Phi Delta Phi

From the 1933 Pandora. Officers: T.D. Cook, Magister; V.B. Moore, Clerk; E.M. Smith, Reporter; J.H. Napier, Historian. Chapter Roll: S.W. Clarke, J. Earl Colvin, T. Dudley Cook, McCarthy Crenshaw, Cleburne Gregory, J. Hamilton Lokey, Frank R. Mitchell, Virlyn B. Moore, L.R. Morgan, J. Hamilton Napier, Oscar Roberts, Ernest M. Smith, Frank Swift, Joe Thomas, Lamar Tillman, Robert Twitty, T.W. Willingham, G.H. Wotte

L. T. Pease and J. M. Smith

29-1Indian AffairsReport : Petition of L. Pease and J. Smith. [488] Seminole; 1837.1846-1

CONTRACTS - ILLEGALITY - CONTRACT TO RELINQUISH CUSTODY OF CHILD

The plaintiff declared on a contract between her father, Thomas Smith, and J. F. and A. T. Mulkey, in which the parent contracted to relinquish all control over the plaintiff, a minor, in consideration for which J. F. and A. T. Mulkey agreed to adopt the child and leave their property to her upon the death of the survivor. The contract was fully performed by the child\u27s parent, but J. F. and A. T. Mulkey failed to adopt the child, and made no provision for her in the distribution of their property. In a suit by the plaintiff at the death of J. F. Mulkey it was held that the contract was illegal and void. Mulkey v. Allen, 36 S.W. (2d) 198 (1931)

Robert Smith to John Kean, October 25, 1783

Robert Smith wrote from Charleston to John Kean, addressed to Beaufort, SC. He wrote about financial matters involving money owed and mentioned T. Shubrick and J. Ward.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/1086/thumbnail.jp

Reading Adam Smith: Understanding the Misinterpretations & the Fallacy of the Adam Smith Problem

This paper investigates Adam Smith’s intricate vision of human motivation and seeks to expose the fallacy of the “Adam Smith Problem”. Through an expansive study of the famed economist’s two most prominent works, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (WN) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS), I will show that the two are perfect complements of one other and that Adam Smith did not set down in one place his views on the nature of man. Adam Smith saw man for what he truly is, dominated by selfinterest but not without concern for others, able to reason but not necessarily able to reach the best or right conclusion while all the time seeing one’s own actions through a veil of self-delusion. WN and TMS are equally important books, and in order to understand the economics and philosophy of Adam Smith, both must be read and studied

Agent-based Simulation of Open Source Software Evolution

We present an agent-based simulation model of open source software (OSS). To our knowledge, this is the first model of OSS evolution that includes four significant factors: productivity limited by the complexity of software modules, the software's fitness for purpose, the motivation of developers, and the role of users in defining requirements. The model was evaluated by comparing the simulated results against four measures of software evolution (system size, proportion of highly complex modules, level of complexity control work, and distribution of changes) for four large OSS systems. The simulated results resembled all the observed data, including alternating periods of growth and stagnation. The fidelity of the model suggests that the factors included here have significant effects on the evolution of OSS systems

The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in controlling U.K. butterfly population size and phenology

Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This article can be accessed from the links below.This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.1. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) exerts considerable control on U.K. weather. This study investigates the impact of the NAO on butterfly abundance and phenology using 34 years of data from the U.K. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). 2. The study uses a multi-species indicator to show that the NAO does not affect overall U.K. butterfly population size. However, the abundance of bivoltine butterfly species, which have longer flight seasons, were found to be more likely to respond positively to the NAO compared with univoltine species, which show little or a negative response. 3. A positive winter NAO index is associated with warmer weather and earlier flight dates for Anthocharis cardamines (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), Melanargia galathea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Aphantopus hyperantus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Pyronia tithonus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Lasiommata megera (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Polyommatus icarus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). In bivoltine species, the NAO affects the phenology of the first generation, the timing of which indirectly controls the timing of the second generation. 4. The NAO influences the timing of U.K. butterfly flight seasons more strongly than it influences population size.This study was supported by a multi-agency consortium led by the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), including the Countryside Council for Wales, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the Forestry Commission, Natural England, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage. This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund