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Elaine M. Alexander: 2023 Cook Prize Gold Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Elaine M. Alexander gives an acceptance speech for Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep, illustrated by Fiona Fogg (Candlewick)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1007/thumbnail.jp
Xystodesmidae Cook 1895
No full textFamily Xystodesmidae Cook, 1895 <p> <b>Subfamily Xystodesminae Cook, 1895</b></p> <p> <b>Tribe Xystocheirini Hoffman, 1980</b></p> <p> Hoffman (1999) mistakenly attributed tribal authorship to Cook without a date, perhaps because he confused this name with Xystodesmidae /inae, which Cook (1895) did author, or because Cook (1904) subsequently authored the genus. However, the first usage of <i>Xystocheir</i> at the family-group level was by Hoffman (1980), as he then noted, and authorship is properly attributed to him.</p>Published as part of <i>Shelley, Rowland M., Smith, Jamie M. & Ross, Deren J., 2014, Variation and pigmentation in the milliped, Xystocheir brachymacris Shelley, 1996, from the northern Sierra Nevada foothills, California, USA (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Xystocheirini), pp. 1-6 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (371)</i> on page 2, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5179327">10.5281/zenodo.5179327</a>
The effect of ionising radiation on the explosives: TATB, HMX and PETN
No full text© Cranfield University, 2019The effect ionizing radiation, specifically gamma, has on three of the most well known explosive materials; HMX, PETN and TATB, has been studied experimentally and computationally. Samples of these explosives that had been irradiated in vacuum to a total dose (equivalent to water) of 200 kGy by an average incident energy of 1.25 MeV, showed changes to their explosive and physical properties to varying degrees, with sensitivity to impact being most notably changed for PETN and HMX. Changes to the thermal properties of HMX and TATB, alongside the detection of long lived radicals for TATB and PETN, suggests alterations to each material’s chemistry. Changes were only detectable in solid state analytical methods, indicating that alterations to these materials are isolated within this state. Through comparison with other data, these changes appear to be highly dependant on the gaseous environment in which they are irradiated, with vacuum having the most significant effect. The widely reported greening of TATB under the influence of gamma (and ultraviolet and x-Ray) irradiation was found to be reversible upon re-crystallisation, with the process also appearing to remove the long lived radical that had existed in the material for over eight years. Radical concentration appears to correlate with total absorbed dose along with the level of green within the material. Computational investigation attributes the discolouration of TATB to the cationic radical derivative of TATB, which is stabilised by de-localised pi-bonding resonance of the constitutive aromatic ring, it is also suggested that this is the source of the radical signal observed in ESR analysis.Further computational investigation suggests that purported decomposition products of TATB such as the mono-furazan, mono-nitroso and phenoxyl radical are not the source of the discolouration and are also not thermodynamically favourable, unless the monofurazan or phenoxyl derivatives are in a cationic form. Thermodynamic evaluation of potential decomposition pathways for PETN and HMX yield a selection of energetically favourable products, however the significant majority are, like TATB, in the cationic radical form. Simulated ESR spectra for purported HMX decomposition products did not agree with those observed in literature, attributed to their short lived nature. However a measured long lived radical in TATB is attributed to the cationic radical form of TATB, the purported source of the discolouration. A long lived radical in PETN was also measured and assigned to the cation derivative of PETN by comparison with computational predictions
Temporal dynamics of spring complexes
No full textDavina White, Caroline Petus, Megan M Lewishttp://archive.nwc.gov.au/library/topic/groundwater/allocating-water-and-maintaining-springs-in-the-great-artesian-basi
A review of the scholarship on Ebenezer Cook and a critical assessment of his works
No full textInterest in Ebenezer Cook has increased steadily, if slowly, since Moses Coit Tyler wrote an enthusiastic critique of The Sot-weed Factor in A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 in 1878. Much of that interest, however, has been little more than curiosity about a minor poet who remains an elusive literary figure of early eighteenth-century Maryland; even today, in spite of several recent assessments of his major poem s, relatively little critical attention has been given to the works of this often robust and witty author who wrote what are apparently the first American Hudibrastic poem, the first American mock-heroic, and the first belletristic work composed and published in the colonies south of Pennsylvania. Neither has there ever been a complete edition of the Cook canon, which consists, as far as we know, of three major poems--The Sotweed Factor (1708, revised extensively in 1731), Sotweed Redivivus (1730), and The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia (1731)--and four elegies addressed to prominent Maryland citizens of Cook's day. This dissertation provides a comprehensive study of Ebenezer Cook that include critical analyses of all his known poems and transcriptions of the current canon based on first editions or earliest-known copies and manuscripts as w ell as historical background and commentary (much of Cook's poetry contains observations on the political, social, and economic issues of contemporary Maryland), bibliographical data, and a survey of Cook scholarship
