Thriving Arts: Thriving Small Communities

Presents findings from a study of ten rural Minnesota communities to identify factors related to successful community arts development. Includes recommendations to inform future investment in the arts

Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the Shibui Chapter of the Sumi-e Society of America

Brief history of how the Shibui Chapter of the Sumi-e Society of America got its start in Mobile, AL

Story of Mary Rodning and Sumi-e

A brief history of Mary Rodning\u27s journey into the art of Sumi-e. Mary Rodning is a co-founder of the Shibui Chapter of the Sumi-e Society of America and a teacher of the art of Sumi-e

Archaeological Survey of a Portion of the High Rock Lake Shoreline in the Fox Creek Subdivision, Davidson County, North Carolina

Technical Report No. 27, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reports in this series present the findings of archaeological surveys and test excavations completed by the RLA between 1983 and present

Archaeological Survey of a Portion of the Proposed Black Road Park on High Rock Lake, Rowan County, North Carolina

Technical Report No. 29, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reports in this series present the findings of archaeological surveys and test excavations completed by the RLA between 1983 and present

The Horse and the Heroic Quest: Equestrian Indicators of Morality in Lancelot, Don Quixote, and Tolkien

There is a strong connection in Don Quixote and the works of Chretièn de Troyes and J.R.R. Tolkien between a character’s moral decisions and the way that said character treats his horse or horses. The Horse and the Heroic Quest: Equestrian Indicators of Morality in Lancelot, Don Quixote, and Tolkien studies the moral factors that affect the way heroic characters are revealed to readers and how these morals relate to the ways in which characters interact with horses. This ecocritical study focuses on the protagonists in Chretièn’s Lancelot, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. It is revealed that characters who treat their horses badly, such as Chretièn’s Lancelot, lack society’s definition of moral characteristics. Characters who treat their horses well, however, such as Chretièn’s Gawain, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and Tolkien’s many horse-loving protagonists are more likely to meet society’s understanding of morality. This theory can be applied to modern heroic works as well as medieval and Renaissance works; “Xena: Warrior Princess,” The Princess Bride by William Goldman, and the works of Mercedes Lackey all exhibit positive interactions between their heroic protagonists and the horses they ride. The connection between a horse’s treatment and the protagonist’s moral character makes equines more important to the plot and purpose of these stories than previous scholars have noticed. As ecocriticism becomes a more prevalent genre, it is increasingly important to study aspects of stories that involve animals, such as horses

Test Excavations of a Stone Foundation at Ayr Mount Historic Site, Hillsborough, North Carolina

Technical Report No. 28, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reports in this series present the findings of archaeological surveys and test excavations completed by the RLA between 1983 and present

First Order Radiative Corrections to Polarized Muon Decay Spectrum

The first order QED corrections to the polarized muon decay spectrum are considered. The exact dependence on electron and muon masses is kept. Numerical results are presented.Comment: 11 pages, elsart.cls, a typo in Eq.(12) is fixe

Phaseshift equivalent NN potentials and the deuteron

Different modern phase shift equivalent NN potentials are tested by evaluating the partial wave decomposition of the kinetic and potential energy of the deuteron. Significant differences are found, which are traced back to the matrix elements of the potentials at medium and large momenta. The influence of the localisation of the one-pion-exchange contribution to these potentials is analyzed in detail.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures include

Sum Rules and Spin-Dependent Polarizabilities of the Deuteron in Effective Field Theory

We construct sum rules for the forward vector and tensor polarizabilities for any spin-$S$ target and apply them to the spin-1 deuteron. We calculate these polarizabilities of the deuteron to the next-to-leading order in the pionless effective field theory.Comment: 10 pages, figures include