Idle Thought in Wordsworth's Lucy Cycle

Idle thought in Wordsworth’s Lucy cycle

Richard Adelman Idle Thought in Wordsworth ’ s Lucy Cycle

William Cowper’s ‘fearless’ ‘confession’ is situated, in The Task (1784), as an introduction to the free operations of the fancy that make up the poem’s influential ‘brown study’ episode. Having ‘a soul that does not always think’ serves, in the passage that follows, not as an inhibition so much as an opportunity for the poet’s mind to do much more than think. The ‘ludicrous and wild’ conjuring...

Budgetary Constraints and Idle Time Allocation in Common-Cycle Production with non-zero Setup Time

Economic lot size scheduling problem (ELSP) for a multi-product single machine system is a classical problem. This paper considers ELSP with budgetary constraint as an important aspect of such systems. In the real world situations the available funds for investment in inventory is limited. By adopting the common cycle time approach to ELSP, we obtain the optimal common cycle which minimizes the...

An Idle Compute Cycle Prediction Service for Computational Grids

The utilization of idle compute cycles has been known as most promising and cost-effective way to build a large scale high performance computing system, but not widely used because of the lack of effective idleness prediction techniques. In this paper, we argue PCs at university computer labs have a great potential for the utilization of idle CPU cycles, and propose two techniques for predictin...

by Lucy Gilson

Background: There is increasing interest in underlying socio-cultural, economic, environmental and health-system influences on the persistence of malaria. Vietnam is a Mekong regional 'success story' after dramatic declines in malaria incidence following introduction of a national control program providing free bed-nets, diagnosis and treatment. Malaria has largely retreated to pockets near int...