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  1. Unconventional Therapist: Albert Ellis.

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    Weinrach, Stephen G.

    1980-01-01

    Albert Ellis is one of counseling's most prolific authors, mostly on the topic of Rational Emotive Therapy. He has been a moving force in the cognitive behavior movement. In this interview Ellis discusses his theory and its application, and aspects of his personal and family life. (Author)

  2. Genetics Home Reference: Ellis-van Creveld syndrome

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    ... CREVELD SYNDROME Sources for This Page Baujat G, Le Merrer M. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2007 Jun ... CB, Kochilas L, Schimmenti LA, Moller JH. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and congenital heart defects: presentation of an additional 32 cases. Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Oct;32( ...

  3. John Tracy Ellis and the Figure of the Catholic Intellectual

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    Conniff, Brian

    2006-01-01

    Fifty years after John Tracy Ellis challenged the quality and character of Catholic intellectual life, much work remains to be done. This essay explores Ellis's original assertions and places them in an overarching historical context that involves Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton.

  4. Grantee Spotlight: Nathan Ellis, Ph.D.

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    Dr. Nathan Ames Ellis, a CRCHD U01 grantee, uses comparative population-genetic analysis to shed new light on cancer susceptibility and the biological basis of colorectal cancer disparities in African Americans.

  5. Extended source effect on microlensing light curves by an Ellis wormhole

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    Tsukamoto, Naoki; Gong, Yungui

    2018-04-01

    We can survey an Ellis wormhole which is the simplest Morris-Thorne wormhole in our Galaxy with microlensing. The light curve of a point source microlensed by the Ellis wormhole shows approximately 4% demagnification while the total magnification of images lensed by a Schwarzschild lens is always larger than unity. We investigate an extended source effect on the light curves microlensed by the Ellis wormhole. We show that the depth of the gutter of the light curves of an extended source is smaller than the one of a point source since the magnified part of the extended source cancels the demagnified part out. We can, however, distinguish between the light curves of the extended source microlensed by the Ellis wormhole and the ones by the Schwarzschild lens in their shapes even if the size of the source is a few times larger than the size of an Einstein ring on a source plane. If the relative velocity of a star with the radius of 1 06 km at 8 kpc in the bulge of our Galaxy against an observer-lens system is smaller than 10 km /s on a source plane, we can detect microlensing of the star lensed by the Ellis wormhole with the throat radius of 1 km at 4 kpc.

  6. Gravity-Driven Thin Film Flow of an Ellis Fluid.

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    Kheyfets, Vitaly O; Kieweg, Sarah L

    2013-12-01

    The thin film lubrication approximation has been studied extensively for moving contact lines of Newtonian fluids. However, many industrial and biological applications of the thin film equation involve shear-thinning fluids, which often also exhibit a Newtonian plateau at low shear. This study presents new numerical simulations of the three-dimensional (i.e. two-dimensional spreading), constant-volume, gravity-driven, free surface flow of an Ellis fluid. The numerical solution was validated with a new similarity solution, compared to previous experiments, and then used in a parametric study. The parametric study centered around rheological data for an example biological application of thin film flow: topical drug delivery of anti-HIV microbicide formulations, e.g. hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) polymer solutions. The parametric study evaluated how spreading length and front velocity saturation depend on Ellis parameters. A lower concentration polymer solution with smaller zero shear viscosity ( η 0 ), τ 1/2 , and λ values spread further. However, when comparing any two fluids with any possible combinations of Ellis parameters, the impact of changing one parameter on spreading length depends on the direction and magnitude of changes in the other two parameters. In addition, the isolated effect of the shear-thinning parameter, λ , on the front velocity saturation depended on τ 1/2 . This study highlighted the relative effects of the individual Ellis parameters, and showed that the shear rates in this flow were in both the shear-thinning and plateau regions of rheological behavior, emphasizing the importance of characterizing the full range of shear-rates in rheological measurements. The validated numerical model and parametric study provides a useful tool for future steps to optimize flow of a fluid with rheological behavior well-described by the Ellis constitutive model, in a range of industrial and biological applications.

  7. Havelock Ellis's literary criticism, canon formation, and the heterosexual Shakespeare.

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    Radel, Nicholas F

    2009-01-01

    Famous as the author of an early full-length scientific study of sexual inversion or homosexuality, English sexologist Havelock Ellis was also a literary critic responsible for initiating publication of the famous Mermaid Series of "The Best of Plays of the Old Dramatists" in the late-nineteenth century. Personally editing the first volume of plays by Christopher Marlowe and a later collection by tragedian John Ford, Ellis associated these playwrights here and in his scientific work, Sexual Inversion, with ideas about normative and so-called abnormal sexualities at the start of the twentieth century. Ellis, thus, helped give expression to a literary canon of early English dramatists in which modern, anachronistic ideas about sexual subjectivity play a part. While this article does not claim that Ellis was the necessary source for later criticism, it shows how, over the whole of the twentieth century, Shakespeare's priority in the literary canon came to be posited at least in part on his apparent sexual normality in contrast with a supposedly homosexual Christopher Marlowe and other playwrights such as Ford or Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher associated with varying degrees of sexual difference.

  8. Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy: The Evolution of a Revolution: Interview With Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis, Work Partner and Wife of Dr. Albert Ellis, the Creator of REBT.

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    Ellis, Debbie Joffe; Rovira, Montse

    2015-02-01

    Recognized as one of the most influential thinkers and psychologists, Albert Ellis PhD (1913-2007) revolutionized Psychology when he created the first cognitive psychotherapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. After he passed away, Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis continues spreading his legacy around the world. Psychologist, lecturer, writer, trainer, she dedicates her life to disseminate REBT and extend it through different statements, from the social to the educational, from the academic to the clinical. In this interview, she goes through her own history and her husband's one, bringing us closer to understanding Albert Ellis as the leading figure in his field, and the oneness they experienced through their professional and personal relationship.

  9. 77 FR 66979 - Ellis Road/American Electric Corporation, Jacksonville, Duval County, FL, Notice of Settlement

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    2012-11-08

    ... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL 9750-7; CERCLA-04-2010-3768] Ellis Road/American Electric... conduct sampling, perform a clean-up and compromise cost with over 80 settling parties at the Ellis Road.... Submit your comments by Site name Ellis Road/American Electric Corporation Site by one of the following...

  10. Essential core of the Hawking–Ellis types

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    Martín-Moruno, Prado; Visser, Matt

    2018-06-01

    The Hawking–Ellis (Segre–Plebański) classification of possible stress–energy tensors is an essential tool in analyzing the implications of the Einstein field equations in a more-or-less model-independent manner. In the current article the basic idea is to simplify the Hawking–Ellis type I, II, III, and IV classification by isolating the ‘essential core’ of the type II, type III, and type IV stress–energy tensors; this being done by subtracting (special cases of) type I to simplify the (Lorentz invariant) eigenvalue structure as much as possible without disturbing the eigenvector structure. We will denote these ‘simplified cores’ type II0, type III0, and type IV0. These ‘simplified cores’ have very nice and simple algebraic properties. Furthermore, types I and II0 have very simple classical interpretations, while type IV0 is known to arise semi-classically (in renormalized expectation values of standard stress–energy tensors). In contrast type III0 stands out in that it has neither a simple classical interpretation, nor even a simple semi-classical interpretation. We will also consider the robustness of this classification considering the stability of the different Hawking–Ellis types under perturbations. We argue that types II and III are definitively unstable, whereas types I and IV are stable.

  11. Stability and instability of Ellis and phantom wormholes: Are there ghosts?

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    Nandi, K. K.; Potapov, A. A.; Izmailov, R. N.; Tamang, A.; Evans, J. C.

    2016-05-01

    It is concluded in the literature that the Ellis wormhole is unstable under small perturbations and would either decay to the Schwarzschild black hole or expand away to infinity. While this deterministic conclusion of instability is correct, we show that the Ellis wormhole reduces to the Schwarzschild black hole only when the Ellis solution parameter γ assumes a complex value -i . We shall then reexamine the stability of Ellis and phantom wormholes from the viewpoint of local and asymptotic observers by using a completely different approach, viz., we adapt Tangherlini's nondeterministic, prequantal statistical simulation about photon motion in the real optical medium to an effective medium reformulation of motions obtained via Hamilton's optical-mechanical analogy in a gravity field. A crucial component of Tangherlini's idea is the observed increase of momentum of the photons entering a real medium. We show that this fact has a heuristic parallel in the effective medium version of the Pound-Rebka experiment in gravity. Our conclusion is that there is a nonzero probability that Ellis and phantom wormholes could appear stable or unstable depending on the location of observers and on the values of γ , leading to the possibility of ghost wormholes (like ghost stars). The Schwarzschild horizon, however, would always certainly appear to be stable (R =1 , T =0 ) to observers regardless of their location. Phantom wormholes of bounded mass in the extreme limit a →-1 are also shown to be stable just as the Schwarzschild black hole is. We shall propose a thought experiment showing that our nondeterministic results could be numerically translated into observable deterministic signatures of ghost wormholes.

  12. Remediation System Evaluation, Ellis Property Superfund Site

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    The Ellis Property Superfund Site is located in a rural area of Burlington County, New Jersey. Most ofthe land at the site has not been developed. However, there is a building in a fenced area that is used tohouse the remedial system..

  13. Ellie Mannette: Master of the Steel Drum.

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    Svaline, J. Marc

    2001-01-01

    Presents an interview with Elliot ("Ellie") Mannette who has played a major role in the development and application of steel drums. States that he has spent most of his life designing and teaching the steel drums. Covers interview topics and background information on Mannette. (CMK)

  14. Hydraulic fracture treatment design and postfracture analysis: Maxus Exploration Company, Ellis Ranch Field, Ochiltree County, Texas. Carl Ellis E/3 Cleveland Sand. Topical report, October 1992

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    A discussion of a hydraulic fracture treatment and post-fracture tests on a tight gas sands well is presented. The treatment design was based on the results of an analysis of the stimulation of another well in the same field and a minifracture analysis of the Carl Ellis E-3. The quality and consistency of the interpretation and evaluation of the Carl Ellis E-3 and H.T. Glasgow No. 2 suggest that a consistent reservoir model has been developed that allows for further improvement of the stimulation technique in the Cleveland Formation.

  15. Your Biggest Game: Interview with Dave Ellis.

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    Sparks, Dennis

    2001-01-01

    Interviews Dave Ellis, president of the Brande Foundation, who promotes life coaching to help leaders become more creative and effective by making them happier, more satisfied human beings. It provides an opportunity for people to look at all areas of their lives, determine what they want in these areas, and have the coach help them develop…

  16. ELLI-1, a novel germline protein, modulates RNAi activity and P-granule accumulation in Caenorhabditis elegans

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    Andralojc, Karolina M.; Kelly, Ashley L.; Tanner, Paige C.

    2017-01-01

    Germ cells contain non-membrane bound cytoplasmic organelles that help maintain germline integrity. In C. elegans they are called P granules; without them, the germline undergoes partial masculinization and aberrant differentiation. One key P-granule component is the Argonaute CSR-1, a small-RNA binding protein that antagonizes accumulation of sperm-specific transcripts in developing oocytes and fine-tunes expression of proteins critical to early embryogenesis. Loss of CSR-1 complex components results in a very specific, enlarged P-granule phenotype. In a forward screen to identify mutants with abnormal P granules, ten alleles were recovered with a csr-1 P-granule phenotype, eight of which contain mutations in known components of the CSR-1 complex (csr-1, ego-1, ekl-1, and drh-3). The remaining two alleles are in a novel gene now called elli-1 (enlarged germline granules). ELLI-1 is first expressed in primordial germ cells during mid-embryogenesis, and continues to be expressed in the adult germline. While ELLI-1 forms cytoplasmic aggregates, they occasionally dock, but do not co-localize with P granules. Instead, the majority of ELLI-1 aggregates accumulate in the shared germline cytoplasm. In elli-1 mutants, several genes that promote RNAi and P-granule accumulation are upregulated, and embryonic lethality, sterility, and RNAi resistance in a hypomorphic drh-3 allele is enhanced, suggesting that ELLI-1 functions with CSR-1 to modulate RNAi activity, P-granule accumulation, and post-transcriptional expression in the germline. PMID:28182654

  17. Counselors' Evaluation of Rogers-Perls-Ellis's Relationship Skills

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    Woodward, Wallace S.; And Others

    1975-01-01

    Participants (12 employment counselors and 10 counselor supervisors) attending a three-week workshop on enhancing relationship skills, evaluated the Rogers, Perls, Ellis film, Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, on 15 skills. Results indicate there was general agreement between the counselors and the supervisors when judging levels of therapist…

  18. 75. SACRED HEART SCHOOL, 1324 ELLIS STREET SOUTH (REAR ELEVATION ...

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    75. SACRED HEART SCHOOL, 1324 ELLIS STREET SOUTH (REAR ELEVATION FROM GREENE STREET 56/61A - Greene Street Historic District, Greene Street, Gordon Highway to Augusta Canal Bridge, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

  19. Generalized Rainich conditions, generalized stress-energy conditions, and the Hawking-Ellis classification

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    Martín–Moruno, Prado; Visser, Matt

    2017-11-01

    The (generalized) Rainich conditions are algebraic conditions which are polynomial in the (mixed-component) stress-energy tensor. As such they are logically distinct from the usual classical energy conditions (NEC, WEC, SEC, DEC), and logically distinct from the usual Hawking-Ellis (Segré-Plebański) classification of stress-energy tensors (type I, type II, type III, type IV). There will of course be significant inter-connections between these classification schemes, which we explore in the current article. Overall, we shall argue that it is best to view the (generalized) Rainich conditions as a refinement of the classical energy conditions and the usual Hawking-Ellis classification.

  20. Usefulness of the ElliPro epitope predictor program in defining the repertoire of HLA-ABC eplets.

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    Duquesnoy, Rene J; Marrari, Marilyn

    HLA matching at the epitope level offers new opportunities to identify suitable donors for transplant patients. The International HLA Epitope Registry (www.Epregistry.com.br) describes for the various HLA loci, repertoires of eplets including those that correspond to epitopes experimentally verified with specific antibodies. There are also many eplets which have remained as theoretical entities because no informative antibodies have been found. Which of them have immunogenic potential or conversely, might be considered as non-epitopes that cannot elicit specific antibody responses? This question is important for the application of epitope-based HLA matching in clinical transplantation. Correct predictions of B-cell epitopes on antigenic proteins are essential to the effective design of microbial vaccines and the development of specific antibodies used in immunotherapy and immunodiagnostics but prediction programs based on structural and physiochemical properties of amino acid residues are generally ineffective. Recent prediction programs based on three-dimensional structures of antigen-antibody complexes are more promising. One such program is called ElliPro developed by Ponomarenko. This report describes studies demonstrating that ElliPro can predict alloantibody responses to HLA-ABC eplets. Antibody-verified eplets have amino acid residues with much higher ElliPro scores than eplets for which no specific antibodies have been found. The latter group includes residues with very low ElliPro scores; they appear to represent eplets that might be classified as non-epitopes. In conclusion, ElliPro offers a new approach to characterize epitope repertoires that are clinically relevant in HLA matching. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Inc.

  1. Taking prisoners: Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud, and the construction of homosexuality, 1897-1951.

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    Crozier, I D

    2000-12-01

    This paper addresses the efforts of both Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud to posit a theory of homosexuality, and especially considers their efforts to (re-)negotiate each other's theories. Its central premise derives from the sociology of scientific knowledge: that it is not what is written, but the way that what is written is treated by ensuing experts, that makes knowledge. In the case study used in this paper, Ellis and Freud struggle to posit what they consider to be the proper model for understanding homosexual desire. They utilize aspects of each other's word, but are careful not to appear to be following each other too closely. Such a struggle to establish different schools of thought is exemplified by the informal negotiations engaged in when a student, Joseph Wortis, made contact with both Freud and Ellis. Again following sociology of scientific knowledge precepts, these informal negotiations (contained in published and archival letters) are used to show how knowledge claims are constructed, deconstructed any reconstructed by the actors who have stakes in the outcome of what is to be regarded as knowledge in the relevant communities.

  2. Reason and emotion in psychotherapy: Albert Ellis.

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    Dryden, W; Bond, F W

    1994-07-01

    To summarise then, in 1962 RET displayed important features still current. These include the interrelatedness of cognitive, emotive and behavioural processes, the important role that cognition plays in psychological problems, its humanistic view of the self, and the futility and dangers of self-rating. The emphasis on perpetuation rather than acquisition processes of emotional disturbance holds good now as it did then, and the core view of therapeutic change is essentially the same now as it was in 1962, despite further, more recent elaborations. Significant change has occurred in RET since 1962 that updates several of Ellis' original ideas. These include the distinction between interpretations (or inferences) and evaluations, the primary of musts in accounting for psychological disturbance, the clear distinction between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions and the greater role according to force and energy in the change process. In addition, a greater emphasis is placed on biological aspects of emotional disturbance now than 30 years ago. Finally, a greater range of cognitive, imaginal, emotive and behavioural methods are found in current RET literature than in Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, where Ellis restricts himself to illustrating a few cognitive and behavioural techniques. RET, then, has grown and developed over the past 30 years. In large part, this reflects the theory's flexibility and the competent people who have worked to make RET one of the most viable and widely used cognitive-behaviour therapies.

  3. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy after Ellis: Predictions for the Future.

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    Weinrach, Stephen G.; Ellis, Albert; DiGiuseppe, Raymond; Bernard, Michael E.; Dryden, Windy; Kassinove, Howard; Morris, G. Barry; Vernon, Ann; Wolfe, Janet

    1995-01-01

    Nine members of the institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy's (REBT) International Training Standards and Review Committee predicted the status of REBT 25 to 50 years after the death of Albert Ellis. Will REBT continue to exist in its own right or be incorporated into newer forms of cognitive behavior therapy? (EMK)

  4. In vitro antioxidant activity of polysaccharide from Gardenia jasminoides ellis

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    Fan, Y.; Ge, Z.; Luo, A.

    2011-01-01

    A water-soluble polysaccharide, GP, was isolated from Gardenia jasminoides Ellis through hot water extraction followed by ethanol precipitation. The in vitro free radicals scavenging tests exhibited that GP has significant scavenging abilities especially for ABTS, DPPH, and hydroxyl radicals, which suggests that the polysaccharide GP is a novel antioxidant. ?? 2011 Academic Journals.

  5. Evolving Science in Adolescence: Comment on Ellis et al. (2012)

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    Dodge, Kenneth A.; Albert, Dustin

    2012-01-01

    Ellis et al. (2012) bring an evolutionary perspective to bear on adolescent risky behavioral development, clinical practice, and public policy. The authors offer important insights that (a) some risky behaviors may be adaptive for the individual and the species by being hard-wired due to fitness benefits and (b) interventions might be more…

  6. ESTCP Munitions Response: Live Site Demonstration Former Camp Ellis

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    2014-07-01

    a submachine-gun course, a miniature anti- aircraft range, two infiltration courses, two bazooka and rifle grenade ranges, two live hand grenade...Ground Forces training center. In 1950, the Department of Defense (DoD) screened the property for other government use, concluding that Camp Ellis...should be considered surplus; the buildings were sold in June 1950. The General Services Administration (GSA) sold 2,000 acres of the property back to

  7. Re-Imagining Possibilities: Honoring the Work of Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner

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    Santoro, Patrick; Boylorn, Robin M.

    2008-01-01

    As co-chairs of a tribute panel for their academic mentors, Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner, the authors knew what the traditional responsibilities would require, but as a performer and a poet, they were inspired to do something more creative. Something poetic. Something performative. Something different. In this article, the authors present a…

  8. Pressure Distribution in a Squeeze Film Spherical Bearing with Rough Surfaces Lubricated by an Ellis Fluid

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    Jurczak, P.; Falicki, J.

    2016-08-01

    In this paper, the solution to a problem of pressure distribution in a curvilinear squeeze film spherical bearing is considered. The equations of motion of an Ellis pseudo-plastic fluid are presented. Using Christensen's stochastic model of rough surfaces, different forms of Reynolds equation for various types of surface roughness pattern are obtained. The analytical solutions of these equations for the cases of externally pressurized bearing and squeeze film bearing are presented. Analytical solutions for the film pressure are found for the longitudinal and circumferential roughness patterns. As a result the formulae expressing pressure distribution in the clearance of bearing lubricated by an Ellis fluid was obtained. The numerical considerations for a spherical bearing are given in detail.

  9. Comparison of Rogers, Perls, and Ellis on the Hill Counselor Verbal Response Category System.

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    Hill, Clara E.; And Others

    1979-01-01

    Analyzes transcripts of films of Rogers, Perls, and Ellis counseling the same client, according to the Hill Counselor Verbal Response Category System. The system described verbal behaviors of the three counselors and detected behavioral differences reflective of their differing theoretical orientations. (Author)

  10. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome in adulthood: extending the clinical spectrum

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    Pérez-Andreu, Joaquín; Ray, Victor Glenn; Arribas, José María; Sánchez, Sergio Juan

    2015-01-01

    Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive malformation disorder. Cardiac defects are observed in about 50% of EvC cases. Surgical data is lacking on the prognosis and life expectancy of EvC patients. Herein, we report the case of a 38-year-old man with EvC syndrome who underwent two surgical corrections for cardiac anomalies. This report supplements the available information on the clinical course of EvC syndrome in older patients. PMID:26106249

  11. 78 FR 74009 - Safety Zone; Nike Fireworks, Upper New York Bay, Ellis Island, NY

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Coast Guard 33 CFR Part 165 [Docket No. USCG-2013-0962] Safety Zone; Nike Fireworks, Upper New York Bay, Ellis Island, NY AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION: Notice of... published in the Federal Register on November 9, 2011 (76 FR 69614). [[Page 74010

  12. The Evaluation of Filmed Excerpts of Rogers, Perls, and Ellis by Beginning Counselor Trainees

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    Kelly, F. Donald; Byrne, Thomas P.

    1977-01-01

    Students (N=29) viewed three stimulus films and rated therapeutic effectiveness of the therapists. Students were subsequently rank-ordered on the basis of skill development and assigned to one of three groups (high, middle, or low.) Results revealed an overall higher evaluation for Rogers as compared to either Perls or Ellis. (Author)

  13. Phenotypic Variation in Patients with Homozygous c.1678G>T Mutation in EVC Gene: Report of Two Mexican Families with Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome

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    Ibarra-Ramirez, Marisol; Campos-Acevedo, Luis Daniel; Lugo-Trampe, Jose; Martínez-Garza, Laura E.; Martinez-Glez, Víctor; Valencia-Benitez, María; Lapunzina, Pablo; Ruiz-Peréz, Víctor

    2017-01-01

    Case series Patient: — Final Diagnosis: Ellis van Creveld syndrome Symptoms: Conical teeth • polydactyly • short stature Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Pediatrics and Neonatology Objective: Rare disease Background: Ellis-van Creveld syndrome is an autosomal recessive chondro-ectodermal dysplasia characterized by disproportionate short stature, limb shortening, narrow chest, postaxial polydactyly and dysplastic nails and teeth. In addition, 60% of cases present congenital heart defects. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome is predominantly caused by mutations in the EVC or EVC2 (4p16) genes, with only a few cases caused by mutations in WDR35. Case Report: Here, we report on two Mexican families with patients diagnosed with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Family 1 includes four patients: three females of 15, 18, and 23 years of age and a 7-year old male. Family 2 has only one affected newborn male. All patients exhibited multiple features including hypodontia, dysplastic teeth, extra frenula, mild short stature, distal limb shortening, postaxial polydactyly of hands and feet, nail dystrophy, and knee joint abnormalities. Only two patients had an atrial septal defect. In all cases, molecular analysis by Sanger sequencing identified the same homozygous mutation in exon 12 of EVC, c.1678G>T, which leads to a premature stop codon. Conclusions: The mutation c.1678G>T has been previously reported in another Mexican patient and it appears to be a recurrent mutation in Mexico which could represent a founder mutation. The large number of patients in this case allows the clinical variability and spectrum of manifestations present in individuals with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome even if they carry the same homozygous mutation in a same family. PMID:29229899

  14. Socioeconomic Attainment in the Ellis Island Era*

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    White, Michael J.; Mullen, Erica Jade

    2017-01-01

    Contemporary discussions of immigrant assimilation in the United States often take the experience of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a benchmark, yet significant gaps remain in our understanding of the generality and rate of immigrant progress during that era. Using four decades of IPUMS census microdata, we utilize both OLS microdata regression and double cohort methodology to examine socioeconomic assimilation across arrival cohort and country of origin during the Ellis Island era. Our results show, contrary to some writing, that while the first generation (the foreign born) exhibit decidedly inferior labor market outcomes, socioeconomic attainment (measured by Socio-Economic Index [SEI] points) increased quickly with duration in the U.S. Persons of the second generation and those of mixed parentage show much less penalty than immigrants. At the same time, we uncover differences in outcome by European region that do not disappear over the decades we examine. PMID:28979054

  15. Psychological Chauvinism and Nuclear Holocaust: A Response to Albert Ellis and Defense of Non-Rational Emotive Therapies.

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    Walsh, Roger

    1989-01-01

    Claims Ellis' 1986 article on psychology and nuclear holocaust did not address certain key issues and made inaccurate criticisms of non-rational emotive therapies. Attempts to correct these errors and to emphasize the importance of open-minded cooperation among psychologists of differing theoretical persuasions. (Author)

  16. Lensing observables: Massless dyonic vis-à-vis Ellis wormholes

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    Lukmanova, R. F.; Tuleganova, G. Y.; Izmailov, R. N.; Nandi, K. K.

    2018-06-01

    Stable massless wormholes are theoretically interesting in their own right as well as for astrophysical applications, especially as galactic halo objects. Therefore, the study of gravitational lensing observables for such objects is of importance, and we do it here by applying the parametric post-Newtonian method of Keeton and Petters to massless dyonic charged wormholes of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton field theory and to the massless Ellis wormhole of the Einstein minimally coupled scalar field theory. The paper exemplifies how the lensing signatures of two different solutions belonging to two different theories could be qualitatively similar from the observational point of view. Quantitative differences appear depending on the parameter values. Surprisingly, there appears an unexpected divergence in the correction to differential time delay, which seems to call for a review of its original derivation.

  17. Productive and Reproductive Work on the Family Farm: Changes Among Ethnic Groups in Ellis County, Kansas.

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    Flora, Cornelia Butler; Stitz, John

    This report is based on data obtained from historical documents, quantitative analysis of state agricultural censuses for 1885, 1895, and 1905, and interviews with farm women of Volga and German heritages, aged 14 to 87. The participation of women in wheat-based farming systems in Ellis County, Kansas, is examined as related to the ethnic…

  18. Yet another proof of Hawking and Ellis's Lemma 8.5.5

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    Krasnikov, S.

    2014-11-01

    The fact that the null generators of a future Cauchy horizon are past-complete was first proved by Hawking and Ellis (1973 The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)). Then, Budzyński, Kondracki and Królak outlined a proof free from the error found in the original one (2000 New properties of Cauchy and event horizons arXiv:gr-qc/0011033). Now, Minguzzi has published his version of the proof (2014 J. Math. Phys. 55 082503), patching a previously unnoticed hole in the preceding two. I am not aware of any flaws in that last proof, but it is quite difficult. In this note, I present a simpler one.

  19. Fragmentation study of iridoid glycosides including epimers by liquid chromatography-diode array detection/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and its application in metabolic fingerprint analysis of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.

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    Zhou, Tingting; Liu, Hua; Wen, Jun; Fan, Guorong; Chai, Yifeng; Wu, Yutian

    2010-09-15

    A high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD/ESI-MS) method was applied to the characterization of ten iridoid glycosides in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, a traditional Chinese medicine. During the process of structural elucidation, two groups of isomers including two epimers were structurally characterized and differentiated according to their distinctive fragmentation patterns which were closely related to their isomeric differentiations. Subsequently, the major compounds were purified by multi-dimensional chromatography and semi-preparative HPLC and the structure identification was confirmed with NMR techniques. The major fragmentation pathways of iridoid glycosides in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis obtained through the MS data were schemed systematically, which provided the best sensitivity and specificity for characterization of the iridoid glycosides especially the isomers so far. Based on the fragmentation patterns of iridoid glycosides concluded, seven major iridoid glycosides were characterized in rat plasma after intravenous administration of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis. Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  20. Short limbed dwarfism, genital hypoplasia, sparse hair, and vertebral anomalies: a variant of Ellis-van Creveld syndrome?

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    Fryns, J P; Moerman, P

    1993-01-01

    A male newborn with acromesomelic short limbed dwarfism, genital hypoplasia, and vertebral anomalies is reported. As the child had an important number of clinical and radiological symptoms seen in patients with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, we raise the question of whether he may represent a variant example of this syndrome despite the absence of cardinal symptoms such as postaxial polydactyly and ectodermal changes (nail hypoplasia). Images PMID:8487282

  1. Phosphorus loading to McGrath and Ellis ponds, Kennebec County, Maine

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    Nichols, Wallace J.; Sowles, J.W.; Lobao, J.J.

    1984-01-01

    McGrath and Ellis Ponds in south-central Maine have been identified as having nuisance algae blooms. In 1978, a cooperative study between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Maine Department Environmental Protection was begun to evaluate areas in which restoration effort would best improve water quality of the ponds. Streamflow and phosphorus data were collected from 28 tributaries to the ponds, April 1 through September 30, 1978 and 1979. Phosphorus yields from each tributary watershed were compared to determine their relative importance to the phosphorus budgets of the ponds. Three tributaries to the ponds were estimated to contribute 44 percent of the phosphorus load, yet drain only 22 percent of the watershed. Phosphorus input to the ponds likely would be most easily reduced by instituting phosphorus control practices in parts of the basin drained by the three tributaries. (USGS)

  2. Cooperative well report: Maxus exploration Company Carl Ellis E-3 well, Ochiltree County, Texas. Topical report, January 1992-March 1993

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    Holditch, S.A.; Whitehead, W.S.; Davidson, B.M.

    Maxus Exploration drilled the Carl Ellis E-3 well in the Ellis Ranch Field, Ochiltree County, Texas in December 1991. The GRI cooperative research program on this well included coring, logging, stress testing, pre-fracture well testing, a mini-frac, post-fracture production data analysis, a fracture treatment, and a post-fracture well test. The well was completed in the Cleveland formation at 6,929-7,008 feet. After a ballout treatment, the well flowed 32 Mscf/day. Results of the pre-fracture pressure buildup test indicate a permeability-thickness product of 1.45 md-ft, a skin factor of -0.05, and a reservoir pressure of 1900 psi. The well was fracture treatedmore » with 70,000 gallons of a 40 lb/1000 gallon linear gel and 185,000 pounds of 20/40 sand. The initial post-fracture flow rate was approximately 500 Mscf/day. Post-fracture analysis with TRIFRAC indicated that the propped fracture height at the wellbore was 330 feet and the propped fracture length was 93 feet.« less

  3. Report of Two Siblings with Overlapping Features of Ellis-van Creveld and Weyers Acrodental Dysostosis

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    Shetty, Devi C.; Singh, Harkanwal P.; Kumar, Prince; Verma, Chanchal

    2012-01-01

    Skeletal dysplasias are a heterogenous group of disorders combining abnormalities in the skull and other skeletal bones. Weyers acrofacial dysostosis also known as Weyers acrodental dysostosis was first described in 1952, by Weyers, as a postaxial polydactyly, which had features distinct from, yet some in common with the Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome (EvC). Both the syndromes have been mapped to the same chromosome, 4p16. The cases reported here highlight the overlapping features of both syndromes, which are dissimilar in mode of inheritance and phenotypic severity, emphasizing the need for genetic analysis, to categorize these conditions. PMID:22616035

  4. Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Solander ex Ellis) Contains Powerful Compounds that Prevent and Cure Cancer

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    Gaascht, François; Dicato, Mario; Diederich, Marc

    2013-01-01

    Chemoprevention uses natural or synthetic molecules without toxic effects to prevent and/or block emergence and development of diseases including cancer. Many of these natural molecules modulate mitogenic signals involved in cell survival, apoptosis, cell cycle regulation, angiogenesis, or on processes involved in the development of metastases occur naturally, especially in fruits and vegetables bur also in non-comestible plants. Carnivorous plants including the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Solander ex Ellis) are much less investigated, but appear to contain a wealth of potent bioactive secondary metabolites. Aim of this review is to give insight into molecular mechanisms triggered by compounds isolated from these interesting plants with either therapeutic or chemopreventive potential. PMID:23971004

  5. Orthodontic extrusion of Ellis Class VIII fracture of maxillary lateral incisor - The sling shot method.

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    Felicita, A Sumathi

    2018-07-01

    The aim of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy of forced extrusion using the sling shot elastic. A 21 year adult patient reported with an Ellis Class VIII fracture of the maxillary right lateral incisor. Root canal treatment followed by a fiber reinforced composite post was placed and core build up was done. A metal button was bonded to the tooth. Begg brackets were placed from the second premolar on one side to the second premolar on the opposite side. 0.016″ × 0.025″ stainless steel was placed in ribbon mode. The ligature wire was placed as a sling shot from the button on the fractured tooth to the two adjacent teeth. 4 mm of extrusion was achieved and there was no evidence of root resorption. Forced extrusion was achieved in four months. The sling shot method is a very effective method of ligation. Light forces are delivered over a long duration with definitive results as compared to the inconsistent force delivery with conventional extrusion mechanics.

  6. Fecal Metabolomics of Type 2 Diabetic Rats and Treatment with Gardenia jasminoides Ellis Based on Mass Spectrometry Technique.

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    Zhou, Yuan; Men, Lihui; Pi, Zifeng; Wei, Mengying; Song, Fengrui; Zhao, Chunfang; Liu, Zhiqiang

    2018-02-14

    Modern studies have indicated Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (G. jasminoides) showed positive effect in treating type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this study, 60 streptozotocin-induced T2DM rats were divided into four groups: type 2 diabetes control group, geniposide-treated group, total iridoid glycosides-treated group, and crude extraction of gardenlae fructus-treated group. The other ten healthy rats were the healthy control group. During 12 weeks of treatment, rat's feces samples were collected for the metabolomics study based on mass spectrometry technique. On the basis of the fecal metabolomics method, 19 potential biomarkers were screened and their relative intensities in each group were compared. The results revealed G. jasminoides mainly regulated dysfunctions in phenylalanine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism, and secondary bile acid biosynthesis pathways induced by diabetes. The current study provides new insight for metabonomics methodology toward T2DM, and the results show that feces can preferably reflect the liver and intestines disorders.

  7. Ellis T. Cox: pragmatist with a public conscience. [Power; environmental concerns of Potomac Electric Co. for Washington, DC area

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    Not Available

    1978-05-01

    A profile of Potomac Electric Power Co. executive Ellis T. Cox EPRI Advisory Board member the obligation he feels for preserving the unique qualities of the Washington, D.C. area by installing power plant pollution equipment, burning low-sulfur coal, and setting an example of concern for other companies and the legislators. Cox feels a commitment to not only meet civic responsibilities, but to demonstrate that an efficient, cost-effective company can also protect the environment. He sets long-term fuel supplies as a high priority for utility research and development and sees no alternative to shifts away from petroleum and further development ofmore » nuclear generating power. His other concerns are for streamlining the regulatory process, demonstrating the Civex process as an alternative fuel cycle, and a continuation of the joint efforts of utilities and the Electric Power Research Institute to solve practical problems of pollution control and develop new fuels and new combustion technologies.« less

  8. The biosynthesis of palladium nanoparticles by antioxidants in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis: long lifetime nanocatalysts for p-nitrotoluene hydrogenation

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    Jia, Lishan; Zhang, Qian; Li, Qingbiao; Song, Hao

    2009-09-01

    Gardenia jasminoides Ellis' water crude extract was used for the bioreduction of palladium chloride in this paper. The UV-vis spectrum, x-ray diffraction spectrum measurement, the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and TEM technique confirmed the formation of palladium nanoparticles and identified antioxidants including geniposide, chlorogenic acid, crocins and crocetin were reducing and stabilizing agents for synthesizing palladium nanoparticles in water crude extract. The particle size and dispersity were temperature-dependent. The particle sizes ranged from 3 to 5 nm and revealed the best dispersity at 70 °C. Catalytic performance of the biosynthetic Pd nanoparticles with good dispersity was investigated by hydrogenation of p-nitrotoluene. The catalysts showed a conversion of 100% under conditions of 5 MPa, 150 °C for 2 h. The selectivity of p-methyl-cyclohexylamine achieved 26.3%. The catalyst was recycled five times with no agglomeration and maintained activity, which was attributed to the appropriate protection of the antioxidants. On the basis of the study, it appears to be a new promising biosynthetic nanocatalyst for the development of an industrial process.

  9. Report of a new syndrome: focus on differential diagnosis and review of Ellis-van Creveld, Curry-Hall, acrofacial dysostosis, and orofacial digital syndromes.

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    Ghosh, Sujoy; Setty, Suhas; Sivakumar, A; Pai, Keerthilatha M

    2007-05-01

    Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) and Curry-Hall (CH) syndromes are rare syndromes that occur due to mutations of genes mapped to the chromosome 4p16 region. Hence, they both have few features that are common. The dental literature describing the oral manifestations and etiology of both syndromes is scarce. We report a case of a 7-year-old girl who appeared with features that are common to both syndromes, as well as with other features such as reduced cranial base flexure and toes of equal length with skeletal changes that have not been mentioned or described in earlier reports. The patient possibly represents a new syndromic entity that has not been reported until now. Further, we present a review of various other similar syndromes, such as various types of orofacial digital (OFD) syndrome and acrofacial dysostosis.

  10. Disruption of sonic hedgehog signaling in Ellis-van Creveld dwarfism confers protection against bipolar affective disorder.

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    Ginns, E I; Galdzicka, M; Elston, R C; Song, Y E; Paul, S M; Egeland, J A

    2015-10-01

    Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, an autosomal recessively inherited chondrodysplastic dwarfism, is frequent among Old Order Amish of Pennsylvania. Decades of longitudinal research on bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) revealed cosegregation of high numbers of EvC and Bipolar I (BPI) cases in several large Amish families descending from the same pioneer. Despite the high prevalence of both disorders in these families, no EvC individual has ever been reported with BPI. The proximity of the EVC gene to our previously reported chromosome 4p16 BPAD locus with protective alleles, coupled with detailed clinical observations that EvC and BPI do not occur in the same individuals, led us to hypothesize that the genetic defect causing EvC in the Amish confers protection from BPI. This hypothesis is supported by a significant negative association of these two disorders when contrasted with absence of disease (P=0.029, Fisher's exact test, two-sided, verified by permutation to estimate the null distribution of the test statistic). As homozygous Amish EVC mutations causing EvC dwarfism do so by disrupting sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling, our data implicate Shh signaling in the underlying pathophysiology of BPAD. Understanding how disrupted Shh signaling protects against BPI could uncover variants in the Shh pathway that cause or increase risk for this and related mood disorders.

  11. Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome in Grey Alpine Cattle: Morphologic, Immunophenotypic, and Molecular Characterization.

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    Muscatello, L V; Benazzi, C; Dittmer, K E; Thompson, K G; Murgiano, L; Drögemüller, C; Avallone, G; Gentile, A; Edwards, J F; Piffer, C; Bolcato, M; Brunetti, B

    2015-09-01

    Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome is a human autosomal recessive disorder caused by a mutation in either the EVC or EVC2 gene, and presents with short limbs, polydactyly, and ectodermal and heart defects. The aim of this study was to understand the pathologic basis by which deletions in the EVC2 gene lead to chondrodysplastic dwarfism and to describe the morphologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular hallmarks of EvC syndrome in cattle. Five Grey Alpine calves, with a known mutation in the EVC2 gene, were autopsied. Immunohistochemistry was performed on bone using antibodies to collagen II, collagen X, sonic hedgehog, fibroblast growth factor 2, and Ki67. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction was performed to analyze EVC1 and EVC2 gene expression. Autopsy revealed long bones that were severely reduced in length, as well as genital and heart defects. Collagen II was detected in control calves in the resting, proliferative, and hypertrophic zones and in the primary and secondary spongiosa, with a loss of labeling in the resting zone of 2 dwarfs. Collagen X was expressed in hypertrophic zone in the controls but was absent in the EvC cases. In affected calves and controls, sonic hedgehog labeled hypertrophic chondrocytes and primary and secondary spongiosa similarly. FGF2 was expressed in chondrocytes of all growth plate zones in the control calves but was lost in most EvC cases. The Ki67 index was lower in cases compared with controls. EVC and EVC2 transcripts were detected. Our data suggest that EvC syndrome of Grey Alpine cattle is a disorder of chondrocyte differentiation, with accelerated differentiation and premature hypertrophy of chondrocytes, and could be a spontaneous model for the equivalent human disease. © The Author(s) 2015.

  12. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: prenatal diagnosis, molecular analysis and genetic counseling.

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    Chen, Chih-Ping; Su, Yi-Ning; Hsu, Chin-Yuan; Chern, Schu-Rern; Tsai, Fuu-Jen; Wu, Pei-Chen; Chen, Po-Tsang; Wang, Wayseen

    2010-12-01

    To present the perinatal findings and molecular genetic analysis of two siblings with Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome. A 33-year-old woman, gravida 3, para 1, was referred for genetic counseling at 18 gestational weeks because of recurrent fetal skeletal dysplasia. Two years previously, she had delivered a 1,316-g dead male baby at 28 gestational weeks with a karyotype of 46,XY, postaxial polydactyly of the hands, thoracic narrowness, endocardial cushion defects, transposition of the great arteries, shortening of the long bones, malposition of the toes, and hypoplastic nails. During this pregnancy, prenatal ultrasound at 18 gestational weeks revealed shortening of the long bones (equivalent to 15 weeks), postaxial polydactyly of both hands, thoracic narrowness, and endocardial cushion defects. The pregnancy was subsequently terminated, and a 236-g female fetus was delivered with a karyotype of 46,XX, postaxial polydactyly of the hands, thoracic dysplasia, endocardial cushion defects, shortening of the long bones, and malposition of the toes and hypoplastic nails. The phenotype of each of the two siblings was consistent with EVC syndrome. Molecular analysis of the EVC and EVC2 genes revealed heterozygous mutations in the EVC2 gene. A heterozygous deletion mutation of a 26-bp deletion of c.871-2_894del26 encompassing the junction between intron 7 and exon 8 of the EVC2 gene was found in the mother and two siblings, and a heterozygous nonsense mutation of c.1195C >T, p.R399X in exon 10 of the EVC2 gene was found in the father and two siblings. Prenatal sonographic identification of endocardial cushion defects in association with shortening of the long bones should alert clinicians to the possibility of EvC syndrome and prompt a careful search of hexadactyly of the hands. Molecular analysis of the EVC and EVC2 genes is helpful in genetic counseling in cases with prenatally detected postaxial polydactyly, thoracic narrowness, short limbs and endocardial cushion defects

  13. Biosurfactant production by hydrocarbon-degrading Brevibacterium and Vibrio isolates from the sea pen Pteroeides spinosum (Ellis, 1764).

