Asset Reuse of Images from a Repository

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Herman, Deirdre

2014-01-01

According to Markus's theory of reuse, when digital repositories are deployed to collect and distribute organizational assets, they supposedly help ensure accountability, extend information exchange, and improve productivity. Such repositories require a large investment due to the continuing costs of hardware, software, user licenses, training,…

Persistent Possible Science Selves

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Mills, Leila A.; Lin, Lin

2014-01-01

This paper examines literature on the development of self-knowledge for possible selves--how an individual thinks about oneself and one's potential future selves (Markus & Nurius, 1986). Future science selves research, a recent offshoot of possible selves theories, centers on the development and loss of future possible scientific selves and…

Gaps Too Large: Four Novice EFL Teachers' Self-Concept and Motivation

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Kumazawa, Masako

2013-01-01

This study employed possible selves theory (Markus & Nurius, 1986) to conduct an interpretive inquiry into the teaching motivation of four novice secondary school EFL teachers in Japan. The narrative analysis of the interview data revealed that the conflicts between the young teachers' different possible selves negatively affected their…

Treatment Integrity Enhancement via Performance Feedback Conceptualized as an Exercise in Social Influence

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Erchul, William P.

2013-01-01

This commentary is in response to the article "Effects of Verbal and Written Performance Feedback on Treatment Adherence" (Kaufman, Codding, Markus, Tryon, & Kyse, this issue). The overall recommendation to those who study treatment integrity using performance feedback methods is to incorporate theories and research on social…

Organocatalytic aza-Michael/retro-aza-Michael reaction: pronounced chirality amplification in aza-Michael reaction and racemization via retro-aza-Michael reaction.

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Cai, Yong-Feng; Li, Li; Luo, Meng-Xian; Yang, Ke-Fang; Lai, Guo-Qiao; Jiang, Jian-Xiong; Xu, Li-Wen

2011-05-01

A detailed experimental investigation of an aza-Michael reaction of aniline and chalcone is presented. A series of Cinchona alkaloid-derived organocatalysts with different functional groups were prepared and used in the aza-Michael and retro-aza-Michael reaction. There was an interesting finding that a complete reversal of stereoselectivity when a benzoyl group was introduced to the cinchonine and cinchonidine. The chirality amplification vs. time proceeds in the quinine-derived organocatalyst containing silicon-based bulky group, QN-TBS, -catalyzed aza-Michael reaction under solvent-free conditions. In addition, we have demonstrated for the first time that racemization was occurred in suitable solvents under mild conditions due to retro-aza-Michael reaction of the Michael adduct of aniline with chalcone. These indicate the equilibrium of retro-aza-Michael reaction and aza-Michael reaction produce the happening of chirality amplification in aza-Michael reaction and racemization via retro-aza-Michael reaction under different conditions, which would be beneficial to the development of novel chiral catalysts for the aza-Michael reactions. Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Culture and Social Psychology: Converging Perspectives

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Dimaggio, Paul; Markus, Hazel Rose

2010-01-01

Views of culture in psychology and sociology have converged markedly in the past two decades. Both have rejected what Adams and Markus (2004) refer to as the "entity" conception of culture--the view that culture is coherent, stable, and located in the heads of collectivities' members--in favor of more supple and dynamic constructs. Culture, in…

Research Technology

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2002-07-01

Dr. Tom Markusic, a propulsion research engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), adjusts a diagnostic laser while a pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) fires in a vacuum chamber in the background. NASA/MSFC's Propulsion Research Center (PRC) is presently investigating plasma propulsion for potential use on future nuclear-powered spacecraft missions, such as human exploration of Mars.

Research Staff | Bioenergy | NREL

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-275-4798 Alahuhta, Markus Researcher IV-Molecular Biology Petri.Alahuhta@nrel.gov 303-384-7850 Amore Katherine.Chou@nrel.gov 303-384-7626 Chou, Yat Researcher IV-Molecular Biology Yat.Chen.Chou@nrel.gov 303-384 Emeritus Researcher Helena.Chum@nrel.gov 303-275-4668 Chung, Daehwan Researcher III-Molecular Biology

Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud and Markus Hajek. A connection in life and death.

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Diamant, H

1998-08-21

When Sigmund Freud was taken ill in 1923 with a malignant tumor of his right upper jaw he was initially treated by the famous Viennese rhino-laryngologist, Professor Markus Hajek. One year later, Franz Kafka, who was suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis which had spread to the larynx, was likewise placed under the care of this distinguished specialist. Neither of the encounters proved beneficial from the professional point of view and both well-known patients received remarkably poor attentions in keeping with the general autocratic attitude by clinical chiefs of the time in Vienna. Franz Kafka was terminally ill when he came to Hajek and no treatment was yet available for the disabling and painful laryngeal complication of his advanced tuberculosis. He died about a month after leaving Hajek's ward in Vienna. Sigmund Freud required repeated subsequent operations on his jaw and the insertion of a prothesis. Hajek had handed Freud over to Hans Pichler for further care and it was entirely due to the skill of this extremely competent and empathetic maxilliary surgeon that Freud lived for another 16 years, working to almost full capacity.

Biography for Michael Rossol | NREL

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Biography for Michael Rossol Michael Rossol Michael Rossol Resource Data Scientist Michael.Rossol @nrel.gov | 303-275-3680 Michael Rossol is a member of the Systems Modeling team within the Systems Modeling

Ion recombination and polarity correction factors for a plane-parallel ionization chamber in a proton scanning beam.

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Liszka, Małgorzata; Stolarczyk, Liliana; Kłodowska, Magdalena; Kozera, Anna; Krzempek, Dawid; Mojżeszek, Natalia; Pędracka, Anna; Waligórski, Michael Patrick Russell; Olko, Paweł

2018-01-01

To evaluate the effect on charge collection in the ionization chamber (IC) in proton pencil beam scanning (PBS), where the local dose rate may exceed the dose rates encountered in conventional MV therapy by up to three orders of magnitude. We measured values of the ion recombination (k s ) and polarity (k pol ) correction factors in water, for a plane-parallel Markus TM23343 IC, using the cyclotron-based Proteus-235 therapy system with an active proton PBS of energies 30-230 MeV. Values of k s were determined from extrapolation of the saturation curve and the Two-Voltage Method (TVM), for planar fields. We compared our experimental results with those obtained from theoretical calculations. The PBS dose rates were estimated by combining direct IC measurements with results of simulations performed using the FLUKA MC code. Values of k s were also determined by the TVM for uniformly irradiated volumes over different ranges and modulation depths of the proton PBS, with or without range shifter. By measuring charge collection efficiency versus applied IC voltage, we confirmed that, with respect to ion recombination, our proton PBS represents a continuous beam. For a given chamber parameter, e.g., nominal voltage, the value of k s depends on the energy and the dose rate of the proton PBS, reaching c. 0.5% for the TVM, at the dose rate of 13.4 Gy/s. For uniformly irradiated regular volumes, the k s value was significantly smaller, within 0.2% or 0.3% for irradiations with or without range shifter, respectively. Within measurement uncertainty, the average value of k pol , for the Markus TM23343 IC, was close to unity over the whole investigated range of clinical proton beam energies. While no polarity effect was observed for the Markus TM23343 IC in our pencil scanning proton beam system, the effect of volume recombination cannot be ignored. © 2017 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

Dosimetry for electron Intra-Operative RadioTherapy: Comparison of output factors obtained through alanine/EPR pellets, ionization chamber and Monte Carlo-GEANT4 simulations for IORT mobile dedicate accelerator

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Marrale, Maurizio; Longo, Anna; Russo, Giorgio; Casarino, Carlo; Candiano, Giuliana; Gallo, Salvatore; Carlino, Antonio; Brai, Maria

2015-09-01

In this work a comparison between the response of alanine and Markus ionization chamber was carried out for measurements of the output factors (OF) of electron beams produced by a linear accelerator used for Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy (IORT). Output factors (OF) for conventional high-energy electron beams are normally measured using ionization chamber according to international dosimetry protocols. However, the electron beams used in IORT have characteristics of dose per pulse, energy spectrum and angular distribution quite different from beams usually used in external radiotherapy, so the direct application of international dosimetry protocols may introduce additional uncertainties in dosimetric determinations. The high dose per pulse could lead to an inaccuracy in dose measurements with ionization chamber, due to overestimation of ks recombination factor. Furthermore, the electron fields obtained with IORT-dedicated applicators have a wider energy spectrum and a wider angular distribution than the conventional fields, due to the presence of electrons scattered by the applicator's wall. For this reason, a dosimetry system should be characterized by a minimum dependence from the beam energy and from angle of incidence of electrons. This become particularly critical for small and bevelled applicators. All of these reasons lead to investigate the use of detectors different from the ionization chamber for measuring the OFs. Furthermore, the complete characterization of the radiation field could be accomplished also by the use of Monte Carlo simulations which allows to obtain detailed information on dose distributions. In this work we compare the output factors obtained by means of alanine dosimeters and Markus ionization chamber. The comparison is completed by the Monte Carlo calculations of OFs determined through the use of the Geant4 application "iort _ therapy" . The results are characterized by a good agreement of response of alanine pellets and Markus ionization chamber and Monte Carlo results (within about 3%) for both flat and bevelled applicators.

Surface dose measurements from air gaps under a bolus by using a MOSFET dosimeter in clinical oblique photon beams

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Chung, Jin-Beom; Kim, Jae-Sung; Kim, In-Ah; Lee, Jeong-Woo

2012-10-01

This study is intended to investigate the effects of surface dose from air gaps under the bolus in clinically used oblique photon beams by using a Markus parallel-plate chamber and a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) dosimeter. To evaluate the performances of the two detectors, the percentage surface doses of the MOSFET dosimeters in without an air gap under the bolus material were measured and compared with those of the Markus parallel-plate chamber. MOSFET dosimeters at the surface provided results mostly in good agreement with the parallelplate chamber. The MOSFET dosimeters seemed suitable for surface dose measurements having excellent accuracy for clinical used photon beams. The relative surface doses were measured with air gaps (2, 5, 10 mm) and without an air gap under 3 different bolus setups: (1) unbolused (no bolus), (2) 5-mm bolus, and (3) 10-mm bolus. The reductions in the surface dose substantially increased with small field size, thick bolus, and large air gap. The absolute difference in the reductions of the surface dose between the MOSFET dosimeter and the Markus parallel-plate chamber was less than 1.1%. Results at oblique angles of incidence showed larger reductions in surface dose with increasing angle of incidence. The largest reduction in surface dose was recorded for a 6 × 6 cm2 field at a 60° angle of incidence with an 10-mm air gap under a 10-mm bolus. When a 10-mm bolus was used, a reduction in the surface dose with an air gap of up to 10.5% could be achieved by varying the field size and the incident angle. Therefore, air gaps under the bolus should be avoided in radiotherapy treatment, especially for photon beam with highly oblique angles of incidence.

On the Use of Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeter for Surface Dose Measurement during Radiotherapy

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Yusof, Fasihah Hanum; Ung, Ngie Min; Wong, Jeannie Hsiu Ding; Jong, Wei Loong; Ath, Vannyat; Phua, Vincent Chee Ee; Heng, Siew Ping; Ng, Kwan Hoong

2015-01-01

This study was carried out to investigate the suitability of using the optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter (OSLD) in measuring surface dose during radiotherapy. The water equivalent depth (WED) of the OSLD was first determined by comparing the surface dose measured using the OSLD with the percentage depth dose at the buildup region measured using a Markus ionization chamber. Surface doses were measured on a solid water phantom using the OSLD and compared against the Markus ionization chamber and Gafchromic EBT3 film measurements. The effect of incident beam angles on surface dose was also studied. The OSLD was subsequently used to measure surface dose during tangential breast radiotherapy treatments in a phantom study and in the clinical measurement of 10 patients. Surface dose to the treated breast or chest wall, and on the contralateral breast were measured. The WED of the OSLD was found to be at 0.4 mm. For surface dose measurement on a solid water phantom, the Markus ionization chamber measured 15.95% for 6 MV photon beam and 12.64% for 10 MV photon beam followed by EBT3 film (23.79% and 17.14%) and OSLD (37.77% and 25.38%). Surface dose increased with the increase of the incident beam angle. For phantom and patient breast surface dose measurement, the response of the OSLD was higher than EBT3 film. The in-vivo measurements were also compared with the treatment planning system predicted dose. The OSLD measured higher dose values compared to dose at the surface (Hp(0.0)) by a factor of 2.37 for 6 MV and 2.01 for 10 MV photon beams, respectively. The measurement of absorbed dose at the skin depth of 0.4 mm by the OSLD can still be a useful tool to assess radiation effects on the skin dermis layer. This knowledge can be used to prevent and manage potential acute skin reaction and late skin toxicity from radiotherapy treatments. PMID:26052690

Possibility Spaces: Using The Sims 2 as a Sandbox to Explore Possible Selves with At-Risk Teenage Males

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King, Elizabeth

2011-01-01

Interactive technologies provide today's youth a low stakes sandbox to collect experiences (Gee, 2004) and try tasks and identities (Gee, 1991) that push the boundaries of "known" and open up the world of possibility. Pairing affordances of video games with the possible selves framework (Markus & Nurius, 1986), research involved…

Transport of Gas and Solutes in Permeable Estuarine Sediments

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2008-01-01

and determination of transport rates, dispersion and interfacial flux of solutes and colloidal material. Participating Scientists and students ...Scientists and students participating in this work are Dr. Markus Huettel (PI), Dr. Parthasarathi Chakraborty (Postdoc), Sucharita Chakraborty (graduate... student ), Veronica Cruz (undergraduate student ) and Allison Rau (undergraduate student ). WORK COMPLETED Two field campaigns were conducted, the

Command & Control in Virtual Environments: Laboratory Experimentation to Compare Virtual with Physical

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2010-06-01

Markus, 1994). Media richness theory rests on the assumption that organizations process information to reduce uncertainty and equivocality ( Daft ... Organization Design ), 554-571. Daft , R. L., & Macintosh, N. B. (1981). A tentative exploration into the amount and equivocality of information... design and customization. For instance, recent research demonstrates further how the performance of both Hierarchy and Edge organizations is

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Michael Ulsh Photo of Michael Ulsh Michael Ulsh Manufacturing R&D Project Lead Michael.Ulsh -line quality control, the study of the performance and durability effects of manufacturing defects, and lead for a multi-lab consortium on solution processing and roll-to-roll manufacturing, and is involved

Multi-Scale Hierarchical and Topological Design of Structures for Failure Resistance

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2013-10-04

materials, simulation, 3D printing , advanced manufacturing, design, fracture Markus J. Buehler Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 77...by Mineralized Natural Materials: Computation, 3D printing , and Testing, Advanced Functional Materials, (09 2013): 0. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201300215 10...have made substantial progress. Recent work focuses on the analysis of topological effects of composite design, 3D printing of bioinspired and

Non-equilibrium current via geometric scatterers

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Exner, Pavel; Neidhardt, Hagen; Tater, Miloš; Zagrebnov, Valentin A.

2014-10-01

We investigate non-equilibrium particle transport in a system consisting of a geometric scatterer and two leads coupled to heat baths with different chemical potentials. We derive an expression for the corresponding current, the carriers of which are fermions, and analyze numerically its dependence on the model parameters in examples where the scatterer has a rectangular or triangular shape. Dedicated to the memory of Markus Büttiker (1950-2013).

Evaluation of the dosimetric properties of a diode detector for small field proton radiosurgery.

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McAuley, Grant A; Teran, Anthony V; Slater, Jerry D; Slater, James M; Wroe, Andrew J

2015-11-08

The small fields and sharp gradients typically encountered in proton radiosurgery require high spatial resolution dosimetric measurements, especially below 1-2 cm diameters. Radiochromic film provides high resolution, but requires postprocessing and special handling. Promising alternatives are diode detectors with small sensitive volumes (SV) that are capable of high resolution and real-time dose acquisition. In this study we evaluated the PTW PR60020 proton dosimetry diode using radiation fields and beam energies relevant to radiosurgery applications. Energies of 127 and 157 MeV (9.7 to 15 cm range) and initial diameters of 8, 10, 12, and 20mm were delivered using single-stage scattering and four modulations (0, 15, 30, and 60mm) to a water tank in our treatment room. Depth dose and beam profile data were compared with PTW Markus N23343 ionization chamber, EBT2 Gafchromic film, and Monte Carlo simulations. Transverse dose profiles were measured using the diode in "edge-on" orientation or EBT2 film. Diode response was linear with respect to dose, uniform with dose rate, and showed an orientation-dependent (i.e., beam parallel to, or perpendicular to, detector axis) response of less than 1%. Diodevs. Markus depth-dose profiles, as well as Markus relative dose ratio vs. simulated dose-weighted average lineal energy plots, suggest that any LET-dependent diode response is negligible from particle entrance up to the very distal portion of the SOBP for the energies tested. Finally, while not possible with the ionization chamber due to partial volume effects, accurate diode depth-dose measurements of 8, 10, and 12 mm diameter beams were obtained compared to Monte Carlo simulations. Because of the small SV that allows measurements without partial volume effects and the capability of submillimeter resolution (in edge-on orientation) that is crucial for small fields and high-dose gradients (e.g., penumbra, distal edge), as well as negligible LET dependence over nearly the full the SOBP, the PTW proton diode proved to be a useful high-resolution, real-time metrology device for small proton field radiation measurements such as would be encountered in radiosurgery applications.

Sub-Doppler Rovibrational Spectroscopy of the H_3^+ Cation and Isotopologues

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Markus, Charles R.; McCollum, Jefferson E.; Dieter, Thomas S.; Kocheril, Philip A.; McCall, Benjamin J.

2017-06-01

Molecular ions play a central role in the chemistry of the interstellar medium (ISM) and act as benchmarks for state of the art ab initio theory. The molecular ion H_3^+ initiates a chain of ion-neutral reactions which drives chemistry in the ISM, and observing it either directly or indirectly through its isotopologues is valuable for understanding interstellar chemistry. Improving the accuracy of laboratory measurements will assist future astronomical observations. H_3^+ is also one of a few systems whose rovibrational transitions can be predicted to spectroscopic accuracy (<1 cm^{-1}), and with careful treatment of adiabatic, nonadiabatic, and quantum electrodynamic corrections to the potential energy surface, predictions of low lying rovibrational states can rival the uncertainty of experimental measurements New experimental data will be needed to benchmark future treatment of these corrections. Previously we have reported 26 transitions within the fundamental band of H_3^+ with MHz-level uncertainties. With recent improvements to our overall sensitivity, we have expanded this survey to include additional transitions within the fundamental band and the first hot band. These new data will ultimately be used to predict ground state rovibrational energy levels through combination differences which will act as benchmarks for ab initio theory and predict forbidden rotational transitions of H_3^+. We will also discuss progress in measuring rovibrational transitions of the isotopologues H_2D^+ and D_2H^+, which will be used to assist in future THz astronomical observations. New experimental data will be needed to benchmark future treatment of these corrections. J. N. Hodges, A. J. Perry, P. A. Jenkins II, B. M. Siller, and B. J. McCall, J. Chem. Phys. (2013), 139, 164201. A. J. Perry, J. N. Hodges, C. R. Markus, G. S. Kocheril, and B. J. McCall, J. Mol. Spectrosc. (2015), 317, 71-73. A. J. Perry, C. R. Markus, J. N. Hodges, G. S. Kocheril, and B. J. McCall, 71st International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (2016), MH03. C. R. Markus, A. J. Perry, J. N. Hodges, and B. J. McCall, Opt. Express (2017), 25, 3709-3721.

Integrating Requirements Engineering, Modeling, and Verification Technologies into Software and Systems Engineering

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2007-10-28

Software Engineering, FASE󈧉, volume 3442 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 175--189. Springer, 2005. Andreas Bauer, Martin Leucker, and Jonathan ...of Personnel receiving masters degrees NAME Markus Strohmeier Gerrit Hanselmann Jonathan Streit Ernst Sassen 4Total Number: Names of personnel...developed and documented mainly within the master thesis by Jonathan Streit [Str06]: • Jonathan Streit. Development of a programming language like tem

Research and Theory on the Motivation to Lead: Implications for Officer Selection

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2000-08-01

Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. Vroom , V . H ., & Yetton, P. W. (1973). Leadership Meyer, J. P. & Allen, N. J. (1991). A three- and decision-making...behavior. In M. M. Page (Ed.), Nebraska Leadership Quarterly, 3, 137-157. Symposium on Motivation , beliefs, attitudes and values Markus, H ...UNCLASSIFIED Defense Technical Information Center Compilation Part Notice ADP010357 TITLE: Research and Theory on the Motivation to Lead

Beyond the 'east-west' dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

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Vignoles, Vivian L; Owe, Ellinor; Becker, Maja; Smith, Peter B; Easterbrook, Matthew J; Brown, Rupert; González, Roberto; Didier, Nicolas; Carrasco, Diego; Cadena, Maria Paz; Lay, Siugmin; Schwartz, Seth J; Des Rosiers, Sabrina E; Villamar, Juan A; Gavreliuc, Alin; Zinkeng, Martina; Kreuzbauer, Robert; Baguma, Peter; Martin, Mariana; Tatarko, Alexander; Herman, Ginette; de Sauvage, Isabelle; Courtois, Marie; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B; Harb, Charles; Schweiger Gallo, Inge; Prieto Gil, Paula; Lorente Clemares, Raquel; Campara, Gabriella; Nizharadze, George; Macapagal, Ma Elizabeth J; Jalal, Baland; Bourguignon, David; Zhang, Jianxin; Lv, Shaobo; Chybicka, Aneta; Yuki, Masaki; Zhang, Xiao; Espinosa, Agustín; Valk, Aune; Abuhamdeh, Sami; Amponsah, Benjamin; Özgen, Emre; Güner, E Ülkü; Yamakoğlu, Nil; Chobthamkit, Phatthanakit; Pyszczynski, Tom; Kesebir, Pelin; Vargas Trujillo, Elvia; Balanta, Paola; Cendales Ayala, Boris; Koller, Silvia H; Jaafar, Jas Laile; Gausel, Nicolay; Fischer, Ronald; Milfont, Taciano L; Kusdil, Ersin; Çağlar, Selinay; Aldhafri, Said; Ferreira, M Cristina; Mekonnen, Kassahun Habtamu; Wang, Qian; Fülöp, Márta; Torres, Ana; Camino, Leoncio; Lemos, Flávia Cristina Silveira; Fritsche, Immo; Möller, Bettina; Regalia, Camillo; Manzi, Claudia; Brambilla, Maria; Bond, Michael Harris

2016-08-01

Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by highlighting the role of culture in psychological processes. However, research has relied excessively on contrasts between North American and East Asian samples, and commonly used self-report measures of independence and interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differences. We revisited the conceptualization and measurement of independent and interdependent self-construals in 2 large-scale multinational surveys, using improved methods for cross-cultural research. We developed (Study 1: N = 2924 students in 16 nations) and validated across cultures (Study 2: N = 7279 adults from 55 cultural groups in 33 nations) a new 7-dimensional model of self-reported ways of being independent or interdependent. Patterns of global variation support some of Markus and Kitayama's predictions, but a simple contrast between independence and interdependence does not adequately capture the diverse models of selfhood that prevail in different world regions. Cultural groups emphasize different ways of being both independent and interdependent, depending on individualism-collectivism, national socioeconomic development, and religious heritage. Our 7-dimensional model will allow future researchers to test more accurately the implications of cultural models of selfhood for psychological processes in diverse ecocultural contexts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

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A Comparison of Monte Carlo Tree Search and Rolling Horizon Optimization for Large Scale Dynamic Resource Allocation Problems

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2015-05-01

decisions on the fly in an online retail environment. Tech. rep., Working Paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. Arneson, Broderick , Ryan...Hayward, Philip Henderson. 2009. MoHex wins Hex tournament. International Computer Games Association Journal 32 114–116. Arneson, Broderick , Ryan B...Combina- torial Search. Enzenberger, Markus, Martin Muller, Broderick Arneson, Richard Segal. 2010. Fuego—an open-source framework for board games and

Maniac Talk - Michael Mishchenko

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2015-01-26

Michael Mishchenko Maniac Lecture, January 26, 2015 NASA climate scientist Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko presented a Maniac Talk entitled "How much first-principle physics do we need in remote-sensing and atmospheric-radiation research." Michael explained his skepticism and how it has shaped his contributions to the disciplines of electromagnetic scattering, radiative transfer, and remote sensing, which have found widespread use.

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Documentation in a Software Maintenance Environment.

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1987-08-28

Michael Jackson Diagrams 0...8217 ." " . ." ." ""’, " , "" " - . -’" ,," ’" " " "’" d t Review of Documentation Techniques Michael Jackson Diagrams Michael Jackson diagrams show data...coupling and cohesion. Logic is not represented in this technique, which thus is of limited value. Advantages: Michael Jackson diagrams are similar

Evaluation of the dosimetric properties of a diode detector for small field proton radiosurgery

PubMed Central

Teran, Anthony V.; Slater, Jerry D.; Slater, James M.; Wroe, Andrew J.

2015-01-01

The small fields and sharp gradients typically encountered in proton radiosurgery require high spatial resolution dosimetric measurements, especially below 1–2 cm diameters. Radiochromic film provides high resolution, but requires postprocessing and special handling. Promising alternatives are diode detectors with small sensitive volumes (SV) that are capable of high resolution and real‐time dose acquisition. In this study we evaluated the PTW PR60020 proton dosimetry diode using radiation fields and beam energies relevant to radiosurgery applications. Energies of 127 and 157 MeV (9.7 to 15 cm range) and initial diameters of 8, 10, 12, and 20 mm were delivered using single‐stage scattering and four modulations (0, 15, 30, and 60 mm) to a water tank in our treatment room. Depth dose and beam profile data were compared with PTW Markus N23343 ionization chamber, EBT2 Gafchromic film, and Monte Carlo simulations. Transverse dose profiles were measured using the diode in "edge‐on" orientation or EBT2 film. Diode response was linear with respect to dose, uniform with dose rate, and showed an orientation‐dependent (i.e., beam parallel to, or perpendicular to, detector axis) response of less than 1%. Diode vs. Markus depth‐dose profiles, as well as Markus relative dose ratio vs. simulated dose‐weighted average lineal energy plots, suggest that any LET‐dependent diode response is negligible from particle entrance up to the very distal portion of the SOBP for the energies tested. Finally, while not possible with the ionization chamber due to partial volume effects, accurate diode depth‐dose measurements of 8, 10, and 12 mm diameter beams were obtained compared to Monte Carlo simulations. Because of the small SV that allows measurements without partial volume effects and the capability of submillimeter resolution (in edge‐on orientation) that is crucial for small fields and high‐dose gradients (e.g., penumbra, distal edge), as well as negligible LET dependence over nearly the full the SOBP, the PTW proton diode proved to be a useful high‐resolution, real‐time metrology device for small proton field radiation measurements such as would be encountered in radiosurgery applications. PACS numbers: 87.56.‐v, 87.56.jf, 87.56.Fc PMID:26699554

Managing in the whitespace.

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Maletz, M C; Nohria, N

2001-02-01

The assumption today is that new value in a company can be created only when people shed their suits, don khakis and Hawaiian shirts, and think and act like the most passionate entrepreneurs. The problem is, they're rarely told when it makes sense to do those things--or how to do them. With help from a team of ethnographers and senior organization specialists, authors Mark Maletz and Nitin Nohria recently conducted a unique research project that attempted to full those gaps. Their project focused on whitespace: the large but mostly unoccupied territory in every company where rules are vague, authority is fuzzy, budgets are nonexistent, and strategy is unclear--and where entrepreneurial activity that helps reinvent and renew an organization most often takes place. The researchers shadowed entrepreneurial managers operating in the whitespace and met with top managers about their efforts to oversee whitespace activities. Using examples from the financial services, computer, and e-commerce industries, the authors explain when it's imperative to operate in the whitespace--and when it's wiser to stay in the traditional blackspace. They describe how effective whitespace managers subtly and resourcefully lead successful efforts, and how senior executives nurture whitespace projects by putting aside their traditional planning, organizing, and controlling techniques. Finally, they examine the ultimate issue for any successful whitespace project: should it be moved into the blackspace, kept in the whitespace indefinitely--or, despite its apparent success, killed off? If companies leave this valuable territory to the scattershot whims and talents of individual managers, the authors say, they are likely to miss out on many of the opportunities that come from exploring the next frontier.

Stress-related neuropeptides and alcoholism: CRH, NPY and beyond

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Ciccocioppo, Roberto; Gehlert, Donald R.; Ryabinin, Andrey; Kaur, Simranjit; Cippitelli, Andrea; Thorsell, Annika; Lê, Anh D.; Hipskind, Philip A.; Hamdouchi, Chafiq; Lu, Jianliang; Hembre, Erik J.; Cramer, Jeffrey; Song, Min; McKinzie, David; Morin, Michelle; Economidou, Daina; Stopponi, Serena; Cannella, Nazzareno; Braconi, Simone; Kallupi, Marsida; de Guglielmo, Giordano; Massi, Maurizio; George, David T.; Gilman, Jody; Hersh, Jacqueline; Tauscher, Johannes T.; Hunt, Stephen P.; Hommer, Daniel; Heilig, Markus

2009-01-01

This article summarizes the proceedings of a symposium held at the conference on “Alcoholism and Stress: A Framework for Future Treatment Strategies” in Volterra, Italy, May 6–9, 2008. Chaired by Markus Heilig and Roberto Ciccocioppo, this symposium offered a forum for the presentation of recent data linking neuropetidergic neurotransmission to the regulation of different alcohol related behaviours in animals and in humans. Dr. Donald Gehlert described the development of a new corticotrophin releasing factor (CRH) receptor 1 antagonist and showed its efficacy in reducing alcohol consumption and stress-induced relapse in different animal models of alcohol abuse. Dr. Andrey Ryabinin reviewed recent findings in his laboratory indicating a role of the urocortin 1 (Ucn) receptor system in the regulation of alcohol intake. Dr. Annika Thorsell showed data supporting the significance of the neuropetide Y (NPY) receptor system in the modulation of behaviours associated with a history of ethanol intoxication. Dr. Roberto Ciccocioppo focused his presentation on the nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) receptors as treatment targets for alcoholism. Finally, Dr. Markus Heilig showed recent preclinical and clinical evidence suggesting that neurokinin 1 (NK1) antagonism may represent a promising new treatment for alcoholism. Collectively, these investigators highlighted the significance of neuropeptidergic neurotransmission in the regulation of neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol addiction. Data also revealed the importance of these systems as treatment targets for the development of new medication for alcoholism. PMID:19913192

4. Photocopy of inkandwatercolor drawing (from St. Michael's Church) Rambusch, ...

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4. Photocopy of ink-and-watercolor drawing (from St. Michael's Church) Rambusch, illustrator ca. 1932-37 INTERIOR, LOOKING NORTHEAST - St. Michael's Catholic Church, 519 East Third Street, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Michael J. Fox: Spurring Research on Parkinson's

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... on. Feature: Parkinson's Disease Michael J. Fox: Spurring Research on Parkinson's Past Issues / Winter 2014 Table of ... founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research in the year 2000. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock " ...

Dignital Biological Converter

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2014-01-03

DARPA Contracting Officer: Michael Blackstone Submitted by: HEATHER GOUVIS Synthetic Genomics, Inc. 11149 NORTH TORREY PINES RD LA JOLLA, CA...Contracting Officer Representative (COR) Email: salit@nist.gov Michael Blackstone DARPA Contracting Officer Michael.Blackstone@darpa.mil DARPA

Biomimetically inspired asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-19-dehydroxyl arisandilactone A

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Han, Yi-Xin; Jiang, Yan-Long; Li, Yong; Yu, Hai-Xin; Tong, Bing-Qi; Niu, Zhe; Zhou, Shi-Jie; Liu, Song; Lan, Yu; Chen, Jia-Hua; Yang, Zhen

2017-01-01

Complex natural products are a proven and rich source of disease-modulating drugs and of efficient tools for the study of chemical biology and drug discovery. The architectures of complex natural products are generally considered to represent significant barriers to efficient chemical synthesis. Here we describe a concise and efficient asymmetric synthesis of 19-dehydroxyl arisandilactone A--which belongs to a family of architecturally unique, highly oxygenated nortriterpenoids isolated from the medicinal plant Schisandra arisanensis. This synthesis takes place by means of a homo-Michael reaction, a tandem retro-Michael/Michael reaction, and Cu-catalysed intramolecular cyclopropanation as key steps. The proposed mechanisms for the homo-Michael and tandem retro-Michael/Michael reactions are supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. The developed chemistry may find application for the synthesis of its other family members of Schisandraceae nortriterpenoids.

Catalytic asymmetric Michael reactions promoted by a lithium-free lanthanum-BINOL complex

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Sasai, Hiroaki; Arai, Takayoshi; Shibasaki, Masakatsu

1994-02-23

In this communication, we report about a new lithium-free BINOL-lanthanum complex, which is quite effective in catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction. We have succeeded in developing effective asymmetric base catalysts, in particular, asymmetric ester enolate catalysts for asymmetric Michael reactions. Two asymmetric lanthanum complexes are now available, namely, BINOL-lanthanum-lithium complex, which is quite effective in catalytic asymmetric nitrosaldol reactions, and a new lithium-free BINOL-lanthanum ester enolate complex, that is very effective in catalytic asymmetric Michael reactions. The two complexes complement each other in their ability to catalyze asymmetric nitroaldol and asymmetric Michael reactions. 14 refs., 1 fig., 2 tabs.

Chain Dynamic Formulations for Multibody System Tracked Vehicles (Preprint)

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2013-03-06

Michael Wallin 1 Ahmed K. Aboubakr 1 Paramsothy Jayakumar 2 Michael D. Letherwood 2 Ashraf Hamed 1 Ahmed A. Shabana 1...5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Michael Wallin; Ahmed Aboubakr; Paramsothy Jayakumar ; Michael Letherwood; Ashraf Hamed 5d...Taylor & Francis/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida. 16. Shabana, A. A., Hamed, A. M., Mohamed, A. A., Jayakumar , P., and Letherwood, M. D. 2012, “Use of B

Survey and Assessment of Fragmentation Materials/Concepts

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1976-06-01

both one and two-demensional wave propagation codes (KO and HEMP ). Actual tests were used to show fragmentation details such as size, shape and...Characteristics of HE Shell. Part 1", WAL R-763/891-1, April 1956, (U). 29. C. Zener and J. H. Hollomon, "Effect of Strain Rate Upon Plastic Flow...Material Program", Internal Report, April 1966, (U). for T. A. Read, H. Markus, and J. M. McCaughey, " Plastic Flow and Rupture of Steel at High

Room Temperature Spin Mediated Coupling in Hybrid Magnetic, Organic, and Oxide Structures and Devices

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2015-12-07

doi: Ran Lin, Fujian Wang, Markus Wohlgenannt, Chunyong He, Xiaofang Zhai, Yuri Suzuki. Organic spin- valves based on fullerene C60, Synthetic Metals...is likely incorrect, given that other groups have been able to dynamically tune LAO/STO samples along this anticorrelation curve. These dynamic...For jBj. Bp, the energy difference between the split peaks increases linearly (Zeeman- like ) with magnetic field –0.4 0 0.4 V 2 3 (m V) 100 50 0 dI

Room-Temperature Spin-Mediated Coupling in Hybrid Magnetic, Organic, and Oxide Structures and Devices

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2015-12-07

doi: Ran Lin, Fujian Wang, Markus Wohlgenannt, Chunyong He, Xiaofang Zhai, Yuri Suzuki. Organic spin- valves based on fullerene C60, Synthetic Metals...is likely incorrect, given that other groups have been able to dynamically tune LAO/STO samples along this anticorrelation curve. These dynamic...For jBj. Bp, the energy difference between the split peaks increases linearly (Zeeman- like ) with magnetic field –0.4 0 0.4 V 2 3 (m V) 100 50 0 dI

Michael E. Himmel | NREL

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E. Himmel Photo of Michael E. Himmel Michael Himmel Senior Research Fellow I-Molecular Biology ;Towards a molecular-level theory of carbohydrate processivity," Curr. Opinion Biotechnol. (2014 University, Department of Biochem. & Molecular Biol., Distinguished Alumnus (2014) Battelle Memorial

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Synthesis of Triazole Derivatives of Levoglucosenone As Promising Anticancer Agents: Effective Exploration of the Chemical Space through retro-aza-Michael//aza-Michael Isomerizations.

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Tsai, Yi-Hsuan; Borini Etichetti, Carla M; Di Benedetto, Carolina; Girardini, Javier E; Martins, Felipe Terra; Spanevello, Rolando A; Suárez, Alejandra G; Sarotti, Ariel M

2018-04-06

The design and synthesis of biomass-derived triazoles and the in vitro evaluation as potential anticancer agents are described. The discovery of base-catalyzed retro-aza-Michael//aza-Michael isomerizations allowed the exploration of the chemical space by affording novel types of triazoles, difficult to obtain otherwise. Following this strategy, 2,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles could be efficiently obtained from the corresponding 1,4-disubstituted analogues.

Surface Modified Particles By Multi-Step Michael-Type Addition And Process For The Preparation Thereof

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Cook, Ronald Lee; Elliott, Brian John; Luebben, Silvia DeVito; Myers, Andrew William; Smith, Bryan Matthew

2005-05-03

A new class of surface modified particles and a multi-step Michael-type addition surface modification process for the preparation of the same is provided. The multi-step Michael-type addition surface modification process involves two or more reactions to compatibilize particles with various host systems and/or to provide the particles with particular chemical reactivities. The initial step comprises the attachment of a small organic compound to the surface of the inorganic particle. The subsequent steps attach additional compounds to the previously attached organic compounds through reactive organic linking groups. Specifically, these reactive groups are activated carbon—carbon pi bonds and carbon and non-carbon nucleophiles that react via Michael or Michael-type additions.

76 FR 10352 - Keyser, Michael J.; Notice of Filing

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Method for promoting Michael addition reactions

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Shah, Pankaj V.; Vietti, David E.; Whitman, David William

2010-09-21

Homogeneously dispersed solid reaction promoters having an average particle size from 0.01 .mu.m to 500 .mu.m are disclosed for preparing curable mixtures of at least one Michael donor and at least one Michael acceptor. The resulting curable mixtures are useful as coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.

Proton beam dosimetry: a comparison between a plastic scintillator, ionization chamber and Faraday cup.

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Ghergherehchi, Mitra; Afarideh, Hossein; Ghannadi, Mohammad; Mohammadzadeh, Ahmad; Aslani, Golam Reza; Boghrati, Behzad

2010-01-01

In this study, a comparison was made between a plastic scintillator (BC400), a Faraday Cup (FC) and an ionization chamber (IC) used for routine proton dosimetry. Thin scintillators can be applied to proton dosimetry and consequently to proton therapy as relative dosimeters because of their water-equivalent nature, high energy-light conversion efficiency, low dimensions and good proportionality to the absorbed dose at low stopping powers. To employ such scintillators as relative dosimeters in proton therapy, the corrective factors must be applied to correct the quenching luminescence at the Bragg peak. A fine linear proportionality between the luminescence light yield Y and the proton flux in a thin (0.5 mm) scintillator for the 20 and 30 MeV proton beams were observed. The experimental peak/plateau ratios of Bragg Curve for 2, 1 and 0.5 mm scintillators with an accuracy of 0.5% were obtained to be 1.87, 1.91 and 2.30, respectively. With combination of the Markus chamber and the CR-39 detector, the peak/plateau ratio was improved to 3.26. The obtained data of the luminescence yield as a function of the specific energy loss is in agreement with the Craun-Birk's theory. Results show that the FC and Markus ionization chamber are in agreement within 4%, while the FC gives a lower dose evaluation. For a defined beam, the data for the fluence measurements are reproducible within a good accuracy.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: European Conference on Complex Systems 2009 European Conference on Complex Systems 2009

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2009-05-01

The 2009 European Conference on Complex Systems will take place 21-25 September 2009 at the University of Warwick in the UK. Local Organising Committee Markus Kirkilionis (Warwick, Chair), Francois Kepes (Genopole, Programme Chair), Robert MacKay (Warwick), Robin Ball (Warwick), Jeff Johnson (Open University). International Steering Committee Markus Kirkilionis (Warwick; Chair 2008-10), Fatihcan Atay (Leipzig), Jürgen Jost (Leipzig), Scott Kirkpatrick (Jerusalem), David Lane (University of Modena and Reggio Emillia), Andreas Lorincz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Denise Pumain (Sorbonne), Felix Reed-Tsochas (Oxford), Eörs Szathmáry (Collegium Budapest, Hungary), Stephan Thurner (Wien), Paul Verschure (Barcelona), Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana, ISI), Riccardo Zecchina (Torino). Main tracks and Organisers Policy, Planning & Infrastructure: Jeff Johnson (Open University, Chair), Arnaud Banos (Strasbourg) Collective Human Behaviour and Society: Felix Reed-Tsochas (Oxford, Chair), Frances Griffiths (Warwick), Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Leicester) Interacting Populations and Environment: TBA Complexity and Computer Science: András Lörincz (Eötvös Loránd University), Paul Verschure (Zürich) From Molecules to Living Systems: Mark Chaplain (Dundee, Chair), Wolfgang Marwan (Magdeburg) Mathematics and Simulation: Holger Kantz (Dresden, Chair), Fatihcan Atay (Leipzig), Matteo Marsili (Trieste). Deadlines Paper submission: 31 March 2009 with decisions 15 May 2009. Paper submission deadline likely to be extended. See http://www.eccs09.info for more information. Meeting registration: early registration July 2009; last assured chance 1 Sept. Further information For contacts and the most up-to-date information visit http://www.eccs09.info.

Doing It All: Michael Sullivan--Weeks Public Library, NH

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Library Journal, 2005

2005-01-01

Michael Sullivan is a juggler--not a metaphorical one, a real one. He's also a library director, storyteller, competitive chess player, poet, speaker, and former children's librarian who continues to work with the kids in his community. This article summarizes the accomplishments and work of Michael Sullivan.

Michael J. Meaney: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions

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American Psychologist, 2012

2012-01-01

Presents Michael J. Meaney as one of the winners of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (2012). Michael J. Meaney has taken the phenomenon of "handling" of newborn rats and opened a new area of investigation that has given new meaning to epigenetics via his work demonstrating transgenerational…

Jack Michael's Motivation

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Miguel, Caio F.

2013-01-01

Among many of Jack Michael's contributions to the field of behavior analysis is his behavioral account of motivation. This paper focuses on the concept of "motivating operation" (MO) by outlining its development from Skinner's (1938) notion of "drive." Conceptually, Michael's term helped us change our focus on…

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Studying Teachers and Schools: Michael Pressley's Legacy and Directions for Future Research

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Mohan, Lindsey; Lundeberg, Mary A.; Reffitt, Kelly

2008-01-01

Much of Michael Pressley's work during the past decade focused on the nature of highly effective, engaging literacy instruction. Michael Pressley believed that studying effective teachers and schools had the potential to influence more engaging and effective teaching, especially in underresourced schools. First, we describe the grounded…

Language and Intercultural Education: An Interview with Michael Byram

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Porto, Melina

2013-01-01

This article reports an interview with Michael Byram, Professor Emeritus, University of Durham in the United Kingdom, during his visit to Argentina in September 2011. Michael Byram is one of the main international referents in intercultural education. The interview addresses issues such as language education, intercultural and citizenship…

Racemic hemiacetals as oxygen-centered pronucleophiles triggering cascade 1,4-addition/Michael reaction through dynamic kinetic resolution under iminium catalysis. Development and mechanistic insights† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Detailed experimental procedures and characterization of all new compounds, including copies of NMR spectra and HPLC chromatograms traces, computational details and Cartesian coordinates of all stationary points. CCDC 1525188 (4l), 1525189 (6a) and 1525190 (9a). For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/c7sc00009j Click here for additional data file. Click here for additional data file.

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Orue, Ane; Uria, Uxue; Roca-López, David; Delso, Ignacio; Reyes, Efraím; Carrillo, Luisa

2017-01-01

2-Hydroxydihydropyran-5-ones behave as excellent polyfunctional reagents able to react with enals through oxa-Michael/Michael process cascade under the combination of iminium and enamine catalysis. These racemic hemiacetalic compounds are used as unconventional O-pronucleophiles in the initial oxa-Michael reaction, also leading to the formation of a single stereoisomer under a dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) process. Importantly, by using β-aryl or β-alkyl substituted α,β-unsaturated substrates as initial Michael acceptors either kinetically or thermodynamically controlled diastereoisomers were formed with high stereoselection through the careful selection of the reaction conditions. Finally, a complete experimental and computational study confirmed the initially proposed DKR process during the catalytic oxa-Michael/Michael cascade reaction and also explained the kinetic/thermodynamic pathway operating in each case. PMID:28451356

A study on the suitability of the PTW microDiamond detector for kilovoltage x-ray beam dosimetry.