Continuous optimal designs for generalised linear models under model uncertainty
No full textWe propose a general design selection criterion for experiments where a generalised linear model describes the response. The criterion allows for several competing aims, such as parameter estimation and model discrimination, and also for uncertainty in the functional form of the linear predictor, the link function and the unknown model parameters. A general equivalence theorem is developed for this criterion. In practice, an exact design is required by experimenters and can be obtained by numerical rounding of a continuous design. We derive bounds on the performance of an exact design under this criterion which allow the efficiency of a rounded continuous design to be assessed
Frank J. Cook
No full textA public relations photo sheet featuring two of the same head and shoulders portraits of Frank J. Cook. This picture accompanies the following obituary which appeared in the February 8, 1971 Pacific Union Recorder:
Frank J. Cook, 55, auditor of the Southeastern California Conference, died January 21 at Riverside County Hospital. He had been serving as conference auditor for the past two years. Mr. Cook has been serving the church since 1945 when he became a literature evangelist for the Southern California Conference. The following year he was assistant Book and Bible House manager in Glendale. In 1953 he was called to be Book and Bible House manager for the Northern California Conference where he served three years. In 1957 he became assistant treasurer in that conference and then in 1960 he became Book and Bible House manager, the post he held until moving to Southeastern. He is survived by his widow, Elsie, and three children—Charlotte Rice, St. Helena, California; Charlene Wheeler, Fort Lewis, Washington; and Dan, North Shore, California; his mother, Mrs. H. M. Cook, Riverside; two sisters, Janita of Colorado and Martha of Okinawa; one brother, Joseph, Glendora; and one grandchild. Elder James Chase, Northern California president, officiated at the funeral service held in the Arlington Church. C. ELWYN PLATNER, Director, Public Relations
Radula forficata M. A. M. Renner
No full textRadula forficata M.A.M.Renner, Austral. Syst. Bot. 26 (4): 307, 2013 (see Renner et al. 2013d). TYPE: “ Australia: Queensland: Cook, Mount Lewis Forest Reserve, Mount Lewis Road, 16°33’2”S, 145°16’48”E, 950, 13 July 2005, M. A. M. Renner 2118 & E. A. Brown, NSW878032 ”.Published as part of Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2016, Early Land Plants Today: Index of Liverworts & Hornworts 2013 - 2014, pp. 133-185 in Phytotaxa 269 (3) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/477969
The transfer of technology
No full textThere have been a number of studies which have attempted to identify factors affecting successful technology transfer. However, empirical studies of technology transfer, at
the level of the user, have been a much neglected area of research despite numerous promptings. Too much attention has been paid to single factor explanations of success,
although it is widely accepted that success is a multi-faceted phenomenon. There is also an absence of a suitable definition of success which reflects its multi-dimensional
character. This research, therefore, attempts to develop a suitable multi-faceted measure for success and an identification of factors affecting success in the study of the user uptake phase of a technology transfer process; namely the introduction of cook chill technology into catering operations in the UK. A survey of 80 cook chill operations in the UK was undertaken and detailed information was collected from each. A multi-faceted measure of success was developed by using 10 carefully selected success criteria. Each cook chill operation in the sample was allocated a 'score' for each success factor. This process culminated in the formation of a 'success table' of cook chill operations in the sample which enabled the identification of those units which were the most successful and those which were the least successful
throughout the technology transfer process. There were numerous differences between the activities of the successful group and those of the unsuccessful group throughout the initiation, implementation and assessment
phases of the technology transfer process. The findings of this research, therefore support the notion of success as being multi-faceted. Some of the major factors seen to
affect success included: management stability, the extent, quality and efficiency of precook chill development work, communication and involvement with employees and
appropriate training, adherence to the technical requirements of the system and a research and development orientation. The overriding finding, however, was the tendency shown by the managers in the successful group to be proactive and those in the unsuccessful group to be reactive
Radula imposita M. A. M. Renner, PhytoKeys
No full textRadula imposita M.A.M.Renner, PhytoKeys 27: 65, 2013 (see Renner et al. 2013c). TYPE: “ Australia: Queensland: Cook, Daintree National Park, Mount Lewis, headwaters of Leichhardt Creek flowing down the south-west flanks of the summit, epiphyllous on Normandia frond overhanging stream, 1150 m, 16°35’03”S, 145°16’33”E, 27 May 2012, M. A. M. Renner 6356, V. C. Linis & E. A. Brown (holotype: NSW896812; isotype: BRI)”.Published as part of Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2016, Early Land Plants Today: Index of Liverworts & Hornworts 2013 - 2014, pp. 133-185 in Phytotaxa 269 (3) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/477969
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