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Pascal DeAngelis to Albert Britt, June 13, 1919
No full textIn a letter to Albert Britt on June 13, 1919, Pascal DeAngelis announces the release of the newest .22 caliber rim-fire rifle. He informs Britt this project involved seven years of work and consultation with rifle experts, such as Captain T. K. Lee, Captain C. L. Gilman, Lieutenant Colonel Townsend Whelen. Mr. DeAngelis recommends Horace Kephart view and describe this rifle for a review in “Outing” since he is one of the most well-known gun experts. He asks Britt for Kephart’s address to send him the rifle.(Copy.)
SAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION.
UTICA, NEW YORK. U.S.A.
June 13, 1919.
Mr. Albert Britt, Editor,
Outing Publishing Company,
1*1-145 West 36th Street,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
Replying to your courteous letter of the 4th inst., we are about
to announce the appearance of the most seriously designed .22
caliber rim-fire repeating rifle that has ever been manufactured.
The rifle is the result of seven years experimental work in the
factory, guided and checked by suggestions and criticisms from
the ablest and most highly respected firearms,authorities of the
country. We have had the close co-operation and assistance of
Captain T. K. Lee, formerly of the Corps of Rifle Demonstrators,
Ordnance Department, USA, who has been international small-bore
champion for many years, and is unquestionably the finest smallbore shooter in the world. Captain C. L. Gilman, USA- former
Secretary of the Western League of the N.R.A., Lieut. Col.
Townsend Whelen, USA, author of the book "American Rifles'* and
the highest military firearms authority in the country,
Lieut. Col. D. C. McDougall, USMC, Major J. J. Dooley, USMC,
Major H. L. Smith, USMC, Major W. D. Smith, USMC, and others too
numerous to mention.
We should be delighted to submit one of these rifles to the writer's
old friend, Mr. Horace Kephart, for critical review to be published
in OUTING. Mr. Kephart is one of the highest firearms authorities
in the world, and easily ranks with the men mentioned above. We
feel that it is a decided honor both to the Savage Arms Corporation
to have the rifle criticised and reviewed by Mr. Kephart, and to
Outing to have a man of Mr. Kephart's distinction as a contributor.
We should very much prefer, however, not to have this rifle or any
other arm of our manufacture criticised editorially by a man of
markedly less ability, experience and reputation, whose favorable
criticism would carry no weight with the well informed shooting
public, and whose unfavorable criticism would be of no value in
producing any suggestions or changes, or any modifications which
would not be desirable.
In other words, we would be delighted to have anything we make
submitted to Mr. Kephart, knowing that his criticism would be fair
and impartial, based on the widest experience and knowledge of his
subject, and entitled to the greatest respect. We should not have
the temerity to suggest any change or modification in any criticism
that Mr. Kephart should write, no matter how unfavorable it might be
to our own product. If our arms have weak points, we have no right
to have fair criticism "soft pedaled," but we would dislike to
submit a firearm for editorial criticism to anyone whose standing
or ability does not entitle him to recognition as an authority.
If you will be good enough to give us Mr. Kephart's address, we
would be glad to ship the rifle to him for critical review.
Very truly yours, T**^%±3&L«**r
PDeA;MFMj Savage Arms Corporation. "*** w^yi££y
On the Dynamics of Two-consumers-one-resource Competing Systems with Beddington-DeAngelis Functional Response
No full textIn this paper we study a two-consumers-one-resource competing system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. The two consumers competing for a renewable resource have intraspecific competition among their own populations. Firstly we investigate the extinction and uniform persistence of the predators, local and global stability of the equilibria, and existence of Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium. Then we compare the dynamic behavior of the system with and without interference effects. Analytically we study the competition of two identically species with different interference effects. We also study the relaxation oscillation in the case of interference effects. Finally we present extensive numerical simulations to understand the interference effects on the competition outcomes.補正完畢國外SCIY紙本US
Oxygen Electrodes in Fused Salts. Potentiometric and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic (ESCA) Findings on the System (Ni)CO2,O2/CO32- in Molten Alkali Nitrates.
