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  1. The Clyde Estuary and Firth. An Assessment of Present Knowledge.

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    1974-05-01

    ornithological subjects. Ailsa Craig , the last decade, the Clyde catch in 1970 being worth and Horse Island, off Ardrossan, are notedfor bird life. A...gannet (Sula bassana) coming in to land on Ailsa Craig (photo by courtesy of Niall Rank/n/E ric Hosking) . / - “ - - 7 - (2’ 5...I’ GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE MADE BY THE INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES C E Deegan , IGS Continental Shelf Unit

  2. The "Patron Saint" of Comprehensive Education: An Interview with Clyde Chitty. Part Two

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    Benn, Melissa; Martin, Jane

    2018-01-01

    This is the second and concluding part of the interview which Melissa Benn and Jane Martin conducted with Clyde Chitty in the summer of 2017. The first part appeared in the previous issue of the journal, "FORUM," 59(3). When Clyde stepped away from regular duties with the FORUM board, Michael Armstrong dubbed him "the patron saint…

  3. New Zealand's Clyde power station

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    Hatton, J W; Black, J C; Foster, P F

    1987-12-01

    A 100 m-high mass concrete gravity dam, for the generation of 432 MW of power, is under construction at Clyde on the Clutha River in the South Island of New Zealand. A feature of the dam is the provision of a slip joint to allow up to 2 m of movement on the plane of a fault passing through the dam foundation. Details of the dam foundations, seismic design, river channel fault and slip joint, mass concrete, spillway and sluice, powerhouse, and landslide hazard at the site are given. 3 refs.

  4. Memories of Ken Mason.

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    Brazier, Margaret; McCall Smith, Alexander; Laurie, Graeme; McLean, Shelia; Jackson, Emily; Neal, Mary; Biggs, Hazel; Ost, Suzanne

    2017-08-01

    John Kenyon Mason (19 December 1919-26 January 2017), CBE, MD, LLD, FRCPath, DMJ, FRCPE, FRSE, and known as Ken Mason to us all, was Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1973-1985 and thereafter Emeritus Professor of Forensic Medicine and Honorary Fellow in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. A formal obituary to Professor Mason is published in the Scotsman (http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-ken-mason-medical-jurisprudence-pioneer-1-4357181). We offer some personal tributes to our friend and colleague. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  5. Mason & Dixon and Hamlet

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    Celia Wallhead

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available Although there is no explicit comparison in 'Mason & Dixon' of the astronomer protagonist Charles Mason to the eponymous hero of Shakespeare's masterpiece, indisputable references to the play are to be found in the novel. Mason is endowed with qualities which mirror Hamlet's virtues and vices: he is a leader and a man of education and wit, though his metaphysical longings entice him towards madness and suicide. He is emburdened with a  deep melancholy stemming from bereavement, loss of love, the hauntings of a ghost, indecision, even cowardice and frustrated ambition.

  6. The French Masonic Tributes to Abraham Lincoln

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    Olivier Frayssé; Laurence Grégoire

    2016-01-01

    Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 sparked off a real shock wave in the United States as well as abroad. In France, as in the US, many Masonic institutions and Freemasons took initiatives to honor the memory of the great man, whose virtues were glorified and likened to Masonic values and were often based on the assumption that Lincoln was a Mason himself. However, French Freemasonry was highly politicized, and a close examination of the Masonic tributes to Lincoln also tells the story of a...

  7. Cement Mason's Curriculum. Instructional Units.

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    Hendirx, Laborn J.; Patton, Bob

    To assist cement mason instructors in providing comprehensive instruction to their students, this curriculum guide treats both the skills and information necessary for cement masons in commercial and industrial construction. Ten sections are included, as follow: related information, covering orientation, safety, the history of cement, and applying…

  8. Home Is Where Art Begins: The Works of Clyde Connell

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    Kuster, Deborah

    2005-01-01

    Students can be inspired as they examine the art and life of Clyde Connell (1901-1998). Connell was a woman who lived almost her whole life within a 50-mile radius of Shreveport, Louisiana, but traveled to New York City regularly for years. Connell was nearly 60 years old before she focused full attention on making art, and her most creative years…

  9. Modified Mason number for charged paramagnetic colloidal suspensions

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    Du, Di; Hilou, Elaa; Biswal, Sibani Lisa

    2016-06-01

    The dynamics of magnetorheological fluids have typically been described by the Mason number, a governing parameter defined as the ratio between viscous and magnetic forces in the fluid. For most experimental suspensions of magnetic particles, surface forces, such as steric and electrostatic interactions, can significantly influence the dynamics. Here we propose a theory of a modified Mason number that accounts for surface forces and show that this modified Mason number is a function of interparticle distance. We demonstrate that this modified Mason number is accurate in describing the dynamics of a rotating pair of paramagnetic colloids of identical or mismatched sizes in either high or low salt solutions. The modified Mason number is confirmed to be pseudoconstant for particle pairs and particle chains undergoing a stable-metastable transition during rotation. The interparticle distance term can be calculated using theory or can be measured experimentally. This modified Mason number is more applicable to magnetorheological systems where surface forces are not negligible.

  10. The French Masonic Tributes to Abraham Lincoln

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    Olivier Frayssé

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 sparked off a real shock wave in the United States as well as abroad. In France, as in the US, many Masonic institutions and Freemasons took initiatives to honor the memory of the great man, whose virtues were glorified and likened to Masonic values and were often based on the assumption that Lincoln was a Mason himself. However, French Freemasonry was highly politicized, and a close examination of the Masonic tributes to Lincoln also tells the story of a bitter political strife thinly veiled by the literary genre of eulogies, the fight of democracy against imperial rule. This fight of 1865 led to the creation of the Statue of Liberty, via the Lincoln medal.

  11. Masonería y política: una nueva cara del rito masonería- revolución. ¿La masonería tiene una ideología y "hace política"? ¿Los políticos fueron y son tales porque fueron masones y los masones siempre fueron hombres que tomaron partido o fueron de partido?

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    Aldo ALESSANDRO MOLA

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: ¿La Masonería es depositaria de una doctrina política y de un programa político? Hubo un tiempo en que «política» significaba educación, gobierno de la polis, es decir, de los ciudadanos (que para ser titulares de derechos y de deberes debían ser necesariamente cultos. Ahora, en la edad del universalismo, por política se entiende la administración de las necesidades. ¿Cuál es el papel de la Masonería ante el hombre secularizado? A la Masonería se le han atribuido objetivos partidistas: la lucha contra el poder del clero y las doctrinas religiosas, contra la monarquía (pero esto no es válido para las organizaciones masónicas de Gran Bretaña, Países Bajos, Bélgica, Grecia y, en muchos épocas, también para Italia, España, incluso Francia, donde la Masonería fue borbónica y bonapartista, el militarismo (aunque muchos oficiales y suboficiales fueron masones… La comprobación de la autenticidad de los objetivos de las organizaciones masónicas se puede llevar a cabo analizando si algunos masones famosos eran sólo famosos o eran además masones. Sirvan como ejemplo Azaña, Voltaire, Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi ... Ya que no es religión, la Masonería no es política politicienne, ni una revolución permanente. La elección entre «educación» y «administración de las necesidades». Palabras clave: Política, Naciones/Nacionalismo, Risorgimento y Unificación italiana, Masonería e Ilustración, Masonería y Revolución, Educación y Tolerancia, Programa de partido = administración de las necesidades. ABSTRACT: Is masonry the repository of a political doctrine and a political programme? There was a time when politics meant education, government of the polis, i. e. of the citizens (who, to have rights and duties, must necessarily be educated. Now, in the age of universalism, by politics we understand the administration of needs. What is the role of masonry in the face of secularized man? Masonry has been

  12. 78 FR 48294 - Amendment of Class E Airspace; Mason, TX

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    2013-08-08

    ...-1141; Airspace Docket No. 12-ASW-12] Amendment of Class E Airspace; Mason, TX AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This action amends Class E airspace at Mason, TX... Approach Procedures at Mason County Airport. This action enhances the safety and management of Instrument...

  13. 78 FR 54449 - Subzone 8I, Authorization of Production Activity, Whirlpool Corporation (Washing Machines); Clyde...

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    2013-09-04

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [B-43-2013] Subzone 8I, Authorization of Production Activity, Whirlpool Corporation (Washing Machines); Clyde and Green Springs, Ohio On May 1, 2013, Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the Foreign...

  14. 77 FR 65425 - Legg Mason ETF Trust, et al.; Notice of Application

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    2012-10-26

    ... Mason ETF Trust, et al.; Notice of Application October 22, 2012. AGENCY: Securities and Exchange...)(1)(A) and (B) of the Act. Applicants: Legg Mason ETF Trust (the ``Trust''), Legg Mason Partners Fund... offer three actively-managed investment series: Legg Mason Western Asset Ultra-Short Duration ETF, Legg...

  15. 75 FR 16529 - Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust, et al.; Notice of Application

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    2010-04-01

    ...] Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust, et al.; Notice of Application March 26, 2010. AGENCY: Securities and... investment companies. APPLICANTS: Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust (``LMP Equity Trust''), Legg Mason... ``Trusts'') and Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC (``LMPFA'' or the ``Adviser''). FILING DATES: The...

  16. 78 FR 31429 - Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace; Mason, TX

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    2013-05-24

    ...-1141; Airspace Docket No. 12-ASW-12] Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace; Mason, TX AGENCY: Federal... proposes to amend Class E airspace at Mason, TX. Additional controlled airspace is necessary to accommodate new Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAP) at Mason County Airport. The FAA is taking this...

  17. "La masonería en la literatura. Una panorámica general"

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    José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available ResumenEste ensayo esboza una panorámica general e internacional del binomio Literatura-masonería, estudiado porpaíses y con un cierto orden cronológico. En él se abordan aquellos literatos más conocidos que al mismotiempo fueron masones aunque no reflejen directamente su compromiso con la masonería en sus escritosliterarios. Los que sí manifiestan en sus obras el dualismo masónico-literario. Autores no masones que aluden ala masonería en sus obras y que incluso la elevan a categoría de protagonista. Y estudios críticos sobre dichosautores y sus obras.

  18. Masonic Song in Scotland: Folk Tunes and Community

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    Katherine Campbell

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available This article explores the place of Masonic songs historically in Scotland, assessing the oral culture surrounding the genre. The article further shows that folk tunes were commonly used and investigates aspects of the group performance that was central to the Lodges. Finally, the study concludes with an examination of a Masonic procession in Northeast Scotland that survives to the present day, focusing especially on the role of music and song within it.

  19. 76 FR 59153 - Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Fairfax County, VA, and Featherstone...

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    2011-09-23

    ...] Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Fairfax County, VA, and Featherstone National... plan (CCP) and finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck (Mason Neck...: Download a copy of the document at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/planning/MasonNeck_Featherstone/ccphome...

  20. A case report of Wyburn-Mason syndrome and review of the literature

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    Dayani, P.N.; Sadun, A.A.

    2007-01-01

    Wyburn-Mason syndrome is a distinct congenital neurocutaneous entity comprised of ipsilateral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the midbrain, vascular abnormalities affecting the visual pathway, and facial nevi. We report a case and review of the literature of all other reported cases of Wyburn-Mason syndrome (n = 26) in the English literature since 1973. In this review, we report on a 41/2-year-old boy with Wyburn-Mason syndrome who presented with left retinal and orbital AVMs and a ruptured thalamic AVM. The patient did not respond to light in the left eye and demonstrated a left afferent pupillary defect. He did not have any cutaneous lesions. We also characterize other reported cases of Wyburn-Mason syndrome. The presentation of patients with Wyburn-Mason syndrome can vary greatly according to the site and the extent of vascular lesions. Intracranial AVMs occasionally hemorrhage with significant morbidity. Treatment is controversial, and patients are typically managed conservatively by observation. (orig.)

  1. Sexual transgression on the American stage: Clyde Fitch, Sapho, and the 'American Girl'

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    Saxon, Theresa

    2013-01-01

    Clyde Fitch's play, Sapho (1900), is significant in the history of theatre censorship in America as a result of the arrests of the leading actress, Olga Nethersole, and several of her entourage. Critical analyses have focussed explicitly on the role of Nethersole in the censorship of the production. But the play as a dramatic production and the role of the playwright have been obscured by the media frenzy that led to the arrests and the subsequent furore. This article looks to expand the crit...

  2. Massive recruitment of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides in the Clyde Sea (Scotland, UK) in the spring of 2000

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    Hansson, L.J.; Hudson, I.R.; Seddon, R.J.

    2003-01-01

    In April 2000 a massive recruitment of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides was observed in the Clyde Sea. At one location 700 cyprids l(-1) of this species were recorded. This is similar to3500 times more abundant than previously recorded, and resulted in metamorphosis of some cyprids whilst still...

  3. Professor Howard Mason and oxygen activation

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    Waterman, Michael R.

    2005-01-01

    Our understanding of the classification, function, mechanism, and structure of the enzymes which incorporate atoms of oxygen from atmospheric molecular oxygen during catalysis is based on the thoughtful and technically challenging experiments of two giants in the field of Biochemistry, Howard Mason and Osamu Hayaishi. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery and characterization of these 'oxygenase' enzymes and provides a broad view of how far this area of research has advanced. Professor Hayaishi describes herein his perspective on the background and major discoveries which led to the development of this field. Regrettably Howard Mason passed away at age 88 in 2003. I am indeed fortunate to have been a Ph.D. student with Howard and to have the opportunity to briefly review his role in the development of this field for this special commemorative issue of BBRC

  4. 76 FR 582 - Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Fairfax County, VA, and Featherstone...

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    2011-01-05

    ...] Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Fairfax County, VA, and Featherstone National... comprehensive conservation plan and the environmental assessment (CCP/EA) for Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck (Mason Neck) National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) and Featherstone NWR for a 45-day public review and comment...

  5. The Environmental Ethic of Bill Mason: A Model for Environmental Education

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    Heintzman, Paul

    2007-01-01

    Almost 20 years after Bill Mason's death, the writings and films of this legendary Canadian canoeist, filmmaker, and artist remain popular: "Few people of any nation have been so influential in creating a sense of responsibility for the environment" (Buck, 2005, p. 12). Supported by statements in Mason's writings and films, this paper…

  6. Integrase of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Snášel, Jan; Krejčík, Zdeněk; Jenčová, Věra; Rosenberg, Ivan; Ruml, Tomáš; Alexandratos, J.; Gustchina, A.; Pichová, Iva

    2005-01-01

    Roč. 272, č. 1 (2005), s. 203-216 ISSN 1742-464X R&D Projects: GA AV ČR(CZ) IAA4055304 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : integrase * Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * HIV-1 Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

  7. Fort Mason Center: Pier 2 Project

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    Nester, Patrick [Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (United States)

    2014-08-30

    The rooftop Photovoltaic (PV) panels and radiant piping project was constructed by Fort Mason Center as part of its $21 million comprehensive rehabilitation of the Pier 2 shed which include the shed’s electrical, natural gas and water systems. Fort Mason Center improved performance while reducing energy and water usage and costs to demonstrate the efficiencies and opportunities available to large multi-function facilities. The scalable demand of these facilities required a layered approach to conservation, control and production. The project employed a comprehensive retrofit of electrical natural gas, and plumbing systems to maximize efficiency and lower carbon footprint specifically to demonstrate the effectiveness of these strategies in a public setting with varied and diverse use. The project was completed in July 2014 and met the expected outcomes regarding increased comfort and operational efficiency throughout the Pier 2 shed as well as on site electrical generation of current consumption. The entire Pier 2 shed project won a 2015 California Preservation Foundation design award for historic rehabilitation.

  8. Dynamics of simple magnetorheological suspensions under rotating magnetic fields with modulated Mason number

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    Calderon, Oscar G; Melle, Sonia

    2002-01-01

    We study theoretically the dynamics of a system of two magnetizable particles suspended in a non-magnetic fluid subject to a rotating magnetic field when a modulation on the Mason number (ratio of viscous to magnetic forces) is applied. We find, using a periodic modulation, that a resonant-like phenomenon between the periodic modulation of the Mason number and the intrinsic radial oscillation of the system without modulation occurs. For a random perturbation of the Mason number, we obtain an optimum noise strength at which the average interparticle distance reaches the lowest value. When a weak periodic modulation and a noise source are included in the Mason number, stochastic resonance (SR) is found for different frequencies and amplitudes of the modulation. An interpretation of this SR phenomenon is made by means of a threshold crossing mechanism

  9. 76 FR 49764 - Steve Mason Enterprises, Inc., Green Energy Trans, LLC; Notice of Transfer of Exemption

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    2011-08-11

    ... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 7742-007] Steve Mason... the Commission's regulations,\\1\\ Steve Mason Enterprises, Inc., exemptee for the Long Shoals Project... 26, 2011 from Steve Mason Enterprises, Inc. \\4\\ E.g., John C. Jones, 99 FERC ] 61,372, at 62,580 n.2...

  10. Red mason bees cannot compete with honey bees for floral resources in a cage experiment.

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    Hudewenz, Anika; Klein, Alexandra-Maria

    2015-11-01

    Intensive beekeeping to mitigate crop pollination deficits and habitat loss may cause interspecific competition between bees. Studies show negative correlations between flower visitation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and wild bees, but effects on the reproduction of wild bees were not proven. Likely reasons are that honey bees can hardly be excluded from controls and wild bee nests are generally difficult to detect in field experiments. The goal of this study was to investigate whether red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) compete with honey bees in cages in order to compare the reproduction of red mason bees under different honey bee densities. Three treatments were applied, each replicated in four cages of 18 m³ with 38 red mason bees in all treatments and 0, 100, and 300 honey bees per treatment with 10-20% being foragers. Within the cages, the flower visitation and interspecific displacements from flowers were observed. Niche breadths and resource overlaps of both bee species were calculated, and the reproduction of red mason bees was measured. Red mason bees visited fewer flowers when honey bees were present. Niche breadth of red mason bees decreased with increasing honey bee density while resource overlaps remained constant. The reproduction of red mason bees decreased in cages with honey bees. In conclusion, our experimental results show that in small and isolated flower patches, wild bees can temporarily suffer from competition with honey bees. Further research should aim to test for competition on small and isolated flower patches in real landscapes.

  11. 77 FR 9960 - Final Environmental Impact Statement for Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason...

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    2012-02-21

    ... Environmental Impact Statement for Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA... Environmental Impact Statement for the Extension of F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center, San Francisco... the extension of the historic streetcar F-line from Fisherman's Wharf to the Fort Mason Center, in San...

  12. RadNet Air Data From Mason City, IA

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    This page presents radiation air monitoring and air filter analysis data for Mason City, IA from EPA's RadNet system. RadNet is a nationwide network of monitoring stations that measure radiation in air, drinking water and precipitation.

  13. Estudo da resistência do tendão do supra-espinal com pontos simples, duplos e Mason Allen Study on the resistance of the supraspinous tendon using simple, matress and mason allen stitches

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    Roberto Yukio Ikemoto

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: O objetivo do trabalho foi comparar a resistência entre os pontos simples, duplo e Mason-Allen modificado, utilizados para o reparo do manguito rotador, e verificar se há diferença significativa que justifique a utilização do ponto do tipo Mason-Allen modificado ao invés dos pontos simples ou duplo. MÉTODO: Retiramos tendões do músculo supra-espinal de 15 cadáveres humanos frescos (30 ombros, com a média de idade de 45 anos. Os testes foram realizados na máquina universal de ensaio mecânico Kratos® 500/2000 e os resultados submetidos aos testes estatísticos de t-student, análise de variância (ANOVA, comparação múltipla de Bonferroni e calculadas as correlações de Pearson. Os testes foram realizados ao nível de significância de 5%. RESULTADOS: Não houve diferença significativa com relação à idade, ao tamanho das amostras e deslocamento do tendão. A resistência variou com média de 127,50 N com o ponto simples, 163,95 N com o duplo e com o ponto de Mason-Allen modificado esta foi de 198,45 N. CONCLUSÃO: não existe diferença da resistência no tendão quanto à falha na interface sutura - tendão comparando-se o ponto duplo com o Mason-Allen modificado e os pontos simples e duplo, porém há diferença quando comparados os pontos simples e Mason-Allen modificado.OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the rotator cuff tendon resistance at the interface tendon-suture using three different sorts of stitches (simple, mattress and modified Mason-Allen. METHODS: To do this, 30 rotator cuffs were totally dissected from 15 specimens, which were 45 years old on average. The tests were done using a Kratos® 500/2000 machine and the statistical analyses applied were the Student t-test, ANOVA test, Multiple Bonferroni Comparison, and Pearson's correlation coefficients; all the analyses used a significance level of 5%. RESULTS: No significant difference was observed regarding the age, sample sizes and

  14. Bilateral Wyburn-Mason Syndrome presenting as acute subarachnoid haemorrhage - a very rare congenital neurocutaneuos disorder

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    Cortnum, Søren Ole Stigaard; Sørensen, Preben; Andresen, J

    2008-01-01

    . Wyburn-Mason syndrome is a very rare congenital neurocutaneuos disorder comprising of vascular malformations of the retina, ipsilateral cerebral AVMs and occasionally lesions in the oronasopharyngeal area. Subarachnoid haemorrhage associated with Wyburn-Mason syndrome has been described in only 5...

  15. 78 FR 28622 - Notice of Approval of Record of Decision for Extending F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason...

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    2013-05-15

    ...] Notice of Approval of Record of Decision for Extending F-Line Streetcar Service to Fort Mason Center... Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) for extending the F-Line historic streetcar service to Fort Mason... turnaround terminus at the Fort Mason Center; and installing appurtenant features such as signals, crossings...

  16. Creating an environment for caring using lean principles of the Virginia Mason Production System.

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    Nelson-Peterson, Dana L; Leppa, Carol J

    2007-06-01

    As healthcare leaders search for viable options to cut costs, increase efficiencies, and improve the product that they offer to customers, many are looking at different business models to adopt. At the same time, an aging workforce of nurses feel the pressure of being overworked and understaffed, resulting in both decreased job and patient satisfaction. Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Wash, has implemented the Virginia Mason Production System, using proven concepts adapted from the Toyota Production System that effectively eliminate "muda" or waste, in workplace processes. The authors discuss the application of the Virginia Mason Production System and how it has resulted in increased time for nurses to care for their patients.

  17. Autoprocessing of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus protease

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    Bauerová, Helena; Rumlová, Michaela; Hunter, E.; Ruml, T.; Pichová, Iva

    2001-01-01

    Roč. 77, č. 2 (2001), s. 131-133 ISSN 0168-1702 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1241; GA AV ČR IAA4055904 Grant - others:Fogarty International Award(US) TW00050 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 1.806, year: 2001

  18. Constitutive Soil Properties for Mason Sand and Kennedy Space Center

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    Thomas, Michael A.; Chitty, Daniel E.

    2011-01-01

    Accurate soil models are required for numerical simulations of land landings for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). This report provides constitutive material models for two soil conditions at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and four conditions of Mason Sand. The Mason Sand is the test sand for LaRC s drop tests and swing tests of the Orion. The soil models are based on mechanical and compressive behavior observed during geotechnical laboratory testing of remolded soil samples. The test specimens were reconstituted to measured in situ density and moisture content. Tests included: triaxial compression, hydrostatic compression, and uniaxial strain. A fit to the triaxial test results defines the strength envelope. Hydrostatic and uniaxial tests define the compressibility. The constitutive properties are presented in the format of LSDYNA Material Model 5: Soil and Foam. However, the laboratory test data provided can be used to construct other material models. The soil models are intended to be specific to the soil conditions they were tested at. The two KSC models represent two conditions at KSC: low density dry sand and high density in-situ moisture sand. The Mason Sand model was tested at four conditions which encompass measured conditions at LaRC s drop test site.

  19. The York-Mason technique for recto-urethral fistulas Correção de fistula reto-uretral pela técnica de York-Mason

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    Alexandre Crippa

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available OBJECTIVE: Recto-urethral fistula formation following radical prostatectomy is an uncommon but potentially devastating event. There is no consensus in the literature regarding the treatment of these fistulas. We present here our experiences treating recto-urethral fistulas. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed 8 cases of rectourethral fistula treated at our institution in the last seven years. Seven of the patients underwent repair of the fistula using the modified York-Mason procedure. RESULTS: The causes of the fistula were radical retropubic prostatectomy in five patients, perineal debridement of Fournier's gangrene in one, transvesical prostatectomy in one and transurethral resection of the prostate in the other patient. The most common clinical manifestation was fecaluria, present in 87.5% of the cases. The mean time elapsed between diagnosis and correction of the fistula was 29.6 (7-63 months. One spontaneous closure occurred after five months of delayed catheterization. Urinary and retrograde urethrocystography indicated the site of the fistula in 71.4% of the cases. No patient presented recurrence of the fistula after its correction with the modified York-Mason procedure. CONCLUSION: The performance of routine colostomy and cystostomy is unnecessary. The technique described by York-Mason permits easy access, reduces surgical and hospitalization times and presents low complication and morbidity rates when surgically correcting recto-urethral fistulas.OBJETIVO: As fístulas reto-uretrais são de acesso difícil e por vezes complexo, sendo seu fechamento espontâneo raro. Com o diagnóstico precoce e aumento do número de intervenções, principalmente a cirurgia por adenocarcinoma da próstata localizado, sua incidência apesar de rara vem crescendo. Nós demonstramos a nossa experiência dos casos de fístulas reto-uretrais entre 2000 a 2006 com uma serie de oito pacientes, sendo que sete realizaram correção da fístula pela Técnica de

  20. 77 FR 5585 - Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc. and Mason Street Advisors, LLC; Notice of Application

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    2012-02-03

    ... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Investment Company Act Release No. 29939; File No. 812-13982] Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc. and Mason Street Advisors, LLC; Notice of Application January 30, 2012... instruments. Applicants: Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc. (``Company'') and Mason Street Advisors, LLC...

  1. Historical stages of «Masonic conspiracy» formation in Russia, second half of the XVIII century – early XX centuries

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    Ermakov V.A.

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available the author typologizes historiographical works on the history of Freemasonry, which studies the problems of version formation of «Masonic conspiracy» in Russia. The article shows the cultural and historical specificity of «Masonic conspiracy» in European and Russian policy, ztructures chronology of activities of Masonic organizations aimed at the formation of a political conspiracy against the Russian Orthodox monarchy. The author investigates the activities of prominent representatives of Russian culture and the Russian government, the participants of Masonic organizations and issue of taking control of the Russian state authorities Masonic lodges in Russia and also the differences in the activity of Masonic and paramasonskih societies. The relationship of Masonry and the «liberation movement» has been analyzed. As a result, the author concluded that the «Masonic conspiracy» in Russia had been presented as the highest form of organization of anti-government forces, which under the cover of political liberalism and cultural and educational activities pursued the goal of political upheaval and the elimination of autocracy.

  2. “Paradoxical Continuity: Antimasonry as a Progressi on of Masonic Ideals”

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    Max A. Loder

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available La masonería en las primeras décadas de la existencia de los Estados Unidos tenía un lugar jactanciosoen lasociedad. Representaba lo mejor de los valores -lalibertad, la moral, el aprendizaje-, de la sociedadidealrepublicana, con los más respetados personajes de mérito llenando sus filas. Sin embargo, para la década de 1840casi la masonería había sido llevada a su extinción. A pesar de que con el tiempo se recuperó en número demiembros, aunque sea como una de las muchas organizaciones fraternas ordinarias, las preguntas de porqué ycómo el movimiento antimasónico tuvo tanto éxito enla reducción de una hermandad que incluyópersonalidades de la talla de Benjamin Franklin y George Washington siguen siendo aún pertinentes. Enunintento de responder a ellas se he consultado fuentes primarias como periódicos contemporáneos, así comofuentes secundarias escritas por expertos en el campo. Mis investigaciones me llevaron a la conclusiónde quepoderosos cambios económicos, sociales, políticos yreligiosos en las primeras décadas de la repúblicaconspiraron para cambiar las bases de la masonería.La misma definición de mérito había democratizadoy lavieja élite de lo que algunos pensaron como una aristocracia republicana, representada por la masonería, seconvirtió cada vez más en un blanco de desprecio. Irónicamente, parece que fue la exaltación de la virtudrepublicana en la masonería lo que contribuyó a facilitar el éxito del movimiento antimasónico. La masónica-ilustrada idealización de la libertad, la virtud yla sociedad civil se adaptó bien a la joven república que muchosde sus miembros estaban ayudando a crear. El movimiento antimasónico, entonces, representa una continuaciónde los ideales masónicos en un clima de mayor democracia para el hombre común.

  3. “El imaginario de la propaganda franquista sobre la llamada ‘masonería femenina’”

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    María José Lacalzada de Mateo

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available El sometimiento de las mujeres y la falta de confianza en ellas por parte de los hombres de la masonería, supapel subsidiario, parece haya quedado flotando como tópico y espejismo. Al margen de los efectos concretosque esta clase de libro (La Masonería Femenina consiguió en la España de post-guerra, hemos de constatar enqué términos queda distorsionada la imagen femenina: la mujer como tal aparece subyugada; las logias demujeres tienen una función subalterna, sometidas alos designios de los hombres masones. Si cruzamos estapercepción residual con la realidad de que dentro de la masonería ha venido manteniéndose una corrienteexclusivamente masculina que solo acoge a las mujeres en su órbita para participar de la filosofía y en accionesbenéficas, el espejismo está servido y el discursovictimista, por más que se revista de progresista,también.

  4. Structural study of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus protease

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    Veverka, V.; Bauerová, Helena; Hrabal, R.; Pichová, Iva

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 269, - (2002), s. 57-58 ISSN 0014-2956. [Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies /28./. 20.10.2002-25.10.2002, Istanbul] R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1241 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

  5. Political goals during liquidation of masonic organizations by Joint State Political Directorate – People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs in USSR in the 1920s–1930s

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    Ermakov V.A.

    2017-04-01

    Full Text Available this research is dedicated to the political specificity of elimination of «masonic underground organization» by soviet special forces in USSR. The issue of relations between communist movements with political masonry was also considered in the article. It appears that in the beginning of 1920s «freemasons» planned prospects in cooperation with Bolsheviks, while having hidden goal to «cover» Soviet government with masonic ideas. Masons of 1920s were quite satisfied with Bolshevism as a weapon to eradicate Russian national self-awareness and its Orthodox religion. Liquidation process of masonic underground, which started in 1925, was conditioned by inner-party strife between «Stalinists», conducting anti-masonic and anti-Zionist campaigns, and «Trotskyists», who appeared to be a weapon of international masonic politics in Soviet Russia. Authors conclude that liquidation of occult-masonic underground in USSR had several political goals: covering communist party leaders' masonic past, elimination masons as potential western secret service agents, threatening conservative intelligentsia, exposure masonic people from the environment of Soviet officials and cultural elites, extermination masonic alternative of communistic ideology and preparation of «grand terror» against «Lenin's guard».

  6. Mason: a JavaScript web site widget for visualizing and comparing annotated features in nucleotide or protein sequences.

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    Jaschob, Daniel; Davis, Trisha N; Riffle, Michael

    2015-03-07

    Sequence feature annotations (e.g., protein domain boundaries, binding sites, and secondary structure predictions) are an essential part of biological research. Annotations are widely used by scientists during research and experimental design, and are frequently the result of biological studies. A generalized and simple means of disseminating and visualizing these data via the web would be of value to the research community. Mason is a web site widget designed to visualize and compare annotated features of one or more nucleotide or protein sequence. Annotated features may be of virtually any type, ranging from annotating transcription binding sites or exons and introns in DNA to secondary structure or domain boundaries in proteins. Mason is simple to use and easy to integrate into web sites. Mason has a highly dynamic and configurable interface supporting multiple sets of annotations per sequence, overlapping regions, customization of interface and user-driven events (e.g., clicks and text to appear for tooltips). It is written purely in JavaScript and SVG, requiring no 3(rd) party plugins or browser customization. Mason is a solution for dissemination of sequence annotation data on the web. It is highly flexible, customizable, simple to use, and is designed to be easily integrated into web sites. Mason is open source and freely available at https://github.com/yeastrc/mason.

  7. The Mason Water Data Information System (MWDIS): Enabling data sharing and discovery at George Mason University

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    Ferreira, C.; Da Silva, A. L.; Nunes, A.; Haddad, J.; Lawler, S.

    2014-12-01

    Enabling effective data use and re-use in scientific investigations relies heavily not only on data availability but also on efficient data sharing discovery. The CUAHSI led Hydrological Information Systems (HIS) and supporting products have paved the way to efficient data sharing and discovery in the hydrological sciences. Based on the CUAHSI-HIS framework concepts for hydrologic data sharing we developed a unique system devoted to the George Mason University scientific community to support university wide data sharing and discovery as well as real time data access for extreme events situational awareness. The internet-based system will provide an interface where the researchers will input data collected from the measurement stations and present them to the public in form of charts, tables, maps, and documents. Moreover, the system is developed in ASP.NET MVC 4 using as Database Management System, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, and hosted by Amazon Web Services. Currently the system is supporting the Mason Watershed Project providing historical hydrological, atmospheric and water quality data for the campus watershed and real time flood conditions in the campus. The system is also a gateway for unprecedented data collection of hurricane storm surge hydrodynamics in coastal wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay providing not only access to historical data but recent storms such as Hurricane Arthur. Future research includes coupling the system to a real-time flood alert system on campus, and besides providing data on the World Wide Web, to foment and provide a venue for interdisciplinary collaboration within the water scientists in the region.

  8. "Las Mujeres en la Masonería Españóla (1868 - 1939"

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    Natividad Ortiz Albear

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available En EspaÒa la presencia de mujeres en la masonerÌa entre 1868 y 1939 constituye un hecho ampliamente documentado. A pesar de la prohibiciÛn que pesaba sobre la iniciaciÛn de mujeres, Èstas poblaron las logias espaÒolas a travÈs de diferentes modalidades, entre las que destacÛ el Rito de AdopciÛn . La publicaciÛn de Estatutos de AdopciÛn por parte del GOE mantuvo la ortodoxia masÛnica pero a la vez relegÛ a las mujeres a logias femeninas segregadas. Paralelamente se desarrolla un discurso entre los masones que refleja las contradicciones de una instituciÛn que defiende la igualdad como principio pero no la aplica de manera universal. Sin embargo, entre los masones espaÒoles predominÛ una actitud proclive a la aceptaciÛn de mujeres en sus filas en aras de un incipiente feminismo que reconocÌa la trascendencia social de los roles femeninos.

  9. Correlates of mercury in fish from lakes near Clyde Forks, Ontario, Canada

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    Ethier, A.L.M.; Scheuhammer, A.M.; Bond, D.E.

    2008-01-01

    Subsurface soils near Clyde Forks, Ontario, Canada, can have naturally high concentrations of mercury (Hg) from local geological sources. To investigate Hg in local aquatic food webs, Hg was measured in fish dorsal muscle (mainly yellow perch [YP] and pumpkinseed sunfish [PS]) and surface sediments from 10 regional lakes. Water chemistry, along with fork length, weight, and stable isotopes (δ 15 N, δ 13 C, δ 34 S) in fish were also measured. No lake sediments had elevated (>0.3 μg/g dw) Hg, and average Hg concentrations in fish were not sufficiently high ( 13 C), and certain lake variables (e.g., pH for YP). PS with more pelagic feeding habits had higher δ 34 S and Hg than those with more littoral feeding habits. Potential biological linkages between fish Hg and δ 34 S, a parameter that may be related to the lake sulphate-reducing bacteria activity, requires further investigation. - Fish from lakes near a localized geological Hg source do not have elevated Hg concentrations

  10. Arthroscopic modified Mason-Allen technique for large U- or L-shaped rotator cuff tears.

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    Jung, Sung-Weon; Kim, Dong-Hee; Kang, Seung-Hoon; Lee, Ji-Heon

    2017-07-01

    While a conventional single- or double-row repair technique could be applied for repair of C-shaped tears, a different surgical strategy should be considered for repair of U- or L-shaped tears because they typically have complex patterns with anterior, posterior, or both mobile leaves. This study was performed to examine the outcomes of the modified Mason-Allen technique for footprint restoration in the treatment of large U- or L-shaped rotator cuff tears. Thirty-two patients who underwent an arthroscopic modified Mason-Allen technique for large U- or L-shaped rotator cuff tears between January 2012 and December 2013 were included in this study. Margin convergence was first performed to reduce the tear gap and tension, and then, an arthroscopic Mason-Allen technique was performed to restore the rotator cuff footprint in a side-to-end repair fashion. All patients were evaluated preoperatively and for a minimum of 2 years of follow-up with a visual analog scale (VAS) for pain, Constant score, and ultrasonography. There was significant improvement in all VAS and Constant scores compared with the preoperative values (P rotator cuff in our data. Overall satisfactory results were achieved in most patients, with the exception of those with severe fatty degeneration. An arthroscopic modified Mason-Allen technique could be an effective and reliable alternative for patients with large U- or L-shaped rotator cuff tears. Case Series, Therapeutic Level IV.

  11. 76 FR 58849 - Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust, et al.;

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    ... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Investment Company Act Release No. 29789; File No. 812-13892] Legg Mason Partners Equity Trust, et al.; Notice of Application September 15, 2011. AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''). ACTION: Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the...

  12. Mortality in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde employees: 2007-2009.

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    Freer, K; Waclawski, E

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    Just over a fifth of all deaths in Scotland occur in those under the age of 65. This study examined deaths in service in employees of the National Health Service Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GG&C) Health Board over a 3-year period. To assess crude death rates by occupational group, the main causes of death and evidence of causes that could have been prevented or modified by lifestyle changes. Demographic details, occupational grouping and death certificate data were obtained for all NHS GG&C employees who died in service between 2007 and 2009. A total of 138 employees died in this period. The occupational groups in which most deaths occurred were support services (porters, domestic and catering staff; 35%) and nurses (34%). The commonest causes of death were lung cancer (15%), ischaemic heart disease (9%) and suicide (9%). The overall crude death rate was 1.2/1000 persons/year (females 1.0 and males 1.7) and was highest among support services employees (2.4) and lowest among medical staff (0.5). The relative risk of death in support services was significantly greater than the majority of occupational groups. These findings suggest health inequality within this workforce. The main causes of death identified in the support services group could potentially be modified through workplace risk factor screening and health promotion.

  13. Nondimensional scaling of magnetorheological rotary shear mode devices using the Mason number

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    Becnel, Andrew C.; Sherman, Stephen; Hu, Wei; Wereley, Norman M.

    2015-04-01

    Magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) exhibit rapidly adjustable viscosity in the presence of a magnetic field, and are increasingly used in adaptive shock absorbers for high speed impacts, corresponding to high fluid shear rates. However, the MRF properties are typically measured at very low (γ ˙10,000 s-1) Searle cell magnetorheometer, along with a full scale rotary-vane magnetorheological energy absorber (γ ˙>25,000 s-1) are employed to analyze MRF property scaling across shear rates using a nondimensional Mason number to generate an MRF master curve. Incorporating a Reynolds temperature correction factor, data from both experiments is shown to collapse to a single master curve, supporting the use of Mason number to correlate low- and high-shear rate characterization data.

  14. Liberales, masones, ¿subversivos?

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    Bonaudo, Marta

    2007-08-01

    Full Text Available The article centers its interest in approaching the problematic of the masonics lodges not only as organizations key of the bourgeois sociability but by the role played in the dynamics of the de nominated «modern» politic, as much in the plane of the ideas, of the liberal values, republican and democratic as in the land of the organizations forms and construction of new identities.

    El artículo centra su interés en abordar la problemática de las logias masónicas no sólo en tanto entidades clave de la sociabilidad burguesa sino por el papel jugado en la dinámica de la denominada política «moderna», tanto en el plano de las ideas, de los valores liberales, republicanos y democráticos como en el terreno de las formas organizativas y de construcción de nuevas identidades.

  15. Krausistas y masones: un proyecto educativo común. El caso belga

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    Susana MONREAL

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: El estudio de la incidencia conjunta del krausismo y de la masonería en algunas instituciones educativas belgas y en su filosofía inspiradora no ha motivado, hasta el momento, investigaciones específicas. Por el contrario, existen interesantes trabajos, algunos muy recientes, sobre la influencia del pensamiento krausista o de las logias masónicas en el campo educativo. Debemos citar, en lo que se refiere a la presencia krausista en la naciente Universidad Libre de Bruselas, el artículo de John Bartier, L'Université libre de Bruxelles au temps de Théodore Verhaegen. Publicado entre 1959 y I960 , y republicado en 1981, dicho estudio guarda plena vigencia. Dos artículos, más recientes, de Roger Desmed resultan esclarecedores a propósito de las relaciones de la masonería belga con los proyectos en favor de la implantación de la enseñanza primaria obligatoria y laica en Bélgica.

  16. Masonería y educación en la España contemporánea. Entre la tolerancia y el dogmatismo

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    José Ignacio Cruz Orozco

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo vamos a centrarnos casi en exclusiva en las iniciativas planteadas por diversas entidades masónicas, ya sean potencias, logias regionales o talleres, más que en personas exponiendo solamente algunas de las experiencias más relevantes y que ejemplifican mejor las intervenciones y actuaciones de la masonería española en relación con los enfoques descritos. La visibilidad que han alcanzado otras parcelas e interpretaciones del comportamiento, de los masones en particular y de las iniciativas de la masonería como institución, no nos deben ocultar la faceta desarrollada en torno a la educación. ¿Qué importancia tuvo el proceso formativo llevado a cabo en los talleres masónicos a sus integrantes? ¿Qué lugar ocupó la masonería en el desarrollo educativo español?

  17. Una forma moderna de sociabilidad: inicio de la Masonería en Chile (1862

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    Marcos Mauricio Parada Ulloa

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente estudio es un análisis heurístico e interpretativo y tiene como propósito analizar los antecedentes fundacionales de la masonería en Chile durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Para ello, se identifican las vías de ingreso de los extranjeros en territorio Latinoamericano y nacional que fue a partir de los puertos del pacífico lo que permitió la fundación de logias. En el caso de Chile el ingreso de la masonería fue a través de los puertos de Valparaíso y Talcahuano, gracias a la movilidad de comerciantes, artesanos y profesionales de origen británico, francés y norteamericano, lo que permitió la llegada de la Orden a las ciudades de Concepción y Copiapó. La institucionalización de la masonería en Chile fue con la fundación de la Gran Logia de Chile en 1862, lo que favoreció la consolidación de la Orden en el país, la fundación de logias en distintas ciudades y la iniciación de chilenos durante las siguientes décadas.

  18. Prosopografía y redes sociales: notas metodológicas sobre el estudio de la masonería en Costa Rica

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    Ricardo Martínez Esquivel

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available La prosopografía permite conocer quiénes fueron los masones desde el punto de vista sociológico(características y rasgos sociales, pero también da información sobre la dinámica y la praxis social individualy grupal. Por consiguiente, con la prosopografía es posible construir biografías colectivas de la vida pública yasociativa de los masones. Esto permite acercarse a las relaciones entre la estructura y las dinámicas socialesdel grupo de masones, así como a la realidad social y el contexto histórico en que se desenvolvieron. Por lotanto, en el siguiente trabajo se explica el método prosopográfico y la interpretación de sus resultados según lateoría de redes sociales a partir de la experiencia de investigación sobre la masonería en Costa Rica.

  19. Using Mason number to predict MR damper performance from limited test data

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    Becnel, Andrew C.; Wereley, Norman M.

    2017-05-01

    The Mason number can be used to produce a single master curve which relates MR fluid stress versus strain rate behavior across a wide range of shear rates, temperatures, and applied magnetic fields. As applications of MR fluid energy absorbers expand to a variety of industries and operating environments, Mason number analysis offers a path to designing devices with desired performance from a minimal set of preliminary test data. Temperature strongly affects the off-state viscosity of the fluid, as the passive viscous force drops considerably at higher temperatures. Yield stress is not similarly affected, and stays relatively constant with changing temperature. In this study, a small model-scale MR fluid rotary energy absorber is used to measure the temperature correction factor of a commercially-available MR fluid from LORD Corporation. This temperature correction factor is identified from shear stress vs. shear rate data collected at four different temperatures. Measurements of the MR fluid yield stress are also obtained and related to a standard empirical formula. From these two MR fluid properties - temperature-dependent viscosity and yield stress - the temperature-corrected Mason number is shown to predict the force vs. velocity performance of a full-scale rotary MR fluid energy absorber. This analysis technique expands the design space of MR devices to high shear rates and allows for comprehensive predictions of overall performance across a wide range of operating conditions from knowledge only of the yield stress vs. applied magnetic field and a temperature-dependent viscosity correction factor.

  20. Multiplicity and Self-Identity: Trauma and Integration in Shirley Mason's Art

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    Thompson, Geoffrey

    2011-01-01

    This viewpoint appeared in its original form as the catalogue essay that accompanied the exhibition "Multiplicity and Self-Identity: Trauma and Integration in Shirley Mason's Art," curated by the author for Gallery 2110, Sacramento, CA, and the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association. The exhibition featured 17 artworks by…

  1. Masonería y educación en la Cataluña contemporánea

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    Buenaventura DELGADO

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Se acepta, por lo común, la opinión de que la masonería coadyuvó, durante los siglos XVIII y XIX, al triunfo y consolidación de los valores que hemos convenido en llamar modernos. La razón, la ciencia, la dignidad humana, la justicia y la libertad fueron, entre otros, principios asumidos por los masones como propios, y sobre los que se debía edificar el nuevo templo de la modernidad. Tampoco los proyectos de filantropía, interpretada como un amor hacia la humanidad y mejora del género humano, quedaban al margen del ideario masónico.

  2. “La masonería en México, entre las sociedades secretas y patrióticas, 1813-1830”

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    María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available ¿Qué distingue a la masonería de otras sociedades secretas o de las sociedades patrióticas? ¿Lo que hubo en México entre 1823 y 1830, sigue siendo masonería a pesar de su condición de centros de acción política? En este trabajo se intentará responder éstas y otras preguntas que se desprenden del complejo accionar de los masones en México durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, proponiendo algunas definiciones operativas, así como aplicándolas a los casos concretos de las organizaciones masónicas, paramasónicas, sociedades patrióticas y secretas que funcionaron en el país en esos años.

  3. De masonería, control y otras lealtades fraternales: el rescate de Porfirio Díaz por un hermano masón

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    Guillermo de los Reyes Heredia

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se explora el papel que jugó Porfirio Díaz dentro de la masonería y su relación con dichainstitución. Se analiza una de las historias que comprueban que Díaz logró ciertos beneficios gracias a suafiliación masónica desde antes que fuera presidente de México. Esta historia narra la manera en que Díazlogró entrar de contrabando a México con la ayuda de un hermano masón en 1876, después de su breve exilioen Nuevo Orleans a bordo del buque de vapor, “City of Havana”. En un principio se pensaba que ésta erasimplemente una leyenda más del folklore que envuelve a la masonería. Sin embargo, dos testimonios, ambosde masones que iban en el mismo barco ratifican la historia que incluso el mismo historiador de la masoneríanorteamericana, William Deslow, catalogaba como un incidente, “no verificado.”Asimismo, se describe cómo Díaz promovió la unificación de las logias del rito escocés en unainstitución que se llamó La Gran Dieta Simbólica. La razón principal por la cual Díaz promovió talunificación, como se afirma en este artículo, fue para llevar a cabo su plan de pacificación nacional. Díazsabía que tenía que obtener el control de la masonería para evitar que ésta le causara problemas para lograr elorden y progreso que caracterizó a su gobierno. Por tal motivo, el dictador siempre vigiló que ni la masonería,ni cualquier otra institución que hubiera podido tener cierta influencia en la sociedad estuvieran fuera de sucontrol.

  4. “La influencia de la masonería madrileña en la política de la Segunda República Española (1931-1939”

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    Manuel Según-Alonso

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    Full Text Available Las criticadas interconexiones entre masonería y política en Madrid (España deben abordarse desde diferentes puntos de vista, puesto que nos encontramos ante una institución compleja, estructurada en varios niveles de acción: masones, logias y Obediencias. Además, a la masonería madrileña se le ha atribuido objetivos partidistas como la lucha contra el poder de la dictadura, el clero y la monarquía; y a favor de una sociedad laica y democrática; así como un fuerte compromiso social. Hemos intentado explicar, dentro del contexto madrileño, el vínculo entre masonería y política (republicanismo que hace que se cree un grupo ideológico de presión dentro de la masonería madrileña en la República Española (1931-1939.

  5. Telegramme sent on June 14 1956 from physicists Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the detection, for the first time, of neutrinos. The Physics Nobel Prize in 1995 was awarded to Reines for this discovery.

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    Telegramme sent on June 14 1956 from physicists Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the detection, for the first time, of neutrinos. The Physics Nobel Prize in 1995 was awarded to Reines for this discovery.

  6. “Vías de penetración de la masonería en el Caribe”

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    José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available La introducción y desarrollo de la Fr ancmasonería en América fue un claro refl ejo y transposición de la situación de la masonería en la Europa del siglo XVIII y comienzo s del XIX. Mientras en toda la América hispana la masonería estuvo prohibida y perseguida tanto por los Tribunales de la Inquisición como por los edictos de los reyes, las antiguas colonias inglesas siguieron la tradición y el ejemplo de Gran Bretaña de forma tal que la institución masónica a la que pertenecían importantes hombres de la política y el ejército logró una rápida implantación con la creación de Grandes Logias en las trece colonias entre 1 778 y 1794. Por otro lado a medida que los colonos avanzaban hacia el oeste los masones que se instalaban en las nuevas zonas solicitaban autorización para crear logias, germen de futuras Grandes Logias en los esta dos que se iban formando. Por ende el objetivo de este artículo está en explicar di cho proceso de expansión masónica en el Caribe.

  7. Characterization of Mason Gully (H5): The second recovered fall from the Desert Fireball Network

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    Dyl, K.A.; Benedix, G.K.; Bland, P.A.; Friedrich, J.M.; Spurný, Pavel; Towner, M.C.; O'Keefe, M.C.; Howard, K.; Greenwood, R.C.; Macke, R.; Britt, D.; Halfpenny, A.; Thostenson, J.O.; Rudolph, R.A.; Rivers, M.; Bevan, A.W.R.

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    Roč. 15, č. 3 (2016), s. 596-613 ISSN 1086-9379 Institutional support: RVO:67985815 Keywords : Mason Gully * analysis * geochemical data Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics Impact factor: 2.391, year: 2016

  8. Clinical outcomes and repair integrity after arthroscopic full-thickness rotator cuff repair: suture-bridge versus double-row modified Mason-Allen technique.

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    Lee, Kwang Won; Yang, Dae Suk; Lee, Gyu Sang; Ma, Chang Hyun; Choy, Won Sik

    2018-05-23

    This retrospective study compared the clinical and radiologic outcomes of patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs by the suture-bridge and double-row modified Mason-Allen techniques. From January 2012 to May 2013, 76 consecutive cases of full-thickness rotator cuff tear, 1 to 4 cm in the sagittal plane, for which arthroscopic rotator cuff repair was performed, were included. The suture-bridge technique was used in 37 consecutive shoulders; and the double-row modified Mason-Allen technique, in 39 consecutive shoulders. Clinical outcomes at a minimum of 2 years (mean, 35.7 months) were evaluated postoperatively using the visual analog scale; University of California, Los Angeles Shoulder Scale; American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Subjective Shoulder Scale; and Constant score. Postoperative cuff integrity was evaluated at a mean of 17.7 months by magnetic resonance imaging. At the final follow-up, the clinical outcomes improved in both groups (all P  .05). The retear rate was 18.9% in the shoulders subjected to suture-bridge repair and 12.8% in the double-row modified Mason-Allen group; the difference was not significant (P = .361). Despite the presence of fewer suture anchors, the patients who underwent double-row modified Mason-Allen repair had comparable shoulder functional outcomes and a comparable retear rate with those who underwent suture-bridge repair. Therefore, the double-row modified Mason-Allen repair technique can be considered an effective treatment for patients with medium- to large-sized full-thickness rotator cuff tears. Copyright © 2018 Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  9. “Elementos para la discusión sobre masonería, política y secularización en la Centroamérica del siglo XIX”

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    Roberto Armando Valdés Valle

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo ofrece un marco de interpretación sobre ensayo la politización de la Masonería, basado en lo establecido en algunas de las Constituciones masónicas del siglo XIX, donde se precisa cuál era la naturaleza, fines y objetivos de la Masonería centroamericana. Este análisis ayuda a entender el por qué del debate periodístico en torno al papel político que jugaron los masones centroamericanos durante el siglo XIX.

  10. “Origen, miembros y primeras acciones de la masonería en El Salvador (1871-1872”

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    Roberto Armando Valdés Valle

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    Full Text Available En este trabajo se establecen los orígenes oficiales de la Masonería en El Sa lvador durante el último tercio del siglo XIX; se identifica quiénes eran sus miembros, que roles o papeles desempeñaban en la sociedad salvadoreña, cuál fue el contexto socio-histórico y polític o en el que se fundó el primer Taller masónico en el país, y cuál fue la reacción del clero y los sectores de l país más identificados con el ultramontanismo a la fundación de esta primera Logia. Para dar respuesta a esta cuestiones, se hace uso de fuentes tanto eclesiales como gubernamentales y de historia de la masonería sa lvadoreña y centroamericana que al cruzarse revelan y confirman la gran participación que tuvieron los masones salvadoreños en los turbulentos años de 1871 y 1872, cuando inicia el proceso de secularización del Estado salvadoreño, proceso que curiosamente coincidió con la fundación de la Logia Progreso N° 5.

  11. Modelos y culturas políticas en la masonería española contemporánea

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    Luis P. MARTÍN

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Se suele pensar que la Masonería es una sociabilidad que se presta a pocas mutaciones debido al fuerte componente cultural de sus orígenes. Esta idea es inexacta si nos atenemos a la constante permeabilidad de las logias masónicas españolas respecto a las cuestiones claves de la sociedad contemporánea. Esta cualidad, más el hecho de que una de las finalidades de la Masonería sea la de contribuir a edificar un mundo mejor para los seres humanos, la ha llevado a convertirse en un receptáculo de ideas políticas y las logias a ser un ágora de discusión. Una circulación de ideas que se completó por una adecuación de prácticas políticas. Nuestro estudio parte de la base de que estas culturas políticas son el fruto de un proceso de modelización que van desde la recepción a la elaboración y la difusión. Así nos percatamos que si la cultura política dominante entre los masones es la republicana, su interpretación es múltiple y su prácticas también lo son. A través de un análisis de lo que supone estas culturas de la República, del paso del liberalismo a la democracia radical y extendiéndonos hasta el humanismo político, constatamos, la movilidad de la Masonería, su integración en redes políticas y la difusión de principios que serán consagrados con el triunfo republicano en 1931. ABSTRACT: It is often thought that the Masonry is a sociability which lends itself to few mutations due to the strong cultural component of its origin. This idea is inaccurate if we hold to the constant permeability of Spanish Masonic Lodges in relation to the key questions of contemporary society. This quality, together with the fact that one of the Masonry’s aims is to contribute to build a better world for human beings, has led it to become a recipient of political ideas and has also turned the lodges into agoras for discussion. A movement of ideas which was completed by the adaptation of political practice. Our research starts

  12. 75 FR 23666 - Huron-Manistee National Forests, White Pines Wind Farm Project, Mason County, MI

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Huron-Manistee National Forests, White Pines Wind Farm Project, Mason County, MI AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. ACTION: Cancellation Notice of notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. SUMMARY: The Forest Service proposed to prepare an...

  13. The Mason Gully Meteorite Fall in SW Australia: Fireball Trajectory and Orbit from Photographic Records

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    Spurný, Pavel; Bland, P.A.; Shrbený, Lukáš; Towner, M.C.; Borovička, Jiří; Bevan, A.W.R.; Vaughan, D.

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    Roč. 46, Supplement (2011), A220-A220 ISSN 1086-9379. [Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society /74./. 08.08.2011-12.08.2011, London] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10030501 Keywords : Mason Gully Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics

  14. “La influencia de la masonería madrileña en la política de la Segunda República Española (1931-1939)”

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    Las criticadas interconexiones entre masonería y política en Madrid (España) deben abordarse desde diferentes puntos de vista, puesto que nos encontramos ante una institución compleja, estructurada en varios niveles de acción: masones, logias y Obediencias. Además, a la masonería madrileña se le ha atribuido objetivos partidistas como la lucha contra el poder de la dictadura, el clero y la monarquía; y a favor de una sociedad laica y democrática; así como un fuerte compromiso social. Hemos in...

  15. Letter to the Editor: Backbone resonance assignment of protease from Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Veverka, V.; Bauerová, Helena; Zábranský, Aleš; Pichová, Iva; Hrabal, R.

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    Roč. 20, - (2001), s. 291-292 ISSN 0925-2738 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1241 Grant - others:Fogarty International Award(US) TW00050 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * retroviral protease Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.636, year: 2001

  16. Masones salvadoreños e instrucción intelectual femenina: El Salvador, 1875-1887”

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    Olga Carolina Vásquez Monzón

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    Full Text Available Este trabajo analiza la influencia política que tuvieron masones como Baltasar Estupinián, Rafael Reyes, RafaelZaldívar, Antonio J. Castro, Manuel Delgado y Rafael Meza en la promoción de la instrucción intelectual paralas mujeres en El Salvador, durante el último tercio del siglo XIX. A través de la revisión de impresos de laépoca, el estudio recoge discursos de opinión, decretos, reglamentos y noticias que vinculan a estos masones conactividades de fomento a la educación femenina, lacreación de institutos de enseñanza para mujeres, laampliación del plan de estudios, el otorgamiento debecas o la exoneración de pagos para aquellas quequisierancontinuar sus estudios secundarios y de educación superior.

  17. Liberales, protestantes y masones, modernidad y tolerancia religiosa. Perú, siglo XIX. [Reseña

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    Reseña de: Fernando ARMAS ASÍN, Liberales, protestantes y masones, modernidad y tolerancia religiosa. Perú, siglo XIX, Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos «Bartolomé de las Casas» - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Cusco (Perú) 1998, 298 pp.

  18. Characterization of Mason Gully (H5): The second recovered fall from the Desert Fireball Network

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    Dyl, Kathryn A.; Benedix, Gretchen K.; Bland, Phil A.; Friedrich, Jon M.; Spurný, Pavel; Towner, Martin C.; O'Keefe, Mary Claire; Howard, Kieren; Greenwood, Richard; Macke, Robert J.; Britt, Daniel T.; Halfpenny, Angela; Thostenson, James O.; Rudolph, Rebecca A.; Rivers, Mark L.; Bevan, Alex W. R.

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    Mason Gully, the second meteorite recovered using the Desert Fireball Network (DFN), is characterized using petrography, mineralogy, oxygen isotopes, bulk chemistry, and physical properties. Geochemical data are consistent with its classification as an H5 ordinary chondrite. Several properties distinguish it from most other H chondrites. Its 10.7% porosity is predominantly macroscopic, present as intergranular void spaces rather than microscopic cracks. Modal mineralogy (determined via PS-XRD, element mapping via energy dispersive spectroscopy [EDS], and X-ray tomography [for sulfide, metal, and porosity volume fractions]) consistently gives an unusually low olivine/orthopyroxene ratio (0.67-0.76 for Mason Gully versus ~1.3 for typical H5 ordinary chondrites). Widespread "silicate darkening" is observed. In addition, it contains a bright green crystalline object at the surface of the recovered stone (diameter ≈ 1.5 mm), which has a tridymite core with minor α-quartz and a rim of both low- and high-Ca pyroxene. The mineralogy allows the calculation of the temperatures and ƒ(O2) characterizing thermal metamorphism on the parent body using both the two-pyroxene and the olivine-chromite geo-oxybarometers. These indicate that MG experienced a peak metamorphic temperature of ~900 °C and had a similar ƒ(O2) to Kernouvé (H6) that was buffered by the reaction between olivine, metal, and pyroxene. There is no evidence for shock, consistent with the observed porosity structure. Thus, while Mason Gully has some unique properties, its geochemistry indicates a similar thermal evolution to other H chondrites. The presence of tridymite, while rare, is seen in other OCs and likely exogenous; however, the green object itself may result from metamorphism.

  19. "Auge y Caída de la Masonería en México en el Siglo XIX. La Exclusión de la Mujer bajo la mirada del Discurso Masónico de Laureana Wright González"

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    Carlos Francisco MartÌnez Moreno

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    Full Text Available La masonerÌa femenina en MÈxico fue efÌmera en el siglo XIX, surgiÛ con el apoyo de masones varones comprometidos con la educaciÛn de la mujer y su emancipaciÛn del dogma catÛlico, que no lograron emanciparse de los dogmas masÛnicos incoherentes con el progreso que decÌan defender; que por presiones de la masonerÌa internacional optaron por el conservadurismo de sus normas antes que perder el reconocimiento de la masonerÌa regular, con lo que excluyeron a la mujer de la masonerÌa.

  20. A Reply on Behalf of the Relativist to Mark Mason's Justification of Universal Ethical Principles

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    Mark Mason, in his "A Justification, After the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals" Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37 (2005), attempts to justify transcultural multiculturalism. In this paper I argue that he fails to refute moral relativism, and that multiculturalism as he interprets it is not morally…

  1. Swiss-German Music Books in the Mason-McConathy Collection: Accounts from Europe to the United States.

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    Howe, Sondra Wieland

    2000-01-01

    Provides an examination of the Swiss-German music books in the Luther Whiting Mason-Osbourne McConathy Collection. Based on research undertaken to learn about music education in nineteenth century Switzerland and its influence on U.S. music education. (CMK)

  2. Interpretation of Mason's equation in terms of measurable electrochemical-etching parameters governing the dielectric breakdown phenomenon

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    Al-Najjar, S.A.R.; Durrani, S.A.

    1986-01-01

    A new interpretation of Mason's equation, as applicable to the electrochemical etching (ECE) of tracks in polymers, is presented in terms of physically meaningful track-etching parameters. The values of these parameters have been experimentally obtained by irradiating CR-39 foils with heavy ions ( 238 U and 129 Xe) and α-particles of various energies, and applying chemical pre-etching (CPE), followed by ECE in steps, with increasing electric field until the 'treeing' breakdown is initiated. A value of 1.19 MV cm -1 is obtained for the intrinsic electrical breakdown stress of CR-39. It is found that the track radius r used in Mason's equation is related to the radius rsub(Θ) of a sphere, inscribed within the etch cone, whose lowest point is at a fixed distance lsub(o) above the cone tip, with lsub(o) ≅ 1.75 μm for α-particle tracks of energies 2-5.5 MeV, such that r = 0.43 + rsub(Θ) (in μm). (author)

  3. “Something More Than a Rifle”: Firearms in and around Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon

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    Umberto Rossi

    2014-03-01

    Full Text Available This article aims to carry out a multidisciplinary reading of 'Mason & Dixon' starting from the apparitions of what might only look like a "stage prop", a rifle in four more or less important moments of the novel. By applying a stereoscopic reading of the novel, which may achieve depth by means of comparing different textual objects and a wider historical context (that of the history of firearms in the 17th and 18th century, plus other works by Pynchon featuring firearms, it will be shown how literary (textual avatars of "real", "historical" objects (firearms may at the same time be verbal constructs but refer to the technical, material features of those objects, establishing multi-dimensional and complex relations between technology, science, economics (early forms of globalization, politics (colonialism and colonial wars within and outside 'Mason & Dixon', and the rest of Pynchon's oeuvre. Moreover, this reading allows us to better understand how Pynchon may use the historical documents and literature he has found while researching his novels.

  4. Modified Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty. Radiological follow-up 322 patients with morbid obesity; Ruolo della radiologia nella valutazione dei pazienti affetti da obesita' patologica sottoposti a gastroplastica verticale secondo Mason modificata. Studio di 322 casi

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    Monteduro, F.; Cappello, I.; Pezzi, A.; Spagnol, A. [Bologna Univ., Bologna (Italy). Policlinico S. Orsola, Servizio Radiologia 2; Ghetti, A. [Bologna Univ., Bologna (Italy). Clinica Chirurgica 2

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    Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) is one of the most popular surgical techniques for the treatment of morbid obesity because it is effective and easy to perform and presents a low incidence of long-term complications. In this issue it is reported personal results in 322 Mason's VBG patients who were followed-up radiologically. 322 patients were submitted to modified Mason's VBG and underwent radiological follow-up, preferably with single contrast, to assess the shape and volume of the pouch and the presence of postoperative complications. The patients were 272 women and 50 men whose average weight was 124 kg (range: 78 to 218 kg). The women's average age was 37 years (range: 17 to 69) and the men's 36 (range: 19 to 64). It was performed a double contrast examination, adapting the dosage of effervescent powders to the gastric pouch capacity, only in particular cases where a more detailed study of pouch surface was required. The examinations were performed at 1 month and 12 months postoperatively to evaluate the pouch shape and volume, in order to correlate surgical results with weight loss. Premature or unscheduled examinations were necessary only in some cases due to suspected complications or unsatisfactory weight loss. It was observed that early postoperative complications such as pseudo pylorus edema (8 patients) and intragastric hemorrhage (1 patient), and late complications such as pseudo pylorus adherence to the gallbladder bed (1 patient), pseudo diverticular extroversion (1 patient), and axial enlargement (4 patients) of the pouch. The only two cases of staple-line dehiscence were both identified radiographically. In 305 patients with satisfactory weight loss no complications were observed with a pouch size of 45-70 mL (at 1 month) and 58-70 mL (at 12 months). Upper gastrointestinal radiological studies permit to detect both early and late postoperative complications in Mason's VBG patients. That also provide data on

  5. "Auge y Caída de la Masonería en México en el Siglo XIX. La Exclusión de la Mujer bajo la mirada del Discurso Masónico de Laureana Wright González"

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    Carlos Francisco MartÌnez Moreno

    2012-01-01

    La masonerÌa femenina en MÈxico fue efÌmera en el siglo XIX, surgiÛ con el apoyo de masones varones comprometidos con la educaciÛn de la mujer y su emancipaciÛn del dogma catÛlico, que no lograron emanciparse de los dogmas masÛnicos incoherentes con el progreso que decÌan defender; que por presiones de la masonerÌa internacional optaron por el conservadurismo de sus normas antes que perder el reconocimiento de la masonerÌa regular, con lo que...

  6. The Mason-Pfizer monkey virus internal scaffold domain enables in vitro assembly of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag

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    Sakalian, M.; Dittmer, S. S.; Gandy, A. D.; Rapp, N. D.; Zábranský, Aleš; Hunter, E.

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    Roč. 76, č. 21 (2002), s. 10811-10820 ISSN 0022-538X Grant - others:NIH(US) CA-27834; NIH(US) AI-43230 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 5.241, year: 2002

  7. Carlos Esplá : anticlericalismo y masonería en un republicano español del siglo XX

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    Full Text Available A través de este artículo se ha intentado dar una explicación —dentro del contexto español— al tradicional vínculo entre republicanismo, anticlericalismo y masonería. Para ello hemos recurrido a analizar la trayectoria de un hombre público, Carlos Esplá, que responde plenamente al perfil esencial del republicano del primer tercio del siglo XX. Se ha querido, otra cosa es que se haya conseguido, demostrar como en muchos casos tal vinculación no respondía tanto a cuestiones dogmáticas, como a motivaciones racionalistas o coyunturales. Es decir, buena parte de los republicanos eran anticlericales y masones, lo que no quería decir que fuesen antirreligiosos, ni tampoco que cumpliesen con los ritos y las consignas del Grande Oriente. Ambas militancias estaban estrechamente ligadas a una coyuntura histórica específica.Through this article we have tried to explain —within the spanish context— the traditional link between republicanism, anticlericalism and masonry. For that reason we have resorted to analise he career of a republic man, Carlos Esplá, who perfectly answers to the profile of the republican of the first third of the xx Century. We have, we don't know if we have succeeded, to show how in lots of cases such a connection doesn't have to do with dogmatic questions as much as rationalistic or current motives. A great idea of republicans were anticlerical and masons, which didn't mean they were anti-religious, ñor that they followed the rites and instructions of the Great East. Both affiliations/tendencies were closely linked to a specific historical situation.

  8. Molecular organization of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus capsids assembled from Gag polyprotein in .I.Escherichia coli./I..

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    Nermut, M. V.; Bron, P.; Thomas, D.; Rumlová, Michaela; Ruml, T.; Hunter, E.

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    Roč. 76, č. 9 (2002), s. 4321-4330 ISSN 0022-538X R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1005; GA ČR GA203/98/P151 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 5.241, year: 2002

  9. The Short Fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason: Silent Voices, Silenced Voices, Voicing Silence.

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    La presente tesis doctoral se enmarca dentro del campo de los estudios norteamericanos, centrándose en el relato breve de la escritora sureña Bobbie Ann Mason. El título de este proyecto apunta al foco de la investigación: el silencio. He utilizado tres puntos de vista diferentes para examinar los cuentos de esta escritora: el contexto socio-cultural, estudios comparativos literarios y teóricos y, por último, el análisis textual de su narrativa. Considero la producción literaria de Bobbie ...

  10. Gag domains of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus mediating assembly of capsids and "Core related" particles in bacteria

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    Rumlová, Michaela; Hunter, E.; Nermut, M.; Pichová, Iva; Ruml, T.

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    Roč. 77, č. 2 (2001), s. 110-113 ISSN 0168-1702 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1005 Grant - others:Fogarty International Award(US) TW00050; NIH(US) CA-27834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 1.806, year: 2001

  11. Unity is strength : Masonic lodges in Ottoman Syria with special focus on Tripoli and El Mina (1860-1908)

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    Unity is Strength – this was the core statement made by Syrian freemasons already in 1876 when spreading their ideas all over the Syrian lands. With this phrase in mind, in this book Dorothe Sommer analyses early masonic lodges that existed in the late Ottoman Empire showing how Syrian freemasons

  12. Single-row modified mason-allen versus double-row arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: a biomechanical and surface area comparison.

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    Nelson, Cory O; Sileo, Michael J; Grossman, Mark G; Serra-Hsu, Frederick

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    The purpose of this study was to compare the time-zero biomechanical strength and the surface area of repair between a single-row modified Mason-Allen rotator cuff repair and a double-row arthroscopic repair. Six matched pairs of sheep infraspinatus tendons were repaired by both techniques. Pressure-sensitive film was used to measure the surface area of repair for each configuration. Specimens were biomechanically tested with cyclic loading from 20 N to 30 N for 20 cycles and were loaded to failure at a rate of 1 mm/s. Failure was defined at 5 mm of gap formation. Double-row suture anchor fixation restored a mean surface area of 258.23 +/- 69.7 mm(2) versus 148.08 +/- 75.5 mm(2) for single-row fixation, a 74% increase (P = .025). Both repairs had statistically similar time-zero biomechanics. There was no statistical difference in peak-to-peak displacement or elongation during cyclic loading. Single-row fixation showed a higher mean load to failure (110.26 +/- 26.4 N) than double-row fixation (108.93 +/- 21.8 N). This was not statistically significant (P = .932). All specimens failed at the suture-tendon interface. Double-row suture anchor fixation restores a greater percentage of the anatomic footprint when compared with a single-row Mason-Allen technique. The time-zero biomechanical strength was not significantly different between the 2 study groups. This study suggests that the 2 factors are independent of each other. Surface area and biomechanical strength of fixation are 2 independent factors in the outcome of rotator cuff repair. Maximizing both factors may increase the likelihood of complete tendon-bone healing and ultimately improve clinical outcomes. For smaller tears, a single-row modified Mason-Allen suture technique may provide sufficient strength, but for large amenable tears, a double row can provide both strength and increased surface area for healing.

  13. Educación, Masonería y Segunda República. Algunos aspectos críticos

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Clarín lo dijo escuetamente en frase de resonancia gineriana: la educación es la cuestión de España. No es extraño, pues, que abandonar los moldes de nuestra ineducación fuese para la masonería, como para otras minorías españolas interesadas en el tan llevado y traído regeneracionismo hispano, una preocupación básica.

  14. Educación esotérica de la Masonería española decimonónica

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    Pedro F. ÁLVAREZ LÁZARO

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Una de las características que mejor ha definido teóricamente a la institución masónica a lo largo de su historia ha sido su vocación esencialmente educadora. En este punto existe una coincidencia unánime tanto en las declaraciones de principios de las principales obediencias de todas las épocas y países, como en los reglamentos internos de las logias y en las manifestaciones públicas de los masones más representativos. Tal característica podía desprenderse ya de las conocidas Constituciones de Anderson de 1723, auténtica carta magna de la «Masonería Especulativa» o moderna, que al proclamar la neutralidad religiosa y política de la Orden y su sumisión a los poderes legítimamente establecidos, le cerraba el paso, en gran medida, al intento de cambiar la sociedad alterando las estructuras fundamentales de ésta, pero le posibilitaba intentar transformarla cambiando a las personas, es decir, utilizando la educación como instrumento de reforma.

  15. Composición socio-ocupacional de los masones del siglo XIX.

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    Ricardo Martínez Esquivel

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    Full Text Available Una de las razones históricas del éxito de la Masonería en el mundo ha sido el hecho de que sus logias constituyen un espacio idóneo para el libre pensamiento y expresión, por lo que entre sus miembros es común encontrar personas de distintas procedencias, ocupaciones e incluso religiones. Este ambiente de tolerancia y fraternidad ha permitido además, la iniciación de personas de distintos niveles socioeconómicos y de diversas nacionalidades. Por tanto, el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar a partir de una base prosopográfica, el perfil socio-ocupacional y las posibles redes sociales que integraron los miembros de las logias de Costa Rica durante el siglo XIX.

  16. Simultaneous bilateral Mason type IIb radial head fractures in a young female: Was an increased carrying angle the cause?

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    Radial head fracture is the most common type of elbow fracture in adults. It results from a fall on an outstretched hand. However, simultaneous bilateral radial head fractures are extremely rare. We report a case of simultaneous bilateral mason type IIb radial head fractures in a young female, which was treated nonoperatively with excellent results

  17. La integración de las mujeres en la masonería española a través del rito de adopción (1868- 1939

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    Natividad ORTIZ ALBEAR

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: La masonería de Adopción o masonería femenina nació en Francia en 1774 como una fórmula para permitir la iniciación de mujeres y, por lo tanto, evitar la prohibición que las Constituciones de Anderson (1723 habían establecido al respecto. En España los primeros reglamentos y rituales de Adopción fueron publicados a finales del siglo XIX, muy influidos por el modelo francés. A partir de entonces, las iniciaciones de mujeres procuraron ajustarse a la legalidad masónica, lo que provocó una segregación que en ocasiones fue contestada desde las propias logias. A pesar de todo, en términos generales la masonería femenina fue aceptada puesto que, aunque tibia, suponía una forma de integrar a la mujer en el proyecto social que defendían. ABSTRACT: The Masonry of Adoption or feminine Masonry was born in France in 1774 like a formula to allow the initiation of women and, therefore, to avoid the prohibition that Anderson’s Constitutions (1723 they had settled down in this respect. In Spain the first regulations and rituals of Adoption were published at the end of the XIX century, very influenced by the French pattern. Starting from then, the initiations of women tried to be adjusted to the Masonic legality, what caused a segregation that was answered from the own lodges in occasions. In spite of everything, in general terms the feminine Masonry was accepted since, although tibia, supposed a form of integrating the woman in the social project that they defended.

  18. Evolution of the three surgical patients with rectal neoplasm using the York Mason

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    Praderi, R.; Harretche, M.

    1998-01-01

    Before the development of mechanical suture machines, we often used the York Mason transrectal approach technique for resection of villous tumors of the rectum and small carcinomas.Three female patients who underwent this procedure in 1979, 1983 and 1986 were followed up to the present. In two of the cases (An, 28 years, and Eg, 68 years), small epitheliomas were resected (4 and 3 cm). Eg underwent radiotherapy, as she had a Malpighian tumor, and a year later plastia of the anus.Evolution was good and 14 year later a small perineal tumor appeared which was resected on may 23 1997 and turned out to be a fibrosarcoma with little cellular activity (the patient is now 81 years old).The third patient(MZ; 70 years old) had a great villous tumor which was resected in late 1986,received and was re operated with York Mason approach four years later (october 1990)At the beginning of 1994 a new received was resected by means of endoscopy, but bled profusely and has to undergo urgent surgery carrying out a perineal amputation of the rectum which was left open (Lisfranc).Histological study showed it was a tubular and villous adenocarcinoma with high mucosecretant activity.In March of the same year the perineum was closed and the sigmoidal stump was resected below the colostomy. In late 1996 an encapsulated tumor appeared with subcutaneous situation in the posterior perineum; this was resected in november 19, 1996 with local anesthesia.Microscopical findings also showed an adenocarcinoma with great production of mucine.The patient is now 80 years old and she has not relapsed.The three patients are alive; two of them have continent anus.They have been operated on for 20, 14 and 11 years

  19. Antigenic analysis of the major structural protein of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Schochetman, G.; Boehm-Truitt, M.; Schlom, J.

