124 research outputs found
Fixtures- Personality or Reality? Who Knows?
No full textThis thesis by Larry L. Perdue examines the legal classification of property, specifically focusing on fixtures and trade fixtures within valuation sciences. It delves into the complexities of distinguishing between real and personal property, especially in cases where items such as machinery or attachments are integrated into real estate but retain some characteristics of personal property. The author highlights the potential financial and legal implications of misclassification, including issues related to taxes, valuation in business appraisals, and lender security. Drawing from historical legal principles in English Common Law and American Common Law, Perdue discusses key tests used in property law to determine fixture status, including the annexation, adaptation, and intention tests. The thesis also explores various judicial interpretations and statutory definitions, emphasizing the inconsistent application of these tests and the challenges this creates for appraisers. Ultimately, Perdue argues for a more nuanced understanding of property classification to ensure accurate appraisals and informed financial decisions
The Science and Practice of Captive Animal Welfare
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News, intelligence and 'little lies' : rumours between the Cherokees and the British 1740-1785
No full textRumour and information are one of the most fundamental ways in which people engage
with one another. Rumours can change the way that individuals and groups see each other
and the actions that they take. Sociologists and anthropologists have long used rumour as a
way to explore the experiences of their subjects. Historians of early America have, in recent
years, begun to make use of rumour as a way of examining the, often hidden, world of
interactions between American Indians and white Europeans. This thesis will expand upon
this work by exploring the changing role of rumour within an intercultural relationship over
several decades. This thesis will focus on rumour in the relationship between the Cherokee
Nation and the colonists of the British Empire. It will explore the ways that rumour
influenced these interactions and the impact of the rapidly changing backcountry
environment of the latter eighteenth century, both on rumour and on the wider Cherokee-
British relationship. This thesis will argue that rumour shifted in the course of the
eighteenth century from being a diplomatic tool which could be used- either to create
further panic and confusion or to calm and smooth over problems- to an uncontrollable
force which would deepen and exacerbate the divisions between Cherokees and the
British. Rumour played an important role in politics and society in the eighteenth century
backcountry and its changing function offers a way to better understand the shifting
currents of life in early America
Advances in ITP - therapy and quality of life - a patient survey.
No full textCurrent guidelines recommend glucocorticoids and splenectomy as standard 1(st) and 2(nd) line treatments for chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). We sought to find out how German ITP-patients are treated with respect to these guidelines. Members of a patient support association ≥18 years with a self-reported history of chronic ITP>12 months were surveyed with a web-based questionnaire. 122 questionnaires were evaluated. 70% of patients had chronic ITP for more than 5 years and 20% an average platelet count of ≤30·10(9)/L. 41% of the patients reported haematomas or petechiae more than once or twice and up to 12 times or more per year and 17% oropharyngeal and nasal bleeds. 11% had been admitted to hospital during the last 12 months. 88% had received or currently receive glucocorticoids, 27% were splenectomised. IVIG had been given to 55%, rituximab to 22%, anti-D to 12%, ciclosporin to 7%, while complementary and alternative medical treatments had been used by 36%. 50 women responded to questions concerning pregnancy. 14 (28%) had been advised not to become pregnant. 23 reported pregnancies and 10 (44%) required treatment for their ITP during pregnancy. Glucocorticoids are the most common therapy for chronic ITP but complementary and alternative treatments already come second and less than ⅓ of patients are splenectomised. This and the frequent use of complementary medicines suggests patients' dissatisfaction with conventional approaches. Many patients receive off-label therapies. There is a major need for adequate counselling and care for pregnant ITP-patients
The formless empire : the evolution of indigenous Eurasian geopolitics
No full textThis dissertation seeks to make a unique contribution to the study of geopolitics and empire in Central Asia by focusing on both the indigenous developments of grand strategies and their legacies by examining several key points in the history of the region’s geopolitics in order to determine the peculiar and specific nature of regional geopolitical evolution, and how its basic concepts can be understood using such a locally based framework. By putting the focus on several key concepts which hold steady through major societal and technological upheavals, as well as foreign incursion and both the inward and outward migrations, which together create the conditions which I have dubbed ‘The Formless Empire’, it is possible to see the elements of a regional and homegrown tradition of grand strategy and geopolitical thinking which is endemic to the area of Inner Eurasia, even as this concept adapts from a totality of political policy to merely frontier and military policy over the course of time.
