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Earl Holliman, Fran Bennett, and Carolyn Craig during production of GIANT, 1956
No full textFrom left: Earl Holliman, Fran Bennett, and Carolyn Craig during production of GIANT, 1956. 8x10 b&w photographic print
An activist's experience of the planning process
No full textThis article provides a look at the planning
process in Ontario from the point of view
of a citizen. Ben Bennett is representing
Residents for Sustainable Development in
Guelph, which opposes two big-box proposals
before the Ontario Municipal
Board. As co-author of a new book on
what has become a seven-year-long saga,
Bennett shares his insights into the planning
profession and the system from the
perspective of a non-lawyer and nonplanner.
The proposals, one anchored by
Wal-Mart, the other by Zellers, were
rejected by city council in the late spring
of 1997. The date for the hearing was
originally set for July 1998, but was
repeatedly delayed. After five years of
legal wrangling, court challenges and
political intrigue, the hearing finally got
under way in April of this year. It is scheduled
to run for twenty weeks.Le présent article trace le portrait de
l'aménagement urbain en Ontario tel que
perçu par un citoyen. Ben Bennett, porteparole
du groupement Citoyens pour un
développement durable, de Guelph, auprès
de la Commission des affaires municipales
de l'Ontario, s'oppose à deux projets de
grande surface. Co-auteur d'un livre
traitant de la situation qui dure maintenant
depuis sept ans, Ben Bennett nous fait part
de ses réflexions sur la profession du point
de vue d'un intervenant qui n'est ni
urbaniste ni avocat. Les projets, l'un
présenté pour Wal-Mart, l'autre pour
Zellers, furent rejetés par le conseil
municipal à la fin du printemps 1997. Une
audience, prévue pour juillet 1998 et
reportée plusieurs fois, après cinq ans de
contestations, de guérilla juridique et
d'intrigues, sera tenue en avril 2002 pour
une durée de quelque 20 semaines.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5482/Article003.pdf?sequence=3Abstract in English and French; text in English
Supplemental material - Unplanned Admissions, Emergency Department Visits, and Epilepsy After Critical Neurological Illness Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children
No full textSupplemental material for Unplanned Admissions, Emergency Department Visits, and Epilepsy After Critical Neurological Illness Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children by Matthew B. Spear, Kristen Miller, Craig Press, Christopher Ruzas, Jaime LaVelle, Peter M. Mourani, Tellen D. Bennett, and Aline B. Maddux in The Neurohospitalist</p
Spectral envelope estimation for transient event detection
No full textThesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134).A Nonintursive Load Monitor (NILM) is a device that determines the operating schedule of electric loads by properly locating and identifying transient events in the spectral envelopes of the current waveform measured at the utility service entry. The spectral envelopes of the current waveform are the coefficients of its time varying Fourier series representation and as such can be estimated by low-pass filtering the current mixed with appropriate basis sinusoids. Spectral envelope estimators have been termed pre-processors. In this thesis, two pre-processors were designed. The first utilizes magic sine waves as the basis functions instead of sinusoids. The second is a digital pre-processor developed on a digital signal processor. The digital design was used in complete NILM platforms and its performance is analyzed to determine the quality of the envelopes produced. Finally, avenues for further work on the digital pre-processing unit are suggested.by Craig Bennett Abler.S.B.and M.Eng
Ramona Bennett, Tacoma, October 1976
No full textRamona Bennett (b. 1938) is a prominent Puyallap Tribe leader and activist. She was elected to the Puyallup Tribal Council in 1968, and served as Tribal Chairwoman from 1971 to 1978. Bennett is also a pioneer of fishing rights advocacy, co-founding the Survival of American Indians Association in 1964, and helping to bring “fish-in” protests to national prominence.
Much of Bennett’s work focuses on social welfare issues, mainly fighting for the rights of women, children and families. She began her social service work in the 1950s, with the Seattle’s American Indian Women’s Service League. In 1972, she co-founded the Local Indian Child Welfare Act Committee, where she developed a model for childhood and family services that she used to co-author and secure the national Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, a Federal law that governs the removal and out-of-home placement of indigenous children. In the 1980s, she co-founded the Rainbow Youth and Family Services in Tacoma, a non-profit which she ran for many years.
