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Letter, Howell Adams in Lowndes County, Mississippi, to W.R. Smith in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina, September 29, 1845
No full textThis handwritten letter, written in script from Howell Adams to Mr. W. R. Smith, describes sickness, corn crops, the weather, Howell\u27s thoughts on buying some land, and his dealings with the Estate.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-herring-collection/1038/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Yvonne Howell – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Yvonne Howell, Professor of Russian and International Studies, discusses her edited collection, Red Star Tales : A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction, published recently by Russian Life Books. Red Star Tales brings together 18 Russian science fiction works, translated into English for the first time, spanning from path-breaking, pre-revolutionary works of the 1890s, through the difficult Stalinist era, to post-Soviet stories published in the 1980s and 1990s
Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care
No full textThe articles included in this special issue engage these themes across a number of national settings, institutional spaces, and empirical sites, from universities to mental health commissions, to national policy in an international context. They focus, especially, on Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where recent and significant changes in mental health governance have relied heavily on the notions of recovery and resilience, often to questionable effect. They deal, as we have said, with some of the most central themes in social justice studies. As a collection, the articles help us think through some of the pressing political questions about social justice that have arisen with the adoption of the mantras of resilience and recovery in mental health governance
Temporal and spatial variability in speakers with Parkinson's Disease and Friedreich's Ataxia
No full textSpeech variability in groups of speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and with Friedreich's ataxia was compared with healthy controls. Speakers repeated the same phrase 20 times at one of two rates (fast or habitual). A non-linear analysis of variability was performed which used some of the principles behind the spatio-temporal index (STI). The STI usually employs variation in lip displacement over repetitions of the same utterance and a linear analysis of such signals is conducted to represent the combined variation in spatial and temporal control. When working with patients, audio measures (here we used speech energy) are preferred over kinematics ones as they are minimally disruptive to speech. Non-linear methods allow spatial variability to be estimated separately from temporal variability. The results are tentatively interpreted as showing that PD speakers were distinguished from healthy control speakers in spatial variability and ataxic speakers were distinguished from controls in temporal variability. These findings are consistent with the speech symptoms reported for these disorders. We conclude that the non-linear analysis using the speech energy measure is worth investigating further as it is potentially revealing of the differences underlying these two pathologies
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance: A Critical Assessment of Protest Politics
No full textBoth for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale protest for advancing anti-globalist politics is increasingly being questioned both by those involved in the movement and by the Left in general.Peer reviewe
Professor George Adams CBE in interview with Dr Max Blythe
No full textAt the beginning of the interview Professor George Adams, pioneer of geriatric medicine in Northern Ireland, speaks of his period as a junior registrar with WD Thomson, professor of medicine, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast after returning from military service in 1946, and his time in London in 1947. Here he worked with Russell Fraser on glucose tolerance at the Hammersmith, and came into contact with the pioneers of geriatric medicine - Trevor Howell, Marjorie Warren, Lionel Cosin and Lord Amulree - at the inauguration meeting of the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly. Professor Adams considers the contribution of these key figures, emphasising their humanitarian outlook, and the squalid conditions found in the provision for the elderly in the pre-NHS workhouse infirmaries.He then talks about his return to Belfast, when he accepted a part-time post working with the elderly in the chronic wards of Belfast City Hospital, and became consultant in geriatric medicine in 1949. He acknowledges the role and insight of WD Thomson in establishing these posts in the face of resistance from many physicians.Next, Professor Adams reflects on the changes introduced in the chronic wards of the Belfast City Hospital; building up a team of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and doctors, and developing equipment to aid mobility, and the improved morale as more patients were able to leave. This is followed by a summary of the findings of Professor Adam's survey of the conditions of old people - at hospital and at home - in 1949. He describes the terrible conditions in small rural hospitals, and praises the work of individuals such as Dr John Armstrong at Ballymena, who set up the first geriatric appointment in Northern Ireland in 1945. Professor Adams' innovations - setting up a mobile physiotherapy unit, the first recovery unit in Northern Ireland (to bridge the gap between rehabilitation in hospital and independent life at home) - are then outlined.The interview moves on to the state of geriatric medicine in the 1950s; which was gaining increasing international academic respectability, but was still ignored by many physicians at the highest level, although there were some notable exceptions. Professor Adams then discusses the academic developments he was associated with in the late 1950s; learning about the acute as well as long-term condition of stroke patients, operational research on disability and rehabilitation, and terminal care.In the final stages of the interview he reflects on the future of geriatric medicine, expressing his fear that the continuity of care and teaching established in a centre like Belfast City Hospital will be lost in an increasingly fragmented system of care, and the benefits of geriatric physicians visiting elderly patients of other GPs in their homes
Investigation into the design and optimisation of multideck refrigerated display cases
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The refrigeration energy load in a modern day supermarket makes up a large proportion of the total energy bill. Better design of refrigerated display cases would reduce this load and also have a corresponding effect on the running costs of the refrigeration plant. Further enhancements such as the reduction of air overspill from the case would also influence the aisle temperatures and therefore the comfort levels in the store. This research project uses the technique of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to investigate the contemporary design of a vertical multideck refrigerated display case. From a two dimensional computational model conclusions were drawn as to the principles of operation of the case. During the course of the project, a custom designed experimental facility was constructed, capable of testing the display case according to the relevant test standards. Using this facility, experimental validation was carried on a number of the design modifications to assess the actual refrigeration load against that predicted by the CFD model. The success of this validation allowed further work into the feasibility of certain design changes by making modifications to the CFD model. The work presented in this thesis makes a contribution to the global effort towards the reduction of the energy consumption by retail refrigeration systems. It does this by showing that possibilities do exist for an improvement in the energy efficiency of multideck refrigerated display cases and that CFD provides a useful tool towards this goal. It also demonstrates the design modifications which proved to yield a saving in energy. These were a reduction in the mass flow rate of air around the case, the inclusion of a honeycomb section on the air curtain outlet of the case the addition of a front upstand and the introduction of a second air curtain thus applying a velocity gradient across the curtain.This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Safeway Stores Plc
000 Map taken from Covered bridges of the West; a history and illustrated guide: Washington, Oregon, California / Adams, Kramer A.
No full textPage 90-95 of Kramer Adams' Covered Bridges of the West contains the map and legend used by Glenn and Nina Groff throughout their covered bridge trips. The full text is not available online due to copyright limitations. Contact the State Library of Oregon to view or borrow the full physical item
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