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The Role of Narrative, Plot, and Abstract Discussion in Turgenevâs Fathers and Sons
The Russian social critic Dmitry I. Pisarev writes in his essay Bazarov that Turgenev\u27s novel, in addition to its artistic beauty, is remarkable for the fact that it stirs the mind, leads to reflection, although, it does not solve a single problem itself . The novel\u27s brilliance does not reside in the situations we witness, but in the author\u27s attitudes toward those situations. Pisarev notes that the author\u27s attitude leads to reflection precisely because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity (Pisarev 186)
Principles of a developmental reading program applied to Rossville Grade School
Call number: LD2668 .R4 1966 H45
PERFORMANCE AND FIRST DEPLOYMENT OF NOVEL 3D NUCLEAR RECOIL DETECTORS
Ph.D. Thesis. University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa 2018
The Mu2e Experiment -- Searching for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation
The Mu2e experiment will search for a Standard Model violating rate of
neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the presence of an
aluminum nucleus. Observation of this charged lepton flavor violating process
would be an unambiguous sign of new physics. Mu2e will improve upon previous
searches for this process by four orders of magnitude. This requires the
world's highest-intensity muon beam, a detector system capable of efficiently
reconstructing the 105 MeV/c conversion electron signal, and minimizing
sensitivity to background events. A pulsed 8 GeV proton beam strikes a target,
producing pions that decay into muons. Beam outside the pulse must be
suppressed to to reduce beam-related backgrounds. The muon beam is
guided from the production target along the transport system and onto the
aluminum stopping target. Conversion electrons leave the stopping target and
propagate inside a solenoidal magnetic field to the tracker and electromagnetic
calorimeter. The tracker is a system of straw tube panels filled with Ar/CO
at 1 atm that tracks particles inside of a solenoidal B-field and measures
their momenta with keV/ resolution to resolve signal events from
decay-in-orbit backgrounds. The CsI calorimeter provides and is used to
seed the track reconstruction algorithm with and
. Additionally, a novel cosmic ray veto with greater than
99.99\% efficiency brings the expected number of background events to fewer
than one over three years of running. To normalize the experiment, the stopping
target monitor measures the rate of capture photons from muons incident on the
stopping target by using a system of high-purity germanium and lanthanum
bromide scintillators
Advances in Multiple Viewpoint Systems and Applications in Modelling Higher Order Musical Structure
PhDStatistical approaches are capable of underpinning strong models of musical structure,
perception, and cognition. Multiple viewpoint systems are probabilistic models of sequential
prediction that aim to capture the multidimensional aspects of a symbolic
domain with predictions from multiple finite-context models combined in an information
theoretically informed way. Information theory provides an important grounding
for such models. In computational terms, information content is an empirical measure
of compressibility for model evaluation, and entropy a powerful weighting system for
combining predictions from multiple models. In perceptual terms, clear parallels can be
drawn between information content and surprise, and entropy and certainty. In cognitive
terms information theory underpins explanatory models of both musical representation
and expectation.
The thesis makes two broad contributions to the field of statistical modelling of music
cognition: firstly, advancing the general understanding of multiple viewpoint systems,
and, secondly, developing bottom-up, statistical learning methods capable of capturing
higher order structure.
In the first category, novel methods for predicting multiple basic attributes are empirically
tested, significantly outperforming established methods, and refuting the assumption
found in the literature that basic attributes are statistically independent from one another.
Additionally, novel techniques for improving the prediction of derived viewpoints
(viewpoints that abstract information away from whatever musical surface is under consideration)
are introduced and analysed, and their relation with cognitive representations
explored. Finally, the performance and suitability of an established algorithm that automatically
constructs locally optimal multiple viewpoint systems is tested.
In the second category, the current research brings together a number of existing statistical
methods for segmentation and modelling musical surfaces with the aim of representing
higher-order structure. A comprehensive review and empirical evaluation of
these information theoretic segmentation methods is presented. Methods for labelling
higher order segments, akin to layers of abstraction in a representation, are empirically
evaluated and the cognitive implications explored. The architecture and performance of
the models are assessed from cognitive and musicological perspectives.Media and Arts Technology programme, EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre EP/G03723X/1
Breeding Season Survival and Nesting of Northern Bobwhite on Native Prairie Versus Traditionally Managed Conservation Areas in Southwestern Missouri
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) management on Missouri Conservation Area lands has traditionally focused on providing an interspersion of grass, crop, old field and woody cover to enhance edge habitat often juxtaposed with disked idle areas and food plots. This traditional approach, or the Intensive Management Model (IMM), is often implemented with the goal of providing all essential habitat components within a 40-acre area. While this model can produce useable quail habitat in agriculture-dominated landscapes it may not be the most effective or efficient approach to producing quail in grassland-dominated landscapes found in southwest Missouri. Conservation area mangers for the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) have historically implemented IMM in these grass-dominated landscapes; however in a few areas managers have begun using historical ecological processes, such as fire with grazing, or the Extensive Management Model (EMM) in conjunction with IMM or as the primary means for producing the patchy habitat mosaic preferred by bobwhite quail. In 2015, MDC began a 5 year study radio marking 60 individuals per area on 4 areas (2 IMM and 2 EMM) to compare the utility of these two models and the habitat conditions they create on breeding season vital rates (survival and production). Over the first 2 years of this study, EMM areas had higher breeding season survival (0.414 compared to 0.275) and nesting success (0.437 compared to 0.355) relative to IMM areas. Additionally, covey break-up and nest initiation were in general earlier, and clutch sizes were larger on areas managed with EMM than on areas managed with IMM
Home Range and Space Use of Northern Bobwhite Under Two Different Management Models in Southwestern Missouri
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus; hereafter, bobwhite) management in Missouri, USA has traditionally been focused on providing an interspersion of grass, crop, old field, and woody cover juxtaposed to disked idle areas and food plots to maintain bobwhite populations. This traditional model is implemented with the goal of providing all essential habitat components within 40-acre blocks throughout a larger area used by a population. While this model can produce usable bobwhite space in agriculture-dominated landscapes, it may not be the most effective or efficient approach to producing and maintaining bobwhite in grassland-dominated landscapes. In southwestern Missouri native tallgrass prairie conservation areas are managed primarily with historical ecological processes, such as fire and grazing, to produce the desired patchy habitat mosaic. Additionally, it has been on these native tallgrass prairie conservation areas that managers have seen the most stable and productive bobwhite populations. Over a 5-year period (2014â2018) we quantified movements of northern bobwhite on 3 traditionally managed areas (n = 185) and on 3 managed native tallgrass prairie conservation areas (n = 211) to determine whether home range sizes and space use differed between these two management models. We used the 6-month (AprâSep) breeding period to determine core area, home range, mean movement rate, and maximum distance moved. Overall (pooled) home ranges of bobwhite did not differ significantly between traditional and grassland managed areas; however, there were significant yearly differences between management models and study areas. Males generally had larger home range sizes and had higher movement rates than females. For the 5 years of the study few birds made long-distance movements (\u3e1.6 km; 3%), and all remained relatively close to capture locations in winter (FebâMar). For both traditional and grassland managed areas, bobwhite selected for areas that had disturbance (fire and grazing) in the last 2 years and for the native grassland vegetation type. These findings suggest that areas managed under the grassland management model provide preferred habitat for bobwhite and could result in significant improvement in habitat quality for tallgrass prairie wildlife
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