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    Graziano, Marco; Rizzo, Carmen; Michaud, Luigi; Porporato, Erika Maria Diletta; De Domenico, Emilio; Spanò, Nunziacarla; Lo Giudice, Angelina

    2016-09-01

    Among filter-feeders, pennatulids are the most complex and polymorphic members of the cnidarian class Anthozoa. They display a wide distribution throughout all the oceans, constituting a significant component of the sessile megafauna from intertidal to abyssal depths. In this study, a total of 118 bacterial isolates from enrichment cultures, carried out with homogenates of the sea pen Pteroeides spinosum (Ellis, 1764), were screened for hydrocarbon utilization by using the 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol assay. Among them, 83 hydrocarbon-oxidizing isolates were analyzed for biosurfactant production by standard screening tests (i.e., emulsifying activity, E24 detection, surface tension measurement, microplate assay). The 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed the affiliation of the most promising isolates to the genera Brevibacterium and Vibrio. Biosurfactant production resulted strongly affected by salinity and temperature conditions, and occurred in the presence of diesel oil and/or crude oil, whereas no production was observed when isolates were grown on tetradecane. The strains resulted able to create stable emulsions, thus suggesting the production of biosurfactants. Further analyses revealed a glycolipidic nature of the biosurfactant extracted from Vibrio sp. PBN295, a genus that has been only recently reported as biosurfactant producer. Results suggest that pennatulids could represent a novel source for the isolation of hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria with potential in biosurfactant production. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

  14. Profiling of components and validated determination of iridoids in Gardenia Jasminoides Ellis fruit by a high-performance-thin-layer- chromatography/mass spectrometry approach.

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    Coran, Silvia A; Mulas, Stefano; Vasconi, Alessio

    2014-01-17

    A novel method was set up with the aim to obtain a simultaneous cross comparative evaluation of different Gardenia Jasminoides Ellis fruits by the HPTLC fingerprint approach. The main components among the iridoid, hydroxycinnamic derivative and crocin classes were identified by TLC-MS ancillary techniques. The iridoids geniposide, gardenoside and genepin-1-β-d-gentiobioside were also quantitated by densitometric scanning at 240nm. LiChrospher HPTLC Silica gel 60 RP-18 W F254, 20cm×10cm plates with acetonitrile: formic acid 0.1% (40:60 v/v) as the mobile phase was used. The method was validated giving rise to a dependable and high throughput procedure well suited to routine applications. Iridoids were quantified in the range of 240-1140ng with RSD of repeatability and intermediate precision between 0.9-2.5% and accuracy with bias 1.6-2.6%. The method was tested on six commercial Gardenia Jasminoides fruit samples. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  15. Identification of Novel Source of Resistance and Differential Response of Allium Genotypes to Purple Blotch Pathogen, Alternaria porri (Ellis) Ciferri.

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    Nanda, Satyabrata; Chand, Subodh Kumar; Mandal, Purander; Tripathy, Pradyumna; Joshi, Raj Kumar

    2016-12-01

    Purple blotch, caused by Alternaria porri (Ellis) Cifferi, is a serious disease incurring heavy yield losses in the bulb and seed crop of onion and garlic worldwide. There is an immediate need for identification of effective resistance sources for use in host resistance breeding. A total of 43 Allium genotypes were screened for purple blotch resistance under field conditions. Allium cepa accession 'CBT-Ac77' and cultivar 'Arka Kalyan' were observed to be highly resistant. In vitro inoculation of a selected set of genotypes with A. porri , revealed that 7 days after inoculation was suitable to observe the disease severity. In vitro screening of 43 genotypes for resistance to A. porri revealed two resistant lines. An additional 14 genotypes showed consistent moderate resistance in the field as well as in vitro evaluations. Among the related Allium species, A. schoenoprasum and A. roylei showed the least disease index and can be used for interspecific hybridization with cultivated onion. Differential reaction analysis of three A. porri isolates ( Apo-Chiplima, Apn-Nasik, Apg-Guntur ) in 43 genotypes revealed significant variation among the evaluated Allium species ( P = 0.001). All together, the present study suggest that, the newly identified resistance sources can be used as potential donors for ongoing purple blotch resistance breeding program in India.

  16. The effect of various media and hormones via suspension culture on secondary metabolic activities of (Cape Jasmine) Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.

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    Farzinebrahimi, Reza; Mat Taha, Rosna; Rashid, Kamaludin; Syafawati Yaacob, Jamilah

    2014-01-01

    The leaf of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis was used as explants and was cultured on MS and WPM media supplemented with various concentrations of NAA, IAA, 2,4-D, IBA, TDZ, and Kn (0 to 5 mg L(-1) with 0.5 increment). After six months, the higher percentage of callus (100%) and the best dry and fresh weight of callus were formed on WPM medium supplemented with 2,4-D and NAA (2.0-3.0 mg L(-1)) and this amount was decreased from (84%) to (69%) when this media supplemented with Kinetin and TDZ (1 mg L(-1)) respectively were used. Leaf segments cultured on WPM media added with Kn (1 mg L(-1)) and TDZ (2 mg L(-1)) yielded the least amount of callus. It was found that WPM media added with IAA (4.5-5.0 mg L(-1)) were optimum for root induction from G. jasminoides plantlets. Antibacterial screening of leaf extracts (in vivo) showed no inhibitory effect against E. coli, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, and B. cereus, in contrast to callus extracts from leaf cultures supplemented with NAA, which showed inhibition activity against E. coli and B. cereus. The callus extracts from leaf cultures grown on both MS and WPM media showed higher antioxidant and superoxide dismutase activities than leaf extracts.

  17. Identification of Novel Source of Resistance and Differential Response of Allium Genotypes to Purple Blotch Pathogen, Alternaria porri (Ellis) Ciferri

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    Nanda, Satyabrata; Chand, Subodh Kumar; Mandal, Purander; Tripathy, Pradyumna; Joshi, Raj Kumar

    2016-01-01

    Purple blotch, caused by Alternaria porri (Ellis) Cifferi, is a serious disease incurring heavy yield losses in the bulb and seed crop of onion and garlic worldwide. There is an immediate need for identification of effective resistance sources for use in host resistance breeding. A total of 43 Allium genotypes were screened for purple blotch resistance under field conditions. Allium cepa accession ‘CBT-Ac77’ and cultivar ‘Arka Kalyan’ were observed to be highly resistant. In vitro inoculation of a selected set of genotypes with A. porri, revealed that 7 days after inoculation was suitable to observe the disease severity. In vitro screening of 43 genotypes for resistance to A. porri revealed two resistant lines. An additional 14 genotypes showed consistent moderate resistance in the field as well as in vitro evaluations. Among the related Allium species, A. schoenoprasum and A. roylei showed the least disease index and can be used for interspecific hybridization with cultivated onion. Differential reaction analysis of three A. porri isolates (Apo-Chiplima, Apn-Nasik, Apg-Guntur) in 43 genotypes revealed significant variation among the evaluated Allium species (P = 0.001). All together, the present study suggest that, the newly identified resistance sources can be used as potential donors for ongoing purple blotch resistance breeding program in India. PMID:27904458

  18. Peroxidases, lignin and anatomy during in vitro and ex vitro rooting of gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides Ellis) microshoots.

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    Hatzilazarou, Stefanos P; Syros, Thomas D; Yupsanis, Traianos A; Bosabalidis, Artemios M; Economou, Athanasios S

    2006-07-01

    In vitro and ex vitro rooting of gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides Ellis) microshoots with or without indolic-3-butyric acid (IBA) was studied in order to improve acclimatization of microplants after root formation and transplantation. Peroxidase (POD) activity and isoforms, lignin content and anatomical observations were evaluated in the course of the three interdependent phases (induction, initiation and expression) of microshoot rooting. Microshoots treated or not treated with IBA achieved high rooting percentages both in vitro and ex vitro. At the end of the 2-week acclimatization period, the percentage of surviving microplants ranged from 80% to 100%, for in vitro and ex vitro rooted microshoots, respectively. Microshoots rooted in vitro and ex vitro showed a relationship between rooting and POD activity but in a different time course. It appeared that root formation occurred after the microshoots had reached and passed a peak of maximum enzyme activity. In all treatments, electrophoretic analysis (native PAGE) of PODs revealed the appearance of one anionic and three cationic POD isoforms (C(1), C(3) and C(4)). An additional cationic POD isoform (C(2)) appeared only in the ex vitro rooting. The lignin content was similar in microshoots rooted both in vitro and ex vitro. The sequential anatomical changes during the rooting process were similar in both in vitro and ex vitro rooting treatments. In the case of in vitro rooting, pith cells had vacuoles entirely filled with a dark substance, while in the case of ex vitro rooting, pith cells contained many amyloplasts. The origin of the adventitious roots, in both rooting conditions, was located in the cambial ring. Roots with organized tissue systems emerged from the microshoot stem 10-14 days after the root induction treatments; on day 10 for rooting in vitro, while a 4-day delay was noted in microshoots rooted ex vitro.

  19. Study of Separation and Identification of the Active Ingredients in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis Based on a Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography by Coupling Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography and Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography.

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    Zhou, Xuan; Chen, Cen; Ye, Xiaolan; Song, Fenyun; Fan, Guorong; Wu, Fuhai

    2017-01-01

    In this paper, by coupling reversed phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), a two-dimensional liquid chromatography system was developed for separation and identification of the active ingredients in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (GJE). By applying the semi-preparative C18 column as the first dimension and the core-shell column as the second dimension, a total of 896 peaks of GJE were separated. Among the 896 peaks, 16 active ingredients including geniposide, gardenoside, gardoside, etc. were identified by mass spectrometry analysis. The results indicated that the proposed two-dimensional RPLC/HILIC system was an effective method for the analysis of GJE and might hold a high potential to become a useful tool for analysis of other complex mixtures. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  20. The Influence of Exposure, Parents, and Linguistic Distance on Young European Learners' Foreign Language Comprehension

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    Lindgren, Eva; Munoz, Carmen

    2013-01-01

    The project Early Language Learning in Europe (ELLiE) has studied the longitudinal effects of an early foreign language (FL) start in seven European contexts. This article presents a sub-study of ELLiE that investigates the impact of out-of-school factors on learners' listening and reading skills in year four of formal FL instruction. More…

  1. The 13th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Calvary: Transition from Irregular to Conventional Operations

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    2009-01-01

    usually to Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, where they would enlist in the Union Army. Daniel Ellis, the Old Red Fox , had served in’the Mexican War and...terrible cruelties at the hands of the rebels. They had been hunted and shot down as unworthy of any humanity being shown them. Their homes were burned...Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1988), 181. . 6 Allen W. Ellis, "Captain Daniel Ellis: Biographical Sketch." Captain Daniel Ellis: The Old Red Fox of East

  2. Zinc Selenide Photoelectrodes. Efficient Radiative Recombination in a Stable Photoelectrochemical Cell.

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    1984-05-25

    Patricia M. Smiley, Richard N. Biagioni , and Arthur B. Ellis Prepared for Publication in Journal of the Electrochemical Society Department of Chemistry...ORG. REPORT NUMBER 7. AUT’O,O@() 8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(oj Patricia M. Smiley, Richard N. Biagioni , and Arthur B. Ellis NOO0l4-78-’C-O633 P...M. Olken, R. N. Biagioni , and A. B. Ellis, Inorg. Chem., 22, 000 (1983). 14. M. K. Carpenter, H. H. Streckert, and A. B. Ellis, J. Solid State Chem

  3. Growth in Emotional Intelligence. Psychotherapy with a Learning Disabled Girl

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    Chantrell, Sue

    2009-01-01

    This paper describes the once-weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a girl, called Ellie, aged eight at the start of her treatment. Ellie had a learning disability and displayed difficult behaviour at school and at home. In her therapy, Ellie grew in emotional intelligence, more in touch with and able to express her feelings. Her behaviour…

  4. Content and Language Integrated Learning: Teachers' and Teacher Educators' Experiences of English Medium Teaching. Publication No. 4.

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    Sjoholm, Kaj, Ed.; Bjorklund, Mikaela, Ed.

    The publication on the integration of content area and second language instruction, focusing on the situation in Finland, consists of nine essays and a bibliography. The essays include: "Education in a Second or Foreign Language. An Overview" (Kaj Sjoholm); "Foreign Language Content Teaching in Teacher Education at Abo Akademi…

  5. 78 FR 25462 - Oklahoma; Major Disaster and Related Determinations

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    2013-05-01

    ... adversely affected by this major disaster: Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield... Assistance. Dewey and Ellis Counties for snow assistance under the Public Assistance program for any...

  6. Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (1896-1959).

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    Schellman, J. A.; Schellman, C. G.

    1997-01-01

    The Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen has had a long tradition of outstanding science. At the time covered by this discussion, Kjeldahl, Sørensen, and Linderstrøm-Lang had been consecutive directors of the Chemical Laboratory for 83 years. Lang's inspired leadership began in the 1930s with a number of innovations (study of metabolism in single cells, titrations in non-aqueous solvents, relation of proteolysis to structure) but it was not until the early 1950s that Denmark had sufficiently recovered from the war for the laboratory to enter world science again. During World War II, Lang had been active in the Danish resistance movement. After the war, a number of major advances were being made that would revolutionize the field of protein chemistry (Pauling and Corey's H-bonded structures, Sanger's sequencing techniques, chromatography, Watson and Crick structures, modern instrumentation). The time for the new field of the physical biochemistry of proteins had arrived. Lang, with his broad experience, adventurous spirit, and genius for innovation, created an environment that was ideal for the convergence of these disconnected advances into a uniform science. The emphasis was to be on quantitative measurements on proteins in solution with interpretations based on molecular structures. During an all-too-brief period of time, Lang's laboratory attracted a large fraction of those who were destined to be the leaders of the next generation of protein chemists. At this time, the Carlsberg Laboratory was probably the most scientifically exciting environment for a protein chemist. The methods developed at that time-hydrogen exchange, limited proteolysis, optical rotatory dispersion, volume changes accompanying protein reactions, automatic titrations-are still all in common use and many of the visitors to the laboratory in that period and their students are still playing major roles in protein research. Lang's other qualities should not be ignored. He was not only a great scientist but also a musician, raconteur, artist, and an exceptionally warm and compassionate human being. PMID:9144781

  7. Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (1896-1959).

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    Schellman, J A; Schellman, C G

    1997-05-01

    The Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen has had a long tradition of outstanding science. At the time covered by this discussion, Kjeldahl, Sørensen, and Linderstrøm-Lang had been consecutive directors of the Chemical Laboratory for 83 years. Lang's inspired leadership began in the 1930s with a number of innovations (study of metabolism in single cells, titrations in non-aqueous solvents, relation of proteolysis to structure) but it was not until the early 1950s that Denmark had sufficiently recovered from the war for the laboratory to enter world science again. During World War II, Lang had been active in the Danish resistance movement. After the war, a number of major advances were being made that would revolutionize the field of protein chemistry (Pauling and Corey's H-bonded structures, Sanger's sequencing techniques, chromatography, Watson and Crick structures, modern instrumentation). The time for the new field of the physical biochemistry of proteins had arrived. Lang, with his broad experience, adventurous spirit, and genius for innovation, created an environment that was ideal for the convergence of these disconnected advances into a uniform science. The emphasis was to be on quantitative measurements on proteins in solution with interpretations based on molecular structures. During an all-too-brief period of time, Lang's laboratory attracted a large fraction of those who were destined to be the leaders of the next generation of protein chemists. At this time, the Carlsberg Laboratory was probably the most scientifically exciting environment for a protein chemist. The methods developed at that time-hydrogen exchange, limited proteolysis, optical rotatory dispersion, volume changes accompanying protein reactions, automatic titrations-are still all in common use and many of the visitors to the laboratory in that period and their students are still playing major roles in protein research. Lang's other qualities should not be ignored. He was not only a great scientist but also a musician, raconteur, artist, and an exceptionally warm and compassionate human being.

  8. What Rational-Emotive Therapy Is and Is Not

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    Ellis, Albert

    1974-01-01

    Albert Ellis refutes a review of the functional characteristics of Rational-Emotive Therapy given by Dugald S. Arbuckle. Ellis concludes that Arbuckle only minimally understands RET theory or the behaviors consequent to it. (PC)

  9. Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes

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    2011-01-01

    Nanobeam photonic crystal cavity light-emitting diodes Gary Shambat,1,a) Bryan Ellis,1 Jan Petykiewicz,1 Marie A. Mayer,2 Tomas Sarmiento ,1 James...J. H. Ryou, P. B. Deotare, R. Dupuis, and M. Loncar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 051104 (2010). 5Y. Gong, B. Ellis, G. Shambat, T. Sarmiento , J. S. Harris...F. Karouta, S. He, and R. W. van der Heijden, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 151105 (2010). 9B. Ellis, M. A. Mayer, G. Shambat, T. Sarmiento , J. Harris, E. E

  10. Interactions between a group of Golden Eagles and a herd of North American elk

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    O'Connell, Matt P.; Kochert, Michael N.

    2013-01-01

    Raptors are generally considered solitary predators (Schoener 1969), but occasionally they interact socially (Brown and Amadon 1968). Certain raptor species (e.g., Swallow-tailed Kites [Elanoides forficatus] and Swainson's Hawks [Buteo swainsoni]) concentrate in aggregations in response to localized, abundant food sources (Ellis et al. 1993). Many raptor species engage in group hunting (Ellis et al. 1993), and social foraging is a routine strategy for some species (e.g., Harris's Hawks [Parabuteo unicinctus]; Bednarz 1988, Ellis et al. 1993]. Raptors generally engage in group hunting to pursue elusive or large prey (Ellis et al. 1993). Occasionally individuals of conspecific raptors engage in play as a group sometimes involving chases of prey species (Palmer 1988). In this letter, we report interactions between a large group of Golden Eagles and a herd of adult and juvenile Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) in late autumn.

  11. Review of Winograd and Flores’ Understanding Computers and Cognition: A Favorable Interpretation.

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    1986-07-01

    very little basis for determni ong the practical Iitin its of forma I’lIiat ionl, particula rly for appl ications of Ar i fwcial inelhIreiwe ito...AlexanJra VA 22314 KAJ Software, Inc. Dr. David -. Weiss � East Shea Blvd. NC60 Elliott Hall Dr. Derek Sleeman Suite 161 University of Minnesota Starfor

  12. Subject Characteristics and Preferences for Different Approaches to Psychotherapy: A Multivariate Study

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    Helweg, Gregory C.; Gaines, Lawrence S.

    1977-01-01

    Selected personality variables, sex, age, interpersonal values, and educational level, were examined as antecedents to preferences for a nondirective (Carl Rogers) or directive (Albert Ellis) therapist. Individuals who preferred the Ellis presentation proved to more dogmatic and externalized than individuals preferring the Rogers presentation.…

  13. Two standardized fractions of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis with rapid antidepressant effects are differentially associated with BDNF up-regulation in the hippocampus.

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    Ren, Li; Tao, Weiwei; Zhang, Hailou; Xue, Wenda; Tang, Juanjuan; Wu, Ruyan; Xia, Baomei; Wu, Haoxing; Chen, Gang

    2016-07-01

    Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (GJ) is one of the five constituents of Yueju pill, a Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment of syndromes associated with mood disorders. Recently, preclinical and clinical studies suggest that Yueju pill confers rapid antidepressant effects. GJ is identified as the constituent primary for Yueju pill's rapid antidepressant effects. GJ's antidepressant action is temporally associated with up-regulated expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the hippocampus. The present study aimed to identify chemical fractions responsible for the rapid antidepressant efficacy of GJ and its association with BDNF signaling. Four fractions of GJ were extracted using standardized procedure. The four fractions were screened for rapid antidepressant potential, using the behavioral paradigm of forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST) assessed at 24h post a single administration. A single dose of the putatively effective fractions was further tested in mice exposed to chronic mild stress (CMS), followed with a comprehensive behavioral testing including TST, FST, sucrose preference test (SPT), and novelty suppressed-feeding (NSF). To test the association of BDNF signaling with rapid antidepressant effects of effective factions, the expressions of BDNF and its receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) in the hippocampus were assessed at different times post a single administration of effective fractions. Both petroleum ether (GJ-PE) and n-butyl alcohol fraction (GJ-BO) fractions of GJ displayed rapid antidepressant potential in the FST. In the TST, the antidepressant effects of GJ-PE lasted for a longer time than GJ-BO. Acute administration of either GJ-PE or GJ-BO significantly reversed the behavioral deficits in the tests of TST, FST, SPT and NSF in chronically stressed mice, confirming both fractions conferred rapid antidepressant efficacy. Interestingly, GJ-PE, but not GJ-BO, increased the expression of BDNF and Trk

  14. The Rational-Emotive Approach: A Critique

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    Morris, G. Barry

    1976-01-01

    The critique of Rational-Emotive Therapy aims criticism at Ellis' concept of irrationality, analysis of human behavior and therapeutic techniques. Ellis suggests that his critic's claims lack the support of experimental evidence. He further suggests that an "existential" bias pervades which differs from his own brand of…

  15. Cantonese versus Canadian Evaluation of Directive and Non-Directive Therapy.

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    Waxer, Peter H.

    1989-01-01

    Examined differences between Canadian and Cantonese university students who read transcripts of Carl Rogers and Albert Ellis counseling sessions and rated these counselors on directiveness, forcefulness, repetitiveness, sensitivity, politeness, and willingness to see either Ellis or Rogers. Found Canadians more willing to see Rogers than Chinese…

  16. Ellis-Van Creveld Dysplasia

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    ... orthopedist, geneticist, pediatrician, dentist, neurologist, and physical therapist will provide the most ... PA: Elsevier Saunders. 2006. Scott, Charles I. Dwarfism . Clinical Symposium , 1988; 40(1):17- ...

  17. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome

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    ... high-risk group, or who have a family history of EVC syndrome. Alternative Names ... In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW, Schor NF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics . 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016: ...

  18. Luminescent Properties of Semiconductor Electrodes.

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    1985-08-15

    S. Gottesfeld, and N. Croitoru, J. Electroanal. Chem. Interfac. Electrochem. 150, 571 (1983). 71. H. H. Streckert, H. Van Ryswyk, R. N. Biagioni , and...Johnson, W. S. Hobson, and A. B. Ellis, unpublished observations. 104. P. M. Smiley, R. N. Biagioni , and A. B. Ellis, J. Electrochem. Soc. 131, 1068

  19. Finding a Balance: A Narrative Inquiry into Motherhood and the Doctoral Process

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    Eisenbach, Brooke

    2013-01-01

    Carolyn Ellis states, "autoethnography shows struggle, passion, embodied life, and the collaborative creation of sense-making... [it] wants the reader to care, to feel, to empathize, and to do something, to act" (Ellis & Bochner, 2006, p. 433). This autoethnography describes one new mother's struggles to complete her doctoral program of study…

  20. Validating Grammaticality Judgment Tests: Evidence from Two New Psycholinguistic Measures

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    Vafaee, Payman; Suzuki, Yuichi; Kachisnke, Ilina

    2017-01-01

    Several previous factor-analytic studies on the construct validity of grammaticality judgment tests (GJTs) concluded that untimed GJTs measure explicit knowledge (EK) and timed GJTs measure implicit knowledge (IK) (Bowles, 2011; R. Ellis, 2005; R. Ellis & Loewen, 2007). It has also been shown that, irrespective of the time condition chosen,…

  1. Words, Hemispheres, and Processing Mechanisms: A Response to Marsolek and Deason (2007)

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    Ellis, Andrew W.; Ansorge, Lydia; Lavidor, Michal

    2007-01-01

    Ellis, Ansorge and Lavidor (2007) [Ellis, A.W., Ansorge, L., & Lavidor, M. (2007). Words, hemispheres, and dissociable subsystems: The effects of exposure duration, case alternation, priming and continuity of form on word recognition in the left and right visual fields. "Brain and Language," 103, 292-303.] presented three experiments investigating…

  2. "I'm Still Not Sure What a Task Is": Teachers Designing Language Tasks

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    Erlam, Rosemary

    2016-01-01

    Ellis (2003) identifies four key criteria that distinguish a "task" from the types of situational grammar exercises that are typically found in the more traditional language classroom. This study investigates how well teachers were able to design tasks that fulfilled these four criteria (Ellis, 2003) at the end of a year-long…

  3. Awakening the Learner Within: Purposeful Prompts and Lifelong Learning Measures in a First-Year Composition Course

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    Moore, Tara; Shaffer, Suzanne C.

    2017-01-01

    Lifelong learning skills have been shown to benefit students during and after college. This paper discusses the use of the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) in a first-year composition course. Reflective writing assignments and pre- and post-semester ELLI data were used to assess student growth as lifelong learners over the course of a…

  4. Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy: The Evolution of a Revolution

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    Ellis, Debbie Joffe; Rovira, Montse

    2015-01-01

    Recognized as one of the most influential thinkers and psychologists, Albert Ellis PhD (1913-2007) revolutionized Psychology when he created the first cognitive psychotherapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. After he passed away, Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis continues spreading his legacy around the world. Psychologist, lecturer, writer, trainer, she dedicates her life to disseminate REBT and extend it through different statements, from the social to the educational, from the academic to the clinical. In this interview, she goes through her own history and her husband’s one, bringing us closer to understanding Albert Ellis as the leading figure in his field, and the oneness they experienced through their professional and personal relationship. PMID:27247638

  5. The Anthropocene Biosphere: Supporting 'Open Interdisciplinarity' through Blogging.

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    Trachtenberg, Zev M; Burns, Thomas J; de Beurs, Kirsten; Ellis, Stephen E; Gates, Kiza K; Hoagland, Bruce W; Kelly, Jeffrey F; Neeson, Thomas M; Randall, Asa R; Schlupp, Ingo; Soppelsa, Peter S; Soreghan, Gerilyn S; Zeigler, James J

    2017-01-01

    This paper describes a process of 'open' interdisciplinary scholarship. Researchers from across the University of Oklahoma blogged about a recent paper by ecologist Erle Ellis, and met in person to discuss posts. They then hosted Ellis for a seminar on questions that emerged, and for a public panel discussion. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  6. Measuring Implicit and Explicit Linguistic Knowledge: What Can Heritage Language Learners Contribute?

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    Bowles, Melissa A.

    2011-01-01

    Although claims about explicit and implicit language knowledge are central to many debates in SLA, little research has been dedicated to measuring the two knowledge types (R. Ellis, 2004, 2005). The purpose of this study was to validate the use of the battery of tests reported in Ellis (2005) to measure implicit and explicit language knowledge.…

  7. Update on the U.S. Army TARDEC Power and Energy P&E SIL Program: Progress since the 6th AECV (June 2005 to Present)

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    2007-06-01

    John Kajs and Marc Compere , Power System Upgrade for TARDEC Systems Integration Lab, Proceedings of the 6th AECV Conference, Bath, UK, June 13-16...2005. 7 Miguel Simon, Marc Compere , Thomas Connolly, Charles Lors, Wilford Smith, and Mark Brudnak, “Hybrid Electric Power and Energy Laboratory...FL, April 2006 10 Mark Brudnak, Mike Pozolo, Victor Paul, Syed Mohammad, Wilford Smith, Marc Compere , Jarrett Goodell, Dale Holtz, Todd Mortsfield

  8. Internet Enabled Remote Driving of a Combat Hybrid Electric Power System for Duty Cycle Measurement

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    2007-06-01

    INTERNET ENABLED REMOTE DRIVING OF A COMBAT HYBRID ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM FOR DUTY CYCLE MEASUREMENT Jarrett Goodell1 Marc Compere , Ph.D.2...Orlando, FL, April 2006. 2. Compere , M.; M.; Goodell, J.; Simon, M; Smith, W.; Brudnak, M, “Robust Control Techniques Enabling Duty Cycle...2006-01-3077, SAE Power Systems Conference, Nov. 2006. 3. Compere , M.; Simon, M.; Kajs, J.; Pozolo, M., “Tracked Vehicle Mobility Load Emulation for a

  9. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, thanks JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James, JPL Director Michael Watkins, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell , UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis , and California Institute of Technology President Thomas Rosenbaum, right, for giving him a tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  10. Does Size Really Matter? How Quality Should be Analyzed for the Acquisition Workforce

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    2012-12-20

    Five Factor Model ( FFM ) of personality. Five traits, also known as = = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v...13 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= the Big 5, comprise the FFM : emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and

  11. Automated Motor Skills Training Optimized for Individual Differences.

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    1980-11-01

    Several preliminary applications of adaptive training to I complex synthetic flight trainers have been attempted (Loses, I ,5 I Ellis, Norman , and Matheny...Association, San Francisco, 1976. Lowes, A. H., Ellis, N. C., Norman , D. A., and Matheny, W. 3. Improving piloting skills in turbulent air using a self...intercept observer. Orlando, Florida: Naval Training Equipment Center, NAVTRAEQUIPCEN 71-C-6219-1, 1973. Smallwood , R. D. A decision structure for

  12. Virtual Combat Vehicle Experimentation for Duty Cycle Measurement

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    2008-04-01

    Experiment 1", Paper SIW- 06S-080, SISO, Orlando, FL, April 2006. 2. Brudnak, M.; Pozolo, M.; Paul, V.; Mohammad, S.; Smith, W.; Compere , M.; Goodell, J...Experiment 2,” Paper SIW-07S-016, SISO, Norfolk, VA, March 2007. 3. Compere , M.; Goodell, J.; Simon, M; Smith, W.; Brudnak, M, “Robust Control Techniques...Internet Communications”, Paper 2006-01-3077, SAE Power Systems Conference, Nov. 2006. 4. Compere , M.; Simon, M.; Kajs, J.; Pozolo, M., “Tracked

  13. The Sky This Week, 2016 January 27 - February 2 - Naval Oceanography

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    Oceanography Ice You are here: Home › USNO › News, Tours & Events › Sky This Week › The Sky This Sky This Week The Sky This Week, 2016 January 27 - February 2 Info The Sky This Week, 2016 January 27 - February 2 Lest we forget. NOFS_Winter_2016_01small.jpg Dome of the Kaj Strand 1.55-meter (61-inch

  14. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Warren Elly (left), with WTVT-TV, Fox News, talks with Center Director Jim Kennedy at Garland V. Stewart Magnet Middle School, a NASA Explorer School (NES) in Tampa, Fla. Kennedy was joined by astronaut Kay Hire in sharing the agency’s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy talked with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.

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    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Warren Elly (left), with WTVT-TV, Fox News, talks with Center Director Jim Kennedy at Garland V. Stewart Magnet Middle School, a NASA Explorer School (NES) in Tampa, Fla. Kennedy was joined by astronaut Kay Hire in sharing the agency’s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy talked with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.

  15. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd from left, poses for a group photograph with JPL Director Michael Watkins, left, JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James, California Institute of Technology President Thomas Rosenbaum, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, and UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis, right, after having toured NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  16. Excited-State Properties of Semiconductor Electrodes and Their Application to Optical Energy Conversion.

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    1985-12-26

    DC/TR-83/3 has been published: "Polarization Effects in the Luminescence of Cadmium Selenide Electrodes", H.H. Streckert, H. Van Ryswyk, R.N. Biagioni ...Radiative Recombination in a Stable Photoelectrochemical Cell", P.M. Smiley, P.N. Biagioni , and A.B. Ellis, J. Electrochem. Soc., 131, 1068 (1984...has been assigned to the 3M Co. .-’ PERSONNEL Arthur B. Ellis, P.1. Bryan Benedict * Dr. Richard Biagioni Daniel Bilich Al Burk, Jr. -Ph.D. received

  17. The Impact of Maintenance Free Operating Period Approach to Acquisition Approaches, System Sustainment, and Costs

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    2013-01-07

    of MFOP principles on processes, procedures , and costs in acquisition planning. It investigates MFOP and reviews the results of a 2005 submarine pilot...approach be a game changer? This paper evaluates the potential impact of MFOP principles on processes, procedures , and costs in acquisition planning. It...elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v= = - 2 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= procedures , and costs in acquisition planning. The scope of the research was to

  18. Charting a Course for Change: Acquisition Theory and Practice for a Transforming Defense

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    2004-09-30

    for public release; distribution unlimited 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14 . ABSTRACT 15. SUBJECT TERMS 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION...a = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v= = = - 5 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= block one, a block two, a block three...3) the changing nature of warfare and its associated technology; 4) new acquisition practices; 5 ) globalization’s impact (including inter-national

  19. Can we identify massless braneworld black holes by observations?

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    Kuniyasu, Masashi; Nanri, Keitaro; Sakai, Nobuyuki; Ohgami, Takayuki; Fukushige, Ryosuke; Komura, Subaru

    2018-05-01

    For an extension of the previous work on gravitational lensing by massless braneworld black holes, we investigate their microlensing phenomena and shadows and discuss how to distinguish them from standard Schwarzschild black holes and Ellis wormholes. Microlensing is known as the phenomenon in which luminosity amplification appears when a bright object passes behind a black hole or another massive object. We find that, for the braneworld black hole as well as for the Ellis wormhole, there appears luminosity reduction just before and after the amplification. This means that observation of such a reduction would indicate the lens object is either a braneworld black hole or a wormhole, though it is difficult to distinguish one from the other by microlensing solely. Therefore, we next analyze the optical images, or shadows of the braneworld black hole surrounded by optically thin dust, and compare them to those of the Ellis wormhole. Because the spacetime around the braneworld black hole possesses unstable circular orbits of photons, a bright ring appears in the image, just as in Schwarzschild spacetime or in the wormhole spacetime. This indicates that the appearance of a bright ring does not solely confirm a braneworld black hole, a Schwarzschild, nor an Ellis wormhole. However, we find that only for the wormhole is the intensity inside the ring larger than that the outsider intensity. Therefore, with future high-resolution observations of microlensing and shadows together, we could identify the braneworld black holes if they exist.

  20. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    JPL Director Michael Watkins, standing, explains the history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the use of the Mission Support Area to Vice President Mike Pence, seated next to his wife Karen and daughter Charlotte Pence, during a tour of JPL, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Joining the Vice President was, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, left, UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis, JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James, and California Institute of Technology President Thomas Rosenbaum. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  1. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, 3rd from right, tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with his wife Karen, and daughter Charlotte, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Joining the Vice President t and his family on the tour are: UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis , left, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, behind Mrs. Pence, California Institute of Technology President Thomas Rosenbaum, JPL Director Michael Watkins, and JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James, right. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  2. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    U.S. Vice President Mike Pence can be seen with his wife Karen Pence as they toured NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. The vice President was also joined by his daughter Charlotte Pence, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell , UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis , Executive Director of the National Space Council Scott Pace, JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James, and California Institute of Technology President Thomas Rosenbaum. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  3. Three Psychotherapies Examined: Ellis, Rogers, Perls

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    Stoten, J.; Goos, W.

    1974-01-01

    This study uses Bales' Interaction Process Analysis (I. P. A.) to identify significant process elements in counselling and psychotherapy. For this purpose, the film "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy" was analysed. (Editor)

  4. Cognitions as determinants of (mal)adaptive emotions and emotionally intelligent behavior in an organizational context.

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    Spörrle, Matthias; Welpe, Isabell M; Försterling, Friedrich

    2006-01-01

    This study applies the theoretical concepts of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT; Ellis, 1962, 1994) to the analysis of functional and dysfunctional behaviour and emotions in the workplace and tests central assumptions of REBT in an organizational setting. We argue that Ellis' appraisal theory of emotion sheds light on some of the cognitive and emotional antecedents of emotional intelligence and emotionally intelligent behaviour. In an extension of REBT, we posit that adaptive emotions resulting from rational cognitions reflect more emotional intelligence than maladaptive emotions which result from irrational cognitions, because the former lead to functional behaviour. We hypothesize that semantically similar emotions (e.g. annoyance and rage) lead to different behavioural reactions and have a different functionality in an organizational context. The results of scenario experiments using organizational vignettes confirm the central assumptions of Ellis' appraisal theory and support our hypotheses of a correspondence between adaptive emotions and emotionally intelligent behaviour. Additionally, we find evidence that irrational job-related attitudes result in reduced work (but not life) satisfaction.

  5. Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children with Rare Skeletal Disorders: A Survey of Clinical Records.

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    Zaffanello, Marco; Piacentini, Giorgio; Sacchetto, Luca; Pietrobelli, Angelo; Gasperi, Emma; Barillari, Marco; Cardobi, Nicolò; Nosetti, Luana; Ramaroli, Diego; Antoniazzi, Franco

    2018-06-21

    Craniofacial disharmony in skeletal diseases is strongly associated with sleep-disordered breathing. Our aim was to study sleep respiratory patterns in young children with rare skeletal disorders. This retrospective study included children with achondroplasia, osteogenesis imperfecta and Ellis van Creveld Syndrome. Our subjects underwent an in-laboratory overnight respiratory polygraph between January 2012 and April 2016. All medical records were reviewed and brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging was conducted on patients with achondroplasia, nasopharynx, oropharynx and laryngopharynx spaces. 24 children were enrolled, 13 with Achondroplasia, 2 with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, 1 with odontochondrodysplasia, 6 with osteogenesis imperfecta and 2 with Ellis van Creveld Syndrome. Children with achondroplasia, who had adenotonsillectomy, showed fewer sleep respiratory involvement than untreated children. Among 13 patients with Achondroplasia, brain magnetic resonance imaging was available in 10 subjects and significant negative correlation was found between sleep respiratory patterns, nasopharynx and oropharynx space (p < 0.05). In 2 patients with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, mild to moderate sleep respiratory involvement was found. Both subjects had history of adenotonsillectomy. Mild sleep respiratory involvement was also shown in 4 out of 6 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. One patient with Ellis van Creveld syndrome had mild sleep respiratory disturbance. Sleep respiratory disturbances were detected in children with achondroplasia, and with less severity also in osteogenesis imperfecta and Ellis van Creveld syndrome. Adenotonsillectomy was successful in achondroplasia in reducing symptoms. In light of our findings, multicenter studies are needed to obtain further information on these rare skeletal diseases. ©2018The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.

  6. Better Acquisition Management through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Other Best Practices for Preventing and Resolving Bid Protests

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    2012-01-24

    ESLS ) made cost = = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v - 66 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= and availability...Mobility Command (AMC). Regarding cost, the ESLS found that the KC-135 fleet would incur “significant cost increases” between 2001 and 2040, but “no...the ESLS publication, the Air Force planned to wait until 2013 to begin KC-135 replacement. (Gupta, Belasco, Else, & O’Rourke, 2003, pp. 2– 3

  7. Defining and Measuring the Success of Services Contracts in the United States Navy

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    2012-12-06

    mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= Table of Contents I.  Introduction ...7  A.  Introduction ... Introduction .................................................................................... 29  B.  Overview

  8. Vice President Pence Tours Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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    2018-04-28

    JPL Director Michael Watkins, left, explains the history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the use of the Mission Support Area to Vice President Mike Pence, seated 4th from left, during a tour of JPL, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Joining the Vice President was, JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist and Spouse of UAG Chairman James Ellis, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, left, UAG Chairman, Admiral (Ret) James Ellis, Executive Director of the National Space Council Scott Pace, wife of Mike Pence, Karen Pence, daughter of Mike Pence, Charlotte Pence, and JPL Deputy Director Lt. Gen. (Ret) Larry James. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

  9. Validation of a modified Medical Resource Model for mass gatherings.

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    Smith, Wayne P; Tuffin, Heather; Stratton, Samuel J; Wallis, Lee A

    2013-02-01

    A modified Medical Resource Model to predict the medical resources required at mass gatherings based on the risk profile of events has been developed. This study was undertaken to validate this tool using data from events held in both a developed and a developing country. A retrospective study was conducted utilizing prospectively gathered data from individual events at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, United Kingdom, and Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa. Both stadia are similar in design and spectator capacity. Data for Professional Football as well as Rugby League and Rugby Union (respectively) matches were used for the study. The medical resources predicted for the events were determined by entering the risk profile of each of the events into the Medical Resource Model. A recently developed South African tool was used to predetermine medical staffing for mass gatherings. For the study, the medical resources actually required to deal with the patient load for events within the control sample from the two stadia were compared with the number of needed resources predicted by the Medical Resource Model when that tool was applied retrospectively to the study events. The comparison was used to determine if the newly developed tool was either over- or under-predicting the resource requirements. In the case of Ellis Park, the model under-predicted the basic life support (BLS) requirement for 1.5% of the events in the data set. Mean over-prediction was 209.1 minutes for BLS availability. Old Trafford displayed no events for which the Medical Resource Model would have under-predicted. The mean over-prediction of BLS availability for Old Trafford was 671.6 minutes. The intermediate life support (ILS) requirement for Ellis Park was under-predicted for seven of the total 66 events (10.6% of the events), all of which had one factor in common, that being relatively low spectator attendance numbers. Modelling for ILS at Old Trafford did not under-predict for

  10. Traumatic Dental Injuries Prevalence and their Impact on Self-esteem among Adolescents in India: A Comparative Study.

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    Goyal, Nikita; Singh, Simarpreet; Mathur, Anmol; Makkar, Diljot Kaur; Aggarwal, Vikram Pal; Sharma, Anshika; Kaur, Puneet

    2017-08-01

    Adolescents are mostly injured during sport activities, traffic accidents and some forms of violence which may lead to traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries not only pose a health risk worldwide but are also regarded among serious social problems. Poor oral health has been related to poor social relationships that affect the ability to learn and grow which may lead to reduced self-esteem. This study was conducted to compare self-esteem of adolescents with and without anterior Traumatic Dental Injury (TDI). A population based comparative study was conducted among 10 to 17 years old adolescents from November 2014 to January 2016. The study sample comprised of 424 controls and 212 cases with 2:1 control-to-case ratio that were selected by four examiners along with a gold standard examiner. TDI was recorded using Ellis classification and self-esteem was recorded using Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). For comparing self-esteem of cases and controls according to RSES questions, t-test is used. Odds ratio (OR) was utilized to assess and compare the self-esteem according to high and low esteem in cases and controls. Ellis Class I, Ellis Class II and Ellis Class III fractures were observed in 53.3%, 33.49% and 13.20% of cases, respectively. The maxillary arch was the most affected (72.48%) and on the hierarchy of causes, this study found that on most occasions dental injuries were caused by sports (40.09%). The total mean score of RSES in cases (23.16) and in controls (24.43) was also statistically significant (p<0.001). Improving oral health in schools may contribute considerably to increase the self-esteem of adolescents in a positive direction and help them in becoming socially competent adults.