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Damodar, Joshita; Odgers, David; Pope, Dane; Hill, Robin

2018-05-01

Kilovoltage x-ray beams are widely used in treating skin cancers and in biological irradiators. In this work, we have evaluated four dosimeters (ionization chambers and solid state detectors) in their suitability for relative dosimetry of kilovoltage x-ray beams in the energy range of 50 - 280kVp. The solid state detectors, which have not been investigated with low energy x-rays, were the PTW 60019 microDiamond synthetic diamond detector and the PTW 60012 diode. The two ionization chambers used were the PTW Advanced Markus parallel plate chamber and the PTW PinPoint small volume chamber. For each of the dosimeters, percentage depth doses were measured in water over the full range of x-ray beams and for field sizes ranging from 2cm diameter to 12 × 12cm. In addition, depth doses were measured for a narrow aperture (7mm diameter) using the PTW microDiamond detector. For comparison, the measured data was compared with Monte Carlo calculated doses using the EGSnrc Monte Carlo package. The depth dose results indicate that the Advanced Markus parallel plate and PinPoint ionization chambers were suitable for depth dose measurements in the beam quality range with an uncertainty of less than 3%, including in the regions closer to the surface of the water as compared with Monte Carlo depth dose data for all six energy beams. The response of the PTW Diode E detector was accurate to within 4% for all field sizes in the energy range of 50-125kVp but showed larger variations for higher energies of up to 12% with the 12 × 12cm field size. In comparison, the microDiamond detector had good agreement over all energies for both smaller and larger field sizes generally within 1% as compared to the Advanced Markus chamber field and Monte Carlo calculations. The only exceptions were in measuring the dose at the surface of the water phantom where larger differences were found. For the 7mm diameter field, the agreement between the microDiamond detector and Monte Carlo calculations was good being better than 1% except at the surface. Based on these results, the PTW microDiamond detector has shown to be a suitable detector for relative dosimetry of low energy x-ray beams over a wide range of x-ray beam energies. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

78 FR 2391 - CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc., Michael E. Boyd, Robert M. Sarvey v. Pacific Gas and...

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... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. RP13-436-000] CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc., Michael E. Boyd, Robert M. Sarvey v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company... Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc., Michael E. Boyd, and Robert...

Interview with Michael Apple: The Biography of a Public Intellectual

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Peters, Michael A.

2015-01-01

Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction (CI) and Educational Policy Studies (EPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education where he has taught since 1970. Michael Apple is one of the foremost educational theorists…

Markets, Marx, Modernity and Mathematics Education: A Response to Michael Apple.

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Gates, Peter

This paper is a response to Michael Apple's paper, "What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge." The paper advocates Michael's identification of the current dangers and processes of the growth of new right ideologies in the development of subjectivity, society, and education. The differences in success in the education…

77 FR 61596 - Wheatley, Michael I.; Garrison, Drummond E.; Notice of Filing

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Every timelike geodesic in Anti-de Sitter spacetime is a circle of the same radius

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Sokołowski, Leszek M.; Golda, Zdzisław A.

2016-10-01

In this paper, we refine and analytically prove an old proposition due to Calabi and Markus on the shape of timelike geodesics of anti-de Sitter space in the ambient flat space. We prove that each timelike geodesic forms in the ambient space a circle of the radius determined by Λ, lying on a Euclidean two-plane. Then, we outline an alternative proof for AdS4. We also make a comment on the shape of timelike geodesics in de Sitter space.

Nanomechanics—the whole is more than the sum of its parts

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2016-09-01

Nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes, are often added to polymers and composites to enhance their strength. The extreme mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes suggest an obvious rationale behind this approach. However as Markus Buehler and Isabelle Su at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US highlight in their recent topical review [1] the behaviour that renders nanomaterials soft or strong can be far from trivial, often involving interactions on a range of scales from macrostructures to nanostructures and—in the case of biostructures—the amino acids and proteins they are built from.

NASA Catches Tropical Storm Leslie and Hurricane Michael in the Atlantic

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2017-12-08

This visible image of Tropical Storm Leslie and Hurricane Michael was taken by the MODIS instrument aboard both NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites on Sept. 9 at 12:50 p.m. EDT. Credit: NASA Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response Team -- Satellite images from two NASA satellites were combined to create a full picture of Tropical Storm Leslie and Hurricane Michael spinning in the Atlantic Ocean. Imagery from NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites showed Leslie now past Bermuda and Michael in the north central Atlantic, and Leslie is much larger than the smaller, more powerful Michael. Images of each storm were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS instrument that flies onboard both the Aqua and Terra satellites. Both satellites captured images of both storms on Sept. 7 and Sept. 10. The image from Sept. 7 showed a much more compact Michael with a visible eye. By Sept. 10, the eye was no longer visible in Michael and the storm appeared more elongated from south to north. To continue reading go to: 1.usa.gov/NkUPqn NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram

Interview with J. Michael Thompson

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Randall, Mary Elisabeth

2004-01-01

J. Michael Thompson is the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at the University of Southern California. J. Michael has worked in higher education for more than 30 years in a variety of roles at small private and mid-sized and large public universities, and now at USC, a large private university. He has…

Veteran’s Health Care Issues

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2007-11-30

Affairs Dr. Michael J. Kussman , in U.S. Congress, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on...Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Michael Kussman , in U.S. Congress, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Military Construction...Department of Veterans Affairs Dr. Michael J. Kussman , in U.S. Congress, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and

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Michael Young and the Curriculum Field in South Africa

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Hoadley, Ursula

2015-01-01

The paper addresses the question of what we should make of Michael Young's recent work with respect to curriculum theory by considering the particular case of South African curriculum reform. The paper thus traces two trajectories: the evolution of Michael Young's ideas over time and South African curriculum reform in the post-apartheid period.…

Covalent Modifiers: A Chemical Perspective on the Reactivity of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyls with Thiols via Hetero-Michael Addition Reactions.

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Jackson, Paul A; Widen, John C; Harki, Daniel A; Brummond, Kay M

2017-02-09

Although Michael acceptors display a potent and broad spectrum of bioactivity, they have largely been ignored in drug discovery because of their presumed indiscriminate reactivity. As such, a dearth of information exists relevant to the thiol reactivity of natural products and their analogues possessing this moiety. In the midst of recently approved acrylamide-containing drugs, it is clear that a good understanding of the hetero-Michael addition reaction and the relative reactivities of biological thiols with Michael acceptors under physiological conditions is needed for the design and use of these compounds as biological tools and potential therapeutics. This Perspective provides information that will contribute to this understanding, such as kinetics of thiol addition reactions, bioactivities, as well as steric and electronic factors that influence the electrophilicity and reversibility of Michael acceptors. This Perspective is focused on α,β-unsaturated carbonyls given their preponderance in bioactive natural products.

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DefenseLink Feature: Chairman Visits Japan and Republic of Korea, Nov. 5-8,

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Staff Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen answers questions at a press availability with local media following Staff Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen visits greets marines and staff assigned to the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, right, and Japanese Chief of Defense Adm

Covalent Modifiers: A Chemical Perspective on the Reactivity of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyls with Thiols via Hetero-Michael Addition Reactions

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Jackson, Paul A.; Widen, John C.; Harki, Daniel A.; Brummond, Kay M.

2017-01-01

Although Michael acceptors display a potent and broad spectrum of bioactivity, they have largely been ignored in drug discovery because of their presumed indiscriminate reactivity. As such, a dearth of information exists relevant to the thiol reactivity of natural products and their analogs possessing this moiety. In the midst of recently approved acrylamide-containing drugs, it is clear that a good understanding of the hetero-Michael addition reaction and the relative reactivities of biological thiols with Michael acceptors under physiological conditions is needed for the design and use of these compounds as biological tools and potential therapeutics. This perspective provides information that will contribute to this understanding, such as kinetics of thiol addition reactions, bioactivities, as well as steric and electronic factors that influence the electrophilicity and reversibility of Michael acceptors. This perspective is focused on α,β-unsaturated carbonyls given their preponderance in bioactive natural products. PMID:27996267

Strategic Studies Quarterly. Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2014

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2014-01-01

Michael Guillot Measuring Military Power James Jay Carafano Strategy and Force Planning in a Time of Austerity BG Michael J . Meese, USA, Retired...Hudson, PhD Nori Katagiri, PhD Paul J . Springer, PhD Zachary J . Zwald, PhD Strategic Studies Quarterly (SSQ) (ISSN 1936-1815) is published quarterly...19 BG Michael J . Meese, USA, Retired Pensive Sword: Educating Officers in Austere Times ...................... 30 Stephen D. Chiabotti Feature

DefenseLink.mil - Pentagon Memorial Dedication

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Dept. photo by Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden An entry stone at the Pentagon Memorial lists the their lives during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden A member of The United States Air Force Band practices before the start of

Hearts-and-Minds: A Strategy of Conciliation, Coercion, or Commitment?

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-09-01

benefits to modern conflicts remains problematic. According to Colonel (retired) Michael Crawshaw writing on evolution of British COIN for the United...Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2002), 11. 9. Michael Crawshaw , “The Evolution of British COIN,” Se- curity and Stabilisation: The Military Contribution...Afghanistan” (Cahier de la Recherche, France: November 2011), 42. 12. Ibid., 43. 13. Michael Crawshaw , “The Evolution of British COIN,” Se- curity and

Development and Implementation of an Interactive Uniform Regulations Manual for the United States Marine Corps

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2006-09-01

IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERACTIVE UNIFORM REGULATIONS MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS by Michael H. Villar Carsten Krause...SUBTITLE: Development and Implementation of an Interactive Uniform Regulations Manual for the United States Marine Corps 6. AUTHOR(S) Michael H. Villar...IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERACTIVE UNIFORM REGULATIONS MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS Michael H. Villar Major, United States Marine Corps B.A

Understanding a Complex World: Why an Emphasis on Empathy Could Better Enable Army Leaders to Win

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2016-06-10

complexity and speed of human interactions. Through the analysis of case studies involving General Stanley McChrystal and Colonel Michael Steele , this...Future; Win; Dilemma; Leadership; McChrystal, Stanley; Steele , Michael 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 18. NUMBER OF...Stanley McChrystal and Colonel Michael Steele , this thesis describes how each individual’s empathetic mindset resulted in both favorable and

Combat Service Support MOD II Design (CSS MOD II). Volume 2. Appendixes

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1986-10-01

through contractual aoreement with Michael Jackson , Ltd. London. The spelling, syntax, and word usage adopted throughout the document have been made...to conform to army standards. The design teas members wish to thank the followin, individuals for their assistances Mr. John Cameron, Michael Jackson , Ltd...JSP) methodology is a product of Michael Jackson Systems, Ltd., London, England. In 1984, Dr. Wilbur Payne, Director, TRADOC Operations Research

Psychological Analyses of Courageous Performance in Military Personnel

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1990-08-01

British Columbia ARI Scientific Coordination Office, London Milton Katz, Chief Office of Basic Research Michael Kaplan , Director OTIC August1990 ELECTE...For NTIS Ri University of British Columbia DTic TAB Just fitIcat lo Technical review by Dy __Dttibut ton/ Michael Kaplan Avallability CodesDIst...22c. OFFICE SYMBOL Michael Kaplan (202) 274-8722 PERT-BR DD Form 1473, JUN 86 Previous editions are obsolete. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE

Development and Implementation of Low-Cost Mobile Sensor Platforms Within a Wireless Sensor Network

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2010-09-01

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK by Michael Jay Tozzi September 2010 Thesis Advisor: Rachel Goshorn Second Reader: Duane Davis Approved for...Platforms Within a Wireless Sensor Network 6. AUTHOR(S) Tozzi, Michael Jay 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Naval...IMPLEMENTATION OF LOW-COST MOBILE SENSOR PLATFORMS WITHIN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK Michael Jay Tozzi Lieutenant, United States Navy B.S., United

The what, how, why, and where of self-construal.

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Cross, Susan E; Hardin, Erin E; Gercek-Swing, Berna

2011-05-01

Since the publication of Markus and Kitayama's pivotal article on culture and the self, the concepts of independent, relational, and interdependent self-construal have become important constructs in cultural psychology and research on the self. The authors review the history of these constructs, their measurement and manipulation, and their roles in cognition, emotion, motivation, and social behavior. They make suggestions for future research and point to problems still to be sorted out. Researchers interested in these constructs have many opportunities to make important contributions to the literature in a variety of fields, including health psychology, education, counseling, and international relations.

Unconventional Counterinsurgency: Leveraging Traditional Social Networks and Irregular Forces in Remote and Ungoverned Areas

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2010-05-13

Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars”, Michael Vlahos argues that today’s wars with non-state enemies are “above all, wars of identity.”29 Moreover, he...together these manuals powerfully reinforce Michael Vlahos ’ imperative to reshape the population and enemy narrative by co-opting identity.34...29 Michael Vlahos , "Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars," Military Review (United States

Topological Privacy: Lattice Structures and Information Bubbles for Inference and Obfuscation

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2016-12-19

AFRL-AFOSR-VA-TR-2017-0036 Topological Privacy Michael Erdmann CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 5000 FORBES AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3815 02/22/2017...PERSON 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (Include area code) 19-12-2016 Final 15-10-2013 - 14-10-2016 Topological Privacy Erdmann, Michael, A. Carnegie Mellon...Michael Erdmann Carnegie Mellon University me@cs.cmu.edu December 19, 2016 Abstract Information has intrinsic geometric and topological structure, arising

Description and Evaluation of GDEM-V 3.0

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2009-02-06

Description and Evaluation of GDEM -V 3.0 Michael R. caRnes Ocean Sciences Branch Oceanography Division February 6, 2009 i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form...include area code) b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT Description and Evaluation of GDEM -V 3.0 Michael R. Carnes...unlimited. Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified UL 24 Michael R. Carnes (228) 688-5648 The GDEM (Generalized Digital Environment Model) has served as

Novel Array-Based Target Identification for Synergistic Sensitization of Breast Cancer to Herceptin

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2010-05-01

Tatsuya Azum, Eileen Adamson, Ryan Alipio, Becky Pio, Frank Jones, Dan Mercola. Chip- on- chip analysis of mechanism of action of HER2 inhibition in...Munawar, Kutbuddin S. Doctor, Michael Birrer, Michael McClelland, Eileen Adamson, Dan Mercola. Egr1 regulates the coordinated expression of numerous...Kemal Korkmaz, Mashide Ohmichi, Eileen Adamson, Michael McClelland, Dan Mercola. Identification of genes bound and regulated by ATF2/c-Jun

Structuring Z Specifications with Views

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1994-03-01

Gregory Abowd, Michael Jackson , Jeannette Wing, Michal Young and Pamela Zave, who gave me helpful comments on drafts of this pa- per. I am also grateful to...1988. Uac94] Michael Jackson , "Software Development Method", in A Classical Mind: Essays in Honour of C.A.R Hoare, ed. A.W Roscoe, Prentice Hall...International, 1994. ,0 26 [Jon86] Cliff B. Jones, Systematic Software Development Using VDM, Prentice Hall International, 1986. [JZ93] Michael Jackson and

Test and Evaluation of the Navy Occupational Health Information Management System (NOHIMS).

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1986-07-01

Naval Shipyard for NOHIMS with the assistance of Todd Merrill from the University of Washington and Michael Jackson , another industrial hygienist...initialize NOHIMS and learn how to use the system. As the industrial component of NOHIMS became operational in Bremerton, Michael Jackson assumed the role...interacting with the system. Since NO|IIMS was introduced at Bremerton, Michael Jackson has been involved in all aspects of system start-up and maintenance

Searching for a Different Understanding of Operational Art

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2016-05-26

that “hampered by 35 Bruce Menning, “Operational Art’s Origins,” in Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, ed. Michael D. Krause and R. Cody...war or theater of 43 Clayton Newell, “Introduction,” in On Operational Art, ed. Clayton Newell and Michael Krause (Washington, DC: US Army Center of...Menning, Bruce. “Operational Art’s Origins.” In Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, edited by Michael D. Krause and R. Cody Phillips, 3

Preparing Brigade Combat Team Soldiers for Mission Readiness Through Research on Intangible Psychological Constructs and their Applications: Validation and Pilot

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2015-01-01

and their Applications: Validation and Pilot Steven N. Aude Kenneth Nicely Michael A. Lodato ICF International Christopher L. Vowels...CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER W5J9CQ-11-0009 5b. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 622785 6. AUTHOR(S) Steven N. Aude, Kenneth Nicely, Michael A... Michael A. Lodato ICF International Christopher L. Vowels U.S. Army Research Institute Fort Hood Research Unit Brian T. Crabb

Gas Control and Thermal Modeling Methods for Pressed Pellet and Fast Rise Thin-Film Thermal Batteries

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2015-09-01

Thin-Film Thermal Batteries by Frank C Krieger and Michael S Ding Approved for public release; distribution unlimited...Laboratory Gas Control and Thermal Modeling Methods for Pressed Pellet and Fast Rise Thin-Film Thermal Batteries by Frank C Krieger and Michael S...Batteries 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Frank C Krieger and Michael S Ding 5d. PROJECT NUMBER

Production of a Novel OX40 Ligand for Clinical Use

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2012-10-01

inhibitory to the detection of mycoplasma. 19.0 TECHNICAL REFERENCES 19.1 Barile , Michael F. and McGarrity, Gerard J. (1983). "Isolation of Mycoplasmas from...Edition, Section 2.6.7, Mycoplasmas. 19.4 McGarrity, Gerard J. and Barile , Michael F. (1983). "Use of Indicator Cell Lines for Recovery and...test material will be discarded following study completion unless otherwise requested by Sponsor. 20.0 REFERENCES 20.1 Barile , Michael F. and

Magnetic Insulation in Coaxial Transmission Lines with an External Magnetic Field

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1980-03-13

A. Mostrom, Michael E. Jones, and Lester E. Thode SUBMITTED TO: Physical Review Letters March 13, 1980 SöKOK_Kä^MJ!L;; ÄgEie?©d tea gas &c...Number Assigned by Contract Monitor: SLL 81- 262 Comments on Document: Archive, RRI, DEW . From Physical Review Letters Descriptors, Keywords: Magnetic...Source of Document: DEW MAGNETIC INSULATION IN COAXIAL TRANSMISSION LINES WITH AN EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD Michael A. Mostrom, Michael E. Jones, and

The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned

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2003-05-06

USACGSC, August, 2002), CR3.7-1--CR3.7-14; Michael Howard , “Men Against Fire, Expectations of War in 1914,” International Security (Summer 1984): 41-57...169; Carl von Clausewitz, On War, trans. and ed. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 37-38. 8Service in...Cleator, P. Weapons of War. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967. Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and

Evaluating perceptions of the effectiveness of the community advisory panel model for enhancing service delivery to marginalized populations.

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Ramsay, Jason T; Smith, Peter; Thompson, Alison; O'Campo, Patricia; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Watson, Priya; Park-Wylie, Laura; Bryant, Toba; Tandon, Reena; Farah, Mohammed

2012-01-01

The objective of this study was to evaluate perceptions of the effectiveness of the community advisory panels (CAPs) at St. Michael's Hospital, in Toronto, Canada. A qualitative design was employed. Participants included hospital staff, patients, Community Advisory Panel chairs, and key informants from community services in the St. Michael's Hospital catchment area. An online survey about awareness of the CAPs and CAP accomplishments; (2) Key informants interviews; and (3) Review of memos and meeting minutes of the CAPs to assess their impact in the hospital and the community. St. Michael's Hospital was the setting of the study. Descriptive statistics were generated for the survey data. Qualitative interview data were coded for major themes. Participants included hospital staff, patients, CAP chairs, and key informants from community services in the St. Michael's Hospital catchment area. Although the CAPs initiated and implemented an array of programs and services at St. Michael's Hospital, the visibility of the CAPs and their service to the hospital and community were very low. Themes that emerged from the semistructured interviews involved the visibility, effectiveness, and role of the CAPs in the hospital. Although the CAPs at St. Michael's Hospital appear to be an effective model for community responsiveness, the visibility of their work in the hospital and community was very low. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Michael Griffin House Science Committee Hearing

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2005-06-27

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin prepares to testify at a hearing before the House Science Committee, Tuesday, June 28, 2005, Rayburn House Office building, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Geophysicists

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2004-06-01

In Memoriam: James R. Holton, Buford K. Meade, Mikhail I. Pudovkin; Honors: Michel Blanc, Alberto Borges, Paola Vannucchi, Michael A. Hapgood, Subir Banerjee, Lev Vinnik, John Wahr, Forrest Mozer, Vladimir N. Zharkov, Michael Ghil

Synthesis, chemical reactivity as Michael acceptors, and biological potency of monocyclic cyanoenones, novel and highly potent anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective agents.

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Zheng, Suqing; Santosh Laxmi, Y R; David, Emilie; Dinkova-Kostova, Albena T; Shiavoni, Katherine H; Ren, Yanqing; Zheng, Ying; Trevino, Isaac; Bumeister, Ronald; Ojima, Iwao; Wigley, W Christian; Bliska, James B; Mierke, Dale F; Honda, Tadashi

2012-05-24

Novel monocyclic cyanoenones examined to date display unique features regarding chemical reactivity as Michael acceptors and biological potency. Remarkably, in some biological assays, the simple structure is more potent than pentacyclic triterpenoids (e.g., CDDO and bardoxolone methyl) and tricycles (e.g., TBE-31). Among monocyclic cyanoenones, 1 is a highly reactive Michael acceptor with thiol nucleophiles. Furthermore, an important feature of 1 is that its Michael addition is reversible. For the inhibition of NO production, 1 shows the highest potency. Notably, its potency is about three times higher than CDDO, whose methyl ester (bardoxolone methyl) is presently in phase III clinical trials. For the induction of NQO1, 1 also demonstrated the highest potency. These results suggest that the reactivity of these Michael acceptors is closely related to their biological potency. Interestingly, in LPS-stimulated macrophages, 1 causes apoptosis and inhibits secretion of TNF-α and IL-1β with potencies that are higher than those of bardoxolone methyl and TBE-31.

