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Box 35, Neg. No. 52514: C. M. Payne
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of C. M. Payne - he is wearing a military uniform and is sitting in a wicker chair. C. M. Payne ordered the photograph.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/stafford_county/5253/thumbnail.jp
Chicago Quickstep
No full text80.7568.204 – “Chicago Quickstep”: Payne, D. C.: H. M. Higgins: Chicago: Dance Music, Quickstep: 1856: Solo Piano
The Democratic Banner: Last Will of Bertha C. Payne Filed
No full textThe Last Will Of Bertha C. Payne Is Filed
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The Payne Will--
The last will and testament of Bertha C. Payne, late of Mt. Vernon, has been filed in probate. By the terms of the will she gives to her son, Kenneth Payne, her piano and all her right, and interest in the homestead property on Ann stret. The same is to be held in trust and Harrison Judy is named as the trustee. The trustee may sell the piano, rent or sell the real estate, the income of which is to be used toward the support of her child, Kenneth Payne. The testatrix gives to her mother, Elizabeth J. Copeland certain household goods and personal articles. To her sister, Lillie M. Gipson she also gives personal effects and household goods. To her husband, Thomas Payne, she gives her rings, also the money from a life insurance policy held in the Court of Calanthe. Elizabeth J. Copeland is named the executrix of the will, but should she be dead at the time or declines to serve then the testatrix\u27s sister, Lillie M. Gipson, is to act as executrix. The will was signed April 14, 1914, in the presence of Henry C. Devin and Mary Gibson.https://digital.kenyon.edu/communitywithin/1226/thumbnail.jp
Antioxidant assays - consistent findings from FRAP and ORAC reveal a negative impact of organic cultivation on antioxidant potential in spinach but not watercress or rocket leaves
No full textWatercress (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum), wild rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia), and spinach (Spinacia oleracea) are commercial crops reported to have high concentrations of antioxidants, possibly contributing to disease prevention following human consumption. Following analysis of supermarket-purchased salad leaves, we report the antioxidant content potential of these species using two comparable techniques assessing the consistency between the assays – by the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay and the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay. The leaves were harvested from both conventionally and organically managed crops, to investigate whether organic agriculture results in improved crop quality. Watercress had the highest FRAP and ability to scavenge free radicals, followed by spinach and rocket. For watercress and rocket, there was no significant effect of organic agriculture on FRAP and ORAC, but for spinach, the antioxidant potential was reduced and this was significant at the 5% level of probability for FRAP but not ORAC, although the trend was clear in both tests. We conclude that there is variation in salad crop antioxidant potential and that FRAP and ORAC are useful techniques for measuring antioxidants in these salad crops with similar ranking for each salad crop studied
Roy Crane Papers
No full textA booklet of S'Matter Pop! comic strips by C. M. Payne, with an illustration of the comic's characters by Roy Crane, Jr. on the front cover
Robust execution of service workflows using redundancy and advance reservations
No full textIn this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumers to execute business processes (or workflows) of interdependent services in a dependable manner within tight time-constraints. In particular, we consider large inter-organisational service-oriented systems, where services are offered by external organisations that demand financial remuneration and where their use has to be negotiated in advance using explicit service-level agreements (as is common in Grids and cloud computing). Here, different providers often offer the same type of service at varying levels of quality and price. Furthermore, some providers may be less trustworthy than others, possibly failing to meet their agreements. To control this unreliability and ensure end-to-end dependability while maximising the profit obtained from completing a business process, our algorithm automatically selects the most suitable providers. Moreover, unlike existing work, it reasons about the dependability properties of a workflow, and it controls these by using service redundancy for critical tasks and by planning for contingencies. Finally, our algorithm reserves services for only parts of its workflow at any time, in order to retain flexibility when failures occur. We show empirically that our algorithm consistently outperforms existing approaches, achieving up to a 35-fold increase in profit and successfully completing most workflows, even when the majority of providers fail
A novel molecular dynamics approach to large semiconductor systems
