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17 from Perseus Tools and Information

1. Attica: Iowa, United States [Atlas site] (6.71)

2. Attica: Georgia, United States [Atlas site] (6.71)

3. Attica Hill: Arkansas, United States [Atlas site] (6.00)

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1207 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Cecropia [Reference article in Perseus Encyclopedia] (19.55)

2. Actaea [Reference article in Perseus Encyclopedia] (15.64)

3. Actaea (3) [Reference article in Perseus Encyclopedia] (14.38)

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1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. By John Dryden, Servant to His Majesty.; ALL for LOVE: or, The World well Lost. A TRAGEDY, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal; And Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile. [Section in Appendices] (5.31)

2 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. ATTICA. [Section in Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state] (4.06)

2. ATTICA. [Section in Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state] (3.24)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. FIRST PUBLIC RECEPTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE--MILITARY GUARDS--THE NEW INSTITUTION, THE PRESS CENSORSHIP--HUMORS OF THE CENSOR--HOW THE "GREAT" MEN ACTED--DEATH OF DOUGLAS--MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN AND THE NEWSPAPER MEN, ETC. [Section in Lawrence Augustus Gobright, Recollection of men and things at Washington, during the third of a century] (5.02)

2. CHAP. IV. Of a Parliament held at Wessaguscus, and the Actes. [Section in Peter Force, Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 2] (1.55)

2 from Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri

1. T.Alb., Tablettes Albertini, Actes prives de l'epoque Vandale: (in Latin) [Text] (1.39)

2. P.Congr.XV, Actes du XVe Congres International de Papyrologie: (in Greek) [Text] (1.28)

6 from AIM25 - Archives in London

1. Unknown; Danish royal finance deed: Deed relating to Danish royal finances, 15 Feb 1822, entitled 'Acte hypothecaire sur plusieurs revenus des finances royales', by which revenues were assigned to secure a loan of 3 million pounds at 5% raised on the London market by C.J. Hambro and Sons of Copenhagen through A.T. Haldimand and Sons on terms settled on 16 Oct 1821 and ratified by Frederick VI on 10 Nov 1821. The loan was to be secured on tolls from the Sound, and on mortgages and revenues from plantations on West Indian islands. Includes the signature of Frederick VI. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.60)

2. Unknown; Excise Officer's notebook: Manuscript notebook kept by an excise officer in service between 1827 and 1854, during which time he acted in Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, the Isle of Wight, Bristol, Southampton, Liverpool, Scotland and Ireland. The notes are of an extremely miscellaneous nature, mostly not of a professional kind; they include cask sizes, import of tobacco and snuff, recipes, historical notes and tables, addresses, and extracts from the churchwardens' accounts of Banwell, Somerset. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.54)

3. Generaloberst Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff, Supreme Command of the German Army, 1938-1942; Microform: The Private War Journal of Generaloberst Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army (OKH), 1939-1942: The Private War Journal of Generaloberst Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army, 1939- 1942 is a microfilmed copy of the desk journal of Generaloberst Franz Halder. In 1938, Generaloberst [Col Gen] Franz Halder took office as Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH), openly declaring himself opposed to the Nazi leadership of the German Armed Forces. By 1939, however, Hitler had begun to direct much of the operational decision making of the OKH. Although Halder would continue to voice opposition to the more impractical military directives, he nonetheless complied with the strategic demands proposed by Hitler and the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces. From 1938-1942, Halder's duties were confined to operational decision making and desk planning, analysing reports sent to him by his subordinates and conferring with officers of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH), the Supreme Command of the German Army, over administrative, operational, and logistical matters. Halder's short-hand notes and daily entries in his Kriegstagebucher summarised each day's work and acted as an aide memoire to events, 1938-1942. The journal reflects the detail, routine, and bureaucracy encountered by Halder and his staff, as well as the decision making process between Halder, the General Staff, and Adolf Hitler. Kept by Halder personally, the journal should not be confused with the official War Diaries kept by the Supreme Command of the German Army. Intended to serve as a notebook, the diary does not furnish a complete record of all activities, 1939-1942; rather it reflects the German High Command decision making structure as well as the character of many German senior officers, including FM (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von Runstedt, FM Erich von Manstein, and Col Gen Heinz Guderian. After the war, the journal was introduced by the Prosecution as a documentary exhibit in the record of the case entitled the United States of America vs Wilhelm von Leeb et al, brought before Military Tribunal V (FM Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Commander Army Group North, was tried for minor war crimes in 1948). The journal was subsequently translated and reduced to typewritten form from the original notes under the guidance of Phillip Willner, Chief of the Reporting Branch (German) of the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Office of the Military Government for Germany. It was then reviewed with Halder for continuity and published soon thereafter. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.49)

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1 from ANU

1. Chen, Paul, Suryahadi, Asep, Tyers, Rod; Openness, Technological Change and Labour Demand in Pre-Crisis Indonesia: This paper examines the impact of export orientation, import competition, foreign ownership, and the rate of capital accumulation on the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor in pre-crisis Indonesia. Estimates from an interrelated factor demand analysis indicate that openness and foreign ownership, by themselves, acted to raise the relative demand for unskilled workers in the pre-crisis period, while the newness of capital was associated with increased relative demand for skilled workers. Overall, the relative demand for unskilled workers increased yet their relative wage position weakened. These contrasting relative employment and wage changes are consistent with the examined demand shocks and the greater elasticity of supply of Indonesian unskilled relative to skilled labor. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.35)

1 from Alaska Native Language Center

1. Redard, Georges; Les Enquetes d'E. Benveniste sur les langues Indiennes de l'Amerique du Nord: A French paper about Benveniste's work with North American Indian languages. From the conference: E. Benveniste aujourd' hui: actes du colloque international du C. N. R. S., Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, France. Pp. 263-278 Comments: Also includes book notice of 'E. Benveniste aujourd'hui': 1-2, Serbat et al. (eds). Notice is written by P. Swiggers and is from Language 62:2 (June 1986). Keywords: linguistics, general [Text] (0.91)

1154 from Beazley Archive

1. Brauron, Archaeological Museum, 43: CUP FRAGMENT; ARTEMIS [Beazley Archive Vase] (5.52)

2. Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum, 1002A: LOUTROPHOROS FRAGMENTS; FUNERARY, HORSEMEN AT TOMB, FUNERARY, PROTHESIS, WOMEN AND OLD MAN MOURNING, FUNERARY, PROTHESIS, WOMEN MOURNING, HORSEMEN (?) COLUMN, KLINE (FUNERARY, PROTHESIS ?) [Beazley Archive Vase] (5.52)

