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Harry Pepper Fonds
No full textThe fonds consists of newspaper articles written by Harry Pepper from the Rossland Miner and the Trail Times.Born in 1913, Harry Pepper spent most of his youth in Suffolk, England, before immigrating to Canada in 1929. He spent his early years in Canada working on farms during the summer months, and in the bush during the winter. In 1940 he enlisted for the war, and joined the RoyaL Canadian Artillery, fighting in the 8th Canadian Field Regiment. During the war, Harry served in England, North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland. While overseas, he married, and his new family returned to Canada in 1945. He moved to Trail as a foreman of the 4X Bakery in 1946, and was later employed by Buchan’s Bakery. In 1949 he began working at Cominco, and stayed there until his retirement. Harry Pepper was incredibly active in the sports community in Rossland, and volunteered with soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and hockey. He was also an avid Curler and Golfer. He wrote a sports column for the Rossland Miner called “As I See It” and stayed with the newspaper until the building burned down and it subsequently went out of business. On his 60th birthday, he was asked to do a sports column in the Trail Daily Times called “Pepp Talk”
Episode 51: Erbert & Gerbert's red pepper bánh mì draws campus criticism: In the Know
No full textRuntime: 6:32Erbert & Gerbert's plant-based roasted red pepper bánh mì retains few ingredients from the traditional Vietnamese sandwich.Rademacher, Natalie; Mina, Farrah; Toledo, Jessica. (2020). Episode 51: Erbert & Gerbert's red pepper bánh mì draws campus criticism: In the Know. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/218133
Socially-Aware Navigation: Guiding Behavior with Pepper
No full textSocially-aware robot navigation strives to find efficient methods to autonomously navigate known environments while incorporating social metrics derived from human behavior. Several methods built for navigation on dynamic and uncertain environments have been adapted to resemble human navigation, but fail to appropriately reflect the social characteristics of human decision making. A reliable solution for this problem is found in model-based methods working as local or global planners. Model-based research on human aware navigation focuses on two specific alternatives. The first option corresponds to models that apply social-psychology and cognitive sciences to create human-like behavior, where the Social Force Model is the predominant approach. The second alternative is related to models that use machine learning to copy human-like characteristics into mathematical models. The former approach has proven to be efficient in human-aware navigation, but further studies are required to analyze the expansion of this method to more complex human-interactive navigation. In this thesis project, we look to test the Modified Extended Social Force Model (MESFM) to implement a guiding behavior on a humanoid robot. The MESFM incorporates a new force linked to the guided person to maintain a natural distance between both subjects, while generating smooth navigational maneuvers. In addition, whether caused by sensor failure or occlusion incidents, the event of losing track of the guided person has a good probability of occurring. This scenario is studied by extending the high level control of the robotic system with a searching mode. The architecture proposed to control the guiding behavior and the searching mode exploits the design of the humanoid robot Pepper, from SoftBank Robotics, to incorporate human-like gestures and increase the interaction between robot and human.We aim to apply this behavior as an Office-Guide Robot and test this solution to understand the reaction of people involved in the guiding task though subjective and objective metrics. Our system is developed on top of the open-software Robot Operative System (ROS) with features extracted from Pepper's Naoqi framework
Author Correction: Establishment and equilibrium levels of deleterious mutations in large populations (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (10384), 10.1038/s41598-019-46803-7)
No full textThe original version of this Article contained errors. Affiliations 1 and 2 were reversed. Secondly, Affiliation 7 was incorrectly given as ‘Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Department of Immunology, and SAMRC Extramural Unit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0084, South Africa’. Thirdly, an affiliation was omitted for the author Michael S. Pepper, which is now listed as Affiliation 8. Fourthly, Affiliation 1 was omitted for the author Johan W. Viljoen. Finally, Augustinus J. van Zyl was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS ‘Burlo Garofolo’, Trieste, Italy.’ The correct author affiliations are listed below: Affiliation 1: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, EBIT, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa Johan W. Viljoen and J. Pieter de Villiers Affiliation 2: Development, Research and Technology Department, Hensoldt Optronics, Centu..
Supplementary_figures - How Do Adolescents Get Their E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Vaping Devices?
