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    Les Fables de La Fontaine

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    After the cover, this book is exactly the same as the edition I have from the American publisher George Jacobs (also found under 1910?), right down to the last page of advertisements for FitzGerald's other books. This cover is light brown and includes the same tipped-in cover picture of LaFontaine with children gathered in his storyteller's embrace. I guess at 1910 as the date for the book because Derrick in several illustrations adds 1910 to his D signature. See my comments on the Jacobs edition.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchKathleen FitzGeral

    Fontaine's Fables, With Which Are Included Aesop's Fables.

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    This book has some fascinating features among its forty-three fables from LaFontaine (through 75) and its fifty-four from Aesop. There is never more than one fable to a page. The LaFontaine portion seems to me to represent LaFontaine faithfully in English prose; the Aesopic texts seem to represent the tradition without any clear errors. The plates are from T.C. Derrick, but he is nowhere acknowledged; several of the illustrations have his 1910 D monogram. In a curious move, two of the illustrations are used for quite distinct fables. Thus the DLS there becomes an illustration here for The Ass and the Mule. And the illustration there for GGE becomes here that for The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock. In both cases, some French text is removed from the original illustration. The break between authors comes on 78. There is a T of C at the beginning.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Edwin Gile Ric

    Les Fables de La Fontaine

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    The most curious thing about this beautiful little book is its international sources: American, English, French. It is in a small format, and has only sixty pages. The colored pictures are excellent; the best is of the raven and fox on 13. Good etchings, too.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchKathleen FitzGeral

    T.C. Powers, '25, author of the book, "Leakage: The Bleeding of the American Economy"

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    Includes letters from the American Society for Testing Material about T.C. PowersBlack and WhitePeople: Powers, T.C

    Models, methods and algorithms for supply chain planning

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    This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.An outline of supply chains and differences in the problem types is given. The motivation for a generic framework is discussed and explored. A conceptual model is presented along with it application to real world situations; and from this a database model is developed. A MIP and CP implementations are presented; along with alternative formulation which can be use to solve the problems. A local search solution algorithm is presented and shown to have significant benefits. Problem instances are presented which are used to validate the generic models, including a large manufacture and distribution problem. This larger problem instance is not only used to explore the implementation of the models presented, but also to explore the practically of the use of alternative formulation and solving techniques within the generic framework and the effectiveness of such methods including the neighbourhood search solving method. A stochastic dimension to the generic framework is explored, and solution techniques for this extension are explored, demonstrating the use of solution analysis to allow problem simplification and better solutions to be found. Finally the local search algorithm is applied to the larger models that arise from inclusion of scenarios, and the methods is demonstrated to be powerful for finding solutions for these large model that were insoluble using the MIP on the same hardware

    Controversies in the management of acute tonsillitis: an evidence-based review

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    BACKGROUND: Patients admitted with acute tonsillitis generate a substantial workload for the National Health Service (NHS), placing huge financial pressures on an already overstretched budget.OBJECTIVE OF REVIEW: Due to the difficulty of accurate diagnosis and varying practices across the UK, there exist a number of controversial areas and non-standardised practice. These will be highlighted and tackled within this article.TYPE OF REVIEW AND SEARCH STRATEGY: A literature review, last performed in September 2013, searched PubMed citing variations on the areas of controversies with 'tonsillitis', 'pharyngitis' and 'pharyngotonsillitis' - from 1956 to present with language restrictions. Excluded articles included those regarding sore throat after tonsillectomy and peritonsillar abscess.EVALUATION METHOD: Titles and abstracts were initially screened, and full text of potentially relevant articles obtained. The bibliographies of articles were searched for relevant references. The references were then compiled and reviewed independently by two authors (JB &amp; TB), overseen by the senior author (EK).RESULTS: (i) Diagnosis and investigation: Use of the Centor criteria is inadequate within the secondary care setting. Blood testing is unnecessary in the majority of cases where patients do not require admission, as they are unlikely to change management. (ii) Antibiotics: Antibiotics are likely to be indicated in all those presenting to secondary ENT care, with penicillin being the antibiotic of choice for first-line therapy. (iii) Corticosteroids: Moderate evidence supports the benefit of steroid administration in this patient cohort, advocating a single dose initially followed by reassessment. (iv) Analgesia: Paracetamol and NSAIDs have good evidence of action. Codeine should be used with caution in the paediatric population. (v) Reduced admission rates and early discharge: There is evidence suggesting that a trial of medical therapy prior to admission is beneficial in reducing rates of admission and length of stay.CONCLUSIONS: Management of acute tonsillitis within a secondary care setting largely consists of anecdotal or relatively low-quality evidence. Thus, much evidence from management comes from expert opinion or practice within a primary care setting. Management across the UK can also vary greatly. An evidence-based review of best practice has been presented here, but further evidence will be required in the future examining the significance of corticosteroids and antibiotic administration in this patient cohort specifically, ensuring practice is evidence based and clinically relevant.</p

