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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-26
... Inventory Completion: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Correction... affiliated with the human remains may contact the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Repatriation of the human..., Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, MSC01 1050, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-26
... Inventory Completion: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM AGENCY... affiliated with the human remains may contact the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Repatriation of the human..., Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, MSC01 1050, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Anthropology and San Diego Museum of Man professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Pueblo... Inventory Completion: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has completed...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-13
...: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico has... contact the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Repatriation of the human remains to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico... Anthropology, in consultation with the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico, has determined that a collection of... cultural affiliation with the cultural items should contact the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the...
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Myths and Legends of the New York Iroquois. Museum Bulletin 125.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Converse, Harriet Maxwell
1974-01-01
Adopted for 22 years into the Seneca nation, Harriet Maxwell Converse devoted much of her life to the study and defense of the Indians of New York. The position of friendship and trust she enjoyed enabled her to record extensive information on the customs and institutions of the Iroquois. Material for this volume was taken from her notes found…
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-30
... organizations, has determined that a cultural item listed in this notice meets the definition of sacred object... sacred objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's... that it was a sacred object from their tribe, and requested its return. Determinations Made by the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-02
... definition of sacred objects and repatriation to the Indian tribes stated below may occur if no additional..., Albuquerque, NM, that meet the definition of sacred objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. This notice is published as... site LA 46316 include 90 sacred objects commonly called prayer sticks, materials for making prayer...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-19
... A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Burke Museum professional staff in... Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA... State Museum (Burke Museum) has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-24
... the human remains was made by the Burke Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives... Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA... State Museum (Burke Museum), University of Washington, has completed an inventory of human remains, in...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-30
... associated funerary objects was made by the Burke Museum professional staff in consultation with....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of... Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington (Burke Museum), has completed an inventory of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-25
... inventory of human remains under the control of the Burke Museum. The human remains were removed from Island....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of... Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington (Burke Museum), has completed an inventory of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D... Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA... State Museum (Burke Museum) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-30
.... Consultation A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Burke Museum professional staff in....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of... Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington (Burke Museum), has completed an inventory of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-12
... of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology's professional staff in consultation with the... Inventory Completion: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of... of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology has completed an inventory of human remains in...
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78 FR 5199 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Arkansas State University Museum, Jonesboro, AR
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-24
... Inventory Completion: Arkansas State University Museum, Jonesboro, AR AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Arkansas State University Museum has completed an inventory of human... Arkansas State University Museum. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the...
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77 FR 39506 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Bishop Museum professional staff in consultation... Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Bishop Museum has completed an inventory of human remains in consultation with the...
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78 FR 34127 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Coachella Valley History Museum, Indio, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-06
... Valley History Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of Torres Martinez Desert....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Coachella Valley History Museum, Indio, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Coachella Valley History Museum has completed an inventory...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-11
... Inventory Completion: The Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology has completed an... contact the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. Repatriation of the human remains...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-11
... Inventory Completion: The Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology has completed an... objects may contact the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. Repatriation of the human...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-28
... Inventory Completion: Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Longyear Museum of Anthropology has completed an... cultural affiliation with the human remains should contact the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at the...
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78 FR 5202 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Arkansas State University Museum, Jonesboro, AR
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-24
... Inventory Completion: Arkansas State University Museum, Jonesboro, AR AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Arkansas State University Museum has completed an inventory of human... contact the Arkansas State University Museum. Repatriation of the human remains to the Indian tribe stated...
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75 FR 23803 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... Bishop Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the the Santa Rosa Indian... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum... completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession and control of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-29
...-PPWOCRADN0] Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology... Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has completed an inventory of human remains, in... Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Repatriation of the human remains to the Indian tribes stated...
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77 FR 32984 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Maine, Hudson Museum, Orono, ME
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... the human remains was made by the University of Maine, Hudson Museum, professional staff in... Inventory Completion: University of Maine, Hudson Museum, Orono, ME AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Maine, Hudson Museum has completed an inventory of human...
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78 FR 11678 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-19
... associated funerary objects was made by the Grand Rapids Public Museum professional staff in consultation... Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Grand Rapids Public Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-18
... Inventory Completion: The Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology has completed an... objects may contact the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. Repatriation of the human...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-18
... and museum staff of the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, and their agents, in... Inventory Completion: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College...
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77 FR 39507 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at UCLA has completed an inventory of human remains and associated... human remains and associated funerary objects may contact the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Repatriation of the...
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75 FR 23807 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... made by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science professional staff in consultation with representatives... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of.... 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the Denver Museum of...
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75 FR 5627 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-03
... made by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science professional staff in consultation with representatives... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of.... 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the Denver Museum of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... McClung Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of... Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority and the University of Tennessee McClung Museum, Knoxville... (TVA) and the University of Tennessee McClung Museum (McClung Museum) have completed an inventory of...
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77 FR 32990 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Maine, Hudson Museum, Orono, ME
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... assessment of the human remains was made by the University of Maine, Hudson Museum, professional staff in... Inventory Completion: University of Maine, Hudson Museum, Orono, ME AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Maine, Hudson Museum, has completed an inventory of human...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-29
... made by the Slater Museum of Natural History and Burke Museum professional staff in consultation with....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Slater Museum of Natural...
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77 FR 46115 - Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Museum of Man professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New... Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The San Diego Museum of Man has completed an inventory of human remains in consultation...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-29
...: Washington State University, Museum of Anthropology, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Washington State University, Museum of Anthropology (WSU) has completed an... University, Museum of Anthropology, Pullman, WA 99164-4910, telephone (509) 335-4314. SUPPLEMENTARY...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-24
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA AGENCY: National Park Service... of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke Museum), University of Washington...
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76 FR 43715 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
...: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Colorado Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary... associated funerary objects may contact the University of Colorado Museum. [[Page 43716
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA... Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The human remains and associated..., Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-26
....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology at... the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. If no additional requestors come forward...
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78 FR 22285 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-15
....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has... associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. If no...
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76 FR 9604 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-18
... Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation... affiliation with the human remains should contact Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Denver Museum of Nature...
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76 FR 14063 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-15
...: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Colorado Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary... contact the University of Colorado Museum. Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary...
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76 FR 43713 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
...: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Colorado Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and an associated... human remains and associated funerary object may contact the University of Colorado Museum. Disposition...
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76 FR 43719 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
...: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Colorado Museum has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with... to be culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact the University of Colorado Museum...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology Museum at the University of California, Davis, Davis, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Department of Anthropology Museum... culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact the Department of Anthropology Museum at the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology Museum at the University of California, Davis, Davis, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Department of Anthropology Museum... culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact the Department of Anthropology Museum at the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-30
... of Denver Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives of the....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-30
... Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Hualapai Indian....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-06
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Kingman Museum... contact the Kingman Museum, Incorporated at the address below by March 7, 2012. ADDRESSES: Beth Yahne, Kingman Museum, Inc., 175 Limit Street, Battle Creek, MI 49037, telephone (269) 965-5117. SUPPLEMENTARY...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-30
... Accn. 3183). In 1974, the Burke Museum staff legally transferred elements associated with the... 1939 (Burke Accn. 3101). In 1974, the Burke Museum staff legally transferred elements associated with....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-31
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of... funerary objects in the possession of the Museum of Cultural and Natural History, Central Michigan... sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native...
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77 FR 23504 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-19
... Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has completed an inventory of human remains and [[Page 23505... affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects may contact the Denver Museum of Nature...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-30
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-13881; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of.... SUMMARY: The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington (Burke Museum), has...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
... Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound has completed an... contact the Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. Disposition of the human remains...
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76 FR 14061 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-15
... Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has completed an inventory of human remains and associated... contact the Denver Museum of Nature & Science at the address below by April 14, 2011. ADDRESSES: Dr. Chip...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-28
... Inventory Completion: Brigham Young University, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT; Correction AGENCY... Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed... 1971, the human remains were donated to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures and were accessioned...
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76 FR 48176 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-08
... A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Fowler Museum at UCLA professional staff... Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at UCLA has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate...
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78 FR 19302 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-29
...-PPWOCRADN0] Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has... may contact the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Repatriation of the human remains to the...
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77 FR 11575 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-27
... assessment of the human remains was made by the Grand Rapids Public Museum professional staff in consultation... Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Grand Rapids Public Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
... Society of Natural History, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Homer Society of Natural History, Pratt Museum has completed an inventory of human... History, Pratt Museum. Repatriation of the human remains to the Indian tribe stated below may occur if no...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [2253-665] Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum... funerary items in the possession and control of the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University..., 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-18
... Inventory Completion: University of Montana, Missoula, MT; Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University... Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Montana, the Museum of the Rockies at... contact the University of Montana, which is acting on its own behalf and for the Museum of the Rockies and...
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75 FR 57288 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-20
... the human remains was made by the Utah Museum of Natural History professional staff and a report sent... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Utah Museum of... possession and control of the Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT. The human remains and...
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78 FR 2434 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-11
... Inventory Completion: Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Natural History Museum of Utah has completed an inventory of human... culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects may contact the Natural History...
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78 FR 2430 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-11
... Inventory Completion: Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Natural History Museum of Utah has completed an inventory of human... culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects may contact the Natural History...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-25
... Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Confederated Tribes... Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History/Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, Eugene, OR AGENCY... Museum of Natural and Cultural History/Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, Eugene, OR. The human remains...
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At the American Museum: The Once and Future Museum.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Preston, Douglas J.
1981-01-01
Describes the design, initial construction and subsequent additions to the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's original building master plan, created over a century ago, is now 60 percent complete. (WB)
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-21
... of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, has completed an inventory... the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Repatriation of the human remains to the tribe...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-19
... of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University has completed an... contact the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. Repatriation of the human remains to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-19
...: University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO, has completed an inventory of human [[Page 23503
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-25
....R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO; Correction AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice; correction. SUMMARY: The University of Denver Museum of Anthropology has corrected an inventory of human remains and...
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76 FR 9598 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-18
... Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation... Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205, telephone (303) 370-6378. SUPPLEMENTARY...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-28
... made by the Burke Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Lummi Tribe of... Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA AGENCY: National Park Service... of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke Museum), University of Washington...
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77 FR 11572 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-27
... made by Bishop Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian... Museum, Honolulu, HI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Bishop Museum... contact the Bishop Museum. Repatriation of the human remains to the tribe stated below may occur if no...
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76 FR 43712 - Notice of Inventory Completion: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
...: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The American Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains, in... History. Repatriation of the human remains to the Indian tribe stated below may occur if no additional...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-25
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Homer Society of Natural History, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice... Society of Natural History, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK. The human remains were removed from Kachemak Bay, AK...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-19
.... Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix, AZ and Arizona State Museum... Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office and Arizona State Museum have completed an inventory of a... in the physical custody of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human...
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77 FR 25740 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-01
... Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains in... History. Repatriation of the human remains to the Indian tribes stated below may occur if no additional...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-04
... Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, MT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of the... to be culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact the Museum of the Plains Indian...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Inventory Completion: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Logan Museum.... SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Logan Museum of Anthropology... address below by September 4, 2012. ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, Museum Program Manager/NAGPRA Coordinator, U.S...
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Modeling of skeletal members using polyurethane foam
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Sena, J.M.F.; Weaver, R.W.
1983-11-01
At the request of the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, members of the Plastic Section in the Process Development Division at SNLA undertook the special project of the Chaco Lady. The project consisted of polyurethane foam casting of a disinterred female skull considered to be approximately 1000 years old. Rubber latex molds, supplied by the UNM Anthropology Department, were used to produce the polymeric skull requested. The authors developed for the project a modified foaming process which will be used in future polyurethane castings of archaeological artifacts and contemporary skeletal members at the University.
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The Development of a Museum Multimedia Program and the Effect of Audio on User Completion Rate.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Chadwick, John
1992-01-01
Discusses the role of interactive multimedia in museums; describes the development and design at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History of a multimedia program on water conservation; analyzes the effect of the presence of audio on the users' completion of the program; and discusses evaluation of the program. (10 references) (LRW)
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75 FR 14465 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-25
... made by the Riverside Metropolitan Museum professional staff in consultation with the Barona Group of... Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is here... of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA. The human remains and associated funerary...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... remains was made by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology professional staff...: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA AGENCY: National Park... in the possession of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-18
... Museum and the Museum of the Great Plains professional staffs in consultation with representatives the... Comanche County, OK. Staff of the Museum of the Great Plains found the human remains during a... of Crater Creek, were excavated by staff of the Museum of the Great Plains, and were sent to the...
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No static bubbling spacetimes in higher dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kunduri, Hari K.; Lucietti, James
2018-03-01
We prove that any asymptotically flat static spacetime in higher dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory must have no magnetic field. This implies that there are no static soliton spacetimes and completes the classification of static non-extremal black holes in this theory. In particular, these results establish that there are no asymptotically flat static spacetimes with non-trivial topology, with or without a black hole, in Einstein–Maxwell theory.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-22
... Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... control of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. The associated.... 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-01
... State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professional staff in consultation with representatives of... Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior... of the University of Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. The human...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-11
... remains was made by the Peabody Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the...: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI. The human remains were removed from... of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native American human remains...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-25
... assessment of the human remains was made by Burke Museum and Central Washington University professional staff... Burke Museum staff legally transferred elements associated with the individual to Central Washington... Burke Museum later that same year (Burke Accn. 2056). In 1974, the Burke Museum staff legally...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division (aka State Historical Society of Wisconsin), Madison, WI. The... determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has...
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78 FR 50102 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-16
... Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes and the Hydaburg Cooperative Association. History and... Museum & Science Center (then Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences) purchased the associated funerary...
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75 FR 42771 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-22
... University of Colorado Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Apache Tribe of... Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. [[Page 42772
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75 FR 26988 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-13
... Wheat and students participating in University of Colorado Museum sponsored archeological field schools... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: University of.... 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the University of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-23
...: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... Michigan officials and its Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives... accessioned into the Museum of Anthropology. Between 2007 and 2009 the remains were inventoried at the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-01
... A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University... associated funerary objects may contact the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-21
...: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History has... contact the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Repatriation of the human remains...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-08
... Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound professional staff in consultation with... museum staff that it does not exhibit the darker coloration usually found on remains removed from burials... period, museum staff consider the coloration of the remain to suggest an origin east of the Cascades...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... funerary objects in the possession of the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI. The.... 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution...
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75 FR 23804 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Paul H. Karshner Memorial Museum, Puyallup, WA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... made by the Paul H. Karshner Memorial Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of... Memorial Museum, Puyallup, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is here given... Memorial Museum, Puyallup, WA. The human remains were removed from the Aleutian Islands, AK. This notice is...
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Maxwell's contrived analogy: An early version of the methodology of modeling
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hon, Giora; Goldstein, Bernard R.
2012-11-01
The term "analogy" stands for a variety of methodological practices all related in one way or another to the idea of proportionality. We claim that in his first substantial contribution to electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell developed a methodology of analogy which was completely new at the time or, to borrow John North's expression, Maxwell's methodology was a "newly contrived analogue". In his initial response to Michael Faraday's experimental researches in electromagnetism, Maxwell did not seek an analogy with some physical system in a domain different from electromagnetism as advocated by William Thomson; rather, he constructed an entirely artificial one to suit his needs. Following North, we claim that the modification which Maxwell introduced to the methodology of analogy has not been properly appreciated. In view of our examination of the evidence, we argue that Maxwell gave a new meaning to analogy; in fact, it comes close to modeling in current usage.
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76 FR 28074 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... of the Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT. The human remains were removed from Snow... sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-24
... University, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... objects in the possession of the Brigham Young University, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT. The..., 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-16
... sole responsibility of the museum, institution or Federal agency that has control of the Native... Department of Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Confederated Tribes... Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke Museum) accession ledger, Daugherty collected two femora and one...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-28
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Correction AGENCY: National Park... human remains and associated funerary objects in the possession of the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-19
... Anthropology, Washington State University Pullman, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... associated funerary objects in the possession and control of the Museum of Anthropology, Washington State... made by Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, professional staff in consultation with...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-16
...: Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... the Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI. The human remains were removed from... detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Wisconsin Historical Society staff in consultation...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-19
... Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... Wisconsin Historical Society, (aka State Historical Society of Wisconsin), Museum Division, Madison, WI. The... this notice. An assessment of the human remains was made by the Wisconsin Historical Society...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-13
... Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... objects in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division (aka State Historical Society of Wisconsin), Madison, WI. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-19
... Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice... Wisconsin Historical Society (aka State Historical Society of Wisconsin), Museum Division, Madison, WI. The... Wisconsin Historical Society professional staff in consultation with the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-12
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-10375; 2200-1100-665] Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Correction AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice; correction. Notice is here given in accordance with the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-19
... indicates that the cultural items were found in connection with the human remains. The cultural items are... Museum) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with... human remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes. Representatives of any...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-18
... Museum), University of Washington, has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary... affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and a present-day Indian tribe. Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remains and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-24
... of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, University of... Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human remains and associated funerary [[Page... of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native American human remains...
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75 FR 52015 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-24
... Department of Anthropology transferred them to the Museum for NAGPRA compliance. No known individuals were... Native American based on the decision of the Department of Anthropology to transfer them to the museum... remains are not Native American, and the collecting history of the Department of Anthropology. The remains...
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75 FR 45659 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-03
... Natural History, Chicago, IL AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is here given... possession of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL. The human remains and associated funerary... assessment of the human remains was made by the Field Museum of Natural History professional staff in...
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75 FR 52022 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-24
... Natural History, Chicago, IL AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is here given... possession of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL. The human remains and associated funerary... made by Field Museum of Natural History professional staff in consultation with representatives of the...
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78 FR 50094 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Maxey Museum, Walla Walla, WA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-16
... of the Maxey Museum, Walla Walla, WA. The human remains were removed from the Whitman College Biology... the Biology Department at Whitman College, in Walla Walla County, WA, the Biology Department asked the Maxey Museum at Whitman College to determine whether any of the human remains in the Biology Department...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-24
... Anthropology and the Burke Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of Catawba Indian... culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact the Burke Museum acting on behalf of the University..., Burke Museum, University of Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206) 685-3849...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-29
...: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION... Museum of Anthropology NAGPRA collections staff in consultation with representatives of the Bay Mills... Anthropology purchased the human remains from Reverend L. P. Rowland in November of 1924 as part of a larger...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Domenici, Valentina
2008-01-01
This paper investigates the educational role of museums of chemistry in presenting chemistry to the public in Italy, particularly to students. The activities carried out by Italian museums and scientific collections completely dedicated to chemistry have been analyzed, focusing on the relationship between these institutions and students with…
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Logan Museum of... Affairs at the address below by September 4, 2012. ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, Museum Program Manager/NAGPRA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-10
..., Washington, DC, and the University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver... Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of... Indian Affairs at the address in this notice by May 10, 2013. ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, Museum Program...
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77 FR 23506 - Notice of Inventory Completion: The Region of Three Oaks Museum, Three Oaks, MI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-19
.... SUMMARY: The Region of Three Oaks Museum has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with... between the human remains and a present-day Indian tribe. Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact The Region of Three Oaks...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-23
... Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL (Field Museum). The human remains were removed from Cherni Island...''). History and Description of the Remains In 1952, human remains representing a minimum of one individual...: Notice. SUMMARY: The Alaska State Office, Bureau of Land Management has completed an inventory of human...
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Magnetic monopoles, Galilean invariance, and Maxwell's equations
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Crawford, F.S.
1992-02-01
Maxwell's equations have space reserved for magnetic monopoles. Whether or not they exist in our part of the universe, monopoles provide a useful didactic tool to help us recognize relations among Maxwell's equations less easily apparent in the approach followed by many introductory textbooks, wherein Coulomb's law, Biot and Savart's law, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, Maxwell's displacement current, etc., are introduced independently, as demanded by experiment.'' Instead a conceptual path that deduces all of Maxwell's equations from the near-minimal set of assumptions: (a) Inertial frames exist, in which Newton's laws hold, to a first approximation; (b) the laws of electrodynamicsmore » are Galilean invariant---i.e., they have the same form in every inertial frame, to a first approximation; (c) magnetic poles (as well as the usual electric charges) exist; (d) the complete Lorentz force on an electric charge is known; (e) the force on a monopole at rest is known; (f) the Coulomb-like field produced by a resting electric charge and by a resting monopole are known. Everything else is deduced. History is followed in the assumption that Newtonian mechanics have been discovered, but not special relativity. (Only particle velocities {ital v}{much lt}{ital c} are considered.) This ends up with Maxwell's equations (Maxwell did not need special relativity, so why should we,) but facing Einstein's paradox, the solution of which is encapsulated in the Einstein velocity-addition formula.« less
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Aggleton, J P; Waskett, L
1999-02-01
This study determined the extent to which re-exposure to the unique combination of odours present in a museum (the Jorvik Viking Centre in York) aids the recall of a previous visit to the museum, which had typically taken place several years earlier. To test this, three groups of participants completed questionnaires about the contents of the museum, but in different conditions. One group completed the questionnaire in the presence of exactly the same distinctive odours as those present in the museum at the time of their original visit. Those in two other groups were given either a different (control) set of odours or no odours at all. After a brief delay, the same questionnaire was presented again to participants in all three groups. Those who had initially been given a novel (control) set of odours were now tested in the presence of the genuine Jorvik museum odours, while the group that had received the Jorvik odours were now tested with the control odours. The third group received no odours on either test. Only the novel odour-Jorvik odours condition led to a highly significant improvement in performance. This interaction showed that the museum odours could act as effective retrieval cues for this incidentally acquired, real-world episode.
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77 FR 25743 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-01
... no additional claimants come forward. DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has... after that date if no additional claimants come forward. The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for...
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Self-accelerating self-trapped nonlinear beams of Maxwell's equations.
Kaminer, Ido; Nemirovsky, Jonathan; Segev, Mordechai
2012-08-13
We present shape-preserving self-accelerating beams of Maxwell's equations with optical nonlinearities. Such beams are exact solutions to Maxwell's equations with Kerr or saturable nonlinearity. The nonlinearity contributes to self-trapping and causes backscattering. Those effects, together with diffraction effects, work to maintain shape-preserving acceleration of the beam on a circular trajectory. The backscattered beam is found to be a key issue in the dynamics of such highly non-paraxial nonlinear beams. To study that, we develop two new techniques: projection operator separating the forward and backward waves, and reverse simulation. Finally, we discuss the possibility that such beams would reflect themselves through the nonlinear effect, to complete a 'U' shaped trajectory.
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77 FR 25739 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-01
... additional claimants come forward. DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a cultural... claimants come forward. The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for notifying the Big Pine Band of Owens...
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75 FR 77898 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-14
... individual were removed from an unknown location in Wisconsin, by D.M. Andrews. In 1963, Mrs. Walter Steele.... Andrews collection. Officials of the University of Colorado Museum have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... the minimum number of individuals removed from Fresno County from six to four. Field Museum staff also...) comprised of one larger piece of shell and its fragments. In the Federal Register (76 FR 80393-80394...
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Genghis Khan: Leadership for the Airland Battle
1988-04-01
COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AFB, AL 36112-5542 t , , _ I _ * LIAUIVmzKz // /9) REPOR SOCUMUNTATION PAGEON it. WPM UIQPM fP",, A101-, W ., Ia itT zN... succesful completion, The advsor Lt Cot Rodger L, Tunnel, Army Instructor Group, Air Command an~d Staff College, provided invaluable advice in all...Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, where he resides with Beata and their two children, Melissa and Justin. ,Aooession Fror
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AIA Honors Imaginative Solutions to Common Campus Problems.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
1987-01-01
The American Institute of Architects honored five recently completed university buildings whose architects solved the difficulties of site and scale: Columbia University's Computer Science Building, Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, Emory's Museum of Art, Princeton's Lewis Thomas Laboratory, and the University of California at Irvine's Computer…
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78 FR 48900 - Notice of Inventory Completion: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-12
.... ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll Street, Madison, WI 53703, telephone (608) 261-2461, email Jennifer.Kolb@wisconsinhistory.org . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here... request to Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll Street, Madison, WI 53703...
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75 FR 58429 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-24
... possession of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, aka Eastern Washington State Historical Society... of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is... Arts & Culture professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Confederated Tribes of...
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77 FR 39505 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has... University professional staff in consultation with representatives of Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Chickasaw... and deposited in the Wesleyan University Museum until the purchase price ($1000) could be raised by...
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Nosé, Yukihiko
2003-09-01
The artificial organ museum established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1979 organized by the International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation (ICAOT), was moved to Houston, Texas, in 1999. The museum with expanded and renewed artificial organ exhibits was officially opened on the 8th and 9th of November, 2002, at the Cullen Pavilion of the original Memorial Hermann Hospital. This building is the oldest in the Texas Medical Center, which was built in 1922. The ICMT (International Center for Medical Technologies) Museum for Artificial Organs (Museum) was completed after phase I, II, and III expansions of the exhibit booths, which were made over the last two years. Approximately 250 historically important and currently widely used artificial organs are exhibited in the Museum. The official opening of the Museum was coordinated with the "Symposium on Artificial Organs: Past, Present, and Future" during two days in November. There were approximately 225 participants at these events, and approximately 40 pioneers and clinical experts in the development and practice of various types of artificial organs contributed. During these programs, a proposal to maintain human resources in addition to artificial organ hardware and software was made in addition to the Museum. This new organization would be called the International Academy of Artificial Organ Pioneers (Academy). All contributors to the symposium were invited to be members of the Academy. The attendants of the symposium accepted this proposal unanimously. An additional 40 individuals, who were recognized as contributors to artificial organ technologies, were later added to the original Academy members. Later, the effective utilization of the Museum and Academy was encompassed in the International Faculty for Health and Medical Technologies (Faculty), a new addition to the activities of the ICMT. Dr. Michael DeBakey was elected as Dean of the Faculty. This is considered a "university without walls," a "university linked to the world," and a "university providing simultaneous teaching at multiple sites"--a completely new concept in teaching tools for medical technologies. All of these subsidiary organizations of the ICMT were legally included as nonprofit, nontaxable charity organizations of the state of Texas.