    1976-01-01

    The major internal protein, p27 (m.w. 27,000 daltons) of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) was purified by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography and then used to develop a radioimmunoassay (RIA). This RIA was specific for MPMV because no immunologic cross-reactivity was observed between p27 of MPMV and 13 different RNA tumor viruses of mammalian and avian origin. However, the p27 of MPMV grown in three different primate cells exhibited identical antigenic cross-reactivity. In addition, significant levels of p27 were found only in MPMV-infected cells. These results indicate that synthesis of p27 is induced after virus infection and that p27 represents a viral-coded protein

  20. Aerial gamma ray and magnetic survey: Mason City quadrangle, Iowa and Minnesota. Final report

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    The Mason City quadrangle covers 6900 miles of the northern Midwestern Physiographic Province in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. The surface is largely covered by Quaternary glacial and related deposits. The subglacial surface is exposed only in the northeast and is composed of thin Mesozoic and Paleozoic sediments overlying Precambrian basement. A search of available literature revealed no known uranium deposits. A total of 89 uranium anomalies were detected and briefly described in this report. None were considered significant, and all appear to be related to cultural features. Concentrations of K, U, and T are extremely low throughout the quadrangle. Magnetic data appear to illustrate complexities in the underlying Precambrian

  1. Establishment and extinction of a population of South Georgian diving petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand, during the late Holocene

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    Holdaway, R.N.; Jones, M.D.; Beavan Athfield, N.R.

    2003-01-01

    A population of South Georgian diving petrels (Pelecanoides georgicus) (c. 130 g) became extinct at Mason Bay, on the west coast of Stewart Island, before European settlement. Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) bones with the diving petrel fossils provided an opportunity to determine whether the rats arrived before the petrels went extinct. Fifteen 14 C accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) ages on purified diving petrel bone gelatin from various parts of Mason Bay clustered unexpectedly in the 14th and 15th centuries AD, and none was older. Bayesian statistical analysis, using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedure, gave a 95% probability that the diving petrel colony was founded between 1338 and 1440 AD, lasted 40-310 years, and became extinct between 1475 and 1650 AD. Possible reasons for the late colonisation of Mason Bay by South Georgian diving petrels burrow are discussed. Bayesian analysis of five 14 C AMS determinations on Pacific rat bone gelatin did not exclude the possibility that the Pacific rat arrived before the diving petrel colony was established. However, the enriched δ 13 C of their bone gelatin suggests that the rats had a partially marine diet, and a terrestrial calibration procedure for their AMS ages was probably not appropriate. The Pacific rat is likely to have arrived after the diving petrel colony became established and probably caused the bird's extinction after a short period of coexistence. (author). 103 refs., 3 figs., 5 tabs

  2. Comparison of classical and affinity purification techniques of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus capsid protein: The Alteration of the product by an affinity tag

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    Rumlová, Michaela; Benedíková, Jitka; Cubínková, Romana; Pichová, Iva; Ruml, Tomáš

    2001-01-01

    Roč. 23, - (2001), s. 75-83 ISSN 1046-5928 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1005 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * capsid protein Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 1.497, year: 2001

  3. VizieR Online Data Catalog: The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog (Mason+ 2001-2014)

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    Mason, B. D.; Wycoff, G. L.; Hartkopf, W. I.; Douglass, G. G.; Worley, C. E.

    2018-05-01

    The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog (WDS) is the successor to the Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, 1961.0 (IDS; Jeffers and van den Bos, Publ. Lick Obs. 21). Three earlier double star catalogs in XXth century, those by Burnham (BDS, 1906, "General Catalogue of Double Stars within 121 degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of Washington), Innes (SDS, 1927, "Southern Double Star Catalogue -19 to -90 degrees", Union Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa), and Aitken (ADS, 1932 "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 121 degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of Washington), each covered only a portion of the sky. Both the IDS and the WDS cover the entire sky, and the WDS is intended to contain all known visual double stars for which at least one differential measure has been published. The WDS is continually updated as published data become available. Prior to this, three major updates have been published (Worley and Douglass 1984, "Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1984.0", U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington; Worley and Douglass 1997A&AS..125..523W, Cat. I/237; Mason, Wycoff, Hartkopf, Douglass and Worley 2001AJ....122.3466M; and Mason et al. 2006.5). The Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) has seen numerous changes since the last major release of the catalog. The application of many techniques and considerable industry over the past few years has yielded significant gains in both the number of systems and the number of measures. Is is maintained by the US Naval Observatory, and represents the world's principal database of astrometric double and multiple star information. The WDS contains positions (J2000), discoverer designations, epochs, position angles, separations, magnitudes, spectral types, proper motions, and, when available, Durchmusterung numbers and notes for the components of the systems. (3 data files).

  4. Implementing the clinical nurse leader role using the Virginia Mason Production System.

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    Tachibana, Charleen; Nelson-Peterson, Dana L

    2007-11-01

    More than 90 members of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and 190 practice sites have partnered to develop the clinical nurse leader (CNL) role. The partnership has created synergy between education and practice and nurtured innovation and diffusion of learning on a national basis. In this ongoing department, the editor, Jolene Tornabeni, MA, RN, FAAN, FACHE, showcases a variety of nurse leaders who discuss their new patient care delivery models in preparation for the CNL role and CNLs who highlight partnerships with their clinical colleagues to improve patient care. In this article, the authors discuss the needs for changes in the nursing care delivery model, the implementation of the role of the CNL using the tools of the Virginia Mason Production System, as well as early outcomes and future opportunities for the expansion of the CNL role.

  5. “Presencia de la masonería alemana en México: Carlos de Gagern (1826-1885”

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    Martha Celis de la Cruz

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Este texto explica la participación del Teniente Carlos de Gagern en México durante la Guerra de Reforma, la Intervención francesa y en la vida política de la República Restaurada. Como hombre ilustrado perteneció a la Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística de la República Mexicana, fue escritor, periodista y político. Por sus méritos militares e intelectuales le fue otorgada la nacionalidad mexicana. Según las fuentes consultadas perteneció a la masonería alemana, mexicana y norteamericana.

  6. Assignment of 1H, 13C, and 15N resonances of WT matrix protein and its R55F mutant from Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Vlach, J.; Lipov, J.; Veverka, V.; Rumlová, Michaela; Ruml, T.; Hrabal, R.

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    Roč. 31, - (2005), s. 381-382 ISSN 0925-2738 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/03/0490 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * NMR resonance assignment * matrix protein Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 2.180, year: 2005

  7. The effect of dimerizing domains and basic residues on in vitro and in vivo assembly of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus and Human immunodeficiency virus

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    Böhmová, Karolína; Hadravová, Romana; Štokrová, Jitka; Tůma, R.; Ruml, T.; Pichová, Iva; Rumlová, Michaela

    2010-01-01

    Roč. 84, č. 4 (2010), s. 1977-1988 ISSN 0022-538X R&D Projects: GA MŠk 1M0508; GA ČR GA204/09/1388 Grant - others:EUROCORES(XE) ERAS-CT-2003-980409 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40550506 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus * Human Immunodeficiency Virus * assembly * NC Subject RIV: CC - Organic Chemistry Impact factor: 5.189, year: 2010

  8. Comparative Study on Theoretical and Machine Learning Methods for Acquiring Compressed Liquid Densities of 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-Heptafluoropropane (R227ea via Song and Mason Equation, Support Vector Machine, and Artificial Neural Networks

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    Hao Li

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-Heptafluoropropane (R227ea is a good refrigerant that reduces greenhouse effects and ozone depletion. In practical applications, we usually have to know the compressed liquid densities at different temperatures and pressures. However, the measurement requires a series of complex apparatus and operations, wasting too much manpower and resources. To solve these problems, here, Song and Mason equation, support vector machine (SVM, and artificial neural networks (ANNs were used to develop theoretical and machine learning models, respectively, in order to predict the compressed liquid densities of R227ea with only the inputs of temperatures and pressures. Results show that compared with the Song and Mason equation, appropriate machine learning models trained with precise experimental samples have better predicted results, with lower root mean square errors (RMSEs (e.g., the RMSE of the SVM trained with data provided by Fedele et al. [1] is 0.11, while the RMSE of the Song and Mason equation is 196.26. Compared to advanced conventional measurements, knowledge-based machine learning models are proved to be more time-saving and user-friendly.

  9. Characterization of Mason--Pfizer monkey virus-induced cell fusion

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    Chatterjee, S.; Hunter, E.

    1979-01-01

    The characteristics and requirements of multinucleate cell (syncytium) induction by Mason--Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) on human and non-human primate cells have been investigated. Multinucleate cell induction by this D-type retrovirus shows single-hit kinetics on human foreskin and rhesus monkey fetal lung cells. The peak of syncytium-forming activity in an isopycnic sucrose gradient coincides with the peak of M-PMV virions as assessed by electron microscopy and analysis of viral polypeptides. Unlike the paramyxoviruses, M-PMV does not induce early cell fusion when added in high concentrations to the target cells. Furthermore, multinucleate cell formation is maximal 48 hr postinfection and the size of the syncytia remains constant after this time. Ultraviolet irradiation of M-PMV reduces its ability to form syncytia and to replicate with single-hit kinetics, suggesting that a functional viral genome is required for syncytium formation. Proviral DNA synthesis and assembly of virions are not necessary for cell fusion since the addition of cytosine arabinoside at concentrations which block virus replication has little effect on multinucleate cell formation. Moreover both multinucleate cells lacking detectable intracellular virus polypeptides, and groups of individual, nonfused but brightly staining cells can be observed in immunofluorescence assays at times when multinucleate cell formation is maximal. Cell fusion is inhibited by the addition of cycloheximide during the first 12 hr of infection, suggesting that de novo protein synthesis is required for multinucleate cell formation. The possibility that the translation of genomic RNA yields a fusion-inducing product is discussed

  10. Large-scale monitoring of effects of clothianidin-dressed oilseed rape seeds on pollinating insects in Northern Germany: effects on red mason bees (Osmia bicornis).

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    Peters, Britta; Gao, Zhenglei; Zumkier, Ulrich

    2016-11-01

    The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Elado® (10 g clothianidin & 2 g beta-cyfluthrin/kg seed)-dressed oilseed rape on the development and reproduction of mason bees (Osmia bicornis) as part of a large-scale monitoring field study in Northern Germany, where oilseed rape is usually cultivated at 25-33 % of the arable land. Both reference and test sites comprised 65 km 2 in which no other crops attractive to pollinating insects were present. Six study locations were selected per site and three nesting shelters were placed at each location. Of these locations, three locations were directly adjacent to oilseed rape fields, while the other three locations were situated 100 m distant from the nearest oilseed rape field. At each location, 1500 cocoons of O. bicornis were placed into the central nesting shelter. During the exposure phase, nest building activities and foraging behaviour were assessed repeatedly. Cocoons were harvested in autumn to assess parasitization and reproduction including larval development. The following spring, the emergence of the next generation of adults from cocoons was monitored. High reproductive output and low parasitization rates indicated that Elado ® -dressed oilseed rape did not cause any detrimental effects on the development or reproduction of mason bees.

  11. “Historiografía sobre la masonería en México. Breve revisión”

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    María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Este texto procura mostrar las principales líneas seguidas por los estudios sobre la masonería mexicana. En un primer apartado menciona las obras fundamentales de la historiografía no académica, en la que se incluyen los textos masónicos, antimasónicos y de divulgación, procurando destacar la importancia y utilidad, que algunos de estos trabajos tienen para el historiador profesional. Después revisa las producciones académicas, divididas en cuatro apartados, dedicados a los cuatro momentos políticos sucesivos en que la historiografía ha abordado el tema masónico: 1 la independencia y las primeras repúblicas; 2 la reforma y la república restaurada; 3 el Porfiriato; y 4 la revolución y el periodo posrevolucionario.

  12. Artist Craftsman or Artist Equal Mason: from Mozart to "Macaco Bong", a history of struggles for autonomy

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    RAFAEL LAGE

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available In the book "Mozart – Sociology of a Genius", Norbert Elias describes clashes around craftsmen artists (attached to the musical tastes of the court aristocracy and independent artists (with more freedom and musical autonomy, only less socially structured, presenting Mozart as an agent of transition. On the other hand, in the XXI century, comes up with the Brazilian band "Macaco Bong" the concept artist like mason, i. e., the idea of Musician’s involvement in the production process, not just in time to take the stage, pointing out the new digital technologies as a way for democratizing music. In this article, I will discuss reappropriations of ancient strategies of the music industry, and how they return reconfigured with these young people from the new music industry of the XXI century.

  13. Conformational changes of the N-terminal part of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus p12 protein during multimerization

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    Knejzlik, Zdenek; Ulbrich, Pavel; Strohalm, Martin; Lastuvkova, Hana; Kodicek, Milan; Sakalian, Michael; Ruml, Tomas

    2009-01-01

    The Mason-Pfizer monkey virus is a prototype Betaretrovirus with the defining characteristic that it assembles spherical immature particles from Gag-related polyprotein precursors within the cytoplasm of the infected cell. It was shown previously that the N-terminal part of the Gag p12 domain (wt-Np12) is required for efficient assembly. However, the precise role for p12 in mediating Gag-Gag interaction is still poorly understood. In this study we employed detailed circular dichroism spectroscopy, electron microscopy and ultracentrifugation analyses of recombinant wt-Np12 prepared by in vitro transcription and translation. The wt-Np12 domain fragment forms fibrillar structures in a concentration-dependent manner. Assembly into fibers is linked to a conformational transition from unfolded or another non-periodical state to α-helix during multimerization.

  14. “La masonería en el centro-norte de México, 1869-1914”

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    Marco Antonio Flores Zavala

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    Full Text Available ¿Cómo concurrió la masonería para hacer sociedad en México? La situamos en singular para mostrar que era una asociación, una entre varias, que emergió en el tránsito de la sociedad colonial y el periodo de la formación del estado nacional. Para responder asentamos una serie de notas que examinan las actividades masónicas en varias entidades del centro-norte de México. Primero se registran los rasgos organizativos de las grandes logias de esas entidades y las actividades que realizaron sus integrantes. La revisión atiende las llamadas logias simbólicas que laboraron con el ceremonial del Rito Escocés Antiguo y Aceptado. En el transcurso de la descripción también se explora la interacción entre la vida interna de las logias y lo que su documentación llama el mundo profano.

  15. The thermal environment of the nest affects body and cell size in the solitary red mason bee (Osmia bicornis L.).

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    Kierat, Justyna; Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka; Czarnoleski, Marcin; Woyciechowski, Michał

    2017-08-01

    Many ectotherms grow larger at lower temperatures than at higher temperatures. This pattern, known as the temperature-size rule, is often accompanied by plastic changes in cell size, which can mechanistically explain the thermal dependence of body size. However, the theory predicts that thermal plasticity in cell size has adaptive value for ectotherms because there are different optimal cell-membrane-to-cell-volume ratios at different temperatures. At high temperatures, the demand for oxygen is high; therefore, a large membrane surface of small cells is beneficial because it allows high rates of oxygen transport into the cell. The metabolic costs of maintaining membranes become more important at low temperatures than at high temperatures, which favours large cells. In a field experiment, we manipulated the thermal conditions inside nests of the red mason bee, a solitary bee that does not regulate the temperature in its nests and whose larvae develop under ambient conditions. We assessed the effect of temperature on body mass and ommatidia size (our proxy of cell size). The body and cell sizes decreased in response to a higher mean temperature and greater temperature fluctuations. This finding is in accordance with predictions of the temperature-size rule and optimal cell size theory and suggests that both the mean temperature and the magnitude of temperature fluctuations are important for determining body and cell sizes. Additionally, we observed that males of the red mason bee tend to have larger ommatidia in relation to their body mass than females, which might play an important role during mating flight. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  16. Educación escolar y masonería: krausismo y laicidad entre España y Costa Rica a finales del siglo XIX

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    Yván Pozuelo Andrés

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    Full Text Available En el último tercio del siglo XIX, la educación en Costa Rica experimentó un lento proceso de crecimiento en el número de centros educativos, aumentó los índices de alfabetismo e intentó expandirse sin discriminación sexual y socioeconómica al obtener un carácter gratuito y obligatorio. El proyecto educativo estatal buscó la secularización y la formación de ciudadanos en un proceso de apropiación de ideales de la modernidad. Lo anterior, paralelo al desarrollo de centros de estudio, sociedades científico-literarias y patrióticas, el teatro y las campañas de higienización. Esta visión estatal fue coincidente con la visión masónica. A partir de un análisis prosopográfico se propone la siguiente hipótesis: La participación de educadores en la masonería costarricense partidarios de la institución libre de enseñanza, el krausismo, el positivismo y el racionalismo, se debió a que estos encontraron en la logia el principio de libertad de expresión con el que estaban identificados durante una época en que el liberalismo fue la vanguardia de la expansión de la esfera pública en el país. Muchos de estos educadores masones fueron españoles.

  17. Porfirio Díaz y la “Gran Dieta Simbólica”: ¿La masonería mexicana bajo control?

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    Rogelio Aragón

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    Full Text Available Las fuentes más consultadas para la historia de la masonería en México durante el período conocido como"Porfiriato" apuntan a que fue, precisamente, el presidente Porfirio Díaz el artífice de la unificación de lamasonería bajo la llamada "Gran Dieta Simbólica". Sin embargo, el intercambio epistolar entre el generalDíaz y Ermilio Cantón -que más bien fue monólogo epistolar de este último-, dirigente de facto de la GranDieta, apunta en una dirección distinta. El presente artículo contrapone la información proporcionada por lasfuentes bibliográficas con la correspondencia del presidente.

  18. Female choice in the red mason bee, Osmia rufa (L.) (Megachilidae).

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    Conrad, Taina; Paxton, Robert J; Barth, Friedrich G; Francke, Wittko; Ayasse, Manfred

    2010-12-01

    Females are often thought to use several cues and more than one modality in selection of a mate, possibly because they offer complementary information on a mate's suitability. In the red mason bee, Osmia rufa, we investigated the criteria a female uses to choose a mating partner. We hypothesized that the female uses male thorax vibrations and size as signs of male viability and male odor for kin discrimination and assessment of genetic relatedness. We therefore compared males that had been accepted by a female for copulation with those rejected, in terms of their size, their immediate precopulatory vibrations (using laser vibrometry), the genetic relatedness of unmated and mated pairs (using microsatellite markers) and emitted volatiles (using chemical analyses). Females showed a preference for intermediate-sized males that were slightly larger than the modal male size. Furthermore, male precopulatory vibration burst duration was significantly longer in males accepted for copulation compared with rejected males. Vibrations may indicate vigor and assure that males selected by females are metabolically active and healthy. Females preferentially copulated with males that were genetically more closely related, possibly to avoid outbreeding depression. Volatiles of the cuticular surface differed significantly between accepted and rejected males in the relative amounts of certain hydrocarbons, although the relationship between male odor and female preference was complex. Females may therefore also use differences in odor bouquet to select among males. Our investigations show that O. rufa females appear to use multiple cues in selecting a male. Future investigations are needed to demonstrate whether odor plays a role in kin recognition and how the multiple cues are integrated in mate choice by females.

  19. Formation of a spatter-rich pyroclastic density current deposit in a Neogene sequence of trachytic-mafic igneous rocks at Mason Spur, Erebus volcanic province, Antarctica

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    Martin, A. P.; Smellie, J. L.; Cooper, A. F.; Townsend, D. B.

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    Erosion has revealed a remarkable section through the heart of a volcanic island, Mason Spur, in the southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica, including an unusually well-exposed section of caldera fill. The near-continuous exposure, 10 km laterally and > 1 km vertically, cuts through Cenozoic alkalic volcanic rocks of the Erebus volcanic province (McMurdo Volcanic Group) and permits the study of an ancient volcanic succession that is rarely available due to subsequent burial or erosion. The caldera filling sequence includes an unusual trachytic spatter-rich lapilli tuff (ignimbrite) facies that is particularly striking because of the presence of abundant black fluidal, dense juvenile spatter clasts of trachytic obsidian up to 2 m long supported in a pale cream-coloured pumiceous lapilli tuff matrix. Field mapping indicates that the deposit is an ignimbrite and, together with petrological considerations, it is suggested that mixing of dense spatter and pumiceous lapilli tuff in the investigated deposit occurred during emplacement, not necessarily in the same vent, with the mixed fragmental material emplaced as a pyroclastic density current. Liquid water was not initially present but a steam phase was probably generated during transport and may represent water ingested during passage of the current as it passed over either wet ground, stream, shallow lake or (possibly) snow. Well-exposed caldera interiors are uncommon and that at Mason Spur is helping understand eruption dynamics associated with a complex large island volcano. The results of our study should help to elucidate interpretations of other, less well exposed, pyroclastic density current deposits elsewhere in Antarctica and globally.

  20. Masonería en tiempos electorales: El fenómeno del Bronco y la antimasonería en Nuevo León, México (2015)

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    ResumenEn las elecciones estatales de 2015 en México, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón “el Bronco” sorprendió a la opinión pública al ganar la elección para gobernador de Nuevo León. En vísperas de finalizar el periodo de campaña, surgieron videos en YouTube señalando al “Bronco” como masón, adjudicándole toda una serie de mensajes religiosos, morales, políticos y sociales. Este artículo analiza los videos en el contexto de las percepciones sobre la masonería en México. Llego a la conclusión de que, ...

  1. Specific in vitro cleavage of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus capsid protein: evidence for a potential role of retroviral protease in early stages of infection

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    Rumlova, Michaela; Ruml, Tomas; Pohl, Jan; Pichova, Iva

    2003-01-01

    Processing of Gag polyproteins by viral protease (PR) leads to reorganization of immature retroviral particles and formation of a ribonucleoprotein core. In some retroviruses, such as HIV and RSV, cleavage of a spacer peptide separating capsid and nucleocapsid proteins is essential for the core formation. We show here that no similar spacer peptide is present in the capsid-nucleocapsid (CA-NC) region of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) and that the CA protein is cleaved in vitro by the PR within the major homology region (MHR) and the NC protein in several sites at the N-terminus. The CA cleavage product was also identified shortly after penetration of M-PMV into COS cells, suggesting that the protease-catalyzed cleavage is involved in core disintegration

  2. Diverse microbiota identified in whole intact nest chambers of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus 1758.

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    Full Text Available Microbial activity is known to have profound impact on bee ecology and physiology, both by beneficial and pathogenic effects. Most information about such associations is available for colony-building organisms, and especially the honey bee. There, active manipulations through worker bees result in a restricted diversity of microbes present within the colony environment. Microbial diversity in solitary bee nests remains unstudied, although their larvae face a very different situation compared with social bees by growing up in isolated compartments. Here, we assessed the microbiota present in nests and pre-adults of Osmia bicornis, the red mason bee, by culture-independent pyrosequencing. We found high bacterial diversity not comparable with honey bee colonies. We identified a variety of bacteria potentially with positive or negative interactions for bee larvae. However, most of the other diverse bacteria present in the nests seem to originate from environmental sources through incorporated nest building material and stored pollen. This diversity of microorganisms may cause severe larval mortality and require specific physiological or symbiotic adaptations against microbial threats. They may however also profit from such a diverse environment through gain of mutualistic partners. We conclude that further studies of microbiota interaction in solitary bees will improve the understanding of fitness components and populations dynamics.

  3. Diverse microbiota identified in whole intact nest chambers of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus 1758).

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    Keller, Alexander; Grimmer, Gudrun; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf

    2013-01-01

    Microbial activity is known to have profound impact on bee ecology and physiology, both by beneficial and pathogenic effects. Most information about such associations is available for colony-building organisms, and especially the honey bee. There, active manipulations through worker bees result in a restricted diversity of microbes present within the colony environment. Microbial diversity in solitary bee nests remains unstudied, although their larvae face a very different situation compared with social bees by growing up in isolated compartments. Here, we assessed the microbiota present in nests and pre-adults of Osmia bicornis, the red mason bee, by culture-independent pyrosequencing. We found high bacterial diversity not comparable with honey bee colonies. We identified a variety of bacteria potentially with positive or negative interactions for bee larvae. However, most of the other diverse bacteria present in the nests seem to originate from environmental sources through incorporated nest building material and stored pollen. This diversity of microorganisms may cause severe larval mortality and require specific physiological or symbiotic adaptations against microbial threats. They may however also profit from such a diverse environment through gain of mutualistic partners. We conclude that further studies of microbiota interaction in solitary bees will improve the understanding of fitness components and populations dynamics.

  4. Effects of exposure to winter oilseed rape grown from thiamethoxam-treated seed on the red mason bee Osmia bicornis.

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    Ruddle, Natalie; Elston, Charlotte; Klein, Olaf; Hamberger, Anja; Thompson, Helen

    2018-04-01

    There has been increasing interest in the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on wild bees. In solitary bee species the direct link between each individual female and reproductive success offers the opportunity to evaluate effects on individuals. The present study investigated effects of exposure to winter oilseed rape grown from thiamethoxam-treated seed on reproductive behavior and output of solitary red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) released in 6 pairs of fields over a 2-yr period and confined to tunnels in a single year. After adjustment to the number of females released, there was significantly lower production of cells and cocoons/female in tunnels than in open field conditions. This difference may be because of the lack of alternative forage within the tunnels. Under open field conditions, palynology of the pollen provisions within the nests demonstrated a maximum average of 31% oilseed rape pollen at any site, with Quercus (oak) contributing up to 86% of the pollen. There were no significant effects from exposure to oilseed rape grown from thiamethoxam-treated seed from nest establishment through cell production to emergence under tunnel or field conditions. Environ Toxicol Chem 2018;37:1071-1083. © 2017 SETAC. © 2017 SETAC.

  5. 78 FR 5254 - Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures...

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    ..., Roscommon County-Blodgett Memorial, VOR RWY 27, Amdt 4 Mason, MI, Mason Jewett Field, GPS RWY 27, Orig, CANCELED Mason, MI, Mason Jewett Field, RNAV (GPS) RWY 10, Orig Mason, MI, Mason Jewett Field, RNAV (GPS) RWY 28, Orig Mason, MI, Mason Jewett Field, VOR-A, Amdt 5 Aitkin, MN, Aitkin Muni-Steve Kurtz Field...

  6. NPS-SCAT: Electrical Power System

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    Postgraduate School thesis, 2009. 5 M.P. Schroer, NPS-SCAT; A Cubesat Communications System Design, Test, and Intergration . Monterey: Naval...AIAA, 2007. 9 production of the 2400 unit. Communication testing of the 2420 unit initially showed great promise. Data rates that would easily...After a review of available products , the Clyde Space EPS was selected based on three major considerations. One, the Clyde Space unit had been flown on

  7. Geoscience Education and Cognition Research at George Mason University

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    Mattietti, G. K.; Peters, E. E.; Verardo, S.

    2009-12-01

    Cognition research in Geoscience is the focus of a small group of faculty from the College of Science and the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. We approached this research when we were involved in an Institution-wide effort to assess critical thinking, one of the competencies mandated for evaluation by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia. Our group started spontaneously and informally from personal interests and enthusiasm for what and how our students are learning about Geology and in general about science. We want to understand what our students bring to the course, their attitude towards science, their knowledge of the scientific enterprise and preconceived ideas—and what our students take away from the course, beyond the course content. We believe that, with the support of cognitive science, we can improve the learning experience and therefore enhance the learning outcomes for science and non-science majors alike. Our Institution offers introductory Physical and Historical Geology classes populated primarily by non-science-major undergraduates. Geology lectures range in size from 90 to over 220 students per session per semester, with laboratory sessions averaging 27 students per session. With this large student population, it is necessary to use research tools that give us valuable information about student cognition, while being efficient in terms of time use and logistics. Some examples of our work include critical readings on Geoscience topics, surveys on students’ understanding of science as a way of knowing, exercises with built-in self-efficacy assessments, and concept mapping. The common denominator among these tools is that they are calibrated to address one or more of the higher levels in the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, which form a complex assessment of student learning processes. These tools, once refined, can provide us with a better view of how our students learn in

  8. Very Small Satellite Design for Space Sensor Networks

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    2008-06-01

    Literature Review 25 Clyde Space Power Pumpkin Computer Microhard Comm SSTL GPS User Payload Pumpkin Structure Figure 2-10. CUTE-I CubeSat [69...Structure Pumpkin [244] Skeletonized 155 $1,350* $810* EPS Clyde Space [245] CubeSat EPS 310 $25,240* $19,252* DH Pumpkin [244] FM430 90 $1,200* $720...satellite miniaturisation since 1993 and probably before. Furthermore, the term itself has been diluted from the pure literal form, eventually

  9. Prostate cancer screening and shared decision-making preferences among African-American members of the Prince Hall Masons.

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    Williams, Randi M; Zincke, Nicole L; Turner, Ralph O; Davis, Jackson L; Davis, Kimberly M; Schwartz, Marc D; Johnson, Lenora; Kerner, Jon F; Taylor, Kathryn L

    2008-10-01

    Shared decision making (SDM) is recommended as one method to assist men in making an informed decision about prostate cancer screening (PCS). SDM preferences for PCS have not been evaluated among African-American (AA) men. Given AA men's increased risk and the uncertainty surrounding screening, it is critical to determine how to assist AA men in making an informed decision. We assessed the extent to which a sample of AA men wished to engage in SDM regarding PCS and the demographic and psychological characteristics associated with SDM preferences. Participants completed a telephone interview that covered demographic and medical information, SDM preferences, PCS knowledge, decisional conflict, and satisfaction with previous screening decisions. Subjects included 286 AA men aged 40-70, who were members of a Masonic organization. Fifty-seven percent preferred SDM, 36% preferred to make their own decision, and 7% wanted their doctor to decide. A higher level of education and older age were associated with preferring SDM (p<0.05), while men with greater PCS knowledge were more likely to prefer to make the decision independently (p<0.05). Results suggest that physicians need to be prepared to discuss PCS with their patients. Further, more attention may be needed to engage younger, less educated, and less knowledgeable men as they may be less likely to discuss PCS. This understanding of AA men's preferences for PCS decisions helps to clarify the issues that health professionals need to consider when attempting to assist AA men in making a PCS decision. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  10. The structure of myristoylated Mason-Pfizer monkey virus matrix protein and the role of phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate in its membrane binding.

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    Prchal, Jan; Srb, Pavel; Hunter, Eric; Ruml, Tomáš; Hrabal, Richard

    2012-10-26

    We determined the solution structure of myristoylated Mason-Pfizer monkey virus matrix protein by NMR spectroscopy. The myristoyl group is buried inside the protein and causes a slight reorientation of the helices. This reorientation leads to the creation of a binding site for phosphatidylinositols. The interaction between the matrix protein and phosphatidylinositols carrying C(8) fatty acid chains was monitored by observation of concentration-dependent chemical shift changes of the affected amino acid residues, a saturation transfer difference experiment and changes in (31)P chemical shifts. No differences in the binding mode or affinity were observed with differently phosphorylated phosphatidylinositols. The structure of the matrix protein-phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P(2)] complex was then calculated with HADDOCK software based on the intermolecular nuclear Overhauser enhancement contacts between the ligand and the matrix protein obtained from a (13)C-filtered/(13)C-edited nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy experiment. PI(4,5)P(2) binding was not strong enough for triggering of the myristoyl-switch. The structural changes of the myristoylated matrix protein were also found to result in a drop in the oligomerization capacity of the protein. Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

  11. Sequences within both the 5' untranslated region and the Gag gene are important for efficient encapsidation of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus RNA

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    Schmidt, Russell D.; Mustafa, Farah; Lew, Kathy A.; Browning, Mathew T.; Rizvi, Tahir A.

    2003-01-01

    It has previously been shown that the 5' untranslated leader region (UTR), including about 495 bp of the gag gene, is sufficient for the efficient encapsidation and propagation of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) based retroviral vectors. In addition, a deletion upstream of the major splice donor, SD, has been shown to adversely affect MPMV RNA packaging. However, the precise sequence requirement for the encapsidation of MPMV genomic RNA within the 5' UTR and gag remains largely unknown. In this study, we have used a systematic deletion analysis of the 5' UTR and gag gene to define the cis-acting sequences responsible for efficient MPMV RNA packaging. Using an in vivo packaging and transduction assay, our results reveal that the MPMV packaging signal is primarily found within the first 30 bp immediately downstream of the primer binding site. However, its function is dependent upon the presence of the last 23 bp of the 5' UTR and approximately the first 100 bp of the gag gene. Thus, sequences that affect MPMV RNA packaging seem to reside both upstream and downstream of the major splice donor with the downstream region responsible for the efficient functioning of the upstream primary packaging determinant

  12. 75 FR 56111 - Notice of Proposals to Engage in Permissible Nonbanking Activities or to Acquire Companies that...

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    2010-09-15

    ... the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the entry for Mason National Bancshares, Mason, Texas, is revised... Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272: 1. Mason National Bancshares, Mason, Texas, to engage de novo in...

  13. Divergence in male sexual odor signal and genetics across populations of the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis, in Europe.

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    Conrad, Taina; Paxton, Robert J; Assum, Günter; Ayasse, Manfred

    2018-01-01

    In some insect species, females may base their choice for a suitable mate on male odor. In the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis, female choice is based on a male's odor bouquet as well as its thorax vibrations, and its relatedness to the female, a putative form of optimal outbreeding. Interestingly, O. bicornis can be found as two distinct color morphs in Europe, which are thought to represent subspecies and between which we hypothesize that female discrimination may be particularly marked. Here we investigated (i) if these two colors morphs do indeed represent distinct, reproductively differentiated populations, (ii) how odor bouquets of male O. bicornis vary within and between populations, and (iii) whether variation in male odor correlates with genetic distance, which might represent a cue by which females could optimally outbreed. Using GC and GC-MS analysis of male odors and microsatellite analysis of males and females from 9 populations, we show that, in Denmark, an area of subspecies sympatry, the two color morphs at any one site do not differ, either in odor bouquet or in population genetic differentiation. Yet populations across Europe are distinct in their odor profile as well as being genetically differentiated. Odor differences do not, however, mirror genetic differentiation between populations. We hypothesize that populations from Germany, England and Denmark may be under sexual selection through female choice for local odor profiles, which are not related to color morph though which could ultimately lead to population divergence and speciation.

  14. Talks with Teachers: Clyde F. Kohn.

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    Souza, Anthony R. de

    1984-01-01

    Kohn--a geographer who has taught at all educational levels and is a former president of the National Council for Geographic Education and the American Association of Geographers--talks about his family and schooling, cooperation between professional organizations, his role in the High School Geography Project, and his interest in enology. (RM)

  15. 29 CFR 1926.450 - Scope, application and definitions applicable to this subpart.

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    ..., pits, tanks, materials, water, and equipment. Masons' adjustable supported scaffold (see “Self-contained adjustable scaffold”). Masons' multi-point adjustable suspension scaffold means a continuous run... jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to...

  16. Divergence in male sexual odor signal and genetics across populations of the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis, in Europe.

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    Full Text Available In some insect species, females may base their choice for a suitable mate on male odor. In the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis, female choice is based on a male's odor bouquet as well as its thorax vibrations, and its relatedness to the female, a putative form of optimal outbreeding. Interestingly, O. bicornis can be found as two distinct color morphs in Europe, which are thought to represent subspecies and between which we hypothesize that female discrimination may be particularly marked. Here we investigated (i if these two colors morphs do indeed represent distinct, reproductively differentiated populations, (ii how odor bouquets of male O. bicornis vary within and between populations, and (iii whether variation in male odor correlates with genetic distance, which might represent a cue by which females could optimally outbreed. Using GC and GC-MS analysis of male odors and microsatellite analysis of males and females from 9 populations, we show that, in Denmark, an area of subspecies sympatry, the two color morphs at any one site do not differ, either in odor bouquet or in population genetic differentiation. Yet populations across Europe are distinct in their odor profile as well as being genetically differentiated. Odor differences do not, however, mirror genetic differentiation between populations. We hypothesize that populations from Germany, England and Denmark may be under sexual selection through female choice for local odor profiles, which are not related to color morph though which could ultimately lead to population divergence and speciation.

  17. 40 CFR 81.350 - Wisconsin.

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    ... North: Green Bay West: W. Mason St. and Ashland Ave., along Ashland north to Matter St., west to Crocker St., north on Crocker St. to Bylsby St., then to Green Bay South: W. Mason St. and Ashland Ave., east along Mason to Irwin Ave. East: W. Mason St., and Irwin Ave., along Irwin Ave. north to Green Bay...

  18. MASON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, USA, REDELINEATION, MASON COUNTY, MICHIGAN

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    Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security — The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. The primary risk classifications used are the...

  19. 75 FR 52343 - Notice of Proposals To Engage in Permissible Nonbanking Activities or To Acquire Companies that...

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    2010-08-25

    ... Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272: 1. Mason National Bancshares, Inc.; to engage de novo through its subsidiary, Mason National Bank, both of Mason, Texas, in lending activities pursuant to section...

  20. 29 CFR 1926.500 - Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.

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    ... of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work. Related work includes mason tending and electrical installation incorporated into the brick wall during the...

  1. 78 FR 13916 - Notice of Applications for Deregistration Under Section 8(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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    2013-03-01

    ... Street NE., Washington, DC 20549-8010. Legg Mason Global Trust Inc. [File No. 811-7418] Legg Mason... series of Legg Mason Global Asset Management Trust and, on April 30, 2012, each made a final distribution...

  2. Sediment quality in the River Clyde catchment

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    Lass-Evans, Solveigh; Fordyce, Fiona

    2012-01-01

    Chemical pollution from past industrial development poses current and future environmental threats, as many substances are toxic in high concentrations, and could have longterm implications for ecosystems and human health.

  3. 78 FR 70584 - ATOS IT Solutions & Services, Inc., Billing and Collections Department, Including Workers Whose...

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    2013-11-26

    ...) Wages are Reported Through Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Mason, Ohio; Amended Certification... Solutions & Services, Inc., Billing and Collections Department, Mason, Ohio. The workers are engaged in... workers separated from employment at the Mason, Ohio location of ATOS IT Solutions & Services, Inc...

  4. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-MMUR-01-1147 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-MMUR-01-1147 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 54% ...

  5. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-1417 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-DNOV-01-1417 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 64% ...

  6. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-1148 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-OPRI-01-1148 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 53% ...

  7. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-1613 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-DNOV-01-1613 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 62% ...

  8. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-MMUR-01-1306 [SEVENS

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  9. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-0597 [SEVENS

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  10. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-2337 [SEVENS

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  11. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-0847 [SEVENS

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  12. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-2785 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-DNOV-01-2785 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 63% ...

  13. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-MMUR-01-1408 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-MMUR-01-1408 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 53% ...

  14. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-CPOR-01-1647 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-CPOR-01-1647 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 0.0 60% ...

  15. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-MMUR-01-0147 [SEVENS

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  16. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-MMUR-01-0448 [SEVENS

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  17. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-CPOR-01-0809 [SEVENS

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  18. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-1462 [SEVENS

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  19. 40 CFR 81.349 - West Virginia.

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    ... Marshall County Mason County McDowell County Mercer County Mineral County Mingo County Monongalia County... Jefferson County Lewis County Lincoln County Logan County Marion County Marshall County Mason County... County Mason County McDowell County Mercer County Mineral County Mingo County Monongalia County Monroe...

  20. 75 FR 73059 - Record of Decision and Floodplain Statement of Findings for the Cushman Hydroelectric Project...

