348 research outputs found
Oh! You Tease
No full textPhotographs of Mrs. Doctor Munyon and Merritt W. Lund; title in redhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/2254/thumbnail.jp
Biography of the Hon. W. H. Merritt, M.P., of Lincoln, District of Niagara, by J. P. Merritt; with annotations, marginalia and handwritten additions, ca. 1875
No full textWilliam Hamilton Merritt was the most important entrepreneur in the Niagara region in his era. His contributions to the creation of the Welland Canal and of vital transportation routes between Upper Canada and Montreal, and to points across the Atlantic Ocean are widely known to be highly significant. Merritt was also involved in railroad development and banking.The record is the biography of William Hamilton Merritt written by his son J.P. (Jedediah Prendergast) Merritt.
The pages have been annotated and cross referenced, as perhaps by the author himself or by a close family member. Additional nine pages of handwritten notes have been glued into the book as providing additional information to the content. Three newspaper clippings were added as well, with a few others missing. The inside cover of the book has been inscribed, “Merritt Collection”
A study of twenty five mothers who were committed for neglect of their minor children to the Reformatory for Women, Framingham, Massachusetts 1941-1946, 1947
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Controlled butchery observations as a means for interpreting Okote member hominin carnivory at Koobi Fora, Kenya
No full textThree archaeological assemblages from Okote Member (1.5 Ma) deposits at Koobi Fora, Kenya described by Pobiner (2007, Pobiner et al., 2008) have well preserved cortical surfaces that bear abundant hominin butchery traces on large and small mammalian taxa, minimal carnivore tooth marking, and lack in situ lithic materials. Pobiner suggests that Homo erectus generally enjoyed primary access to carcass resources with a traditional assemblage-scale analysis of butchered specimens and anatomical interpretations of cut mark location. Bunn (1981, 1994) proposes a foraging strategy for Okote hominins that links core tool butchery and curation to locally unavailable stone raw material sources in the Ileret and Koobi Fora areas of the Eastern Turkana basin. Evidence of core tool use is interpreted from the presence of wide, shallow cut marks on large animals bones. To evaluate these interpretations of hominin carnivory and bring greater resolution to archaeofaunal cut mark interpretation, I undertook a series of actualistic butchery experiments to document how tool type (flake versus Oldowan core), butchery action (skinning, defleshing bulk tissue, defleshing scrap tissue, disarticulation) and animal size (goat versus cow) influence skeletal patterns of cut mark location, and to construct general models of cut mark cross-sectional size and the geometric organization of cut mark clusters that can discriminate these independent variables. Results indicate that tool type cannot be identified in any analysis, and that animal size influences cut mark size and organization, falsifying Bunn’s hypothesis of core tool use. Skinning and disarticualtion produce wide and deep cut marks that can be distinguished from defleshing, although the amount of tissue removed (defleshing bulk versus scrap) cannot be determined from cut mark size or cluster organization. All three mark categories occur at distinct skeletal locations, but disarticulation and defleshing cooccur on the elbow. However, these actions can be distinguished on the elbow when cut mark cluster geometry is considered. A model that identifies hominins’ early access to carcass resources from elbow specimens with evidence of defleshing and disarticulation versus late access from disarticulated elbow specimens brings increased behavioral resolution to cut mark interpretation and supports previous findings of Okote hominins’ primary carcass consumption.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Stephen Ryan Merrit
An examination of the relationship between reading and drama in education.
