6,439 research outputs found
The Urgenda Climate Case and its Consequences
No full textA presentation by Roger H.J. Cox at After Paris: Politics, Climate Change & Labour meetings, Toronto, 2015. (31 slides) Roger Cox was the lead lawyer in the ground-breaking Urgenda case which, for the first time ever, argued for the responsibility of the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The government of Netherlands appealed the decision but was eventually forced to amend its GHG reduction targets as a result of the Court’s decision in Urgenda. The video of Mr. Cox’s presentation is available for download in this archive.Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Chang
Interview with Mark Cox
No full textMark Cox is a professor of Creative Writing at UNCW, and has served as Chair of the department. He is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Smoulder, Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone, and Natural Causes
On Campus Video, featuring Abilene (TX) businessman and author Jack Cox.
No full textA videorecording of an interview with Abilene (TX) businessman and author Jack Cox, conducted by Dr. Gary McCaleb of Abilene Christian University
Concentration in Knowledge Output: A case of Economics Journals
No full textThis paper assesses the degree of author concentration in seven economics journals, which were published in India during 1990-2002. To measure the degree of author concentration, Lotka's Law was used. Moreover, we also make an exploratory analysis of the geographic, economics subfield and institutional concentration in 704 economics journals. An important finding of this paper is that specialized journals in the sample report the highest degree of author concentration. This result is quite similar to the findings by Cox and Chung (1991). Furthermore, there are several instances showing that the journals lean towards certain norms; this may affect the flow of innovative ideas into economics. We conclude that a knowledge activity, involving the high degree of concentration and a biased publication process, may affect the flow of new ideas into the discipline.Concentration, Lotka's Law
Mary Ann Cox Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textBurton-Wood: in a series of letters, by a lady (Mrs. - Cox nee Wight), London (printed for the author by H.D.Steel) 1783, vol.11
(octovo vol, leather bound)
Enclosed: note The book Burtonwood was written by the mother of
Mary Ann Cox who ran the first coach from Hobart to Launceston.
It was passed on to me by her grand-daughter Miss Dora Clerk of Malahide.
I also am a grand-daughter of Mrs. Cox. Joan Harvey
(John Edward Cox m. Mary Ann Halls
V.D.L. 1821 J.E.C. started Hobart-Launceston coach) - (note - Mrs.
Harvey's identification of the author of the volume was based on family
tradition although not confirmed - no details are known of John Edward
Cox's parents)
Poems by C(harles) Best c 1847 - 1849
Includes poems to Miss Wilmot (Georgiana Wilmot, - Mrs. C. Butler)
and Mary Wilmot.
Enclosed: note by Joan Harvey
Article on Mrs. Mary Ann Cox 1950.
A pioneer career woman (on coach service between Hobart - Launceston)
from "Woman's Day" Aug. 21, 1950 (news clipping)
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Oxygen uptake and carbohydrate metabolism by in vitro derived bovine embryos
No full textThe consumption of oxygen, uptake of pyruvate and glucose and production of lactate were determined for groups of bovine embryos produced in vitro from the one-cell to the blastocyst stage (day 0–6 of culture). Measurements were made in Hepes-buffered synthetic oviduct fluid medium supplemented with 1.0 mmol pyruvate l−1, 10 mmol d,l-lactate l−1 and 1.5 mmol glucose l−1 and also 3 mg BSA ml−1 and, from day 5 of development, 10% (v/v) fetal calf serum. The amount of ATP production was determined from oxygen consumption and the proportion of glucose taken up that could be accounted for by lactate production. The data revealed that oxygen consumption was relatively constant from days 0–4 of culture (0.24–0.27 nl per embryo h−1), but increased with the initiation of compaction (0.39 nl per embryo h−1) and continued to increase with the formation and expansion of the blastocoel (0.9 nl per embryo h−1). Both pyruvate and glucose uptake followed similar patterns. Furthermore, when plotted against oxygen consumption, both pyruvate and glucose uptake increased significantly (P < 0.001) in a linear relationship (R2 = 0.61 and 0.49, respectively). Lactate production also increased with development and accounted for 40% of glucose uptake at day 0 of culture (putative zygotes), increasing to 70% by day 2 (eight-cell stage) and 100% of glucose uptake from day 4 of culture onwards. ATP production followed a similar pattern to that of oxygen consumption (60–85 pmol per embryo h−1 from day 0 to day 4) increasing with compaction (124 pmol per embryo h−1) and blastulation (221 pmol per embryo h−1). For precompaction stages, 93–96% of ATP production was derived from oxidative phosphorylation, decreasing to 82% with compaction. ATP produced by oxidative phosphorylation could be accounted for by the uptake of pyruvate, suggesting that bovine embryos produced in vitro utilize little endogenous substrates when appropriate exogenous substrates are present in the culture medium. The data revealed that bovine embryos were dependent on oxidative phosphorylation for energy (ATP) production at all stages of pre-elongation development, with perhaps a shift in dependence towards glycolysis in conjunction with compaction. It follows that oxidizable substrates, such as pyruvate and certain amino acids, are preferred in embryo culture medium during development in vitro
Tomographic inversion of focusing operators
No full textSeismic images of the structure of the earth are a prerequisite for finding new hydrocarbon reservoirs. The quality of a seismic images is highly dependent on the accuracy of the velocity model of the subsurface. Conventional imaging consists of an iterative process between obtaining the image using a velocity model, and updating this model by investigating the properties of the image. The Common Focal Point (CFP) method makes it possible to analyze and treat seismic data in a fundamentally different way as it uses a two-step approach: 1) two-way reflection data are transformed into one-way data by estimating focusing operators, and 2) these focusing operators are used to estimate the velocity model by tomographic inversion. This second step, the tomographic inversion of focusing operators, is the subject of this thesis. This research contains two important new aspects. First, the use of focusing operators in (3D) velocity model estimation. Second the data-driven approach of the method. Some additional concepts like the inclusion of a priori information, the joint inversion of P and S-wave operators, and the new concept of the focal point clouds, by which the adequacy of the velocity model can be analyzed, are also addressed. After evaluation of the method of tomographic inversion of focusing operators on both synthetic and real data it can be concluded that the method results in accurate velocity models and is capable of dealing with complex subsurface models.Applied Science
Agonies of empire: American power from Clinton to Biden by Michael Cox
No full textProfessor Michael Cox discusses his new book, Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden, which explores how five very different American Presidents have addressed US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. In so doing, the book examines the deep sources of American power, the crisis many claim the US is now facing and how this may relate to the current war in Ukraine. If you are interested in this book review, you watch a video or listen to a podcast of author Professor Michael Cox discussing Agonies of Empire at an LSE public event, recorded on 24 March 2022. Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden. Michael Cox. Bristol University Press. 2022
Letter from John R. Cox to Hayao (Sam) and Toshiko Chuman
No full textA letter to Hayao (Sam) Chuman and Toshiko Chuman (nee Nakamura) from John R. Cox, Major, Infantry Commanding with the Army's 7th Psychological Operations Battalion. The letter regards Hayao and Toshiko's son's appointment to the Battalion in Vietnam, and what that appointment entails.The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
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