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    ... Floodplain Statement of Findings for the Cushman Hydroelectric Project, Mason County, Washington... Project in Mason County, Washington. These components include a new 3.6 megawatt (MW) powerhouse on the... components of the Cushman Hydroelectric Project in Mason County, Washington. These components include a new 3...

  1. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-STRI-01-2068 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-STRI-01-2068 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-160 49% ...

  2. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-EEUR-01-1301 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-EEUR-01-1301 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 4e-84 40% ...

  3. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-RNOR-01-0383 [SEVENS

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  4. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-1365 [SEVENS

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  5. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-STRI-01-0672 [SEVENS

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  6. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-1718 [SEVENS

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  7. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-STRI-01-2886 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-STRI-01-2886 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-162 46% ...

  8. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-STRI-01-1568 [SEVENS

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  9. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-2594 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-DNOV-01-2594 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-132 58% ...

  10. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-0267 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-OPRI-01-0267 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-148 50% ...

  11. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-1340 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-OPRI-01-1340 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-128 49% ...

  12. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-OPRI-01-0523 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-OPRI-01-0523 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-162 49% ...

  13. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-STRI-01-0732 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-STRI-01-0732 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 1e-167 47% ...

  14. NCBI nr-aa BLAST: CBRC-DNOV-01-0164 [SEVENS

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    Full Text Available CBRC-DNOV-01-0164 ref|NP_056891.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] ref|NP_954565....2| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] gb|AAC82576.1| RT-IN [Mason-Pfizer monkey virus] NP_056891.1 6e-90 34% ...

  15. 77 FR 28890 - Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings

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    ... and evaluate grant applications. Place: Fairmont Hotel San Francisco, 950 Mason Street, San Francisco.... Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Hotel Nikko San Francisco, 222 Mason Street...: Hotel Nikko San Francisco, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. Contact Person: Jerry L Taylor, Ph...

  16. DYNAMIC STRAIN MAPPING AND REAL-TIME DAMAGE STATE ESTIMATION UNDER BIAXIAL RANDOM FATIGUE LOADING

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration — DYNAMIC STRAIN MAPPING AND REAL-TIME DAMAGE STATE ESTIMATION UNDER BIAXIAL RANDOM FATIGUE LOADING SUBHASISH MOHANTY*, ADITI CHATTOPADHYAY, JOHN N. RAJADAS, AND CLYDE...

  17. 78 FR 27215 - Baker County Oregon; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing With the Commission and...

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    ...: Baker County, Oregon (Baker County). e. Name of Project: Mason Dam Hydroelectric Project. f. Location...'s (Reclamation) Mason Dam, near Baker City, in Baker County, Oregon. The project would occupy 6.4... facilities. The proposed project's generation would not change the current day- to-day operation of Mason dam...

  18. 77 FR 3459 - Cancellation of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon...

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    ... Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project, Mason County, WV AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy... Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in Mason County, WV (DOE/EIS-0445). DOE selected this project proposed... the proposed Mountaineer Commercial Scale CCS Project in Mason County, WV. DOE selected this project...

  19. 40 CFR 81.318 - Kentucky.

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    ... County X Mason County X Meade County X Menifee County X Mercer County X Metcalfe County X Monroe County X... X Magoffin County X Marion County X Marshall County X Martin County X Mason County X Meade County X... Marshall County Unclassifiable/Attainment Martin County Unclassifiable/Attainment Mason County...

  20. 75 FR 23642 - Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

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    2010-05-04

    ... available for inspection at the Douglas County Courthouse, 401 South Center Street, Tuscola, IL 61953. Mason... of drive approximately Mason County. 230 feet north of north entrance to Linwood Lake Estates Road...: None +471 Unincorporated Areas of Approximately 2,470 Mason County. feet north of County Highway 1/East...

  1. 76 FR 51973 - Notice of Regional Waiver Pursuant to Section 1605 (Buy American Requirement) of the American...

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    ... (Buy American Requirement) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to Mason County, WA... is in the public interest to allow Mason County, Washington (the County) to utilize and install six... aeration blower units that have already been delivered to the construction site as noted in Mason County's...

  2. 78 FR 28627 - TA-W-80,340; TA-W-80,340A; TA-W-80,340B

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    2013-05-15

    ...] Bush Industries, Inc., Mason Drive Facility, Including On-Site Leased Workers From Morris Security...., Mason Drive Facility, Jamestown, New York (TA-W-80,340) and Bush Industries, Inc., Allen Street Facility... applicable to TA-W-80,340 is hereby issued as follows: All workers of Bush Industries, Inc., Mason Drive...

  3. 76 FR 15996 - Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Extension of F-Line Historic Streetcar Service, Golden...

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    2011-03-22

    ... the National Park System--San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and the Fort Mason area of... and Fort Mason Center areas. The intended effect of this proposal is to provide park visitors and... and Fort Mason to improve access to various National Park Service (NPS) sites. The rail line was...

  4. “Notas sobre el “nombre simbólico” en Hispanoamérica”

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    Yván Pozuelo Andrés

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available En el momento de la iniciación, los masones eligen un nombre simbólico que les identificará en sus acciones dentro de la Orden. En el proceso de iniciación, los masones poseen la oportunidad de escoger un nombre simbólico diferente a su nombre de pila. Estos nombres simbólicos revelan sus percepciones del mundo y transmiten un aspecto vital del que quisieron informar a los demás miembros. ¿Por qué este uso fue exclusivo de las masonerías hispanoamericanas? ¿Cuándo y por qué se extendió la costumbre? El estudio de caso analizado fue la comunidad asturiana, ya que fue una de los más importantes grupos de inmigrantes españoles en América. Con estas notas y el estudio regional se pretende contestar a estos interrogantes: ¿Fue el nombre simbólico un uso originado por los masones? ¿Fue exclusivo de la masonería? ¿Qué informaciones destacan de los nombres simbólicos hispanoamericanos de los masones de Asturias? ¿Qué datos revelan los nombres simbólicos hispanoamericanos de los masones asturianos residentes en Hispanoamérica?

  5. 78 FR 22425 - Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; State of Nevada; Total Suspended Particulate

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    ... Valley, Fernley Area, Mason Valley, and Clovers Area. EPA is taking this action under the Clean Air Act... Reese Valley, Fernley Area, Mason Valley, and Clovers Area III. Final Action and Request for Comment IV... Reese Valley (HA 59), Gabbs Valley (HA 122), Fernley Area (HA 76), Truckee Meadows (HA 87), Mason Valley...

  6. 76 FR 31010 - Iowa Northern Railway Company-Trackage Rights Exemption-Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad...

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    2011-05-27

    ..., and milepost 116.70 at the connection with CP's Mason City Subdivision, a distance of approximately 20.80 miles; (2) milepost 116.70 at the connection with CP's Mason City Subdivision and milepost 107.30... and Nora Jct.; and (3) milepost 116.70 at the connection with CP's Mason City Subdivision and milepost...

  7. 77 FR 4335 - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Notice of Meetings

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    ... discuss policy. Place: The Fairmont San Francisco, 950 Mason St., San Francisco, CA 94108. Closed: March 6... Francisco, 950 Mason St., San Francisco, CA 94108. Closed: March 7, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: The Fairmont San Francisco, 950 Mason St., San Francisco...

  8. 77 FR 64790 - National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List...

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    2012-10-23

    ... Deletion of the Isle Royale Stamp Tailings and Michigan Smelter Tailings parcels of OU3 and the Mason Sands... and the Mason Sands parcel of OU1. The following parcels will remain on the NPL and are not being... Smelter Tailings parcels of OU3 and Mason Sand parcel of OU1 of the Torch Lake Superfund Site without...

  9. Antimasonian activity of Russian monarchical emigration of «first wave» (1917–1940

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    Ermakov V.A.

    2018-03-01

    Full Text Available summary: The work shows that in the modern domestic liberal historiography of Russian emigration, there is a tendency to conceal and hide political problems raised by Russian monarchists. And, on the contrary, in the works of representatives of the patriotic direction, a wide range of views of Russian monarchists, centered around the Masonic problem and the struggle against Bolshevism, are being explored. The system of estimations by Russian right-wing representatives of the «philosophical steamer» as «apologists of Freemasonry» and the bearers of the ideas of «Masonic democracy» and also as «reformers of Orthodoxy» was reconstructed. The specifics of the struggle of Russian patriotic circles of white emigration with the Russian Masonic lodges restored abroad are shown. The anti-Masonic activities of the Russian Church abroad are considered. As the highest achievement of anti-Masonic publicism is considered the religious and political philosophy of the history of Russian monarchists. The author believe that the main historiographic criterion for distinguishing the political activity of Russian emigration should be recognized as its pro-Masonic or anti-Masonic orientation. As a result of the research, the author come to the conclusion that the anti-Masonic activities of the Russian right largely objectively reflected the main contradiction of the Russian history of «post-October abroad» as the struggle of Russian patriotic monarchists and the Orthodox Church abroad with the Russophobic forces of the West, whose concentrated expression was Freemasonry.

  10. An Assessment of the Available Evidence on the Returns to Military Training

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    1977-07-01

    Hanushek Kassing McCall and Wallace Mason (1970) Nathan Associates Weinstein et al. Richardson (1967) Thorndike and Hagen (1957) u.s...Biderman Cutright Freeman Hanushek Kassing McCall and Wallace Mason (1970) Primary Purpose of the Study Analyze the vocational readjustment...that veterans do not receive a positive economic return from military voca- tional training. Mason (1970), Hanushek , Cutright, and Kassing reach

  11. WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from DISCOVERY, CHARLES DARWIN and other platforms from 1987-08-24 to 1992-11-02 (NODC Accession 9300124)

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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — The water depth and temperature data were collected from ships CHARLES DARWIN, CLYDE-OWS LIMA, DISCOVERY, and OCEAN WEATHER STATION L between August 24 1987 and...

  12. Unpublished draft paper on sexuality by Donald Meltzer.

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    2016-06-01

    Editor's note: Albert Mason discovered an unpublished paper by Donald Meltzer dating from around 1968 and has made the text available to the IJP. He writes "my best guess is that Meltzer gave me the paper to read/approve about the time I was preparing to move to Los Angeles (1968-69) and that I hastily packed it away with other papers. It got buried, and only came to light recently, kind of like a lost score that turns up in someone's attic!" The patient Meltzer discusses in his paper is a patient who Dr Mason treated for approximately 11 years, and about whom Dr Mason consulted with Dr Meltzer early in the treatment. Dr Mason has also provided the original report he wrote about the patient in the 1960s. Following an introduction by Dr Abbot Bronstein, we have published extracts from Dr Mason's report, including the following: details about the case, the two dreams which Dr Mason believes were 'turning point dreams', and a third dream called the 'hula hula dream', as well as the clinical material leading up to it. Copyright © 2016 Institute of Psychoanalysis.

  13. « Sur les rites funéraires de la franc-maçonnerie belge du XIX e siècle »

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    Jeffrey Tyssens

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available During the 19 th century, death was a conflict between the Belgian Freemasonry and the Catholic Church. After the episcopal condemnation of 1837, Masons were denied the privilege to receive their last rites and have a religious ceremony at their funeral. As a result, they started to organize civil funerals, an attitude developed in parallel to spirituality, then in relation to the choice between agnosticism and atheism. The funerals that took place in the Masonic lodges accompanied this process. The Masonic funeral ritual simultaneously was identified as a healing ritual and a rite of passage. While the Masonic ritual was taking place during this century, the exegesis of the ritual dimension brought differing interpretations of such symbolic acts that had not registered any change. In the conflict over the death bed and funeral of the Masons, The Masonic ritual contributed to the development of anti-secular funeral culture in which the construction of an alternative was essential. Thus, the Catholic monopoly on these important aspects of everyday life would definitely be broken, both on the level of public acts, as well as the symbolic funeral.

  14. 33 CFR 110.50a - Fishers Island Sound, Stonington, Conn.

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    2010-07-01

    ..., Stonington, Conn. An area on the east side of Mason Island bounded as follows: Beginning at the shore line on the easterly side of Mason Island at latitude 41°20′06″; thence due east about 600 feet to latitude 41...′37″; thence due west about 1,000 feet to the shore line on the easterly side of Mason Island at...

  15. “Los francmasones franceses de la jurisdicción de Cuba al principio del siglo XIX”

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    Agnès Renault

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Con la técnica de la prosopografía, este artículo pro pone presentar las características de los masones franceses, antiguos colonos de Saint-Domingue refugiados en Santiago de Cuba, al principio del siglo XIX. Se destacan las principales logias representadas como Réunion des Cœurs de Jeremías que tenía 25 hermanos en Santiago de Cuba, y la Réunion des Cœurs Franco-Américains de Puerto Príncipe. La masonería francesa influyó directamente la masonería cubana. El estudio de las características de los primeros masones franceses permite conocer mejor la base de esta influencia.

  16. Download this PDF file

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    Appropriate land-use and management strategies that will mitigate the impacts ... atmospheric pollutants (Clyde, 1971; are farming, food processing and marketing ... that metals in dusts/smoke emitted by and 4 °41'N and it is mainly intra state.

  17. 75 FR 2887 - National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions

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    2010-01-19

    ... York Masons--Pleasant Grove School, 2525 Old Lower River Rd., Douglasville, 09001301. IOWA Cedar County... Restricted, Walton, 09001310. Mason County Helena United Methodist Church, 6479 Helena Rd., Helena, 09001311...

  18. Pursuing the perfect patient experience.

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    Kaplan, Gary S

    2013-01-01

    Adapting the principles and tools of the Toyota Production System to healthcare in the form of the Virginia Mason Production System has enabled Virginia Mason Medical Center to transform itself as an organization. Virginia Mason has worked persistently for more than a decade to apply Toyota methods to eliminate waste, improve safety and quality, and provide the community it serves with the highest-quality healthcare at the lowest cost. We have made great progress in this pursuit.

  19. Cozy up to a winter of reading

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    2005-01-01

    Tutvustus: Pumpurs, Andrejs. Bearslayer. Hamburg : A. Cropley, 2005 ; Mason, P. M. Puppet maker. P. M. Mason, 2005 ; Estonian folktales : the heavenly wedding / koost. Piret Päär & Anne Türnpu. Tallinn : Varrak, 2005

  20. 75 FR 77762 - Final Flood Elevation Determinations

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    2010-12-14

    .... approximately 1.1 mile upstream of the confluence with Green River Lake. Snake Creek (backwater effects from... Mason Road. Pine Run Approximately 400 feet +752 City of Mason. downstream of Kings Mill Road...

  1. How the International Research Institute for Climate and Society has contributed towards seasonal climate forecast modelling and operations in South Africa

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    Landman, WA

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africatems for rainfall (Mason 1998, Jury et al. 1999) and for temperature (Klopper et al. 1998). In fact, a number of institutions in South Africa initially developed statis...- tical prediction systems: the South African Weather Service (Landman and Mason 1999a), the University of the Witwatersrand (Mason 1998) and the University of Cape Town (Jury et al. 1999). A few years later South (South African Weather Service) as a...

  2. Comparing early years and childhood experiences and outcomes in Scotland, England and three city-regions: a plausible explanation for Scottish 'excess' mortality?

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    Taulbut, Martin; Walsh, David; O'Dowd, John

    2014-10-10

    Negative early years and childhood experiences (EYCE), including socio-economic circumstances, parental health and parenting style, are associated with poor health outcomes both in childhood and adulthood. It has also been proposed that EYCE were historically worse in Scottish areas, especially Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, compared to elsewhere in the UK and that this variation can provide a partial explanation for the excess of ill health and mortality observed among those Scottish populations. Multiple logistic regression analysis was applied to two large, representative, British birth cohorts (the NCDS58 and the BCS70), to test the independent association of area of residence at ages 7 and 5 with risk of behavioural problems, respiratory problems and reading/vocabulary problems at the same age. Cohort members resident in Scotland were compared with those who were resident in England, while those resident in Glasgow and the Clyde Valley were compared with those resident in Merseyside and Greater Manchester. After adjustment for a range of relevant variables, the risk of adverse childhood outcomes was found to be either no different, or lower, in the Scottish areas. At a national level, the study reinforces the combined association of socio-economic circumstances, parental health (especially maternal mental health) and parenting with child health outcomes. Based on these samples, the study does not support the hypothesis that EYCE were worse in Scotland and Glasgow and the Clyde Valley. It seems, therefore (based on these data), less likely that the roots of the excess mortality observed in the Scottish areas can be explained by these factors.

  3. 77 FR 76420 - Final Flood Elevation Determinations

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    2012-12-28

    ... Road. Salt Lick Branch (backwater effects At the Licking River +924 Unincorporated Areas from Licking... +3206 At the intersection of Slide Road and 58th Street......... +3256 * National Geodetic Vertical...). confluence. of Magoffin County. Approximately 355 feet +901 upstream of Clyde Holliday Cemetery Road. [[Page...

  4. 76 FR 31997 - Final Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S...

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    2011-06-02

    ... responsibility between the parties, based on their legal authorities, for the security of high-risk chemical.... Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Chemical Facility Anti... INFORMATION CONTACT: R. Clyde Ragland, Project Manager (Security), Fuel Cycle and Transportation Security...

  5. Vatuximab(Trademark): Optimizing Therapeutic Strategies for Prostate Cancer Based on Dynamic MR Tumor Oximetry

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    2010-01-01

    159: 621-631, 2003. 37. Bourke , V. A., Zhao, D., Gilio, J., Chang, C.-H., Jiang, L., Hahn, E. W., and Mason, R. P. Correlation of Radiation...probe: comparison with a paired survival assay. Radiat Res, 158, 167-73 (2002) 27. Gu, Y. Q., V. A. Bourke , J. G. Kim, A. Constantinescu, R. P. Mason...Res. 1998; 150: 549–556. 10. Bourke VA, Zhao D, Gilio J, Chang C-H, Jiang L, Hahn EW, Mason RP. Correlation of radiation response with tumor oxygen

  6. Genetics Home Reference: 3-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency

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    ... for This Page Lutfallah C, Wang W, Mason JI, Chang YT, Haider A, Rich B, Castro-Magana ... A, Copeland KC, Chang YT, Lutfallah C, Mason JI. Carriers for type II 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD3B2) ...

  7. "Gender, Sexual, and Racial Trouble: The Crossroads of North American Freemasonry in the Twenty-First Century"

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    Guillermo de los Reyes Heredia

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Este ensayo plantea algunas preguntas sobre el estado actual del gÈnero, la raza y la sexualidad en la masonerÌa estadounidense. El objetivo de este artÌculo es sacar a la luz este tema poco estudiado y contribuir a la discusión creciente y muy necesaria sobre el género, la sexualidad y la masonerÌa. Se argumenta que los discursos sobre la tradiciÛn, la masculinidad y la antig ̧edad han mantenido a las mujeres, las minorÌas Ètnicas y los hombres abiertamente homosexuales fuera de la participación en la logia. Primero se va a discutir el aspecto racial, centr·ndose en la Prince Hall Freemasonry . Por otra parte, se analizar· el papel que ha jugado la masculinidad en la masonerÌa y cómo los masones han reaccionado a ella. Luego, se explorar· brevemente el papel que han desempeÒado las mujeres en la masonerÌa y la forma en que se han mantenido fuera de la principal corriente masÛnica, junto con otras minorÌas sexuales.

  8. Did the "Woman in the Attic" in Jane Eyre Have Huntington Disease?

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    Coon, Elizabeth A; Hassan, Anhar

    2015-01-01

    References to neurologic disorders are frequently found in fictional literature and may precede description in the medical literature. Our aim was to compare Charlotte Brontë's depiction of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre to the tenets set forth in George Huntington's original essay "On chorea" with the hypothesis that Mason was displaying features of Huntington disease. Charlotte Brontë's 1847 Victorian novel Jane Eyre features the character Bertha Mason, who is portrayed with a progressive psychiatric illness, violent movements, and possible cognitive decline. Similar to Huntington's tenets, Mason has a disorder with a strong family history suggestive of autosomal dominant inheritance with onset in adulthood, and culminating in suicide. Brontë's character had features of Huntington disease as originally described by Huntington. Brontë's keen characterization may have increased awareness of treatment of neuropsychiatric patients in the Victorian era.

  9. Kabbalah, Symbolism and Metaphysicsin Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII th–XIX th centuries

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    Yuriy Khalturin

    2015-01-01

    Este trabajo considera algunas conexiones entre la Cábala y la masonería en Rusia como se refleja en los archivos del Departamento de Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Estatal Rusa (DMS RSL). El vínculo entre ellos se basa en la comprensión tanto de la Cabala yla masonería como la filosofía simbólica y “verdaderamente metafísica”. En el artículo se muestra cómo los masones rusos adoptaron doctrinas cabalísticas de Ein-Soph, Sephiroth, Adam Kadmon y los mez...

  10. 78 FR 28577 - Notification of Proposed Production Activity: Whirlpool Corporation Subzone 8I; (Washing Machines...

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    2013-05-15

    ... machine parts to the list of approved finished products and would also add imported components to the...; refrigeration parts; dishwashing machine parts; drying machine parts; water inlet valves; AC/DC fan motors; AC... Activity: Whirlpool Corporation Subzone 8I; (Washing Machines): Clyde and Green Springs, Ohio Whirlpool...

  11. On-line measurement of food viscosity during flow

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    Mason, Sarah Louise; Friis, Alan

    2006-01-01

    Sarah L. Mason and Alan Friis discuss some of the principles and equipment used to monitor food viscosity in real time.......Sarah L. Mason and Alan Friis discuss some of the principles and equipment used to monitor food viscosity in real time....

  12. 76 FR 36567 - Announcement of Funding Awards; Indian Community Development Block Grant Program; Fiscal Year 2010

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    2011-06-22

    ... Village of Selawik, 500,000 Housing Water and sewer services to eight homes. Honorable Clyde Ramoth Sr... the Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 2010) Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Indian Community... program provides grants to Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages to develop viable Indian and Alaska...

  13. Sound / Märt Milter

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    Milter, Märt

    1999-01-01

    Plaatide "Hip Hop Forever. Mixed by Kenny Dope", "Permaculture", Ronnye & Clyde "In Glorious Black and Blue", "E-Z Rollers presents Drumfunk Hooliganz. Liquid Cooled Tunez From The Original Superfly Drum & Bass Generation", Iron Savior "Unification", Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra "Futuremuzik", "Sushi 4004.The Return Of Spectacular Japanese Clubpop"

  14. Evaluation of surface layer flux parameterizations using in-situ observations

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    Katz, Jeremy; Zhu, Ping

    2017-09-01

    Appropriate calculation of surface turbulent fluxes between the atmosphere and the underlying ocean/land surface is one of the major challenges in geosciences. In practice, the surface turbulent fluxes are estimated from the mean surface meteorological variables based on the bulk transfer model combined with the Monnin-Obukhov Similarity (MOS) theory. Few studies have been done to examine the extent to which such a flux parameterization can be applied to different weather and surface conditions. A novel validation method is developed in this study to evaluate the surface flux parameterization using in-situ observations collected at a station off the coast of Gulf of Mexico. The main findings are: (a) the theoretical prediction that uses MOS theory does not match well with those directly computed from the observations. (b) The largest spread in exchange coefficients is shown in strong stable conditions with calm winds. (c) Large turbulent eddies, which depend strongly on the mean flow pattern and surface conditions, tend to break the constant flux assumption in the surface layer.

  15. Marrero Regalado y Aguiar: El arte masónico oficial de la Postguerra en Canarias

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    David Martín López

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available La masonería, como institución filantrópica y bien asentada durante la II República en España, fue totalmente rechazada por Franco desde su Alzamiento de 1936. Sin embargo, la protección oficial de la masonería en Canarias hizo que artistas masones como José Aguiar o como el arquitecto Marrero Regalado pudieran materializar su estética en numerosos proyectos para un nuevo Estado, en el que la concepción masónica del Ser Humano aparece como lenguaje encubierto y subversivo.

  16. 76 FR 70397 - Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

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    2011-11-14

    ... Branch Road. Salt Lick Branch (backwater effects At the Licking River None +924 Unincorporated Areas of... upstream of West County Road 100 North. Goose Creek At the upstream side of None +591 City of Logansport.... Approximately 355 feet None +901 upstream of Clyde Holliday Cemetery Road. Brushy Fork (backwater effects from...

  17. Gordon Tullock and the Virginia School of Law and Economics

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    Parisi, Francesco; Luppi, Barbara; Guerra, Alice

    2017-01-01

    In 1999 Gordon Tullock became Professor at the George Mason University Law School. Tullock’s arrival at George Mason brought the economics department and the law school close together. The work that resulted during those years consolidated the methodological foundations for a different way of thi...

  18. Did the "Woman in the Attic" in Jane Eyre Have Huntington Disease?

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    Elizabeth A. Coon

    2015-07-01

    Full Text Available Background: References to neurologic disorders are frequently found in fictional literature and may precede description in the medical literature. Aim: Our aim was to compare Charlotte Brontë’s depiction of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre to the tenets set forth in George Huntington’s original essay “On chorea” with the hypothesis that Mason was displaying features of Huntington disease. Results: Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 Victorian novel Jane Eyre features the character Bertha Mason, who is portrayed with a progressive psychiatric illness, violent movements, and possible cognitive decline. Similar to Huntington’s tenets, Mason has a disorder with a strong family history suggestive of autosomal dominant inheritance with onset in adulthood, and culminating in suicide. Conclusion: Brontë’s character had features of Huntington disease as originally described by Huntington. Brontë’s keen characterization may have increased awareness of treatment of neuropsychiatric patients in the Victorian era.

  19. El binomio francmasonería- revolución en la época de las luces entre la historia y el mito

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    José A. FERRER BENIMELI

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Ocho Reflexiones a propósito del tratamiento historiográfico del binomio Francmasonería-Revolución en la época de las Luces: 1ª El divorcio existente entre la historia general o nacional y la historia propiamente dicha de la Francmasonería. 2ª Acuerdo existente entre el detractor y el apologista de la masonería. 3ª Enigma de la verdadera contribución de la masonería a la Revolución. 4ª Acción y comportamiento de los masones durante la Revolución. 5ª ¿La sociabilidad democrática de la masonería factor de la Revolución? 6ª Una vez más la divisa «Libertad-Igualdad-Fraternidad». 7ª La masonería motor o víctima de la Revolución. 8ª Importancia y naturaleza de la masonería bonapartista. ABSTRACT: Eight reflections on the interrelation of Freemasonry and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment: 1ª The existing divorce at the time between general or national history and the real history of Freemasonry. 2ª The agreement existing at the time between the detractor and the apologist of Freemasonry. 3ª Action and behaviour of Freemasons during the Revolution. 4ª The democratic sociability of Freemasons, a factor of the Revolution? 5ª The enigma of the actual contribution of Freemasonry to the Revolution. 6ª Yet again the motto «Liberty, Equality, Fraternity». 7ª Freemasonry, engine or victim of the Revolution. 8ª Importance and nature of the Bonapartist Freemasonry.

  20. National Security and the Industrial Policy Debate: Modernizing Defense Manufacturing

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    47. 49. Michael Schroeder and Walecia Konrad, " Nucor : Rolling Right Into Steel’s Big Time," Business Week 19 Nov. 1990: 76. 50. Clyde V. Prestowitz...Defense." The I Industrial Policy Debate. Ed. Chalmers Johnson. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1984. i 74I Schroeder, Michael and Walecia Konrad. " Nucor

  1. Japan’s Growing Technological Capability: Implications for the U.S. Economy

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    1992-01-01

    lineup of people who understood the problem and were eager to solve it. They included the following: Lionel Olmer, Clyde Pre- stowitz, and William... sequential process steps (of per- haps two dozen or so different but repeated types) to produce the finished device. It might well be thought that in this zase

  2. 78 FR 49121 - Safety Zone; Luna Pier Fireworks, Luna Pier, MI

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    ... Zone; Luna Pier Fireworks, Luna Pier, MI AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation. SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone for the Luna Pier Fireworks Show, Luna Pier... the fireworks launch site at the Clyde E. Evens Municipal Pier, located at position 41[deg]48'32'' N...

  3. Tra razionalismo e irrazionalismo: l’ombra della Massoneria su Conan Doyle e Sherlock Holmes

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    Marco Rocchi

    2012-11-01

    Full Text Available This paper deals with the relation between the works of Conan Doyle (especially the Sherlockian Canon and Freemasonry. In the article the Masonic experience of Conan Doyle is described, as well as the Masonic references in his literary works. Both the life and the work of the Scottish author indicate that in Doyle rational and irrational aspects coexist; if we compare this coexistence with the well-known ‘double soul’ of Freemasonry (due to its Enlightenment heritage and its hermetic and esoteric origins, we can hypothesize that the frequentation of Masonic Lodges should be the key to interpreting this apparent discrepancy in Doyle’s thought.

  4. “Notas sobre el “nombre simbólico” en Hispanoamérica”

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    2011-01-01

    En el momento de la iniciación, los masones eligen un nombre simbólico que les identificará en sus acciones dentro de la Orden. En el proceso de iniciación, los masones poseen la oportunidad de escoger un nombre simbólico diferente a su nombre de pila. Estos nombres simbólicos revelan sus percepciones del mundo y transmiten un aspecto vital del que quisieron informar a los demás miembros. ¿Por qué este uso fue exclusivo de las masonerías hispanoamericanas? ¿Cuándo y por qué se extendió la cos...

  5. Kabbalah, Symbolism and Metaphysics in Russian Freemasonry of the XVIIIth - XIXthcenturies

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    Khalturin, Yuriy

    2015-01-01

    Este trabajo considera algunas conexiones entre la Cábala y la masonería en Rusia como se refleja en los archivos del Departamento de Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Estatal Rusa (DMS RSL). El vínculo entre ellos se basa en la comprensión tanto de la Cabala y la masonería como la filosofía simbólica y "verdaderamente metafísica". En el artículo se muestra cómo los masones rusos adoptaron doctrinas cabalísticas de Ein-Soph, Sephiroth, Adam Kadmon y los mezclan con la teoría del neoplatonismo de l...

  6. The Authors Reply

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    File, Kieran A.; Adams, Rebecca

    2010-01-01

    This article presents the authors' reply to Beniko Mason and Stephen Krashen's comments on their recent article published in "TESOL Quarterly." Mason and Krashen have provided an interesting reinterpretation of the authors' results and have also brought up several valid points regarding the efficiency of vocabulary learning from instruction,…

  7. Institutional Challenges to Developing Metrics of Success in Irregular Warfare

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    develop national policy and strategic goals. If an IW conflict has a 11 Richard L. Daft , Essentials...13 Richard L. Daft , Essentials of Organization Theory and Design (Mason, OH:Thomson Learning, 2003), 52. 14 Henry...37 Richard L. Daft , Essentials of Organization Theory & Design (Mason, OH: Thompson Learning, 2003), 52

  8. Effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload during masonry work

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    2007-01-01

    The effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload was determined for masons who laid sandstone building blocks over the course of a full work day. Three groups of five sandstone block masons participated. Each group worked with a different block weight: 11 kg, 14 kg or 16 kg.

  9. Effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload during masonry work.

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    van der Molen, H.F.; Kuijer, P.P.F.M.; Hopmans, P.P.; Houweling, A.G.; Faber, G.S.; Hoozemans, M.J.M.; Frings-Dresen, M.H.

    2008-01-01

    The effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload was determined for masons who laid sandstone building blocks over the course of a full work day. Three groups of five sandstone block masons participated. Each group worked with a different block weight: 11 kg, 14 kg or 16 kg.

  10. Effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload during masonry work

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    van der Molen, H. F.; Kuijer, P. P. F. M.; Hopmans, P. P. W.; Houweling, A. G.; Faber, G. S.; Hoozemans, M. J. M.; Frings-Dresen, M. H. W.

    2008-01-01

    The effect of block weight on work demands and physical workload was determined for masons who laid sandstone building blocks over the course of a full work day. Three groups of five sandstone block masons participated. Each group worked with a different block weight: 11 kg, 14 kg or 16 kg.

  11. Lessons from the Past: The Importance of Educational History

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    2009-01-01

    For the past twenty years, the training of teachers in England has consisted of little more than instruction in 'delivering' the National Curriculum. In this piece, Derek Gillard argues that there are now encouraging signs of a resurgence of interest in the history of education. He reviews the new edition of Clyde Chitty's "Education Policy…

  12. A Lifting Surface Theory for Wings Experiencing Leading-Edge Separation

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  13. A Century of Change: The Evolution of School Library Resources, 1915-2015

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    2015-01-01

    School libraries have been in existence since at least the eighth century. However, it wasn't until the twentieth century that the school library was seen primarily as "a source of enrichment for the curriculum, and a means of developing reading and study habits in the pupils" (Clyde 1981, 263). While the formats available and tools for…

  14. Hunting America’s Most Wanted While Saving Money, Lives, and Face: The Rise of RPA

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    Robbin Laird, “Why Air Force Needs Lots Of F-35s: Gen...facilities, aircrew, and support personnel were major barriers to fielding more systems 5 Tony Mason...6 Tony Mason, “Operation Allied Force,” ed John A. Olsen, A History of Air Warfare, 240, 245. 7 Arkin, “Operation Allied Force,” 1. 17

  15. Quantum close coupling calculation of transport and relaxation properties for Hg-H_2 system

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    Nemati-Kande, Ebrahim; Maghari, Ali

    2016-01-01

    Highlights: • Several relaxation cross sections are calculated for Hg-H_2 van der Waals complex. • These cross sections are calculated from exact close-coupling method. • Energy-dependent SBE cross sections are calculated for ortho- and para-H_2 + Hg systems. • Viscosity and diffusion coefficients are calculated using Mason-Monchick approximation. • The results obtained by Mason-Monchick approximation are compared to the exact close-coupling results. - Abstract: Quantum mechanical close coupling calculation of the state-to-state transport and relaxation cross sections have been done for Hg-H_2 molecular system using a high-level ab initio potential energy surface. Rotationally averaged cross sections were also calculated to obtain the energy dependent Senftleben-Beenakker cross sections at the energy range of 0.005–25,000 cm"−"1. Boltzmann averaging of the energy dependent Senftleben-Beenakker cross sections showed the temperature dependency over a wide temperature range of 50–2500 K. Interaction viscosity and diffusion coefficients were also calculated using close coupling cross sections and full classical Mason-Monchick approximation. The results were compared with each other and with the available experimental data. It was found that Mason-Monchick approximation for viscosity is more reliable than diffusion coefficient. Furthermore, from the comparison of the experimental diffusion coefficients with the result of the close coupling and Mason-Monchick approximation, it was found that the Hg-H_2 potential energy surface used in this work can reliably predict diffusion coefficient data.

  16. The Impact of Declining Defense Budgets on Japan Maritime Self Defense Force

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    acceptable to concentrate only on the home 127 Gregory N. Mankiw , Economics , 3rd ed. (Mason: Thomson South...Development, 2003. Mankiw , Gregory N. Economics . 3rd ed. Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2004. Martin, W. O. L. F. "Asia Needs the Freedom of Its Own...75 APPENDIX A: THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE (EXTRACT)........ 77 APPENDIX B: JAPANESE ECONOMIC DATA

  17. Evaluating Effectiveness of a Frigate in an Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) Environment

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    Simulation of Foraging Sequence for Ants Using MASON Simulation Toolkit. Source: Luke, Cioffi-Revilla, Panait, Sullivan, & Balan (2016...Simulation of Foraging Sequence for Ants Using MASON Simulation Toolkit. Source: Luke, Cioffi-Revilla, Panait, Sullivan, & Balan (2016). D. MAP AWARE...either or both of the following conditions occur:  The friendly frigate is killed .  All enemy assets are neutralized by the friendly frigate

  18. « La franc-maçonnerie dans l’Europe napoléonienne. De l’échec de l’Europe maçonnique française a la transformation de la société des maçons »

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    Éric Saunier

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available For a long period of time, the slow modernization of social history characterized the masonic historiography and the Napolean period. This paper was presented on the bicentenary of the Grand Orient of Italy in Milan in May 200 and it aims to show the need to target a different perspective on this period. In this regard, several recent studies on this topic show that far from the canonical view, the study of the practices of the Masonic lodges initiated between 1804 and 1815 gave birth to new types of diverse social and political behavior, showing in fact that the Napoleonic period should rather be seen as a time when Masonic national identities were established rather than as a period of manipulation.

  19. Methodology for characterizing potential adversaries of Nuclear Material Safeguards Systems

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    Kirkwood, C.W.; Pollock, S.M.

    1978-11-01

    The results are described of a study by Woodward--Clyde Consultants to assist the University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the development of methods to analyze and evaluate Nuclear Material Safeguards (NMS) Systems. The study concentrated on developing a methodology to assist experts in describing, in quantitative form, their judgments about the characteristics of potential adversaries of NMS Systems

  20. Methodology for characterizing potential adversaries of Nuclear Material Safeguards Systems

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    Kirkwood, C.W.; Pollock, S.M.

    1978-11-01

    The results are described of a study by Woodward--Clyde Consultants to assist the University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the development of methods to analyze and evaluate Nuclear Material Safeguards (NMS) Systems. The study concentrated on developing a methodology to assist experts in describing, in quantitative form, their judgments about the characteristics of potential adversaries of NMS Systems.

  1. Quantum close coupling calculation of transport and relaxation properties for Hg-H{sub 2} system

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    Nemati-Kande, Ebrahim; Maghari, Ali, E-mail: maghari@ut.ac.ir

    2016-11-10

    Highlights: • Several relaxation cross sections are calculated for Hg-H{sub 2} van der Waals complex. • These cross sections are calculated from exact close-coupling method. • Energy-dependent SBE cross sections are calculated for ortho- and para-H{sub 2} + Hg systems. • Viscosity and diffusion coefficients are calculated using Mason-Monchick approximation. • The results obtained by Mason-Monchick approximation are compared to the exact close-coupling results. - Abstract: Quantum mechanical close coupling calculation of the state-to-state transport and relaxation cross sections have been done for Hg-H{sub 2} molecular system using a high-level ab initio potential energy surface. Rotationally averaged cross sections were also calculated to obtain the energy dependent Senftleben-Beenakker cross sections at the energy range of 0.005–25,000 cm{sup −1}. Boltzmann averaging of the energy dependent Senftleben-Beenakker cross sections showed the temperature dependency over a wide temperature range of 50–2500 K. Interaction viscosity and diffusion coefficients were also calculated using close coupling cross sections and full classical Mason-Monchick approximation. The results were compared with each other and with the available experimental data. It was found that Mason-Monchick approximation for viscosity is more reliable than diffusion coefficient. Furthermore, from the comparison of the experimental diffusion coefficients with the result of the close coupling and Mason-Monchick approximation, it was found that the Hg-H{sub 2} potential energy surface used in this work can reliably predict diffusion coefficient data.

  2. Renaissance of the Film.

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    Bellone, Julius, Ed.