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A Combined Potentiometric-ESCA Investigation on the Electrode System (Pt)CO2,O2,CO32- in Molten Salts.
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Periodic solution to a multispecies predator-prey competition dynamic system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response and time delay
No full textsummary:In this paper, we are concerned with a delayed multispecies competition predator-prey dynamic system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. Some sufficient conditions which guarantee the existence of a positive periodic solution for the system are obtained by applying the Mawhin coincidence theory. The interesting thing is that the result is related to the delays, which is different from the corresponding ones known from literature (the results are delay-independent)
Friction in computer-mediated communication: an unobtrusive analysis of face threats between librarians and users in the virtual reference context
No full textThis dissertation studies computer-mediated communication (CMC), in which interpersonal communication content between library users and reference librarians who engaged in service encounters is evaluated. The computer-mediated form of reference services, called virtual reference (VR), was the context for this research. In the CMC research, the analysis of naturally occurring interactions, analysis of face-work, face threat and friction, and impacts of identity on and in face threatening situations are not well represented. This study applied face-work (Goffman, 1967), Politeness Theory (Brown & Levinson, 1978; 1987) and social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE) (Lea & Spears, 1992) to virtual interactions to analyze transcripts that contained friction. The term friction was used to frame interactions that contain real or inferred elements of discord, incivility, impoliteness, or other factors that may detract from a positive working relationship between VR users and VR librarians. Findings indicate that in transcripts that contained friction, users and librarians did not exhibit concern for either party's negative or positive face wants. Friction between participants included reprimands, abrupt endings without closing rituals by librarians and users, as well as refusals to attend to face threats issued. When librarians issued refusals to users' initial requests, the frequency of users enacting a second face threat dropped dramatically. Findings also indicate that librarians were more likely to instigate friction in the service encounters than users. Moreover, when instances of friction were present, one instance of friction was likely to spark additional instances of friction. CMC service encounters, such as VR, in the public and private sectors are proliferating. At one point in time, customer service interactions were a face-to-face modality, then they moved to telephone interactions, but increasingly organizations are providing customer service via CMC, such as online banking and shopping. This dissertation research is significant to any organizations or individuals that utilize CMC as a means of customer interface, such as VR, or any other mediated transaction that bridges communication between organizations and the individuals that are served.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Jocelyn A. DeAngeli
Long-term warming alters carbohydrate degradation potential in temperate forest soils
No full text© The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82 (2016): 6518-6530, doi:10.1128/AEM.02012-16.As Earth's climate warms, soil carbon pools and the microbial communities that process them may change, altering the way in which carbon is recycled in soil. In this study, we used a combination of metagenomics and bacterial cultivation to evaluate the hypothesis that experimentally raising soil temperatures by 5°C for 5, 8, or 20 years increased the potential for temperate forest soil microbial communities to degrade carbohydrates. Warming decreased the proportion of carbohydrate-degrading genes in the organic horizon derived from eukaryotes and increased the fraction of genes in the mineral soil associated with Actinobacteria in all studies. Genes associated with carbohydrate degradation increased in the organic horizon after 5 years of warming but had decreased in the organic horizon after warming the soil continuously for 20 years. However, a greater proportion of the 295 bacteria from 6 phyla (10 classes, 14 orders, and 34 families) isolated from heated plots in the 20-year experiment were able to depolymerize cellulose and xylan than bacterial isolates from control soils. Together, these findings indicate that the enrichment of bacteria capable of degrading carbohydrates could be important for accelerated carbon cycling in a warmer world.This work, including the efforts of Jeffrey Blanchard, Serita D. Frey, Jerry
M. Melillo, and Kristen M. DeAngelis, was funded by National Science
Foundation (NSF) (NSF 1237491, NSF 1456528, and ACI-1053575). This
work, including the efforts of Jeffrey Blanchard, Serita D. Frey, Jerry M.
Melillo, Linda T. A. van Diepen, and Kristen M. DeAngelis, was funded by
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (DE-AC02-05CH11231). This work,
including the efforts of Grace Pold, Andrew F. Billings, Jeffrey Blanchard,
Jerry M. Melillo, and Kristen M. DeAngelis, was funded by U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) (DE-SC0010740)
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