The dynamics of computerization in a social science research team : a case study of infrastructure, strategies, and skills

This paper examines the dynamics of Computerization in a PC-oriented research group through a case study. The time and skill in integrating computing into the labor processes of research are often significant "hidden costs" of computerization. Computing infrastructure plays a key role in reducing these costs may be enhanced by careful organization. We illustrate computerization strategies that we have found to be productive and unproductive. Appropriate computerization strategies depend as much on the structuring of resources and interests in the larger social setting, as on a technical characterization of tasks

Simple, shock-free, quick-release connector - A concept

Connector concept is based on characteristics of friction between sliding surfaces and consists of two packs of foil strips. Advantages of this connector are - separation is smooth and shock-free, and connector can also act as a seal. Equation for computing tensile load-carrying capability is also given

The Effects of Population Size Histories on Estimates of Selection Coefficients from Time-Series Genetic Data.

Many approaches have been developed for inferring selection coefficients from time series data while accounting for genetic drift. These approaches have been motivated by the intuition that properly accounting for the population size history can significantly improve estimates of selective strengths. However, the improvement in inference accuracy that can be attained by modeling drift has not been characterized. Here, by comparing maximum likelihood estimates of selection coefficients that account for the true population size history with estimates that ignore drift by assuming allele frequencies evolve deterministically in a population of infinite size, we address the following questions: how much can modeling the population size history improve estimates of selection coefficients? How much can mis-inferred population sizes hurt inferences of selection coefficients? We conduct our analysis under the discrete Wright-Fisher model by deriving the exact probability of an allele frequency trajectory in a population of time-varying size and we replicate our results under the diffusion model. For both models, we find that ignoring drift leads to estimates of selection coefficients that are nearly as accurate as estimates that account for the true population history, even when population sizes are small and drift is high. This result is of interest because inference methods that ignore drift are widely used in evolutionary studies and can be many orders of magnitude faster than methods that account for population sizes

Jane Claire Dirks\u27s Correspondence with Stanley G. Jewett

This exchange between Jane Claire Dirks (later Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds) and Stanley G. Jewett, a biologist with Region 1 of the Fish and Wildlife Service (serving Oregon and five other states), is an example of the type of correspondence Dirks had with various experts on the Pacific forest region while she was completing her doctoral thesis. Dirks-Edmunds began to study Zoology in Illinois immediately after earning her Bachelor\u27s degree in Biology from Linfield College in 1937. She returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974

Land Grant Application- Jewett, Jonathan (Bath)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Jonathan Jewett for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Hannah Crooker.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1498/thumbnail.jp

Poetic Tecniques in the Wasteland

That Eliot is the greatest poet in the English language o f the first third of the present century is debatable. There are also W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and perhaps others, depending on scholarly opinion. But there is less doubt about his influence; he is generally considered the most influential and he remains the most controversial. Critics and other students of literature have written extensively to resolve controversial opinion and to unravel the complexity of his poetics both to professional scholars and, of corse, to students who approach them for the first time. Even today, a simpler explanation is required. Therefore the purpose of this essay is to explain some of Eliot' s most important techniques and to show how, in using them, he develops one of the themes that dominate much of his poetry: the spiritually negative character of the contemporary world and the spiritually positive character of the past tradition. 'The Wasteland' is in my opinion the poem which best illustrates these techniques

Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons

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The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America

This article offers a broad sketch of claims regarding the university’s public purpose in the 1960s while noting that a vision of the university as an autonomous forum for moral debate cut across the seemingly insurmountable divide between young radicals and their liberal elders. Read through the lens of educational philosophies, the era’s clashes did not simply pit liberal advocates of political neutrality against radical exponents of political commitment. Rather, many radical activists—and some liberals—believed that the university should cut off many of its ties to the wider society to gain a more critical purchase on it. Indeed, activist critics of Clark Kerr’s bureaucratic “multiversity” often hewed to a remarkably traditional conception of higher education.Histor

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Alien Registration- Jewett, Jane (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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