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Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 24, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. The letter describes his history of asthmatic attacks and the treatment for his cardiac asthma.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
Letter from M.C. Morton, M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, to Whom It May Concern, July 22, 1958
No full textThis letter, issued by Morton, M.C., M.D., Director, Bluff Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, explains that Tsugitada Kanamori has requested a certificate of ill health for the purpose of establishing dependency upon arrival to the Bluff Hospital in Yokohama. His illness had not been not identified.This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding canceling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship
2000 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Ace Atkins and M.C. Beaton
No full textThe Sub-Librarians planned and advertised a program with renowned science fiction and fantasy author Philip Jose Farmer. George Scheetz was instrumental in making that introduction. However, due to ill health, Farmer was unable to travel and had to cancel close to the program date.
However, on very short notice, Ace Atkins agreed to come to Chicago and speak to the group. Atkins had spoken to a very appreciative group of Sub-Librarians the previous year in New Orleans, and he gave another stellar performance in Chicago. He talked about his new book, Leaving\u27 Trunk Blues, which is another Nick Travers mystery, this one set in Chicago, from St. Martin\u27s Press.
St. Martin\u27s also stepped up and offered to have author M.C. Beaton join Ace as a speaker. M.C. Beaton is a pseudonym of Marion Chesney, who may be best known as the author of romance novels set during the English Regency. Her first detective story as M.C. Beaton came out for St. Martin\u27s in 1985. She has two series-one set in Scotland with Hamish Macbeth and one set in the Cotswolds with Agatha Raisin.
St. Martin\u27s generously provided copies of both authors\u27 books for signing after the program.
Marsha Pollak chaired the program, welcomed the audience, explained the change in speakers, called for toasts and introduced the authors
Drag it together with Groupie: making RDF data authoring easy and fun for anyone
No full textOne of the foremost challenges towards realizing a “Read-write Web of Data” [3] is making it possible for everyday computer users to easily find, manipulate, create, and publish data back to the Web so that it can be made available for others to use. However, many aspects of Linked Data make authoring and manipulation difficult for “normal” (ie non-coder) end-users. First, data can be high-dimensional, having arbitrary many properties per “instance”, and interlinked to arbitrary many other instances in a many different ways. Second, collections of Linked Data tend to be vastly more heterogeneous than in typical structured databases, where instances are kept in uniform collections (e.g., database tables). Third, while highly flexible, the problem of having all structures reduced as a graph is verbosity: even simple structures can appear complex. Finally, many of the concepts involved in linked data authoring - for example, terms used to define ontologies are highly abstract and foreign to regular citizen-users.To counter this complexity we have devised a drag-and-drop direct manipulation interface that makes authoring Linked Data easy, fun, and accessible to a wide audience. Groupie allows users to author data simply by dragging blobs representing entities into other entities to compose relationships, establishing one relational link at a time. Since the underlying representation is RDF, Groupie facilitates the inclusion of references to entities and properties defined elsewhere on the Web through integration with popular Linked Data indexing services. Finally, to make it easy for new users to build upon others’ work, Groupie provides a communal space where all data sets created by users can be shared, cloned and modified, allowing individual users to help each other model complex domains thereby leveraging collective intelligence
A Validated Framework for Measuring Interface Support for Interactive Information Seeking
No full textIn this paper we present the validation of an evaluation framework that models the support provided by search systems for different types of user and their expected types of seeking behavior. Factors determining the types of users include previous knowledge and goals. After an overview is presented, the framework is validated in two ways. First, the novel integration of the two existing information-seeking models used in the framework is validated by the correlation of multiple expert and novice analysis. Second, the framework is validated against the results produced by two separated user studies. Further, the refinements made by the first validation technique are shown to increase the accuracy of the framework through the second technique. The successful validation process has shown that the framework can identify both strong and weak areas of search interface design in only a few hours. The results produced can be used to either revise and strengthen designs or inform the structure of a user study
Extrusion remodeling in the enchancement of soft and hard tissue profiles prior to implant placement-A case report
No full textA Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Varieties and population fluctuations of stored-product insects in various rice storehouses monitored with light traps.
