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Thomas Peter Smith Family Papers, Series 1, Box 1, Folder 1
No full textCorrespondence from Daniel Townsend Smith to his father, Thomas Peter Smith, and sisters, Elizabeth F. Smith and Amarynthia Jessie Smith
Mexico and the United States
No full textDespite high-profile debates over issues such as drug smuggling and illegal immigration, the United States and Mexico remain key trading partners, with the economic interests of both countries becoming increasingly intertwined over the past several decades. Between the 1960s and 1980s Mexico experienced a rapid growth of Maquiladoras, factories that take duty and tariff-free raw materials from the U.S. and return them as finished goods. For Mexico, this meant thousands of desperately needed jobs: for the United States, the ability to survive competition from foreign companies with access to cheap labor. However, despite these economic advantages, Maquiladoras have drawn condemnation on both sides of the border, with union leaders in the U.S. claiming the system takes jobs away from American factories, and Mexican critics saying it perpetuates their country’s image as an infinite pool of cheap labor. In this episode the growing economic interdependence of the United States and Mexico is examined, as well as the policy concerns of both the Mexican and American governments. Featuring professors Peter Smith and Adolfo Aguilar, with National Public Radio’s Jim Angle as contributing reporter.Examines U.S. relationship with Mexico, including economic ties and common problems such as immigration, drugs, debt and trade
Ely, H.P., letter, Medford, [N.J.], November 15, 1857, to "Resp[ec]t[e]d F[rien]d." [Peter Still]
No full textH.P. Ely informs Peter Still that he (Ely) has received a letter from Dillwyn Smith; alludes to a trip to New England by Still to sell books; reports that Smith is suffering financially, apparently as arbitration (relating to construction of Still’s house?) reduced the amount of money that Smith was to receive, despite related bills that Smith must still pay; believes that Still should pay one of Smith’s relevant bills, as Smith “has met with many losses” and “Dillwyn[’]s family & connections have done more for [him] than all others with their money & reccommendations [sic]”; further suggests that through inaction Still could “loose the interest of [his] best friends and injure the cause of freedom for the slave”; and adds, in a postscript, that he has forgotten to mention a bill from the painter, who urgently seeks payment
Book Review of "Portrait o f a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod"
No full textSmith-Peter, Susan. (2012). Book Review of "Portrait o f a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/186937
Joseph Bimeler book order to Peter Kaufmann, February 14, 1845
No full textOrder of two dozen German A.B.C. books (primers) by J.M. Bimeler (by Lewis F. Birk) from Peter Kaufmann.
Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left Germany and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar, in which each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. After decades of economic prosperity, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society.
Peter Kaufmann was a German immigrant and intellectual. He arrived first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1820; in 1826 he became professor of languages at the Harmony Society town of Economy, Pennsylvania. In 1827, Kaufmann led the establishment of Teutonia, a utopian community in Columbiana County, Ohio, and published its weekly titled "Teutonia: The Herald of a Better Time." Following this he moved to Canton, Ohio, where he became translator and editor of "Der Vaterlandsfreund und Geist der Zeit" under Solomon Sala. Additionally, Kaufmann wrote a number of books on education, as well as a German almanac. He was also an influential Democrat, counting President Van Buren among his friends, and knew Ralph Waldo Emerson
Privatization in the Third World
No full textFor decades America's aid to the Third World focused on development projects- the creation of essential infrastructure that specialists believed would lift economies to a level from which they could develop without further aid. Few countries ever made it to this level, however, and by 1986 the population of the Third World was soaring and economic growth had ceased or gone negative. U.S. and international aid agencies charged with helping the Third World began to look for new ways of stimulating developing economies. One trend rapidly gaining traction was privatization - the transfer of state owned enterprises to the private sector in the hope that free market competition would lead to increased efficiency and profitability. But was privatization the long-sought panacea for the third world's economies some experts claimed it to be, or just another developmental fad? In this episode, host Peter Krogh sits down with John Sewell, President of the Overseas Development Council, and Peter Young, Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, to discuss the future of privatization in the Third World.Examines the growing trend of privatization in the Third World
Composting of aged reed bed biosolids for beneficial reuse: a case study in New Jersey, USA
No full textReed beds with Phragmites australis (common reed) have been utilized to decrease the water, nutrient and volatile solids content of sewage sludge. An efficient disposal/reuse option was sought for reed bed biosolids accumulated over a 15 year period at a wastewater treatment facility in New Jersey, USA. The study facility had 14 reed beds, each with 1000 wet tons capacity, which were full, and so the solids needed to be removed. Because P. australis is considered an invasive species in New Jersey and several other states in the United States, disposal or reuse of solids containing this plant is regulated. Composting was examined as a potential treatment for destroying the plant’s reproductive rhizomes. The high temperatures achieved during composting were also tested to determine if regulatory criteria for pathogen reduction could be met, making the composted product suitable for unrestricted land application. Preliminary studies indicated the sludge had stabilized to the point where self-heating did not occur. Among the carbon amendments tested in the laboratory to stimulate compositing activity, Phragmites above ground biomass was determined to be most suitable. In a field test, Phragmites above ground biomass was mixed with reed bed biosolids at a 1:2 (w/w) ratio. The temperatures achieved resulted in complete mortality of Phragmites rhizomes. In laboratory tests, rhizomes placed in a drying oven at 50ºC for 24 hours, or 55ºC for 12 hours, showed 100% plant mortality. However, under field conditions pile temperatures could not be maintained long enough for the sludge to meet the USEPA 503 biosolids time-temperature pathogen rule requirements for unrestricted land application, even though sample fecal coliform counts did meet regulatory limits.Peer reviewed
Dataset for "Far-field unlabeled super-resolution imaging with superoscillatory illumination
No full textThis dataset supports the publication:
Edward T. F. Rogers, Shmma Quraishe, Katrine S. Rogers, Tracey A. Newman, Peter J. S. Smith, and Nikolay I. Zheludev (2020) 'Far-field unlabeled super-resolution imaging with superoscillatory illumination', APL Photonics 5, 066107 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144918
This dataset contains the data underlying: figures 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the main manuscript; suplementary figure 2S; and suplementary videos 1-4.
Data from simulations is provided as Matlab data (.mat) files. Imaging data captured exeprimentally is provided as tiff files, with raw captured data and processed data as presented in the manuscript provided.
For Matlab files, the relevant variables for each figure are given in the Read Me file.</span
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