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A Cocker Spaniel
No full textCocker Spaniel, standing and facing right.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_wdsmithphotography/2706/thumbnail.jp
Biogas from source separated organic waste within a circular and life cycle perspective. A case study in Ontario, Canada
No full textThe appropriate transformation and valorisation of biogas offers environmental and economic opportunities in a future with restrictions upon fossil-based fuels and materials. The LCA method was used to quantify and compare the potential environmental impacts of an AD plant incorporating biogas co-generation and upgrading options, namely AD-CHP and AD-RNG. Using an average Anaerobic Digestion facility in Ontario, Canada, modelled after real facilities, as a case study, electricity and steel were identified as potential hotspot input materials carrying a disproportionate environmental burden for biogas production. With a system expansion approach, the biogas was subsequently utilized to produce (1) both heat and electricity using a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system, or (2) upgraded to renewable natural gas (also called biomethane) through chemical amine scrubbing, respectively. In comparing the biogas co-generation and upgrading options, the AD-CHP alternative resulted in a lesser environmental load, two times lower when compared to the AD-RNG biomethane recovery option. Furthermore, the avoided burden of producing fossil-based electricity, natural gas, and chemical fertilizer was analyzed and compared against their renewable counterparts. Significant reductions in emissions and in the depletion of fossil fuels were achieved, thus confirming the positive efforts of diverting organic waste from landfills to reduce organic waste disposal impacts and improve the management of organic waste. The analysis has provided useful insights to bioenergy project developers, policy makers and the scientific community regarding the processing of source separated organic waste, biogas production, and its upgrading alternatives in a circular economy perspective
Martha Elizabeth Roessling with cocker spaniel holding basket
No full text''Toddler drops her money in basket held by Rusty, 8-year old red cocker spaniel. Rusty came out of retirement to participate in the 1949 March of Dimes campaign. Rusty received a letter expressing gratitude for his help. The letter was signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.'
Nasal dermoid sinus in an American cocker spaniel
No full textAn American cocker spaniel was presented for a subcutaneous mass and draining tract located between its eyes. Contrast radiography and surgical excision showed communication of the tract with the left frontal sinus and rostral cerebral dura, respectively. A dermoid sinus was diagnosed by a combination of gross and histologic findings.LR: 20070221; PUBM: Print; JID: 0004653; ppublishSource type: Electronic(1
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
Black Cocker Spaniel in the wind
No full textGreeting card art, black Cocker Spaniel dog leaning out of car window in the wind, possibly a Father\u27s Day card, as Gen. F. D. appears to be written on bottom of art, Norcross stamp on back of art, watercolor, pastels, or acrylic, color This collection consists of original art work for greeting card companies. This box contains those by unknown artists. Dates range from the 1930\u27s and 1940\u27s, the 1960\u27s through 1980\u27s, and those from unknown dates. The card company is identified in some cases.https://mds.marshall.edu/dr_mrs_sharkey_collection/1161/thumbnail.jp
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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Dorsal practices – voicing from/with the back
No full textDorsal Practices is collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker for exploring how a back-oriented awareness and attitude might shape and inform our embodied, affective and relational experience of being-in-the-world. Combining a choreographic sensitivity with language-based artistic research, Dorsal Practices explores how experiences of listening, languaging, even thinking, might be shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back. Since 2021, Dorsal Practices has unfolded through: (1) Somatic movement practices exploring a dorsal orientation (through lying, rotating, transitioning, moving-shaping, walking, turning); (2) Conversation practices (online undertaken back-to-back) for sharing the live(d) experience of dorsal practising, allowing for deep listening and an emergent ‘dorsal voicing’; (3) Improvisatory reading practices for re-activating the conversation transcripts — reading as a poetic, experimental approach to textual genesis — where an intersubjective and reflexive (capable of bending, turning back) mode of linguistic sense-making emerges through the interplay of spoken word. Dorsal Practices proposes an oblique creatical position, acknowledging a wider critical milieu indirectly, to the sides (e.g. on dorsality [David Wills, 2008], on (dis)orientation [Sara Ahmed, 2006]; on listening [Lispeth Lipari, 2014], on inclination [Adriana Cavarero, 2016]). For the symposium, Brown and Cocker presented an improvisatory performative reading, intermingling the idiolect of their conversational transcript with fragments of critical discourse, alongside playful moments of ‘etymological dérive’ for diving into, dwelling with and turning over specific key words (e.g. incline, oblique, release, reverse). The reading activated a distinctive material-linguistic form emerging through unexpected conjunctions, (re)combinations, circling and looping of language, in the very moment of voicing creating a contingent unfolding of dorsal sense-making
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