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R. E. Carpenter, Toledo, Ohio [approximately 1930]
No full textPhotograph of R.E. Carpenter, Toledo businessman. The photo dates about 1930. Terms associated with the photograph are: Carpenter, R. E. | Businessman | Manufacturers Dinner Committee | Mustaches. | Mustaches--1920-1930. | Suits (Clothing). | Suits (Clothing)--1930-1940. | Toledo, Ohi
Ask Any Vegetable
No full textThis is a book about making animal forms out of common vegetables. As the eBay title for it proclaims: Very WEIRD! As the author writes in the foreword, Look long at an ordinary gourd of any sort and it will suggest many things to you (vi). This book is in this collection because of Fox and Crane on 24-25, Hare and Tortoise on 60-61, and Fox and Crow on 68-69. For the former scene, normal gourds were used to create the crane and the vase. For the fox an immature gourd was used; some clay was added, into which ears and eyes were stuck. A bit of cotton was pasted over the body to resemble fur, and the bushy tail was bult up of strands of corn silk. The fox's ears are feather-shaft ends (25). Did Aesop ever think that he would be getting into scenes made up of vegetables? The second scene is set in a forest whose trees are carrots. The rabbit is formed from a peanut, and the tortoise from a horse chestnut. The third scene represents some confusion or syncretism between FG and FC. The crow, which might be difficult to create, is cleverly left out of the scene. Prizes in the book go to the camel and leader on 36 (also on the front cover of the dust jacket), the resting sea lions on 53, and the sleeping student on 114. I would say that R.E. Eshmeyer was as crazy as I am, and that probably fits. He was also a man of the cloth.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)R.E. Eshmeye
Letter from R.E. Tracy, Supervisor, Sacramento-San Joaquin Area, to George H. Nakamura, May 15, 1944
No full textCorrespondence from R.E. Tracy to George Hideo Nakamura regarding a Government Bill of Lading.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
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
Italian Corporate Governance, Investment, and Finance
No full textWP 14/2000; Italian industrial structure and financial markets have several distinct features. Italian firms are relatively small, few trade publicly and no corporate bond market exists. The limited types of external funds available to Italian firms makes them prone to financing constraints. We examine a panel containing over 1100 Italian firms. We find that firm size does not appear correlated with the severity of financing constraints. We also find that small firms are frequently mature. Our results suggest that young firms face financing constraints, while mature firms may develop relationships with lenders that lower the costs of external funds. Small, young firms appear to face the tightest financing constraints. Many firms are affiliated with pyramidal business groups. We find that affiliation with pyramidal business groups appears to reduce the effect of financing constraints. Our results have important implications for government policy to promote small firm growth in Italy
Threshold model of feeding territoriality: a test with an Hawaiian honeycreeper
No full textReports were scanned in black and white at a resolution of 600 dots per inch and were converted to text using Adobe Paper Capture Plug-in.A cost-benefit model predicting threshold requirements for establishment of feeding territories in nectarivorous birds was tested by comparing 24-hour energy production of nectar with energy budgets in territorial and nonterritorial Hawaiian honeycreepers. The test was positive and demonstrated that nectar productivity was more important in determining establishment of territories than intrusion pressure and floral dispersion.Supported by NSF Grant GB-23230, Island Ecosystems IRP/lBP Hawaii, and a grant from the American Philosophical Society to F. L. Carpenter. The Primo Foundation has continued its essential support
6053: L/Cpl. 65038,Bertram John White, R.E.