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Using Mobile Devices to Connect Teachers and Museum Educators
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Delen, Ibrahim; Krajcik, Joseph
2017-06-01
The use of mobile devices is increasing rapidly as a potential tool for science teaching. In this study, five educators (three middle school teachers and two museum educators) used a mobile application that supported the development of a driving question. Previous studies have noted that teachers make little effort to connect learning experiences between classrooms and museums, and few studies have focused on creating connections between teachers and museum educators. In this study, teachers and museum educators created an investigation together by designing a driving question in conjunction with the research group before field trips. During field trips, students collected their own data using iPods or iPads to take pictures or record videos of the exhibits. When students returned to the school, they used the museum data with their peers as they tried to answer the driving question. After completing the field trips, five educators were interviewed to investigate their experiences with designing driving questions and using mobile devices. Besides supporting students in data collection during the field trip, using mobile devices helped teachers to get the museum back to the classroom. Designing the driving question supported museum educators and teachers to plan the field trip collaboratively.
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75 FR 36111 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-24
... context and bone condition. Museum records indicate, ``from context and bone condition - not morphology... based on bone condition. The records also indicate that, ``from context and bone condition - not... associated funerary objects are present. Museum records indicate that, ``from context and bone condition...
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78 FR 44596 - Notice of Inventory Completion: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-24
... address in this notice by August 23, 2013. ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll Street, Madison, WI 53703, telephone (608) 261-2461, email Jennifer.Kolb@wisconsinhistory.org... request to Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll Street, Madison, WI 53703...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-24
... Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Correction AGENCY: National Park Service... in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge... was a project of Harvard University faculty in 1972. No known individuals were identified. No...
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One-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium for the force-free Harris sheet.
Harrison, Michael G; Neukirch, Thomas
2009-04-03
In this Letter, the first nonlinear force-free Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium is presented. One component of the equilibrium magnetic field has the same spatial structure as the Harris sheet, but whereas the Harris sheet is kept in force balance by pressure gradients, in the force-free solution presented here force balance is maintained by magnetic shear. Magnetic pressure, plasma pressure and plasma density are constant. The method used to find the equilibrium is based on the analogy of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium problem to the motion of a pseudoparticle in a two-dimensional conservative potential. The force-free solution can be generalized to a complete family of equilibria that describe the transition between the purely pressure-balanced Harris sheet to the force-free Harris sheet.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-27
.... Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM, and Field Museum of Natural... of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest and the Field Museum of Natural History have... contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest. Repatriation of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-21
.... Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM and Field Museum of Natural... of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest and the Field Museum of Natural History have... may contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest. Repatriation of...
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A Kentucky Journey. Teacher's Guide.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
The Kentucky History Center (Frankfort), a 20,000-square-foot museum facility, is a walk through time, complete with the sights, sounds, and smells of the past. The museum's eight chronological areas feature artifacts, images, and life-size environments that evoke places in time. A ready-made reference area in the center of the exhibit provides a…
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76 FR 62833 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-11
.... In November 2009, the human remains (TIN 0290) were found in the museum collection. The human remains...) (TIN 0091) were found in the collection. The human remains have been identified as Mogollon- most..., the human remains (a tooth) (TIN 0162) were found in the collection. The human remains have been...
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75 FR 435 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
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2010-01-05
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... individual. The textile fragment, beads, nails, and metal fragments were enveloped inside the soil matrix... identified. The one associated funerary object is a soil matrix, which includes within it a textile fragment, trade beads, nail fragments, and metal fragments. In 2008, staff at the Madeline Island Museum located a...
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Using quantum erasure to exorcize Maxwell's demon: I. Concepts and context
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Scully, Marlan O.; Rostovtsev, Yuri; Sariyanni, Zoe-Elizabeth; Suhail Zubairy, M.
2005-10-01
Szilard [L. Szilard, Zeitschrift für Physik, 53 (1929) 840] made a decisive step toward solving the Maxwell demon problem by introducing and analyzing the single atom heat engine. Bennett [Sci. Am. 255 (1987) 107] completed the solution by pointing out that there must be an entropy, ΔS=kln2, generated as the result of information erased on each cycle. Nevertheless, others have disagreed. For example, philosophers such as Popper “have found the literature surrounding Maxwell's demon deeply problematic.” We propose and analyze a new kind of single atom quantum heat engine which allows us to resolve the Maxwell demon paradox simply, and without invoking the notions of information or entropy. The energy source of the present quantum engine [Scully, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 22601] is a Stern-Gerlach apparatus acting as a demonesque heat sorter. An isothermal compressor acts as the entropy sink. In order to complete a thermodynamic cycle, an energy of ΔW=kTln2 must be expended. This energy is essentially a “reset” or “eraser” energy. Thus Bennett's entropy ΔS=ΔW/T emerges as a simple consequence of the quantum thermodynamics of our heat engine. It would seem that quantum mechanics contains the kernel of information entropy at its very core. That is the concept of information erasure as it appears in quantum mechanics [Scully and Drühl, Phys. Rev. A 25 (1982) 2208] and the present quantum heat engine have a deep common origin.
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Digital Technology at the National Science Museum of Japan
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lydens, Lois; Saito, Yasuji; Inoue, Tohru
2007-01-01
The National Science Museum (NSM) in Japan has recently completed a project using different types of visitor-oriented digital technologies. With sponsorship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the NSM team carried out a four-year study to examine how digital technologies can be used to enhance as well as educationally…
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Exploring the Role of Visitors' Self-Identity in Marine Museum Learning
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Yang, Kuay-Keng; Hong, Zuway-R; Liu, Ming-Chin; Lin, Huann-shyang
2015-01-01
As research of self-identity, self-concept, and self-efficacy in the discourse of environmental education is scarce, this study attempted to explore the role of visitors' self-identity in marine museum learning. With the use of on-site data collection, investigators of this study collected 144 completed questionnaire surveys from marine museum…
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Testing the Efficacy of Student Explorations of Earth Science Museum Exhibits
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kirkby, K.; Phipps, M.; Tzenis, C.; Morin, P. J.; Hamilton, P.
2009-12-01
With their rock and mineral displays, fossil exhibits and hands-on nature, museum exhibits are a proven resource for elementary and secondary earth science education. However, due to a number of obstacles this success has not been emulated at the undergraduate level. Self-guided student explorations of science museum exhibits appear to be an effective way to circumvent these obstacles and easily expand earth science programs to include museum resources and tap their potential. Preliminary testing of this concept as an extra credit option by the University of Minnesota and the Science Museum of Minnesota not only showed that students enthusiastically respond to such explorations, but that explorations can be remarkably effective in changing student understanding of science concepts. Previously, a number of factors discouraged the integration of museum resources into undergraduate programs. Museum displays geared towards the general public often lack the level of detailed information necessary to integrate them into undergraduate science curriculum. Consequently, without an experienced guide (such as the course instructor), exhibits are of limited use. The logistics of arranging class visits can be daunting and given the limited opportunities for class trips, earth science instructors justifiably tend to choose field over museum experiences. However, well-designed explorations of the exhibits allow students to guide themselves through the exhibits, on their own or with friends and family, greatly expanding the range of course experiences with minimal cost to the program infrastructure. Student response to the preliminary testing of an exploration of dinosaur and pterosaur displays was very encouraging. Nearly half the class, 84 out of 176 students, volunteered to travel the eight miles to the museum to complete an exploration of the fossil gallery. When asked their likeliness of recommending the experience to others on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being “I would not recommend this to anyone” and 10 being “I would recommend this experience to anyone” the median response was 9 with 41% choosing 10. More importantly, pre-instruction and post-instruction testing showed significant gains among students who completed the module, compared to traditional instruction, demonstrating that the explorations were not only popular, but effective. An unexpected bonus was that these explorations appear to resonate well with students traditionally underrepresented in science careers. Women and minority students volunteered to complete the self-guided exploration in disproportionate numbers. In addition, students who struggled with the traditional course instruction posted significant improvements in test performance as a result of their participation in the exhibit exploration. Providing a more varied range of experiences in earth science courses may prove to be a way to not only make science more accessible, but to create a more diverse scientific community.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Longair, Malcolm
2016-07-01
Preface; Acknowledgements; Figure credits; Part I. To 1874: 1. Physics in the nineteenth century; 2. Mathematics and physics in Cambridge in the nineteenth century; Part II. 1874 to 1879: 3. The Maxwell era; Part III. 1879 to 1884: 4. Rayleigh's Quinquennium; Part IV. 1884 to 1919: 5. The challenges facing J. J. Thomson; 6. The J. J. Thomson era, 1884-1900 - the electron; 7. The Thomson era, 1900-19 - atomic structure; Part V. 1919 to 1937: 8. Rutherford at McGill and Manchester Universities - new challenges in Cambridge; 9. The Rutherford era - the radioactivists; 10. Rutherford era - the seeds of the new physics; Part VI. 1938 to 1953: 11. Bragg and the war years; 12. Bragg and the post-war years; Part VII. 1953 to 1971: 13. The Mott era - an epoch of expansion; 14. The Mott era - radio astronomy and high energy physics; 15. The Mott era - the growth of condensed matter physics; Part VIII. 1971 to 1982: 16. The Pippard era - a new laboratory and a new vision; 17. The Pippard era - radio astronomy, high energy physics and laboratory astrophysics; 18. The Pippard era - condensed matter physics; Part IX. 1984 to 1995: 19. The Edwards era - a new epoch of expansion; 20. The Edwards era - new directions in condensed matter physics; 21. The Edwards era - high energy physics and radio astronomy; Part X. 1995 to present: 22. Towards the new millennium and beyond; 23. The evolution of the New Museums site; Notes; Bibliography; Author index; Index.
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Circularly polarized few-cycle optical rogue waves: rotating reduced Maxwell-Bloch equations.
Xu, Shuwei; Porsezian, K; He, Jingsong; Cheng, Yi
2013-12-01
The rotating reduced Maxwell-Bloch (RMB) equations, which describe the propagation of few-cycle optical pulses in a transparent media with two isotropic polarized electronic field components, are derived from a system of complete Maxwell-Bloch equations without using the slowly varying envelope approximations. Two hierarchies of the obtained rational solutions, including rogue waves, which are also called few-cycle optical rogue waves, of the rotating RMB equations are constructed explicitly through degenerate Darboux transformation. In addition to the above, the dynamical evolution of the first-, second-, and third-order few-cycle optical rogue waves are constructed with different patterns. For an electric field E in the three lower-order rogue waves, we find that rogue waves correspond to localized large amplitude oscillations of the polarized electric fields. Further a complementary relationship of two electric field components of rogue waves is discussed in terms of analytical formulas as well as numerical figures.
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[Naturalists, collectors and theoreticians of museology].
Arabas, Iwona
2009-01-01
The origins of the contemporary collectorship dates from times when the sameness of art and science was commonly accepted. In those days relics of the ancient past and natural individuals of newly discovered lands were presented at the same time. Cosmological character of the collections manifested the tenacity of recognition and representation of the surrounding reality. A great impact on completion of collections of curiosities in Europe had Netherlands, and in the basin of Baltic Sea a remarkable significance was gained by Hanseatic Gdańsk. Collections of Jakub Breyn, Jakub Klein and Gotfryd Reyger became famous then. In the same way were imported individuals for Anna Jabłonowska that composed one of the most interesting European collections. In course of time merging such a great multiplicity of collections was beyond collectors' power and museum pieces from collections of curiosities were parcelled out. It was a real beginning of specialistic museums. A role of museum for science results from its function of methodical organizing collections that can be used by research workers. However, although the aims of scientific and museum centres are different, they come together on the occasion of museum recognition works when museums' workers borrow essential knowledge and methods from resources of science, and scientists search for useful research materials in museum resources.
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Ohl, Michael; Lohrmann, Volker; Breitkreuz, Laura; Kirschey, Lukas; Krause, Stefanie
2014-01-01
Taxonomy, the science of describing and naming of the living world, is recognized as an important and relevant field in modern biological science. While there is wide agreement on the importance of a complete inventory of all organisms on Earth, the public is partly unaware of the amount of known and unknown biodiversity. Out of the enormous number of undescribed (but already recognized) species in natural history museum collections, we selected an attractive example of a wasp, which was presented to museum visitors at a special museum event. We asked 300 visitors to vote on a name for the new species and out of four preselected options, Ampulex dementor Ohl n. sp. was selected. The name, derived from the 'soul sucking' dementors from the popular Harry Potter books is an allusion to the wasps' behavior to selectively paralyze its cockroach prey. In this example, public voting on a scientific name has been shown to be an appropriate way to link museum visitors emotionally to biodiversity and its discovery.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Alamri, Sagr; Li, Bing; Tan, K. T.
2018-03-01
Dissipative elastic metamaterials have attracted increased attention in recent times. This paper presents the development of a dissipative elastic metamaterial with multiple Maxwell-type resonators for stress wave attenuation. The mechanism of the dissipation effect on the vibration characteristics is systematically investigated by mass-spring-damper models with single and dual resonators. Based on the parameter optimization, it is revealed that a broadband wave attenuation region (stopping band) can be obtained by properly utilizing interactions from resonant motions and viscoelastic effects of the Maxwell-type oscillators. The relevant numerical verifications are conducted for various cases, and excellent agreement between the numerical and theoretical frequency response functions is shown. The design of this dissipative metamaterial system is further applied for dynamic load mitigation and blast wave attenuation. Moreover, the transient response in the continuum model is designed and analyzed for more robust design. By virtue of the bandgap merging effect induced by the Maxwell-type damper, the transient blast wave can be almost completely suppressed in the low frequency range. A significantly improved performance of the proposed dissipative metamaterials for stress wave mitigation is verified in both time and frequency domains.
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Thomson, Linda J; Lockyer, Bridget; Camic, Paul M; Chatterjee, Helen J
2018-01-01
To assess psychological wellbeing in a novel social prescription intervention for older adults called Museums on Prescription and to explore the extent of change over time in six self-rated emotions ('absorbed', 'active', 'cheerful', 'encouraged', 'enlightened' and 'inspired'). Participants ( n = 115) aged 65-94 years were referred to museum-based programmes comprising 10 weekly sessions, by healthcare and third sector organisations using inclusion criteria (e.g. socially isolated, able to give informed consent, not in employment, not regularly attending social or cultural activities) and exclusion criteria (e.g. unable to travel to the museum, unable to function in a group situation, unlikely to be able to attend all sessions, unable to take part in interviews and complete questionnaires). In a within-participants' design, the Museum Wellbeing Measure for Older Adults (MWM-OA) was administered pre-post session at start-, mid- and end-programme. A total of 12 programmes, facilitated by museum staff and volunteers, were conducted in seven museums in central London and across Kent. In addition to the quantitative measures, participants, carers where present, museum staff and researchers kept weekly diaries following guideline questions and took part in end-programme in-depth interviews. Multivariate analyses of variance showed significant participant improvements in all six MWM-OA emotions, pre-post session at start-, mid- and end-programme. Two emotions, 'absorbed' and 'enlightened', increased pre-post session disproportionately to the others; 'cheerful' attained the highest pre-post session scores whereas 'active' was consistently lowest. Museums can be instrumental in offering museum-based programmes for older adults to improve psychological wellbeing over time. Participants in the study experienced a sense of privilege, valued the opportunity to liaise with curators, visit parts of the museum closed to the public and handle objects normally behind glass. Participants appreciated opportunities afforded by creative and co-productive activities to acquire learning and skills, and get to know new people in a different context.
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Maxwell, Scott E.; Cole, David A.; Mitchell, Melissa A.
2011-01-01
Maxwell and Cole (2007) showed that cross-sectional approaches to mediation typically generate substantially biased estimates of longitudinal parameters in the special case of complete mediation. However, their results did not apply to the more typical case of partial mediation. We extend their previous work by showing that substantial bias can…
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Flatt, Jason D; Liptak, Amy; Oakley, Mary Ann; Gogan, Jessica; Varner, Tresa; Lingler, Jennifer H
2015-06-01
To describe the subjective experiences of older adults with early-stage Alzheimer's disease or related cognitive disorders (ADRDs) and their family caregivers who participated in an art museum engagement activity. Four focus groups were conducted with 10 persons with ADRD and 10 family caregivers following the completion of a 1-time, 3-hour engagement activity. Participants also completed a brief satisfaction survey, and associations were examined using nonparametric statistics. Three key themes were identified: cognitive stimulation, social connections, and self-esteem. In addition, we identified programmatic issues such as activity-specific concerns and program logistics that could help improve future art program offerings. Past experience with art and perceived social cohesion were correlated with participants' overall satisfaction with the program. Efforts aimed at improving the quality of life of those with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers should consider the potential role of art museums. © The Author(s) 2014.
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Flatt, Jason D.; Liptak, Amy; Oakley, Mary Ann; Gogan, Jessica; Varner, Tresa; Lingler, Jennifer H.
2014-01-01
Objective To describe the subjective experiences of older adults with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease or related cognitive disorders (ADRD) and their family caregivers who participated in an art museum engagement activity. Methods Four focus groups were conducted with 10 persons with ADRD and 10 family caregivers following the completion one-time, three hour engagement activity. Participants also completed a brief satisfaction survey, and associations were examined using nonparametric statistics. Results Three key themes were identified: cognitive stimulation, social connections, and a sense of self. In addition, we identified programmatic issues such as activity-specific concerns and program logistics that could help improve future art program offerings. Past experience with art and perceived social cohesion were correlated with participants’ overall satisfaction with the program. Discussion Efforts aimed at improving the quality of life of those with Alzheimer’s and their family caregivers should consider the potential role of art museums. PMID:25216658
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Astronaut Jack Fischer at Air and Space Museum
2017-11-03
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer conducts an experiment during a Stem in 30 segment, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. During Expedition 52, Fischer completed hundreds of scientific experiments and two spacewalks, and concluded his 136-day mission onboard the International Space Station, when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in September 2017. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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Astronaut Jack Fischer at Air and Space Museum
2017-11-03
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during Expeditions 51/52, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. During Expedition 52, Fischer completed hundreds of scientific experiments and two spacewalks, and concluded his 136-day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in September 2017. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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Treasure Transformers: Novel Interpretative Installations for the National Palace Museum
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hsieh, Chun-Ko; Liu, I.-Ling; Lin, Quo-Ping; Chan, Li-Wen; Hsiao, Chuan-Heng; Hung, Yi-Ping
Museums have missions to increase accessibility and share cultural assets to the public. The National Palace Museum intends to be a pioneer of utilizing novel interpretative installations to reach more diverse and potential audiences, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology has been selected as the new interpretative approach. The pilot project in partnership with the National Taiwan University has successfully completed four interactive installations. To consider the different nature of collections, the four systems designed against different interpretation strategies are uPoster, i-m-Top, Magic Crystal Ball and Virtual Panel. To assess the feasibility of the project, the interactive installations were exhibited at the Taipei World Trade Center in 2008. The purpose of this paper is to present the development of the "Treasure Transformers" exhibition, design principles, and effectiveness of installations from the evaluation. It is our ambition that the contributions will propose innovative media approaches in museum settings.
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10. Photocopy of c. 1893 photo, building just completed,view from ...
10. Photocopy of c. 1893 photo, building just completed,view from south, photographer unknown,courtesy of Whatcom Museum of History and Art - New Whatcom City Hall, 121 Prospect Street, Bellingham, Whatcom County, WA
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Ohl, Michael; Lohrmann, Volker; Breitkreuz, Laura; Kirschey, Lukas; Krause, Stefanie
2014-01-01
Taxonomy, the science of describing and naming of the living world, is recognized as an important and relevant field in modern biological science. While there is wide agreement on the importance of a complete inventory of all organisms on Earth, the public is partly unaware of the amount of known and unknown biodiversity. Out of the enormous number of undescribed (but already recognized) species in natural history museum collections, we selected an attractive example of a wasp, which was presented to museum visitors at a special museum event. We asked 300 visitors to vote on a name for the new species and out of four preselected options, Ampulex dementor Ohl n. sp. was selected. The name, derived from the ‘soul sucking’ dementors from the popular Harry Potter books is an allusion to the wasps' behavior to selectively paralyze its cockroach prey. In this example, public voting on a scientific name has been shown to be an appropriate way to link museum visitors emotionally to biodiversity and its discovery. PMID:24755672
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Electromagnetic potential vectors and the Lagrangian of a charged particle
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Shebalin, John V.
1992-01-01
Maxwell's equations can be shown to imply the existence of two independent three-dimensional potential vectors. A comparison between the potential vectors and the electric and magnetic field vectors, using a spatial Fourier transformation, reveals six independent potential components but only four independent electromagnetic field components for each mode. Although the electromagnetic fields determined by Maxwell's equations give a complete description of all possible classical electromagnetic phenomena, potential vectors contains more information and allow for a description of such quantum mechanical phenomena as the Aharonov-Bohm effect. A new result is that a charged particle Lagrangian written in terms of potential vectors automatically contains a 'spontaneous symmetry breaking' potential.
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Asinari, Pietro
2009-11-01
A finite difference lattice Boltzmann scheme for homogeneous mixture modeling, which recovers Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model in the continuum limit, without the restriction of the mixture-averaged diffusion approximation, was recently proposed [P. Asinari, Phys. Rev. E 77, 056706 (2008)]. The theoretical basis is the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook-type kinetic model for gas mixtures [P. Andries, K. Aoki, and B. Perthame, J. Stat. Phys. 106, 993 (2002)]. In the present paper, the recovered macroscopic equations in the continuum limit are systematically investigated by varying the ratio between the characteristic diffusion speed and the characteristic barycentric speed. It comes out that the diffusion speed must be at least one order of magnitude (in terms of Knudsen number) smaller than the barycentric speed, in order to recover the Navier-Stokes equations for mixtures in the incompressible limit. Some further numerical tests are also reported. In particular, (1) the solvent and dilute test cases are considered, because they are limiting cases in which the Maxwell-Stefan model reduces automatically to Fickian cases. Moreover, (2) some tests based on the Stefan diffusion tube are reported for proving the complete capabilities of the proposed scheme in solving Maxwell-Stefan diffusion problems. The proposed scheme agrees well with the expected theoretical results.
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Topologically massive magnetic monopoles
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Aliev, A. N.; Nutku, Y.; Saygili, K.
2000-10-01
We show that in the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory of topologically massive electrodynamics the Dirac string of a monopole becomes a cone in anti-de Sitter space with the opening angle of the cone determined by the topological mass, which in turn is related to the square root of the cosmological constant. This proves to be an example of a physical system, a priori completely unrelated to gravity, which nevertheless requires curved spacetime for its very existence. We extend this result to topologically massive gravity coupled to topologically massive electrodynamics within the framework of the theory of Deser, Jackiw and Templeton. The two-component spinor formalism, which is a Newman-Penrose type approach for three dimensions, is extended to include both the electrodynamical and gravitational topologically massive field equations. Using this formalism exact solutions of the coupled Deser-Jackiw-Templeton and Maxwell-Chern-Simons field equations for a topologically massive monopole are presented. These are homogeneous spaces with conical deficit. Pure Einstein gravity coupled to the Maxwell-Chern-Simons field does not admit such a monopole solution.
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Astronaut Jack Fischer at Air and Space Museum
2017-11-03
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer sticks his finger in a liquid that was just boiling by vacuum, during a Stem in 30 experiment, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. During Expedition 52, Fischer completed hundreds of scientific experiments and two spacewalks, and concluded his 136-day mission onboard the International Space Station, when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in September 2017. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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Astronaut Jack Fischer at Air and Space Museum
2017-11-03
An audience member asks a question after a presentation by NASA astronaut Jack Fischer about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during Expeditions 51/52, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. During Expedition 52, Fischer completed hundreds of scientific experiments and two spacewalks, and concluded his 136-day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in September 2017. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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The discovery of Maxwell's equations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Everitt, Francis
2012-02-01
In January 1865, Maxwell at age 34 wrote a letter to his cousin Charles Cay describing various doings, including his work on the viscosity of gases and a visit from two of the world's leading oculists to inspect the eyes of his dog ``Spice''. He added, ``I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.'' That paper ``A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field'' was his fourth on the subject. It was followed in 1868 by another, and then in 1873 by his massive two volume Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Even so, by the time of his death in 1879 as he was beginning a radically revised edition of the Treatise, much remained to be done. We celebrate here the 150^th anniversary of Maxwell's first astonished realization in 1862 of the link between electromagnetism and light. So revolutionary was this that 15 or more years went by before Lorentz, Poynting, FitzGerald, and others came to address it, sometimes with improvements, sometimes not. Not until 1888 did Hertz make the essential experimental discovery of radio waves. What is so remarkable about Maxwell's five papers is that each presents a complete view of the subject radically different from the one before. I shall say something about each, emphasizing in particular Maxwell's most unexpected idea, the displacement current, so vastly more interesting than the accounts of it found in textbooks today. Beyond lie other surprises. The concept of gauge invariance, and the role the vector potential would play in defining the canonical momentum of the electron, both go back to Maxwell. In 1872 came a paper ``On the Mathematical Classification of Physical Quantities'', which stands as an education in itself. Amid much else, there for the first time appears the distinction between axial and polar vectors and those new operational concepts related to quaternion theory: curl, divergence, and gradient.
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Mukherjee, Sahana; Salter, Phia S.; Molina, Ludwin E.
