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Life and experiences of George Washington Nichols
No full textTypescript of an account of some anecdotes from the life of George Washington Nichols (born 1859) of Salt Lake City. Author unknown; transcribed by Kenneth L. Seifert of Brigham City, April 25, 193
Prenatal care advice to see a dentist: results from a population-based study
No full textMeredith L. Vandermeer (Department of Public Health, Oregon State University), Kenneth D. Rosenberg (Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services), Alfredo P. Sandoval (Oregon Health & Science University).Title from PDF caption (viewed on August 14, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Latino politics: identity, mobilization, and representation
No full textDue to the dramatic growth of the Latino population in America, in combination with the relative decline of the Anglo (non-Hispanic white) share, Latino Studies is increasingly at the forefront of political concern. With Latino Politics: Identity, Mobilization, and Representation, editors Rodolfo Espino, David L. Leal, and Kenneth J. Meier bring together essays from a number of leading scholars to address the ever-more important issues within the field. Providing an overview of issues surrounding Latino identity and political opinion—such as differences among Latino groups based on national origin, the importance of descriptive representation, and issues of competition and cooperation, particularly with reference to African Americans—the editors speak to the many fundamental debates ingrained in the discipline.
In addition to highlighting important contributions of the study of Latino politics to date, this volume suggests areas that have yet to be explored and, perhaps more importantly, demonstrates how the study of Latino politics relates to broader questions of American politics and society. Foregrounding debates in the overall discipline of political science, the collection will appeal to those who study Latino politics as well as those who are interested in understanding American politics and society with reference to Latino and "minority" concerns
Why Equality Matters
No full textKenneth L. Karst, a prolific author in the field of constitutional law, gave the fall quarter Sibley Law Lecture October 28.The UCLA law professor addressed the topic Why Equality Matters in his lecture, which was the 56th in the John A. Sibley Lecture Series.
A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1983 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol19/iss1/1
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
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Why Equality Matters
No full textKenneth L. Karst, a prolific author in the field of constitutional law, gave the fall quarter Sibley Law Lecture October 28.The UCLA law professor addressed the topic Why Equality Matters in his lecture, which was the 56th in the John A. Sibley Lecture Series.
A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1983 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol19/iss1/1
Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand
No full textCopyright © 2020 by ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. The majority of offshore wind turbines are founded on large-diameter, open-ended steel monopiles. Monopiles must resist lateral loads and overturning moments because of environmental (wind and wave) actions, whereas vertical loads tend to be comparatively small. Recent developments in turbine sizes and increases in hub heights have resulted in pile diameters increasing rapidly, whereas the embedment length to diameter ratio (L/D) is reducing. Soil erosion around piles, termed scour, changes the soil strength and stiffness properties and affects the system's load resistance characteristics. In practice, design scour depths of up to 1.3D are routinely assumed during the turbine lifetime; however, the impact on monopiles with low L/D is not yet fully understood. In this article, centrifuge tests are performed to assess the effect of scour on the performance of piles with low L/D. In particular, the effect of combined loads, scour type (global, local), and depth are considered. A loading system is developed that enables application of realistic load eccentricity and combined vertical, horizontal, and moment loading at the seabed level. An instrumented 1.8-m-diameter pile with L/D = 5 is used. A friction-reducing ball-type connection is designed to transfer lateral loads to the pile without inducing any rotational pile-head constraint, which is associated with loading rigs in tests of this nature. Results suggest that vertical and lateral load interaction is minimal. Scour has a significant impact on the lateral load-bearing capacity and stiffness of the pile, leads to increases in bending moment magnitude along the pile shaft, and lowers the location of peak pile bending moment. The response varies with scour type, with global scour resulting in larger moments than local scour. The size of the local scour hole is found to have a significant impact on the pile response, suggesting that scour hole width should be explicitly considered in design
Ground-water hydrology of the upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California
No full textby Marshall W. Gannett, Kenneth E. Lite Jr., Jonathan L. La Marche, Bruce J. Fisher, and Danial J. Polette ; prepared in cooperation with the Oregon Water Resources Department.Title from PDF cover (viewed on April 22, 2020).Covers OCLC #1151627285 and OCLC #123900688.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Jon Entine and Kenneth Shropshire: Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We\u27re Afraid to Talk About It
No full textA discussion of the book of the same title and issues associated with discussing stereotypes of African Americans in sports. Also highlights conjecture of genetic issues and discusses legal and business aspects of the sports and entertainment industries.
Jon Entine is a television producer and reporter who first stepped into the national spotlight with his 1989 documentary Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction. Today, using clips from his documentary and drawing on genetic and sociological research, Entine argues that biology and ancestry are significant components of the disproportional emergence of world-class black athletes.
The author of a book also titled Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We\u27re Afraid to Talk About It, Entine has written for several publications, including The Sunday Times of London, Chicago Tribune, GQ and the Utne Reader. A seasoned network television producer, he has worked with Sam Donaldson, Diane Sawyer and Chris Wallace on ABC\u27s PrimeTime Live and 20/20 and served for many years as Tom Brokaw\u27s producer at NBC News.
Entine, a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Journalists, earned a bachelor\u27s degree in philosophy from Trinity College and has taught as an adjunct professor at New York and Columbia universities.
An author and scholar, Kenneth Shropshire has provided legal consultation for the National Football League, the U.S. Amateur Boxing Federation and the World Wrestling Federation. From 1982-1985, he served as assistant vice president/sports manager for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
A frequent contributor to various national publications, Shropshire has written for the New York Daily News, USA Today and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of five books, including Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports and In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, for which he received the 1997 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Outstanding Book Award.
Shropshire, who currently serves as a professor of legal studies and real estate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, earned a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law and a bachelor\u27s degree in economics from Stanford University
Review Essay: Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler and Janice Liedl. \u3ci\u3eLove and Death in the Renaissance\u3c/i\u3e
No full textAdelmen, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare\u27s Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare\u27s words, subject index. 15.95.
Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare\u27s Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest is reviewed on pp 172-3.
Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler and Janice Liedl. Love and Death in the Renaissance
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