Michael Griffin House Science Committee Hearing

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2005-06-27

Rep. Bart Gordon, D-TN., questions NASA Administrator Michael Griffin during a House Science Committee hearing, Tuesday, June 28, 2005, Rayburn House Office building, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

ASK Talks with Dr. Michael Hecht

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Hecht, Michael

2003-01-01

Michael Hecht has been a member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) staff since 1982. He is currently Project Manager and co-investigator for the Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (MECA)

Michael Thackeray on Lithium-air Batteries

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Thackeray, Michael

2009-01-01

Michael Thackeray, Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, speaks on the new technology Lithium-air batteries, which could potentially increase energy density by 5-10 times over lithium-ion batteries.

Michael Thackeray on Lithium-air Batteries

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Thackeray, Michael

2018-02-06

Michael Thackeray, Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, speaks on the new technology Lithium-air batteries, which could potentially increase energy density by 5-10 times over lithium-ion batteries.

Dr Michaels® product family (also branded as Soratinex®) versus Methylprednisolone aceponate - a comparative study of the effectiveness for the treatment of plaque psoriasis.

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Hercogovấ, J; Fioranelli, M; Gianfaldoni, S; Chokoeva, A A; Tchernev, G; Wollina, U; Tirant, M; Novotny, F; Roccia, M G; Maximov, G K; França, K; Lotti, T

2016-01-01

As one of the most common dermatologic chronic-recurrent disease, variable therapeutic options are available today for management of psoriasis. Although topical high potency corticosteroids, alone or in association with salicylic acid or vitamin D analogues, are still considered the best treatment, they do not seem to possess the capability for a long-term control of the disease or prevent recurrences, as their side effects are major contraindications for continuative use. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Dr. Michaels® product family is comparable to methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA) as a viable alternative treatment option for the treatment and management of stable chronic plaque psoriasis. Thirty adults (13 male, 17 female, mean age 40 years) with mild to severe stable chronic plaque psoriasis, were included in the study. Patients were advised to treat the lesions of the two sides of their body (left and right) with two different unknown modalities for 8 weeks; the pack of Dr. Michaels® products on the left side (consisting of a cleansing gel, an ointment and a skin conditioner) and a placebo pack on the right side, consisting of a cleansing gel, methylprednisolone ointment and a placebo conditioner. Assessment was done using the Psoriasis Activity Severity Index (PASI) scores before treatment and after 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks. The results achieved with the Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) product family for the treatment of chronic plaque psoriasis were better than the results achieved with methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA), even though quicker resolution was achieved with the steroid with 45% of patients achieving resolution within 8-10 days in comparison to 5-6 weeks in the Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) group. Before therapy, the mean PASI score of the LHS in Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) group was 13.8±4.1 SD and 14.2±4.2 SD in the RHS methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA) group. After 8 weeks of treatment 62% of the Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) group had achieved resolution whilst in the methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA) group, the figure remained at 45%. The mean PASI score after 8 weeks of treatment was calculated and in the LHS Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) group it was 2.8±1.6 SD and 6.8±2.4 SD in the RHS methylprednisolone aceponate group. In the RHS -methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA) group, 22% of patients failed to respond to the treatment in comparison to 6% in the LHS Dr. Michaels® (Soratinex®) group. Based on the results of this study, Dr. Michaels® products are a more effective treatment option, with insignificant side effects, compared to local treatment with methylprednisolone aceponate (MPA).

Potential errors in relative dose measurements in kilovoltage photon beams due to polarity effects in plane-parallel ionisation chambers

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Dowdell, S.; Tyler, M.; McNamara, J.; Sloan, K.; Ceylan, A.; Rinks, A.

2016-12-01

Plane-parallel ionisation chambers are regularly used to conduct relative dosimetry measurements for therapeutic kilovoltage beams during commissioning and routine quality assurance. This paper presents the first quantification of the polarity effect in kilovoltage photon beams for two types of commercially available plane-parallel ionisation chambers used for such measurements. Measurements were performed at various depths along the central axis in a solid water phantom and for different field sizes at 2 cm depth to determine the polarity effect for PTW Advanced Markus and Roos ionisation chambers (PTW-Freiburg, Germany). Data was acquired for kilovoltage beams between 100 kVp (half-value layer (HVL)  =  2.88 mm Al) and 250 kVp (HVL  =  2.12 mm Cu) and field sizes of 3-15 cm diameter for 30 cm focus-source distance (FSD) and 4  ×  4 cm2-20  ×  20 cm2 for 50 cm FSD. Substantial polarity effects, up to 9.6%, were observed for the Advanced Markus chamber compared to a maximum 0.5% for the Roos chamber. The magnitude of the polarity effect was observed to increase with field size and beam energy but was consistent with depth. The polarity effect is directly influenced by chamber design, with potentially large polarity effects for some plane-parallel ionisation chambers. Depending on the specific chamber used, polarity corrections may be required for output factor measurements of kilovoltage photon beams. Failure to account for polarity effects could lead to an incorrect dose being delivered to the patient.

Characterization of a microDiamond detector in high-dose-per-pulse electron beams for intra operative radiation therapy.

PubMed

Di Venanzio, C; Marinelli, Marco; Tonnetti, A; Verona-Rinati, G; Falco, M D; Pimpinella, M; Ciccotelli, A; De Stefano, S; Felici, G; Marangoni, F

2015-12-01

To characterize a synthetic diamond dosimeter (PTW Freiburg microDiamond 60019) in high dose-per-pulse electron beams produced by an Intra Operative Radiation Therapy (IORT) dedicated accelerator. The dosimetric properties of the microDiamond were assessed under 6, 8 and 9 MeV electron beams by a NOVAC11 mobile accelerator (Sordina IORT Technologies S.p.A.). The characterization was carried out with dose-per-pulse ranging from 26 to 105 mGy per pulse. The microDiamond performance was compared with an Advanced Markus ionization chamber and a PTW silicon diode E in terms of dose linearity, percentage depth dose (PDD) curves, beam profiles and output factors. A good linearity of the microDiamond response was verified in the dose range from 0.2 Gy to 28 Gy. A sensitivity of 1.29 nC/Gy was measured under IORT electron beams, resulting within 1% with respect to the one obtained in reference condition under (60)Co gamma irradiation. PDD measurements were found in agreement with the ones by the reference dosimeters, with differences in R50 values below 0.3 mm. Profile measurements evidenced a high spatial resolution of the microDiamond, slightly worse than the one of the silicon diode. The penumbra widths measured by the microDiamond resulted approximately 0.5 mm larger than the ones by the Silicon diode. Output factors measured by the microDiamond were found within 2% with those obtained by the Advanced Markus down to 3 cm diameter field sizes. The microDiamond dosimeter was demonstrated to be suitable for precise dosimetry in IORT applications under high dose-per-pulse conditions. Copyright © 2015 Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Grafting-Density Effects, Optoelectrical Properties and Nano-Patterning of Poly(para-Phenylene) Brushes

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2013-01-01

NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER S. Michael Kilbey Dawen Li, Jimmy W. Mays , S. Michael Kilbey II, Jihua Chen, Jose Alonzo, Xiang Yu...Dawen Li,d Jimmy W. Mays ,be Bobby G. Sumpteraf and S. Michael Kilbey II*eg Well-defined conjugated polymers in confined geometries are chal- lenging to...relationships of conned thin lms and may serve as a basis to understand polymer micelles, polymer-stabilized colloid particles, or interfaces compatibi

A Parametric Regression of the Cost of Base Realignment Action (COBRA) Model

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1993-09-20

Douglas D. Hardman , Captain, USAF Michael S. Nelson, Captain, USAF AFIT/GEE/ENS/93S-03 93 P’ 8 143 Approved for public release, distribution unlimited 93... Hardman CLASS: GEE 93S Captain Michael Nelson TITLE: A Parametric Regression of the Cost of Base Realignment Action (COBRA) Model DEFENSE DATE: 20...Science in Engineering and Environmental Management Douglas D. Hardman , B.S.E.E. Michael S. Nelson, B.S.C.E Captain, USAF Captain, USAF September 1993

Deception in Covert Nuclear Weapons Development: A Framework to Identify, Analyze, and Mitigate Future Long-Term Deception Efforts

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-03-01

In March, shortly after the BJP’s electoral victory, senior foreign policy advisor N . N . Jha informed U.S. embassy officials in New Delhi that the...College, 1998. Barker, Brian, Michael Clark, Peter Davis, Mark Fisk, Michael Hedlin, Hans Israelsson, Vitaly Khalturin, et al. "Monitoring Nuclear...Pretoria, South Africa, 1981. Mihalka, Michael, German Strategic Deception in the 1930’s, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, N -1557-NA, 1980

Michael Polanyi: Science as Personal Knowledge and Social Practice.

PubMed

Nye, Mary Jo

2017-03-20

Tacit knowing: 2016 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of the physical chemist Michael Polanyi, as well as the 40th of his death. This essay discusses his philosophy of science-in particular, his most significant work in this area, Personal Knowledge-from the perspective of his personal biography, as well as its lasting influence on the social sciences. In the photograph: Michael Polanyi at the Fritz Haber Institute in 1968. © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Proceedings, Conference and Training Workshop on Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft Held at Charleston, South Carolina on 22-25 May 1984

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1984-05-25

Aircraft ~.Aut@i~Michael J . Harrison/Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr., -Lilia A. Abron-Robinson .WeUi’N.(TiS 9. Pordoni,mg Ogon.m,t,. Nome and AdOda.0...Michael J . Harrison (AAS-330) 16. A4049ract , /-7hese proceedings were developed to enhance information exchange and improve understanding and control of...Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft S Conference and Training Workshop Edited by: Michael J . Harrison Federal Aviation Administration . Dr. Sidney A

Maniac Talk - Michael Kurylo

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2016-11-16

Michael Kurylo Maniac Lecture, November 16, 2016 NASA climate scientist Michael Kurylo presented a Maniac lecture entitled, "An Uncharted Journey: How I Became an Atmospheric Scientist Rather than a Cowboy or a Farmer." Mike described the path that took him from post-WW II housing projects to and through a rural Connecticut neighborhood, how he became convinced about the unrealistic nature of some early naive career dreams, and how he eventually arrived at a career in atmospheric science (research and program management, and their interface with international environmental policy).

"Anti-Michael addition" of Grignard reagents to sulfonylacetylenes: synthesis of alkynes.

PubMed

Esteban, Francisco; Boughani, Lazhar; García Ruano, José L; Fraile, Alberto; Alemán, José

2017-05-10

In this work, the addition of Grignard reagents to arylsulfonylacetylenes, which undergoes an "anti-Michael addition", resulting in their alkynylation under very mild conditions is described. The simplicity of the experimental procedure and the functional group tolerance are the main features of this methodology. This is an important advantage over the use of organolithium at -78 °C that we previously reported. Moreover, the synthesis of diynes and other examples showing functional group tolerance in this anti-Michael reaction is also presented.

78 FR 4406 - Notice of Commission Staff Attendance

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2013-01-22

... Carolina Electric & Gas Company For more information, contact Michael Lee, Office of Energy Market Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at (202) 502-8658 or Michael.Lee@ferc.gov . Dated: January...

Goddard Queen Visit

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2007-05-07

Prince Philip greets astronauts from STS-125 L to R Andrew J Feustel, Michael T Goode, K. Megan McArthur, Michael J. Massimino, Gregory C. Johnson, and Commander Scott D. Altman. Photo Credit: (NASA/Chris Gunn)

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2013-06-17

... Electric & Gas Company For More Information Contact: Michael Lee, Office of Energy Market Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at (202) 502-8658 or Michael.Lee@ferc.gov . Dated: June 11, 2013...

Michael Griffin House Science Committee Hearing

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2005-06-27

Members of the media photograph NASA Administrator Michael Griffin as he testifies at a hearing before the House Science Committee, Tuesday, June 28, 2005, Rayburn House Office building, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Lawson | NREL

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NREL's Ocean Energy team, Dr. Michael Lawson focuses on the areas of wave and water current energy goal of developing an open source design and analysis tool for wave energy conversion (WEC) devices

Transportation

DTIC Science & Technology

2006-01-01

Ports. Logistics Today, Vol.46. Issue 9. 43. Maloni, Michael ., Jackson , Eric. (2005, Spring). North American Container Port Capacity: A...Literature Review. Transportation Journal, Spring 2005. 16-36. Maloni, Michael ., Jackson , Eric. (2005, Summer). North American Container Port Capacity: An

Employment programs and professionals with a disability.

PubMed

Donelly, Michelle; Given, Fiona

2010-01-01

It is unclear whether or not open (competitive) employment programs are meeting the needs of the growing numbers of people with a disability seeking professional employment. To understand and describe the experience of a newly graduated professional (Michael) who was seeking open employment support and to analyze those experiences in relation to principles of effective open employment support. Michael a recently graduated accountant who also has a physical disability. A review of the literature was undertaken to identify recommended principles and practices for the conduct of effective open employment and career development programs. A case study was used to describe Michael's experiences as he sought professional employment. Michael's experiences were analysed in relation to recommended principles and practice. The analysis confirmed that the concerns Michael experienced about the supported employment program compromised the effectiveness of the support he received. Employment services based on models of independent living, disability service standards and remediation are likely to focus on the 'pathology' or performance 'deficits' of the person with a disability. Successful open employment models are more likely to place pre-eminence on the perspective of the person with a disability and effective practices for securing employment.

Meet EPA Scientist Michael Nye, Ph.D.

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Michael Nye, Ph.D., is a social scientist who studies natural risk, socio-demographic change and sustainable behavior. Prior to joining EPA, he worked for the UK Environment Agency in flood risk management and emergency preparedness

Thin Film Thermoelectric Metal-Organic Framework with High Seebeck Coefficient and Low Thermal Conductivity. Supporting Information

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2015-04-28

François Léonard, Vitalie Stavila, Michael E. Foster, Catalin D. Spataru, Reese E. Jones, Brian M. Foley, Patrick E. Hopkins, Mark D. Allendorf, A. Alec...Léonard, Vitalie Stavila, Michael E. Foster, Catalin D. Spataru, Reese E. Jones, Brian M. Foley, Patrick E. Hopkins, Mark D. Allendorf, and A. Alec Talin...Kristopher J. Erickson, François Léonard, Vitalie Stavila, Michael E. Foster, Catalin D. Spataru, Reese E. Jones, Brian M. Foley, Patrick E. Hopkins, Mark D

Biennial Guidance Test Symposium (16th) Held in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico on October 5-7, 1993. Volume 1

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1993-10-01

Michael Swamp, Contraves Inc., Pittsburgh PA; Dr. Michael D. Hooser, CIGTF, Holloman AFB NM Hig h Stability Large Centrifuge Test Bed 305 Dr. Louis A...DeMore, Robert Anticole, and Hans Riggenbach, Contraves Inc, Pittsburgh PA; Dr. Michael D. Hooser, CIGTF, Holloman AFB NM vi SESSION V-A: WEAPONS...power spectral density of input are also frozen out, allowing very low loss referred noise) of 10’ HzŖ below 100 Hz. springs. The input coils are

Book review: Black bass diversity: Multidisciplinary science for conservation

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Jelks, Howard L.

2016-01-01

Review info: Black bass diversity: Multidisciplinary science for conservation. Edited by Michael D. Tringali, James M. Long, Timothy W. Birdsong, and Michael S. Allen, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-934874-40-0, 685 pp.

MIDWEST STRUCTURAL SCIENCES CENTER 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

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S. MICHAEL SPOTTSWOOD MICHAEL J. SHEPARD , Chief Senior Aerospace Engineer Analytical Mechanics Branch Analytical...49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Confe- rence, Chicago , IL, Apr. 7-10, 2008. AIAA 2008-2077. Efstathiou C

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Michael Akam and the rise of evolutionary developmental biology

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Stern, David L.; Dawes-Hoang, Rachel E.

2010-01-01

Michael Akam has been awarded the 2007 Kowalevsky medal for his many research accomplishments in the area of evolutionary developmental biology. We highlight three tributaries of Michael’s contribution to evolutionary developmental biology. First, he has made major contributions to our understanding of development of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Second, he has maintained a consistent focus on several key problems in evolutionary developmental biology, including the evolving role of Hox genes in arthropods and, more recently, the evolution of segmentation mechanisms. Third, Michael has written a series of influential reviews that have integrated progress in developmental biology into an evolutionary perspective. Michael has also made a large impact on the field through his effective mentorship style, his selfless promotion of younger colleagues, and his leadership of the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge and the European community of evolutionary developmental biologists. PMID:20209429

Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni(II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases. Part 3: Michael addition reactions and miscellaneous transformations.

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Aceña, José Luis; Sorochinsky, Alexander E; Soloshonok, Vadim

2014-09-01

The major goal of this review is a critical discussion of the literature data on asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via Michael addition reactions involving Ni(II)-complexes of amino acids. The material covered is divided into two conceptually different groups dealing with applications of: (a) Ni(II)-complexes of glycine as C-nucleophiles and (b) Ni(II)-complexes of dehydroalanine as Michael acceptors. The first group is significantly larger and consequently subdivided into four chapters based on the source of stereocontrolling element. Thus, a chiral auxiliary can be used as a part of nucleophilic glycine Ni(II) complex, Michael acceptor or both, leading to the conditions of matching vs. mismatching stereochemical preferences. The particular focus of the review is made on the practical aspects of the methodology under discussion and mechanistic considerations.

Michael acceptor containing drugs are a novel class of 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor targeting the surface cysteines C416 and C418.

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Maucher, Isabelle V; Rühl, Michael; Kretschmer, Simon B M; Hofmann, Bettina; Kühn, Benjamin; Fettel, Jasmin; Vogel, Anja; Flügel, Karsten T; Manolikakes, Georg; Hellmuth, Nadine; Häfner, Ann-Kathrin; Golghalyani, Vahid; Ball, Ann-Katrin; Piesche, Matthias; Matrone, Carmela; Geisslinger, Gerd; Parnham, Michael J; Karas, Michael; Steinhilber, Dieter; Roos, Jessica; Maier, Thorsten J

2017-02-01

Recently, we published that nitro-fatty acids (NFA) are potent electrophilic molecules which inhibit 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) by interacting catalytically with cysteine residues next to a substrate entry channel. The electrophilicity is derived from an intramolecular Michael acceptor moiety consisting of an electron-withdrawing group in close proximity to a double bond. The potential of the Michael acceptor moiety to interact with functionally relevant cysteines of proteins potentially renders them effective and sustained enzyme activity modulators. We screened a large library of naturally derived and synthetic electrophilic compounds to investigate whether other types of Michael acceptor containing drugs suppress 5-LO enzyme activity. The activity was measured by assessing the effect on the 5-LO product formation of intact human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. We demonstrated that a number of structurally different compounds were suppressive in the activity assays and showed that Michael acceptors of the quinone and nitro-alkene group produced the strongest inhibition of 5-LO product formation. Reactivity with the catalytically relevant cysteines 416 and 418 was confirmed using mutated recombinant 5-LO and mass spectrometric analysis (MALDI-MS). In the present study, we show for the first time that a number of well-recognized naturally occurring or synthetic anti-inflammatory compounds carrying a Michael acceptor, such as thymoquinone (TQ), the paracetamol metabolite NAPQI, the 5-LO inhibitor AA-861, and bardoxolone methyl (also known as RTA 402 or CDDO-methyl ester) are direct covalent 5-LO enzyme inhibitors that target the catalytically relevant cysteines 416 and 418. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Dr. Michael DeBakey "is a magician of the heart…"

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... Dr. DeBakey with NLM's David Nash and admiring students from the Michael E. DeBakey High School for ... medical research as the means of discovering improved methods of diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and cure. As far ...

Michael Griffin Oath Of Office

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John H. Marburger, Science Adviser to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), left, shakes hands with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin following his swearing-in, Thursday, April 14, 2005, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Midwest Structural Sciences Center 2010 Annual Report

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2011-06-01

S. MICHAEL SPOTTSWOOD MICHAEL J. SHEPARD , Chief Senior Aerospace Engineer Analytical Mechanics Branch Analytical Mechanics Branch Structures...Structural Dynamics & Materials Confe- rence, Chicago , IL, Apr. 7-10, 2008. AIAA 2008-2077. Efstathiou C., Carroll J., Sehitoglu H., Lambros J

Specification Technology Guidebook.

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1985-08-01

1. General Aspects A. Identification JSD - Jackson System Development -. Michael Jackson Systems Limited 17 Conduit Street London, England WIROTD Tel...USER MANAGER ORGANIZATION ə X _ _ _ _ 1-3__ 3-6 X > 6 _ _ D. Primary Source of Document ation Michael Jackson Systems Limited Also see: References

33 CFR 110.173 - Port of Charleston, SC.

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... located 1800 yards, 118° true from St. Michaels Church Spire and has a diameter of 500 yards. Vessels...°30′ true, 1375 yards from St. Michaels Church Spire and has a diameter of 1400 feet. The use of this...

Operational Leadership in Kosovo

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2004-02-09

ARRC) LGEN Michael Jackson Allied Air Forces North (COMAIRNORTH) GEN John Jumper Allied Naval Forces North (COMNAVNORTH) U.K. Allied Naval Forces South... Michael Jackson reportedly told the US commander (Clark) during one heated exchange. When General Jackson refused, General Clark asked Admiral James

Highly convergent synthesis of chiral bicyclophosphinates by domino hydrophosphinylation/Michael/Michael reaction.

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Fourgeaud, Pierre; Daydé, Bénédicte; Volle, Jean-Noël; Vors, Jean-Pierre; Van der Lee, Arie; Pirat, Jean-Luc; Virieux, David

2011-10-07

Diastereoselective domino reactions of iminoalcohols and allenyl H-phosphinates produce chiral phosphorus bicycles in a regio- and stereoselective fashion. A predictive model for diastereoselection is used for these new chiral phosphinic esters. © 2011 American Chemical Society

Michael Tomasello: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

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2015-11-01

The APA Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions are presented to persons who, in the opinion of the Committee on Scientific Awards, have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. One of the 2015 award winners is Michael Tomasello, who received this award for "outstanding empirical and theoretical contributions to understanding what makes the human mind unique. Michael Tomasello's pioneering research on the origins of social cognition has led to revolutionary insights in both developmental psychology and primate cognition." Tomasello's award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography are presented here. (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

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MICHAEL "RUDI" RUDOLPHI SPEAKING AT MISSION SUCCESS FORUM

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MICHAEL "RUDI" RUDOLPHI GESTURES DURING A "MISSION SUCCESS IS IN OUR HANDS" SHARED EXPERIENCES FORUM JUNE 16, WHERE HE SPOKE ABOUT HIS "UNFORGETTABLE" EXPERIENCES AS A SENIOR NASA REPRESENTATIVE OVERSEEING DEBRIS RECOVERY EFFORTS FOLLOWING THE LOSS OF SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA AND ITS CREW.