3. Athens, Market: LEKYTHOS; DIOSPHOS PAINTER; CHARIOT [Beazley Archive Vase] (5.07)

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2 from BioMed Central

1. Lans, Cheryl, Harper, Tisha, Georges, Karla, Bridgewater, Elmo; Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad: (in English) AbstractBackgroundEthnomedicines are used by hunters for themselves and their hunting dogs in Trinidad. Plants are used for snakebites, scorpion stings, for injuries and mange of dogs and to facilitate hunting success.ResultsPlants used include Piper hispidum, Pithecelobium unguis-cati, Bauhinia excisa, Bauhinia cumanensis, Cecropia peltata, Aframomum melegueta, Aristolochia rugosa, Aristolochia trilobata, Jatropha curcas, Jatropha gossypifolia, Nicotiana tabacum, Vernonia scorpioides, Petiveria alliacea, Renealmia alpinia, Justicia secunda, Phyllanthus urinaria,Phyllanthus niruri,Momordica charantia, Xiphidium caeruleum, Ottonia ovata, Lepianthes peltata, Capsicum frutescens, Costus scaber, Dendropanax arboreus, Siparuma guianensis, Syngonium podophyllum, Monstera dubia, Solanum species, Eclipta prostrata, Spiranthes acaulis, Croton gossypifolius, Barleria lupulina, Cola nitida, Acrocomia ierensis (tentative ID).ConclusionPlant use is based on odour, and plant morphological characteristics and is embedded in a complex cultural context based on indigenous Amerindian beliefs. It is suggested that the medicinal plants exerted a physiological action on the hunter or his dog. Some of the plants mentioned contain chemicals that may explain the ethnomedicinal and ethnoveterinary use. For instance some of the plants influence the immune system or are effective against internal and external parasites. Plant baths may contribute to the health and well being of the hunting dogs. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.96)

2. ... ; A missense mutation (Q279R) in the Fumarylacetoacetate Hydrolase gene, responsible for hereditary tyrosinemia, acts as a splicing mutation: (in English) AbstractBackgroundTyrosinemia type I, the most severe disease of the tyrosine catabolic pathway is caused by a deficiency in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). A patient showing few of the symptoms associated with the disease, was found to be a compound heterozygote for a splice mutation, IVS6-1g->t, and a putative missense mutation, Q279R. Analysis of FAH expression in liver sections obtained after resection for hepatocellular carcinoma revealed a mosaic pattern of expression. No FAH was found in tumor regions while a healthy region contained enzyme-expressing nodules.ResultsAnalysis of DNA from a FAH expressing region showed that the expression of the protein was due to correction of the Q279R mutation. RT-PCR was used to assess if Q279R RNA was produced in the liver cells and in fibroblasts from the patient. Normal mRNA was found in the liver region where the mutation had reverted while splicing intermediates were found in non-expressing regions suggesting that the Q279R mutation acted as a splicing mutation in vivo. Sequence of transcripts showed skipping of exon 8 alone or together with exon 9. Using minigenes in transfection assays, the Q279R mutation was shown to induce skipping of exon 9 when placed in a constitutive splicing environment.ConclusionThese data suggest that the putative missense mutation Q279R in the FAH gene acts as a splicing mutation in vivo. Moreover FAH expression can be partially restored in certain liver cells as a result of a reversion of the Q279R mutation and expansion of the corrected cells. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.83)

11 from CIMI Metadata Harvesting Working Group Demonstration Repository

1. Thumbul: Tom LEWIS (Actor); Programme, purple night sky with the city on one side and desert landscape on the the right. Programme for the productionh "Thumbal", written by Tom E Lewis and Mac Gudgeon and acted by Tom E Lewis. gasworks Theatre, November 1996 [Text] (1.88)

2. Acqua Azzurra, a nasty story: Pierre THIBAUDEAU (Director), Kate DENNIS (Actor); Invitation to Carrillo Gantner and guest to Entr'acte Theatre's performance of "Acqua Azzurra" a play inspired by the tale of Bluebeard. Directed by Pierre Thibaudeau and performed by Kate Dennis, Katia Molino and Catherine Hourihan. July 1991. [Text] (1.85)

3. Thumbul: Tom LEWIS (Actor); Programme, purple night sky with the city on one side and desert landscape on the the right. Programme for the productionh "Thumbal", written by Tom E Lewis and Mac Gudgeon and acted by Tom E Lewis. gasworks Theatre, November 1996 [Text] (1.24)

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1 from California Digital Library Repository 1

1. Sanchirico, Chris W.; Character Evidence and the Object of Trial: Evidence of an individual's character may not in general be offered to prove that she acted in conformity with that character on a particular occasion. Most analyses of this general rule--and its many exceptions--start from the premise that trial is at heart an exercise in finding facts. Yet a clear and robust rationale for the rules governing character evidence has yet to be found on this basis. This article views trial and character evidence in a different light. Trial is regarded as but one part of the overall mechanism by which the state regulates behavior in the larger world outside the courtroom. The article focuses specifically on trial's role in the provision of incentives that induce individuals to account for the welfare of others in their daily activities. It is shown that the rules governing character evidence are much easier to explain--and so more fruitfully evaluated--when trial is explicitly placed in this broader context. From this finding the article draws the larger lesson that the real object of trial lies more in shaping events than sorting them out after the fact. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.81)

1 from Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports

1. Moeller, Thomas Lee; The dynamics of a spinning elastic disk with massive load: This thesis analyzes the dynamics of a spinning elastic disk. The disk rotates at a constant angular velocity and is acted upon by a load consisting of a mass distributed over a finite area of the disk, a spring, and a dashpot. Using a finite mode approximation, the equation of motion of the transverse deflection of the disk is written as a system of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. Analysis of the eigenvalues of the finite mode approximation yields four distinct types of instability. An instability occurs due to the stiffness of the load, terminal instabilities occur due to both the mass of the load and the damping of the load, and an instability occurs as a result of modal coupling. The multiple mode approximation used in the spinning disk analysis is applied to a stationary disk with a moving load. Comparison of the spinning and stationary disk shows the influence of the centrifugal stress of the rotating disk. The direct stability methods of Liapunov are applied to the equation of motion for both the spinning and stationary disk and are used to prove the stability of the systems at speeds below certain critical speeds. Upper bounds for the difference between eigenvalues of the finite mode approximation and eigenvalues of a full infinite mode system are derived. These bounds are calculated for the eigenvalues of a modal coupling instability arising from the finite mode analysis to show that the solution of the full set of equations is also unstable. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.27)