This photo of Ramona Bennett was taken for a profile of her run by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in October 1976. At the time, Bennett was chairwoman of the Puyallup Tribal Council.Caption information source: “Ramona Bennett,” The Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project, University of Washington, https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/bennett.htm
Caption information source: "Ramona Bennett - a Cool, Witty, Charming Leader" by Jack Wilkins, Seattle Post=Intelligencer, October 28, 1976, p. A71 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in
Material evaluation and selection processes to enable design for manufacture
No full textThesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 71).In order to optimize product designs it is necessary to quickly evaluate many candidate materials in terms of performance and processing costs. Evaluation using physical prototypes yields concrete results but is time intensive and costly when dealing with multiple optimization objectives. As an alternative, computer aided simulation is a reliable means of material evaluation and selection, is increasingly available to smaller companies due to the shrinking cost of computation, and is essential for handling the dual optimization objectives of manufacturability and performance in a timely and cost effective manner. To support this thesis, the author first examines iRobot Corporation's current process of experimental trial and error for evaluating and selecting a polymer material for use in the wheels of its robotic military vehicles. The author then demonstrates that the experimental derived performance results can be reasonably predicted using the viscoelastic properties of polymers, as captured in such models as the standard linear solid model, and that this predictability can be used to quickly simulate wheel performance with computer aided engineering (CAE) tools.(cont.) Finally, the author performs a cost analysis of the current material evaluation/selection process versus the CAE approach to show the best path forward for incorporating CAE tools into the design process of smaller corporations like iRobot.by Craig B. Abler.S.M.M.B.A
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Cybaeus ubicki Bennett & Copley & Copley 2021, spec. nov.
No full text<i>Cybaeus ubicki</i> Bennett spec. nov. <p>Figs 68–79, 84</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> <b> U.S.A.: <i>California</i>: Holotype male</b> , Marin County, S.P. Taylor State Park, 8.xi.1953, V. D. Roth & R. O. Schuster (CAS). <b>Paratypes:</b> Marin. 1♂, Burdell Mtn., 12.i.1984, D. Ubick (CAS); 1♀, SE slope of Burdell Mtn., 16.iii.1990, D. Ubick & T. Briggs (CAS); 4♀, Inverness, 8.xi.1953, V. D. Roth (CAS); 1♀, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, near Cataract Falls, 12.ii.2013, I.M. Sokolov (CAS); 2♂ 2♀, 4 mi. E of Muir Woods National Monument, 10.i.1964, V.D. Roth (CAS); 3♂ 1♀, Novato, 7.i.1987, D. Ubick (CAS); 3♂ 12♀, Novato, San Marin Dr., 18.xii.1982, D. Ubick (CAS); 3♂ 5♀, Novato, San Marin Dr., 7.xii.1985, D. Ubick (CAS); 4♀, Novato, San Marin Dr., 2.xii.1988, D. Ubick (CAS); 1♂, Novato, open space N of San Marin Dr., 28.xi1987, D. Ubick (CAS); 1♂, Novato, open space N of Simmon’s Lane, 4.i.1990, D. Ubick & A. Gudeli (CAS); 1♀, 7 mi. E of Point Reyes Station, 1.iii.1960, Smith & Schuster (AMNH); 3♂ 2♀, S.P. Taylor State Park, 8.xi.1953, V. D. Roth & R. O. Schuster (CAS); 1♀, S end of S.P. Taylor State Park, 1.xi.1953, V. D. Roth & G. Marsh (CAS); 1♂ 2♀, World College West, 1 mi. W of highway 101, San Antonio Rd., 60 m elev., 11.i.1986, D. Ubick (CAS); Mendocino. 3♂ 2♀, 5 mi. E of Anchor Bay, 12.ix.1961, W.J. Gertsch & W. Ivie (AMNH); Sonoma. 1♀, Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, 14.iii.1954, J. Helfer (CAS); 3♀, 2.1 mi. NW of Camp Meeker, 90 m elev., 14.i.1983, T. S. Briggs, V. F. Lee, & D. Ubick (CAS); 1♀, Kruse Rhododendron State Natural Reserve, 9.x.1954, Schuster & MacNeill (CAS); 1♀, Monte Rio, 30.vi.1996, P. Craig, W. Savary, & D. Ubick (CAS); 2♀, 2.4 mi. SE of Monte Rio, 20.xii.2001, T. Briggs, G. Giribet, D. Ubick, & S. Ubick (CAS); 1♀, Salt Point State Park Campground, 29.iii.1980, D. Ubick (CAS).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is a patronym honoring Darrell Ubick whose unconditional help and prodigious collecting expertise has greatly benefited our work on Californian Cybaeidae; name in the genitive case.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The male of <i>C. ubicki</i> spec. nov. is unlikely to be confused with the males of the other species in the <i>consocius</i> group and is distinguished by a combination of features of the patellar apophysis and the genital bulb. The patellar apophysis (Figs 68–69, 72) is relatively short (length about 1/3 width of the patella) with the peg setae divided into basal and distal groups; the basal group is clustered on a small dorsal prominence (in some specimens the separation into two groups is indistinct). The embolus is broad and flattened medially (Figs 70–71) and the proximal arm of the tegular apophysis (Figs 70–71, 73) features a deep ventral longitudinal groove and terminates in a broad rounded tip. In addition the palpal tibia bears a small flattened ridge (inconspicuous in some specimens) dorsal to the retrolateral tibial apophysis (Figs 68–69). Among the females of the <i>consocius</i> group, the