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“I have prayed and prayed: I have labored and labored”: ethnic catholicism in Daviess country Kentucky, 1850-1900.
This thesis examines the development of the German and Irish Catholic communities of Daviess County, Kentucky. The primary focus of the work is the church building process and the separation of Catholic ethnic communities. Although they shared the same faith, American Catholics were divided by nationalism and ethnic hostility. Already isolated in the United States, immigrant Catholics formed cultural communities that adapted their foreign identity to their new surroundings. Scholars often analyze Catholics in the United States during this period as a unified group, but this approach is flawed. Catholics developed hostilities against members of their own faith along ethnic lines. This study investigates how these divergent relationships affected the development of Catholicism in western Kentucky as well as in the United States. In-group hostilities in addition to the malice of native-born Protestants intensified the immigrants’ attachment to their foreign identity generations after their forebears arrived in the U.S
The Shipping Crisis in the Soviet Eastern Arctic at the Close of the 1983 Navigation Season
During September 1983 an unusually early freeze-up and persistent northwesterly winds that drove heavy multi-year ice into Proliv Longa and against the north coast of Chukotka resulted in a critical situation with regard to shipping in the Soviet eastern Arctic. Ports such as Zelenyy Mys and Mys Shmidta were prematurely closed by ice, leaving Pevek as the only functioning port in this part of the Arctic. Worse still, dozens of ships were beset in the ice at various points from the mouth of the Indigirka east to Bering Strait. One freighter, Nina Sagaydak, was crushed and sank near Kosa Dvukh Pilotov on 8 October; a sister ship, Kolya Myagotin, was badly holed and barely managed to limp out of the Arctic. Practically all available ice breakers, including the nuclear-powered icebreakers Lenin, Leonid Brezhnev and Siber', were transferred from the western to the eastern Arctic to free the jammed ships. Ultimately all were rescued, but it was late November before the last ship sailed from Pevek. Many ships were forced to head west from Pevek to the Atlantic, rather than attempt to battle their way through the heavy ice in Proliv Longa in order to return to their Pacific home ports. Singled out for particular praise in Soviet post-mortems of the crisis were the nuclear-powered icebreakers and the new Noril'sk class (SA-15) icebreaking freighters, several of which came straight from the Finnish shipyards to help rectify the situation in the eastern Arctic.Key words: Soviet eastern Arctic, Soviet Union, navigation, icebreakerMots clés: l'est de l'Arctique soviétique, l'Union Soviétique, navigation, brise-glace
Hybrid Quantization: From Bianchi I to the Gowdy Model
The Gowdy cosmologies are vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations which
possess two space-like Killing vectors and whose spatial sections are compact.
We consider the simplest of these cosmological models: the case where the
spatial topology is that of a three-torus and the gravitational waves are
linearly polarized. The subset of homogeneous solutions to this Gowdy model are
vacuum Bianchi I spacetimes with a three-torus topology. We deepen the analysis
of the loop quantization of these Bianchi I universes adopting the improved
dynamics scheme put forward recently by Ashtekar and Wilson-Ewing. Then, we
revisit the hybrid quantization of the Gowdy cosmologies by combining
this loop quantum cosmology description with a Fock quantization of the
inhomogeneities over the homogeneous Bianchi I background. We show that, in
vacuo, the Hamiltonian constraint of both the Bianchi I and the Gowdy models
can be regarded as an evolution equation with respect to the volume of the
Bianchi I universe. This evolution variable turns out to be discrete, with a
strictly positive minimum. Furthermore, we argue that this evolution is
well-defined inasmuch as the associated initial value problem is well posed:
physical solutions are completely determined by the data on an initial section
of constant Bianchi I volume. This fact allows us to carry out to completion
the quantization of these two cosmological models.Comment: 20 pages, version accepted for publication in Physical Review
Loop quantum cosmology of Bianchi type IX models
The loop quantum cosmology "improved dynamics" of the Bianchi type IX model
are studied. The action of the Hamiltonian constraint operator is obtained via
techniques developed for the Bianchi type I and type II models, no new input is
required. It is shown that the big bang and big crunch singularities are
resolved by quantum gravity effects. We also present the effective equations
which provide modifications to the classical equations of motion due to quantum
geometry effects.Comment: 20 page
Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines, Narrative, and the Problem of Historical Materiality
In his Some Reminiscences of a Lecturer, Andrew Wilson emphasizes the importance of narrative to popular science lecturing. Although Wilson promotes the teaching of science as useful knowledge in its own right, he also recognizes that the way science is taught can encourage audiences to take the subject up and read further on their own. Form, according to Wilson, should not be divorced from scientific content and lecturers should ensure that not only is their science accurate, but that it is presented in a way that will provoke curiosity and stimulate interest. This paper discusses the influence of narrative in structuring scientific objects and phenomena, and considers the consequences of such presentations for historical research. As scientific journalism necessarily weaves both its intended audience and the objects under discussion into its accounts, these texts demand that we recognize their nature as social relationships inscribed in historical objects
Wage Discrimination and the Comparable Worth Theory in Perspective
Our article focuses primarily on one legal question: Does the wage discrimination theory, as sketched by Professor Blumrosen, fall within the remedial ambit of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act? Wage Discrimination\u27s factual contentions as to the existence and universality of wage discrimination deserve equally detailed analysis, but we leave that task to scholars of the pertinent disciplines, sociology and economics. We will deal with the factual contentions of Wage Discrimination only so far as necessary to challenge its central factual conclusion: that a demonstration of job separation should lead to a judicial inference of wage discrimination. This assertion is crucial to Professor Blumrosen\u27s argument because it is the basis for the proposal that incumbents of sex- or race-separated jobs are entitled, by virtue of their jobs alone, to higher wages. Because her social science evidence is unpersuasive and her legal analysis is unsound, we conclude that the courts and the Congress have been wise in refraining from attempts to impose the comparable worth theory on the American economy
Computer identification of left ventricular endocardium from 2-dimensional short axis echocardiograms
Change of Interest as a Function of Shift in Curricular Orientation
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67119/2/10.1177_001316445301300213.pd
Autopia: An AI Collaborator for Live Coding Music Performances
Live coding is “the activity of writing (parts of) a program while it runs” (Ward et al., 2004). One significant application of live coding is in algorithmic music, where the performer modifies the code generating the music in a live context. Utopia is a software tool for collaborative live coding performances, allowing several performers (each with their own laptop producing its own sound) to communicate and share code during a performance. We have made an AI bot, Autopia, which can participate in such performances, communicating with human performers through Utopia. This form of human-AI collaboration allows us to explore the implications of computational creativity from the perspective of live coding
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