4 from CogPrints

1. Ehresmann, Andree C., Vanbremeersch, Jean-Paul; How to model consciousness in Memory Evolutive Systems?: Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) represent a mathematical model, based on Category Theory, to study natural open autonomous systems such as biological, neural or social systems. It has been progressively developed by the authors in a series of papers since 1986. In this model the dynamics is modulated by the competitive interactions between a net of internal more or less complex organs of regulation, called CoRegulators (CR), with a differential access to a central hierarchical Memory. This article attempts to model the notions of Semantics and Consciousness in such a MES A Semantics will emerge through the detection of specific invariances by the CRs that leads to classify objects according to their main attributes, and record the invariance classes. The model explains how it relies on a hierarchical 2 steps process: first a pragmatically 'acted' classification at the level of specific attributes (such as colors), then this classification is 'reflected' and analyzed at a higher level, and a new formal unit, called a 'concept', is formed to represent the invariance class (e.g., the color 'blue'). The introduction of more and more abstract concepts gives more flexibility to the comportment. It is essential for the development of some kind of 'consciousness'. A 'conscious' CR is characterized by the capacity to respond to a new event or to a fracture by an increase in awareness, which permits: (i) to extend its actual 'landscape' (formed by the information it can gather) retrospectively to past lower levels; (ii) to operate an abduction process in this extended landscape to find possible causes of the fracture; (iii) and finally to planify a strategy for several steps ahead, through the formation of internal 'virtual' landscapes in which strategies can be tried without energy costs. Thus consciousness would amount to an internalization of Semantics and Time, giving a selective advantage. In the second Part of the paper, a MES modeling a neural system is explicitly described and it is shown how the various processes described above are in agreement with present neurophysiological knowledge. Finally the general ideas are illustrated on a concrete example. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.54)

2. Dennett, Daniel C; Review of Papert, The Children's Machine: In 1956, the mathematician John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" for a new discipline that was emerging from some of the more imaginative and playful explorations of the new mind-tool, the computer. A few years later he developed a radically new sort of programming language, Lisp, which became the lingua franca of AI. Unlike the sturdier, stodgier computer languages created by and for business and industry, Lisp was remarkably open-ended and freewheeling. Instead of concentrating on numbers, it was designed to take any symbols or symbol strings (lists) as its objects, and since its own machinery consisted of just such lists (and lists of lists . . . ), Lisp creations easily inhabited the very world they acted upon, and hence could reflect upon themselves and their own reflections indefinitely, revising and reinventing themselves, breaking down the artificial barrier between program and data. Seymour Papert was one of the most playful of the AI pioneers, and more than any of the others, his own reflections turned to the nature of that very playfulness and its role in learning and discovery. In 1980, he published Mindstorms, in which he presented his utopian vision of computers in the classroom, centering on Logo, a dialect of Lisp that he and others had developed specifically for very young children. The key design element was Turtle graphics, an inspired interface which made the children's interactions with Logo not just visible, but instantly comprehensible--feelable, you might say. The tales he told of those early encounters were compelling. They became an important ingredient in the barrage of persuasions that led teachers and schools all over America, and indeed all over the world, to invest huge sums in "computerizing the classroom." Thousands of teachers tried their hand at Logo in the classroom, with mixed results. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.43)

3. Dennett, Daniel C; Review of Damasio, Descartes' Error: The legacy of Rene Descartes' notorious dualism of mind and body extends far beyond academia into everyday thinking: "These athletes are prepared both mentally and physically," and "There's nothing wrong with your body--it's all in your mind." Even among those of us who have battled Descartes' vision, there has been a powerful tendency to treat the mind (that is to say, the brain) as the body's boss, the pilot of the ship. Falling in with this standard way of thinking, we ignore an important alternative: viewing the brain (and hence the mind) as one organ among many, a relatively recent usurper of control, whose functions cannot properly be understood until we see it not as the boss, but as just one more somewhat fractious servant, working to further the interests of the body that shelters and fuels it, and gives its activities meaning. This historical or evolutionary perspective reminds me of the change that has come over Oxford in the thirty years since I was a student there. It used to be that the dons were in charge, while the bursars and other bureaucrats, right up to the Vice Chancellor, acted under their guidance and at their behest. Nowadays the dons, like their counterparts on American university faculties, are more clearly in the role of employees hired by a central Administration, but from where, finally, does the University get its meaning? In evolutionary history, a similar change has crept over the administration of our bodies. Where resides the "I" who is in charge of my body? In his wonderfully written book, Antonio Damasio seeks to restore our appreciation for the perspective of the body, and the shared balance of powers from which we emerge as conscious persons. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.34)

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4 from Digital Library of the Commons

