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Dr D.B. Smuts : Onderstepoort staff
No full textScanned image of a photographic glass-plate negativeDr D.B. Smuts, Onderstepoort staff memberin the Section of Nutrition in the late 1930's. He was co-author of the article "The Nutritive Value of Animal Proteins.-
The Biological Values of Fishmeal, Whale and Fishmeal, Meatmeal, Meat and Bonemeal, Crayfishmeal, and White Fishmeal" published in the Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, Volume 16, Numbers 1 and 2, January and April, 1941.Digitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019ab201
Letter, 1858 May 8, D.B. Sanchez (?) to Henry Honaker
No full textLetter regarding the sale of a bull. Last name of author unclear, possibly Sanchez or San..z
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
Get PDFMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube. Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
Get PDFMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube. Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself
The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo
No full textMichael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through his twenty years at the National Film Board of Canada, where Rubbo developed his distinct documentary style. Jones then describes Rubbo’s post-NFB venture into feature film directing, followed by Rubbo’s return to his native Australia, first as an executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and later as a director of feature-length documentaries and maker of short, personal films for YouTube.
Exploring locales from Montreal to Vietnam, topics as diverse as plastic surgery and French Marxism, and from interviewing Margaret Atwood to documenting a failed attempt to interview Fidel Castro, Rubbo’s wide-ranging work establishes his innovative, personal, lyric, and spontaneous documentary style. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo D.B. Jones reveals not only the depth of meaning in Rubbo’s films, but also the depth of their influence on filmmaking itself.Ye
Did Processing Quota Damage Alaska Red King Crab Harvesters? Empirical Evidence
Get PDFThe Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) red king crab fisheries are managed with a controversial, market-based policy design, in which both individual transferable fishing and processing quotas are used. Despite the fact that the policy design maintains contestable markets, concern remains that the use of individual transferable processing quota (IPQ) damages harvesters who receive individual transferable fishing quota (IFQ). An integer, nonlinear optimization model that incorporates an empirically estimated, non-linear catch per unit effort function is developed to measure imputed IFQ values. The imputed quota values are based solely on harvesting efficiency in the absence of IPQs or potential wealth redistribution between sectors. Results are compared to a prerationalization optimization model and also to empirical quota trading prices in the presence of IPQs. This with and without analysis lends insight into whether and/or the extent to which IPQs damaged BSAI crab harvesters.Crab rationalization, IPQ, IFQ, imputed quota prices, harvesting efficiency., Environmental Economics and Policy, Public Economics, Q22, Q28, D61, C61, L78.,
Capturing value increase in urban redevelopment : a study of how the economic value increase in urban redevelopment can be used to finance the necessary public infrastructure and other facilities
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83166.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Everyone would agree that urban development, especially when involving the building of residential areas, should be accompanied by sufficient and good public infrastructure and facilities. We all want neighborhoods with the necessary roads, green areas, social facilities, affordable housing and public spaces of high quality. At the same time, nowadays, governments are facing severe cuts in public expenditure. So who is going to pay for all that quality? In the Netherlands and in many other countries, achieving these public goals has become a problem, especially in the regeneration of deteriorated inner cities sites. This book offers insight in how the economic value increase that arises from urban development can serve to finance the quality we want, without the need for public subsidies. The findings and recommendations made in this book focus on Western Europe, mainly on successful and alternatively less successful recent experiences in Spain, England and the Netherlands. Public bodies can use the recommendations to create the necessary conditions to improve the involvement of property developers and landowners in the financing of infrastructure and facilities. Property developers and landowners can find formulas for private-public partnership that can lead to lower development costs and risks, allowing them to pay for good infrastructure and facilities while maintaining profitability. Scholars will find here the theoretical backgrounds for this relevant topic. The author has both an academic and a professional background in the practice of urban development.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 22 november 2010Promotor : Needham, D.B.451 p
Second Coming
