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Letter dated 7 January 1921 from James H. McCann to Edith C. Tallmon
No full textLetter dated 7 January 1921 from James H. McCann, Treasurer for the North China Mission, to Edith C. Tallmon conveying donation for mission work at Lintsing; also a bank receipt and a Treasurer\u27s office record for a $347.95 donatio
Insights into the origin of the thermal springs of Bath and Bristol, England, from geophysical data
No full textThe thermal springs of Bath, England, produce 1.25 Ml day−1 of water at 46.5 °C. The spring at Hotwells, Bristol, England, 15 km to the west, is estimated to produce between 0.17 and 0.39 Ml day−1 of water at a temperature between 22.8 and 24.4 °C. Published research suggests that the waters originate in the Mendip Hills, SW of Bath and Bristol, and are heated by geothermal energy within the Carboniferous Limestone basin (‘The Mendips Model’). The exact paths of the waters to the springs have not been established. We interpreted seismic reflection data for the urban district of Bath and for the Radstock Basin to the south of Bath. By combining the geophysical interpretations with published geological data we have established a potential route through the Carboniferous Limestone reaching sufficient depths for the waters to attain the required temperatures. We imaged a steeply dipping, fractured region of Carboniferous Limestone coincident with the valley of the River Avon and propose that this is the feature by which the thermal waters can rise rapidly to the surface, providing an explanation for the existence of these unique springs. We have incorporated these new aspects of the Mendip Model into the ‘Mendip–Avon Fracture Zone Model
Universal neonatal hearing screening moving from evidence to practice
No full textRecent technological advances have made feasible universal newborn hearing screening and therefore early detection of permanent childhood hearing impairment. Over the past three years, new information has been published on whether early intervention is beneficial, the possibility of harm arising from newborn screening, and its cost. Dramatic progress has been made in the large scale implementation of universal screening in many parts of the western world
Dwight J. McCann.
No full textR-C of D. McCann. 21 Jan. HR 5, 41-2, v1, 3p. [1436] Transport of annuity goods from Omaha to Fort Laramie in 1866
Dichanthium panchganiense Blatt. & McCann
No full text<i>Dichanthium panchganiense</i> Blatt. & McCann (Blatter & McCann 1927: 357). (Fig. 4). <p> <b>Lectotype</b> (designated here):— INDIA. Maharashtra: Panchgani village and tableland, Nov. 1925, <i>C. McCann s. n.</i> [Acc. 89322 (BLAT!)].</p> <p> <b>Note</b>:— Blatter & McCann (1927) described two species, viz. <i>D. panchganiense</i> and <i>D. mccannii</i> based on collections of McCann (in the year 1925) from Panchgani (Satara, Maharashtra). Bor (1960) stated that ‘‘the type of <i>D. mccannii</i> is not in the Blatter Herbarium, St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, and there is no material of the species at Kew”. According to Deshpande (1984) type of <i>D. mccannii</i> and <i>D. panchganiense</i> was housed at BLAT. Attempts were made to locate the type specimens at BLAT, we found two sheets of <i>D. mccannii</i> (Acc. 89321) and <i>D. panchganiense</i> (Acc. 89322) made by McCann, and can serve as an original material. Both the specimens are selected here as lectotypes following Art. 9.3 of ICN.</p>Published as part of <i>Shaikh, Tarbej, Ghalme, Raghunath & Potdar, Girish, 2022, Typifications in the genus Dichanthium (Andropogoneae: Poaceae), pp. 103-110 in Phytotaxa 530 (1)</i> on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.530.1.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5823993">http://zenodo.org/record/5823993</a>
[J. C. Keenan prepared to do his laundry]
No full textJ. C. Keenan hold his laundry and a bucket as he heads to the laundry bench. "A friend heading for the wash-bench" and "J. C. Keenan" are written on the back of the photograph.
The photograph was taken during one of McCann's two six-month tours in the Civilian Conservation Corps located in Pineland, Texas during the Great Depression
The role of food hypersensitivity in different disorders
No full textIn this work, specialist dietitians Isabel Skypala and Carina Venter bring together a team of expert authors to separate fact from fiction and provide the reader with an authoritative and practical guide to diagnosing, managing and preventing food allergy and intolerance
Cumella (Cumella) californica Watling & McCann 1997
No full textCumella (Cumella) californica Watling & McCann, 1997 Cumella (Cumella) californica Watling & McCann, 1997: 175 –176, Fig. 2.33 (Type locality: Santa Maria Basin, off Purisima Point, Station R- 4, California, 34 ° 43.01 ’N, 120 ° 47.39 ’W; depth 92 m. Holotype USNM 273540; Paratypes, USNM 273541 and LACM 95 – 70.1). Geographic distribution. North American Pacific: Santa Maria Basin Region and off Point Loma, San Diego, California, U.S.A.; Gulf of California: Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico. Habitat. Benthic sediment, 45– 154 m. Observations. According to Donath-Hernández (pers. comm.), C. (C.) californica occurs in Bahia de los Angeles, Gulf of California. Observation. This species was not found in our samples.Published as part of Jarquín-González, Jani & García-Madrigal, María Del Socorro, 2013, Annotated checklist and keys for cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with six new species from the Southern Mexican Pacific, pp. 201-257 in Zootaxa 3721 (3) on page 228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21700
Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy
No full textWe studied color constancy using a pair of identical 3-D Color Mondrian displays. We viewed one 3-D Mondrian in nearly uniform illumination, and the other in directional, nonuniform illumination. We used the three dimensional structures to modulate the light falling on the painted surfaces. The 3-D structures in the displays were a matching set of wooden blocks. Across Mondrian displays, each corresponding facet had the same paint on its surface. We used only 6 chromatic, and 5 achromatic paints applied to 104 block facets. The 3-D blocks add shadows and multiple reflections not found in flat Mondrians. Both 3-D Mondrians were viewed simultaneously, side-by-side. We used two techniques to measure correlation of appearance with surface reflectance. First, observers made magnitude estimates of changes in the appearances of identical reflectances. Second, an author painted a watercolor of the 3-D Mondrians. The watercolor’s reflectances quantified the changes in appearances. While constancy generalizations about illumination and reflectance hold for flat Mondrians, they do not for 3-D Mondrians. A constant paint does not exhibit perfect color constancy, but rather shows significant shifts in lightness, hue and chroma in response to the structure in the nonuniform illumination. Color appearance depends on the spatial information in both the illumination and the reflectances of objects. The spatial information of the quanta catch from the array of retinal receptors generates sensations that have variable correlation with surface reflectance. Models of appearance in humans need to calculate the departures from perfect constancy measured here. This article provides a dataset of measurements of color appearances for computational models of sensation
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