Of the Present Ability of America, With Some Miscellaneous Reflections

Common Sense ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Thomas Paine
Keyword(s):  
Present Ability

Recent Progress in Weather Routeing for Merchant Vessels

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Ocean Surface ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Very High ◽  
Present Ability ◽  
Made In

The weather is rarely out of the news. Weather can be hazardous at times almost anywhere on Earth, and the media are always keen to report dramatic events. On the global scene, weather, climate and the environment are issues of great international public concern at present because of the likely implications of increases of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The contributions of the meteorologist to the understanding of this global problem are increasingly recognized, as is the progress which has been made in the accuracy of day-to-day forecasts. This paper provides a brief résumé of our present ability to model and forecast the behaviour of the global atmosphere and the ocean surface, and also demonstrates how these models are applied to the practical problems of operational ship-routeing by the UK Meteorological Office. It is worth remembering that it was the very high incidence of losses at sea in the 1850s which brought about the establishment of the UK's first meteorological service.

An X-Ray Spectrometer Attachment for the Philips EM-200/EM-300 Electron Microscopes

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
R. E. Ogilvie ◽  
S. H. Moll ◽  
M. A. Schippert
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Fluorescence Analysis ◽  
Angular Range ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Mica Crystal ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Present Ability

An X-ray spectrometer has been developed to extend the analytical capability of the Philips EM-200/EM-300 Electron Microscopes to studies of sample chemistry. It attaches directly to the objective aperture port of the rotating/tilting specimen stage.Shown in Figure 1, the spectrometer is a high resolution instrument, employing a mica crystal which is continuously curved to fulfill the X-ray focusing conditions over the entire angular range. Equipped with a flow proportional counter, it is capable of analyzing characteristic X-ray lines of any element from Na through U. With the rotating/tilting specimen stage and a replacement aperture installed in the microscope, the spectrometer may be attached to or removed from the instrument in less than five minutes. It may also be left in situ during normal use of the microscope.Supplementing the present ability of the electron microscope to investigate morphology and crystal structure (by electron diffraction), the spectrometer allows the simultaneous determination of chemical composition by microprobe X-ray fluorescence analysis of areas approximately one micron in diameter.

Design of Precipitation Networks1

1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 894-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene L. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variability ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Precipitation Variability ◽  
The State ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Variability ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Present Ability

The knowledge of the temporal and spatial variability of precipitation is important to many aspects of our society. A review of the research that has been accomplished on precipitation variability is presented. This is coupled with a discussion of the state of the art in measurement and estimation of precipitation to evaluate the present ability to properly design precipitation networks.

Short of Nuclear Madness

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Bruce M. Russett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nuclear Attack ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Present Ability

Since the beginning of the cold war the keystone of American strategic planning has been the principle that the ultimate deterrent to a Russian attack had to be the certainty of American retaliation against Russian cities. The Russians seemingly have adopted the same position vis-à-vis the United States, usually to the point of denying vigorously any possibility of limiting central war to counterforce strikes alone. A typical formulation was expressed by former Defense Secretary McNamara in his 1968 “posture statement” to Congress:[It is] the clear and present ability to destroy the attacker as a viable 20th Century nation and an unwavering will to use those [Assured Destruction] forces in retaliation to a nuclear attack upon ourselves or our allies that provides the deterrent, and not the ability partially to limit damage to ourselves.

scholarly journals Spillway blockage caused by large wood in reservoirs

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 02037
Author(s):  
Paloma Furlan ◽  
Michael Pfister ◽  
Jorge Matos ◽  
Anton J. Schleiss
Keyword(s):  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Large Wood ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
Rainfall Events ◽  
Riverine Ecosystems ◽  
Environmental Attributes ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Heavy Rainfall Events ◽  
Present Ability

Large wood (LW) elements are often transported by rivers into reservoirs during heavy rainfall events. Large wood has important environmental attributes that benefit the diversification of riverine ecosystems. There are several studies dealing with the transport and behaviour of LW inside streams. However, during flood events, LW tends to create jams or blockages at diverse hydraulic structures inside streams, creating significant problems such as discharge limitations and increased water levels. Even though knowledge on the effect of LW at bridges in rivers with relatively high flow velocities starts to be available, the latter is hardly applicable for reservoir approach flow conditions. Understanding LW blockage processes at a reservoir spillway is essential regarding the safety evaluation of a dam and the surrounding areas. The geomorphologic benefits of wood for stream restoration depends also on our present ability to manage jams and the risk they imply for civil structures when blocked. Therefore, series of systematic laboratory experiments were conducted to analyse blockage of floating stems at an ogee crested spillway equipped with piers. Different LW characteristics were represented in a physical model with cylindrical stems. Results associate the size of stem groups to blockage probabilities and the effect blockages can have on the discharge capacity of a spillway.

