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Genetic Mapping Identifies Consistent Quantitative Trait Loci For Yield Traits Of Rice Under Greenhouse Drought Conditions, Niranjan Baisakh, Jonalyn Yabes, Andres Gutierrez, Venkata Mangu, Peiyong Ma, Adam Famoso, Andy Pereira Jan 2020

Genetic Mapping Identifies Consistent Quantitative Trait Loci For Yield Traits Of Rice Under Greenhouse Drought Conditions, Niranjan Baisakh, Jonalyn Yabes, Andres Gutierrez, Venkata Mangu, Peiyong Ma, Adam Famoso, Andy Pereira

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Improving drought resistance in crops is imperative under the prevailing erratic rainfall patterns. Drought affects the growth and yield of most modern rice varieties. Recent breeding efforts aim to incorporate drought resistance traits in rice varieties that can be suitable under alternative irrigation schemes, such as in a (semi)aerobic system, as row (furrow-irrigated) rice. The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling grain yield, the most important trait with high selection efficiency, can lead to the identification of markers to facilitate marker-assisted breeding of drought-resistant rice. Here, we report grain yield QTLs under greenhouse drought using an F2:3 population derived …

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Seeking Competitive Advantage Through Platform-Enabled Resources: The Case Of Food Delivery Platforms, Joaquin Rodriguez, Gabriele Piccoli Jan 2020

Seeking Competitive Advantage Through Platform-Enabled Resources: The Case Of Food Delivery Platforms, Joaquin Rodriguez, Gabriele Piccoli

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As digital platforms become increasingly ubiquitous, firms in a wide array of industries face the decision of whether to join them and how to compete within them. The information systems field is in a unique position to theorize and investigate how platform participants can use broadly available digital platform resources in order to achieve, and possibly sustain, competitive advantage. We empirically investigate the theoretical proposition that restaurants joining the food delivery digital platform can compete by leveraging a specific emergent capability we call platform-fulfillment capability. Our results indicate that differentiation and competitive advantage are possible, even though all platform participants …

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Reducible Fermi Surfaces For Non-Symmetric Bilayer Quantum-Graph Operators, Stephen P. Shipman Jan 2020

Reducible Fermi Surfaces For Non-Symmetric Bilayer Quantum-Graph Operators, Stephen P. Shipman

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This work constructs a class of non-symmetric periodic Schrödinger operators on metric graphs (quantum graphs) whose Fermi, or Floquet, surface is reducible. The Floquet surface at an energy level is an algebraic set that describes all complex wave vectors admissible by the periodic operator at the given energy. The graphs in this study are obtained by coupling two identical copies of a periodic quantum graph by edges to form a bilayer graph. Reducibility of the Floquet surface for all energies ensues when the coupling edges have potentials belonging to the same asymmetry class. The notion of asymmetry class is defined …

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Mass Concentration And Size Distribution Of Particles Released From Harvesting And Biomass Burning Of Sugarcane, Sanku Dattamudi, Jim J. Wang, Syam K. Dodla, Ronald Delaune, April Hiscox, Howard Viator, Changyoon Jeong Jan 2020

Mass Concentration And Size Distribution Of Particles Released From Harvesting And Biomass Burning Of Sugarcane, Sanku Dattamudi, Jim J. Wang, Syam K. Dodla, Ronald Delaune, April Hiscox, Howard Viator, Changyoon Jeong

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We evaluated size distribution and mass concentrations of fine (particulate matter < 2.5 μm, PM2.5) and coarse (particulate matter = 2.5–10 μm, PM2.5-10) particles released during sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) harvesting operations, including cutting of green cane (GH), burning of standing cane (SB), cane harvest cutting after SB (BH), and ground burning of harvest residues left in the field (GB). Total number of PM2.5 released from GB was 1.63 times greater than that from SB. Total time of burning (flaming + smoldering) phase during GB was 1.5 to 2.1 times longer than SB. The flaming phase for both GB and SB was shorter than the smoldering phase but emitted 5.2 to 7.5 times more PM2.5. Average particle density of PM2.5 from burning operations was 1.12 g cm−3 for GB and 0.52 g cm−3 for SB. The GH and BH released lower PM2.5 but higher PM2.5-10 as compared to SB and GB. Overall, biomass burning, regardless GB and SB difference, released significantly higher PM2.5 than harvest-cutting operations.