Michael Griffin Meets with Elon Musk

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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, left, meets with CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk, right, Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Looking on in the background are Larry Williams, NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins and NASA manager Christopher Shank. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

A Perspective on Research Challenges in Information Security

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2011-11-01

UNCLASSIFIED A Perspective on Research Challenges in Information Security Tamas Abraham, David Adie, Angela Billard, Paul Buckland, Michael Frangos ...Abstract (U) 4. AUTHORS Tamas Abraham, David Adie, Angela Billard, Paul Buckland, Michael Frangos , Ben Long, Mar- tin Lucas, Paul Montague, Dean Philp

Astronaut Michael Clifford takes a break during bailout training

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1993-01-01

Astronaut Michael R.U. (Rich) Clifford takes a break while video taping crew mates in training in the JSC Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF). He is pictured with Trent G. Keeple, a member of the training staff assigned to STS-59.

The Northern Ireland Framework for Peace: Terrorism and its Aftermath

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2012-04-10

Manchester University Press, 2000. Crawshaw , Colonel (Retd) Michael. The Evolution of British COIN. Joint Doctrine Publication 3-40: 19...Margaret E. McGuinness (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), 206. 35 Colonel (Retd) Michael Crawshaw , “The Evolution of British COIN”. Joint

Meet EPA Ecologist Michael Murrell, Ph.D.

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Michael Murrel, Ph.D., is a EPA research ecologist working on the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Project, helping develop models of the northern Gulf to quantify the links between freshwater flowing into the Gulf from the land, nutrients, and hypoxia—“dead zones”

Medical Command in the Contingency Force

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1992-04-15

briefing. 36. Foust, interview. 37. Interviews with Michael J. Kussman , Carlisle, PA, 10 December 1991 and 5 February 1992. 38. Timboe, interview. 39... Kussman , Michael J., Internal Medicine Consultant to the Army Surgeon General, Office of Medical Corps Affairs, 1989-91. Interviews by author, 10

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STS-34 Pilot Michael J. McCulley uses ARRIFLEX camera equipment

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1989-04-13

STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Michael J. McCulley squints while looking through ARRIFLEX camera eye piece during camera briefing at JSC. McCulley rests part of the camera on his shoulder as he operates it.

Michael Sadler and the German Connection.

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Higginson, J. H.

1990-01-01

Chronicles works of Michael Sadler who compared British and German educational systems, emphasizing Germany's contributions in technical education. Presents Sadler's 1912 recommendations--eight lessons premised upon powerful centralized government's ability to implement policy. Reflects on how World War I and Nazism influenced Sadler's thought and…

Michael F. Vaccaro Honors Attorney Fellowship Program in our Philadelphia (Region 3) Office

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The Michael F. Vaccaro Honors Attorney Fellowship provides a unique opportunity to practice law in a major governmental environmental organization, and to receive extensive training in and exposure to environmental law and policy work in the public sector.

Enantioselective Michael Addition of Pyrroles with Nitroalkenes in Aqueous Media Catalyzed by a Water-soluble Catalyst.

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Gui, Yang; Li, Yanan; Sun, Jianan; Zha, Zhenggen; Wang, Zhiyong

2018-06-11

A new water-soluble catalytic system were developed and therefor used in an enantioselective Michael addition of pyrroles with nitroalkenes in water to afford the nitroethylpyrrole derivatives with both excellent yields and ee values.

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin speaks in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

After This Nothing Happened

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Alsop, Steve; Fawcett, Leesa

2010-01-01

In response to Michiel van Eijck and Wolff-Michael Roth's article and Michael Mueller and Deborah Tippin's rejoinder, we explore traditional ecological knowledges as science education. Adopting a stance of situated partial perspectives, and drawing on selected literature in science and technology studies and feminist postcolonial theories, we…

Theory and practice in action: the contributions of Michael Perkins to clinical linguistics.

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Damico, Jack S; Lynch, Karen E

2013-01-01

This article reviews the scholarly contributions of Michael R. Perkins in the discipline of clinical linguistics and provides some indication of the reasons that he has been so successful. Three primary attributes were described through an analysis of his publications.

Operational Art in Cyber Defense

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2013-04-16

a personal curiosity. I used the masculine when referring to the Commander and the adversary throughout this paper for brevity. Alanis 1...issue 63, (4th quarter 2011): 70-73. 13 Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. Michael Howard and Peter Paret, trans . Michael Howard and Peter Paret

Michael Faraday on the Learning of Science and Attitudes of Mind.

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Crawford, Elspeth

1998-01-01

Makes use of Michael Faraday's ideas on learning, focusing on his attitudes toward the unknowns of science and the development of an attitude that improves scientific decision making. This approach acknowledges that there is an inner struggle involved in facing unknowns. (DDR)

A facile and efficient method of enzyme immobilization on silica particles via Michael acceptor film coatings: immobilized catalase in a plug flow reactor.

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Bayramoglu, Gulay; Arica, M Yakup; Genc, Aysenur; Ozalp, V Cengiz; Ince, Ahmet; Bicak, Niyazi

2016-06-01

A novel method was developed for facile immobilization of enzymes on silica surfaces. Herein, we describe a single-step strategy for generating of reactive double bonds capable of Michael addition on the surfaces of silica particles. This method was based on reactive thin film generation on the surfaces by heating of impregnated self-curable polymer, alpha-morpholine substituted poly(vinyl methyl ketone) p(VMK). The generated double bonds were demonstrated to be an efficient way for rapid incorporation of enzymes via Michael addition. Catalase was used as model enzyme in order to test the effect of immobilization methodology by the reactive film surface through Michael addition reaction. Finally, a plug flow type immobilized enzyme reactor was employed to estimate decomposition rate of hydrogen peroxide. The highly stable enzyme reactor could operate continuously for 120 h at 30 °C with only a loss of about 36 % of its initial activity.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From left, NASA Deputy Program Manager of the Space Shuttle Program Michael Wetmore, United Space Alliance (USA) Vice President and Space Shuttle Program Manager Howard DeCastro, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station and Shuttle Programs Michael Kostelnik, and a USA technician examine cold plates in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2. NASA and USA Space Shuttle program management are participating in a leadership workday. The day is intended to provide management with an in-depth, hands-on look at Shuttle processing activities at KSC.

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2003-12-19

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From left, NASA Deputy Program Manager of the Space Shuttle Program Michael Wetmore, United Space Alliance (USA) Vice President and Space Shuttle Program Manager Howard DeCastro, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station and Shuttle Programs Michael Kostelnik, and a USA technician examine cold plates in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2. NASA and USA Space Shuttle program management are participating in a leadership workday. The day is intended to provide management with an in-depth, hands-on look at Shuttle processing activities at KSC.

Invited Commentary: Continuing to Loosen the Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change-A Comment on McMichael's "Prisoners of the Proximate".

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Galea, Sandro

2017-06-01

Published in 1999, McMichael's "Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change" (Am J Epidemiol. 1999;149(10):887-897) outlined an exciting vision for epidemiology as the field that that can help us better understand the drivers of population health so that we may intervene, paving the way for healthier populations. McMichael's paper remains today what it was when it was first published: clear, thoughtful, provocative, and usefully prescriptive in its call to action. McMichael identified 4 constraints facing epidemiology. The field has risen to this challenge and addressed some of these constraints. I discuss how successful (or not) we have been in addressing each of these 4 challenges. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Asymmetric Michael Addition Mediated by Chiral Ionic Liquids.

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Suzuki, Yumiko

2018-06-01

Chiral ionic liquids with a focus on their applications in asymmetric Michael additions and related reactions were reviewed. The examples were classified on the basis of the mode of asymmetric induction (e.g., external induction/non-covalent interaction or internal induction/covalent bond formation), the roles in reactions (as a solvent or catalyst), and their structural features (e.g., imidazolium-based chiral cations, other chiral oniums; proline derivatives). Most of the reactions with high chiral induction are Michael addition of ketones or aldehydes to chalcones or nitrostyrenes where proline-derived chiral ionic liquids catalyze the reaction through enamine/ iminium formation. Many reports demonstrate the recyclability of ionic liquid-tagged pyrrolidines.

Thirty Points About Motivation From Skinner's Book Verbal Behavior

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Sundberg, Mark L.

2013-01-01

Skinner discussed the topic of motivation in every chapter of the book Verbal Behavior (1957), usually with his preferred terminology of “deprivation, satiation, and aversive stimulation.” In the current paper, direct quotations are used to systematically take the reader through 30 separate points made by Skinner in Verbal Behavior that collectively provide a comprehensive analysis of his position regarding the role of motivation in behavior analysis. In addition, various refinements and extensions of Skinner's analysis by Jack Michael and colleagues (Laraway, Snycerski, Michael, & Poling, 2003; Michael, 1982, 1988, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2007) are incorporated, along with suggestions for research and applications for several of the points. PMID:23814363

Diastereoselective auxiliary- and catalyst-controlled intramolecular aza-Michael reaction for the elaboration of enantioenriched 3-substituted isoindolinones. Application to the synthesis of a new pazinaclone analogue

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Sallio, Romain; Lebrun, Stéphane; Capet, Frédéric; Agbossou-Niedercorn, Francine

2018-01-01

A new asymmetric organocatalyzed intramolecular aza-Michael reaction by means of both a chiral auxiliary and a catalyst for stereocontrol is reported for the synthesis of optically active isoindolinones. A selected cinchoninium salt was used as phase-transfer catalyst in combination with a chiral nucleophile, a Michael acceptor and a base to provide 3-substituted isoindolinones in good yields and diastereomeric excesses. This methodology was applied to the asymmetric synthesis of a new pazinaclone analogue which is of interest in the field of benzodiazepine-receptor agonists. PMID:29623121

Michael Fisher at King's College London

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Domb, Cyril

1991-09-01

Michael Fisher spent the first 16 years of his academic life in the Physics Department of King's College, London, starting as an undergraduate and ending as a full professor. A survey is undertaken of his activities and achievements during the various periods of this phase of his career.

Michael Fisher at King's College London

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Domb, Cyril

Michael Fisher spent the first 16 years of his academic life in the Physics Department of King's College, London, starting as an undergraduate and ending as a full professor. A survey is undertaken of his activities and achievements during the various periods of this phase of his career.

Passings to note: Paul Michael Packman, MD; S. Charles Schulz, MD.

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Black, Donald W

2018-02-01

One of the keys to the success of Annals of Clinical Psychiatry has always been the tireless efforts of our dedicated Editorial Board. We recently lost 2 longtime Editorial Board members, Drs. Paul Michael Packman and S. Charles Schulz. Both will be greatly missed.

Reading Michael Apple--The Sociological Imagination at Work

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Ball, Stephen J.

2007-01-01

This article discusses Michael Apple's contribution to the sociology of education and education policy analysis and the politics of education. It focuses on ways of "reading" Apple as an intellectual and an activist and looks at the trajectory of his work over a long and illustrious career.

David Cozad, Michael Schumacher and/or Brad Peterson (d/b/a Credit Island Recycling), Davenport, Iowa

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The EPA is providing notice of proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment against David Cozad, Michael Schumacher and/or Brad Peterson (d/b/a Credit Island Recycling), for alleged violations of an industrial stormwater permit issued by IDNR for an applianc

The Holocaust and Education: An Interview with Michael Berenbaum.

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Goldberg, Mark

1997-01-01

In January 1997, Michael Berenbaum became president and chief executive officer of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the organization established by filmmaker Steven Spielberg after completing "Schindler's List." Since 1994, the foundation has been recording eyewitness testimony on the Holocaust. Berenbaum's mandate is to…

Decisionmaker Forums

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2005-03-01

Committee professional staff, Brian Hurley of Edward Martin & Associates, Michael Kussman of the VA, Steve Lillie of DoD, Steve Mirick ofAMSUSBob...Michael Kussman of VHA; Bruce Levine of VHA; Miklos Losonczy of VHA; Susan Mather of VHA; Theodore Nam of DoD; Harold Wain of DoD; Terry Washam of

HEADSTONES OF BERNARD AND MICHAEL JODD, FATHERANDSON CIVILIANS RESPONSIBLE FOR ...

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HEADSTONES OF BERNARD AND MICHAEL JODD, FATHER-AND-SON CIVILIANS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF BRICK PERIMETER WALL WHO DIED OF YELLOW FEVER DURING WALL CONSTRUCTION. VIEW TO WEST. - Baton Rouge National Cemetery, 220 North 19th Street, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

Michael Beitz: Objects of Communication

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Hoefferle, Mary

2014-01-01

For this Instructional Resource, the author interviewed contemporary sculptor Michael Beitz, who uses art to explore the role of designed objects in human communication and emotional experience. This column was written in response to calls for using Enduring Understandings/Big Ideas (National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, 2013; Stewart &…

File System Virtual Appliances: Portable File System Implementations

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2009-05-01

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Santa Cruz, CA, 1994. IEEE. [10] Michael Eisler , Peter Corbett, Michael Kazar, Daniel S. Nydick, and...Gingell, Joseph P. Moran, and William A. Shannon. Virtual Memory Architec- ture in SunOS. In USENIX Summer Conference, pages 81–94, Berkeley, CA, 1987

INCORPORATION OF MECHANISTIC INFORMATION IN THE ARSENIC PBPK MODEL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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A physiologically based phar...

Introduction to Software Design

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1989-01-01

Schedules 20 major contributions. We also acknowledge the helpful Worked Examples 20 comments of Larry Peters, Michael Jackson . and Bob Glass. Exercises 20...contrasted with the related For a more general approach to the use of JSP, see work of Warnner and Michael Jackson (JSP). The [Cameron83]. [Ingovaldsson86

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin is seen during his appearance in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin smiles during his appearance in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin delivers a statement during testimony in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

The power of virtual integration: an interview with Dell Computer's Michael Dell. Interview by Joan Magretta.

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Dell, M

1998-01-01

Michael Dell started his computer company in 1984 with a simple business insight. He could bypass the dealer channel through which personal computers were then being sold and sell directly to customers, building products to order. Dell's direct model eliminated the dealer's markup and the risks associated with carrying large inventories of finished goods. In this interview, Michael Dell provides a detailed description of how his company is pushing that business model one step further, toward what he calls virtual integration. Dell is using technology and information to blur the traditional boundaries in the value chain between suppliers, manufacturers, and customers. The individual pieces of Dell's strategy--customer focus, supplier partnerships, mass customization, just-in-time manufacturing--may be all be familiar. But Michael Dell's business insight into how to combine them is highly innovative. Direct relationships with customers create valuable information, which in turn allows the company to coordinate its entire value chain back through manufacturing to product design. Dell describes how his company has come to achieve this tight coordination without the "drag effect" of ownership. Dell reaps the advantages of being vertically integrated without incurring the costs, all the while achieving the focus, agility, and speed of a virtual organization. As envisioned by Michael Dell, virtual integration may well become a new organizational model for the information age.

The Age of Irregular Warfare: So What?

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2010-01-01

Lynne Rienner, 2002), and Michael Vlahos , Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change (Westport, CT: Praeger Security Interna- tional, 2009). 7...the forms that warfare will take.” 8 I agree with Michael Vlahos that we poten- tially make matters worse by using the image of a triangle to depict

Michael E. Barnes: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice

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American Psychologist, 2012

2012-01-01

Presents a short biography on the winner of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice. The 2012 winner is Michael E. Barnes for his pioneering leadership, dedication, and distinguished contributions to juvenile justice. As chief psychologist of the Superior Court of the…

Catalyst-free and solvent-free Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to nitroalkenes by a grinding method

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Xie, Zong-Bo; Wu, Ming-Yu; He, Ting; Le, Zhang-Gao

2012-01-01

Summary An environmentally benign, fast and convenient protocol has been developed for the Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to β-nitroalkenes in good to excellent yields by a grinding method under catalyst- and solvent-free conditions. PMID:22563352

Solving the Housing Equation: Michael P. Johnson

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Roach, Ronald

2005-01-01

Dr. Michael P. Johnson, an associate professor of management science and urban affairs at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is taking management science tools and innovative information technology applications to the housing field. Concerned that organizations that develop and…

Humanism in Education

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Armstrong, Michael

2015-01-01

This is the text of Michael Armstrong's address to the Brian Simon Centenary conference, held at the Institute of Education on 26 March 2015. Michael Armstrong celebrates the humanism that underlay Brian's belief in a common system of education, democratic and non-selective, and finds its counterpart in the creative practice of school children.

Michael Slote and "Sentimentalist Moral Education"

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Wren, Thomas

2010-01-01

Although I think most of what Michael Slote asserts in his article "Sentimentalist moral education" is correct, I worry about three important ideas that are conspicuous by their absence. The first is the possibility that human emotions and feelings are inherently cognitive, which is never considered in his psychological account of empathy. The…

Legitimacy and Penetration in Stability Operations; Setting the Conditions for Perpetual Failure

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2011-12-02

District or Provincial level. Taking the lessons from Vietnam and 124 Michael Crawshaw , Running a Country: The British Colonial Experience and its Relevance...Metrics of the Afghan War. CSIS presentation, Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2010. Crawshaw , Michael. Running a Country

New Models at Lasell: Q&A with President Michael Alexander

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Harney, John O.

2018-01-01

The "New England Journal of Higher Education" ("NEJHE") Executive Editor John O. Harney had the chance to catch up with Lasell College President Michael Alexander about the small Newton, Massachusetts, college's plans to challenge the higher education business model. The interview is presented in this article.

Goodbye Michael Gove

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Bassey, Michael

2014-01-01

Michael Gove was Secretary of State for Education from May 2010 to July 2014 when the Prime Minister sacked him. With strong opinions arising from his own life experiences and outstanding energy for reform, but severely limited understanding of education and a refusal to consult teachers and other professionals, he imposed half-baked ideas on the…

Michael Polanyi on the Education and Knowledge of Scientists.

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Jacobs, Struan

2000-01-01

Explains why teachers addressing the nature of science should know the work of Michael Polanyi. Outlines Polanyi's intellectual career and examines his ideas on the education of scientists, research, and knowledge. Polanyi presaged Kuhn, Feyerabend, and the constructivists, yet insisted that science produces true knowledge about reality. (Contains…

76 FR 21406 - Michael J. Aruta, M.D.; Decision and Order

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... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 10-40] Michael J. Aruta, M.D.; Decision and Order ACTION: Correction. On Thursday, April 7, 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration published the above-titled Decision and Order, as well as the Decision of the Administrative Law Judge (76...

Encyclopedia of Life

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Movement who took this action. Green Movement added text to "Guacharaca caribeña " on " action. Maggie Whitson added "Chorizema" to the collection "Cool Flowers". about 3 hours ago Reply Profile picture of C. Michael Hogan who took this action. C. Michael Hogan marked the

Synthesis of pyroglutamic acid derivatives via double michael reactions of alkynones.

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Scansetti, Myriam; Hu, Xiangping; McDermott, Benjamin P; Lam, Hon Wai

2007-05-24

In the presence of substoichiometric quantities of potassium tert-butoxide and an additional metal salt, amide-tethered diacids undergo double Michael reactions with alkynones to provide highly functionalized pyroglutamic acid derivatives. The metal salt was found to play an important role in improving the diastereoselectivities of the reactions.

Michael Griffin Oath Of Office

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2005-04-14

John H. Marburger, Science Adviser to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), left, talks with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, center, while his wife Rebecca and daughter Katie look on following his swearing-in, Thursday, April 14, 2005, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

File System Virtual Appliances: Portable File System Implementations

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2010-04-01

com- puting. Santa Cruz, CA, 1994. [12] Michael Eisler , Peter Corbett, Michael Kazar, Daniel S. Nydick, and Christopher Wagner. Data ontap gx: a...fuse.sourceforge.net. [15] R. A. Gingell, J. P. Moran, and W. A. Shannon. Virtual memory architecture in sunos. USENIX ATC, pages 81–94, 1987 . [16

78 FR 25273 - Determination and Declaration Regarding Emergency Use of in Vitro Diagnostics for Detection of...

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... Respiratory Protection Devices, and Respiratory Support Devices signed by then Secretary Michael Leavitt on... Act Declaration for Pandemic Influenza Diagnostics, Personal Respiratory Protection Devices, and Respiratory Support Devices signed by then Secretary Michael Leavitt on December 17, 2008. Notice of the EUAs...

The NATO Special Operations Forces Transformation Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges

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2009-03-01

reality in the starkest possible terms when British Lieutenant General Sir Michael Jackson refused to comply with the orders of the then-SACEUR...http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB889.pdf (accessed 15 November 2008). 58 General Sir Michael Jackson , “My Clash With NATO

Human-Computer System Development Methodology for the Dialogue Management System.

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1982-05-01

methodologies [HOSIJ78] are given below: I. The Michael Jackson Methodology [JACKM75] 2. The Warnier-Orr Methodolgy [HOSIJ78] 3. SADT (Structured...All the mentioned methodologies use top-down development strategy. The first two methodologies above ( Michael Jackson and Warnier-Orr) use data as the

The Use of Portfolios in Leadership Education

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Olsen, Paul E.

2009-01-01

This paper discusses the benefits of using student portfolios in undergraduate leadership education at Saint Michael's College. There appears to be a natural link between the use of portfolios as a tool to facilitate and document leadership growth and development. The Business Administration and Accounting Department at Saint Michael's College…

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

Senator Trent Lott, R-Miss., questions NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin during his appearance in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin is seen prior to his appearance in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Q & A with Ed Tech Leaders: Interview with J. Michael Spector

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Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Fulgham, Susan M.

2015-01-01

J. Michael Spector's academic preparation was in philosophy--epistemology and logic, primarily. His dissertation was on skepticism in modern philosophy, and that led him to a deep-seated appreciation for classical skepticism. The word "skeptic" is derived from the Greek word "skepsis," which means investigation. While the…

Comments on Michael (1993): Establishing Operations

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Moore, J.

2013-01-01

The present comments concern Michael's concept of motivative variables, and the implications of that concept for our understanding of the nature of reinforcement as well as the extinction of responses maintained through positive and negative reinforcement. We note that both extinction and altering motivative variables decrease responding, but…

Michael Faraday's Bicentenary.

