Bill Valade to James H. Meredith (1 October 1962)

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mercorr_pro/1862/thumbnail.jp

Partenariat entre les bibliothèques départementales de prêt et les bibliothèques municipales ou intercommunales de grandes villes (Le)

Mémoire de fin d\u27étude du diplôme de conservateur, promotion DCB18, portant sur les partenariats et la coopération entre les bibliothèques départementales et les bibliothèques de grandes villes

Galaxie Gutenberg face au « big bang » du numérique (la)

Sénat - Rapport d\u27information n° 468 (2006-2007) du 26 septembre 2007 - par M. Jacques VALADE, fait au nom de la commission des Affaires culturelle

Participatory action research with adults with mental retardation : Oh my God. Look out world.

This dissertation is a participatory action research project with adults with mental retardation who reside in Louisville, Kentucky. It explores some of the history and ideologies that frequently have hindered persons with mental retardation from being regarded by others as unique individuals with various abilities. It investigates dynamics of social ostracism and the resultant silence, inclusive of the social work profession\u27s relative absence in the field of mental retardation. Furthermore, it explores various aspects of research with persons with disabilities, and with persons with mental retardation in particular. While there have been multiple studies about persons with mental retardation, very few actually include their voices. This dissertation attempts to offer a corrective to this and offers persons with mental retardation a vehicle for their opinions, actions, and voices. A participatory action research design and methodology is offered involving two phases of the study. The first phase involves interviewing 25 adults relative to their personal concerns of things they would like to see changed in their lives. These interviews reveal that the adults\u27 concerns are as varied as the individuals themselves. The second phase focuses on a ten-month process in which nine persons from the original 25 agree to commit to a group experience in which they decide upon a common issue, their structure, and other group needs. They then work together on how best to address the issue, enact their plan, and communally reflect upon the experience. This group decides to focus on the paratransit system in Louisville and through a process of hard work and commitment, decide to invite the director of the system to attend to their group meeting as the focus of their action. The director attends their group, answering their questions and engaging in an extended conversation about their concerns. The dissertation includes a session-by-session reporting on the group gatherings, in addition to insights gained through facilitator\u27s peer supervision experience. It concludes with reflections on the applicability of PAR in social work practice settings and future research needs

Development and verification of a simplified building energy model

The purpose of this research is to develop and verify a simplified and concise building simulation model suitable for high-level applications such as preliminary design or for embedding into adaptive control systems. An actual complex modern building and its energy system has been monitored. The monitored energy performance of this building has been compared with the empirical performance predicted by two simulation modeling programs and, alternatively, by a simplified single-zone model. This project is composed of several related tasks. The first component is the monitoring of the energy consumption rates, pertinent environmental data, and load indicators of the new Klaus Advanced Computing Building on the Georgia Institute of Technology's Atlanta campus. The Klaus building was chosen because it represents a typical non-residential building. Subsequently, these findings have been compared with results from DOE-2 and eQUEST, well established energy simulation modeling programs. These comparisons allow for an empirical verification of the modeling program for Atlanta conditions. Finally, a simplified single-zone building model has been developed, and its predictions compared with the empirical data and with the results of the more complex programs. The results verify both the more complex programs and the single-zone model, and also demonstrate the use of a single-zone model for future work and predictions.M.S.Committee Chair: Dr. Sheldon Jeter; Committee Member: Dr. Ruchi Choudhary; Committee Member: Dr. Srinivas Garimell

Ash plume properties retrieved from infrared images: a forward and inverse modeling approach

We present a coupled fluid-dynamic and electromagnetic model for volcanic ash plumes. In a forward approach, the model is able to simulate the plume dynamics from prescribed input flow conditions and generate the corresponding synthetic thermal infrared (TIR) image, allowing a comparison with field-based observations. An inversion procedure is then developed to retrieve ash plume properties from TIR images. The adopted fluid-dynamic model is based on a one-dimensional, stationary description of a self-similar (top-hat) turbulent plume, for which an asymptotic analytical solution is obtained. The electromagnetic emission/absorption model is based on the Schwarzschild's equation and on Mie's theory for disperse particles, assuming that particles are coarser than the radiation wavelength and neglecting scattering. [...] Application of the inversion procedure to an ash plume at Santiaguito volcano (Guatemala) has allowed us to retrieve the main plume input parameters, namely the initial radius $b_0$, velocity $U_0$, temperature $T_0$, gas mass ratio $n_0$, entrainment coefficient $k$ and their related uncertainty. Moreover, coupling with the electromagnetic model, we have been able to obtain a reliable estimate of the equivalent Sauter diameter $d_s$ of the total particle size distribution. The presented method is general and, in principle, can be applied to the spatial distribution of particle concentration and temperature obtained by any fluid-dynamic model, either integral or multidimensional, stationary or time-dependent, single or multiphase. The method discussed here is fast and robust, thus indicating potential for applications to real-time estimation of ash mass flux and particle size distribution, which is crucial for model-based forecasts of the volcanic ash dispersal process.Comment: 41 pages, 13 figures, submitted pape

Droit d\u27auteur à l\u27heure d\u27Internet : quelles réponses législatives apporter au téléchargement illégal de musique et de cinéma ?

Sénat - Rapport d\u27information fait au nom de la commission des Affaires culturelles sur le droit d\u27auteur à l\u27heure d\u27Internet