No full textBertram John White was born at Cobham, Surrey, on the 4th September 1879. He was the youngest child of George White (1845 to 1905) and Emily White (nee Miles), (1846 to 1928). George was a carpenter, latterly estate carpenter at Painshill. Bertram's elder siblings were Arthur (born 1867), George (1869), Walter (1872), Agnes (1874 to 1929) and Eustace (1877). As a young man, Bertram joined the army and took part in the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer (South African) war. After completing his service, he travelled in South America and the USA. By 1912 he was employed as a carpenter at the North-East Argentine Railway (F.C.N.E.A.) at Monte Caseros, Corrientes. His brother Arthur was also employed by the F.C.N.E.A. and Walter was elsewhere in Argentina. Eustace is believed to have gone to New York. Agnes never married and was a domestic servant and later a children's governess. After the outbreak of the Great War, Bertram offered his services at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires. Sailing home on "Alcantara", he reached Liverpool on the 28th December 1914. He joined the Royal Engineers on the 20th January 1915, with the service number of 65038, reaching the rank of Lance-Corporal. His address on enlistment was given as Glenhurst, Cobham (believed to be Agnes' address). Initially with the 130th Field Company at Aldershot, he was later at the R.E. Training Centre at Newark-on-Trent and finally with the Tyne Electrical Engineers. After ill-health he left the army on 28th September 1918, being granted a Silver War Badge. Upon discharge, Bertram returned to Newark to marry Winifred Spencer. Their only child, Kathleen Agnes was born in 1919 (Winifred already had a son, Edgar). The family settled in Offord D'Arcy near Huntingdon. Bertram worked as a carpenter, engineer and mill wright. He died in 1965.</p
The Indian biennale effect: the Kochi/Murziris Biennale 2012
No full textThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the most recent global art biennale, was launched in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India, in 2012. This essay considers the “biennale effect,” locating it within India's recent history of radical political modernization and in the context of the state's attempts to establish itself in terms of internationalism and contemporaneity via the arts. Pivotal to this discussion of the biennale effect is the recognition of a growing critical discourse about the biennale format by scholars, critics, and curators. The impact of the Indian biennale on the formerly Communist city of Kochi is also explored, including photographic documentation by the author, in the context of the contradictions and paradoxes raised by India's hosting of this global art event
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Measurement and fitting of pulse shapes of moderators at IPNS (Intense Pulsed Neutron Source): Progress report
No full textWe present a progress report on measurements and fitting of pulse shapes for neutrons emerging from one solid and two liquid methane moderators in IPNS. A time-focused crystal spectrometer arrangement was used with a cooled Ge monochromator. Data analysis of one of the liquid methane moderators has shown the need for some generalization of the Ikeda-Carpenter function that worked well for fitting pulse shapes of polyethylene moderators. We describe attempts to model physical insight into the wavelength dependence of function parameters. 5 refs., 7 figs
Gender differences in self-reported late effects, quality of life and satisfaction with clinic in survivors of lymphoma
No full textObjectives: gender differences in perceived vulnerability to late effects and views about follow-up among cancer survivors have received little attention. As lymphoma affects both genders similarly, we compared the consequences of cancer (late effects, perceived vulnerability and quality of life (health-related quality of life (HRQoL)), and satisfaction with clinic visits between genders.Methods: a cohort of 115 younger adults (18–45 years, >5 years disease-free survival), who had been treated for lymphoma participated. Questionnaires (n = 91) were completed before and after (n = 62) routine consultant-led appointments. Survivors (n = 24) without appointments were recruited by post. Questionnaires included HRQoL, late effects, perceived vulnerability, issues survivors wanted to discuss and reported discussing in clinic, time waiting in clinic and consultation satisfaction.Results: there were no gender differences in number of self-reported late effects or perceived vulnerability. Men with more late effects reported worse psychological HRQoL (r = 0.50, p<0.001). While men wanted to discuss more topics than they did, women were able to discuss the topics they wanted (ANOVA, p = 0.01). Multiple regression analyses showed a shorter wait in clinic (r = ?0.46, p = 0.009) and discussing more topics (r = 0.34, p = 0.06) explained 30.6% of the variance in consultation satisfaction for men.Conclusions: issues surrounding follow-up provision are increasingly important given the length of survival in young adults following treatment for lymphoma. Men may experience poor psychological well-being due to distress about unanswered concerns. Consideration of their concerns should be prioritised, given that satisfaction and ultimately continued attendance at clinic and HRQoL may be dependent on the extent to which follow-up meets survivors' expectation
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