103 research outputs found
Pioneer personal history, Joseph Moroni Toombs
No full textTranscript of answers by Joseph Moroni Toombs of Ogden, Utah, for a questionnaire filled out for Utah Works Progress Administration\u27s "Pioneer personal history" survey, He was born in England in 1858 and came with his family to Utah, settling in Ogden. Typed by Alice G. Mitchell of Ogden in 193
The design and fabrication of a meso scale minimally invasive surgical robot
No full textMinimally invasive robotic Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery (SPLS) is of high importance, due to its ability to reduce operation times, recovery times, postoperative infection rates and improve cosmesis while providing surgeons with greater dexterity and precision than traditional SPLS techniques. Previous approaches to robotic SPLS rely on modifications to devices meant for multi-port procedures. These approaches suffer from larger port sizes and triangulation problems. Here, we propose a scheme for SPLS involving 6 degree-of-freedom robot manipulators and lumen design that translates the dexterity and triangulation capabilities of the human arm to the internal operating field using an insertion scheme where four 9 mm tools can be passed through a single 18 mm lumen.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Nicholas Toombs, accepted the attached license on 2016-12-08 at 13:08.The student, Nicholas Toombs, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-12-08 at 15:40.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-12-09 at 16:23.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10492 on 2018-08-14 at 15:56:57Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T21:36:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection, MSS.0305
No full textAbstract: Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among othersScope and Content Note: The collection contains photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs, among several others. Many of the letters have been transcribed and are attached.Biographical/Historical Note
Negotiating the labyrinth: Disability and the Queensland justice system by Dan Toombs (book review)
No full textO'Leary, J ORCiD: 0000-0002-8062-8062Dan Toombs, the author of the book Disability and the Queensland Justice System, explains his journey as a lawyer new to the field as trying to find his ‘way through the labyrinth of disability and criminal law.’1 His useful book provides a complete guide for practitioners and researchers alike as to how to navigate the complicated Queensland system that purports to protect accused persons who suffer disabilities, particularly focusing on the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld)
Transitioning farm bill programs to a payment for ecosystem services approach
No full textPresented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. Ted Toombs is affiliated with Environmental Defense Fund, Center for Conservation Incentives. Ralph Heimlich is affiliated with Agricultural Conservation Economics (ACE).Farm bill programs currently provide a "pseudo-market" for conservation where a contract between the public and the government (the farm bill) is intermediated by the USDA. In this pseudo market, the USDA provides payments for management practices, which can lead to ecosystem service benefits. But, it does not currently pay directly for the ecosystem service benefits themselves. The goal of this presentation is to highlight considerations for USDA and private landowners (ranchers in particular) if USDA were to transition to a PES approach. I contrast the current system with a PES, and illustrate that significant differences might emerge in the size and character of the "markets" under each scenario. Many difficult questions would need to be addressed to determine how the profitability of a ranch would potentially be affected by a switch to a PES approach
Reminiscences of the war, comprising a detailed account of the experiences of the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers in camp, on the march, and in battle, by Samuel Toombs, with the personal recollection of the author.
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Advancements in computed axial lithography towards continuous microscale additive manufacturing
No full textThis dissertation introduces and advances microscale computed axial lithography (CAL) with investigation in optical systems, computational methods, and materials. First, we developed the microscale CAL (microCAL) system and demonstrated projection of light patterns with high optical resolution. We investigated the effects of radical scavenger molecules on printing contrast for high fidelity microscale resolution. With predictable contrast and improved resolution, we demonstrated the capabilities of microCAL by printing microoptical and microfluidic components in a glass nanocomposite photoresist. Low surface roughness produced by microCAL also improved mechanical performance when compared to a layer-by-layer 3D printing alternative. Additionally, we developed a thermally reversible organogel photoresist that enables sedimentation-free printing of parts like complex lattice structures with minimum feature sizes of 200 µm in low-viscosity monomers. The formulation is also extensible to many different common 3D printing monomers. With non-zero yield strength, the gel photoresist enables new modes of VAM, in particular, overprinting with previously embedded objects or liquid volumes and direct printing into free-standing thick films.To overcome the challenges of limited build volume in microCAL, we developed a roll-to-roll (R2R) CAL system. This system leverages a variable-focus projection optical system that enables continuous production of microstructures with theoretically unlimited length. By “unwrapping” the precursor material into a film, we can continuously print microstructures without the need for batch processing. Further, a novel algebraic approach which unifies propagation and coordinate transformation into a single shift-invariant projection matrix was used to support computationally efficient projection optimization for extremely long print volumes. By combining these innovations in optical systems, projection simulation, and photoresists, this work has significantly expanded the capabilities CAL, laying the foundation for volumetric and continuous fabrication of 3D microstructures with a wide range of potential applications in optics, microfluidics, and biomedical engineering
computed-axial-lithography/VAMToolbox: v0.1.4b for Zenodo only
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UNDERSTANDING TERMINOLOGY: HOW RACE AND ETHNICITY ARE USED AND CONCEPTUALIZED
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 27-29).There are inconsistencies in how race and ethnicity are conceptualized and\ud
contextually used. This study aims to increase the body of knowledge on the usage and\ud
understanding of the terms race and ethnicity. Qualitative analysis of 26 interviews\ud
conducted within the San Diego area is used to code themes and patterns from the data.\ud
Findings indicate most participants rarely consciously think about how they both define and use race and ethnicity. They also show race is avoided due to the negative connotations associated with the term. Race and ethnicity are found to be used interchangeably by participants, and ethnicity was determined to be the preferred substitute term for race. Race and ethnicity are not always used as they are defined. Understanding race as a socially constructed concept is absent from nearly all participants. Greater knowledge of how people use and understand race and ethnicity provides a solid foundation for the entire field of race studies. These findings could also prove valuable to scholars and practitioners specializing in cultural competence and inclusion
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