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Williams, L. Pearce; And Others

1991-01-01

Six articles discuss the work of Michael Faraday, a chemist whose work revolutionized physics and led directly to both classical field and relativity theory. The scientist as a young man, the electromagnetic experiments of Faraday, his search for the gravelectric effect, his work on optical glass, his laboratory notebooks, and his creative use of…

Asymmetric Michael Addition Mediated by Chiral Ionic Liquids

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Suzuki, Yumiko

2018-01-01

Chiral ionic liquids with a focus on their applications in asymmetric Michael additions and related reactions were reviewed. The examples were classified on the basis of the mode of asymmetric induction (e.g., external induction/non-covalent interaction or internal induction/covalent bond formation), the roles in reactions (as a solvent or catalyst), and their structural features (e.g., imidazolium-based chiral cations, other chiral oniums; proline derivatives). Most of the reactions with high chiral induction are Michael addition of ketones or aldehydes to chalcones or nitrostyrenes where proline-derived chiral ionic liquids catalyze the reaction through enamine/ iminium formation. Many reports demonstrate the recyclability of ionic liquid-tagged pyrrolidines. PMID:29861702

Experimental determination of the effective point of measurement for various detectors used in photon and electron beam dosimetry

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Khee Looe, Hui; Harder, Dietrich; Poppe, Björn

2011-07-01

The subject of this study is the 'shift of the effective point of measurement', Δz, well known as a method of correction compensating for the 'displacement effect' in photon and electron beam dosimetry. Radiochromic EBT 1 films have been used to measure the 'true' TPR curves of 6 and 15 MV photons and 6 and 9 MeV electrons in the solid water-equivalent material RW3. For the Roos and Markus chambers, the cylindrical 'PinPoint', 'Semiflex' and 'Rigid-Stem' chambers, the 2D-Array and the E-type silicon diode (all from PTW-Freiburg), the positions of the effective points of measurement have been determined by direct or indirect comparison between their TPR curves and those of the EBT 1 film. Both for the Roos and Markus chambers, we found Δz = (0.4 ± 0.1) mm, which confirms earlier experimental and Monte Carlo results, but means a shortcoming of the 'water-equivalent window thickness' formula. For the cylindrical chambers, the ratio Δz/r was observed to increase with r, confirming a recent Monte Carlo prediction by Tessier (2010 E2-CN-182, Paper no 147, IDOS, Vienna) as well as the experimental observations by Johansson et al (1978 IAEA Symp. Proc. (Vienna) IAEA-SM-222/35 pp 243-70). According to a theoretical consideration, the shift of the effective point of measurement from the reference point of the detector is caused by a gradient of the fluence of the ionizing particles. As the experiments have shown, the value of Δz depends on the construction of the detector, but remains invariant under changes of radiation quality and depth. Other disturbances, which do not belong to the class of 'gradient effects', are not corrected by shifting the effective point of measurement.

Experimental validation of beam quality correction factors for proton beams

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Gomà, Carles; Hofstetter-Boillat, Bénédicte; Safai, Sairos; Vörös, Sándor

2015-04-01

This paper presents a method to experimentally validate the beam quality correction factors (kQ) tabulated in IAEA TRS-398 for proton beams and to determine the kQ of non-tabulated ionization chambers (based on the already tabulated values). The method is based exclusively on ionometry and it consists in comparing the reading of two ionization chambers under the same reference conditions in a proton beam quality Q and a reference beam quality 60Co. This allows one to experimentally determine the ratio between the kQ of the two ionization chambers. In this work, 7 different ionization chamber models were irradiated under the IAEA TRS-398 reference conditions for 60Co beams and proton beams. For the latter, the reference conditions for both modulated beams (spread-out Bragg peak field) and monoenergetic beams (pseudo-monoenergetic field) were studied. For monoenergetic beams, it was found that the experimental kQ values obtained for plane-parallel chambers are consistent with the values tabulated in IAEA TRS-398; whereas the kQ values obtained for cylindrical chambers are not consistent—being higher than the tabulated values. These results support the suggestion (of previous publications) that the IAEA TRS-398 reference conditions for monoenergetic proton beams should be revised so that the effective point of measurement of cylindrical ionization chambers is taken into account when positioning the reference point of the chamber at the reference depth. For modulated proton beams, the tabulated kQ values of all the ionization chambers studied in this work were found to be consistent with each other—except for the IBA FC65-G, whose experimental kQ value was found to be 0.6% lower than the tabulated one. The kQ of the PTW Advanced Markus chamber, which is not tabulated in IAEA TRS-398, was found to be 0.997 ± 0.042 (k = 2), based on the tabulated value of the PTW Markus chamber.

SU-F-T-76: Total Skin Electron Therapy: An-End-To-End Examination of the Absolute Dosimetry with a Rando Phantom

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Cui, G; Ha, J; Zhou, S

Purpose: To examine and validate the absolute dose for total skin electron therapy (TSET) through an end-to-end test with a Rando phantom using optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters (OSLDs) and EBT3 radiochromic films. Methods: A Varian Trilogy linear accelerator equipped with the special procedure 6 MeV HDTSe- was used to perform TSET irradiations using a modified Stanford 6-dual-field technique. The absolute dose was calibrated using a Markus ion chamber at a reference depth of 1.3cm at 100 cm SSD with a field size of 36 × 36 cm at the isocenter in solid water slabs. The absolute dose was cross validatedmore » by a farmer ion chamber. Then the dose rate in the unit of cGy/Mu was calibrated using the Markus chamber at the treatment position. OSLDs were used to independently verify the dose using the calibrated dose rate. Finally, a patient treatment plan (200 cGy/cycle) was delivered in the QA mode to a Rando phantom, which had 16 pairs of OSLDs and EBT3 films taped onto its surface at different anatomical positions. The doses recorded were read out to validate the absolute dosimetry for TSET. Results: The OSLD measurements were within 7% agreement with the planned dose except the shoulder areas, where the doses recorded were 23% lower on average than those of the planned. The EBT3 film measurements were within 10% agreement with the planned dose except the shoulder and the scalp vertex areas, where the respective doses recorded were 18% and 14% lower on average than those of the planned. The OSLDs gave more consistent dose measurements than those of the EBT3 films. Conclusion: The absolute dosimetry for TSET was validated by an end-to-end test with a Rando phantom using the OSLDs and EBT3 films. The beam calibration and monitor unit calculations were confirmed.« less

A diamond detector in the dosimetry of high-energy electron and photon beams.

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Laub, W U; Kaulich, T W; Nüsslin, F

1999-09-01

A diamond detector type 60003 (PTW Freiburg) was examined for the purpose of dosimetry with 4-20 MeV electron beams and 4-25 MV photon beams. Results were compared with those obtained by using a Markus chamber for electron beams and an ionization chamber for photon beams. Dose distributions were measured in a water phantom with the detector connected to a Unidos electrometer (PTW Freiburg). After a pre-irradiation of about 5 Gy the diamond detector shows a stability in response which is better than that of an ionization chamber. The current of the diamond detector was measured under variation of photon beam dose rate between 0.1 and 7 Gy min(-1). Different FSDs were chosen. Furthermore the pulse repetition frequency and the depth of the detector were changed. The electron beam dose rate was varied between 0.23 and 4.6 Gy min(-1) by changing the pulse-repetition frequency. The response shows no energy dependence within the covered photon-beam energy range. Between 4 MeV and 18 MeV electron beam energy it shows only a small energy dependence of about 2%, as expected from theory. For smaller electron energies the response increases significantly and an influence of the contact material used for the diamond detector can be surmised. A slight sublinearity of the current and dose rate was found. Detector current and dose rate are related by the expression i alpha Ddelta, where i is the detector current, D is the dose rate and delta is a correction factor of approximately 0.963. Depth-dose curves of photon beams, measured with the diamond detector, show a slight overestimation compared with measurements with the ionization chamber. This overestimation is compensated for by the above correction term. The superior spatial resolution of the diamond detector leads to minor deviations between depth-dose curves of electron beams measured with a Markus chamber and a diamond detector.

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Lucconi, G; Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Bentefour, E

Purpose: The clinical commissioning of a workflow for pre-treatment range verification/adjustment for the head treatment of pediatric medulloblastoma patients, including dose monitoring during treatment. Methods: An array of Si-diodes (DIODES Incorporated) is placed on the patient skin on the opposite side to the beam entrance. A “scout” SOBP beam, with a longer beam range to cover the diodes in its plateau, is delivered; the measured signal is analyzed and the extracted water equivalent path lengths (WEPL) are compared to the expected values, revealing if a range correction is needed. Diodes stay in place during treatment to measure dose. The workflowmore » was tested in solid water and head phantoms and validated against independent WEPL measurements. Both measured WEPL and skin doses were compared to computed values from the TPS (XiO); a Markus chamber was used for reference dose measurements. Results: The WEPL accuracy of the method was verified by comparing it with the dose extinction method. It resulted, for both solid water and head phantom, in the sub-millimeter range, with a deviation less than 1% to the value extracted from the TPS. The accuracy of dose measurements in the fall-off part of the dose profile was validated against the Markus chamber. The entire range verification workflow was successfully tested for the mock-treatment of head phantom with the standard delivery of 90 cGy per field per fraction. The WEPL measurement revealed no need for range correction. The dose measurements agreed to better than 4% with the prescription dose. The robustness of the method and workflow, including detector array, hardware set and software functions, was successfully stress-tested with multiple repetitions. Conclusion: The performance of the in-vivo range verification system and related workflow meet the clinical requirements in terms of the needed WEPL accuracy for pretreatment range verification with acceptable dose to the patient.« less

Surface dose measurements with commonly used detectors: a consistent thickness correction method.

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Reynolds, Tatsiana A; Higgins, Patrick

2015-09-08

The purpose of this study was to review application of a consistent correction method for the solid state detectors, such as thermoluminescent dosimeters (chips (cTLD) and powder (pTLD)), optically stimulated detectors (both closed (OSL) and open (eOSL)), and radiochromic (EBT2) and radiographic (EDR2) films. In addition, to compare measured surface dose using an extrapolation ionization chamber (PTW 30-360) with other parallel plate chambers RMI-449 (Attix), Capintec PS-033, PTW 30-329 (Markus) and Memorial. Measurements of surface dose for 6MV photons with parallel plate chambers were used to establish a baseline. cTLD, OSLs, EDR2, and EBT2 measurements were corrected using a method which involved irradiation of three dosimeter stacks, followed by linear extrapolation of individual dosimeter measurements to zero thickness. We determined the magnitude of correction for each detector and compared our results against an alternative correction method based on effective thickness. All uncorrected surface dose measurements exhibited overresponse, compared with the extrapolation chamber data, except for the Attix chamber. The closest match was obtained with the Attix chamber (-0.1%), followed by pTLD (0.5%), Capintec (4.5%), Memorial (7.3%), Markus (10%), cTLD (11.8%), eOSL (12.8%), EBT2 (14%), EDR2 (14.8%), and OSL (26%). Application of published ionization chamber corrections brought all the parallel plate results to within 1% of the extrapolation chamber. The extrapolation method corrected all solid-state detector results to within 2% of baseline, except the OSLs. Extrapolation of dose using a simple three-detector stack has been demonstrated to provide thickness corrections for cTLD, eOSLs, EBT2, and EDR2 which can then be used for surface dose measurements. Standard OSLs are not recommended for surface dose measurement. The effective thickness method suffers from the subjectivity inherent in the inclusion of measured percentage depth-dose curves and is not recommended for these types of measurements.

Experimental determination of the effective point of measurement for various detectors used in photon and electron beam dosimetry.

PubMed

Looe, Hui Khee; Harder, Dietrich; Poppe, Björn

2011-07-21

The subject of this study is the 'shift of the effective point of measurement', Δz, well known as a method of correction compensating for the 'displacement effect' in photon and electron beam dosimetry. Radiochromic EBT 1 films have been used to measure the 'true' TPR curves of 6 and 15 MV photons and 6 and 9 MeV electrons in the solid water-equivalent material RW3. For the Roos and Markus chambers, the cylindrical 'PinPoint', 'Semiflex' and 'Rigid-Stem' chambers, the 2D-Array and the E-type silicon diode (all from PTW-Freiburg), the positions of the effective points of measurement have been determined by direct or indirect comparison between their TPR curves and those of the EBT 1 film. Both for the Roos and Markus chambers, we found Δz = (0.4 ± 0.1) mm, which confirms earlier experimental and Monte Carlo results, but means a shortcoming of the 'water-equivalent window thickness' formula. For the cylindrical chambers, the ratio Δz/r was observed to increase with r, confirming a recent Monte Carlo prediction by Tessier (2010 E2-CN-182, Paper no 147, IDOS, Vienna) as well as the experimental observations by Johansson et al (1978 IAEA Symp. Proc. (Vienna) IAEA-SM-222/35 pp 243-70). According to a theoretical consideration, the shift of the effective point of measurement from the reference point of the detector is caused by a gradient of the fluence of the ionizing particles. As the experiments have shown, the value of Δz depends on the construction of the detector, but remains invariant under changes of radiation quality and depth. Other disturbances, which do not belong to the class of 'gradient effects', are not corrected by shifting the effective point of measurement.

SU-F-T-478: Effect of Deconvolution in Analysis of Mega Voltage Photon Beam Profiles

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Muthukumaran, M; Manigandan, D; Murali, V

2016-06-15

Purpose: To study and compare the penumbra of 6 MV and 15 MV photon beam profiles after deconvoluting different volume ionization chambers. Methods: 0.125cc Semi-Flex chamber, Markus Chamber and PTW Farmer chamber were used to measure the in-plane and cross-plane profiles at 5 cm depth for 6 MV and 15 MV photons. The profiles were measured for various field sizes starting from 2×2 cm till 30×30 cm. PTW TBA scan software was used for the measurements and the “deconvolution” functionality in the software was used to remove the volume averaging effect due to finite volume of the chamber along lateralmore » and longitudinal directions for all the ionization chambers. The predicted true profile was compared and the change in penumbra before and after deconvolution was studied. Results: After deconvoluting the penumbra decreased by 1 mm for field sizes ranging from 2 × 2 cm till 20 x20 cm. This is observed for along both lateral and longitudinal directions. However for field sizes from 20 × 20 till 30 ×30 cm the difference in penumbra was around 1.2 till 1.8 mm. This was observed for both 6 MV and 15 MV photon beams. The penumbra was always lesser in the deconvoluted profiles for all the ionization chambers involved in the study. The variation in difference in penumbral values were in the order of 0.1 till 0.3 mm between the deconvoluted profile along lateral and longitudinal directions for all the chambers under study. Deconvolution of the profiles along longitudinal direction for Farmer chamber was not good and is not comparable with other deconvoluted profiles. Conclusion: The results of the deconvoluted profiles for 0.125cc and Markus chamber was comparable and the deconvolution functionality can be used to overcome the volume averaging effect.« less

Making Constructive Simulations Relevant for Today’s Fight

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2010-03-08

Afghanistan. Dr. Michael Vlahos , a member of the National Security Assessment team of the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD) at the Johns Hopkins...www.carlisle.army.mil/DIME/documents/Szepesy%5B1%5D.pdf (accessed February 23, 2010). 20 13 Michael Vlahos , Culture’s Mask: War & Change after Iraq (Laurel

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Lessons in Adaptation from the Pacific

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2010-04-30

Association of the Class of 1907, 342. 54 Hough, 237. 55 Vlahos , Michael. The Blue Sword: The Naval War College and the American Mission, 1919-1941...Warfare: Theory and Practice. Newport, RI: U.S. Naval War College, 2009. Vlahos , Michael. The Blue Sword: The Naval War College and the American

The Politics of Education Revisited: Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove in Historical Perspective

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Finn, Mike

2015-01-01

This article traces continuity and change in the governance of British education through the comparison of two ministers, Anthony Crosland and Michael Gove. Taking Maurice Kogan's seminal "The Politics of Education" as the point of departure, the article highlights the role of political ideology in large-scale educational change, taking…

From Gouldner to Gramsci: The Making of Michael Apple's "Ideology and Curriculum"

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Gottesman, Isaac

2012-01-01

Michael Apple's "Ideology and Curriculum", published in 1979, helped initiate a broad turn in the field of education in the United States to Marxist thought as a lens through which to analyze the relationship between school and society. This classic text continues to inform scholarship in the field. While "Ideology" has…

A Good Time: A Conversation with C. Michael Nelson

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Zabel, Robert; Kaff, Marilyn; Teagarden, Jim

2015-01-01

C. Michael Nelson began his special education career as a teacher of adolescents with learning and behavior disorders. He has worked as a child psychologist and as a professor with the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky. He coordinated the graduate Personnel Preparation Program for Teachers…

Michael Duane after Risinghill: Rise and Fall of an Educational Celebrity

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Limond, David

2005-01-01

In this article an attempt is made to examine the continuing implications of the operation and closure of London's Risinghill school, a co-educational comprehensive extant from 1960 to 1965. It is suggested that Risinghill's controversial headteacher, Michael Duane (1915-1997), was an educational celebrity and folk hero amongst teachers and in…

Aza-Michael Reaction for an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory

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Nigam, Manisha; Rush, Brittney; Patel, Jay; Castillo, Raul; Dhar, Preeti

2016-01-01

A green, aza-Michael reaction is described that can be used to teach undergraduate students conjugate addition of nitrogen nucleophile to an a,ß-unsaturated ester. Students analyze spectral data of the product obtained from the assigned reaction to determine product structure and propose the mechanism of its formation. The experiment requires…

Training and Mastery of Techniques in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy: A Response to Michael Luntley

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Stickney, Jeff

2008-01-01

Responding to Michael Luntley's article, "Learning, Empowerment and Judgement," the author shows he cannot successfully make the following three moves: (1) dissolve the analytic distinction between learning by training and learning by reasoning, while advocating the latter; (2) diminish the role of training in Wittgenstein's philosophy, nor…

Gender Relations and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Michael Crichton's "Disclosure" as a Teaching Tool.

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Comer, Debra R.; Cooper, Elizabeth A.

1998-01-01

Describes how to use Michael Crichton's novel "Disclosure" and the film based on it for class discussions of such issues as what constitutes sexual harassment, harassment of men, relationship between sexual harassment and power, organizational responses to harassment, and gender differences in career advancement tactics. (SK)

Double hetero-Michael addition of N-substituted hydroxylamines to quinone monoketals: synthesis of bridged isoxazolidines.

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Yin, Zhiwei; Zhang, Jinzhu; Wu, Jing; Liu, Che; Sioson, Kate; Devany, Matthew; Hu, Chunhua; Zheng, Shengping

2013-07-19

A general synthesis of bridged isoxazolidines from a double hetero-Michael addition of N-substituted hydroxylamines to quinone monoketals has been developed. The different addition order of N-benzylhydroxylamine and N-Boc hydroxylamine is also discussed. Moreover, the various functionalities in the isoxazolidine products allow facile derivatization.

HIGHLY DISATEREOSELECTIVE MICHAEL ADDITION OF FLAVANONE TO ITS CHALCONE PRECURSOR UNDER SOLVENT-FREE CONDITIONS USING MICROWAVES [POSTER

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Substituted 2'-hydroxychalcones were found to give an equilibrium mixture of the starting chalcone and the corresponding flavanone inf 4.6-1:3 ratio in the presence of DBU gave two hitherto unknown diasteromeric dimers in a highly diastereoselective Michael addition of the carban...

A Bibliographic Tribute to Jack Michael

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Esch, Barbara E.; Esch, John W.

2016-01-01

"In the late 1950's, Jack Michael, a bright but irritating young psychology instructor, moved from the Universities of Kansas to Houston to Arizona State. Along the way he befriended two nontraditional students, protected them through their Ph.D. programs, and turned them loose on the world: Teodoro Ayllon…and Montrose Wolf…" (Risley,…

Educational Implications of Michael Fishbane's "Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology"

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Marom, Daniel

2008-01-01

This article posits Michael Fishbane's Judaic scholarship as a prime resource for Jewish education. The link between the two fields can be made through a translation of the theological underpinnings of Fishbane's insights into Judaism to educational purposes and practices. Initial work with Jewish educators on establishing this link encouraged…

Broadening the Debate: Comments on Michael J. Feuer's "Moderating the Debate"

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Robertson, Emily

2009-01-01

In "Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education", Michael Feuer argues that insights from cognitive science and the theory of bounded rationality can help us understand why educational policy makers overreach in seeking optimal solutions to educational problems. In this essay, Emily Robertson argues that cognitive…

What Works, Works Everywhere: Q&A with Michael Barber

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Crow, Tracy

2009-01-01

This article presents an interview with Michael Barber, a partner at McKinsey & Company, leading its global education practice. He has been working on major challenges of performance, organization, and reform in government and the public services, especially education, in the U.S., U.K., and other countries. Barber was instrumental in preparing…

The Power of the Powerless

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Welch, Cay

2009-01-01

This is a Pittsburgh story. It is about a boy named Michael Charles Metil--a boy that transformed many lives, including the author's. While visiting grandparents over the Christmas holiday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1993, Michael became sick. He was lethargic, vomiting, and had some diarrhea. Little did his parents realize how very sick he was,…

Reframing Michael Scott: Exploring Inappropriate Workplace Communication

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Schaefer, Zachary A.

2010-01-01

Individuals who work in professional settings interact with others who may exhibit a variety of cultural beliefs and decision-making approaches. Page (2007) argues that cognitive diversity (i.e., how people approach and attempt to solve problems) is a vital asset in effective organizations. Michael Scott, who portrays the inept main character on…

Balancing Act: The U. S. Military’s Reliance on Contractors to Fulfill Operational-Level Logistical Requirements

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2014-05-15

Military Sealift Command. Combat Logistics Force (PM1), 1. 40 Ibid. 41 Michael Marquez, Richard Rayos, and John Mercado . Standard Port-Visit Forecasting...Series no. 8 (2012). Marquez, Michael, John Mercado , and Richard Rayos. Standard Port-Visit Forecasting Model for U.S. Navy Husbanding

Michael Hand, Indoctrination and the Inculcation of Belief

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Tan, Charlene

2004-01-01

In 'Religious Upbringing Reconsidered,' Michael Hand revisits the debate on the right of parents to give their children a religious upbringing in a liberal context. According to him, the logical difficulty lies in the fact that parents cannot both impart religious beliefs and avoid indoctrination. While Peter Gardner and Jim Mackenzie have…

The Educational Philosophies of Mordecai Kaplan and Michael Rosenak: Surprising Similarities and Illuminating Differences

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Schein, Jeffrey; Caplan, Eric

2014-01-01

The thoughts of Mordecai Kaplan and Michael Rosenak present surprising commonalities as well as illuminating differences. Similarities include the perception that Judaism and Jewish education are in crisis, the belief that Jewish peoplehood must include commitment to meaningful content, the need for teachers to teach from a position of…

Courtside: Gifted Irony?