1. Adger, W. Neil; Observing Institutional Adaptation to Global Environmental Change in Coastal Vietnam: (in English) Author's Introduction: This paper examines institutional adaptation surrounding collective security from present climate extremes. A case study is presented in Nam Dinh Province, northern Vietnam, highlighting common themes from the restructuring of ownership and control of coastal resources throughout Vietnam's coastal Provinces and Delta regions. The study demonstrates that reduction of locally organised collective action for coastal defence and water management has been undermined by decollectivisation and the reduction of importance of agricultural co- operatives. Offsetting these trends, informal collective action, as manifestations of civil society, have contributed to reducing the overall increase in vulnerability to external environmental change. Following a discussion of the role of institutional structure in determining social vulnerability to environmental change, this paper sets out empirical observations of institutional adaptation in Nam Dinh Province. Features of the recent historical evolution of collective action on hazards in Nam Dinh include the hierarchical operation of local and regional central planning under collectivised agriculture in the communist era; the inertia of this system in the light of both liberalisation and of changing environmental pressures; and concurrent institutional adaptation to cultural and political-economic factors within the District. The local level formal government institutions have, over the past three decades, acted as the facilitator for collective action to ameliorate the impacts of climate extremes and hazards. In the most recent five years under Doi Moi reforms, significant retrenchments of the government institutions have occurred, which essentially have decreased the importance of collective action and hence are shown to have enhanced vulnerability. The major reason for this is the concentration of resources and power in the coastal Communes. Following the viewpoint that perceptions of vulnerability are primary determinants of political action, the perceptions of vulnerability are elucidated for individuals experiencing this risk. The role of institutions and culture in framing perceptions of vulnerability is therefore also addressed. Households perceive increasing risk because of the trend towards atomised decision-making felt by some disempowered households. In particular the legal framework which has changed the rights to property; the rapid economic growth in the Red River Delta; and the associated migration and remittances have all influenced the type of institutional changes which have occurred. Data on the storm protection system in Xuan Thuy are presented, leading to an assessment of how Commune and higher level institutions seek to legitimise and retain their power over resource allocation, while concurrently implementing adaptation to the evolving social and physical environment. A number of 'core' Communes act within the District to retain political influence and determine actual resource allocation away from 'peripheral' inland Communes through the medium of coastal protection expenditure. As demonstrated by the empirical evidence from Xuan Thuy District, the short term goals of maintaining political power, as well as non-decision-making by bureaucracies, are important institutional causes of collective vulnerability." [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.87)

2. Buck, Susan J.; Contextual Factors in the Development of Wildlife Management Regimes in the United States: (in English) Author's Introduction: In the United States, wildlife is a common pool resource (CPR) held in trust by the federal government and state governments for American citizens. Initially states had exclusive jurisdiction over wildlife within state borders, but wildlife management in the United States is now a unique blend of federal and state policies. The federal government has pre-empted state jurisdiction over some species that are threatened or endangered or that are subject to treaty obligations, and wildlife on federal land is generally subject to federal jurisdiction rather than to the jurisdiction of the states within which the land is located. Even though the level of government that holds property rights in wildlife may vary by species and location, most property rights in wildlife are vested in governments rather than landowners. The problems of pre-empted, overlapping, and concurrent jurisdiction over American wildlife become even more complex when we consider multiple uses and users. For example, wildlife resources are managed for a variety of purposes, including hunting, angling, and recreation. These activities are not mutually exclusive. Specific activities within broad categories may also affect each other (e.g., hunting seasons on one species during the breeding season of another game species) and with other uses of the same resource domain (e.g., the well-known conflict between spotted owl protection and logging in old-growth forests). Wildlife management in the United States is an extremely complicated issue. It is in constant flux as legislation and court interpretations change the property regime under which wildlife is managed. Explicit examination of contextual factors ... that influence regime changes is a promising analytic technique for clarifying regime structures.... "This paper applies the framework developed by Edwards and Steins to the common pool resource regime of American wildlife management. The focus is on state wildlife management agencies and contextual factors that have influenced their institutional design and sustainability. I have chosen to focus on state management agencies for two reasons. First, state agencies are the primary institutions with responsibility for implementation of wildlife management policies. Second, they are nested (albeit not in a tidy Weberian hierarchy) within the national wildlife management regime and are therefore more acted upon than are federal agencies. The paper is divided into four parts: Contextual factors: Based on the contextual factors outlined in the panel discussion paper, factors which are particularly relevant to the development of American state wildlife agencies are identified. Case study: State wildlife management: The evolution of state wildlife agencies from 1890 to the present is described briefly. Analysis: This section discusses the insights gained from using contextual factors to organize longitudinal analysis of a multiple-use CPR regime. The utility of contextual factors to explain the changes that have taken place in the past thirty years, as concern for conservation and biodiversity have become central to American natural resource policy, is emphasized. Further research: Guidelines for using contextual factors are proposed. Further avenues for research, particularly in multiple-use common property situations, are suggested." [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.44)

3. Anstey, Simon; History Matters: Institutional Change and CBNRM in Sanga District, Northern Mozambique: (in English) "This paper looks at the evolution of a community based natural resource management programme (CBNRM) in a remote area of northern Mozambique and it does so through the lens of history. It argues that history matters in the sense that both the present and future developments in the management of common property, the capacity for and direction of institutional change and the political arena surrounding devolution are all shaped by the past . It is an analysis that seeks to be grounded in some understanding of historical continuities, the "deep history" and so avoid the "enduring fate of Africa to be explained in terms which are so ahistorical as to be risible" (Chabal and Daloz 1999). "The original stimulus for this paper was ideas drawn from Douglass North (North 1990) concerning the differences in institutions and economic performance between North America (drawing on a northern European heritage of institutions in which complex impersonal exchanges are possible promoting political and economic stability) and that of South and Central America (drawing on a Spanish and Portuguese centralist bureaucratic heritage in which personalistic relationships are key to much of the political and economic exchange). This seemed to fit some of the heritage of Mozambique (having been colonised by Portugal for some 500 years) and explain the clear differences being experienced in the implementation of CBNRM in Mozambique compared to the rest of the region (where similar policy and legislation frameworks are being established but outcomes and mechanism in the field are very different). In other words, in much of Anglophone southern Africa changes to policy and legislation seemed to have acted as catalyst promoting real change at local levels while in Mozambique it seemed "there is the basic form of policy and legislation but not yet the clear mechanisms for function (a necessarily vague situation)" (Anstey 2000). "However, with time it seems clearer that the Portuguese heritage was not the major factor but one that dovetailed into an older existing heritage. That is of a local heritage of personalistic and patrimonial relationships from pre-colonial times, which still persists as part of the deep history of the country and remains a potent factor in current politics and institutional change. If, as Chabal and Daloz (1999) suggest, that despite many differences 'what all African states share is a generalised system of patrimonialism and an acute degree of apparent disorder, as evidenced by a high level of governmental and administrative inefficiency, a lack of institutionalisation, a general disregard for rules of the formal political and economic sectors, and a universal resort to personal(ized) and vertical solutions to societal problems' then the current evolutions of CBNRM in Mozambique have resonance for other countries in the region. Those neighbours who seem, from a Mozambican perspective, to have moved smoothly from the master-stokes of a new legislative environment to field implementation of CBNRM are themselves suddenly experiencing major political change, raising questions as to the depth of their ordered, regulated politiy - on which their CBNRM programmes are dependant. "This paper draws on these above ideas but rests on actual events and experiences of two years of the field implementation of a CBNRM programme called Programa Chipanje Chetu (or PCC) located in Sanga District, Niassa Province in north Mozambique bordering Tanzania. This programme (see Section 3) seeks to create the conditions for institutional change for the management of natural resources by local people through full devolution of common property rights. For this institutional change to happen there has to be net benefits from these new institutions (or new set of rules) which are greater than those of the old institutions (old rule or no rules) which they aim to replace (Ostrom 1998; Bond 1999). This process of institutional change also involves costs as well as benefits and is only likely to occur where the benefits are greater than the costs. These costs and benefits are experienced very differently by a range of entities from local individuals, the local organisations (including NGOs), government officials, political or economic elites and the state. In other words, there are winners and losers in these changes of rules. The aim here is to use history to try andunderstand the current evolution of the PCC and predict its future course in terms of the reactions at these different levels, individuals and organisations to resist or promote institutional change. "One caveat is that institutional change is gradual and incremental (North 1990) and with only two years of the process theres is the danger of an analysis biased by too brief a time. A further bias is more personal. Some 3 years ago I was a largely desk based coordinator for IUCN programmes in Mozambique and it became clear to me that I was both politically and practically naive about the realities of power and resource management in Mozambique. I had felt this increasingly as the CBNRM programmes developed and this realisation was catalyzed by a failure to influence a large joint venture between the Government and private sector for a concession of wildlife land (42,000 kmsq or the size of Denmark) located in Niassa Province. I had proposed that both natural justice and practical management argued for a greater role and rights for local communities in the proposed scheme than was the case then. These events convinced me it was time to go back to field work and test my assumptions and beliefs on solid events in rural Mozambique and that the most effective way to do so was to combine being a PhD student and a CBNRM programme implementor. While the role of practitioner has been useful for insights on practical realities and complexity (to be "situated" in the jargon) it means I cannot claim to have the scholars neutral viewpoint. "The questions this paper will seek to address are: Is institutional change and full devolution possible to a common property regime in the case of the conditions of north Mozambique? Is historical analysis a useful tool to understand and predict the nature, direction and speed of institutional change for such regimes and programmes? Does the analysis of a particular case study help in understanding the winners and losers in this change and the key actors and their influence? "As a way of addressing these questions the paper will start by a broad look at the current situation of Mozambique in terms of natural resources, policy, legislation and emphasis on CBNRM programmes, set against a brief historical summary before a more detailed look specifically at Sanga District and the events of the past 2 years of the Programa Chipanje Chetu." [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.20)