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Optimization Of Uas-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping To Estimate Plant Health And Grain Yield In Sorghum, Giovanni Galli, David W. Horne, S. Delroy Collins, Jinha Jung, Anjin Chang, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, William L. Rooney Jan 2020

Optimization Of Uas-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping To Estimate Plant Health And Grain Yield In Sorghum, Giovanni Galli, David W. Horne, S. Delroy Collins, Jinha Jung, Anjin Chang, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, William L. Rooney

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High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) has enabled the acquisition of vast amounts of data. Therefore, finding the most informative phenological stage(s) and high-throughput traits could lead to significant optimization of HTP-assisted selection. An investigation as to when phenotypic data should be collected and how it should be processed from unmanned aerial system (UAS) imagery for the optimization and assessment of two primary traits in grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L). Moench], namely, grain yield and plant health (based on anthracnose scores) was conducted. By evaluating multiple flight dates across the growing season via multispectral UAS-based imagery, a set of scenarios composed of combinations …

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Soil-App: A Tool For Soil Analysis Interpretation, Filipe Inácio Matias, José Felipe Gonzaga Sabadin, Lílian Angélica Moreira, Marcos Henrique Feresin Gomes, Acácio Bezerra De Mira, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Rafael Otto Jan 2020

Soil-App: A Tool For Soil Analysis Interpretation, Filipe Inácio Matias, José Felipe Gonzaga Sabadin, Lílian Angélica Moreira, Marcos Henrique Feresin Gomes, Acácio Bezerra De Mira, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Rafael Otto

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New apps have changed the traditional way of learning and teaching; they are also applied as a quickly executed and effective method in agriculture. Soil-app is a web application with a friendly click-point interface built through packages lodged in R software. The app is an advanced model of an open-source platform to support teaching and learning activities in soil analyses and fertilizer recommendations. Soil-app includes soil test interpretation, soil amendment calculations (lime and gypsum), the fertilizer rate for the most important crops in Brazil, an NPK blend calculator, and NPK blend evaluation. It also includes experimental statistical analysis as applied …

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Survival And Inactivation Of Human Norovirus Gii.4 Sydney On Commonly Touched Airplane Cabin Surfaces, Dorra Djebbi-Simmons, Mohammed Alhejaili, Marlene Janes, Joan King, Wenqing Xu Jan 2020

Survival And Inactivation Of Human Norovirus Gii.4 Sydney On Commonly Touched Airplane Cabin Surfaces, Dorra Djebbi-Simmons, Mohammed Alhejaili, Marlene Janes, Joan King, Wenqing Xu

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Human norovirus (HuNoV) is one of the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis globally. HuNoV outbreaks have been recently reported during air travels. Contaminated surfaces are known as a critical transmission route at various settings. The aim of this study was to provide key information about the survival and the decontamination of HuNoV on three commonly touched airplane cabin surfaces. In this study, we monitored the survival of HuNoV on seat leather, plastic tray table, and seatbelt for 30 days, with and without additional organic load (simulated gastric fluid). The efficacy of two EPA registered anti-norovirus disinfectants were also evaluated. Results …

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The Critical Literacies Advancement Model (Clam): A Framework For Promoting Positive Social Change, Petra A. Robinson Jan 2020

The Critical Literacies Advancement Model (Clam): A Framework For Promoting Positive Social Change, Petra A. Robinson

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This paper outlines the development and structure of the Critical Literacies Advancement Model (CLAM) and discusses its usefulness as a framework for promoting positive social change through the advancement of critical literacy skills which have been classified into five major categories.

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Untouched By The Conflict: The Civil War Letters Of John Singleton Ashenfelter, George C. Rable Jan 2020

Untouched By The Conflict: The Civil War Letters Of John Singleton Ashenfelter, George C. Rable

Civil War Book Review

“Civil War” in the title of this book might appear to be a crude marketing ploy because very few of the letters—written by Singleton Ashenfelter to his closest friend Samuel Pennypacker—even mention the war in passing. Instead the collection drives home the essential but often forgotten truth that ordinary life goes on even during a great national crisis. In this regard, I once heard historian Philip Paludan remark in a lecture that you could not hold supper just because there was a war on.