2015-01-01
The present research draws upon a cultural psychological perspective to consider how psychological phenomena are grounded in socio-cultural contexts. Specifically, we examine the association between representations of history at Ellis Island Immigration Museum and identity-relevant concerns. Pilot study participants (N = 13) took a total of 114 photographs of exhibits that they considered as most important in the museum. Results indicate that a majority of the photographs reflected neutral themes (n = 81), followed by nation-glorifying images (n = 24), and then critical themes that highlight injustices and barriers faced by immigrants (n = 9). Study 1 examines whether there is a preference for glorifying images, and if that preference is related to cultural-assimilationist conceptions of national identity (i.e., defining American identity in dominant group standards). We exposed a new sample of participants (N = 119) to photographs reflecting all three themes. Results indicate that participants expressed greater liking for glorifying images, followed by neutral images, and critical images. National identity moderated within-subject variation in liking scores. Study 2 included 35 visitors who completed a survey before engaging with the museum or after their visit. Results indicate that participants who had completed their visit, compared to participants who had not entered the museum, reported (i) higher endorsement of cultural-assimilationist identity, and (ii) increased support for exclusive immigration policies. Study 3 exposed participants (N = 257) to glorifying, critical, or neutral images. Results indicate that participants who were exposed to glorifying images, especially those endorsing cultural-assimilationist identity, demonstrate decreased perception of current-day racial injustice, and increased ethnocentric enforcement bias. We discuss how engagement with privileged narratives may serve dominant group ends and reproduce systems of privilege. PMID:26074846
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James Clerk Maxwell: Life and science
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Marston, Philip L.
2016-07-01
Maxwell's life and science are presented with an account of the progression of Maxwell's research on electromagnetic theory. This is appropriate for the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, 2015. Maxwell's own confidence in his 1865 electromagnetic theory of light is examined, along with some of the difficulties he faced and the difficulties faced by some of his followers. Maxwell's interest in radiation pressure and electromagnetic stress is addressed, as well as subsequent developments. Some of Maxwell's other contributions to physics are discussed with an emphasis on the kinetic and molecular theory of gases. Maxwell's theistic perspective on science is illustrated, accompanied by examples of perspectives on Maxwell and his science provided by his peers and accounts of his interactions with those peers. Appendices examine the peer review of Maxwell's 1865 electromagnetic theory paper and the naming of the Maxwell Garnett effective media approximation and provide various supplemental perspectives. From Maxwell's publications and correspondence there is evidence he had a high regard for Michael Faraday. Examples of Maxwell's contributions to electromagnetic terminology are noted.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Dansereau, V.; Got, J. L.
2017-12-01
Before a volcanic eruption, the pressurization of the volcanic edifice by a magma reservoir induces earthquakes and damage in the edifice; damage lowers the strength of the edifice and decreases its elastic properties. Anelastic deformations cumulate and lead to rupture and eruption. These deformations translate into surface displacements, measurable via GPS or InSAR (e.g., Kilauea, southern flank, or Piton de la Fournaise, eastern flank).Attempts to represent these processes are usually based on a linear-elastic rheology. More recently, linear elastic-perfectly plastic or elastic-brittle damage approaches were used to explain the time evolution of the surface displacements in basaltic volcanoes before an eruption. However these models are non-linear elastic, and can not account for the anelastic deformation that occurs during the pre-eruptive process. Therefore, they can not be used to represent the complete eruptive cycle, comprising loading and unloading phases. Here we present a new rheological approach for modelling the eruptive cycle called Maxwell-Elasto-Brittle, which incorporates a viscous-like relaxation of the stresses in an elastic-brittle damage framework. This mechanism allows accounting for the anelastic deformations that cumulate and lead to rupture and eruption. The inclusion of healing processes in this model is another step towards a complete spatio-temporal representation of the eruptive cycle. Plane-strain Maxwell-EB modelling of the deformation of a magma reservoir and volcanic edifice will be presented. The model represents the propagation of damage towards the surface and the progressive localization of the deformation along faults under the pressurization of the magma reservoir. This model allows a complete spatio-temporal representation of the rupture process. We will also discuss how available seismicity records and time series of surface displacements could be used jointly to constrain the model.
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Power law inflation with electromagnetism
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Luo, Xianghui; Isenberg, James, E-mail: isenberg@uoregon.edu
2013-07-15
We generalize Ringström’s global future causal stability results (Ringström 2009) [11] for certain expanding cosmological solutions of the Einstein-scalar field equations to solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell-scalar field system. In particular, after noting that the power law inflationary spacetimes (M{sup n+1},g{sup -hat}, ϕ{sup -hat}) considered by Ringström (2009) in [11] are solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell-scalar field system (with exponential potential) as well as of the Einstein-scalar field system (with the same exponential potential), we consider (nonlinear) perturbations of initial data sets of these spacetimes which include electromagnetic perturbations as well as gravitational and scalar perturbations. We show that if (as inmore » Ringström (2009) [11]) we focus on pairs of relatively scaled open sets U{sub R{sub 0}}⊂U{sub 4R{sub 0}} on an initial slice of (M{sup n+1},g{sup -hat}), and if we choose a set of perturbed data which on U{sub 4R{sub 0}} is sufficiently close to that of (M{sup n+1},g{sup -hat},ϕ{sup -hat}, A{sup -hat} = 0), then in the maximal globally hyperbolic spacetime development (M{sup n+1},g,ϕ,A) of this data via the Einstein–Maxwell-scalar field equations, all causal geodesics emanating from U{sub R{sub 0}} are future complete (just as in (M{sup n+1},g{sup -hat})). We also verify that, in a certain sense, the future asymptotic behavior of the fields in the spacetime developments of the perturbed data sets does not differ significantly from the future asymptotic behavior of (M{sup n+1},g{sup -hat}, ϕ{sup -hat}, A{sup -hat} = 0). -- Highlights: •We prove stability of expanding solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell-scalar field equations. •All nearby solutions are geodesically complete. •The topology of the initial slice is irrelevant to our stability results.« less
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VizieR Online Data Catalog: Jame Clerk Maxwell Telescope Science Archive (CADC, 2003)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Canadian Astronomy Data, Centre
2018-01-01
The JCMT Science Archive (JSA), a collaboration between the CADC and EOA, is the official distribution site for observational data obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The JSA search interface is provided by the CADC Search tool, which provides generic access to the complete set of telescopic data archived at the CADC. Help on the use of this tool is provided via tooltips. For additional information on instrument capabilities and data reduction, please consult the SCUBA-2 and ACSIS instrument pages provided on the JAC maintained JCMT pages. JCMT-specific help related to the use of the CADC AdvancedSearch tool is available from the JAC. (1 data file).
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A Statistical Analysis of Variables Related to Officer Retention
1996-09-01
officers’ career decisions (21: 28). In 1986, Marchewka completed an unpublished study investigating significant differences in the job attitudes of...Staff College, Maxwell AFB AL, 1981. 13. Herzberg, F. and others. The Motivation to Work. New York: Wiley, 1959. 14. Marchewka , Peter S. "Job Attitudes
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hass, H. Christian; Schröder, Simon; Kuhn, Gerhard
2017-04-01
Climate fluctuations of the past two millennia such as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period are reported mainly from the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence from Antarctica is comparably sparse and reveals regional and temporal differences, which are particularly evident at the western and eastern sides of the Antarctic Peninsula. High-resolution coastal-marine sediment cores from the northernmost tip of the West Antarctic Peninsula reveal periods dominated by finer sediments between periods that lack the finer sediment component. In Maxwell Bay this fine sediment (grain size mode around 16 µm) has been traced back to sediment related to the occurrence of glacial meltwater. It was found in sheltered places and meltwater creeks of Potter Cove, a small tributary fjord to Maxwell Bay. In the sediment core this sediment occurs predominantly between 600 and 1250 AD (Medieval Warm Period) whereas it is only sparsely affecting the record between 1450 and 1900 AD (Little Ice Age). The temporal pattern is very similar to global-temperature reconstructions and even resembles temperature reconstructions from the Northern Hemisphere. To avoid local effects that may occur in Maxwell Bay more sediment cores were taken from bays and straits further south of King George Island during Cruise PS97 of RV "Polarstern" in 2016. A core from English Strait reveals completely different sedimentary conditions with no detectable meltwater signal (16 µm). However, the mean grain size record resembles that of the cores from Maxwell Bay. The lack of a clear-cut meltwater sediment class as it occurs further north is likely the result of a much smaller hinterland (Greenwich and Robert islands) when compared to Maxwell Bay between Nelson Island and the much bigger King George Island where glaciers and ice sheets discharge large quantities of very turbid meltwater directly into the bay. It is concluded that during the warmer climate periods a large amount of meltwater was released along the NW Antarctic Peninsula. The related plume sediments were distributed downstream to overprint coastal sediments even though the amount was likely not sufficient to produce a discrete sediment class.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Delello, Julie Anne
2009-12-01
In 1999, the Chinese Academy of Sciences realized that there was a need for a better public understanding of science. For the public to have better accessibility and comprehension of China's significance to the world, the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), under the direction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, combined resources from thousands of experts across the world to develop online science exhibits housed within the Virtual Science Museum of China. Through an analysis of historical documents, this descriptive dissertation presents a research project that explores a dimension of the development of the Giant Panda Exhibit. This study takes the reader on a journey, first to China and then to a classroom within the United States, in order to answer the following questions: (1) What is the process of the development of a virtual science exhibit; and, (2) What role do public audiences play in the design and implementation of virtual science museums? The creation of a virtual science museum exhibition is a process that is not completed with just the building and design, but must incorporate feedback from public audiences who utilize the exhibit. To meet the needs of the museum visitors, the designers at CNIC took a user-centered approach and solicited feedback from six survey groups. To design a museum that would facilitate a cultural exchange of scientific information, the CNIC looked at the following categories: visitor insights, the usability of the technology, the educational effectiveness of the museum exhibit, and the cultural nuances that existed between students in China and in the United States. The findings of this study illustrate that the objectives of museum designers may not necessarily reflect the needs of the visitors and confirm previous research studies which indicate that museum exhibits need a more constructivist approach that fully engages the visitor in an interactive, media-rich environment. Even though the world has moved forwards with digital technology, classroom instruction in both China and in the United States continues to reflect traditional teaching methods. Students were shown to have a lack of experience with the Internet in classrooms and difficulty in scientific comprehension when using the virtual science museum---showing a separation between classroom technology and learning. Students showed a greater interest level in learning science with technology through online gaming and rich multimedia suggesting that virtual science museums can be educationally valuable and support an alternative to traditional teaching methods if designed with the end user in mind.
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Viewpoint: Exorcizing Maxwell’s demon
Deffner, Sebastian
2015-12-01
Here, physicists have been haunted by the idea of Maxwell's demon for almost 150 years. The beast, conjured in a thought experiment by James Clerk Maxwell, sorts particles in a gas according to their speeds, thus transferring heat from the colder, evenly mixed gas to the region containing the hotter, high-speed particles. At first sight, the demon appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics. But the paradox can be resolved by realizing that work must be performed on the demon for it to do its job properly. This description isn’t entirely satisfying, however, as it introduces an external—not necessarilymore » physical—entity to do work on the demon. Jukka Pekola and colleagues of Aalto University in Finland [1] have now exorcised such nonphysical beings by realizing a nanodevice equivalent to a Maxwell's demon (Fig. 1), but one whose operation doesn’t depend on an external entity. This so-called autonomous device, also known as an information machine, is completely self-contained. So far, autonomous demons have been a purely theoretical concept; this new experimental system provides a way to test formulations of fundamental axioms of thermodynamics and descriptions of information processing.« less
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Mabuchi, Koichi
2014-07-01
This paper gives an account of Prof. Dr. Kinji Shimizu, the first president of Nagoya Institute of Technology, and his establishment of Nagoya Municipal Science Museum. After graduating from the Electrical Engineering Department of Kyoto Imperial University in 1923, Shimizu was impressed by the German Museum in Munich during his stay there as a student in 1932. It's the first time that he learned the education in cooperation with industries. Just after the Second World War, he became director general of the Ministry of Education. However, new education system given by the United States focused not on developing practical ability but on gaining the basic knowledge, which is contrary to what he expected. Then, he contributed to the establishment of the Japanese Society for Engineering Education, besides working as the president of Nagoya Institute of Technology in the earlier 1950s. His idea was supported by industries for the economic growth. Throughout his career, Prof. Dr. Shimizu was convinced that practical engineering education would benefit Japan, and wanted to introduce cooperative education between universities and industries, along the lines of the same system in Germany and the United States. With this vision he founded Nagoya Municipal Science Museum in cooperation with local industries and local government as his final achievement. The museum was completed in 1964.
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Topological Maxwell Metal Bands in a Superconducting Qutrit
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tan, Xinsheng; Zhang, Dan-Wei; Liu, Qiang; Xue, Guangming; Yu, Hai-Feng; Zhu, Yan-Qing; Yan, Hui; Zhu, Shi-Liang; Yu, Yang
2018-03-01
We experimentally explore the topological Maxwell metal bands by mapping the momentum space of condensed-matter models to the tunable parameter space of superconducting quantum circuits. An exotic band structure that is effectively described by the spin-1 Maxwell equations is imaged. Threefold degenerate points dubbed Maxwell points are observed in the Maxwell metal bands. Moreover, we engineer and observe the topological phase transition from the topological Maxwell metal to a trivial insulator, and report the first experiment to measure the Chern numbers that are higher than one.
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[Bertha Lutz and the memory of Adolpho Lutz].
Benchimol, Jaime L; Sa, Magali Romero; Andrade, Márcio Magalhães; Gomes, Victor Leandro Chaves
2003-01-01
The authors reconstruct Bertha Lutz's efforts to preserve the memory of her father, Adolpho, after his death on 6 October 1940, by studying the papers of both father and daughter that are held in the Archives of the National Museum. Bertha Lutz's plans included the construction of a museum for Adolpho Lutz's collections, the publication of his complete works and a biography. A pioneer in the feminist movement and researcher at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Bertha was always a faithful assistant to her father and her own professional life followed a line of research opened by him. For more than 30 years, she dedicated herself to the consecration of her father's name, lobbying politicians and scientists in Brazil and abroad. She was not as successful as she had hoped and Bertha Lutz recorded in her will her wish that the works and biography of Adolpho Lutz be published by future generations.
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Maxwell and creation: Acceptance, criticism, and his anonymous publication
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Marston, Philip L.
2007-08-01
Although James Clerk Maxwell's religious views and discussions on atoms having the properties of ``manufactured articles'' have been discussed, some aspects of the responses by his contemporaries to his remarks on creation have been neglected. Various responses quoted here include a book from 1878 by ``Physicus'' (George John Romanes) attributing ``arrogance'' to Maxwell for his inferences. Relevant aspects of the evolution of the perspective of Romanes are noted. A response by B. F. Westcott indicated that Maxwell was the author of a related anonymous publication concerned with what eventually became known as the heat death of the universe. In his teaching to theology students, Westcott, a friend of Maxwell, emphasized Maxwell's reasoning based on the dissipation of energy. There are similarities between Maxwell's perspective on creation and Biblical commentaries by fellow Eranus Club members Westcott and J. B. Lightfoot. Interest in Maxwell's remarks extended into the twentieth century. The principal Baptist chapel attended by Maxwell and his wife when in London in the 1860s is identified and some relevant attributes of the chapel and of its pastor are described.
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78 FR 2433 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins, CO
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75 FR 52019 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
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75 FR 28647 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
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Nambiar, Devaki; Nguyen, Mai Huong; Giang, Le Minh; Hirsch, Jennifer
2013-01-01
Stigma reduction efforts in Vietnam have been encumbered by contradictory and dynamic views of People Living With HIV (PLWH) and the epidemic over the past two decades. World AIDS Day 2010 saw the launch of Pain and Hope, a museum exhibition showcasing the lives and experiences of Vietnamese People Living with AIDS at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME). Between December 2010 and May 2011, a random sample of visitors completed exit surveys regarding attitudes towards the exhibition and Vietnamese living with HIV/AIDS. The survey sought to determine what kind of visitors the museum and exhibition attracted, and the stigma-related impacts of this kind of exposure and parasocial contact. Of 2,500 Vietnamese visitors randomly selected, 852 completed the computer surveys (response rate of 34.1%), 92.3% of whom had seen Pain and Hope. We found two sub-strata or types of visitors attending the exhibition, with varying demographic characteristics, HIV-related knowledge, some differences in stigma ideation, and clear differences in intended behaviours specifically attributable to the exhibition. Social desirability biases notwithstanding, there has emerged a diptych typology of visitors to the VME, for whom the experience of the exhibition is likely interacting with divergent prior knowledge, experiences, interests and motivations. PMID:22974183
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Cutler, Janis L; Harding, Kelli J; Hutner, Lucy A; Cortland, Clarissa; Graham, Mark J
2012-05-01
The authors designed an intervention to reduce beginning medical students' stigmatization of people with chronic mental illness (CMI). Pre-clinical medical students visited a state psychiatric facility's "Living Museum," a combination patient art studio/display space, as the intervention. During the visit, students interacted with artist-guides who showed their work and discussed their experiences creating art. Students completed a self-assessment survey developed to measure attitudes and feelings toward people with CMI after half of the class visited the Living Museum, constituting a Visit/No-Visit cross-sectional comparison. Students who visited the Living Museum (N=64), as compared with those who did not visit (N=110), endorsed more positive attitudes toward people with CMI. Among the students who visited, however, those who reported having spoken individually with a patient-artist (N=44), paradoxically, indicated less-positive feelings toward people with CMI. An intervention in which pre-clinical medical students visited patient-artist guides in an art-studio setting generally improved students' attitudes toward people with CMI. Thus, nontraditional psychiatric settings offer a valuable adjunct to more traditional clinical settings to reduce stigma when introducing medical students to the field of psychiatry.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Comerford, T.R.
1994-04-01
Early in 1991, Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE G) began investigating various ways to retain businesses and industries in New Jersey. Other organizations were trying, or investigating, different business-retention techniques, many of which centered around surveys to determine businesses' major concerns and problems. Around the same time, PSE G was part of a team that was working to save the Maxwell House Coffee Plant in Hoboken, NJ. General Foods, the parent company of Maxwell House, had determined that they no longer needed the capacity of both the Hoboken facility and a facility in Florida. In the course ofmore » responding to Maxwell House, many concerns and problems were uncovered, many of which had been developing for some time. The team responded to each issue and proposed innovative solutions, but Maxwell House decided against Hoboken in favor of Florida. It became apparent that retaining a company that had begun the relocation process would be extremely difficult. PSE G's Marketing Services and Area Development Department and the New Jersey Department of Commerce and Economic Development jointly established the Business Enhancement Program (BEP) in the spring of 1991. Realizing that business concerns had to be confronted before they became major issues, the program was designed as an ongoing communication network. The BEP is committed to addressing business problems or concerns in a timely and professional manner. Not all concerns can be solved to the complete satisfaction of the company. However, the program strives to provide appropriate assessment of the issues and to demonstrate that the business is valued and appreciated in New Jersey.« less
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77 FR 23504 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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76 FR 80393 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
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75 FR 52367 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Memphis Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, TN
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Umetsu, Kazuo; Iwabuchi, Naruki; Yuasa, Isao; Saitou, Naruya; Clark, Paul F; Boxshall, Geoff; Osawa, Motoki; Igarashi, Keiji
2002-12-01
The complete mitochondrial DNA (mtNDA) of the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis was sequenced. The sequence consisted of 15,101 bp with an A+T content of 69%. Its gene arrangement was identical with those sequences of the water flea (Daphnia pulex) and giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon), whereas it differed from that of the brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) in the arrangement of its genes for tRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis revealed T. cancriformis to be more closely related to the water flea than to the brine shrimp and giant tiger prawn. We also compared the 16S rRNA sequences of five formalin-fixed tadpole shrimps that had been collected in five different locations and stored in a museum. The sequence divergence was in the range of 0-1.51%, suggesting that those samples were closely related to each other.
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Representing the Electromagnetic Field: How Maxwell's Mathematics Empowered Faraday's Field Theory
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Tweney, Ryan D.
2011-01-01
James Clerk Maxwell "translated" Michael Faraday's experimentally-based field theory into the mathematical representation now known as "Maxwell's Equations." Working with a variety of mathematical representations and physical models Maxwell extended the reach of Faraday's theory and brought it into consistency with other…
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Giant dielectric constant in titania nanoparticles embedded in conducting polymer matrix.
Dey, Ashis; De, Sukanta; De, Amitabha; De, S K
2006-05-01
Complex impedance and dielectric permittivity of titania-polypyrrole nanocomposites have been investigated as a function of frequency and temperature at different compositions. A very large dielectric constant of about 13,000 at room temperature has been observed. The colossal dielectric constant is mainly dominated by interfacial polarization due to Maxwell-Wagner relaxation effect. Two completely separate groups of dielectric relaxation have been observed. The low frequency dielectric relaxation arises from surface defect states of titania nanoparticles. The broad peak at high frequency region is attributed to Maxwell-Wagner type polarization originating from the inhomogeneous property of nanocomposite. An abrupt change in grain boundary conductivity and dielectric relaxation associated with titania was observed at around 150 K. Anomalous behavior in conductivity and dielectric relaxation is qualitatively explained by band tail structure of titania nanoparticle.
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An instrumental electrode model for solving EIT forward problems.
Zhang, Weida; Li, David
2014-10-01
An instrumental electrode model (IEM) capable of describing the performance of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) systems in the MHz frequency range has been proposed. Compared with the commonly used Complete Electrode Model (CEM), which assumes ideal front-end interfaces, the proposed model considers the effects of non-ideal components in the front-end circuits. This introduces an extra boundary condition in the forward model and offers a more accurate modelling for EIT systems. We have demonstrated its performance using simple geometry structures and compared the results with the CEM and full Maxwell methods. The IEM can provide a significantly more accurate approximation than the CEM in the MHz frequency range, where the full Maxwell methods are favoured over the quasi-static approximation. The improved electrode model will facilitate the future characterization and front-end design of real-world EIT systems.
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21 CFR 886.1435 - Maxwell spot.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-04-01
... 21 Food and Drugs 8 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Maxwell spot. 886.1435 Section 886.1435 Food and Drugs FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICAL DEVICES OPHTHALMIC DEVICES Diagnostic Devices § 886.1435 Maxwell spot. (a) Identification. A Maxwell spot is an AC...
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Cremades, Norma Acerbi
2009-01-01
The Museum of History "Hospital Nacional de Clínicas", from the National University of Cordoba, República Argentina, it's charged with the knowledge continuity of the Health Science, in time and space. Its guiding motto says: "I'll be a shield to stop the wind that wants to erase the imprint of men that shaped the history of the School of Medical Sciences by their work." To accomplish the tasks, general and particular objectives were settled. The Museum has a Library divided in three sections: Classical, Contemporary and Virtual. It counts with a specialized Information and Documentation Centre. Courses about different topics are given as well as the course of History of Medicine for Grade and post grade careers, completing with humanistic contents, the students education exclusively scientific and technical. For high school and Bachelor students there is a program called: "Education - Apprenticeship strategies at the Museum". These strategies are arranged to fit the programmes and levels of formal education for educational institutions. The heritage of the Museum consists of more than a thousand apparatus and tools that served the research and instruction at the different professorships of the School of Medical Sciences. Many of them obsolete they allow us to understand the evolution of science and technique, within the broad field of Health Science, since the creation of the School of Medical Sciences in 1877.
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75 FR 45655 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
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...). The site also yielded several tools made from mountain goat humeri and metapodial. Although not extinct, mountain goat is no longer present in the region of Little Box Elder. Officials of the University...
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Vital Signs building work-up: The Museum of Anthropology
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Millet, M.S.; Erwine, B.
The paper will present the structure and the results of an in depth study of the Museum of Anthropology, designed by Arthur Erickson Architects for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and completed in 1976. Part of the Vital Signs Curriculum Project created by Cris Benton and administered through the University of California at Berkeley, this analytic project was designed and carried out by a faculty/student team in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. The significance of this study is the simultaneous presentation of qualitative and quantitative information about the thermal and luminous environment of thismore » building.« less
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Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Udvar-Hazy
2012-04-19
Space shuttle Discovery is rolled toward the transfer ceremony at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Chantilly, Va. Discovery will be permanently housed at the Udvar-Hazy Center, part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kahnert, Michael
2016-07-01
Numerical solution methods for electromagnetic scattering by non-spherical particles comprise a variety of different techniques, which can be traced back to different assumptions and solution strategies applied to the macroscopic Maxwell equations. One can distinguish between time- and frequency-domain methods; further, one can divide numerical techniques into finite-difference methods (which are based on approximating the differential operators), separation-of-variables methods (which are based on expanding the solution in a complete set of functions, thus approximating the fields), and volume integral-equation methods (which are usually solved by discretisation of the target volume and invoking the long-wave approximation in each volume cell). While existing reviews of the topic often tend to have a target audience of program developers and expert users, this tutorial review is intended to accommodate the needs of practitioners as well as novices to the field. The required conciseness is achieved by limiting the presentation to a selection of illustrative methods, and by omitting many technical details that are not essential at a first exposure to the subject. On the other hand, the theoretical basis of numerical methods is explained with little compromises in mathematical rigour; the rationale is that a good grasp of numerical light scattering methods is best achieved by understanding their foundation in Maxwell's theory.
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Electronic Maxwell demon in the coherent strong-coupling regime
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Schaller, Gernot; Cerrillo, Javier; Engelhardt, Georg; Strasberg, Philipp
2018-05-01
We consider an external feedback control loop implementing the action of a Maxwell demon. Applying control actions that are conditioned on measurement outcomes, the demon may transport electrons against a bias voltage and thereby effectively converts information into electric power. While the underlying model—a feedback-controlled quantum dot that is coupled to two electronic leads—is well explored in the limit of small tunnel couplings, we can address the strong-coupling regime with a fermionic reaction-coordinate mapping. This exact mapping transforms the setup into a serial triple quantum dot coupled to two leads. We find that a continuous projective measurement of the central dot occupation would lead to a complete suppression of electronic transport due to the quantum Zeno effect. In contrast, by using a microscopic detector model we can implement a weak measurement, which allows for closure of the control loop without transport blockade. Then, in the weak-coupling regime, the energy flows associated with the feedback loop are negligible, and dominantly the information gained in the measurement induces a bound for the generated electric power. In the strong coupling limit, the protocol may require more energy for operating the control loop than electric power produced, such that the whole device is no longer information dominated and can thus not be interpreted as a Maxwell demon.
