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[Binder's Collection: Oliver Brett]
No full textBound compilation of sheet music collected by Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher. The front cover is monogrammed O.S.B., with a bookplate reading "Ex libris Oliver Brett" on the front inside cover. Nearly all items contain a primary or secondary publishing location imprint in London. The collection is unusual for its inclusion of arrangements for banjo. The titles are generally in alphabetical order, beginning with the letter "K," which suggests the existence of a prior volume. Many titles are taken from larger works of musical theater. This item contains a substantial number of selections that include racial slurs and stereotyping
A few poems on Hawaii, China, and America /
No full textIllustrated cover.On cover: Varnum D. Collins, 2155 L St. N.W., Washington, D.C.Mode of access: Internet.Presentation copy to his son, Varnum Lansing Collins (Princeton Class of 1872), signed by the author
Trust and Trustworthiness in the Fourth and Fifth Estates
No full textThe high contemporary salience in the social sciences of the topics of "trust" and "trustworthiness" has focused attention on the mass media’s putative role in eroding trust. Intrinsically, the absence in the mass media of the dialogic and interactive element to trust building identified by O’ Neill (2002) may suggest that the lack of trust and trustworthiness in the mass media is structural and recent penalties imposed by the UK communication regulator, Ofcom, on UK public service broadcasters including the BBC seem to support such a view. However, drawing on and adapting O’Neill, the author identifies two distinct potential media trust building strategies: one procedural (based in professional norms) and the second dialogic and interactive (nascent in “Web 2.0” applications). Focusing on UK Web 2.0 media sites the author identifies instances where the "dialogic" character of "Web 2.0" has established and enhanced trustworthiness. He argues normatively for a combination of "Web 2.0" interactivity and the adoption and implementation of self-regulatory codes in order to enhance the trustworthiness of the media
The "Illimitable Dominion" of Charles Dickens: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Spring of 1842
No full textThis article explores Edgar Allan Poe’s May 1842 edition of Graham’s Monthly Magazine in the context of debates about international copyright circulating in the press at the time of Charles Dickens’s famous tour of the US. I offer a reading of Poe’s short story ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, and his review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales that sees these texts as interventions in transatlantic debates at the forefront of the public imagination in the Spring of 1842. In particular, through an original close reading of ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ I demonstrate how Poe subtly drew upon penny press exposés to inform the short story’s discussion of class, status and rights of access. I also suggest that the argument Poe made in his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne about the importance of ‘invention, creation, imagination [and] originality’ to the ‘prose tale’ is usefully considered in the same context, as an American response to questions of authorship that were also raised by the popular hysteria surrounding Dickens
Meeting irrigation demands in a water-challenged environment
No full textPresented at Meeting irrigation demands in a water-challenged environment: SCADA and technology: tools to improve production: a USCID water management conference held on September 28 - October 1, 2010 in Fort Collins, Colorado.Weighing lysimeters are precise devices used to measure crop evapotranspiration (ET) and to develop crop coefficients. A weighing lysimeter was installed in the Arkansas River Valley of Colorado in 2006 to measure ET and develop crop coefficients of locally-grown crops. The lysimeter was filled with a 3 m × 3 m undisturbed soil monolith. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) was planted in the lysimeter and in 4 ha of surrounding field in August 2007. Climatic data and soil conditions were measured using microclimate and soil sensors installed above and on the lysimeter. Furrow irrigation was applied to the monolith and surrounding field. Reference ET was calculated using the hourly ASCE standardized reference ET equation. Crop coefficients of alfalfa were calculated by dividing daily measured ET from the lysimeter by the corresponding daily total ASCE standardized reference ET. Four alfalfa cuttings occurred in both the 2008 and 2009 growing seasons. The results showed that the alfalfa growth, climate and precipitation were shaping crop coefficients. The first cutting cycle, which had slower growth due to climate, had lower crop coefficients, whereas later cutting cycles with rapid growth had higher crop coefficients. The maximum crop coefficients were below 1.2 in 2008 and at or above 1.2 in 2009. Precipitation interception by the alfalfa canopy increased evaporation and caused outliers in the crop coefficient values
Aerosol black carbon measurements in Fort Collins, Colorado
No full textMarch 1999.Also issued as Lorraine Calame's thesis (M.S.) -- Colorado State University, 1999.Aerosol black carbon concentrations were measured in Fort Collins, a small city in northern Colorado. A Magee Scientific aethalometer was used to obtain real time data. In 1997 a gradual build-up in monthly BC concentrations over the late spring and summer was observed to peak in August and then decline. The number of days featuring high concentrations (> 2000 ng/m3 for 30 minutes) was also observed to rise and fall with an August peak. The monthly trends in aerosol black carbon concentrations suggest some seasonality. Observations of aerosol black carbon concentrations made during this study reveal monthly mean concentrations that vary from 487 to 1004 ng/m3. The BC concentration timelines showed there are usually two daily peaks in the data. These peaks usually occur between 0600 - 0800 and 1600 - 2100, hours associated with peak traffic. Concentrations of BC were found to correlate reasonably well with CO concentrations over time scales of up to a week. The covariance in our data set suggests they were emitted from a common set of combustion sources. The results of this study indicate there is little relationship between measured BC concentrations and long range transport patterns, as back-trajectory results indicated that long range transport of air masses from particular regions does