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Michigan’S Civil War Citizen-General: Alpheus S. Williams, Kim Crawford Jan 2020

Michigan’S Civil War Citizen-General: Alpheus S. Williams, Kim Crawford

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Dempsey points out, as have others, that Williams deserved promotion to the rank of major general, given his good reputation and record in war. But the fact Williams was not a West Pointer worked against him, and it appears he did not cultivate the political support or seek the publicity he needed. Thus, he held his major general’s post with only brevet, or honorary rank, while proving himself a popular and respected general in the Union army’s Second, Twelfth and Twentieth Corps, with his soldiers giving him the nickname “Pap” (though pronouncing this “Pop”.)

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Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop Of The Confederacy, Christian B. Keller Jan 2020

Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop Of The Confederacy, Christian B. Keller

Civil War Book Review

General Leonidas Polk has become one of the “whipping boys” over the years for many of the failures of the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. His name alone conjures up inside jokes among seasoned military historians of the Civil War, and all too often this important leader is depicted in serious analyses of the Western campaigns as an incompetent fool. When portrayed alongside the fractious Braxton Bragg, under whom he served and with whom he engaged in bitter quarrels, and juxtaposed against Federal luminaries U.S. Grant and William T. Sherman, Polk generally receives poor marks as a …

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United States Reconstruction Across The Americas, David Prior Jan 2020

United States Reconstruction Across The Americas, David Prior

Civil War Book Review

This short collection of three essays by prominent scholars constitutes the first volume published in the Frontiers of the American South series at the University Press of Florida. It focuses on three sets of connections between the Reconstruction of the United States and the rest of the Americas, and as such advances the now-longstanding quest to internationalize U.S. history. The editor and authors should be applauded for undertaking this work since Reconstruction scholars have, with some caveats, hesitated to engage with the transnational turn in American history, which has otherwise been so transformative.

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Rethinking The Civil War Era: Directions For Research, Wang Xi Jan 2020

Rethinking The Civil War Era: Directions For Research, Wang Xi

Civil War Book Review

By writing Rethinking the Civil War Era: Directions for Research, Paul Escott, the Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University and a renowned historian of American slavery and Civil War, has done a valuable service to his peers. The book reviews a wide range of recent scholarships in Civil War history, organized by six themes – the roots of the war, wartime societies, African Americans and the Civil War, military history, environmental impact of the war, and the war’s consequences. In addition, the book offers an informative and user-friendly discussion of how new techniques of digital age can …

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Women’S War: Fighting And Surviving The American Civil War, Jean Baker Jan 2020

Women’S War: Fighting And Surviving The American Civil War, Jean Baker

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Civil War Writing: New Perspectives On Iconic Texts, Wallace Hettle Jan 2020

Civil War Writing: New Perspectives On Iconic Texts, Wallace Hettle

Civil War Book Review

In Civil War Writing, editors Gary Gallagher and Stephen Cushman bring together commentary on a wide-ranging group of memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal narratives of the war. Although the book is lacking in a unified thematic emphasis, it rests on something equally important. The editors have assembled an all-star lineup of contributors who produce a book with many quality contributions. The editors modestly, perhaps too modestly, state that this book fails to adequately represent the diversity of voices produced by the war. While this volume may over-represent stories from soldiers, the editors promised that more essays, focusing on a …

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Preserving The White Man’S Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, And The Transformation Of American Conservatism, Fred L. Johnson Jan 2020

Preserving The White Man’S Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, And The Transformation Of American Conservatism, Fred L. Johnson

Civil War Book Review

The steady contemporaneous trampling of values and principles (e.g., respect for custom, tradition, and established institutions, to name a few) that, until very recently, were once hallmarks of American conservatism makes historian Joshua A. Lynn’s masterpiece, Preserving the White Man’s Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism a work of urgent relevance. Through a combination of diligent research, brilliant analysis, and forthright exposition, Lynn presents insights into the forerunner events whose legacy have proven so disruptive to the current sociopolitical climate of the United States. The compelling title is justified by contents that shed much needed …

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France And The American Civil War, A Diplomatic History, Bart Talbert Jan 2020

