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The Triassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia (Field Trip A7: The Triassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia. Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Canadian Society of Soil Sciences, 2005 Joint Meeting, Halifax, NS)
No full textTriassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia. North American Paleontological Congress Field Guidebook
No full textAlbum of drawings from the history of architecture by Otton Fedak student of Lviv Polytechnic and his later professional works
No full textArtykuł poświęcono albumowi rysunków mało znanego dotąd architekta Ottona Fedaka (z Czerniowiec) i jego późniejszej twórczości zawodowej. Odkrycie tego albumu umożliwiło poszerzenie wiedzy na temat nauczania historii architektury na Wydziale Architektonicznym Politechniki Lwowskiej oraz zwróciło uwagę na późniejszą twórczość projektową jego autora. Omawiany zbiór rysunków stanowi pracę studencką wykonaną w roku akademickim 1926/1927, na zajęciach prof. dr J. Zubrzyckiego. Fedak uzyskał dyplom w 1930/1931 r. W 1934 r. współpracował przy projekcie konkursowym Miejskich Zakładów Elektrycznych (T. Wróbel i L. Karasiński), a następnie wykonał projekt szkoły na Bogdanówce (1936) i kościoła w Potaszynie na Wołyniu. Brał udział w projektowaniu targowiska we Lwowie (1937) oraz w konkursach na kościół w Kołomyi (przed 1939) i na odbudowę cerkwi św. Ducha we Lwowie (1942). Po II wojnie światowej inż. arch. O. Fedak mieszkał w Polsce, w Oświęcimiu i w Myślenicach. Jest autorem kilku projektów kościołów w metropolii krakowskiej: w Tenczynie (1947-1968), w Przytkowicach (1948-1953), w Skomielnej Czarnej (1949-1960) i w Starych Żukowicach (1957-1961), a w latach 1960-1967 prowadził budowę kościoła w Skomielnej Białej, według projektu W. Cęckiewicza. Twórczość O. Fedaka należała do nurtu „harmonijnego modernizmu” (staranne zestawianie brył, kamienne wątki, uproszczony detal, tradycyjne sklepienia bądź stropy żelbetowe). Zrealizowane kościoły, mimo że nie należą może do wybitnych dzieł, stanowią cenne przykłady twórczości architekta m.in. w trudnych dla budowy świątyń latach PRL.The paper is dedicated to the album of drawings made by the little known architect Otton Fedak (from Czerniowce) and his later professional works. The discovery of this album provided more information on the process of teaching the history of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at Lviv Polytechnic and attracted attention to the later design works by its author. This collection of drawings presents the works made by the student in the academic year 1926/1927 in classes of Professor J. Zubrzycki, Ph.D. Fedak attained his diploma in 1930/1931. In 1934, he participated in the competition for the design of the Electric Power Facility (T. Wróbel and L. Karasiński) and then he made a design for the school in Bogdanówka (1936) as well as the church in Potaszyn in Volhynia. He also participated in redesigning of the market in Lviv (1937) and in the competitions for the design of the church in Kolomyia (before 1939) as well as for the rebuilding of the Greek Catholic church of the Holy Ghost in Lviv (1942). After World War II, the Engineer of Architecture O. Fedak lived in Poland, in Oświęcim and in Myślenice. He is the author of several designs of churches in the Cracow metropolis: in Tenczyn (1947-1968), Przytkowice (1948-1953), Skomielna Czarna (1949-1960) and in Stare Żukowice (1957-1961), and in 1960-1967 he was in charge of the construction of the church in Skomielna Biała designed by W. Cęckiewicz. The works by O. Fedak fall within the “harmonious modernism” style (carefully combined forms, stone courses, simple details, traditional vaults or rebar reinforced concrete structural floors). Although the churches which were completed may not be the most excellent works, they are valuable examples of churches designed by the architect and executed in the difficult times of the Polish People’s Republic
The frontal system of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current : marine mammals as ocean explorers
No full textIn this thesis, I describe large-scale and small-scale features of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) by merging conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) data
obtained by novel animal-borne sensors with data obtained by more conventional
means. Twenty-one CTD-Satellite Relay Data Loggers (CTD-SRDLs) were attached
to Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) on South Georgia in 2004 and 2005.
This was part of a larger international study (Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Samplers; SEaOS), in which I played a major role in developing the oceanographic approach used to integrate physical data from a range of sources, and the means to link biological findings to oceanographic parameters.
The development of animal-borne oceanographic sensors and their potential place within an ocean observing system is reviewed initially. Then, I describe the Series 9000 CTD-SRDL in detail, discussing its performance in the lab and during two field experiences with Southern elephant seals and Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii ).
Following this, a detailed study of the ACC frontal system in the South Atlantic is
presented that uses merged Argo float data and CTD-SRDL data. The structure of
the frontal field revealed by this unique dataset is examined, and unprecedented insight into its variability is obtained. Amongst the important findings is that, contrary to most climate models, our in situ data suggest a northward shift of the ACC east of 40W in 2004 and 2005 compared to previous work. Next, two CTD-SRDL sections
are presented to identify the locations of the ACC fronts across Drake Passage,
and an empirical relationship between upper ocean temperature and baroclinic mass
transport is used to determine the transport through Drake Passage at the times of
the sections. This technique is a powerful complement to more conventional means
of data collection in this region, especially given the ability of the seals to conduct "sections" at times when ship-based fieldwork is logistically most challenging, i.e. in the winter time.
The CTD-SRDLs do not only record hydrographic data, but simultaneously record
seal movements and diving behavior. This enables insight to be obtained on the behavioral and physiological responses of Southern elephant seals to spatial environmental variability throughout their circumpolar range. The resulting energetic consequences of these variations could help explain recently observed spatially varying population trends. With a stable population at South Georgia and declining populations at
Kerguelen and Macquarie Island. This study also highlights the benefits to the sensorcarrying animals themselves by showing the usefulness of this approach in examining
the sensitivity of top predators to global and regional-scale climate variability. More
importantly, I conclude that, by implementing animal-borne sensors into ocean observing strategies, we not only gain information about global ocean circulation and enhance our understanding of climate and the corresponding heat and salt transports,
but at the same time we increase our knowledge about ocean’s top predators, their
life history and their sensitivity to climate change
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
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
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
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