Three-component laser Doppler velocimeter measurements in a juncture flow

A single-axis, five-beam, three-component laser velocimeter (LV) system was used in a major experiment. Satisfactory results were obtained with the LV system in the juncture flow. Limited optical access to the tunnel proved to be a problem for the three component LV system in determining the third component

Dynamics of Epidemics

This article examines how diseases on random networks spread in time. The disease is described by a probability distribution function for the number of infected and recovered individuals, and the probability distribution is described by a generating function. The time development of the disease is obtained by iterating the generating function. In cases where the disease can expand to an epidemic, the probability distribution function is the sum of two parts; one which is static at long times, and another whose mean grows exponentially. The time development of the mean number of infected individuals is obtained analytically. When epidemics occur, the probability distributions are very broad, and the uncertainty in the number of infected individuals at any given time is typically larger than the mean number of infected individuals.Comment: 4 pages and 3 figure

Shelley’s Influence on Atalanta in Calydon

A close study of Swinburne\u27s works reveals the accuracy of Paul de Reul\u27s perception that Swinburne relit ses poetes, s\u27en impregne, les respire; mele a ses vers des reminiscences qui en font une musique de chambre, un plaisir de connaisseurs. 1 In work after work by Swinburne, the alert reader will find subtly-harmonized images, phrases, and ideas that Swinburne assimilated from his wide reading among authors of many lands and times. Among these sources, as we would expect, Shelley has a continuing place. An example of one of the ways Swinburne adopts and reworks material from one of his life- long gods of poetry is apparent in Shelley\u27s influence on Atalanta in Calydon.

An Interview with William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest and Freedom of Speech

Until recently, it had been presume that after William Morris was arrested on September 21, 1885, in a me lee at the Thames Police Court, he made no public comment on the incident (Thompson 398). Norman Kelvin\u27s edition of Morris\u27s letters, however, includes a letter about the incident to the Daily News published on September 23, 1885 (Morris 456-57). To this letter may now be added the following interview with Morris printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, also on September 23, 1885, p. 4..

Comments on Amy Clampitt’s \u27Matoaka\u27

If you\u27re a poet compelled to write a poem for a particular occasion, your muse might well freeze up. Almost a century ago, for example, at Charter Day, 1897, Thomas W. Higginson hailed the College in a poem that included a pleasing tribute (couched in a clever metaphor) from Harvard to William & Mary as Thou earliest College of our native land/ The first conceived, yet not the earliest born! But Higginson\u27s poem is flaccid, done in by the bombast characteristic of the genre..

Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ‘Ashford Owen.’

That a blighted love lies at the heart of many of Swinburne\u27s works has long impelled scholars and biographers to search for details as to the who, the where, and the when of the affair. The first candidate was nomi- nated by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise and was supposed to be a young miss, a Jane Boo Faulkner. Her candidacy, however, withered under the scrutiny of John Mayfield and Cecil Y. Lang, and a substitute was found: the poet\u27s first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith (1840-1926), a writer who married a military man, Col. Robert William Disney Leith, and whose suggestive correspondence with Swinburne flourished after her husband died in 1892..

William Morris on Prostitution: A Letter of August 17, 1885

The following letter by William Morris refer to the St. James\u27s Hall Conference and Hyde Park demonstration of August 21 and 22, 1885. The letter is not in []orman Kelvin\u27 The Collected Letters of William Morris, 3 vol. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984t but appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, August 19, 1885, p. 12..