04518nam 2200613 450 991045800020332120200520144314.01-61117-353-1(CKB)2550000001290388(OCoLC)881243831(MdBmJHUP)muse35535(SSID)ssj0001195908(PQKBManifestationID)11652233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195908(PQKBWorkID)11162722(PQKB)10123197(MiAaPQ)EBC2054833(Au-PeEL)EBL2054833(CaPaEBR)ebr10867099(CaONFJC)MIL604455(EXLCZ)99255000000129038820140519h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierNotes from a colored girl the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis /Karsonya Wise WhiteheadColumbia, South Carolina :The University of South Carolina Press,2014.©20141 online resource (pages cm)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-61117-352-3 1-306-73204-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that situate Davis in historical and literary contexts that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Notes from a Colored Girl is a unique offering to the fields of history and documentary editing as the book includes both a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life and a full, heavily annotated edition of her Civil War-era pocket diaries. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. From a historical perspective, Whitehead re-creates the narrative of Davis's life for those three years and analyzes the black community where she lived and worked. From a literary perspective, Whitehead examines Davis's diary as a socially, racially, and gendered nonfiction text. From a feminist studies perspective, she examines Davis's agency and identity, grounded in theories elaborated by black feminist scholars. And, from linguistic and rhetorical perspectives, she studies Davis's discourse about her interpersonal relationships, her work, and external events in her life in an effort to understand how she used language to construct her social, racial, and gendered identities. Since there are few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary--though ordinary in its content--is rendered extraordinary simply because it has survived to be included in this very small class of resources. Whitehead's extensive analysis illuminates the lives of many through the simple words of one"--Provided by publisher.UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.African AmericansPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaBiographyAfrican AmericansPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)Race relationsHistory19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)Social conditions19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)HistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Electronic books.African AmericansAfrican AmericansHistory974.8/1103092Whitehead Karsonya Wise945244MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458000203321Notes from a colored girl2133899UNINA03803nam 22005535 450 991030053070332120200705025040.03-319-69431-610.1007/978-3-319-69431-3(CKB)4340000000223489(DE-He213)978-3-319-69431-3(MiAaPQ)EBC5153996(PPN)221247238(EXLCZ)99434000000022348920171122d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierQuantum Limits on Measurement and Control of a Mechanical Oscillator /by Vivishek Sudhir1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XIX, 214 p. 46 illus., 43 illus. in color.) Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-50533-319-69430-8 Prologue -- Foundations -- Measurement-Based Control -- Quantum Correlations -- Epilogue.This thesis reports on experiments in which the motion of a mechanical oscillator is measured with unprecedented precision. The position fluctuations of the oscillator—a glass nanostring—are measured with an imprecision that is sufficient to resolve its quantum  zero-point motion within its thermal decoherence time. The concomitant observation of measurement back-action, in accordance with Heisenberg’s  uncertainty principle, verifies the principles of linear quantum measurements on a macroscopic mechanical object. The record of the measurement is used to perform feedback control so as to suppress both classical thermal motion and quantum measurement back-action. These results verify some of the central and long-standing predictions of quantum measurement theory applied to a macroscopic object. The act of measurement not only perturbs the subject of the measurement—the mechanical oscillator—but also changes the state of the light used to make the measurement. This prediction is verified by demonstrating that the optical field, after having interacted with the mechanical oscillator, contains quantum correlations that render its quadrature fluctuations smaller than those of the vacuum – i.e., the light is squeezed. Lastly, the thesis reports on some of the first feedback control experiments involving macroscopic objects in the quantum regime, together with an exploration of the quantum limit of feedback control. The book offers a pedagogical account of linear measurement theory, its realization via optical interferometry, and contains a detailed guide to precision optical interferometry. .Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-5053Quantum theoryQuantum opticsQuantum computersSpintronicsQuantum Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19080Quantum Opticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P24050Quantum Information Technology, Spintronicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31070Quantum theory.Quantum optics.Quantum computers.Spintronics.Quantum Physics.Quantum Optics.Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.530.12Sudhir Vivishekauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1062928BOOK9910300530703321Quantum Limits on Measurement and Control of a Mechanical Oscillator2529259UNINA