  11. Chiral Lagrangian with broken scale: Testing the restoration of symmetries in astrophysics and in the laboratory

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    Bonanno, Luca; Drago, Alessandro

    2009-04-15

    We study matter at high density and temperature using a chiral Lagrangian in which the breaking of scale invariance is regulated by the value of a scalar field, called dilaton [E. K. Heide, S. Rudaz, and P. J. Ellis, Nucl. Phys. A571, 713 (1994); G. W. Carter, P. J. Ellis, and S. Rudaz, Nucl. Phys. A603, 367 (1996); G. W. Carter, P. J. Ellis, and S. Rudaz, Nucl. Phys. A618, 317 (1997); G. W. Carter and P. J. Ellis, Nucl. Phys. A628, 325 (1998)]. We provide a phase diagram describing the restoration of chiral and scale symmetries. We show thatmore » chiral symmetry is restored at large temperatures, but at low temperatures it remains broken at all densities. We also show that scale invariance is more easily restored at low rather than large baryon densities. The masses of vector-mesons scale with the value of the dilaton and their values initially slightly decrease with the density but then they increase again for densities larger than {approx}3{rho}{sub 0}. The pion mass increases continuously with the density and at {rho}{sub 0} and T=0 its value is {approx}30 MeV larger than in the vacuum. We show that the model is compatible with the bounds stemming from astrophysics, as, e.g., the one associated with the maximum mass of a neutron star. The most striking feature of the model is a very significant softening at large densities, which manifests also as a strong reduction of the adiabatic index. Although the softening has probably no consequence for supernova explosion via the direct mechanism, it could modify the signal in gravitational waves associated with the merging of two neutron stars.« less

  12. 75 FR 51293 - [Disaster Declaration greek-i12272 and greek-i12273

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    ... on 08/10/2010, Private Non- Profit organizations that provide essential services of governmental... Counties: Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Doniphan, Ellis, Franklin, Greenwood...

  13. 76 FR 39888 - Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications

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    ... (Bakersfield cactus); Orcuttia pilosa (hairy orcutt grass); Orcuttia viscida (Sacramento orcutt grass...); Tuctoria mucronata (Solano grass). Permit No. TE-45778A Applicant: Ellis Ecological Services Incorporated...

  14. Mental health and the veterinary profession.

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    Patterson, Ellie

    2017-10-07

    Ellie Patterson, Vetlife marketing officer, summarises the services offered by Vetlife - an independent, confidential and free charity for everyone in the veterinary community. British Veterinary Association.

  15. Anger and the ABC model underlying Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy.

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    Ziegler, Daniel J; Smith, Phillip N

    2004-06-01

    The ABC model underlying Ellis's Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy predicts that people who think more irrationally should display greater trait anger than do people who think less irrationally. This study tested this prediction regarding the ABC model. 186 college students were administered the Survey of Personal Beliefs and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-Second Edition to measure irrational thinking and trait anger, respectively. Students who scored higher on Overall Irrational Thinking and Low Frustration Tolerance scored significantly higher on Trait Anger than did those who scored lower on Overall Irrational Thinking and Low Frustration Tolerance. This indicates support for the ABC model, especially Ellis's construct of irrational beliefs which is central to the model.

  16. A Guide to the Changing Court Rulings on Union Security in the Public Sector: A Union Perspective.

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    Darko, Richard J.; Knapp, Janet C.

    1985-01-01

    The Supreme Court in "Ellis vs. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks" has provided a systematic process for determining what constitutes union expenses properly charged to objecting nonmembers. (MLF)

  17. Speech-rhythm characteristics of client-centered, Gestalt, and rational-emotive therapy interviews.

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    Chen, C L

    1981-07-01

    The aim of this study was to discover whether client-centered, Gestalt, and rational-emotive psychotherapy interviews could be described and differentiated on the basis of quantitative measurement of their speech rhythms. These measures were taken from the sound portion of a film showing interviews by Carl Rogers, Frederick Perls, and Albert Ellis. The variables used were total session and percentage of speaking times, speaking turns, vocalizations, interruptions, inside and switching pauses, and speaking rates. The three types of interview had very distinctive patterns of speech-rhythm variables. These patterns suggested that Rogers's Client-centered therapy interview was patient dominated, that Ellis's rational-emotive therapy interview was therapist dominated, and that Perls's Gestalt therapy interview was neither therapist nor patient dominated.

  18. A Theoretical and Empirical Integration of the Rational-Emotive and Classical Conditioning Theories

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    Russell, Phillip L.; Brandsma, Jeffrey M.

    1974-01-01

    Galvanic skin conductance response, respiration rate and respiration depth values of an experimental and control group were used to test the hypotheses of a Albert Ellis' ABC Theory of psychopathology. (EK)

  19. Salivary gland biopsy

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    ... biopsy References Miloro M, Kolokythas A. Diagnosis and management of salivary gland disorders. In: Hupp JR, Ellis E, Tucker MR, eds. Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery . 6th ed. St Louis, ...

  20. 77 FR 23720 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License; Revocation

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    ..., 2012. Reason: Failed to maintain a valid bond. License Number: 019572N. Name: ENL Global, Inc. Address...: 022238NF. Name: Grimes Supply Chain Services, Inc. Address: 600 North Ellis Road, Jacksonville, FL 32254...

  1. Facilitation of receptive and productive foreign vocabulary learning using the keyword method: the role of image quality.

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    Beaton, Alan A; Gruneberg, Michael M; Hyde, Christopher; Shufflebottom, Alex; Sykes, Robert N

    2005-07-01

    Ellis and Beaton (1993a) reported that the keyword method of learning enhanced memory of foreign vocabulary items when receptive learning was measured. However, for productive learning, rote repetition was superior to the keyword method. The first two experiments reported here show that, in comparison with rote repetition, both receptive and productive learning can be enhanced by the keyword method, provided that the quality of the keyword images is adequate. In a third experiment using a subset of words from Ellis and Beaton (1993a), the finding they reported, that for productive learning rote repetition was superior to the keyword method, was reversed. The quality of keyword images will vary from study to study and any generalisation regarding the efficacy of the keyword method must take this into account.

  2. A test of the ABC model underlying rational emotive behavior therapy.

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    Ziegler, Daniel J; Leslie, Yvonne M

    2003-02-01

    The ABC model underlying Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy predicts that people who think more irrationally should respond to daily stressors or hassles differently than do people who think less irrationally. This study tested this aspect of the ABC model. 192 college students were administered the Survey of Personal Beliefs and the Hassles Scale to measure irrational thinking and daily hassles, respectively. Students who scored higher on overall irrational thinking reported a significantly higher frequency of hassles than did those who scored lower on overall irrational thinking, while students who scored higher on awfulizing and low frustration tolerance reported a significantly greater intensity of hassles than did those who scored lower on awfulizing and low frustration tolerance. This indicates support for the ABC model, especially Ellis's construct of irrational beliefs central to this model.

  3. Arbuthnot Lane.

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    Ellis, Harold

    2006-07-01

    As part of his series of articles exploring the lives of those behind great surgical innovations, Professor Harold Ellis looks at the work of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, who was responsible for pioneering many surgical techniques.

  4. Traversable intra-Universe wormholes and timeholes in General Relativity: two new solutions

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    Smirnov, Alexey L.

    2016-11-01

    Using thin shell formalism we construct two solutions of intra-Universe wormholes. The first model is a cosmological analog of the Aichelburg-Schein timehole, while another one is an intra-Universe form of the Bronnikov-Ellis solution.

  5. Personal Change and Intervention Style

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    Andrews, John D. W.

    1977-01-01

    Presents a theory of personal change and analyzes growth-producing interventions using examples from the film, "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy". Compares the styles of Carl Rogers, Frttz Perls, and Albert Ellis to illustrate the theory. (Editor/RK)

  6. 78 FR 37270 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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    ... (IA) Thomas M. Harris (MI) Paul M. Hinkson (TN) Ellie L. Murphree (AL) Michael P. Passmore (FL) Wendell S. Sehen (OH) Gary E. Valentine (OH) Kevin W. Van Arsdol (CO) Charles Van Dyke (WI) Harlon C. Van...

  7. An Emotional Control Card for Inappropriate and Appropriate Emotions in Using Rational-Emotive Imagery.

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    Ellis, Albert

    1986-01-01

    Examines the emotional control card techniques developed by Sklare, Taylor, and Hyland (1985) to help clients more effectively use the rational-emotive imagery technique of Ellis (1974). Suggests a revision of the emotional control card technique. (NB)

  8. The combination of Artemisia princeps Pamp, Leonurus japonicas Houtt, and Gardenia jasminoides Ellis fruit attenuates the exacerbation of energy, lipid, and glucose by increasing hepatic PGC-1α expression in estrogen-deficient rats.

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    Yang, Hye Jeong; Kim, Min Jung; Kwon, Dae Young; Moon, Bo Reum; Kim, A Reum; Kang, Suna; Park, Sunmin

    2016-05-23

    Artemisia princeps Pamp (APP), Leonurus japonicas Houtt (LJH), and Gardenia jasminoides Ellis fruit (GJE) have been traditionally used in East Asia to treat women's diseases related to reproductive system. They may attenuate the deterioration of energy, lipid, glucose and bone metabolism by estrogen deficiency. The present study explored the combination of APP, LJH, and GJE to overcome the symptoms of estrogen deficiency and the mechanism was explored. Ovariectomized (OVX) rats were divided into five groups and fed high-fat diets supplemented with 2 % dextrin (control), 2 % APP, 2 % APP + LJH (15:5), APP + LJH + GJE (10:5:5) or 17β-estradiol (30 μg/kg bw/day) for 8 weeks. After 8 weeks of their consumption, energy, lipid, glucose and bone metabolisms were investigated and hepatic insulin signaling and fatty acid metabolism were determined. APP + LJH + GJE, but not APP itself, improved energy metabolism and attenuated a decrease in energy expenditure by the same amount as estrogen. Moreover, APP + LJH + GJE reduced visceral fat and intramuscular fat and increased lean body mass measured by DEXA by as much as the positive-control. APP itself suppressed increased LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels in OVX rats and APP + LJH + GJE alleviated dyslipidemia in OVX rats. Overnight-fasted serum insulin levels and HOMA-IR were reduced in the descending order of APP, APP + LJH, APP + LJH + GJE, positive-control in OVX rats. APP and APP + LJH elevated insulin secretion in the 1st part of OGTT to decrease serum glucose levels while APP + LJH + GJE reduced serum glucose levels without increasing serum insulin levels during OGTT. APP + LJH + GJE decreased insulin resistance during ITT in OVX rats more than the positive-control. The APP + LJH + GJE group exhibited increased hepatic peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α expression, which increased the number of genes

  9. Review of 1990 Mobile-Source Emissions Modeling Procedure for the Dallas-Fort Worth Nonattainment Area

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    1999-08-01

    The Dallas-Fort Worth (D-FW) metropolitan area in Texas includes all of Collin, Dallas, Denton, Rockwell, and Tarrant Counties and portions of Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, and Parker Counties. The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), the ...

  10. 77 FR 17488 - Amendment to Proposed Collection: Comment Request Post-Award Reporting Requirements Including New...

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    2012-03-26

    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Amendment to Proposed Collection: Comment Request Post-Award Reporting Requirements Including New Research Performance Progress... Ellis, Director, Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration, Office of Extramural Research...

  11. Aeromagnetic maps of the Mazatzal Wilderness and contiguous roadless areas, Gila, Maricopa, and Yavapai counties, Arizona

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    Moss, C.K.; Abrams, G.A.

    1985-01-01

    Studies of the geology, geochemistry (Marsh and others, 1983a, b, Erickson, 1984), mines and prospects (Ellis, 1982), and mineral resource potential (Wrucke and others, 1983) of the Mazatzal Wilderness and contiguous roadless areas have been published elsewhere.

  12. Devices and Desires: Integrative Strategy Instruction from a Motivational Perspective.

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    Vauras, Marja; And Others

    1993-01-01

    This critique of Edwin Ellis's Integrative Strategy Instruction model comments that analyses are needed concerning the mutual social adaptations of differently disposed (cognitively, motivationally, and emotionally) students with learning disabilities and teachers within the social frames of learning environments. (JDD)

  13. A Guide to the Changing Court Rulings on Union Security in the Public Sector: An Introduction.

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    Jascourt, Hugh D.

    1985-01-01

    Introduces two articles that (1) supply the union and management perspectives of the Supreme Court decision in "Ellis vs. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks" and (2) discuss how this decision affects the public sector in the area of education. (MLF)

  14. Promises & Challenges. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Multimedia in Education & Industry (2nd, Savannah, Georgia, July 29-31, 1993).

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    Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia, Columbia, SC.

    This proceedings of the Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia 1993 conference includes the following papers: "Multimedia in Education and Training: 'Promises and Challenges'" (H. D. Ellis); "Critical Thinking in the Multimedia, Self-Paced English Classroom" (L. Mortensen); "Computer Assisted Instruction" (C.…

  15. The Potential Importance of Conservation, Restoration and Altered Management Practices for Water Quality in the Wabash River Watershed

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    The Potential Importance of Conservation, Restoration and Altered Management Practices for Water Quality in the Wabash River Watershed Guoxiang Yang1, Elly P.H. Best2, Staci Goodwin3 1 ORISE Postdoc Research Associate at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk...

  16. Interior detail, building 810, view to north showing curved chord ...

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    Interior detail, building 810, view to north showing curved chord sections of roof trusses, 90mm lens plus electronic flash fill lighting. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue & Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway V & W, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

  17. New distribution record for the rare limpet Acroloxus coloradensis (Henderson) (Gastropoda: Acroloxidae) from Montana

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    Hossack, Blake R.; Robert L. Newell,

    2013-01-01

    The Rocky Mountain Capshell, Acroloxus coloradensis (Henderson, 1930), the only North American member of the basommatophoran family Acroloxidae, is broadly distributed across southern Canada and south into the Rocky Mountains in the USA (Turgeon et al., 1998; Lee and Ackerman, 2000). Despite its wide geographic range, A. coloradensis has been documented from < 30 locations, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec (Lee and Ackerman, 2000; Anderson, 2005). Relict populations of A. coloradensis in the USA have been documented from only 6 sites in Colorado and 2 sites in Glacier National Park (Glacier NP), Montana (Anderson, 2005; Ellis et al., 2004). In Glacier NP, A. coloradensis was first reported from Lost Lake (Figure 1; Russell and Brunson, 1967). A second population in the park was discovered in Trout Lake in 2001 (Ellis et al., 2004). In both lakes, A. coloradensis was found primarily under rocks and other cover objects.

  18. Physics Textbooks Don't Always Tell the Truth

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    Franklin, Allan

    2016-04-01

    Anyone who studies the history of physics quickly realizes that the history presented in physics textbooks is often inaccurate. I will discuss three episodes from the history of modern physics: (1) Robert Millikan's experiments on the photoelectric effect, (2) the Michelson-Morley experiment, and (3) the Ellis-Wooster experiment on the energy spectrum in β decay. Everyone knows that Millikan's work established the photon theory of light and that the Michelson-Morley experiment was crucial in the genesis of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. The problem is that what everyone knows is wrong. Neither experiment played the role assigned to it by physics textbooks. The Ellis-Wooster experiment, on the other hand, is rarely discussed in physics texts, but it should be. It led to Wolfgang Pauli's suggestion of the neutrino. I will present a more accurate history of these three experiments than those given in physics texts.

  19. Effect of rational and irrational statements on intensity and 'inappropriateness' of emotional distress and irrational beliefs in psychotherapy patients.

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    Cramer, D; Kupshik, G

    1993-09-01

    Ellis's rational-emotive theory postulates that since irrational statements augment emotional distress, replacing irrational with rational statements should lessen distress. This hypothesis was tested in the initial stages of psychotherapy by having 13 and 14 clinical out-patients respectively repeat for one minute either rational or irrational statements about their major presenting psychological problem. The distinction by Ellis & Harper (1975) that 'inappropriate' emotions differ qualitatively from 'appropriate' emotions was also examined. Although the experimental intervention had no effect on a post-test measure of irrational beliefs, patients repeating rational statements had significantly lower appropriate and inappropriate negative emotions at post-test, suggesting that inappropriate emotions do not differ qualitatively from appropriate emotions and that making rational statements may lower emotional distress in patients. Patients reiterating irrational statements showed no change in emotions, implying that these kinds of irrational cognitions may have already been present.

  20. [Difficult fiberoptic tracheal intubation in 1 month-old infant with Treacher Collins Syndrome].

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    Fuentes, Ricardo; De la Cuadra, Juan Carlos; Lacassie, Hector; González, Alejandro

    Neonates and small infants with craniofacial malformation may be very difficult or impossible to mask ventilate or intubate. We would like to report the fiberoptic intubation of a small infant with Treacher Collins Syndrome using the technique described by Ellis et al. An one month-old infant with Treacher Collins Syndrome was scheduled for mandibular surgery under general endotracheal anesthesia. Direct laryngoscopy for oral intubation failed to reveal the glottis. Fiberoptic intubation using nasal approach and using oral approach through a 1.5 size laryngeal mask airway were performed; however, both approach failed because the fiberscope loaded with a one 3.5mm ID uncuffed tube was stuck inside the nasal cavity or inside the laryngeal mask airway respectively. Therefore, the laryngeal mask airway was keep in place and the fiberoptic intubation technique described by Ellis et al. was planned: the tracheal tube with the 15mm adapter removed was loaded proximally over the fiberscope; the fiberscope was advanced under video-screen visualization into the trachea; the laryngeal mask airway was removed, leaving the fiberscope in place; the tracheal tube was passed completely through the laryngeal mask airway and advanced down over the fiberscope into the trachea; the fiberscope was removed and the 15mm adapter was reattached to the tracheal tube. The fiberoptic intubation method through a laryngeal mask airway described by Ellis et al. can be successfully used in small infants with Treacher Collins Syndrome. Copyright © 2015 Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia. Publicado por Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.

  1. 76 FR 38414 - James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, Honolulu County, HI; Draft Comprehensive Conservation...

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    2011-06-30

    ...] James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, Honolulu County, HI; Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and...`iwa, HI 96712. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Ellis, Project Leader, (808) 637-6330...`ahu National Wildlife Refuge Complex, 66-590 Kamehameha Highway, Room 2C, Hale`iwa, HI 96712. The...

  2. Beyond Cumulative Risk: Distinguishing Harshness and Unpredictability as Determinants of Parenting and Early Life History Strategy

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    Belsky, Jay; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Ellis, Bruce J.

    2012-01-01

    Drawing on life history theory, Ellis and associates' (2009) recent across- and within-species analysis of ecological effects on reproductive development highlighted two fundamental dimensions of environmental variation and influence: harshness and unpredictability. To evaluate the unique contributions of these factors, the authors of present…

  3. A Synopsis of the Taxonomic Revisions in the Genus Ceratocystis Including a Review of Blue-Staining Species Associated with Dendroctonus Bark Beetles

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    Thelma J. Perry

    1991-01-01

    Taxonomic revisions in both the teleomorphic (sexual) and anamorphic (asexual) forms of the genus Ceratocystis Ellis & Halstead are chronicled in this review. Recognized species associated with Dendroctonus Erichson bark beetles are summarized, and several species that have been published as recombinations, species that were...

  4. 78 FR 52513 - Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board Membership

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    2013-08-23

    .... Anne L. Richards--Assistant Inspector General for Audits. Frank W. Deffer--Assistant Inspector General... General for Audit. Steven H. Rickrode, Jr.--Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit. Karen L. Ellis.... Kenneth P. Moorefield--Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans and Operations. James L. Pavlik...

  5. Gum biopsy

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    ... Hupp JR, Ellis E, Tucker MR, eds. Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery . 6th ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby; 2014: ... Wein RO, Weber RS. Malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity. In: Flint PW, ... & Neck Surgery . 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap ...

  6. 77 FR 39490 - Meeting of the Naval Research Advisory Committee

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    2012-07-03

    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Navy Meeting of the Naval Research Advisory Committee... Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) will meet August 20 through August 24 and August 27 through... INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William H. Ellis, Jr., Program Director, Naval Research Advisory Committee, 875 North...

  7. Interior detail, building 810, view to south showing operable door ...

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    Interior detail, building 810, view to south showing operable door sections to allow closure around aircraft fuselage section, 135 mm lens plus electronic flash lightening. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue & Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway V & W, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

  8. Great Facts for September.

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    Hansen, Karen L.

    1992-01-01

    Offers answers to questions on this issue's September calendar of events for elementary students. Items addressed include the Viking 2 spacecraft, children's poetry, Ellis Island, the space shuttle Discovery, space satellites and space junk, ice cream cones, Dr. Seuss, and the praying mantis. (SM)

  9. Camera Network Topology Discovery Literature Review

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    2011-11-01

    essential for 21st century military, enviromental and surveillance applications [Devarajan, Cheng & Radke 2008]. Computer networks pose several research...starting and ending points of object trajectories into entry/exit regions [Makris & Ellis 2003]. 3LDA is a new standard for document analysis. The model

  10. The Contribution of Domain-Specific Knowledge in Predicting Students' Proportional Word Problem Solving Performance

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    Jitendra, Asha K.; Lein, Amy E.; Star, Jon R.; Dupuis, Danielle N.

    2013-01-01

    Proportional thinking, which requires understanding fractions, ratios, and proportions, is an area of mathematics that is cognitively challenging for many children and adolescents (Fujimura, 2001; Lamon, 2007; Lobato, Ellis, Charles, & Zbiek, 2010; National Mathematics Advisory Panel [NMAP], 2008) and "transcends topical barriers in adult…

  11. Clients as Teachers.

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    Journal of Counseling and Development, 1988

    1988-01-01

    Contains eight accounts: "But Kids Don't Commit Suicide" (Sharon Andreozzi); "Learning from Multiplicity" (Kathryn Ellis); "Autonomy, Control, and Affiliation: Your Issues or Mine?" (Claudia Haferkamp); "Role Players" (Dennis Heitzmann); "Grief Counseling: Facilitating the Healing Process" (Rosemary Hughes); "Hospital Referral: A Test of Counselor…

  12. 75 FR 51832 - Kansas; Major Disaster and Related Determinations

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    ... determinations. DATES: Effective Date: August 10, 2010. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Miller, Recovery... Hazard Mitigation will be limited to 75 percent of the total eligible costs. Further, you are authorized... Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Doniphan, Ellis, Franklin, Greenwood, Harvey, Jewell...

  13. Indicators of Suicide Found on Social Networks: Phase 1

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    2015-10-07

    E. Ellis (Ed.), Cognition and Suicide: Theory, Research, and Therapy (pp. 355-368). American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: U.S...individual images, video and website links. • MySpace: A social networking website with an emphasis on music . • Post: Content published on a social

  14. 76 FR 43658 - Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee; Public Meetings

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    2011-07-21

    ... Areas Federal Advisory Committee; Public Meetings AGENCY: Department of Commerce, National Ocean Service... conference call of the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee (Committee). The web conference... are being given. Members of the public wishing to listen in should contact Denise Ellis-Hibbett at the...

  15. First report of powdery mildew caused by Podosphaera leucotricha on Callery pear in North America

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    Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S. Salmon (Ascomycetes, Erysiphales) is the etiological agent of a powdery mildew disease that occurs on rosaceous plants, primarily Malus and Pyrus. This fungus is nearly circumglobal. In May 2009, leaves of Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana Decne.), some di...

  16. Reported Knowledge and Management of Acute Low Back Pain by United States Army Nurse Practitioners as Compared to Clinical Practice Guidelines Published by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

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    1999-05-01

    learning theory is cited as the foundation for their proposed evidence - based medicine curriculum. The authors selected adult learning theory for this...North America, 22: 263-271. Green, M. & Ellis, P. (1997, December). Impact of an evidence - based medicine curriculum based on adult learning theory

  17. Screening of microbial volatile organic compounds for detection of disease in cattle: development of lab-scale method

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    The quest to find unique marker volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with human, livestock and wildlife diseases (Ellis et al., 2014) requires development of diagnostic non-invasive point-of-care tools and field surveillance technologies and strategies. The objective of this research was to ...

  18. A Guide to the Changing Court Rulings on Union Security in the Public Sector: A Management Perspective.

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    Clark, R. Theodore, Jr.

    1985-01-01

    In "Ellis vs. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks," the Supreme Court clarified the line between permissible and nonpermissible expenses and what procedures must be available to prevent compulsory subsidization of ideological activity by objecting employees. This article also describes the Court's decisions subsequent to…

  19. Moving Business and Marketing Education into the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Coast Business and Marketing Education Conference (17th, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 18-19, 2000).

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    Parke, David, Ed.

    This document contains 21 presentations from a conference on business and marketing education. The following papers are included: "Microsoft Excel 2000" (Jeff Fuller); "Clueless in the Classroom? Hints To Help!" (Mary W. Evans); "A Strategy To Improve Narrative-Number Linkage in Business Writing" (Ellis A. Hayes);…

  20. Rational Emotive Education

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    Knaus, William

    1977-01-01

    Rational Emotive Education--an outgrowth of theories developed by Albert Ellis--is a teaching design of mental health concepts and problem-solving activities designed to help students to approach and cope with their problems through experiential learning, via a structured, thematic sequence of emotive education lessons. (MJB)

  1. Apollo Saturn V Height Comparison to Statue of Liberty

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    1967-01-01

    This 1967 illustration compares the Apollo Saturn V Spacecraft of the Moon Landing era to the Statue of Liberty located on Ellis Island in New York City. The Apollo Saturn V, at 363 feet towers above Lady Liberty, as the statue is called, standing at 305 feet.

  2. Smart Books: Thinking with a Purpose Across the Curriculum. Media Corner.

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    Coleman, Rhoda, Ed.

    1995-01-01

    Presents reviews of four CD-ROM products developed by Scholastic Books, Inc. Maintains that each of the programs makes extensive use of primary sources and heighten student interest. Discusses products that cover Greek mythology, the sinking of the "Titanic," Malcolm X, and immigrants at Ellis Island. (CFR)

  3. Polarization Effects in the Luminescence of Cadmium Selenide Electrodes.

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    1983-09-29

    UWIS/DC/TR-83/3 Polarization Effects in the Luminescence of Cadmium Selenide Electrodes by Holger H. Streckert, Hal Van Ryswyk, Richard N. Biagioni ...Streckert, Hal Van Ryswyk, N00014-78-C-0633 Richard N. Biagioni and Arthur B. Ellis 9PEFRIGOGNZTNNAEADADDRESS 10. PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT, TASKS

  4. 76 FR 67056 - Amendment of Class E Airspace; Jacksonville, NC

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    ... management of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations within the National Airspace System. This action also makes a minor adjustment to the geographic coordinates of the airport. DATES: Effective 0901 UTC..., the FAA found that the geographic coordinates for Albert J. Ellis Airport needed to be adjusted. This...

  5. Beyond Borders: Reading "Other" Places in Children's Literature

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    Stewart, Susan Louise

    2008-01-01

    The author analyzes two texts, Gloria Whelan's "Homeless Bird" and Deborah Ellis's "Parvana's Journey", in an attempt to explain some of the problems and difficulties associated with those texts. The author examines Whelan's representations of India and finds troubling binaries associated with that text. In comparison, the…

  6. Health Instruction Packages: Injections.

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    Dunkleman, Ellie; And Others

    Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in this set of four learning modules designed to instruct nursing students in techniques and equipment utilized for intramuscular injections. The first module, "Equipment for Intramuscular Injections" by Ellie Dunkleman, presents guidelines for selecting needles of the proper length and…

  7. Biodegradation of RDX by Stimulating Humic Substance- and Fe(III) - Reduction

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    2007-06-19

    Sediments with Quinones and Humus as Terminal Electron Acceptors. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:4471-4478. 10. Coates, J. D., D. J. Ellis, E. L...167. 57. Stevenson, F. J. 1982. Humus chemistry genesis, composition, reactions. Wiley Interscience, New York. 58. Stolz, J. F., D. R. Lovley, and

  8. Rangelands: Where anthromes meet their limits

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    Defining rangelands as anthromes enabled Ellis and Ramankutty (2008) to conclude that more than three-quarters of Earth’s land is anthropogenic; without rangelands, this figure would have been less than half. They classified all lands grazed by domestic livestock as rangelands, provided that human p...

  9. Urban Ecosystems Research Joins Mainstream Ecology

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    We appreciate the heightened awareness that Zoë Corbyn’s article brings about the ostensible dearth of urban ecology studies and we laud the efforts of Martin, Ellis, and Blossey to quantify urban research efforts (“Ecologists shun the urban jungle”, online 16 July 2010; http://w...

  10. Quality Assurance for University Teaching.

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    Ellis, Roger, Ed.

    This book, written from a British perspective, presents 17 papers on quality assurance in teaching at the university level. The first eight papers address issues of assuring quality and include: (1) "Quality Assurance for University Teaching; Issues and Approaches" (Roger Ellis); (2) "A British Standard for University…

  11. Genetics Home Reference: Weyers acrofacial dysostosis

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    ... Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome Resource list from the University of Kansas Medical Center: Dwarfism / Short Stature Scientific Articles on PubMed (1 link) PubMed OMIM (1 link) WEYERS ACROFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS Sources for This Page Howard TD, Guttmacher AE, McKinnon W, Sharma M, McKusick ...

  12. Jessica Ann Ellis Gold Star Fathers Act of 2010

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    2010-07-26

    Senate - 12/17/2010 By Senator Lieberman from Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs filed written report. Report No. 111-374. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status Passed SenateHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  13. Edward Lawrence Powers, Jr. December 30, 1915 - August 1, 2005; In Memorium: "It is only needed to say that he was a man ahead of his time, a man who led radiation research in all that he did." Michael G. Simic, Ph.D., D.Sc.; August, 2005

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    2005-01-01

    Larry Powers was a man of commitment: to roots, family, science, and large appetites. He grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, during the Great Depression that defined his remarkable work ethic and value for contribution. He graduated from the municipal College of Charleston in 1938 with majors in biology, chemistry, and mathematics. That same year, he married his wife Elly of Charleston, with whom he had seven daughters by the early years of his eras of discovery in 1959. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the College of Charleston in 1974, and retired there with Elly in 1987 as a Professor in Residence. Having obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in genetics and protozoology (1941), and having begun his professional career at the University of Notre Dame (Instructor and Assistant Professor, 1941-1945), Larry was often heard to comment on traditions of excellence in education and football, with adamant priority given to the first but without allowance for failure in the second.

  14. 75 FR 78606 - Changes in Flood Elevation Determinations

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    ... 24, 2010, Murphy, Mayor, Monroe (10-04-5258P)........ Key West Citizen. County, 1100 Simonton Street, Key West, FL 33040. Georgia: DeKalb Unincorporated areas September 9, 2010, Mr. W. Burrell Ellis, Jr...)........ September 23, 2010, McNally, Mayor, City of Westminster Window. Westminster, 4800 West 92nd Avenue...

  15. Tongue biopsy

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    ... Hupp JR, Ellis E, Tucker MR, eds. Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery . 6th ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby; 2014:chap 22. McNamara MJ. Other solid tumors. In: Benjamin IJ, Griggs RC, Wing EJ, Fitz JG, eds. Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil ... Tongue Disorders Read more A. ...

  16. Direct Instruction in Second Language Acquisition: A Critical Review of Related Literature

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    Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla

    2017-01-01

    Second Language Acquisition (SLA), as a sub-discipline in applied linguistics, is rapidly growing and changing (Ellis & Shintani, 2014). As such, it has yielded stirring issues on both naturalistic and instructed settings causing reviews and/or investigations by language researchers. This paper accordingly serves as a humble attempt at…

  17. Airport Activity Statistics of Certificated Route Air Carriers, 1992

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    1992-12-31

    PERWFE STATE ON US. AREA TYPE OF DEPARTURES CO CARR OPERAllON" AMCRT S UN A SHEDULEDAIMPMF mN SNAMUU SW SCHEOUUED NEW YOK- CAMu NEW YORK--C•n•tnw (LA...20,727 21 20.748 21,163 JACKSWONVILLECAMP LEJEUNE ( ALBERT J ELLIS) ......................................... US--U.S. AIR

  18. Why Is It Difficult to Grasp the Impacts of the Portuguese Quality Assurance System?

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    Veiga, Amélia; Rosa, Maria João; Dias, Diana; Amaral, Alberto

    2013-01-01

    This article analyses the impacts of the Portuguese quality assurance system on academic cultures, using the Cultural Theory proposed by Douglas (1970, 1982) and developed by Thompson, Ellis and Wildavsky (1990) as an explanatory framework for Portuguese academics' preference formation in relation to quality assessment. The Portuguese higher…

  19. Pre-Emption and Precedent: The Significance of Iraq (1981) and Syria (2007) for an Israeli Response to an Iranian Nuclear Threat

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    2011-06-10

    x CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ...79 1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background You don‘t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic...Elli_Louka_Nuclear_Weapons_Proliferation.pdf (accessed 15 April 2011). 8 This study consists of five chapters. Chapter 1, ― Introduction ‖ announces the topic and describes its

  20. Alleviating Communication Apprehension through Rational Emotive Therapy: A Comparative Evaluation.

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    Watson, Arden K.; Dodd, Carley H.

    Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), which assumes that a person can change an emotional disturbance by discovering and disputing the irrational ideas giving rise to that emotion, has been used effectively in treating public speaking anxiety. To compare RET with other treatments for communication apprehension, 52 high communication…

  1. Exploring the Potential of Rehearsal via Automatized Structured Tasks versus Face-to-Face Pair Work to Facilitate Pragmatic and Oral Development

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    Sydorenko, Tetyana V.

    2011-01-01

    Past research has uncovered ways to improve communicative competence, including task-based learner-learner interaction (e.g., R. Ellis, 2003) and task planning (e.g., Mochizuki and Ortega, 2008). Teacher-guided planning particularly increases the benefits of learner-learner interaction (Foster and Skehan, 1999). One component of communicative…

  2. Multidimensional Perception of Counselor Behavior

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    Barak, Azy; LaCrosse, Michael B.

    1975-01-01

    Investigated Strong's prediction of the existence of three dimensions of perceived counselor behavior--expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Films of interviews given by Rogers, Ellis, and Perls were watched by 202 subjects, who rated each counselor on 36 bipolar scales. Results supported the existence of the hypothesized dimensions for…

  3. Motivating the Gifted, Talented, Creative. A Meta-Analysis.

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    Shaughnessy, Michael F.

    The main theories of motivation are reviewed in an effort to help teachers discern various tactics and techniques that they can use with gifted, talented, and creative students. Among the theories examined are Ivan Pavlov's respondent conditioning; Albert Ellis's rational-emotive approach; Abraham Maslow's triangular approach to growth and…

  4. The Experience of Daily Hassles, Cardiovascular Reactivity and Adolescent Risk Taking and Self-Esteem

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    Vermeersch, Hans; T'Sjoen, Guy; Kaufman, Jean-Marc; Vincke, John; Bracke, Piet

    2010-01-01

    Based on Boyce and Ellis's model on "context" and "biological sensitivity to the context", this article analyzes the interaction between the experience of daily hassles and experimentally induced cardiovascular reactivity as an indicator of stress reactivity, in explaining risk taking and self-esteem. This study found, in a…

  5. Prescriptions: Hyperrealism and the Chemical Regulation of Mood

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    Bleakley, Alan; Jolly, Margaretta

    2012-01-01

    Using contemporary literary sources, we explore the powerful ideological framework that normalises prescription dependency as part of everyday life, focusing upon the treatment of mood disorders. Through a literary critical methodology, we read novels by American hyperrealists such as Bret Easton Ellis, David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody as…

  6. Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multidisciplinary Study of Academic Researchers

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    Ge, Xuemei

    2010-01-01

    This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities. It examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking behavior for social scientists, which includes six characteristics:…

  7. Pedagogical Effectiveness and Feasibility of Focus on Form vs. Focus on Meaning in a Reading Class: Compatibility of Teacher-Learner's Perspectives

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    Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Pooshaneh, Leila

    2015-01-01

    Many empirical investigations have demonstrated that explicit Focus on Form (FOF) methods are more effective than implicit Focus on Meaning (FOM) methods (Norris & Ortega, 2000), because in FOF instruction learners' attention is drawn to linguistic form while FOM instruction requires learners' attention to communicate (Ellis, 2001). However,…

  8. Developing Researcherly Dispositions in an Initial Teacher Education Context: Successes and Dilemmas

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    Roche, Mary

    2014-01-01

    Douglas and Ellis (2011, p. 175) suggest that institutionally universities and schools are required to work with different conceptual tool-kits. Seeking to minimise the potential standoff between academic and practitioner knowledge, and, therefore, to enhance the learning of student teachers, means, they suggest, rethinking both the social…

  9. Examining the Concept of Subordination in Spoken L1 and L2 English: The Case of "If"-Clauses

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    Basterrechea, María; Weinert, Regina

    2017-01-01

    This article explores the applications of research on native spoken language into second language learning in the concept of subordination. Second language (L2) learners' ability to integrate subordinate clauses is considered an indication of higher proficiency (e.g., Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005; Tarone & Swierzbin, 2009). However, the notion…

  10. Rational Emotive Education and the Developmental Stages of Jean Piaget.

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    Lang, Janet M.

    Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) is predicated on a theory of causality. According to Ellis (1962), beliefs regarding an event, and not the event itself, cause emotional reactions. Mentally healthy persons practice this reational theory of causality. Neurotic persons accept an irrational theory of causality based on coincidental or correlational…

  11. School-Based Support for GLBT Students: A Review of Three Levels of Research

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    Hansen, Anastasia L.

    2007-01-01

    Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students experience harassment, alienation, and violence in schools. Several school-based interventions have been suggested to provide a safe and effective learning environment for these students, but few have been evaluated or investigated experimentally. This review utilizes A. K. Ellis' (2001)…

  12. Possibilities and Challenges of Learning German in a Multimodal Environment: A Case Study

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    Abrams, Zsuzsanna Ittzes

    2016-01-01

    Despite a growing body of research on task-based language learning (TBLT) (Samuda & Bygate, 2008; Ellis, 2003), there is still little information available regarding the pedagogical design behind tasks and how they are implemented (Samuda & Bygate, 2008). Scholars in computer-mediated second language (L2) learning have called for research…

  13. Case Study of a Computer Based Examination System

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    Fluck, Andrew; Pullen, Darren; Harper, Colleen

    2009-01-01

    Electronic supported assessment or e-Assessment is a field of growing importance, but it has yet to make a significant impact in the Australian higher education sector (Byrnes & Ellis, 2006). Current computer based assessment models focus on the assessment of knowledge rather than deeper understandings, using multiple choice type questions,…

  14. From Michel Foucault to Mario Puzo: Using an Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand Urban Immigration Then and Now

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    Pecorella, Robert F.

    2016-01-01

    This article reports on the efforts of a political science professor teaching a multidisciplinary course focused on New York City to develop an interdisciplinary class project designed to lead students to an appreciation of the immigrant experience in the United States "From Ellis Island to JFK" (Foner, 2000). The particular…

  15. Teaching High-Value Pronunciation Features: Contrastive Stress for Intermediate Learners

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    Levis, John M.; Levis, Greta Muller

    2018-01-01

    Pronunciation features are not equal in how they affect listeners' ability to understand. Some are low value, while others are high value. This study explores whether contrastive stress is high value. Previous research has shown that identification of contrastive stress is learnable (Pennington & Ellis, 2000), and that explicit teaching about…

  16. A Case Study of Struggle and Success: Profiling a Third Grader's Reading and Writing in a Multimodal Curriculum

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    Wiseman, Angela M.; Pendleton, Melissa; Christiansen, Christine; Nesheim, Nicole

    2017-01-01

    This article reports findings on a case study of Ellie as she participates in a language arts curriculum that incorporates multimodal literacy practices--including photography, drama, and art--to teach reading and writing. Our study was informed by the theoretical framework of multimodal social semiotics, which provides insight into how…

  17. Wotan’s Workshop: Military Experiments Before WW II

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    2005-12-01

    game were officers (Naval and otherwise), his game was in large part a social affair and the players were a co-ed group of writers, socialites , and...America would retake the islands, and higher-ups in the Corps (perhaps having inter-Service politics in view) agreed. Ellis met his mysterious end

  18. Planned and Unplanned Aspects of Occupational Choices by Youth. Final Report.

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    Ellis, Robert A.; And Others

    This document includes reports on four subjects relevant to planned and unplanned aspects of occupational choices by youth. (1) "Toward a Morphology of Occupational Choice," by Robert A. Ellis and others, discusses intrinsic features and extrinsic rewards of work, extra-role considerations, and goal perception as major influences on occupational…

  19. Common Threads: Teaching Immigration in Elementary Classrooms.

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    McBee, Robin Haskell; Bone, Kristine; Mossop, Gail; Owens, Carrie

    1998-01-01

    Brings together ideas on teaching about immigration from a number of elementary-school teachers in New Jersey and summarizes common themes. Outlines three specific projects based on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, family history, and children's fiction. Includes a brief list of children's literature and other teaching resources. (DSK)

  20. Evolution, Stress, and Sensitive Periods: The Influence of Unpredictability in Early versus Late Childhood on Sex and Risky Behavior

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    Simpson, Jeffry A.; Griskevicius, Vladas; Kuo, Sally I-Chun; Sung, Sooyeon; Collins, W. Andrew

    2012-01-01

    According to a recent evolutionary life history model of development proposed by Ellis, Figueredo, Brumbach, and Schlomer (2009), growing up in harsh versus unpredictable environments should have unique effects on life history strategies in adulthood. Using data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation, we tested how harshness…

  1. The Linguistically Aware Teacher and the Teacher-Aware Linguist

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    McCartney, Elspeth; Ellis, Sue

    2013-01-01

    This review evaluates issues of teacher linguistic knowledge relating to their work with children with speech, language and communication difficulties (SLCD). Information is from Ellis and McCartney [(2011a). "Applied linguistics and primary school teaching." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], a state-of-the-art text deriving from a British…

  2. Impact of Consciousness-Raising Activities on Young English Language Learners' Grammar Performance

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    Fatemipour, Hamidreza; Hemmati, Shiva

    2015-01-01

    Grammar Consciousness-Raising (GCR) is an approach to teaching of grammar which learners instead of being taught the given rules, experience language data. The data challenge them to rethink, restructure their existing mental grammar and construct an explicit rule to describe the grammatical feature which the data illustrate (Ellis, 2002). And…

  3. Reconsidering Metaphorical Performance of EFL Learners with a Focus on Their Cognitive Features

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    Soureshjani, Kamal Heidari; Safikhani, Arezoo

    2012-01-01

    Metaphoric language and understanding such a language have been of central concern in not only private language schools for intermediate and advanced learners, but in universities for students whose major is English. Besides, as Ellis (1994) maintains, various individual differences have an effect on students' performance and learning. One of the…

  4. School Counselor Supervisors' Perceptions of the Discrimination Model of Supervision

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    Luke, Melissa; Ellis, Michael V.; Bernard, Janine M.

    2011-01-01

    The authors examined 38 school counselor supervisors' perceptions of the Discrimination Model (DM; Bernard, 1979, 1997) of supervision, replicating and extending Ellis and Dell's (1986) investigation of the DM with mental health counselor supervisors. Participants judged the dissimilarity of each unique combination of roles and foci of the DM. The…

  5. 78 FR 3470 - DTE Electric Company (Formerly the Detroit Edison Company), Notice of Availability of Final...

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    ...--specific Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/fermi.html . The Ellis Library and... possesses and are publicly-available, using any of the following methods: Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to... Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the...

  6. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with Troubled Students.

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    Zionts, Paul; Zionts, Laura

    1997-01-01

    Based on the early work of Albert Ellis, seeks to identify and challenge irrational beliefs that underlie behavior problems. Outlines concepts and methods of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and describes the application both in counseling and as a mental health curriculum for troubled children and youth. Offers classroom techniques. (RJM)

  7. If You Want to Feel Better--Try Thinking Better.

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    Rogers, George W., Jr.

    This article briefly describes Rational Emotive or Rational Behavior Therapy. Some historical data is given regarding its developer, Dr. Albert Ellis, and his beliefs. In addition the following rational concepts are examined: (1) the anatomy of an emotion; (2) the characteristics of rational thoughts; and (3) the rational self-analysis of…

  8. Fostering Emotional Adjustment among Nigerian Adolescents with Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

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    Adomeh, Ilu O. C.

    2006-01-01

    This study examined the efficacy of Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in fostering emotional adjustment among Nigerian adolescents. Fifty senior secondary school students were randomly selected and divided equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was treated with REBT twice a week for six weeks.…

  9. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Origins, Constructs, and Applications.

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    Watson, Joshua C.

    In 1956, Dr. Albert Ellis presented his seminal work on Rational Therapy, subsequently renamed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in 1993. This paper explores the origins, theoretical foundations, applications, and implications of REBT and provides a look at the empirical research available in support of the approach's efficacy. REBT is…

  10. The Impact of an Institutional Black Male Leadership Initiative on Engagement and Persistence

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    Barker, Marco J.; Avery, Jared C.

    2012-01-01

    While there has been growing research that explores the impact of race- and cultural-specific student organizations or spaces on Black students and particularly Black males (Dancy, 2011; Harper & Quaye, 2007; McClure, 2006; Museus, 2008; L. Patton, 2006), there have been fewer studies (Ellis, 2009) examining emerging, institutionalized Black…

  11. Undergraduate Physical Education Programs: Issues and Approaches.

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    Lawson, Hal A., Ed.

    Papers presented at the National Professional Preparation Conference in Physical Education were revised and expanded for publication in this monograph. In part I, two papers, "Professional Preparation Conferences: One More Time" (W. G. Anderson) and "Current Context and Future Curriculum" (M. J. Ellis), set the stage for a presentation of…

  12. Point of Entry

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    Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy

    2007-01-01

    As part of a professional development program organized by the Save Ellis Island Foundation, the exhibits, databases, photo archives, and recorded interviews at the island's museum helps put the nation's current immigration debate into a broader historical context. Teachers at these sessions learn from scholars and park personnel about early…

  13. How Vietnamese Culture Influence on Learning and Teaching English

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    Huong, Phan Thi Thu

    2008-01-01

    Vietnamese has to face a cross-culture issue with the teaching and learning of English as Vietnamese culture is "villagers' culture" which considers relationships in village as family relations and an emphasis "on hierarchical, social order in their dealings with one another" (Ellis, 1995: 9) with a traditional teaching method…

  14. Adaptive Calibration of Children's Physiological Responses to Family Stress: The Utility of Evolutionary Developmental Theory--Comment on Del Giudice et al. (2012) and Sturge-Apple et al. (2012)

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    Bugental, Daphne Blunt

    2012-01-01

    Children's physiological reactions to stress are presented from the broader theoretical perspective of adaptive calibration to the environment, as rooted in life history theory. Del Giudice, Hinnant, Ellis, and El-Sheikh (2012) focus on children's physiological responses to a stressful task as a consequence of their history of family stress.…

  15. Cognition and Rationality.

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    Shaughnessy, Michael F.

    This paper reviews the main research in the area of human reasoning and rational thinking to determine if man is either an "innately inefficient thinking machine" or if man's irrationality is "rooted in basic human nature," as Ellis (1976) suggests. The paper focuses on the work of two English theorists, Wason and…

  16. Learning Style and Task Performance in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: A Case Study of Iranian EFL Learners

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    Hedayati, Mohsen; Foomani, Elham Mohammadi

    2015-01-01

    The study reported here explores whether English as a foreign Language (EFL) learners' preferred ways of learning (i.e., learning styles) affect their task performance in computer-mediated communication (CMC). As Ellis (2010) points out, while the increasing use of different sorts of technology is witnessed in language learning contexts, it is…

  17. 75 FR 22179 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Renewals; Vision

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    ... Federal vision exemptions for Alberto Blanco, Michael B. Canedy, Larry A. Cossin, Charles W. Cox, Gary W. Ellis, Dennis J. Evers, Hector O. Flores, W. Roger Goold, Lee Guse, Steven W. Halsey, Clifford J. Harris, John C. Henricks, Thomas M. Leadbitter, John L. Lewis, Jonathan P. Lovel, Kent S. Reining, Enrique G...

  18. 7 CFR 301.80-2a - Regulated areas; generally infested and suppressive areas.

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    2012-01-01

    ...., farm located on a field road 0.25 mile northwest of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1719 and 0.2 mile west of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1797. Cumberland County. That area... mile south of Interstate 95 on State Secondary Road 2252. The Jackson, Ellis, farm located on the west...

  19. 7 CFR 301.80-2a - Regulated areas; generally infested and suppressive areas.

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    ...., farm located on a field road 0.25 mile northwest of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1719 and 0.2 mile west of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1797. Cumberland County. That area... mile south of Interstate 95 on State Secondary Road 2252. The Jackson, Ellis, farm located on the west...

  20. 7 CFR 301.80-2a - Regulated areas; generally infested and suppressive areas.

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    2011-01-01

    ...., farm located on a field road 0.25 mile northwest of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1719 and 0.2 mile west of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1797. Cumberland County. That area... mile south of Interstate 95 on State Secondary Road 2252. The Jackson, Ellis, farm located on the west...

  1. 7 CFR 301.80-2a - Regulated areas; generally infested and suppressive areas.

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    2014-01-01

    ...., farm located on a field road 0.25 mile northwest of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1719 and 0.2 mile west of its intersection with State Secondary Road 1797. Cumberland County. That area... mile south of Interstate 95 on State Secondary Road 2252. The Jackson, Ellis, farm located on the west...

  2. Gender Similarities in Math Performance from Middle School through High School

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    Scafidi, Tony; Bui, Khanh

    2010-01-01

    Using data from 10 states, Hyde, Lindberg, Linn, Ellis, and Williams (2008) found gender similarities in performance on standardized math tests. The present study attempted to replicate this finding with national data and to extend it by examining whether gender similarities in math performance are moderated by race, socioeconomic status, or math…

  3. A Simulation Tool for Distributed Databases.

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    1981-09-01

    11-8 . Reed’s multiversion system [RE1T8] may also be viewed aa updating only copies until the commit is made. The decision to make the changes...distributed voting, and Ellis’ ring algorithm. Other, significantly different algorithms not covered in his work include Reed’s multiversion algorithm, the

  4. The Effect of Teachers' Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) Types on Intermediate EFL Learners' Writing Performance

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    Aghajanloo, Khadijeh; Mobini, Fariba; Khosravi, Robab

    2016-01-01

    Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) is a controversial topic among theorists and researchers in L2 studies. Ellis, Sheen, Murakami, and Takashima (2008) identify two dominant dichotomies in this regard, that is focused vs. unfocused WCF and direct vs. indirect WCF. This study considered both dichotomies in a matrix format, resulted in the…

  5. The Fight over Screening Students to Prevent Suicide

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    Ashford, Ellie

    2005-01-01

    An article by Ellie Ashford condensed from School Board News (Jun 28, 2005) is presented in this article. Proponents of mental health screening point to stories to illustrate the benefits of screening seemingly healthy teenagers. Yet, opposition to mental health screening is growing, with one school health expert calling it "as controversial…

  6. Effects of Pretask Modeling on Attention to Form and Question Development

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    Kim, YouJin

    2013-01-01

    Over the last two decades, a growing body of research has shown positive impacts for task planning in task-based instruction (e.g., Ellis, 2005; Foster & Skehan, 1996). However, what learners plan during pretask planning, and whether any specific planning strategies are more beneficial in encouraging learners to attend to linguistic forms and…

  7. The Relationship between Supervisors' Power Bases and Supervisory Styles

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    Tanaka, Hideyuki

    2009-01-01

    Despite its critical role in counselor training, empirical research on clinical supervision is generally limited (Bernard & Goodyear, 2003; Ellis & Ladany, 2007). This is also applied to an area of power dynamics in supervision. This study tested the relationship between the two aspects of power dynamics; namely, supervisors' power bases (i.e.,…

  8. Understanding Proportional Reasoning in Pre-Service Teachers

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    Johnson, Kim H.

    2013-01-01

    The purpose of this study is to examine the proportional reasoning of pre-service teachers at the beginning of their teacher preparation program using the developmental shifts described by Lobato and Ellis (2010). They cast changes in proportional reasoning as transitions or "shifts" in students' thinking and these shifts can serve as…

  9. Categories of Counselors Behavior as Defined from Cross-Validated Factoral Descriptions.

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    Zimmer, Jules M.; And Others

    The intent of the study was to explore and categorize counselor responses. Three separate filmed presentations were shown. Participating with the same client were Albert Ellis, Frederick Perls, and Carl Rogers. At the beginning of each counselor statement, a number was inserted in sequence and remained on the videotape until completion of that…

  10. An Attempt to Elaborate a Construct to Measure the Degree of Explicitness and Implicitness in ELT Materials

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    Criado Sanchez, Raquel; Perez, Aquilino Sanchez; Gomez, Pascual Cantos

    2010-01-01

    The concepts of "explicit" and "implicit" (knowledge) are at the core of SLA studies. We take "explicit" as conscious and declarative (knowledge); "implicit" as unconscious, automatic and procedural (knowledge) (DeKeyser, 2003; R. Ellis, 2005a, 2005b, 2009; Hulstjin, 2005; Robinson, 1996; Schmidt, 1990, 1994). The importance of those concepts and…

  11. Test-Taking Strategy as a Mediator between Race and Academic Performance

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    Dollinger, Stephen J.; Clark, M. H.

    2012-01-01

    The issue of race differences in standardized test scores and academic achievement continues to be a vexing one for behavioral scientists and society at large. Ellis and Ryan (2003) suggested that a portion of the cognitive-ability test performance differences between White/Caucasian-American and Black/African-American college students could be…

  12. A Voice from the Past: Catharine Beecher's Response to Simone de Beauvoir

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    Murphy, Madonna M.

    2002-01-01

    Charlesetta Ellis, President of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society (2002-2004) gave the Presidential Address at the 2002 MPES Annual Meeting, November 8, 2002 at Chicago State University regarding the important contributions made by Simone de Beauvoir to education and especially the education of women. This paper is a response to the…

  13. Critical Thinking and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

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    Hatcher, Donald; Brown, Tony; Gariglietti, Kelli P.

    2001-01-01

    Notes limitations of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Suggests that should these weaknesses be addressed, teachers of critical thinking would do well to incorporate REBT into their critical thinking courses. Relates that A. Ellis has suggested that the future of REBT is in integrating it into the educational curriculum as a way of…

  14. Participatory Formative Assessment in an Environment of High-Stakes Testing: An Autoethnography

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    Johnson, Karin Pogna

    2011-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to describe my experiences as a campus principal in facilitating the use of participatory formative assessment (PFA) in an environment of accountability and high-stakes testing. The methodology I employed was autoethnography (Chang, 2008; Ellis, 2004; Reed-Danahay, 1997; Stinson, 2009). I kept journals over a period…

  15. Effects of Task Planning and Rhetorical Mode of Writing on Lexical Complexity, Syntactic Complexity, and Overall Writing Quality of EFL Writers' Task Performance

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    Yildiz, Mine; Yesilyurt, Savas

    2017-01-01

    Based on Robinson's Triadic Componential Framework and the definition of task planning by Ellis (2005), this study was carried out to find out the effects of task planning and rhetorical mode on lexical and syntactic complexity, and overall writing quality of writing production of EFL learners. Following a repeated-measures design, the present…

  16. Learned Attention in Adult Language Acquisition: A Replication and Generalization Study and Meta-Analysis

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    Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria

    2011-01-01

    This study investigates associative learning explanations of the limited attainment of adult compared to child language acquisition in terms of learned attention to cues. It replicates and extends Ellis and Sagarra (2010) in demonstrating short- and long-term learned attention in the acquisition of temporal reference in Latin. In Experiment 1,…

  17. Collaborative Planning in Process: An Ethnomethodological Perspective

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    Lee, Josephine; Burch, Alfred Rue

    2017-01-01

    Following Ellis's (2005) call for more social and process-oriented planning research, this study explores how learners approach collaborative planning tasks in the classroom as a locally contingent activity in situ. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the present study focuses on a group planning stage that precedes the final…

  18. Theories of Counseling: Their Relevancy to Non-Traditional Students.

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    Gutierrez, George A.

    This report presents theories in counseling not merely as abstract thoughts, but as beliefs and proposed procedures to follow in helping a client when he/she has difficulties coping with life. Four main counseling theories are then described: (1) Client-Centered Counseling (Carl Rogers); (2) Rational-Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis); (3) Reality…

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  20. Second Language Learners' Contiguous and Discontiguous Multi-Word Unit Use over Time

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    Yuldashev, Aziz; Fernandez, Julieta; Thorne, Steven L.

    2013-01-01

    Research has described the key role of formulaic language use in both written and spoken communication (Schmitt, 2004; Wray, 2002), as well as in relation to L2 learning (Ellis, Simpson--Vlach, & Maynard, 2008). Relatively few studies have examined related fixed and semi-fixed multi-word units (MWUs), which comprise fixed parts with the potential…

  1. Democratizing Academic Writing: A Revision of an Experience of Writing an Autoethnographic Dissertation in Color

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    Polanco, Marcela

    2013-01-01

    In this paper, I revise my experience of writing an autoethnographic (Ellis, 2004) dissertation in the field of family therapy as a Colombian mestiza. I discuss how I grappled with my writing, and, in the process, stumbled into matters of democratizing texts. I problematize male-dominant academic standards, telling of the tensions when maneuvering…

  2. Assessing Students' Reflective Responses to Chemistry-related Learning Tasks

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    Tan, Kok Siang; Goh, Ngoh Khang

    2008-01-01

    Key to renewed concern on the affective domain of education (Fensham, 2007) and on school graduates' readiness for a world of work (DEST, 2008; WDA, 2006) is the student's inclination-to-reflect when engaged in a learning or problem-solving task. Reflective learning is not new to education (Dewey, 1933; Ellis, 2001). Since the…

  3. A Gift for the Giver: Helping Miss Liberty.

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    Wright, Corinne

    1986-01-01

    This article describes the activities of a secondary social studies teacher as she involved her class--and eventually the entire school--in activities to support the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The students raised over $1,000 by producing an ethnic foods cookbook, holding a raffle, and selling buttons. (JDH)

  4. On Application of the Ostwald-de Waele Model to Description of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow in the Nip of Counter-Rotating Rolls

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    Shapovalov, V. M.

    2018-05-01

    The accuracy of the Ostwald-de Waele model in solving the problem of roll flow has been assessed by comparing with the "reference" solution for an Ellis fluid. As a result of the analysis, it has been shown that the model based on a power-law equation leads to substantial distortions of the flow pattern.

  5. Autoethnography as a Methodological Approach in Adult Vocational Education and Technology

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    Grenier, Robin S.

    2016-01-01

    Autoethnography is a form of qualitative inquiry intended to connect the lived experience of a researcher to the larger social and cultural world (Ellis, 2004) and it can be a valuable methodological tool for adult educators and learners. This paper explores the use and value of autoethnography as a qualitative methodology and explores the…

  6. The Intimate Correlation of Invitational Education and Effective Classroom Management

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    Riner, Phillip S.

    2003-01-01

    Critics of Invitational Education and other self-concept approaches to learning have long argued that there is a lack of empirical data to support the claims that approaches to student instruction based on self-concept theory are central to effective learning. Ellis (2001) examines a number of these analyses where self-concept, self-esteem, and…

  7. Building Bridge between Learning and Positive Emotion: How to Apply Emotional Factor in Instructional Designing Process?

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    Park, Sanghoon

    2004-01-01

    For millennia, emotional states have been viewed as avoidable impediments to rational thinking (Ellis & Newton, 2000). Several reasons have been pointed out. The lack of consensus of the definition on emotion that tend to conflict with each other was suggested as a main reason (Price, 1998). Also the difficulty of research methodology such as…

  8. D/B/F 98: Final Report Of the AIAA Student Aircraft Design, Build & Fly Competition

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    1998-01-17

    Jason Nichol Configuration, Materials (Leader) Greg Mondeau Aerodynamics (Leader) April Register Configuration Sung-LiehLin Aerodynamics Jefferson...and Astronautics Team Members: Aruni Athuada Lashan Athuada Jason Bachelor Sebastian Echinique Shelly Ellis Wayne Fulford Benjamin Goff...hierarchy of our design team: AIAA OFFICERS Jennifer Huddle - President Benjamin Goff- Vice President Cheree Kiernan - Secretary Jason Bachelor

  9. From Seeing Adverbs to Seeing Verbal Morphology: Language Experience and Adult Acquisition of L2 Tense

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    Sagarra, Nuria; Ellis, Nick C.

    2013-01-01

    Adult learners have persistent difficulty processing second language (L2) inflectional morphology. We investigate associative learning explanations that involve the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones in the first language (L1; i.e., transfer) and the L2 (i.e., proficiency). Sagarra (2008) and Ellis and Sagarra (2010b) found…

  10. Pedagogical Moments: Affective Sexual Literacies in Film

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    Clarke, Kyra

    2013-01-01

    This paper considers three pedagogical moments in the film "Tomorrow, When the War Began" (2010), contemplating the way in which they open a space for conversations about feelings, sexuality and gender. "Tomorrow, When the War Began" follows the plight of 17-year-old Ellie who returns to her rural town from a camping trip with…

  11. Readings from...Play as a Medium for Learning and Development.

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    Bergen, Doris, Ed.

    The chapters and essays in this book are drawn from the 1988 edition of "Play as a Medium for Learning and Development." The first chapter, "The Challenge of Educational Play," by Bernard Spodek and Olivia N. Saracho, is followed by two essays: (1) "Play and the Origin of Species," (Michael J. Ellis); and (2)…

  12. The Relationship between Teachers' Beliefs of Grammar Instruction and Classroom Practices in the Saudi Context

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    Alghanmi, Bayan; Shukri, Nadia

    2016-01-01

    Teacher cognition (Borg, 2015) of grammar instruction is a relatively new phenomenon that has yet to be explored in the Saudi context. While many studies have focused on the teaching of grammar in general (Ellis, 2006; Corzo, 2013; Braine, 2014), further research needs to be done - particularly when it comes to understanding teachers' beliefs of…

  13. Temporal Fluctuations in Foreign Language Motivation: Results of a Longitudinal Study

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    Kruk, Mariusz

    2016-01-01

    According to Ellis (2008), motivation has received a lot of interest in language learning. It is unfortunate, however, that little attention has been paid to the dynamic nature of the construct, particularly changes in motivation within single classes and series of lessons. The study whose results are reported in this paper aims at investigating…

  14. A Continuation of the Dialogue on Issues in Counseling in the Postmodern Era.

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    Ellis, Albert

    2000-01-01

    This is a continuation of the dialogue among Albert Ellis, Jeffrey T. Guterman, Earl Ginter, Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio, Allen E. Ivey, and Don C. Locke that has been appearing in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling on ethical issues of counseling in the postmodern era. Specifically addresses the ethical, constructivist, multicultural, and…

  15. Social Networking and the School Adjustment of Karen Refugee Youth from Burma: Determining the Effects of Ethnic Identity, Bonding Social Capital, and Facebook Use

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    Lewis, Lucy D.

    2013-01-01

    In 2011 alone, over 56,000 refugees were admitted to the United States and a third of these individuals were under the age of 18 (Martin & Yankay, 2012). Researchers have found that the social capital developed through close and confiding relationships is instrumental in the academic outcomes of refugee youth (Kia-Keating & Ellis, 2007;…

  16. Measuring University-Level L2 Learners' Implicit and Explicit Linguistic Knowledge

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    Zhang, Runhan

    2015-01-01

    Although many theoretical issues revolving around implicit and explicit knowledge in second language (L2) acquisition hinge on the ability to measure these two types of knowledge, few empirical studies have attempted to do so. However, R. Ellis (2005) did develop a battery of tests intended to provide relatively separate measures. This study aims…

  17. Manipulating Task Implementation Variables with Incipient Spanish Language Learners: A Classroom-Based Study

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    Payant, Caroline; Reagan, Derek

    2018-01-01

    A growing body of research has shown a positive role of task-supported instruction in second language (L2) learning (Ellis, 2003a; Loewen, 2015; Van Den Branden, 2006). From a pedagogical perspective, recycling or repeating parts of teaching materials is common practice and theoretical support for such practice is emerging (Bygate and Samuda,…

  18. Testing a Threshold: An Approximate Replication of Johnson, Mercado & Acevedo 2012

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    Johnson, Mark D.; Nicodemus, Christine L.

    2016-01-01

    In order to better understand the role of working memory in second language (L2) written production, this study contributes to recent research attempting to apply Kellogg's model of working memory in first language (L1) writing to L2 writing research (Ellis & Yuan 2004; Ong & Zhang 2010; Johnson, Mercado & Acevedo 2012). This paper…

  19. The Argument-Structure Complexity Effect in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from the Use of Grammatical Morphemes in French

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    Pizzioli, Fabrizio; Schelstraete, Marie-Anne

    2008-01-01

    Purpose: The hypothesis that the linguistic deficit presented by children with specific language impairment (SLI) is caused by limited cognitive resources (e.g., S. Ellis Weismer & L. Hesketh, 1996) was tested against the hypothesis of a limitation in linguistic knowledge (e.g., M. L. Rice, K. Wexler, & P. Cleave, 1995). Method: The study examined…

  20. Finding My Voice: [Re]living, [Re]learning, and [Re]searching Becoming a Singer in a Culture of Marginalization

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    Manovski, Miroslav Pavle

    2012-01-01

    Boys who sing in school are often marginalized, taunted, sometimes called "gay." What if "singer" is someone's whole identity, and that person also happens to be gay? This autoethnography (Ellis, 2004) is a story of the education and development of such a singer and how, within this context, a voice teacher with an empowering…

  1. Unauthorized Immigrant Students in the United States: Educational Policies, Practices, and the Role of School Psychology

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    Sulkowski, Michael L.

    2017-01-01

    Overlooking Ellis Island, the famous port of entry for millions of U.S. immigrants, is the Statue of Liberty. Miss Liberty's lamp has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States. However, in light of recent executive orders against immigration as well as efforts to detain and deport millions of unauthorized immigrants, one might wonder…

  2. Response to Pienemann's Critique of Zhang and Lantolf (2015)

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    Lantolf, James P.; Zhang, Xian

    2015-01-01

    We respond here to Pienemann's critique of our study that appeared earlier this year in the Language Learning Special Issue entitled "Orders and Sequences in the Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax, 40 Years On" and guest edited by Jan Hulstijn, Rod Ellis, and Søren Eskildsen. Pienemann objected to our claim that the Teachability Hypothesis…

  3. Testing two mechanisms by which rational and irrational beliefs may affect the functionality of inferences.

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    Bond, F W; Dryden, W; Briscoe, R

    1999-12-01

    This article describes a role playing experiment that examined the sufficiency hypothesis of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). This proposition states that it is sufficient for rational and irrational beliefs to refer to preferences and musts, respectively, if those beliefs are to affect the functionality of inferences (FI). Consistent with the REBT literature (e.g. Dryden, 1994; Dryden & Ellis, 1988; Palmer, Dryden, Ellis & Yapp, 1995) results from this experiment showed that rational and irrational beliefs, as defined by REBT, do affect FI. Specifically, results showed that people who hold a rational belief form inferences that are significantly more functional than those that are formed by people who hold an irrational belief. Contrary to REBT theory, the sufficiency hypothesis was not supported. Thus, results indicated that it is not sufficient for rational and irrational beliefs to refer to preferences and musts, respectively, if those beliefs are to affect the FI. It appears, then, that preferences and musts are not sufficient mechanisms by which rational and irrational beliefs, respectively, affect the FI. Psychotherapeutic implications of these findings are considered.

  4. Implicit Knowledge, Explicit Knowledge, and Achievement in Second Language (L2) Spanish

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    Gutierrez, Xavier

    2012-01-01

    Implicit and explicit knowledge of the second language (L2) are two central constructs in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in obtaining valid and reliable measures of L2 learners' implicit and explicit knowledge (e.g., Bowles, 2011; R. Ellis, 2005). The purpose of the present study…

  5. Race, Change, and Urban Society. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Volume 5.

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    Orleans, Peter, Ed.; Ellis, William Russell, Jr., Ed.

    Contents of this book include 20 chapters: (1) "Race Research: 'Up Against the Wall' in More Ways Than One," W.R. Ellis, Jr. and P. Orleans; (2) "Value Premises in Race Research: The Evolution of Environmentalism," E.L. Paynter; (3) "Power in the Reformulation of Race Research," I. Katznelson; (4) "Caste and Race Conflict in Cross-Cultural…

  6. Facing the Future.

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    Gallin, Alice, Ed.

    1983-01-01

    Ways that Catholic colleges and universities are trying to fulfill their role are discussed in articles by six college presidents and a church historian. In "The Catholic Liberal Art College: Has It a Future?" John Tracy Ellis notes some of the roots to be reaffirmed by Catholic colleges. In "Preparing for the Millennium," Theodore M. Hesburgh…

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  8. Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory.

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    Tokarczyk, Michelle M., Ed.; Fay, Elizabeth A., Ed.

    This volume contains a collection of essays on the issues and concerns that face women from working-class backgrounds who enter academic careers. Following an introduction and transcript of a dialogue between Kate Ellis and Lillain S. Robinson, the essays are as follows: "What's a Nice Working-Class Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like…

  9. An Alternative View of the Thirties: The Industrial Photographs of Lewis Wickes Hine and Margaret Bourke-White.

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    Smith, C. Zoe

    The photographs of Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Wickes Hine are graphic accounts of the urban industrial United States during the Depression of the 1930s. Hine was a sociologist who initially used his camera to promote social reform and is best remembered for his photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, and of children laboring in…

  10. A Usage-Based Investigation of L2 Lexical Acquisition: The Role of Input and Output

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    Crossley, Scott; Kyle, Kristopher; Salsbury, Thomas

    2016-01-01

    This study investigates relations between second language (L2) lexical input and output in terms of word information properties (i.e., lexical salience; Ellis, 2006a). The data for this study come from a longitudinal corpus of naturalistic spoken data between L2 learners and first language (L1) interlocutors collected over a year's time. The…

  11. Parlaying the Prison Experience

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    Gray, Katti

    2010-01-01

    At the close of almost 25 years of winding through New York state's prisons, former Black Panther Eddie Ellis walked away in 1994 with four college degrees he earned while incarcerated and kept treading his singular path as an activist on the issues of police, courts, crime and punishment. He then established the Center for NuLeadership on Urban…

  12. The Debate over Acid Precipitation--Opposing Views--Status of Research.

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    1981-09-11

    34 3/ 1/Ellis Cowling, op. cit. 2/ William Poundstone , Testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, May 28, 19d0. 3/James F...pine seedlings; 1/U.S. Environment Protection Agency, "Acid Rain," EPA-600/9-79- 036, July 1980, pp. 19 and 20. 2/ William Poundstone , op. cit. 3/Edison

  13. An Examination of the Relationship between Irrational Beliefs and Communication Apprehension.

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    Ambler, Bob; Elkins, Mike

    A study of the relationship between irrational beliefs and communication apprehension (CA) sought to determine (1) if CA is related to a person's irrational beliefs as defined in research by Ellis; (2) to which, if any, of the CA contexts (group, meeting, dyadic, or public speaking) the irrational beliefs are most related; and (3) whether the…

  14. Primacy Effects in Short-Term Memory with the Mentally Retarded.

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    Detterman, Douglas K.

    This paper reports on two experiments conducted in an attempt to extend findings by Ellis which suggest a rehearsal deficit in mentally retarded subjects. In experiment one, mentally retarded subjects saw nine stimuli in a serial position probe task for either two, four, or six seconds each. Performances for the two and four second-per-item rates…

  15. The Employment Context. The Impact of the Law on the Lives of Women. Gender and American Law Series, No. 3.

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    Maschke, Karen J., Ed.

    This book contains the following 14 articles on the effects of law on women in the United States: "Protection of Women Workers and the Courts: A Legal Case History" (Ann Corinne Hill); "Sexual Harassment and Race: A Legal Analysis of Discrimination" (Judy Trent Ellis); "Comparable Worth: Is This a Theory for Black Workers?" (Judy Scales-Trent);…

  16. Position Paper: Moving Task-Based Language Teaching Forward

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    Ellis, Rod

    2017-01-01

    The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed in Ellis (2009) and Long (2016). The purpose of this article is to move forward by examining a number of real problems that TBLT faces--such as how a "task" should be…

  17. Explicit Knowledge of the Spanish Subjunctive and Accurate Use in Discrete-Point, Oral Production, and Written Production Measures

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    Gutiérrez, Xavier

    2017-01-01

    The usefulness of explicit knowledge of the second language is a matter of controversy in the field of second language acquisition. In this regard, it has been argued that explicit representations might be useful for some structures but not for others (R. Ellis, 2006; Roehr & Gánem-Gutiérrez, 2009). The goal of this study was to examine…

  18. My Granddaughter

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    Wardle, Francis

    2009-01-01

    In this article, the author describes his granddaughter Elly (Elysia), who is just over a year old. While he deeply enjoys her company as a granddaughter--after all, her favorite activity is to pull his graying beard--as an instructor of child psychology, both for early childhood and psychology students, the author is fascinated with observing…

  19. What Should Be Explicit in Explicit Grammar Instruction?

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    Nagai, Noriko; Ayano, Seiki; Okada, Keiko; Nakanishi, Takayuki

    2015-01-01

    This article proposes an approach to explicit grammar instruction that seeks to develop metalinguistic knowledge of the L2 and raise L2 learners' awareness of their L1, which is crucial for the success of second language acquisition (Ellis 1997, 2002). If explicit instruction is more effective than implicit instruction (Norris and Ortega 2000),…

  20. Second Language Research Forum Colloquia 2009: Colloquium--Measuring the Effectiveness of Focus on Form

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    Loewen, Shawn

    2011-01-01

    Focus on form, i.e. brief attention to language items within a larger meaning-focused context (Long 1991; Ellis 2001), occurs in a variety of L2 instructional contexts. Meta-analyses of the effectiveness of focus on form have found overall positive effects; however, these meta-analyses have commented on the small number of studies available for…

  1. Keeping Black Poetry Alive

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    Mehta, Diane

    2006-01-01

    Thomas Sayers Ellis, assistant professor of creative writing at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, is one of many scholars fighting for the soul of Black poetry, a struggle that takes place largely off-campus. Unless one is accepted into a top-level graduate poetry program, such as Boston University's program or the Iowa Writing Workshop, a poet's…

  2. Identification of Damping Parameters of a Squeeze-Film Bearing.

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    1986-05-01

    Bearing Dynamic Characteristics - Effect of Inertia of Lubricant" Proc. Inst. Mech. Engrs., Vol.179, Part 3J, 1964-65, pp 37-44. 18 Ramli M.D., Ellis J...Design Synthesis", Second Edition, R.E. Krieger Publishing Company , Huntington, New York, 1978, pp.423-431. 23 Tichy J.A. and Bourgin P., "The Effect

  3. Earth-from-Luna Limb Imager (ELLI) for Deep Space Gateway

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    Gorkavyi, N.; DeLand, M.

    2018-02-01

    The new type of limb imager with a high-frequency imaging proposed for Deep Space Gateway. Each day this CubeSat' scale imager will generate the global 3D model of the aerosol component of the Earth's atmosphere and Polar Mesospheric Clouds.

  4. Site-specific polarizabilities as descriptors of metallic behavior in atomic clusters

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    Jackson, Koblar; Jellinek, Julius

    The electric dipole polarizability of a cluster is a measure of its response to an applied electric field. The site specific polarizability method decomposes the total cluster polarizability into contributions from individual atoms and also allows it to be partitioned into charge transfer and electric dipole contributions. By systematically examining the trends in these quantities for several types of metal atom clusters over a wide range of cluster sizes, we find common characteristics that uniquely link the behavior of the clusters to that of the corresponding bulk metals for clusters as small as 10 atoms. We discuss these trends and compare and contrast them with results for non-metal clusters. This work was supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, U.S. Department of Energy under Grant SC0001330 (KAJ) and Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (JJ).

  5. Variability of Valuation of Non-Monetary Incentives: Motivating and Implementing the Combinatorial Retention Auction Mechanism

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    2009-03-01

    homeport, geographic stability for two tours and compressed work week; homeport, lump sum SRB, and telecommuting ). The Monte Carlo simulation...Geographic stability 2 tours, and compressed work week). The Add 2 combination includes home port choice, lump sum SRB, and telecommuting ...VALUATION OF NON-MONETARY INCENTIVES: MOTIVATING AND IMPLEMENTING THE COMBINATORIAL RETENTION AUCTION MECHANISM by Jason Blake Ellis March 2009

  6. William Healy, M.D., Father of the American Child Guidance Movement

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    1981-08-01

    courts, was another important development, starting in 1899. Meyer, Sigmund Freud , and Healy all contributed to the next step, which coupled the...Dummer Papers lists 454 correspondents. The prominent psychiatrists include: Franz Alexander, Trigant Burrow, Havelock Ellis, Flanders Dunbar, Sigmund ... Freud , Roy Grinker, William Healy, Karen Homey, Marion E. Kenworthy, Lawson Lowrey, Julse Masserman, Karl Menninger, Adolf Meyer, Smith Ely Jelliffe

  7. The American Mosaic. Eighth Grade Activity. Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE): Connecting California's Classrooms to the World.

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    Boston, Jaime

    Between 1892-1954, over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island (New York) on their way to becoming part of the United States melting pot. Even though the trip was very difficult, people considered the U.S. to be the land of opportunity. What made the U.S. seem so good? This role playing exercise for eighth-grade students states that…

  8. Comprehensive Education Bolivarian-Style: The Alternative School in Barrio Pueblo Nuevo, Venezuela

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    Cole, Mike

    2014-01-01

    In this article, the author traces revolutionary developments in an alternative school in Barrio Pueblo Nuevo, Mérida, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a school that caters for students between 4 and 14. He begins by recounting some fieldwork done at the school on his behalf by Edward Ellis in 2010. He goes on to discuss a video made at…

  9. Race, Reification, and Responsibility.

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    Cancro, Robert

    Noting that many of the attacks on individual scientists as well as some of the attacks on the field of behavior genetics are more than intemperate--they are non-rational--the author discusses his experience as a signatory to a document drawn up by Ellis B. Page during the winter of 1971-1972. The intent of this controversial document was to…

  10. Sound Evidence: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw in Formulaic Language Research

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    Lin, Phoebe M. S.

    2012-01-01

    With the ever increasing number of studies on formulaic language, we are beginning to learn more about the processing of formulaic language (e.g. Ellis et al. 2008; Siyanova et al. 2011), its use in speech (e.g. Aijmer 1996; Wood 2012) and writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a, 2008b) and its application in natural language processing (e.g. Tschichold 2000).…

  11. Hands-On PV Experience (HOPE) Workshop - Text Version | Photovoltaic

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    there. Ryan Ellis, Purdue University: So, one thing I learned quite a bit about was calibrating research group, we do use a reference cell, however, we typically just calibrate it to one sun... so we've kind of learned that you know, you may be getting to one sun on your reference cell but you may be

  12. Nutritional and Hydration Status of Special Forces Soldiers Consuming the Ration, Cold Weather, or the Meal, Ready-to-Eat Ration during a Ten Day Cold Weather Field Training Exercise

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    1987-02-19

    patty 61 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 SPREAD Cheese 31 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 nelly 73 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 Peanut butter fi7 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 FRUIT Applesauce ...patties Turkey w/gravy STARCH Crackers Beans w/tomato sauce Potato patty SPREAD Cheese 3elly Peanut butter FRUIT Applesauce Mixed fruits

  13. Equilibrium relative humidity as a tool to monitor seed moisture

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    Robert P. Karrfalt

    2010-01-01

    The importance of seed moisture in maintaining high seed viability is well known. The seed storage chapters in the Tropical Tree Seed Manual (Hong and Ellis 2003) and the Woody Plant Seed Manual (Bonner 2008a) give a detailed discussion and many references on this point. Working with seeds in an operational setting requires a test of seed moisture status. It is...

  14. Including SENCOs in Behaviour Improvement: An Exploration of the Behaviour and Attendance Strands of the National Strategies

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    Ellis, Simon; Tod, Janet

    2005-01-01

    In this article Simon Ellis and Janet Tod review the KS3 National Strategy Behaviour and Attendance strand (DfES, 2003a; 2004a) and the Behaviour and Attendance pilot materials from the Primary National Strategy (DfES, 2003b; 2003c; 2003d). Relevant policy documentation is examined in order to explore how the role of the special educational needs…

  15. 21st Century Learning and Information Literacy

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    Breivik, Patricia Senn

    2005-01-01

    The faces of immigrant children who had come through Ellis Island with their parents in search of better futures stare out at me from a set of black and white photographs near my desk. The children, frozen in time, are lined up for blocks, waiting for the doors of a public library to open. Access to information was their pathway to a future of…

  16. Early Treatment in Shock. Addendum

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    2012-08-01

    from gardenia root (Gardenia jasminoides Ellis). It is com- monly sold in the United States as an herbal supplement . In terms of crocetin’s fundamental...but results of 14 the available literature collectively allow the conclusion that L-arginine supplementation 15 can be beneficial in ameliorating the...were designed to test two 19 hypotheses. First, L-arginine supplementation during resuscitation will improve survival 20 from lethal hemorrhagic

  17. Interior, building 810, view to west from approximately midhangar. Area ...

    Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

    Interior, building 810, view to west from approximately mid-hangar. Area of photo encompasses approximately 1/4 of the interior space, with the KC-10 tanker aircraft and the figures beneath it giving an idea of scale, 90mm lens plus electronic flash fill lightening. - Travis Air Force Base, B-36 Hangar, Between Woodskill Avenue & Ellis, adjacent to Taxiway V & W, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

  18. 77 FR 45925 - Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures...

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    2012-08-02

    .... 97.20 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The large number of SIAPs, their complex nature........... Albert J Ellis...... 2/4274 7/11/12 RNAV (GPS) RWY 5, Amdt 1. 23-Aug-12 MN Luverne Quentin Aanenson 2.... 23-Aug-12 MN Owatonna Owatonna Degner Rgnl 2/7931 7/11/12 ILS OR LOC RWY 30, Amdt 2A. 23-Aug-12 WI...

  19. Irrational beliefs, optimism, pessimism, and psychological distress: a preliminary examination of differential effects in a college population.

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    Chang, E C; Bridewell, W B

    1998-02-01

    The present study compared the effects of irrational beliefs measured by the Survey of Personal Beliefs (SPB) and optimism and pessimism as measured by the revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) on depressive and anxious symptoms 6 weeks later. Results of analysis of variances for both measures of psychological distress indicated a significant main effect for pessimism only. Implications for Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy are discussed.

  20. 13th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO 2016) Held in Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah, April 11-14, 2016

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    2017-01-30

    Friedrich C . Simmel Salt and Temperature Dependence of Shape and Interhelical Spacing of DNA Origami Nanostructures Studied by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering...Nuclear Pore Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Patrick D. Ellis, Qi Shen, Thomas J . Melia, C . Patrick...and C . Mao, “Tensegrity: Construction of rigid DNA triangles with flexible four-arm junctions,” J . Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 2324 (2004). [3] J . Zheng et

  1. 33 CFR 165.168 - Safety Zones; Coast Guard Captain of the Port New York Fireworks Displays.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 074°02′23″ W (NAD 1983), located in Federal Anchorage 20-C, about 360 yards east of Liberty Island. (2... (NAD 1983), about 365 yards east of Ellis Island. (3) South Beach, Staten Island Safety Zone: All...°35′11″ N 074°03′42″ W (NAD 1983), about 350 yards east of South Beach, Staten Island. (4) Raritan Bay...

  2. Marine Corps Interwar Period Innovation and Implications for the Upcoming Post Operation Enduring Freedom Period

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    2013-05-23

    some uniform and minor organizational differences, were indistinguishable. That interchangeability was crucial to success in a violent and fluid ...across the enormous spaces of the central Pacific Ocean. Lieutenant Colonel Earl “Pete” Ellis, author of Operations Plan 712 “Advanced Base Force...kitchen had to be tied to an amphibious mission set or was deemed unnecessary or superfluous . Experience when preparing for combat operations is

  3. Enhancement of the Efficacy of Conventional Anticancer Compounds through the Repression of SNAI Proteins in Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells

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    2012-09-01

    selected a 40-bp sequence from the human vitamin D3 receptor gene promoter that has two SLUG binding E2-box (5-CACCTG-3/3-CAG- GTG -5) sequences (Fig...131, 1877–1885 39. Yang, A. D., Camp, E. R., Fan, F., Shen, L., Gray , M. J., Liu, W., Somcio, R., Bauer, T. W., Wu, Y., Hicklin, D. J., and Ellis, L

  4. P651: Battlefield Analysis. The Saar River Crossing, 94th Infantry Division, February 1945

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    1984-01-01

    MAJOR THOMAS ELLIS MAJOR STANLEY EVANS MAJOR CHARLES JURGENSEN MAJOR (P) WILLIAM LARSON MAJOR BOBBY LUMHO MAJOR ROBERT MANNINO MAJOR MICHAEL...MAPLES MAJOR PHILLIP RAYMOND MAJOR <P> BURT VANDERCLUTE MAJOR THOMAS WILSON CAPTAIN ROBERT MILLER CAPTAIN MAMA TRAORE (MALI) FORT LEAVENWORTH...to Major Paul W. Marshall, of the 319th Engineers, who, in turn, received assistance from Major John N. Smith, Captain Thomas J. Mclntyre

  5. The Lavelle Affair: An Air Force Case Study in Ethics

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    2016-06-01

    THE LAVELLE AFFAIR: AN AIR FORCE CASE STUDY IN ETHICS BY KRISTINA ELLIS A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF... ethical transgressions. As such, the story of General Lavelle’s wartime command experiences became a case study in ethics and integrity within Air...1 1 THE LIFE AND CAREER OF GENERAL LAVELLE 8 1 VIETNAM 14 2 CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS 25 2 ETHICAL

  6. Ultra Low Volume Dispersal of Insecticides by Ground Equipment

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    1999-12-01

    Chairman) CPT Lewis Boobar, MS, USA (Vice Chairman) Mr. Joseph Deschenes Mr. Sam Jerry Ellis Mr. Felix M. Huertas Dr. James H. Nelson Mr...methods introduced since 1960 in an effort to improve flying insect control. Primary emphasis is placed on ground control techniques; however, aerial...the atomizing head, interior solenoid valve mechanisms, pump assemblies , and exterior portions of the dispersal unit subject to liquid contamination

  7. Funding for Life: When to Spend the Acquisition Pot

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    2010-05-01

    Private Military Sector Software Requirements for OA Spiral Development Strategy for Defense Acquisition Research The Software, Hardware...qb=p`elli= Capital Budgeting for the DoD Energy Saving Contracts/DoD Mobile Assets Financing DoD Budget via PPPs Lessons from Private Sector ...the endeavor can, in part, be related to the stability of the aims and contributory components. Economic growth has been driven by globalisation

  8. Ecological Indication, Bioaccumulation, and Phytoremediation as Tools for Environmental Quality Management

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    2004-12-01

    ECOLOGICAL INDICATION, BIOACCUMULATION, AND PHYTOREMEDIATION AS TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT ELLY P. H. BEST1, HENRY E. TATEM1...subsequent transport to shoots, and degradation, or prevent contaminants from leaving the site in whatever form, such as leachate , runoff, trophic...transfer ( phytoremediation ). We use risk assessment to evaluate the toxicity and need for cleanup. Cleanup costs are expected to greatly exceed the cost

  9. Preconstruction Biogeochemical Analysis of Mercury in Wetlands Bordering the Hamilton Army Airfield (HAAF) Wetlands Restoration Site. Part 3

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-12-01

    ER D C/ EL T R- 09 -2 1 Preconstruction Biogeochemical Analysis of Mercury in Wetlands Bordering the Hamilton Army Airfield (HAAF) Wetlands...Preconstruction Biogeochemical Analysis of Mercury in Wetlands Bordering the Hamilton Army Airfield (HAAF) Wetlands Restoration Site Part 3 Elly P. H... mercury methylation and demethylation, and biogeochemical parameters related to the mercury cycle as measured by both conventional and emerging methods

  10. Monitoring of the invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata in the subarctic and in alpine areas of southern Europe

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    Finger, David C.; Jónsson, Ingi R.; Cypaité, Vaiva; Ognjanova, Nadja; Ólafsson, Jón S.; Trichkova, Teodora

    2016-04-01

    In recent decades invasive species have been spreading across Europe. Although the perceptions of invasive species are divergent among researchers there is a general consent that invasive species endanger the diversity of native biota and hence should be monitored to initiate appropriate counter measures in drastic cases. Anthropogenic activities and climate change are the main cause for the enhanced spreading of non-native species to new environments. In this presentation we will present preliminary results from two aquatic case studies, one located in subarctic Iceland (River Elliðaár) and one in the high mountains of Bulgaria (the Seven Rila lakes), focusing on the freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata (Didymo). The diatom is a single cell algae which's natural habitat is cold fresh water environments with low nutrient content, i.e. mountainous areas in Europe, Asia and North America. In the last decades Didymo has been increasingly observed in new areas, e.g. Iceland, North America and New Zealand. Within the ESENIAS-TOOLS project two field excursions will identify the existence of Didymo in the two study sites and compare current abundance to previous observations. The preliminary results in the Rila Mountains, including both fossil and recent records, confirm that the occurrence of Didymo is restricted to Lake Bliznaka, the largest of the seven lakes located at lower altitude. In River Elliðaár preliminary results indicate a high abundance of Didymo along all sampling locations, confirming the invasive proliferation described in previous studies. The upscaling of the preliminary results from Elliðaár and Rila Mountains can help us to formulate general conclusions about the spreading of this invasive species. Furthermore, this bilateral cooperation can be further extended to other countries and hence contribute to a better management of invasive alien species in Europe. Acknowledgement: This study is part of ESENIAS - The East and South European

  11. High internal inductance for steady-state operation in ITER and a reactor

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    Ferron, John R.; Holcomb, Christopher T.; Luce, Timothy C.; ...

