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Letter to Guy Guernsey from R.M. Rogers, 1913
No full textThis letter from R.M. Rogers of the Rogers Palace Laundry Co. was sent to Guy Guernsey, secretary of Chicago-Kent College of Law, in 1913, in search of a recent graduate for a law partnership.
Transcript:
6/5/13
Mr. Guy Guernsey Sec - Chgo Kent College of Lw Harris Trust Bldg,
Dear Sir,
I would like to talk with one of your this year\u27s grads about a law partnership.
What I want - a young man, husky, fearless, energetic, fertile thinker, of good habits + good character - there are 3 kinds of men, (1) oppressors, (2) oppressees, (3) those with backbone enough not to be a no. 2. + principle enough not to be no. 1.: one who allows no one to prevent him getting what belongs to him - it\u27s a No. 3. I want
Yours truly, RM Rogershttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/memorabilia/1002/thumbnail.jp
An integrated reconfigurable Bragg grating utilising a photoresponsive co-polymer
No full textReconfigurable Bragg grating devices are of significant interest for telecomm applications. Such devices can be fabricated by combining a UV-written silica Bragg grating with an azobenzene-based polymer - a photoresponsive material that undergoes reversible refractive index change on exposure to ultraviolet light. The preliminary 17 GHz tuning response suggests future applicability
Spain and Portugal
No full text1 mapa, b/n amb els contorns acolorits. - Toponímia en anglès.- Inclou 8 il·lustracions de Madrid, Lisboa, Gibraltar,... - Publicat dins de l'atles: The Illustrated Atlas, And Modern History Of The World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, Edited By R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. ... The Maps Drawn & Engraved By J. Rapkin. H. Warren. J. Rogers. J. & F. Tallis, London & New York, 1851.28 x 38 c
Spain and Portugal
No full text1 mapa, b/n amb els contorns acolorits. - Toponímia en anglès.- Inclou 8 il·lustracions de Madrid, Lisboa, Gibraltar,... - Publicat dins de l'atles: The Illustrated Atlas, And Modern History Of The World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, Edited By R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. ... The Maps Drawn & Engraved By J. Rapkin. H. Warren. J. Rogers. J. & F. Tallis, London & New York, 1851.28 x 38 c
Environmental impact statement preparation notice for the Kahaualea Geothermal Project
No full textTax map key: no. 1-1-01, Parcel 1 and no. 1-2-08, Parcel 1"This environmental document is submitted pursuant to Chapter 343, HRS"Accepting authority: Chairman, Board of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii"Geothermal plant design by Rogers Engineering Co., Inc."True/Mid-Pacific Geothermal VentureEstate of James Campbel
R.M. Simmons presentation, Rena Smart book review
No full textR.M. Simmons of the Gospel Music Workshop of America gives a presentation on the African influence in the African American religious experience. He explains how African slaves brought to America their concept of music (utilitarian concept of music). Simmons further discusses the fusion between the utilitarian concept and the Western concept of religion resulting in spirituals. He also describes hymn categories in early forms of formal African American worship experiences. Simmons takes questions from the audience among which is Dr. Riggins Earl Jr. Video concludes with a book review on Christian Theology and Ethics by Rena Smart.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Test retest reliability of the oxygen uptake efficiency slope in surgical patients
No full textThe oxygen uptake efficiency slope is a measure of cardiopulmonary fitness, that can be obtained from a sub-maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test. It has been evaluated in medical patients but its reliability in surgical populations remains uncertain. We conducted a test–retest study with the aim of establishing the reliability of the oxygen uptake efficiency slope in relation to that of the anaerobic threshold and peak oxygen uptake, in general surgical patients. Twenty-six patients over 60 years old completed two symptom-limited, incremental cycle ergometry tests within 7 days. The mean (SD) anaerobic threshold was 13.0 (3.0) mlO2.kg?1.min?1. There were no significant differences between mean test and retest values of anaerobic threshold (p = 0.50), peak oxygen uptake (p = 0.76) or oxygen uptake efficiency slope (p = 0.42). Reliability coefficients (95% CI) for the anaerobic threshold, oxygen uptake efficiency slope and peak oxygen uptake were 66.7% (45.3–87.9%), 89.0% (81.0–96.9%) and 91.7% (85.7–97.8%), respectively. The oxygen uptake efficiency slope was determined easily in all patients and found to have excellent reliability. Its clinical utility in determining pre-operative fitness warrants further evaluation.<br/
Velocity-Gradient Probability Distribution Functions in a Lagrangian Model of Turbulence
No full textThe Recent Fluid Deformation Closure (RFDC) model of lagrangian turbulence is recast in path-integral language within the framework of the Martin-Siggia-Rose functional formalism. In order to derive analytical expressions for the velocity-gradient probability distribution functions (vgPDFs), we carry out noise renormalization in the low-frequency regime and find approximate extrema for the Martin-Siggia-Rose effective action. We verify, with the help of Monte Carlo simulations, that the vgPDFs so obtained yield a close description of the single-point statistical features implied by the original RFDC stochastic differential equations
Direct grating writing: single-step Bragg grating and waveguide fabrication for telecommunications and sensing applications
No full textDirect Grating Writing (DGW) has been developed over the past decade as a means of rapidly prototyping waveguides with integrated Bragg grating structures in silica-on-silicon substrates [1]. The technique allows complicated waveguide structures and Bragg grating arrays to be fabricated and characterised in house
Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy
No full textIn emerging service-oriented systems, such as computational clouds or grids, software agents are able to automatically procure distributed services to complete computational tasks. However, service execution times are often highly uncertain and service providers may have incentives to lie strategically about this uncertainty to win more customers. In this paper, we argue that techniques from the field of artificial intelligence are instrumental to addressing these challenges.To this end, we first propose a new decision-theoretic algorithm that allows a single service consumer agent to procure services for a computational task with a strict deadline. Crucially, this algorithm uses redundancy in a principled manner to mitigate uncertain execution times and maximise the consumer's expected utility. We present both an optimal variant that uses a novel branch-and-bound formulation, and a fast heuristic that achieves near-optimal performance. Using simulations, we demonstrate that our algorithms outperform approaches that do not employ redundancy by up to 130% in some settings.Next, as the algorithms require private information about the providers? capabilities, we show how techniques from mechanism design can be used to incentivise truthfulness. As no existing work in this area deals with uncertain execution times and redundant invocations, we extend the state of the art by proposing a number of payment schemes for these settings. In a detailed analysis, we prove that our mechanisms fulfil a range of desirable economic properties, including incentive compatibility, and we discuss suboptimal variants that scale to realistic settings with hundreds of providers. We show experimentally that our mechanisms extract a high surplus and that even our suboptimal variants typically achieve a high efficiency (95% or more in a wide range of settings)
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