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Postcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka, August 1943
No full textPostcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka in the Jerome incarceration camp including a greeting and update from Cooke.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Specialty farming in Idaho: Selecting a site
No full textBulletin no. 744 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1992-10-01. Author(s): Barney, D.L.; Finnerty, T.L.; Mancuso, C.J
Clinical and functional studies of autoimmune disorders of neuromuscular transmission
No full textInherited and acquired disorders of the neuromuscular junction are an important cause of muscle weakness and fatigability. In this thesis I focus on the autoimmune disorders of neuromuscular transmission. Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is the most common of these diseases and is typically caused by antibodies against the post-synaptic acetylcholine receptor. Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS) is a pre-synaptic disorder typically caused by antibodies against voltage gated calcium channels (VGCC). With regard to LEMS, my main aim was to gain a more complete understanding of the pathomechanisms of the disease. To date, the direct effect of LEMS IgG on presynaptic neurotransmitter release had not been investigated in detail. I examined how LEMS IgG affects neurotransmitter release by imaging action potential dependent vesicle exocytosis using a fluorescent dye. I found that LEMS IgG significantly inhibited the rate of synaptic vesicle release but this effect was lost in synapses from a Cacna1a knockout mouse. These data provide direct evidence that LEMS is caused by impaired neurotransmitter release due to an effect on P/Q-type VGCCs. With regard to MG, I studied the long-term outcome of patients with thymomatous and non-thymomatous MG after thymectomy and found that in general the outcome was favourable in the majority of patients with 34% of patients achieving complete stable remission. I also reviewed the long-term outcome of patients after a severe exacerbation of MG requiring ITU admission. Despite the significant mortality associated with severe exacerbations of MG, it was found that specialised neuro-intensive care was associated with a good long-term prognosis in the majority of patients. There were no significant differences in outcome in those with early or late onset MG. Overall the data presented in this thesis provide new insights into the pathomechanisms of LEMS IgG and provide new information regarding the long-term outcome of patients with MG
Instanton operators in five-dimensional gauge theories
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are creditedN.L. is supported in part by STFC grant ST/J002798/1. C.P. is a Royal Society Research Fellow.N.L. is supported in part by STFC grant ST/J002798/1. C.P. is a Royal Society Research Fellow.N.L. is supported in part by STFC grant ST/J002798/1. OPen Aceess funded by SCOAP
Fluid replacement after dehydration: Influence of beverage carbonation and carbohydrate content
No full textThis investigation evaluated the effects of beverage carbonation and carbohydrate (CHO) content on fluid replacement following exercise/thermal dehydration. On four occasions separated by at least 7 days, eight healthy men cycled at 50% of V̇O2max in a hot environmental chamber (40°C, 40% relative humidity) until a weight loss of 4.12±0.22% was attained. In the subsequent four hours, subjects ingested one of four solutions at 15-min intervals. The total volume ingested equalled that lost during dehydration. The solutions were administered in randomized order and varied in their carbonation and carbohydrate (CHO) content: 1. CK: carbonated 10% glucose-fructose solution, 2. NCK: non-carbonated 10% glucose-fructose solution, 3. CNK: carbonated non-caloric solution, and 4. NCNK: non-carbonated non-caloric solution. Plasma volume changes, total plasma protein concentration, plasma osmolality, and the plasma glucose concentration were determined at rest before and after dehydration, and at 30, 90, 150, and 240 min of recovery. Plasma volume changes and the plasma protein concentration were not different (p > 0.05) between treatments. Values for the plasma glucose concentration and the change in plasma osmolality were significantly elevated when CHO beverages were ingested when compared with non-CHO beverage ingestion. Five-min cycling bouts were performed at 70% of V̇O2max before and after dehydration and at 60, 120, 180, and 240 min of rehydration. The respiratory exchange ratio was elevated in both of the CHO treatments when compared with both of the non-CHO treatments at 60, 120, 180 and 240 min of rehydration. Lactate determined from arterialized capillary blood obtained one minute after each cycling bout was not different between treatments at any time point. Heart rates during the standardized cycling bouts remained