No full textWe review the main features of a recently proposed molecular dynamics method in which quantum mechanical calculations are embedded in a classical force model within a unified scheme free of boundary region and transferability problems. The scheme is based on the idea of augmenting a parametrized analytic force model by incorporating in it the quantum mechanical information necessary to compute accurate trajectories. This is achieved through a suitable fitting procedure in which the parameters of a classical inter-atomic force field are adjusted at run time to reproduce high-accuracy results which are computed separately on system subsets by tight-binding or DFT-based "black box" computing engines. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserve
Exploring the end of life decision-making and hospital experiences of families who did not donate organs or tissues for transplant operations
No full textOrgan and tissue donation: Exploring the needs of families
No full textRelatives of potential organ donors are the most critical link in maintaining organ availability, as they must express their lack of objection before organ retrieval may take place. The often sudden and unexpected nature of the death of a potential organ donor, plus acceptance of a non-stereotypical death, brain stem death, could be expected to create certain challenges for families; yet, their anonymity means little is understood about their experiences. This three-year, longitudinal study sought to clarify the needs of families throughout their decision-making and bereavement, to provide a rationale for further preparation of professionals involved in this sensitive work and the voluntary organisations, such as BODY, that seek to support them. It is the first detailed, longitudinal study of families with whom organ donation was discussed. It was sponsored by the British Organ Donor Society and funded by National Lottery Community Fund. The researchers worked closely with transplant co-ordination services and intensive care units throughout the UK. Face-to-face interviews and two, self-completed, psychometric measures, the Grief Experience Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory, were used to elicit the bereavement experiences of 46 family members who chose to donate their deceased relative’s organs and three who declined donation. Participants who chose to donate were interviewed on three occasions at 3-5, 13-15 and 18-26 months post bereavement. Single interviews were carried out with participants who declined donation. Researcher’s field notes aided reflexivity, provided context and explanatory rigour to judgements and decision-making, providing a credible audit-trail of the investigation. Data were analysed using a constant comparative approach concerned with detecting and highlighting important similarities and differences between participants. Data provided strong evidence regarding issues surrounding sudden death and organ donation, such as identification of participants’ needs (need was defined as the help participants felt they required or would have liked throughout their bereavement). HyperResearch 2.2.3 was used to store and work with transcribed data. Sque’s theory of Dissonant Loss, Walter’s Biographical Model of Grief and the Dual Processing Model of Grief provided the theoretical and analytic frameworks. Descriptive and multivariate statistics were used to analyse the grief and depression measures, using The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Findings from the interviews indicated participants’ bereavement needs during the hospital stay included: the need for correct, timely information, the need for contact with the deceased, the need to understand the diagnosis of brainstem death, the need to have their special role as next-of-kin recognised, the need for healthcare professionals, from all areas, to understand their ‘emotional mind-set’ at this time. Families needed easy access to both formal (transplant co-ordinators, support groups and bereavement organisations) and informal (friends and family) sources of support after leaving the hospital. They needed to hear from transplant co-ordinators about the use of the organs. Their need to hear about and from the recipients of their loved ones organs increased over time. They needed support and the opportunity to talk about the deceased with friends and families or bereavement support personnel. Results of the psychometric measures indicated that participants’ depression levels were elevated at 3-5 months post bereavement and reduced to minimal levels, for all but six participants, by 18-26 months. These six participants reported poor formal and informal bereavement support. The lack of such support could therefore have a consequence for on-going depression and grief related distress. The ability to interchange human organs and tissues introduces a relatively unexplored dimension to grieving that requires specific attention. Bereavement support must begin at the bedside and continue until it is no longer needed. This calls for a much greater integration of support services with a seamless transfer of care from the hospital to a support organisation specifically designed to meet the on-going bereavement needs of families, whatever their decision regarding organ and tissue donation
Agent Roles in Human Teams
No full textIn this paper, we describe results of a series of experiments investigating the effects of agent aiding on human teams. The role an agent played, its task, and the ease with which it communicated with its human teammates all influenced team behavior. Team supporting tasks such as relaying and reminding seemed particularly effective
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