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Zirkel, Perry A.

2005-01-01

During the 2002-03 school year, Michael B., Rebecca D., and Aldo V. were eighth-graders at the Regional Gifted Center program at the Beaubien School in the Chicago school system. In February, the Beaubien School held an annual contest for eighth-graders to determine the design for the class T-shirt. Michael was disappointed that his design did not…

C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures": Michael Polanyi's Response and Context

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Jacobs, Struan

2011-01-01

C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" controversially contrasted science and literature, suggesting that neither scientists nor literary intellectuals have much in common with, and seldom bother speaking to, the other. Responding to Snow, Michael Polanyi argued that specialization has made modern culture, not twofold but manifold. In his major work,…

Against Dogma: A Reply to Michael Swan.

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Widdowson, H. G.

1985-01-01

Replies to two articles by Michael Swan entitled "A Critical Look at the Communicative Approach." Argues that Swan presents a distorted version of the communicative approach so as to present his own ideas more effectively and that he fails to offer evidence for his position on the practice of English language teaching. (SED)

The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Review of the Guidelines for Defense Cooperation

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2015-03-01

Cooperation: Process and Historical Impact, Michael J. Green and Koji Murata concluded that the guidelines failed to establish a clear understanding...Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee, November 27, 1978, available at <http://fas.org/news/japan/sisin1e.htm>. 4 Michael J. Green and Koji Murata

Polymer solutions

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Krawczyk, Gerhard Erich; Miller, Kevin Michael

2011-07-26

There is provided a method of making a polymer solution comprising polymerizing one or more monomer in a solvent, wherein said monomer comprises one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomer that is a multi-functional Michael donor, and wherein said solvent comprises 40% or more by weight, based on the weight of said solvent, one or more multi-functional Michael donor.

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On the Distinction between Positive and Negative Reinforcement

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Iwata, Brian A.

2006-01-01

In this article, the author presents his views on Michael's (1975) and Baron and Galizio's (2005) arguments on eliminating the distinction between positive and negative reinforcement. He first discusses Michael's concept of these two types of operations and contrasts it with the notions of Baron and Galizio. The author provides the readers his own…

Dialogue on Modernity and Modern Education in Dispute

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Baker, Michael; Peters, Michael A.

2012-01-01

This is a dialogue or conversation between Michael Baker (MB) and Michael A. Peters (MP) on the concept of modernity and its significance for educational theory. The dialogue took place originally as a conversation about a symposium on modernity held at the American Educational Studies Association meeting 2010. It was later developed for…

Michael Driver: A Career Life to Remember

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Sundby, Dianne; Derr, C. Brooklyn

2007-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a retrospective of the career life of Michael Driver, from the time of his Princeton graduate studies and early faculty years at Purdue University through the over three decades he spent at USC. Design/methodology/approach: The history and development of his theoretical and research interests are…

N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed tandem aza-benzoin/Michael reactions: on site reversal of the reactivity of N-Boc imines.

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Wu, Ke-Jia; Li, Gong-Qiang; Li, Yi; Dai, Li-Xin; You, Shu-Li

2011-01-07

A tandem NHC-catalyzed aza-benzoin/Michael reaction has been developed as a method to efficiently produce dihydroindenones and pyrrolidinone-containing tricycles. The novel reaction pattern involves tert-butyl aryl(tosyl)methylcarbamates reacting as both electrophile and nucleophile on the same carbon.

A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Options for Creating U.S. Capabilities

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2009-01-01

Investigative Analysis, Ottawa: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2007; John E. Eck , Spencer Chainey, James G. Cameron , Michael Leitner, and Ronald E. Wilson...Kuwait,” Parameters, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1991–1992. Eck , John E., Spencer Chainey, James G. Cameron , Michael Leitner, and Ronald E. Wilson

Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief over Michael Jackson Online

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Sanderson, Jimmy; Cheong, Pauline Hope

2010-01-01

Death and bereavement are human experiences that new media helps facilitate alongside creating new social grief practices that occur online. This study investigated how people's postings and tweets facilitated the communication of grief after pop music icon Michael Jackson died. Drawing on past grief research, religion, and new media studies, a…

European Adaptation to Expeditionary Warfare: Implications for the U.S. Army

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2002-11-01

than any other recent operation, highlighted Europe’s inability to deploy ground forces rapidly. General Sir Michael Jackson was only able to deploy...Security, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2000, pp. 31-44. 48. Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Jackson , “KFOR: The Inside Story,” The RUSI Journal, Vol. 145, No

Q&A: Michael Honey

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Helicher, Karl

2007-01-01

The mid-1960s saw civil rights victories in Congress during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. In "Going Down Jericho Road," Michael Honey wrote how Martin Luther King Jr.'s final focus showed that the struggle for black and working class parity continued. The 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike was a gritty struggle won in the streets by a host…

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

Dr. Michael Griffin testifies, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. If confirmed, Griffin, who currently heads the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will become NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-11

Dr. Michael Griffin testifies, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. If confirmed, Griffin, who currently heads the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will become NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Michael Griffin Senate Hearing

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2005-05-17

U.S. Senator Bill Nelson. R-Fla., questions NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin during his appearance in front of the Senate Commerce Committee Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on Human Space Flight: The Space Shuttle and Beyond, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Attending to hidden realities: contributions from the work of Michael Polanyi to supervision in pastoral care and counseling.

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Rodgerson, Thomas E

2008-01-01

In this article, the author suggests that concepts from the work of Michael Polanyi--such as the tacit dimension, subsidiary awareness, and commitment to a yet unrevealed, hidden reality--provide a theoretical basis for understanding the unique formation involved in pastoral care and counseling supervision.

A celebration of mechanics: from nano to macro. The J. Michael T. Thompson Festschrift issue.

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Elishakoff, Isaac

2013-06-28

This Theme Issue is dedicated to the topic 'Mechanics: from nano to macro' and marks the 75th birthday of Dr J. Michael T. Thompson, Fellow of the Royal Society, whose current affiliations are as follows: (i) Honorary Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge; (ii) Emeritus Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London; and (iii) Professor of Theoretical and Applied Dynamics (Distinguished Sixth Century Chair, part-time), University of Aberdeen. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at ES-Consult (consulting engineers) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The pertinent question that arises from the very start is: should we first salute Michael and then describe the Theme Issue, or vice versa? Indeed, according to Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. I would like to take the liberty of deviating from the tradition of the Philosophical Transactions and start with the tribute to Michael; after all he is the prime cause of this Theme Issue.

Acid-Activatable Michael-Type Fluorescent Probes for Thiols and for Labeling Lysosomes in Live Cells.

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Dai, Chun-Guang; Du, Xiao-Jiao; Song, Qin-Hua

2015-12-18

A Michael addition is usually taken as a base-catalyzed reaction. Most fluorescent probes have been designed to detect thiols in slightly alkaline solutions (pH 7-9). The sensing reactions of almost all Michael-type fluorescent probes for thiols are faster in a high pH solution than in a low pH solution. In this work, we synthesized a series of 7-substituted 2-(quinolin-2-ylmethylene)malonic acids (QMAs, substituents: NEt2, OH, H, Cl, or NO2) and their ethyl esters (QMEs) as Michael-type fluorescent probes for thiols. The sensing reactions of QMAs and QMEs occur in distinct pH ranges, pH < 7 for QMAs and pH > 7 for QMEs. On the basis of experimental and theoretic studies, we have clarified the distinct pH effects on the sensing reactivity between QMAs and QMEs and demonstrated that two QMAs (NEt2, OH) are highly sensitive and selective fluorescent probes for thiols in acidic solutions (pH < 7) and promising dyes that can label lysosomes in live cells.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From left, a United Space Alliance (USA) technician briefs NASA Deputy Program Manager of the Space Shuttle Program Michael Wetmore, USA Vice President and Space Shuttle Program Manager Howard DeCastro, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station and Shuttle Programs Michael Kostelnik on the use of cold plates in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2. NASA and USA Space Shuttle program management are participating in a leadership workday. The day is intended to provide management with an in-depth, hands-on look at Shuttle processing activities at KSC.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From left, a United Space Alliance (USA) technician briefs NASA Deputy Program Manager of the Space Shuttle Program Michael Wetmore, USA Vice President and Space Shuttle Program Manager Howard DeCastro, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station and Shuttle Programs Michael Kostelnik on the use of cold plates in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2. NASA and USA Space Shuttle program management are participating in a leadership workday. The day is intended to provide management with an in-depth, hands-on look at Shuttle processing activities at KSC.

Hexamethoxylated Monocarbonyl Analogues of Curcumin Cause G2/M Cell Cycle Arrest in NCI-H460 Cells via Michael Acceptor-Dependent Redox Intervention.

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Li, Yan; Zhang, Li-Ping; Dai, Fang; Yan, Wen-Jing; Wang, Hai-Bo; Tu, Zhi-Shan; Zhou, Bo

2015-09-09

Curcumin, derived from the dietary spice turmeric, holds promise for cancer prevention. This prompts much interest in investigating the action mechanisms of curcumin and its analogues. Two symmetrical hexamethoxy-diarylpentadienones (1 and 2) as cucumin analogues were reported to possess significantly enhanced cytotoxicity compared with the parent molecule. However, the detailed mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, compounds 1 and 2 were identified as the G2/M cell cycle arrest agents to mediate the cytotoxicity toward NCI-H460 cells via Michael acceptor-dependent redox intervention. Compared with curcumin, they could more easily induce a burst of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and collapse of the redox buffering system. One possible reason is that they could more effectively target intracellular TrxR to convert this antioxidant enzyme into a ROS promoter. Additionally, they caused up-regulation of p53 and p21 and down-regulation of redox-sensitive Cdc25C along with cyclin B1/Cdk1 in a Michael acceptor- and ROS-dependent fashion. Interestingly, in comparison with compound 2, compound 1 displayed a relatively weak ability to generate ROS but increased cell cycle arrest activity and cytotoxicity probably due to its Michael acceptor-dependent microtubule-destabilizing effect and greater GST-inhibitory activity, as well as its enhanced cellular uptake. This work provides useful information for understanding Michael acceptor-dependent and redox-mediated cytotoxic mechanisms of curcumin and its active analogues.

Little Mosie from the Margaree: A Biography of Moses Michael Coady.

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Welton, Michael R.

This book examines the life of the Reverend Moses Michael Coady (1890-1959), a Roman Catholic priest who led the Antigonish Movement. During the Antigonish Movement, residents of the small maritime town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, worked to achieve a nonviolent alternative to communism and fascism and to effect the social and economic…

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The United Kingdom Children's Laureate: The Story so Far

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Tucker, Nicholas

2014-01-01

Britain's Children's Laureate Scheme has now been running for 14 years. This article asks Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen and Julia Donaldson for their views on their own experience of taking up this post. It concludes with a discussion of the recurring issues raised by these Laureates…

A tribute to Michael R. Raupach for contributions to aeolian fluid dynamics

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Since the early work of Bagnold in the 1940s, aeolian research has grown to become a major integral part of earth-system studies. Many individuals have contributed to this development, and Dr. Michael R. Raupach (MR2, 1950 – 2015) was one of the most outstanding. MR2 worked for about a decade (1985 ...

Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960

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Clemente, Michael

2013-01-01

This article presents a review on "Defining deviance: sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960," by Michael A. Rembis. This is the first book by Michael A. Rembis, an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University of Buffalo. Drawing on thousands of case files from the Illinois State Training School in…

Cloud Migration Experiment Configuration and Results

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2017-12-01

ARL-TR-8248 ● DEC 2017 US Army Research Laboratory Cloud Migration Experiment Configuration and Results by Michael De Lucia...or reconstruction of the document. ARL-TR-8248 ● DEC 2017 US Army Research Laboratory Cloud Migration Experiment Configuration...and Results by Michael De Lucia Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, ARL Justin Wray and Steven S Collmann ICF International

Michael Young's "The Rise of the Meritocracy": A Philosophical Critique

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Allen, Ansgar

2011-01-01

This paper examines Michael Young's 1958 dystopia, "The Rise of the Meritocracy". In this book, the word "meritocracy" was coined and used in a pejorative sense. Today, however, meritocracy represents a positive ideal against which we measure the justice of our institutions. This paper argues that, when read in the twenty-first century, Young's…

Freedom of Information Act Requests: Six Keys to Handling Them

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2016-01-01

Defense AT&L: January–February 2016 50 Freedom of Information Act Requests Six Keys to Handling Them Michael A. Rodgers Rodgers is a professor of...crucial mission tasks. Understanding and using the six steps and keys provided above will free you from FOIA-induced distractions. The author can be contacted at michael.rodgers@dau.mil.

Q & A with Ed Tech Leaders: Interview with Michael W. Allen

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Shaughnessy, Michael F.

2014-01-01

Michael W. Allen, the Chairman and CEO of Allen Interactions, is an architect of interactive multimedia learning and is recognized for his many insights, inventions, and presentations. With over 50 years of experience in e-learning, both in academic and corporate settings, he is known for his role in creating Authorware and overseeing the work of…

Gulliver's Travels: Michael Moore the Explorer in "Who to Invade Next"

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Beck, Bernard

2016-01-01

America is identified as a nation of immigrants. These immigrants are thought to be the source of its subcultures. It is also a nation of individual explorers and inventors. Their activities are also a source of diverse subcultures. Many notable movies have made heroes of such innovators in different fields of endeavor. Michael Moore's movie…

Irish Education for the 21st Century. Michael Enright Commemorative Project.

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Ward, Noel, Ed.; Dooney, Triona, Ed.

The essays in this collection contribute to the ongoing discussion about the state of Irish education on the threshold of a new century. The various contributors examine issues that will be priorities for education planners in Ireland. These essays have been collected as a tribute to Irish educator and politician Michael Enright. The essays are:…

"Raising Standards" or Reducing Aspirations and Opportunities Still Further? Michael Gove and Examination Reforms

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Allen, Martin

2013-01-01

Well before the examinations grade crisis of 2012, Michael Gove had set out clear intentions for reforming public examinations. Though he claimed to be improving examinations and assessment by replicating practices that took place in high-performing countries and thus improving the ability of the UK economy to "compete", this…

The Benevolent Technocrat: Michael Dukakis' Strategy in the 1988 Presidential Debates.

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Herbeck, Dale A.

Michael Dukakis lost the presidential campaign debates of 1988 (or at least failed to capitalize as much as he might have) because he understood the debates to be genuine debates. Consequently, Dukakis acted as a debater generating an image of himself as a "benevolent technocrat," which was an error. It must be pointed out that the…

Wolff-Michael Roth's passibility: at the limits of the constructivist metaphor: a book review

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Brendel, Michelle

2014-12-01

Wolff-Michael Roth deconstructs the preeminent role conceded to constructivism in Science Education and demonstrates how we learn and know through pain, suffering, love or passion. This review explores his book "Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor" through the eyes of an outsider to the world of science education.

Technique Development Results for the Study of a Novel Dexamethasone Impregnated Bandage Contact Lens in a Rabbit Model After Photorefractive Keratectomy

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2017-10-22

PRK Inflammation in a Rabbit Model Timothy A. Soekenl, Michael Merkley!, Wesley Brundridgel, Gary Legaultl, Matthew Caldwelll, Joseph Ciolino2...7 .0 Dexamethasone Impregnated Contact Lenses in the Treatment of Post- PRK Inflammation · in a Rabbit Model Timothy A. Soeken 1, Michael Merkley1

Efficient synthesis of optically active 4-nitro-cyclohexanones via bifunctional thiourea-base catalyzed double-Michael addition of nitromethane to dienones.

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Wu, Bin; Liu, Guo-Gui; Li, Mei-Qiu; Zhang, Yong; Zhang, Shao-Yun; Qiu, Jun-Ru; Xu, Xiao-Ping; Ji, Shun-Jun; Wang, Xing-Wang

2011-04-07

Thiourea-modified cinchona alkaloids as bifunctional catalysts and a base could catalyze a stepwise [5+1] cyclization of divinyl ketones with nitromethane via double Michael additions, furnishing optically active 4-nitro-cyclohexanones with good yields, excellent diastereoselectivities (>20 : 1) and high enantiomeric ratios (up to 97 : 3).

An improved procedure to prepare 3-methyl-4-nitroalkylenethylisoxazoles and their reaction under catalytic enantioselective Michael addition with nitromethane.

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Moccia, Maria; Wells, Robert J; Adamo, Mauro F A

2015-02-21

Herein, we describe a short synthesis of 3-methyl-4-nitro-5-alkylethenyl isoxazoles and their reactivity as Michael acceptors. The title compounds reacted with nitromethane under phase-transfer catalysis to provide highly enantioenriched adducts (up to 93% ee) which were then converted to the corresponding γ-nitroacids.

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX): Innovative or Excessive

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2017-04-06

DIUx, and the short history of DIUx. Innovation principles from authors Vijay Govindarajan, Michael Docherty, and Clayton Christensen are then...innovation principles such as performance engine & innovative team, collective / open innovation, and disruptive technology and its implications – is...various innovation principles drawing primarily from work by authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, Michael Docherty, and Clayton Christenson

Michael's Inform Test of Student Ability (M.I.T.O.S.A.). Tester's Manual.

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Grafius, Thomas M.

Michael's Informal Test of Student Ability (MITOSA) is a diagnostic evaluative tool for adult students designed to test nine skills abilities in adult students functioning below a tenth grade level. The nine test sections are approximate reading level, understanding of basic math concepts and symbols, general thinking/reasoning ability, eye-hand…

Moral Education and Education in Altruism: Two Replies to Michael Hand

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White, John

2016-01-01

This article is a critical discussion of two recent papers by Michael Hand on moral education. The first is his "Towards a Theory of Moral Education", published in the "Journal of Philosophy of Education" in 2014 (Volume 48, Issue 4). The second is a chapter called "Beyond Moral Education?" in an edited book of new…

On Happiness and High Achievement: An Interview with Michael Thompson

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2006-01-01

Michael G. Thompson knows independent schools. He attended them in elementary and secondary school, and has worked in them as a psychologist. He consults with more than 30 schools a year, addressing a myriad of issues related to complex human interaction. He has written often in "Independent School" about everything from understanding the social…

Astronaut C. Michael Foale is briefed on use of Sky Genie

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1994-01-01

Astronaut C. Michael Foale, STS-63 mission specialist, is briefed on the use of Sky Genie device by Karin L. Porter. The device would aid in emergency egress operations aboard a troubled Space Shuttle. Porter, an employee of Rockwell International, helps train astronauts in egress procedures at JSC's Shuttle mockup and integration laboratory.

Neuroscientific Investigator of High Mathematical Ability: An Interview with Michael W. O'Boyle

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Kalbfleisch, M. Layne

2008-01-01

This article presents an interview with Michael W. O'Boyle, a neuroscientific investigator of high mathematical ability. O'Boyle is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.…

A Critical Analysis of Michael Tippett's "A Child of Our Time"

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Vallee, Jean-Sebastien

2009-01-01

After more than ten years of thoughtful planning, Michael Tippett (1905-1998) summed up his musical, political, spiritual and philosophical beliefs in his first oratorio, "A Child of Our Time" (1941). Representing the emergence of a new level of confidence and musical maturity for Tippett, the oratorio has become the composer's most widely known…

Michael Griffin Oath Of Office

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2005-04-14

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, left, is administered the oath of office by John H. Marburger, right, Science Adviser to the President and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, during a private ceremony at the Old Executive Office Building, Thursday, April 14, 2005, in Washington, while his wife Rebecca and daughter Katie look on. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline

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Chiariello, Emily

2013-01-01

Michael is 15 and repeating the ninth grade. He habitually tilts his chair back and drums annoyingly on his desk with a pencil. This morning, he was doing it--again--while you were trying to teach. What will you do? Responsive teachers shift their reactions in important ways. They adopt a social emotional lens: What does Michael's tapping say…

Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems (STARS) Workshop Held at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC on April 9-12 1985

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1985-01-01

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An Interview with Michael Horn: Blending Education for High-Octane Motivation

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Patterson, Gregory A.

2012-01-01

Blended learning holds the potential of improving the way we educate students and of making them more motivated. Blended education--the melding of information technology based distance learning with school attendance--is perhaps the best way to educate students for 21st century skills, says Michael Horn in a "Kappan" interview. Horn points out…

Performance Enhancement of the NPS Transient Electromagnetic Scattering Laboratory

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1991-09-01

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ELECTRONIC WARFARE) from NAVAL POSTGRADUATE S OOL Author: JvAlo...Bresani Approved by: Michael A. Morgan, Thesis Advisor Jeffrey B. Knorr, Second Reader Michael A. Morgan, Chairman, Department of Electrical & Computer...SYSTEM REPRESENTATION ... .......... 13 B. MATHEMATICAL MODEL ......... ..... 15 C. TRANSIENT RESPONSE EVALUATION .. ......... . 17 IV. MEASUREMENT

Facile Iodine-Catalyzed Michael Addition of Indoles to α,α′-Bis(arylmethylene)cyclopentanones: An Efficient Synthesis of E-2-(3-Indolylphenylmethyl)-5-phenylmethylenecyclopentanones

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Pal, Rammohan; Das Gupta, Arpita; Mallik, Asok K.

2012-01-01

Iodine-catalyzed reaction of indoles with α,α′-bis(arylmethylene)cyclopentanones afforded one diastereomer of the corresponding Michael adducts, namely, E-2-(3-indolylphenylmethyl)-5-phenylmethylenecyclopentanones, in a good yield. The products form a new group of indole derivatives. PMID:24052849

What Work Do the Concepts of "Language" and "Literature" Do for Michael Rosenak?

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Levisohn, Jon A.

2014-01-01

Michael Rosenak uses the twin metaphors of "language" and "literature," borrowed from Oakeshott and Peters, to argue that the goal of education is initiation into a language. This goal transcends the study of literature in that language. It includes, as well, the development of the capacity both to critique literature and to…

Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters. World Library of Educationalists

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Peters, Michael A.

2012-01-01

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces--extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions--so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Michael A. Peters has…

Subjectivity and Cultural Adjustment in Mathematics Education: A Response to Wolff-Michael Roth

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Brown, Tony

2012-01-01

In this volume, Wolff-Michael Roth provides a critical but partial reading of Tony Brown's book "Mathematics Education and Subjectivity". The reading contrasts Brown's approach with Roth's own conception of subjectivity as derived from the work of Vygotsky, in which Roth aims to "reunite" psychology and sociology. Brown's book, however, focuses on…

Michael Walzer's Politics, in Theory and Practice

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Williams, Jeffrey J.