elevated relative to the pre-dehydration values in all treatments after 240 min of recovery despite ingestion of a volume of fluid equal to that lost. In addition, heart rates were significantly elevated in the CK treatment relative to other treatments at 60 (vs CNK and NCNK), 120 (vs CNK and NCNK), 180 (vs NCNK), and 240 min (vs NCK). Rectal temperatures during the cycling bouts were significantly elevated in the carbohydrate treatments relative to the non-carbohydrate treatments at 120 min (CK vs NCNK, NCK vs NCNK) and 180 minutes (CK vs NCNK and CNK) but remained within the normal range (37.3 - 37.6°C). No differences were observed in the % body weight loss or total urine volume after 240 min of recovery. The results suggest that solutions which are carbonated and/or contain 10% CHO are as effective as noncarbonated and non-CHO solutions with regard to fluid replacement over four hours
Cross-Cultural Meta-Analyses
No full textIn the enormous collection of cross-cultural data that have been published during the last few decades it is difficult to perceive patterns. There is a clear need for systematizing the vast amount of cross-cultural studies and for developing models that explain cross-cultural differences in psychology. Two methods of cross-cultural meta-analysis can be distinguished. First, the instrument-based method of comparing data for one instrument across countries is suitable for instruments which have been administered in many countries. Second, a domain-based meta-analysis used a thematic domain from which culture-comparative studies are sampled instead of one specific instrument or method
La durata della somministrazione a termine
No full textIl saggio esamina le innovazioni introdotte nella somministrazione a tempo determinato dal d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
Si rileva come la nuova legge, accomuna contratto di lavoro a termine e contratto di somministrazione a tempo determinato e si evidenziano le incertezze della nuova normativa determinate dalla commistione tra disciplina di somministrazione a termine e disciplina di contratto a termine.The essay examines the innovations introduced in the fixed term labour-only subcontracting by d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
The Author remarks that the Act, unites fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting.
The uncertainties of the new regulation determined by the blending of the regulation of fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting are also highlighted
Positional equity and equal sacrifice: design principles for an EU-wide income tax?
No full textConditions are explored under which a putative EU-wide layer of income tax, additional to the national income taxes of the Member States, would: (a) be horizontally equitable, taking the equals in different EU counties to be those at the same percentile points in the country-specific income distributions, assuming these to differ in logarithms by location and scale only; (b) satisfy an extended equity criterion, that of equal progression among equals; and (c) engender equal sacrifices from the citizens of each country in terms of rank-dependent and utilitarian social evaluation functions. Numerical simulations are undertaken to explore the form that such an EU-wide income tax would take and the properties it would have.UnpublishedAraar, A. and J.-Y. Duclos (2005). An Atkinson-Gini class of social evaluation functions: theory
and illustration using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. LIS Working Paper No. 416,
Syracuse University.
Atkinson, A.B. (1970). On the measurement of inequality. Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 2,
pp. 244-263.
Berrebi, Z.M. and J. Silber (1981). Weighting income ranks and levels: a multi-parameter
generalisation for absolute and relative inequality indices. Economics Letters, vol. 7, pp. 391-397.
Carver, T.N. (1895). The ethical basis of distribution and its application to taxation. Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 6, pp. 79-99.
Cholezas, I. and P. Tsakloglou (2007). Earnings inequality in Europe: structure and pattern of
intertemporal change. IZA Discussion Paper No. 2636, Berlin.
Cnossen, S. (2002). Tax policy in the European Union: a review of issues and options.
FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 466-558.
Cubel, M. and P.J. Lambert (2002a). Progression-neutral income tax reforms and horizontal
inequity. Journal of Economics, vol. 9 (supplement), pp. 1-8. (Special issue entitled Inequalities,
Measurement and Applications, edited by P. Moyes, C. Seidl and A.F. Shorrocks).
Cubel, M. and P.J. Lambert (2002b). A regional approach to income tax policy. Public Finance
Review, vol. 30, pp. 124-143.
Dardanoni, V. and P.J. Lambert (2002). Progressivity comparisons. Journal of Public Economics,
vol. 86, p. 99-122.
Ebert, U. (2000). Equivalizing incomes: a normative approach. International Tax and Public
Finance, vol. 7, pp. 619-640.