    2015-06-26

    Increased confinement and ideal stability limits at relatively high values of the internal inductance (more » $${{\\ell}_{i}}$$ ) have enabled an attractive scenario for steady-state tokamak operation to be demonstrated in DIII-D. Normalized plasma pressure in the range appropriate for a reactor has been achieved in high elongation and triangularity double-null divertor discharges with $${{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}\\approx 5$$ at $${{\\ell}_{i}}\\approx 1.3$$ , near the ideal $n=1$ kink stability limit calculated without the effect of a stabilizing vacuum vessel wall, with the ideal-wall limit still higher at $${{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}>5.5$$ . Confinement is above the H-mode level with $${{H}_{98\\left(\\text{y},2\\right)}}\\approx 1.8$$ . At $${{q}_{95}}\\approx 7.5$$ , the current is overdriven, with bootstrap current fraction $${{f}_{\\text{BS}}}\\approx 0.8$$ , noninductive current fraction $${{f}_{\\text{NI}}}>1$$ and negative surface voltage. For ITER (which has a single-null divertor shape), operation at $${{\\ell}_{i}}\\approx 1$$ is a promising option with $${{f}_{\\text{BS}}}\\approx 0.5$$ and the remaining current driven externally near the axis where the electron cyclotron current drive efficiency is high. This scenario has been tested in the ITER shape in DIII-D at $${{q}_{95}}=4.8$$ , so far reaching $${{f}_{\\text{NI}}}=0.7$$ and $${{f}_{\\text{BS}}}=0.4$$ at $${{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}\\approx 3.5$$ with performance appropriate for the ITER Q=5 mission, $${{H}_{89}}{{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}/q_{95}^{2}\\approx 0.3$$ . Modeling studies explored how increased current drive power for DIII-D could be applied to maintain a stationary, fully noninductive high $${{\\ell}_{i}}$$ discharge. Lastly, stable solutions in the double-null shape are found without the vacuum vessel wall at $${{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}=4$$ , $${{\\ell}_{i}}=1.07$$ and $${{f}_{\\text{BS}}}=0.5$$ , and at $${{\\beta}_{\\text{N}}}=5$$ with the vacuum vessel wall.« less

  12. Constraint, Intelligence, and Control Hierarchy in Virtual Environments. Chapter 1

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    Sheridan, Thomas B.

    2007-01-01

    This paper seeks to deal directly with the question of what makes virtual actors and objects that are experienced in virtual environments seem real. (The term virtual reality, while more common in public usage, is an oxymoron; therefore virtual environment is the preferred term in this paper). Reality is difficult topic, treated for centuries in those sub-fields of philosophy called ontology- "of or relating to being or existence" and epistemology- "the study of the method and grounds of knowledge, especially with reference to its limits and validity" (both from Webster s, 1965). Advances in recent decades in the technologies of computers, sensors and graphics software have permitted human users to feel present or experience immersion in computer-generated virtual environments. This has motivated a keen interest in probing this phenomenon of presence and immersion not only philosophically but also psychologically and physiologically in terms of the parameters of the senses and sensory stimulation that correlate with the experience (Ellis, 1991). The pages of the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments have seen much discussion of what makes virtual environments seem real (see, e.g., Slater, 1999; Slater et al. 1994; Sheridan, 1992, 2000). Stephen Ellis, when organizing the meeting that motivated this paper, suggested to invited authors that "We may adopt as an organizing principle for the meeting that the genesis of apparently intelligent interaction arises from an upwelling of constraints determined by a hierarchy of lower levels of behavioral interaction. "My first reaction was "huh?" and my second was "yeah, that seems to make sense." Accordingly the paper seeks to explain from the author s viewpoint, why Ellis s hypothesis makes sense. What is the connection of "presence" or "immersion" of an observer in a virtual environment, to "constraints" and what types of constraints. What of "intelligent interaction," and is it the intelligence of the

  13. Monitor for Sterilization Procedures

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    2001-10-25

    were tested using ampules of Bacillus stearothermophilus spores commercially manufactured by Barnstead/Thermolyne for testing sterilization procedures...Monitor for Sterilization Procedures F. Cleary1,2, H.-Y. Mason2, C. Estes2, A. Duncan2, W. Ellis, Jr.2 and L. Powers2 1Moses Brown High School...accurate determination of the efficacy of sterilization procedures is demonstrated using a hand-held instrument based on the intrinsic fluorescence of

  14. Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes.

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    Gillingham, Erica

    2018-04-25

    Representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) characters in comics for an all-ages readership have emerged in the United States in the early twenty-first century. This essay examines the narrative constructions of same-sex relationships between female characters in two all-ages speculative fiction comics, Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill, and Lumberjanes, created by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, and Brooke Allen.

  15. Quantum and Classical OpticsEmerging Links

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    2016-05-09

    apparatus, the Young interferometer. Implementation of vector-space control directed at challenges in polarimetry have been mentioned and a number of...28 361–74 [5] Ambiguous issues in standard approaches to polarimetry can be clarified by recognizing classical optical entanglement. See Simon B N...Degree of polarization for optical near fields Phys. Rev. E 66 016615 Ellis J and Dogariu A 2005 Optical polarimetry of random fields Phys. Rev. Lett

  16. Joint Publication 3-31. Command and Control for Joint Land Operations

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-06-29

    task force] FALCON .” Admiral James Ellis, Commander, Joint Task Force NOBLE ANVIL during Operation ALLIED FORCE in letter correspondence to RAND...beneficial effect on the gr ound cam paign.” D uring t he ca mpaign, “ Army and M arine artillery were used interchangeably.” SOURCE: Lieutenant...consolidates, prioritizes, and forwards ultra -high frequency tactical satellite requirements to the JFC for channel allocation. k. Establishes, supervises

  17. Cookies for the Real World: Assessing the Potential of RFID for Contractor Monitoring

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-05-30

    Business Systems. Litoral Combat Ship (LCS) Civilian Aviation Alternative Support Study: Report of Findings and Recommendation. July 2006. NPS-AM-06...Review of the Framework from 1987-2003." BPP Research Colloquium. 25 November 2003. Copies of the Acquisition Sponsored Research Reports may be printed...mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= Report Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated

  18. What Kept the Tank from Being the Decisive Weapon of World War One?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-12-14

    Mechanization in the British Army (London: Sifton, Praed and Co ., Ltd ., 1935), 6. 34Stern, 80. 35Childs, 132. 36Williams-Ellis, 52. 37Martel, 58...1916 (London: Macmillan and Co ., Ltd , 1938), 39-40. 2Firstworldwar.com. Battles: The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 1916, 11 August 2001, http...Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916. London: Macmillan and Co ., Ltd ., 1938. Murray, Williamson. Armored Warfare: The British

  19. The Rapid Integration and Test Environment: A Process for Achieving Software Test Acceptance

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    2010-05-01

    Test Environment : A Process for Achieving Software Test Acceptance 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S...mlif`v= 365= k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= The Rapid Integration and Test Environment : A Process for Achieving Software Test Acceptance Patrick V...was awarded the Bronze Star. Introduction The Rapid Integration and Test Environment (RITE) initiative, implemented by the Program Executive Office

  20. Submaximal Exercise and Cognitive Function Testing at Altitude to Determine the Impact of Different Levels of Hypobaric Hypoxia

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    1997-01-01

    would exercise and two who were controls). The control included either playing bingo or remaining inactive. The tests were administered again after...15 added benefits may be outweighed by muscle fatigue (Tomporowski & Ellis, 1986). Altitude and Exercise Performance The interplay among hypoxia...an inevitable part of aviation. With the benefits and convenience of ascending into the sky 35 in an aircraft, come the risks of operating in what

  1. JPRS Report, Science & Technology Europe

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1988-07-27

    materials research under microgravity conditions, such as ELLI, AMF of MHF ( Mirror Heating Facility) the Zone Melt- ing Furnace is a resistance-heated...pendently controlled zones. This is another advantage of a resistance-heated furnace over a mirror heating facil- ity. When the experiment requires a...zone, the subdivision into several heating zones will be preferable to the single light focus of a mirror heating facility. In 1987/88, following

  2. Mustafa Kemal at Gallipoli: A Leadership Analysis and Terrain Walk

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-03-01

    1 AU/ACSC/PICCIRILLI, S/AY16 AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITY Mustafa Kemal at Gallipoli: A Leadership Analysis and...Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF OPERATIONAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Advisor: Mr. Patrick D. Ellis Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama March 2016...bloody stalemate on the Western Front, knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war, and open a sea line of communication to the Russian Empire. The

  3. Construction Management Module: Contingency Contracting Synergistic Approach Integrating Joint Capabilities for USSOCOM

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-01-29

    mr_if`=mlif`v - ix - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= Acronym Listing AAR After-action Report ACC Acquisition Community Connection ADDIE Analyze...J3 Operations J4 Logistics J5 Plans J6 Communications J8 Programming and Comptroller J&A Justification and Approval JARB Joint...Due to geographical and communication constraints, the sample of informants was limited to 20 current USSOCOM personnel. However, the

  4. 78 FR 56833 - Safety Zone; Fireworks Events in Captain of the Port New York Zone

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-09-16

    ...[deg]41'45'' N, 074[deg]02'09'' W (NAD 1983), about 365 yards east of Ellis Island. This Safety Zone is... Zone, 33 located in approximate position CFR 165.160(5.4). 40[deg]46'11.8'' N, 074[deg]00'14.8'' W (NAD... River Safety Zone, 33 40[deg]44'24'' N, 073[deg]58'00'' W CFR 165.160(4.2). (NAD 1983), approximately...

  5. The Effect of Feedback on Penile Tumescence in Sexually Functional Men

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2003-01-06

    cardiovascular and nervous systems. However, men who have few physical problems may also experience the disorder due to psychological factors. Men who suffer...following orgasm ) (Ellis, 1906). Masters and Johnson further developed this model during the 1950s and 1960s. Based on more than 10,000 observations...involves erection of the penis, which usually occurs within a few seconds after sexual stimulation begins. In addition, skin ridges of the scrotum

  6. Annual Research Progress Report, Fiscal Year 1980,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-10-01

    Uric Acid Levels at 36 Weeks Gestation as 45 Screening Test for Preeclampsia as an Aid to Further Manage- ment. (0) DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY...Investigators: CPT Ellis M. Knight, MC Key Words: Serum Uric Acid Preeclampsia Accumulative MEDCASE Est Accumulative Periodic Ap-roved for continuation...Cost: 0 OMA Cost: 0 Review Results Study Objective: To demonstrate that: A. Serum uric acid level is a simple specific screening test for preeclampsia

  7. Deletion in the EVC2 gene causes chondrodysplastic dwarfism in Tyrolean Grey cattle.

    PubMed

    Murgiano, Leonardo; Jagannathan, Vidhya; Benazzi, Cinzia; Bolcato, Marilena; Brunetti, Barbara; Muscatello, Luisa Vera; Dittmer, Keren; Piffer, Christian; Gentile, Arcangelo; Drögemüller, Cord

    2014-01-01

    During the summer of 2013 seven Italian Tyrolean Grey calves were born with abnormally short limbs. Detailed clinical and pathological examination revealed similarities to chondrodysplastic dwarfism. Pedigree analysis showed a common founder, assuming autosomal monogenic recessive transmission of the defective allele. A positional cloning approach combining genome wide association and homozygosity mapping identified a single 1.6 Mb genomic region on BTA 6 that was associated with the disease. Whole genome re-sequencing of an affected calf revealed a single candidate causal mutation in the Ellis van Creveld syndrome 2 (EVC2) gene. This gene is known to be associated with chondrodysplastic dwarfism in Japanese Brown cattle, and dwarfism, abnormal nails and teeth, and dysostosis in humans with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Sanger sequencing confirmed the presence of a 2 bp deletion in exon 19 (c.2993_2994ACdel) that led to a premature stop codon in the coding sequence of bovine EVC2, and was concordant with the recessive pattern of inheritance in affected and carrier animals. This loss of function mutation confirms the important role of EVC2 in bone development. Genetic testing can now be used to eliminate this form of chondrodysplastic dwarfism from Tyrolean Grey cattle.

  8. Deletion in the EVC2 Gene Causes Chondrodysplastic Dwarfism in Tyrolean Grey Cattle

    PubMed Central

    Murgiano, Leonardo; Jagannathan, Vidhya; Benazzi, Cinzia; Bolcato, Marilena; Brunetti, Barbara; Muscatello, Luisa Vera; Dittmer, Keren; Piffer, Christian; Gentile, Arcangelo; Drögemüller, Cord

    2014-01-01

    During the summer of 2013 seven Italian Tyrolean Grey calves were born with abnormally short limbs. Detailed clinical and pathological examination revealed similarities to chondrodysplastic dwarfism. Pedigree analysis showed a common founder, assuming autosomal monogenic recessive transmission of the defective allele. A positional cloning approach combining genome wide association and homozygosity mapping identified a single 1.6 Mb genomic region on BTA 6 that was associated with the disease. Whole genome re-sequencing of an affected calf revealed a single candidate causal mutation in the Ellis van Creveld syndrome 2 (EVC2) gene. This gene is known to be associated with chondrodysplastic dwarfism in Japanese Brown cattle, and dwarfism, abnormal nails and teeth, and dysostosis in humans with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Sanger sequencing confirmed the presence of a 2 bp deletion in exon 19 (c.2993_2994ACdel) that led to a premature stop codon in the coding sequence of bovine EVC2, and was concordant with the recessive pattern of inheritance in affected and carrier animals. This loss of function mutation confirms the important role of EVC2 in bone development. Genetic testing can now be used to eliminate this form of chondrodysplastic dwarfism from Tyrolean Grey cattle. PMID:24733244

  9. Optical calibration of SNO +

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Leming, Edward; SNO+ Collaboration

    2015-04-01

    Situated 2 km underground in Sudbury, Northern Ontario, the SNO + detector consists of an acrylic sphere 12 m in diameter containing 780 tons of target mass, surrounded by approximately 9,500 PMTs. For SNO, this target mass was heavy water, however the change to SNO + is defined by the change of this target mass to a novel scintillator. With the lower energy threshold, low intrinsic radioactivity levels and the best shielding against muons and cosmogenic activation of all existing neutrino experiments, SNO + will be sensitive to exciting new physics. The experiment will be studying solar, reactor, super nova and geo-neutrinos, though the main purpose of SNO + is the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te-130. To meet the requirements imposed by the physics on detector performance, a detailed optical calibration is needed. Source deployment must be kept to a minimum and eliminated if possible, in order to meet the stringent radiopurity requirements. This led to the development of the Embedded LED/laser Light Injection Entity (ELLIE) system. This talk provides a summary of the upgrades to from SNO to SNO +, discussing the requirements on and methods of optical calibration, focusing on the deployed laserball and ELLIE system.

  10. High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage for Spacecraft Solar Thermal Power and Propulsion Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-10-12

    Vol. 108, No. 6, June 1961, pp. 568-572. 38. Storms, E. and Mueller, B., "Phase Relations and Thermodynamic Properties of Transition Metal Borides ...T., and Naka, S., "Formation Process of Tungsten Borides by Solid State Reaction Between Tungsten and Amorphous Boron," Journal of Materials...Molybdenum- Borides ," Journal of Metals, September 1952, pp. 983-988. 41. Ellis, R.C., “Various Preparations of Elemental Boron,” Proceedings of the 1st

  11. Republication of: Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Carter, Brandon

    2011-11-01

    This is a reprinting of the paper by Brandon Carter, first published in a little-known volume of conference proceedings in 1974, that moved the anthropic principle from the realm of philosophical speculations to the subject of theoretical physics. The paper has been selected by the Editors of General Relativity and Gravitation for re-publication in the Golden Oldies series of the journal. This republication is accompanied by an editorial note written by George Ellis.

  12. Altered Gastrointestinal Function in the Neuroligin-3 Mouse Model of Autism

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-10-01

    autism . Clearly, characterizing the dysfunction seen with the mixed 5 -HT3/ 5 -HT4 antagonist, tropisetron, when specific antagonists do not show such...gastrointestinal disorders. Current opinion in pharmacology 6, 547 (Dec, 2006). K. B. Neal, J. C. Bornstein, Mapping 5 - HT inputs to enteric neurons of...descending inhibition in guinea-pig ileum. PLoS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0040840 (2013) 3. ELLIS M, CHAMBERS JD, GWYNNE RM, BORNSTEIN JC Serotonin ( 5 - HT

  13. FAA Rotorcraft Research, Engineering, and Development Bibliography 1962-1989

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-05-01

    Albert G. Delucien) (NTIS: ADA 102 521) FAA/CT-88/10 Digital Systems Validation Handbook - Volume II (R.L. McDowall, Hardy P. Curd, Lloyd N. Popish... Digital Systems in Avionics and Flight Control Applications, Handbook - Volume I, (Ellis F. Hilt, Donald Eldredge, Jeff Webb, Charles Lucius, Michael S...Structure Statistics of Helicopter GPS Navigation with the Magnavox Z-Set (Robert D. Till) FAA/CT-82/115 Handbook - Volume I, Validation of Digital

  14. Sensitivity Analysis of the Seakeeping Behavior of Trimaran Ships

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2003-12-01

    Architects and Marine Engineers; 1967. 827 p. [18] Lloyd ARJM. Seakeeping: Ship Behavior in Rough Weather. West Yorkshire ; Ellis Horwood Ltd ; 1989...INCAT Australia Pty Ltd . This design features side hulls with a very low freeboard at their bows and a definite, above-water center bow. Additional...composite ship, uses an Air Cushion Catamaran (ACC) design, which is an advanced variant of SES technology. Most recently, a co -operative design team that

  15. Phytoremediation of Composition-B Derived TNT and RDX in Herbaceous Plant-vegetated and Bare Lysimeters

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-12-01

    ER D C TR -0 9- 10 Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Phytoremediation of Composition-B Derived TNT and RDX in...Program ERDC TR-09-10 December 2009 Phytoremediation of Composition-B Derived TNT and RDX in Herbaceous Plant-vegetated and Bare Lysimeters Elly P. H...for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Washington, DC 20314-1000 ERDC TR-09-10 ii Abstract: This report describes a study in which phytoremediation of

  16. China’s Pursuit for World Power Status: Is the Transformation of the People’s Liberation Army a Threat to the United States Global Interest and Security?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-01-01

    and Derek Mitchel, China and the Developing World, New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, (2007), xv. 4 Ellis Joffe, "Roundtable; Sizing-the Chinese Military...Research, http://asiapolicy.nbr.org/current.html, (July 2007), 58-59. 12 Russell Ong , China’s Security Interests in the 21 51 Century, Routledge, (2007...Joffe, 59. 30 Joffe, 60. 31 Ong , 45. 23 Bibliography Bergsten, C. Fred, Institute for International Economics (U.S.), and Centre for Strategic and

  17. Characterization of Heterogeneities Controlling Transport and Fate of Pollutants in Unconsolidated Sand and Gravel Aquifers: Second Year Report

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1993-06-30

    of Scientific Research, Air Force Systems Command, USAF, under grant number AFOSR 91-0298. The views and conclusions contained in this document are...investigations of pulse-test methods were carried out during this year. The first involved the application of the principles of tomography, which has proven to be...a multilayered reservoir: SPE Formation Eval., v. 2, no. 3, pp. 261-283. Ellis, V.D., 1987, Well Logging for Earth Scientists : Elsevier Science

  18. Installation Restoration Program. Phase I. Records Search, Reese, AFB, Texas.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1984-06-01

    engineering in flue - gas desulfurization plants, and corrosion asaessinnto of hazardous waste handling systems. Mr. Ellis is or has been an active participant...provean to evaluate lime- stones as wet scrubbers in flue gas desulfurisatios (VS) system. She vas task leader for the chemical ad physical analysis...11109163A-15 Debra L. lichmann PUBLIC&TIOUSIlEPOITS: lichmann, D.L., K.V. Luke, end J.C. Terry, " Flue Gas Desulfurization Chemistry Studies

  19. Modification of Tamoxifen Effectiveness by Gene Polymorphisms and Other Drugs

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-05-01

    digitalis-like steroid hormones: new mechanisms of action and biological significance. Life Sci 2007, 80:2093-2107. 27. Rifka SM, Pita JC Jr, Loriaux DL ...Wolmark N, Wickerham DL , Cronin WM. Reanalysis and results after 12 years of follow- up in a randomized clinical trial comparing total mastectomy with...Hilton E, Lennard MS, Tucker GT, Ellis SW (2001) Influence of phenylalanine -481 subsitutions on the catalytic activity of cytochrome P-450 2D6

  20. A New Paradigm to Address Bid Protests

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-08-02

    A two- player game model is being developed by members of the NPS Protest Project team that allows for shared awards (split buys). Split-buy remedies...11 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= = The literature generally focuses on two players : a disappointed bidder20 and the government. In fact, the...government can be broken into several distinct players , each of which might expect a challenge from a disappointed bidder: procurement officials (POs) and

  1. Chemotherapy of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-10-01

    WY, Milhous WK, Ohrt C, Spaventi R. Antimalarial Activity of 9a-N Substituted 15-Membered Azalides with Improved in Vitro and in Vivo Activity over... Activity Relationships of Peroxide- Based Artemisinin Antimalarials . In: Biologically Active Natural Products: Pharmaceuticals, Cutler, S.J., Cutler...Landek G, Jelić D, Hutinec A, Mesić M, Ager A, Ellis WY, Milhous WK, Ohrt C, Spaventi R. Antimalarial Activity of 9a-N Substituted 15-Membered Azalides

  2. An Analysis of Aviation Maintenance Operations and Supporting Costs, and Cost Capturing Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-12-04

    the La Mesa Parent Teacher Association. = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v= = - vii -= k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p...host.uniroma3.it/facolta/ economia /db/materiali/insegnamenti/588_3930.pdf Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG). (2007). Office of the Secretary of

  3. The New Phase of Constitutional Struggle in Venezuela

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-07-21

    3 The New Phase of “Constitutional” Struggle in Venezuela R. Evan Ellis1 The magnitude of the victory by the Venezuelan opposition in the December 6...rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, as a trend away from leftist populism across the region.3 While Venezuela and the region are indeed...and its neighbors. Anatomy of the Coming Crisis The potential for catastrophe in Venezuela within the coming months arises from a potentially

  4. The Roles of Similarity in Transfer: Determinants of Similarity-Based Reminding and Mapping

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-06-02

    Psychology , Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Reproduction in whole or part is permitted for any purpose of the United...ADDRESS (City, State, and ZIPCode) 10 SOURCE OF FUNDING NUMBERS Department of Psychology PROGRAM PROJECT TASK WORK UNIT 603 E. Daniel ELEMENT NO NO NO...according to 3 whether the stimuli (in an S-R pair) or the responses are similar from training to test . Ellis (1965), while agreeing that similarity is

  5. Information Interface Related Standards, Guidelines, and Recommended Practices.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1985-07-01

    Application Workshop, IEEE, October 1984 (11) Software Portability and Standards, by Ingemar Dahlstrand, Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1984 (12) World of EDP...March 29, 1985, p. 42-48 * 9. "IBM’s Topview Plays to Poor Reviews of Early Users," Computer World , March 4, 1985, p. 5 10. "Lack of Software Standards...Information Symbols ISOiTR 7239-1984 - Development and Principles for Application of Public Information Symbols ISO/TR 8545 -1984 - Technical Drawings

  6. Distributed C2 System Recovery Mechanisms

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1988-07-01

    Systems," Proceedings of IEEE, Vol. 63, No. 6, 1975. (COHE75] Cohen, Ellis, David Jefferson, "Protection in the Hydra Operating System," Fifth...ideas in a real system. Distributed Operating System. Minn ACM Symposium an Operating SY’st*m Principles, October 1983, PP. 4~9-0. [REDEMo] Redell, David ...A transaction soy spawn a musher of node where it was interrupted with a now phase assigned children transactions at a PORK node. end the children

  7. Eye Movements and Visual Search: A Bibliography,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1983-01-01

    Stacey, S.R.; Snyder, H.L. Air-to-air target acquisition: Factors and means of improvement. School of Aerospace Medicine , Brooks AFB, TX, Final Report no...Annual Conference on en6ineerin6 in medicine and biology, Washington , 16-19 November, 1970, p. 136. New York: IEEZ, 1970. EYM, MOD, PSY, CTL 222...HDM, ABN, EYM 242 Freska, C., Ellis, S., Stark, L. Simplified measurement of eye fixation. Computers in Biology and Medicine , 1980. INlS, FIX 243

  8. Standardized Measures of Merit (MOM) Dictionary.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1979-03-20

    BLIP) of the target. 3. Coordinate transformations and rotation routines are required to compare the differences between the reference track and...AD-AI24 070 STANDARDIZED MEASURES OF MERIT (MOM) OICTIONARY(U) AI R I/lt FORCE ELECTRONIC WARFARE C ENTE R K ELLY AFR TX 20 MAR 79 UNCLASSIFEF/G5/2 5...SECURITY CLASSIFIIATIONd Of THIS5 PAGE READ Data Entered) REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE BEFORE COMPLETING FORM REPOR NUME.R ~GOVT ACCESSION NO. 3. RECIPIENT’S

  9. Drugs, Gangs, Transnational Organized Crime and Malgoverened Spaces in the Americas

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-01-01

    3 Drugs, Gangs, Transnational Organized Crime and “Malgoverened Spaces” in the Americas R. Evan Ellis1 During the spring of 2014, the U.S. media...and Washington politics were briefly dominated by the crisis of thousands of children from Central America detained at the Mexican border as they... Americas have received increasing attention as threats to both the U.S. and the region.3 Many good analy- ses have been done of the phenomenon of

  10. Emergency Food Delivery: A State-of-the-Art Assessment

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1987-09-01

    category are prescriptive in nature and are intended to support national preparedness (Billheimer et al . 1978; FEMA 1980b, 1983a, 1985b; Sullivan 1979...existing offices at the state and local levels (Billheimer et al . 1978, USDA 1983). The fact that the state and local USDA offices have ongoing and well...Ellis 1974, FEMA 1980b, Friesema 1979, Greene et al . 1979, Katz 1982, McMasters 1978). 3-20 There may be exceptions to this conclusion. For example

  11. Republication of: Relativistic cosmology

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ellis, George F. R.

    2009-03-01

    This is a republication of a paper by G.F.R. Ellis first published in Proceedings of the International School of Physics: General Relativity and Cosmology, 1971, in which he formulated the framework for relativistic cosmology with an arbitrary background geometry. The article has been selected for publication in the Golden Oldies series of General Relativity and Gravitation. The paper is accompanied by a Golden Oldie Editorial comprising an editorial note written by Bill Stoeger and Ellis’ brief autobiography.

  12. The Nett Warrior System: A Case Study for the Acquisition of Soldier Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-12-15

    rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v - 10 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli The evolution of wearable computers continued as an open system– bus wearable design was...established. The success of NW will depend on the program?s ability to incorporate soldier-driven design requirements, commercial technology, and...on the program’s ability to incorporate soldier-driven design requirements, commercial technology, and thorough system testing.   = = ^Åèìáëáíáçå

  13. Submarine Warfare in the 20th & 21st Centuries: A Bibliography

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2003-12-01

    International studies series ser. no. 02-019). 49 p. Bailey, Thomas Andrew and Paul B. Ryan. The Lusitania disaster: an episode in modern warfare and...verlagshandlung, 1939. 212 p. Ellis, Frederick D. The tragedy of the Lusitania : embracing authentic stories by the survivors and eye-witnesses of the disaster...warfare; a study of its methods and spirit, including the crime of the " Lusitania ," a record of observations and evidence. New York, London, D. Appleton

  14. How Can the United States Counter China’s Growing Influence in Africa through Non-kinetic Means?

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-03-21

    summer of 1995 at the Rugby World Cup when Springbok Captain, Franc;:ois Pienaar raised the Webb Ellis Cup standing next to President Nelson Mandela of...the Rugby World Cup tournament to avoid a civil war and reconcile with the Afrikaners. The second muse was the book Unrestricted Warfare written by...53 Labor unions in the RSA put pressure on the South African government to engage the World Trade Organization (WTO) to protect local manufactures.54

  15. Joint-Base Contracting: A Comparative Analysis of Joint-Base Contracting Activities Between Services

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-11-09

    NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND...rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v= = - 1 - k^s^i=mlpqdo^ar^qb=p`elli= I. Introduction A. Overview The idea of consolidating functions is not new in the corporate ...gain economies of scale, and combining the experience and skill of multiple organizations to improve corporate knowledge. The automobile industry has

  16. Clinical Investigation Program Report Control Symbol MED 300.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-10-01

    Preeclampsia as an Aid to Further Management. (C) (PR) 41 1961 Use of C-Reactive Protein in Prediction of ARD Prog- nosiS, (C) (PR) 42 1981 The Assessment...37 Status: Completed * Title: Routine Use of Serum Uric Acid Levels at 36 Weeks Gestation as Screening Test for Preeclampsia as an Aid to Further...nvestigators: .amily Pr-&ctiU. CPT Ellis M. Knight, MC Key Words: Serum Uric Acid Preeclampsia Accumulative MZDCASI Eat Accumulative Periodic Mar 82 Cost: ]A

  17. Surgical treatment for Ellis type 3 coronary perforation during percutaneous catheter intervention.

    PubMed

    Totsugawa, Toshinori; Kuinose, Masahiko; Yoshitaka, Hidenori; Katayama, Keijiro; Tsushima, Yoshimasa; Ishida, Atsuhisa; Chikazawa, Genta; Hiraoka, Arudo

    2012-01-01

    Coronary perforation (CP) is a rare, but sometimes lethal, complication of percutaneous catheter intervention (PCI). We reviewed surgically-treated cases of type 3 CP during PCI. From 2007 to 2010, 5 patients underwent surgical repair for type 3 CP (3 men, 2 women; mean age, 74 years). The mean number of diseased coronary branches was 2.6 and the mean SYNTAX score was 45. The target lesions were the left anterior descending artery in 4 cases and the right coronary artery in 1 case. Types of American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology classification were type B2 in only one case and type C in 4 cases. The causes of perforation were balloon inflation in 4 patients and rotational atherectomy in 1 patient. The in-hospital mortality rate was 20%. In the cases of CP associated with balloon inflation, coronary lacerations were so severe that re-bleeding occurred even if the covered stent could temporarily achieve hemostasis, and percutaneous cardiopulmonary support and emergency surgery were required. CP induced by balloon inflation tends to result in a serious condition compared with rotablator-induced CP. Surgery should be immediately performed even after covered stent implantation if there is any possibility of re-bleeding in the case of balloon-induced type 3 CP.

  18. Immigration beyond Ellis Island: Suggestions for Teaching about Immigration in the Now

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hossain, Kazi I.

    2014-01-01

    America's history books abound with stories of immigrants who contributed to the development of this country. In terms of social studies curriculum, all states require schools to teach about immigration. However, the question is how to teach this topic in a manner that will give students--elementary through high school--a better understanding of…

  19. Elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling Is Critical for the Pathogenesis of the Dwarfism in Evc2/Limbin Mutant Mice.

    PubMed

    Zhang, Honghao; Kamiya, Nobuhiro; Tsuji, Takehito; Takeda, Haruko; Scott, Greg; Rajderkar, Sudha; Ray, Manas K; Mochida, Yoshiyuki; Allen, Benjamin; Lefebvre, Veronique; Hung, Irene H; Ornitz, David M; Kunieda, Tetsuo; Mishina, Yuji

    2016-12-01

    Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome is a skeletal dysplasia, characterized by short limbs, postaxial polydactyly, and dental abnormalities. EvC syndrome is also categorized as a ciliopathy because of ciliary localization of proteins encoded by the two causative genes, EVC and EVC2 (aka LIMBIN). While recent studies demonstrated important roles for EVC/EVC2 in Hedgehog signaling, there is still little known about the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the skeletal dysplasia features of EvC patients, and in particular why limb development is affected, but not other aspects of organogenesis that also require Hedgehog signaling. In this report, we comprehensively analyze limb skeletogenesis in Evc2 mutant mice and in cell and tissue cultures derived from these mice. Both in vivo and in vitro data demonstrate elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) signaling in Evc2 mutant growth plates, in addition to compromised but not abrogated Hedgehog-PTHrP feedback loop. Elevation of FGF signaling, mainly due to increased Fgf18 expression upon inactivation of Evc2 in the perichondrium, critically contributes to the pathogenesis of limb dwarfism. The limb dwarfism phenotype is partially rescued by inactivation of one allele of Fgf18 in the Evc2 mutant mice. Taken together, our data uncover a novel pathogenic mechanism to understand limb dwarfism in patients with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome.

  20. Elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling Is Critical for the Pathogenesis of the Dwarfism in Evc2/Limbin Mutant Mice

    PubMed Central

    Zhang, Honghao; Kamiya, Nobuhiro; Tsuji, Takehito; Takeda, Haruko; Scott, Greg; Ray, Manas K.; Mochida, Yoshiyuki; Lefebvre, Veronique; Hung, Irene H.; Kunieda, Tetsuo; Mishina, Yuji

    2016-01-01

    Ellis-van Creveld (EvC) syndrome is a skeletal dysplasia, characterized by short limbs, postaxial polydactyly, and dental abnormalities. EvC syndrome is also categorized as a ciliopathy because of ciliary localization of proteins encoded by the two causative genes, EVC and EVC2 (aka LIMBIN). While recent studies demonstrated important roles for EVC/EVC2 in Hedgehog signaling, there is still little known about the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the skeletal dysplasia features of EvC patients, and in particular why limb development is affected, but not other aspects of organogenesis that also require Hedgehog signaling. In this report, we comprehensively analyze limb skeletogenesis in Evc2 mutant mice and in cell and tissue cultures derived from these mice. Both in vivo and in vitro data demonstrate elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) signaling in Evc2 mutant growth plates, in addition to compromised but not abrogated Hedgehog-PTHrP feedback loop. Elevation of FGF signaling, mainly due to increased Fgf18 expression upon inactivation of Evc2 in the perichondrium, critically contributes to the pathogenesis of limb dwarfism. The limb dwarfism phenotype is partially rescued by inactivation of one allele of Fgf18 in the Evc2 mutant mice. Taken together, our data uncover a novel pathogenic mechanism to understand limb dwarfism in patients with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. PMID:28027321

  1. IGF Regulation of Cell Adhesion in Breast Cancer

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1999-07-01

    Abraham, T. Zou, Y. Shi, J. Lei, J. Cottrell, K. Cymes, K. Biden, L. Simms, B. Leggett, P. Lynch, M . Frazier, S. Powell, N. Harpaz, H. Sugimura, J...instability and mutation of DNA mismatch repair genes in gliomas. Am JPathol 153: 1181-1188. 6. C. Oliveira, R. Seruca, M . Seixas, and M . Sobrinho...286-297. 11 11. A. Oates, L. Schumaker, S. Jenkins, A.D. Pearce, SA., B. Arun, and M . Ellis. (1998). The mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth

  2. Physical Properties of Polymers (Ultrastructure Processing of Polymers)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-09-30

    vinyl benzene Network-Diluent Systems". 17. J . Appl. Polym. Sci. 28, 219-224 (1983) (with R. Vukovic and W.J. MacKnight) "Compatibility of Some...Temperature of Polymer Networks by Dil uents". 23. J . Appl. Polym. Sci. 28, 1379-1389 (1983) (with R. Vukovic , V. Kuresevic, N. Segudovic, and W.J...AFOSR 80-0101 IV. DATES: 1 January 1980 - 30 September 1982 V. SENIOR RESEARCH PERSONNEL*: Dr. C. Crosby Dr. G. ten Brinke Dr. T. Ellis Dr. R. Vukovic

  3. Aircraft/Stores Compatibility Symposium Proceedings (4th) Held at Fort Walton Beach, Florida on 12-14 October 1977. Volume 1

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1977-10-01

    16th June, 1975. Panorama , BBC TV. 5) R.H. Ellis Air Defence of the West - a view from NATC’S central (Genl.) region. 15th Anglo-American Aero...monitor the studies which are undertaken, MoD formed a Thermal Effects on Aircraft Conventional Armament, Stores and Equipment (TEACASE) Working Group. The...Suitable body dimension (ft) k - Thermal conductivity of the fluid The Prantl No. (Pr) is given by: Pr C where 3 a Viscosity of the fluid Cp = Specific

  4. Views of Medical Physics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1980.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-05-19

    as a means of characteriza- tion. Other studies include determination of electron dosimetry in bone tissue, radiological survey of the population dose...addition to Ellis, who heads the department, they are; Radiobiology and Dosimetry Prof. P.RoJ. Burch Dr. A.Jo Walker Medical Electronics and Computing Dr. F...absorptiometry l radiation dosimetry 1 radiothprapy ultrasound scahning 11 20. ASISTRACT (Cal’th"M 601 fwa side "f M1aaeaam’ 4104 fd=ifr by b1106h .Nbie) This

  5. Consumer Electronics Testing to Fast-Rise EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) (VEMPS (Vertical Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator) 2 Development)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-06-01

    Fast-Rise EMP ( VEMPS 11 Development) 12. PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) Vincent J. Ellis 13a. TYPE OF REPORT 13b. TIME COVERED 14. DATE OF REPORT (Year Mot.Dy...SUBJECT TERMS (Continue on reverse if necessary andJ identity by block nwitib") 09EL 03U SBGR EMP, VEMPS 11, consumer electronics, FEMPS, EMP simulation... VEMPS 11), Because of the unique petrr! ance characteristics of VEMPS 11 and the technological changes In consumer electronics over the past 10 years

  6. Environmental Control Unit with Integral Thermal Storage

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-06-12

    integrated PCM Heat Exchanger (PHX) to provide thermal energy storage . By storing thermal energy during the hottest part of the day and rejecting this stored...Environmental Control Unit (ECU) that uses an integrated PCM Heat Exchanger (PHX) to provide thermal energy storage . To aid in the development of the PHX...Thermal Storage 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER W911QX-14-C-0014 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Michael C. Ellis Ryan McDevitt 5d

  7. Observations on Bubble Dynamics at High Pressures and Bubble Dynamics in Stagnation Flow.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-11-30

    reverse side It nocooeuAn aifdentifly by block mt..bet) S 1 Cavitation, High Speed Photography, Ruby Laser . 20. AFSTAACT Co.nflno on revere side Of...AT NIGH ASIE3r.T PRESSUrES A.T. Ellis and J.E. Starrect University of California, San Diego Recent developsent by the authors of a unique ruby laser ...1,000,300 frames per second with exposure clue of approximately 2vl0- seconds. The coherent nature of the laser illuminacion revealed shock waves

  8. Luminescent Photoelectrochemical Cells. 6. Spatial Aspects of the Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence of Cadmium Selenide Electrodes.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-10-06

    STRECKERT, J TONS, A B ELLIS N01478-C5633 UNCLASSI1FIED TRAS NL OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH Contract No. N00014-78’-C-0633 Task No. NR 051-690 TECHNICAL REPORT...of Wisconsin NR 051-690 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 II. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 12. REPORT DATE *Office of Naval Research /Chemistry Program...identify by block number) Samples of single-crystal, n-type CdSe emit when excited with ultraband gap excitation. The emission band (Xmax 񔊐 nm) is

  9. An Analysis of Department of Energy Cost Proposal Process and Effectiveness

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-10-11

    processes to mitigate and manage risk , rather than derive upfront assessment and quantification of proposal risk (DoE, 2008a). The proposal...2. GM 2- Enhance the Federal Contract and Project Management Workforce Substantially Complete 3. GM 3 - Improve Project Risk Assessment ...proposal, contract proposal evaluation, risk , cost analysis = = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v - ii

  10. [Testing and commercialization of a cotton stalk shredder and plow]. Technical progress report, October--December 1995

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Thacker, G.W.

    1996-01-27

    This quarterly report describes work on Task 1: Field test and sell prototype to Ellis Equipment, Ltd; Task 2: Design, build, and field test two prototypes; and Task 3: Produce and sell Pegasus to farmers. The equipment has been built to shred stalks, deeply till the soil, and prepare seedbeds for cotton plants. The equipment has been field tested in Australia and is currently being field tested in California and Arizona. Unexpected problems appeared with hard dry soils and this report describes improvements made.

