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A variational method for approximate solutions to laminar flow problems
No full textThesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1961.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-117).by John Mitchell Reynolds, III.Sc.D
Burnout in forced convection nucleate boiling of water
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1957.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 19).by John M. Reynolds, III.M.S
A bogus television ad script attacking Jim Mitchell and praising Sen. John Balda
No full textA bogus television ad script attacking Jim Mitchell and praising Sen. John Baldacci, both Democrats for the Democratic nomination in the Second Congressional District, has been partially solved. Mary Cathcart, also a congressional candidate, said that Mitch Thomas, her campaign manager, was responsible for having anonymously faxed the script to media outlets last week. He has been asked to resign. The author of the script is still unknown. Both Mitchell and Baldacci made light of the matter
The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders
No full textThe transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005. ©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2005. All volumes freely available following the links to publications and Wellcome Witnesses at
www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003. Introduction by Professor Tom Meade, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.The recent history of research on platelets and its applications in medicine started with the introduction of ex vivo methods for studying platelet behaviour. The Witness Seminar held on 25 November 2003, chaired by Professor Tom Meade, considered the detailed study of platelets starting with the recognition of their role in haemostasis, both in thrombotic and bleeding disorders . Professor Gustav Born described his research and the invention and development of the optical aggregometer that bears his name. Other topics included the biochemistry and function of platelets ; the platelet release reaction and the effect of aspirin on it ; the Nobel Prize-winning discovery by Sir John Vane of how aspirin inhibits the natural production of prostaglandins; and results of randomized controlled trials of aspirin and other thrombolytic drugs for the prevention of thrombotic conditions. An appendix includes a discussion of the streptokinase trials, 1986-96, from the unpublished Witness Seminar meeting on Thrombolysis held on 28 January 2003, chaired by Professor Brian Pentecost. Participants : Dr Y S [Mick] Bakhle, Sir Christopher Booth, Professor Donald Chambers, Professor John Dickinson, Professor Peter Elwood, Professor Rod Flower, Professor Alison Goodall, Professor John Hampton, Professor Michael Harrison, Professor Stan Heptinstall, Dr Peter Hunter, Dr Peter MacCallum, Dr Marty Mahaut-Smith, Professor Salvador Moncada, Professor Michael Oliver, Professor Clive Page, Professor Sir Stanley Peart, Professor Colin Prentice, Professor Peter Richardson, Dr Stewart Sage, and Dr Duncan Thomas; and from Thrombolysis, Dr Hewan Dewar, the late Sir Richard Doll, Professor John Hampton, Dr Arthur Hollman, Professor Desmond Julian, Dr Robin Norris, Professor Tom Quinn, Dr Roger Smith, and Professor Andrew Stevens. Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2005) The Recent history of platelets in thrombosis and other disorders, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 23. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is funded by the Wellcome Trust,which is a registered charity, no. 210183
John Fulton Reynolds and His Age: Politics, Religion, and Generalship in the Civil War Era
No full textThis doctoral thesis is the first significant work to examine the U.S. Army life of U.S. Major General of Volunteers John Fulton Reynolds in more than six decades. In its assessment of army culture and professionalization, leadership and command, Civil War-era politics and religion, and Civil War memory studies, this paper integrates elements of the so-called "old" and "new" military histories, shedding new light on the fabled Pennsylvanian who brought on the momentous Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863. Of American officers in the antebellum- and Civil War-era armies Reynolds was uncommon. Twice brevetted in Mexico, Reynolds ranked two grades above many of his peers on the eve of the Civil War, an era in which advancement in a small professional army was a rare feat. Reynolds served as commandant of cadets at the United States Military Academy through Secession Winter. As a commander in the Civil War, Reynolds was thoroughly competent, and probably better. Still, his service in the Civil War has earned him great¿and perhaps excessive¿acclaim. This work concludes that, because of the very nature of his death, and because of the religious meaning and symbolism Americans divined from their fratricidal conflict, Reynolds emerged as a more consequential figure in the aftermath of the Civil War than in life
British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War
No full text©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2001. First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2001. All volumes are freely available online at: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 3 June 1999. Introduction by Dr Maureen Malowany.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 3 June 1999. Introduction by Dr Maureen Malowany.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 3 June 1999. Introduction by Dr Maureen Malowany.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 3 June 1999. Introduction by Dr Maureen Malowany.Differences in health services, research and medical education between British East and West Africa over the period to 1980, including the effects of the transition to independent states, were discussed by witnesses with an extraordinary wealth of diverse talent and experience, directed by the chairman, Professor David Bradley. The increased postwar influence of the Medical Research Council in the tropics was described, aided by a seat on the Colonial Medical Research Committee and its successor body, the MRC-based Tropical Medicine Research Board. Research outcomes of programmes in non-infectious diseases and nutrition, along with the great vector-borne diseases, including sleeping sickness and malaria, and helminth eradication spread through the tropics and also influenced treatment in the UK. The importance of Africa for the postwar development of drug treatments for tropical diseases was underlined. Witnesses include: Dr Murray Baker, Sir Christopher Booth, Dr Christopher Draper, Professor Alan Fleming, Professor Herbert Gilles, Dr Len Goodwin, Professor Ralph Hendrickse, Dr Tom Hopwood, the late Professor Michael Hutt, Professor Sir Ian McGregor, Professor George Nelson, Professor Eldryd Parry, Professor Gerry Shaper, Professor John Waterlow, and Dr Roger Whitehead. Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2001) British contributions to medical research and education in Africa after the second world war, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 10, London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity, no. 210183
Passing Malunnah, built by Charles Meredith at Orford
No full textSketch from the scrapbook of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania 1874.