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1 from Hofstra University EPrint Archive

1. Rustici, Craig; Glass Houses: Why the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth Avoided the Subject of Pope Joan: This lecture (delivered as the 21st Hofstra University Distinguished Faculty Lecture on October 10, 2001) investigates why sixteenth-century English printers published extraordinarily few texts devoted to the sensational exploits of Pope Joan, an apocryphal, medieval woman who allegedly disguised herself as a man and became a Roman Catholic pontiff. An explanation lies in the troubling comparisons that English exiles and hostile foreign observers drew between the public careers and personal lives of Pope Joan and Queen Elizabeth I of England. Royal ceremonies, the Queen's ecclesiastical role, and the recurrent tropes of anti-Elizabethan propaganda all lent credibility to the charge that Elizabeth, "Supreme Governor" of the Church of England, acted as "ceste nouvelle Papesse." The popess analogy cast doubt on the legitimacy of Elizabeth's unprecedented reign as an unmarried English queen and, consequently, threatened to inspire sedition among her (sometimes restless) subjects. Not surprisingly, then, printers operating within the reach of the Queen's government chose to handle the Pope Joan legend with care. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.24)

2 from LSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive

1. Kluess, Heidi A; Vagal Modulation of the Heart and Central Hemodynamics During Dynamic Handgrip Exercise and Forearm Occlusion Following Forearm Exercise Training: (in English) ABSTRACT The purpose was to examine the cardiovascular response to an acute bout of handgrip exercise before and after non-dominant arm exercise training. 19 people participated in 16 sessions of exercise training and 16 participants acted as controls (age: 20±1yrs). Blood flow measurements were taken at rest and following 3-min of forearm occlusion (RHBF) using plethysmography. Pneumotachometer, ECG, and blood pressure data were continuously collected during three testing conditions (spontaneous breathing (SB1: 5min), handgrip exercise (0.5hz) at 60%MVC with 50mmHg of pressure on the arm (H60+50mmHg: 5 min), and forearm occlusion (FAO: 3min)). Data were analyzed for respiratory rate, mean R-R interval, standard deviation of normal RR intervals (SDNN), normalized units of low- (0-0.15 hz) frequency power (LFnu), and mean arterial pressure (MAP). There was no main effect of group or arm. There was a main effect of test condition such that respiratory rate (+3.10±5.40breaths/min), LFnu (+19.06±14.73%), and MAP increased (+24.51±21.15mmHg) and mean R-R (-247.11±129.70msec) and SDNN (-45.16±40.65msec) decreased significantly during H60+50mmHg (non-dominant arm; p<0.05). Respiratory rate (-0.10±4.84breaths/min), SDNN (-9.50±57.14msec), and LFnu (-1.64±18.34%) recovered to SB1 levels during. Mean R-R (46.11±106.57msec) and MAP (16.65±15.84mmHg) remained elevated above SB1 (p<0.05). There were positive linear associations between forearm circumference and Mean R-R and MAP during H60+50mmHg; and MAP during FAO. There was a negative linear association with forearm circumference and Mean R-R during FAO. There was no significant main effect or interaction with handgrip exercise training on any of the variables. There was a decrease in vascular resistance during RHBF (0.80±1.08 mmHg/ ml/100ml/min, p<0.05) in the arm that underwent exercise training. In conclusion, we found elevated MAP during FAO, which is indicative of significant EPR activity during exercise. Uniquely, we found linear associations between forearm circumference and the cardiovascular response to H60+50mmHg and FAO suggesting variation in the predominant mechanism of cardiovascular control. We did not see an attenuation of cardiovascular responses to H60+50mmHg and FAO with exercise training. However, we did see a decrease in forearm vascular resistance during the reactive hyperemia condition in the exercise-trained arm. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.86)