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77 FR 23501 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Sheboygan County Historical Museum, Sheboygan, WI
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2011-04-21
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum examine the space shuttle's thermal protection system tile as they stand beneath shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced April 12 the facilities where all four shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired in March after completing its 39th mission. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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2011-04-21
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Stephanie Stilson (facing camera), flow director for space shuttle Discovery, discusses Discovery's thermal protection system with members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced April 12 the facilities where all four shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired in March after completing its 39th mission. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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2011-04-21
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum receive a briefing on the application of the space shuttle's thermal protection system tile in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced April 12 the facilities where all four shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired in March after completing its 39th mission. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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2011-04-21
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum discuss the application of the space shuttle's thermal protection system tile with shuttle technicians in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced April 12 the facilities where all four shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired in March after completing its 39th mission. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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2011-04-21
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of a visiting team from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum inspect the aft-end of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced April 12 the facilities where all four shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired in March after completing its 39th mission. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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Complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven extinct or possibly extinct bird species.
Anmarkrud, Jarl A; Lifjeld, Jan T
2017-03-01
Natural history museum collections represent a vast source of ancient and historical DNA samples from extinct taxa that can be utilized by high-throughput sequencing tools to reveal novel genetic and phylogenetic information about them. Here, we report on the successful sequencing of complete mitochondrial genome sequences (mitogenomes) from eleven extinct bird species, using de novo assembly of short sequences derived from toepad samples of degraded DNA from museum specimens. For two species (the Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius and the South Island Piopio Turnagra capensis), whole mitogenomes were already available from recent studies, whereas for five others (the Great Auk Pinguinis impennis, the Imperial Woodpecker Campehilus imperialis, the Huia Heteralocha acutirostris, the Kauai Oo Moho braccathus and the South Island Kokako Callaeas cinereus), there were partial mitochondrial sequences available for comparison. For all seven species, we found sequence similarities of >98%. For the remaining four species (the Kamao Myadestes myadestinus, the Paradise Parrot Psephotellus pulcherrimus, the Ou Psittirostra psittacea and the Lesser Akialoa Akialoa obscura), there was no sequence information available for comparison, so we conducted blast searches and phylogenetic analyses to determine their phylogenetic positions and identify their closest extant relatives. These mitogenomes will be valuable for future analyses of avian phylogenetics and illustrate the importance of museum collections as repositories for genomics resources. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Emergent pseudospin-1 Maxwell fermions with a threefold degeneracy in optical lattices
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhu, Yan-Qing; Zhang, Dan-Wei; Yan, Hui; Xing, Ding-Yu; Zhu, Shi-Liang
2017-09-01
The discovery of relativistic spin-1/2 fermions such as Dirac and Weyl fermions in condensed-matter or artificial systems opens a new era in modern physics. An interesting but rarely explored question is whether other relativistic spinal excitations could be realized with artificial systems. Here, we construct two- and three-dimensional tight-binding models realizable with cold fermionic atoms in optical lattices, where the low energy excitations are effectively described by the spin-1 Maxwell equations in the Hamiltonian form. These relativistic (linear dispersion) excitations with unconventional integer pseudospin, beyond the Dirac-Weyl-Majorana fermions, are an exotic kind of fermions named as Maxwell fermions. We demonstrate that the systems have rich topological features. For instance, the threefold degenerate points called Maxwell points may have quantized Berry phases and anomalous quantum Hall effects with spin-momentum locking may appear in topological Maxwell insulators in the two-dimensional lattices. In three dimensions, Maxwell points may have nontrivial monopole charges of ±2 with two Fermi arcs connecting them, and the merging of the Maxwell points leads to topological phase transitions. Finally, we propose realistic schemes for realizing the model Hamiltonians and detecting the topological properties of the emergent Maxwell quasiparticles in optical lattices.
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Representing the Electromagnetic Field: How Maxwell's Mathematics Empowered Faraday's Field Theory
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tweney, Ryan D.
2011-07-01
James Clerk Maxwell `translated' Michael Faraday's experimentally-based field theory into the mathematical representation now known as `Maxwell's Equations.' Working with a variety of mathematical representations and physical models Maxwell extended the reach of Faraday's theory and brought it into consistency with other results in the physics of electricity and magnetism. Examination of Maxwell's procedures opens many issues about the role of mathematical representation in physics and the learning background required for its success. Specifically, Maxwell's training in `Cambridge University' mathematical physics emphasized the use of analogous equations across fields of physics and the repeated solving of extremely difficult problems in physics. Such training develops an array of overlearned mathematical representations supported by highly sophisticated cognitive mechanisms for the retrieval of relevant information from long term memory. For Maxwell, mathematics constituted a new form of representation in physics, enhancing the formal derivational and calculational role of mathematics and opening a cognitive means for the conduct of `experiments in the mind' and for sophisticated representations of theory.
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Large dielectric constant in zirconia polypyrrole hybrid nanocomposites.
Dey, Ashis; De, S K
2007-06-01
Zirconia nanoparticles have been synthesized by a novel two-reverse emulsion technique and combined with polypyrrole (PPY) to form ZrO2-PPY nanocomposites. Complex impedance and dielectric permittivity of ZrO2-PPY nanocomposite have been investigated as a function of frequency and temperature for different compositions. The composite samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The composites reveal ordered semiconducting behaviour. Polypyrrole is the major component in electrical transport process of the samples. A very large dielectric constant of about 12,000 at room temperature has been observed. The colossal dielectric constant is mainly dominated by interfacial polarization due to Maxwell-Wagner relaxation effect. Two completely separate groups of dielectric relaxation have been observed. The low frequency dielectric relaxation arises from surface defect states of zirconia nanoparticles. The broad peak at high frequency is due to Maxwell-Wagner type polarization.
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Consistent hydrodynamic theory of chiral electrons in Weyl semimetals
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gorbar, E. V.; Miransky, V. A.; Shovkovy, I. A.; Sukhachov, P. O.
2018-03-01
The complete set of Maxwell's and hydrodynamic equations for the chiral electrons in Weyl semimetals is presented. The formulation of the Euler equation takes into account the explicit breaking of the Galilean invariance by the ion lattice. It is shown that the Chern-Simons (or Bardeen-Zumino) contributions should be added to the electric current and charge densities in Maxwell's equations that provide the information on the separation of Weyl nodes in energy and momentum. On the other hand, these topological contributions do not directly affect the Euler equation and the energy conservation relation for the electron fluid. By making use of the proposed consistent hydrodynamic framework, we show that the Chern-Simons contributions strongly modify the dispersion relations of collective modes in Weyl semimetals. This is reflected, in particular, in the existence of distinctive anomalous Hall waves, which are sustained by the local anomalous Hall currents.
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PALEOPATHOLOGY OF PRE-COLUMBIAN MUMMIES AT THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY IN FLORENCE.
Marrazzini, Andrea; Gaeta, Raffaele; Fornaciari, Gino
2015-01-01
We performed a histopathological study on the mummified tissue specimens of seven pre-Columbian mummies which arrived in Italy in the second half of the 19th century and are housed in the Section of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The results confirm that the modern techniques of pathological anatomy can be successfidly applied on mummifed tissues, so as to perform important paleopathological diagnoses. Among the results obtained from this study there is the only known complete paleopathological study of Chagas' disease (American Trypanosomiasis), comprising macroscopic, microscopic and ultrastructural data, as well as information on atherosclerosis, anthracosis, emphysema and pneumonia.
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Everything is Data - Overview of Modular System of Sensors for Museum Environment
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Valach, J.; Juliš, K.; Štefcová, P.; Pech, M.; Wolf, B.; Kotyk, M.; Frankl, J.
2015-08-01
The main aim of project nearing completion was to develop a modular and scalable system of sensors for monitoring of internal environment of museum exhibitions and depositories. The sensors vary according to parameters being monitored and at the same time also according to required energy autonomy, processing capability and bandwidth requirements. Sensors developed can be divided into three groups: environmental sensors, biosensors and sensors of vibrations. Data acquired by the sensors are archived and stored in open format. Metadata stored alongside true numerical data from measurement, represent assurance of future computer readability in data mining application. Long continuous series of data can provide sufficient data for acquisition of dose-response function.
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Environmental Assessment: Military Family Housing Privatization Maxwell Air Force Base
2005-06-01
Ray L. Raton Mildred J . Worthy February 9, 2005 Lt. Colonel David W. Maninez Deputy Commander, 42nd MSG 50 South LeMay Plaza (Bldg 804) Maxwell ...Environmental Assessment Military Family Housing Privatization Maxwell Air Force Base United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command... Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama June 2005 Report Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of
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1985-05-01
and internal security problems which represent the comtemporary disease. Nicaragua, under Somoza, was one such example. The Somoza family...he was assigned to the Armament * Division, Eglin APB, Florida. He completed a Master’s Degree in Business * Administration in 1983 and then
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By design: James Clerk Maxwell and the evangelical unification of science.
Stanley, Matthew
2012-03-01
James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory famously unified many of the Victorian laws of physics. This essay argues that Maxwell saw a deep theological significance in the unification of physical laws. He postulated a variation on the design argument that focused on the unity of phenomena rather than Paley's emphasis on complexity. This argument of Maxwell's is shown to be connected to his particular evangelical religious views. His evangelical perspective provided encouragement for him to pursue a unified physics that supplemented his other philosophical, technical and social influences. Maxwell's version of the argument from design is also contrasted with modern 'intelligent-design' theory.
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76 FR 56469 - Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Maine, Hudson Museum, Orono, ME
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Pseudo spectral collocation with Maxwell polynomials for kinetic equations with energy diffusion
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Sánchez-Vizuet, Tonatiuh; Cerfon, Antoine J.
2018-02-01
We study the approximation and stability properties of a recently popularized discretization strategy for the speed variable in kinetic equations, based on pseudo-spectral collocation on a grid defined by the zeros of a non-standard family of orthogonal polynomials called Maxwell polynomials. Taking a one-dimensional equation describing energy diffusion due to Fokker-Planck collisions with a Maxwell-Boltzmann background distribution as the test bench for the performance of the scheme, we find that Maxwell based discretizations outperform other commonly used schemes in most situations, often by orders of magnitude. This provides a strong motivation for their use in high-dimensional gyrokinetic simulations. However, we also show that Maxwell based schemes are subject to a non-modal time stepping instability in their most straightforward implementation, so that special care must be given to the discrete representation of the linear operators in order to benefit from the advantages provided by Maxwell polynomials.
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45 CFR 1180.2 - Definition of a museum.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-10-01
...) Art museums; (5) Children's museums; (6) General museums; (7) Historic houses and sites; (8) History museums; (9) Nature centers; (10) Natural history and anthropology museums; (11) Planetariums; (12) Science and technology centers; (13) Specialized museums; and (14) Zoological parks. (c) For the purposes...
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How to Obtain the Covariant Form of Maxwell's Equations from the Continuity Equation
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Heras, Jose A.
2009-01-01
The covariant Maxwell equations are derived from the continuity equation for the electric charge. This result provides an axiomatic approach to Maxwell's equations in which charge conservation is emphasized as the fundamental axiom underlying these equations.
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Unlocking Resources: Self-Guided Student Explorations of Science Museum and Aquarium Exhibits
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kirkby, K. C.; Phipps, M.; Hamilton, P.
2010-12-01
Remarkably few undergraduate programs take full advantage of the rich resources provided by science museums, aquariums and other informal science education institutions. This is not surprising considering the logistical hurdles of class trips, but an even more fundamental barrier is that these institutions’ exhibit text seldom explicitly convey their information at a level suitable for undergraduate curriculum. Traditionally, this left the burden of interpretation on individual instructors, who rarely have the time to undertake it. To overcome these hurdles, the University of Minnesota has partnered with the Science Museum of Minnesota and Underwater Adventures Aquarium to test the efficacy of self-guided student explorations in revealing the rich data encoded in museum and aquarium exhibits. An initial module at the Science Museum of Minnesota focused on interpreting animal designs, specifically exploring how differences in dinosaur skeletal features reflected variations in the animals’ lifestyles. Students learn to interpret diet and lifestyle not only from characteristics of the skull and teeth, but also from variations in vertebrae and rib design or the relative proportion of limb elements. A follow-up module, based on exhibits at Underwater Adventures Aquarium focuses on interpreting energy flow through ecosystems from the behavior of living organisms. Students explore the information on lifestyle and diet that is encoded in a sturgeon’s ceaseless glide or a muskellunge’s poised stillness. These modules proved to be immensely popular with students. In classes with up to 500 students, half to two-thirds of the students volunteered to complete the modules, despite the additional expense and distances of up to 13 miles between the University and partner institutions. More importantly, quantitative assessment with pre-instruction and post-instruction surveys demonstrate that these ungraded, self-guided explorations match or exceed the efficacy of traditional graded lab instruction and completely eclipse the range of gains normally achieved by traditional lecture instruction. In addition, the modules accomplish the remarkable goal of integrating undergraduate earth science instruction into students’ social life. Over three-fourths of the students complete the explorations with friends or family who were not enrolled in the class, expanding the course to include a broader, more diverse, audience. A third module, currently in development, will use a walking tour of Saint Anthony Falls to highlight the impact of geological processes on human society. Students will explore the waterfalls’ evolution, its early interpretation by 18th and 19th century Dakota and Euro-America societies, as well as its subsequent social and economic impacts on human history. The outdoor nature of this self-guided exploration is a first step towards expanding the modules’ concept to integrate self-guided field trips into undergraduate earth science curriculums.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Snow, Sarah Elizabeth
The purpose of this study is to investigate any lasting impacts of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's Girls at the Museum Exploring Science (GAMES) Program. Using assessment document analysis, student focus groups, and adult interviews, this study examined whether students' positive associations with science continue after completion of the program and whether the program affects the academic and career choices of past participants. Results from the analysis suggest that GAMES has a generally positive impact on participant attitudes towards science in both the short- and long-term. These results also support existing research in identifying key factors in the success of the program including hands-on activities, exposure to diverse careers and female role models, and the incorporation of authentic objects and experiences. These factors of success can contribute to the evidence base about the role of informal education programs in increasing science participation among women, as well as ways in which schools and universities can collaborate to effectively serve populations that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.
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Matrix Management in DoD: An Annotated Bibliography
1984-04-01
ADDRESS 10 PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT, TASK AREA & WORK UNIT NUMBERS ACSC/EDCC, MAXWELL AFB AL 36112 1 1. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 12 ...completes their message that matrix orga- nization is the likely format of the multiprogram Program Office. 12 The text’s discussion of matrix is...manager, and functional specialist are of vital importance to the effective operation of the matrix .... Matrix management will not achieve its
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Geometrical optimization of sensors for eddy currents nondestructive testing and evaluation
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Thollon, F.; Burais, N.
1995-05-01
Design of Non Destructive Testing (NDT) and Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) sensors is possible by solving Maxwell`s relations with FEM or BIM. But the large number of geometrical and electrical parameters of sensor and tested material implies many results that don`t give necessarily a well adapted sensor. The authors have used a genetic algorithm for automatic optimization. After having tested this algorithm with analytical solution of Maxwell`s relations for cladding thickness measurement, the method has been implemented in finite element package.
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Museum Literacies and Adolescents Using Multiple Forms of Texts "On Their Own"
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Eakle, A. Jonathan
2009-01-01
In this article, museum literacies are examined. Data collected during a qualitative study of adolescents in out-of-school and in-school groups in a museum demonstrate how participants used museum literacies. Resources for teachers' uses of museum literacies are described and provided, including museum podcasts, virtual museum Internet sites, and…
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76 FR 54807 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection: IMLS Museum Web Database: MuseumsCount.gov
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78 FR 59958 - Notice of Inventory Completion: The Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI
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Research that Resonates: Influencing Stakeholders
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Kachel, Debra E.
2013-01-01
In 2012, Keith Curry Lance and his associates completed a second school library impact study in Pennsylvania. The research conducted in Pennsylvania was the result of an Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership grant that examined students' reading and writing scores with sub-groups of students (Hispanic, Black,…
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76 FR 62839 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO
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A Rolling Evaluation Gathers No Moss.
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Burrough, Lee Anne; Beaumont, Lorrie; Schaller, David; Cannon, Ethalinda
Continuous, formative evaluation, from inception to completion, with rapid revisions, was key to the successful development of Kids Design Network(KDN) by the DuPage Children's Museum (DCM). Although a thorough evaluation plan was developed at the beginning of the project, it soon became apparent that additional strategies were necessary to insure…
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Characterization of thunderstorm induced Maxwell current densities in the middle atmosphere
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Baginski, Michael Edward
1989-01-01
Middle atmospheric transient Maxwell current densities generated by lightning induced charge perturbations are investigated via a simulation of Maxwell's equations. A time domain finite element analysis is employed for the simulations. The atmosphere is modeled as a region contained within a right circular cylinder with a height of 110 km and radius of 80 km. A composite conductivity profile based on measured data is used when charge perturbations are centered about the vertical axis at altitudes of 6 and 10 km. The simulations indicate that the temporal structure of the Maxwell current density is relatively insensitive to altitude variation within the region considered. It is also shown that the electric field and Maxwell current density are not generally aligned.
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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2011-06-22
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system pods and forward reaction control system have been loaded into a container and are being transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. There, they will undergo a complete deservicing and cleaning. The removal is part of Discovery's transition and retirement processing. Shuttle Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles and Enterprise will be moved from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Falk, Lisa; Powers, Stephen
2008-01-01
Background: The Arizona State Museum, Tucson, received a grant for the school year 2007-08 from the Institute of Museums and Library Services, Museum for America Programs. The goals of this grant were (1) to continue a vibrant, monthly offering of family programs at the Arizona State Museum (ASM) around the topic of museum exhibitions, (2) to…
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Maxwell's inductions from Faraday's induction law
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Redžić, D. V.
2018-03-01
In article 598 of his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Maxwell 1891 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Oxford: Clarendon)), Maxwell gives a seminal analysis of Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. We present a detailed account of the analysis, attempting to reconstruct the missing steps, and discuss some related matters.
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Maxwell Equations and the Redundant Gauge Degree of Freedom
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Wong, Chun Wa
2009-01-01
On transformation to the Fourier space (k,[omega]), the partial differential Maxwell equations simplify to algebraic equations, and the Helmholtz theorem of vector calculus reduces to vector algebraic projections. Maxwell equations and their solutions can then be separated readily into longitudinal and transverse components relative to the…
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Haber, Eldad
2014-03-17
The focus of research was: Developing adaptive mesh for the solution of Maxwell's equations; Developing a parallel framework for time dependent inverse Maxwell's equations; Developing multilevel methods for optimization problems with inequality constraints; A new inversion code for inverse Maxwell's equations in the 0th frequency (DC resistivity); A new inversion code for inverse Maxwell's equations in low frequency regime. Although the research concentrated on electromagnetic forward and in- verse problems the results of the research was applied to the problem of image registration.
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James Clerk Maxwell, a precursor of system identification and control science
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Bittanti, Sergio
2015-12-01
One hundred and fifty years ago James Clerk Maxwell published his celebrated paper 'Dynamical theory of electromagnetic field', where the interaction between electricity and magnetism eventually found an explanation. However, Maxwell was also a precursor of model identification and control ideas. Indeed, with the paper 'On Governors' of 1869, he introduced the concept of feedback control system; and moreover, with his essay on Saturn's rings of 1856 he set the basic principle of system identification. This paper is a tutorial exposition having the aim to enlighten these latter aspects of Maxwell's work.
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Maxwell's color statistics: from reduction of visible errors to reduction to invisible molecules.
Cat, Jordi
2014-12-01
This paper presents a cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary account of Maxwell's introduction of statistical models of molecules for the composition of gases. The account focuses on Maxwell's deployment of statistical models of data in his contemporaneous color researches as established in Cambridge mathematical physics, especially by Maxwell's seniors and mentors. The paper also argues that the cross-disciplinary, or cross-domain, transfer of resources from the natural and social sciences took place in both directions and relied on the complex intra-disciplinary, or intra-domain, dynamics of Maxwell's researches in natural sciences, in color theory, physical astronomy, electromagnetism and dynamical theory of gases, as well as involving a variety of types of communicating and mediating media, from material objects to concepts, techniques and institutions.
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Falconer, Isobel
In 1877 James Clerk Maxwell and his student Donald MacAlister refined Henry Cavendish's 1773 null experiment demonstrating the absence of electricity inside a charged conductor. This null result was a mathematical prediction of the inverse square law of electrostatics, and both Cavendish and Maxwell took the experiment as verifying the law. However, Maxwell had already expressed absolute conviction in the law, based on results of Michael Faraday's. So, what was the value to him of repeating Cavendish's experiment? After assessing whether the law was as secure as he claimed, this paper explores its central importance to the electrical programme that Maxwell was pursuing. It traces the historical and conceptual re-orderings through which Maxwell established the law by constructing a tradition of null tests and asserting the superior accuracy of the method. Maxwell drew on his developing 'doctrine of method' to identify Cavendish's experiment as a member of a wider class of null methods. By doing so, he appealed to the null practices of telegraph engineers, diverted attention from the flawed logic of the method, and sought to localise issues around the mapping of numbers onto instrumental indications, on the grounds that 'no actual measurement … was required'. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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A Game of Cat and Mouse: Intelligence and Dynamic Targeting in Operation Allied Force
2017-06-01
PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES FOR COMPLETION OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR...AND SPACE STUDIES AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA JUNE 2017 DISTRIBUTION A. Approved for public release: distribution...want to thank Major General Glen Shaffer who initially planted the seed for the idea of this study while serving as a senior mentor for the
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Piatkowska, Ksenia
2017-10-01
The issue of the creation and location of new museums is a current topic. The decision of where and how to create new museum facilities will impact successful function in the future. Museums are either located in newly designed buildings or in existing buildings. In general, existing buildings adapted for museum use are either formally under conservational protection or not. With regard to museum location in preserved monuments, the author notes that the true impact on authentic monumental building structure still needs intense research. The adaptation of the Great Mill and St. Catherine’s Church - two preserved medieval objects located in the historical city center of Gdansk - provide case studies to investigate positive and negative aspects. In both cases, the author carried out architectural projects for the functional purposes of museums: The New Amber Museum and Museum of Science. The author concludes that mutual benefits of adaptation result from: the financial means of the museum institution to invest long-term; the institutional respect of the museum towards heritage, which translates into respect for conservational protection; and the competitive advantage created by the monumental features of the building and the privileged location in a well-established, branded space. Negative aspects result from: space limitations of monuments that disable the museum from extending its exposition and thus prevent institutional development; the overly restrictive requirements of restoration that take priority over the museum mission; and the lack of technically functional space required for contemporary museum technologies, which forces unconventional engineering solutions that are more expensive than the location of the museum in a newly constructed building.
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45 CFR 1180.2 - Definition of a museum.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-10-01
...) Art museums; (5) Children's museums; (6) General museums; (7) Historic houses and sites; (8) History...) Science and technology centers; (13) Specialized museums; and (14) Zoological parks. (c) For the purposes...
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45 CFR 1180.2 - Definition of a museum.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-10-01
...) Art museums; (5) Children's museums; (6) General museums; (7) Historic houses and sites; (8) History...) Science and technology centers; (13) Specialized museums; and (14) Zoological parks. (c) For the purposes...
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45 CFR 1180.2 - Definition of a museum.
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2012-10-01
...) Art museums; (5) Children's museums; (6) General museums; (7) Historic houses and sites; (8) History...) Science and technology centers; (13) Specialized museums; and (14) Zoological parks. (c) For the purposes...
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45 CFR 1180.2 - Definition of a museum.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-10-01
...) Art museums; (5) Children's museums; (6) General museums; (7) Historic houses and sites; (8) History...) Science and technology centers; (13) Specialized museums; and (14) Zoological parks. (c) For the purposes...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Tanigawa, Yoshiko
2015-01-01
This paper focuses on how peace education at a peace museum is promoted by a volunteer guide service for visitors. Peace museums are places where many materials related to war and peace history are on display. To support the learning experience of museum visitors, many peace museums in Japan provide a volunteer guide service. The Kyoto Museum for…
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Pulling Museum Education Purse Strings
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Raiguel, Faith
2010-01-01
The economic downturn has hit everyone hard. The author's organization, the Los Angeles Opera, has completed two years of downsizing, resulting in an almost 25% reduction in staff and overall budget cutting. Change that is not "nipping and tucking," but changing the dynamic and culture of the institution. However, if the organization hadn't done…
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Sortings, Cutaways, and Bindings: Quilt-Making as Arts-Based Practice for Social Justice Teaching
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Kuthy, Diane; Broadwater, Kay
2014-01-01
This article describes a studio assignment grounded in social learning theory and intersectionality completed by preservice teachers during their first art education class, enabling students to begin to develop nuanced understandings about categories of difference. A studio assignment combines experiences in museum, community, and school settings…
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ACHP | Working Together to Build a More Inclusive Preservation Program
, having started out volunteering for the Indiana State Museum in high school. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Archaeology at the University of Indianapolis, she completed her Master of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky, specializing in African American slave architecture and archaeology
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78 FR 2436 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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My First Alphabet. MicroSIFT Courseware Evaluation.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR.
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): VERSION: Atari APX-20083. PRODUCER: Atari, Inc., 60 E. Plumeria, P.O. Box 50047, San Jose, California 95050. EVALUATION COMPLETED: September 1982 by the staff and constituents of the Capital Children's Museum. Their evaluation is partly based on observation…
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76 FR 9597 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
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76 FR 9603 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
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On the Merits of "Unusual Field Trips."