    The post-World War II period was one of the liveliest in the history of the cinema. This is a collection of 33 critical articles on some of the best films of the perd. Most of the essays explicate the themes and symbols of the films. The essays deal with these films: "The Apu Trilogy,""L'Avventura,""Balthazar,""Blow-Up,""Bonnie and Clyde," Citizen…

  3. Abbot A. Barruel about the Causes and Organizers of the French Revolution

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    Sergey E. Kiyasov

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available The article deal with the version of participation in the events of the French revolution of secret organizations, proposed by Catholic priest and publicist Augustin Barruel. According to the emigrant abbot, who became a witness and participant in the revolutionary processes, those events were organized by the conspirators represented by philosophers-enlighteners, masons and illuminati, who joined after 1789 in the Club of the Jacobins. A. Barruel shared his views in a multivolume work, which was published in London at the very end of the 18th century. The book aroused great interest and was translated into many languages, including Russian. From that moment, a “black legend” was approved in the assessment of the European Masonic movement. This legend explained all the revolutionary events by a destructive “Masonic conspiracy”. The author focuses the research on characterizing the real causes that had become the catalyst for the French revolution. In the context of criticism of Barruel’s views, the assessments are also given to the evolution of the Masonic movement in France of the 18th century. The author touches upon a very important problem of transformation of national Masonic organizations. This problem is considered in the context of the formation of the structures of the Great East of France. The article notes the close relationship of this structure with the elite and the Royal court. The undertaken analysis is based on the special literature and the original sources, such as The Constitutions by James Anderson – the first printed constitution of the premier Grand Lodge of England; Memoires by Augustin Barruel.

  4. A G-C-rich palindromic structural motif and a stretch of single-stranded purines are required for optimal packaging of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) genomic RNA.

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    Jaballah, Soumeya Ali; Aktar, Suriya J; Ali, Jahabar; Phillip, Pretty Susan; Al Dhaheri, Noura Salem; Jabeen, Aayesha; Rizvi, Tahir A

    2010-09-03

    During retroviral RNA packaging, two copies of genomic RNA are preferentially packaged into the budding virus particles whereas the spliced viral RNAs and the cellular RNAs are excluded during this process. Specificity towards retroviral RNA packaging is dependent upon sequences at the 5' end of the viral genome, which at times extend into Gag sequences. It has earlier been suggested that the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) contains packaging sequences within the 5' untranslated region (UTR) and Gag. These studies have also suggested that the packaging determinants of MPMV that lie in the UTR are bipartite and are divided into two regions both upstream and downstream of the major splice donor. However, the precise boundaries of these discontinuous regions within the UTR and the role of the intervening sequences between these dipartite sequences towards MPMV packaging have not been investigated. Employing a combination of genetic and structural prediction analyses, we have shown that region "A", immediately downstream of the primer binding site, is composed of 50 nt, whereas region "B" is composed of the last 23 nt of UTR, and the intervening 55 nt between these two discontinuous regions do not contribute towards MPMV RNA packaging. In addition, we have identified a 14-nt G-C-rich palindromic sequence (with 100% autocomplementarity) within region A that has been predicted to fold into a structural motif and is essential for optimal MPMV RNA packaging. Furthermore, we have also identified a stretch of single-stranded purines (ssPurines) within the UTR and 8 nt of these ssPurines are duplicated in region B. The native ssPurines or its repeat in region B when predicted to refold as ssPurines has been shown to be essential for RNA packaging, possibly functioning as a potential nucleocapsid binding site. Findings from this study should enhance our understanding of the steps involved in MPMV replication including RNA encapsidation process. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd

  5. Water-quality and biological conditions in selected tributaries of the Lower Boise River, southwestern Idaho, water years 2009-12

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    Etheridge, Alexandra B.; MacCoy, Dorene E.; Weakland, Rhonda J.

    2014-01-01

    Water-quality conditions were studied in selected tributaries of the lower Boise River during water years 2009–12, including Fivemile and Tenmile Creeks in 2009, Indian Creek in 2010, and Mason Creek in 2011 and 2012. Biological samples, including periphyton biomass and chlorophyll-a, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish were collected in Mason Creek in October 2011. Synoptic water-quality sampling events were timed to coincide with the beginning and middle of the irrigation season as well as the non-irrigation season, and showed that land uses and irrigation practices affect water quality in the selected tributaries. Large increases in nutrient and sediment concentrations and loads occurred over relatively short stream reaches and affected nutrient and sediment concentrations downstream of those reaches. Escherichia coli (E. coli) values increased in study reaches adjacent to pastured lands or wastewater treatment plants, but increased E. coli values at upstream locations did not necessarily affect E. coli values at downstream locations. A spatial loading analysis identified source areas for nutrients, sediment, and E. coli, and might be useful in selecting locations for water-quality improvement projects. Effluent from wastewater treatment plants increased nutrient loads in specific reaches in Fivemile and Indian Creeks. Increased suspended-sediment loads were associated with increased discharge from irrigation returns in each of the studied tributaries. Samples collected during or shortly after storms showed that surface runoff, particularly during the winter, may be an important source of nutrients in tributary watersheds with substantial agricultural land use. Concentrations of total phosphorus, suspended sediment, and E. coli exceeded regulatory water-quality targets or trigger levels at one or more monitoring sites in each tributary studied, and exceedences occurred during irrigation season more often than during non-irrigation season. As with water

  6. Smaller Satellite Operations Near Geostationary Orbit

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    2007-09-01

    of that study when a purely mathematical approach is not possible or too cumbersome to emphasize a point clearly. I will approach 7 the...components that are specifically designed to be utilized in CubeSats. Pumpkin Incorporated and Clyde Space are leading developers of COTS equipment...year mission life. From a purely hypothetical approach, assume the high interest targets were operating over Asia, with a number of satellites

  7. European Scientific Notes. Volume 38. Number 1.

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    1984-01-01

    organic sol - cles of establishment, vents and can be used to cast films, The location of the center was not coat substrates, or spin fibers. When...Italy, signed a con- Polycrystals (University of Strath- tract for a $37 million modern oceano - clyde Conference, Applied Science graphic research ship...becomes opera- of Extrinsic Grain Boundary Dislo- tional it may well be the finest oceano - cations in Relation with Intergran- graphic research

  8. Load response and gap formation in a single-row cruciate suture rotator cuff repair.

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    Huntington, Lachlan; Richardson, Martin; Sobol, Tony; Caldow, Jonathon; Ackland, David C

    2017-06-01

    Double-row rotator cuff tendon repair techniques may provide superior contact area and strength compared with single-row repairs, but are associated with higher material expenses and prolonged operating time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate gap formation, ultimate tensile strength and stiffness of a single-row cruciate suture rotator cuff repair construct, and to compare these results with those of the Mason-Allen and SutureBridge repair constructs. Infraspinatus tendons from 24 spring lamb shoulders were harvested and allocated to cruciate suture, Mason-Allen and SutureBridge repair groups. Specimens were loaded cyclically between 10 and 62 N for 200 cycles, and gap formation simultaneously measured using a high-speed digital camera. Specimens were then loaded in uniaxial tension to failure, and construct stiffness and repair strength were evaluated. Gap formation in the cruciate suture repair was significantly lower than that of the Mason-Allen repair (mean difference = 0.6 mm, P = 0.009) and no different from that of the SutureBridge repair (P > 0.05). Both the cruciate suture repair (mean difference = 15.7 N/mm, P = 0.002) and SutureBridge repair (mean difference = 15.8 N/mm, P = 0.034) were significantly stiffer than that of the Mason-Allen repair; however, no significant differences in ultimate tensile strength between repair groups were discerned (P > 0.05). The cruciate suture repair construct, which may represent a simple and cost-effective alternative to double-row and double-row equivalent rotator cuff repairs, has comparable biomechanical strength and integrity with that of the SutureBridge repair, and may result in improved construct longevity and tendon healing compared with the Mason-Allen repair. © 2017 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

  9. “A insustentável leveza das fronteiras: Clero Católico na Maçonaria e a questão do Anticlericalismo e do Antimaçonismo em Portugal”

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    Fernanda Santos

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available The Catholic Church began its long history of public condemnation of Freemasonry on April 28 th , 1738, when Pope Clement XII (1730-1740 interdicted Catholics from becoming members of Masonic lodges, through the bull In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula , which pointed out the incompatibility between the vow and secrecy of Masonic obedience and the condition of Christianity in the Roman Catholic Church. The announcement of September 28 th , 1738, published in convents and parishes of the kingdom and empire, summarizes the role of the Portuguese Inquisition, in which Catholics living in Portugal were admonished to confess and denounce to the Holy Office the existence of Masonic meetings. The Inqu isition also prohibited the participation of Catholics in freemasonry meetings, and ordered bishops, prelates and inquisitors to identify the offenders. Despite these historical facts, this paper intends to show that ther e are records of the involvem ent of Catholic priests and bishops in portuguese Freemasonary since the mid eighteenth century.

  10. Model calculations for electrochemically etched neutron detectors

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    Pitt, E.; Scharmann, A.; Werner, B.

    1988-01-01

    Electrochemical etching has been established as a common method for visualisation of nuclear tracks in solid state nuclear track detectors. Usually the Mason equation, which describes the amplification of the electrical field strength at the track tip, is used to explain the treeing effect of electrochemical etching. The yield of neutron-induced tracks from electrochemically etched CR-39 track detectors was investigated with respect to the electrical parameters. A linear dependence on the response from the macroscopic field strength was measured which could not be explained by the Mason equation. It was found that the reality of a recoil proton track in the detector does not fit the boundary conditions which are necessary when the Mason equation is used. An alternative model was introduced to describe the track and detector geometry in the case of a neutron track detector. The field strength at the track tip was estimated with this model and compared with the experimental data, yielding good agreement. (author)

  11. Lima masónica: las logias simbólicas y su progreso en el medio urbano a fines del siglo XIX

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    Chocano, Magdalena

    2010-08-01

    Full Text Available This article deals with the organization of the Grand Lodge of Peru, founded in 1882. Using Masonic publications and sources, it aims to establish the dynamics of its local lodges and to assess the character of Masonic activity in Peru at the end of the 19th century. Finally, it examines the political positioning of the Masonic leadership and its performance in the national political scene where it challenged Catholic exclusivity.

    Este artículo presenta un análisis de la organización de la Gran Logia del Perú, fundada en 1882. A partir de las fuentes masónicas, se busca establecer la dinámica de cada logia y el carácter del accionar masónico. Finalmente, se examinan las actitudes políticas que fomentaron sus dirigentes y su actuación en la escena nacional donde desafiaron al exclusivismo católico.

  12. Particle capture efficiency in a multi-wire model for high gradient magnetic separation

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    Eisenträger, Almut

    2014-07-21

    High gradient magnetic separation (HGMS) is an efficient way to remove magnetic and paramagnetic particles, such as heavy metals, from waste water. As the suspension flows through a magnetized filter mesh, high magnetic gradients around the wires attract and capture the particles removing them from the fluid. We model such a system by considering the motion of a paramagnetic tracer particle through a periodic array of magnetized cylinders. We show that there is a critical Mason number (ratio of viscous to magnetic forces) below which the particle is captured irrespective of its initial position in the array. Above this threshold, particle capture is only partially successful and depends on the particle\\'s entry position. We determine the relationship between the critical Mason number and the system geometry using numerical and asymptotic calculations. If a capture efficiency below 100% is sufficient, our results demonstrate how operating the HGMS system above the critical Mason number but with multiple separation cycles may increase efficiency. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

  13. Seasonal rainfall prediction skill over South Africa: one- versus two-tiered forecasting systems

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    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available - able (e.g., Klopper et al. 1998; Landman and Goddard 2002; Reason and Rouault 2005, Tennant and Hewitson 2002). This knowledge led to the development of objective operational seasonal forecasting systems for South Africa, but only as recently... as the 1990s (e.g., Jury 1996; Jury et al. 1999; Landman and Mason 1999; Mason 1998). Although the prediction problem over southern Africa was also addressed by modelers from outside the region (e.g., Barnston et al. 1996), the South African...

  14. Wrox SharePoint 2010 SharePoint911 three-pack

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    Klindt, Todd; Mason, Jennifer; Rogers, Laura; Drisgill, Randy; Ross, John; Riemann, Larry; Perran, Amanda; Perran, Shane; Sanford, Jacob J; Stubbs, Paul; Caravajal, Steve

    2012-01-01

    The Wrox SharePoint 2010 SharePoint911 Three-Pack combines the contents of three full e-books written by the experts from SharePoint911.  That's over 1800 pages of hands-on advice from Todd Klindt, Shane Young, Laura Rogers, Randy Drisgill, Jennifer Mason, John Ross, and Larry Riemann, among others. In Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint (ISBN 978-0-470-61789-2) by Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, and Laura Rogers, readers learn the core concepts, terminology, and features of SharePoint 2010. In Professiona

  15. Seeking perfection in healthcare. A case study in adopting Toyota Production System methods.

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    Kaplan, Gary S; Patterson, Sarah H

    2008-01-01

    Virginia Mason Health System's vision to be the quality leader in healthcare means continually adopting new ways of thinking. One change has been shifting from believing defects are to be expected to believing zero defects in healthcare is not only possible, but also necessary. Generally, healthcare has advanced in technology and understanding of disease, but its business and management systems have changed little since the 1950s. Virginia Mason realized it needed a management method to help make real and measurable improvements in safety, quality, service and staff satisfaction.

  16. Simulation of Piezoelectric Transformers with COMSOL

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    Andersen, Thomas; Andersen, Michael A. E.; Thomsen, Ole Cornelius

    2012-01-01

    In this work COMSOL is utilized to obtain the Mason lumped parameter model for a piezoelectric transformer (PT) design. The Mason lumped parameters are relevant in the design process of power converters. The magnitude of the impedance is simulated for a specific: interleaved multilayer thickness...... for simplifying the PT model are given in order to decrease the simulation time. This paper aims to aid electrical engineers with less knowledge within the field of mechanics, to be able to simulate a PT design with COMSOL and extract the key electrical parameters....

  17. Floodplain Mapping for Mason County, KY

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  18. La emigración y el exilio en la vida de Saturnino Tejera García, entre la Fraternidad y el Periodismo

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    Victoria María Sueiro Rodríguez

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Saturnino Tejera García (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1900-Cienfuegos, 1956; emigró a Cuba alrededor de 1916 o 1917 y se estableció en Yaguajay, y, posteriormente, en Cienfuegos. Escritor, linotipista y periodista no profesional. Se inició en la Masonería en 1929 a la logia “Fernandina de Jagua”; en 1930 al Oddfelismo “Caballeros de la Luz”. Regresó a Canarias a principios de la década del 1930; lo sorprendió la Guerra Civil Española y fue procesado por el Tribunal Supremo de la Masonería de Madrid por defender sus postulados; se exilió en Cienfuegos en 1945 y dedicó su ejecutoria a la Fraternidad y a la cultura; tuvo una sección periodística Fraternales, fundólaHoraRadial Fraternal y la logia “Federico Capdevila”, donde resultó electo Primer Vigilante y representante ante la Gran Logia de Cuba; por lo que el objetivo del trabajo ha sido valorar sus marcados aportes a la Masonería y Periodismo locales.

  19. « L’espace caribéen: un enjeu de pouvoir pour la francmaçonnerie française »

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    Éric Saunier

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available If the "Caribbean space" was the place of implantation of an independent freemasonry carrier of its own history and also was during the 18 th and 19 th centuries a zone of confrontation between the Masonic European powers, the Grand Orient of France, and the Grand Lodge United of England. Under these tensions, the Grand Orient of France was concerned about establishing its authority over provincial lodges (at colonies in the Antilles and in port cities as Bordeaux, Nantes and Le Havre, while these lodges developed tools which seek to implement policies resistance and in turn, benefit the different social tensions for development. The Havre’s freemasonry established very close relations with lodges from Cuba and Santo Domingo. This study conveys how the position of the Masonic lodges and the development of nationa l and liberal movements, accepting men of color, causing functions as platforms for these movements in the early 19 th century. Finally, this article attests the importance of the "Caribbean space" in the histor y of Masonic international relations.

  20. ‘Ecole maçonnique’, ‘école laïque’ : une note sur la politique éducative de la franc-maçonnerie latine en Méditerranée musulmane, XIXe-début du XXe siècle

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    Thierry Zarcone

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    Full Text Available Lodges founded by French, Italian and Spanish obediences in Eastern Mediterranean countries: Turkey, the Middle East and Magreb countries, started schools that were qualified as “masonic” “secular” o “Free secular”. These obediences were in conflict, in this regard, with Christian congregations, with moslem ones, and, in some cases, with the synagogues. This paper deals more specifically with some schools built by the French and Italian obediences in the Ottoman Empire, at the turn of the 19th century confronting them with the schools in the Middle East and the Magreb belonging to these same obediences as well as by the Grande Oriente Español. It is important for us to question the terms the freemasons used to refer to those schools. Whether it was common usage to present them, at the end of the 19th century, as “secular schools”, instead of calling them “masonic schools”, which was generally their first title/name, thus revealing that the educational Project should have elements of masonic morality and of masonic ideals.

  1. Carbon-13 and nitrogen-15 enrichment in coastal forest foliage from nutrient-poor and seabird-enriched sites in southern New Zealand

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    Hawke, D.J.; Newman, J.

    2007-01-01

    To assess the effect of nutrient inputs from breeding seabirds on forest foliage δ 13 C and δ 15 N, we collected foliage samples from two contrasting locations. Olearia lyallii forest on North East Island at The Snares hosts large numbers of (in particular) breeding sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus). At Mason Bay (Rakiura/Stewart Island), samples of Brachyglottis rotundifolia, Griselinia littoralis, and Dracophyllum longifolium were collected from two strata within diverse dune forest and one stratum from the open dunes. The δ 13 C results were typical of C 3 plants and did not differ significantly between Mason Bay and North East Island. In contrast, the δ 15 N results from Mason Bay (mean ± standard deviation, -6.1 ± 1.7 permille) were significantly lower than expected for temperate forest (95% confidence interval of difference, 2.7-3.9 permille), and dramatically lower (19.1-21.5 permille) than North East Island where enrichments (+14.2 ± 3.1 permille) were among the highest ever reported for vegetation. (author). 33 refs., 1 fig., 2 tabs

  2. conmemoración del Rey Leopoldo de Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha

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    Jeffrey Tyssens

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Si el lazo del rey Leopoldo I de Bélgica con la masonería fue en el mejor de los casos lejano –fue aceptado por« comunicación » bajo los auspicios de una logia suiza aunque muy probablemente no haya puesto nunca un pieen una logia- no impidió que fuera saludado como hermano por los masones belgas. Leopoldo aceptó serprotector de la orden cuando un nuevo gran orientese estableció en el joven país en 1832-1833. No obstante,pronto Leopoldo desarrolló una hostilidad contra lapostura liberal de las logias belgas, actitud quemantuvohasta su muerte en diciembre de 1865. En febrero de1866, el Gran Oriente organizó una tenida fúnebreen honoral fallecido monarca. El ritual reflejaba el espiritualismo masónico que todavía estaba muy extendidopor aquellaépoca. El rey masón muerto fue de forma simbólica integrado en el panteón de los héroes nacionales,reinventado con cualidades míticas, instrumentalizado como un icono que probara cuán los masones no eranviles ateos. La opinión católica reaccionó de formaviolenta contra aquella recuperación del monarca.Asimismo,el ritual de 1866 trajo también una primera significativa protesta de masones que mostraban una actitud radicalcontra el espiritualismo impuesto. Estas polémicasanticipaban la secularización gradual de los ritualesmasónicos belgas de los años 1870

  3. A new large oregoniid spider crab of the genus Pleistacantha Miers, 1879, from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea

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    Full Text Available A new species of deep-water oregoniid spider crab of the genus Pleistacantha Miers, 1879, is described from the Indian Ocean. The species is distinct in possessing a prominently inflated carapace in which the median parts of the branchial regions almost meet. It can also be distinguished from its closest congeners, P. moseleyi (Miers, 1885, P. pungens (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason and Alcock 1891, and P. ori Ahyong & Ng, 2007, in its more elongate and less spinose chelipeds and ambulatory legs, shorter third maxilliped, trapezoidal male pleon and a male first gonopod which is relatively stout with a short subdistal dorsal papilla.

  4. Application of neutron radiation inspection at the Pantex Plant

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    Cassidy, J.P.

    1983-01-01

    A neutron radiographic capability has been established at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, which is operated for the Department of Energy by Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason Co. A 3 MeV Van de Graaf accelerator is employed as the neutron source. Neutron radiation inspection techniques have been developed to detect and observe discontinuities in explosive materials encased in aluminum, lead, steel and combinations of these casement materials. These data demonstrate that the capability exists for obtaining satisfactory neutron radiographs of many explosive-loaded components. Additional work will be performed in order to further determine applicable capabilities of the 3 MeV Van de Graaf accelerator. (Auth.)

  5. Entrevista a un masón. Perspectiva antropológica de una realidad ignorada (José J. L. Gómez

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    Carlos Peláez Paz

    2007-05-01

    Full Text Available El texto nos acerca a una realidad declarada ignorada, que suscita la fantasía y la especulación morbosa de lo desconocido, de aquello que situamos entre la leyenda, lo esotérico y la realidad. Aleccionados en el prejuicio contra la masonería, hemos crecido en los temores, malentendidos, estereotipos e incluso una cierta estigmatización de masones y logias, presentes en el recorrido de nuestra historia, teñida por las luchas políticas y fratricidas de las diversas Españas y el, recordado en el libro, “contubernio judeo masónico”.

  6. Radioimmunoassay of type D oncovirus from continuous J-96 cells

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    Vlasenkova, N.K.; Altshtejn, A.D.; Zhdanov, V.M.; Kitsak, V.Ya.

    1978-01-01

    The radioimmunoassay of the J-96 virus and an extract of J-96 cells in the homologous and heterologous systems aimed at detecting antigenic determinants of p25 of Mason-Pfizer virus and group-specific and interspecies antigenic determinants p30 of Rauscher leukaemia virus demonstrated that (1) J-96 virus contains a major internal protein immunologically identical with p25 protein of Mason-Pfizer virus based on the antigenic determinants detectable by the radioimmunoassay used; and (2) no interspecies antigenic determinants characteristic of the major internal protein of mammalian type C viruses were detectable in the J-96 virus or the J-96 cell extract. (author)

  7. Absorption dips at low x-ray energies in Cygnus X-1

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    Murdin, P.

    1976-01-01

    Three more looks with the Copernicus satellite at Cygnus X-1 have produced four more examples of absorption dips, decreases in the 2 to 7 keV flux from Cygnus X-1 with an increase of spectral hardness consistent with photoelectric absorption (Mason et al 1974). The nine now seen, including one by OSO-7 (Li and Clark 1974), are listed in Table 1. Their phase in the spectroscopic binary HD 226868 is also listed, calculated from a newer ephemeris than that in Mason et al (1974), adding the radial velocities by Bolton (1975) and unpublished RGO radial velocities from the 1975 season. (These elements do not differ significantly from Bolton's

  8. Application and sensitivity testing of a eutrophication assessment method on coastal systems in the United States and European Union.

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    Ferreira, João Gomes; Bricker, Suzanne B; Simas, Teresa Castro

    2007-03-01

    The Assessment of Estuarine Trophic Status (ASSETS) screening model has been extended to allow its application to both estuarine and coastal systems. The model, which combines elements of pressure, state and response, was tested on four systems: Maryland Coastal Bays and Long Island Sound in the United States and The Firth of Clyde (Scotland) and Tagus Estuary (Portugal) in the European Union. The overall scores were: Maryland Coastal Bays: Bad; Firth of Clyde: Poor; Tagus Estuary: Good. Long Island Sound was modelled along a timeline, using 1991 data (score: Bad) and 2002 data (score: Moderate). The improvement registered for Long Island Sound is a consequence of the reduction in nutrient loading, and the ASSETS score changed accordingly. The two main areas where developments are needed are (a) In the definition of type-specific ranges for eutrophication parameters, due to the recognition that natural or pristine conditions may vary widely, and the use of a uniform set of thresholds artificially penalizes some systems and potentially leads to misclassification; (b) In the definition and quantification of measures which will result in an improved state through a change in pressures, as well as in the definition of appropriate metrics through which response may be assessed. One possibility is the use of detailed research models where different response scenarios potentially produce changes in pressure and state. These outputs may be used to drive screening models and analyze the suitability of candidate metrics for evaluating management options.

  9. "Viimne reliikvia" ja "Valgus koordis" : žanrifilmist žanrifilmini / Lauri Kärk

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    Žanrifilmi mõistmisest, 1960-ndate žanriuuendustest. Kahest eesti žanrifilmist: "Viimne reliikvia" (1969) ja "Valgus Koordis" (1951). Artikli järjes kõrvutatakse "Viimset reliikviat" Paul-Eerik Rummo "Tuhkatriinumänguga" (Vanemuises 1969., lavastaja E. Hermaküla). Sarnaseid jooni ka "Viimse reliikvia" ja teiste žanrifilmidega, pikemalt filmidest: Kaljo Kiisa "Hullumeelsus" (1968), Christian-Jaque'i "Tulp-Fanfanil" (Prantsusmaa, 1951), Tony Richardsoni "Tom Jones" (Inglismaa, 1963), Edmond Keosajani "Tabamatud tasujad" (Venemaa, 1966), Vytaytas Žalakeviciuse "Keegi ei tahtnud surra" (Leedu, 1965), Arthur Penni "Bonnie ja Clyde"

  10. The McGruer Lorne Class Yachts - Their History and Architecture

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    Established in 1911 on the river Clyde, the family-run firm of McGruer & Company Ltd created some of the finest sailing yachts ever built in Scotland. The smallest of these were the Lorne Class, designed in the 1960's by the legendary James McGruer as "affordable" family sail cruisers. At 28 ft. LOA not only did they have the thoroughbred lines and renowned sea-keeping qualities of their larger cousins but they were one of the last and best examples in small cruising yacht design of the centu...

  11. Bottom ash handling: why the outlook is dry

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    The author believes that dry systems are the way forward for bottom ash handling at coal fired power plants. The first two commercial installations of Clyde Bergemann's DRYCON system, in China, are due to enter operation shortly. The DRY ash CONveyor (DRYCON) employs fresh air flow to cool the ash, returning reheat energy to the boiler. It also addresses some problems encountered with previous dry technologies whilst increasing ash capacity and enhancing ash cooking. The advantages of the DRYCON over the wet submerged scraper conveyor are listed. 7 figs.

  12. Enhanced thermal conduction -- An alternative solution for removing a broad range of hydrocarbons from contaminated soils

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    1999-07-01

    This paper presents an overview of Enhanced Thermal Conduction (ETC), an ex-situ soil remediation process. A review of a practical demonstration of this process which was conducted by Woodward-Clyde Consultants to determine the capability of the technology for remediating soils from gasworks sites that have been contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, polynuclear hydrocarbons (PAHs) and cyanide is also presented in this paper. Projections for using this process to treat soils contaminated with other hazardous materials such as TCE PCE and PCB's are discussed as well.

  13. “Freemasonry as a Patriotic Society? The 1830 Belgian Revolution”

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    Full Text Available Al cuestionar la masonería y el patriotismo, tenemos que conceptualizar el análisis de la evolución de la identidad patriótica. El caso de la Revolución belga de 1830 es extremadamente aclarador en este respecto. Las reacciones de los masones demuestran que el patriotismo y el nacionalismo no son sinónimos en 1830, siendo el primero el amor por la patria, mientras que el segundo está conectado a una doctrina específica del Estado. Un proceso de nacionalización de patriotismo está claramente en el camino, pero no inspira a todos los patriotas. La definición de conceptos como nación, estado y nacionalismo difieren fuertemente a lo largo de las logias. ¿En qué estado podría ofrecerse las mejores perspectivas para la nación belga, valores cívicos y amor a la libertad? De acuerdo con una pequeña mayoría de masones, el Estado belga ofrece la mejor solución política. Pero una parte muy importante de los masones, conocidos como los orangistas, prefirieren el régimen holandés, que había gobernado desde 1815 hasta 1830. Sin embargo, esto no significa que no eran patriotas belgas, sino todo lo contrario. Este artículo analiza el cambio de conceptos de patriotismo, nación, estado y nacionalismo en el inicio del siglo XIX, a través del estudio de casos de reacciones masónicas de la Revolución belga de 1830 y en tanto, la posibilidad de que las logias actuaran como sociedades patrióticas.

  14. Biomechanical characteristics of single-row repair in comparison to double-row repair with consideration of the suture configuration and suture material.

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    Baums, M H; Buchhorn, G H; Spahn, G; Poppendieck, B; Schultz, W; Klinger, H-M

    2008-11-01

    The aim of the study was to evaluate the time zero mechanical properties of single- versus double-row configuration for rotator cuff repair in an animal model with consideration of the stitch technique and suture material. Thirty-two fresh-frozen sheep shoulders were randomly assigned to four repair groups: suture anchor single-row repair coupled with (1) braided, nonabsorbable polyester suture sized USP No. 2 (SRAE) or (2) braided polyblend polyethylene suture sized No. 2 (SRAH). The double-row repair was coupled with (3) USP No. 2 (DRAE) or (4) braided polyblend polyethylene suture No. 2 (DRAH). Arthroscopic Mason-Allen stitches were used (single-row) and combined with medial horizontal mattress stitches (double-row). Shoulders were cyclically loaded from 10 to 180 N. Displacement to gap formation of 5- and 10-mm at the repair site, cycles to failure, and the mode of failure were determined. The ultimate tensile strength was verified in specimens that resisted to 3,000 cycles. DRAE and DRAH had a lower frequency of 5- (P = 0.135) and 10-mm gap formation (P = 0.135). All DRAE and DRAH resisted 3,000 cycles while only three SRAE and one SRAH resisted 3,000 cycles (P row specimens was significantly higher than in others (P 0.05). Double-row suture anchor repair with arthroscopic Mason-Allen/medial mattress stitches provides initial strength superior to single-row repair with arthroscopic Mason-Allen stitches under isometric cyclic loading as well as under ultimate loading conditions. Our results support the concept of double-row fixation with arthroscopic Mason-Allen/medial mattress stitches in rotator cuff tears with improvement of initial fixation strength and ultimate tensile load. Use of new polyblend polyethylene suture material seems not to increase the initial biomechanical aspects of the repair construct.

  15. DCS Terrain Submission for Mason County, KY

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    Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security — Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix M: Data Capture Standards, describes the digital topographic data that were used to create...

  16. From the sage on the stage to what exactly? Description and the place of the moderator in co-operative and collaborative learning

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    1999-12-01

    Full Text Available In a standard text on open and distance learning, computer conferencing appears with advantages and disadvantages that rely on the capacity of the conference to 'facilitate' students and staff working together (Mason, 1994. Co-operation or collaboration are seen as unproblematic outcomes of the use of the computer conference. Hiltz noted that collaboration is both technically facilitated and becomes a moral requirement that involves a respecification of the teacher's role (Hiltz and Benbunan-Fich, 1997, p. 1. The outlook that associates collaborative learning with computer conferencing can be found throughout a wide range of literature (Mason and Kaye, 1989; Harasim, 1990; Kaye, 1992; McConnell, 1994; Harasim et al., 1995; O'Malley, 1995; Jonassen, 1996.

  17. E é certo que os homens se convencem mais pela experiência do que pela teoria: cultura política e sociabilidade maçônica na mundo luso-brasileiro (1790-1822”

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    Full Text Available The aim of this paper is to analyze Masonic sociability in Portuguese America focusing on the city of Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the eighteenth century and the first two decades of the nineteenth century. It seeks to identify the representations created by the Luso-Brazilian society and their affiliation with the Masonic order. It also aims to visualize the manner in which the sociability engendered by the Freemason lodges eventually contributed to the construction of a political culture, in which the practice of debate, criticism, and representation were essential elements allowing us to have a better understanding of the final years of Portuguese colonial rule in the American continent.

  18. Quasi-local mass in the covariant Newtonian spacetime

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    2008-01-01

    In general relativity, quasi-local energy-momentum expressions have been constructed from various formulae. However, the Newtonian theory of gravity gives a well-known and a unique quasi-local mass expression (surface integration). Since geometrical formulation of Newtonian gravity has been established in the covariant Newtonian spacetime, it provides a covariant approximation from relativistic to Newtonian theories. By using this approximation, we calculate the Komar integral, the Brown-York quasi-local energy and the Dougan-Mason quasi-local mass in the covariant Newtonian spacetime. It turns out that the Komar integral naturally gives the Newtonian quasi-local mass expression; however, further conditions (spherical symmetry) need to be made for Brown-York and Dougan-Mason expressions

  19. Artista Artesão ou Artista Igual Pedreiro: de Mozart a Macaco Bong, uma história de lutas por autonomia * Artist Craftsman or Artist Equal Mason: from Mozart to "Macaco Bong", a history of struggles for autonomy

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    Full Text Available Resumo: No livro "Mozart – Sociologia de um gênio", Norbert Elias descreve embates em torno de artistas artesãos (presos ao gosto musical da corte aristocrata e artistas autônomos (com certa autonomia musical, só que menos estruturados socialmente, apresentando Mozart como um agente de transição. Já em pleno século XXI, surge com a banda brasileira Macaco Bong o conceito de artista igual pedreiro, a ideia de envolvimento do músico nos processos produtivos, não apenas na hora de subir ao palco, apontando novas tecnologias digitais como democratizadoras. Neste artigo, discutirei reapropriações de antigas estratégias da indústria fonográfica, e de que forma elas retornam reconfiguradas com esses jovens oriundos da indústria musical do século XXI.Palavras-chave: Autonomia – Reconfigurações – Indústria fonográfica. Abstract: In the book "Mozart – Sociology of a Genius", Norbert Elias describes clashes around craftsmen artists (attached to the musical tastes of the court aristocracy and independent artists (with more freedom and musical autonomy, only less socially structured, presenting Mozart as an agent of transition. On the other hand, in the XXI century, comes up with the Brazilian band "Macaco Bong" the concept artist like mason, i. e., the idea of Musician’s involvement in the production process, not just in time to take the stage, pointing out the new digital technologies as a way for democratizing music. In this article, I will discuss reappropriations of ancient strategies of the music industry, and how they return reconfigured with these young people from the new music industry of the XXI century.Keywords: Autonomy – Reconfigurations – Music industry.

  20. 75 FR 51119 - Kentucky Disaster Number KY-00035

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    ... Loans): Madison, Mason, Rowan. Contiguous Counties: (Economic Injury Loans Only): Kentucky: Bath... Assistance Numbers 59002 and 59008) James E. Rivera, Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance. [FR Doc...

  1. Kabbalah, Symbolism and Metaphysicsin Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII th–XIX th centuries

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    Full Text Available Este trabajo considera algunas conexiones entre la Cábala y la masonería en Rusia como se refleja en los archivos del Departamento de Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Estatal Rusa (DMS RSL. El vínculo entre ellos se basa en la comprensión tanto de la Cabala yla masonería como la filosofía simbólica y “verdaderamente metafísica”. En el artículo se muestra cómo los masones rusos adoptaron doctrinas cabalísticas de Ein-Soph, Sephiroth, Adam Kadmon y los mezclan con la teoría del neoplatonismo de la emanación, elmisticismo cristiano apofática, la cosmovisión hermética, la alquimia y la sofilogíacristiana. Esta adaptación ecléctica se basa en la interpretación de estos símbolos masónicos como punto en un círculo, columnas Jaquín y Boaz, y la estrella flameante. El simbolismo masónico permitió la combinación de diferentes doctrinas esotéricas en una cosmovisión unificada para hacer símbolos masónicos más atractivos para la “medio educada” nobleza rusa.

  2. 78 FR 75936 - Federal Property Suitable as Facilities To Assist the Homeless

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    ... 5139 S. Mason Ave. Chicago IL Landholding Agency: GSA Property Number: 54201320021 Status: Surplus GSA...: Disposal Agency: GSA; Landholding Agency: Agriculture Comments: 14.14 acres; fire ant. investigations...

  3. Examining the Operational Effectiveness and Accountability of Federal Agencies as Indicated in the Performance and Accountability Reports Required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993

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    .... The agencies chosen were performing at different levels of effectiveness, according to the performance and accountability scorecard produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a non...

  4. 77 FR 4321 - Sunshine Act Meeting; Open Commission Meeting; January 31, 2012

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    ... the Lifeline program to ensure universal availability of communications services to low-income... fee this meeting can be viewed live over George Mason University's Capitol Connection. The Capitol...

  5. 78 FR 40491 - Federal Property Suitable as Facilities To Assist the Homeless

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    ... Three Contiguous Vacant Lots 5139 S. Mason Ave. Chicago IL Landholding Agency: GSA Property Number...: 14.14 acres; fire ant. investigations/grazing; contact GSA for more info. Washington Recreational...

  6. 75 FR 58435 - Membership of the Senior Executive Service Standing Performance Review Boards

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    ..., ROBERT N ASSOCIATE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL MONACO, LISA ASSOCIATE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL BURROWS... GENERAL MASON, KAROL V DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL TRIBE, LARRY H SENIOR COUNSELOR FOR ACCESS TO...

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    ... Columbia; the Virginia cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church; the Virginia counties of Arlington..., Tazewell, Woodford, Knox, Stark, Marshall, Hancock, Mason, McLean, McDonough, Henderson, Warren, Livingston...

  8. 75 FR 62851 - National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions

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    ... House, The, 8217 Mason Rd, Berlin Heights, 10000874. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston County Ashley River..., 10000866. WISCONSIN La Crosse County Edgewood Place Historic District, 2500 block of Edgewood Pl, La Crosse...

  9. Thinking Strategically About Army Strategic Leadership: Revolution or Evolution

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    2000-01-01

    The 1999 Senior Leadership Seminar held at George Mason University on 10 September 1999 brought together key senior Army leaders and civilian leadership experts from academia and industry to discuss...

  10. Inactivation of Microorganisms

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    Alzamora, Stella Maris; Guerrero, Sandra N.; Schenk, Marcela; Raffellini, Silvia; López-Malo, Aurelio

    Minimal processing techniques for food preservation allow better retention of product flavor, texture, color, and nutrient content than comparable conventional treatments. A wide range of novel alternative physical factors have been intensely investigated in the last two decades. These physical factors can cause inactivation of microorganisms at ambient or sublethal temperatures (e.g., high hydrostatic pressure, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, pulsed light, and ultraviolet light). These technologies have been reported to reduce microorganism population in foods while avoiding the deleterious effects of severe heating on quality. Among technologies, high-energy ultrasound (i.e., intensities higher than 1 W/cm2, frequencies between 18 and 100 kHz) has attracted considerable interest for food preservation applications (Mason et al., 1996; Povey and Mason, 1998).