The quarantine archives: educators in “social isolation”

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Ligia (Licho) López López ◽  
Christopher T. McCaw ◽  
Rhonda Di Biase ◽  
Amy McKernan ◽  
Sophie Rudolph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Common ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Present Ability ◽  
Do So

PurposeThe archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to understand it, to think and feel with others and to create a collectivity that, beyond the slogan “we are in this together”, seriously contemplates the implications of what it means to be given an opportunity to alter the course of history, to begin to learn to live and educate otherwise.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is collectively written by twelve academics in March 2020, a few weeks into the first closing down of common spaces in 2020, Victoria, Australia. Writing through and against “social isolation”, the twelve quarantine archives in this paper are all at once questions, methods, data, analysis, implications and limitations of these pandemic times and their afterlives.FindingsThese quarantine archives reveal a profound sense of dislocation, relatability and concern. Several of the findings in this piece succeed at failing to explain in generalising terms these un-new upending times and, in the process, raise more questions and propose un-named methodologies.Originality/valueIf there is anything this paper could claim as original, it would be its present ability to respond to the current times as a historical moment of intensity. At times when “isolation”, “self” and “contained” are the common terms of reference, the “collective”, “connected” and “socially engaged” nature of this paper defies those very terms. Finally, the socially transformative desire archived in each of the pieces is a form of future history-making that resists the straight order with which history is often written and made.

scholarly journals The Needs in the Radial Velocity Area in View of Impending Space Astrometry Projects

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 805-807
Author(s):  
J. Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Velocity Measurements ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Space Astrometry ◽  
The Many ◽  
Present Ability

I have understood the title of this talk given to me by Dr. Westerhout to imply a review of our present ability to provide new radial velocity measurements for the many stars to be observed by the Space Astrometry projects, as well as an indication of the technical developments still required. And indeed, the quantity and quality of the existing radial velocity determinations are such that only a small fraction of the data needed can be considered available.The challenges presented by the two projects, the Astrometry Satellite and the Space Telescope, are somewhat different, corresponding to the complementary nature of the two programmes: The dedicated Astrometry Satellite will observe a very large number of relatively bright stars, while the Space Telescope is expected to give astrometric results for much fainter, but also far fewer objects (estimated currently at perhaps 20 per year). The two programmes will therefore be considered separately.

scholarly journals Rewriting masculinity with male bodies: The sexualization of male martyrs in Prudentius’ Peristephanon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christabel Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Gaze Theory ◽  
Sexual Object ◽  
Present Ability

<p>It is now generally accepted that Saint Agnes is portrayed in the Peristephanon as ambiguously gendered (she is masculinized and refeminized), sexualized and objectified in such a way as to intentionally lead the reader to view her as a sexual object. Scholars have used philology, intertextual readings, gaze theory and, most successfully, Laura Mulvey’s conception of the workings of voyeurism4 in order to explicate and examine the portrayal of Agnes in Prudentius’ Peristephanon. However, as the above quotations indicate, there is a similar though different, subtler mode of sexualization, sexual allusion and, therefore, objectification that may be read in the Peristephanon’s martyrdoms-- those of the male saints. The passages quoted above show Agnes welcoming her executioner as a lover in strident rhetoric while Cassian’s executioners are exhausted from torturing him to death and are described in terms similar to lovers near the end of their exertions, giving new meaning to his exhortation that they ‘be vigorous’. This highlights the importance of the virility of the executioner/s as they stand in for God as agents whose actions will complete the contract of martyrdom and bring the martyr into a union, or marriage, with Christ. The eagerness and ability of the executioners is integral in this transaction. Agnes’ lover with his ‘eager steps’ and ‘hot desires’ is masculine and forceful enough to please even the masculinized Agnes. While Cassian’s torturers fail because they are not fully-grown and cannot therefore bring the contract to completion. Indeed Cassian only speaks once in the entire poem and it is to exhort his torturers to finish him off, to exhort his lovers to (at last) become men. Cassian is presented with exactly the kind of lover that Agnes has spurned, soft effeminate boys. Yet Cassian does not speak against their suitability as the chosen instruments of his bridegroom. He is feminized through his passive acceptance of the manner of his death. Then, much like Agnes, is remasculinized as the boys’ penetrations fail to kill him and God must step in. Cassian’s masculinity is undermined by that which is not present: ability in rhetoric, agency, and virility. And although it is recouped by God, it is interesting that he and his masculinity have taken a detour through mute objectification and passivity, a sort of sexualization.</p>

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