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Postcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka, August 1943
No full textPostcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka in the Jerome incarceration camp including a greeting and update from Cooke.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Specialty farming in Idaho: Selecting a site
No full textBulletin no. 744 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1992-10-01. Author(s): Barney, D.L.; Finnerty, T.L.; Mancuso, C.J
Cross-Cultural Meta-Analyses
No full textIn the enormous collection of cross-cultural data that have been published during the last few decades it is difficult to perceive patterns. There is a clear need for systematizing the vast amount of cross-cultural studies and for developing models that explain cross-cultural differences in psychology. Two methods of cross-cultural meta-analysis can be distinguished. First, the instrument-based method of comparing data for one instrument across countries is suitable for instruments which have been administered in many countries. Second, a domain-based meta-analysis used a thematic domain from which culture-comparative studies are sampled instead of one specific instrument or method
La durata della somministrazione a termine
No full textIl saggio esamina le innovazioni introdotte nella somministrazione a tempo determinato dal d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
Si rileva come la nuova legge, accomuna contratto di lavoro a termine e contratto di somministrazione a tempo determinato e si evidenziano le incertezze della nuova normativa determinate dalla commistione tra disciplina di somministrazione a termine e disciplina di contratto a termine.The essay examines the innovations introduced in the fixed term labour-only subcontracting by d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
The Author remarks that the Act, unites fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting.
The uncertainties of the new regulation determined by the blending of the regulation of fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting are also highlighted
A large-scale biomass bulk terminal
No full textThis research explores the possibility of a large-scale bulk terminal in West Europe dedicated to handle solid and liquid biomass materials. Various issues regarding the conceptual design of such a terminal have been investigated and demonstrated in this research: the potential biomass materials that will be the major international trade flows in the future, the characteristics of these potential biomass materials, the interaction between the material properties and terminal equipment, the perspective from terminal logistic process, and the terminal configuration. To this day no such a terminal exists yet. Therefore, the results from this research are a first step that will help the future development of such a terminal.Marine and Transport TechnologyMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
La raffigurazione dell'Arcangelo Michele nella monetazione medievale
No full textQuesto articolo nasce dall’unione delle relazioni tenute dall’autore nel corso dei convegni “Langobardorum Nummorum Doctrina” (2018) e “In Sanctorum Nummis Effigies” (2019). Dopo un’attenta ricerca viene mostrato il percorso dell’iconografia micaelica nella monetazione medievale e il suo cammino attraverso l’Europa. L’effige del santo raffigurata in primis dai Gepidi e poi da Longobardi e Bizantini, si diffonderà in tutta l’Europa medievale, dal Regno di Sicilia fino alla Danimarca. Il lavoro, frutto non solo di una ricerca numismatica, ma anche storica e artistica, vuole essere un punto di partenza di uno studio più complesso che l’autore sta compiendo sulla raffigurazione del santo nelle monete medievali.This article was born from the union of the reports given by the author during the conferences “Langobardorum Nummorum Doctrina” (2018) and “In Sanctorum Nummis Effigies” (2019). After careful research, the path of Michaelic iconography in medieval coinage and its journey through Europe is demonstrated. The effigy of the saint depicted primarily by the Gepids, and then by the Lombards and the Byzantines, spread throughout medieval Europe, from the Kingdom of Sicily to Denmark. This work, the result not only of numismatic but also of historical and artistic research, is intended to be a starting point for a more complex study that the author is carrying out on the depiction of the saint in medieval coins
Introduction
No full text© The Author(s) 2019. This chapter introduces the conceptual underpinning and aims of the book, and outlines its content. It discusses how, although the doctorate represents the most advanced form of adult education and qualification, and considerable effort, research and training has been expended on the process of completing a doctorate, there has been far less interest or focus on the lived experience of doing one. It describes how, and why, this book focuses on the human dimension that underpins the highest level of formal learning achievable. This chapter also outlines the volume’s unique organisation around the themes and concerns that students themselves have identified as centrally important to successfully completing their research degrees. The introduction describes how, from assessing the self to working with others, from building resilience to developing networks, and considering how ethical conduct permeates a researcher’s practice, this book takes readers-both students and supervisors-on a journey towards successful doctoral learning. It also describes how, while each section is framed by ideas and concepts suggested by the editors, who are experienced doctoral supervisors, the core content of the book is purposely student-driven and authored, in order to provide an authentic account of the doctoral experience
Present-day and future lightning, and its impact on tropospheric chemistry
No full textLightning represents a key interaction with climate through its production of
nitrogen oxides (NOx) which lead to ozone production. These NOx emissions are
generally calculated interactively in chemistry-climate models but there has been
little development of the representation of the lightning processes since the 1990s.
In most models the parametrisation of lightning is based upon simulated cloud-top
height. The aims of the thesis are: to explore existing schemes, and develop
a new process-based scheme, to parametrise lightning; to use a new process-based
lightning scheme to give insights regarding the role of lightning NOx in
tropospheric chemistry; and to use alternative lightning schemes to improve the
understanding of the response of lightning to climate change, and the consequent
impacts on tropospheric chemistry.
First, a new lightning parametrisation is developed using reanalysis data and
satellite lightning observations which is based on upward cloud ice flux. This
parametrisation is more closely linked to thunderstorm charging theory. It greatly
improves the simulated zonal distribution of lightning compared to the cloud-top
height approach, which overestimates lightning in the tropics. The new lightning
scheme is then implemented in a chemistry-climate model, the UK Chemistry
and Aerosol model (UKCA). It is evaluated against ozone sonde measurements
with broad global coverage and improves the simulation of the annual cycle of
upper tropospheric ozone concentration, compared to ozone simulated with the
cloud-top height approach. This improvement in simulated ozone is attributed to
the change in ozone production associated with the improved zonal distribution
of simulated lightning.
Subsequently, data from a chemistry-climate model intercomparison project (ACCMIP)
are used to study the state-of-the-art in lightning NOx parametrisation
along with its response to climate change. It is found that the models using the
cloud-top height approach produce a very similar response of lightning NOx to
changes in global mean surface temperature of +0.44± 0.05 TgNK-1, for a baseline
emission of 5 TgN yr-1. However, two models using two alternative lightning
schemes produce a weaker and a negative response of lightning to climate change.
Finally, simulations in a future climate scenario for year 2100 in the UKCA model
were performed with the cloud-top height and the ice flux parametrisations. The
lightning response to climate change when using the cloud-top height scheme is
in good agreement with the positive response found in the multi-model results
of the cloud-top height approach. However, the new ice flux approach suggests
that lightning will decrease in future. These opposing responses introduce large
uncertainty into the projections of tropospheric ozone and methane lifetime in the
future scenario. An analysis of the radiative forcing from these two species also
shows the large uncertainty in the individual methane and ozone radiative forcings
in the future. Due to the opposite effect that lightning NOx has on methane (loss)
and ozone (production) the net radiative forcing effect of lightning in present-day
and future is found to be close to zero. However, there is a small positive feedback
suggested by the results of the cloud-top height approach, whereas no feedback is
evident with the ice flux approach.
These results show there are large and crucial uncertainties introduced by
lightning parametrisation choice, not only in terms of the actual lightning
distribution but also atmospheric composition and radiative forcing. The new
ice-based parametrisation developed here offers a good alternative to the widely-used
approach and can be used in future to model lightning and develop the
understanding of associated uncertainties
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