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Howarth, Dean E.
1999-01-01
Describes the organization and completion of a scientific field trip for a group of high school physics students that was organized primarily around a study of the Manhattan Project. The group visited the Trinity site, Los Alamos, several museums, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Very Large Array. Contact information for the various…
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76 FR 9606 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
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76 FR 9599 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
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... cultures. The Duwamish people primarily occupied this area, specifically the Lake people and the Thluwi... objects are 96 beads, 2 sea urchin shell fragments, and 2 copper bracelets. The above-mentioned human... within the Southern Lushootseed language group of Salish cultures. The Duwamish people primarily occupied...
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African American Pioneers in Aviation: 1920-Present. Teacher Guide.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
O'Flahavan, Leslie
This teacher's guide provides activities about the National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC) for students to complete. The guide includes primary and secondary source materials for teachers to photocopy and use during their study of African Americans in aviation based on the exhibition "Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation."…
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
..., Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM) affiliated rifle and pistol “clubs”, museums, veterans... by the purchaser without prior approval of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the... Staff for Logistics, ATTN: DALO-SMS, Department of the Army, with a complete identification including...
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2014-07-01
..., Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM) affiliated rifle and pistol “clubs”, museums, veterans... by the purchaser without prior approval of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the... Staff for Logistics, ATTN: DALO-SMS, Department of the Army, with a complete identification including...
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Encounters with the Unexpected: From Holbein to Hirst (and Back Again)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Watts, Robert
2011-01-01
"Learning through art in the museum" is a Masters' level module established in 2006 through collaboration between the School of Education at Roehampton University, London and Interpretation and Education staff at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. On completion of the module, participants were asked to reflect on how the experience had…
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
..., Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM) affiliated rifle and pistol “clubs”, museums, veterans... by the purchaser without prior approval of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the... Staff for Logistics, ATTN: DALO-SMS, Department of the Army, with a complete identification including...
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... Cultural Items: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe... & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, in consultation with the appropriate Indian... contact the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico. DATES...
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Carving a Strong Identity: Investigating the Life Histories of Museum Educators
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Reid, Natasha S.
2013-01-01
This paper examines the need for more holistic, narrative-based research into the identities of museum educators. The author explores the increasing demands being placed on museum educators along with the substantial challenges experienced by these professionals amidst the changing climate of museums. Many museum educators feel that their museums'…
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Domesticating Biotechnology: How London's Science Museum Has Framed the Controversy.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Levidow, Les
1998-01-01
Exhibits in London's Science Museum are critiqued in this discussion of the problem of balance in presenting controversial issues in museum exhibits. Science museums claim to portray controversial issues in a neutral manner, but neutrality is impossible. Asks how science museums can involve visitors in the controversy and how the museum's role can…
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The Organization of Museums: Practical Advice. Museums and Monuments, IX.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Adams, Philip R.; And Others
This manual deals with the organization of museums. The manual includes 10 chapters written by different people involved in museum work in various parts of the world. Chapter I, The Museum and Its Functions, deals with such topics as definition, collecting, identifying, and recording. Chapter II considers the administration of museums. Chapter…
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... NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board AGENCY: Institute of Museum and... the forthcoming meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board. This notice also describes...
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The art of observation: impact of a family medicine and art museum partnership on student education.
Elder, Nancy C; Tobias, Barbara; Lucero-Criswell, Amber; Goldenhar, Linda
2006-06-01
Compared to verbal communication, teaching the skill of observation is often shortchanged in medical education. Through a family medicine-art museum collaboration, we developed an elective course for second-year medical students titled the "Art of Observation" (AOO). To evaluate the course's effect on clinical skills, we performed a qualitative evaluation of former students during their clinical rotations. In the spring of 2005, all students who had completed the AOO course in 2003 or 2004 were invited to take part in an online evaluation consisting of eight journaling survey questions. Students were instructed to answer the survey questions with specific examples. Question areas included the most memorable experience, the course's influence on the doctor-patient relationship, usefulness during clinical years of medical school, and skills unique to AOO. The anonymous data were analyzed qualitatively, coding the responses to categories derived from the data, leading to the formation of themes. Of the 19 students eligible, 17 participated. We found three important themes: (1) the AOO positively influenced clinical skills, (2) both art museum exercises and a clinical preceptorship were necessary to achieve those skills, and (3) the AOO led to a sense of personal development as a physician. In addition, students told us that the training in observation and description skills they learned were unique to the AOO. This collaboration between a department of family medicine and an art museum produced a course that facilitated observational skills used in successful doctor-patient relationships.
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The National Museum of Mexican Art: A New Model for Museums
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Villafranca-Guzman, Nancy; Tortolero, Carlos
2010-01-01
The National Museum of Mexican Art was founded by a group of educators in 1987. Twenty-three years later, as the first and only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it presents exhibition programming of the highest quality, and conserves an extensive and inclusive art collection. Unlike many museums, it places…
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Dinosaurs on the Ark: The Creation Museum
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Asma, Stephen T.
2007-01-01
In this article, the author describes the Creation Museum, founded by Ken A. Ham and designed as a rebuttal to the evolutionary view taken by other natural history museums. He discusses the socially conservative roots of the museum's exhibits, and presents Ham's answers to questions about the museum. The message of the museum is that the Bible is…
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19. Photocopy of photograph (source uncertain; probably Bucks County Historical ...
19. Photocopy of photograph (source uncertain; probably Bucks County Historical Society) ca. 1916, photographer unknown SHOWING CONSTRUCTION ESSENTIALLY COMPLETED. MERCER'S CAPTION READS: 'ON SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13th AT 5: 15 P.M. THE WORKMEN HAVING AT FIVE O'CLOCK FINISHED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW BUILDING OF THE MUSEUM OF THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT DOYLESTOWN, A BAND OF TRAVELLING MUSICIANS STOPPED UNASKED AT NO. 196 GREEN STREET OPPOSITE THE SOUTHEAST GABLE OF THE BUILDING AND I HEARD THEM PLAY THE GERMAN SONG SHOWN BELOW, TRANSLATED 'WE HAD BUILT A STATELY HOUSE, AND DEDICATED IT TO GOD, AGAINST RAIN, STORM AND DISASTER' I CALLED THEM BACK TO PLAY IT AGAIN, BUT THEY MISUNDERSTOOD ME AND WENT AWAY. HENRY C. MERCER' - Mercer Museum, Pine & Ashland Streets, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA
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Educational tools in the Museum of Rocks and Minerals
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
de Brito Barreto, S.; Ribeiro Sales, E.; de Lima Correia, A. Maria; Lima, M. Abreu e.; Bretas Bittar, S. Maria
2012-04-01
The Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a small museum which belongs to the Department of Geology of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. It was founded in the 1950's and its main exhibits are samples of scarns and pegmatites from the Northeast of Brazil, especially from the Borborema Pegmatitic Region. This museum has been visited by a wide variety of people, but mainly students from private and state schools on scheduled visits. Over the years museum staff felt the necessity to develop some mediating tools to develop a relationship between exhibits and visitors. Due to a lack of technical staff and finance to create interactive exhibits as well as space limitations, the museum decided to produce some games such as memory games, puzzles and dominoes. These fifteen games deal with different subjects of geosciences, especially those more interesting for children. The subjects chosen were: minerals, industrial minerals, gems, dimension stones, rock cycle, fossils, dinosaur footprints (Ichnofossils), wood fossils, Mohs scale. The games were created by the authors, and undergraduate students were responsible for researching concepts and images. Each game presents a concept and images related to it. The interns are undergraduate students of geology and mining engineering and this experience gives them an opportunity to review and improve some concepts and discuss what is important such as pedagogical actions in museums and geology teaching. To give an example, the subject of the industry mineral was treated using two games - a memory game and a puzzle. The first one shows images of minerals related each one to an industrial product and in the second, children can see different parts of a house labeled with the minerals used in the production of that space. Another interesting example is the puzzle about dinosaur footprints that uses an image of a dinosaur footprint, part of the paleontological collection of the Departament, and a representative ichnofossil from the Rio do Peixe Basin in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, the most important record of dinosaur prints in Brazil. The games are part of a playful activity used at the end of the visit called "NiFe", in reference to the Earth's core. The idea is for this to be a moment of concentration and an opportunity to share the museum experience, an activity which is coordinated by the interns of the museum. The "NiFe" is an educational activity for children, which aims to transform the visual and sensory experience into a complete experience, something that changes us through our experience. The objective is to make the visit a dynamic and educative experience in contrast to the inanimate characteristic of the kingdom of minerals and rocks. The intention is that these games will be adopted by the education secretaries of state and municipal governments in order to contribute to the teaching of geoscience mainly at primary and secondary of education and undergraduate level.
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The Covariant Formulation of Maxwell's Equations Expressed in a Form Independent of Specific Units
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Heras, Jose A.; Baez, G.
2009-01-01
The covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations can be expressed in a form independent of the usual systems of units by introducing the constants alpha, beta and gamma into these equations. Maxwell's equations involving these constants are then specialized to the most commonly used systems of units: Gaussian, SI and Heaviside-Lorentz by giving…
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... Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Museum of Indian Arts... Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Apley, Alice; Frankel, Susan; Goldman, Elizabeth; Streitburger, Kim
2011-01-01
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's museums. Museums for America (MFA) is the largest IMLS grant program for museums; it supports institutions by investing in high-priority, high-value activities that are clearly linked to the institution's strategic plan and enhance its value to…
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iMuseumA: an agent-based context-aware intelligent museum system.
Ayala, Inmaculada; Amor, Mercedes; Pinto, Mónica; Fuentes, Lidia; Gámez, Nadia
2014-11-10
Currently, museums provide their visitors with interactive tour guide applications that can be installed in mobile devices and provide timely tailor-made multimedia information about exhibits on display. In this paper, we argue that mobile devices not only could provide help to visitors, but also to museum staff. Our goal is to integrate, within the same system, multimedia tour guides with the management facilities required by museums. In this paper, we present iMuseumA (intelligent museum with agents), a mobile-based solution to customize visits and perform context-aware management tasks. iMuseumA follows an agent-based approach, which makes it possible to interact easily with the museum environment and make decisions based on its current status. This system is currently deployed in the Museum of Informatics at the Informatics School of the University of Málaga, and its main contributions are: (i) a mobile application that provides management facilities to museum staff by means of sensing and processing environmental data; (ii) providing an integrated solution for visitors, tour guides and museum staff that allows coordination and communication enrichment among different groups of users; (iii) using and benefiting from group communication for heterogeneous groups of users that can be created on demand.
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Structural history of Maxwell Montes, Venus: Implications for Venusian mountain belt formation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Keep, Myra; Hansen, Vicki L.
1994-12-01
Models for Venusian mountain belt formation are important for understanding planetary geodynamic mechanisms. A range of data sets at various scales must be considered in geodynamic modelling. Long wavelength data, such as gravity and geoid to topography ratios, need constraints from smaller-scale observations of the surface. Pre-Magellan images of the Venusian surface were not of high enough resolution to observe details of surface deformation. High-resolution Magellan images of Maxwell Montes and the other deformation belts allow us to determine the nature of surfce deformation. With these images we can begin to understand the constraints that surface deformation places on planetary dynamic models. Maxwell Montes and three other deformation belts (Akna, Freyja, and Danu montes) surround the highland plateau Lakshmi Planum in Venus, northern hemisphere. Maxwell, the highest of these belts, stands 11 km above mean planetary radius. We present a detailed structural and kinematic study of Maxwell Montes. Key observations include (1) dominant structural fabrics are broadly distributed and show little change in spacing relative to elevation changes of several kilometers; (2) the spacing, wavelength, and inferred amplitude of mapped structures are small, (3) interpreted extensional structures occur only in areas of steep slope, with no extension at the highest topographic levels; and (4) deformation terminates abruptly at the base of steep slopes. One implication of these observations is that topography is independent of thin-skinned, broadly distributed, Maxwell deformation. Maxwell is apparently stable, with no observed extensional collapse. We propose a ``deformation-from-below'' model for Maxwell, in which the crust deforms passively over structurally imbricated and thickened lower crust. This model may have implications for the other deformation belts.
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Structural history of Maxwell Montes, Venus: Implications for Venusian mountain belt formation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Keep, Myra; Hansen, Vicki L.
1994-12-01
Models for Venusian mountain belt formation are important for understanding planetary geodynamic mechanisms. A range of data sets at various scales must be considered in geodynamic modelling. Long wavelength data, such as gravity and geoid to topography ratios, need constraints from smaller-scale observations of the surface. Pre-Magellan images of the Venusian surface were not of high enough resolution to observe details of surface deformation. High-resolution Magellan images of Maxwell Montes and the other deformation belts allow us to determine the nature of surface deformation. With these images we can begin to understand the constraints that surface deformation places on planetary dynamic models. Maxwell Montes and three other deformation belts (Akna, Freyja, and Danu montes) surround the highland plateau Lakshmi Planum in Venus' northern hemisphere. Maxwell, the highest of these belts, stands 11 km above mean planetary radius. We present a detailed structural and kinematic study of Maxwell Montes. Key observations include (1) dominant structure fabrics are broadly distributed and show little change in spacing relative to elevation changes of several kilometers; (2) the spacing, wavelength and inferred amplitude of mapped structures are small; (3) interpreted extensional structures occur only in areas of steep slope, with no extension at the highest topographic levels; and (4) deformation terminates abruptly at the base of steep slopes. One implications of these observations is that topography is independent of thin-skinned, broadly distributed, Maxwell deformation. Maxwell is apparently stable, with no observed extensional collapse. We propose a 'deformation-from-below' model for Maxwell, in which the crust deforms passively over structurally imbricated and thickened lower crust. This model may have implications for the other deformation belts.
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Inventory of Amphibians and Reptiles at Mojave National Preserve: Final Report
Persons, Trevor B.; Nowak, Erika M.
2007-01-01
As part of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program in the Mojave Network, we conducted an inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Mojave National Preserve in 2004-2005. Objectives for this inventory were to use fieldwork, museum collections, and literature review to document the occurrence of reptile and amphibian species occurring at MOJA. Our goals were to document at least 90% of the species present, provide one voucher specimen for each species identified, provide GIS-referenced distribution information for sensitive species, and provide all deliverables, including NPSpecies entries, as outlined in the Mojave Network Biological Inventory Study Plan. Methods included daytime and nighttime visual encounter surveys and nighttime road driving. Survey effort was concentrated in predetermined priority sampling areas, as well as in areas with a high potential for detecting undocumented species. We recorded 31 species during our surveys. During literature review and museum specimen database searches, we found records for seven additional species from MOJA, elevating the documented species list to 38 (two amphibians and 36 reptiles). Based on our surveys, as well as literature and museum specimen review, we estimate an overall inventory completeness of 95% for Mojave National Preserve herpetofauna; 67% for amphibians and 97% for reptiles.
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Martin, William Hal; Griest, Susan E; Sobel, Judith L; Howarth, Linda C
2013-02-01
To evaluate the effectiveness of four NIHL prevention interventions at improving knowledge, attitudes, and intended behaviors regarding sound exposure and appropriate use of hearing protective strategies in children. A randomized trial of the four interventions with a non-intervention comparison group. Questionnaires were completed prior to, immediately after, and three months after each intervention. Interventions included: (1) A classroom presentation by older-peer educators, (2) A classroom presentation by health professionals, (3). Exploration of a museum exhibition, and (4). Exploration of an internet-based virtual museum. A comparison group received no intervention. Fifty-three fourth grade classrooms (1120 students) participated in the study. All interventions produced significant improvements but the number of improvements decreased over time. In terms of effectiveness, the classroom programs were more effective than the internet-based virtual exhibit, which was more effective than the visit to the museum exhibition. Self-reported exposures indicated that as many as 94.5% of participants were at risk for NIHL. Interpersonal, interactive educational interventions such as the classroom program are more effective and have longer impact than self-directed learning experiences for NIHL and tinnitus prevention, however each may have an important role in promoting hearing health in elementary school students.
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Maxwell's equal area law for black holes in power Maxwell invariant
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Li, Huai-Fan; Guo, Xiong-ying; Zhao, Hui-Hua; Zhao, Ren
2017-08-01
In this paper, we consider the phase transition of black hole in power Maxwell invariant by means of Maxwell's equal area law. First, we review and study the analogy of nonlinear charged black hole solutions with the Van der Waals gas-liquid system in the extended phase space, and obtain isothermal P- v diagram. Then, using the Maxwell's equal area law we study the phase transition of AdS black hole with different temperatures. Finally, we extend the method to the black hole in the canonical (grand canonical) ensemble in which charge (potential) is fixed at infinity. Interestingly, we find the phase transition occurs in the both ensembles. We also study the effect of the parameters of the black hole on the two-phase coexistence. The results show that the black hole may go through a small-large phase transition similar to those of usual non-gravity thermodynamic systems.
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Great moments in kinetic theory: 150 years of Maxwell’s (other) equations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Robson, Robert E.; Mehrling, Timon J.; Osterhoff, Jens
2017-11-01
In 1867, just two years after laying the foundations of electromagnetism, J. Clerk Maxwell presented a fundamental paper on kinetic gas theory, in which he described the evolution of the gas in terms of certain ‘moments’ of its velocity distribution function. This inspired Ludwig Boltzmann to formulate his famous kinetic equation, from which followed the H-theorem and the connection with entropy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of publication of Maxwell's paper, we review the Maxwell-Boltzmann formalism and discuss how its generality and adaptability enable it to play a key role in describing the behaviour of a variety of systems of current interest, in both gaseous and condensed matter, and in modern-day physics and technologies which Maxwell and Boltzmann could not possibly have foreseen. In particular, we illustrate the relevance and applicability of Maxwell's formalism to the dynamic field of plasma-wakefield acceleration.
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Maxwellians and the Remaking of Maxwell's Equations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hunt, Bruce
2012-02-01
Although James Clerk Maxwell first formulated his theory of the electromagnetic field in the early 1860s, it went through important changes before it gained general acceptance in the 1890s. Those changes were largely the work of a group of younger physicists, the Maxwellians, led by G. F. FitzGerald in Ireland, Oliver Lodge and Oliver Heaviside in England, and Heinrich Hertz in Germany. Together, they extended, refined, tested, and confirmed Maxwell's theory, and recast it into the set of four vector equations known ever since as ``Maxwell's equations.'' By tracing how the Maxwellians remade and disseminated Maxwell's theory between the late 1870s and the mid-1890s, we can gain a clearer understanding not just of how the electromagnetic field was understood at the end of the 19th century, but of the collaborative nature of work at the frontiers of physics.
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Murray, William J.
Lesson plans for secondary teachers based on documents and objects found in the Hershey Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania comprise the document. The Museum seeks to make its resources available to teachers who are not able to bring their students from the classroom to the Museum. Photocopied reproductions of the documents are provided for the…
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Furstenberg, James Henry
The study describes current art museum adult education programs and objectives in three art museums. Data were gathered through interviews with museum staffs, from current publications and records, and from clipping files and historical documents. Each museum sponsors training for volunteer guides and a yearly show for collectors, and provides…
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The Next Step: A Study on Resiliency in Command and Control
2015-06-01
THE NEXT STEP: A STUDY ON RESILIENCY IN COMMAND AND CONTROL” BY LT COL RUSS “BONES” COOK A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL...OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES FOR COMPLETION OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL...Aeronautical University; MA, Military Studies , Marine Corps University) is a senior pilot with more than 2,500 hours including combat time in both the HH
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Defense.gov - Special Report - Travels With Gates
Force Base, Ala. Story» Warfighter Care at Center of 2010 Budget Considerations MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE , Ala., April 15, 2009  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., with the U.S. Air Force Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., listen to Defense Secretary Robert
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James Clerk Maxwell and the Kinetic Theory of Gases: A Review Based on Recent Historical Studies
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Brush, Stephen G.
1971-01-01
Maxwell's four major papers and some shorter publications relating to kinetic theory and statistical mechanics are discussed in the light of subsequent research. Reviews Maxwell's ideas on such topics as velocity, distribution law, the theory of heat conduction, the mechanism of the radiometer effect, the ergodic hypothesis, and his views on the…
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Handapangoda, Chintha C; Premaratne, Malin; Paganin, David M; Hendahewa, Priyantha R D S
2008-10-27
A novel algorithm for mapping the photon transport equation (PTE) to Maxwell's equations is presented. Owing to its accuracy, wave propagation through biological tissue is modeled using the PTE. The mapping of the PTE to Maxwell's equations is required to model wave propagation through foreign structures implanted in biological tissue for sensing and characterization of tissue properties. The PTE solves for only the magnitude of the intensity but Maxwell's equations require the phase information as well. However, it is possible to construct the phase information approximately by solving the transport of intensity equation (TIE) using the full multigrid algorithm.
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Moll, F H; Rathert, P; Fangerau, H
2016-05-01
Corporate museums make important contributions to science history and daily life. They are an essential part of the historical marketing of organizations, including scientific associations. The museum for the history of urology organized and housed by the German Society of Urology (DGU) can be compared to a corporate museum, because the institution serves two purposes: it represents the society to a wider public and it helps to reconstruct and analyze the history of urology and the history of the society. In a close collaboration with medical historians from all over the world the museum serves as a research institution for the history of urology. The institution is founded at the frontier between a commercial corporate museum similar to that of international companies and a classical scientific museum. The paper describes these aspects of the museum and discusses the inherent value of a museum for a scientific association.
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Teaching science in museums: The pedagogy and goals of museum educators
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tran, Lynn Uyen
2007-03-01
Museum educators have a longstanding presence in museums and play a significant role in the institutions' educational agenda. However, research on field trips to science museums has predominantly explored teachers' and students' perspectives with little acknowledgment of the museum educators who develop and implement the educational programs the students experience. This study sought to describe instruction undertaken in, and goals driving, science museums' lessons through observations of museum educators followed by conversations with them immediately afterwards. Findings showed the ways in which educators adapted their preplanned lessons to the students' interests, needs, and understanding by manipulating the sequence and timing. The data revealed that, contrary to depictions in the research literature of teaching in museums as didactic and lecture oriented, there was creativity, complexity, and skills involved in teaching science in museums. Finally, the educators' teaching actions were predominantly influenced by their affective goals to nurture interests in science and learning. Although their lessons were ephemeral experiences, these educators operated from a perspective, which regarded a school field trip to the science museum, not as a one-time event, but as part of a continuum of visiting such institutions well beyond school and childhood. These findings have implications for the pedagogical practices employed by museum educators, and the relationship between teachers and educators during school field trips, which are discussed.
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iMuseumA: An Agent-Based Context-Aware Intelligent Museum System
Ayala, Inmaculada; Amor, Mercedes; Pinto, Mónica; Fuentes, Lidia; Gámez, Nadia
2014-01-01
Currently, museums provide their visitors with interactive tour guide applications that can be installed in mobile devices and provide timely tailor-made multimedia information about exhibits on display. In this paper, we argue that mobile devices not only could provide help to visitors, but also to museum staff. Our goal is to integrate, within the same system, multimedia tour guides with the management facilities required by museums. In this paper, we present iMuseumA (intelligent museum with agents), a mobile-based solution to customize visits and perform context-aware management tasks. iMuseumA follows an agent-based approach, which makes it possible to interact easily with the museum environment and make decisions based on its current status. This system is currently deployed in the Museum of Informatics at the Informatics School of the University of Málaga, and its main contributions are: (i) a mobile application that provides management facilities to museum staff by means of sensing and processing environmental data; (ii) providing an integrated solution for visitors, tour guides and museum staff that allows coordination and communication enrichment among different groups of users; (iii) using and benefiting from group communication for heterogeneous groups of users that can be created on demand. PMID:25390409
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Kenderdine, Sarah
This paper results from a recently completed project that augmented an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, entitled "1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece" (July 18-November 18, 2000). This Exhibition offered an opportunity to supplement the traditional visitor experience with the introduction of…
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77 FR 40901 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Gregg County Historical Museum, Longview, TX
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Cates, Ward Mitchell; Mattke, Paige Hawkins
2013-01-01
Based on a recently completed study of education directors at science museums, this article addresses how design-and-development consultants might use those findings to enhance the way in which they propose and deliver Website services to non-academic organizations with either primary or complementary educational missions. After a very brief…
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75 FR 52369 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR
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76 FR 36148 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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75 FR 70027 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
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How Theories on Origins Can Be Taught in Public Schools without Controversy.
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Sunderland, Luther D.
The two general concepts of how living organisms originated are defined: namely, common ancestry evolution and the abrupt appearance of completed organisms on earth. The fossil record is examined from the deepest first fossil-bearing rocks to the top of the geologic column. Evidence obtained from fossil museums is presented so students can…
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Jamaludin, Azilawati; Hung, David Wei Loong
2016-01-01
Technological advances in the form of ubiquitous computing has altered the learning landscape today. Contemporary modes of learning afford curricular innovations in schools. While learning journeys of decades ago entailed field trips to places of interest such as museums and zoos where students completed tasks or worksheets after each trip, the…
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Walker, C. G.
2017-12-01
Local history, art and culture museums have a large role to play in climate science communication. Unfortunately, in our current society, scientific evidence and logic is not universally accepted as truth. These messages can be dispersed through trusted institutional allies like humanities and arts museums. There are many reasons for scientific institutions to work with humanities and arts museums of all sizes, especially local museums that have personal, trusted relationships with their communities. First, museums (by definition) are public educators; the work that they do is to disperse challenging information in an understandable way to a wide array of audiences. Museums are located in every state, with over 35,000 museums in the nation; 26% of those are located in rural areas. These museums serve every demographic and age range, inspiring even those with difficulty accepting climate change information to act. Second, in a recent public opinion survey commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums, museums - especially history museums - are considered the most trustworthy source of information in America, rated higher than newspapers, nonprofit researchers, the U.S. government, or academic researchers. Scientific institutions must collaborate with local museums to improve science communication going forward. Not only will important climate and sustainability research be dispersed via trusted sources, but the public will engage with this information in large numbers. In 2012 alone, over 850 million people visited museums - more than the attendance for all major league sports and theme parks combined. A recent impact study shows that history and art museums, especially, are not seen as "having a political agenda," with over 78% of the public seeing these museums as trusted institutions. There are many ways in which the scientific community can collaborate with "the arts." This presentation will speak to the larger benefit of working with sister arts & humanities institutions for widespread public education, with examples and actionable ideas.