  11. Plutonium working group report on environmental, safety and health vulnerabilities associated with the department's plutonium storage. Volume II, Appendix B, Part 12: Pantex site assessment team report

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    1994-09-01

    The U.S. DOE Pantex Plant is located in the panhandle of Texas approximately 17 miles northeast of Amarillo. The Plant site was originally constructed in 1942 for conventional shell- and bomb-loading. In 1950, this Plant began to perform nuclear explosives operations. Today, the Pantex Plant is operated by Mason ampersand Hanger - Silas Mason Co., Inc. Pantex Plant functions include (1) final assembly of new nuclear explosives; (2) maintenance, modification, and quality assurance testing of nuclear explosives already in the military stockpile; (3) disassembly of nuclear explosives that are no longer required in the military stockpile; and (4) interim storage of nuclear explosives components. This report presents results of an environmental, safety, and health assessment of the Pantex Plant for the storage of plutonium

  12. AT-400A Type B transportation and storage package

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    Cockrell, G.D.; Franklin, K.W.

    1995-01-01

    This paper discusses the design considerations for the AT-400A container which will meet the requirements for the transportation and long-term storage of plutonium pits. The AT-400A was designed by a joint effort between Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Mason and Hanger Silas Mason Co., Inc.. The paper will outline the problems and impact on the design of the container necessitated by the need to meet DOT TYPE B transportation requirements and undefined requirements for the interim and long-term storage of pits. Areas covered will include: (1) determining the storage requirements, (2) surveillance program for interim storage, and (3) impact of storage requirements on the containment vessel and inner fixturing design

  13. Annual report and accounts 1992-93

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    1993-07-01

    Scottish Nuclear Limited is Scotland's nuclear power generating company. The Annual Report and Accounts for 1992-1993 are presented. The Company is owned by the Secretary of State for Scotland and supplies all its electricity to Scottish Power (74.9%) and Scottish Hydro-Electric (25.1%). It produces almost half of Scotland's electricity requirements. The Company owns and operates the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations at Hunterston on the Firth of Clyde and at Torness on the East Coast of Scotland. It is also responsible for the decommissioning of the magnox nuclear power station, Hunterston A. (Author)

  14. Chest MRI

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    ... resonance imaging - chest; NMR - chest; MRI of the thorax; Thoracic MRI Patient Instructions ... Gotway MB, Panse PM, Gruden JF, Elicker BM. Thoracic radiology. In: Broaddus VC, Mason RJ, Ernst JD, et ...

  15. 78 FR 68999 - Suspension of Community Eligibility

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    ... SFHAs community Region III West Virginia: Hartford, Town of, Mason County... 540247 April 29, 1975, Emerg; December 3, 2013 December 3, 2013. February 15, 1978, Reg; December 3, 2013, Susp. Henderson...

  16. 75 FR 81644 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure

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    ... Mason Street, San Francisco, CA. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter G. McCabe, Secretary, Rules... (202) 502-1820. Dated: December 21, 2010. Peter G. McCabe, Rules Committee Support Office. [FR Doc...

  17. Bonnie & Clyde versus Lonni ja Kard / Kard Männil, Loreida Heih ; intervjueerinud Pille Epner

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    Sisearhitektid Loreida Hein (Stuudio La) ja Kard Männil (Miu miu miu OÜ) endast, oma loomingust: ruumikujundustest, seinagraafikast, koos Timo Subbiga loodud uudse moodulmööbli süsteemist "Out of Box". Loetletud sisearhitektide ühiselt ja eraldi tehtud töid

  18. 75 FR 47633 - Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

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    ... 202(b)(1); (B) An affirmative determination of market disruption or threat thereof under section 421(b..., Cisco, Cognizant Tech Solutions, etc.. 74,351 Anthem Insurance Mason, OH July 1, 2009. Companies, Inc...

  19. 78 FR 45937 - Final Flood Hazard Determinations

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  1. Silêncio e “manhas”: formas de resistência do subalterno em Jane Eyre

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    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as estratégias de resistência dos subalternos em Jane Eyre (2008, romance de Charlotte Brontë publicado originalmente em 1847, a partir de uma interpretação pós-colonialista. As personagens enfatizadas serão as oriundas da Jamaica, Bertha Mason e seu irmão, Richard, utilizando os modelos de resistência que Ascroft, Griffiths e Tiffin (2010 definem como ab-rogação e apropriação e as que Bhabha (2010 menciona como sly civility (cortesia dissimulada e mímica. Bertha Mason, a principal representante da subalternidade, faz mais uso da sly civility e da ab-rogação, enquanto Richard Mason utiliza-se mais da mímica e da apropriação, isso porque a colonizada repudia a cultura do centro, ao negar a linguagem europeia, diferentemente do irmão, que procura a imitação, ao apropriar-se do discurso do europeu para garantir seu lugar social, e, desse modo, o hibridismo cultural. Considerada louca e não tendo voz no romance, Bertha Mason desperta a nossa curiosidade acerca da honestidade da narradora, por esta ser branca e seu discurso ser construído a partir de discursos de personagens também brancos, principalmente o de Rochester cujo casamento com a autóctone fora considerado uma empreitada colonial. Dessa forma, somos motivados a compreender a exclusão dos subalternos do mundo simbólico, em correlação com sua procedência racial, cultural e mental, extraindo disso a possibilidade de as cesuras discursivas simbolizarem a opressão e repressão coloniais de uma assujeitação violenta. No entanto, isso não atesta a anulação do sujeito subalterno, pois mesmo censurado, discursivamente, encontra alternativas para resistir às forças colonizadoras.

  2. Criterion for selection the optimal physical and chemical properties of cobalt aluminate powder used in investment casting process

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    M. Zielińska

    2009-07-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this work was to determine physical and chemical properties of cobalt aluminate (CoAl2O4 modifiers produced by different companies and the influence of different types of modifiers on the grain size of high temperature creep resisting superalloys: Inconel 713C, René 77 and MAR-M 509.The first stage of the research work took over the investigations of physical and chemical properties of cobalt aluminate manufactured by three different companies: Remet, Mason Color and Permedia Lublin. There were determined the grain size distribution of cobalt aluminate powder, the average diameter and morphology of powder particles, phase composition, as well as sodium and cobalt content, pH value of water suspension and the bulk density. In the next step, the ceramic moulds were made with different kind of cobalt aluminate (Mason Color, Remet, Permedia Lublin and its concentration (0, 5% in the primary slurry. The samples of stepped shape were poured in the ceramic moulds prepared earlier. The average grain size of the γ phase was determined on the stepped samples.It was established that physical and chemical properties of cobalt aluminate modifier are different up to the manufacturer. For example the modifiers manufactured by Permedia; Mason Color and Remet companies have different the average diameter of particles- 68,050d; 49,6 i 36,7μm, and also cobalt content _CoC=32,53%; 39,43% i 34,79%mass, respectively. The grain size of γ matrix of superalloys depends on the kind of used inoculant. The best grain refinement of the matrix of superalloys: Inconel 713C, René 77 and MAR-M 509 was observed in the castings modified with the use of Mason Color modifier. On the grounds of literature data and obtained results it was established that the cobalt content of cobalt aluminate influences the intensity of nucleation process during the crystallization of superalloys: Inconel 713C, René 77 i MAR-M 509.

  3. Colostomy

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    ... the abdomen, such as perforated diverticulitis or an abscess . Injury to the colon or rectum (for example, ... Wechter, MD, FACS, General Surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also ...

  4. Gastrectomy

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    ... to the intestine which can cause infection or abscess The connection to the intestine narrows, causing blockage ... Wechter, MD, FACS, general surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also ...

  5. Anoscopy

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    ... What Abnormal Results Mean Abnormal results may include: Abscess Fissures Foreign object in the anus Hemorrhoids Infection ... Wechter, MD, FACS, general surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also ...

  6. Total abdominal colectomy

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    ... the rectum. This can cause an infection or abscess. Scarring of the connection between the small intestine ... Wechter, MD, FACS, general surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also ...

  7. Subcutaneous emphysema

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    ... PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2016:chap 84. Eckstein M, Henderson SO. Thoracic trauma. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, ... by: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by ...

  8. Collapsed lung (pneumothorax)

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    ... PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:chap 143. Eckstein M, Henderson SO. Thoracic trauma. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, ... by: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by ...

  9. Hemothorax

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    ... PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:1005-1009. Eckstein M, Henderson SO. Thoracic trauma. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, ... by: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by ...

  10. MRP II (material requirements planning): one year later.

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    Tull, W L; Norman, R L

    1994-08-01

    This article addresses the continued need for the behavior change process that must be managed long after materiel requirements planning (MRP II) implementation. Mason & Hanger, Pantex Plant is the final assembly and dismantlement facility for all United States nuclear weapons. On October 1, 1990, Mason & Hanger implemented a full production cutover to MRP II. One year later, following class A certification, the MRP II implementation team is still actively managing the change process through education and training programs and overall continuous improvement initiatives. Actual behavior change problems are identified together with the proven solutions implemented in a government-owned, contractor-operated facility environment. Performance measurements ranging from senior management planning to shop floor accomplishments and cost variance reports are shown as normal management tools used to identify target improvement areas.

  11. “Estado Nación laico y secularización masónica en México”

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    Carlos Francisco Martínez Moreno

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo busca mostrar cómo y porqué los masones practicantes del Rito Nacional Mexicano en el siglo XIX secularizaron su tradición para responder a sus compromisos sociales, patrióticos, liberales y democráticos. Además, muestra cómo ellos sustituyeron La Biblia por la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos en sus juramentos masónicos, en un contexto social en el que jurarla se consideraba un anatema por el Papa Pío IX y el clero católico, y en un contexto masónico adverso en el que sustituir el Libro de la Ley y participar en la política como masones era contravenir la tradición especulativa londinense.

  12. Transport properties of gaseous ions over a wide energy range. Part III

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    Ellis, H.W.; Thackston, M.G.; McDaniel, E.W.; Mason, E.A.

    1984-01-01

    This paper updates and extends in scope our two previous papers entitled ''Transport Properties of Gaseous Ions over a Wide Energy Range.'' The references to the earlier publications (referred to as ''Part I'' and ''Part II'') are I, H. W. Ellis, R. Y. Pai, E. W. McDonald, E. A. Mason, and L. A. Viehland, ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA TABLES 17, 177--210 (19876); and II, H. W. Ellis, E. W. McDaniel, D. L. Albritton, L. A. Veihland, S. L. Lin, and E. A. Mason, ATOMIC DATA AND NUCLEAR DATA TABLES 22, 179--217 (1978). Parts I and II contained compilations of experimental data on ionic mobilities and diffusion coefficients (both longitudinal and transverse) for ions in neutral gase (almost exclusively at room temperature) in an externally applied electric field

  13. Drift tube measurements of mobilities and longitudinal diffusion coefficients of ions in gases

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    Chelf, R.D.

    1982-01-01

    The zero-field mobilities of Br - and NH 4+ in O 2 were determined as a function of gas temperature in a high pressure drift tube mass spectrometer. The mobilities and longitudinal diffusion coefficients of the ion-gas combinations Br - in Ne and Kr, Li + in Xe, and Tl/ + in Kr and Xe were determined as a function of E/N, where E is the electric field strength and N is the gas number density in a low pressure drift tube mass spectrometer. The measured longitudinal diffusion coefficients were used for a test and comparison of the generalized Einstein relations of Viehland-Mason and Waldman-Mason theories. The measured mobilities of Br - in Kr and Tl/ + in Kr were used in an iterative-inversion scheme from which the ion-neutral interaction potentials were determined

  14. High strength semi-active energy absorbers using shear- and mixedmode operation at high shear rates

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    Becnel, Andrew C.

    This body of research expands the design space of semi-active energy absorbers for shock isolation and crash safety by investigating and characterizing magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) at high shear rates ( > 25,000 1/s) under shear and mixed-mode operation. Magnetorheological energy absorbers (MREAs) work well as adaptive isolators due to their ability to quickly and controllably adjust to changes in system mass or impact speed while providing fail-safe operation. However, typical linear stroking MREAs using pressure-driven flows have been shown to exhibit reduced controllability as impact speed (shear rate) increases. The objective of this work is to develop MREAs that improve controllability at high shear rates by using pure shear and mixed shear-squeeze modes of operation, and to present the fundamental theory and models of MR fluids under these conditions. A proof of concept instrument verified that the MR effect persists in shear mode devices at shear rates corresponding to low speed impacts. This instrument, a concentric cylinder Searle cell magnetorheometer, was then used to characterize three commercially available MRFs across a wide range of shear rates, applied magnetic fields, and temperatures. Characterization results are presented both as flow curves according to established practice, and as an alternate nondimensionalized analysis based on Mason number. The Mason number plots show that, with appropriate correction coefficients for operating temperature, the varied flow curve data can be collapsed to a single master curve. This work represents the first shear mode characterization of MRFs at shear rates over 10 times greater than available with commercial rheometers, as well as the first validation of Mason number analysis to high shear rate flows in MRFs. Using the results from the magnetorheometer, a full scale rotary vane MREA was developed as part of the Lightweight Magnetorheological Energy Absorber System (LMEAS) for an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter

  15. Women in the Looking-Glass: Post-Colonial and Psychoanalytical Techniques in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

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    Despain, Martha

    2004-01-01

    When Jean Rhys takes on the underdog tale of Charlotte Bronte's Bertha Mason, she both moves beyond license by appropriating a popular, Victorian text and imposes limits by choosing a story with an unchangeable ending...

  16. CRS&SI Technology Application Program.

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    This project report presents details of research carried out by the George Mason University : Consortium under a research contract from the U.S. Department of Transportations Research : and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), in support o...

  17. Estimate of Bariatric Surgery Numbers, 2011-2015

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    ... Meetings of Interest Online Education Job Board CME Policies CBN Fellowship Certificate Research Grant Program Resources All Resources Approved Procedures Patient Safety Vignettes Dr. Mason Historical Library Governing Documents Guidelines Access and Insurance Position and ...

  18. Bariatric Surgery Procedures

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    ... Meetings of Interest Online Education Job Board CME Policies CBN Fellowship Certificate Research Grant Program Resources All Resources Approved Procedures Patient Safety Vignettes Dr. Mason Historical Library Governing Documents Guidelines Access and Insurance Position and ...

  19. American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

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    ... Meetings of Interest Online Education Job Board CME Policies CBN Fellowship Certificate Research Grant Program Resources All Resources Approved Procedures Patient Safety Vignettes Dr. Mason Historical Library Governing Documents Guidelines Access and Insurance Position and ...

  20. Bariatric Surgery Misconceptions

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    ... Meetings of Interest Online Education Job Board CME Policies CBN Fellowship Certificate Research Grant Program Resources All Resources Approved Procedures Patient Safety Vignettes Dr. Mason Historical Library Governing Documents Guidelines Access and Insurance Position and ...

  1. Octanol-solubility of dissolved and particulate trace metals in contaminated rivers: implications for metal reactivity and availability

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    Turner, Andrew; Mawji, Edward

    2005-01-01

    The lipid-like, amphiphilic solvent, n-octanol, has been used to determine a hydrophobic fraction of dissolved and particulate trace metals (Al, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn) in contaminated rivers. In a sample from the River Clyde, southwest Scotland, octanol-solubility was detected for all dissolved metals except Co, with conditional octanol-water partition coefficients, D ow , ranging from about 0.2 (Al and Cu) to 1.25 (Pb). In a sample taken from the River Mersey, northwest England, octanol-solubility was detected for dissolved Al and Pb, but only after sample aliquots had been spiked with individual ionic metal standards and equilibrated. Spiking of the River Clyde sample revealed competition among different metals for hydrophobic ligands. Metal displacement from hydrophobic complexes was generally most significant following the addition of ionic Al or Pb, although the addition of either of these metals had little effect on the octanol-solubility of the other. In both river water samples hydrophobic metals were detected on the suspended particles retained by filtration following their extraction in n-octanol. In general, particulate Cu and Zn (up to 40%) were most available, and Al, Co and Pb most resistant ( 3.3 -10 5.3 ml g -1 . The presence of hydrophobic dissolved and particulate metal species has implications for our understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of metals in aquatic environments. Specifically, such species are predicted to exhibit characteristics of non-polar organic contaminants, including the potential to penetrate the lipid bilayer. Current strategies for assessing the bioavailability and toxicity of dissolved and particulate trace metals in natural waters may, therefore, require revision. - New approaches are presented for fractionating trace metals in natural waters

  2. 75 FR 68623 - Investigations Regarding Certifications of Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

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    ... Packard (State/One- Roseville, CA......... 10/20/10 10/06/10 Stop). 74754 Rag & Bone Industries, LLC New... IMI Cornelius, Inc. Mason City, IA........ 10/20/10 10/18/10 (Company). 74759 Del Monte Foods (Company...

  3. Self-concept and Academic Achievement of Delinquent and Non ...

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    self concept of their students for better academic achievement. Introduction. In organized ... According to Mason (2005), delinquency, is defined as the behaviour consequent to the failure ..... Journal of Sociology and Social. Welfare, 22(2), 93 - ...

  4. Measuring Ethnic Identification and Attachment in sub-Saharan Africa

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    Mason University; Failed States Index which started in 2005 and is produced by the. Fund for ... on 'political goods' such as safety and security, rule of law, transparency and ... social development, militarization and regional armed conflict.

  5. Terrain Submission for Mason County, MI (Countywide DFIRM)

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    Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security — Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix M: Data Capture Standards, describe the digital topographic data that were used to create...

  6. Solitary pulmonary nodule

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    ... Adenocarcinoma - chest x-ray Pulmonary nodule - front view chest x-ray Pulmonary nodule, solitary - CT scan Respiratory system References Gotway MB, Panse PM, Gruden JF, Elicker BM. Thoracic radiology: noninvasive diagnostic imaging. In: Broaddus VC, Mason RJ, ...

  7. Jesus, Josephus, and the fall of Jerusalem: On doing history with ...

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    2015-08-14

    Aug 14, 2015 ... established in the Jewish Scriptures, in particular the book of. 10.For other examples of such references to the 'supernatural' or 'other-worldly', see also War ...... Library 326, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Mason, S.

  8. Central African Journal of Medicine - Vol 46, No 3 (2000)

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    Chlamydia trachomatis in a symptomatic and asymptomatic men: detection in urine by enzyme immunoassay. P R Mason, L Gwanzura, S Gregson, D K Katzenstein. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/cajm.v46i3.8526 ...

  9. Remediation by in-situ solidification/stabilisation of Ardeer landfill, Scotland

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    Wyllie, M.; Esnault, A.; Barker, P.

    1997-01-01

    The Ardeer Landfill site at ICI Explosives factory on the west coast of Scotland had been a repository for waste from the site for 40 years. In order to safeguard the local environment ICI Explosives, with approval of Local Authorities and the Clyde River Purification Board put into action a programme of investigation and planning which culminated in the in-situ treatment of 10,000 m3 of waste within the landfill by a deep mixing method using the open-quotes Colmixclose quotes system. The paper describes in varying degrees of detail the remediation from investigation to the execution of the in-situ stabilisation and presents the post construction monitoring results

  10. Gulf Canada Resources Limited 1996 annual report - mission 2006: possible

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    1997-01-01

    Gulf Canada Resources Limited, which trades under the symbol GOU, is a publicly traded company that explores, develops, produces and markets conventional and synthetic crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. In 1996, the company's main operating centres were in western Canada, Indonesia, Algeria, Australia, and the United States. This report presents an operations review for all theatres of operation, a consolidated financial statement, revenues and expenditures by source and common share information. GOU's acquisition of Clyde Petroleum in early 1997 has added significant producing assets and exploration lands in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Australia, Libya, Syria, Yemen, the Falkland Islands and Argentina. tabs., figs

  11. Judges of peace, masons and conservatives on Buenos Airesïcountryside. An approximation to the personal links on the south of the Buenos Airesïprovince (Tres Arroyos, 1865-1910 Jueces de paz, masones y conservadores en la campaña bonaerense: Una aproximación a las redes vinculares en el sur de la provincia de Buenos Aires [Tres Arroyos, 1865-1910

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    Leandro A. Di Gresia

    2010-01-01

    reconstrucción de sus biografías asociadas a los diversos momentos de ocupación e institucionalización local. Posteriormente se identifican dos modos de nucleamiento que sirvieron de base relacional a los individuos del lugar y que permiten completar la explicación generada desde las biografías individuales: una red de tipo iniciática, como fue la masonería; y una red del conservadurismo local, dirigida por poderosos estancieros del lugar. Por último, se observa si esas redes influyeron en la administración de justicia local. Las fuentes utilizadas son diversos álbumes conmemorativos locales, datos censales, periódicos locales, expedientes correccionales tramitados en la Justicia de Paz de Tres Arroyos, el Libro Copiador de Notas del Juzgado y el Libro de Actas de la Logia Hiram de Tres Arroyos.

  12. Field sampling of residual aviation gasoline in sandy soil

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    Ostendorf, D.W.; Hinlein, E.S.; Yuefeng, Xie; Leach, L.E.

    1991-01-01

    Two complementary field sampling methods for the determination of residual aviation gasoline content in the contaminated capillary fringe of a fine, uniform, sandy soil were investigated. The first method featured field extrusion of core barrels into pint-size Mason jars, while the second consisted of laboratory partitioning of intact stainless steel core sleeves. Soil samples removed from the Mason jars (in the field) and sleeve segments (in the laboratory) were subjected to methylene chloride extraction and gas chromatographic analysis to compare their aviation gasoline content. The barrel extrusion sampling method yielded a vertical profile with 0.10m resolution over an essentially continuous 5.0m interval from the ground surface to the water table. The sleeve segment alternative yielded a more resolved 0.03m vertical profile over a shorter 0.8m interval through the capillary fringe. The two methods delivered precise estimates of the vertically integrated mass of aviation gasoline at a given horizontal location, and a consistent view of the vertical profile as well. In the latter regard, a 0.2m thick lens of maximum contamination was found in the center of the capillary fringe, where moisture filled all voids smaller than the mean pore size. The maximum peak was resolved by the core sleeve data, but was partially obscured by the barrel extrusion observations, so that replicate barrels or a half-pint Mason jar size should be considered for data supporting vertical transport analyses in the absence of sleeve partitions

  13. Load to Failure and Stiffness

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    Esquivel, Amanda O.; Duncan, Douglas D.; Dobrasevic, Nikola; Marsh, Stephanie M.; Lemos, Stephen E.

    2015-01-01

    Background: Rotator cuff tendinopathy is a frequent cause of shoulder pain that can lead to decreased strength and range of motion. Failures after using the single-row technique of rotator cuff repair have led to the development of the double-row technique, which is said to allow for more anatomical restoration of the footprint. Purpose: To compare 5 different types of suture patterns while maintaining equality in number of anchors. The hypothesis was that the Mason-Allen–crossed cruciform transosseous-equivalent technique is superior to other suture configurations while maintaining equality in suture limbs and anchors. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: A total of 25 fresh-frozen cadaveric shoulders were randomized into 5 suture configuration groups: single-row repair with simple stitch technique; single-row repair with modified Mason-Allen technique; double-row Mason-Allen technique; double-row cross-bridge technique; and double-row suture bridge technique. Load and displacement were recorded at 100 Hz until failure. Stiffness and bone mineral density were also measured. Results: There was no significant difference in peak load at failure, stiffness, maximum displacement at failure, or mean bone mineral density among the 5 suture configuration groups (P row rotator cuff repair to be superior to the single-row repair; however, clinical research does not necessarily support this. This study found no difference when comparing 5 different repair methods, supporting research that suggests the number of sutures and not the pattern can affect biomechanical properties. PMID:26665053

  14. Breast lift

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    ... and areola may be moved. Sometimes, women have breast augmentation (enlargement with implants) when they have a breast lift. Why the ... MD, FACS, general surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed ...

  15. Geology and sinkhole development of the Hagerstown Valley : phase II summary report.

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    2014-06-01

    As a part of this study, karst areas of the Hagerstown, Mason Dixon, Williamsport, Clear Spring, and Hedgesville : quadrangles (western half of the Hagerstown Valley) were mapped in detail to determine the distribution of karst : features relative to...

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    into a nationwide programme of monitoring a range of taxa of conservation and ..... The web-spinning spiders and the bee-eaters are notorious among ... threat. Many kinds of wasps such as mason wasps, digger wasps, paper wasps, etc.

  17. Timber resource statistics for the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.

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    Patricia M. Bassett; Daniel D. Oswald

    1961-01-01

    This report summarizes a 1978-79 timber resource inventory of five counties in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington: Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Mason, and Thurston. Detailed tables of forest area, timber volume, growth, mortality, and harvest are presented.

  18. "Kipling y su sorprendente primera novela"

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    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Rudyard Kipling aludió a la masonería en varias decenas de escritos. Su fama como escritor le situó en un lugarprivilegiado en las listas confeccionadas por los mediosmasónicos sobre ilustres masones. Sin embargo, suprimer relato de éxito internacional,El Hombre que quiso ser Rey, apenas fue citado entre las obras quemencionaban a la Orden, ni demasiado estudiado. Contrariamente a lo que podría pensarse de un masón queescribe empleando referencias masónicas, Kipling no cayó en la simplicidad del elogio. Así pues, este estudioenfocado a esta primera novela de Kipling pretende, desde el campo académico, abrir las puertas, en el espaciohistoriográfico hispanoamericano, al análisis de este autor y de su obra en clave masónica.

  19. Resonance – Journal of Science Education | Indian Academy of ...

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    Home; Journals; Resonance – Journal of Science Education; Volume 7; Issue 12. Our Shrinking Ozone Layer - Global Perspectives and Remedial Measures. Shashi K Pathak Nigel J Mason. General Article Volume 7 Issue 12 December 2002 pp 71-80 ...

  20. Optimized method for isolation of immature intracytoplasmic retroviral particles from mammalian cells

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    Langerová, Hana; Ruml, T.; Rumlová, M.

    2017-01-01

    Roč. 248, Oct (2017), s. 19-25 ISSN 0166-0934 Institutional support: RVO:61388963 Keywords : intracytoplasmic particles (ICAPs) * retrovirus * assembly * Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology OBOR OECD: Virology Impact factor: 1.693, year: 2016

  1. 77 FR 29548 - Prohydrojasmon; Amendment of Temporary Exemption From the Requirement of a Tolerance

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    ....gov Web site. 1. Creelman, R.A. and J.E. Mullet (1995) Jasmonic acid distribution and action in plants... Academies of Science, 92: 4114-4119. 2. Mason, H.S., DeWald, D.B., Creelman, R.A., Mullet J.E. (1992...

  2. Book Review: Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods

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    Full Text Available Book Review Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods (2nd edition By Mark Bray, Bob Adamson and Mark Mason (Eds. (2014, 453p ISBN: 978-988-17852-8-2, Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre and Springer

  3. Journal of Meteorology and Climate Science: Submissions

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    ... note that a “narrow line often separates plagiarism from good scholarship.” ... The sea level has risen by approximately 10cm in the last 100 years (Mason, 1999) ... text (e.g., A. Kingori, University of Nairobi, Kenya, personal communication).

  4. Intimate partner violence in early adolescence: The role of gender ...

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    The role of gender, socioeconomic factors and the school. A J Mason-Jones,1,2 ... Further qualitative exploration of the role of reciprocal violence ... some of the questions were of a sensitive nature, appropriate services were made available to ...

  5. Book Reviews: Volume 8

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    Chris Frost Media Ethics and Self Regulation, reviewed by Michael Foley Damien Kiberd (ed.) Media in Ireland: The Search for Ethical Journalism, reviewed by David Quin Peter Mason and Derrick Smith Magazine Law: A Practical Guide, reviewed by Eavan Murphy

  6. Abdominal exploration

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    ... help diagnose and treat many health conditions, including: Cancer of the ovary, colon, pancreas, liver Endometriosis Gallstones Hole in the intestine (intestinal perforation) Inflammation of the appendix ( acute ... practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed ...

  7. Double trisomy with 48, XXX+21 karyotype in a Down's syndrome ...

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    chromosomes in every well-spread G-banded metaphase plate. Some of these ... MacFaul R., Turner T. and Mason M. K. 1981 Down's/Turner's mo- saicism: double ... Papp Z., Osztovics M., Schular D., Mehes K., Czeizel E., Horvath. L. et al.

  8. Journal for the Study of Religion - Vol 28, No 2 (2016)

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    The moral rearmament activist: P.Q. Vundla's community bridge-building during the boycotts on the Witwatersrand in the mid-1950s · EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Garth Mason, 154 – 180 ...

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    Results 7651 - 7660 of 8491 ... Lee and Mason have done scholars and practitioners a magnificent service by undertaking this comprehensive, compelling, and supremely innovative examination of the economic consequences of changes in population age structure. Publication Date. October 31, 2011. Research in Action.

  10. How Strategic PR Can Pay Off.

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    With careful public relations planning and a willingness to be involved, boards can enhance the stature of an institution. George Mason University's public relations strategy has paid off in public recognition, which has accelerated the flow of resources to the institution. (MLW)

  11. Asthma - children

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    ... BS, Burks AW, et al, eds. Middleton's Allergy Principles and Practice . 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:chap 53. Lugogo N, Que LG, Gilstrap DL, Kraft M. Asthma: clinical diagnosis and management. In: Broaddus VC, Mason RJ, Ernst JD, et ...

  12. Asthma

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    ... BS, Burks AW, et al, eds. Middleton's Allergy Principles and Practice . 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:chap 55. Lugogo N, Que LG, Gilstrap DL, Kraft M. Asthma: clinical diagnosis and management. In: Broaddus VC, Mason RJ, Ernst JD, et ...

  13. Key factors affecting performance of biogas latrines in urban ...

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    Pre-tested questionnaires were administered to users, owners and construction technicians/masons of the biogas latrines. Field observations were also undertaken to assess physical conditions of the biogas latrines. Principal component analysis was then used to establish correlation between variables of design, ...

  14. Book Review: Wildlife Conservation in Farmed Landscapes ...

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    Book Title: Wildlife Conservation in Farmed Landscapes. Book Authors: David Lindenmayer, Damian Michael, Mason Crane, Sachiko Okada, Daniel Florance, Philip Bartion & Karen Ikin. 2016, CSIRO Publishing, Unipark Building 1 Level 1, 195 Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia. 232 pages, softcover, ePDF ...

  15. Engaging stakeholders in global change risk and vulnerability planning: a case study of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region

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    2010-09-01

    Full Text Available -reaching knock-on effects on the ecosystem services and social and economic stabilty of the area. previous studies (Mason 1996; Kruger & Shongwe, 2004) indicate that climate change in the area may already be occurring. Figure 1: Location of the Kruger...

  16. Haapsalu õudusfilmide festival / Margus Paju

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    2007-01-01

    PÖFFi korraldatud õudusfilmide festivalil HÕFF Haapsalu Kultuurikeskuses (22.-25. märtsini) näidatavad õudusfilmid "Frankensteini needus" (Terence Fischer; Suurbritannia, 1957) ja "Murtud" (Adam Mason, Simon Boyes; Suurbritannia, 2006). Neid filme näeb 20.03. ka Tallinna Kinomajas

  17. New perspectives on internationalization and competitiveness integrating economics, innovation and higher education

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    This volume showcases contributions from leading academics, educators and policymakers derived from two workshops hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University on internationalization and competitiveness. It aims to present key areas of current research and to identify basic problems within the field to promote further discussion and research. This book is organized into two sections, focusing on: science and economics and innovation policy and its measurement, with an underlying emphasis on exploring connections across disciplines and across research, practice and policy. The first workshop was held at George Mason University (GMU) in Arlington, VA, USA in March 2013 and a second, building on the key results from the first, was held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2013. A variety of problems were discussed and several interdisciplinary concepts in internationalization and competitiveness have already emerged from the...

  18. Octanol-solubility of dissolved and particulate trace metals in contaminated rivers: implications for metal reactivity and availability

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    Turner, Andrew [School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA (United Kingdom)]. E-mail: aturner@plymouth.ac.uk; Mawji, Edward [School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA (United Kingdom)

    2005-05-01

    The lipid-like, amphiphilic solvent, n-octanol, has been used to determine a hydrophobic fraction of dissolved and particulate trace metals (Al, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn) in contaminated rivers. In a sample from the River Clyde, southwest Scotland, octanol-solubility was detected for all dissolved metals except Co, with conditional octanol-water partition coefficients, D{sub ow}, ranging from about 0.2 (Al and Cu) to 1.25 (Pb). In a sample taken from the River Mersey, northwest England, octanol-solubility was detected for dissolved Al and Pb, but only after sample aliquots had been spiked with individual ionic metal standards and equilibrated. Spiking of the River Clyde sample revealed competition among different metals for hydrophobic ligands. Metal displacement from hydrophobic complexes was generally most significant following the addition of ionic Al or Pb, although the addition of either of these metals had little effect on the octanol-solubility of the other. In both river water samples hydrophobic metals were detected on the suspended particles retained by filtration following their extraction in n-octanol. In general, particulate Cu and Zn (up to 40%) were most available, and Al, Co and Pb most resistant (<1%) to octanol extraction. Distribution coefficients defining the concentration ratio of octanol-soluble particle-bound metal to octanol-soluble dissolved metal were in the range 10{sup 3.3}-10{sup 5.3} ml g{sup -1}. The presence of hydrophobic dissolved and particulate metal species has implications for our understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of metals in aquatic environments. Specifically, such species are predicted to exhibit characteristics of non-polar organic contaminants, including the potential to penetrate the lipid bilayer. Current strategies for assessing the bioavailability and toxicity of dissolved and particulate trace metals in natural waters may, therefore, require revision. - New approaches are presented for fractionating

  19. Octanol-solubility of dissolved and particulate trace metals in contaminated rivers: implications for metal reactivity and availability.

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    Turner, Andrew; Mawji, Edward

    2005-05-01

    The lipid-like, amphiphilic solvent, n-octanol, has been used to determine a hydrophobic fraction of dissolved and particulate trace metals (Al, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn) in contaminated rivers. In a sample from the River Clyde, southwest Scotland, octanol-solubility was detected for all dissolved metals except Co, with conditional octanol-water partition coefficients, D(ow), ranging from about 0.2 (Al and Cu) to 1.25 (Pb). In a sample taken from the River Mersey, northwest England, octanol-solubility was detected for dissolved Al and Pb, but only after sample aliquots had been spiked with individual ionic metal standards and equilibrated. Spiking of the River Clyde sample revealed competition among different metals for hydrophobic ligands. Metal displacement from hydrophobic complexes was generally most significant following the addition of ionic Al or Pb, although the addition of either of these metals had little effect on the octanol-solubility of the other. In both river water samples hydrophobic metals were detected on the suspended particles retained by filtration following their extraction in n-octanol. In general, particulate Cu and Zn (up to 40%) were most available, and Al, Co and Pb most resistant (octanol extraction. Distribution coefficients defining the concentration ratio of octanol-soluble particle-bound metal to octanol-soluble dissolved metal were in the range 10(3.3)-10(5.3)mlg(-1). The presence of hydrophobic dissolved and particulate metal species has implications for our understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of metals in aquatic environments. Specifically, such species are predicted to exhibit characteristics of non-polar organic contaminants, including the potential to penetrate the lipid bilayer. Current strategies for assessing the bioavailability and toxicity of dissolved and particulate trace metals in natural waters may, therefore, require revision.

  20. Farmer's Friend Biodigester Model Construction Manual

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    The success or failure of any biodigester depends mainly upon the suitability of the design, site for construction and quality of construction works, as well as quality of construction materials and workmanship involved during construction. This booklet provides the extensive information on various methods for selecting the appropriate size and site for construction, as well as construction work steps related to the Farmer's Friend model (2005) of biodigester. First, mason's responsibilities are explained. Second, the report continues with the sizes of available biodigesters and the quantity of feeding required. Then, the components of the biogas plant and instructions as to how to select the appropriate size are described. It continues with construction materials and appliances, and the selection of the construction site. Finally, the plant construction is explained from lay-out work to the construction of compost pits, finishing work and instructions to users. If the concerned mason/plumber strictly follows the instruction as described in this construction manual, the biodigester will function properly with the anticipated efficiency and the owner will get the return of his/her investment. This will encourage his/her relatives and neighbours to install biodigesters. However, if the biodigester functions poorly, nobody will be motivated to install it. Poor quality plants will harm the reputation of biogas technology and will have serious negative effects on promotion and extension activities. The masons should, therefore, be well aware that good quality plants will certainly increase the rate of installation with the demonstration effect that ultimately benefits itself, the farmer, and the country as a whole.

  1. Introduction of Non-Native Pollinators Can Lead to Trans-Continental Movement of Bee-Associated Fungi.

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    Full Text Available Bees are essential pollinators for many flowering plants, including agriculturally important crops such as apple. As geographic ranges of bees or their host plants change as a result of human activities, we need to identify pathogens that could be transmitted among newly sympatric species to evaluate and anticipate their effects on bee communities. We used PCR screening and DNA sequencing to evaluate exposure to potentially disease-causing microorganisms in a pollinator of apple, the horned mason bee (Osmia cornifrons. We did not detect microsporidia, Wolbachia, or trypanosomes, which are common pathogens of bees, in any of the hundreds of mason bees screened. We did detect both pathogenic and apathogenic (saprophytic fungal species in the genus Ascosphaera (chalkbrood, an unidentified species of Aspergillus fungus, and a strain of bacteria in the genus Paenibacillus that is probably apathogenic. We detected pathogenic fungal strains in asymptomatic adult bees that therefore may be carriers of disease. We demonstrate that fungi from the genus Ascosphaera have been transported to North America along with the bee from its native range in Japan, and that O. cornifrons is exposed to fungi previously only identified from nests of other related bee species. Further study will be required to quantify pathogenicity and health effects of these different microbial species on O. cornifrons and on closely-related native North American mason bees that may now be exposed to novel pathogens. A global perspective is required for pathogen research as geographic ranges of insects and microorganisms shift due to intentional or accidental introductions.

  2. Introduction of Non-Native Pollinators Can Lead to Trans-Continental Movement of Bee-Associated Fungi.

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    Hedtke, Shannon M; Blitzer, Eleanor J; Montgomery, Graham A; Danforth, Bryan N

    2015-01-01

    Bees are essential pollinators for many flowering plants, including agriculturally important crops such as apple. As geographic ranges of bees or their host plants change as a result of human activities, we need to identify pathogens that could be transmitted among newly sympatric species to evaluate and anticipate their effects on bee communities. We used PCR screening and DNA sequencing to evaluate exposure to potentially disease-causing microorganisms in a pollinator of apple, the horned mason bee (Osmia cornifrons). We did not detect microsporidia, Wolbachia, or trypanosomes, which are common pathogens of bees, in any of the hundreds of mason bees screened. We did detect both pathogenic and apathogenic (saprophytic) fungal species in the genus Ascosphaera (chalkbrood), an unidentified species of Aspergillus fungus, and a strain of bacteria in the genus Paenibacillus that is probably apathogenic. We detected pathogenic fungal strains in asymptomatic adult bees that therefore may be carriers of disease. We demonstrate that fungi from the genus Ascosphaera have been transported to North America along with the bee from its native range in Japan, and that O. cornifrons is exposed to fungi previously only identified from nests of other related bee species. Further study will be required to quantify pathogenicity and health effects of these different microbial species on O. cornifrons and on closely-related native North American mason bees that may now be exposed to novel pathogens. A global perspective is required for pathogen research as geographic ranges of insects and microorganisms shift due to intentional or accidental introductions.