This indigenous concept of grand strategy encompasses political, military, and diplomatic aspects utilizing the key concepts of strategic mobility, and flexible or indirect governance. These political power systems originated in their largest incarnations amongst the nomadic people of the steppe and other people commonly considered peripheral in history, but who in a Central Asian context were the original centerpieces of regional politics until technological changes led to their eclipse by the big sedentary powers such as Russia and China. However, even these well-established states took elements of ‘The Formless Empire’ into their policies (if largely relegated to frontiers, the military, and a few informal relationships alone) and therefore the influence of the region’s past still lingers on in different forms in the present
The Naval Postgraduate School secure archival storage system, Part II : Segment and process management implementation
No full textThe security kernel technology has provided the technical foundation for highly reliable protection of computerized information. However, the operating system implementations face two significant challenges: providing (1) adequate computational resources for applications tasks, and (2) a clean, straightforward structure whose correctness can be easily reviewed. This paper presents the experience on an ongoing security kernel implementation using the Advanced Micro Devices 4116 single-board computer based on the Z8002 microprocessor. The performance issues of process switching, domain changing, and multiprocessor bus contention are explicitly addressed. The strictly hierarchical (i.e., loop-free) structure provides a series of increasingly capable, separately usable operating system subsets. Security enforcement is structured in two layers: the basic kernel rigorously enforces a non-discretionary (viz., lattice model) policy, while an upper layer provides the access refinements for a discretionary policy. (Author)N000148lWRl0034supported by grants from the Office of Naval
Research, Project No. 427-001, monitored by Mr. Joel Trimble, and the Naval
Postgraduate School Research Foundationhttp://archive.org/details/navalpostgraduat00cox
Gas Pulsations: A Shock Tube Mechanism
No full textGas pulsations are defined presently as a macro flow rate and/or pressure fluctuation with relatively low frequency and high amplitude. They commonly exist in HVACR, energy and other processing industries, and are widely accepted to be mainly caused by PD type gas machinery such as reciprocating or rotary compressors, expanders and Roots type blowers. Moreover, they are believed to be responsible for system vibrations, noises and fatigue failures. Naturally, as important a matter as gas pulsations, there have been tremendous R/D efforts from both academia and industry focused in this area, especially since the late 1980s. The most well known works are acoustic models based on small perturbation and CFD methods aimed at solving nonlinear unsteady differential equations for pulsating flows. Both approaches have been successful in calculating gas pulsations at off-design conditions of either an under-compression, UC (over-expansion, OE) or over-compression, OC (under-expansion, UE). However, due to the transient nature of pulsation phenomena, some fundamental questions still remain to be answered, such as: What is the physical nature of gas pulsations? What exactly causes them to happen? Where and when are they generated? How are they different from acoustical waves and how to predict their behaviors such as amplitude, travelling direction and speed at source? This paper attempts to answer these questions by taking a different approach: applying the classical Shock Tube Theory to gas pulsation phenomena. The results not only confirm the findings of the previous workers, but also reveal the nature of gas pulsations as a composition of strong bi-directional waves and an accompanying unidirectional through-flow. Moreover, the pressure pulsations consist of pressure waves (coalescing into a quasi-shockwave) and a fan of finite expansion waves travelling in opposite directions, while the flow pulsation is simply the induced unidirectional flow as these strong waves sweep across the gas. It will be further demonstrated that the most dominant gas pulsations are the direct results from either an OC (or UE) or an UC (or OE) suddenly discharging at the compressor or expander outlet. Therefore its location of generation, magnitude, travelling directions and speed can be predicted based on design parameters and operating conditions of those machines. Based on this new insight, an effective pulsation control method called Pulsation Trap can be devised that tackles the non-linear waves and strong induced flow simultaneously and right at the predicted sources
A Theological Interpretation of the Book of Proverbs
No full textThe dissertation seeks to offer a theological interpretation of Proverbs which simultaneously does justice to the results of historical and philological research; to the Christian theological tradition; and to the context of contemporary secular society.
The opening chapter will investigate the history of Proverbs’ theological interpretation in the last two hundred years. For 19th century interpretation a major theological and ethical challenge was that Proverbs bases its motivational system on the reader’s self-interest. The same phenomenon has not been considered problematic in more recent scholarship because, it has been claimed, if Proverbs is understood in the context of ‘creation theology’ then this explains its apparent selfishness and also helps to clarify its relationship to other biblical texts. However, it will be argued that ‘creation theology’ in itself does not solve all theological problems in Proverbs’ interpretation. It will be also argued that Proverbs offers a plurality of themes among which creation is only one, and from which the interpreter can choose according to his or her interests and aims.
The second chapter will describe the methodology of the dissertation. Most theological interpretations in the last two hundred years have reconstructed Proverbs’ theology in view to its historical setting. However, little attention has been paid to the hermeneutical questions concerning Proverbs’ recontextualisation and to the wider theological tradition of the religious communities that consider it as their Scripture. A canonical approach can incorporate these concerns, too.
The third chapter will discuss the problem of self-interest. This will be investigated in the framework of Thomas Aquinas’s eudaemonistic theological ethics.
The fourth chapter will discuss Proverb’s secular appearance. Besides sociological descriptions of the ‘secular,’ several strands of the wider Christian theological tradition will be utilized to handle this phenomenon theologically
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