Most Popular Books by Jonathan Allen

Children's literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum. While some books may become classics and continue to be read long after their publication, others are the product of contemporary society and reflect the changing values of modern American culture. So, too, those titles that have been singled out for recognition reveal the standards of awards committees. This reference is a guide to works of American children's fiction that have won awards between 1995 and 1999. Some of the books were published before that period, and thus their recent recognition affirms their enduring value. Included are more than 750 alphabetically arranged entries for authors, titles, characters, and settings related to nearly 250 books. Entries for novels provide plot summaries and critical commentary, while those for authors give biographical information. The volume demonstrates the growing number of multicultural novels and books about nontraditional families, while it also shows the continuing importance of historical fiction and the waning appeal of traditional adventure novels. While the volume will be valuable to librarians and teachers and to scholars of children's literature, it will also be useful to anyone interested in these works as a commentary on American culture at the close of the twentieth century.

Poetry. Art. A collaborative book project by poet Anselm Berrigan and artist Jonathan Allen.

Mr and Mrs Wolf have adopted an orphan wolf, named Philip, but before he can become a big, bad wolf, he has to go to the Wolf Academy.

Det är morgonen då Lilla ugglan ska börja på dagis. Mamma uggla och Lilla ugglan ska gå dit tillsammans med Mamma Ekorre och Lilla Ekorren. Snart är det dags, men Lilla ugglan blir inte klar, det är så mycket som han ska göra, saker som han aldrig gör annars... [Barnbokskatalogen].

This study evaluates four methods for dissolving complex glassy debris resulting from nuclear detonations. The samples of interest simulate the glassy debris generated from a nuclear detonation’s fireball coming in contact with solid masses. Each method attempts to achieve dissolution through different approaches involving either acid digestion, alkaline digestion, or molten salt fusion. Two of the four methods were modified to retain all elements of the debris or surrogate debris. This retention is critical to the proportional relationships used in identifying fuel types and designs of nuclear weapons. Analysis is conducted with an inductively coupled time of flight mass spectrometer (ICP-TOF-MS) to provide exact elemental composition and yield for each dissolution method. The samples analyzed were trinitite (trin), surrogate trinitite formulation (STF), urban surrogate melt glass (NYC), and MAPEP MaS 32 (MAPEP). All samples have well known elemental compositions except for trinitite, however there are published compositional norms that are predicted for the trinitite. The four methods used were a Lithium Fusion (Larivière Method), a Sodium Hydroxide Fusion (Maxwell Method), an Acidic Digestion (Eppich Method), and a Modified Rapid Acidic Digestion (Auxier Method). Outcomes for the Lithium and the Maxwell Method failed to produce meaningful results due to the mass difference in fusion material compared to the isotopes of interest in the sample material mass. At the maximum concentration limit of 25-35 parts per thousand the mass spectrometer could not meaningfully detect the barium or uranium in any of the samples. The acidic digestion, and the Auxier Method both showed success with detecting appropriate levels of uranium, barium, and other lighter elements. The Auxier Method shows the best results when compared to ideal 100% yield from each sample. For Auxier’s Method, uranium averages a yield of 5%±.02% of ideal. This is 614% above the acidic digestion and over 1200% above the other methods. For barium, the Auxier Method averages a yield of 9% of ideal. This is 595% above the acidic digestion and 4300% above the other methods. The Auxier Method demonstrates repeatability across three runs of each sample and sample independence as percent yields were similar across sample types.

There are diverse technological contexts where fluids and suspensions are perturbed by applied fields like interfaces or intrinsically governed by complex interparticle potentials. When these interactions act over lengthscales comparable to the fluid particle size and become strong enough to frustrate particle packing or rearrangements, they drive systems to exhibit microscopically inhomogeneous (i.e., position-dependent) structural and relaxation responses. We use computer simulations and statistical-mechanical tools to find connections between such frustrating interactions and inhomogeneous fluid responses, which can profoundly impact macroscopic material properties and processing requirements. We first consider how to measure and predict the position-dependent and average diffusion coefficients of particles along inhomogeneous free-energy landscapes (i.e., potentials of mean force). Characterizing diffusion in such inhomogeneous fluids is crucial for modeling, e.g., the transit of colloids across microfluidic devices and of solutes through biological membranes. We validate a practical technique based on the Fokker-Planck diffusion formalism that measures diffusivities based solely on particle trajectory data. We focus on hard-sphere fluids confined to thin channels or subjected to external fields that impose density fluctuations at various wavelengths. We find, for example, that hydrodynamic predictions of tracer diffusion in confinement are surprisingly robust given non-continuum solvents. We also demonstrate that correlations between fluid static structure and diffusivity can qualitatively depend on the lengthscale of density fluctuations or the onset of supercooling. We next examine fluids governed by competing short-range attractions and long-range repulsions that drive formation of equilibrium cluster phases, which comprise monodisperse aggregates of monomers. The formation of such morphologies greatly impacts, e.g., the manufacturing of therapeutic protein solutions. We first address a major challenge in probing the real-space structure of such suspensions: detecting and characterizing cluster phases based on the static structure factor accessible via scattering experiments. Using computer simulations and liquid-state theory, we validate rules for interpreting low-wavenumber features in the structure factor in terms of cluster emergence, size, spatial distribution, etc. We then validate a thermodynamic model that predicts cluster size based on the strengths of monomer interactions, adapting classical nucleation theory to incorporate new empirical scalings for the surface energies of small stable droplets.