France And The American Civil War, A Diplomatic History, Bart Talbert

Civil War Book Review

Stéve Sainlaude, associate professor of history at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne, provides an in depth look at the American Civil War from the French perspective. He challenges many older interpretations by American historians concerning France's motives during the conflict. He focusses on how Napoleon III, his diplomats, people and press viewed the possibility of French intervention. A key factor in the study concerns France's occupation of Mexico as part of the emperor's "Grand Design" to win national glory, regain international influence, protect monarchical and imperial regimes, and save the Catholic Latin Race from worldwide Anglo-Saxon domination. The author …

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Lincoln, Seward, And Us Foreign Relations In The Civil War Era, Frank J. Williams Jan 2020

Lincoln, Seward, And Us Foreign Relations In The Civil War Era, Frank J. Williams

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War was both a scourge and a source of change in many aspects of American society. From war to justice, from economics to international relations, the United States underwent a transformation during that era. Although not close at first, and often at odds, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Henry Seward grew together in their relationship while guiding U.S. foreign policy. Lincoln, who had beaten Seward for the Republican Party’s 1860 presidential nomination, and Seward, an esteemed member of that party, became not only unlikely allies but formed a friendship.

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Raising The White Flag: How Surrender Defined The American Civil War, Angela Zombek Jan 2020

Raising The White Flag: How Surrender Defined The American Civil War, Angela Zombek

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David Silkenat’s well-written and ambitious book blends cultural, social, and military history to illustrate how Civil War Era-Americans understood surrender, an action seemingly rife with negative connotations. Silkenat, a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, captures how numerous Civil War soldiers, from individuals to large armies, decided to surrender and, in so doing, contends that the action was not always shameful. Rather, nineteenth-century contemporaries believed that surrender was key to distinguishing between civilized and uncivilized warfare, an idea shaped by early Americans’ relations with Native Americans, whom whites did not trust to uphold surrender terms (10-11). Surrender also had …

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The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Neither Tongue Nor Pen Can Never Tell The Sorrow", Douglas S. Montagna Professor Jan 2020

The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Neither Tongue Nor Pen Can Never Tell The Sorrow", Douglas S. Montagna Professor

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Candy Moulton’s The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge nor Pen Can never tell the Sorrow” tells the story of determined and courageous pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (hereafter referred to as the Church or church members) migrating across the Great Plains and the mountains in the late 1850s to reach their destination of Salt Lake City pulling and pushing their supplies on handcarts. Approximately 3,000 people made the journey, with between 250 and 300 losing their lives along the way, one of the greatest losses of lives in the entire settlement of the west. While …

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Private Confederacies: The Emotional World Of Southern Men As Citizens And Soldiers, Adam Pratt Jan 2020

Private Confederacies: The Emotional World Of Southern Men As Citizens And Soldiers, Adam Pratt

Civil War Book Review

Since the publication of Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s groundbreaking work, Southern Honor, it has become something of a cliché to describe white southern males as honor-bound and independent. Antebellum southern men were analyzed almost exclusively through this prism as a way to make sense of their public personas and the communities that supported their rash, aggressive actions. Historians have thankfully begun rendering the interior and public lives of southern men as something more than the sum of their outward appearances.

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Southern Nation: Congress And White Supremacy After Reconstruction, Peter Wallenstein Jan 2020

Southern Nation: Congress And White Supremacy After Reconstruction, Peter Wallenstein

Civil War Book Review

In Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, three generations of political scientists or political historians offer a rewarding reexamination of a critical half-century of the history of race and policymaking in the South and the nation. Ira Katznelson, the author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013), was the dissertation advisor to John S. Lapinski, author of The Substance of Representation: Congress, Lawmaking, and American Political Development (2013), and he in turn was the graduate advisor to James A. Bateman, author of Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the United …

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Native Southerners: Indigenous History From Origins To Removal, Zach Isenhower Jan 2020

Native Southerners: Indigenous History From Origins To Removal, Zach Isenhower

Civil War Book Review

“Stories matter,” writes Gregory D. Smithers, an uncontroversial but important opening given the scope of the work that follows in Native Southerners. Smithers ranges from prehistoric settlement to the removal crises of the 1830s, taking an ambitiously inclusive approach to the Southeast’s diverse Native communities. He introduces readers to the Native South as defined by indigenous words, actions, historical consciousness, and identity. Native Southerners conveys the tremendous changes wrought through Euro-American colonialism and Native adaptation, and just as importantly, continuities, all in a narrative driven by Native agency

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Winter 2020, Andrew Hargroder Jan 2020

Winter 2020, Andrew Hargroder

Civil War Book Review

As winter rolls into spring, the Editorial Staff of the Civil War Book Review is honored to provide you with an exploration of some of the most important Civil War scholarship published in 2019. Our contributors represent nearly every field of nineteenth-century American history and hail from all corners of the country. May their insights offer a brief respite from the anxiety of our times but also serve as a reminder of the past’s indelible mark on the present.