not influence whether BC concentrations in Ft. Collins are high or low. The observed BC concentrations tended to decrease with increasing wind speed which is consistent with emissions from a local source that would tend to be diluted at higher wind speeds. On shorter timescales of minutes to hours, the study revealed the importance of individual sources on BC concentrations. Passages of diesel locomotives near the site were shown to increase BC concentrations on many occasions when local winds were favorable to transporting locomotive emissions to the aerosol sample site. The impact of this source, however, was fairly limited in its duration, with concentration spikes typically lasting only about 10 minutes. Train passage also exerted an indirect effect on BC concentrations, perhaps associated with a period of increased BC emissions by vehicles idled at train crossings. Fires were also shown to influence BC concentrations during the study. The large fires associated with the July 1997 flood and smaller fires associated with a CSU student riot were observed to increase BC concentrations. The number of fires during the study period, however, was very low. Impacts of two prescribed bums along the Front Range on Ft. Collins BC concentrations were observed to be fairly minor. Correlation of BC concentrations with "total" particle number concentrations (as measured by a Condensation Nucleus Counter), and number concentrations of particles with diameters greater than 0.3 µm (as measured by a Climet Optical Particle Counter) were extremely weak on long time scales and often weak on time scales as short as a day. This reflected the diverse sources of the aerosols. Some of these were probably primary combustion aerosol (and therefore are likely to correlate with BC), but others were the secondary aerosol fraction of CN or particles larger than 0.3 µm that are not expected to correlate strongly with BC concentrations. BC concentrations were independent of the diurnal pressure patterns, but were affected by synoptic pressure patterns. Frontal passages were marked by low BC concentrations. BC concentrations were not found to be depressed on summer days featuring precipitation, as the duration of summer thunderstorms is typically too short to scavenge enough aerosol particles to significantly influence the daily average BC concentration. In addition, primary aerosol particles that are generated locally by vehicle emissions would be replenished rapidly in the atmosphere following precipitation. Absorption coefficients were derived from the aethalometer and the difference between transmissometer and nephelometer data. The monthly mean values ranged from 0.005 - 0.009 km-' for the aethalometer, and 0.036 - 0.038 km-1 for the transmissometer and nephelometer. The aethalometer derived absorption coefficients are on the order of 10 - 20% of the absorption coefficients determined from the paired nephelometer and transmissometer measurements, and only 6 - 11% of the total extinction measured by the transmissometer
Postal telegraph from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to A. L. Wirin, July 9, 1942
No full textTelegraph from Ernest Besig to A. L. Wirin: "Quite unlikely Japanese case will go on Monday. Collins wants continuance until July 20 because intervening State Attorney General has until that time to file brief."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Evaluating a train-the-trainer model for scaling-up Healthy Conversation Skills training: a pre-post survey using the Theoretical Domains Framework
No full textObjectives: Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) training is an established method of upskilling health professionals in person-centred behaviour change communication. A Train-the-Trainer (TtT) model was adopted to scale-up delivery of HCS training. This study examined the impact of the TtT course on new Trainers' perceived barriers and enablers to delivering HCS training using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).Methods: the TtT course was delivered in 2019-2020. Pre-training (T1) and post-training (T2) surveys collected data on barriers and enablers to delivering HCS training based on 10 TDF domains. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics, and differences between pre- and post-training scores analysed using paired t-tests.Results: forty-six trainees participated, including 43 women and 10 Aboriginal people. Scores for nine domains increased post-training, including knowledge, skills, social and professional role/identity, beliefs about capabilities, intentions, goals, environmental context and resources, social influences, and behavioural regulation. Knowledge, beliefs about consequences and intentions were no longer barriers to delivering HCS training after participating in the TtT course.Conclusions: the TtT model supports new Trainers by addressing barriers to delivering HCS training.Practice implications: the HCS TtT model builds healthcare workforce capacity for person-centred approaches to behaviour change. The findings facilitate the refinement of the TtT course.</p
Executive compensation, corporate governance and corporate performance: A simultaneous equation approach
No full textThis paper investigates the association between executive compensation and performance. It uniquely utilises a comprehensive set of corporate governance mechanisms within a three-stage least squares (3SLS) simultaneous equation framework. Results based on estimating a conventional single equation model indicate that the executive pay and performance sensitivity is relatively weak, whereas those based on estimating a 3SLS model generally suggest improved executive pay and performance sensitivity. Our findings highlight the need for future research to control for possible simultaneous interdependencies when estimating the executive pay and performance link. The findings are generally robust across a raft of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneities, executive pay and performance proxies.<br/
Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to Frank L. Walters, Esq., September 10, 1942
No full textLetter from Ernest Besig to Frank L. Walters, stating that Judge Welsh had not yet filed an opinion in the Korematsu case. Besig provides overview of Korematsu's status as a Unites States citizen, and writes: "Mr. Collins and I went to Tanforan Assembly Center and had Korematsu sign the Notice of Appeal, and also an affidavit to support an order to allow the appellant to prosecute the appeal in forma pauperis."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
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