  11. Calculation of NMR chemical shifts. 7. Gauge-invariant INDO method

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Fukui, H.; Miura, K.; Hirai, A.

    A gauge-invariant INDO method based on the coupled Hartree-Fuck perturbation theory is presented and applied to the calculation of 1H and 13C chemical shifts of hydrocarbons including ring compounds. Invariance of the diamagnetic and paramagnetic shieldings with respect to displacement of the coordinate origin is discussed. Comparison between calculated and experimental results exhibits fairly good agreement, provided that the INDO parameters of Ellis et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc.94, 4069 (1972)) are used with the inclusion of all multicenter one-electron integrals.

  12. Crony Attack: Strategic Attack’s Silver Bullet

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-11-01

    Politics. 1. Bueno de Mesquita et al ., “Policy Failure and Political Survival,” 14–1. 1. Ibid., 149. 19. Ibid., 0. 20. Kirschner, “Microfoundations of...fighting. Notes 1. See Bueno de Mesquita et al ., “Policy Failure and Political Survival,” 147–61. 2. For more discussion of leadership’s manipulation...accessed 2 April 2003). http://www.d-i.net/fcs/;ppt/ellis_ kosovo_aar.ppt#315,7,Short War Syndrome (accessed 14 July 2006). Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, et al

  13. Combating Conflict Related Sexual Violence: More Than a Stability Concern

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-06-13

    violence can cause serious bodily harm or mental harm to members of the group (International Criminal Court 2002, 3; Ellis 2007). Under crimes against...population was subjugated to Japanese 46 rule and were provided with horrific visual, physical, and emotional reminders of the futility of any...maps.google.com/ maps /ms?msid=214870171076954118166.0004b9bcb533b0ee2c1f8&msa=0&ie= UTF8&ll=12.848235,58.136902&spn=43.135476,135.258178&t=m&output=em bed

  14. New Kind of Ellis Island as Second-Generation Immigrants Land on College Campuses

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    Hohn, Marcia Drew; Mohammed, Denzil

    2012-01-01

    Demographics in American higher education are changing dramatically. A recent study by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) reveals that 11.3 million people ages 16 to 26 (one in four) are first- and second-generation immigrants. Moreover, the report continues, between 1995 and 2010, immigrant-origin youth accounted for half of all growth in the…

  15. Interpret with caution: multicollinearity in multiple regression of cognitive data.

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    Morrison, Catriona M

    2003-08-01

    Shibihara and Kondo in 2002 reported a reanalysis of the 1997 Kanji picture-naming data of Yamazaki, Ellis, Morrison, and Lambon-Ralph in which independent variables were highly correlated. Their addition of the variable visual familiarity altered the previously reported pattern of results, indicating that visual familiarity, but not age of acquisition, was important in predicting Kanji naming speed. The present paper argues that caution should be taken when drawing conclusions from multiple regression analyses in which the independent variables are so highly correlated, as such multicollinearity can lead to unreliable output.

  16. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Central Bolivia: Relationships Between Reservoir Hosts, Habitats, and Viral Genotypes

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    2005-01-01

    in Brazil. J Med Virol 59: 527–535. 7. Lopez N, Padula P, Rossi C, Lazaro ME, Franze-Fernandez MT, 1996. Genetic identification of a new hantavirus...177: 529–538. 10. Toro J, Vega JD, Khan AS, Mills JN, Padula P, Terry W, Yadon Z, Valderrama R, Ellis BA, Pavletic C, Cerda R, Zaki S, Wun- Ju S, Meyer...Chile, 1997. Emerg Infect Dis 4: 687–694. 11. Padula PJ, Rossi CM, Della Valle MO, Martinez PV, Colavecchia SB, Edelstein A, Miguel SD, Rabinovich RD

  17. Rational Design of Regulators of Programmed Cell Death in Human Breast Cancer

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    2003-07-01

    1992). 2. R. E. Ellis, J . Y. Yuan, H. R. Horvitz, Annu Rev Cell Biol 7, 663-98 (1991). 3. A. Strasser, D. C. Huang, D. L. Vaux, Biochim Biophys Acta...1333, F151-78 (1997). 4. C. B. Thompson, Science 267, 1456-62 (1995). DAMD17-99-1-9362 17 5. D. T. Chao, S. J . Korsmeyer, Annu Rev Immunol 16, 395...419 (1998). 6. J . C. Reed, Adv Pharmacol 41, 501-32 (1997). 7. S. Cory, Annu Rev Immunol 13, 513-43 (1995). 8. E. Yang, S. J . Korsmeyer, Blood 88

  18. Acquisition Risks in a World of Joint Capabilities: A Study of Interdependency Complexity

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    2012-12-19

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  19. Can Naturoptics Vision Improvement Methods Help Clear Cataracts, as Claimed by the Member of the Naturopathic Physicians Association of Massachusetts who Stabilized and/ or Improved Vision in all the Retinitis Pigmentosa, RP, Patients Treated by him?

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    MacDougall, Jean; McLeod, Roger

    2006-03-01

    Mac Dougall was advised against having a single crystalline lens with a slight cataract surgically removed; it would impact her ability to reengage vision's self-correcting feedback mechanisms. Her Florida ophthalmologist removed both lenses. A Massachusetts ophthalmologist was recently de-licensed for improperly performing just those services. An optometrist says reputed vision repair can easily be tracked and evaluated; we posit that Naturoptics effects on cataracts can be similarly assessed. ``Cures'' are detectable. Naturoptics users may show glaucoma reversal. EDWARD R. ELLIS, Jr., N.D. (The Chelmsford Clinic, Massachusetts), stabilizes RP, preventing blindness.

  20. Towards a Millennial Time-scale Vertical Deformation Field in Taiwan

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    Bordovaos, P. A.; Johnson, K. M.

    2015-12-01

    Pete Bordovalos and Kaj M. Johnson To better understand the feedbacks between erosion and deformation in Taiwan, we need constraints on the millennial time-scale vertical field. Dense GPS and leveling data sets in Taiwan provide measurements of the present-day vertical deformation field over the entire Taiwan island. However, it is unclear how much of this vertical field is transient (varies over earthquake cycle) or steady (over millennial time scale). A deformation model is required to decouple transient from steady deformation. This study takes a look at how the 82 mm/yr of convergence motion between the Eurasian plate and the Philippine Sea plate is distributed across the faults on Taiwan. We build a plate flexure model that consists of all known active faults and subduction zones cutting through an elastic plate supported by buoyancy. We use horizontal and vertical GPS data, leveling data, and geologic surface uplift rates with a Monte Carlo probabilistic inversion method to infer fault slip rates and locking depths on all faults. Using our model we examine how different fault geometries influence the estimates of distribution of slip along faults and deformation patterns.

  1. Non-Riemannian geometry, Born-Infeld models and trace free gravitational equations

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    Cirilo-Lombardo, Diego Julio

    2017-12-01

    Non-Riemannian generalization of the standard Born-Infeld (BI) Lagrangian is introduced and analyzed from a theory of gravitation with dynamical torsion field. The field equations derived from the proposed action lead to a trace free gravitational equation (non-Riemannian analog to the trace free equation (TFE) from Finkelstein et al., 2001; Ellis et al., 2011; Ellis, 2014) and the field equations for the torsion respectively. In this theoretical context, the fundamental constants arise all from the same geometry through geometrical invariant quantities (as from the curvature R). New results involving generation of primordial magnetic fields and the link with leptogenesis and baryogenesis are presented and possible explanations given. The physically admissible matter fields can be introduced in the model via the torsion vector hμ. Such fields include some dark matter candidates such as axion, right neutrinos and Majorana and moreover, physical observables as vorticity can be included in the same way. From a new wormhole solution in a cosmological spacetime with torsion we also show that the primordial cosmic magnetic fields can originate from hμ with the axion field (that is contained in hμ) the responsible to control the dynamics and stability of the cosmic magnetic field but not the magnetogenesis itself. As we pointed out before (Cirilo-Lombardo, 2017), the analysis of Grand Unified Theories (GUT) in the context of this model indicates that the group manifold candidates are based in SO (10), SU (5) or some exceptional groups as E (6), E (7) , etc.

  2. A Three Stage Multi-attribute Procurement Auction: A Proposal for Department of Defense (DoD) Vendor Selection Decisions.

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    2010-04-30

    regarding production capabilities and costs, but must somehow form beliefs about the likelihood of a bid being accepted. We facilitate formulation...which both vendors believe the buyer places equal weight on the two attributes, but the vendors differ in their capabilities of producing those...exchange—the future of B2B . Harvard Business Review, 78(6), 86-96. = ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= do^ar^qb=p`elli=lc=_rpfkbpp=C=mr_if`=mlif`v= 444= k^s^i

  3. Fact and fiction in spawntaking: Addenda

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    Rucker, R.R.

    1949-01-01

    The work of Ellis and Jones (1939) indicated that a solution of comon salt would prolong the life of fish sperm, although the work of Schlenk and Kahmann (1938) indicated that a more complex solution must be used. I therefore tested on sperm many solutions which waried in composition, strength, pH, and temperature. None of these prolonged viability to the point where 100-percent fertillzation could be expected after a few minutes" exposure at best. There was no difficulty in prolonging the fertilizable life of the egg: a plain salt solution was found quite effective, as mentioned by Rutter (1904).

  4. Determinants of positive cooperativity between strychnine-like allosteric modulators and N-methylscopolamine at muscarinic receptors.

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    Jakubík, Jan; Dolezal, Vladimír

    2006-01-01

    It has been shown previously that the third extracellular loop (o3) and its vicinity play a critical role in allosteric modulation at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) (Ellis et al., 1993; Krejçí and Tuçek, 2001; Buller et al., 2002). In this study interaction of four chemically related substances (strychnine, its dimethoxy derivate brucine, precursor for synthesis of strychnine Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde (WGA), and precursor for synthesis of alcuronium propargyl-WGA) with orthosteric antagonist N-methylscopolamine (NMS) was investigated on the M3 subtype of mAChRs mutated at the o3 loop.

  5. Physiological responses to rational-emotive self-verbalizations.

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    Master, S; Gershman, L

    1983-12-01

    This study tested Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) theory which predicts that cognitive beliefs, not the stimulus situation, generate human emotions. According to RET, emotions created by rational beliefs are adaptive, while irrational beliefs result in an unadaptive anxiety level. Results demonstrated that at high levels of problem relevance there was (1) a significantly greater GSR in direct response to the stimulus situation, and also to irrational statements, than to rational and control statements, and (2) no significant difference between rational and neutral control statements. The authors argue that these results are more parsimoniously explained by conditioning theory than by RET theory.

  6. Effects of rational-emotive therapy on psychophysiological and reported measures of test anxiety arousal.

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    Barabasz, A F; Barabasz, M

    1981-07-01

    Developed audio taped lectures, taped therapy session models, and homework assignments designed to reduce irrational beliefs associated with test anxiety within Ellis' rational-emotive therapy (RET) approach. The initial sample consisted of 148 university students. Comparisons with an attention placebo counseling program, which was established to be equally credible by a post-experiment inquiry and a no-treatment group found the RET Ss to show significantly lower skin conductance responses to a test anxiety visualization and lower reported anxiety on a questionnaire. However, skin conductance responses to an alternative test anxiety visualization did not show treatment effects.

  7. The Warrens and other pioneering clinician pathologists of the Massachusetts General Hospital during its early years: an appreciation on the 200th anniversary of the hospital founding.

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    Young, Robert H; Louis, David N

    2011-10-01

    To celebrate the bicentennial of the 1811 charter to establish the Massachusetts General Hospital, we tell the stories of the physicians and surgeons of the hospital who practiced pathology until the discipline was more firmly established with the recruitment of James Homer Wright who became the first full-time pathologist at the hospital in 1896. One of the two co-founders of the hospital, John Collins Warren (famed primarily for being the surgeon at the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia) had a major interest in pathology; he published a book focused on gross pathology (1837) and began the important specimen collection subsequently known as the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School (HMS). An early physician, John Barnard Swett Jackson, became the first professor of pathology in the United States (1847) and was a noted collector whose specimens were added to the Warren Museum. Dr Jackson showed no interest in microscopy when it became available, but microscopy was promoted from circa the late 1840s at Harvard and likely at the hospital by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famed essayist who was on the staff of the hospital and faculty at the medical school. Microscopy was probably first used at the Hospital with any frequency on examination of fluids by the first officially designated 'Microscopist,' John Bacon Jr, in 1851, and after the mid-1850s by Calvin Ellis on anatomic specimens; Ellis went on to pioneering reform of the HMS curriculum. Reginald Heber Fitz succeeded Ellis in 1871 and was the first to be officially designated as 'Pathologist' at the hospital. Fitz is remembered for two major contributions: his paper showing the nature of, and potential surgical cure for, the disease that he termed 'appendicitis'; and his description of acute pancreatitis. With the microscope now firmly entrenched and with the increase in surgery after Fitz's work on appendicitis, surgical pathology grew quickly. J Collins Warren, the grandson of the co

  8. Ichnology and paleosubstrates of Austin Chalk (Cretaceous) outcrops: Southern Dallas and Ellis Counties, Texas

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    Dawson, W.C.; Reaser, D.F.

    1991-03-01

    Ichnofossils are abundant in outcrops of the Austin Chalk near Waxahachie, Texas (designated site of the Super-Conducting Super Collider). The abundance and diversity of ichnofossils in Austin strata contrast with the paucity of other macrofossils, except large inoceramids. The lower Austin Chalk (Coniacian) disconformably overlies the Eagle Ford Shale (Turonian). Planolites, Thalassinoides, and Chondrites are conspicuous in the lower Austin. Some lower Austin strata contain well-preserved burrows having menicus fillings. However, most lower Austin ichnofossils are poorly preserved and have compacted. The middle Austin Marl and upper Austin Chalk (Santonain) contain Planolites, Chondrites, Thalassinoides, and Pseudobilobites. Several thin, intensely burrowed,more » Fe-stained, horizons within the middle Austin represent omission surfaces having postomission Thalassinoides. The upper Austin disconformably underlies the Taylor Marl (Campanian). The Austin-Taylor contact is a Rhizocorallium-infested omission surface overlain by a condensed bed of phosphatic and pyritic bioclasts. Upper Austin occurrences of Rhizocorallium and Pseudobilobites are unique for North American Cretaceous chalks. Based on cross-cutting relationships and differences in morphology, diameter, and burrow-filling sediments, numerous ichnospecies of Thalassinoides are discernable throughout the Austin. Variations in preservation quality exhibited by successive generations of ichnofossils record progressive changes in substrate consistency. Earliest formed burrows have diffuse outlines representing an initial thixotropic (softground) Austin substrate. Subsequent generations of burrows have more distinct outlines recording a gradual increase in substrate firmness. Paleo-firmgrounds are common in Austin outcrops; evidence of hardgrounds is lacking. The Thalassinoides-dominated Austin ichnoassemblage represents an inner shelf paleoenvironment.« less

  9. HUBBLE AND KECK DISCOVER GALAXY BUILDING BLOCK

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    2002-01-01

    This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a very small, faint galaxy 'building block' newly discovered by a unique collaboration between ground- and space-based telescopes. Hubble and the 10-meter Keck Telescopes in Hawaii joined forces, using a galaxy cluster which acts as gravitational lens to detect what scientists believe is one of the smallest very distant objects ever found. The galaxy cluster Abell 2218 was used by a team of European and American astronomers led by Richard Ellis (Caltech) in their systematic search for intrinsically faint distant star-forming systems. Without help from Abell 2218's exceptional magnifying power to make objects appear about 30 times brighter, the galaxy building block would have been undetectable. In the image to the right, the object is seen distorted into two nearly identical, very red 'images' by the gravitational lens. The image pair represents the magnified result of a single background object gravitationally lensed by Abell 2218 and viewed at a distance of 13.4 billion light-years. The intriguing object contains only one million stars, far fewer than a mature galaxy, and scientists believe it is very young. Such young star-forming systems of low mass at early cosmic times are likely to be the objects from which present-day galaxies have formed. In the image to the left, the full overview of the galaxy cluster Abell 2218 is seen. This image was taken by Hubble in 1999 at the completion of Hubble Servicing Mission 3A. Credit: NASA, ESA, Richard Ellis (Caltech) and Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France) Acknowledgment: NASA, A. Fruchter and the ERO Team (STScI and ST-ECF)

  10. From Matter to Life

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    Imari Walker, Sara; Davies, Paul C. W.; Ellis, George F. R.

    2017-02-01

    1. Introduction Sara Imari Walker, Paul C. W. Davies and F. R. Ellis; Part I. Physics and Life: 2. The 'hard problem' of life Sara Imari Walker and Paul C. W. Davies; 3. Beyond initial conditions and laws of motion: constructor theory of information and life Chiara Marletto; Part II. Bio from Bit: 4. (How) did information emerge? Anne-Marie Grisogono; 5. On the emerging codes for chemical evolution Jillian E. Smith-Carpenter, Sha Li, Jay T. Goodwin, Anil K. Mehta and David G. Lynn; 6. Digital and analogue information in organisms Denis Noble; 7. From entropy to information: biased typewriters and the origin of life Christoph Adami and Thomas Labar; Part III. Life's Hidden Information: 8. Cryptographic nature David Krakauer; 9. Noise and function Steven Weinstein and Theodore Pavlic; 10. The many faces of state space compression David Wolpert, Eric Libby, Joshua Grochow and Simon DeDeo; 11. Causality, information and biological computation: an algorithmic software approach to life, disease and the immune system Hector Zenil, Angelika Schmidt and Jesper Tegnér; Part IV. Complexity and Causality: 12. Life's information hierarchy Jessica Flack; 13. Living through downward causation: from molecules to ecosystems Keith D. Farnsworth, George F. R. Ellis and Luc Jaeger; 14. Automata and animats: from dynamics to cause-effect structures Larissa Albantakis and Giulio Tononi; 15. Biological information, causality and specificity - an intimate relationship Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths; Part V. From Matter to Mind: 16. Major transitions in political order Simon DeDeo; 17. Bits from biology for computational intelligence Michael Wibral, Joseph Lizier and Viola Priesemann; 18. Machine learning and the questions it raises G. Andrew D. Briggs and Dawid Potgieter.

  11. Successful management of grade III coronary perforation after percutaneous angioplasty in a high-risk patient: a case report.

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    Coloma Araniya, Ricardo; Beas, Renato; Maticorena-Quevedo, Jesús; Anduaga-Beramendi, Alexander; Pastrana Castillo, Marco Antonio

    2016-03-03

    Coronary perforation is a rare complication in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary angioplasty. The mortality of this complication varies depending on factors related to the patient and the procedure performed, reaching 44% in patients with Ellis type III perforation. We report the case of an 81 year old male with multiple cardiovascular risk factors, who underwent percutaneous angioplasty for unstable angina management. The patient developed grade III coronary perforation in the anterior descending artery, which was successfully managed with balloon inflation to 6 atmospheres for 10 minutes twice in the affected area, with an interval of 5 minutes between each dilatation. The patient improved and was discharged.

  12. The Changing Role of the `Catts Telescope': The Life and Times of a Nineteenth Century 20-inch Grubb Reflector

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    Orchiston, Wayne

    2010-11-01

    An historic 20-in (50.8-cm) Grubb reflector originally owned by the London amateur astronomer, Henry Ellis, was transferred to Australia in 1928. After passing through a number of amateur owners the Catts Telescope - as it became known locally - was acquired by Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1952, and was then used for astrophysical research and for site-testing. In the mid-1960s the telescope was transferred to the University of Western Australia and was installed at Perth Observatory, but with other demands on the use of the dome it was removed in 1999 and placed in storage, thus ending a century of service to astronomy in England and Australia.

  13. Outline of Meeting Sessions and Workshops: 15th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education

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    Wilson, Anna M.

    1998-06-01

    The 15th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (15-BCCE), sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education, will be held at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 9-13, 1998. Reg Friesen is the General Chair and Anna Wilson is the Program Chair. The technical program includes more than 600 oral and poster presentations, 70 workshops, and 12 special lectures on modern perspectives in chemistry. Plenary lectures will be given by Bonnie Bracey, Katherine Coleman, David Dolphin, Ernest Eliel, Arthur Ellis, Steve Spangler and Mary Anne White. The complete program, including abstracts, is available at http://www.biochem.purdue.edu/~bcce.

  14. A Kantian critique of cognitive psychotherapy.

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    Yesavage, J A

    1980-01-01

    Modern cognitive psychotherapies such as those practiced by George Kelly, Aaron Beck, and Albert Ellis are examined from the perspective of Immanuel Kant's critique of eighteenth-century cognitive philosophy. Parallel strengths and weaknesses are found in the psychotherapeutic and philosophical systems. The major strengths of the systems are based upon their abilities to predict phenomena based upon an understanding of concepts used to organize experience. The major weaknesses of the systems arise when one takes such concepts to be too concrete. It is argued that modern psychiatrists interested in cognitive techniques may relearn some important but forgotten, facts about the strengths and limits of cognition by reviewing Kantian philosophy.

  15. The United States Coast Artillery.

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    1988-02-01

    Journal, !QI9. L*UF60iC6. Coast Artillery School Press, Staff. Armor and Ships, Fort Monroe, VA: The Press, 191 . [VF346J6]. Ellis, Wilmot Edward...Orcarlzation cf the Coas- 2 r I IerI-, r S S 7ec ’t Z9, 93 LuF6iG.3U57. __________________________ * ee-en ce Data...Cr e c, e’’’ r,., OI tc..1 -- £>rr, 𔄃imen~ r. ’ rrt~ .erv !C.A.C9. Los 4rice’es, - Src ~’~r’i P ev i w cf Fort Braoc, N. C.. (67th C..C) Batcr cuae

  16. Delusion of inanimate doubles: description of a case of focal retrograde amnesia.

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    Abbate, Carlo; Trimarchi, Pietro Davide; Salvi, Gian Pietro; Quarenghi, Anna Maria; Vergani, Carlo; Luzzatti, Claudio

    2012-01-01

    This paper reports the case of a patient, M.P., who developed delusion of inanimate doubles, without Capgras syndrome, after traumatic brain injury. His delusional symptoms were studied longitudinally and the cognitive impairments associated with delusion were investigated. Data suggest that M.P. did 'perceive' the actual differences between doubles and originals rather than 'confabulate' them. The cognitive profile, characterized by retrograde episodic amnesia, but neither object processing impairment nor confabulations, supports this hypothesis. The study examines the nature of object misidentification based on Ellis' and Staton's account and proposes a new account based on concurrent unbiased retrieval of semantic memory traces and biased recollection of episodic memory traces.

  17. Foundations of anticipatory logic in biology and physics.

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    Bettinger, Jesse S; Eastman, Timothy E

    2017-12-01

    Recent advances in modern physics and biology reveal several scenarios in which top-down effects (Ellis, 2016) and anticipatory systems (Rosen, 1980) indicate processes at work enabling active modeling and inference such that anticipated effects project onto potential causes. We extrapolate a broad landscape of anticipatory systems in the natural sciences extending to computational neuroscience of perception in the capacity of Bayesian inferential models of predictive processing. This line of reasoning also comes with philosophical foundations, which we develop in terms of counterfactual reasoning and possibility space, Whitehead's process thought, and correlations with Eastern wisdom traditions. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  18. Case Summary: Settlement Reached at Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (MEW) Study Area to Address TCE Contamination

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    Case summary of the first amended consent decree with Intel Corporation and Raytheon Company to address trichloroethylene (TC) contamination in residential and commercial buildings in Mountain View, California

  19. A Resource Guide for Celebrating the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, 1986. Bulletin 1783.

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    Kerr, Myrtle; Cookston, James S.

    Compiled to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, this selection of books, periodicals, audiovisuals, and other educational resources was intended to help stimulate discussion, promote projects, and create awareness of the Statue of Liberty Centennial. Listed are 24 books, 18 magazine articles, and 3 films about the Statue…

  20. Immigration: From the Founding of Virginia to the Closing of Ellis Island. An Eyewitness History.

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    Wepman, Dennis

    It can be said that U.S. immigration started in 1607, when the first settlers joined the original colonists on the shores of the United States. Since then, people of every nation, ethnicity, and class have come to the United States, looking for freedom, prosperity, and stability. While originally immigrants flowed freely into the United States,…

  1. A Comparison of Rational Emotive Therapy and Tibetan Buddhism: Albert Ellis and the Dalai Lama

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    Holt, Susan A; Austad, Carol Shaw

    2013-01-01

    This article explores conceptual and methodological similarities between Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Tibetan Buddhism (TB). The authors examine some of the values and concepts they share. They compare the two systems on a number of issues: philosophical underpinnings, concepts of what causes human psychopathology, techniques to…

  2. LOLA Project Artists

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    1965-08-10

    Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly 2 million dollars. James Hansen wrote: This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation--although great fun and quite aesthetic--was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which the device did not simulate. Not long after the end of Apollo, the expensive machine was dismantled. (p. 379) Ellis J. White described the simulator as follows: Model 1 is a 20-foot-diameter sphere mounted on a rotating base and is scaled 1 in. 9 miles. Models 2,3, and 4 are approximately 15x40 feet scaled sections of model 1. Model 4 is a scaled-up section of the Crater Alphonsus and the scale is 1 in. 200 feet. All models are in full relief except the sphere. -- Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), p. 379 Ellis J. White, Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs, Paper presented at the Eastern Simulation Council (EAI s Princeton Computation Center), Princeton, NJ, October 20, 1966.

  3. LOLA Project

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    1964-10-28

    Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars. James Hansen wrote: "This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface; the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation--although great fun and quite aesthetic--was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which the device did not simulate. Not long after the end of Apollo, the expensive machine was dismantled." (p. 379) Ellis J. White further described LOLA in his paper "Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs," "Model 1 is a 20-foot-diameter sphere mounted on a rotating base and is scaled 1 in. = 9 miles. Models 2,3, and 4 are approximately 15x40 feet scaled sections of model 1. Model 4 is a scaled-up section of the Crater Alphonsus and the scale is 1 in. = 200 feet. All models are in full relief except the sphere." -- Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution, NASA SP-4308, p. 379; Ellis J. White, "Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs," Paper presented at the Eastern Simulation Council (EAI's Princeton Computation Center), Princeton, NJ, October 20, 1966.

  4. Structural evolution of the J-fold; a multi-scalar approach to modeling kinematic fold evolution in the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt, southwestern Montana

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    Wallace, James W.

    The Highway 2 structural complex (HW2SC) is part of the North American western Cordilleran fold-and-thrust belt that extends from northern Wyoming into northwestern Canada. More precisely, the HW2SC is located on the southeastern margin of the Helena salient in what is known as the southwest Montana transverse zone. Based on the location of the HW2SC it appears to have formed as footwall deformation associated with displacement along the southwestern Montana transverse zone. The most prominent structural feature in the HW2SC is the Late-Cretaceous "J-fold", a east-west trending, muliti-hinged, northeast plunging anticline with an associated northeast plunging syncline. The purpose of this study is to provide insight into whether the geometries of thrust-related folds correlate to particular mechanical responses taking place within the folded sedimentary sequences. This is accomplished by conducting a multifaceted examination of the J-fold using high-resolution terrestrial laser scanning combined with detailed field measurements of kinematic indicators, and petrographic analysis of microstructures in thin section. Based on the findings of this study four specific conclusions about the kinematic and mechanical evolution of the J-fold can be made: 1) the J-fold kinematically behaves as a fault-bend fold throughout its structural evolution; 2) the J-fold enjoyed two stages of fault-bend folding deformation that produced its present day geometry; 3) the J-fold has been tectonically thinned by >50% in the Permian Phosphoria and Jurassic Ellis-Rierdon formations located in the Overturned forelimb; and finally 4) the J-fold is mechanically accommodating the thinning in the Overturned forelimb by pressure solution and dissolution of chert grains in the Permian Phosphoria formation and by faulting and shearing in the Jurassic Ellis-Rierdon formation.

  5. Conflicts of quarantine the case of Jewish immigrants to the Jewish state.

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    Seidelman, Rhona D

    2012-02-01

    Shaar Haaliya--Israel's Ellis Island during the mass immigration of the 1950s--is a case study that challenges the historian's understanding of the concept of quarantine. It was isolated and fenced off for declared health purposes and was widely referred to as a quarantine, but archival and historiographical documentation suggest that Israeli public health policy did not define it as such. I track the discussion and conflict surrounding Shaar Haaliya's function and perception as a quarantine. This is a story that illuminates the way fear of disease converged with fear of immigration as well as the way defiance of public health institutions took shape in a unique framework of citizenship and during a unique wave of migration.

  6. Saturated thickness of the High Plains regional aquifer in 1980, northwestern Oklahoma

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    Havens, John S.

    1982-01-01

    During 1978, the U.S. Geological Survey began a 5-year study of the High Plains regional aquifer system to provide hydrologic information for evaluation of the effects of long-term development of the aquifer and to develop computer models for prediction of aquifer response to alternative changes in ground-water management (Weeks, 1978). This report is one of a series presenting hydrologic information of the High Plains aquifer in Oklahoma. The 1980 saturated thickness of the High Plains regional aquifer in Oklahoma is shown for the eastern area (plate 1), consisting of Harper, Ellis, Woodward, Dewey, and Roger Mills Counties, and for the Panhandle area (plate 2), consisting of Cimarron, Texas, and Beaver Counties.

  7. Sneutrino driven GUT inflation in supergravity

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    Gonzalo, Tomás E.; Heurtier, Lucien; Moursy, Ahmad

    2017-06-01

    In this paper, we embed the model of flipped GUT sneutrino inflation — in a flipped SU(5) or SO(10) set up — developed by Ellis et al. in a supergravity framework. The GUT symmetry is broken by a waterfall which could happen at early or late stage of the inflationary period. The full field dynamics is thus studied in detail and these two main inflationary configurations are exposed, whose cosmological predictions are both in agreement with recent astrophysical measurements. The model has an interesting feature where the inflaton has natural decay channels to the MSSM particles allowed by the GUT gauge symmetry. Hence it can account for the reheating after the inflationary epoch.

  8. 75 FR 38768 - Rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 10 of the Mountain Creek Watershed, Ellis...

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    2010-07-06

    ... 76501-7682, Telephone (254) 742-9800. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The environmental assessment of this.... Basic data developed during the environmental assessment are on file and may be reviewed by contacting... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Natural Resources Conservation Service Rehabilitation of Floodwater...

  9. Saco River-Camp Ellis Harbor, Saco, Maine. Small Navigation Project, Detailed Project Report and Environmental Assessment.

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    1981-12-01

    41294) further evaluation of chemical -biological interactive effects is not necessary because the sediments meet the following evaluation criteria...such release would be predicted at the dredge site. bulk chemical analyses were run on the five samples taken in conjunction with maintenance...material to be dredged is therefore considered to be chemically acceptable for beach nourishment purposes or other disposal methods. 38 1%4* 4J 0 0 * M 0 0

  10. Conflicts of Quarantine The Case of Jewish Immigrants to the Jewish State

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    Seidelman, Rhona D.

    2012-01-01

    Shaar Haaliya—Israel's Ellis Island during the mass immigration of the 1950s—is a case study that challenges the historian's understanding of the concept of quarantine. It was isolated and fenced off for declared health purposes and was widely referred to as a quarantine, but archival and historiographical documentation suggest that Israeli public health policy did not define it as such. I track the discussion and conflict surrounding Shaar Haaliya's function and perception as a quarantine. This is a story that illuminates the way fear of disease converged with fear of immigration as well as the way defiance of public health institutions took shape in a unique framework of citizenship and during a unique wave of migration. PMID:22390439

  11. Multidisciplinary Restoration of Traumatized and Displaced Maxillary Central Incisor by Bent Wire System-A Novel Approach.

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    Sasalawad, Shilpa S; Jogani, Vivek; Pai, Suryakanth M; Chour, Rashmi C; Balehosur, Deepti V

    2016-11-01

    Management of traumatic injuries to teeth is a challenge to dental practice, as it occurs when dentists are least prepared for it. The direction and the force of the object or the fall significantly affects the diagnosis, treatment plan and therefore the outcome of the treatment. These traumatic injuries may present with different clinical situations which demand immediate attention and assessment by the clinician. The maxillary central incisor crown fractures are the most common variant of trauma, because of the anterior and protrusive positioning. This case report describes the novel method to produce expansion of the dental arches to correct the post-traumatic displacement of the central incisor along with aesthetic and functional rehabilitation of Ellis Class IV fracture of permanent maxillary central incisor.

  12. On the incremental validity of irrational beliefs to predict subjective well-being while controlling for personality factors.

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    Spörrle, Matthias; Strobel, Maria; Tumasjan, Andranik

    2010-11-01

    This research examines the incremental validity of irrational thinking as conceptualized by Albert Ellis to predict diverse aspects of subjective well-being while controlling for the influence of personality factors. Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) argues that irrational beliefs result in maladaptive emotions leading to reduced well-being. Although there is some early scientific evidence for this relation, it has never been investigated whether this connection would still persist when statistically controlling for the Big Five personality factors, which were consistently found to be important determinants of well-being. Regression analyses revealed significant incremental validity of irrationality over personality factors when predicting life satisfaction, but not when predicting subjective happiness. Results are discussed with respect to conceptual differences between these two aspects of subjective well-being.

  13. Current observations with a decaying cosmological constant allow for chaotic cyclic cosmology

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    Ellis, George F.R.; Platts, Emma; Weltman, Amanda

    2016-04-01

    We use the phase plane analysis technique of Madsen and Ellis [1] to consider a universe with a true cosmological constant as well as a cosmological 'constant' that is decaying. Time symmetric dynamics for the inflationary era allows eternally bouncing models to occur. Allowing for scalar field dynamic evolution, we find that if dark energy decays in the future, chaotic cyclic universes exist provided the spatial curvature is positive. This is particularly interesting in light of current observations which do not yet rule out either closed universes or possible evolution of the cosmological constant. We present only a proof ofmore » principle, with no definite claim on the physical mechanism required for the present dark energy to decay.« less

  14. Homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in curved channel with porous medium

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    Hayat, T.; Ayub, Sadia; Alsaedi, A.

    2018-06-01

    Purpose of the present investigation is to examine the peristaltic flow through porous medium in a curved conduit. Problem is modeled for incompressible electrically conducting Ellis fluid. Influence of porous medium is tackled via modified Darcy's law. The considered model utilizes homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions with equal diffusivities for reactant and autocatalysis. Constitutive equations are formulated in the presence of viscous dissipation. Channel walls are compliant in nature. Governing equations are modeled and simplified under the assumptions of small Reynolds number and large wavelength. Graphical results for velocity, temperature, heat transfer coefficient and homogeneous-heterogeneous reaction parameters are examined for the emerging parameters entering into the problem. Results reveal an activation in both homogenous-heterogenous reaction effect and heat transfer rate with increasing curvature of the channel.

  15. Fault and joint measurements in Austin Chalk, Superconducting Super Collider Site, Texas

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    Nance, H.S.; Laubach, S.E.; Dutton, A.R.

    1994-12-31

    Structure maps of 9.4 mi of nearly continuous tunnel excavations and more than 10 mi of other exposures and excavations in Austin Chalk at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) site in Ellis County, Texas, record normal-fault and joint populations in the subsurface within the northern segment of the Balcones Fault Zone with unmatched resolution for such a long traverse. Small faults (<10 ft throw) occur in clusters or swarms that have as many as 24 faults. Fault swarms are as much as 2,000 ft wide, and spacing between swarms ranges from 800 to 2,000 ft, averaging about 1,000 ft. Predominantlymore » northeast-trending joints are in swarms spaced 500 to more than 21,000 ft apart.« less

  16. Plant colonization, succession and ecosystem development on Surtsey with reference to neighbouring islands

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    Magnússon, B.; Magnússon, S. H.; Ólafsson, E.; Sigurdsson, B. D.

    2014-06-01

    Plant colonization and succession on Surtsey volcanic island, formed in 1963, have been closely followed. In 2013, a total of 69 vascular plant species had been discovered on the island; of these 59 were present and 39 had established viable populations. Surtsey had more than twice the species of any of the comparable neighbouring islands and all their common species had established on Surtsey. The first colonizers were dispersed by sea, but after 1985 bird-dispersal became the principal pathway with the formation of a seagull colony on the island and consequent site amelioration. This allowed wind-dispersed species to establish after 1990. Since 2007 there has been a net loss of species on the island. A study of plant succession, soil formation and invertebrate communities in permanent plots on Surtsey and on two older neighbouring islands (plants and soil) has revealed that seabirds, through their transfer of nutrients from sea to land, are major drivers of development of these ecosystems. In the area impacted by seagulls dense grassland swards have developed and plant cover, species richness, diversity, plant biomass and soil carbon become significantly higher than in low-impact areas, which remained relatively barren. A similar difference was found for the invertebrate fauna. After 2000, the vegetation of the oldest part of the seagull colony became increasingly dominated by long-lived, rhizomatous grasses (Festuca, Poa, Leymus) with a decline in species richness and diversity. Old grasslands of the neighbouring islands Elliðaey (puffin colony, high nutrient input) and Heimaey (no seabirds, low nutrient input) contrasted sharply. The puffin grassland of Elliðaey was very dense and species-poor. Dominated by Festuca and Poa, it it was very similar to the seagull grassland developing on Surtsey. The Heimaey grassland was significantly higher in species richness and diversity, and had a more even cover of dominants (Festuca/Agrostis/Ranunculus). We forecast that

  17. [Surgical treatment of short stature of different etiology by the Ilizarov method].

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    Koczewski, Paweł; Shadi, Milud

    2007-01-01

    To evaluate the results of surgical short stature treatment with distraction osteogenesis using Ilizarov apparatus. Since 1996 sixteen patients were treated surgically because of short stature (11 male and 5 female) at the age of 9 to 29 years (mean 15.2). The cause of short stature in 6 patients was achondroplasia, 2 - Ellis van Creveld, 2 - Ollier disease, 1 - spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, 1 - hypothyroidism, 1 - pseudoachondroplasia and constitutional short stature - in other 3 patients. The pre-operative height ranged between 103 cm to 155 cm (mean 125). 12 patients were treated by the crossing method, means in one stage lengthening of the femur and the tibia of the contralateral limb. In 4 cases lengthening and improvement of body proportion was achieved by lower leg lengthening only (one of them lengthened twice). In 9 cases treated with the crossing method complete procedure was finished, in other 3 - only the first stage. Results In all patients the planed segmental lengthening was achieved except one tibial segment in the most older patient. Achieved height increase ranged from 8 to 20 cm (mean 13.8), on femur level 6 to 10 cm (mean 8.3) while on tibia level 2 to 10.5 cm (mean 7.3). The lengthening index for the single segment ranged from 0.6 to 4.7 months/cm (mean 1.5). Severe limitation of knee joint range of motion (up to 50 degrees) needs quadriceps plasty in one case. Residual valgus deformity of the tibia in one case with Ellis van Creveld needs corrective osteotomy. Abnormal bony re-generate of the tibia in the oldest patient did not allows achieving the planed lengthening and leads to increasing the lengthening index up to 3 times. Increasing the height with Ilizarov method is effective however the treatment time is long, requiring strict patients cooperation. The risk of complications should makes the qualification to this treatment careful and precise.

  18. Some American Jurassic ammonites of the genera Quenstedticeras, Cardioceras, and Amoeboceras, family Cardioceratida

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    Reeside, John B.

    1919-01-01

    The species cordiforme Meek and Hayden, distans Whitfield, canadense Whiteaves, and dubium Hyatt (probably including whitneyi J. P. Smith), variously assigned to the genera Amaltheus, Quenstediceras, Amoeboceras, and Cardioceras, and subtumidum Whitfield and Hovey, assigned to Aegoceras, include all the previously described species of Jurassic ammonites that are considered in this paper. Material accumulated in the National Museum at Washington, mainly through the efforts of field parties of the United States Geological Survey, has shown, however, the presence of a number of undescribed forms of considerable scientific interest. These new species were obtained mainly from the Sundance formation of Wyoming. One comes from the Ellis formation of Montana, one from Jurassic beds near Lillooet, British Columbia, and three from the Cardioceras-bearing beds near the base of the Naknek formation of Alaska.

  19. Genetic background of supernumerary teeth

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    Subasioglu, Asli; Savas, Selcuk; Kucukyilmaz, Ebru; Kesim, Servet; Yagci, Ahmet; Dundar, Munis

    2015-01-01

    Supernumerary teeth (ST) are odontostomatologic anomaly characterized by as the existence excessive number of teeth in relation to the normal dental formula. This condition is commonly seen with several congenital genetic disorders such as Gardner's syndrome, cleidocranial dysostosis and cleft lip and palate. Less common syndromes that are associated with ST are; Fabry Disease, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, Nance-Horan syndrome, Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome and Trico–Rhino–Phalangeal syndrome. ST can be an important component of a distinctive disorder and an important clue for early diagnosis. Certainly early detecting the abnormalities gives us to make correct management of the patient and also it is important for making well-informed decisions about long-term medical care and treatment. In this review, the genetic syndromes that are related with ST were discussed. PMID:25713500

  20. Genetic background of supernumerary teeth.

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    Subasioglu, Asli; Savas, Selcuk; Kucukyilmaz, Ebru; Kesim, Servet; Yagci, Ahmet; Dundar, Munis

    2015-01-01

    Supernumerary teeth (ST) are odontostomatologic anomaly characterized by as the existence excessive number of teeth in relation to the normal dental formula. This condition is commonly seen with several congenital genetic disorders such as Gardner's syndrome, cleidocranial dysostosis and cleft lip and palate. Less common syndromes that are associated with ST are; Fabry Disease, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, Nance-Horan syndrome, Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome and Trico-Rhino-Phalangeal syndrome. ST can be an important component of a distinctive disorder and an important clue for early diagnosis. Certainly early detecting the abnormalities gives us to make correct management of the patient and also it is important for making well-informed decisions about long-term medical care and treatment. In this review, the genetic syndromes that are related with ST were discussed.

  1. Common atrium associated with polydactily and dwarfism in middle age male patient.

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    Gorani, Daut R; Kamberi, Lulzim S; Gorani, Nora S

    2011-01-01

    Polydactyly associated with dwarfism may serve as a hint for the presence of additional congenital cardiac abnormalities, thus rousing the demand for a detailed cardiac and genetic investigation. In our case, echocardiography findings led to the diagnosis of most likely Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. We may conclude that prenatal diagnosis of the syndrome can be readily achieved by fetoscopy, fetal echocardiography, and molecular genetic testing by amniocentesis or DNA extracted from chorionic villus samples. Prenatal diagnosis can also be established using mutation analysis of EVC gene from fetal DNA. These cases emphasis the importance of fetal examination for accurate diagnosis of rare syndromes. Education of the general public, especially parents, on congenital anomalies as well as improvement of medical and diagnostic facilities is therefore suggested, if not demanded.

