The coronation

The Coronation is a case study exhibition about a Black man’s journey into understanding himself and his identity. The manner in which the thesis is written provides the author’s commentary on personal experiences and a window into his psyche and Black experience. The text lifts the veil on the complexities of the author’s struggles with identity within America. The Coronation is a companion piece to the exhibition. The Coronation and the art exhibition are both extremities of the author’s body. By using dialect common to the everyday experience it describes, the text provides the reader an otherwise uncommon and accessible window to the author’s psyche and specific Black experience and, relatedly, to his work. This is perhaps its greatest distinction from a conventional biography. This work is heavily based on research of a Black man trying to figure out his identity within the scope of the world while attempting to carve his own lane. The author did not include explanations behind each individual work and what inspired them because it [choice] was his thesis. The figures are provided at the end of this document to provide a window into some of the creative work the author generated throughout the course of writing The Coronation. The thesis provides an illustration of a man’s journey to search for a definition of Blackness, ultimately finding there isn’t one. People who read this text should have the opportunity to fully access the story regardless of their educational level. If the story and the mistakes made by the author can deliver somebody from their own person hell, then the goal was accomplished. Thus, every successful accomplishment is deserving of a coronation

Defining Hierarchical Decision Trees for Encarsia Formosa Strategies from Greenhouse Tomato Consultants' Perspectives

Market pressure is forcing New Zealand greenhouse tomato growers to shift from conventional to more environmentally-friendly pest control methods such as IPM (Integrated Pest Management). Growers can access IPM manuals, but these tend to provide generalized advice, which they find difficult to apply to their own situations. Alternatively, growers can use consultants to tailor IPM strategies to their own situations. One method of providing growers with better advice is to capture the knowledge of "expert" consultants and translate this into a form that can be used by growers. To this end, two consultants with expertise in IPM strategy were studied and their knowledge documented. This paper focuses on the strategies the expert consultants used to tailor Encarsia formosa, a natural enemy of greenhouse whitefly, to individual greenhouse's specific needs. Both consultants used an IPM template and seven to eight decision criteria to tailor their advice to individual grower's situations. These decisions were represented as hierarchical decision trees. One consultant started with low Encarsia rates for a short time before increasing them while the other consultant started with high Encarsia rates for a longer period before decreasing them later. Growers' risk perceptions and acceptance of the consultants' pest threshold levels influenced the success of the IPM strategy.decision trees, consultants, Encarsia, greenhouse tomato, Farm Management,

Visualising the University Degree Journey

<p>In UK Higher Education, examiners are placed in a privileged position, able to apply adjustments to grades and confer awards in line with institutional regulations. Most frequently, examiners utilise dense tabulations of marks that blend into one another.</p> <p>This paper proposes an objective visual approach and prototype system, which can be used to chart students’ journeys through their programme and visually reason about their performance. We also present the evaluation, made during a trial within the School of Computer Science at Bangor University. The results of the evaluation are favourable.</p

Differential Rotation in F Stars

Differential rotation can be detected in single line profiles of stars rotating more rapidly than about $v \sin{i} = 10$ km s$^{-1}$ with the Fourier transform technique. This allows to search for differential rotation in large samples to look for correlations between differential rotation and other stellar parameters. I analyze the fraction of differentially rotating stars as a function of color, rotation, and activity in a large sample of F-type stars. Color and rotation exhibit a correlation with differential rotation in the sense that more stars are rotating differentially in the cooler, less rapidly rotating stars. Effects of rotation and color, however, cannot be disentangled in the underlying sample. No trend with activity is found.Comment: 4 pages, overview talk at the 5th Potsdam thinkshop, accepted by A