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Assignment 22

Understanding thesis statement

This study's objective was to determine the strangeness measurements for red, green, and blue quarks. _________________________________________

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Results indicate that both red and green quarks had a strangeness that differed by less than 0.453 x 10-17 Zabes/m2 for all measurements. Blue quarks remained immeasurable, since their particle traces bent into 7-tuple space.

This study's conclusions indicate that red and green quarks can be used interchangeably in all He stream applications, and further studies must be done to measure the strangeness of blue quarks.

Assignment 23

Writing an abstract

Assignment 24

Revising and editing

SELF-ASSESSMENT

YES

NO

Is the first line of the paragraph intended?

Does each sentence start with a capital letter and end with a period or question mark?

Do the subjects and verbs agree?

Is each word spelled correctly? Check a dictionary if you are not sure.

Do you spell or write numbers correctly?

Assignment 25

Writing an annotation

Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in democratizing Germany: reconstructing National identity after Hitler. North Carolina, 1995. 364 p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8078-2204-3, $49.95; ISBN 0-8078- 4512-4 pbk, $18.95. This book provides an extensive analysis of the political context and roles of film in Germany during the decade following WWII. It focuses primarily on the role of film culture in reconstructing a normalized German national identity and normalized gender roles. To her credit, Fehrenbach (Colgate Univ.) conceptualizes film culture not simply as a collection of film texts to be read, but also as a form that encompasses the institutions of criticism, festivals, censorship, and film economics. Fehrenbach also provides readings of films seldom discussed in English, e.g., Willi Forst's De Sunderin (The Sinner, 1950), and accounts of the German film club movement and the rise of the Berlin Film Festival as a Western ideological weapon in the Cold War. She attempts to combine historical exegesis with film theoretical inquiry, but at times the two strains are not well integrated and the reader has the feeling of bouncing back and forth between two modes. Nonetheless, the book is important as the only lengthy account in English of the period and will become a standard work to refer to in future discussions of the topic. Recommend for all academic libraries with a basic collection in German or American film history.

MOBILE ROBOTS

Mobile robots are widely applied in a range of applications from transportation, surveillance through to health care. In all these applications it is clearly important to be able to analyse and control the performance of the mobile robot and it is therefore surprising that formalised methods to achieve this are not readily available.

This book introduces methods and procedures from statistics, dynamical systems theory, and system identification that can be applied to address these important problems. The core objective is to try to explain the interaction between the robot, the task and the environment in a transparent manner such that system characteristics can be analysed, controllers can be designed, and behaviours can be replicated in a systematic and structured manner. This aim of constructing a formalised approach for task-achieving mobile robots represents a refreshingly new approach to this complex set of problems.

Dr Nehmzow has done an outstanding job of constructing and describing a

unified framework, which clearly sets out the crucial issues for the development of a theory for mobile robots. Thanks to the careful organisation of the topics

and a clear exposition, this book provides an excellent introduction to some new directions in this subject area. Dr Nehmzow’s book represents a major departure

from the traditional treatment of mobile robots, and provides a refreshing new

look at some long-standing problems. I am sure that this is just the beginning of

an exciting new phase in this subject area. This book provides a very readable

account of the concepts involved; it should have a broad appeal, and will I am

sure provide a valuable reference for many years to come.

S A Billings

Sheffield, May 2009