  2. Reduced autonomic responses to faces in Capgras delusion.

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    Ellis, H D; Young, A W; Quayle, A H; De Pauw, K W

    1997-07-22

    People experiencing the Capgras delusion claim that others, usually those quite close emotionally, have been replaced by near-identical impostors. Ellis & Young suggested in 1990 that the Capgras delusion results from damage to a neurological system involved in orienting responses to seen faces based on their personal significance. This hypothesis predicts that people suffering the Capgras delusion will be hyporesponsive to familiar faces. We tested this prediction in five people with Capgras delusion. Comparison data were obtained from five middle-aged members of the general public, and a psychiatric control group of five patients taking similar anti-psychotic medication. Capgras delusion patients did not reveal autonomic discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar faces, but orienting responses to auditory tones were normal in magnitude and rate of initial habituation, showing that the hyporesponsiveness is circumscribed.

  3. Reduced autonomic responses to faces in Capgras delusion.

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    Ellis, H D; Young, A W; Quayle, A H; De Pauw, K W

    1997-01-01

    People experiencing the Capgras delusion claim that others, usually those quite close emotionally, have been replaced by near-identical impostors. Ellis & Young suggested in 1990 that the Capgras delusion results from damage to a neurological system involved in orienting responses to seen faces based on their personal significance. This hypothesis predicts that people suffering the Capgras delusion will be hyporesponsive to familiar faces. We tested this prediction in five people with Capgras delusion. Comparison data were obtained from five middle-aged members of the general public, and a psychiatric control group of five patients taking similar anti-psychotic medication. Capgras delusion patients did not reveal autonomic discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar faces, but orienting responses to auditory tones were normal in magnitude and rate of initial habituation, showing that the hyporesponsiveness is circumscribed. PMID:9263474

  4. "We Cannot Be Greek Now": Age Difference, Corruption of Youth and the Making of Sexual Inversion.

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    Funke, Jana

    2013-04-01

    A Problem in Greek Ethics, A Problem in Modern Ethics and "Soldier Love" indicate that John Addington Symonds responded carefully to social anxieties regarding the influence and corruption of youth and placed increasing emphasis on presenting male same-sex desire as consensual and age-consistent. Situating Symonds's work in the social and political context of the 1880s and 1890s, the article opens up a more complex understanding of Symonds's reception of Greece. It also offers a new reading of his collaboration with Havelock Ellis by arguing that Symonds's insistence on age-equal and reciprocal relationships between men strongly shaped Sexual Inversion . This shows that concerns about age difference and ideals of equality and reciprocity began to impact debates about male same-sex desire in the late nineteenth century - earlier than is generally assumed.

  5. Quantum gravity: yesterday and today

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    Dewitt, Bryce

    2009-02-01

    Bryce DeWitt was one of the great pioneers of quantum gravity. This unpublished lecture gives his recent views on the topic, which we believe will be of great interest not only to researchers involved in modern attempts to quantize Einstein’s theory, but also to a much wider audience. It is the first installment of a book “The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity 1946-2004; Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt” that Cecile DeWitt is preparing. We would like to thank her for the permission to publish this lecture separately in General Relativity and Gravitation. Readers who have unpublished material such as letters from Bryce, and would be willing to send copies to Cecile, are hereby invited to do so. She would be very grateful. G.F.R. Ellis, H. Nicolai (Editors-in-chief).

  6. Water Flow in the High Plains Aquifer in Northwestern Oklahoma

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    Luckey, Richard R.; Osborn, Noel I.; Becker, Mark F.; Andrews, William J.

    2000-01-01

    The High Plains is a major agricultural area, supported primarily by water from the High Plains aquifer, which is used to irrigate wheat and corn and to raise cattle and swine. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) began a study of the High Plains aquifer in 1996. One purpose of the study was to develop a ground-water flow model that the OWRB could use to allocate the amount of water withdrawn from the a aquifer. The study area in Oklahoma covers all or parts of Beaver, Cimarron, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Texas, and Woodward Counties. To provide appropriate hydrologic boundaries for the ground-water flow model, the study area was expanded to include parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas.

  7. Hawaiian oral tradition describes 400 years of volcanic activity at Kīlauea

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    Swanson, Donald A.

    2008-01-01

    Culturally significant oral tradition involving Pele, the Hawaiian volcano deity, and her youngest sister Hi'iaka may involve the two largest volcanic events to have taken place in Hawai'i since human settlement: the roughly 60-year-long ‘Ailā’au eruption during the 15th century and the following development of Kīlauea's caldera. In 1823, Rev. William Ellis and three others became the first Europeans to visit Kīlauea's summit and were told stories about Kīlauea's activity that are consistent with the Pele–Hi'iaka account and extend the oral tradition through the 18th century. Recent geologic studies confirm the essence of the oral traditions and illustrate the potential value of examining other Hawaiian chants and stories for more information about past volcanic activity in Hawai‘i.

  8. The Maurice Ellis lecture for 1986. The responsibility of emergency medicine towards the prevention of road accidents.

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    Rutherford, W H

    1986-01-01

    It is argued that doctors who work in accident and emergency departments should play their part in road accident prevention. It is suggested that this might be done in the field of research, by direct action, through education of the public and by influencing legislation. Examples are given of both small and simple, and major national research projects based in accident and emergency departments. The type of direct action envisaged is modelled on the work of Dr Hayle Hadeson in preventing accidents to children. Examples of the education of the public are drawn from publicity work in the seat-belt campaign, and experiences of lobbying members of parliament in relation to seat-belt legislation are described. The relative under-funding of trauma research compared with cancer of heart disease research is seen as a measure of society's lack of interest in accident prevention, and colleagues unchallenged to do more to alter this situation. PMID:3768120

  9. “We Cannot Be Greek Now”: Age Difference, Corruption of Youth and the Making of Sexual Inversion

    PubMed Central

    2013-01-01

    A Problem in Greek Ethics, A Problem in Modern Ethics and “Soldier Love” indicate that John Addington Symonds responded carefully to social anxieties regarding the influence and corruption of youth and placed increasing emphasis on presenting male same-sex desire as consensual and age-consistent. Situating Symonds's work in the social and political context of the 1880s and 1890s, the article opens up a more complex understanding of Symonds's reception of Greece. It also offers a new reading of his collaboration with Havelock Ellis by arguing that Symonds's insistence on age-equal and reciprocal relationships between men strongly shaped Sexual Inversion. This shows that concerns about age difference and ideals of equality and reciprocity began to impact debates about male same-sex desire in the late nineteenth century – earlier than is generally assumed. PMID:25400291

  10. No genome barriers to promiscuous DNA

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    Lewin, R.

    1984-06-01

    Farrelly and Butow (1983) used the term 'promiscuous DNA' in their report of the apparent natural transfer of yeast mitochondrial DNA sequences into the nuclear genome. Ellis (1982) applied the same term in an editorial comment. It is pointed out since that time the subject of DNA's promiscuity has exploded with a series of reports. According to a report by Stern (1984), movement of DNA sequences between chloroplasts and mitochondria is not just a rare event but is a rampant process. It was recently concluded that 'the widespread presence of ctDNA sequences in plant mtDNA is best regarded as a dramatic demonstration of the dynamo nature of interactions between the chloroplast and the mitochondrion, similar to the ongoing process of interorganellar DNA transfer already documented between mitochondrion and nucleus and between chloroplast and nucleus'.

  11. Flu, Floods, and Fire: Ethical Public Health Preparedness.

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    Phelan, Alexandra L; Gostin, Lawrence O

    2017-05-01

    Even as public health ethics was developing as a field, major incidents such as 9/11 and the SARS epidemic propelled discourse around public health emergency preparedness and response. Policy and practice shifted to a multidisciplinary approach, recognizing the broad range of potential threats to public health, including biological, physical, radiological, and chemical threats. This propelled the development of surveillance systems to detect incidents, laboratory capacities to rapidly test for potential threats, and therapeutic and social countermeasures to prepare for and respond to a range of hazards. In bringing public health ethics and emergency preparedness together, Emergency Ethics: Public Health Preparedness and Response adds depth and complexity to both fields. As global threats continue to emerge, the book, edited by Bruce Jennings, John D. Arras, Drue H. Barrett, and Barbara A. Ellis, will offer a vital compass. © 2017 The Hastings Center.

  12. Republication of: Exact solutions of the field equations of the general theory of relativity

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    Jordan, Pascual; Ehlers, Jürgen; Kundt, Wolfgang

    2009-09-01

    This is an English translation of a paper by Pascual Jordan, Jürgen Ehlers and Wolfgang Kundt, first published in 1960. The original paper was part 1 of a five-part series of articles containing the first summary of knowledge about exact solutions of Einstein’s equations found until then. (The other parts of the series will be printed as Golden Oldies in the future.) The paper has been selected by the Editors of General Relativity and Gravitation for re-publication in the Golden Oldies series of the journal. It is accompanied by an editorial note written by G. F. R. Ellis, and by the biographies of the authors: P. Jordan (written by A. Krasiński) and W. Kundt (written by himself). The biography of J. Ehlers is contained elsewhere in the same issue of GRG, which is devoted to his memory.

  13. The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 9: the University of Tasmania's Llanherne (Hobart Airport) Field Station during the 1960s-1980s

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    George, Martin; Orchiston, Wayne; Wielebinski, Richard

    2018-04-01

    Beginning in the early 1960s, the University of Tasmania became very involved in low frequency radio astronomical studies, which was to continue into the 1980s. Although important low frequency arrays were set up at Penna and Richmond, the main location for this activity by the University was in the vicinity of Hobart Airport, known as Llanherne. This paper describes the work performed there at frequencies of 30 MHz and below, mainly for studying radio emission from Jupiter and the Galaxy. The largest of the installations was the Llanherne Low Frequency Array, a 640 × 640 m antenna array adjacent to Holyman Avenue; it was well known to the public because of its high visibility to airport patrons. Other installations were set up closer to the airport runway. Various researchers, including Graeme Ellis, Hilary Cane and others, made observations at Llanherne.

  14. An appraisal of rational-emotive therapy.

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    Haaga, D A; Davison, G C

    1993-04-01

    Albert Ellis's rational-emotive therapy (RET) is scrutinized on several conceptual and empirical grounds, including its reliance on constructive assessment and its ethical stance. Its professional impact thus far exceeds its scientific status. Opinion varies on how even to define irrational beliefs; 1 consequence is problems in assessing them. Meta-analytic reviews provide support for the general utility of RET, but more qualitative reviews question both the internal and external validity of much of the published research. Lacking are process studies that can shed light on the mechanisms of therapeutic change, a situation likely due to the complexity of RET and to a lack of consensus as well about its very definition. Perhaps more progress can be achieved by forsaking studies of RET as a package and shifting instead to examination of specific therapeutic tactics in particular circumstances.

  15. The true identity of Siderastrea glynni Budd & Guzmán, 1994, a highly endangered eastern Pacific scleractinian coral

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    Glynn, Peter W.; Grassian, Benjamin; Kleemann, Karl H.; Maté, Juan L.

    2016-12-01

    Siderastrea glynni Budd & Guzmán, 1994 was erroneously erected from live colonies of S. siderea (Ellis & Solander, 1768) unintentionally transferred from the Caribbean to the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panamá. These corals had been used in experiments conducted in the early 1980s by KH Kleemann at Urabá Island, Taboga Islands, Gulf of Panamá, at the same site of the subsequent S. glynni discovery. Here, we offer evidence that live fragments deposited at Urabá Island in 1982 are the same found by Guzmán in 1992, and were inadvertently introduced from colonies of Caribbean S. siderea that were presumed to be dead. This morphological study builds on and supports recent genetic analyses of the S. glynni holobiont. In light of these findings, S. glynni should be regarded as a subjective junior synonym of S. siderea.

  16. Emergence and Phase Transitions

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    Sikkema, Arnold

    2006-05-01

    Phase transitions are well defined in physics through concepts such as spontaneous symmetry breaking, order parameter, entropy, and critical exponents. But emergence --- also exhibiting whole-part relations (such as top-down influence), unpredictability, and insensitivity to microscopic detail --- is a loosely-defined concept being used in many disciplines, particularly in psychology, biology, philosophy, as well as in physics[1,2]. I will review the concepts of emergence as used in the various fields and consider the extent to which the methods of phase transitions can clarify the usefulness of the concept of emergence both within the discipline of physics and beyond.1. Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (New York: Basic Books, 2005). 2. George F.R. Ellis, ``Physics and the Real World'', Physics Today, vol. 58, no. 7 (July 2005) pp. 49-54.

  17. Comparison of a new calculation of energy-energy correlations with {ital e}{sup +}{ital e}{sup {minus}}{r_arrow} hadrons data at the {ital Z}{sup 0} resonance

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    Abe, K.; Abt, I.; Ahn, C.J.

    1995-10-01

    We have compared a new QCD calculation by Clay and Ellis of energy-energy correlations (EEC`s) and their asymmetry (AEEC`s) in {ital e}{sup +}{ital e}{sup {minus}} annihilation into hadrons with data collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. From fits of the new calculation, complete at {ital O}({alpha}{sub {ital s}}{sup 2}), we obtained {alpha}{sub {ital s}}({ital M}{sub {ital Z}}{sup 2})=0.1184{plus_minus}0.0031(expt){plus_minus}0.0129(theory) (EEC) and {alpha}{sub {ital s}}({ital M}{sub {ital Z}}{sup 2})=0.1120{plus_minus}0.0034(expt){plus_minus}0.0036(theory) (AEEC). The EEC result is significantly lower than that obtained from comparable fits using the {ital O}({alpha}{sub {ital s}}{sup 2}) calculation of Kunszt and Nason.

  18. The 2nd United Kingdom Extracellular Vesicle Forum Meeting Abstracts: 15 December 2015, Hadyn Ellis Building, Cardiff University.

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    Clayton, Aled; Lawson, Charlotte; Gardiner, Chris; Harrison, Paul; Carter, David

    2016-01-01

    The UK Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV) Forum meetings were born of the realization that there were a number of UK laboratories studying extracellular vesicle biology and using similar techniques but without a regular national meeting dedicated to EVs at which to share their findings. This was compounded by the fact that many of these labs were working in different fields and thus networking and sharing of ideas and best practice was sometimes difficult. The first workshop was organized in 2013 by Dr Charlotte Lawson, under the auspices of the Society for Endocrinology, led to the founding of the UKEV Forum and the organization of a British Heart Foundation sponsored 1-day conference held in London in December 2014. Although growing in size every year, the central aims of these workshops have remained the same: to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas, to allow young scientists to present their data in the form of short talks and poster presentations and to discuss their work with more established scientists in the field. Here we include the presented abstracts for the 2015 1-day conference hosted by Cardiff University. This meeting was attended by approximately 130 delegates throughout the United Kingdom, but also attended by delegates from Belgium, Netherlands, France, Ireland and other nations. The day composed of plenary presentations from Prof Matthias Belting, Lund University, Sweden and Dr Guillaume van Niel, Institut Curie, Paris together with 10 short presentations from submitted abstracts. The topics covered were broad, with sessions on Mechanisms of EV production, EVs in Infection, EVs in Cancer and in Blood and Characterizing EVs in Biological fluids. This hopefully gives a reflection of the range of EV-related studies being conducted currently in the UK. There were also 33 poster presentations equally broad in subject matter. The organizers are grateful to the Life Science Research Network Wales - a Welsh government-funding scheme that part-sponsored the conference. We are also grateful to commercial sponsors, and 3 paid-presentations are included in the abstracts. The UK EV Forum is expected to become an established annual event held at different Universities across the UK and continue to attract increasing delegate numbers and abstract submissions. We look forward to the next planned conference, which will be hosted by David Carter and his colleagues at Oxford Brookes University on 13th December 2016.

  19. SU-F-19A-12: Split-Ring Applicator with Interstitial Needle for Improved Volumetric Coverage in HDR Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer

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    Sherertz, T; Ellis, R; Colussi, V

    2014-06-15

    Purpose: To evaluate volumetric coverage of a Mick Radionuclear titanium Split-Ring applicator (SRA) with/without interstitial needle compared to an intracavitary Vienna applicator (VA), interstitial-intracavitary VA, and intracavitary ring and tandem applicator (RTA). Methods: A 57 year-old female with FIGO stage IIB cervical carcinoma was treated following chemoradiotherapy (45Gy pelvic and 5.4Gy parametrial boost) with highdose- rate (HDR) brachytherapy to 30Gy in 5 fractions using a SRA. A single interstitial needle was placed using the Ellis Interstitial Cap for the final three fractions to increase coverage of left-sided gross residual disease identified on 3T-MRI. High-risk (HR) clinical target volume (CTV) andmore » intermediate-risk (IR) CTV were defined using axial T2-weighted 2D and 3D MRI sequences (Philips PET/MRI unit). Organs-at-risks (OARs) were delineated on CT. Oncentra planning system was used for treatment optimization satisfying GEC-ESTRO guidelines for target coverage and OAR constraints. Retrospectively, treatment plans (additional 20 plans) were simulated using intracavitary SRA (without needle), intracavitary VA (without needle), interstitial-intracavitary VA, and intracavitary RTA with this same patient case. Plans were optimized for each fraction to maintain coverage to HR-CTV. Results: Interstitial-intracavitary SRA achieved the following combined coverage for external radiation and brachytherapy (EQD2): D90 HR-CTV =94.6Gy; Bladder-2cc =88.9Gy; Rectum-2cc =65.1Gy; Sigmoid-2cc =48.9Gy; Left vaginal wall (VW) =103Gy, Right VW =99.2Gy. Interstitial-intracavitary VA was able to achieve identical D90 HR-CTV =94.6Gy, yet Bladder-2cc =91.9Gy (exceeding GEC-ESTRO recommendations of 2cc<90Gy) and Left VW =120.8Gy and Right VW =115.5Gy. Neither the SRA nor VA without interstitial needle could cover HR-CTV adequately without exceeding dose to Bladder-2cc. Conventional RTA was unable to achieve target coverage for the HR-CTV >80Gy without severely

  20. Plant colonization, succession and ecosystem development on Surtsey with reference to neighbouring islands

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    Magnússon, B.; Magnússon, S. H.; Ólafsson, E.; Sigurdsson, B. D.

    2014-10-01

    Plant colonization and succession on the volcanic island of Surtsey, formed in 1963, have been closely followed. In 2013, a total of 69 vascular plant species had been discovered on the island; of these, 59 were present and 39 had established viable populations. Surtsey had more than twice the species of any of the comparable neighbouring islands, and all of their common species had established on Surtsey. The first colonizers were dispersed by sea, but, after 1985, bird dispersal became the principal pathway with the formation of a seagull colony on the island and consequent site amelioration. This allowed wind-dispersed species to establish after 1990. Since 2007, there has been a net loss of species on the island. A study of plant succession, soil formation and invertebrate communities in permanent plots on Surtsey and on two older neighbouring islands (plants and soil) has revealed that seabirds, through their transfer of nutrients from sea to land, are major drivers of development of these ecosystems. In the area impacted by seagulls, dense grassland swards have developed and plant cover, species richness, diversity, plant biomass and soil carbon become significantly higher than in low-impact areas, which remained relatively barren. A similar difference was found for the invertebrate fauna. After 2000, the vegetation of the oldest part of the seagull colony became increasingly dominated by long-lived, rhizomatous grasses (Festuca, Poa, Leymus) with a decline in species richness and diversity. Old grasslands of the neighbouring islands Elliđaey (puffin colony, high nutrient input) and Heimaey (no seabirds, low nutrient input) contrasted sharply. The puffin grassland of Elliđaey was very dense and species-poor. It was dominated by Festuca and Poa, and very similar to the seagull grassland developing on Surtsey. The Heimaey grassland was significantly higher in species richness and diversity, and had a more even cover of dominants (Festuca

  1. Language-learning disabilities: Paradigms for the nineties.

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    Wiig, E H

    1991-01-01

    We are beginning a decade, during which many traditional paradigms in education, special education, and speech-language pathology will undergo change. Among paradigms considered promising for speech-language pathology in the schools are collaborative language intervention and strategy training for language and communication. This presentation introduces management models for developing a collaborative language intervention process, among them the Deming Management Method for Total Quality (TQ) (Deming 1986). Implementation models for language assessment and IEP planning and multicultural issues are also introduced (Damico and Nye 1990; Secord and Wiig in press). While attention to processes involved in developing and implementing collaborative language intervention is paramount, content should not be neglected. To this end, strategy training for language and communication is introduced as a viable paradigm. Macro- and micro-level process models for strategy training are featured and general issues are discussed (Ellis, Deshler, and Schumaker 1989; Swanson 1989; Wiig 1989).

  2. Multi-Attribute Strategy and Performance Architectures in R&D: The Case of The Balanced Scorecard

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    2006-03-01

    learning.    We also found that balance, accessibility, transparency, and participation are increasingly  being  seen  as desirable features of the strategy...project would have never  seen  the light of the day. I am especially  thankful to Steven Popper for giving me the confidence to take on this challenging...among a ranking of 16 R&D  related problems perceived by the members for two years, 1993 & 1995 (Ellis, 1997.)  Traditionally R&D was  seen  as a rather

  3. 'Genipin' - the natural water soluble cross-linking agent and its importance in the modified drug delivery systems: an overview.

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    Manickam, Balamurugan; Sreedharan, Rajesh; Elumalai, Manogaran

    2014-01-01

    One of the popular approaches in controlling drug delivery from the polymeric carriers is suitably achieved by the inclusion of crosslinking agents into the formulations at different concentrations. Nevertheless, addition of the chemical crosslinkers such as glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde etc, used in the drug delivery systems causes very serious cytotoxic reactions. These chemical crosslinking agents did not offer any significant advantageous effects when compared to the natural crosslinking agents for instance genipin, which is quite less toxic, biocompatible and offers very stable crosslinked products. Based on the earlier reports the safety of this particular natural crosslinker is very well established, since it has been widely used as a Chinese traditional medicine for long-time, isolated from fruits of the plant Gardenia jasminoides Ellis. This concise article largely portrayed the value of this unique natural crosslinker, utilized in controlling the drug delivery from the various formulations.

  4. The Contribution from Neutrino Yukawa Couplings to Lepton Electric Dipole Moments

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    Farzan, Y

    2004-05-24

    To explain the observed neutrino masses through the seesaw mechanism, a supersymmetric generalization of the Standard Model should include heavy right-handed neutrino supermultiplets. Then the neutrino Yukawa couplings can induce CP violation in the lepton sector. In this paper, we compute the contribution of these CP violating terms to lepton electric dipole moments. We introduce a new formalism that makes use of supersymmetry to expose the GIM cancellations. In the region of small tan {beta}, we find a different result from that given previously by Ellis, Hisano, Raidal, and Shimizu. We confirm the structure found by this group, but withmore » a much smaller overall coefficient. In the region of large tan {beta}, we recompute the leading term that has been identified by Masina and confirm her result up to minor factors. We discuss the implications of these results for constraints on the Y{sub v}.« less

  5. Gravity affects the closure of the traps in Dionaea muscipula.

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    Pandolfi, Camilla; Masi, Elisa; Voigt, Boris; Mugnai, Sergio; Volkmann, Dieter; Mancuso, Stefano

    2014-01-01

    Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis) is a carnivorous plant known for its ability to capture insects thanks to the fast snapping of its traps. This fast movement has been long studied and it is triggered by the mechanical stimulation of hairs, located in the middle of the leaves. Here we present detailed experiments on the effect of microgravity on trap closure recorded for the first time during a parabolic flight campaign. Our results suggest that gravity has an impact on trap responsiveness and on the kinetics of trap closure. The possible role of the alterations of membrane permeability induced by microgravity on trap movement is discussed. Finally we show how the Venus flytrap could be an easy and effective model plant to perform studies on ion channels and aquaporin activities, as well as on electrical activity in vivo on board of parabolic flights and large diameter centrifuges.

  6. We Detect Blue Light Phenomena Correlating with Environmental and Weather Changes, and Historic Native Americans or Their Place Names.

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    Ochs, Michael Ann; Mc Leod, Roger D.; Mc Leod, Edward M.

    2003-10-01

    Katahdin (Christ Cathar Spirit-signal stronghold) in Maine is sacred to the Penobscot Indian Nation. That mountain complex, and areas like Ellis Pond, ME and Penley Hill/Anasagunticook (adherent of Jesus Christ Spirit-signal doctor church) of the Mexico/Rumford/Mountain Valley region, also in Maine, have an association with historic Native Americans like the medicine woman Molocket/Molly Ockett. We have observed that these and other regions generate electromagnetic field (EMF) signals, which we can detect visually and in other ways. Such signals have sometimes been associated with significant and dynamic weather phenomena. Ohio's Serpent Mound and associated regions, or those now occupied by the Hopi Indian Nation, formerly an ancient Anasazi site, or areas of the current and earlier Mayan Nations, or the Nazca Plateau of Peru, may generate signals correlating with climate change, that may impact our technology, as in major power blackouts.

  7. Preparing for Hiking and Rock-Climbing At Altitude

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    Greenleaf, John E.

    2002-01-01

    Exposure to altitude with or without exercise usually results in body dehydration. Psychological and physiological preparation for exercise at altitude involves consideration of maintaining body warmth in a cool to cold environment with progressively lower oxygen content (partial pressure) as altitude increases. However, this discussion will focus on altitudes below 14,000 it where supplemental breathing oxygen is not required for sojourns of healthy people. Background information and helpful advice for those who exercise in the cold can be found in selected articles in the 2001 Winter Issue of this Newsletter: M.B. Ducharme, Get ready for outdoor winter play: prepare yourself for the cold; C. O'Brien, Think layers when dressing for exercise in the cold; B.G. Rice and R. Ellis, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow - but be aware of winter hazards; and L.B. Mayers, Exercise - induced asthma.

  8. Clinical usefulness of temporal artery biopsy.

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    Vilaseca, J; González, A; Cid, M C; Lopez-Vivancos, J; Ortega, A

    1987-01-01

    To assess the diagnostic usefulness of temporal artery biopsy in temporal arteritis (TA) and establish clinical features capable of predicting its positivity we have retrospectively studied the biopsy specimens and the clinical features of 103 patients who had undergone temporal artery biopsy. Temporal artery biopsy reached a positive predictive value of 90.2% with respect to the final diagnosis based on the criteria proposed by Ellis and Ralston and the clinical course. The simultaneous presence of recent onset headache, jaw claudication, and abnormalities of the temporal arteries on physical examination had a specificity of 94.8% with respect to the histological diagnosis and of 100% with respect to final diagnosis. The presence of any of these clinical features, though of little specificity (34.4%), had a sensitivity of 100% with respect to histological diagnosis, selecting a group of patients in whom temporal artery biopsy has more discriminative value. PMID:3592783

  9. Rectifiability of Line Defects in Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation

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    Alper, Onur

    2018-04-01

    In [2], H ardt, L in and the author proved that the defect set of minimizers of the modified Ericksen energy for nematic liquid crystals consists locally of a finite union of isolated points and Hölder continuous curves with finitely many crossings. In this article, we show that each Hölder continuous curve in the defect set is of finite length. Hence, locally, the defect set is rectifiable. For the most part, the proof closely follows the work of D e L ellis et al. (Rectifiability and upper minkowski bounds for singularities of harmonic q-valued maps, arXiv:1612.01813, 2016) on harmonic Q-valued maps. The blow-up analysis in A lper et al. (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 56(5):128, 2017) allows us to simplify the covering arguments in [11] and locally estimate the length of line defects in a geometric fashion.

  10. Production and carbonate dynamics of Halimeda incrassata (Ellis) Lamouroux altered by Thalassia testudinum Banks and Soland ex König

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    Barry, S.; Frazer, T.; Jacoby, C.

    2013-05-01

    Ocean acidification poses a serious threat to a broad suite of calcifying organisms. Scleractinian corals and calcareous algae that occupy shallow, tropical waters are vulnerable to global changes in ocean chemistry because they already are subject to stressful and variable carbon dynamics at the local scale. For example, net heterotrophy increases carbon dioxide concentrations, and pH varies with diurnal fluctuations in photosynthesis and respiration. Few researchers, however, have investigated the possibility that carbon dioxide consumption during photosynthesis by non-calcifying photoautotrophs, such as seagrasses, can ameliorate deleterious effects of ocean acidification on sympatric calcareous algae. Naturally occurring variations in the density of seagrasses and associated calcareous algae provide an ecologically relevant test of the hypothesis that diel fluctuations in water chemistry driven by cycles of photosynthesis and respiration within seagrass beds create microenvironments that enhance macroalgal calcification. In Grape Tree Bay off Little Cayman Island BWI, we quantified net production and characterized calcification for thalli of the calcareous green alga Halimeda incrassata growing within beds of Thalassia testudinum with varying shoot densities. Results indicated that individual H. incrassata thalli were ~6% more calcified in dense seagrass beds. On an areal basis, however, far more calcium carbonate was produced by H. incrassata in areas where seagrasses were less dense due to higher rates of production. In addition, diel pH regimes in vegetated and unvegetated areas within the lagoon were not significantly different, suggesting water exchange and mixing throughout the lagoon. These results suggest that, especially in well-mixed lagoons, carbonate production by calcareous algae may be more related to biotic interactions between seagrasses and calcareous algae than to seagrass-mediated changes in local water chemistry.

  11. Deterministic and stochastic algorithms for resolving the flow fields in ducts and networks using energy minimization

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    Sochi, Taha

    2016-09-01

    Several deterministic and stochastic multi-variable global optimization algorithms (Conjugate Gradient, Nelder-Mead, Quasi-Newton and global) are investigated in conjunction with energy minimization principle to resolve the pressure and volumetric flow rate fields in single ducts and networks of interconnected ducts. The algorithms are tested with seven types of fluid: Newtonian, power law, Bingham, Herschel-Bulkley, Ellis, Ree-Eyring and Casson. The results obtained from all those algorithms for all these types of fluid agree very well with the analytically derived solutions as obtained from the traditional methods which are based on the conservation principles and fluid constitutive relations. The results confirm and generalize the findings of our previous investigations that the energy minimization principle is at the heart of the flow dynamics systems. The investigation also enriches the methods of computational fluid dynamics for solving the flow fields in tubes and networks for various types of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.

  12. Finding the Big Bang

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    Peebles, P. James E.; Page, Lyman A., Jr.; Partridge, R. Bruce

    2009-03-01

    1. Introduction; 2. A guide to modern cosmology; 3. Origins of the cosmology of the 1960s; 4. Recollections of the 1960s Dave Hogg, Neville Woolf, George B. Field, Patrick Thaddeus, Donald E. Osterbrock, Yuri Nikolaevich Smirnov, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich, Rashid Alievich Sunyaev, Malcolm S. Longair, Arno Penzias, Robert W. Wilson, Bernard F. Burke, Kenneth C. Turner, P. James E. Peebles, David T. Wilkinson, Peter G. Roll, R. Bruce Partridge, Malcolm S. Longair, John Faulkner, Robert V. Wagoner, Martin Rees, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Jayant V. Narlikar, David Layzer, Michele Kaufman, Jasper V. Wall, John Shakeshaft, William Welch, Kazimir S. Stankevich, Paul Boynton, Robert A. Stokes, Martin Harwit, Judith L. Pipher, Kandiah Shivanandan, Rainer Weiss, Jer-tsang Yu, Rainer K. Sachs, Arthur M. Wolfe, Joe Silk, George F. R. Ellis, Ronald N. Bracewell, Edward K. Conklin, Stephen Boughn, Karl C. Davis, Paul S. Henry; 5. Cosmology and the CMBR since the 1960s Dick Bond; Appendixes; Glossary; References; Index.

  13. Evaluating the Link between Self-Esteem and Temperament in Mexican Origin Early Adolescents

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    Robins, Richard W.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Widaman, Keith F.; Conger, Rand D.

    2009-01-01

    The present study examined the relation between self-esteem and temperament in a sample of 646 Mexican-American early adolescents (mean age=10.4). Self-esteem was assessed using child reports on the Self-Description Questionnaire II—Short (SDQII-S; Marsh et al., 2005) and temperament was assessed using child and mother reports on the revised Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire (Ellis & Rothbart, 2001). Findings show that: (a) early adolescents with high self-esteem show higher levels of Effortful Control but, contrary to findings in adult samples, do not differ from low self-esteem adolescents in Negative Affectivity; (b) low self-esteem is associated with Depression; and (c) low self-esteem is associated with Aggression. These findings replicated for boys and girls, two measures of self-esteem, and child and mother reports of temperament. The present study contributes to an emerging understanding of the link between self-esteem and temperament, and provides much needed data on the nature of self-esteem in ethnic minority populations. PMID:19740537

  14. Building a self-regulatory model of sleep deprivation and deception: the role of caffeine and social influence.

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    Welsh, David T; Ellis, Aleksander P J; Christian, Michael S; Mai, Ke Michael

    2014-11-01

    Employees are getting less sleep, which has been shown to deplete self-regulatory resources and increase unethical behavior (Barnes, Schaubroeck, Huth, & Ghumman, 2011; Christian & Ellis, 2011). In this study, we extend the original mediated model by examining the role of 2 moderators in the relationship between sleep deprivation, depletion, and deceptive behavior. First, we derive psychological arguments from the psychopharmacology literature to hypothesize that caffeine moderates the relationship between sleep deprivation and depletion by replenishing self-regulatory resources. Second, we draw from recent research in social psychology to hypothesize that social influence moderates the relationship between depletion and deceptive behavior, such that depleted individuals are less able to resist the negative influence of others. Results of a laboratory study provide support for our expanded model combining mediation and moderation, adding to our understanding of the role of sleep deprivation in the incidence of workplace deception. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

  15. History society launches journal

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    Richman, Barbara T.

    A fledgling international organization plans to launch, in the next few months, a journal devoted to the study of the history of the earth sciences. The journal, to be published by the History of Earth Sciences Society (HESS), will be edited by Gerald M. Friedman ot the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.HESS will promote interest and scholarship in the history of the earth sciences by publishing the semiannual journal, by organizing meetings about the history of earth sciences, and by supporting the efforts of other associations displaying similar interests, according to the society's draft constitution. An organizational meeting to ratify the constitution and to elect officers will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in October. The interim officers and the proposed slate for 1983 include David B. Kitts (University of Oklahoma, Norman), president; Albert V. Carrozi (University of Illinois, Urbana), president-elect; and Ellis L. Yochelson (U.S. Geological Survey, National Museum of Natural History), secretary.

  16. Contribution from neutrino Yukawa couplings to lepton electric dipole moments

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    Farzan, Yasaman; Scuola Internazionale di Studi Avanzati; Peskin, Michael E.

    2004-11-01

    To explain the observed neutrino masses through the seesaw mechanism, a supersymmetric generalization of the standard model should include heavy right-handed neutrino supermultiplets. Then the neutrino Yukawa couplings can induce CP violation in the lepton sector. In this paper, we compute the contribution of these CP violating terms to lepton electric dipole moments. We introduce a new formalism that makes use of supersymmetry to expose the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani cancellations. In the region of small tan{beta}, we find a different result from that given previously by Ellis, Hisano, Raidal, and Shimizu. We confirm the structure found by this group, but with amore » much smaller overall coefficient. In the region of large tan{beta}, we recompute the leading term that has been identified by Masina and confirm her result up to minor factors. We discuss the implications of these results for constraints on the Y{sub {nu}}.« less

  17. N-METHYL GROUPS IN BACTERIAL LIPIDS

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    Goldfine, Howard; Ellis, Martha E.

    1964-01-01

    Goldfine, Howard (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.), and Martha E. Ellis. N-methyl groups in bacterial lipids. J. Bacteriol. 87:8–15. 1964.—The ability of bacteria to synthesize lecithin was examined by measuring the incorporation of the methyl group of methionine into the water-soluble moieties obtained on acid hydrolysis of bacterial lipids. Of 21 species examined, mostly of the order Eubacteriales, only 2, Agrobacterium radiobacter and A. rhizogenes, incorporated the methyl group of methionine into lipid-bound choline. Evidence was also obtained for the formation of lipid-bound N-methylethanolamine and N,N′-dimethylethanolamine in these two organisms. Two other species, Clostridium butyricum and Proteus vulgaris, incorporated the methyl group of methionine into lipid-bound N-methylethanolamine, but did not appear to be able to further methylate these lipids to form lecithin. The results of this study lend further strength to the generalization that bacteria, with the exception of the genus Agrobacterium, are unable to synthesize lecithin. PMID:14102879

  18. Recurrent short rib polydactyly syndrome.

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    Eleftheriades, M; Iavazzo, C; Manolakos, E; Hassiakos, D; Botsis, D; Petersen, M; Konstantinidou, A

    2013-01-01

    We present three consecutive cases of skeletal dysplasias of a non-consanguineous couple with five pregnancies. The diagnosis of short-rib polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) was feasible by ultrasound during the 1st trimester of pregnancy. SRPS represents a heterogeneous group of lethal skeletal dysplasias. It is characterised by short limb dwarfism complicated by thoracic hypoplasia, polydactyly and different anomalies of major organs such as congenital heart defects and renal dysplasia. Four major types of the SRPS have been described: type I (Saldino-Noonan); type II (Majewski); type III (Verma-Naumoff) and type IV (Beemar-Langer). However, there is phenotypic overlapping between four types and with those of non-lethal skeletal dysplasias (i.e. Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and Jeune syndrome). Our cases show the importance of the nuchal translucency (NT) scan that offers the opportunity to examine fetal anatomy in the 1st trimester and diagnose rare skeletal abnormalities early in pregnancy.

  19. Phantom wormholes in Einstein–Maxwell-dilaton theory

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    Goulart, Prieslei

    2018-01-01

    In this paper we give an electrically charged traversable wormhole solution for the Einstein–Maxwell-dilaton theory when the dilaton is a phantom field, i.e. it has flipped sign kinetic term appearing in the action. In the limit when the charge is zero, we recover the anti-Fisher solution, which can be reduced to the Bronnikov–Ellis solution under certain choices of integration constants. The equations of motion of this theory share the same S-duality invariance of string theory, so the electrically charged solution is rotated into the magnetically charged one by applying such transformations. The scalar field is topological, so we compute its topological charge, and discuss that under appropriate boundary conditions we can have a lump, a kink, or an anti-kink profile. We determine the position of the throat, and show the embedding diagram of the wormhole. As a physical application, we apply the Gauss–Bonnet theorem to compute the deflection angle of a light-ray that passes close to the wormhole.

  20. Laws, causation and dynamics at different levels.

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    Butterfield, Jeremy

    2012-02-06

    I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (§2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (§§3 and 4). The first aim is to state my general views about laws and causation at different 'levels'. The main task is to understand how the higher levels sustain notions of law and causation that 'ride free' of reductions to the lower level or levels. I endeavour to relate my views to those of other symposiasts. The second aim is to give a framework for describing dynamics at different levels, emphasizing how the various levels' dynamics can mesh or fail to mesh. This framework is essentially that of elementary dynamical systems theory. The main idea will be, for simplicity, to work with just two levels, dubbed 'micro' and 'macro', which are related by coarse-graining. I use this framework to describe, in part, the first four of Ellis' five types of top-down causation.

  1. 50 years of rational‐emotive and cognitive‐behavioral therapy: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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    Cotet, Carmen; Matu, Silviu; Mogoase, Cristina; Stefan, Simona

    2017-01-01

    Objective Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), introduced by Albert Ellis in the late 1950s, is one of the main pillars of cognitive‐behavioral therapy. Existing reviews on REBT are overdue by 10 years or more. We aimed to summarize the effectiveness and efficacy of REBT since its beginnings and investigate the alleged mechanisms of change. Method Systematic search identified 84 articles, out of which 68 provided data for between‐group analyses and 39 for within‐group analyses. Results We found a medium effect size of REBT compared to other interventions on outcomes (d = 0.58) and on irrational beliefs (d = 0.70), at posttest. For the within‐group analyses, we obtained medium effects for both outcomes (d = 0.56) and irrational beliefs (d = 0.61). Several significant moderators emerged. Conclusion REBT is a sound psychological intervention. Directions for future studies are outlined, stemming from the limitations of existing ones. PMID:28898411

  2. Mechanisms underlying REBT in mood disordered patients: predicting depression from the hybrid model of learning.

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    Jackson, Chris J; Izadikah, Zahra; Oei, Tian P S

    2012-06-01

    Jackson's (2005, 2008a) hybrid model of learning identifies a number of learning mechanisms that lead to the emergence and maintenance of the balance between rationality and irrationality. We test a general hypothesis that Jackson's model will predict depressive symptoms, such that poor learning is related to depression. We draw comparisons between Jackson's model and Ellis' (2004) Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Theory (REBT) and thereby provide a set of testable learning mechanisms potentially underlying REBT. Results from 80 patients diagnosed with depression completed the learning styles profiler (LSP; Jackson, 2005) and two measures of depression. Results provide support for the proposed model of learning and further evidence that low rationality is a key predictor of depression. We conclude that the hybrid model of learning has the potential to explain some of the learning and cognitive processes related to the development and maintenance of irrational beliefs and depression. Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier B.V.

  3. 50 years of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavioral therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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    David, Daniel; Cotet, Carmen; Matu, Silviu; Mogoase, Cristina; Stefan, Simona

    2018-03-01

    Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), introduced by Albert Ellis in the late 1950s, is one of the main pillars of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Existing reviews on REBT are overdue by 10 years or more. We aimed to summarize the effectiveness and efficacy of REBT since its beginnings and investigate the alleged mechanisms of change. Systematic search identified 84 articles, out of which 68 provided data for between-group analyses and 39 for within-group analyses. We found a medium effect size of REBT compared to other interventions on outcomes (d = 0.58) and on irrational beliefs (d = 0.70), at posttest. For the within-group analyses, we obtained medium effects for both outcomes (d = 0.56) and irrational beliefs (d = 0.61). Several significant moderators emerged. REBT is a sound psychological intervention. Directions for future studies are outlined, stemming from the limitations of existing ones. © 2017 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  4. Taylor Impact Tests and Simulations on PBX 9501

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    Clements, Brad; Thompson, Darla G.; Luscher, D. J.; Deluca, Racci

    2011-06-01

    Taylor impact tests have been conducted previously on plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) to characterize the stress state of these materials as they impact smooth and flat steel anvil surfaces at speeds of ~100m/s (i.e. Christopher, et al, 11th Detonation Symposium). In 2003, C. Liu and R. Ellis (unpublished, Los Alamos National Laboratory) performed Taylor tests on PBX 9501 up to speeds of 115 m/s, capturing impact images. In the work presented here, we have extended these tests to velocities of 200 m/s using a composite-lined gun barrel and no specimen sabot. Specimen images are used to validate the thermo-mechanical constitutive model ViscoSCRAM. ViscoSCRAM has been parameterized for PBX 9501 in uniaxial stress configurations. Simulating Taylor impact experiments tests the model in situations undergoing extreme damage. In addition, experimental variations to specimen confinement and friction are introduced in an attempt to establish ignition thresholds in this velocity regime.

  5. Spin structure of the neutron ({sup 3}He) and the Bjoerken sum rule

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    Meziani, Z.E.

