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The metric tun : standardisation, quantification and industrialisation in the British brewing industry, 1760-1830
No full textThis thesis considers the British beer-brewing industry around 1800 as a case study exploring current themes in the history of science and technology: the imposition of
reliable standards, the use of instruments and quantities, and the nature of industrial growth. I begin by addressing Michael Combrune, author of the first thermometric
brewing account, showing the influence of Boerhaavian fermentation theory and the eighteenth-century agenda for "commercial chemistry" on his work: Combrune's
fellow brewers, however, did not generally rely on the chemical scheme of management he had established, developing instead highly localised thermometric
operations which did not challenge established understandings. Next, I consider the determination of beer strength, focusing here on the brewer John Richardson's
innovation of the saccharometer, a gravimetric philosophical instrument. I show how Richardson presented both the device and the quantity in which it was scaled, later termed the `brewer's pound, ' as offering brewery-specific advantages, in order to ensure its acceptance whilst at the same time denying its roots in the disputatious field of spirits hydrometry. Richardson did not achieve his wider goal of monopolist control over the device, but his project of saccharometric determination was widely taken up, contributing to a significant change in the composition of beer, as brewers moved from using traditional brown- malts to the saccharometrically preferable pales. This development is then reviewed in the context of an analysis of the identity of London porter, the staple brown beer of London: I investigate the relationship of porter's identity to the uniquely vast and industrialised plants which produced it. Finally, I highlight the ambiguous nature of appeals to `science' or `chemistry' before 1830 by discussing the widespread contemporary panic over adulteration, popularly assumed to
be practised by those who associated with chemists and did not pursue a `traditional' approach to brewing. This controversy was settled, I contend, only with the later
development of a common laboratory-analytical context between brewers, pharmacists and public analysts who were able to redefine the concept of adulteration itself
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Transformation of residual open spaces into a green community hub: a case study from Sinza D, Dar es Salaam
No full textRapid urbanisation and incremental housing in Dar es Salaam have depleted urban green spaces, leaving many public areas underutilised or privately appropriated. This study, conducted within the Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) between Ardhi University and Hasselt University, examines university-community collaboration (UCC) as a means of transforming such spaces into community-owned and managed green areas. Drawing on 1 year of participatory action research in Sinza D, the study traces how collaboration among researchers, grassroots leaders, and residents evolved through facilitation, reflection, and trust-building. The findings reveal that effective UCC nurtures grassroots leadership, embodied in extended planners, who are local actors mediating between community aspirations and institutional frameworks. These leaders gain legitimacy and adaptive capacity through co-designed and inclusive processes that transform facilitation into shared governance. The study challenges extractive research models and calls for more context-sensitive, enduring collaborations that strengthen local agency in rapidly urbanising African cities.Funding:
The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This research was funded under the joint partnership between Hasselt University (Belgium) and Ardhi University (Tanzania) as part of the Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) programme, supported by VLIR-UOS, grant ID: TZ2022IUC042A104.
Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) programme funded by VLIR-UOS, through the partnership between Hasselt University (Belgium) and Ardhi University (Tanzania). Special thanks are 11 Frontiers in Sustainable Cities frontiersin.orgMajogoro et al. 10.3389/frsc.2025.1700035 extended to the grassroots leaders, members of the GSC, MGL, and residents of Sinza D for their trust, collaboration, and active participation throughout the research process. Their insights, actions, and reflections were central to the learning journey documented in this study
Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
No full textThe scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name change from Woodrow Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King College. Introducing Black community college students from Chicago as key participants in the expansion of the Black Power Movement furthers new lines of scholarly investigation, which allows a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Black Campus and Black Power Movements. Additionally, this research aims to inject a new term, the Black Community College Campus Movement (BCCCM) into the dominant discourse on student social movements. This term represents the importance of the efforts and impact of Chicago Black community college students to demand education reform as part and parcel of the 1960s Black Campus Movement, America’s Black Power Movement, and the broader history of global student social movements.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01The student, Fredrick Dixon, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-09 at 20:52.The student, Fredrick Dixon, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-07-09 at 21:18.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-07-11 at 16:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12788 on 2018-09-27 at 11:18:36Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:30:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Molecular insight into the electrostatic membrane surface potential by 14n/31p MAS NMR spectroscopy: nociceptin-lipid association
