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alanfox/spg_1000m_boundary_fluxes: Code and data used in model analysis for Jones et al. 2023. "Observation-based estimates of volume, heat and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents and the atmosphere"
No full textCode and data used to calculate model fluxes across the subpolar gyre boundary for use in Jones et al. 2023. "Observation-based estimates of volume, heat and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents and the atmosphere".
Author Alan D. Fox @alanfox.
Model analyses use the Viking20x-jra-short run. See Biastoch et al 2021 (https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1177-2021)
Preparation of Fox Valley Technical College faculty for multicultural education
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The purpose of this study was to determine the level of preparedness of Fox Valley Technical College faculty for multicultural education. The demographics of the district population were changing rapidly, and faculty must be prepared to meet the needs of multicultural students. A survey was administered to full- and part-time faculty of Fox Valley Technical College. The survey was intended to collect data about levels of education and experience, perceived training needs, level of comfort with multicultural education and level of interest in further training. The data gathered was analyzed to determine the need for future training, training subjects, and the training formats preferred by faculty. The results of this research provide a basis on which to build future professional growth training at Fox Valley Technical College. The training for faculty will ensure higher success for both faculty and students
Travail et contrat : le cas des sociétés à confiance limitée
No full textCe texte d'Alan Fox, essentiellement conceptuel, appartient à un genre un peu inhabituel dans la revue, il tranche plus encore par son contenu. Si son point de départ réside dans les travaux bien connus d' E. Jaques, les notions qu'il propose appartiennent à un type d'analyse peu courant dans la sociologie industrielle française qui, en outre, hésite plus souvent à énoncer des propositions aussi directement normatives. Il a semblé de ce fait intéressant de proposer cet exemple d'une orientation largement représentée dans la sociologie anglo-saxonne des relations industrielles.Fox Alan. Travail et contrat : le cas des sociétés à confiance limitée. In: Sociologie du travail, 17ᵉ année n°3, Juillet-septembre 1975. pp. 266-272
Comparison of staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine and human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk by phage typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and binary typing
No full textStaphylococcus aureus isolates (n = 225) from bovine teat skin, human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk were fingerprinted by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Strains were compared to assess the role of skin and milking equipment as sources of S. aureus mastitis. PFGE of SmaI-digested genomic DNA identified 24 main types and 17 subtypes among isolates from 43 herds and discriminated between isolates from bovine teat skin and milk. Earlier, phage typing (L. K. Fox, M. Gershmann, D. D. Hancock, and C. T. Hutton, Cornell Vet. 81:183-193, 1991) had failed to discriminate between isolates from skin and milk. Skin isolates from humans belonged to the same pulsotypes as skin isolates from cows. Milking equipment harbored strains from skin as well as strains from milk. We conclude that S. aureus strains from skin and from milk can both be transmitted via the milking machine, but that skin strains are not an important source of intramammary S. aureus infections in dairy cows. A subset of 142 isolates was characterized by binary typing with DNA probes developed for typing of human S. aureus. Typeability and overall concordance with epidemiological data were lower for binary typing than for PFGE while discriminatory powers were similar. Within several PFGE types, binary typing discriminated between main types and subtypes and between isolates from different herds or sources. Thus, binary typing is not suitable as replacement for PFGE but may be useful in combination with PFGE to refine strain differentiation
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
To Pravda
No full textThis is a three part samizdat from Moscow by an anonymous author. The circumstances under which the samizdat was obtained were quite interesting. Several years ago an American professor was approached by a Moscovite in a subway station. Not speaking any Russian he was unable to understand what the man was saying to him. As the subway train approached the Soviet stuck some crumpled paper into the American\u27s pocket and disappeared. The professor did not realize until later that there was a developed negative of a film inside the paper. The negatives contained photos of many typed pages which, however, were illegible at the time due to the minute print. The film was eventually taken qut of the Soviet Union at considerable risk. After the film was develop�d and enlarged it became obvious that it is a rather interesting and sometimes bizarre piece of writing of a malcontent. Rqllo May observed that lunatics, artists, and prophets (not necessarily in that order) are the most perceptive sensors of societal maladies. They, before the rest of us, feel and express our collective experiences. Sections of the writing may strike us as the ramblings of a lunatic. Other parts are lucid, literate, but angry attacks at practically all that surrounds the author. The translation is a faithful rendition except for substitution of obscene words with euphemisms to protect the sensibilities of the average reader. We leave it to the readers to judge for themselves whether this samizdat adds to their knowledge of Soviet Life or not