No full textSupplementary_figures for How Do Adolescents Get Their E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Vaping Devices? by Jessica K. Pepper, Ellen M. Coats, James M. Nonnemaker, and Brett R. Loomis in American Journal of Health Promotion</p
Water relations of cucumber, tomato, and sweet pepper
No full textThe ever increasing importance of water as a critical resource for agricultural production has encouraged more research on water relations in recent years. Most attention has been paid to field crops and less information is available for horticultural crops, especially vegetables. The results of studies on water relations of cucumber, tomato, and pepper are reported and discussed in this thesis.Drying cycle experiments were carried out with tomato, cucumber, and sweet pepper at two temperatures and three light intensities in order to: (1) examine suitability of some plant parameters as criteria for expression of plant water status; (2) investigate which parameter is most suitable as a basis for timing of irrigation; and (3) observe the change of various parameters during a drying cycle as affected by environment. Measurements were carried out on transpiration rate, stomatal diffusive resistance ( rs ), leaf temperature, plant and soil water potentials, and relative water content. The transpiration rate at 25°C was in general higher than that at 21°C due to the higher vapour pressure deficit (vpd) at the former temperature. For all the three species, a more pronounced stomatal closure was demonstrated at 25°C as compared to that at 21°C when drought was imposed on the plants. This result could be due to the fact that at 25°C the vpd and/or the internal CO 2 concentration was higher. Various levels of irradiance did not invoke different responses of stomata or transpiration rates throughout the drying cycles. The difference among the three light intensities used are thought to have been too small to show distinct responses. Moreover, relatively low intensities were used in this series of experiments. The measured rs , values did not always correlate significantly with soil water potentials because rs , measurements were carried out on single leaves at only one point in the photoperiod and the measurements were also affected by other environmental factors, such as humidity, prevailing during the measurements. Calculated rs , values showed better correlations with soil water potential, presumably because transpiration rates of the whole plants over the entire photoperiod were used for their calculation. Relative water content and leaf water potential correlated significantly with soil water potential. Among the plant parameters studied, the plant water potential as measured with the pressure chamber, was judged as the most suitable parameter expressing plant water status.Some physical aspects of the internal plant water relations were considered for the three species. The measured parameters were relative water content, sap electrical conductivity, and leaf water potential and its components (osmotic, pressure, and matric potentials). The contribution of matric potential to the total plant water potential was considerable. Neglecting the matric component would result in unrealistically low levels of pressure potential for the three species. Tomato was considered to have the best osmotic and matric adjustments, followed by cucumber and pepper. Sap osmotic potential and electrical conductivity were found to be significantly correlated with leaf water potential. Electrical conductivity was considered as an easy and accurate method to determine the osmotic potential indirectly. From the regression of relative water content on leaf water potential, cucumber, tomato, and pepper showed, in this order, decreasing drought resistance. Examination of some other parameters, however, such as osmotic and matric adjustments and reduction of photosynthesis in stress conditions, confirmed a better drought resistance property to tomato, followed by cucumber and pepper. Relative position of cucumber and tomato in drought resistance was discussed. For all the criteria examined, pepper was considered to be the least drought resistant. It was concluded that a better understanding of the drought resistance mechanisms in plants is required.Carbon dioxide exchange and transpiration rates were measured in a gas exchange assembly in two series of experiments. In the first series, measurements were carried out on cucumber and pepper at light saturation and in darkness. In the second series, photosynthesis-light curves for cucumber, tomato, and pepper were obtained. For both series, well-watered as well as stressed plants were used. Both photosynthesis and transpiration were reduced as stress set in. It was shown that both stomatal and nonstomatal mechanisms were involved in the reduction of photosynthesis. For all the three species, an increase in mesophyll resistance was observed as a result of water stress. In experiments with different levels of irradiance, it was observed that the stressinduced reduction of photosynthesis was more pronounced at light saturation compared to low light. After showing some initial opening reaction to light, the stomata of stressed plants showed a closing pattern, especially for cucumber and pepper, regardless of irradiance levels. It was proposed that the closing effect of drought overrode the opening effect of light. Severely stressed plants of cucumber and pepper were rewatered to study their recovery. Photosynthesis did not reach the pre-stress level one day after rewatering, this was due to an aftereffect of drought on stomata in cucumber and pepper and a damage to the photosynthetic system in pepper.Diurnal changes in water relations parameters were measured in a glasshouse for tomato and pepper. In a constant environmental condition, gas exchange rates were monitored throughout the photoperiod for cucumber, pepper, and two cultivars of tomato. Both well-watered and stressed plants were used for the above measurements. In the glasshouse, transpiration, leaf water potential, stomatal diffusive resistance, as well as the diurnal changes in environmental factors such as radiation, temperature, vpd, and evaporation were measured. It was observed that the diurnal variation in leaf water potential followed that of transpiration. Changes in the whole plant transpiration were not necessarily accounted for by the rs values measured on single leaves. Multiple regression relationships were obtained for plant water potentials on radiation and temperature and suggestions were made to their use in timing of irrigation. In a constant environmental condition, all species showed maximum rates of transpiration and photosynthesis during the first hour of the photoperiod. The rates steadily declined thereafter, and the decline was more pronounced in stressed plants. A decrease in leaf water potential could not account for these diurnal phenomena, and other internal control mechanisms were thought to be involved. It has been suggested that photorespiration increased under the high irradiance employed. Internal CO 2 levels then increased, causing stomatal closure, leading to a decline in transpiration. Photosynthesis also decreased through both stomatal closure and a decrease in the CO 2 gradient. Increases in mesophyll. resistance in the case of cucumber and pepper also occurred.<p/
Salt and Pepper Shakers
No full texthttp://digiport.athabascau.ca/3d/abdla/2013_0551/2013_0551.phpPhotograph - Clay salt and pepper shakers, green with geese and bulrush design
Portrait of Senator Claude Denson Pepper.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27To \u27Sketer\u27 Johnston from his admiring friend Claude Pepper\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1255/thumbnail.jp
Anne Pepper Varney Correspondence
No full textEntries include the brief biographical information of an author residing in Massachusetts and a typed letter from the Maine State Library introducing Varney to the Maine Author Collection concerning the book Annie of Grassie Lea written about her mother
Caring in Non-Ideal Conditions: Animal Rescue Organizations and Morally Justified Killing
No full textShelter staff in cash-strapped open-admission shelters are locked into a tragedy that is not of their own making: they are routinely and unavoidably confronted with the tragic choice of either killing animals or failing to care for the animals they are tasked with protecting. Consequently, open-admission shelters regularly kill animals who could, but for the want of more time, money, or a suitable home, have led reasonably good lives. This chapter explains how sometimes shelter workers have a full moral justification to kill an animal for non-euthanasia reasons and yet the animal killed is nonetheless wronged. The author argues that this wrong is perpetrated by the state, which is responsible for the distributive injustice that makes it impossible for shelter workers to rescue and care for all animals in need. Moreover, when shelter workers have justification for non-euthanasia killing, all individuals within the political community are responsible for the wrong done
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