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The Onomastic Octopus. Museum Data Bank Research Report No. 3.
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Chenhall, Robert G.
Activities and information needs in museums and a project undertaken by the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum to develop systematic solutions to problems in cataloging museum collections are described. Museum activities are grouped in three categories: (1) initial--acquisition, accession, registration, identification, and restoration; (2)…
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Building Staff Capacity to Evaluate in Museum Education
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Kubarek, Joy
2015-01-01
For years, museums of all varieties, including art museums, science centers, history museums, zoos, and aquariums, have conducted education evaluation. However, museums are all too often faced with the challenge of allocating staff time, expertise, and other resources toward conducting evaluation, particularly evaluation that moves beyond program…
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78 FR 9945 - Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board
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Museums, Imagination and Education.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France).
Twelve authors offer initiative and creative ideas for using museums to further world-wide education in a broad sense. Rather than viewing the museum as a preserver and storehouse of works and objectives, the authors see the museum as a place where direct involvement in process education occurs. International trends in museum education are focused…
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Motivational Factors in Career Decisions Made by Chinese Science Museum Educators
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Ji, Jiao; Anderson, David; Wu, Xinchun
2016-01-01
Conceptualized by the self-determination theory, this interpretive study examined 23 museum educators' perspectives from five Chinese science museums to understand their work motivation in relation to their professional practice of working in museums. Research outcomes showed that, Chinese science museum educators' work motivation followed a…
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78 FR 68100 - Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museums and Library Services Board
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..., Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Libraries, Museums, and Makerspaces (Open to the Public) Afternoon... NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES Institute of Museum and Library Services Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museums and Library Services Board AGENCY: Institute of Museum and...
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78 FR 23311 - Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board
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... NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES Institute of Museum and Library Services Sunshine Act Meeting of the National Museum and Library Services Board AGENCY: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), NFAH. ACTION: Notice of Meeting. SUMMARY: The National Museum and Library...
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Museums and the Education of Adults.
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Chadwick, Alan, Ed.; Stannett, Annette, Ed.
This book, which is intended for individuals involved in the education of adults and museum education, explores the potential role of museums in creation of a learning society, possibilities for collaboration between museums and adult education providers, access to museum resources by adult learners, and training and staff development. The…
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Sharpe, Elizabeth M.; And Others
1984-01-01
This issue contains articles on characteristics of the older adult population and how one museum program addressed them; an analysis of sensory changes in older adulthood and their implications for museum facilities and programing; what older adults can contribute to the museum; older adults as museum volunteers; and case studies of museum…
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Museum Theatre: Telling Stories through Objects.
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Schindel, Dorothy Napp
2002-01-01
Explains that Museum Theatre's goal is to teach through drama by using experiential interpretive strategies that bypass the lecture format. Outlines a production of Museum Theatre which helped a museum redefine itself. Concludes that Museum Theatre helps shift the focus of programming from simple object display to an emphasis on the human…
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Using Museum Exhibits: An Innovation in Experiential Learning
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Das, Satarupa
2015-01-01
Museum exhibits can be a tool in experiential learning. While instructors have documented various methods of experiential learning, they have not sufficiently explored such learning from museum exhibits. Museum researchers, however, have long found a satisfying cognitive component to museum visits. This paper narrates the author's design to…
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Ellenbogen, Kirsten M.
What we know about learning in museums tends to come from studies of single museum visits evaluating success according to the museum's agenda, neglecting the impressive cooperative learning strategies and resources that families bring to their museum experiences. This is a report of an ethnographic case study of four families that visit science museums frequently. The study used ethnographic research and discourse analysis as combined methodological approaches, and was grounded in a sociocultural perspective that frames science as a socially and culturally constituted activity. Over eighteen months, data were collected during observations of the families in science museums, at home, and at other leisure sites. The study generated two types of findings. First, macroanalysis based on established frameworks for understanding learning in museums revealed differences in the orientation and extent of the museum visits. Additionally, a hierarchical framework for measuring science learning in museums proved insensitive. These findings underscore limitations of some of the traditional frameworks for understanding family learning in science museums. Second, microanalysis of interactions around science objects at home and in museums revealed that parents provided children with opportunities to understand the "middle ground" of science. Analysis also revealed that families adapted the science content of the museum to renegotiate family identities. Interestingly, the types of discourse most valued in science education were least important for establishing family identity. These frequent museumgoers eliminated the distance between them and science objects by transforming their meanings to establish family identity. This study demonstrates that the families' mediating strategies shape not just an understanding of science, but also a family identity that is constructed in and through interactions with science. The results of this study provide a foundation for examining how families use museums over time and the network of learning resources that support family life. This study suggests possible ways for museum professionals to reconsider the design of learning activities, museum environments, and a shift in focus from the learning institution of the science museum to the learning institution of the family.
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Preparing for the Unthinkable: DOD Support to Foreign Consequence Management
2010-05-03
Nuclear Disaster ” (research paper, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University, 2001), 23. 17 Department of Defense Consequence Management...States Government Response to an Overseas Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Disaster ” (research paper, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air...Government Response to an Overseas Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Disaster .” Research paper, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mitka, B.; Szelest, P.
2013-12-01
This paper presents the issues related to the acquisition and processing of terrestrial photogrammetry and laser scanning for building educational portals and virtual museums. Discusses the specific requirements of measurement technology and data processing for all kinds of objects, ranging from architecture through sculpture and architectural detail on the fabric and individual museum exhibits. Educational portals and virtual museums require a modern, high-quality visuals (3D models, virtual tours, animations, etc.) supplemented by descriptive content or audio commentary. Source for obtaining such materials are mostly terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetry as technologies that provide complete information about the presented geometric objects. However, the performance requirements of web services impose severe restrictions on the presented content. It is necessary to use optimalization geometry process to streamline the way of its presentation. Equally important problem concerns the selection of appropriate technology and process measurement data processing presented for each type of objects. Only skillful selection of measuring equipment and data processing tools effectively ensure the achievement of a satisfactory end result. Both terrestrial laser scanning technology and digital close range photogrammetry has its strengths which should be used but also the limitations that must be taken into account in this kind of work. The key is choosing the right scanner for both the measured object and terrain such as pixel size in the performance of his photos.
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Pedagogy and Practice in Museum Online Learning
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Din, Herminia
2015-01-01
How best might museums harness the interactive capabilities of online environments to provide active teaching and learning experiences for diverse learners and communities? How can museums engage learners in ways that encourage them to visit the museum in person and/or further explore online resources? What should be the role of the museum in…
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Museum Studies: Connecting the Elementary and Secondary Experience
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Martin, Kachina; Yoder, Maureen
2009-01-01
Museum studies will certainly reinforce students' appreciation of art history and art production. A student's understanding of a museum's function will deepen with each museum visit. Students will recognize that a museum can be organized around materials and kinds of art, periods of art history and cultures, and the works of an individual artist.…
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Information Design for Visualizing History Museum Artifacts
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Chen, Yulin; Lai, Tingsheng; Yasuda, Takami; Yokoi, Shigeki
2011-01-01
In the past few years, museum visualization systems have become a hot topic that attracts many researchers' interests. Several systems provide Web services for browsing museum collections through the Web. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent museum system for history museum artifacts, and described a study in which we enable access to China…
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Dynamic Museum Place: Exploring the Multi-Dimensional Museum Environment
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Leach, Denise Blair
2007-01-01
Place is an important factor in museum education, yet describing what the museum is as place is often difficult. This article introduces the idea that museums consist of multiple physical and virtual place "domains" where interactions between people and objects occur: the origin domain, creation domain, display domain, and the experiencer-object…
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The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide
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Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2009
2009-01-01
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is committed to bringing together museums and libraries across the country for conversations dedicated to developing a better understanding of the roles of libraries and museums as providers of public service to communities. The Future of Libraries and Museums in the 21st Century Planning…
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Marty, Paul F.
1999-01-01
Examines the sociotechnological impact of introducing advanced information technology into the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. Addresses implementation of such methodologies as computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication in the museum environment. Emphasizes the…
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Opportunities for Extending Museum Contributions to Pre-College Science Education.
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Goldman, Katherine J., Ed.
Papers were given at a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation on present and future use of the museum as an educational resource. Science education, media use, museum-community relationships, and museum-school relationships engaged the attention of the speakers. The educational programs of particular museums were reported on by…
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Measuring the Immeasurable: A Pilot Study of Museum Effectiveness.
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Borun, Minda
The report describes a one-year pilot study of museum effectiveness conducted at the Franklin Institute Science Museum and Planetarium in Philadelphia. The study was intended to develop models for testing visitor response, provide useable information to museum staff, and test the feasibility of a large-scale investigation of science museums.…
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Wood, Elizabeth; Wolf, Barbara
2008-01-01
The concept of engagement across the learning sciences and in museums draws from research on visitor interests, motivations, and behaviors. Such involvement by museum visitors reveals institutional and field expectations about museum efficacy and demonstrated impact. However, engagement is a concept with different uses and interpretations across…
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Transient Postseismic Relaxation With Burger's Body Viscoelasticity
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hetland, E. A.; Hager, B. H.; O'Connell, R. J.
2002-12-01
Typical models used to investigate postseismic deformation are composed of an elastic layer over a Maxwell viscoelastic region. Geodetic observations made after a number of large earthquakes show a rapid exponential decay in postseismic velocity immediately after the rupture, followed by a more slowly decaying (or constant) velocity at a later time. Models of a Maxwell viscoelastic interior predict a single exponential postseismic velocity relaxation. To account for observed rapid, short-term relaxation decay, surprisingly low viscosities in the lower-crust or upper-mantle have been proposed. To model the difference in short and long time decay rates, the Maxwell element is sometimes modified to have a non-linear rheology, which results in a lower effective viscosity immediately after the rupture, evolving to a higher effective viscosity as the co-seismic stresses relax. Incorporation of models of after-slip in the lower crust on a down-dip extension of the fault have also had some success at modeling the above observations. When real rocks are subjected to a sudden change in stress or strain, e.g., that caused by an earthquake, they exhibit a transient response. The transient deformation is typically accommodated by grain boundary sliding and the longer-time deformation is accommodated by motion of dislocations. Both a short-term transient response and long-term steady creep are exhibited by a Burger's body, a Maxwell element (a spring in series with a viscous dash-pot) in series with a Voigt element (a spring in parallel with a viscous dash-pot). Typically the (transient) viscosity of the Voigt element is 10 - 100 times less than the (steady) viscosity of the Maxwell element. Thus, with a Burger's body, stress relaxation is a superposition of two exponential decays. For a model composed of an elastic layer over a viscoelastic region, the coseismic changes in stress (and strain) depend only on the elastic moduli, and are independent of the description of the viscous component of the rheology. In a Burger's body model of viscoelasticity, if the viscosity of the Voigt element is much less than that of the Maxwell element, the initial relaxation time is given by the decay time τ = η {Voigt}}/G{ {Maxwell}. Whereas, for a Maxwell rheology, the initial relaxation time is given by τ = η {Maxwell}}/G{ {Maxwell}. For both models, the initial spatial distribution of stresses is the same, which results in identical initial spatial distribution of velocities. Thus it is easy to mistake the transient response of a Burger's body for that of a Maxwell rheology with unrealistically low viscosity. Only later in the seismic cycle do the spatial patterns of velocity differ for the two rheologies.
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Krukar, Jakub
2014-09-01
The spatial organisation of museums and its influence on the visitor experience has been the subject of numerous studies. Previous research, despite reporting some actual behavioural correlates, rarely had the possibility to investigate the cognitive processes of the art viewers. In the museum context, where spatial layout is one of the most powerful curatorial tools available, attention and memory can be measured as a means of establishing whether or not the gallery fulfils its function as a space for contemplating art. In this exploratory experiment, 32 participants split into two groups explored an experimental, non-public exhibition and completed two unanticipated memory tests afterwards. The results show that some spatial characteristics of an exhibition can inhibit the recall of pictures and shift the focus to perceptual salience of the artworks.
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Krukar, Jakub
2014-01-01
The spatial organisation of museums and its influence on the visitor experience has been the subject of numerous studies. Previous research, despite reporting some actual behavioural correlates, rarely had the possibility to investigate the cognitive processes of the art viewers. In the museum context, where spatial layout is one of the most powerful curatorial tools available, attention and memory can be measured as a means of establishing whether or not the gallery fulfils its function as a space for contemplating art. In this exploratory experiment, 32 participants split into two groups explored an experimental, non-public exhibition and completed two unanticipated memory tests afterwards. The results show that some spatial characteristics of an exhibition can inhibit the recall of pictures and shift the focus to perceptual salience of the artworks. PMID:25379276
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Barth, Timothy
2005-01-01
The role of involutions in energy stability of the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of Maxwell and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems is examined. Important differences are identified in the symmetrization of the Maxwell and MHD systems that impact the construction of energy stable discretizations using the DG method. Specifically, general sufficient conditions to be imposed on the DG numerical flux and approximation space are given so that energy stability is retained These sufficient conditions reveal the favorable energy consequence of imposing continuity in the normal component of the magnetic induction field at interelement boundaries for MHD discretizations. Counterintuitively, this condition is not required for stability of Maxwell discretizations using the discontinuous Galerkin method.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1972-01-01
A survey of existing aerospace museums in the U.S. and a study of the feasibility of establishing an aerospace museum in the western U.S. are summarized. It is recommended that prime consideration be given to carefully considered support of development of existing aerospace exhibits rather than establishment of a new major museum. In the event that the decision is made to pursue the establishment of a new museum, Los Angeles is considered to be the most favorable location. In particular, because of the large attendance and existing building space at the California Museum of Science and Industry at Los Angeles, it is recommended that this museum's proposal be given first consideration. Supporting surveys of aerospace museums, funding, and related studies are also summarized.
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Inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Death Valley National Park
Persons, Trevor B.; Nowak, Erika M.
2006-01-01
As part of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program in the Mojave Network, we conducted an inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Death Valley National Park in 2002-04. Objectives for this inventory were to: 1) Inventory and document the occurrence of reptile and amphibian species occurring at DEVA, primarily within priority sampling areas, with the goal of documenting at least 90% of the species present; 2) document (through collection or museum specimen and literature review) one voucher specimen for each species identified; 3) provide a GIS-referenced list of sensitive species that are federally or state listed, rare, or worthy of special consideration that occur within priority sampling locations; 4) describe park-wide distribution of federally- or state-listed, rare, or special concern species; 5) enter all species data into the National Park Service NPSpecies database; and 6) provide all deliverables as outlined in the Mojave Network Biological Inventory Study Plan. Methods included daytime and nighttime visual encounter surveys, road driving, and pitfall trapping. Survey effort was concentrated in predetermined priority sampling areas, as well as in areas with a high potential for detecting undocumented species. We recorded 37 species during our surveys, including two species new to the park. During literature review and museum specimen database searches, we recorded three additional species from DEVA, elevating the documented species list to 40 (four amphibians and 36 reptiles). Based on our surveys, as well as literature and museum specimen review, we estimate an overall inventory completeness of 92% for Death Valley and an inventory completeness of 73% for amphibians and 95% for reptiles. Key Words: Amphibians, reptiles, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, San Bernardino County, Esmeralda County, Nye County, California, Nevada, Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, inventory, NPSpecies.
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Conradie, Werner; Branch, William R; Watson, Gillian
2015-03-18
The Port Elizabeth Museum houses the consolidated herpetological collections of three provincial museums of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: the Port Elizabeth Museum (Port Elizabeth), the Amatole (previously Kaffarian) Museum (King Williams Town), and the Albany Museum (Grahamstown). Under John Hewitt, Albany Museum was the main centre of herpetological research in South Africa from 1910-1940, and he described numerous new species, many based on material in the museum collection. The types and other material from the Albany Museum are now incorporated into the Port Elizabeth Museum Herpetology collection (PEM). Due to the vague typification of much of Hewitt's material, the loss of the original catalogues in a fire and the subsequent deterioration of specimen labels, the identification of this type material is often troublesome. Significant herpetological research has been undertaken at the PEM in the last 35 years, and the collection has grown to be the third largest in Africa. During this period, numerous additional types have been deposited in the PEM collection, generated by active taxonomic research in the museum. As a consequence, 43 different amphibian taxa are represented by 37 primary and 151 secondary type specimens in the collection. This catalogue provides the first documentation of these types. It provides the original name, the original publication date, journal number and pagination, reference to illustrations, current name, museum collection number, type locality, notes on the type status, and photographs of all holotypes and lectotypes. Where necessary to maintain nomenclatural stability, and where confused type series are housed in the PEM collection, lectotypes and paralectotypes are nominated.
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Studies of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Bizzozero, David A.
In this thesis, we present methods for integrating Maxwell's equations in Frenet-Serret coordinates in several settings using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method codes in 1D, 2D, and 3D. We apply these routines to the study of coherent synchrotron radiation, an important topic in accelerator physics. We build upon the published computational work of T. Agoh and D. Zhou in solving Maxwell's equations in the frequency-domain using a paraxial approximation which reduces Maxwell's equations to a Schrodinger-like system. We also evolve Maxwell's equations in the time-domain using a Fourier series decomposition with 2D DG motivated by an experiment performed at the Canadian Light Source. A comparison between theory and experiment has been published (Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 204801 (2015)). Lastly, we devise a novel approach to integrating Maxwell's equations with 3D DG using a Galilean transformation and demonstrate proof-of-concept. In the above studies, we examine the accuracy, efficiency, and convergence of DG.
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Shock waves: The Maxwell-Cattaneo case.
Uribe, F J
2016-03-01
Several continuum theories for shock waves give rise to a set of differential equations in which the analysis of the underlying vector field can be done using the tools of the theory of dynamical systems. We illustrate the importance of the divergences associated with the vector field by considering the ideas by Maxwell and Cattaneo and apply them to study shock waves in dilute gases. By comparing the predictions of the Maxwell-Cattaneo equations with shock wave experiments we are lead to the following conclusions: (a) For low compressions (low Mach numbers: M) the results from the Maxwell-Cattaneo equations provide profiles that are in fair agreement with the experiments, (b) as the Mach number is increased we find a range of Mach numbers (1.27 ≈ M(1) < M < M(2) ≈ 1.90) such that numerical shock wave solutions to the Maxwell-Cattaneo equations cannot be found, and (c) for greater Mach numbers (M>M_{2}) shock wave solutions can be found though they differ significantly from experiments.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Shenker, Orly R.
2004-09-01
In 1867, James Clerk Maxwell proposed a perpetuum mobile of the second kind, that is, a counter example for the Second Law of thermodynamics, which came to be known as "Maxwell's Demon." Unlike any other perpetual motion machine, this one escaped attempts by the best scientists and philosophers to show that the Second Law or its statistical mechanical counterparts are universal after all. "Maxwell's demon lives on. After more than 130 years of uncertain life and at least two pronouncements of death, this fanciful character seems more vibrant than ever." These words of Harvey Leff and Andrew Rex (1990), which open their introduction to Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing (hereafter MD2) are very true: the Demon is as challenging and as intriguing as ever, and forces us to think and rethink about the foundations of thermodynamics and of statistical mechanics.
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Plasma and magnetospheric research
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Comfort, R. H.; Horwitz, J. L.
1984-01-01
Methods employed in the analysis of plasmas and the magnetosphere are examined. Computer programs which generate distribution functions are used in the analysis of charging phenomena and non maxwell plasmas in terms of density and average energy. An analytical model for spin curve analysis is presented. A program for the analysis of the differential ion flux probe on the space shuttle mission is complete. Satellite data analysis for ion heating, plasma flows in the polar cap, polar wind flow, and density and temperature profiles for several plasmasphere transits are included.
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Low Altitude Near-the-Horizon Propagation: A Comparison Between RPO and M-Layer
1993-12-01
scaling based on the assumption that a single mode contributes to the complete field strength (Ref. 31, output from M-Layer [Ref. 4, 5] in the over-the...PE. The parabolic equation approximation to the Maxwell wave equations is developed under the optical assumption that the operating frequency is so...profile data are specified (an array) capm zim profile data (modified index of refraction; an array) (a) RPO: from I to n/evs; M-Layer from 0 to nzlayr
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Tectonic Processes on Planets and Satellites
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Head, J. W.
1997-01-01
The final report is comprised of 7 journal articles that were completed during the reporting period. Topics covered include:(1) photogeologic analysis of the Magellan stereo view of six coronae; (2) the ancient age of Maxwell Montes; (3) timescale of regional plains emplacement on Venus; (4) remote and local stresses and calderas on Mars; (5) lunar linear rilles; (6) stratigraphical constraints on the duration of tessera formation on Venus; and (7) the use of magnetic signatures in identifying shallow intrusions on the Moon.
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Improving the Efficiency of Aviation Retention Bonuses Through the Use of Market Mechanisms
2014-06-01
contained a unique token to ensure that only the students who had been e-mailed could complete the survey and that no duplicate submissions could be...SWO Pin TAO SFTI / WTI Flag Aide GSA / IA Other: 39. Gender : Female Male 40. Marital Status: Single / Never...about diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces (pp. 505-540). Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press. Coughlan, P. J., Gates, W. R., & Myung, N. (2013, October
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Enhanced Management Consulting.
1983-07-01
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Governing Difficult Knowledge: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Its Publics
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Sharma, Karen
2015-01-01
This article examines how the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) comes to invoke, realize, and mediate museum publics. The author writes that she is interested in how the museum's architecture, rhetoric, and governance framings imagine, and engage with the public. As Canada's newest national museum and the first to be built outside of the…
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Training Community Volunteers for Museum Education.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Martinello, Marian L.; Cook, Gillian E.
A training program has been developed at the University of Texas at San Antonio to prepare community volunteers as museum tour guides. Since most teachers have not had training in the museum's role in education, it is often the museum docents who perform the teaching role in museums. A descriptive study was conducted as a preliminary phase of…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Peleg, Ran; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet
2017-01-01
Theatre is often introduced into science museums to enhance visitor experience. While learning in museums exhibitions received considerable research attention, learning from museum theatre has not. The goal of this exploratory study was to investigate the potential educational role of a science museum theatre play. The study aimed to investigate…
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The Development of Informal Learning and Museum Pedagogy in Museums
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Tišliar, Pavol
2017-01-01
This paper presents an outline of the history and the current orientation of informal learning in museums, museum pedagogy. This is the result of a lengthy process over the last two centuries, which became particularly intensive from the 1960s, in which museums looked for deeper ways to communicate with visitors, starting from basic presentation…
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Scoping out the International Spy Museum
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Radosh, Ronald
2010-01-01
The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.--a private museum that opened in July 2002 at the cost of $40 million--is rated as one of the most visited and popular tourist destinations in the nation's capital, despite stiff competition from the various public museums that are part of the Smithsonian. The popularity of the Spy Museum has a…
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The Magic of Museums for the Gifted Child: How Can Museums Supplement Public Schools?
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
du Toit, Herman
2006-01-01
Having stepped up to the educational challenge of their public service mission, many public art museums now employ more educators than curators, and attendance numbers continue to swell. Museum professionals have become more aware of the multiple dimensions that go into making a successful museum experience for their patrons. The increased rigor…
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Museums USA: Art, History, Science, and Other Museums.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC.
The results and analysis of an earlier museum survey, presented in "Museum U.S.A.: Highlights" (ED 093 777), are given in this document. The purpose is to present a comprehensive picture of museums in the United States--their numbers and locations, types and functions, facilities and finances, personnel and trustees, and activities and attendance.…
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Practitioners and Practices in Museum Education: The Case of Three Jewish Museums
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Moghadam, Yaara Shteinhart
2011-01-01
As Jewish museums are witnessing a rapid numerical rise in the United States and beyond, the professional and academic literature on Jewish museum education lags behind. This dissertation is aimed to help narrow this gap by examining how the education departments of Jewish museums in the United States conceptualize, promote, and conduct programs…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Wishart, Jocelyn; Triggs, Pat
2010-01-01
In this paper we report on the successes and challenges of a creative project involving museums, schools and interactive technologies. The MuseumScouts project is EU Comenius 2.1 funded and involves teachers, teacher educators, museum staff, students and researchers from five European countries: Germany (Berlin and Munich), Lithuania (Vilnius),…
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"A Scientific Library of Some Value": An Early History of the Australian Museum Library
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Stephens, Matthew
2007-01-01
The Australian Museum, Sydney, is Australia's oldest museum, internationally recognised for its longstanding scientific contributions. Less well-known is the Museum's fine collection of monographs and journals relating to natural history and anthropology, which has been used to support the work of Museum staff and external enquirers since the late…
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Almeida, Adriana Mortara
2005-01-01
The article focuses on the development of research that illuminates not only the socioeconomic profiles of museum visitors and non-visitors but also their cultural habits, general entertainment interests, and their perceptions of art, science, and other topics addressed at these institutes. The more we know about a visitor's personal context, the more we can enhance his or her museum experience, thereby encouraging further museum visits during which his or her expectations, wishes, and needs will be more fully met. The article also focuses on how local culture plays an important part in shaping both personal context as well as each museum experience. Some examples are provided from the literature, above all concerning studies in Brazil and the contributions that research at art museums may have for science museums.