2. Baker, Harold Douglas; Misguided by Experience: A Defense of Custer's Actions at the Little Bighorn: (in English) At midday on June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer split his Seventh Cavalry Regiment into three elements and attacked an enormous village of hostile Indians situated along the Little Bighorn River in modern-day Montana. Custer and his immediate command of five troops, a total of 225 men, did not survive the fight. Immediately following the battle, officersReno, Benteen, Brisbin, Terry, Gibbonbegan to recreate the history of the campaigns recent events in an effort to explain the disaster and clear themselves of responsibility. Their self-serving omission of facts and their convenient remembrance of things that had not happened fully blamed Custer for the calamity and heavily influenced future historical assessments of the battle. Numerous explanations for the disaster have surfaced over the years. Driven by vain personal motives, Custer allegedly disobeyed General Terrys orders by taking a direct route to the Indian village and then rushing his exhausted men into battle without waiting for Gibbons support. He did not conduct a thorough reconnaissance and ignored the warnings of his scouts. He violated a basic maxim of war by splitting his force in the face of the enemy, and his midday attack destroyed any hopes for surprise. Finally, Custers actions displayed an overall ineptness at fighting Indians. Some of the assessments hold truths, but they must be placed in the context of what Custer knew at the time and expected to encounter. In fact, given his prior experiences and information at hand, Custer correctly configured his forces and acted appropriately by attacking the hostile village. His forces, however, were not enough to overcome the combination of peculiar circumstances, some of his own creation, that opposed them. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.57)

20 from Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1

1. Chicago Lithographing Co., Ruger, A.; Bird's eye view of the city of Attica, Fountain County, Indiana 1869.: "Looking southeast.", LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 191, Indexed for points of interest., Perspective map not drawn to scale. [Image] [View with Perseus links] (3.18)

2. Gounod, Ch..; Colombe, La; Entr'acte /: (in un) [Text] [View with Perseus links] (2.95)

3. Massachusetts (Colony) Superior court.; Suffolk, ss. At the Superior Court &c. August 1774. Whereas the Honourable Peter Oliver, Esq Chief Justice of this court, stands charged and impeached of divers high crimes and misdemeanors and more especially with bribery and corruption in his said office, by the Honourable House of representatives of this province . And whereas . the Honourable Foster Hutchinson, Esq; and the Honourable William Brown, Esq; (costituting a majority of the said superior court) have acted in manifest contempt of the laws and constitution . we refuse acting as grand jurors of this court . witness our hands. [Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill 1774].: (in English) Ford 1759.; Evans 13426.; Oliver, Peter.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373., Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 37, Folder 34., Copy scanned: 2, 2 duplicate copies [Text] [View with Perseus links] (2.63)

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3 from NCSTRL Historical Collection

1. Fabbri, A.; Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Supported by Coordination Languages Based on the Generative Paradigm (PhD Thesis): Coordination languages based on the generative paradigm are studied as a support to parallel discrete event simulation. This research is motivated by the need of reducing difficulties in the design of parallel simulators. Such difficulties make parallel approaches to simulation unappealing to possible users despite promising performance results. The work reported in this Thesis aims at reducing parallel simulators design costs, with the knowledge that achievable performances may be reduced, but with the conviction that total costs are reduced as well. Difficulties are due to several issues involved by the message-passing paradigm assumed by most of parallel simulation methodologies. Therefore the utilization of a higher abstraction level paradigm. The research is composed of: - proposal of a methodology exploiting the generative paradigm. - definition of a coordination model supporting the methodology. - study of mechanisms for coordination model implementation. - development of a framework supporting parallel discrete event simulation. - experimental studies of a parallel simulator implemented by means of the framework. The proposed methodology, Active-Events (ActE), is based on the space-time memory abstraction, and on an event-oriented approach. A formal description of ActE by means of a Structured Operational Semantics is provided. The space-time memory stores and retrieves data according to a pair of coordinates: spatial and temporal. Tasks elaborate single events and use a shared object space. The shared space stores the space-time memory and every operation performed by tasks. The result is the dependency graph of the simulation model. The proposed coordination model defines mechanisms for task manipulation, predicate-based object retrieval, and link-based object retrieval. Mechanisms are defined in an implementation-independent way, therefore in a system-independent way. The task of porting applications based on a coordination model to different computing systems is made easier by system independence, provided that the same model is available. An existing coordination language, Linda, is assumed as low-level support for framework development. Mechanisms implementing ActE's coordination model are a higher support layer, constructed by using Linda's primitives. They are based on the agenda parallelism, with structures for concurrent access to the dependency graph, and mechanisms for GVT computation. The implementation is proved to be deadlock free. Experimental studies concern the assessment of effects of various implementation mechanisms on performances, as well as portability issues. They were performed with the same code on a network of Sun workstations and on a Cray T3E computer, thus being a confirmation of high code portability by using coordination frameworks as a support. Results show achievable performances comparable to tailored message-passing based simulators, and even better performances with respect to simulators with comparable design costs. Concerning assessment of different implementation mechanisms, results show that activity control mechanisms are preferable over their absence, and a counterintuitive result shows that simpler access structures are preferable over more complex ones. [Text] (0.86)

2. Høyer, Peter; Conjugated Operators in Quantum Algorithms: This paper addresses the question of understanding quantum algorithms in terms of unitary operators. Many quantum algorithms can be expressed as applications of operators formed by conjugating so-called classical operators. The operators that are used for conjugation are determined by the problem and any additional structure possessed by the Hilbert space that is acted upon. We prove many new commutative laws between these different operators, and we use those to phrase and analyze old and new problems and algorithms. As an example, we review the Abelian subgroup problem. We then introduce the problem of determining a group homomorphism, and we give classical and quantum algorithms for it. We also generalize Deutsch's problem and improve the previous best algorithms for earlier generalizations of it. [Text] (0.65)

