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Wilhelm Waiblinger in Italy

This study traces the importance of Italy as a source of literary inspiration in the work of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), who spent the last four years of his life, the most prolific of his career, living and traveling in Italy. Drawing on Waiblinger's poems, travel accounts, letters and diaries, Thompson compiles and analyzes Waiblinger's thoughts on and engagement with Italian art, literature, music, people and landscapes as well as the themes of antiquity, Renaissance, and Catholicism

The Organized Bar--Yellow Brick Road to Legal Services for the Poor

The experience of GILS-GLSP demonstrates that the extensive investment of time necessary to involve the organized bar in the legal services effort can make a vital contribution to the development of a stable, professional, statewide, legal services program. Bar support eases access to the political process, improves community relations, and facilitates program funding. Furthermore, bar support helps reduce the political strife that has heretofore plagued legal services programs. The rewards of such an approach can be great. Adequate funding obtained with active bar support has enabled GILS-GLSP to provide increasingly comprehensive legal services to indigent clients. From a modest budget of 216,000 dollars in 1970-71, the funds available to GILS-GLSP grew to 1,200,000 dollars in 1973-74. State bar leaders have persuaded the Georgia State Legislature to appropriate ever increasing amounts as a local matching share for GILS-GLSP, and at this writing the projected budget for GILS is 1,500,000 dollars for the program in 1974-75. Of equal importance, confidence in continued bar support has permitted the program to deemphasize such traditional legal aid areas as domestic relations and become more effective to the indigent client community by moving heavily into fields such as housing, consumer protection, and welfare rights. By the end of 1973, GILS-GLSP had forty-one full-time staff attorneys providing these comprehensive legal services throughout Georgia. Because the proposed Federal Legal Services Corporation Act mandates greater state bar participation in the formulation and management of legal services programs, the example of GILS-GLSP should give all legal services advocates greater confidence that bar participation can assist in building a strong legal services program. While the yellow brick road of bar support may contain some pitfalls, the potential results of comprehensive legal services to the indigent of our nation justifies the effort

The Role Of Attitudes And Beliefs In Personal Computer Utilization

A two-phased study investigating the role of attitudes and beliefs in the use of personal computers was conducted in 9 organizations. During the first phase a questionnaire was administered to 278 knowledge workers within one organization. The measurement scale items were tested and revised slightly, and the research model tested also. In the second phase, the revised questionnaire was administered to 364 knowledge workers (80% gross response rate) in 8 diverse organizations. The measures and research model were tested using Partial Least Squares. Nine of eleven hypothesized relations were supported statistically, and 38% of the variance was explained in the major dependent variable, utilization. The general findings were: (1) There were three distinct components of attitudes identified which relate to the utilization of personal computers, including (a) job-related expectations of use, (b) correspondence between job tasks and personal computer use, and (c) general beliefs about personal computer use (difficulty, time requirements). (2) Of the different attitude components, only correspondence had a significant influence on personal computer utilization. (3) Experience with personal computers strongly influenced all three components of attitudes, and also influenced the utilization of personal computers directly. (4) Management support had a positive influence on expectations and general beliefs about personal computer use, but there was no direct relation between management support and utilization. (5) A strong relation was observed between the utilization of personal computers and related aspects of performance.;The implications of the findings for practitioners are that organizations wishing to increase the amount and effectiveness of personal computer use by knowledge workers should stress the potential correspondence between the personal computer environment and current job tasks. As the experience level with personal computers increases, further applications for job tasks are discovered and utilization increases. The cycle repeats itself, with increased use and experience leading to greater appreciation of the correspondence between job tasks and the personal computer environment. For researchers, the results confirmed the need to examine separate components of attitudes within the context of system utilization. Also, the measures which were developed and tested are appropriate for future research

Alien Registration- Lawrence, Emma (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Foreign Travellers in Florida, 1900-1950

During the first half of the twentieth century more foreign writers visited the South than at any other period in history. Among the various Southern states the most popular among this group of visitors were Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia. In many instances Virginia was a sort of afterthought to the customary visit to Washington, but the other three states attracted foreigners primarily on account of their own colorful history and scenery. If New Orleans were to be placed in a separate category as a tourist attraction, Florida would outstrip Louisiana in this respect. Moreover, a large proportion of travellers who go to Texas do so simply because the sheer bulk of the state blocks their way en route across the continent. Such is not the case with South Americans who enter the United States via the International Airport in Miami; for they have a clear choice of stopping to dally in the fleshpots of Miami or of purchasing a through ticket on the airlines to Washington

Delay-Differential Equations with Constant Lags

This article concerns delay-differential equations (DDEs) with constant lags. DDEs increasingly are being used to model various phenomena in mathematics and the physical sciences. For such equations the value of the derivative at any time depends on the solution at a previous lagged time. Although solving DDEs is similar in some respects to solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs), it differs in some rather significant ways. These differences are discussed briefly. The effect the differences can have on systems of ODEs and DDEs is illustrated. Popular approaches used in the development of numerical methods for solving DDEs are described. Available Matlab DDE solvers and a Fortran 90 solver based on these approaches are mentioned. Finally, some pointers to further resources available to interested readers are given

W49A North - Global or Local or No Collapse?

We attempt to fit observations with 5" resolution of the J=2-1 transition of CS in the directions of H II regions A, B, and G of W49A North as well as observations with 20" resolution of the J=2-1, 3-2, 5-4, and 7-6 transitions in the directions of H II regions A and G by using radiative transfer calculations. These calculations predict the intensity profiles resulting from several spherical clouds along the line of sight. We consider three models: global collapse of a very large (5 pc radius) cloud, localized collapse from smaller (1 pc) clouds around individual H II regions, and multiple, static clouds. For all three models we can find combinations of parameters that reproduce the CS profiles reasonably well provided that the component clouds have a core-envelope structure with a temperature gradient. Cores with high temperature and high molecular hydrogen density are needed to match the higher transitions (e.g. J=7-6) observed towards A and G. The lower temperature, low density gas needed to create the inverse P-Cygni profile seen in the CS J=2-1 line (with 5" beam) towards H II region G arises from different components in the 3 models. The infalling envelope of cloud G plus cloud B creates the absorption in global collapse, cloud B is responsible in local collapse, and a separate cloud, G', is needed in the case of many static clouds. The exact nature of the velocity field in the envelopes for the case of local collapse is not important as long as it is in the range of 1 to 5 km/s for a turbulent velocity of about 6 km/s. High resolution observations of the J=1-0 and 5-4 transitions of CS and C34S may distinguish between these three models. Modeling existing observations of HCO+ and C18O does not allow one to distinguish between the three models but does indicate the existence of a bipolar outflow.Comment: 42 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJS August 2004, v153 issu