The harmonic idiom of Prokofiev

Thesis (M.M.)--Boston University. A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Music, May 1963

Identifications of Einstein Slew Survey sources

The status of identifications of the Einstien Slew Survey, a bright soft x-ray catalog with 550 new x-ray sources, is discussed. Possible counterparts were found for greater than 95 percent of the Slew Survey based on positional coincidences and color-color diagnostics. The survey will be fully identified via upcoming radio and optical observations

Einstein Slew Survey: Data analysis innovations

Several new methods were needed in order to make the Einstein Slew X-ray Sky Survey. The innovations which enabled the Slew Survey to be done are summarized. These methods included experimental approach to large projects, parallel processing on a LAN, percolation source detection, minimum action identifications, and rapid dissemination of the whole data base

Magnons in Ferromagnetic Metallic Manganites

Ferromagnetic (FM) manganites, a group of likely half-metallic oxides, are of special interest not only because they are a testing ground of the classical doubleexchange interaction mechanism for the colossal magnetoresistance, but also because they exhibit an extraordinary arena of emergent phenomena. These emergent phenomena are related to the complexity associated with strong interplay between charge, spin, orbital, and lattice. In this review, we focus on the use of inelastic neutron scattering to study the spin dynamics, mainly the magnon excitations in this class of FM metallic materials. In particular, we discussed the unusual magnon softening and damping near the Brillouin zone boundary in relatively narrow band compounds with strong Jahn-Teller lattice distortion and charge/orbital correlations. The anomalous behaviors of magnons in these compounds indicate the likelihood of cooperative excitations involving spin, lattice, as well as orbital degrees of freedom.Comment: published in J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 20 figure

Conditional Image-Text Embedding Networks

This paper presents an approach for grounding phrases in images which jointly learns multiple text-conditioned embeddings in a single end-to-end model. In order to differentiate text phrases into semantically distinct subspaces, we propose a concept weight branch that automatically assigns phrases to embeddings, whereas prior works predefine such assignments. Our proposed solution simplifies the representation requirements for individual embeddings and allows the underrepresented concepts to take advantage of the shared representations before feeding them into concept-specific layers. Comprehensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our approach across three phrase grounding datasets, Flickr30K Entities, ReferIt Game, and Visual Genome, where we obtain a (resp.) 4%, 3%, and 4% improvement in grounding performance over a strong region-phrase embedding baseline.Comment: ECCV 2018 accepted pape

TB10: A Comparison of Arch-yarding and Ground-skidding of Pine Sawlogs in the University of Maine Forest

The decision whether to use a trailing-arch or operate by ground-skidding methods may face many sawlog producers. This case study attempted to determine statistically whether there existed significant differences between the two methods of operation by examining the various activities performed by a crawler-type tractor within the arch-yarding and ground-skidding phases of a harvesting system.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_techbulletin/1192/thumbnail.jp

Stratigraphy of the Pre-Greenhorn Cretaceous Beds of Kansas

Field work undertaken primarily to determine the occurrence and ceramic properties of clay deposits in the pre-Greenhorn Cretaceous beds of central and north-central Kansas has resulted in much detailed stratigraphic information. The newly acquired data indicate needs for reclassification of these beds. Numerous classifications have been proposed for the Cretaceous rocks of Kansas by various workers during the past 75 years. For the most part, the proposed formations have been either inadequately defined or have been of such non-persistent nature that they were not useful outside of the type area. The classification proposed in this paper is as follows: The oldest Cretaceous rocks known in Kansas, which are of continental origin, are classed as the Cheyenne sandstone. Dark marine shale and sandstone above the Cheyenne sandstone are assigned to the Kiowa shale. These two stratigraphic units, named from Kiowa county, Kansas, have been recognized by workers for many years and can be correlated with beds in the north-central Kansas region. Nonmarine clay and sandstone deposits that overlie the Kiowa shale are here designated as the Dakota formation. The Dakota is limited upward by the base of the Graneros shale. The formation is here subdivided into two members: the Terra Cotta clay member at the bottom and the Janssen clay member at the top. The marine shale above the Dakota formation and below the Greenhorn limestone is classified as the Graneros shale. The continental or near-shore Cheyenne sandstone is thought to represent deposits made near the strand line of the northward-advancing Cretaceous sea. The Kiowa shale was deposited in a relatively shallow sea. The Dakota formation comprises clay and sand deposited on flats not far above sea level. Deposition of the Dakota beds was terminated by a re-advance of the sea, and in this sea the marine shale and sandstone of the Graneros formation accumulated

Geology of Palo Pinto County, Texas

Accompanied by 6 foldouts. Plate II : Geologic Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas. Plate III : Surface Structure of Palo Pinto County. Plate IV : Map Showing Contours on Top of Marble Falls Limestone in Palo Pinto County. Plate V : Oil and Gas Fields in Palo Pinto County. Plate VI : Mineral-Water Area in the Vicinity of Mineral Wells. Plate VII : Strawn Coal FieldUT Librarie