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I've got a little girlie waiting for me Over the Great Divide [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceRespectfully dedicated by the Composer to Her Motherads on back cover for Jos. W. Stern stock (sample music).7619-4Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
058, Item 113Words by Andrew K. Allison. Music by Edna Williams.[Carrie Reynolds]unattributed photo. of Carrie Reynold
I've got a little girlie waiting for me Over the Great Divide [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceRespectfully dedicated by the Composer to Her Motherads on back cover for Jos. W. Stern stock (sample music).7619-4Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
058, Item 113Words by Andrew K. Allison. Music by Edna Williams.[Carrie Reynolds]unattributed photo. of Carrie Reynold
"Studies using Continuous Cattle Fermenters and a Three-Step In Situ/In Vitro Procedure to Estimate Protein Metabolism Ruminants," 67th Minnesota Nutrition Conference and University of Minnesota Research Update Session:Livestock Production in the New Millennium, Proceedings, September 19-20, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota.
No full textStern, M.D.; Moreno, M.R.; Tapia, M.O.; Murphy, M.J.; Crawford, G.I.; Nelsen, K.. (2006). "Studies using Continuous Cattle Fermenters and a Three-Step In Situ/In Vitro Procedure to Estimate Protein Metabolism Ruminants," 67th Minnesota Nutrition Conference and University of Minnesota Research Update Session:Livestock Production in the New Millennium, Proceedings, September 19-20, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/201958
A K<sub>ATP</sub> channel opener inhibited myocardial reperfusion action potential shortening and arrhythmias
No full textLow concentrations of certain K<sub>ATP</sub> channel openers have been reported to exert a moderate inhibitory effect on arrhythmias during post-ischaemic early myocardial reperfusion, but the accompanying effects on the time course of changes in action potentials in intact hearts have not yet been studied. We report that in rat isolated hearts, reperfusion following 10 min of regional no-flow ischaemia was associated with both an acute, marked, but transient, shortening of ventricular repolarisation (by 63%) during reperfusion, and a high incidence (90%) of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The K<sub>ATP</sub> channel opener Ro 31-6930 [2-(6-cyano-2,2-dimethyl-2H-1-benzopyran-4-yl)-pyridine 1-oxide], delivered prior to ischaemia at a relatively low concentration (0.5 μM), significantly reduced the incidence and duration of reperfusion arrhythmias, and prevented the associated acute action potential shortening during reperfusion, each in a glibenclamide (1 μM)-sensitive manner (P<0.05, <i>n</i>=10–15 hearts). This was associated with a moderate and non-arrhythmogenic action potential shortening during ischaemia (a potentially “cardioprotective” effect). However, these data highlight the potential harm these drugs may cause, since a higher concentration of Ro 31-6930 caused marked shortening of action potentials and significant pro-arrhythmia during ischaemia
Optimal climate change policies when governments cannot commit
No full textWe analyse the optimal design of climate change policies when a government wants to encourage the private sector to undertake significant immediate investment in developing cleaner technologies, but the relevant carbon taxes (or other environmental policies) that would incentivise such investment by firms will be set in the future. We assume that the current government cannot commit to long-term carbon taxes, and so both it and the private sector face the possibility that the government in power in the future may give different (relative) weight to environmental damage costs. We show that this lack of commitment has a significant asymmetric effect: it increases the incentive of the current government to have the investment undertaken, but reduces the incentive of the private sector to invest. Consequently the current government may need to use additional policy instruments – such as R&D subsidies – to stimulate the required investment
Computational Analysis of the U.S FTAs with Central America, Australia, And Morocco
No full textWe use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the economic effects of the U.S. bilateral FTAs negotiated with Central America, Australia, and Morocco. The model covers 18 economic sectors in each of 22 countries/regions and is based on Version 5.4 of the GTAP database for 1997 together with specially constructed estimates of services barriers and other data on sectoral employment and numbers of firms. The distinguishing feature of the model is that it incorporates monopolistic competition in the manufacturing and services sectors, including increasing returns and product variety. The modeling focus is on the effects of the bilateral removal of tariffs on agriculture and manufactures and services barriers. Rules of origin and other restrictive measures and the non-trade aspects of the FTAs are not taken into account due to data constraints. The computational results indicate that the benefits of bilateral FTAs for the United States and partner countries are rather small in both absolute and relative terms, and that far greater benefits could be realized if the United States and its FTA partners adopted unilateral free trade and especially if multilateral free trade was adopted by all countries/regions in the global trading system.Free Trade Agreements, Unilateral Liberalization, Multilateral Liberalization
Accurate modeling of gate capacitance in deep submicron MOSFETs with high-K gate-dielectrics
No full textGate capacitance of metal-oxide-semiconductor devices with ultra-thin high-K gate-dielectric materials is calculated taking into account the penetration of wave functions into the gate-dielectric. When penetration effects are neglected, the gate capacitance is independent of the dielectric material for a given equivalent oxide thickness (EOT). Our selfconsistent numerical results show that in the presence of wave function penetration, even for the same EOT, gate capacitance depends on the gate-dielectric material. Calculated gate capacitance is higher for materials with lower conduction band offsets with silicon. We have investigated the effects of substrate doping density on the relative error in gate capacitance due to neglecting wave function penetration. It is found that the error decreases with increasing doping density. We also show that accurate calculation of the gate capacitance including wave function penetration is not critically dependent on the value of the electron effective mass in the gate-dielectric region
