154,119 research outputs found
Dining Room Mead Hall
No full textMead Hall rooms were declared �nearly perfect� for accommodating the main functions of the new seminary, but there were continual changes over the years as the seminary grew and transformed into a university.Original file name 165 Dining Room in Mead Hall.jp
Dining Room Mead Hall
No full textMead Hall rooms were declared �nearly perfect� for accommodating the main functions of the new seminary, but there were continual changes over the years as the seminary grew and transformed into a university.Original file name 165 Dining Room in Mead Hall.jp
Margaret Mead lecture
No full textThis lecture was recorded at the Rice Memorial Center during the Rice University Semicentennial celebration. The recording stops before the end of the speech, but a typed document with the final lines of the speech was included in the box with the reel with text as follows: "...whether we can transmute, in ourselves, these age long loyal ties is a formidable task. If we can do it, then the journey ahead of man is incredibly more magnificent than the journey that brought man from the stone age into the present."Noted cultural anthropologist, Margaret Mead spoke to several groups over the days of the Semicentennial celebration in October 1962, including to a crowd of around 3000 people at the Rice Memorial Center. Mead spoke extemporaneously on the subject of "Changing Estimates of Human Potentialities.
Mead paper mill
No full textAccompanying caption reads:
"Ross Co
Mead Paper Mill"
The Mead Corporation was founded in Dayton in 1846. Colonel Daniel Mead bought out his partners over the span of the next twenty years, and in 1882 established Mead Paper Company. In 1890 Mead opened up the Chillicothe plant, seen in this photo
Projecting the Future Budgetary Cost of AIDS Treatment in Poor Countries: A Manual for the AIDSCost Computer Programs
No full textEvery year, UNAIDS releases updated estimates of the number of people living with HIV and AIDS and the mortality impact of the epidemic, while WHO releases data on the number of people on treatment and the number needing treatment. This dataset, from CGD senior fellow Mead Over and Owen McCarthy, is a compilation of selected variables from these published sources as well as from the World Bank Development Indicators and the International Monetary Fund’s estimates of economic quantities such as Gross Domestic Product and central government health expenditures. The data are in the format developed by the Stata statistical software corporation and are intended for use with the AIDSCost package for the purpose of projecting the future budgetary cost of scaling up AIDS treatment. Instructions on how to download, access, and use the AIDSCost package are included in the users' manual. The authors encourage comments on their blog or as an e-mail to them, which will be considered for posting. (CGD’s HIV/AIDS Monitor Initiative provides access to data on past AIDS funding PEPFAR, the World Bank and the Global Fund.
AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates are Low
No full textThe slower spread of AIDS in South Asian countries, combined with the fact that most South Asian countries have higher per capita incomes than the most severely affected countries of other regions imply that the various impacts of the disease will be smaller in South Asia than in the worst affected countries in other regions. While justified with respect to the impact of the disease on economic output, on poverty, or on orphanhood, this conclusion does not follow with respect to the health sector, where the relatively minor public role in health care delivery and the entrepreneurial and heterogeneous private health and pharmaceutical sectors combine to magnify the potential impact of the epidemic. This paper uses recent epidemiological data on the extent and rate of spread of HIV/AIDS in South Asian countries and alternative scenarios regarding future government efforts to expand access to AIDS treatment in order to estimate the future need for antiretroviral treatment in South Asian countries and the fiscal burden that their governments will shoulder if they decide to provide or finance all of the needed care. Since AIDS treatment cannot be presumed to slow HIV transmission and may speed it, the usual argument for paying for such treatment with public funds is on equity grounds—that it will prevent poverty and orphanhood. Indeed this paper estimates that public financing of AIDS treatment might avert poverty for about three percent of the Indian population, for example. However, data on the quality of private health care in India suggests that another effect of publicly produced AIDS treatment would be to crowd out lower-quality private AIDS treatment, thereby preventing some of the negative spillovers of poor quality private treatment. The paper closes by arguing on efficiency grounds that the government role in AIDS treatment should encompass both regulation of the private sector and support for quality “structured” AIDS treatment in the public sector.AIDS, HIV, South Asia
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Lake Mead Air flight over Grand Canyon, June 1971 [05]
No full textColor 35-mm slide photograph of late afternoon sun over canyons during a Lake Mead Air flight in the Grand Canyon area in the spring of 1971. Slide developed in June of 1971
New York Racquet and Tennis Club
No full textContext view, looking north on Park Avenue; Designed by McKim, Mead, and White in an eclectic , Italian Renaissance style, the Racquet and Tennis Club building is representative of the ornate private clubs constructed in New York during the early twentieth century. Today it performs an important architectural role on Park Avenue as a foil to the Seagram Building and the Lever House. Construction began on December 20, 1916, and was completed on September 7, 1918. The builder was Mark Edlitz, and the estimated cost was $400,000. The building is about 200 feet by 100 feet (30 m x 60 m) and five stories tall. The exterior is stone and brick over a structural steel frame. According to the original plans, the interior contained three dining rooms, a billiard room, library, lounge, gymnasium, four squash courts, two court tennis (real tennis) courts, and two racquets courts. Today, there are four International squash courts, one North American doubles squash court, one racquets court, and the two tennis courts. On July 13, 1983, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/30/2008
Mead Plant and wood used for pulp
No full textReverse reads, "Mead plant and wood for wood pulp."
This is a photo of the Mead Corporation's wood plant and wood being weathered for pulp. The Mead Corporation was founded in Dayton in 1846. Colonel Daniel Mead bought out his partners over the span of the next twenty years, and in 1882 established Mead Paper Company. In 1890 Mead opened up the Chillicothe plant, seen in this photo
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