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City-County Hospital polio ward. Left to right, H. B. Phillips, James Bates, Miss June Patrick and Miss Rita Parks
No full textJames Bates, 15 month old polio patient at City County Hospital, eyes the rubber toy he got when U. S. Public Health Service Hospital employees set up a party in the polio ward. Presenting the gifts are H. B. Phillips and Miss Rita Parks, right, as Miss June Patrick, a polio nurse, holds more toys. James is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Bates, 1009 Hemphill.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/16411/thumbnail.jp
Residence of Patrick Dowling
No full textResidence of Patrick Dowling, Sec. 19, Springfield TP., Lucas Co., Ohio.
Do farmers value rice varieties tolerant to droughts and floods? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India
No full textAbiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress tolerant technologies have the potential to reduce yield variability and help insulate farmers from the risks posed by these hazards. Using discrete choice experiments conducted in rural Odisha, we estimate farmers’ valuation for drought-tolerant (DT) and submergence-tolerant (SubT) traits embodied in rice cultivars. Our results demonstrate that farmers in both drought-prone as well as submergence prone regions value reduction in yield variability offered by new, stress-tolerant cultivars, and would generally be willing to pay a significant premium for these traits. While virtually all farmers perceive the threat of drought and are willing to pay for protection against drought risk, only farmers in flood-prone areas would be willing to pay for rice that can withstand being submerged for prolonged periods, suggesting the potential for market segmentation along geographical or ecological lines. Arora, Anchal; Bansal, Sangeeta; Ward, Patrick S
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
Get PDFIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
Experiences With and Preferences for Drip Irrigation Systems in Punjab, Pakistan
No full textThe data in this study were collected to assess preferences with respect to drip irrigation systems, which was promoted under Punjab Irrigated-Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (PIPIP) in Pakistan. The survey was conducted among 475 households across four districts (Attok, Chakwal, Layyah, and Sahiwal) in the Punjab province of Pakistan. These districts capture contrasting agroecological zones as well as contrasting agricultural systems. The survey was designed primarily to capture differential preferences along a gradient of drip irrigation experience and exposure. In addition, the survey collects household information such as education, farm holdings, cropping systems, and patterns.IFPRI1; CRP2; Open Access;EPTD;CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
Strike Up the Band! The Legacy of Patrick S. Gilmore
Get PDFabstract: Patrick Gilmore was an Irish-American bandmaster who re-established the woodwinds in wind bands and developed one of the best professional bands in the world. He died the same year Sousa started his professional band, 1892, and his bands served as the prototype for Sousa's and countless other amateur and professional bands
Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry /
No full textTitle vignette (portrait of author) on engr. t.-p.Added illustrated t.p. reads : The life of Patrick Henry. Rev. ed., 1846.Mode of access: Internet
Smart subsidies for catchment conservation in Malawi
No full textConservation agriculture (CA) is a management paradigm in which soil is covered outside of cropping seasons, minimally disturbed, and recharged with nitrogen-fixing legumes. Finding effective ways to encourage CA is a centuries-old problem playing out acutely today in Sub-Saharan Africa. To better understand this issue, we have collected data on rural livelihoods and CA adoption during a two-year intervention in southern Malawi. The intervention evaluated rates of CA adoption under two different structures of payment and three levels of monitoring. The dataset includes a baseline and endline survey covering 1,900 households, along with surveys conducted with participants opting into the intervention. Baseline and endline questions included modules on farm-level inputs and production at the plot-crop level; plot characteristics; household composition and assets; savings, loans, and other sources of income; neighborhood characteristics; and perceptions regarding CA. Registration questionnaires in the intervention included detailed assessments of recent production in plots being registered to the intervention, and basic information for all other plots; and basic information on household structure and assets
Modeling effects of urban heat island mitigation strategies on heat-related morbidity: a case study for Phoenix, Arizona, USA
No full textabstract: This established model is applied here to show the relative effects of four common mitigation strategies: increasing the overall (1) emissivity, (2) percentage of vegetated area, (3) thermal conductivity, and (4) albedo of the urban environment in a series of percentage increases by 5, 10, 15, and 20% from baseline values.Corresponding Author:
Jay S. Golden
Arizona State University
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Social capital and disaster resilience in the Ninth Ward
Get PDFThe conventional wisdom in disaster management is that communities exhibiting social capital are more likely to bounce back after disaster. This paper examines the link between social capital and resilience to disasters and climate change through an examination of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood before and after Hurricane Katrina. Using archives and interviews to examine the neighborhood’s recovery, the paper finds evidence for the existence of social capital and the properties of community resilience in the Lower Ninth Ward before the storm. Social capital and resilience proved to be fragile because the neighborhood was particularly vulnerable and lacked political power. Attempts to use social capital and community resilience alone as part of a strategy to combat climate change should take into account older notions of vulnerability and political power as important ingredients in community well-being
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