The generic originality of Iurii Tynianov's representation of Pushkin in the novels 'Pushkin' and 'The Gannibals'
No full textThis thesis is the first extensive study devoted to the generic originality of Iurii Tynianov’s
representation of Pushkin in his two historical novels, Pushkin (1935-1943) and the abandoned
The Gannibals (1932). Chapter 1 contextualises Tynianov’s contribution to the current debates
on the novel’s demise, ‘large’ form and the worthy protagonist. The conditions giving rise to
contemporary interest in the genres of biography and the historical novel are delineated and the
critical issues surrounding these are examined; Tynianov’s concern to secularise the rigid
monolith of an all but sanctified ‘state-sponsored Pushkin’ and the difficulties of the task are
also reviewed. Chapter 2 shifts the examination of Pushkin as a historical novel to its study
within the generic framework of the Bildungs, Erziehungs and Künstlerromane with their
particular problematics which allowed Tynianov to grapple with a cluster of moral,
philosophical and educational issues, and to explore the formative influences on the
protagonist’s identity as a poet. Chapter 3 explores the concept of history underlying
Tynianov’s interpretation of the characters and events and the historiographical practices he
employed in his analyses of the factors that shaped Pushkin’s own historical thinking. Chapter
4 investigates Tynianov’s scepticism about Abram Gannibal’s and A. Pushkin’s mythopoeia
which reveals itself in Tynianov’s subversively ironical and playful use of myth in both novels.
The Conclusion assesses Tynianov’s contribution to the 20th century fictional Pushkiniana and
reflects on his innovative transgeneric historical novel which broke the normative restrictions
of the genre, elevated it to the level of ‘serious’ literature and made it conducive to stylistic
experimentation
The idea of Christian chivalry in the chronicles of the Teutonic Order
No full textThis thesis has as its subject matter the chronicles
written by members of the Teutonic Order to describe and
Justify the crusades undertaken by the Order in Prussia and Lithuania in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It
argues that the full importance of this material has been
largely ignored or misunderstood by historians and literary
historians and hence that its contribution to crusading
ideology has not been fully appreciated. It is then argued
that the Kronike von Pruzinlant, the most widely disseminated
and influential of the chronicles, was written in response to
widespread criticism of the crusades and the military orders
at the end of the thirteenth and beginning, of the fourteenth
centuries, and played an important part in re-establishing
the crusading ideal at a time of crisis for the crusading
movement.
The first section examines the Kronike von Pruzinlant in
the context of crusading tradition and contemporary crusading
literature and aims to identify the Order's original contributions
to crusading ideology. The second section employs a diachronic
approach. It demonstrates the Kronike von Pruzinlant's
importance by contrasting it with an earlier chronicles the
Livlandische Reimchronik, and a later one, the Chronicle of
Wigand of Marburg. It also contrasts the two existing versions
of the Kronike von Pruzinlant, the Latin original and the
vernacular translation, examining the impact made by changes
in the vernacular version on the form and purpose of the chronicle.
The thesis concludes that the Order made significant
contributions to the development of crusading ideology in
the fourteenth century. Its development of these ideas
reflects its desire to come to terms with the criticisms and
difficulties facing the military orders as a whole at this
time and points forward to its establishment during the
fourteenth century as the foremost centre of crusading warfare in Europe
Optimal universal and categorical benefits with classification errors and imperfect enforcement
No full textWe determine the optimal combination of a universal benefit, B, and categorical benefit, C, for an economy in which individuals differ in both their ability to work – modelled as an exogenous zero quantity constraint on labour supply – and, conditional on being able to work, their productivity at work. C is targeted at those unable to work, and is conditioned in two dimensions: ex-ante an individual must be unable to work to be awarded the benefit , whilst ex-post a recipient must not subsequently work. However, the ex-ante conditionality may be imperfectly enforced due to Type I(false rejection) and Type II (false award) classification errors, whilst, in addition, the ex post conditionality may be imperfectly enforced. If there are no classification errors – and thus no enforcement issues – it is always optimal to set C>0, whilst B=0 only if the benefit budget is sufficiently small. However, when classification errors occur, B=0 only if there are no Type I errors and the benefit budget is sufficiently small, while the conditions under which C>0 depend on the enforcement of the ex-post conditionality. We consider two discrete alternatives. Under No Enforcement C>0 only if the test administering C has some discriminatory power. In addition, social welfare is decreasing in the propensity to make each type of error. However, under Full Enforcement C>0 for all levels of discriminatory power, including that of no discriminatory power. Furthermore, whilst social welfare is decreasing in the propensity to make Type I errors, there are certain conditions under which it is increasing in the propensity to make Type II errors. This implies that there may be conditions under which it would be welfare enhancing to lower the chosen eligibility threshold – supporting the suggestion by Goodin (1985) to “err on the side of kindness”
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