No full textExploiting naturally abundant 14N and 31P nuclei by high-resolution MAS NMR (magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance) provides a molecular view of the electrostatic potential present at the surface of biological model membranes, the electrostatic charge distribution across the membrane interface, and changes that occur upon peptide association. The spectral resolution in 31P and 14N MAS NMR spectra is sufficient to probe directly the negatively charged phosphate and positively charged choline segment of the electrostatic P--O-CH2-CH2-N+(CH3)3 headgroup dipole of zwitterionic DMPC (dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine) in mixed-lipid systems. The isotropic shifts report on the size of the potential existing at the phosphate and ammonium group within the lipid headgroup while the chemical shielding anisotropy (31P) and anisotropic quadrupolar interaction (14N) characterize changes in headgroup orientation in response to surface potential. The 31P/14N isotropic chemical shifts for DMPC show opposing systematic changes in response to changing membrane potential, reflecting the size of the electrostatic potential at opposing ends of the P--N+ dipole. The orientational response of the DMPC lipid headgroup to electrostatic surface variations is visible in the anisotropic features of 14N and 31P NMR spectra. These features are analyzed in terms of a modified "molecular voltmeter" model, with changes in dynamic averaging reflecting the tilt of the C-N+(CH)3 choline and PO4- segment. These properties have been exploited to characterize the changes in surface potential upon the binding of nociceptin to negatively charged membranes, a process assumed to proceed its agonistic binding to its opoid G-protein coupled receptor
My story [1915-1999]
No full textDescription of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army. He servedin England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.Fred (Fredrick Theodore) Gutmann was born Friedrich Theodor Gutmann on September 10th, 1915 in Vienna. He grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family. Fred studied at the Technical University of Vienna and was expelled after the Anschluss in March of 1938. He emigrated to the United States via England in 1939.See also Fredrick Theodore Gutmann Collection AR 11331New YorkEnglandGermanyHollandUnited StatesAustro-Hungarian EmpireChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Emigration and immigration, 1933-1945, EnglandHolidays, JewsJews, liturgy and ritualMilitary service, World War I
A Conversation with Charles V. Hamilton
No full text Charles V. Hamilton is the Wallace Sayre Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Government at Columbia University. He is the author of several important books on the study of race and politics, focusing primarily on the African-American experience. He is the coauthor of Black Power: A Politics of Liberation with the late Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), as well as The Black Preacher in America; Bench and the Ballot: Southern Federal Judges and Black Voters; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma; and coauthor with Dona Cooper Hamilton of The Dual Agenda: Race and the Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations. He was interviewed by Fredrick C. Harris, Dean of Social Science and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, on July 13, 2017, at the University of Chicago. This is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be viewed below or at http://www.annualreviews.org/r/charlesvhamilton . </jats:p
Pintacuentos
No full textAn unusual coloring-book: a page already colored in faces one you can color. It is nice to see a story without having to read text, and there is no text here!Language note: SpanishPatricia and Fredrick McKissac
Fredrick Accum: an important nineteenth-century chemist fallen into oblivion
No full textThe German-born Fredrick Accum (1769-1838),
lecturer, author, analyst, industrial chemist, technical expert
and trader of chemicals and apparatus was once one
of the best-known scientists in the United Kingdom. His
efforts to popularize chemistry and to bring it to people
of all classes were highly successful as demonstrated
by the large audiences of men and women that used to
fill the amphitheater of the Surrey Institution to attend
his public lectures. His books on chemistry, mineralogy,
crystallography and the use of gas for public and home
illumination (of which he was an early promoter) were
so much appreciated that they were published in several
editions and translated into various languages. Numerous
distinguished students learned their practical skills in his
private laboratory and school.Despite this considerable success, the very few
people who might still remember Accum probably owe
that memory to his famous book from 1820 A Treatise
on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons. And
some might also recall the odd events that followed the
publication of the book, which eventually forced him to
depart from London forever, the city where he had arrived
almost three decades before as an assistant pharmacist.This paper presents the work and legacy of this
controversial and once-famous chemist, including a
description of the events that precipitated his abrupt
departure from the international scene.SFRH/BSAB/135418/2017info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Orientation of nursing assistant instructors
No full textPlan BHealthcare in the United States has been described as being in a state of crisis. One of the areas that is contributing to the problem is the current shortage of nurses. This has been given a lot of attention in the media and the public has responded with renewed interest in nursing and related programs. At one community college this has also resulted in an increase in enrollment in the Nursing Assistant Program, which is a prerequisite for many nursing programs in the state. The graduation rate for this program has increased 166 percent in the last four years. This increase in enrollment has lead to a demand for qualified instructors. The challenge has been to provide an orientation program for the nursing assistant faculty that will adequately prepare them to teach the program. The purpose of this field problem was to solicit input from current instructors as to their orientation experience at the college. The review of literature explores the origins of training and the development of instructor excellence. It also looks at the history of nursing assistant training and why it is important to have good training. The results of the study revealed that there are some inconsistencies and gaps in the instructor orientation. It demonstrated that there is strong support for the expansion of an instructor manual and creation of a mentor role that is felt will greatly improve the orientation process
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