Ultraviolet hydrogen-discharge lamp

Device provides stable flux output for calibration of ultraviolet spectrum

Accurate robot simulation

Robot simulators are valuable tools for researchers to develop control code in a fast and efficient manner without spending time setting up physical experiments. Most simulators, however, do not model the real world accurately. As a consequence, when a program is run on a real robot it may behave differently from when run in simulation. In this paper we present a method of developing a robot simulator that models the operation of a real robot in a real environment accurately, using real robot data and system identification to construct the simulator's model

The Greater Sum of Collaboration: Adding Value to Mathematics Education Through Teamwork

The role of a Mathematics Specialist can vary from pre-K through grade 8 schools. One of the most distinguishing factors involves the relationship between the Mathematics Specialists, administrators, and teachers. In this article, we share our experiences in a school culture that supports common language, collective commitments, trust, and transparency. Using this model, we have experienced high levels of teacher professionalism and student success. As lifelong learners, we continually reflect upon our practices and look for ways to meet the needs of our students. This occurs by implementing purposeful meeting structures that allow us to facilitate discussions around mathematics content, lesson planning, assessment results, and student progress. Administrators Brian Butler and Diane Kerr, along with Mathematics Specialists Tracey Hulen and Jennifer Deinhart, have formed a powerful relationship at Mason Crest Elementary School. This is a Title I school with 560 students, pre-K through grade 5, which promotes reflective practices and allows for flexibility and creativity as we continue to strengthen and improve our practices. Together, we share a story of our collaborative journey with teachers and students to create an effective mathematics program that embraces a conceptual learning philosophy. Ultimately there are two kinds of schools: learning-enriched schools and learning impoverished schools. I have yet to see a school where the learning curves ... of the adults were steeped upward and those of the students were not. Teachers and students go hand in hand as learners ... or they don\u27t go at all. [1] Roland Barth, Hand in Hand, We All Lear

The continuously supported rail subjected to an axial force and a moving load

Axial compression force effects in welded rails on critical velocity for high speed trai

The Quiet American and the novel

This essay presents an analysis of the novel "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene. Theme of writing in the novel; Concept of auto-criticism of discourse in the novel; Analysis of characters in the fiction, including Pyle and Fowler; Information on the screenplay made by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for the novel in 1958. [Abstract from EBSCOhost]postprin

Stealing Victory?: The strange case of Conrad and Buchan

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Arthur Conan Doyle and the consumption cure

Arthur Conan Doyle, a young physician in general practice in the provinces who had published some fiction, dashed to Berlin in November 1890 to attend and report on a demonstration of what had been eagerly announced as a new cure for tuberculosis, discovered by Robert Koch. This event is examined as a crisis point in Conan Doyle's career, and his various accounts of the episode scrutinized for what they show about his understanding of, and participation in, the discourses and professions of science and of letters, the kinds of knowledge they produce, and the sorts of responsibilities they entail. The Berlin experience, which exposed him to the workings of the scientific profession at the highest levels, was to be a crucial moment in the formation of Conan Doyle as man of letters.postprin

The Secret Secret Sharer

Opening Plenary Session“The Secret Sharer”, written in 1909 in a respite from the composition of the novel that was to become Under Western Eyes, is one of Conrad’s most straightforward as well as one of his most popular stories. It moves steadily forward to an exciting narrative climax, and more or less observes the classical unities of action, time and place. The consensus of the large critical literature it has engendered is that the tale’s centre of gravity lies in the relationship between the two parties to the “secret sharing” of the story: the young captain, poised uncertainly on the threshold of his first voyage in command of a ship, and Leggatt, the fugitive murderer whom he takes on board, hides in his own quarters without the knowledge of his own crew, and eventually helps to escape. This relationship is based on an intuitive and romantic kinship each feels for the other, which is another meaning of the title phrase “the secret sharer”. The tale is narrated as a retrospect by the young captain himself, and critical opinion also agrees in seeing in him an example of the Conradian “unreliable narrator”. This paper will argue that the young captain is in some crucial respects a great deal more unreliable than has been noticed hitherto. In doing so, it promises to reveal more than one more layer of meaning in the tale’s cunning title, and to share at least one more vital secret, buried in the story by the narrator because he too is unaware of it