Wind trajectory tracing for air pollution studies (AIRPOL)

Wind trajectory computer program, consisting of data handling program and analysis program, traces Los Angeles Basin wind patterns either backward or forward in time. Program may be applicable to other areas

Racial Rivals Eye Clarksdale

Article regarding efforts by the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to reinvigorate integration efforts in Clarksdale, Miss.; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1145/thumbnail.jp

New L. Q. C. Lamar Society Puts Stock in Famous Name, 4 September 1969

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/civ_pubs/1036/thumbnail.jp

More Tension Is Expected

Description of political schisms caused among Governor Ross Barnett\u27s supporters as a result of convict Kimble Berry\u27s escape from the Mississippi State Penitentiary; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1325/thumbnail.jp

Barnett\u27s Favorite Hillbilly Now Sings Parchman Blues

Article about Wendell Cannon, Governor Ross Barnett\u27s bandleader during the 1959 campaign, and his ambiguous role as musical director at the Mississippi State Penitentiary; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1326/thumbnail.jp

Reversible and irreversible trapping at room temperature in poly(thiophene) thin-film transistors

We measured the bias stress characteristics of poly(thiophene) semi-crystalline thin-film transistors (TFTs) as a function stress times, gate voltages and duty-cycles. At room temperature, the bias stress has two components: a fast reversible component and a slow irreversible component. We hypothesize that the irreversible component is due to charge trapping in the disordered areas of the semiconductor film. At low duty-cycle (<2%), the fast bias stress component is reversed during the off-part of the cycle therefore the observed VT shift in only caused by irreversible trapping. Irreversible trapping follows power-law kinetics with a time exponent approximately equal to 0.37. We use these findings to estimate the lifetime of TFTs used as switches in display backplanes

The Value of Literacy Practices

The concepts of literacy events and practices have received considerable attention in educational research and policy. In comparison, the question of value, that is, ‘which literacy practices do people most value?’ has been neglected. With the current trend of cross-cultural adult literacy assessment, it is increasingly important to recognise locally valued literacy practices. In this paper we argue that measuring preferences and weighting of literacy practices provides an empirical and democratic basis for decisions in literacy assessment and curriculum development and could inform rapid educational adaptation to changes in the literacy environment. The paper examines the methodological basis for investigating literacy values and its potential to inform cross-cultural literacy assessments. The argument is illustrated with primary data from Mozambique. The correlation between individual values and respondents’ socio-economic and demographic characteristics is explored

Enhancing the value of adaptation reporting as a driver for action: lessons from the UK

As increasing evidence shows that the risks of climate change are mounting, there is a call for further climate action (both reducing global emissions, and adaptation to better manage the risks of climate change). To promote and enable adaptation, governments have introduced, or are considering introducing, reporting on climate risks and efforts being taken to address those risks. This paper reports on an analysis of the first two rounds of such reports submitted under the UK Climate Change Act (2008) Adaptation Reporting Power. It highlights benefits and challenges for reporting authorities and policymakers receiving the reports that could also inform other countries considering such reporting. For reporting authorities, benefits arise from the reporting process and resulting reports. These benefits include elevating climate risks and adaptation to the corporate level and with stakeholders, alongside facilitating alignment and integration of actions within existing risk management and governance structures. For policymakers, reporting provides enhanced understanding of climate risks and actions from a bottom-up perspective that can be integrated into national-level assessments and adaptation planning processes. The identified challenges are those related to capacity and process. These include limited risk and adaptation assessment capacities; relevance of climate change risks and adaptation in the context of other urgent risks and actions; reporting process effectiveness and robustness; and the provision of effective and sufficiently comprehensive support, including feedback

Experimental comparison of dynamic tracking performanceof iGPS and laser tracker

External metrology systems are increasingly being integrated with traditional industrial articulated robots, especially in the aerospace industries, to improve their absolute accuracy for precision operations such as drilling, machining and jigless assembly. While currently most of the metrology assisted robotics control systems are limited in their position update rate, such that the robot has to be stopped in order to receive a metrology coordinate update, some recent efforts are addressed toward controlling robots using real-time metrology data. The indoor GPS is one of the metrology systems that may be used to provide real-time 6DOF data to a robot controller. Even if there is a noteworthy literature dealing with the evaluation of iGPS performance, there is, however, a lack of literature on how well the iGPS performs under dynamic conditions. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the dynamic measurement performance of the iGPS, tracking the trajectories of an industrial robot. The same experiment is also repeated using a laser tracker. Besides the experiment results presented, this paper also proposes a novel method for dynamic repeatability comparisons of tracking instrument