Colonial America Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Jason Martin
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
North America ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Database ◽  
Research Collection ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
British Colonies

Colonial America, a primary source database from Adam Matthew, features the entire archive of documents, contained in 1,450 volumes, from the agencies that oversaw the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean. The database has rich metadata that allows for powerful searching, high resolution images, and user friendly functionality. This database is a superb addition to any research collection.

Catholics in Colonial America (1500–1700)

2020 ◽  
pp. 325-355
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Alta California ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
The Caribbean

Conversionary efforts in the New World mirrored attitudes and practices in the Old. Christendom remained as much a project in the New as in the Old, and thus religious differences remained as problematic in the Americas as they did in Europe. Images of military conflict—combat, battle, and victory—language familiar on the Continent—infused the outlook of early modern Catholic missionaries, whereas Spanish and French missionaries in the New World often had the arm of the state to protect them and, all too often, to coerce the natives. This chapter selectively examines initial missionary efforts in a variety of locations—Spanish missionary outreach in the Caribbean, Peru, and Alta California and French missions in North America. The depth of Native American conversions was as varied as the methods used to produce them. On a superficial level, conversion meant a transfer of loyalty or allegiance, often without a full knowledge of what that transfer entailed. Or, with defeat, conversion might represent a conscious acknowledgment of the more powerful Christian God over weaker traditional deities.

The Creole Synthesis in the New World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
North America ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Blackface Minstrelsy ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
British Colonies

This chapter examines the musical, cultural, and sociological elements of blackface minstrelsy's “creole synthesis” throughout the Caribbean and the British colonies of North America. It argues that the conditions for the creole synthesis were present virtually from the first encounters of Anglo-Europeans and Africans in the New World. The chapter discusses the riverine, maritime, and frontier social contexts that shaped the music of blackface's African American sources and their Anglo-Celtic imitators. In particular, it considers creole synthesis in the Caribbean and in frontiers such as New Orleans and the Ohio. It also looks at a preliminary example of iconographic analysis that reflects the riverine and maritime creole synthesis: James Henry Beard's 1846 painting Western Raftsmen. The chapter contends that blackface minstrelsy was pioneered by George Washington Dixon and Thomas Dartmouth Rice in the 1830s and codified by Joel Walker Sweeney and Daniel Decatur Emmett (and the blackface troupes they founded) in the early 1840s, and thus represents the earliest comparatively accurate and extensive observation, description, and imitation of African American performance in the New World.

First records of Cyclorhipidion fukiense (Eggers) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), an ambrosia beetle native to Asia, in North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4394 (2) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. RICHARD HOEBEKE ◽  
ROBERT J. RABAGLIA ◽  
MILOŠ KNÍŽEK ◽  
JOHN S. WEAVER
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
North America ◽  
Ambrosia Beetle ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
Adventive Species ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
First Time

The Asian ambrosia beetle, Cyclorhipidion fukiense (Eggers) was detected for the first time in North America based on three specimens trapped in 2012 from three localities in South Carolina and two other specimens intercepted at the port of Savannah, Georgia, in 2010. The species is characterized, illustrated with high-resolution images, and compared with two other congeneric, adventive species (C. bodoanum and C. pelliculosum) presently established in eastern North America. Morphometric measurements are provided and a provisional key is presented to the species of Cyclorhipidion occurring in North America. 

scholarly journals BioInfograph: An Online Tool to Design and Display Multi-Panel Scientific Figure Interactively

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kejie Li ◽  
Jessica Hurt ◽  
Christopher D. Whelan ◽  
Ravi Challa ◽  
Dongdong Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Scalable Vector Graphics ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Programming Skills ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Publication Quality

Many fit-for-purpose bioinformatics tools generate plots to interpret complex biological data and illustrate findings. However, assembling individual plots in different formats from various sources into one high-resolution figure in the desired layout requires mastery of commercial tools or even programming skills. In addition, it is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating process even for a computationally savvy scientist who frequently takes a trial-and-error iterative approach to get satisfactory results. To address the challenge, we developed bioInfograph, a web-based tool that allows users to interactively arrange high-resolution images in diversified formats, mainly Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), to produce one multi-panel publication-quality composite figure in both PDF and HTML formats in a user-friendly manner, requiring no programming skills. It solves stylesheet conflicts of coexisting SVG plots, integrates a rich-text editor, and allows creative design by providing advanced functionalities like image transparency, controlled vertical stacking of plots, versatile image formats, and layout templates. To highlight, the sharable interactive HTML output with zoom-in function is a unique feature not seen in any other similar tools. In the end, we make the online tool publicly available at https://baohongz.github.io/bioInfograph while releasing the source code at https://github.com/baohongz/bioInfograph under MIT open-source license.

scholarly journals figureComposer: A web-based interactive multi-panel bio-infographic designing tool

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kejie Li ◽  
Jessica Hurt ◽  
Christopher D. Whelan ◽  
Ravi Challa ◽  
Dongdong Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Web Tool ◽  
Bioinformatics Tool ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Link Type ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Programming Skills ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Publication Quality

AbstractBackgroundMany fit-for-purpose bioinformatics tools generate plots to investigate data quality and illustrate findings. However, assembling individual plots in different formats from various sources into one high-resolution figure requires mastery of commercial tools or even programming skills. In addition, it is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating process even for scientists with modest computational skills.ResultsWe developed figureComposer, a web-based bioinformatics tool that interactively arranges high-resolution images in various formats, mainly SVG to produce one multi-panel publication-quality composite figure in both PDF and interactive HTML formats in a user-friendly matter, requiring no programming skills.ConclusionsfigureComposer is open-source and publicly available web tool that can be accessed online at https://baohongz.github.io/figureComposer while the source code is provided at https://github.com/baohongz/figureComposer.

