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James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Deerslayer' shows the influences of a Horace Ode. In 'The Deerslayer', Cooper tries to repeat the seasonal motifs, expressing the events of the tale through the summers and the other seasons finally ending in October, which is similar to the use of seasons as described by Horace in 'Diffugree nives'.

Students at Skidmore College are required to contribute their synthesis and understanding of human nature in the Liberal Studies course titled 'The Human Experience.' This course also requires the faculty to lead multidisciplinary discussions along with lectures on their own subjects. The course may help students and faculty to be open to new ideas and possibilities by watching the behavior of others. The course will enable students to make a better contribution in a world of changing skills and requirements through their ability to tackle new questions.

A university professor, with additional experience as a college president, explains why leaves of absence for college teachers and administrators are necessary and the costs involved in permitting leave are justified. Leave of absence helps college teachers and administrators refresh their knowledge in their respective fields and gain better perspectives on their aims and responsibilities. Their research activities during their leave, though having no immediate relevance to their jobs, help them perform their functions as teachers and administrators better.

A literary criticism of works by writer Willa Cather is presented, including the essay "A Chance Meeting" and the short story "The Old Beauty." The author explores Cather's work in light of Cather's meeting with Madame Grout, niece of writer Gustave Flaubert, and her relationship with Harwood Brewster, daughter of Cather's friends. The article shows that Brewster influenced the character of Vickie and that Madame Grout influenced the character of Mrs. Harris in the book "Obscure Destinies."

A literary criticism of the book "The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science" by Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the symbolic significance of these characters. It examines the life of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science and her influence in the history of Christian Science church in New England.

In this paper, we present an interactive high dynamic range volume visualization framework (HDR VolVis) for visualizing volumetric data with both high spatial and intensity resolutions. Volumes with high dynamic range values require high precision computing during the rendering process to preserve data precision. Furthermore, it is desirable to render high resolution volumes with low opacity values to reveal detailed internal structures, which also requires high precision compositing. High precision rendering will result in a high precision intermediate image (also known as high dynamic range image). Simply rounding up pixel values to regular display scales will result in loss of computed details. Our method performs high precision compositing followed by dynamic tone mapping to preserve details on regular display devices. Rendering high precision volume data requires corresponding resolution in the transfer function. To assist the users in designing a high resolution transfer function on a limited resolution display device, we propose a novel transfer function specification interface with nonlinear magnification of the density range and logarithmic scaling of the colon opacity range. By leveraging modern commodity graphics hardware, multiresolution rendering techniques and out-of-core acceleration, our system can effectively produce an interactive visualization of large volume data, such as 2,048³. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]