Americanizing the American Woman: Symbols of Nationalism in the LADIES HOME JOURNAL, 1890-1900

When the Ladies’ Home Journal began in 1883, its creator, Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, could not have possibly dreamed that the magazine would grow to be the most influential woman’s journal of all time. A material culture analysis of American nationalistic emblems published in the Ladies’ Home Journal between 1890 and 1900 will determine how Edward Bok, editor, controlled nationalism in the feminine market, displaying the openness of women to nationalism in the late 19th century. It will also reveal how Bok created and controlled an educational tool he deemed “Americanization”, establishing a technique that magazines would replicate in the future

Recent Advances in Terrestrial Lidar Applications in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

During the past five years, geotechnical earthquake engineering and ground deformation research has benefited from the advent of terrestrial LIDAR technology, a revolutionary tool for characterizing fine-scale changes in topography. For ground deformation research, LIDAR is particularly useful for characterizing the dimensions of failures and for monitoring subtle deformations through time. Tripod mounted LIDAR systems have accuracies of approximately 0.4-2.0 cm, and can illuminate targets up to one kilometer away from the sensor. During several minutes of LIDAR scanning, millions of survey position points are collected and processed into an ultra-high resolution terrain model. During earthquake reconnaissance efforts, the detailed failure morphologies of landslides and liquefaction sites can be measured remotely and in a way that is either impractical or impossible by conventional survey means. The ultra-high resolution imagery of the complex surface morphology of ground failures allows the exploration and visualization of damage on a computer in orientations and scales not previously possible. Detailed understanding of the ground surface morphology allows for better numerical modeling of potential failure modes, deformation patterns, and morphologies. Finally, LIDAR allows for the permanent archiving of 3-D terrain models. In this paper, we present the evaluation of the accuracy, bias and dispersion of LIDAR data under controlled experimental conditions. Field applications of LIDAR-damage visualization and analysis are presented from data gathered during the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu (M6.6) earthquake and the 2007-2008 PARI-Ishikari, Hokkaido blast-liquefaction experiment

Observations of the new gravitational lens system UM 673 = Q 0142-100

The authors have recently initiated a high resolution direct imaging survey of a selected sample of highly luminous quasars (HLQs). The observations are carried out with the 2.2 m telescope at ESO, and with the VLA at the NRAO, New Mexico. Following the first observing run at ESO, the authors have reported the discovery of a new gravitational lens system for the HLQ UM 673 = Q 0142-100. Additional observations supporting this interpretation are discussed here. Application of gravitational optometry to this system is given: a value of M[SUB]0[/SUB] = 2.4×10[SUP]11[/SUP]M_sun; is derived for the mass of the lensing galaxy located between UM 673 A and B and a most likely estimate of Deltat = 7 weeks is found for the expected delay between the arrival times of a similar variability event in the two lensed images of the quasar (H[SUB]0[/SUB] = 75 km s[SUP]-1[/SUP]Mpc[SUP]-1[/SUP], q[SUB]0[/SUB] = 0)