FeXIV Line Emission Polarization of the July 11, 1991 Solar Corona

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 541-547
Author(s):  
J. Sýkora ◽  
J. Rybák ◽  
P. Ambrož
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Solar Corona ◽  
Emission Line ◽  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
White Light ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Line Emission ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Degree Of Polarization ◽  
High Resolution Images

AbstractHigh resolution images, obtained during July 11, 1991 total solar eclipse, allowed us to estimate the degree of solar corona polarization in the light of FeXIV 530.3 nm emission line and in the white light, as well. Very preliminary analysis reveals remarkable differences in the degree of polarization for both sets of data, particularly as for level of polarization and its distribution around the Sun’s limb.

Remarks on the application of backscattered electron imaging (BEI) to the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of biological structures

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 484-487
Author(s):  
Etienne de Harven
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Incident Beam ◽  
Spot Size ◽  
Primary Electron ◽  
Critical Point Drying ◽  
Cell Shapes ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Backscattered Electron ◽  
Electron Imaging ◽  
Scanning Electron

Biological ultrastructures have been extensively studied with the scanning electron microscope (SEM) for the past 12 years mainly because this instrument offers accurate and reproducible high resolution images of cell shapes, provided the cells are dried in ways which will spare them the damage which would be caused by air drying. This can be achieved by several techniques among which the critical point drying technique of T. Anderson has been, by far, the most reproducibly successful. Many biologists, however, have been interpreting SEM micrographs in terms of an exclusive secondary electron imaging (SEI) process in which the resolution is primarily limited by the spot size of the primary incident beam. in fact, this is not the case since it appears that high resolution, even on uncoated samples, is probably compromised by the emission of secondary electrons of much more complex origin.When an incident primary electron beam interacts with the surface of most biological samples, a large percentage of the electrons penetrate below the surface of the exposed cells.

Field Emission SEM Equipped With Noise Compensator

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 302-303
Author(s):  
S. Saito ◽  
H. Todokoro ◽  
S. Nomura ◽  
T. Komoda
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Field Emission ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Probe Current ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Scanning Electron

Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) features extremely high resolution images, and offers many valuable information. But, for a specimen which gives low contrast images, lateral stripes appear in images. These stripes are resulted from signal fluctuations caused by probe current noises. In order to obtain good images without stripes, the fluctuations should be less than 1%, especially for low contrast images. For this purpose, the authors realized a noise compensator, and applied this to the FESEM.Fig. 1 shows an outline of FESEM equipped with a noise compensator. Two apertures are provided gust under the field emission gun.

Low-Loss Images in a Stem/Tem Microscope

1976 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 496-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Joy ◽  
Dennis M. Maher
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Surface Topography ◽  
Beam Direction ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Specimen Holder ◽  
Glancing Angle ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Objective Type

High-resolution images of the surface topography of solid specimens can be obtained using the low-loss technique of Wells. If the specimen is placed inside a lens of the condenser/objective type, then it has been shown that the lens itself can be used to collect and filter the low-loss electrons. Since the probeforming lenses in TEM instruments fitted with scanning attachments are of this type, low-loss imaging should be possible.High-resolution, low-loss images have been obtained in a JEOL JEM 100B fitted with a scanning attachment and a thermal, fieldemission gun. No modifications were made to the instrument, but a wedge-shaped, specimen holder was made to fit the side-entry, goniometer stage. Thus the specimen is oriented initially at a glancing angle of about 30° to the beam direction. The instrument is set up in the conventional manner for STEM operation with all the lenses, including the projector, excited.

Effect of strain on ADF-STEM high-resolution images

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 666-667
Author(s):  
M. Kelly ◽  
D.M. Bird
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Intensity Variation ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Atomic Resolution ◽  
Strain Fields ◽  
High Resolution Image ◽  
Annular Dark Field ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Interesting Alternative

It is well known that strain fields can have a strong influence on the details of HREM images. This, for example, can cause problems in the analysis of edge-on interfaces between lattice mismatched materials. An interesting alternative to conventional HREM imaging has recently been advanced by Pennycook and co-workers where the intensity variation in the annular dark field (ADF) detector is monitored as a STEM probe is scanned across the specimen. It is believed that the observed atomic-resolution contrast is correlated with the intensity of the STEM probe at the atomic sites and the way in which this varies as the probe moves from cell to cell. As well as providing a directly interpretable high-resolution image, there are reasons for believing that ADF-STEM images may be less suseptible to strain than conventional HREM. This is because HREM images arise from the interference of several diffracted beams, each of which is governed by all the excited Bloch waves in the crystal.

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