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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
401(k) Plans and Race
No full textMany data sources show a disparity among racial and ethnic groups regarding participation in and contributions to 401(k) plans. White workers participate at a higher rate and contribute a higher percentage than African American and Hispanic workers. However, few studies have explored whether these differences persist once other factors expected to impact these decisions are taken into consideration. One recent study by Ariel/ Hewitt using client data found lower participation and contributions rates in 401(k) plans for African Americans and Hispanics than for Whites, even after controlling for age, tenure, and earnings.
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
The Rickart Integral and Yosida-Hewitt decompositions
No full textWe study the Rickart integral for group-valued and l-group valued finitely additive measures, and discuss some of its properties. We then apply these properties to show that the Rickart integral gives the sigma-additive part of the so-called Yosida-Hewitt decomposition
HM 15: The Memoirs of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt
No full textMemoirs as sources fill an important gap in the historical record. They tell us how an individual lived, what he did, and what he thought about how he lived and what he did. Such are the memoirs of H. K. Hewitt, admiral in the United States Navy, whose active duty career spanned the first fifty years of the twentieth century, including World War I and World War II, when he played a leadership role in the Allied invasions of North Africa and Southern Europe.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-historical-monographs/1014/thumbnail.jp
Re-evaluating the use of ultrasound to investigate first febrile urinary tract infections in childhood
No full textRevisiting Tony Price’s (1979) account of the native vegetation of Duck River and Rookwood Cemetery, western Sydney
No full textThe Duck River Reserve and Rookwood Cemetery in the highly urbanised Auburn district of western-Sydney hold small but botanically valuable stands of remnant native vegetation. In the late 1970s, local resident G.A.-(Tony) Price, recognised the value of these remnants, both for the species they held and the clues they could give us-to the past, and spent three years surveying and collecting plants at these sites. Price recorded the species present and-their abundance, and described the habitats in which they were found. He observed the ecology of plant interactions,-moisture, shading and fire response, interpolating them into a picture of the landscape and vegetation of the district-prior to European settlement. At a time when field botany was inaccessible to many, and the focus of conservation was-largely on the broader scale, Price’s local scale work at these sites was unusual and important. Though never formally-published, Price’s 1979 account ‘The Vegetation of Duck River and Rookwood Cemetery, Auburn’ has been cited in-all subsequent work of consequence for the area. This paper presents and reviews Price’s work and discusses his-observations in relation to the current vegetation of these areas. Tony Price’s contributions also highlight the value and-role that ordinary citizens can play alongside professional botanists and plant ecologists in long term data collection,-considered observation and environmental management. A copy of Price’s original unpublished account has been-included as an appendix to this paper
Acontias plumbeus subsp. tasmani Hewitt 1938
No full text<i>Acontias plumbeus tasmani</i> Hewitt, 1938 <p>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 26:44; Plate III; Figs 6–7.</p> <p> Current name: <i>Acontias orientalis</i> Hewitt, 1938.</p> <p> <b>Lectotype:</b> PEM R5152 (formerly AMG 5193); Dunbrody, Sundays River, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 5 December 1925.</p> <p> <b>Paralectotypes</b> (4): PEM R5154–6, 5165 (formerly AMG 5195); Dunbrody, Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; Rev. K. Tasman, 7 December 1925.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The type description refers to ‘a series of specimens from Dunbrody, Sundays River’ collected by Rev. K. Tasman. There are six AMG series of specimens from this type locality in the PEM, i.e. AMG 7053 (21 specimens—PEM R5153, 5157–5159, 5162–5164, 5168, 5170–5180 and 5192–3), AMG 5465 (PEM R5167), AMG 5166 (PEM R5166), AMG 5195 (four specimens—PEM R5154–5156, 5165), AMG 5193 (PEM R5152), and AMG 7087 (two specimens—PEM R5160, 5169). Only the series of specimens AMG 5195 and 5193 can be assigned to the Rev. K. Tasman collection. We thus restrict the type series to these two series of specimens and the remainder must be regarded as additional topotypic material. Donald Broadley designated PEM R5152 as lectotype (handwritten label dated 16 March 1968; Broadley & Greer, 1969) and we follow that assignment. The lectotype is in good condition with a ventral flap anterior to the cloaca. We can with confidence assign the specimen in Figure 6 to PEM R5166 (collected by J. Hewitt at Dunbrody) and the specimen in Figure 7 to PEM R5186 (collected in Port Elizabeth, 22 March 1936). In the type description Hewitt refers to other collections from Uitenhage (unaccounted for in PEM), Redhouse (PEM R5183, 5190, 5191), Port Elizabeth (PEM R5181, 5182, 5184, 5186–5189), Klienpoort near Grahamstown (PEM R5770) and Resolution (PEM R5157, 5148, 5149–5151) which represent additional non-type material. Hewitt illustrated two specimens in Plate III.</p>Published as part of <i>Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4576 (1)</i> on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2624562">http://zenodo.org/record/2624562</a>
A General Hewitt-Yosida Decomposition
No full textIn 1952, E. Hewitt and K. Yosida [3] proved that a bounded, finitely additive real-valued set function has a unique representation as the sum of a countably additive function and a “purely finitely additive” function.Below, using a variation of the Carathéodory process we give a suitable generalization to s-bounded vector-valued set functions. In fact, since the methods do not rely on scalar multiplication, we give the result for commutative Hausdorff topological groups.</jats:p
Genetic covariation between the author recognition test and reading and verbal abilities: What can we learn from the analysis of high performance?
No full textThe Author Recognition Test (ART) measures print exposure and is a unique predictor of phonological and orthographic processes in reading. In a sample of adolescent and young adult twins and siblings (216 MZ/430 DZ pairs, 307 singletons; aged 11-29 years) ART scores were moderately heritable (67%) and correlated with reading and verbal abilities, with genes largely accounting for the covariance. We also examine whether high (and low) (i.e. 1SD above the mean) represents a quantitative extreme of the normal distribution. Heritability for high ART was of similar magnitude to the full sample, but, a specific genetic factor, independent from both low ART performance and high reading ability, accounted for 53-58% of the variance. This suggests a distinct genetic etiology for high ART ability and we speculate that the specific genetic influence is on orthographical processing, a critical factor in developing word recognition skills
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