758 research outputs found
Memo from J.K. Corbett to Mr. Joe Carroll, Relocation Officer, Heart Mountain on Monday, June 12, 1944
No full textMemorandum of understanding from J. K. Corbett to Joe Carroll regarding a meeting of the Powell Club in Powell, Wyoming.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Someone has to do it: towards a practical defence of politicians
No full textIn response to rising popular disenchantment with elected officials, numerous scholars have sought to defend politics and restate why it matters. For the most part, however, these theoretical arguments overlook the views and reflections of politicians themselves. As a step towards filling this gap, the author surveys politician-centred studies from around the world and the reflections of academics who have become politicians. By paying careful attention to what ‘insiders’ say about life in politics, the author constructs a practical rather than theoretical defence of the vocation and the people who undertake it. The author argues that politicians' views remind one that human endeavour is central to the purpose and function of politics and associated political institutions. To link the practical views and experiences of politicians with the emerging literature on demonisation, the author revisits the work of Arendt and Weber. The author concludes that while one may not always like who politicians are or the ways they operate, revaluing endeavour allows one to give credit where credit is due; politicians may regularly disappoint people but representative democracy does not work without them
Small fish swimming in the shape of a shark: why politicians join political parties in the Pacific islands
No full textPolitical parties are ubiquitous features of contemporary models of representative democracy and are widely believed to be integral to transition, and yet persistently democratic Pacific Island countries tend to have ‘weakly’ institutionalised parties – some have none at all – that have little influence on the mobilisation of voters during elections. Party theory largely assumes that politicians form parties to win elections: the author asks why, given the commonly cited irrelevance of party politics in much of the Pacific, politicians join political parties at all. Drawing on 96 biographical accounts – including 72 in-depth interviews –he interprets the explanations politicians give for joining, leaving and changing parties. The author identifies three narratives. The first accords with an augmented rational actor model, the second with a responsible parties model and the third points to intrinsic motivations that are largely overlooked in the existing literature. The author concludes that a comprehensive account must include all three interpretations
Modelling tuberculosis in areas of high HIV prevalence
No full textWe describe a discrete event simulation model of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV disease, parameterized to describe the dual epidemics in Harare, Zimbabwe. TB and HIV are the leading causes of death from infectious disease among adults worldwide and the number of TB cases has risen significantly since the start of the HIV epidemic, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV epidemic is most severe. There is a need to devise new strategies for TB control in countries with a high prevalence of HIV. This model has been designed to investigate strategies for reducing TB transmission by more efficient TB case detection. The model structure and its validation are discussed
The Higgs width in the SMEFT
No full textWe calculate the total and partial inclusive Higgs widths at leading order in
the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We report results incorporating
SMEFT corrections for two and four body Higgs decays through vector currents in this
limit. The narrow width approximation is avoided and all phase space integrals are directly
evaluated. We explain why the narrow width approximation fails more significantly in the
SMEFT compared to the SM, despite the narrowness of the observed SU(2) × U(1) bosons
in both theories. Our results are presented in a manner that allows various input parameter
schemes to be used, and they allow the inclusive branching ratios and decay widths of the
Higgs to be numerically determined without a Monte Carlo generation of phase space for
each Wilson coefficient value chosen
READING THE PREAMBLE TO THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867
No full textREADING THE PREAMBLE TO THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867</jats:p
Incorporating household structure into a discrete event simulation model of tuberculosis and HIV
No full textHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) increases the risks of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease followinginfection, and speeds up disease progression. This has had a devastating effect on TB epidemics in sub-SaharanAfrica, where incidence rates have more than trebled in the past twenty years. Current control methods for TBdisease have failed to keep pace with this growth in TB, and there is an urgent need to find TB control strategiesthat are effective in high-HIV prevalent settings. This paper describes a discrete-event simulation model ofendemic TB that includes the effects of HIV and of household structure on the transmission dynamics of TB.Incorporating a social structure allows us to compare the effectiveness of contact-tracing interventions withtargeted case-finding at high risk groups. We describe the modeling of the household structure in some detail, asthis has applications to the modeling of other infectious diseases
Erratum: Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study (Jmir Form Res (2021)5:7 (E27327) Doi: 10.2196/27327)
No full textIn “Medication Adherence Reminder System for Virtual Home Assistants: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study” (JMIR Form Res 2021;5(7):e27327), three errors were noted. Due to a system error, the name of one author, Cynthia F Corbett, was replaced with the name of another author on the paper, Elizabeth M Combs. In the originally published paper, the order of authors was listed as follows: Elizabeth M Combs, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane This has been corrected to: Cynthia F Corbett, Elizabeth M Combs, Peyton S Chandarana, Isabel Stringfellow, Karen Worthy, Thien Nguyen, Pamela J Wright, Jason M O\u27Kane In the originally published paper, the ORCID of author Cynthia F Corbett was incorrectly published as follows: 0000-0002-2254-6958 This has been corrected to: 0000-0003-2706-2116 In the originally published paper, the email of the Corresponding Author was incorrectly published as follows: [email protected] This has been corrected to: [email protected] The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on January 27, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories
Comparative Analysis of Milled Wood Lignins (MWLs) Isolated from Sugar Maple (SM) and Hot-Water Extracted Sugar Maple (ESM)
No full textTo further elucidate the advantageous effects of hot-water extraction (HWE) on delignification, milled wood lignin (MWL) was isolated from sugar maple (SM) and from hot-water extracted sugar maple (ESM). Ball-milled wood was analyzed for particle size distribution (PSD) before and after dioxane:water (DW) extraction. The MWL samples were analyzed by analytical and spectral methods. The results indicated that the MWL isolated from SM and ESM was mainly released from the middle lamella (ML) and the secondary wall (SW), respectively. The cleavage of dibenzodioxocin (DB) and spirodienone (SD) lignin substructures during HWE is suggested. The removal of lignin during acetone:water (AW) extraction of hot-water extracted wood indicates that including an additional operation in a hardwood HWE-based biorefinery would be beneficial for processing of wood
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