Sketch 98 - Taken 10.8.1869 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Kate P.M, was going on a visit, to Woodsden if not Hobart, Bishopscourt. Edwin H.J.M took her portmanteau on his horse. Passing Malunna, Orford, lately built by Mr & Mrs Charles Meredith. She was the author of many books, “Friends & Foes” etcetra. He was Honorable Charles Meredith, half brother of John Meredith of Cambria, Swansea. The Charles M. built Riversdale, and Plas Newydd, also in Glamorgan. I (S.E.E.M) sold Plas Newydd to the Church Wardens of Swansea March 1922 and sent the money to F.W.D.Mitchell.
The sketches by Catherine Penwarne (Kate), eldest daughter of John and Catherine Mitchell (of Cornwall, England, who settled at Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania in 1852) were made between 1860 and 1876, and portray aspects of 19th Century social and domestic life. Catherine’s sketches were compiled by her sister Sarah. E.E.Mitchell. Derived from her own collection, from those of friends and relations, and from John Ball, Kate's husband, they were compiled sometime between 1928 and 1933. The sketches are mounted in an album, together with: locks of Kate's hair on red silk; a pressed fern arrangement; a coloured photograph of John and Catherine Ball; and coloured views of Buckland Churchyard in 1850, showing the grave of Paul Thomas Mitchell, aged 3 days, and in 1879 showing the grave of Catherine Penwarne Ball. The scrapbook was bequeathed to The Royal Society of Tasmania in 1946.
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Harvey F. Mitchell letter to John H. Williams about his experiences on Mount Rainier and the death of Professor Edgar McClure, January 17, 1931
No full textJohn H. Williams was the author of "The Mountain that was God" a book originally published in 1911 about Mount Rainier history and climbing. Mitchell wrote to Williams to talk about his own experience on the mountain, stating "I love Mount Tacoma so much, and have shouted about it and advertised it so long, it seems you ought to give me some little mention in your next edition. Your book, "The Mountain that was God"is the most beautiful and complete book of that nature ever printed."
Mitchell participated in the 1896 climb of Mount Rainier with Major Ingraham and Edward Curtis and returned again in 1897 with Edward Curtis, the Portland Climbing Club (possibly the Mazamas), and Edgar McClure, a professor from the University of Oregon intent on measuring the height of the mountain. During this trip, Professor McClure slipped and fell to his death. According to Mitchell, "McClure was with half a dozen special friends and proposed to remain with the whole party overnight, so made no objection when I said I would like to leave them and go into the camp, the fire of which I could plainly see. It seems that after I had left, McClure and his party decided to go into camp also. They were resting on a slight incline of snow which, a short distance from them, rolled over into a steep hill. McClure came to the edge of this drop first and called to the others to wait while he investigated to see if it was safe. Where the snow dropped sharply his shoes again played him false - a slip - silence, and in three or four seconds his friends heard him crash against the rocks below." Despite his death, McClure's calculations about the height of the mountain, 14528 feet, served as the official measurement until 1914 when the United States Geological Survey calculated a height of 14,408 feet.
Mitchell writes that the day after McClure's fall, two other men fell into a crevasse near the spot of McClure's fall. One of them was able to catch himself with his alpenstock, climb out of the crevasse and run to the camp to get help for his friend who they were then able to rescue. Mitchell states that he used his pictures from this trip "from which I made lantern slides, then bought from Ed Curtis a sufficient number of his beautiful slides to make a popular lecture which I delivered in the schools for two or three years."Edward Curtis was the older brother of Asahel Curtis. Edward opened a photography studio in Seattle in 1892 and Asahel began working there in 1895. Asahel traveled to Alaska in 1897 to take pictures of the Klondike for the studio but disagreements over photo credits upon his return caused the brothers to part ways
Publicpension governance and performance : lessons for developing countries
No full textThe author examines the relationship between public sector pension plan performance and management practices to improve the design and governance of public pensions in developing countries. Understanding this relationship is important because better yields on public pension plan investment reduce the need for additional taxes to support retirees - and well-funded plans stand a better chance of paying promised benefits. The author's model relates investment returns on public pension assets, as well as plan funding status, to features characterizing the pension systems'governance structure and authority, using new data set on U.S. state and local public sector plans. The following findings stand out. The higher the fraction of retirees elected to the pension board, the stronger the negative effect on investment return in 1990, and the more variable the returns. Systems fared about the same whether they had in-house or external money managers, or independent performance analysis (even if the external managers were drawn from the top 10). But public pensions performed better when fund and actuarial computations were done by professional actuarial and investment counselors rather than relying on former or current employees to choose investment strategies. Social investment rules hurt public pension yields. Public pension plans which mandated that a certain portion of investments be director to instate projects generated much lower returns. The data show that many public pension systems funded their plans satisfactorily but others did not. The results show the following. Fiscal stress reduced stock funding ratios. Stock funding rates were lower, the higher the fraction of elected retirees and elected active workers represented on the pension system board. Stock funding ratios were higher when a system had in-house actuaries, when the board authorized benefit levels, and when board members had liability insurance. Stock funding rates were unaltered by state statutes guaranteering that benefits be guaranteed by law, or by legally set funding requirements, or by the state's ability to carry budget deficits from one year to the next. Nor did they vary when dedicated or special taxes were earmarked for pension revenue. Policymakers in developing countries can profit from the mistakes made and lessons learned by U.S. pension analysis. Although no single package of pension plan practices can optimize investment performance for all systems across all time periods, care must be taken when designing the regulatory and investment environment in which these plans operate. Developing countries should study the work of the U.S. Government Accounting Standards Board. The author discusses some of the complex issues that must be confronted when establishing funding norms for defined benefit pension plans in the public sector.ICT Policy and Strategies,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Pensions&Retirement Systems,Economic Stabilization
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