Change is an album about change. It is a musical introspection of the journey I have taken over four years at Bard College-the people I have met, the things I have learned, and how music has developed for me through that journey. Freshman year, I finished my first album. I did it independently of the school-at the time I was of the persuasion that I knew everything, that no one had anything to teach me, and that my ideas were always right. Of course, as with everyone, this was just a projection of severe insecurity, and fortunately I have had the privilege to become aware of these tendencies and work through them. The album will be available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xjJ0R_oeMZ9xOj0yTy0J5lF5kLSNKVhF.

Rhyming text describes the colorful clothes that a cat puts on as it gets dressed.

What if we could see that the "other" is really "us?" What if local, regional and global narratives celebrated our differences--all of them: language, skin color, ethnic heritage, traditions, religious beliefs etc... Our variety (diversity) is the spice of life and what makes this a truly rich and beautiful planet. At the same time, however, we share so much more in common than our differences. What if we embraced our shared, common humanity? There would be no "other" to hate.

Klein Konijn is gek op het maken van dierengeluiden. Ze roept heel hard 'Boe'. Dan komt er een kalfje kijken. Samen roepen ze vervolgens hard 'Bêê'. Prentenboek met grote zwartomlijnde figuren tegen een witte achtergrond. Vanaf ca. 2 jaar.

The size of archaeological data collection units and provenience controls affect data resolution, types of analyses, and the interpretations that archaeologists draw from the spatial patterning of material evidence. This research examines the use of fine-grained data collection units and the analyses that they support in the study of two Pennsylvania rockshelters to: 1) provide a better understanding of rockshelter use and the importance of rockshelters in Pennsylvania and Middle Atlantic region prehistory and, 2) reveal the impact that archaeological units can have on the reconstruction and interpretation of human behaviors in general. Insights from behavioral theory, ethnoarchaeology and previous archaeological research influenced the units and methods employed in the excavation of the Mykut and Camelback rockshelters. This analysis reveals the range of behaviors that can be reconstructed from these data, which can then be compared and contrasted with interpretations of other rockshelters and site contexts in the region.

Six chickens have disappeared, and Detective Hubert Hound with assistant Reg are on the case. 4-7 yrs.

Fission track detection and analysis is used primarily in nuclear safeguards to identify special nuclear material. Identification of isotopic ratios is a crucial step in understanding the intended use of nuclear material and the nature of the materials production cycle. Unfortunately, this methodology uses etchable track detectors that require significant expertise and intensive labor to process. This study developed a novel method using lithium fluoride (LiF) as a fluorescing nuclear track detector to conduct fission track analysis for isotopic prediction of uranium enrichment. Individual latent tracks produced by fission products were observed in LiF for the first time. These tracks were identified using fluorescence microscopy with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Specifically, lithium fluoride's F2 and F3 + defects were excited and observed for fluorescing emission. These observations required the use of highly sensitive detectors that could maintain at least a one to ten signal to noise ratio while detecting single photon signal. Fission tracks were verified with concurrent 252Cf alpha tracks and agreement with variations in exposure times. Experiments with uranium fuel glued to LiF detectors were used to predict enrichment. These samples were exposed to 1014 neutrons in a custom irradiator and then particles were characterized based on the number of tracks observed by the confocal laser scanning microscope. Predictions of uranium isotopes required calculation of particle mass contributing significantly to error. Seven of ten particles fell with error of prediction, two of which were depleted uranium samples and had predicted track counts of less than one per fuel grain. This work proves the viability for a new method of identifying particles with fission track analysis. It reduces the work hours required to analyze an environmental sample for fissionable material by removing the need to etch traditional solid state nuclear track detectors.

"An Old German Song Cyle and Some New American Music" is, at its core, a straightforward art song recital. As to its form, the only thing that could be considered even remotely revolutionary was my decision to perform the small collection of unrelated pieces in the second half, following the large, segmented work-an order that, in most traditional concert settings, is reversed. The project was comprised of preparing and performing Robert Schumann's (1810-1856) Liederkreis, Op. 39, and four modern American songs I have collected over the years. The Liederkreis is a song cycle consisting of twelve unrelated vignettes, each a setting of a poem from Joseph Eichendorff's Intermezzo, and represented the bulk of the preparatory challenge that was this project. The four American songs consisted of the first scene of Lothar Klein's (1932-2004) Six Scenes from the Old Man and the Sea; "The Moon is distant from the Sea", a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem of the same name by recent Bard graduate R. Luke Koenig (1995-); "Look Down, Fair Moon", a setting by Ned Rorem (1923-) of Walt Whitman's text of the same name; and Kyle Gann's (1955-) "Alba (En un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi)", a troubadour song from his 2016 collection Songs from Proença. The American songs were chosen to contrast the song cycle-indeed, the cycle was written around 150 years ago, while none of the American songs are even old enough to retire. They differ drastically in content, form, and compositional intent, and so presented challenges that were different and distinct from those of the Schumann. A recording will be available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xjJ0R_oeMZ9xOj0yTy0J5lF5kLSNKVhF.

Crime linkage analysis tries to determine which crimes were committed by the same offender. This is an important police investigative function, as research has shown that a significant proportion of most crime types are committed by a small number of prolific offenders. Case clearance is related to the amount of information available to investigators, and a series of linked crimes provides more information than individual cases examined alone. However, there are only a few available methods for crime linkage. These methods commonly utilize information provided by physical evidence, offender description, and crime scene behavior (i.e., proximity in time and space, modus operandi, and signature). Recognizing that very few factors definitively link crimes, researchers have demonstrated the utility of probabilistically linking crimes using less than definitive information. Bayesian methods provide a promising method of analyzing these links. While some research has demonstrated the efficacy of these methods, the initial work validating the models has relied on limited samples. As such, the generalizability of this research is unknown. This study assesses the validity of a Bayesian crime linkage method using computational methods.