    (13(3):51-56)酸桔葉片殊形潰瘍病斑之利用

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    Citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas citri (Hasse) Dowson is normally charac-terized by corky, hard, and somewhat suberized lesions surrounded by a yellowish halo on the infected leaves of susceptible varieties. If the canker lesion has developed quickly under extremely favorable conditions, the white spongy tissue will excruded in some degree, and accumulated on the lesions. This special canker lesions with spongy eruption of tissue will be found, sometime, when artificial inoculation was made by overstaying the inoculated plant in pot (Fig. 4) in the inoculation chamber for three or four days after inoculation. It is also easy to induce special lesions by keeping the leaves of susceptible varieties in such a semi-vivo condition as in the moistened Petri-dish (Fig. 3) placed in the incubator for five or six days after inoculation. The present author was deeply interested in the formation of this special lesion and had made his attempt to utilize them for several purposes, such as screen test for canker-control bactericides, identrfication of newly isolated canker organism, and determination of resistance of citrus varieties to the disease. The present report was made in deal with utilization of this inoculation technique for testing inhibiting effectiveness of the bactericides on the fomation of canker lesion. 柑桔類潰瘍病於極度適宜之環境下所發生之病斑,因罹病組識之海棉細胞受病原菌之刺激致呈畸形膨大,多量溢出,而形成白色隆起之明顯殊形病斑,此種殊形病斑頗易由人工接種而顯現。將酸桔半成熟葉片採下,以自來水沖洗後以解剖針輕刺一定數目之傷痍,浸漬於病原菌懸浮液,使葉面餘液陰乾後排放於潮濕培養皿之玻璃支架上,置28℃定溫箱培養六天,即可於傷痍部位呈現明顯之殊形潰瘍病斑。 筆者以此病斑形成之明顯與容易,乃探測其利用價值。本試驗以五種抗生製劑供作傷痍葉片人工接種後作藥劑侵漬處理,以葉片病斑發生數目,測定供試藥劑對病原菌之抑制或殺減效力。據試驗結果,病斑之發生與藥劑濃度具有規律之相關關係。筆者認為此法於藥劑試驗之初步選定上,為一簡便而可行之方法

    Smart Redundancy Schemes for ANNs against Fault Attacks

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    Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to accomplish a variety of tasks, including safety critical ones. Hence, it is important to protect them against faults that can influence decisions during operation. In this paper, we propose smart and low-cost redundancy schemes that protect the most vulnerable ANN parts against fault attacks. Experimental results show that the two proposed smart schemes perform similarly to dual modular redundancy (DMR) at a much lower cost, generally improve on the state of the art, and reach protection levels in the range of 93% to 99%.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer EngineeringQuantum & Computer Engineerin

    communis

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    Juniperus communis Linnaeuscommon juniper;dwarf juniper;ground juniper;low junipergenévrier commun;genièvreJuniperus communisCrowsnestgrassland on south slope4500 feetfoliage 'golden' when found, but green in cultivation in 196

    A bibliometric analysis of the performance of Water Research

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    [[abstract]]This paper presents a detailed chronological survey of papers published in the journal titled Water Research which started publication since 1967. This current investigation reviews publication patterns between 1967 and 2008. An analysis of the research performance according to publication output, distribution of words in article title, author keywords, and keywords plus. Performances of countries, institutes, and authors, including total, single, collaborative, first author, and corresponding author publications were analyzed. The most-frequently cited articles each year and the articles of the highest impact in 2008 were also reported. Results showed that ‘‘activated sludge’’ was the most frequently used author keyword, followed by ‘‘adsorption,’’ and ‘‘drinking water.’’ Authors from 114 different countries/territories published in the journal, with the most articles submitted by authors from the USA
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