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Devlin, D C, 4280
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/381653Surname: DEVLIN. Given Name(s) or Initials: D C. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 4280. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 11909.197717
Item: [2016.0049.13946] "Devlin, D C, 4280
Expanding the Reach of Critical Care Pharmacists Globally*
No full textDrug therapy plays a key role in treating critical illness; the average ICU patient receives more than 30 different medications (1). Critical care clinicians are faced with numerous decisions each day regarding drug selection, dosing, administration, availability, cost, and monitoring. A failure to appropriately manage these complex issues increases the risk for patient harm. The intensivist-led, multidisciplinary team (MDT) has been embraced as a model of care for the critically ill by clinicians, hospitals, and outside stakeholders (2)
Wanted for GRAND LARCENY WILLIAM DEVLIN alias WHITTEN
No full textHEADQUARTERS Of THE METROPOLITAN POLICE
DETECTIVE BUREAU.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 13, 1902.
Wanted for GRAND LARCENY
WILLIAM DEVLIN alias WHITTEN
WILLIAM DEVLIN, alias WHIITTEN, white, 25 years old, 5 feet 6, medium build, medium complexion, brown hair; blue eyes, scar over left eye Ind on left forearm.
Bertillon Measurements: Height 67.S, Outer Arms 75.0, Trunk 88.t, Head Length t8.4, Head Width t5.6, Right Ear 6.3, Left Foot 25.5, Middle Finger tt.3, Little Finger 9.0, Fore arm 45,0.
Devlin and James Reilly, alias Ritchie, alias Richards (who is now in jail awaiting trial) have been indicted for the larceny of a tray of diamond rings from the show window of Gerome Desio, a jeweler of this city, on March 9, t897.
Kindly have diligent inquiry made for this man and if found in your jurisdiction cause his arrest and immediately telegraph-
RICHARD SYLVESTER,
Superintendent of Police
Investigating sentence weighting components for automatic summarisation
No full textThe work described here initially formed part of a triangulation exercise to establish the effectiveness of the Query Term Order algorithm. The methodology produced subsequently proved to be a reliable indicator of quality for summarising English web documents. We utilised the human summaries from the Document Understanding Conference data, and generated queries automatically for testing the QTO algorithm. Six sentence weighting schemes that made use of Query Term Frequency and QTO were constructed to produce system summaries, and this paper explains the process of combining and balancing the weighting components. We also examined the five automatically generated query terms in their different permutations to check if the automatic generation of query terms resulting bias. The summaries produced were evaluated by the ROUGE-1 metric, and the results showed that using QTO in a weighting combination resulted in the best performance. We also found that using a combination of more weighting components always produced improved performance compared to any single weighting component
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
Morals and the enforcement of values : an analysis of the Hart - Devlin debate
No full textThis thesis attempts to discover out of the debate between Lord Devlin and H.L.A. Hart the theoretical basis of decision-making in cases where there is a conflict between individual moral freedom and social control. It is structured in the form of an analysis of the debate between Devlin and Hart concerning the principles for and against the enforcement of morality. There are five main chapters of the thesis and a short conclusion. The first chapter, headed The Hart-Devlin Debate , introduces and summarises Devlin\u27s answers and Hart\u27s criticism to the first two hypothetical questions which Devlin addresses to himself, namely, (1) Has society the right to pass judgement at all on matters of morals?, (2) If society has the right to pass judgement, has it also the right to use the weapon of the law to enforce it? It analyses Devlin\u27s attempt to rationally convert the descriptive proposition that the majority have power to enforce morality to the normative proposition that society ought to enforce morality. There is an observation that the co-existing right of individual freedom is not debated by rational argument. The second chapter under the heading The Common Morality and the Feelings Test sets out the feelings test as expounded by Devlin as a means to determine which rules of morality ought to be enforced. There is a specified list of the qualifications to the feelings test which Hart overlooks for the most part. However I reach the conclusion that it is difficult to authoritatively interpret these qualifications or to give them any substance. Discussion then centres around Hart\u27s objections that the feelings test is an abdication of reason and a source of potential injustice. These objections are not sufficient basis for rejecting the feelings test. The third chapter, called Moral Paternalism , attempts to isolate the difference in the views of Hart and Devlin by analysis of Hart\u27s phrase morality as such. Hart creates an artificial distinction between paternalism and enforcement of positive morality, thereby attempting to explain which moral rules ought to be enforced by assigning these two labels. My conclusion is that the only rational distinction lies in the availability of empirical evidence to prove physical harm and non-availability of empirical evidence to prove moral harm. Hart has a stricter onus of proof than Devlin when it comes to proving harm to the individual. However, it is difficult to sustain the distinction of physical and non-physical harm as the basis for decisions which