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Rice University trainer Allen Eggert
No full textBlack and white photograph of Rice University athletic trainer Allen Eggert, accompanied by text headlining his achievement of the Rice Athletic Honorary "R" Award.Caption reads: One of the most difficult and demanding positions in sports is that of the athletic trainer. It is a particularly tough duty for football. Allen Eggert is one of the really talented and dedicated trainers of them all. So it is that the "R" Association presents him with the coveted title of Honorary "R" Man. Although Allen's primary duties are for the grid team, his contributions go to service as an overseer of the entire athletic program's health needs. The one man who was the greatest influence on Eggert and his successful career is the late Eddie Wojecki, the superb Owl trainer from 1945 to his death in 1967. Eggert was one of his best student trainers and came back to his alma mater to replace him in Feb. 1968. Allen carried on Wojecki's longevity in records, with his long service. A member of the athletic trainers hall of fame, Allen was born in Wilson, NY, on July 9, 1940, but moved to Houston when he was only 10. Following graduation from San Jacinto High School, Allen went to Kilgore J.C. for two years. Then he got a chance to become student aide to Wojecki, a coveted post, in 1960. He served Rice to graduation in the summer of 1963. The news of Wojecki's death in 1967 was sad for Allen, who was working in San Diego at the time, but he was honored to be chosen to come home to Rice and fill the shoes of a "legend."Rice University Honorary "R" Award (poor quality image
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Cold-Storage Lockers (revised December 1937)
No full text16 pages; includes photographs and plan. This archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from the University of Minnesota Extension: https://www.extension.umn.edu.Morris, W. E.; Warrington, S. T.; Eggert, R. J.. (1937). Cold-Storage Lockers (revised December 1937). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/168532
"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.
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Jordan (W.). — Handbuch der Veumessungskunde. Fortgeselzt von O. Reinhertz. Zweiter Band : Feld- und Land-Messung ; 7e édition, par O. Eggert. Stuttgart, Metzler, 1908. 1 vol. in-8° de 928 pages avec figures
No full textR. Jordan (W.). — Handbuch der Veumessungskunde. Fortgeselzt von O. Reinhertz. Zweiter Band : Feld- und Land-Messung ; 7e édition, par O. Eggert. Stuttgart, Metzler, 1908. 1 vol. in-8° de 928 pages avec figures. In: Bulletin astronomique, tome 26, 1909. pp. 223-224
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
Systematic Screening of All Signal Peptides from Bacillus subtilis: A Powerful Strategy in Optimizing Heterologous Protein Secretion in Gram-positive Bacteria
No full textBrockmeier U, Caspers M, Freudl R, Jockwer A, Noll T, Eggert T. Systematic Screening of All Signal Peptides from Bacillus subtilis: A Powerful Strategy in Optimizing Heterologous Protein Secretion in Gram-positive Bacteria. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2006;362(3):393-402
Socioscientific decision making in the science classroom: the effect of embedded metacognitive instructions on students' learning outcomes
No full textThe purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of cooperative training strategies to enhance students' socioscientific decision making as well as their metacognitive skills in the science classroom. Socioscientific decision making refers to both “describing socioscientific issues” as well as “developing and evaluating solutions” to socioscientific issues. We investigated two cooperative training strategies which differed with respect to embedded metacognitive instructions that were developed on the basis of the IMPROVE method. Participants were 360 senior high school students who studied either in a cooperative learning setting (COOP), a cooperative learning setting with embedded metacognitive questions (COOP+META), or a nontreatment control group. Results indicate that students in the two training conditions outperformed students in the control group on both processes of socioscientific decision making. However, students in the COOP+META condition did not outperform students in the COOP condition. With respect to students' learning outcomes on the regulation facet of metacognition, results indicate that all conditions improved over time. Students in the COOP+META condition exhibited highest mean scores at posttest measures, but again, results were not significant. Implications for integrating metacognitive instructions into science classrooms are discussed
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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