No full textHank Jones isn\u27t your typical alien abductee. There were no tractor beams, probes, or government conspiracies involved-no, Hank met his kidnappers at a bar. They weren\u27t exactly hard to miss-Elvis, a seven-foot tall Elvis clone, and Lawrence, a grounded European gent, were the only UCLA supporters in a bar full of Hoosiers. Still, Hank has nothing better to do. It\u27s spring break, there\u27s a pile of freshman essays on his desk, and his thesis is going nowhere. Worse, his ex is sleeping with his dissertation director. He needs a friend, and these aliens will do. Besides, Elvis and Lawrence could really use a hand-they haven\u27t visited Earth since the 1950s, and now they\u27re lost in Indiana, not realizing that things have changed. They need to get to Washington: if they don\u27t warn the president about a coming nuclear arms race, the planet will be destroyed. But the American public don\u27t seem too worried. Aliens? And one of them looks like Elvis? Facebook and Twitter are aflame. Oprah and The Tonight Show hang on the phone. The apocalypse will have to wait. Second Coming is the hilarious new novel by D.B. Borton , author of the Cat Caliban and Gilda Liberty series. Taking aim at consumerism, the cult of celebrity, and the self-destructiveness of humanity, it nonetheless finds joy in the pleasures of basketball, dogs, and rock \u27n\u27 roll.https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/eng_books/1015/thumbnail.jp
An undescribed species of Mycetia Reinw. (Rubiaceae) from India
No full textThe present paper describing a new species of Mycetia Reinw. ( Rubiaceae) is based on a collection by J. L. Lister in 1874—75 and subsequently by G. King’s Collector Badul Khan in January, 1890 from Dafla Hills, NEFA. The late Dr. G. King named the taxon Adenosacme listeri King MSS which was not published. Later on I. H. Burkill in Rec. Bot. Surv. India 10 (1925) 298 named his specimens ( Burkill 36423 & 37321) from the Abor Hills Adenosacme listeri King without description. An examination of Burkill’s specimens in the herbarium (CAL) reveals that his collection is not conspecific with Lister’s, named by King. Very recently G. Panigrahi & S. K. Kar in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5 (1963) 27 named a collection ( Panigrahi 19395) A. listeri King ex Burkill, probably without knowing that it was not a validly published name and that the specimen is not conspecific with Burkill’s collection, where as it is identical with Lister’s.
The generic name Mycetia Reinw. has been established as the valid name for Adenosacme Wall. Studies on the genus Mycetia Reinw. suggest that Lister’s collection deserves specific status as suggested by King. Recent collection of the material indicates that the plant exists over a larger area. Hence it is considered desirable to name and describe the species. Specific name suggested by King after the first collector Lister is retained here
Clinically actionable cancer somatic variants (CACSV): a tumor interpreted dataset for analytical workflows
No full textBackgroundThe recent development and enormous application of parallel sequencing technology in oncology has produced immense amounts of cell-specific genetic information. However, publicly available cell-specific genetic variants are not explained by well-established guidelines. Additionally, cell-specific variants interpretation and classification has remained a challenging task and lacks standardization. The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) published the first consensus guidelines for cell-specific variants cataloging and clinical annotations.MethodsAMP-ASCO-CAP recommended sources and information were downloaded and used as follows: relative knowledge in oncology clinical practice guidelines; approved, investigative or preclinical drugs; supporting literature and each gene-tumor site correlation. All information was homogenized into a single knowledgebase. Finally, we incorporated the consensus recommendations into a new computational method.ResultsA subset of cancer genetic variants was manually curated to benchmark our method and well-known computational algorithms. We applied the new method on freely available tumor-specific databases to produce a clinically actionable cancer somatic variants (CACSV) dataset in an easy-to-integrate format for most clinical analytical workflows. The research also showed the current challenges and limitations of using different classification systems or computational methods.ConclusionCACSV is a step toward cell-specific genetic variants standardized interpretation as it is readily adaptable by most clinical laboratory pipelines for somatic variants clinical annotations. CACSV is freely accessible at ( https://github.com/tsobahytm/CACSV/tree/main/dataset ).For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The authors would like to thank the following: Samar A. Zailaie for reviewing the manuscript, Emily L. Heaphy for manuscript English review, Dalia Anbari for references formatting, Saja Basha and Salouf Al-Madani for their help in result tables’ designs.T.M.S, G.T, and D.B are employed by and R.H is trained by King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center-Jeddah (KFSHRC-J). The support body was not involved in the design of the study, in the collection, analysis or interpretation of data, or in writing the manuscript
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