Inheritance of congenital myasthenia gravis in smooth fox terrier dogs
No full textThe phenotypes with respect to congenital myasthenia gravis of 132 Smooth Fox Terrier dogs from 25 matings were analysed. These included both prospective and retrospective matings. It was determined that congenital myasthenia gravis in this breed is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner with complete penetrance. The symbol mg is proposed for the gene for congenital myasthenia gravis in the smooth fox terrier. Attempts to maintain live affected dogs to adulthood were unsuccessful and it is concluded that this is a lethal trait..RE: 35 ref.; SC: ZA; CA; VE; BE; 0V; 7V; 0I; 0ASource type: Electronic(1) http://upei-resolver.asin-risa.ca?sid=SP:CABI&id=pmid:&id=&issn=0022-1503&isbn=&volume=75&issue=3&spage=163&pages=163-166&date=1984&title=Journal%20of%20Heredity&atitle=Inheritance%20of%20congenital%20myasthenia%20gravis%20in%20smooth%20fox%20terrier%20dogs.&aulast=Miller&pid=%3Cauthor%3EMiller%2c%20L%20M%3bHegreberg%2c%20G%20A%3bPrieur%2c%20D%20J%3bHamilton%2c%20M%20J%3C%2Fauthor%3E%3CAN%3E19842246429%3C%2FAN%3E%3CDT%3EJournal%20article%3C%2FDT%3
Cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: rates and acceleration.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To quantify the regional and global cerebral atrophy rates and assess acceleration rates in healthy controls, subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjects with mild Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: Using 0-, 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, and 36-month MRI scans of controls and subjects with MCI and AD from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, we calculated volume change of whole brain, hippocampus, and ventricles between all pairs of scans using the boundary shift integral. RESULTS: We found no evidence of acceleration in whole-brain atrophy rates in any group. There was evidence that hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects accelerate by 0.22%/year2 on average (p = 0.037). There was evidence of acceleration in rates of ventricular enlargement in subjects with MCI (p = 0.001) and AD (p < 0.001), with rates estimated to increase by 0.27 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.12, 0.43) and 0.88 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.47, 1.29), respectively. A post hoc analysis suggested that the acceleration of hippocampal loss in MCI subjects was mainly driven by the MCI subjects that were observed to progress to clinical AD within 3 years of baseline, with this group showing hippocampal atrophy rate acceleration of 0.50%/year2 (p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: The small acceleration rates suggest a long period of transition to the pathologic losses seen in clinical AD. The acceleration in hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects in the ADNI seems to be driven by those MCI subjects who concurrently progressed to a clinical diagnosis of AD
Comparing Policies to Combat Emissions Leakage: Border Tax Adjustments versus Rebates
No full textWe explore conditions determining which anti-leakage policies might be more effective complements to domestic greenhouse gas emissions regulation. We consider four policies that could be combined with unilateral emissions pricing to counter effects on international competitiveness: a border tax on imports, a border rebate for exports, full border adjustment, and a domestic production rebate (as might be implemented with output-based allocation of emissions allowances). Each option faces different potential legal hurdles in international trade law; each also has different economic impacts. While all have the potential to support domestic production, none is necessarily effective at reducing global emissions. Nor is it possible to rank order the options. In each case, the effectiveness depends on the relative emissions rates, elasticities of substitution, and consumption volumes. We illustrate these results with simulations for the energy-intensive sectors of two different economies, the United States and Canada.environmental tax, rebate, border tax adjustment, emissions leakage, climate
MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF , AND IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
No full textK. Fox and D. E. Jennings, Paper WH12, 33rd Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University (1978); Astrophys. J. 226, L43 (1978).Author Institution:We recently the detection of six distinct pure-rotational vibronic ground-state J=0 transitions in in emission from the Orion molecular cloud. Since then, additional observations have yielded the following new results. The J=15, A1(1)-A2(1) transition in at 21.303 GHz has been detected in emission from Orion A. During these same observations, the nearby J=8-7 transition in at 21.301 GHz was detected in emission from IRC + 10216. A while earlier, we also tentatively detected an emission line form Orion A at the frequency of a J=22 transition of ; we infer . We will discuss the systematics of our methane observations, and present new estimates of the column density of in Orion A
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