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Schäffer, J
1994-08-01
The Veterinary Historical Museum at the School of Veterinary Medicine was founded in 1973. It is the only museum of this kind in Germany at the moment this is open to the public. More than 600 exhibits give information on the history of the School of Veterinary Medicine since 1778 as well as on the development of the different veterinary working fields and the diagnosis and treatment methods during the last centuries. The academic collection contains about 2500 objects that keep the veterinary cultural possessions out of the areas: science, practices, administration and personal sphere. A certain military historical collection also belongs to the museum, the so-called "Sammlung Wens". The Institute for Veterinary History is responsible for the administration and the maintenance of the museum. Like in every other museum it was and is still tried to fulfill the basic tasks of museum work, there are: collecting, keeping, exhibiting, exploring and teaching. These working fields leave a lot of problems due to the "hermaphroditic" position of the museum as a part of the School of Veterinary Medicine on the one hand and as a public museum on the other hand. The result is that the museum has neither specialist staff nor an independent budget until today. A guided tour in the museum and the critical representation of its tasks explain a stalemate situation that should absolutely be avoided at the conception of a future museum for veterinary medicine as it is planned in Berlin.
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75 FR 36673 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Public Museum of West Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI
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77 FR 13626 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Maxey Museum, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
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... remains representing, at minimum, six individuals were removed from an unknown location near the..., consisting of: 3 envelopes with writing; 1 lot of small pieces of leather belt or harness; 1 lot of charcoal pieces; 3 metal bells; 1 pipe stem; 1 piece of iron; 1 envelope with no writing; 1 chert flake; 1 lot of...
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"Concourse and Periphery" in Perspective: Well Past Planning
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Ostrowitz, Judith
2005-01-01
This paper contains the full text of an article first published in 2002, about a year and a half before the completion of the National Museum of the American Indian building on the mall in Washington DC and well before the celebrations that accompanied the opening of its doors to the public on September 21, 2004. That essay concentrated upon the…
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... mastodon tooth fragment, 1 fossil, 20 mica, 7 quartz, and 1,126 non-cultural rocks. The burial lots from... Arkansas River drainage are also absent in the temporally subsequent Red River sites (such as a unique form... that the Tula encountered by DeSoto practiced an extreme form of cranial modification similar to that...
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... beads, 1 bone bead, 2 fragments of animal bone, and 1 leather/cloth fragment. Based on examination, the burial dates to between 1869 and 1890. The skeleton was determined to be Native American based on... located in the bed of a ravine and covered with large flat stones. The archaeological evidence, including...
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Doing Children's Museums: A Guide to 265 Hands-On Museums. Revised and Expanded.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Cleaver, Joanne
Noting the increase in interactive museums and science centers and children's exuberant reaction to hands-on exhibits, this guide provides tips for parents on how to prepare for a museum visit and how to encourage the learning process during the visit. The first part of the guide discusses the shift in museum policy from "hands off" to…
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An Environment for Peace Education: The Peace Museum Idea. Peace Education Miniprints, No. 48.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Duffy, Terence
Societies all over the world have museums to commemorate war and war heroes. A world-wide growth of peace museums addresses the issue of museums to celebrate peace. These museums, grounded in the activities of nationals, have a regional base but embody a larger international quest for peace education through the visual arts. The original type of…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Segall, Avner
2014-01-01
In this article, Avner Segall explores some pedagogical processes in the context of two museums in Washington, DC, that focus on difficult knowledge, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In doing so, Segall's aim is not to explore the museums as a whole or provide a comprehensive…
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Museums and Health: A Case Study of Research and Practice at the Children's Museum of Manhattan
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Ackerman, Andrew
2016-01-01
This article will discuss how museums may serve as community anchors by catalyzing and helping to sustain significant behavioral and attitudinal changes among the public. When museums integrate research, deep community roots and trust, and a museum and arts-based pedagogy, they are uniquely positioned to effect change. The article will review a…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Watermeyer, Richard
2015-01-01
This paper explores the accounts of science teachers working within the UK's only "museum school" and what they perceive as the benefits and shortcomings of "museum pedagogy" as a process of object-based teaching (and learning). Museum pedagogy is in this context considered for its potential in harmonising informal and formal…
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Native Indian Youth in Museums: Success in Education at the U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Rowan, Madeline Bronsdon
In 1979, the Native Indian Youth in Museums project began placing Musqueam teenagers in the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology to teach them about traditional coastal Indian culture, and train them to share this information with museum visitors. Co-sponsored by the Native Indian Youth Advisory Society and the Native Youth…
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Development of a Virtual Museum Including a 4d Presentation of Building History in Virtual Reality
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kersten, T. P.; Tschirschwitz, F.; Deggim, S.
2017-02-01
In the last two decades the definition of the term "virtual museum" changed due to rapid technological developments. Using today's available 3D technologies a virtual museum is no longer just a presentation of collections on the Internet or a virtual tour of an exhibition using panoramic photography. On one hand, a virtual museum should enhance a museum visitor's experience by providing access to additional materials for review and knowledge deepening either before or after the real visit. On the other hand, a virtual museum should also be used as teaching material in the context of museum education. The laboratory for Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning of the HafenCity University Hamburg has developed a virtual museum (VM) of the museum "Alt-Segeberger Bürgerhaus", a historic town house. The VM offers two options for visitors wishing to explore the museum without travelling to the city of Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Option a, an interactive computer-based, tour for visitors to explore the exhibition and to collect information of interest or option b, to immerse into virtual reality in 3D with the HTC Vive Virtual Reality System.
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Museum security and the Thomas Crown Affair.
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Michaud, E. C.
Over the years, I've daydreamed about stealing a Vermeer, a Picasso, or Rembrandt. It tickles me, as much as watching the reboot of The Thomas Crown Affair. Why is it, do you suppose, so much fun to think about stealing a world renowned piece off the wall of a major metropolitan museum? Is it the romantic thoughts of getting away with it, walking past infrared detectors, and pressure sensors ala Indiana Jones with the sack of sand to remove the idol without triggering the security system? Is it the idea of snatching items with such fantastic prices, where the romancemore » of possessing an item of such value is less intoxicating than selling it to a private collector for it to never be seen again? I suspect others share my daydreams as they watch theater or hear of a brazen daylight heist at museums around the world, or from private collections. Though when reality sets in, the mind of the security professional kicks in. How could one do it, why would one do it, what should you do once it's done? The main issue a thief confronts when acquiring unique goods is how to process or fence them. They become very difficult to sell because they are one-of-a-kind, easy to identify, and could lead to the people involved with the theft. The whole issue of museum security takes up an ironic twist when one considers the secretive British street artist 'Banksy'. Banksy has made a name for himself by brazenly putting up interesting pieces of art in broad daylight (though many critics don't consider his work to be art) on building walls, rooftops, or even museums. I bring him up for a interesting take on what may become a trend in museum security. In March of 2005, Banksy snuck a piece of his called 'Vandalized Oil Painting' into the Brooklyn Museum's Great Historical Painting Wing, plus 3 other pieces into major museums in New York. Within several days, 2 paintings had been torn down, but 2 stayed up much longer. In his home country of the UK, a unauthorized piece he created and placed in the British Museum known as 'Early Man Goes to Market' received different treatment when placed inside the walls. It was adopted into the permanent collection! I like his story because it's so counter-intuitive. Who would have thought that modern museum security might involve preventing people not just from stealing art, but from sneaking 'unauthorized' art into museums? What is next, tampering with the archive records in order to make it look like the piece in question has always been there? To learn more about museum security, I interviewed multiple experts in the field. It turns out that the glamorous lifestyle of Thomas Crown is not particularly relevant. In fact, usually nobody can point to a Mr. Big of the underworld coordinating thefts, though some organized crime families have been known to use stolen art as black market chips to trade. The common consensus among experts in the field of art theft is that, instead of most high-value pieces being stolen by outsiders with a blue print in hand and rappelling from a ceiling skylight, in reality, 80 percent of art thefts involve insiders or accomplices that execute the crime over a period of time while working or volunteering in the museum. Indeed, according to FBI statistics, between 70 and 80 percent of all solved art theft cases involve insider participation of some kind, yet according to Tom Cremers of the Musuem Security Network, 'Having been involved in risk assessments in over hundreds of museums over the past ten years, it is quite astonishing how rarely the risk of insider participation is discussed.' In regards to the insider threat, a museum is not much different from any corporation or other organization. There are directors, employees, interns, and cleaning staff (very often outsourced), security guards (again outsourced, typically with very high turnover rates). Unlike corporations, most museums also have volunteer staff, docents, and authorized visiting scholars. All these people can potentially take advantage of their position, or to be exploited by a clever attacker on the outside or inside using social engineering. After discussing where museum security is headed with several people involved in the field, the consensus seems to be that it is going to be completely digital at the behest of companies designing new security products. By this I mean that nearly every security sensor and alarm is being designed so that it is compatible or adaptable to Cat 5/6 Ethernet cable. Museum security sensors are usually connected to the network infrastructure, which then gets tied back to a server monitoring the security sensors. This approach should make us feel uneasy. This is security that rides on top of technology that time and time again has proven to be highly vulnerable, and very often implemented by closed source vendors who do not release details of their code or hardware because of it being proprietary. Being proprietary is not consistent with having good security.« less
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2. Photocopy of aerial view of the museum, taken October ...
2. Photocopy of aerial view of the museum, taken October 26, 1966. Original photo in possession of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Axially Symmetric Brans-Dicke-Maxwell Solutions
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Chatterjee, S.
1981-05-01
Following a method of John and Goswami new solutions of coupled Brans-Dicke-Maxwell theory are generated from Zipoy's solutions in oblate and prolate spheroidal coordinates for source-free gravitational field. All these solutions become Euclidean at infinity. The asymptotic behavior and the singularity of the solutions are discussed and a comparative study made with the corresponding Einstein-Maxwell solutions. The possibility of a very large red shift from the boundary of the spheroids is also discussed.
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Unity of Command and Interdiction
1994-07-01
8217RobWt F. Fuftff Idea, Cancept, Doctrine: Basic Thinking i The United States Air Force. vol. 1 1O7-IMO W( Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University Press, 1989...Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, vol. 2, 1961-1984 ( Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University Press, 1989...in Vietnam and Why. Maxwell AFB, Ala: Air University Press, 1991. Warden, Col John A. HI. The Air Campaign - Planning For Combat. Washington, D.C
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Symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta scheme for Maxwell's equations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Huang, Zhi-Xiang; Wu, Xian-Liang
Using the symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta (PRK) method, we construct a new scheme for approximating the solution to infinite dimensional nonseparable Hamiltonian systems of Maxwell's equations for the first time. The scheme is obtained by discretizing the Maxwell's equations in the time direction based on symplectic PRK method, and then evaluating the equation in the spatial direction with a suitable finite difference approximation. Several numerical examples are presented to verify the efficiency of the scheme.
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The Software Crisis and a Senior Leaders Awareness Course.
1987-04-01
Interlibrary Loan Service (AUL/LDEX, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, 36112) or the Defense Technical Information Center. Request must include the author’s name...X E A’ ~ ~o’S Submitted to the faculty in partial mlinmnt of requirements for graduation. AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AFB...currently assigned to Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama and attends the graduate program at Troy State University. Montgomery. Major Taylor
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The four cultures: Public engagement with science only, art only, neither, or both museums.
Shein, Paichi Pat; Li, Yuh-Yuh; Huang, Tai-Chu
2015-11-01
This study uses an art-and-science comparative lens to understand the science culture, particularly the public engagement with science museums. A representational Taiwanese sample of 1863 subjects was categorized into "four cultures," who visit science only, art only, neither, or both museums, resulting in six multivariate logistic regression models. Knowledge of science, interests in scientific and social issues, and socio-demographic variables were considered in the models. Adults with children and males prefer science museums, females prefer art museums, and the young and urban intellects show no strong preference, appearing to be open to both science and art museums. The findings show the complex decisions the public make in visiting museums. It is no longer a strictly science or art decision, as framed by Snow's "The Two Cultures" argument; rather, the possibility of visiting both museums has emerged, a phenomenon we describe as cognitive polyphasia. © The Author(s) 2015.
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Intergenerational groups and emerging science: How can museums facilitate learning?
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Holm, Jessica
New research in science and technology is emerging today at a faster pace than ever, and staying informed can be challenging for the public, especially families with younger children. Museums are already a resource to promote science literacy, and museum educators are trained to make all kinds of scientific ideas accessible to a variety of audiences. Unfortunately, because emerging science is fast-paced and ever-changing, many museums -- especially smaller institutions -- do not have the staff or budgetary resources to present this research to a wide audience. This study surveyed current literature in museum education and science learning, and current museum professionals from a range of institutions, to create a gallery guide that is flexible and easy to update for a museum, and that provides a fun and educational tool for family visitors. The study also includes a protocol to assist museum educators in collaborating with the researchers providing the science content.
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From Clouds of Chemical Warfare to Blue Skies of Peace: The Tehran Peace Museum, Iran
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lewis, Elizabeth; Khateri, Shahriar
2015-01-01
Despite the limited number of peace museums around the world, there exists an essential role for existing peace museums to promote a culture of peace and peace education. The purpose of this article was to introduce the origins, rationale, scope and work of the Tehran Peace Museum in Iran. The concept of the museum is to facilitate peace education…
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Osterman, Mark; Thirunarayanan, M.; Ferris, Elizabeth C.; Pabon, Lizette C.; Paul, Natalie; Berger, Rhonda
2012-01-01
Museums are competing with a vast variety of Internet-based information delivery sites to keep the public interested in their institutions. To keep pace Museums are increasingly turning to the use of Web 2.0 tools to draw in the public and maintain a standing as cultural and educational leaders. Several museums have started using Twitter. This…
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Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2005
2005-01-01
On July 16, 2004, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) convened a day-long forum of leaders in the African American museum community, as well as leaders in the museum community at large, to explore the evolving role of African American museums, their contributions, and their challenges. This report provides a synthesis of the July…
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Museums of Gdansk - Tourism Products or Signs of Remembrance?
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Wojtowicz-Jankowska, Dorota
2017-10-01
Museum buildings constitute a significant element in the composition and functionality of contemporary cities. They are both their attractions and landmarks. The article presents a case study illustrating the relation between museum buildings and their location, as well as the showcased exhibition. The article aims at demonstrating the way in which those elements form a harmonious whole - a cultural tourism product affecting the economics of the region. In the context of perceiving a museum as an element shaping the dynamics of tourism development, the location planned for the museum is not without significance. Enhancing the popularity of a city on the basis of the existing museums has become a common phenomenon and is viewed as a driving force of museum tourism development. Sometimes, the museum building itself is considered as one of the elements adding to the attractiveness of the city. The relationship between the exhibition as such and the location - the city - is not the most important factor. Gdańsk is an example of a city which contradicts that approach. Four new museum seats built in the 21st century serve to demonstrate how interesting it may be to seek the right architectural form of museums for the places where they are erected. Furthermore, the thematic scope of exhibitions is strictly related to the history of the place. Particularly worthy of attention are the National Maritime Museum, the European Solidarity Centre and the Museum of the Second World War. The examples discussed in the article prove that the value of a place as such in displaying the building and the museum collections is significant. It is impossible to disregard that connection, if the city aims at promoting not only the architectural form of the museum building, but also the exhibits, especially if they are related to its history. Gdańsk is an example of a place with museum buildings of interesting architectural forms which are not only style icons, but also unique symbols commemorating events important in the history of the city.
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a Method of 3d Measurement and Reconstruction for Cultural Relics in Museums
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zheng, S.; Zhou, Y.; Huang, R.; Zhou, L.; Xu, X.; Wang, C.
2012-07-01
Three-dimensional measurement and reconstruction during conservation and restoration of cultural relics have become an essential part of a modem museum regular work. Although many kinds of methods including laser scanning, computer vision and close-range photogrammetry have been put forward, but problems still exist, such as contradiction between cost and good result, time and fine effect. Aimed at these problems, this paper proposed a structure-light based method for 3D measurement and reconstruction of cultural relics in museums. Firstly, based on structure-light principle, digitalization hardware has been built and with its help, dense point cloud of cultural relics' surface can be easily acquired. To produce accurate 3D geometry model from point cloud data, multi processing algorithms have been developed and corresponding software has been implemented whose functions include blunder detection and removal, point cloud alignment and merge, 3D mesh construction and simplification. Finally, high-resolution images are captured and the alignment of these images and 3D geometry model is conducted and realistic, accurate 3D model is constructed. Based on such method, a complete system including hardware and software are built. Multi-kinds of cultural relics have been used to test this method and results prove its own feature such as high efficiency, high accuracy, easy operation and so on.
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[The relic in the Panels of São Vicente de Fora].
Goyri-O'Neill, João; Camisão-Soares, Artur; Neves Marques, Cláudia
2013-01-01
The Panels of São Vicente de Fora, a polyptych dated from 1470 to 1480, are a work composed of 6 panels, authored by Nuno Gonçalves, a painter of King Afonso V. This work reveals one of the most remarkable collective portraits of European painting, making this polyptych an inexhaustible source of readings and interpretations, fueling a secular controversy. The present work aims analyzing precise an iconographic anatomical image repainted in the 6th panel, or the panel of the Relic. This consists of a central image within a structure shown by a red figure with special reverence. The investigation conducted and justification was based on direct observation and comparative analysis of iconographic data collected in the Museum of Antique Art. The bone pieces were selected at the Museum of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, New University of Lisbon, and the comparative analyses performed by two observers, with further analysis of the images obtained in the National Museum of Ancient Art using specific software. After watching these, it was concluded that this representation of a relic in the Panels of São Vicente is an iconic representation of an Occipital bone, fractured at its lower edge, being evident, almost complete, its vertical portion or scale.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mayo, Elizabeth A.; Zisholtz, E. N.
2009-01-01
The I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium ("The Stanback") is an embodiment of South Carolina State University's commitment to community service, enhancing the appreciation of both the Arts and Sciences in a single facility. As the only facility of its kind on the campus of a Historically Black College and University, the Museum's programs include aesthetic appreciation, historical and didactic information, and scientific and technological presentations that encourage the development of critical thinking and creative skills for its student and adult constituencies. The Planetarium at the Stanback is a multi-faceted facility that provides a unique learning opportunity for students, faculty and staff at South Carolina State University, K-12 students in the surrounding community, and members of the community at large. With the ability to accommodate up to 82 visitors, the planetarium is a wonderful educational resource. It features a Minolta IIB Planetarium Star Projector that projects 4000 stars onto the 40-foot domed ceiling and can simulate the evening sky for any time, date, and place. The planetarium is slated to be completely upgraded with plans to feature computer automation and full-dome video capabilities. Support for this work was provided by the NSF PAARE program to South Carolina State University under award AST-0750814.
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The Bibliometric Analysis Of Literature On Museum Studies
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kuo, C. W.; Yang, Y. H.
2015-08-01
Museum studies, is the study of museums, museum curation, and how and why museums developed into their institutional role in education and culture through scientific, social, political and other related forces. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the application trends of the international literature related to museum studies on the SCIE, SSCI, and AHCI databases between 1995 and 2014 using a bibliometric technique and citation analysis. The results of this study reveal that influences of the literature related to museum studies on other subject areas continue to expand. Considering the publication of major countries, subject areas, journal and institutions, the results also discussed that the future trend through analysing most cited articles. Moreover, 12 core journal lists are identified by Bradford's law.
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Critical Culture: Environmental Adult Education in Public Museums
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Bell, Lorraine; Clover, Darlene E.
2017-01-01
This chapter explores how museums, as educational and cultural institutions, can become agents of socioecological transformation. The ideas of critical museum studies and environmental adult education are reviewed, and three examples of environmental adult education in museums are discussed.
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Combatant Commands Informational Series: USCENTCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USSPACECOM
1995-05-01
Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, AL. Following ACSC she is assigned to 24 J -5 (Plans and Policy directorate), USTRANSCOM at...Command and Staff College Air University Maxwell AFB, Al. 36112 jflXGQ"®^1^’ Disclaimer The views expressed in this academic research paper are...Space Directory 1989-90. Alexandria, VA: Jane’s Information Group, 1990. London, John R, Ill, LEO On The Cheap. 1992-1993. Maxwell AFB AL: Air
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The gabbro-eclogite phase transition and the elevation of mountain belts on Venus
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Namiki, Noriyuki; Solomon, Sean C.
1992-12-01
Among the four mountain belts surrounding Lakshmi Planum, Maxwell Montes is the highest and stands up to 11 km above the mean planetary radius and 7 km above Lakshmi Planum. The bulk composition and radioactive heat production of the crust on Venus, where measured, are similar to those of terrestrial tholeiitic basalt. Because the thickness of the low-density crust may be limited by the gabbro-garnet granulite-eclogite phase transitions, the 7-11 km maximum elevation of Maxwell Montes is difficult to understand except in the unlikely situation that the crust contains a large volume of magma. A possible explanation is that the base of the crust is not in phase equilibrium. It has been suggested that under completely dry conditions, the gabbro-eclogite phase transition takes place by solid-state diffusion and may require a geologically significant time to run to completion. Solid-state diffusion is a strongly temperature-dependent process. In this paper we solve the thermal evolution of the mountain belt to attempt to constrain the depth of the gabbro-eclogite transition and thus to assess this hypothesis quantitatively. The one-dimensional heat equation is solved numerically by a finite difference approximation. The deformation of the horizontally shortening crustal and mantle portions of the thermal boundary layer is assumed to occur by pure shear, and therefore the vertical velocity is given by the product of the horizontal strain rate and depth.
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The gabbro-eclogite phase transition and the elevation of mountain belts on Venus
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Namiki, Noriyuki; Solomon, Sean C.
1992-01-01
Among the four mountain belts surrounding Lakshmi Planum, Maxwell Montes is the highest and stands up to 11 km above the mean planetary radius and 7 km above Lakshmi Planum. The bulk composition and radioactive heat production of the crust on Venus, where measured, are similar to those of terrestrial tholeiitic basalt. Because the thickness of the low-density crust may be limited by the gabbro-garnet granulite-eclogite phase transitions, the 7-11 km maximum elevation of Maxwell Montes is difficult to understand except in the unlikely situation that the crust contains a large volume of magma. A possible explanation is that the base of the crust is not in phase equilibrium. It has been suggested that under completely dry conditions, the gabbro-eclogite phase transition takes place by solid-state diffusion and may require a geologically significant time to run to completion. Solid-state diffusion is a strongly temperature-dependent process. In this paper we solve the thermal evolution of the mountain belt to attempt to constrain the depth of the gabbro-eclogite transition and thus to assess this hypothesis quantitatively. The one-dimensional heat equation is solved numerically by a finite difference approximation. The deformation of the horizontally shortening crustal and mantle portions of the thermal boundary layer is assumed to occur by pure shear, and therefore the vertical velocity is given by the product of the horizontal strain rate and depth.
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Comment: Characterization of Two Historic Smallpox Specimens from a Czech Museum.
Porter, Ashleigh F; Duggan, Ana T; Poinar, Hendrik N; Holmes, Edward C
2017-09-28
The complete genome sequences of two strains of variola virus (VARV) sampled from human smallpox specimens present in the Czech National Museum, Prague, were recently determined, with one of the sequences estimated to date to the mid-19th century. Using molecular clock methods, the authors of this study go on to infer that the currently available strains of VARV share an older common ancestor, at around 1350 AD, than some recent estimates based on other archival human samples. Herein, we show that the two Czech strains exhibit anomalous branch lengths given their proposed age, and by assuming a constant rate of evolutionary change across the rest of the VARV phylogeny estimate that their true age in fact lies between 1918 and 1937. We therefore suggest that the age of the common ancestor of currently available VARV genomes most likely dates to late 16th and early 17th centuries and not ~1350 AD.
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An integrated content and metadata based retrieval system for art.
Lewis, Paul H; Martinez, Kirk; Abas, Fazly Salleh; Fauzi, Mohammad Faizal Ahmad; Chan, Stephen C Y; Addis, Matthew J; Boniface, Mike J; Grimwood, Paul; Stevenson, Alison; Lahanier, Christian; Stevenson, James
2004-03-01
A new approach to image retrieval is presented in the domain of museum and gallery image collections. Specialist algorithms, developed to address specific retrieval tasks, are combined with more conventional content and metadata retrieval approaches, and implemented within a distributed architecture to provide cross-collection searching and navigation in a seamless way. External systems can access the different collections using interoperability protocols and open standards, which were extended to accommodate content based as well as text based retrieval paradigms. After a brief overview of the complete system, we describe the novel design and evaluation of some of the specialist image analysis algorithms including a method for image retrieval based on sub-image queries, retrievals based on very low quality images and retrieval using canvas crack patterns. We show how effective retrieval results can be achieved by real end-users consisting of major museums and galleries, accessing the distributed but integrated digital collections.
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Comment: Characterization of Two Historic Smallpox Specimens from a Czech Museum
Porter, Ashleigh F.; Duggan, Ana T.
2017-01-01
The complete genome sequences of two strains of variola virus (VARV) sampled from human smallpox specimens present in the Czech National Museum, Prague, were recently determined, with one of the sequences estimated to date to the mid-19th century. Using molecular clock methods, the authors of this study go on to infer that the currently available strains of VARV share an older common ancestor, at around 1350 AD, than some recent estimates based on other archival human samples. Herein, we show that the two Czech strains exhibit anomalous branch lengths given their proposed age, and by assuming a constant rate of evolutionary change across the rest of the VARV phylogeny estimate that their true age in fact lies between 1918 and 1937. We therefore suggest that the age of the common ancestor of currently available VARV genomes most likely dates to late 16th and early 17th centuries and not ~1350 AD. PMID:28956829
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Carnio, Brett N.; Elliott, Janet A. W.