3. Mullender, Sape J., van der Valk, Martijn; Integrating Naming and Addressing of Persistent Data in Programming Language and Operating System Contexts: There exist a number of desirable transparencies in distributed computing, viz., name transparency: having a uniform way of naming entities in the system, regardless of their type or physical make up; location transparency: having a uniform way of addressing entities, regardless of their physical location; representation transparency: having a uniform way of representing data, which simplifies sharing data between applications written in different high-level languages and running on different hardware architectures (interoperability) and finally invocation transparency: having a uniform way of invoking operations on entities. The advent of persistency in programming language contexts has created a need for the integration of these four important concepts, viz., naming, addressing, representation and manipulation of data in programming language and operating system contexts. This paper attempts to address the first three transparencies, postponing the fourth to a later paper. First, we make up a list of things that are needed to construct a persistent programming environment and relate this list to existing persistent object models, revealing their inadequacies. We then describe a new model which merges programming language and operating system naming contexts into a global name space which, while enforcing uniformity through the use of globally unique names, still allows the application of personal nicknames. Furthermore, we explain how persistent data is stored and retrieved using a client/server model of interaction, and how it could be acted upon correctly, through the concept of typed data. We conclude by checking how well our model scores on the wish list, listing the current status and future directions for research. [Text] (0.41)

9 from OCLC Online Computer Library Center Theses and Dissertations Repository

1. Scioli, Nicola Nunzio.; The acted role and the life role : A study of the influence of the Commedia dell'arte's acting techniques /--Nicola Nunzio Scioli.: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville. [Text] (2.35)

2. Lewalle, Paul.; Contribution aI?I l'eI?itude de l'application des actes administratifs unilateI?iraux dans le temps /--par Paul Lewalle.: Thesis (agreI?igation de l'enseignement supeI?irieur)--LieI?Ige., Bibliography: p. [409]-420. [Text] (1.78)

3. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816., Purdy, Richard Little,--1904---ed.; The rivals, a comedy.--As it was first acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.--Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, esq. Edited from the Larpent ms. by Richard Little Purdy.: With reproductions of the t.-p. of the Larpent manuscript and of the 1st ed., 1775., Contains the text of the Larpent manuscript and the text of the 1st ed. in parallel columns., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale university, 1930., Without thesis note. [Text] (1.35)

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14 from Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image

1. Hall, Edward, d. 1547., Grafton, Richard, d. 1572?, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU, Furness English Renaissance Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU; The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, beyng long in continuall discension for the croune of this noble realme [computer file] : with al the actes done in both the tymes of the princes, both of the one linage [and] of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so successiuely proceadi[n]g to [the] reigne of the high and prudent prince kyng Henry the eyght, the indubitate flower and very heire of both the saied linages : whereunto is added to euery kyng a seuerall table.: (in English) ... [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.73)

2. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU, Furness English Renaissance Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU; Othello, the Moor of Venice [computer file] : a tragedy, as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers : and now at the Theater Royal, by His Majesties Servants / written by William Shakespear.: (in English) ... [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.47)

3. Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet., Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU, Furness English Renaissance Digital Library (University of Pennsylvania) PU; The history and fall of Caius Marius [computer file] : a tragedy : as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre / by Thomas Otway.: (in English) ... [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.45)

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1 from State and University Library Bremen

1. Wildeboer Schut, E., Uenzelmann-Neben, G.; Gersonde, R.; Seismic evidence for bottom current activity at the Agulhas Ridge, Global and Planetary Change: Afred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI); The South Atlantic is a region where water masses from the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet Antarctic water masses. The Agulhas Ridge in the eastern South Atlantic is a pronounced elevation of the ocean bottom which witnessed major changes in oceanic circulation since the Cretaceous. It has acted as a barrier for deep oceanic currents of Atlantic origin like the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and Antarctic origin like the Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), or water masses derived from AABW such as Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW). The history of these currents is recorded in the sedimentary sequence in the adjacent Cape and Agulhas Basins. Seismic profiles over the Agulhas Ridge show sediment packages in the Cape Basin which are identified as contourite sheets ... [Text] (1.68)

23 from The American Numismatic Society

1. Silver decadrachm of Athens (1949.119.1): Obverse: Athena head, Reverse: owl, olive twig, within incuse square [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.91)

2. Silver Tetradrachm of Athens (1944.100.24183): Obverse: Athena head, Reverse: owl, olive twig, within incuse square [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.53)

3. Silver drachm of Athens (1967.152.268): Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena r., Reverse: owl, olive twig, within incuse square [Text] [View with Perseus links] (1.44)

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910 from The University of Michigan. University Library. Digital Library Production Service.

1. Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814.; The group, . / As lately acted, and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne.: Transcribed from : The group, As lately acted, and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne. Boston : Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill [etc.], 1775., Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty for academic and research purposes only., American poetry database. Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1996. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (3.09)

2. Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854.; The Athenian Captive. . A Tragedy. In Five Acts. / ByThomas Noon Talfourd ... First Acted At Covent Theatre, April 28, 1838.: Preliminaries omitted., Transcribed from : The Athenian Captive. A Tragedy. In Five Acts. By Thomas Noon Talfourd ... First Acted At Covent Theatre, April 28, 1838. London : Edward Moxon, 1838., Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty for academic and research purposes only., English verse drama database. Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1994. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (2.77)

3. Burges, James Bland, Sir, 1752-1824.; Riches : Or, The Wife And Brother, . a Play. / In Five Acts,Founded On Massinger's Comedy of The City Madam. First acted on Saturday, February 3d, 1810, by their Majesties' Servants of the Late Theatre Royal Drury Lane, At The Lyceum Theatre. By Sir James Bland Burges.: Preliminaries omitted., Transcribed from : Riches : Or, The Wife And Brother, a Play. In Five Acts, Founded On Massinger's Comedy of The City Madam. First acted on Saturday, February 3d, 1810, by their Majesties' Servants of the Late Theatre Royal Drury Lane, At The Lyceum Theatre. By Sir James Bland Burges. London : Printed by W. Flint ... For Samuel Tipper [etc.], 1810., Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty for academic and research purposes only., English verse drama database. Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1994. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (2.40)

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4 from University of Illinois Library

1. Hadley, H.; Entr'acte [Text] (2.57)

2. Hadley, H.; Entr'acte [Text] (2.57)

3. Hellmesberger, J.; Entr'acte valse [Text] (2.50)

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9 from Virginia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection