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James Harrison And The Tensas Troubles Of 1878, John David Miles Jan 2020

James Harrison And The Tensas Troubles Of 1878, John David Miles

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The Pulse Of Recent Research On School-Based Physical Activity And Wellness, Senlin Chen, Richard R. Rosenkranz Jan 2020

The Pulse Of Recent Research On School-Based Physical Activity And Wellness, Senlin Chen, Richard R. Rosenkranz

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Toeplitz Operators On The Domain (Formula Presented)- With (Formula Presented)-Invariant Symbols, Matthew Dawson, Gestur Ólafsson, Raul Quiroga-Barranco Jan 2020

Toeplitz Operators On The Domain (Formula Presented)- With (Formula Presented)-Invariant Symbols, Matthew Dawson, Gestur Ólafsson, Raul Quiroga-Barranco

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Let D be the irreducible bounded symmetric domain of 2 × 2 complex matrices that satisfy ZZ* < I2. The biholomorphism group of D is realized by U(2, 2) with isotropy at the origin given by U(2) ×U(2). Denote by (Formula Presented) the subgroup of diagonal matrices in U(2). We prove that the set of (Formula Presented)-invariant essentially bounded symbols yield Toeplitz operators that generate commutative C*-algebras on all weighted Bergman spaces over D. Using tools from representation theory, we also provide an integral formula for the spectra of these Toeplitz operators.

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New Atomic Decompositions Of Bergman Spaces On Bounded Symmetric Domains, Jens Gerlach Christensen, Gestur Ólafsson Jan 2020

New Atomic Decompositions Of Bergman Spaces On Bounded Symmetric Domains, Jens Gerlach Christensen, Gestur Ólafsson

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We provide a large family of atoms for Bergman spaces on irreducible bounded symmetric domains. The atomic decompositions are derived using the holomorphic discrete series representations for the domain, and the approach is inspired by recent advances in wavelet and coorbit theory. Our results vastly generalize previous work by Coifman and Rochberg. Their atoms correspond to translates of a constant function at a discrete subset of the automorphism group of the domain. In this paper we show that atoms can be obtained as translates of any holomorphic function with rapidly decreasing coefficients (including polynomials). This approach also settles the relation …

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Symmetric Spaces With Dissecting Involutions, K. H. Neeb, G. Ólafsson Jan 2020

Symmetric Spaces With Dissecting Involutions, K. H. Neeb, G. Ólafsson

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An involutive diffeomorphism σ of a connected smooth manifold M is called dissecting if the complement of its fixed point set is not connected. Dissecting involutions on a complete Riemannian manifold are closely related to constructive quantum field theory through the work of Dimock and Jaffe/Ritter on the construction of reflection positive Hilbert spaces. In this article we classify all pairs (M, σ), where M is an irreducible connected symmetric space, not necessarily Riemannian, and σ is a dissecting involutive automorphism. In particular, we show that the only irreducible, connected and simply connected Riemannian symmetric spaces with dissecting isometric involutions …

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Open Data In Cultural Heritage Institutions: Can We Be Better Than Data Brokers?, Sl Ziegler Jan 2020

Open Data In Cultural Heritage Institutions: Can We Be Better Than Data Brokers?, Sl Ziegler

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Treating collections in cultural institutions as data encourages novel approaches to the use of historic collections. To reframe collections as data is to focus on how digitized collection material, collection metadata, and transcriptions can be used and reused for various types of computational analysis. Scholars active in the field of digital humanities have long taken advantage of computational data. This paper focuses on the work of cultural heritage institutions, which are increasingly offering collections as data. This paper outlines the collections as data project and examines specific examples of cultural institutions active in this space. The paper then details the …

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