Memorial - Howard Oliver O. - Memorial Hall at West Point

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Biographical Data - Howard, Mrs. Oliver O. Clipping - Congressional Record

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Testimonial to Howard, Oliver O. by American Tract Society

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Maria-Antònia Oliver o el plaer de narrar en femení

Maria-Antònia Oliver és una figura cabdal en la història de la novel·la policíaca en llengua catalana. Amb un personatge principal innovador en el panorama literari català dels anys vuitanta, Oliver destaca per una sèrie d’aspectes com són el seu personatge principal, feminista i representant del hard-boiled i la forta crítica social, especialment centrada en l’illa de Mallorca, aspectes que són objecte d’estudi en aquest article. Temes com el feminisme, l’impacte social del turisme o la situació de la llengua catalana a les Balears formen part de les seves obres i demostren el compromís social de l’autora mallorquina.Maria-Antònia Oliver is a leading crime novelist on the Catalan literary scene and the creator of a highly innovative character in nineteen-eighties Catalonia. The article examines several aspects of her work, including her main character, a hard-boiled feminist private investigator, and the social criticism in her novels, particularly with regard to Majorca. Issues such as feminism, the world of tourism and its impact on Majorcan society, and the situation of the Catalan language in the Balearic Islands feature heavily in her novels and demonstrate the social commitment of this Majorcan novelist

Letter, Oliver O. Howard to Miss Ellen S. Yancy,

This handwritten letter, dated March 1, 1869, is written from Oliver O. Howard to Miss Ellen S. Yancy letting Yancy know that he is happy to comply with Yancy\u27s request. The letter is written on War Department Bureau of Refugee, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands letterhead. The letter was found tipped into pages 256-257 of volume nine of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-documents/1046/thumbnail.jp

Buffer Zone Communities, Fishing Practices, and Biodiversity Conservation in Cross River National Park, Nigeria.

Several rivers and streams in Cross River National Park are becoming empty of fish and other aquatic animals due to unsustainable commercial fishing practices in buffer zone communities. Conventional fishing methods with net or use of hook, line, and sinker are no longer popular in several buffer zone villages of Cross River National Park.  The ubiquity of water poisoning (using different chemicals), across buffer zone villages, as fishing mechanism, is seriously undermining aquatic biodiversity in the park, and the rest of Cross River State of Nigeria. Using a combination of qualitative (focus group discussions, observations, and interviews) and quantitative (livelihoods survey) research techniques, the study assesses fishing practices in the context of buffer zone rural livelihoods challenges in three villages of Cross River National Park. Findings reveal that unsustainable fishing practices are underpinned by poverty, common property regimes, wildlife management failure, and absence of buffer zone livelihoods programme in Cross River National Park. The paper discusses the biodiversity conservation implications of water poisoning in Cross River National Park, and concludes with recommendations for policy, and future research trajectories on aquatic biodiversity conservation in the park and anthropogenic challenges. Keywords: Fishing, pesticides, water poisoning, livelihoods, buffer zone communities, aquatic biodiversity conservation, parks and protected areas

Parks and Communities: Assessing the Social Impacts of the Creation of Cross River National Park, Nigeria, using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach

Cross River National Park (CRNP) of Nigeria is a globally acclaimed biodiversity hotspot and region of species endemism.  Some of her keystone fauna species like the Cross River Gorilla (gorilla gorilla diehli) is not found anywhere else in the world. In the context of anthropogenic challenges threatening biodiversity conservation in the park, the paper adopts a livelihoods perspective (Sustainable Livelihoods Approach) in assessing the ignored social impacts of the creation of CRNP on buffer zone communities. Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches are methodologies developed by international development agencies for poverty alleviation interventions guided by frameworks that enhance the study, analysis and understanding of poverty in local communities.  A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to facilitate the study, culminating in interesting findings on the ignored social impacts of the park’s creation – which underpins the anthropogenic challenges in her buffer zone communities . Hinging on failing conservation strategies in the tropics, the paper discusses the need for conservationists and communities to find a common ground over parks – poverty debate using valuable insights from the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, and evidence from CRNP. Keywords: Parks, biodiversity, impacts, people, and poverty

Howard, Oliver O. - Papers as Cadet at West Point, N.Y.

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Preparation and Measurement Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics

This thesis addresses two forms of quantum uncertainty. In part I, we focus on preparation uncertainty, an expression of the fact that there are sets of observables for which the induced probability distributions are not simultaneously sharp in any state. We exactly characterise the preparation uncertainty regions for several finite dimensional case studies, including a new derivation of the preparation uncertainty region for the Pauli observables of qubits, and two qutrit case studies which have not previously been addressed in the literature. We also consider the variance based preparation uncertainty for position and momentum observables for the well known “particle in a box” system. We see that the appropriate momentum observable is not given by the spectral measure of a self-adjoint operator, although the position observable is. The box system lacks the phase-space symmetry used to determine the free particle and particle on a ring systems so determining the box uncertainty region is rather more difficult than in these cases. We give upper and lower bounds on the boundary of the uncertainty region, and show that our upper bound is exact in an interval. In part II we turn our attention to measurement uncertainty, exploring the space of compatible joint approximations to incompatible target observables. We prove a general theorem, which shows that, for a broad class of figures of merit, the optimal compatible approximations to covariant targets are themselves covariant. This substantially simplifies the problem of determining measurement uncertainty regions for covariant observables, since the space of covariant compatible approximations is smaller than the space of all compatible approximations. We employ this theorem to derive measurement uncertainty regions for three mutually orthogonal Pauli observables, and for the quantum Fourier pair acting in any finite dimension