John Terrane: A Study of a First World War Revisionist

Of all the British military historians who started writing about the First World War during the boom of the sixties, perhaps no one has had greater influence or generated more controversy than John Alfred Terraine. As G.F. Elliot wrote in a 1965 review, John Terraine is one of the younger generation of British military analysts who are now proving, with brilliance and vigour, the value of the long view in putting World War I in proper perspective. It is this idea of perspective, trying to bring balance to the historical arguments concerning the British contribution to the First World War, that drove John Terraine in all his work. Terraine\u27s nine books on the British Expeditionary Force challenged the comfortable mainstream theories and assumptions, defended the generals, and debunked the myths. His opinions gave him both notoreity and influence

Uppercase and lowercase computer printout increases readability

Print chain of 120 characters facilitates production of computer printout in both uppercase and lowercase characters. Although the output speed is reduced, the use of the print chain increases the computer printout readability

Navigation and interaction in a real-scale digital mock-up using natural language and user gesture

This paper tries to demonstrate a very new real-scale 3D system and sum up some firsthand and cutting edge results concerning multi-modal navigation and interaction interfaces. This work is part of the CALLISTO-SARI collaborative project. It aims at constructing an immersive room, developing a set of software tools and some navigation/interaction interfaces. Two sets of interfaces will be introduced here: 1) interaction devices, 2) natural language (speech processing) and user gesture. The survey on this system using subjective observation (Simulator Sickness Questionnaire, SSQ) and objective measurements (Center of Gravity, COG) shows that using natural languages and gesture-based interfaces induced less cyber-sickness comparing to device-based interfaces. Therefore, gesture-based is more efficient than device-based interfaces.FUI CALLISTO-SAR

A metamorphic perspective on the Pan African overprint in the Amery area of Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica

The Amery area of Mac. Robertson Land lies between the early Palaeozoic granulite terrain of Prydz Bay and Meso-Neoproterozoic granulites in northern Prince Charles Mountains (nPCM). In contrast to the nPCM which shows an apparently simple near-isobaric history, granulites exposed in the Amery area contain reaction textures suggesting a more complex evolution. Peak-M1 Mesoproterozoic assemblages formed at c. 700 MPa and 800°C and initially underwent a near-isobaric cooling. A subsequent increase in temperature (M2) resulted in the formation of cordierite-spinel assemblages at ~450 MPa and 700°C in metapelite. The timing of M2 is not firmly established, however existing data strongly suggest it is an early Palaeozoic event coeval with tectonism in Prydz Bay to the north-east. Thus the metamorphic evolution of granulites in the Amery area reflects a terrain-scale thermal interference pattern between two unrelated orogenic events. In rocks not recording post-M1 isobaric cooling, the superposition of M2 on M1 assemblages resulted in the formation of M2 cordierite-spinel symplectites at the expense of peak M1 garnet and sillimanite. This texture, commonly interpreted to reflect near-isothermal decompression, has no relevance in terms of a single tectonothermal event in the Amery area.Ian Scrimgeour and Martin Han