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Letter from Archbishop J.M. Harty to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Archbishop [J.]M. Harty, The Palace, Thurles (County Tipperary), to Hagan, enclosing an urgent petition (not extant) and a fee
Galia Muskmelons: Evaluation for Florida Greenhouse Production
No full textRevised! HS-919, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Nicole L. Shaw, Daniel J. Cantliffe, and Jeanmarie M. Harty, evaluates the potential of this specialty melon prized for its bold aroma and high sugar content for greenhouse production in Florida, discussing production methods and cultivar evaluation. Published by the UF Department of Horticultural Sciences, June 2009
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Entrepreneurial innovation in the construction sector: overcoming process discontinuities in projects
No full textTechnological innovation seems uncommon in the construction sector. The traditional organization of construction supply involves sub-contracting and complex networks of contracts. The reasons for this are explained through the application of transaction cost economics. Sub-contracts create vertical discontinuity in the process. Horizontal discontinuity occurs as work is handed over from one stage to another. For construction companies, process discontinuity is problematic. The business models they develop explain how they operate within this fragmented process. We argue that process discontinuity, vertical and horizontal, obstructs the development and implementation of technological innovation. Further, the involvement of each part of the project organization comes about through contracts, which crystallize the nature of each contribution too early in the process. This contractual process discontinuity is a difficult boundary for innovative ideas to cross. While there are multiple methods of overcoming these problems in practice, we examine one case of an innovative company that has removed process discontinuities, horizontally and vertically. They are also technologically innovative. This empirical work explores a particularly interesting solution that seems well-aligned with encouraging the emergence of technological innovation. The indications are that it may be useful for construction firms to explore new business models, utilizing whole-scale integration. While vertical integration may not be the only answer, it seems to carry less organizational and legal complexity than the more common solution of developing of alliances and/or joint ventures. In other words, the findings from this case indicate that traditional industry structures and norms do not necessarily encourage technological innovation. Innovative entrepreneurs may operate outside traditional market structures
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Comparison of Serum Dkk1 (Dickkopf-1) and bone mineral density in patients on bisphosphonate treatment versus no treatment
No full textComplex pathways affect bone metabolism at the cellular level, and a balance between osteoblast and osteoclast activity is critical to bone remodeling. One of the major pathways affecting bone metabolism is Wnt/?-catenin signaling, and its disturbances lead to a wide range of bone abnormalities. An important antagonist of this pathway is Dickkopf-1 (Dkk1). Higher Dkk1 levels have been associated with increased bone loss due to inhibition of Wnt pathway. Currently, bisphosphonates are the most commonly used agents to treat primary osteoporotic patients. This study demonstrates the effect of bisphosphonates on Dkk1 levels and its correlation with bone mineral density (BMD). Eighty patients with low BMD were recruited and divided into 2 groups of 40 each (bisphosphonate treatment group and control group). The mean Dkk1 level in the treatment group was significantly reduced to 2358.18 vs 3749.80pg/mL in the control group (p<0.001). Pearson correlation coefficient showed negative correlation between Dkk1 and BMD at lumbar spine (r=?0.55) and femoral neck in the control group; however, no such correlation was found in the treatment group (r=?0.05). Hence, bisphosphonate therapy leads to reduction in Dkk1 levels, but it does not correlate with BMD in such patients.<br/
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