Ebert, U. and P.J. Lambert (2004). Horizontal equity and progression when equivalence scales are
not constant. Public Finance Review, vol. 32, pp. 426-440.
Eurostat (2004). Purchasing power parities and related economic indicators for the EU, candidate
countries and EFTA” Statistics in Focus, No. 53
Harvey, J. (2005). A note on the ‘natural rate of subjective inequality’ hypothesis and the
approximate relationship between the Gini coefficient and the Atkinson index. Journal of Public
Economics, vol. 89, pp. 1021-1025.
Kolm, S.-C. (1965). The optimal production of social justice. Proceedings, International
Economic Association Conference on Public Economics, Biarritz, France.
Kolm, S.-C. (1968). La production optimale de justice sociale. Pages 109-177 in J. Margolis and
H. Guitton (eds.) Economie Publique. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, 1968.
Kolm, S.-C. (1969). The optimal production of social justice. Chapter 7, pages 145-200, in J.
Margolis and H. Guitton (eds.) Public Economics: An Analysis of Public Production and
Consumption and their Relations to the Private Sectors. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Lambert, P.J. (2004a). Income taxation and equity. Baltic Journal of Economics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp.
39-54.
Lambert, P.J. (2004b). Equivalence scales, horizontal equity and horizontal inequity. Pages 75-84
in C. Dagum and G. Ferrari (eds.) Household behaviour, equivalence scales, welfare and poverty.
Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.
Lambert, P.J., D.L. Millimet and D. Slottje (2003). Inequality aversion and the natural rate of
subjective inequality. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87, pp. 1061-1090.
Lambert, P.J. and H.T. Naughton (2006). The equal sacrifice principle revisited. Economics
Discussion Paper No. 2006-4, University of Oregon, and Working Paper No. 2006-45, Society
for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Milan.
Quiggin, J. (1993). Generalized Expected Utility Theory: The Rank-Dependent Model. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Roemer, J.E. (1998). Equality of Opportunity. Harvard University Press, MA.
Roemer, J.E. (2006). Review essay: “The 2006 world development report: equity and
development”. Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 4, pp. 233-244.
Runciman, W.G. (1966). Relative Deprivation and Social Justice. London: Routledge.
Tsakloglou, P. and I. Cholezas (2005). Wage inequality in Europe: structure and intertemporal
change” Report of the final EDWIN Workshop, Brussels, September 22nd.
World Development Indicators (2006). Washington D.C.: World Bank (and on the web).
Yaari, M. (1988). A controversial proposal concerning inequality measurement. Journal of
Economic Theory, vol. 44, pp. 381-397.
Young, H.P. (1990). Progressive taxation and equal sacrifice. American Economic Review, vol.
80, pp. 253-266
Positional equity and equal sacrifice: design principles for an EU-wide income tax?
No full textConditions are explored under which a putative EU-wide layer of income tax, additional to the national income taxes of the Member States, would: (a) be horizontally equitable, taking the equals in different EU counties to be those at the same percentile points in the country-specific income distributions, assuming these to differ in logarithms by location and scale only; (b) satisfy an extended equity criterion, that of equal progression among equals; and (c) engender equal sacrifices from the citizens of each country in terms of rank-dependent and utilitarian social evaluation functions. Numerical simulations are undertaken to explore the form that such an EU-wide income tax would take and the properties it would have.UnpublishedAraar, A. and J.-Y. Duclos (2005). An Atkinson-Gini class of social evaluation functions: theory
and illustration using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. LIS Working Paper No. 416,
Syracuse University.
Atkinson, A.B. (1970). On the measurement of inequality. Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 2,
pp. 244-263.
Berrebi, Z.M. and J. Silber (1981). Weighting income ranks and levels: a multi-parameter
generalisation for absolute and relative inequality indices. Economics Letters, vol. 7, pp. 391-397.
Carver, T.N. (1895). The ethical basis of distribution and its application to taxation. Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 6, pp. 79-99.
Cholezas, I. and P. Tsakloglou (2007). Earnings inequality in Europe: structure and pattern of
intertemporal change. IZA Discussion Paper No. 2636, Berlin.
