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LeTourneau modified tank-tree crusher with R.G. LeTourneau and unidentified man.
No full textPhotograph of a Tree Crusher Tender built in Vicksburg, Mississippi and intended for use at the Tournata complex in Liberia, according to author Eric Orlemann. Shown with the tank are R.G. LeTourneau, left, and an unidentified man. The tank was never actually shipped to Tournata
Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care
No full textCreating adoptions for children waiting in foster care is a good investment, but the number of adoptions created each year meets only a fraction of the need. This paper explores how the organization of the delivery of social services to waiting children and prospective adoptive families influences adoption creation. Cross-section time-series estimates are supplemented with a new augmented fixed effects procedure to demonstrate that the use of contracts with private agencies bolsters adoption creation. Contracts for recruitment and orientation of prospective adoptive parents are particularly effective.adoption, child welfare, fixed effects vector decomposition, foster care, privatization
Foster, Julie B.
No full textR.G. Foster - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1940/1261/thumbnail.jp
Longview manufacturing plant under construction, LT21 Misc Photos Archive 062.
No full textPhotograph of the Longview manufacturing plant of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. The plant's construction began in 1945 and completed in 1946. At the time, according to Otis Hays, author of R.G. LeTourneau: Move of Men and Mountains, at the time it was the world's largest welding and manufacturing plant under one roof, covering more than 100 acres
The Big Plow with 6-Foot Disc, J5G, Photo 35, L-8312
No full textPhotograph of R.G. LeTourneau's Series H (Model 6-16) Disc Plow, designed for land-clearing operations. It was powered by a front longitudinally mounted diesel, according to author Eric Orlemann
Orthophytum vagans Foster 1960
No full textOrthophytum vagans Foster (1960: 59). Type:— BRAZIL. Espírito Santo: R.G. Wilson 578 (holotype US!). Plants rupicolous, stems elongate, ca 19 cm long. Leaves slightly arching. Leaf sheaths ovate, 1.5–2 × 1.7–2.5 cm, margins serrate, prickles 0.5–3 mm long. Leaf blades subcoriaceous, canaliculate, green, internal one reddish white, narrowly triangular, attenuate, sparsely lepidote, margins serrate, prickles antrorse, apices mucronate. Inflorescences sessile, simple, few-flowered. Floral bracts subcoriaceous, narrowly triangular, margins serrate, apices acuminate. Sepals white, narrowly triangular, lanate, margins entire, apices acuminate. Petals green with white margins, linear-spatulate, apices obtuse-cucullate. Petals appendages cupuliform, lacerate. Stamens with antepetalous filaments ca 10 mm long and adnate to the petals,the antesepalous ones free 18 mm long. Ovaries trigonous. Fruits and seeds not seen. Distribuition and habitat: —unknown IUCN conservation status: —DD. Orthophytum vagans was described from cultivated material found in a garden in Rio de Janeiro. It has not yet been found in the wild. Comments: — Orthophytum vagans is similar to O. zanonii as both are having an elongated stem and obtuse-cucullate petals. It differs from O. zanonii mainly by having a simple inflorescence (vs. compound). Herbarium collections of Orthophytum vagans other than the type material are not known. Live material was brought to the United States by R.G. Wilson, and initially, the author of this species thought it was Cryptanthus glazioui Mez (1891–94: 202), due to the elongated stems. However, after observing the fertile plants in cultivation, Foster (1960) concluded that this plant was a new species of Orthophytum, easily recognized by the elongated stems. The presence of elongated stems forming a clump, inspired the name vagans, meaning 'wandering'.Published as part of Louzada, Rafael Batista & Wanderley, Maria Das Graças Lapa, 2010, Revision of Orthophytum (Bromeliaceae): the species with sessile inflorescences, pp. 1-26 in Phytotaxa 13 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.13.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/477860
Large LeTourneau tree crusher, LT20
No full textPhotograph of aLeTourneau tree crusher with three unidentified men. This is likely the Series G-50 Tree Crusher, judging from a similar photo in author Eric Orlemann's book on R.G. LeTourneau's earthmoving equipment
The Added Value of Enterprise Architecture
No full textApplying architecture implies that it provides added value across an enterprise. Although widely adopted, this claim has only been scarcely investigated, not to mention quantified. This document describes the results of a case study to quantify the effects of applying Enterprise Architecture within a financial institution called FinCom. For confidential information reasons, the name of this company is fictive. The thesis attempts to capture several factors at project level with respect to the application of Enterprise Architecture and its subsequent financial benefits. The study analyzed 40 projects, with regard to time and budget overrun. In order to collect these data, a total of 35 business, enterprise and domain architects were interviewed on their experience with these projects. Among factors taken into account were architecture type, project compliance to architecture and experience of the architect. Consequently, these factors are recorded in hypotheses that relate to the budget and time figures of the project. These hypotheses are incorporated in the 'Architecture Effectiveness Model' and statistically tested with the acquired data. This led to more than 12.000 calculations to show the subsequent benefits of Enterprise Architecture.Information ArchitectureComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Tomorrow's Careers | Poole, Lynn | Calfee, Ken | Geier, Leo | Foster, Franklin | Advertising | Television Programs
No full textThis photograph was originally a part of R.G. 10.020, Series 10, Box 1. The photograph has been pasted to the back of #14486.Still taken from the "Advertising" section of Tomorrow's Careers | Poole is standing with Calfer, Geier, and Foster, all representatives with the Foster & Green fir
Tomorrow's Careers | Poole, Lynn | Calfee, Ken | Geier, Leo | Foster, Franklin | Advertising | Television Programs
No full textThis photograph was originally a part of R.G. 10.020, Series 10, Box 1. The photograph has been pasted to the back of #14486.Still taken from the "Advertising" section of Tomorrow's Careers | Poole is standing with Calfer, Geier, and Foster, all representatives with the Foster & Green fir
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