    1994-12-01

    A first measurement of the longitudinal asymmetry of deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons from a polarized {sup 3}He target at energies ranging from 19 to 26 GeV has been performed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The spin-structure function of the neutron g{sub 1}{sup n} has been extracted from the measured asymmetries. The Quark Parton Model (QPM) interpretation of the nucleon spin-structure function is examined in light of the new results. A test of the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule (E-J) on the neutron is performed at high momentum transfer and found to be satisfied. Furthermore, combining the proton results ofmore » the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) and the neutron results of E-142, the Bjoerken sum rule test is carried at high Q{sup 2} where higher order Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (PQCD) corrections and higher-twist corrections are smaller. The sum rule is saturated to within one standard deviation.« less

  6. Genetic applications in avian conservation

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    Haig, Susan M.; Bronaugh, Whitcomb M.; Crowhurst, Rachel S.; D'Elia, Jesse; Eagles-Smith, Collin A.; Epps, Clinton W.; Knaus, Brian; Miller, Mark P.; Moses, Michael L.; Oyler-McCance, Sara; Robinson, W. Douglas; Sidlauskas, Brian

    2011-01-01

    A fundamental need in conserving species and their habitats is defining distinct entities that range from individuals to species to ecosystems and beyond (Table 1; Ryder 1986, Moritz 1994, Mayden and Wood 1995, Haig and Avise 1996, Hazevoet 1996, Palumbi and Cipriano 1998, Hebert et al. 2004, Mace 2004, Wheeler et al. 2004, Armstrong and Ball 2005, Baker 2008, Ellis et al. 2010, Winker and Haig 2010). Rapid progression in this interdisciplinary field continues at an exponential rate; thus, periodic updates on theory, techniques, and applications are important for informing practitioners and consumers of genetic information. Here, we outline conservation topics for which genetic information can be helpful, provide examples of where genetic techniques have been used best in avian conservation, and point to current technical bottlenecks that prevent better use of genomics to resolve conservation issues related to birds. We hope this review will provide geneticists and avian ecologists with a mutually beneficial dialogue on how this integrated field can solve current and future problems.

  7. Regional and temporal changes in epizoobiontic bryozoan-communities of Flustra foliacea (Linnaeus, 1758) and implications for North Sea ecology

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    Bitschofsky, F.; Forster, S.; Scholz, J.

    2011-02-01

    Until recently, bryozoans have not been used as indicators for changes in bottom communities or climate control in the North Sea Basin, despite a 200-year history of bryozoan collecting. The epizoobiontic bryozoan fauna of Flustra foliacea (Linnaeus, 1758) was analysed on 51 sample stations kept in four German museums. The samples cover the entire North Sea and different time periods (1776-2008, mainly the period of 1904/1905 compared to 1980-87). Cluster analysis shows a differentiation into a northern and a southern North Sea assemblage. The northern assemblage is characterized by Amphiblestrum flemingii (Busk, 1854), Callopora dumerilii (Audouin, 1826) and Tricellaria ternata (Ellis & Solander, 1786), while the southern North Sea is characterized by Electra pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767), Crisia eburnea (Linnaeus, 1758) and Plagioecia patina (Lamarck, 1816). Spatial separation approximately follows the 50 m depth contour. The temporal distribution patterns of bryozoans are discussed in terms of NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) and temperature variations.

  8. A brief chronicle of cytology: from Janssen to Papanicolaou and beyond.

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    Diamantis, Aristides; Beloukas, Apostolos I; Kalogeraki, Alexandra M; Magiorkinis, Emmanouil

    2013-06-01

    The aim of our study was to outline and present the major hallmarks in the history of clinical cytology. For this purpose, an extensive research in modern literature and the PubMed database was undertaken. Furthermore, we studied original papers and books of the pioneers in cytopathology. The development of the first microscope by Hans and Sacharias Janssen is a hallmark in biological sciences, since the study of microcosmos was made feasible. From the discovery of single cells by Robert Hooke and the cell theory by Schleiden and Schwann till the establishment of exfoliative cytology by George Papanicolaou and the invention of fine-needle aspiration biopsy technique by Martin and Ellis, there is a three-century continuum of important discoveries and research. Today, flow cytometry and the introduction of molecular techniques have revolutionized medicine and are expected to change the face of cytology in the near future. Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  9. Estimating rheological properties of lava flows using high-resolution time lapse imaging

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    James, M. R.; Applegarth, L. J.; Pinkerton, H.; Fryer, T.

    2011-12-01

    During effusive eruptions, property and infrastructure can be threatened by lava flow inundation. In order to maximise the effectiveness of the response to such an event, it is necessary to be able to reliably forecast the area that will be affected. One of the major controls on the advance of a lava flow is its rheology, which is spatially and temporally variable, and depends on many underlying factors. Estimating the rheological properties of a lava flow, and the change in these over space and time is therefore of the utmost importance. Here we report estimates of rheological properties made from geometric and velocity measurements on integrated topographic and image data using the method of Ellis et al. (2004) (Ellis B, Wilson L & Pinkerton H (2004) Estimating the rheology of basaltic lava flows. Lunar & Planetary Science XXXV Abst. 1550). These are then compared to the viscosity predicted from composition and temperature by the GRD model (Giordano D, Russell JK, & Dingwell DB (2008) Viscosity of Magmatic Liquids: A Model. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 271, 123-134). During the 13 May 2008 - 6 July 2009 eruption of Mt Etna, Sicily, lava flows were emplaced into the Valle del Bove, reaching a maximum length of >6 km. Towards the end of the eruption, multiple channelized aa flows were active simultaneously, reaching tens to hundreds of metres in length. Flow lifetimes were of the order hours to days. In the last month of the eruption, we installed a Canon EOS 450D camera at Pizzi Deneri, on the north side of the Valle del Bove, to collect visible images at 15-minute intervals. On one day, topographic data (using a Riegl LPM-321 terrestrial laser scanner) and thermal images (using a FLIR Thermacam S40) were also collected from this location. The fronts of some of the larger flows were tracked through the time lapse image sequence. Using knowledge of the camera imaging geometry, the pixel tracks were reprojected onto the topographic surface to determine flow

  10. The one-by-one method for releasing cranes

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    Ellis, D.H.; Mummert, D.P.; Urbanek, R.P.; Kinloch, M.; Mellon, C.; Dolbeare, T.; Ossi, D.P.

    2001-01-01

    Although the trend for the past 2 decades has been toward releasing naive groups of juveniles after a lengthy acclimation period, in 5 separate releases (1996-2000) we tested the idea that naive juvenile greater sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis tabida) would survive better if released singly into a wild flock of predator-wary birds than if left as a group, inexperienced at foraging and ill prepared to avoiding predators. We released 3 groups of hand-reared juveniles (n = 12 [1996]; n = 8 [1998], n = 12 [1999]) into a wild flock of sandhill cranes (ca 300 birds) on wintering grounds near Gila Bend, Arizona. Another 8 parent-reared colts were released into a small group (4) of subadult greater sandhill cranes (survivors of the 1996 trucking experiment [Ellis, et al. 1997; Ellis et al. 2001, Mummert et al. 2001]) in northcentral Arizona. Another 8 juveniles, costume-reared from hatching, were released into wild sandhill crane flocks in central Wisconsin at autumn staging areas. In all of these tests, cranes were released 1 or 2 at a time, either at the periphery of a wild flock or at a known roost site. Most birds were released in daylight at a foraging area, but because this was a pilot project, we tried a variety of methods. We released a few individuals at odd times (e.g., midnight) and in odd ways (e.g., by flushing a release crane as a wild flock passed overhead). A few birds were initially left stranded after we placed them at ephemeral roosts that had been used recently, but not subsequent to our visit. However, once we made the necessary adjustments, and regardless of release time or situation, all of our cranes very quickly joined their adoptive flocks. We experienced excellent survival, including 100% survival for all 8 of our parent-reared fledgling colts released on the summering ground and followed until they disappeared at the time of migration. Further, all (32) hand-reared birds released on the wintering grounds survived the winter. Also all 8 of the

  11. Hamilton Jeffers and the Double Star Catalogues

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    Tenn, Joseph S.

    2013-01-01

    Astronomers have long tracked double stars in efforts to find those that are gravitationally-bound binaries and then to determine their orbits. Court reporter and amateur astronomer Shelburne Wesley Burnham (1838-1921) published a massive double star catalogue containing more than 13,000 systems in 1906. The next keeper of the double stars was Lick Observatory astronomer Robert Grant Aitken (1864-1951), who produced a much larger catalogue in 1932. Aitken maintained and expanded Burnham’s records of observations on handwritten file cards, eventually turning them over to Lick Observatory astrometrist Hamilton Moore Jeffers (1893-1976). Jeffers further expanded the collection and put all the observations on punched cards. With the aid of Frances M. "Rete" Greeby (1921-2002), he made two catalogues: an Index Catalogue with basic data about each star, and a complete catalogue of observations, with one observation per punched card. He enlisted Willem van den Bos of Johannesburg to add southern stars, and they published the Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, 1961.0. As Jeffers approached retirement he became greatly concerned about the disposition of the catalogues. He wanted to be replaced by another "double star man," but Lick Director Albert E. Whitford (1905-2002) had the new 120-inch reflector, the world’s second largest telescope, and he wanted to pursue modern astrophysics instead. Jeffers was vociferously opposed to turning over the card files to another institution, and especially against their coming under the control of Kaj Strand of the U.S. Naval Observatory. In the end the USNO got the files and has maintained the records ever since, first under Charles Worley (1935-1997), and, since 1997, under Brian Mason. Now called the Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS), it is completely online and currently contains more than 1,000,000 measures of more than 100,000 pairs.

  12. Onychomycosis caused by Scytalidium dimidiatum. Report of two cases. Review of the taxonomy of the synanamorph and anamorph forms of this coelomycete.

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    Lacaz, C S; Pereira, A D; Heins-Vaccari, E M; Cucé, L C; Benatti, C; Nunes, R S; de Melo, N T; de Freitas-Leite, R S; Hernández-Arriagada, G L

    1999-01-01

    The authors report two cases of onychomycosis in the dystrophic form, one of them involving an HIV-positive patient, provoked by Scytalidium dimidiatum, previously called Scytalidium lignicola. The subject is reviewed from the taxonomic viewpoint, considering the anamorph Hendersonula toruloidea as a synonym of Nattrassia mangiferae, and having Scytalidium dimidiatum as the major synanamorph. According to many mycologists, Scytalidium hyalinum may be a separate species or a hyaline mutant of Scytalidium dimidiatum. Scytalidium lignicola Pesante 1957 was considered to be the type-species of the genus by ELLIS (1971)13 and later to be a "conidial state" of Hendersonula toruloidea by the same author, today known as Nattrassia mangiferae. The microorganism lives only on the roots of certain plants (mainly Platanus and Pinus). It produces pycnidia and is not considered to be a pathogen, although it is considered as a possible emerging agent capable of provoking opportunistic fungal lesions. The importance of this topic as one of the most outstanding in fungal taxonomy, so likely to be modified over time, as well as its interest in the field of dermatologic mycology, are emphasized.

  13. Caustics of 1/r{sup n} binary gravitational lenses: from galactic haloes to exotic matter

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    Bozza, V.; Melchiorre, C., E-mail: valboz@physics.unisa.it, E-mail: cmelchiorre@unisa.it

    2016-03-01

    We investigate the caustic topologies for binary gravitational lenses made up of two objects whose gravitational potential declines as 1/r{sup n}. With n<1 this corresponds to power-law dust distributions like the singular isothermal sphere. The n>1 regime can be obtained with some violations of the energy conditions, one famous example being the Ellis wormhole. Gravitational lensing provides a natural arena to distinguish and identify such exotic objects in our Universe. We find that there are still three topologies for caustics as in the standard Schwarzschild binary lens, with the main novelty coming from the secondary caustics of the close topology,more » which become huge at higher n. After drawing caustics by numerical methods, we derive a large amount of analytical formulae in all limits that are useful to provide deeper insight in the mathematics of the problem. Our study is useful to better understand the phenomenology of galaxy lensing in clusters as well as the distinct signatures of exotic matter in complex systems.« less

  14. Viscosity measurements of CO2-in-water foam with dodecyl polypropoxy sulfate surfactants for enhanced oil recovery application

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    Pramudita, Ria Ayu; Ryoo, Won Sun

    2016-08-01

    Apparent viscosities of CO2-in-water foams were measured in a wide range of shear rate from 50 to 105 inverse second for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) application. The CO2-in-water dispersions, made of 50:50 weight proportions of CO2 and water with 1 wt.% surfactant concentration, were prepared in high-pressure recirculation apparatus under pressure where CO2 density becomes 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9 g/mL at each temperature of 35, 45, and 55°C. The surfactants used for the foam generation were sodium dodecyl polypropoxy sulfates with average propoxylation degrees of 4.7 and 6.2. The foam viscosity showed shear thinning behaviors with power-law indices ranging from 0.80 to 0.85, and approached a Newtonian regime in the lower shear rate range at several tens of inverse second. Zero-shear viscosity values projected from experimental data based on Ellis model were as high as 57.4 mPa·s and enough to control the mobility of water and CO2 in oil reservoirs.

  15. Low molecular weight compounds from Zoanthus sociatus impair insulin secretion via Ca(+2) influx blockade and cause glucose intolerance in vivo.

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    Diaz-Garcia, Carlos Manlio; Sanchez-Soto, Carmen; Fuentes-Silva, Deyanira; Leon-Pinzon, Carolina; Dominguez-Perez, Dany; Varela, Carlos; Rodriguez-Romero, Adela; Castañeda, Olga; Hiriart, Marcia

    2012-02-01

    Cnidarians comprise a taxon with a high biodiversity of cytolitic, neurotoxic and cardiotoxic compounds, which have not been studied on insulin release. We tested the effect of a crude extract of Zoanthus sociatus (Ellis, 1767) and the low molecular weight fraction of this extract on insulin secretion in isolated rat β-cells and also in a glucose tolerance test in vivo. We observed that the extract inhibited insulin release by reducing the amount secreted by individual β-cells and also by silencing a fraction of the secreting population. This effect coincided with a diminished rise of intracellular Ca(+2) in response to high glucose and high K+ -induced depolarization. Moreover intraperitoneal administration of the low molecular weight fraction produced glucose intolerance in adult rats. The active fraction exhibited molecular weights similar to the neurotoxins described in the phylum. Our results broaden the toxic effects of cnidarian venoms and show evidence of potential modulators of voltage-gated Ca(+2) channels in this group. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  16. The linguistically aware teacher and the teacher-aware linguist.

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    McCartney, Elspeth; Ellis, Sue

    2013-07-01

    This review evaluates issues of teacher linguistic knowledge relating to their work with children with speech, language and communication difficulties (SLCD). Information is from Ellis and McCartney [(2011a). Applied linguistics and primary school teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], a state-of-the-art text deriving from a British Association of Applied Linguistics/Cambridge University Press expert seminar series that details: linguistic research underpinning primary school curricula and pedagogy; the form of linguistic knowledge useful for teachers supporting children with SLCD in partnership with speech and language therapists; and how and when teachers acquire and learn to apply such knowledge. Critical analysis of the options presented for teacher learning indicate that policy enjoinders now include linguistic application as an expected part of teachers' professional knowledge, for all children including those with SLCD, but there is a large unmet learning need. It is concluded that there is a role for clinical linguists to disseminate useable knowledge to teachers in an accessible format. Ways of achieving this are considered.

  17. Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective

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    Ćirković, Milan M.; Perović, Slobodan

    2018-05-01

    We historically trace various non-conventional explanations for the origin of the cosmic microwave background and discuss their merit, while analyzing the dynamics of their rejection, as well as the relevant physical and methodological reasons for it. It turns out that there have been many such unorthodox interpretations; not only those developed in the context of theories rejecting the relativistic ("Big Bang") paradigm entirely (e.g., by Alfvén, Hoyle and Narlikar) but also those coming from the camp of original thinkers firmly entrenched in the relativistic milieu (e.g., by Rees, Ellis, Rowan-Robinson, Layzer and Hively). In fact, the orthodox interpretation has only incrementally won out against the alternatives over the course of the three decades of its multi-stage development. While on the whole, none of the alternatives to the hot Big Bang scenario is persuasive today, we discuss the epistemic ramifications of establishing orthodoxy and eliminating alternatives in science, an issue recently discussed by philosophers and historians of science for other areas of physics. Finally, we single out some plausible and possibly fruitful ideas offered by the alternatives.

  18. High-Resolution Analysis of the ν 6, ν 7, ν 8, and ν 9Bands of H 15N 16O 3Measured by Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

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    Keller, F.; Perrin, A.; Flaud, J.-M.; Johns, J. W. C.; Lu, Z.; Looi, E. C.

    1998-10-01

    The analysis of the ν6, ν7, ν8, and ν9bands of H15N16O3located at 646.9641, 578.4719, 743.6166, and 458.2917 cm-1, respectively, has been carried out in the 400-800 cm-1region using high-resolution Fourier transform spectra recorded at Ottawa. Using the ground state energy levels calculated from thev= 0 rotational constants of H15N16O3[A. P. Cox, M. C. Ellis, C. J. Attfield, and A. C. Ferris,J. Mol. Struct.320, 91-106 (1994)], it was possible to assign theA-type ν6and ν7bands and theC-type ν8and ν9bands of H15N16O3up to highJandKarotational quantum numbers. Thev6= 1,v7= 1, v8= 1, andv9= 1 experimental energy levels were then introduced in a least-squares fit calculation and precise upper state Hamiltonian constants (band centers and rotational constants) were determined allowing one to reproduce the infrared data to within the experimental uncertainty.

  19. The spin structure of the deuteron

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    Frois, B.

    1994-12-01

    The Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) has measured for the first time the spin-dependent structure function g{sub 1}{sup d} of the deuteron in the deep inelastic scattering of polarized muons on polarized deuterons in the kinematic range Q{sup 2} > 1 GeV{sup 2}, 0.006 < x < 0.6. The first moment {Gamma}{sub 1}{sup d} = {integral}{sub 0}{sup 1}g{sub 1}{sup d}dx = 0.023 {+-} 0.020(stat.) {+-} 0.015(syst.) is smaller than the prediction of the Ellis-Jaffe sum rules. The author finds that the fraction of the nucleon spin carried by strange quarks {Delta}s is appreciable and negative. Using earlier measurements of g{sub 1}{supmore » p}, the group can infer the first moment of the spin-dependent neutron structure function g{sub 1}{sup n}. The combined analysis of all the available data on the spin-dependent structure functions of the nucleon shows an excellent agreement among the data sets. The author does not find significant deviations from the prediction of the Bjorken sum rule.« less

  20. Different mechanics of snap-trapping in the two closely related carnivorous plants Dionaea muscipula and Aldrovanda vesiculosa

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    Poppinga, Simon; Joyeux, Marc

    2011-10-01

    The carnivorous aquatic waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa L.) and the closely related terrestrial venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Sol. ex J. Ellis) both feature elaborate snap-traps, which shut after reception of an external mechanical stimulus by prey animals. Traditionally, Aldrovanda is considered as a miniature, aquatic Dionaea, an assumption which was already established by Charles Darwin. However, videos of snapping traps from both species suggest completely different closure mechanisms. Indeed, the well-described snapping mechanism in Dionaea comprises abrupt curvature inversion of the two trap lobes, while the closing movement in Aldrovanda involves deformation of the trap midrib but not of the lobes, which do not change curvature. In this paper, we present detailed mechanical models for these plants, which are based on the theory of thin solid membranes and explain this difference by showing that the fast snapping of Aldrovanda is due to kinematic amplification of the bending deformation of the midrib, while that of Dionaea unambiguously relies on the buckling instability that affects the two lobes.

  1. Biological Sensitivity to Context in Couples: Why Partner Aggression Hurts Some More Than Others

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    Lorber, Michael F.; Erlanger, Ann C. Eckardt; Slep, Amy M. Smith

    2015-01-01

    Objective Cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stressors was investigated as (a) a moderator of associations of partner aggression with affective functioning, alcohol problems, and parenting, and (b) a consequence of partner aggression. Method Cohabiting adult couples (N = 453) with 3- to 7-year-old children were recruited by random digit dialing and completed questionnaires assessing couple physical aggression, discipline practices, anger, stress, depressive symptoms, and problem alcohol use. Heart rate and blood pressure were measured at rest and in response to laboratory stressors (mental arithmetic and video presentations of family conflict). Results Males’ physical aggression more strongly predicted women’s affective functioning and alcohol problems when the women had greater cardiovascular reactivity. This pattern did not extend to men. Physical victimization was associated with lower cardiovascular reactivity. Conclusions The present results provide partial support for the Biological Sensitivity to Context model of Boyce and Ellis (2005) and suggest that incorporating the moderating influence of biological reactivity may improve the precision of models of the effects of aggression on adult adjustment. PMID:23379267

  2. The Oak Ridge Polycystic Kidney mouse: modeling ciliopathies of mice and men.

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    Lehman, J M; Michaud III, Edward J; Schoeb, T

    2008-08-01

    The Oak Ridge Polycystic Kidney (ORPK) mouse was described nearly 14 years ago as a model for human recessive polycystic kidney disease. The ORPK mouse arose through integration of a transgene into an intron of the Ift88 gene resulting in a hypomorphic allele (Ift88Tg737Rpw). The Ift88Tg737Rpw mutation impairs intraflagellar transport (IFT), a process required for assembly of motile and immotile cilia. Historically, the primary immotile cilium was thought to have minimal importance for human health; however, a rapidly expanding number of human disorders have now been attributed to ciliary defects. Importantly, many of these phenotypes are present and can bemore » analyzed using the ORPK mouse. In this review, we highlight the research conducted using the OPRK mouse and the phenotypes shared with human cilia disorders. Furthermore, we describe an additional follicular dysplasia phenotype in the ORPK mouse, which alongside the ectodermal dysplasias seen in human Ellis-van Creveld and Sensenbrenner's syndromes, suggests an unappreciated role for primary cilia in the skin and hair follicle.« less

  3. The Study of Two Psychotherapy Approaches (Rogers Self Theory and Ellis Rational Theory) in Improvement of Bowen Self-differentiation and Intimacy

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    Yousefi, Naser; Kiani, Mohammad Ali

    2014-01-01

    Objective: To compare the effectiveness of rational, behavioral and emotive therapy (REBT) and person-centered therapy (PCT) on self-differentiation and intimacy among divorce clients. Methods: In quasi-experimental study, 42 divorce clients (both males and females) who presented to the Counsling Center of Sanandaj, Iran were sampled. They were categorized into three groups of PCT, REBT, and control group (each group contained 14 subjects). The recovery indices (dependent variables) employed were the subject of self-differentiation and intimacy, which were measured twice before and after intervention of Differentiation of Self Inventory-2 (DSI-2) and intimacy. The therapy involved 8 one-hour sessions. It was held twice a week and therapeutic effects were traced after 8 months. Results: The results showed that REBT and PCT were effective on self-differentiation scale and intimacy. Also they were influential in recovery self-differentiation scale and intimacy follow up stage. Conclusion: REBT and PCT were effective on self-differentiation and its subscales (Emotional reactivity, “I” position, Emotional cut off and Fusion with other) and general intimacy. Declaration of interest: None. PMID:24995028

  4. The Study of Two Psychotherapy Approaches (Rogers Self Theory and Ellis Rational Theory) in Improvement of Bowen Self-differentiation and Intimacy.

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    Yousefi, Naser; Kiani, Mohammad Ali

    2014-01-01

    To compare the effectiveness of rational, behavioral and emotive therapy (REBT) and person-centered therapy (PCT) on self-differentiation and intimacy among divorce clients. In quasi-experimental study, 42 divorce clients (both males and females) who presented to the Counsling Center of Sanandaj, Iran were sampled. They were categorized into three groups of PCT, REBT, and control group (each group contained 14 subjects). The recovery indices (dependent variables) employed were the subject of self-differentiation and intimacy, which were measured twice before and after intervention of Differentiation of Self Inventory-2 (DSI-2) and intimacy. The therapy involved 8 one-hour sessions. It was held twice a week and therapeutic effects were traced after 8 months. The results showed that REBT and PCT were effective on self-differentiation scale and intimacy. Also they were influential in recovery self-differentiation scale and intimacy follow up stage. REBT and PCT were effective on self-differentiation and its subscales (Emotional reactivity, "I" position, Emotional cut off and Fusion with other) and general intimacy. None.

  5. A catchment-scale groundwater model including sewer pipe leakage in an urban system

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    Peche, Aaron; Fuchs, Lothar; Spönemann, Peter; Graf, Thomas; Neuweiler, Insa

    2016-04-01

    Keywords: pipe leakage, urban hydrogeology, catchment scale, OpenGeoSys, HYSTEM-EXTRAN Wastewater leakage from subsurface sewer pipe defects leads to contamination of the surrounding soil and groundwater (Ellis, 2002; Wolf et al., 2004). Leakage rates at pipe defects have to be known in order to quantify contaminant input. Due to inaccessibility of subsurface pipe defects, direct (in-situ) measurements of leakage rates are tedious and associated with a high degree of uncertainty (Wolf, 2006). Proposed catchment-scale models simplify leakage rates by neglecting unsaturated zone flow or by reducing spatial dimensions (Karpf & Krebs, 2013, Boukhemacha et al., 2015). In the present study, we present a physically based 3-dimensional numerical model incorporating flow in the pipe network, in the saturated zone and in the unsaturated zone to quantify leakage rates on the catchment scale. The model consists of the pipe network flow model HYSTEM-EXTAN (itwh, 2002), which is coupled to the subsurface flow model OpenGeoSys (Kolditz et al., 2012). We also present the newly developed coupling scheme between the two flow models. Leakage functions specific to a pipe defect are derived from simulations of pipe leakage using spatially refined grids around pipe defects. In order to minimize computational effort, these leakage functions are built into the presented numerical model using unrefined grids around pipe defects. The resulting coupled model is capable of efficiently simulating spatially distributed pipe leakage coupled with subsurficial water flow in a 3-dimensional environment. References: Boukhemacha, M. A., Gogu, C. R., Serpescu, I., Gaitanaru, D., & Bica, I. (2015). A hydrogeological conceptual approach to study urban groundwater flow in Bucharest city, Romania. Hydrogeology Journal, 23(3), 437-450. doi:10.1007/s10040-014-1220-3. Ellis, J. B., & Revitt, D. M. (2002). Sewer losses and interactions with groundwater quality. Water Science and Technology, 45(3), 195

  6. Apollo - LOLA Project

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    1961-12-05

    Project LOLA. Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly 2 million dollars. James Hansen wrote: This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation--although great fun and quite aesthetic--was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which the device did not simulate. Not long after the end of Apollo, the expensive machine was dismantled. (p. 379) Ellis J. White wrote in his paper, Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs : A typical mission would start with the first cart positioned on model 1 for the translunar approach and orbit establishment. After starting the descent, the second cart is readied on model 2 and, at the proper time, when superposition occurs, the pilot s scene is switched from model 1 to model 2. then cart 1 is moved to and readied on model 3. The procedure continues until an altitude of 150 feet is obtained. The cabin of the LM vehicle has four windows which represent a 45 degree field of view. The projection screens in front of each window represent 65 degrees which allows limited head motion before the edges of the display can be seen. The lunar scene is presented to the pilot by rear projection on the screens with four Schmidt television projectors. The attitude orientation of the vehicle is represented by changing the lunar scene through the

  7. The Roles of Attention and (Un)awareness in SLA: Conceptual Replication of N. C. Ellis & Sagarra (2010a) and Leung & Williams (2012)

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    Leow, Ronald P.

    2015-01-01

    There is no doubt that attention and (un)awareness in second/foreign language (L2 learning) are two constructs that have permeated, explicitly or implicitly, second language acquisition (SLA) studies since their inception. Indeed, we have witnessed several empirical studies attempting to probe more deeply into the roles of these two constructs in…

  8. Modeling of ground-water flow in subsurface Austin Chalk and Taylor marl in Ellis County, Texas, near the superconducting super collider site

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    Mace, R.E.

    1993-02-01

    Numerical models are useful tools for developing an understanding of ground-water flow in sparsely characterized low-permeability aquifers. Finite-difference, cross-sectional models of Cretaceous chalk and marl formations near the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) were constructed using MODFLOW to evaluate ground-water circulation paths and travel times. Weathered and fractured zones with enhanced permeability were included to assess the effect these features had on flow paths and times. Pump tests, slug tests, packer tests, core tests, and estimates were used to define hydraulic properties for model input. The model was calibrated with water-level data from monitor wells and from wire-line piezometers near amore » test shaft excavated by the SSC project. A ratio of vertical-to-horizontal permeability of 0.0085 was estimated through model calibration. A chalk-to-marl permeability ratio of 18 was needed to reproduce artesian head in a well completed in chalk beneath marl. Hydraulic head distributions and ground-water flow paths reflected local, intermediate, and regional flow systems with recharge beneath upland surface-water divides and discharge in valleys. Most of the flow (99%) occurred in the weathered zone, with average residence times of 5 to 10 years. Residence time in unweathered chalk bedrock was substantially longer, at an average of 1.7 Ma. As expected, the model demonstrated that deep and rapid ground-water circulation might occur in fracture zones. Particle paths calculated using MODPATH showed that ground-water travel times from recharge areas to the SSC subsurface facilities might be 20 to 60 years where flow is through fracture zones.« less

  9. Delaware's first serial killer.

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    Inguito, G B; Sekula-Perlman, A; Lynch, M J; Callery, R T

    2000-11-01

    The violent murder of Shirley Ellis on November 29, 1987, marked the beginning of the strange and terrible tale of Steven Bryan Pennell's reign as the state of Delaware's first convicted serial killer. Three more bodies followed the first victim, and all had been brutally beaten and sadistically tortured. The body of a fifth woman has never been found. State and county police collaborated with the FBI to identify and hunt down their suspect, forming a task force of over 100 officers and spending about one million dollars. Through their knowledge and experience with other serial killers, the FBI was able to make an amazingly accurate psychological profile of Delaware's serial killer. After months of around-the-clock surveillance, Steven Pennell was arrested on November 29, 1988, one year to the day after the first victim was found. Pennell was found guilty in the deaths of the first two victims on November 29, 1989, and plead no contest to the murder of two others on October 30, 1991. Still maintaining his innocence, he asked for the death penalty so that he could spare his family further agony. Steven Pennell was executed by lethal injection on March 15, 1992.

  10. High-resolution seismic-reflection imaging 25 years of change in I-70 sinkhole, Russell County, Kansas

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    Miller, R.D.; Steeples, D.W.; Lambrecht, J.L.; Croxton, N.

    2006-01-01

    Time-lapse seismic reflection imaging improved our understanding of the consistent, gradual surface subsidence ongoing at two sinkholes in the Gorham Oilfield discovered beneath a stretch of Interstate Highway 70 through Russell and Ellis Counties in Kansas in 1966. With subsidence occurring at a rate of around 10 cm per year since discovery, monitoring has been beneficial to ensure public safety and optimize maintenance. A miniSOSIE reflection survey conducted in 1980 delineated the affected subsurface and successfully predicted development of a third sinkhole at this site. In 2004 and 2005 a high-resolution vibroseis survey was completed to ascertain current conditions of the subsurface, rate and pattern of growth since 1980, and potential for continued growth. With time and improved understanding of the salt dissolution affected subsurface in this area it appears that these features represent little risk to the public from catastrophic failure. However, from an operational perspective the Kansas Department of Transportation should expect continued subsidence, with future increases in surface area likely at a slightly reduced vertical rate. Seismic characteristics appear empirically consistent with gradual earth material compaction/settling. ?? 2005 Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

  11. Probiotics: Healthy bugs and nourishing elements of diet.

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    Pandey, Vijayendra; Berwal, Vikas; Solanki, Neeraj; Malik, Narender Singh

    2015-01-01

    The use of probiotics is based on the concept that adding the right live microbes to the complex human system can result in physiological benefits. The benefit of fermented milk in human diet has been acknowledged since Vedic times; however, the scientific interest in this field was evoked by Ellie Metchinkoff who recommended that people should consume fermented milk containing lactobacilli to prolong their lives, as accelerated aging is due to autointoxication caused by the toxins produced by the gut microflora. They have been used to improve gastrointestinal health and their attractiveness has evinced interest to study their role in the promotion of oral health also. Studies have been widely carried out to establish the role of intestinal lactobacilli as probiotic to treat various gastrointestinal disorders, but only limited studies are available on the oral use of probiotics. The probiotic products usually contain lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, and their demand in the market is growing day by day. This paper provides an overview of various studies in the literature that emphasize on the role of probiotics to combat oral diseases and encourages more research in this field.

  12. Probiotics: Healthy bugs and nourishing elements of diet

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    Pandey, Vijayendra; Berwal, Vikas; Solanki, Neeraj; Malik, Narender Singh

    2015-01-01

    The use of probiotics is based on the concept that adding the right live microbes to the complex human system can result in physiological benefits. The benefit of fermented milk in human diet has been acknowledged since Vedic times; however, the scientific interest in this field was evoked by Ellie Metchinkoff who recommended that people should consume fermented milk containing lactobacilli to prolong their lives, as accelerated aging is due to autointoxication caused by the toxins produced by the gut microflora. They have been used to improve gastrointestinal health and their attractiveness has evinced interest to study their role in the promotion of oral health also. Studies have been widely carried out to establish the role of intestinal lactobacilli as probiotic to treat various gastrointestinal disorders, but only limited studies are available on the oral use of probiotics. The probiotic products usually contain lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, and their demand in the market is growing day by day. This paper provides an overview of various studies in the literature that emphasize on the role of probiotics to combat oral diseases and encourages more research in this field. PMID:25992331

  13. On the generalized wormhole in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity

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    Tamang, Amarjit; Potapov, Alexander A.; Lukmanova, Regina; Izmailov, Ramil; Nandi, Kamal K.

    2015-12-01

    In this paper, we wish to investigate certain observable effects in the recently obtained wormhole solution of the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) theory, which generalizes the zero-mass Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole of general relativity. The solutions of EiBI theory contain an extra parameter κ having the inverse dimension of the cosmological constant Λ, and which is expected to modify various general relativistic observables such as the masses of wormhole mouths, tidal forces and light deflection. A remarkable result is that a non-zero κ could prevent the tidal forces in the geodesic orthonormal frame from becoming arbitrarily large near a small throat radius ({r}0˜ 0) contrary to what happens near a small Schwarzschild horizon radius (M˜ 0). The role of κ in the flare-out and energy conditions is also analyzed, which reveals that the energy conditions are violated. We show that the exotic matter in the EiBI wormhole cannot be interpreted as a phantom (ω =\\frac{{p}{{r}}}{ρ }\\lt -1) or ghost field ϕ of general relativity due to the fact that both ρ and p r are negative for all κ.

  14. Weyl metrics and wormholes

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    Gibbons, Gary W.; Volkov, Mikhail S.

    2017-05-01

    We study solutions obtained via applying dualities and complexifications to the vacuum Weyl metrics generated by massive rods and by point masses. Rescaling them and extending to complex parameter values yields axially symmetric vacuum solutions containing singularities along circles that can be viewed as singular matter sources. These solutions have wormhole topology with several asymptotic regions interconnected by throats and their sources can be viewed as thin rings of negative tension encircling the throats. For a particular value of the ring tension the geometry becomes exactly flat although the topology remains non-trivial, so that the rings literally produce holes in flat space. To create a single ring wormhole of one metre radius one needs a negative energy equivalent to the mass of Jupiter. Further duality transformations dress the rings with the scalar field, either conventional or phantom. This gives rise to large classes of static, axially symmetric solutions, presumably including all previously known solutions for a gravity-coupled massless scalar field, as for example the spherically symmetric Bronnikov-Ellis wormholes with phantom scalar. The multi-wormholes contain infinite struts everywhere at the symmetry axes, apart from solutions with locally flat geometry.

  15. A cross-linguistic data bank for oral picture naming in Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish (PEDOI).

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    Kremin, Helgard; Akhutina, Tanya; Basso, Anna; Davidoff, Jules; De Wilde, Martine; Kitzing, Peter; Lorenz, Antje; Perrier, Danièle; van der Sandt-Koenderman, Mieke; Vendrell, Josep; Weniger, Dorothea; Apt, Pia; Arabia, Catherine; De Bleser, Ria; Cohen, Henri; Corbineau, Mathilde; Dolivet, Marie-Christine; Hirsh, Kathi; Lehoux, Emilie; Metz-Lutz, Mari Noëlle; Montañes, Patricia; Plagne, Stéphanie; Polonskaya, Natalya; Sirois, Mélanie; Stachowiak, Franz; Sweeney, Trione; Vish-Brink, Evy

    2003-11-01

    The well established effect of word frequency on adult's picture naming performance is now called into question. This is particularly true for variables which are correlated with frequency, as is the case of age of word acquisition. Since the work of [Carrol and White, 1973] there is growing agreement among researchers to confer an important role in lexical access to this variable. Indeed, it has been shown ( [Hodgson and Ellis, 1998]) that for normal English-speaking adults only the variables 'age-of-acquisition' and 'name agreement' are independent predictors of naming success among the various variables considered. However, when brain-damaged subjects with and without degenerative pathologies are studied, word frequency and word length as well as concept familiarity all give significant effects ( [Hirsh and Funnell, 1995]; [Lambon Ralph et al., 1998]; [Nickels and Howard, 1995]). Finally, it has been suggested that the production of specific error types may be related to such variables. According to [Nickels and Howard, 1994] the production of semantic errors is specifically affected by 'imageability' and in the recent study by [Kremin et al., 2001] 'age of acquisition' predicts (frank) word finding difficulties.

  16. The effects of rational and irrational self-verbalizations on performance efficiency and levels of anxiety.

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    Rosin, L; Nelson, W M

    1983-03-01

    Investigated the effects of rational vs. irrational belief systems (as measured by the Ellis Irrational Values Scale) and rational vs. irrational self-verbalizations on levels of anxiety and persistence on a performance task. Ss (N = 40) were instructed to assemble a virtually insolvable task call Soma. The variables of interest were how long each S would persist on this task and how much anxiety (as measured by the A-State portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) was aroused in working on this task. Following a baseline trial trying to solve Soma, Ss were assigned to either a rational or irrational self-talk condition and were led to believe that such self-talk would help in a second attempt to solve Soma. In line with cognitive models of psychology, it was found that rational self-talk Ss showed a significant decrease in levels of state anxiety compared to irrational self-talk Ss in attempting to solve Soma in the second trial. Contrary to cognitive models of psychology, scores obtained from the EIVS and the A-Trait portion of the STAI were not found to be related to persistence.

  17. Exome sequencing for the differential diagnosis of ciliary chondrodysplasias: Example of a WDR35 mutation case and review of the literature.

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    Antony, Dinu; Nampoory, Narayanan; Bacchelli, Chiara; Melhem, Motasem; Wu, Kaman; James, Chela T; Beales, Philip L; Hubank, Mike; Thomas, Daisy; Mashankar, Anant; Behbehani, Kazem; Schmidts, Miriam; Alsmadi, Osama

    2017-12-01

    Exome sequencing is becoming widely popular and affordable, making it one of the most desirable methods for the identification of rare genetic variants for clinical diagnosis. Here, we report the clinical application of whole exome sequencing for the ultimate diagnosis of a ciliary chondrodysplasia case presented with an initial clinical diagnosis of Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy (ATD, Jeune Syndrome). We have identified a novel homozygous missense mutation in WDR35 (c.206G > A), a gene previously associated with Sensenbrenner Syndrome, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome and Short-rib polydactyly syndrome type V. The genetic findings in this family led to the re-evaluation of the initial diagnosis and a differential diagnosis of Sensenbrenner Syndrome was made after cautious re-examination of the patient. Cell culture studies revealed normal subcellular localization of the mutant WDR35 protein in comparison to wildtype protein, pointing towards impaired protein-protein interaction and/or altered cell signaling pathways as a consequence of the mutated allele. This research study highlights the importance of including pathogenic variant identification in the diagnosis pipeline of ciliary chondrodysplasias, especially for clinically not fully defined phenotypes. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

  18. Patterns of Racial Diversity and Segregation in the United States: 1990–2010*

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    Wright, Richard; Ellis, Mark; Holloway, Steven R.; Wong, Sandy

    2014-01-01

    The growing ethnic and racial diversity of the United States is evident at all spatial scales. One of the striking features of this new mixture of peoples, however, is that this new diversity often occurs in tandem with racial concentration. This article surveys these new geographies from four points of view: the nation as a whole, states, large metropolitan areas, and neighborhoods. The analysis at each scale relies on a new taxonomy of racial composition that simultaneously appraises both diversity and the lack thereof (Holloway, Wright, and Ellis 2012). Urban analysis often posits neighborhood racial segregation and diversity as either endpoints on a continuum of racial dominance or mirror images of one another. We disturb that perspective and stress that segregation and diversity must be jointly understood—they are necessarily related, although not as inevitable binary opposites. Using census data from 1990, 2000, and 2010, the research points to how patterns of racial diversity and dominance interact across varying spatial scales. This investigation helps answer some basic questions about the changing geographies of racialized groups, setting the stage for the following articles that explore the relationship between geography and the participation of underrepresented groups in higher education. PMID:25083001

  19. Rural Aging in America: Proceedings of the 2017 Connectivity Summit

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    Skoufalos, Alexis; Ellis, Dana Rose; Shepard, Vicki L.; Rula, Elizabeth Y.

    2017-01-01

    Rural Aging in America: Proceedings of the 2017 Connectivity Summit Alexis Skoufalos, EdD, Janice L. Clarke, RN, BBA, Dana Rose Ellis, BA, Vicki L. Shepard, MSW, MPA, and Elizabeth Y. Rula, PhD Editorial: Creating a Movement to Transform Rural Aging David B. Nash, MD, MBA, with Donato J. Tramuto, and Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD   S-3 Introduction   S-4 Summit Proceedings   S-5   Roundtable 1: The Power of Community – Enabling Social Connections and Access to Health Resources Through Community-Based Programs   S-5   Roundtable 2: Technology and Rural Health: Innovative Solutions to Bridge the Distance, Improve Care, and Deliver Programs   S-7   Roundtable 3: An Integrated Experience: The Exponential Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Rural Aging   S-8 General Discussion and Recommendations   S-8 Post-Summit Debriefing   S-9   Strategy and objectives   S-9   6–12 month action plan   S-9 Conclusion   S-9 PMID:29251548

  20. Water-level changes in the high plains regional aquifer, northwestern Oklahoma, predevelopment to 1980

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    Havens, J.S.

    1983-01-01

    During 1978, the U.S. Geological Survey began a 5-year study of the High Plains regional aquifer system to provide hydrologic information for evaluation of the effects of long-term development of the aquifer and to develop computer models for prediction of aquifer response to alternative changes in ground-water management (Weeks, 1978). This report is one of a series presenting hydrologic information of the High Plains aquifer in Oklahoma. The predevelopment to 1980 water-level changes in the High Plains regional aquifer in Oklahoma are shown for Harper, Ellis, Woodward, Dewey, and Roger Mills Counties, on the east, and for the Oklahoma Panhandle, consist- ing of Cimarron, Texas, and Beaver Counties, on the west. About 1,470 water-level measurements in the Panhandle were used in compiling the predevelopment water-table map (Havens, 1982c). In the remaining area to the east about 150 water-level measurements from the 1950's to the 1970's are representative of predevelopment water levels. For the 1980 water-table map, about 330 measurements were made in the Panhandle and about 350 measurements in the eastern area by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (Havens, 1982b).