we “want” to make. The distinction is rendered impotent in practice by finding elements of harm to society in the action of the individual and thereby justifying enforcement of morals by using Mill\u27s principle of liberty. Concepts of private and public harm are easily used to cloak the real basis of the decision. My conclusion is that the real difference between the views of Hart and Devlin, behind all the principles, is a difference of value-preference. The fourth chapter, under the heading Value Difference between Hart and Devlin discusses the possible reasons for the differing value preferences. It questions whether value preferences can ultimately be traced to prevalent social conditions. There has always been historical debate concerning the mysterious balance between individual freedom and social control. In order to assist in identifying the personal values of Hart and Devlin, their respective theories are viewed in terms of three traditional intellectual antinomies. These antinomies involve the problem of choosing between (a) Public authority or a Platonic elite (b) Individualism or collectivism (c) Reason or faith; intellect or intuition Both Hart and Devlin stand in definite historical intellectual positions and their theories can be compared to the writings of numerous legal and political philosophers. I agree with those writers who argue that a conflict between two ultimate values cannot be settled by reason. Can we argue that Hart\u27s value preference for individual freedom in moral matters is subject to question due to modern social conditions? The fifth chapter is given the name The Irreversible Disaster Argument. This section analyses Devlin\u27s original argument that society has the right to preserve its common morality. Justification of this argument is attempted in terms of the right of society to prevent \u27\u27irreversible disaster. This is an attempt to derive a guiding principle from an extreme fact situation in order to assist to decide the deadlocked values. In times of emergency or threatened disaster, the value of individual freedom ought to he subordinated to other values. An analogy is drawn between Devlin\u27s arguments for the preservation of morality and current arguments for the preservation of the environment. However Devlin\u27s arguments for the enforcement of morality, even in terms of the principle of irreversible disaster, can be met by several unanswerable objections. A short attack is made on Devlin\u27s theory by a similar device of applying the theory to a possible interpretation of modern social conditions. However this criticism does not enable us to subordinate Devlin\u27s value-preference either. The conclusion is that Hart and Devlin have different value-preferences and their pronounced theoretical principles only dress these preferences with the garb of rationality. Ultimately they are only able to state the theories which they develop to support their personal values and cannot explain why
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
T-L SPLITTINGS FROM POLARIZED ATR SPECTRA OF UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS
No full textR. P. J. Cooney, C. Thayer, P. C. Li, and J. P. Devlin, J. Chem. Phys. 51, 302 (1969).""Author Institution: Chemistry Department, Oklahoma State University; Department of Chemistry, Oregon State UniversityOriented films of the trigonal alkali metal nitrates, which behave effectively as single crystals, can be grown in optical contact with silicon and Irtran 6 atr elements from the corresponding pure melts. Contrary to earlier spectra from such crystals are not strongly influenced by crystal distortion at the interface. Rather the unusual experimental curves, typified by a nearly complete lack of TE and TM band overlap for the mode of (II), have been found to be predictable using optical parameters generated from a damped oscillator model. Substitution of the empirically calibrated optical constants into Fresnel’s equations for the case in point (unique crystal axis perpendicular to the sample-element interface) yields nearly quantitative agreement with the experimental curves
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The Interaction of HCl and Crystalline Ice Clusters at Cryogenic Temperatures: Evidence of the Molecular Complex
No full text1. Lance Delzeit, Brad Rowland, and J. Paul Devlin; J. Phys. Chem. 97 10312 (1993). 2. B. S. Ault and G. C. Pimentel; J. Phys. Chem. 77 57 (1973). 3. A. Schriver, et. al.; J. Phys. Chem. 87 2095 (1977). 4. G. Kroes and D. C. Clary; J. Phys. Chem. 96 7079 (1992). 5. Brad Rowland, Mark Fisher, and J. Paul Devlin; J. Chem. Phys. 95 1378 (1991).Author Institution: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078The addition of HCl to the surface of crystalline ice clusters at cryogenic temperatures produces spectroscopic changes which can be related to the formation of the hydronium ion and the HCl acting as a molecular adsorbate. The hydronium ion is identified from its IR active modes below . Evidence for the HCl acting as a molecular adsorbate is its effect on the dangling-hydrogen (d-H) mode and the appearance of a band. Analogous spectra for with the and the show two bands relative to the one band in the region due to the interaction. The single band in the HCl system is attributed to the near overlap of the bands due to the molecular and ionic interaction of the HCl and . Reference to matrix and computational will show the plausibility of the presence of the molecular complex. Shifting of the d-H band is a common effect for molecularly adsorbed species on the surface of The shifting of the d-H to a position yet unobserved for common adsorbates gives strong evidence of the HCl acting as a molecular adsorbate
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