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Bower, L E, VX34955
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372903Surname: BOWER
Given Name(s) or Initials: L E
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX34955
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 32439183945
Item: [2016.0049.05226] "Bower, L E, VX34955
Marriage record of Hodson, Harry L. and Bower, Mary G.
No full textMarriage license for Harry L. Hodson and Mary G. Bower. Grant J. Aikin was the Notary Public
Letter dated 28 October 1968 from C. A. Bower to Lorenzo A. Richards
No full textLetter dated 28 October 1968 from C. A. Bower, Director of the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, California, to Lorenzo A. Richards at Riverside, inviting him to the biennial meeting of "collaborators" at the laboratory in NovemberUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE SOIL. A N D WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH DIVISION U.S. SALINITY LABORATORY, P.O. B O X 672 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 92502 October 28, 1968 Dr. L. A. Richards 4455 5th Street Riverside, California 925OI Dear Ren: We will be having the biennial Meeting of Collaborators at the Laboratory November 6, J, and Q, and we should be pleased to have you attend as much of the Meeting as you desire. The pinner meeting will be held Thursday evening, November 7±^at the Elks\u27 Clak^ cojameiicing at 6:30 pm. I trust that you and Mrs. Richards will be able to join us at least for the dinner. If you will be able to make the dinner, we would appreciate hearing from you by Wednesday, November ,6, so that we can make reservations. Enclosed is a program for the Meeting. Sincerely yours, C. A. Bower Director Enclosur
Letter dated 26 October 1965 from C. A. Bower to Lorenzo A. Richards
No full textLetter dated 26 October 1965 from C. A. Bower, Director of the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, California, to Lorenzo A. Richards, conveying notice of performance rating, and expressing appreciation for Richards\u27 work at the laboratoryUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH DIVISION U.S. SALINITY LABORATORY, P.O. BOX 672 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 92502 October 26, 1965 Dr. L. A. Richards U. S. Salinity Laboratory Riverside, California Dear Ren: Attached are two partially completed ARS 155 Forms, Notice of Performance Rating. You will note that I have assigned you a rating of "Satisfactory" and I would be pleased if you would complete and sign the two forms, retaining one for yourself and forwarding one to me by October 29. However, if your answer will be "No" to any of the four questions, 10 through 13, please see me so that we can correct the deficiency. As the time approaches for your retirement I wish, on behalf of the Laboratory, to thank you for your enormous contributions. You have indeed been a guiding light of this Laboratory, and you are personally responsible for much of the excellent reputation the Laboratory enjoys. While your service for the Agronomy Society has been demanding, it has been a source of pride to the Laboratory to have one of its members elected to the highest office of our professional society. I also want to express appreciation for the impact that you have had on other scientists at the Laboratory through the years, especially myself. Sincerely yours, "> - cro> C. A. Bower Director Attach
William Smith Home in Union Bower
No full textWilliam Smith, area pioneer, built this house in the Union Bower community in 1888. It stood along what would become Maryland Street in Irving until it was torn down in the 1980s. Seen in this 1906 photo are L. G. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hood, Mrs. Mattie Smith, Bert Smith, Mrs. Jennie Smith, William Hood, and Frank and Charlie Voirin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Parallel Evolution of Bower-Building Behavior in Two Groups of Bowerbirds Suggested by Phylogenomics
No full textThe bowerbirds in New Guinea and Australia include species that build the largest and perhaps most elaborately decorated constructions outside of humans. The males use these courtship bowers, along with their displays, to attract females. In these species, the mating system is polygynous and the females alone incubate and feed the nestlings. The bowerbirds also include 10 species of the socially monogamous catbirds in which the male participates in most aspects of raising the young. How the bower-building behavior evolved has remained poorly understood, as no comprehensive phylogeny exists for the family. It has been assumed that the monogamous catbird clade is sister to all polygynous species. We here test this hypothesis using a newly developed pipeline for obtaining homologous alignments of thousands of exonic and intronic regions from genomic data to build a phylogeny. Our well-supported species tree shows that the polygynous, bower-building species are not monophyletic. The result suggests either that bower-building behavior is an ancestral condition in the family that was secondarily lost in the catbirds, or that it has arisen in parallel in two lineages of bowerbirds. We favor the latter hypothesis based on an ancestral character reconstruction showing that polygyny but not bower-building is ancestral in bowerbirds, and on the observation that Scenopoeetes dentirostris, the sister species to one of the bower-building clades, does not build a proper bower but constructs a court for male display. This species is also sexually monomorphic in plumage despite having a polygynous mating system. We argue that the relatively stable tropical and subtropical forest environment in combination with low predator pressure and rich food access (mostly fruit) facilitated the evolution of these unique life-history traits. [Adaptive radiation; bowerbirds; mating system, sexual selection; whole genome sequencing.]
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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