  3. Household market participation and stunting in preschool children in ...

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    2011-03-26

    Mar 26, 2011 ... by George Mason University (USA) and the Malawi National Health ... Only two participating households had electricity. None of the households had running water in the home. Although HIV/acquired immune deficiency syndrome .... households.3 Tobacco is Malawi's largest export, accounting for 6%.

  4. Ascoaphaera osmophila sp.nov. An Australian Spore Cyst

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    Skou, Jens-Peder; King, , J.

    1984-01-01

    Ascosphaera osmophila sp. nov. is described. Septa occur often close together and remain intact when the mycelium disintegrates. A fairly good production of mature spore cysts occurs only on media containing 10% sugar or more. A. osmophila lives in association with the mason bee, Chalicodoma...

  5. Fusion Nodes: The Next Step in Combating the Global Terrorist Threat

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    2011-12-01

    Answer,” Organizational Dynamics, Winter 1979: 429. 151 Richard L. Daft , Organization Theory and Design, 9th Edition (Mason, OH: Thompson: South...Morning America, 9 June 2006. Accessed 29 September 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Terrorism/story?id=2056386&page=1. Daft , Richard L

  6. 75 FR 56141 - Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

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    2010-09-15

    ... Electronics Lynchburg, VA May 27, 2009. Corporation, Leased Workers from Alpha Omega, Kelly Services, and Man...,531 Anthem Insurance Companies, Mason, OH August 13, 2009. Inc., Wellpoint, Finance Accounting, Leased Workers from Rogert Half/Accounting etc. The following certifications have been issued. The requirements...

  7. Integration of Multi-Tension Permeametry and Photogrammetric Textural Segmentation for Estimating Directional Permeability

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    2010-04-01

    conditions. Direct push optical methods could easily provide real-time high- resolution images useful for differentiating soil characteristics based on...Kozeny J. 1927. Uber Kapillare Leitung Des Wassers Im Boden. Sitz. Akad. Wissensh, 136:271–306. Lowry, W, N. Mason, And D. Merewether. 1999

  8. From silkworms to bees: Diseases of beneficial insects

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    The diseases of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) and managed bees, including the honey bee (Apis mellifera), bumbles bees (Bombus spp.), the alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata), and mason bees (Osmia spp.) are reviewed, with diagnostic descriptions and a summary of control methods for production...

  9. 76 FR 55541 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia: Kentucky; Ohio...

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    2011-09-07

    ... Cabell and Wayne Counties in their entireties and a portion of Mason County (Graham Tax District) in West... reasonable further progress (RFP) plan, contingency measures, and other planning State Implementation Plan... Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, U.S...

  10. Fulltext PDF

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    Our Shrinking Ozone Layer. Global Perspectives and Remedial Measures. Shashi K Pathak and Nigel J Mason. RESEARCH NEWS. Madhu Sudan Receives Nevanlinna Prize. Meena Mahajan and Priti Shankar. REFLECTIONS. Books I Remember. Dr K S Krishnan. Front Cover. Back Cover. Crystal structure of diamond.

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    Results 7651 - 7660 of 8490 ... Lee and Mason have done scholars and practitioners a magnificent service by undertaking this comprehensive, compelling, and supremely innovative examination of the economic consequences of changes in population age structure. Publication Date. October 31, 2011. Research in Action ...

  12. Superparamagnetic beads in rotating magnetic fields: microfluidic experiments

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    Den Toonder, J.M.J.; Bokdam, M.

    2008-01-01

    The effect of the Mason number, ratio of viscous and magnetic force, on suspended superparamagnetic micro sized beads was investigated experimentally. Microfluidic experiments were performed in a set-up that generates a rotating homogeneous magnetic field. In the presence of a magnetic field, the

  13. 78 FR 18307 - Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection

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    2013-03-26

    ... 28, 2013 to be assured of consideration. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Mason, Specialty... provide information on agriculture and other issues of importance to farmers and the rural residents. The... effectively monitor the grantees' activities to protect the Government's financial interest and ensure that...

  14. South African mid-summer seasonal rainfall prediction performance by a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

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    Landman, WA

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available . 2000; Goddard and Mason, 2002). Such a so-called two-tiered procedure to predict the outcome of the rainfall season has been employed in South Africa for a number of years already (e.g., Landman et al., 2001). The advent of fully coupled ocean...

  15. Sacramento River Flood Control Project, California Mid-Valley Area, Phase 3. Design Memorandum Volume 1

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    1996-06-01

    in the study area. Plants that are candidates for Federal listing are the Suisun aster, heart-scale, California hibiscus , delta tule-pea. Mason’s...agricultural chemicals. According to Sutter County Environmental Health , the State Water Resources Control Board tested a sediment sample taken under the

  16. Introducing geometric constraint expressions into robot constrained motion specification and control

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    Borghesan, G.; Scioni, E.; Kheddar, A.; Bruyninckx, H.P.J.

    2016-01-01

    The problem of robotic task definition and execution was pioneered by Mason, who defined setpoint constraints where the position, velocity, and/or forces are expressed in one particular task frame for a 6-DOF robot. Later extensions generalized this approach to constraints in 1) multiple frames; 2)

  17. South African Medical Journal

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    Assisted suicide and assisted voluntary euthanasia: Stransham-Ford High Court case overruled by the Appeal Court – but the door is left open · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. D.J. McQuoid-Mason, 381-382 ...

  18. An Evidence Theoretic Approach to Design of Reliable Low-Cost UAVs

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    2009-07-28

    Dr. William Mason for his valuable guidance and open door policy throughout my college career and Marty Rothwell whose high school engineering...UAVs were built by researchers in the NSL and subsequently flown in reserved military airspace at Fort Pickett in Blackstone , Virginia. Figure 45a shows

  19. An Exploratory Case Study of How Middle School Principals of Small Rural Schools Address Cyberbullying

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    Force, Christina Marie

    2013-01-01

    Cyberbullying affects almost half of the teenagers in America (National Crime Prevention Council [NCPC], 2010). The effects of cyberbullying can be detrimental to teens and may include withdrawal from school activities, illness, depression, eating disorders, or suicidal ideations (Dehue, Bolman, & Vollink, 2008; Mason, 2008). In order to…

  20. Human papillomavirus and tar hypothesis for squamous cell cervical ...

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    2010-08-09

    Aug 9, 2010 ... Keywords. Cervical cancer; co-factors; human papillomavirus; tar-based vaginal douche; tobacco smoke; wood smoke. Author Affiliations. Christina Bennett1 Allen E Kuhn2 Harry W Haverkos3. Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5149, USA; Suite 300, Hamilton Mason Road ...

  1. Inter digital transducer modelling through Mason equivalent circuit model

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    Mishra, Dipti; Singh, Abhishek; Hussain, Dil muhammed Akbar

    2016-01-01

    ) is projected which is well-suited with a broadly cast-off universal resolution circuit simulator SPICE built-in out with the proficiency to simulate the negative capacitances and inductances. The investigation is done to prove the straightforwardness of establishing the frequency and time domain physical...

  2. Summary of George Mason University SN1987A workshop

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    van den Bergh, S.

    1990-01-01

    The author summaries studies of SN 1987A. This discussion focuses on how theories of core collapse in supernovae have been confirmed by observations of neutrinos produced by SN1987A and observations of the exponential tail of the light curve of SN1987A give strong support to the prediction that this phase of supernova light curves is powered by 56 Co decay

  3. New 'patent accelerated care environment' aims to facilitate work flow, free up ED for acute care needs.

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    2012-02-01

    Faced with rising acuity levels and surging demand, Virginia Mason Medical Center modified the Clinical Decision Unit concept used in many EDs, and developed a new Patient Accelerated Care Environment (PACE) to care for observation patients, process patients for discharge, and to prepare patients for admission.The approach is designed to utilize ED beds for initial processing of patients, allowing resuscitative care if needed, and treating and releasing the patients with quick care needs. Using the Virginia Mason Production System, a methodology that is modeled after Toyota production techniques, developers designed an optimal work flow pattern and then built infrastructure to facilitate that process. All patients who present to the ED for care are seen by the ED team through a "team greet" approach. Approximately 35% to 40% of patients who come to the ED for care are transferred to the PACE unit. Patients assigned to the PACE unit typically remain there for 4 to 48 hours, depending on their care needs.

  4. Vacuum technologies developed for at-400A Type B transportation and storage package

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    Franklin, K.W.; Cockrell, G.D.

    1995-01-01

    The AT-400A TYPE B transportation and storage container will be used at Pantex Plant for the transportation and interim storage of plutonium pits. The AT-400A was designed by a joint effort between Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc. In order to meet the requirements for transportation and storage, five different vacuum technologies had to be developed. The goals of the various vacuum technologies were to verify the plutonium pit was sealed, perform the assembly verification leak check in accordance with ANSI N-14.5 and to provide a final inert gas backfill in the containment vessel. This paper will discuss the following five vacuum technologies: (1) Pit Leak Testing, (2) Containment Vessel Purge and Backfill with tracer gas, (3) Containment Vessel Leak Testing, (4) Containment Vessel Purge and Final Backfill, and (5) Leak Testing of the Containment Vessel Gas Transfer tube

  5. Interspecies radioimmunoassay for the major structural proteins of primate type-D retroviruses

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    Colcher, D.; Teramoto, Y.A.; Schlom, J.

    1977-01-01

    A competition radioimmunoassay has been developed in which type-D retroviruses from three primate species compete. The assay utilizes the major structural protein (36,000 daltons) of the endogenous squirrel monkey retrovirus and antisera directed against the major structural protein (27,000 daltons) of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus isolated from rhesus monkeys. Purified preparations of both viruses grown in heterologous cells, as well as extracts of heterologous cells infected with squirrel monkey retrovirus or Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, compete completely in the assay. Addition of an endogenous virus of the langur monkey also results in complete blocking. No blocking in the assay is observed with type-C baboon viruses, woolly monkey virus, and gibbon virus. Various other type-C and type-B viruses also showed no reactivity. An interspecies assay has thus been developed that recognizes the type-D retroviruses from both Old World monkey (rhesus and langur) and New World monkey (squirrel) species

  6. Managers, Firms and (Secret) Social Networks : The Economics of Freemasonry

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    Braggion, F.

    2008-01-01

    This paper studies the relationships between managers’ a¢ liations with Freema- sonry and companies' performance. Using a unique data set of 410 companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange between 1895 and 1902, I find that Masonic managers were associated with greater access to credit in small

  7. Sacramento River Flood Control Project, California, Mid-Valley Area, Phase III. Design Memorandum, Volume 1 of 2

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    1995-08-01

    the Suisun aster, heart-scale, California hibiscus , delta tule-pea, Mason’s lilaeopsis, little mousetail, and Colusa grass. No sites in the study...Environmental Health , the State Water Resources Control Board tested a sediment sample taken under the South Bridge on Highway 113 at the Sutter Bypass

  8. 75 FR 50922 - Prohydrojasmon, propyl-3-oxo-2-pentylcyclo-pentylacetate; Temporary Exemption From the...

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    2010-08-18

    ... fruit ripening (Creelman and Mullet, et al., 1995). The highest levels of naturally occurring JA are found in actively growing plant tissues such as leaves, flowers, and developing fruit (Creelman and... always been a component of any diet containing plant materials (Creelman and Mullet, 1995; Mason et al...

  9. 78 FR 71709 - Notice of Application for Approval of Discontinuance or Modification of a Railroad Signal System

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    2013-11-29

    ... President Operations, 202 Mason Avenue, Cape Charles, VA 23310. NS and BCR seek approval of the proposed..., Norfolk, VA. The Coleman Place Interlocking will be redesigned and renewed with electronic control... will move west approximately 1,000 feet. The existing No. 2 power-crossover switch will be converted to...

  10. 75 FR 16163 - Announcement of Funding Awards for the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program...

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    2010-03-31

    ... City 410 E. Washington Street. Iowa City IA 52240 160,520 35 Boise City Housing Authority 1276 River... Authority. 101. Mason City Housing Authority 22 N. Georgia-- 214. Boise City Housing Authority 1276 River... DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-5213-FA-02] Announcement of Funding...

  11. Preferred Characteristics and Diversity of Top Leadership Teams in a Christian School

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    Carman, R. Randall

    2009-01-01

    An organization's top leadership team is responsible for the actions and performance of that organization. Upper echelon theory (Hambrick & Mason, 1984) suggests that the top leadership team has the greatest influence upon the strategies for achieving performance and the effectiveness of organizational results. This study seeks to examine the…

  12. Analyzing the Teaching of Advanced Mathematics Courses via the Enacted Example Space

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    Fukawa-Connelly, Timothy Patrick; Newton, Charlene

    2014-01-01

    Examples are believed to be very important in developing conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas, useful both in mathematics research and instruction (Bills & Watson in "Educational Studies in Mathematics" 69:77-79, 2008; Mason & Watson, 2008; Bills & Tall, 1998; Tall & Vinner, 1981). In this study, we draw on the…

  13. 77 FR 21485 - Final Flood Elevation Determinations

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    ..., Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Clear Creek At the confluence with + 1180 City of Clear Lake... City of Mason City, upstream of Chicago, Unincorporated Areas of Milwaukee, St. Paul and Cerro Gordo... at the Chariton County Courthouse, 306 South Cherry Street, Keytesville, MO 65261. Village of Dalton...

  14. The 2001 U.S. Naval Observatory Double Star CD-Rom. III. The Third Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars

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    CHARA southern speckle program from 1989 to 1996 (cf. Hartkopf et al. 1996), and by the more recent speckle e†orts of Horch and colleagues (cf. Horch ...Mason, B. D. 2001, Third Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars (CHARA Contrib. No. 4) (Atlanta : Georgia State Univ.) Horch , E

  15. A Videography Analysis Framework for Video Retrieval and Summarization (Open Access)

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    J. S. D. Mason, and M.Pawlewski. Video genre classification using dy- namics. In IEEE ICASSP, 2001. [16] Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, and Andrew Y...directing semantics for film shot classification. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 19(10):1529–1542, 2009. [23

  16. 78 FR 45057 - Safety Zone; Alpena Area HOG Rally Fireworks, Alpena, Michigan

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    ...-AA00 Safety Zone; Alpena Area HOG Rally Fireworks, Alpena, Michigan AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION... rally in Alpena, Michigan with a fireworks display. Fireworks will be launched near the end of Mason Street, South of State Avenue, approximately 50 yards west of Thunder Bay in Alpena, Michigan. The...

  17. Nieuws uit de literatuur III

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    C.G. Hanson & J.L. Mason, 1985. Bird seed aliens in Britain, Watsonia 15:237-252. Een goed gedocumenteerde en geannoteerde lijst van in totaal 438 soorten die als vogelvoer of als verontreiniging daarvan in Engeland worden ingevoerd. Het is aannemelijk dat de resultaten van hun bevindingen ook van

  18. 76 FR 58830 - Announcement of Funding Awards; Fair Housing Initiatives Program Fiscal Year (FY) 2008

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    ... Mid-Florida Housing Partnership, Inc.: 1834 Mason Avenue, Daytona (368) 274-4441 4 100,000.00 Beach... Education and Outreach Initiative/National Media Campaign Component National Fair Housing Alliance: 1212 New... Mamarock Avenue, (914) 428-4507 2 261,895.00 White Plains, NY 10605 HELP Social Services Corporation: 5...

  19. L’aggressività della coppia criminale: la strage di Erba analizzata nell’ottica della coscienza intersoggettiva di D. Stern/L'agressivité des couples criminels : le massacre de Erba analysé par l'approche de la conscience intersubjective de Daniel Stern/The agressiveness of the criminal couples: the analysed massacre of Erba using the approach of the intersubjective conscience of Daniel Stern

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    Pasquale Caponnetto

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available La coppia criminale è un fenomeno poco comune nell'ambito dei delitti in quanto la maggior parte dei criminali commette il crimine da solo o coinvolge altri individui solo per caso. Ciò nonostante, la letteratura rivela una serie di coppie criminali che hanno commesso diversi crimini, fino ad arrivare all’omicidio. Alcuni hanno ucciso per denaro, altri per odio, altri ancora per amore, per vendetta, per perversione. Bonnie e Clyde, Olindo e Rosa, Erika e Omar sono espressione di un viaggio nel fenomeno del “crimine di coppia” in cui manifestazioni di follia a due, al di là dell’infatuazione reciproca e della dipendenza psicologica, si svuotano di qualsiasi accezione romantica per concretizzarsi in qualcosa di spaventoso e incontenibile, capace di sfuggire ad ogni tipo di catalogazione e comprensione. Nel presente lavoro, in particolare, si andrà ad analizzare la coppia criminale degli autori della strage di Erba, che verrà esaminata nell’ottica della coscienza intersoggettiva di Stern. Le couple criminel est un phénomène rare puisque la majorité des crimes sont commis par des criminels seuls ou ce n’est que par hasard qu’ils impliquent d’autres personnes. Toutefois, la littérature parle d’une série de couples criminels qui ont commis des différents types de crimes (homicide inclus. Certains d’entre eux tuent pour de l’argent, certains autres à cause de la haine, de l’amour, de la revanche ou de la perversion. Bonnie et Clyde, Olindo et Rosa, Erika et Omar constituent des exemples du phénomène du « crime en couple ». Ce sont des situations de folie à deux qui n’ont aucune acception romantique et qui se traduisent en quelque chose d’horrifiant et d’incontrôlé. Dans cet article, les auteurs vont analyser le couple criminel composé par les responsables du massacre de Erba (Italie du Nord. L’objectif est d’examiner ce couple en utilisant l’approche de la conscience intersubjective de Daniel

  20. Late Pennsylvanian climate changes and palynomorph extinctions

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    1996-01-01

    A major floral change occurs in the Upper Pennsylvanian strata in the Midcontinent, Illinois basin, and in the northern Appalachian basin of eastern United States. Lycospora spp. (derived from arborescent lycopsids) became extinct along with some other palynomorph taxa. This investigation is concerned with the importance of this major floral change. Samples were studied from western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virgina (from a previous study) cover the stratigraphic interval from the Upper Freeport coal bed, uppermost part of the Allegheny Formation, to the Mahoning, Mason, Brush Creek, Wilgus, and Anderson coal beds in the lower part of the Conemaugh Formation. The floral change occurs either at or below the accepted Desmoinesian-Missourian boundary in the Midcontinent and Illinois basin, whereas in the northern Appalachians this change occurs in the lower part of the Conemaugh Formation, between the Mahoning and Brush Creek coal beds, or when the Mason is present, between the Mahoning and Mason coal beds. The first coal bed above the extinction of Lycospora spp. is dominated by the palynomorph taxon Endosporites globiformis which is derived from a heterosporous, herbaceous lycopsid. However, Sigillaria, another arborescent lycopsid, did not become extinct at this time as evidenced by the presence of the palynomorph genus Crassispora which is derived from Sigillaria. The reason for the survival of Sigillaria is now known, but it may have been able to adapt, in a limited fashion, to some sort of specialized microenvironment. The ferns, based on palynomorph occurrence, become numerically more important throughout the balance of the Conemaugh Formation, and dominate the Pittsburgh No. 8 and Pomeroy coal beds in the overlying Monogahela Formation.

  1. Nurturing Careers in Psychology: Combining Work and Family

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    Halpern, Diane F.

    2008-01-01

    The academic workplace, with its requirements for achieving tenure within the first 6 years of employment, is designed in ways that discriminate against young faculty with family care responsibilities, most notably mothers. Mason and Goulden ("Academe," http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndmas.htm, 2002, "Academe,"…

  2. Maintaining Momentum and Quality in a Time of Decline: A Case Study.

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    Potter, David; And Others

    1992-01-01

    A discussion of the response of George Mason University (Virginia) to economic decline in 1989-92 looks at four stages in the downturn and examines a variety of planning and policy issues, including management of both unplanned and planned reductions, continued uncertainty, politics of decline, organizational communication and morale,…

  3. Resources within "Reason"

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    Catlett, Camille

    2011-01-01

    George Mason University faculty members Eva Thorp and Sylvia Sanchez remind us through their research findings and their teaching that family stories touch hearts, and hearts change minds. Accessing those stories requires more than just strong verbal skills. As the Chinese pictogram reminds us, effective communication takes heart, eyes, ears, and…

  4. Monument to Lack: The New University

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    Jones, Andee

    2015-01-01

    The present article is the fourth in an unintended series charting the author's experiences of academic censure via social exclusion, or "amicable exclusion" as the Vietnamese reprint has it (Jones, 2012, 2013, 2014). Here in talking about academic censure, Jones touches on former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Mason's (1990) excoriation by the…

  5. 76 FR 13887 - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish (MSB...

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    2011-03-15

    ...). This emergency action increases the butterfish allowable biological catch (ABC) for the 2011 fishing... CONTACT: Aja Peters-Mason, Fishery Policy Analyst, (978) 281-9195, fax (978) 281-9135. SUPPLEMENTARY... Magnuson-Stevens Act, to increase the butterfish ABC for the 2011 fishing year (FY) from 1,500 mt to 1,811...

  6. The Interiors Plant Shutdown: Using Dialectic Inquiry in a Complex Ethical Decision

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    Lenaghan, Janet; Smith, Charles

    2004-01-01

    The experiential exercise presented here, using a dialectic process similar to that found within Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST), developed by Mason and Mitroff, offers graduate and undergraduate management students the opportunity to study a contemporary ethical problem in a new way. The ethical issues of a plant closedown…

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    Items 101 - 150 of 166 ... ... criminally liable for causing the death of cancer patients through their intentional or negligent conduct that results in oncology equipment not working in hospitals, Abstract PDF. D.J. McQuoid-Mason. Vol 7, No 1 (2014), Questioning South Africa's 'genetic link' requirement for surrogacy, Abstract PDF.

  8. Stamps, Sarcophagi, and Songs: Teaching World History with Online Resources

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    Schrum, Kelly

    2012-01-01

    Teaching world history is challenging. In addition to covering the history of the world geographically and chronologically, it is difficult to find high quality, translated materials ready for classroom use. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University offers free, online materials, including primary sources,…

  9. A series of Xerophilic Chrysosporium species

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    Skou, Jens-Peder

    1992-01-01

    Xerophilic Chrysosporium species related to C. farinicola were often isolated from uneaten provisions (pollen-and-nectar mixture) of mason bees (Osmia spp.). The fungi have an optimal growth rate on media which are 2 to 3 molar in regard to glucose, exhibit some growth up to 3.6 molar glucose...

  10. Construction/Communication & Media. B5. CHOICE: Challenging Options in Career Education.

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    Putnam and Northern Westchester Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Yorktown Heights, NY.

    The documents aggregated here comprise the fourth grade unit of a career education curriculum for migrant students. The unit focuses on the tools and tasks of workers in 11 jobs in the construction, communication, and media occupational clusters: heavy equipment operator, architect, mason, carpenter, plumber, electrician, telephone line worker,…

  11. Few Things About Idioms: Understanding Idioms and Its Users in the Twitter Online Social Network

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    2015-05-22

    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 20(5), 484–493 (1994) 11. Chakraborty, A., Ghosh, S., Ganguly, N.: Detecting overlapping communities in folksonomies ...in folksonomies . In: Dynamics on and of Complex Networks, vol. 2. Springer (2013) 20. Wu, S., Hofman, J.M., Mason, W.A., Watts, D.J.: Who says what

  12. ICT Student Teachers' Judgments and Justifications about Ethical Issues

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    Alakurt, Turgay; Bardakci, Salih; Keser, Hafize

    2012-01-01

    In this study, Turkish ICT student teachers' judgments and justifications in four scenarios involving ICT-related ethical problems were investigated. Scenarios were designed based on Mason's (1986) four ethical issues: privacy, accuracy, property and accessibility. The study was carried out in the fall of 2010. We used the critical incidents…

  13. 76 FR 59269 - Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program

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    2011-09-26

    ... Mason, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, at (202) 418-7126, or [email protected] or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432... ensure the sustainability and integrity of the TRS program and the TRS Fund. Though the Report and Order...

  14. 77 FR 58560 - Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations

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    2012-09-21

    ... Channing Street, South Wing, Delaware, OH 43015. Mason County, West Virginia, and Incorporated Areas Maps... Henderson Town Hall, 1 Railroad Street, Henderson, WV 25106. Town of Leon Town Hall, 136 Main Street, Leon... Courthouse, 200 6th Street, Point Pleasant, WV 25550. Wood County, West Virginia, and Incorporated Areas Maps...

  15. Timber resource statistics for western Washington.

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    Coffin D. MacLean; Patricia M. Bassett; Glenn. Yeary

    1992-01-01

    This report summarizes a 1988-90 timber resource inventory of 19 counties in western Washington: Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom. Detailed tables of forest area, timber volume, growth, mortality, and harvest are presented.

  16. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law - Vol 7, No 2 (2014)

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    Terminating the pregnancy of a brain-dead mother: Does a fetus have a right to life? The law in South Africa · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. D McQuoid-Mason, 44-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/sajbl.317 ...

  17. Construccion/Communicacion y Medios Publicitarios. Libro del Profesor (Construction/Communication & Media. Teacher's Guide). B5. CHOICE (Challenging Options in Career Education).

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    Mid-Hudson Migrant Education Center, New Paltz, NY.

    The guide, written in Spanish, comprises the fourth grade unit of a career education curriculum for migrant students. Focus of the unit is on the tools and tasks of workers in 11 jobs in the construction, communication, and media occupational clusters: heavy equipment operator, architect, mason, carpenter, plumber, electrician, telephone line…

  18. UKSG Annual Conference 2012

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    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available UKSG offered four free places for students to attend the 2012 Conference, made possible with generous support from Elsevier, whose contribution is very much appreciated. Those eligible to apply were students enrolled on Library & Information and Publishing degree courses, and the successful applicants were (Ieft to right as photographed against the River Clyde: Stuart Lawson (University of Brighton, Jennifer Lovatt (Oxford Brookes University, Gopal Dutta (University of Sheffield and Lydia Lantzsch (Oxford Brookes University. The four have allowed us to take a peek at the diaries they kept during the conference. The extracts below give us a flavour of the event including the plenary and breakout sessions, the debates and the stamina of those who kept the dancing going!

  19. On two reports associated with James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock published by the Indian Museum and the Indian Marine Survey between 1890 and 1891: implications for malacostracan nomenclature.

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    Huys, Rony; Low, Martyn E Y; De Grave, Sammy; Ng, Peter K L; Clark, Paul F

    2014-01-29

    conclusively attributable to a specific author, it is considered to be written anonymously and should therefore be cited as Anonymous (1891). A number of names in Appendix No. XIII are available since they are accompanied by a brief description of the taxa they denote, and are either attributable to James Wood-Mason or remain with anonymous authorship; others are nomina nuda without a diagnosis or indication, or have been diagnosed previously in the "Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer Investigator". The nomenclatural implications for eight names made available in Anonymous (1891) are discussed: Glyphocrangon caeca, Glyphocrangon sculptus var. coecescens, Psalidopodidae, Psalidopus, Psalidopus mirabilis, Psathyrocaris, Psathyrocaris fragilis and Psopheticus crepitans. The nomenclatural history of various other taxa, initially denoted by unavailable names in Anonymous (1891), is also documented. The authorships of the various crustacean taxa collected by the Indian Marine Survey Steamer Investigator during the seasons 1889-1890 and 1890-1891, and published in two series of connected parts in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, are also re-assessed and summarised. A rare document containing the list of R.I.M.S. Investigator stations for the period 1884-1913 is reproduced for the future benefit of the scientific community. 

  20. 75 FR 81642 - Long-Term North to South Water Transfer Program, Sacramento County, CA

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    ..., Sacramento County, CA AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an...., Chico, CA. Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 2-4 p.m., Sacramento, CA. Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6-8 p.m..., MP-410, Sacramento, CA 95825. Scoping meetings will be held at: Chico at the Chico Masonic Family...

  1. Assessment of the Effectiveness of Local Building Materials used for ...

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    A survey research design was used for the study. A total of 50 respondents comprising 30 residents and 20 masons were used as the population for the study. A structured questionnaire which was developed by the researchers was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three lecturers in the department ...

  2. Timber resource statistics for nonnational forest land in western Washington, 2001.

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    Andrew N. Gray; Charles F. Veneklase; Robert D. Rhoads

    2005-01-01

    This report is a summary of timber resource statistics for an inventory of the 19 counties in western Washington: Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom. The inventory in 2000 sampled all private and public lands except those...

  3. 77 FR 76415 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Redesignation of...

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    2012-12-28

    ... Area is composed of Cabell and Wayne Counties and the Graham Tax District in Mason County in West... reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of... notes that it will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law. B...

  4. The Effects of Specific Reading Interventions on Elementary Students' Test Scores

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    Griffin, Jacqueline Laverne Meeks

    2016-01-01

    Many students in third, fourth and fifth grades struggle at the lowest levels of reading proficiency. In fact, fewer than 40% of fourth graders in the United States read at or above the "proficient" level on state standardized tests in 2009 (D'Ardenne, Barnes, Hightower, Lamason, Mason, Patterson, Stephens, Wilson, Smith & Erickson,…

  5. Transforming Conflict Resolution Education: Applying Anthropology alongside Your Students

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    Avruch, Kevin

    2009-01-01

    This article describes the role graduate students can play in transforming their education in the emergent field of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, as occurs at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), at George Mason University, Washington, DC. It also unpacks how anthropology plays a role in the education of these students at…

  6. Journal of Consumer Sciences - Vol 36 (2008)

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    Sizing and fit research at grassroots level A methodology for the identification of unique body shapes in African developing countries · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. A Mastamet-Mason, HM de Klerk, S Ashdown. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jfecs.v36i1.

  7. Thickenings and conformal gravity

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    Lebrun, Claude

    1991-07-01

    A twistor correspondence is given for complex conformal space-times with vanishing Bach and Eastwood-Dighton tensors; when the Weyl curvature is algebraically general, these equations are precisely the conformal version of Einstein's vacuum equations with cosmological constant. This gives a fully curved version of the linearized correspondence of Baston and Mason [B-M].

  8. Thickenings and conformal gravity

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    LeBrun, C.

    1991-01-01

    A twistor correspondence is given for complex conformal space-times with vanishing Bach and Eastwood-Dighton tensors; when the Weyl curvature is algebraically general, these equations are precisely the conformal version of Einstein's vacuum equations with cosmological constant. This gives a fully curved version of the linearized correspondence of Baston and Mason [B-M]. (orig.)

  9. Effects of Wheel and Hand-Rim Size on Submaximal Propulsion in Wheelchair Athletes

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    Mason, Barry S.; Van der Woude, Lucas H. V.; Tolfrey, Keith; Lenton, John P.; Goosey-Tolfrey, Victoria L.

    MASON, B. S., L. H. V. VAN DER WOUDE, K. TOLFREY, J. P. LENTON, and V. L. GOOSEY-TOLFREY. Effects of Wheel and Hand-Rim Size on Submaximal Propulsion in Wheelchair Athletes. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 126-134, 2012. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the effects of fixed gear

  10. “La posición de la Gran Logia de la Isla de Cuba ante la crisis de 1929 a 1933: su reflejo en la revista La Gran Logia”

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    Haens Beltrán Alonso

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available La Gran Logia de la Isla de Cuba, principal organismo simbólico de la masonería cubana sufrió durante los años 1929-1933 la grave crisis que afectó a la sociedad cubana. El presente trabajo aborda el posicionamiento de este gobierno masónico ante la situación política, utilizando como fuente fundamental los planteamientos vertidos en su órgano de prensa oficial la revista La Gran Logia. Se parte de la premisa de que la masonería no es una institución política, pero que su funcionamiento la obliga a adoptar una posición ante los problemas que la afectan. ¿Cuál fue la posición de la Gran Logia de la Isla de Cuba sobre la crisis imperante? ¿Cómo expresó su posición sin violar los preceptos masónicos de no discutir sobre política? Estas son las preguntas que en este trabajo se pretenden responder.

  11. « Félix Bovie (1812-1880 : poète et chansonnier dans la franc-maçonnerie bruxelloise »

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    Jeffrey Tyssens

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    Full Text Available Felix Bovie first made a career as a landscape painter. Later on however, he completely devoted himself to the writingof poetic texts for songs he interpreted himself as a mid-19th-century singer songwriter. A scion of a wealthy familyliving in the Belgian capital, he frequented bourgeois associations such as the Masonic lodges but he was also an adeptof more bohemian, frolicsome societies who liked to mock Freemasonry as such. The song text production of Bovie,which has often been compared to the one of French liberalsinger Béranger, can only beunderstood in the interface ofall those specific spheres. There, artistic and more saucy motives went alongdefinitely anticlerical and particularMasonic themes. Bovie had been accepted by theAmis Philanthropeslodge but eventually left for another Brusselslodge that rejected the politically militant kind of Freemasonry theformer advocated. The songs Bovie wrote andperformed celebrated a spiritualist and convivial Freemasonry,that surely was apolitical but nevertheless provedfrankly anticlerical, if only as a reaction against the Belgian episcopal condemnation of Freemasonry of 1837.

  12. Flexible mechanism of magnetic microbeads chains in an oscillating field

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    Li, Yan-Hom; Yen, Chia-Yen

    2018-05-01

    To investigate the use of magnetic microbeads for swimming at low Reynolds number, the flexible structure of microchains comprising superparamagnetic microbeads under the influence of oscillating magnetic fields is examined experimentally and theoretically. For a ductile chain, each particle has its own phase angle trajectory and phase-lag angle to the overall field. This present study thoroughly discusses the synchronicity of the local phase angle trajectory between each dyad of beads and the external field. The prominently asynchronous trajectories between the central and outer beads significantly dominate the flexible structure of the oscillating chain. In addition, the dimensionless local Mason number (Mnl) is derived as the solo controlling parameter to evaluate the structure of each dyad of beads in a flexible chain. The evolution of the local Mason number within an oscillating period implies the most unstable position locates near the center of the chain around 0.6P

  13. Coastal Mapping for Baseline Geoscience Knowledge to Support Community Hazard Assessment and Sustainable Development, Eastern Baffin Island, Nunavut

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    Forbes, D. L.; Bell, T.; Campbell, D. C.; Cowan, B.; Deering, R. L.; Hatcher, S. V.; Hughes Clarke, J. E.; Irvine, M.; Manson, G. K.; Smith, I. R.; Edinger, E.

    2015-12-01

    Since 2012 we have carried out extensive multibeam bathymetric and backscatter surveys in coastal waters of eastern Baffin Island, supplemented by sub-bottom imaging and coring. Shore-zone surveys have been undertaken in proximity to the communities of Iqaluit and Qikiqtarjuaq, following earlier work in Clyde River. These support benthic habitat mapping, geological exploration, analysis of past and present sea-level trends, and assessment of coastal hazards relating to climate change and seabed instability. Outputs include a seamless topographic-bathymetric digital elevation model (DEM) of extensive boulder-strewn tidal flats in the large tidal-range setting at Iqaluit, supporting analysis of coastal flooding, wave run-up, and sea-ice impacts on a rapidly developing urban waterfront in the context of climate change. Seabed mapping of inner Frobisher Bay seaward of Iqaluit reveals a potential local tsunami hazard in widespread submarine slope failures, the triggers, magnitudes, and ages of which are the subject of ongoing research. In fjords of the Cumberland Peninsula, this project has mapped numerous submerged delta terraces at 19 to 45 m present water depth. These attest to an early postglacial submerged shoreline, displaced by glacial-isostatic adjustment. It rises linearly over a distance of 100 km east to west, where a submerged boulder barricade on a -16 m shoreline was discovered at a proposed port site in Broughton Channel near Qikiqtarjuaq. Palaeotopographic mapping using the multibeam data revealed an enclosed estuarine environment quite different from the present-day open passage swept by tidal currents. At Clyde River, combined seabed and onshore DEMs with geohazard mapping provided foundation data for community assessment and planning under a local knowledge co-production initiative. The geohazard work identified portions of the town-site more vulnerable to both coastal flooding and potential thaw subsidence, while the shallow delta terrace suggested a

  14. Lipid Composition of Oil Extracted from Wasted Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus Heads and Comparison with Oil Extracted from Antarctic Krill (Euphasia superba

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    Full Text Available In the UK, the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus supports its most important shellfish fishery. Nephrops are sold either whole, or as “tails-only” for the scampi trade. In the “tailing” process, the “head” (cephalothorax is discarded as waste. A smaller crustacean species, the Antarctic krill Euphasia superba, represents an economically valuable industry, as its extractable oil is sold as a human dietary supplement. The aim of this study was to determine the amount and composition of the oil contained in discarded Nephrops heads and to compare its composition to the oil extracted from krill. Differences due to Geographical variation and seasonal patterns in the amount and composition of lipid were also noted. Results indicated that Nephrops head waste samples collected from more southern locations in Scotland (Clyde Sea area contained higher levels of oil when compared to samples collected from northern locations in Iceland. Moreover, seasonal differences within the Clyde Sea area in Scotland were also observed, with oil extracted from Nephrops head waste peaking at around 11.5% during the summer months when larger and more mature females were caught by trawl. At this time of the year, the valuable fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA accounted for around 23% of the total fatty acid content in oil extracted from Nephrops head waste. A seasonal effect on EPA content was found, with higher levels obtained in the summer, while no trend was found in DHA percentages. Finally, oil from Nephrops head waste contained a higher proportion of EPA and DHA than krill oil but these fatty acids were more abundantly linked to the neutral lipids rather to than polar lipids. The characterization of lipid that could be extracted from Nephrops head waste should be seen as a first step for the commercial use of a valuable resource currently wasted. This approach is extremely relevant given the current limited supply of

  15. Serological Survey of Toxoplasmosis Transvaal

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    Serological Survey of Toxoplasmosis. Transvaal. P. R. MASON, M. R. JACOBS, P. J. FRIPP. •. In the. SUMMARY. Thirty-seven per cent of 605 samples of human sera col- lected from four ethnic groups in South Africa gave a positive Toxoplasma indir~ct fluorescent antibody test at a dilution 01 1/16 or higher. The incidences ...

  16. Spotlight on RESA 2: Regional Implementation of the Learning School Initiative. Catalyst Schools Research Study Report

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    Hammer, Patricia Cahape

    2016-01-01

    West Virginia's Regional Education Service Agency 2 (RESA 2) serves six districts in the southwestern part of the state--Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Wayne--which together have 95 schools. RESA 2 was one of two RESAs to pilot implementation of the Learning School approach, beginning in the summer of 2014. RESA 2's first cohort included…

  17. G M Moremedi

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    Home; Journals; Pramana – Journal of Physics. G M Moremedi. Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics. Volume 77 Issue 3 September 2011 pp 493-507. Effects of non-uniform interfacial tension in small Reynolds number flow past a spherical liquid drop · D P Mason G M Moremedi · More Details Abstract Fulltext ...