2014-08-01
The number of Maxwell-Boltzmann particles that hit a flat wall in infinite space per unit area per unit time is a well-known result. As new applications are arising in micro and nanotechnologies there are a number of situations in which a rarefied gas interacts with either a flat or curved surface in a small confined geometry. Thus, it is necessary to prove that the Maxwell-Boltzmann collision frequency result holds even if a container's dimensions are on the order of nanometers and also that this result is valid for both a finite container with flat walls (a rectangular container) and a finite container with a curved wall (a cylindrical container). An analytical proof confirms that the Maxwell-Boltzmann collision frequencies for either a finite rectangular container or a finite cylindrical container are both equal to the well-known result obtained for a flat wall in infinite space. A major aspect of this paper is the introduction of a mathematical technique to solve the arising infinite sum of integrals whose integrands depend on the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution.
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The Riemannian geometry is not sufficient for the geometrization of the Maxwell's equations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kulyabov, Dmitry S.; Korolkova, Anna V.; Velieva, Tatyana R.
2018-04-01
The transformation optics uses geometrized Maxwell's constitutive equations to solve the inverse problem of optics, namely to solve the problem of finding the parameters of the medium along the paths of propagation of the electromagnetic field. For the geometrization of Maxwell's constitutive equations, the quadratic Riemannian geometry is usually used. This is due to the use of the approaches of the general relativity. However, there arises the question of the insufficiency of the Riemannian structure for describing the constitutive tensor of the Maxwell's equations. The authors analyze the structure of the constitutive tensor and correlate it with the structure of the metric tensor of Riemannian geometry. It is concluded that the use of the quadratic metric for the geometrization of Maxwell's equations is insufficient, since the number of components of the metric tensor is less than the number of components of the constitutive tensor. A possible solution to this problem may be a transition to Finslerian geometry, in particular, the use of the Berwald-Moor metric to establish the structural correspondence between the field tensors of the electromagnetic field.
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Osborne, Harold
1985-01-01
Historical background concerning the nature and function of museums is provided, and the aesthetic functions of museums are discussed. The first major aesthetic function of museums is to preserve the artistic heritage of mankind and to make it widely available. The second major function is patronage. (RM)
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Scientific Tourism Centres in Armenia
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mickaelian, A. M.; Farmanyan, S. V.; Mikayelyan, G. A.; Mikayelyan, A. A.
2016-12-01
Armenia is rich in scientific sites, among which archaeological sites of scientific nature, modern scientific institutions and science related museums can be mentioned. Examples of archaeological sites are ancient observatories, petroglyphs having astronomical nature, as well as intangible heritage, such as Armenian calendars. Modern institutions having tools or laboratories which can be represented in terms of tourism, are considered as scientific tourism sites. Science related museums are Museum of science and technology, Space museum, Geological museum and other museums. Despite the fact, that scientific tourism is a new direction, it has great perspectives, and Armenia has a great potential in this field. It is very important to introduce Armenia from this angle, including scientific archaeological sites as well as modern institutions and museums. This article presents major scientific tourism centers of Armenia.
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Famous optician: James Clerk Maxwell
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Haidar, Riad
2018-04-01
Mainly known for his unifying theory of electricity, magnetism and induction, James Clerk Maxwell also concluded that light was an electromagnetic wave, and was responsible for the first true colour photograph.
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From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition.
Besnard, Guillaume; Christin, Pascal-Antoine; Malé, Pierre-Jean G; Lhuillier, Emeline; Lauzeral, Christine; Coissac, Eric; Vorontsova, Maria S
2014-12-01
Collections of specimens held by natural history museums are invaluable material for biodiversity inventory and evolutionary studies, with specimens accumulated over 300 years readily available for sampling. Unfortunately, most museum specimens yield low-quality DNA. Recent advances in sequencing technologies, so called next-generation sequencing, are revolutionizing phylogenetic investigations at a deep level. Here, the Illumina technology (HiSeq) was used on herbarium specimens of Sartidia (subfamily Aristidoideae, Poaceae), a small African-Malagasy grass lineage (six species) characteristic of wooded savannas, which is the C3 sister group of Stipagrostis, an important C4 genus from Africa and SW Asia. Complete chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal sequences were assembled for two Sartidia species, one of which (S. perrieri) is only known from a single specimen collected in Madagascar 100 years ago. Partial sequences of a few single-copy genes encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases (ppc) and malic enzymes (nadpme) were also assembled. Based on these data, the phylogenetic position of Malagasy Sartidia in the subfamily Aristidoideae was investigated and the biogeographical history of this genus was analysed with full species sampling. The evolutionary history of two genes for C4 photosynthesis (ppc-aL1b and nadpme-IV) in the group was also investigated. The gene encoding the C4 phosphoenolpyruvate caroxylase of Stipagrostis is absent from S. dewinteri suggesting that it is not essential in C3 members of the group, which might have favoured its recruitment into a new metabolic pathway. Altogether, the inclusion of historical museum specimens in phylogenomic analyses of biodiversity opens new avenues for evolutionary studies. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galápagos tortoise
Poulakakis, Nikos; Glaberman, Scott; Russello, Michael; Beheregaray, Luciano B.; Ciofi, Claudio; Powell, Jeffrey R.; Caccone, Adalgisa
2008-01-01
Giant tortoises, a prominent symbol of the Galápagos archipelago, illustrate the influence of geological history and natural selection on the diversification of organisms. Because of heavy human exploitation, 4 of the 15 known species (Geochelone spp.) have disappeared. Charles Darwin himself detailed the intense harvesting of one species, G. elephantopus, which once was endemic to the island of Floreana. This species was believed to have been exterminated within 15 years of Darwin's historic visit to the Galápagos in 1835. The application of modern DNA techniques to museum specimens combined with long-term study of a system creates new opportunities for identifying the living remnants of extinct taxa in the wild. Here, we use mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data obtained from museum specimens to show that the population on Floreana was evolutionarily distinct from all other Galápagos tortoise populations. It was demonstrated that some living individuals on the nearby island of Isabela are genetically distinct from the rest of the island's inhabitants. Surprisingly, we found that these “non-native” tortoises from Isabela are of recent Floreana ancestry and closely match the genetic data provided by the museum specimens. Thus, we show that the genetic line of G. elephantopus has not been completely extinguished and still exists in an intermixed population on Isabela. With enough individuals to commence a serious captive breeding program, this finding may help reestablish a species that was thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago and illustrates the power of long-term genetic analysis and the critical role of museum specimens in conservation biology. PMID:18809928
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Copsey, Sarah
2014-01-01
What do 14 Year 7 students, an art teacher, a history teacher and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? They are all part of the "Stronger Together" Museum Champion project run by The Langley Academy and the River & Rowing Museum and supported by Arts Council England, designed to engage students, teachers and museum staff…
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Indoor Unmanned Airship System Airborne Control Module Design
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
YongXia, Gao; YiBo, Li
By adopting STC12C5A60S2 SCM as a system control unit, assisted by appropriate software and hardware resources, we complete the airborne control module's design of unmanned airship system. This paper introduces hardware control module's structure, airship-driven composition and software realization. Verified by the China Science and Technology Museum special-shaped airship,this control module can work well.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-17
... 13 points, 9 scrapers, 1 blade, 1 bone awl, 1 pumice block, and 1 lot of pigment samples. In 1946... objects are 1 scraper fragment, 1 copper pendant, 1 pipe in fragments, 2 worked tuff, 1 worked bone, 1 dentalium shell, 1 bird bone, 1 pestle, 1 worked chert, and 2 bone fragments. In 1951, human remains...
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2013-07-30
more about STEM. From museums, to gardens, to planetariums and more, Places to Go mobilizes people to explore the STEM resources offered by their...Works website was developed utilizing a phased approach. This approach allowed for informed, periodic updates to the structure, design, and backend ...our web development team, throughout this phase. A significant amount of backend development work on the website, as well as design work was completed
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75 FR 42770 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-22
... collected), one child of indeterminate sex, and two adults of indeterminate sex. Most of these individuals...), A533.5C (CUI 31), and A533.6A (CUI 32)). Remains include one child, which was reportedly found with... right arm bone of an adult of indeterminate sex (AC.2874; CUI 35) and two leg bones of an adult of...
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Concept "Medical Museum" as a Sociocultural Phenomenon
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Chizh, Nina V.; Slyshkin, Gennady G.; Zheltukhina, Marina R.; Privalova, Irina V.; Kravchenko, Olga A.
2016-01-01
The article examines the concept "medical museum" as a sociocultural phenomenon. The register of medical museums in Russia makes the material of research. The complex methods of analysis of the concept "medical museum" are used. The philosophical, historical, cultural, structural, communicative and semantic analysis is carried…
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The Sanctuary Series: Co-Creating Transformative Museum Experiences
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Smith, Jessie Schlosser; Zimmermann, Corinne
2017-01-01
The Sanctuary Series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has helped the museum develop deep connections with local visitors by providing creative, playful, and contemplative small-group experiences. The program demonstrates that art museums can be powerful spaces for connection and well-being.
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The First World War and Its Implications for Education in British Museums.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Kavanagh, Gaynor
1988-01-01
Examines how the First World War prompted British museums to change their educational functions. Discusses museums in pre-war Britain, wartime exhibitions and educational activities, the outcome of the war experience, and First World War's implications for education in museums. (GEA)
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Portable Tablets in Science Museum Learning: Options and Obstacles
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gronemann, Sigurd Trolle
2017-06-01
Despite the increasing use of portable tablets in learning, their impact has received little attention in research. In five different projects, this media-ethnographic and design-based analysis of the use of portable tablets as a learning resource in science museums investigates how young people's learning with portable tablets matches the intentions of the museums. By applying media and information literacy (MIL) components as analytical dimensions, a pattern of discrepancies between young people's expectations, their actual learning and the museums' approaches to framing such learning is identified. It is argued that, paradoxically, museums' decisions to innovate by introducing new technologies, such as portable tablets, and new pedagogies to support them conflict with many young people's traditional ideas of museums and learning. The assessment of the implications of museums' integration of portable tablets indicates that in making pedagogical transformations to accommodate new technologies, museums risk opposing didactic intention if pedagogies do not sufficiently attend to young learners' systemic expectations to learning and to their expectations to the digital experience influenced by their leisure use.
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The museum maze in oral pathology demystified-part I.
Patil, Shankargouda; Rao, Roopa S; Ganavi, B S
2013-07-01
Museum technologies provide a wide array of choice of museums to those who wish to exploit technology to attract, excite and ensure an unrivalled visitor experience, as well as capture and sustain share of mind and heart. Museum being a combination of both art and science requires skilled workmanship, meticulous planning and execution to exhibit a specimen to its optimal elegance due to its relatively smaller size and fragile nature. A well established oral pathology museum is rarely seen due to negligence of oral specimens, dearth of knowledge in this field and also available data on it. An insight on oral pathology museum, including its establishment, importance and advanced technologies to make it more simple and accessible are discussed in two parts. Part I emphasizes on basics in oral pathology museum, whereas part II highlights the specialized techniques and recent advances in museum technology. Our effort is to present this article as hands on experience for the pathologists, student population and the technicians.
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In the white cube: museum context enhances the valuation and memory of art.
Brieber, David; Nadal, Marcos; Leder, Helmut
2015-01-01
Art museum attendance is rising steadily, unchallenged by online alternatives. However, the psychological value of the real museum experience remains unclear because the experience of art in the museum and other contexts has not been compared. Here we examined the appreciation and memory of an art exhibition when viewed in a museum or as a computer simulated version in the laboratory. In line with the postulates of situated cognition, we show that the experience of art relies on organizing resources present in the environment. Specifically, artworks were found more arousing, positive, interesting and liked more in the museum than in the laboratory. Moreover, participants who saw the exhibition in the museum later recalled more artworks and used spatial layout cues for retrieval. Thus, encountering real art in the museum enhances cognitive and affective processes involved in the appreciation of art and enriches information encoded in long-term memory. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Euclideanization of Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Bowman, Daniel Alan
We quantize the theory of electromagnetism in 2 + 1-spacetime dimensions with the addition of the topological Chern-Simons term using an indefinite metric formalism. In the process, we also quantize the Proca and pure Maxwell theories, which are shown to be related to the Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory. Next, we Euclideanize these three theories, obtaining path space formulae and investigating Osterwalder-Schrader positivity in each case. Finally, we obtain a characterization of those Euclidean states that correspond to physical states in the relativistic theories.
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Maxwell's demons realized in electronic circuits
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Koski, Jonne V.; Pekola, Jukka P.
2016-12-01
We review recent progress in making the former gedanken experiments of Maxwell's demon [1] into real experiments in a lab. In particular, we focus on realizations based on single-electron tunneling in electronic circuits. We first present how stochastic thermodynamics can be investigated in these circuits. Next we review recent experiments on an electron-based Szilard engine. Finally, we report on experiments on single-electron tunneling-based cooling, overviewing the recent realization of a Coulomb gap refrigerator, as well as an autonomous Maxwell's demon.
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North to Alaska: The Geostrategic Importance of the Last Frontier
2012-06-01
Alaskan and Round- the -World Flights-December 1919,” Mitchell L / C Box 7, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB AL. 7 Mitchell, The Strategic Key to the World, 3. 8 Cloe...Army Air Corps Record in Flying the Mail,” MICFILM 43796, IRIS #01102971, Foulois L / C Box 14, in the Murray Green Papers, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB AL...Coverage,” MICFILM 43796, IRIS #01102971, L / C Box 262, in the Murray Green Papers, AFHRA, Maxwell AFB AL. 72 “Alaskan Flight: Arnold’s Report
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Maxwell-Higgs vortices with internal structure
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Bazeia, D.; Marques, M. A.; Menezes, R.
2018-05-01
Vortices are considered in relativistic Maxwell-Higgs systems in interaction with a neutral scalar field. The gauge field interacts with the neutral field via the presence of generalized permeability, and the charged and neutral scalar fields interact in a way dictated by the presence of first order differential equations that solve the equations of motion. The neutral field may be seen as the source field of the vortex, and we study some possibilities, which modify the standard Maxwell-Higgs solution and include internal structure to the vortex.
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Theory of Dielectric Elastomers
2010-10-25
partly in the air and partly in a dielectric liquid . The applied voltage causes the liquid to rise to a height h. The height results from the...balance of the Maxwell stress and the weight of the liquid . The Maxwell stress parallel to the electrodes in the air is 2/2Eaa , where a is the...permittivity of the air. The Maxwell stress parallel to the electrodes in the liquid is 2/2Ell , where l is the permittivity of the liquid
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Practical Partnerships: Strengthening the Museum-School Relationship
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Bobick, Bryna; Hornby, Jenny
2013-01-01
This article highlights two separate museum partnerships involving "The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art" in Tennessee, with high school students and undergraduate art education majors from The University of Memphis. An overview of the partnership is offered along with recommendations for museum educators who would like to create…
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Is Museum Education "Rocket Science"?
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Dragotto, Erin; Minerva, Christine; Nichols, Michelle
2006-01-01
The field of museum education has advanced and adapted over the years to meet the changing needs of audiences as determined by new research, national policy, and international events. Educators from Chicago's Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum provide insight into a (somewhat) typical museum education department, especially geared for readers…
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Aesthetic Encounters and Learning in the Museum
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Bell, David Raymond
2017-01-01
This article discusses how museum settings can provide opportunities for sensory and aesthetic encounters and learning. It draws on research into museum education programmes that included examinations of curatorial construction and display, observations of teaching and open-ended interviews with museum educators. The examples selected here focus…
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Lilla, Mark
1985-01-01
Growth in audiences and collections cannot mask the directionless drift of the American museum as it is buffeted by the moods and fashions of the moment in art, politics, and entertainment. The museum's current problems are examined. Museums must recover a historical sense of their social role in America. (RM)
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The Educational Use of Museums: An English Case Study.
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Moffat, Hazel
1988-01-01
Discusses the establishment and function of the Museums Committee of Her Majesty's Inspectorate, a committee which was formed to encourage the effective use of England's museums. Describes the various programs initiated by the committee, focusing on the best practices of the schools using museum resources. (GEA)
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Haskell, Francis
1985-01-01
Since the eighteenth century, both artists and art historians have received educational benefits from public art museums. The main function of public museums, however, has usually been the improvement or refinement of public taste. But in addition to education and pleasure, another museum objective is that of moral improvement. (RM)
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Inspiring Leaders: Unique Museum Programs Reinforce Professional Responsibility
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Ciardelli, Jennifer; Wasserman, JoAnna
2011-01-01
Since 1998, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has developed educational programs targeting adult audiences. Engaging public service professionals--those charged with serving and protecting our nation's democratic principles--has become a core outreach strategy to achieve the Museum's mission. This article describes the Museum's process…
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A Scenario for the Future of Museums
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Cunningham, Mary Kay
2009-01-01
More than any other staff member, museum educators' knowledge and experience working with visitors make them uniquely qualified to take on leadership roles as museums transform themselves into lifelong learning organizations. The article encourages museum educators to initiate discussions about change by offering a fictional scenario of future…
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Ichikawa, Yasunori; Shirayama, Mari
JCII Camera Museum is a unique photographic museum having three major departments, the camera museum that collects, preserves and exhibits historically valuable cameras and camera-related produts, the photo salon that collects, preserve and exhibits various original photographic films and prints, and the library that collects, preserves and appraises photo-historical literatures including magazines, industrial histories, product catalogues and scientific papers.
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Scientific support of SciTech museum exhibits and outreach programs
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Peshkin, M.
SciTech (Science and Technology Interactive Center) is a small hands-on science museum located in Aurora, Illinois, not far from Argonne National Laboratory. Its constituency includes prosperous suburbs and economically disadvantaged minority communities in Aurora and Chicago. Its mission is to contribute to the country`s scientific literacy initiative by offering hands-on experiences on the museum floor and through outreach programs extended to school children, their teachers, and other groups. Argonne`s participation is focused mainly on the development of exhibits to carry the ideas of modern science and technology to the public. This is an area in which traditional museums are weak,more » but in which SciTech has become a nationally recognized leader with the assistance of Argonne, Fermilab, nearby technological companies, and many volunteer scientists and engineers. We also participate in development and improvement of the museum`s general exhibits and outreach programs. Argonne`s Director, Alan Schriesheim, serves as a member of the museum`s Board of Directors. Murray Peshkin serves part-time as the museum`s Senior Scientist. Dale Henderson serves part-time as an exhibit developer. That work is supported by the Laboratory Director`s discretionary funds. In addition, several members of the Physics Division voluntarily assist with exhibit development and the Division makes facilities available for that effort.« less
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Lexington Children`s Museum final report on EnergyQuest
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EnergyQuest is a museum-wide exhibit that familiarizes children and their families with energy sources, uses, and issues and with the impact of those issues on their lives. It was developed and built by Lexington Children`s Museum with support from the US Department of Energy, Kentucky Utilities, and the Kentucky Coal Marketing and Export Council. EnergyQuest featured six hands-on exhibit stations in each of six museum galleries. Collectively, the exhibits examine the sources, uses and conservation of energy. Each EnergyQuest exhibit reflects the content of its gallery setting. During the first year after opening EnergyQuest, a series of 48 public educationalmore » programs on energy were conducted at the Museum as part of the Museum`s ongoing schedule of demonstrations, performances, workshops and classes. In addition, teacher training was conducted.« less
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The Factors and Features of Museum Fatigue in Science Centres Felt by Korean Students
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kim, Minchul; Dillon, Justin; Song, Jinwoong
2018-03-01
One of the objectives of science education in science centres has been the enhancement of interest in science. However, museum fatigue has a negative impact on interest. Museum fatigue has been described as physical tiredness or a decrease in visitors' interest in a museum. The learning experience of students in science centres is also influenced by museum fatigue. The purpose of this study is to identify the phenomena of museum fatigue in science centres and to identity how it is manifested. First, we identified the factors causing museum fatigue in science centres using the data from an open-ended questionnaire which was given to 597 primary, middle and high school students in South Korea. From the responses to the questionnaire, 50 factors causing museum fatigue in science centres were identified. A second Likert-type questionnaire with the 50 factors of museum fatigue in science centres was administered to 610 primary, middle and high school students in South Korea. Using reliability and factor analyses, we developed a framework of the factors causing museum fatigue in science centres, which consists of three contexts, 12 categories and 50 factors. Secondly, through statistical analyses including T test and ANOVA analysis, the features of students' museum fatigue in science centres were analysed and compared regarding student gender, school level, interest in science, grade of school science, the number of visits, and type of visit. The results, which were found to be statistically significant, are reported and discussed. The findings of this study are intended to serve for a deeper understanding and practical improvement of science learning in science centres.
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Venus - Lakshmi Planum and Maxwell Montes
1996-03-07
This full resolution radar image from NASA Magellan spacecraft is centered along the eastern edge of Lakshmi Planum and the western edge of Maxwell Montes. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00241
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A Conversation about Educational Leadership in Museums
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Bedford, Leslie
2009-01-01
On February 26, 2009 the "Journal of Museum Education" hosted a telephone conversation among five senior museum educators. Leslie Bedford, Director of the Leadership in Museum Education Program at Bank Street College, facilitated the discussion with Mary Ellen Munley, Randy Roberts, Elsa Bailey, and Brigid Globensky. They shared their thinking on…
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From Oaxaca to Washington, D.C.: Community Museums as a Cultural and Economic Resource.
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Levine, Carlisle J.
1996-01-01
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) enhances perpetuation of indigenous communities through its "Fourth Museum" program that supports living community museums created by and located in indigenous communities of the Americas. Through education and financial and technical aid, NMAI helps community…
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Constructing Spatial Meaning: Spatial Affordances in Museum Design
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Wineman, Jean D.; Peponis, John
2010-01-01
Informal education in museums is structured through movement in space. This article summarizes a range of research that examines the role of spatial layout in shaping the ways in which visitors explore, engage, and understand museums and museum exhibitions. It is demonstrated that behavior patterns are systematically linked to spatial…
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2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Service
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Bowen, Katherine
2009-01-01
This paper features the winners of this year's National Medals for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for libraries and museums. The award celebrates libraries and museums that make a difference for individuals, families, and communities. Medal winners are selected from nationwide nominations for institutions that demonstrate…
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The Contemporary City as Backbone: Museum Rotterdam Meets the Challenge
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van de Laar, Paul Th.
2013-01-01
Changes at Museum Rotterdam illustrate how history museums can rethink their relationship to history and community. Recognizing that its residents are increasingly transnational, without ties to the Rotterdam of the past, Museum Rotterdam is using the tools of urban anthropologists to involve residents in exploring contemporary heritage. Museum…
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Have You Smelled the Elephant's Foot?
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Beaudoin, Bonnie
2014-01-01
A museum belonging to a school district demonstrates how teachers integrate museum resources into classroom curricula. A former teacher reflects on her experience with the Karshner Memorial Museum in the Puyallup School District (WA), and explains how the museum's exhibitions and artifacts are curriculum resources, specifically tied to grade level…
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Museum Data Collection Report and Analysis
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Wharton, Carole; DeBruin, Todd
2005-01-01
Commissioned by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to assess the status of data collection activities in the museum community, this report reinforces recommendations made by a similar 1998 study, addressing the need for systematic data collection to inform public policy and museum management decision-making. The report examines a…
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76 FR 13097 - Institute of Museum and Library Services; Evaluation by Grantees
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-10
... NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES 45 CFR Part 1180 Institute of Museum and Library Services; Evaluation by Grantees AGENCY: Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Foundation On... amendment to the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS') reporting guidelines for grantees. The...
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Learning Experiences in Museums: Harnessing Dewey's Ideas on Continuity and Interaction
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Winstanley, Carrie
2018-01-01
Museum and gallery educators have become increasingly adept at creating environments that foster constructivist thinking, invite interaction and encourage activity. Leading museum educator, Hein, for example, directly attributes Dewey's influence, describing his ideas about experiences, as a 'crucial lesson for museum educators: engagement with…
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Interpreters' Perceptions about the Goals of the Science Museum in Taiwan.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Chin, Chi-Chin
The competence of interpreters, so called "docents," influences visitors' learning in museums. The study reported in this paper investigated 16 interpreters' perceptions about: the educational goals of the science museum in Taiwan, the function of the interpreter in the science museum, the requirements for a competent interpreter, and…
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Performing Witnessing: Dramatic Engagement, Trauma and Museum Installations
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Hughes, Erika
2018-01-01
This article offers a discussion of two interactive museum installations, 'Remembering the Children: Daniel's Story' at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the main exhibit at the Humanity House Museum in the Hague, Netherlands. Both are examples of what I term "self-guided dramas," taking the…
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Adult Education in Museums and Public Libraries.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Miller, Harry G.
Both museums and public libraries are available sources of education for adults. Besides their traditional functions of collecting and preserving items from human artistic or scientific history, museums have taken on a more active role in educating the public, particularly adults. Some educational services provided by museums are dioramas, period…
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Hensley, John
1988-01-01
Outlines the functions of museums and explains how these functions can relate to teaching history. Points out the value in taking students to museums, noting that visits may be enhanced through teacher pre-planning. Gives advice on how to counsel students who wish to pursue careers in historical agencies and museums. (GEA)
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The Museum as a Source for Curriculum Development
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Hornung, Gertrude S.
1977-01-01
Art museums have been recognized as sources for curriculum development but one of the museum's weakest areas is in its relationships with people, particularly with adults and adolescents. Examines characteristics of the population, changing patterns of housing, the influence of senior citizens and adolescents, museum manager influence and…
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Progressive Museum Education: Examples from the 1960s
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Hein, George E.
2013-01-01
The combination of pedagogy and political aims, a constant theme in the progressive school education literature, is reflected as well in the history of museum education. Museum educators, following the lead of John Dewey, advocated for experiential pedagogy, a natural course for museums since they emphasize learning from objects and experiences…
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SSL Adoption by Museums: Survey Results, Analysis, and Recommendations
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Perrin, T. E.; Druzik, J. R.; Miller, N. J.
DOE Solid-State Lighting GATEWAY report that summarizes the results of a survey of the museum community regarding conversions to SSL in museums. Responses provided real-world insight into how LEDs are being incorporated into museums, and what successes and hurdles have been encountered in the process.