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Trainor Lecture (2008): R. Nicholas Burns
No full text2008 Raymond Jit Trainor Awards and lecture series. Tom [Thomas] Pickering presented Ambassador [R. Nicholas] Burns the Trainor Award for excellence in the conduct of diplomacy. Burns lectured on the topic of "International challenges the next administration will face" where he remarked on foreign policies for the next administration. He remarked on five things that the U.S. needed to do, which included placing greater emphasis on diplomacy; hiring more American diplomats; showcasing what is best in our soft power society; the need to talk to foreigners; and the need to find a way to lead effectively
[Letter to Mr. Grandmaison from J. W. Burns, 30 January 1972]
No full textA letter with to Nicholas de Grandmaison from J.W. Burns about acquiring on of de Grandmaison's "papooses" (paintings of First Nations children)
The poetical works of Robert Burns.
No full text[4] p. of advertising inserted at front of each vol.Vol. 2 includes glossary and indexes.Memoir of Burns, by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas; v. 1-2, v. 1, [v]-lxvi.Mode of access: Internet
Dangerous ambitions : the challenges of Iran and Hamas ; Proceedings of the 2006 Soref Symposium, May 11 - 12, 2006
No full textR. Nicholas Burns; ..
Robert Burns statue from St Kilda Road, Melbourne, ca. 1900 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from inscription.; In: Victorian views presented to S. Williamson Wallace by the officers of the Department of Agriculture, Melbourne, Victoria, 11 February, 1905.; Inscriptions: "Melbourne from St. Kilda Road, shewing [i.e. showing] Burns statue"--In pen below image.; Condition: Spotting.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an3105280-s36
Letter from Montezuma to cousin Mike Burns
No full textabstract: Montezuma urges Mike Burns and the McDowell Indians to keep McDowell land and Verde River water; NOT to move to Salt River Reservation as proposed
Poecilostreptus Burns, Unitt & Mason, 2016, new genus
No full text31. Poecilostreptus, new genus (Fig. 5). Type species. Calospiza palmeri Hellmayr, 1909 (currently Tangara palmeri). Included species. Poecilostreptus palmeri and P. cabanisi (Sclater, 1868), currently recognized as Tangara palmeri and T. cabanisi. Although the name Poecilostreptus is masculine in gender and Tangara is feminine, reassignment of these species to Poecilostreptus does not entail any changed ending in a specific epithet. Diagnosis. Both species in this genus have black spots on their foreparts forming a collar, as well as black lores and a black forehead. Although widely separated geographically, the two species also share similarities in habitat and voice (Isler & Isler 1999). Etymology. Poecilostreptus is formed from the Greek ποικίλος (“spotted” or “dappled”) and στρεπτός (“collar”), alluding to the pattern of black spots across a whitish chest shared by P. palmeri and P. cabanisi. Comments. The genus Tangara Brisson, 1760, as currently recognized, is the largest genus of Neotropical birds. Sedano & Burns (2009) and Burns et al. (2014) showed that some members of the genus Thraupis Boie, 1826, including the type species T. episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766), are embedded within Tangara. Both Sedano & Burns (2009) and Burns et al. (2014) suggested merging these species of Thraupis into Tangara, enlarging the genus to 55 species. However, this suggestion has not been widely adopted, likely because of reluctance to recognize a genus larger than is conventional for Class Aves, as well as the larger body size of these Thraupis species relative to Tangara. Therefore, we now propose dividing the large clade encompassing Thraupis and Tangara into smaller genera. For some of these clades, names are available (see 29, 30). However, Tangara palmeri and its presumed sister T. cabanisi require a new generic name if the genus Thraupis is to be preserved. T. palmeri belongs to a clade including these Thraupis species as well as 14 other species of Tangara. However, Burns et al. (2014) did not find strong support for the placement of T. palmeri within this clade. Thus, unless a broad genus is recognized to include these Thraupis species and some or all of the species currently in the genus Tangara, a new genus name needs to be erected for T. palmeri and its presumed sister T. cabanisi (see below). Accordingly, we provide Poecilostreptus for this purpose. Burns et al. (2014) did not sample Tangara cabanisi, the presumed sister taxon to T. palmeri. These two species are similar in plumage, habitat, and voice (Isler & Isler 1999, Hilty et al. 2011), and Isler & Isler (1999) considered them to belong to the same species group. Thus, at least until genetic data addressing the position of T. cabanisi are obtained, we recommend including it in Poecilostreptus.Published as part of Burns, Kevin J., Unitt, Philip & Mason, Nicholas A., 2016, A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes), pp. 329-354 in Zootaxa 4088 (3) on page 343, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/26631
Who tells the story of burns in low-and-middle income countries? – A bibliometric study
No full textLow- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain drastically underrepresented in health research, with African countries producing less than 1% of the global output. This work investigates authorship patterns of publications on burns in LMICs. Original research studies addressing burn injuries in LMICs and published between 1st January 2015 and 31st December 2020 were included in the review. Descriptive statistics were performed for country affiliations of authors, World Bank Country Income Groups, WHO group, study-focus and country studied. Of the 458 results, 426 studies met the inclusion criteria. Nearly a quarter of papers on burns in LMICs had both first and senior authors from high-income countries (HICs, n = 95, 24.4%), more than half of the papers had both first and senior authors from upper middle- income countries (upper MICs, n = 222, 57.2%), while less than 1% (n = 3) had first and senior authors exclusively from lower-income countries (LICs). Eleven percent (n = 41/388) of all papers were written without either first nor senior author being from the country studied, and 17 of them (41%) had both first and senior authors from the USA. Twenty-five (6%) of the papers had the first author and not the senior author from the country of focus, while six (2%) had the senior and not the first author from the country of interest. To overcome global health challenges such as burns, locally led research is imperative. The maximum benefit of HIC-LMIC collaborations is achieved when LMICs play an active role in leading the research. When LMICs direct the research being conducted in their country, the harm of inherently inequitable relationships is minimized.</p
Lucy Burns letter to Lucile Atcherson, July 24, 1914
No full textOn July 24, 1914, Lucy Burns, a national women's suffragist, wrote this letter to Lucile Atcherson, the executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Burns informs Atcherson that she is sending the banners of the Federated Clubs, Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, per Miss Atcherson's request. Burns also wishes Atcherson luck with a demonstration in support of women's suffrage scheduled for July 30, 1914.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book
No full textAn interview with prize-winning author James McBride on how he explores race in his new collection of stories, @Five-Carat Soul@
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