No full textThe purpose of this thesis was to examine the theories of drama In education and of developmental reading in order to determine the relationship between drama and reading in the cognitive and affective development of children and to document that relationship through an empirical study carried out with students in Canada and Great Britain. For the empirical study, the students read three stories that were chosen from children's literature appropriate to the two cultures and accommodating a wide range of reading levels. The students were divided into three test groups, one reading the story silently followed by a questionnaire, one reading the story silently followed by discussion and then a questionnaire, and one reading the story silently, followed by dramatic activity based on the story, and then a questionnaire. The questions were designed to measure recalled details, inferred literary concepts, and creative analogy. The information was transferred to a computer and the results tabulated. The hypothesis of this thesis was supported by the empirical study, especially in the areas of critical and creative responding. There was no significant difference in the response to the factual comprehension questions. This study concluded that drama and reading are related in that they both concern the development of perception and of experience. The print that the child reads serves as stimuli for the recall of meanings that have been built up through past experience, and dramatic interaction allows the reader to examine the ideas in the text and facilitates the reciprocal exchange between participants and eventually between reader and author
Induction of alkaline phosphatase during lymphocyte blast transformation in cba mice, 1979
No full textAlkaline phosphatase is a membrane-bound enzyme which hydrolyzes phosphate esters at an alkaline pH. This enzyme has been found localized on the murine thymic lymphoblast, in the placenta and embryonic thymus up to 16 day gestation. Alkaline phosphatase has also been found in cells surrounding the germinal centers in the normal adult spleen of C57B1/6J mice. Lymphocytes from the thymus, nodes, and spleen of normal adult CBA mice were stimulated with concanavalin A to determine the appearance of alkaline phosphatase during dedifferentiation of the normal immune response and to determine the macromolecular requirements needed for this enzyme induction. Fluorometric analysis of time course experiments of blasting lymphocytes indicated that alkaline phosphatase does appear in blasting lymphocytes. Mitomycin C inhibited DNA synthesis and alkaline phosphatase induction. Actinomycin D inhibited both RNA and DNA synthesis and alkaline phosphatase induction. Therefore, the induction of alkaline phosphatase may be used as a lymphoblastic marker in studying dedifferentiation in the normal immune response
The indirect approach
No full textAid and conditionalities are the"carrots and sticks"of the conventional, direct approach to fostering economic development. The economic theory of agency is the most sophisticated treatment of the direct carrots-and-sticks approach to influencing human behavior. Considering the outcomes of the conventional approach, it might be worthwhile to explore alternative indirect approaches that focus on enabling clients to act more autonomously, rather than try for fuller control of clients'actions (or"agents"behaviors) with improved carrots and sticks. Are there inherent limitations in the direct approach that will not be addressed with better crafted"agency contracts"or closer monitoring of the agents? The author traces the intellectual history of indirect approaches from Socrates to modern thinkers, such as Wittgenstein, Gandhi, and McGregor. One theme of his survey is that constructivist and active-learning pedagogies constitute an indirect approach in which the teacher does not directly transmit knowledge to the learner, through training, and instruction. These pedagogies - translated into social and economic development as learning writ large - from the basis for an alternative indirect approach to fostering development. Actions have motives, just as beliefs have grounds, concludes the author. In the wide spectrum of human endeavor, there is only a fairly small"bandwidth"in which motives can be supplied by the carrots, and sticks of the direct approach (including agency theory, and market-driven activities as special cases of the direct approach to affecting behavior). Outside that spectrum, trying to use direct methods in a controlling manner, contradicts the motives for actions (and the grounds for beliefs) - like trying to"buy love."For higher activities, motives must come from within. Helpers can at best use an indirect approach to bring doers to the threshold; the doers have to do the rest, which makes the results their own.Public Health Promotion,Teaching and Learning,Curriculum&Instruction,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Educational Sciences,Educational Sciences,Teaching and Learning,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,General Technology,Curriculum&Instruction
The Rise and Significance of Commercial Credit
No full textCredit, in all its ramifications, is probably the most important, single factor in the commercial world today. Yet, in spite of its importance, few people stop to think what it means. To the ones who do find time to reflect upon its magnitude, it appears as a giant something, which cannot be seen, but only realized. To quote Henry Dunning Macleod, the English lecturer and author, What the steam engine is in mechanism, what the differential calculus is in mathematics, that is credit in commerce . Daniel Webster, the great American jurist and the statesman said, Credit is the vital air of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enrich nations, than all the mines of the world
Redeveloping greyfields : definitions, opportunities and barriers
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-62).The study of greyfields for this thesis was motivated by the increasing problems of traffic and air pollution associated with sprawling development patterns. Typically located in inner ring suburban areas, greyfields, or failed retail malls, represent sites that can be redeveloped profitably into mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods. Yet, few successful examples of greyfield redevelopment exist, especially when compared to the relative proliferation of brownfield redevelopment. Brownfields, or contaminated urban sites, are very costly to remediate and it is surprising that this type of redevelopment outpaces greyfield redevelopment on such a significant scale. This thesis addresses the disparity between the two redevelopment types and describes differences between brownfields and greyfields through application of an economic model for redevelopment. The variables of the model are then applied to each redevelopment type and considered in the context of several greyfield case studies located on the east coast.(cont.) Where the economic model is incomplete in fully explaining the disparity between the redevelopment types, factors outside of the model have been considered, including the existence of externalities and public subsidies at federal, state and local levels. Lastly, suggestions of how to foster increased implementation of greyfield redevelopment and create an industry around the reuse of greyfield sites are discussed.by Amy W. Merritt.S.M
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