female of <i>C. ubicki</i> spec. nov. is most likely to be confused with the other species which lack U-shaped copulatory ducts: <i>C. opulentus</i> spec. nov., <i>C. penedentatus</i>, <i>C. vulpinus</i>, <i>C. pan</i> spec. nov., and <i>C. simplex</i>. The female of <i>C. ubicki</i> spec. nov. is characterized by its large transverse atrium (nearly as wide as the vulva) (Figs 74–75, 77–78) and the broad, conspicuously prominent copulatory ducts (Figs 75–76, 78–79). Separating the female of <i>C. ubicki</i> spec. nov. from the females of <i>C. opulentus</i> spec. nov., <i>C. pan</i> spec. nov., and <i>C. simplex</i> is discussed under the diagnoses of those species. The female of <i>C. vulpinus</i> has a large atrium but it is only about 1/2 the width of the vulva (Fig. 40) and the copulatory ducts are narrower and relatively inconspicuous (Fig. 40–41). The female of <i>C. penedentatus</i> has a transverse atrium but it is very small (Figs 46–47, 49–50, 52).</p> <p> <b>Description</b>. Ventral tibia I macrosetae usually 2-1p-2-1p-0.</p> <p> <b> <i>Male</i>:</b> (n=22). Patellar apophysis (Figs 68–69, 72) with about 12–15 peg setae usually in two groups; groups merge in some specimens). Proximal arm of tegular apophysis (Figs 70, 73) with small excavation on posterior margin near tip. Measurements (n=19). CL 1.80–2.8 (2.2+0.3), CW 1.35–1.98 (1.62+0.20), SL 0.91–1.30 (1.10+0.13), SW 0.91–1.21 (1.05+0.11). Holotype CL 2.13, CW 1.50, SL 1.04, SW 1.00.</p> <p> <b> <i>Female</i>:</b> (n=47). Atrium (Figs 74–75, 77-78) medially located on epigynum. Copulatory ducts (Figs 75–76, 78– 79) converging along midline anterior to atrium then diverging anteriorly before turning posteriorly. Spermathecal stalks contiguous (Fig. 76) or widely separated (Fig. 79) near Bennett’s glands. Measurements (n=22). CL 1.73–2.6 (2.2+0.3), CW 1.25–1.73 (1.52+0.17), SL 0.90–1.26 (1.11+0.12), SW 0.83–1.18 (1.03+0.11).</p> <p> <b>Distribution and natural history</b>. Coastal central California from southern Mendocino County to southern Marin County (Fig. 84). Males have been collected from November through January and in September.</p>Published as part of <i>Bennett, Robb, Copley, Claudia & Copley, Darren, 2021, Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae): the consocius species group of the Californian clade, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 4965 (3)</i> on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4752531">http://zenodo.org/record/4752531</a>
PhosphoCTD-associating proteins (PCAPs) were identified by Phatnani et al. [<b>20</b>] and assigned to likely functional categories.
No full text<p> Proteins in red (CAR proteins) are products of genes identified by Bennett and colleagues as required for normal resistance to ionizing radiation (IR) (23,24) or doxorubicin (DX) (26). Bold = non-essential; light = essential; <u>underlined</u> = <u>binds directly to PCTD</u>; <i>italics = does not bind directly to PCTD</i>.</p
Parametric study of EEG sensitivity to phase noise during face processing
No full text<b>Background: </b>
The present paper examines the visual processing speed of complex objects, here faces, by mapping the relationship between object physical properties and single-trial brain responses. Measuring visual processing speed is challenging because uncontrolled physical differences that co-vary with object categories might affect brain measurements, thus biasing our speed estimates. Recently, we demonstrated that early event-related potential (ERP) differences between faces and objects are preserved even when images differ only in phase information, and amplitude spectra are equated across image categories. Here, we use a parametric design to study how early ERP to faces are shaped by phase information. Subjects performed a two-alternative force choice discrimination between two faces (Experiment 1) or textures (two control experiments). All stimuli had the same amplitude spectrum and were presented at 11 phase noise levels, varying from 0% to 100% in 10% increments, using a linear phase interpolation technique. Single-trial ERP data from each subject were analysed using a multiple linear regression model.
<b>Results: </b>
Our results show that sensitivity to phase noise in faces emerges progressively in a short time window between the P1 and the N170 ERP visual components. The sensitivity to phase noise starts at about 120–130 ms after stimulus onset and continues for another 25–40 ms. This result was robust both within and across subjects. A control experiment using pink noise textures, which had the same second-order statistics as the faces used in Experiment 1, demonstrated that the sensitivity to phase noise observed for faces cannot be explained by the presence of global image structure alone. A second control experiment used wavelet textures that were matched to the face stimuli in terms of second- and higher-order image statistics. Results from this experiment suggest that higher-order statistics of faces are necessary but not sufficient to obtain the sensitivity to phase noise function observed in response to faces.
<b>Conclusion: </b>
Our results constitute the first quantitative assessment of the time course of phase information processing by the human visual brain. We interpret our results in a framework that focuses on image statistics and single-trial analyses
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