Cnossen, S. (2002). Tax policy in the European Union: a review of issues and options.
FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 466-558.
Cubel, M. and P.J. Lambert (2002a). Progression-neutral income tax reforms and horizontal
inequity. Journal of Economics, vol. 9 (supplement), pp. 1-8. (Special issue entitled Inequalities,
Measurement and Applications, edited by P. Moyes, C. Seidl and A.F. Shorrocks).
Cubel, M. and P.J. Lambert (2002b). A regional approach to income tax policy. Public Finance
Review, vol. 30, pp. 124-143.
Dardanoni, V. and P.J. Lambert (2002). Progressivity comparisons. Journal of Public Economics,
vol. 86, p. 99-122.
Ebert, U. (2000). Equivalizing incomes: a normative approach. International Tax and Public
Finance, vol. 7, pp. 619-640.
Ebert, U. and P.J. Lambert (2004). Horizontal equity and progression when equivalence scales are
not constant. Public Finance Review, vol. 32, pp. 426-440.
Eurostat (2004). Purchasing power parities and related economic indicators for the EU, candidate
countries and EFTA” Statistics in Focus, No. 53
Harvey, J. (2005). A note on the ‘natural rate of subjective inequality’ hypothesis and the
approximate relationship between the Gini coefficient and the Atkinson index. Journal of Public
Economics, vol. 89, pp. 1021-1025.
Kolm, S.-C. (1965). The optimal production of social justice. Proceedings, International
Economic Association Conference on Public Economics, Biarritz, France.
Kolm, S.-C. (1968). La production optimale de justice sociale. Pages 109-177 in J. Margolis and
H. Guitton (eds.) Economie Publique. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, 1968.
Kolm, S.-C. (1969). The optimal production of social justice. Chapter 7, pages 145-200, in J.
Margolis and H. Guitton (eds.) Public Economics: An Analysis of Public Production and
Consumption and their Relations to the Private Sectors. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Lambert, P.J. (2004a). Income taxation and equity. Baltic Journal of Economics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp.
39-54.
Lambert, P.J. (2004b). Equivalence scales, horizontal equity and horizontal inequity. Pages 75-84
in C. Dagum and G. Ferrari (eds.) Household behaviour, equivalence scales, welfare and poverty.
Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.
Lambert, P.J., D.L. Millimet and D. Slottje (2003). Inequality aversion and the natural rate of
subjective inequality. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87, pp. 1061-1090.
Lambert, P.J. and H.T. Naughton (2006). The equal sacrifice principle revisited. Economics
Discussion Paper No. 2006-4, University of Oregon, and Working Paper No. 2006-45, Society
for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Milan.
Quiggin, J. (1993). Generalized Expected Utility Theory: The Rank-Dependent Model. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Roemer, J.E. (1998). Equality of Opportunity. Harvard University Press, MA.
Roemer, J.E. (2006). Review essay: “The 2006 world development report: equity and
development”. Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 4, pp. 233-244.
Runciman, W.G. (1966). Relative Deprivation and Social Justice. London: Routledge.
Tsakloglou, P. and I. Cholezas (2005). Wage inequality in Europe: structure and intertemporal
change” Report of the final EDWIN Workshop, Brussels, September 22nd.
World Development Indicators (2006). Washington D.C.: World Bank (and on the web).
Yaari, M. (1988). A controversial proposal concerning inequality measurement. Journal of
Economic Theory, vol. 44, pp. 381-397.
Young, H.P. (1990). Progressive taxation and equal sacrifice. American Economic Review, vol.
80, pp. 253-266
A large-scale biomass bulk terminal
No full textThis research explores the possibility of a large-scale bulk terminal in West Europe dedicated to handle solid and liquid biomass materials. Various issues regarding the conceptual design of such a terminal have been investigated and demonstrated in this research: the potential biomass materials that will be the major international trade flows in the future, the characteristics of these potential biomass materials, the interaction between the material properties and terminal equipment, the perspective from terminal logistic process, and the terminal configuration. To this day no such a terminal exists yet. Therefore, the results from this research are a first step that will help the future development of such a terminal.Marine and Transport TechnologyMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
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