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âAurelie Wernerâ: Intersections Between Hysteria and the Jewish Womanâs Assessment of Jewishness in the late 19th Century
Aurelie Werner is a story written by Sara Hirsch Guggenheim, a prominent neo-Orthodox writer in late 19th century Germany. This article analyzes the portrayal of Jewish women during this period, and the ways in which women responded to and coped with exclusion and prejudice. Specifically, Aurelie Werner portrays a young woman\u27s experience of anxiety and uncontrolled emotion as she discerns her place in society as a Jew and as a woman. In the early 20th century, these symptoms would be designated as \u27hysteric\u27 in nature, and would often be used to describe the demeanor of Jewish women as they grappled with Jewish identity in a largely antisemitic society. Aurelie\u27s hysteria is representative of the Jewish woman\u27s lack of control, which is grounded in not having the power or status to control one\u27s own identity
Captain William Coit
This is a brief biography of Captain William Coit. It serves as an introduction to the Orderly Book of Moses Fargos for the use of William Coit\u27s company which is the 4th Company and 6th Regiment under Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons
Improved method for aerodynamic analysis of wing-body-tail configurations in subsonic and supersonic flow
Method permits analysis of noncircular bodies and calculation of wing-body interference effects in presence of body closure, two features not previously available. In addition, use of vortex distribution, having linear variation in streamwise direction, results in improved chordwise pressure distributions on wing and tail surfaces
An evaluation of some alternative approaches for reducing fan tone noise
The potential of two alternative approaches for reducing fan ton noise was investigated in this study. One of these approaches increases the number of rotor blades to shift the tone noise to higher frequencies that are not rated as strongly by the perceived noise scale. This alternative fan also would have a small number of long chord stator vanes which would reduce the stator response and lower rotor-stator interaction noise. Comparison of the conventional and alternative fan concepts showed that this alternative approach has as large or larger a perceived tone noise reduction potential as the conventional approach. The other alternative, a high Mach number inlet, is evaluated both for its noise attenuation and for its change in noise directivity
The UARS and open data concept and analysis study
Alternative concepts for a common design for the UARS and OPEN Central Data Handling Facility (CDHF) are offered. Costs for alternative implementations of the UARS designs are presented, showing that the system design does not restrict the implementation to a single manufacturer. Processing demands on the alternative UARS CDHF implementations are then discussed. With this information at hand together with estimates for OPEN processing demands, it is shown that any shortfall in system capability for OPEN support can be remedied by either component upgrades or array processing attachments rather than a system redesign. In addition to a common system design, it is shown that there is significant potential for common software design, especially in the areas of data management software and non-user-unique production software. Archiving the CDHF data are discussed. Following that, cost examples for several modes of communications between the CDHF and Remote User Facilities are presented. Technology application is discussed
Estimating Sighting Proportions of American Alligator Nests during Helicopter Survey
Proportions of American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) nests sighted
during aerial survey in Florida were estimated based upon multiple surveys by different
observers. We compared sighting proportions across habitats, nesting seasons, and observer
experience levels. The mean sighting proportion across all habitats and years was
0.736 (SE=0.024). Survey counts corrected by the mean sighting proportion reliably
predicted total nest counts (R2=0.933). Sighting proportions did not differ by habitat
type (P=0.668) or year P=0.328). Experienced observers detected a greater proportion
of nests (P<O.OOOl) than did either less experienced or inexperienced observers. Reliable
estimates of nest abundance can be derived from aerial counts of alligator nests
when corrected by the appropriate sighting proportion
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A comparison of minimum distance and maximum likelihood techniques for proportion estimation
The estimation of mixing proportions P sub 1, P sub 2,...P sub m in the mixture density f(x) = the sum of the series P sub i F sub i(X) with i = 1 to M is often encountered in agricultural remote sensing problems in which case the p sub i's usually represent crop proportions. In these remote sensing applications, component densities f sub i(x) have typically been assumed to be normally distributed, and parameter estimation has been accomplished using maximum likelihood (ML) techniques. Minimum distance (MD) estimation is examined as an alternative to ML where, in this investigation, both procedures are based upon normal components. Results indicate that ML techniques are superior to MD when component distributions actually are normal, while MD estimation provides better estimates than ML under symmetric departures from normality. When component distributions are not symmetric, however, it is seen that neither of these normal based techniques provides satisfactory results
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