1. Kephart, Christina Marie; Factors that Influence Coping Following Residential Fire: The roles of attributional style and family functioning: Angela Scarpa, Jack W. Finney, Russell T. Jones; (in English) Investigations of childrens adjustment following the experience of a residential fire or other disaster has indicated that the level of PTSD symptoms experienced by the child victims varies as a function of exposure and degree of loss incurred due to the trauma in a dose-response relationship. Additionally, other variables may interact with the level of exposure and loss to increase or decrease childrens risk of posttraumatic symptomatology following the fire. Childrens use of coping strategies has also been shown to significantly predict childrens level of posttraumatic stress symptomatology. This study examined the mediating role of coping as well as the contributions of childrens attributional style and family environment in the explanation of childrens posttraumatic symptomatology following residential fire. In the current study, 108 children and their parents were assessed approximately one to three months and again approximately seven to ten months following their experience of a residential fire. Results indicated that at the second assessment, attributional style served as a moderator between the degree of loss children experienced and childrens use of coping strategies. Children with helpless attributional styles reported low levels of active and avoidant coping regardless of their level of loss due to the fire. Children with positive attributional styles reported using low levels of coping only if they also reported low levels of loss; in contrast, those children who reported positive attributional styles and high levels of loss reported using considerably higher levels of coping. In addition, the data indicated that coping acted as a mediator between loss and posttraumatic stress symptoms both at the first and the second assessments. Childrens coping activities following a trauma like residential fire may be the avenue through which loss exerts its influence on childrens psychological symptoms following residential fire. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.61)

2. Jacobson, Peter James; An ephemeral perspective of fluvial ecosystems: viewing ephemeral rivers in the context of current lotic ecology.: Richard J. Neves, Jackson R. Webster, Walter L. Daniels, Don S. Cherry and Paul L. Angermeier; (in English) Hydrologic and material dynamics of ephemeral rivers were investigated in the Namib Desert to assess how hydrologic regimes shape the physical habitat template of these river ecosystems. An analysis of long-term hydrologic records revealed that the variation in mean annual runoff and peak discharge were nearly four times higher than the global average, rendering the rivers among the most variable fluvial systems yet described. Further, a pronounced downstream hydrologic decay characterized all of the rivers. The high spatio-temporal variability in flow was reflected in patterns of material transport. Retention of woody debris increased downstream, in contrast to patterns typically reported from more mesic systems, largely attributable to hydrologic decay. Woody debris piles were the principal retentive obstacles and played an important role in channel dynamics. They were also key microhabitats for various organisms, forming hotspots of heterotrophic activity analogous to patterns reported from perennial streams. Large amounts of fine particulate and dissolved organic matter (FPOM and DOM) deposited in the lower reaches of the rivers serve to fuel this heterotrophic biota. As a result of the hydrologic decay, sediment concentration (both organic and inorganic) increased downstream and the lower reaches of these rivers acted as sinks for material exported from their catchments. FPOM and DOM concentrations were among the highest reported for any aquatic system, and, contrary to patterns reported from more mesic systems, FPOM dominated the total organic load transported in these rivers. Inorganic solute concentration also increased downstream, resulting in a downstream increase in soluble salt content in floodplain soils. Soils within the rivers lower reaches served as effective long-term integrators of hydrologic variability. The mean extent of floods entering the lower river was defined by an alluviation zone, evident from the convexity exhibited in the lower section of the rivers longitudinal profiles. A downstream increase in the proportion of silt within floodplain soils is associated with increased sediment deposition. Silt deposition had a positive influence on moisture availability, plant rooting, and habitat suitability for various organisms, including fungi and invertebrates. In addition, a strong positive correlation was observed between silt, organic matter, and macronutrients. Thus, the hydrologic control of transport and deposition patterns has important implications for the structure and function of ephemeral river ecosystems. Finally, an examination of the influence of elephants upon riverine vegetation highlighted the importance of these systems as isolated resource patches interspersed in an arid and hostile landscape. Further, it illustrated that flooding was a key ecological process and that hydrologic alterations would affect the fluvial ecosystem as well as the regional landscape they drain. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.49)

3. Uan-Zo-li, Julie Tammy; The Effects of Structure, Humidity and Aging on the Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Ionomers for Fuel Cell Applications: Dr. Ronald G. Kander, Dr. Douglas J. Nelson, Dr. Brian J. Love; (in English) The purpose of this work was to investigate the effects of structure, humidity and aging on the mechanical behavior of Nafion® and Dais® ionomers. It was determined that the majority of the properties of these membranes were controlled by the formation and growth of the ionic clusters that were the direct result of the ionic nature of these materials. In the process of this study, the properties of Nafion® and sulfonated Dais® polymers were investigated by dynamic mechanical analysis and thermal gravimetric analysis and their water uptake and sorption and desorption isotherms were measured. A mastercurve and a shift factor plot were constructed for 60% sulfonated Dais® membrane. It was determined that an increase in the degree of sulfonation raised the glass transition temperature of these materials by facilitating the formation of the ionic clusters which acted as physical crosslinks, thereby reducing the mobility of polymeric chains. Water was found to effectively plasticize the membranes, especially in the case of Dais® materials, by reducing the storage modulus and decreasing the structural integrity of the ionomers. The effect of pre-treatment of Nafion® was investigated and the glass transition temperature was found to increase as a function of the severity of the treatment procedure. The maximum water uptakes were determined for virgin and aged Nafion® and Dais® membranes and their vapor phase water sorption diffusion coefficients were calculated. The sorption process was found to follow pseudo-Fickian behavior, while the movement of water out of the membranes during the desorption process was determined to be controlled by mechanisms other than diffusion. Lastly, the effect of exposure of Nafion® and 30% sulfonated Dais® membranes to the saturated environment at elevated temperatures was investigated and found to result in the increase in the glass transition temperature of the materials. Results of the exposure effects on the diffusion properties of Nafion® and Dais® were inconclusive. Preliminary findings attributed the changes in the properties of the materials to the counteractive actions of physical aging and the growth of the ionic clusters. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.43)

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1 from arXiv

1. Conselice, Christopher J.; The Symmetry, Color, and Morphology of Galaxies: The structural symmetry of forty-three face-on galaxy images in the R(65 0 nm) and J(450 nm) bands are measured to determine the usefulness of symmetry a s a morphological parameter. Each galaxy image is rotated by $180$\deg and subtr acted from the original to obtain a quantitative value for its structural symmet ry. The symmetry numbers computed for the sample are then compared with RC3 mor phological types, color \& absolute blue magnitudes. A strong correlation betw een color and symmetry is found, and the RC3 Hubble sequence is found to be one of increasing asymmetry. The use of symmetry as a morphological parameter, and the possible causes of the asymmetries are discussed., Comment: Accepted for Publication in PASP; five figures [Text] [View with Perseus links] (0.77)

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