scale (APES). Scores were subjected to inter-rater reliability measures to mitigate observer bias. The biology of grief, as evolved adaptive behaviour, was explored. The role of adaptation through assimilation appeared pertinent for some, but not all clients; particularly those whose assumptive world was little changed by their loss. The part played by resilience in adaptation had also been underestimated. However, every client was observed assimilating and accommodating new schemas in relation to the loss. Three categories of meaning were identified: managing the grief, accepting the circumstances of the death, and renegotiating the relationship with the deceased. Using APES as a template, the author devised the Assimilation of Grief Experiences Sequence (AGES) to chart clients’ meaning-making progress towards successful grief resolution. These findings indicate a need for prudence in offering grief counselling, with a primary focus on complicating issues, rather than attachment distress. Future research in a number of areas is suggested, including developing AGES as an outcomes measure, the part played by personal resilience on grief resolution, and the role of the counsellor in facilitating the assimilation of helpful schemas; research which has implications for counsellor training

Microtab dynamic modelling for wind turbine blade load rejection

A dynamic model characterising the effect of microtab deployment on the aerodynamics of its base aerofoil is presented. The developed model predicts the transient aerodynamic coefficients consistent with the experimental and computational data reported in the literature. The proposed model is then used to carry out investigation on the effectiveness of microtabs in load alleviation and lifespan increase of wind turbine blades. Simulating a bang–bang controller, different load rejection scenarios are examined and their effect on blade lifespan is investigated. Results indicate that the range of frequencies targeted for rejection can significantly impact the blade fatigue life. Case studies are carried out to compare the predicted load alleviation amount and the blade lifespan using the developed model with those obtained by other researchers using the steady state model. It is shown that the assumption of an instantaneous aerodynamic response as used in the steady state model can lead to inaccurate results