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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience..
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This digital document, covering the life and work of Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 545 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Multi-threaded programs are becoming more common in order to exploit the additional processing power provided by modern computer systems. Unfortunately, parallel programming is difficult to get right. Program execution becomes non-deterministic and new types of faults arise. A substantial source of errors are data races, where the program state may become undefined due to concurrent accesses to shared memory locations. Data races are difficult to find, because the observed faulty behavior is often not directly related to the program location causing the fault. The author presents improvements on the runtime analysis of C++ programs based on the Eraser algorithm that lead to a drastic reduction of false warnings. This is achieved by taking the temporally ordering characteristic of operations on condition variables into account. The author has validated the method by applying it to industrial size C++ programs. He compares the runtime behavior and the memory requirement of the method to commercial tools. The results confirm that the method presented in this book is faster and needs less memory for moderate numbers of threads, while the fault detection ratio is comparable..
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This paper examines the differences between two factors of the tendency to give socially desirable answers in regard to sensitive questions. In contrast to the usual question of how socially desirable a certain behaviour is perceived by the interviewee, a study performed at the University of Bremen divided this question into `talking about' and `admitting' a certain behaviour, where `talking about' meant to mention a certain behaviour in public while `admitting' implied that one has already done it oneself. Additionally, the study compared two different computer mediated interview modes: a web-based questionnaire (ONLINE) and an innovative method called internet assisted personal interview (IAPI), which used a desktop video conference system to facilitate communication between the interviewer and the interviewee. This was done in order to compare the tendency to give socially desirable answers in an anonymous (ONLINE) and non-anonymous (IAPI) interview setting. Results show that there are significant differences between most of the `talking about' and `admitting' items. Nevertheless, the expected differences between the interview modes were not observed. .
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As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated—and intellectually equipped—to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her "diaries," Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained—until now—unpublished and virtually unknown.

Intensely autobiographical novels, The Captain and the Colonel and Two Years—or The Way We Lived Then are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-nineteenth century South. These short, unfinished novels address a wide range of subjects related to women, and serve as an extension of the valuable source material found in the diaries, revealing much about southern history and culture, gender roles, slave-mistress relations, childhood, education, the experiences of westward migration, and the impact of the Civil War on private lives and relationships.

With an Introduction by Elizabeth Hanson that places Chesnut's novels in their social context, and thoughtfully edited by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, Mary Chesnut's fiction is a fascinating and long overdue addition to the library of southern history..
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