We argue that Archimedes proved that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is a constant independent of the circle and that the circumference constant equals the area constant. He stated neither result...
Marchetti, Kathleen. Consider the Context: How State Policy Environments Shape Interest Group Advocacy.State and Local Government Review 47, no. 3 (2015): 155-169., How are the disadvantaged represented in politics?...
A lot of research has been spent determining the domination numbers, γ m,n, of grid graphs. But relatively little effort has been given to constructing minimum dominating sets of grid graphs. In this paper, we introduce a...
In 1893 the Pennsylvania legislature approved funding to build a residential, industrial school designed to consolidate under one facility the thirty-year-old program for the care and education of Civil War orphans in the...
Timothy Gowers was the 2015 recipient of the Joseph Priestley Award at Dickinson College. On March 26, 2015, Gowers gave a public lecture at the college and received his award. Afterward David Richeson chatted with Gowers...
The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishô-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular...
Of those actors and directors who have come to be associated with the genre of the Heimatfilm, one name remains both curiously present and absent: Luis Trenker. On the one hand, Trenker continues to be present in the public...
Ultrasound imaging is one of the most ubiquitous forms of sonography today. It ranks among the cheapest and safest forms of medical imaging techniques available, and it has a wide range of applications in medicine; it is gentle...
A new design of a cost-effective, gridded solar air heater with a high solar to thermal energy conversion efficiency is presented, featuring an increased air to absorber interaction, while still allowing high mass flow rates....