  18. The Need for a Strategic Approach to Contingency Contracting

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    2007-12-01

    cgisirsi.exe/oSuAo2CpJV/SIRSI/28100009/523/9526 Mankiw , N.G. (2004). Principles of economics (3rd ed.). Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South- Western. McGrath...ANALYSIS......................................................12 1. Market Economics ...Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Florida State University. He has served over 4 years as an Air Force Contracting Officer and includes

  19. Evaluation and Management of Patients with Inhalation Injury

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    1990-12-01

    PRUITT, Jr., M.D., WILLIAM G. CIOFFI, M.D., TAKESHI SHIMAZU, M.D. HISASHI IKEUCHI, M.D., AND ARTHUR D. MASON, Jr., M.D. D T CO ELECTE" Inhalation...215, 1988. Do you think that there is some common pathway here 22. Kimura , R., Traber, L., Herndon, D., et al: Ibuprofen reduces the where there is

  20. Thickenings and conformal gravity

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    LeBrun, C. (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (USA). Dept. of Mathematics)

    1991-07-01

    A twistor correspondence is given for complex conformal space-times with vanishing Bach and Eastwood-Dighton tensors; when the Weyl curvature is algebraically general, these equations are precisely the conformal version of Einstein's vacuum equations with cosmological constant. This gives a fully curved version of the linearized correspondence of Baston and Mason (B-M). (orig.).

  1. Cloud Privacy Audit Framework: A Value-Based Design

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    Coss, David Lewis

    2013-01-01

    The rapid expansion of cloud technology provides enormous capacity, which allows for the collection, dissemination and re-identification of personal information. It is the cloud's resource capabilities such as these that fuel the concern for privacy. The impetus of these concerns are not to far removed from those expressed by Mason in 1986…

  2. Charakterizace integrasy Masonova-Pfizerova opičího viru

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    Krejčík, Z.; Snášel, Jan; Rosenberg, Ivan; Ruml, T.; Pichová, Iva

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 96, č. 4 (2002), s. 223 ISSN 0009-2770. [Sigma-Aldrich konference mladých chemiků, biochemiků a molekulárních biologů. 22.05.2002-25.05.2002, Velké Meziříčí] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : Mason-Pfizer monkey virus Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

  3. Books as therapy

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    Mason and Kreger, and for adult patients with ADHD there is The Edison Gene by Thom Hartmann who proposes that. ADHD sufferers are hunters living in a farmer's world. I have also (and you are not allowed to mention this to anyone) The Australian Cannabis Cook Book by Sinton and. MacCullum, which may be useful ...

  4. Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development

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    Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon

    2013-01-01

    This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and no impact of the different program components on targeted subsets of firms. Comparison with a contemporaneous urban scheme suggests ways the incentives of the rural program could be targeted more effect...

  5. Advance directives and the National Health Act | McQuoid-Mason ...

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    No Abstract. South African Medical Journal Vol. 96 (12) 2006: pp.1236-1237. Full Text: EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT · AJOL African Journals Online. HOW TO USE AJOL... for Researchers · for Librarians · for Authors · FAQ's · More about AJOL ...

  6. NMR structural studies of proteins from Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Hrabal, R.; Veverka, V.; Lang, J.; Bauerová, Helena; Pichová, Iva; Lipov, J.; Ruml, T.

    2002-01-01

    Roč. 9, č. 1 (2002), s. 38-39 ISSN 1211-5894. [Meeting of the Czech and Slovak Structural Biologists /2./. 13.03.2003-15.03.2003, Nové Hrady] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : M-PMV Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

  7. Annual report and accounts 1989/90

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    When the government decided to privatise the electricity generating industry it was decided to retain nuclear generation in the public sector. Thus, Scottish Nuclear Ltd, formerly part of the South of Scotland Electricity Boeard, was created in March 1990. Scottish Nuclear owns and is responsible for the continued safe and commercially sound operation of two nuclear power stations, Hunterston 'B' on the Firth of Clyde and Torness on the Scottish east coast. Both are Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors. The company is also responsible for Hunterston 'A', a Magnox power station; both the Hunterston 'A' reactors have been shut down on economic grounds. This, the company's first Annual Report, includes the Chairman's statement, Chief Executive's review, a summary of the activities, a list of Directors and advisers, the Directors' report and the accounts. (UK)

  8. Department of Defense Strategic and Business Case Analyses for Commercial Products in Secure Mobile Computing

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    2011-06-01

    Solicitation / Modification of Contract. Fort Meade: National Security Agency. Mankiw , N. G. (2006). Essentials of Economics , 4 th Ed. Mason, OH: South...for current smartphone implementations. Results indicate growing strategic opportunities for the DoD to acquire more economical commercial handsets...opportunities for the DoD to acquire more economical commercial handsets and more flexible network services. The business cases may potentially save

  9. Distractions N' Driving: video game simulation educates young drivers on the dangers of texting while driving.

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    Saqer, Haneen; de Visser, Ewart; Strohl, Jonathan; Parasuraman, Raja

    2012-01-01

    The proliferation of portable communication and entertainment devices has introduced new dangers to the driving environment, particularly for young and inexperienced drivers. Graduate students from George Mason University illustrate a powerful, practical, and cost-effective program that has been successful in educating these drivers on the dangers of texting while driving, which can easily be adapted and implemented in other communities.

  10. The role of S-S bridge in retroviral protease function and virion maturation

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    Zábranská, Helena; Tůma, R.; Kluh, Ivan; Svatoš, A.; Ruml, Tomáš; Hrabal, R.; Pichová, Iva

    2007-01-01

    Roč. 365, č. 5 (2007), s. 1493-1504 ISSN 0022-2836 R&D Projects: GA MŠk 1M0508; GA MŠk 1M0520; GA ČR GESCO/06/E001 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40550506 Keywords : retroviral protease * Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * disulfide * dimerization Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.472, year: 2007

  11. Rotator cuff repair with a tendon-fibrocartilage-bone composite bridging patch.

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    Ji, Xiaoxi; Chen, Qingshan; Thoreson, Andrew R; Qu, Jin; An, Kai-Nan; Amadio, Peter C; Steinmann, Scott P; Zhao, Chunfeng

    2015-11-01

    To compare the mechanical performance of a rotator cuff repaired with a novel tendon-fibrocartilage-bone composite bridging patch vs the traditional Mason-Allen repair in an in vitro canine model. Twenty shoulders and 10 bridging patches from patellar tendon were harvested. The patches were trimmed and sliced into 2 layers. An infraspinatus tendon tear was created in each shoulder. Modified Mason-Allen sutures were used to repair the infraspinatus tendon to the greater tuberosity, with or without the bridging patch (bridging patch group and controls, respectively). Shoulders were loaded to failure under displacement control at a rate of 0.5mm/s. The ultimate tensile load was significantly higher in the bridging patch group than control (mean [SD], 365.46 [36.45] vs 272.79 [48.88] N; Pfibrocartilage-bone composite bridging patch achieved higher ultimate tensile load and stiffness at the patch-greater tuberosity repair site compared with traditional repair in a canine model. This composite tissue transforms the traditional tendon-to-bone healing interface (with dissimilar tissues) into a pair of bone-to-bone and tendon-to-tendon interfaces, which may improve healing quality and reduce retear rate. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  12. William Chambers. Sobre el arte de trazar jardines entre los chinos

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    Miguel Angel Aníbarro

    1993-07-01

    Full Text Available El texto que aquí se presenta es el último capítulo de Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils, libro publicado por el arquitecto William Chambers en 1757 (ed. fac. Arno Press, Nueva York, 1980. Chambers viajó dos veces, al parecer a China; perosu objetivo en este escrito no es tanto -a pesar de su título- describir el jardín chino como exponer algunas ideas que permitieran dar al jardín paisajista inglés una mayor variedad que la lograda en los jardines del momento. Con él se inicia una polémica, progresivamente centrada en la obras de Capability Brown, cuyos ecos resuenan en los escritos de Horace Walpole y Willim Mason, y que para Chambers culminará con la publicación, quince años después de A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, donde argumenta y amplía sus opiniones, y con la burlesca respuesta de Mason en su Heroic Epistle de 1773. La traducción ha sido realizada por Marta Heras Aznar y revisada por quien suscribe.

  13. Implementing the shoreline cleanup assessment team process in the Gulf of Mexico

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    Debusschere, K.; Penland, S.; Ramsey, K.E.; Lindstedt, D.; Westphal, K.A.; Seal, R.; McBride, R.A.; Byrnes, M.R.; Owens, E.

    1993-01-01

    Louisiana State University (LSU) and Woodward-Clyde Consultants are working with state and federal agencies and industry through the LSU Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Research and Response Program to establish a shoreline cleanup assessment team program (SCAT) in the Gulf of Mexico. Each SCAT team consists of a coastal geomorphologist and ecologist (and archaeologist when appropriate), as well as representatives from the responsible federal, state, and private agencies. This cooperative effort is aimed at identifying oil spill impact and interagency coastal resource concerns and recommendations, and developing a cleanup strategy based on interagency cooperation and concurrence within a systematic and standardized framework. The SCAT program provides interagency coordination, SCAT preparedness, spill drill participation, interagency training, geographic information systems services, monitoring, and routine aerial videotape surveys. It also offers technical support to the decision-making process within spill response operations

  14. Images of Blood in American Cinema

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    Rødje, Kjetil

    by following one (audio)visual element through an exploration that traverses established standards for film production and reception. This study does not heed distinctions regarding to genres (horror, western, gangster) or models of film production (exploitation, independent, studio productions) but rather......Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual cinematic element went from predominately operating as a signifier, providing audiences with information about a film’s plot and characters......, to increasingly operating in terms of affect, potentially evoking visceral and embodied responses in viewers. Using films such as The Return of Dracula, The Tingler, Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Wild Bunch, Rødje takes a novel approach to film history...

  15. Testing of an acoustic smolt deflection system, Blantyre hydroelectric power scheme

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    1996-01-01

    The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of an underwater acoustic barrier as a means of preventing the entry of salmon (Salmo salar) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) smolts and other fish into the water intake of a hydro-electric power (HEP) station. A secondary objective was to measure the injury rate of fish passed through the turbine, so that the risk to any fish that penetrated the acoustic barrier could also be determined. The test site, which was a 575kW Kaplan plant located at Blantyre on the R. Clyde, Lanarkshire, was selected as being representative of run-of-river sites currently being developed under the Government's NFFO (Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation) and SRO (Scottish Renewables Order) schemes. A further objective was to disseminate information arising from the project to the scientific and HEP community. (author)

  16. Henryk Grossmann 2.0: A Critique of Paul Mason’s Book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”

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    Christian Fuchs

    2016-04-01

    Full Text Available This article reviews Paul Mason’s book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”. It discusses Mason’s version of long wave theory, the book’s interpretation of Karl Marx, its analysis of the Grundrisse’s “Fragment on Machines”, and aspects of political struggles and societal change. The conclusion is that Paul Mason is digital Marxism’s Henryk Grossmann 2.0.

  17. Classification of Tupí-Guaraní

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    Rodrigues, Aryon Dall’Igna

    2013-01-01

    Norman McQuown has recently published a synthesis of J. AldenMason’s classification of South American languages. 1 Although everyone will acknowledge the importance of the systematic work of both Mason and McQuown, one cannot help feeling that Taylor’s criticism concerning the West Indies, ‘the present classification... complicates and obscures the perspective unnecessarily’ 2, can be applied in part also to South America.

  18. Innovation and dedication underpin management of sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum) in California and Oregon forests

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    Susan J. Frankel

    2017-01-01

    This special issue of Forest Phytophthoras serves as part of the proceedings from the Sixth Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium held June 21 -23, 2016 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA, USA. The symposium marked almost 16 years to the day that David Rizzo (UC Davis) and Matteo Garbelotto (UC Berkeley) identified the cause of sudden oak death to be a previously...

  19. Dysregulated microRNA activity in Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome

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    2017-09-01

    Products Publications, conference papers, and presentations Joyce CE, Saadatpour A, Jiang L, Ruiz-Gutierrez M, Vargel Bolukbasi O, Hofmann I...Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2016. Joyce CE, Li S, Hofmann I, Nusbaum C, Sieff C, Mason CE, Novina CD. “Single cell transcriptomic analysis of...hematopoietic dysfunction in Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome”. Poster, Keystone Hematopoiesis, Keystone, CO, 2015. Joyce CE, Jiang L, Hofmann I, Nusbaum C

  20. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services: Background and Issues for Congress

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    2016-07-01

    Military Personnel and Freedom of Religion : Selected Legal Issues, by R. Chuck Mason and Cynthia Brown. 190 See for example, Department of the Army, Army...from unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion , sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation when...unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion , sex or sexual orientation. Source: Department of Defense, Diversity

  1. Analyzing the Effectiveness of Logistics Networks During the Immediate Response Phase of Three Different Natural Disasters

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    2010-12-01

    Conference. Washington: IEEE. Mankiw , N. (2007). Essentials of economics . Mason: Thomson South-Western. Margesson, R., & Taft-Morales, M. (2010). Haiti...last decade affected the global demographic, social, and economic environment in a way that had not happened before. The size of many disasters...homeless. The demographic, social, and economic impact varied from domestic to international in scope as well. The effects were devastating, especially

  2. A Decision Model for Merging Base Operations: Outsourcing Pest Management on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling

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    2011-11-30

    OH: South- Western Cengage Learning. Mankiw , N. G. (2006). Principles of economics (4th ed.). Mason, OH: Thompson South- Western. Private...When the choice to in-source or outsource an installation function or service requirement exists, in these challenging economic times, it is now more...decision uncertainties. When the choice to in-source or outsource an installation function or service requirement exists, in these challenging economic

  3. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Held in San Diego, California on 14-19 January 1990

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    1990-01-01

    Systems, L J Mason and E B Felstead 4....................................4 SESSION MA2 - DETECTION THEORY I Asymptotic Efficiencies in Multiple...Demodulation for ISI Channels, S Rag/iavan and G Kaplan ...... 91 Signal Processing in Channels with Intersymbol Interference, Daniel D. Klovsky.......91...SESSION WA7 -TRELLIS CODING III Noise Effects on M-ary PSK Trellis Codes, Gideon Kaplan and Ephraim Zehavi...... ........ 107 Bidirectional Trellis

  4. Õuduse eelõhtu Kinomajas

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    PÖFFi korraldatud õudusfilmide festivalil HÕFF Haapsalu Kultuurikeskuses (22.-25. märtsini) näidatavad õudusfilmid "Frankensteini needus" (Terence Fischer; Suurbritannia, 1957) ja "Murtud" (Adam Mason, Simon Boyes; Suurbritannia, 2006)on 20.03. linal ka Tallinna Kinomajas. Neile eelneb Xavier Mendiki dokfilm "Menstrual Monsters" ning režissööri diskussioon produtdendi ja režissööri Howard Martiniga

  5. Monitoring and analysis of technology transfer and intellectual property regimes and their use results of a study carried out on behalf of the European Commission (DG Research)

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    Van Eecke, Patrick; Bolger, P; Truyens, M

    2008-01-01

    This report presents the results of a three-year study commissioned by the European Commission (DG Research) regarding the monitoring, analysis and use of technology transfer and intellectual property regimes in the European Union. This study was organised in the context of the 6th Framework Programme for R&D, and was jointly carried out by law firms Mason Hayes+Curran (Dublin) and DLA Piper (Brussels).

  6. Psychosocial Factors Versus Single Predictors: A Factor Analytic Approach to Cardiovascular Outcomes in The Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study

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    2010-02-18

    later than men (Bello & Mosca, 2004). Also, for women 6 taking oral contraceptives , smoking significantly increases their risk of developing CVD...to include both the physiological processes involved in stress and the stress response as well as the emotional and psychological aspects of stress...and stressors (Mason, 1975). The emotional and psychological aspects of stress are critical components in the link between psychosocial factors and

  7. Relationships of Hardiness to Physical and Mental Health Status in Military Men: A Test of Mediated Effects

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    2013-01-01

    individuals for endocrine, renal, cardiovascular, psychological, or musculoskeletal disorders . Thus, students deemed medically fit to undergo survival...physiological changes. Acute autonomic nervous system changes, for example, include innervation of the heart, blood vessels, and adrenal glands by...activation of the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic– pituitary –adrenal (HPA) axis 6 J Behav Med (2013) 36:1–9 123 (Mason, 1968). The stress

  8. The hunter of freemasons: José Anastácio Lopes Cardoso and his action against the luso-brasilic freemasonry (1799-1804

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    Pablo Antonio Iglesias Magalhães

    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available This paper explores how the conspiracy ideas of the Jesuit Augustin Barruel influenced crime inspector José Anastácio Lopes Cardoso’s report to his immediate superior Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, superintend of Lisbon Police. The evidence suggests that Barruel’s conspiracy theories influenced both Lopes’ thoughts and police operations against the masonic associations and freemasons in Portugal and Brazil.

  9. Role bazické oblasti nukleokapsidového proteinu Masonova-Pfizerova opičího viru během skládání nezralých retrovirových částic

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    Dostálková, A.; Hadravová, Romana; Rumlová, M.

    2016-01-01

    Roč. 14, č. 2 (2016), s. 58-59 ISSN 2336-7202. [Mezioborové setkání mladých biologů, biochemiků a chemiků /16./. 10.05.2016-13.05.2016, Milovy] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-15326S Institutional support: RVO:61388963 Keywords : M-PMV * Mason-Pfizer monkey virus * nucleocapsid protein Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology

  10. УЧАСТЬ ПРЕДСТАВНИКІВ РИМО-КАТОЛИЦЬКОГО КЛІРУ ПРАВОБЕРЕЖНОЇ УКРАЇНИ В РЕВОЛЮЦІЙНО-ДЕМОКРАТИЧНИХ ТА ЛІБЕРАЛЬНИХ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯХ у другій половині XIX — на початку XX ст.

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    Ю. В. Хитровська

    2015-04-01

    Full Text Available The purpose of this article is deep analysis the problem of the participation of the Rome-Catholic clergy on the Right-Bank Ukraine in the liberal and revolutionary-democratic movements in the second half of the 19th — in the beginning of the 20 th ct. For the investigating this problem author used scientific literature and archives documents. At the end of 18th — in the early 19th ct. the top of Roman-Catholic Church, despite the significant differences in the ideology of Catholicism and Freemasonry, went to the rapprochement with Poland Masons of political reasons — the struggle for independence of the Commonwealth. This was due to the inevitability of secularization of land ownership and the establishment of the «Latin» church of the same administrative control by the imperial government, under which long ago was the Russian Orthodox Church. In this historical period, the Polish elite largely relied on Masonic organization guided exclusively patriotic aspirations to revive the Great Poland. For the Polish secret societies support the Roman-Catholic Church was a significant factor on the eve of the uprising against Russia in 1830 –1831, they were preparing hard, since Catholicism had significant ideological influence on a significant part of the Right-Bank Ukraine. This goal subordinated forces formed at the beginning of 19th ct. in Right-Bank Ukraine in the Polish secret societies and Masonic lodges and local Roman-Catholic clergy. As the evidence archival documents, they continued their work in the middle of 19th — in the early 20th ct., especially before and during the uprising against autocracy in 1863–1864 years, achieving the overthrow of the Russian monarchy. However, part of the Roman-Catholic clergy in this process was somewhat more modest than in the beginning 19th ct., which was caused by the tsarist government holding tight against church policy of the Roman-Catholic Church, including the Right-bank Ukraine.

  11. Orígenes del Krausofröbelismo y Masonería

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    Enrique M. UREÑA

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN: En sendos artículos publicados en esta misma revista hice una primera introducción a los aspectos masónicos y a los educativos de la vida y obra de Krause. El segundo artículo concluía con una referencia al krausofröbelismo y con el anuncio de que pensaba tratar ampliamente este último tema dentro de un estudio monográfico sobre el krausismo alemán del siglo XIX. Este proyecto sigue en pie. Ahora voy a adelantar solamente algunos de los resultados de ese estudio, bajo la perspectiva marcada por el título del presente artículo.

  12. Bald Eagle Nesting Disturbance Information 1974 Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge

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    Department of the Interior — This report is a series of excerpts from various researchers discussing the impact that human disturbances have on the eagle’s ability to successfully nest, incubate...

  13. Jesuitas, masones y conspiradores: dramas bogotanos a mediados del siglo XIX

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    Mario García Molina

    1996-01-01

    Full Text Available Durante el agitado período del medio siglo decimonónico la actividad teatral bogotana fue mínima. El aporte nacional al teatro bogotano entre 1848 y 1853 se limita a tres obras escritas y a las actividades de un grupo de estudiantes y profesores. Las obras son: Miguel de Cervantes, de José Caicedo Rojas; El Misionero, de Eladio Vergara; y Jacobo Molai, de Santiago Pérez. Sólo se conservan los textos de las dos últimas ya que fueron impresas en libro.

  14. Structural study of the capsid protein of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

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    Benedíková, Jitka; Pichová, Iva; Ruml, T.; Rumlová, Michaela

    2000-01-01

    Roč. 94, č. 8 (2000), s. 522 ISSN 0009-2770. [Biochemický sjezd /17./. 07.09.2000-10.09.2000, Praha] R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/00/1005; GA ČR GA203/98/P151 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

  15. Behavioral and Organizational Considerations in the Design of Information Systems and Processes for Planning and Decision Support,

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    1981-06-01

    Bayesian Decision Theory , Rule Utilitarianism , and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem,,, Theory and Decision , vol. 11, 1979, pp. 289-317. 148. Haugeland, J... ethics , and personal values in making decisions ; and thinking oriented individuals,who rely on impersonal logical arguments in reaching decisions . Mason...this paper. 2.8. Among other efforts, Driver and Mock [83] developed de- cision style theory , a set of four decision styles based upon the

  16. Non-Lethal Weapons: Opportunities for R&D

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    2004-12-01

    during the Vietnam War. US; emulsifying agents are used in food processing, drilling fluids, cosmetics , pharmaceuticals, heavy- duty cleaners, textile...conducted in a professional manner, with no threat to public safety or the environment. 11 References [1] Fenton , G., (2001). NLW Technology Taxonomy...W.A., Mason, R.L., Collins, K.R., (2000). Non-Lethal Applicants of Slippery Substances. NDIA Non-Lethal Defense IV. [24] Fenton , G., (2000). Overview

  17. Determining Steady-state Tissue Residues for Invertebrates in Contaminated Sediment

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    2010-05-01

    meter (Thermo Orion Electron Corp., Beverly, MA) equipped with a 95-12 ammonia sensitive electrode (Thermo Orion Electron Corp., Beverly, MA...analyzed using an Agilent 5890 gas chromatograph with electron capture detection. Metals were analyzed following methods 6010B and 6020 using a Perkin...readily into cyto- plasm , making it a strong candidate for biomagnification up the food chain (Mason et al. 1996; Wiener et al. 2003). The BSAF

  18. Trust-Based Cooperative Games and Control Strategies for Autonomous Military Convoys

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    2013-01-01

    Principles of Microeconomics , 6th ed. Mason, OH: South- Western Cengage Learning, 2011. [87] N. Marchang and R. Datta, "Collaborative Techniques for...among diverse networks and seeks to discover common principles , algorithms and tools that govern network behavior. The U.S. Army has shown a...2006, pp. 481-488. [25] C. Castelfranchi and R. Falcone, " Principles of trust for MAS: cognitive anatomy, social importance, and quantification," in

  19. A New Vector for Air Force Development of Joint Leaders

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    2010-05-26

    All Saying the Same Thing?”. A survey of leadership literature also includes: Richard L. Daft , The Leadership Experience (South-Western, 2002...dividing and specializing labor, to perform a mission or achieve an objective.”13 In The Leadership Experience, Richard Daft defines culture as a...Air Force, policy is also a significant mechanism 14 Richard L. Daft , The Leadership Experience, 2nd ed. (Mason, Ohio: South-Western, 2002), 510. 15

  20. A Stakeholder Analysis of the Navy’s Thirty-Year Shipbuilding Plan

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    2007-12-01

    new.items/d05183.pdf Mankiw , N. Gregory (2004). Principles of economics (3rd ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western. McCaffery, J.L. and Jones, L.R...Shipbuilding Association, 2007). 11 III. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Stakeholder theory confronts the traditional economic model of the... Mankiw , 2004). By completing these steps, the manager attains answers to basic questions about the stakeholder (Freeman, 1984): Over the long run

  1. What is the Problem? Where is the Work? Getting to the Bottom of Social Action

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    2010-10-20

    social constructionism ) – and what they do (their actions’) reflects those meanings. ‘ Social problems’ have to do with ‘ social action’ and how...MSA MORS SSUCO 10-10 “What is the problem? Where is the work? Getting to the bottom of social action” Mark Addleson School of Public Policy, George...Mason University Military Operations Research Society Symposium Social Sciences Underpinnings of Complex Operations October 20, 2010 Report

  2. Imperial Senate: American Legislative Debates on Empire, 1898-1917

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    2013-09-01

    University Press of Kansas, 1980), 19; Edmund Morris , Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2001), 479–80. 118 31 Cong. Rec. 3976 (16 April 1898...mid-paragraph Senator Mason abruptly requested unanimous consent for a vote on McEnery’s resolution and amendments the following Tuesday afternoon...libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/annexation.html. Morris , Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2001. Musicant, Ivan. Empire by

  3. US Army Institute of Surgical Research Annual Research Progress Report for Fiscal Year 1987.

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    1987-10-01

    212 Takeshi Shimazu, MD; Hisashi Ikeuchi, MD; LTC Gene B. Hubbard, DIA, MS; Avery A. Johnson, BS; Arthur D. Mason, Jr., MD; and COL...levels. Analytical Biochemistry 107:451-455, 1980. 12. Kimura M, Fujita T, and Itokawa Y: Liquid-chromatographic determination of the total thiamine...78234-5012 1 October 1986 - 30 September 1987 INVESTIGATORS Takeshi Shimazu, MD Hisashi Ikeuchi, MD Gene B. Hubbard, DVM, MS, Lieutenant Col iel, VC

  4. Local Gate Control of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

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    2016-04-04

    describ- ing the levitation . Quantitative comparisons are made difficult by the complicated aniso- tropy of the nematic’s viscoelasticity (21). However...director fields. For example, as a straightforward extension of the levitation , a liquid crystal that twists through many periods (such as a cholesteric...Nanotube Double Quantum Dot N. Mason,*† M. J. Biercuk,* C. M. Marcus† We have measured carbon nanotube quantum dots with multiple electro- static gates and

  5. Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE. Operational Summary, Nevada Proving Grounds, 1 March - 9 June 1953

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    1982-08-01

    Office was superseded by a group of information representatives from the AEC, the FODA ., and the DOD under the direction of Mfr. Morse S&l31 bury, =E...tests designed for statistical analysis of effects. (5) Tactical coznznications systemax. (6) FOL installations. (7) Field madical installations...involved in the operation. The Silas Mason Company was the contractor responsible for drawing up the route line chart and installing the timing lines and

  6. Neural Signatures of Trust During Human-Automation Interactions

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    2016-04-01

    also automated devices such as a Global Positioning System. For instance, to provide advanced safety measures, the Transportation Safety...AFRL-AFOSR-VA-TR-2016-0160 Neural Signatures of Trust during Human- Automation Interactions Frank Krueger GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Final Report 04/01...SUBTITLE Neural Signatures of Trust during Human- Automation Interactions 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER FA9550-13-1-0017 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT

  7. Muusikauudiseid maailmast / Ia Remmel

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    2016-01-01

    Lühisõnumeid maailmast: New Yorgi Metropolitan Opera muusikajuhiks saab Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Santtu-Matias Rouvali Göteborgi sümfooniaorkestri peadirigendiks. Tšehhi pianist Lukáš Vondráček võitis kuninganna Elisabethi konkursi. Curtise muusikainstitutsioon sai kingituseks 55 miljonit dollarit. Uus klaverimudel opus 102. Sheku Kanneh-Mason pälvis BBC noore muusiku tiitli. Suri briti näitekirjanik Sir Peter Shaffer. Jne.

  8. International Naval Technology Transfer: Lessons Learned from the Spanish and Chilean Shipbuilding Experience

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    2012-04-30

    University in Washington, DC, and at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is the author and editor of several award-winning books , notably Ships and...expertise, material, and labor. British shipbuilders, with full order- books , did not view this as harmful competition, but rather saw increased...Chilean navy has been almost entirely composed of foreign-built and secondhand vessels. Indeed, during Chile’s war for independence from Spain in

  9. Spatial Hearing, Attention and Informational Masking

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    2015-10-26

    34 Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Kidd, G. Jr. and Mason, C.R. (2015) "Double entendre: embedding a... cognitive intrusions by competing sounds was explored on a linguistic level by varying syntactic structure and by using more formal means for varying...the work that was completed from 2012-2015 achieved its intended broad goal: our understanding of the auditory and cognitive processes underlying

  10. Waste Handling and Emplacement Options for Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Deep Boreholes.

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    Cochran, John R.; Hardin, Ernest

    2015-11-01

    Traditional methods cannot be used to handle and emplace radioactive wastes in boreholes up to 16,400 feet (5 km) deep for disposal. This paper describes three systems that can be used for handling and emplacing waste packages in deep borehole: (1) a 2011 reference design that is based on a previous study by Woodward–Clyde in 1983 in which waste packages are assembled into “strings” and lowered using drill pipe; (2) an updated version of the 2011 reference design; and (3) a new concept in which individual waste packages would be lowered to depth using a wireline. Emplacement on coiled tubing was also considered, but not developed in detail. The systems described here are currently designed for U.S. Department of Energy-owned high-level waste (HLW) including the Cesium- 137/Strontium-90 capsules from the Hanford Facility and bulk granular HLW from fuel processing in Idaho.

  11. Contribution to the study of the molecular interactions of gaseous hydrofluoric acid

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    Ostorero, Jean

    1972-01-01

    The experimental study is based on measurements of gaseous viscosity coefficients and on the pure rotational spectrum of HF perturbed by F 2 at pressures up to 200 Bar. The study of viscosity is made with two apparatuses: a capillary viscometer (data on monomeric HF) and a rotating cylinder viscometer (data on mono and polymeric HF, and seven binary gaseous mixtures HF-X (X = He, Ar, N 2 , F 2 , CO 2 , ClF 3 , HCl). The experimental results are used as a criterion of validity for the different interaction models for polar gases found in the literature. The two remaining models are: 1) DANON and AMDUR; 2) MONCHICK and MASON. The viscosity data of mixtures give the values of the intermolecular parameters (ε 0 , σ 0 ) of the potential isotropic part. A semi quantum calculus improves slightly the correlation in the case of the model proposed by MONCHICK and MASON. The interpretation of the pressure viscosity data of HF gives the parameters values (e, o) for the dimer and the cyclic hexamer in the vapor phase. The vanishing of the R 0 rotation line of the HF spectrum perturbed by F 2 is qualitatively interpreted as the influence of the anisotropic part of the intermolecular potential. (author) [fr

  12. William Wales and the 1769 transit of Venus: puzzle solving and the determination of the astronomical unit

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    Metz, Don

    2009-05-01

    According to Thomas Kuhn, a significant part of “normal science” is the fact gathering, empirical work which is intended to illustrate an existing paradigm. Some of this effort focuses on the determination of physical constants such as the astronomical unit (AU). For Kuhn, normal science is also what prepares students for membership in a particular scientific community and is embodied in some form in our science textbooks. However, neither Kuhn nor the textbook says much about the individuals who practice normal science, especially those who had been relegated to the “hack” duties of long and arduous measurement and calculation. In this paper, to provide a context for students of astronomy, I will outline the story of the determination of the AU and in particular the contribution of William Wales, an obscure British astronomer. Wales, toiling in the shadow of Halley (of Halley’s comet fame), Mason and Dixon (of Mason and Dixon line fame) and the infamous Captain Cook endured a brutal winter in northern Canada for a brief glimpse of the 1769 transit of Venus. In the end, Wales supplied one small piece of the puzzle in the determination of the AU and he exemplified the human spirit and persistence of a Kuhnian “puzzle solver”.

  13. Cell biological and biomechanical evaluation of two different fixation techniques for rotator cuff repair.

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    Klinger, H-M; Koelling, S; Baums, M H; Kahl, E; Steckel, H; Smith, M M; Schultz, W; Miosge, N

    2009-06-01

    Our objective was to evaluate the cell biology and biomechanical aspects of the healing process after two different techniques in open rotator cuff surgery - double-loaded bio-absorbable suture anchors combined with so-called arthroscopic Mason-Allen stitches (AAMA) and a trans-osseous suture technique combined with traditional modified Mason-Allen stitches (SMMA). Thirty-six mature sheep were randomized into two repair groups. After 6, 12, or 26 weeks, evaluation of the reinsertion site of the infraspinatus tendon was performed. The mechanical load-to-failure and stiffness results did not indicate a significant difference between the two groups. After 26 weeks, fibrocartilage was sparse in the AAMA group, whereas the SMMA group showed the most pronounced amount of fibrocartilage. We found no ultrastructural differences in collagen fiber organization between the two groups. The relative expression of collagen type II mRNA in the normal group was 1.11. For the AAMA group, 6 weeks after surgery, the relative expression was 55.47, whereas for the SMMA group it was 1.90. This in vivo study showed that the AAMA group exhibited a tendon-to-bone healing process more favorable in its cell biology than that of the traditional SMMA technique. Therefore, the AAMA technique might also be more appropriate for arthroscopic repair.

  14. Design of an S band narrow-band bandpass BAW filter

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    Gao, Yang; Zhao, Kun-li; Han, Chao

    2017-11-01

    An S band narrowband bandpass filter BAW with center frequency 2.460 GHz, bandwidth 41MHz, band insertion loss - 1.154 dB, the passband ripple 0.9 dB, the out of band rejection about -42.5dB@2.385 GHz; -45.5dB@2.506 GHz was designed for potential UAV measurement and control applications. According to the design specifications, the design is as follows: each FBAR's stack was designed in BAW filter by using Mason model. Each FBAR's shape was designed with the method of apodization electrode. The layout of BAW filter was designed. The acoustic-electromagnetic cosimulation model was built to validate the performance of the designed BAW filter. The presented design procedure is a common one, and there are two characteristics: 1) an A and EM co-simulation method is used for the final BAW filter performance validation in the design stage, thus ensures over-optimistic designs by the bare 1D Mason model are found and rejected in time; 2) An in-house developed auto-layout method is used to get compact BAW filter layout, which simplifies iterative error-and-try work here and output necessary in-plane geometry information to the A and EM cosimulation model.

  15. Common intersection points in dense fluids via equations of state

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    Parsafar, G. A.; Noorian, R.

    2001-01-01

    Some new of state which are derived for dense fluids in recent years, namely the linear isotherm regularity, the dense system equation of state, Ihm-Song-Mason equation of state, and a newly derived semi-empirical equation of state have used to investigate the common intersection point of isobaric expansivity (α p ) in dense fluids. We have shown that the accuracy of these equations of state in predicting such a common intersection point is reduced from the new semi-imperial equation of state, dense system equation of state, linear isotherm regularity, to Ihm-Song-Mason equation of state. respectively. Form physical point of view, the van der Waals equation of state is used to investigate such an intersection point. It is shown that the van der Waals repulsion forces and temperature dependency of the effective molecular diameter are important for existence of this common point. Finally, we have shown that the common intersection points of the isotherms of thermal pressure coefficient, the isotherms of heat capacity at constant volume, and the iso chores of internal pressure for a fluid are related to each other. Also, the common intersection points of the reduced bulk modulus and 1/(Tα p ) for isotherms of a fluid both appear at the same density

  16. Professional Development of Officers Study. Volume 3 - Systems Wide Issues

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    1985-02-21

    Organizations. ferentiation Matching". Behavioral Science, Understanding Their Behavior, New York: Mc- 1971, 16: 130-42. Graw -Hill Book Company, 1978...Training Report. Contract MA: Wright Allen Press. 1971. MDA903-83-C: August 20. 1984. Holt. Robert W.. PhD. George Mason Universi- Andriole, Stephen J., PhD...Fisch. Jr.. PhD. Fort Belvoir. VA: Clement, Stephen B. and Ayers. Donna B.A Ila- October 4. 1984. trix qf Organizattonal Leadership Dimensions

  17. Dynamic Operator Overload Estimation during Supervisory Control of Multiple UAVs

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    2014-01-01

    Olsen, and C. W. Nielsen, "Validating human-robot interaction schemes in multitasking environments," IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 35...Breslow is a cognitive scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5515, Washington DC 20375; phone: 301-602-3585; email : len.breslow...nrl.navy.mil Daniel Gartenberg is a Ph.D. student at George Mason University, Fairfax VA; email : dgartenb@masonlive.gmu.edu J. Malcolm McCurry is a research

  18. Assessment of the Air Force Materiel Command Reorganization: Report for Congress

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    8 Mintzberg, 1979. 9 Richard L. Daft , Organization Theory and Design, 9th ed., Mason, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2007. 27 areas.10 An...MIT Press, 1962. 11 Daft , 2007; Duncan, 1979. 12 Williamson, 1983; Chandler, 1962. 13 Daft , 2007; Duncan, 1979. 14 D. S. Pugh, D. J. Hickson, C...1965. 19 Bohte and Meier, 2001. 20 See, for example, Bell, 1967. 21 Daft , 2007. 22 Galbraith, 1977. 23 Daft , 2007. 24 Galbraith, 1977. 25

  19. The Sequential Self-Selection Auction Mechanism for Selective Reenlistment Bonuses: Potential Cost Savings to the U.S. Marine Corps

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    2007-06-01

    information than another party, such as in the market for used cars. Mankiw , in his book, “The Principles of Economics ,” defines adverse selection as...Options,” Power Point presentation e-mailed to the author, 18 May 2007, 1-9. 37 Ibid., 2. 38 Gregory N. Mankiw , Principles of Economics , Third...the Internet.” The American Economic Review. December 1999. 89 No. 5. 1066- 1078. Mankiw , Gregory N. Principles of Economics , Third Edition (Mason

  20. Contribution of Bacterial and Viral infections to Attributable Mortality in Patients with Severe Burns: An Autopsy Series

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    2010-01-01

    and related mortality following severe burns. Burns 2008;3(4):1108 12. [5] Nash G , Foley FD. Herpetic infection of the middle and lower respiratory...Albrecht M, Griffith M, Murray C, Chung K, Horvath E, Ward J, et al. Impact of Acinetobacter infection on the mortality of burn patients. J Am Coll... Mason AD. Survival benefit conferred by topical antimicrobial preparations in burn patients: a historical perspective. J Trauma 2004;56:863 6. [27