No full textEvaluation of control methods for insect pests of rice in small packages
No full text為解決小包裝米受積穀害蟲嚴重為害問題，本試驗實際進入米商的碾米廠進行取樣及試驗，發現米象（Sitophilus oiyzae (L.)）已逐漸成為稻穀中積穀害蟲的優勢種，族群密度遠高於以往在農會委託倉庫中之調查結果，且可能是小包裝米中主要害蟲來源。在銷售階段，於室溫環境儲藏三個月後，小包裝糙米每公斤內發生米象活蟲數高達126隻。於溫控超市內，小包裝米袋內溫度約較室溫環境低3℃ ，但蟲數卻明顯下降，儲藏三個月後僅159隻，兩者相差79倍。防治上再配合無毒物質矽藻土的使用，將矽藻土與糙米以1:200的比例混拌，在溫控的超市中儲藏三個月後每公斤糙米內活蟲數更降低至8隻。運用溫控且添加矽藻土於白米中，可將米象蟲數從每公斤中143隻降低至2隻。銷售環境溫度的降低，不只降低蟲數，更延緩害蟲發生，如配合添加矽藻土可使防蟲效果更顯著。未來結合溫控與混拌矽藻土的綜合防治，將可實際解決小包裝米嚴重的蟲害問題。
In order to solve problems caused by stored-product insects affecting commercial rice in small packages, rice in storehouses at mill factories was sampled and was subjected to a series of tests in this experiment. It was found that Sitophilus oiyzae was the dominant pest among stored-product insects during rough rice storage in these mill factories. S. oiyzae population densities in this study were much higher than any that had been previously reported from Farmer’s Association bins in earlier studies. These large populations might be the major source of S. oiyzae found in small packages of commercial rice. Among packages on store shelves, an average of 126 live S. oiyzae could be found in a 1-kg package of rice after storage for 3 months at room temperature (RT). However, in air-conditioned environments, about 3 t lower than RT, only 15.9 S. oiyzae could be found, an almost 8-fold decrease. With the addition of diatomite (w w, 1 200) in small packages of brown rice in air-conditioned supermarkets, S. oiyzae could be suppressed to only 8 bugs/kg of rice. In the case of milled rice under the same conditions (combining air-conditioning with the application of diatomite), the number of S. oiyzae could be reduced from 143 to 2 bugs/kg of rice. These results show that lower temperatures can dramatically reduce the number of S. oiyzae occurring in rice and delay the development of these pests when the rice is treated with diatomite. The combined use of air-conditioning and diatomite supplementation may be an effective integrated pest management strategy to solve the severe pest problems in small packages of commercial rice in the future
(40(4):433-438)Effects of two preys on the development stage, mortality, and fecundity of Tillus notatus Klug (Coleoptera : Cleridae)
No full text斑郭公蟲（Tillus notatus Ktug）為積穀害蟲之捕食性天敵。在其捕食物中，玉米象與煙甲蟲是大量緊殖斑郭公蟲最具潛能之兩種食餌。本實驗分別以此兩種食餌比較對斑郭公蟲發育期、死亡率及繁殖力之影響。在30±2°C下，斑郭公蟲幼蟲期之發育與死亡率，受兩食餌之影響差異並不顯著。但於成蟲期時，其成蟲壽命以玉米象蛹飼育者為煙甲蟲蛹飼育者3倍，產卵期為4.8倍，產卵量為6倍。兩食餌比較，玉米象蛹為其較佳食餌。以玉米象蛹飼育之斑郭公蟲，其各蟲期分別為：卵期9.9±0.3天；幼蟲期54.5±13.4天；蛹期14±2.2，成蟲期32.2±17.3天（雌雄平均）；產卵期24.1±12.5天；每雌蟲平均產卵462±377個，雌蟲一生最高產卵達2273個卵。在捕食物充沛下，斑郭公蟲幼蟲期對玉米象蛹之總捕食量為155±43個，以四齡幼蟲捕食力最強，平均每天取食7.8±2.5個蛹。成蟲期平均每天取食8.1±3.11個蛹。以玉米象大量繁殖斑郭公蟲在積穀害蟲防治上，具有應用之潛力。Tillus notatus Klug is an important predator of the stored product insects. Development stage, mortality, and fecundity of T. notatus were compared when using two potential stored product insects, maize weevil and cigarette beetle as prey. Under 30±2°C, the larval development and mortality of T. notatus is similar after feeding on pupae of maize weevil and cigarette beetle. The adult longevity of T. notatus fed on maize weevil is 3 times than that of fed on cigarette beetle, while oviposition period is 4.8 times, and fecundity is 6 times more than those of the latter. The pupa of maize weevil was the better prey for T. notatus in our experiment. The use of maize weevil as prey, the life history of T. notatus was as following : egg 9.9± 0.3 days, larva 54.5± 13.4 days, pupa 14 ±2.2 days, mean of male and female adult 32.2±17.3 days, oviposition period 24.1±12.5 days. Female could deposit up to 2273 eggs during her life with 462 ±377 eggs in average. Totally 155±43 pupae of maize weevil were consumed during the larval stage of T. notatus, and the fourth instar fed the most with 7.8±2.5 pupae per day in average. The mean number of pupae preyed by adult is 8.1±3.11 papae per day. T. notatus may have high potential for the control of the stored product insects
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