2012-01-01

Before all the talk about "public intellectuals," Michael Walzer was one. For 50 years, he has gone back and forth between positions at Princeton and Harvard Universities and then at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is now emeritus. His writings appear regularly in "Dissent" magazine, which he has co-edited for…

Gold (III) Chloride-Catalyzed 6-endo-trig Oxa-Michael Addition Reactions for Diastereoselective Synthesis of Fused Tetrahydropyranones

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Ciesielski, Jennifer; Lebœuf, David; Stern, Harry A.

2013-01-01

Alkynones were treated with boron trifluoride diethyl etherate to generate β-iodoallenolates, which underwent intramolecular aldol reactions to produce cycloalkenyl alcohols. Diastereoselective oxa-Michael ring closure could then be induced by treatment with a catalytic amount of gold(III) chloride, affording highly functionalized tetrahydropyran-containing ring systems. PMID:24032002

Toward a Global Vision of Gifted Education: An Interview with Michael S. Matthews

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Henshon, Suzanna E.

2017-01-01

Dr. Michael S. Matthews is professor and director of the Academically & Intellectually Gifted graduate programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is incoming Coeditor of the "Gifted Child Quarterly" and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Matthews also currently…

The Journey Is the Film Is the Journey: Michael Winterbottom's "In This World"

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Farrier, David

2008-01-01

This essay examines Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film "In This World," which follows the journey of two Afghan migrants from Peshawar to London. Winterbottom's preparation involved travelling from London to Peshawar and then in reverse overland as far as Istanbul; he then returned to Peshawar and filmed the same journey using two…

European Adaptation To Expeditionary Warfare: Implications for the U.S. Army

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2002-11-01

Europe’s inability to deploy ground forces rapidly. General Sir Michael Jackson was only able to deploy nine battalion units on the first day of...31-44. 48. Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Jackson , “KFOR: The Inside Story,” The RUSI Journal, Vol. 145, No. 1, February 2000, p. 15. 31 49. 2308

AFSOF, Integration, and Joint Warfighting: Closing the Training Loop to Force Multiply and Succeed

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2008-04-04

Succeed 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Maj Michael Jackson 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT...unclassified. Research for the case study involved extensive interviews of involved personnel and document research. 101 Michael Jackson , “Ugly Baby Case

The Increased Role of Regional Organizations in Peacekeeping and Effects on the United Nations Preeminence in Future Peace Operations

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2003-06-06

Lieutenant General (U.K.) Sir Michael Jackson , the KFOR commander, order the Russians to withdraw from the airport, but Jackson refused to act...1999 that his forces had disarmed fully, and this was confirmed by KFOR Commander Lieutenant General Sir. Michael Jackson (www.afsouth.nato/int.htm

New Computational Framework for the Treatment of Joint Constraints and Connectivity Conditions in Finite Element/Multibody System Algorithms

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2014-03-21

A. Shabana University of Illinois at Chicago Paramsothy Jayakumar , Michael D. Letherwood, David J. Gorsich U.S. Army TARDEC Disclaimer...ALGORITMS 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER W56hzv-13-c-0032 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Ahmed Shabana; Paramsothy Jayakumar ; Michael

Can Higher Education Foster Economic Growth? A Conference Summary. Chicago Fed Letter. Number 236a

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Mattoon, Richard H.

2007-01-01

On October 30, 2006, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Midwest Higher Education Compact held a conference on higher education and economic growth. Speakers included Michael Moskow, Richard Lester, Michael Luger, Sean Safford, Larry Isaak, Stefanie Lenway, Rod Shrader, Brian Fabes, Arthur Rothkopf, Randy Eberts, Gary Fethke, Victor…

Following Michael Faraday's Footprints

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Galeano, Javier

2011-01-01

Last fall I had the good fortune of receiving financial support to shoot a documentary about Michael Faraday. I took the opportunity to learn more about this great experimentalist and to visit the highlights of places in his life. In this paper, I would like to share a list and description of some of the most remarkable places in London suitable…

Our Hidden Prejudices, on Trial

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Glenn, David

2008-01-01

In October 2006, a New Hampshire police officer named Michael Briggs was shot to death in an alley. His accused killer, Michael Addison, has been charged with capital murder. It is the state's first death-penalty case in more than 30 years, and it is racially fraught: Addison is African-American, and Briggs was white. New Hampshire has a long list…

Multi-Bit Quantum Private Query

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Shi, Wei-Xu; Liu, Xing-Tong; Wang, Jian; Tang, Chao-Jing

2015-09-01

Most of the existing Quantum Private Queries (QPQ) protocols provide only single-bit queries service, thus have to be repeated several times when more bits are retrieved. Wei et al.'s scheme for block queries requires a high-dimension quantum key distribution system to sustain, which is still restricted in the laboratory. Here, based on Markus Jakobi et al.'s single-bit QPQ protocol, we propose a multi-bit quantum private query protocol, in which the user can get access to several bits within one single query. We also extend the proposed protocol to block queries, using a binary matrix to guard database security. Analysis in this paper shows that our protocol has better communication complexity, implementability and can achieve a considerable level of security.

Comittees

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2004-10-01

Fritz Caspers (CERN, Switzerland), Michel Chanel (CERN, Switzerland), Håkan Danared (MSL, Sweden), Bernhard Franzke (GSI, Germany), Manfred Grieser (MPI für Kernphysik, Germany), Dieter Habs (LMU München, Germany), Jeffrey Hangst (University of Aarhus, Denmark), Takeshi Katayama (RIKEN/Univ. Tokyo, Japan), H.-Jürgen Kluge (GSI, Germany), Shyh-Yuan Lee (Indiana University, USA), Rudolf Maier (FZ Jülich, Germany), John Marriner (FNAL, USA), Igor Meshkov (JINR, Russia), Dieter Möhl (CERN, Switzerland), Vasily Parkhomchuk (BINP, Russia), Robert Pollock (Indiana University), Dieter Prasuhn (FZ Jülich, Germany), Dag Reistad (TSL, Sweden), John Schiffer (ANL, USA), Andrew Sessler (LBNL, USA), Alexander Skrinsky (BINP, Russia), Markus Steck (GSI, Germany), Jie Wei (BNL, USA), Andreas Wolf (MPI für Kernphysik, Germany), Hongwei Zhao (IMP, People's Rep. of China).

Essentializing the binary self: individualism and collectivism in cultural neuroscience.

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Martínez Mateo, M; Cabanis, M; Stenmanns, J; Krach, S

2013-01-01

Within the emerging field of cultural neuroscience (CN) one branch of research focuses on the neural underpinnings of "individualistic/Western" vs. "collectivistic/Eastern" self-views. These studies uncritically adopt essentialist assumptions from classic cross-cultural research, mainly following the tradition of Markus and Kitayama (1991), into the domain of functional neuroimaging. In this perspective article we analyze recent publications and conference proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2012) and problematize the essentialist and simplistic understanding of "culture" in these studies. Further, we argue against the binary structure of the drawn "cultural" comparisons and their underlying Eurocentrism. Finally we scrutinize whether valuations within the constructed binarities bear the risk of constructing and reproducing a postcolonial, orientalist argumentation pattern.

Production of Low-Freezing-Point Highly Branched Alkanes through Michael Addition.

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Jing, Yaxuan; Xia, Qineng; Liu, Xiaohui; Wang, Yanqin

2017-12-22

A new approach for the production of low-freezing-point, high-quality fuels from lignocellulose-derived molecules was developed with Michael addition as the key step. Among the investigated catalysts, CoCl 2 ⋅6 H 2 O was found most active for the Michael addition of 2,4-pentanedione with FA (single aldol adduct of furfural and acetone, 4-(2-furanyl)-3-butene-2-one). Over CoCl 2 ⋅6 H 2 O, a high carbon yield of C 13 oxygenates (about 75 %) can be achieved under mild conditions (353 K, 20 h). After hydrodeoxygenation, low-freezing-point (<223 K) branched alkanes with 13 carbons within jet fuel ranges were obtained over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. Furthermore, C 18,23 fuel precursors could be easily synthesized through Michael addition of 2,4-pentanedione with DFA (double-condensation product of furfural and acetone) under mild conditions and the molar ratio of C 18 /C 23 is dependent on the reaction conditions of Michael addition. After hydrodeoxygenation, high density (0.8415 g mL -1 ) and low-freezing-point (<223 K) branched alkanes with 18, 23 carbons within lubricant range were also obtained over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. These highly branched alkanes can be directly used as transportation fuels or additives. This work opens a new strategy for the synthesis of highly branched alkanes with low freezing point from renewable biomass. © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Friction in Command and Control: Sources of Conflict in Military Doctrine

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2011-06-01

Colonel Michael W. Kometer (Date) ____________________________________ Dr. S . Michael Pavelec (Date...central belief s . This chapter will attempt to clarify these terms. Unity of Command Martin Van Creveld defines command ―as a function that has to...execution.17 Control The semantic demarcation between Air Force and Marine command and control doctrine s comes with the different approaches to

Evaluating U.S. Military Engineering Efforts In East Africa

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2013-03-01

Michael J. Neumann, Cathryn Quantic Thurston, Developing an Army Strategy for Building Partner Capacity for Stability Operations (Santa Monica, CA...Building Partnership Capacity, Master of Military Art and Science Thesis (Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, June...Lynch, Michael J. Neumann, Cathryn Quantic Thurston, Developing an Army Strategy for Building Partner Capacity for Stability Operations, (Santa Monica

Michael Griffin Discusses Exploration Architecture Study

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2005-09-18

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin discusses the results of the agency's exploration architecture study on Monday, Sept. 19, 2005, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The study made specific design recommendations for a vehicle to carry crews into space, a family of launch vehicles to take missions to the moon and beyond, and a "lunar mission architecture" for landing on the moon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Recollections of Jack Michael and the Application of Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior

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Sundberg, Mark L.

2017-01-01

Jack Michael offered a course on verbal behavior almost every year throughout his teaching career. Jack was also interested in the application of Skinner's work and in 1976 began to offer a graduate course at Western Michigan University titled Verbal Behavior Applications. Jack and his students pursued the application of Skinner's work on verbal…

Schools as "Poetry-Friendly Places": Michael Rosen on Poetry in the Curriculum

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Xerri, Daniel

2014-01-01

This article explores the views of children's poet Michael Rosen in relation to poetry in education. It is based on an interview in which Rosen not only discusses the significance of encouraging young people to engage with poetry at school but also analyzes a number of threats to poetry's place in the English curriculum. This article identifies…

Key Performance Indicators: From Promise to Payoff. The Productivity for Results Series No. 2

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Casserly, Michael; Eugene, Michael

2014-01-01

This paper draws upon the expertise of two leading educators, Michael Casserly, director of the Council of the Great City Schools, and Michael Eugene, chief operating officer of the Orange County Public Schools in Florida. They outline a set of key performance indicators that some urban districts use to benchmark the results of their operating…

Expedition 19 Docks to ISS

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2009-03-27

Michelle Barratt wishes her husband, NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt, a happy wedding anniversary via phone to the International Space Station from the Russian Mission Control Center, Korolev, Russia, Saturday, March 28, 2009. The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and delivered Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Quantum Linear Systems Theory

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2013-02-15

Matthew James, Andre Carvalho and Michael Hush completed some work analyzing cross-phase modulation using single photon quantum filtering techniques...ANU Michael Hush January – June, 2012, Postdoc, ANU Matthew R. James Professor, Australian National University Ian R. Petersen Professor...appear, IEEE Trans. Aut. Control., 2013. A. R. R. Carvalho, M. R. Hush , and M. R. James, “Cavity driven by a single photon: Conditional dynamics and

Instructional Features for Training in Virtual Environments

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2006-07-01

Technical Report 1184 Instructional Features for Training in Virtual Environments Michael J. Singer U. S. Army Research Institute Jason P. Kring...Report 1184 Instructional Features for Training in Virtual Environments Michael J. Singer U. S. Army Research Institute Jason P. Kring University of...provides in comparison to traditional, real world experience training programs (Hays & Singer , 1989; Swezey & Andrews, 2001). First, as with the

A Response to Michael W. Apple's "Theory, Research, and the Critical Scholar/Activist"

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Leonardo, Zeus

2010-01-01

Michael Apple's prescient review of Anyon et al.'s "Theory and Educational Research" reminds the educational community of the importance of purpose. In his own work, he has been consistent in--actually, insistent on--emphasizing the struggle over political projects. This is not an issue concerning only the Left as the scapegoat for the disparaging…

Jack Michael's Musings on the 60th Anniversary of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior"

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Esch, Barbara E.; Esch, John W.; Palmer, David C.

2017-01-01

When the B. F. Skinner Foundation reprinted Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" in 1992, Jack Michael wrote one of its two forewords, a detailed outline of the book's purpose and scope. On the 60th anniversary of the first publication (1957) of "Verbal Behavior", Jack reflects on the book's impact and its importance to the…

Germania Quo Vadis?: Dynamics of Change in German Security Policy

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2007-06-01

Keohane, Robert O., Michael Brecher and Frank Harveys, eds. Institutional Theory in international Relations. In: Millennial Reflections on International...Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, (Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 78-109; Robert O. Keohane, “ Institutional ... Theory in international Relations,” in Michael Brecher and Frank Harveys, eds., Millennial Reflections on International Studies (University of Michigan

A rapid, one-pot, microwave-influenced synthesis of spiro-2,5-diketopiperazines via a cascade Ugi/6-exo-trig aza-Michael reaction.

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Santra, Soumava; Andreana, Peter R

2011-04-01

A rapid, cascade reaction process has been developed to access biologically validated spiro-2,5-diketopiperazines. The facile and environmentally benign method capitalizes on commercially available starting reagents for a sequential Ugi/6-exo-trig aza-Michael reaction, water as a solvent, and microwave irradiation without any extraneous additives.

Preventive Health Care Utilization: A Study of Factors Influencing Military Personnel in Their Use of Three Preventive Health Care Factors

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1978-03-01

0Michael Zubkoff and David Dunlop, " Consumer Behavior in Preventive Health Services," in Consumer Incentives for Health Care, ed. Selma J. Mushkin (New...78 Sorkin, Alan L. Health Economics. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1975. Zubkoff, Michael, and Dunlop, David. " Consumer Behavior in Preventive Health

An Integral Part of the Frederick Community—Michael Dean | Poster

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For more than 30 years, Michael Dean, Ph.D., has been an integral part of the NCI at Frederick community. In addition to studying several different aspects of genomics and cancer research, he has worked with the Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern Program and also volunteered his time with Mission of Mercy, a community-based organization providing free healthcare and free

Too Many References, Just Cut a Few and It Will Be Perfect: APA vs. Chicago

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Matusov, Eugene

2011-01-01

The purpose of the author's rebuttal is to provide a sociocultural critique of Wolff-Michael Roth and Michael Cole's arguments and of the current "Mind, Culture, and Activity" ("MCA") policy regarding referencing. In sum, Roth and Cole write that some unnamed "MCA" authors (and some scholars in general) abuse the reference practice by…

CAS, Interdiction, and Attack Helicopters

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2005-06-01

E.J. Degen, and David Tohn, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, (Fort Leavenworth, KA : Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004...Grau and Michael W. Gress, trans. and eds. The Soviet- Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost, (Lawrence, KA : University Press of Kansas, 2002...149 Grinalds, 73. 150 Michael O’Hanlon and Adriana Lins de Albuquerque, Iraq Index: Tracking Variables

Effective Integration of Technology and Instruction. Q&A with Michael Jay. REL Mid-Atlantic Educator Effectiveness Webinar Series

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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2015

2015-01-01

In this webinar, long-time educator and developer of education technology Michael Jay discussed the importance of using technology to support learning and gave examples of how teachers can integrate technology into their instruction based on the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. The PowerPoint presentation and…

The Data on Children's Media Use: An Interview with Michael Robb

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Heller, Rafael

2018-01-01

Since 2003, nonprofit organization Common Sense Media has studied the ways in which kids are growing up in the digital age. In this interview, research director Michael Robb shares recent findings about the media habits of young children, tweens, and teens. While the news coverage of these issues tends to be hyperbolic and alarming, Robb explains,…

Unification of South Asia

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1994-06-03

34Religious vs regional determinism: India , Pakistan , and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire," in Shared Space: Divided Space. ed. Michael Chisholm and David M...Chapman, Reliaion vs . reaional determinism: India . Pakistan . and Banaladesh as inheritors ofempire, in Shared Space: Divided Space, ed. Michael Chisholm...and David Smith, (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990), 107. 47. Graham Chapman, Reliaion vs . recional determinism: India . Pakistan . and Banaladesh as

Fiscal Law Course Deskbook (36th)

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1993-05-01

CONTRACT LAW DIVISION THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S SCHOOL UNITED STATES ARMY CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA JA 506...MAY 93 93-13173 CONTRIBUTORS I LTC John T. Jones, Jr. Chief, Contract Law Division LTC Harry L. Dorsey Senior Instructor, Contract Law Division MAJ...Michael A. Killham Instructor, Contract Law Division MAJ Bobby D. Melvin Instructor, Contract Law Division MAJ Michael K. Cameron Instructor, Contract

56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (Los Angeles, California, November 29-December 2, 2006)

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Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Kim, Youb, Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.

2007-01-01

This publication offers the 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of three awardees, Michael C. McKenna, Douglas K. Hartman, and Michael Kamil. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) What's It All About? Literacy Research and Civic Responsibility (Victoria…

Shaping the Global Civil Society: An Interview with Michael Peters

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Heraud, Richard; Tesar, Marek

2017-01-01

Professor Michael A. Peters has worked in an era of transformation that has taken him from a labour-intensive paper-based form of production to the computerised reproduction of thought, and the current shift in the publishing landscape from a reader-subscription to an author-pays model. Most of what he has learned in publishing and editing he has…

Software Requirements Engineering Methodology (Development)

DTIC Science & Technology

1979-06-01

Higher Order Software [20]; and the Michael Jackson Design Methodology [21]. Although structured programming constructs have proven to be more useful...reviewed here. Similarly, the manual techniques for software design (e.g., HIPO Diagrams, Nassi-Schneidermann charts, Top-Down Design, the Michael ... Jackson Design Methodology, Yourdon’s Structured Design) are not addressed. 6.1.3 Research Programs There are a number of research programs underway

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

Dr. Michael Griffin, right, talks with his wife Rebecca Griffin prior to testifying at his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. If confirmed, Griffin, who currently heads the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will become NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Chiral-catalyst-based convergent synthesis of HIV protease inhibitor GRL-06579A.

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Mihara, Hisashi; Sohtome, Yoshihiro; Matsunaga, Shigeki; Shibasaki, Masakatsu

2008-02-01

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of GRL-06579A (1), an HIV-1 protease inhibitor effective against multi-protease-inhibitor-resistant viruses, is described. A convergent strategy that utilizes heterobimetallic multifunctional catalysts developed in our group is a key feature of the synthesis. The chirality of the bicyclic tetrahydrofuran unit of 1 was introduced through Al-Li-bis(binaphthoxide) (ALB) catalyst-controlled Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to racemic 4-O-protected cyclopentenone. ALB afforded not only the trans adduct with up to 96% ee from a matched substrate through kinetic resolution, but also the cis adduct with 99% ee through a catalyst-controlled Michael addition to a mismatched substrate. The Michael addition to produce the unusual cis adduct is described in detail. The framework of the bicyclic tetrahydrofuran was constructed by an intramolecular oxy-Michael reaction. The amino alcohol unit was constructed by an La-Li3-tris(binaphthoxide) (LLB)-catalyzed diastereoselective nitroaldol reaction of N-Boc aldehyde (Boc = tert-butoxycarbonyl) derived from L-phenylalanine. LLB promoted the nitroaldol reaction without racemization of the chiral aldehyde to give the nitroaldol adduct in 85% yield and with 93:7 diastereoselectivity and over 99% ee.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sandra Anderson, wife of STS-107 Payload Commander Michael Anderson, visits a new residence hall at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, Fla., named for her late husband. Family members of the STS-107 astronauts, other dignitaries, members of the university community and the public gathered for a dedication ceremony for the Columbia Village at FIT. Each of the seven new residence halls in the complex is named for one of the STS-107 astronauts who perished during the Columbia accident -- Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, and Ilan Ramon.

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2003-10-28

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sandra Anderson, wife of STS-107 Payload Commander Michael Anderson, visits a new residence hall at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, Fla., named for her late husband. Family members of the STS-107 astronauts, other dignitaries, members of the university community and the public gathered for a dedication ceremony for the Columbia Village at FIT. Each of the seven new residence halls in the complex is named for one of the STS-107 astronauts who perished during the Columbia accident -- Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, and Ilan Ramon.

Theoretical study on the reaction mechanisms of Michael chirality addition between propionaldehyde and nitroalkene catalyzed by an enantioselective catalyst.

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Zhou, Xinming; Li, Ling; Sun, Xuejun; Wang, Yajun; Du, Dongmei; Fu, Hui

2018-06-01

The asymmetric Michael addition between propionaldehyde and nitroalkene catalyzed by 8-(ethoxycarbonyl)-1,2,3,3a,8,8a-hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole-2-carboxylic acid has obtained relatively high yields and excellent enantioselectivities at room temperature. In this study, the molecular structures and optical activity of the most stable conformation I are optimized at B3LYP/6-311++ G(d,p) level. We find that levorotatory conformation I catalyzing the same Michael addition can produce laevo-product A and dextrorotatory conformation I' can obtain the dextral-product A'. These results have guiding significance for further studying on the new chemzymes and the mechanism of the obtained different chiral products. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Michael Faraday vs. the Spiritualists

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Hirshfeld, Alan

2006-12-01

In the 1850s, renowned physicist Michael Faraday launched a public campaign against pseudoscience and spiritualism, which were rampant in England at the time. Faraday objected especially to claims that electrical or magnetic forces were responsible for paranormal phenomena, such as table-spinning and communication with the dead. Using scientific methods, Faraday unmasked the deceptions of spiritualists, clairvoyants and mediums and also laid bare the credulity of a public ill-educated in science. Despite his efforts, Victorian society's fascination with the paranormal swelled. Faraday's debacle anticipates current controversies about public science education and the interface between science and religion. This episode is one of many described in the new biography, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (Walker & Co.), which chronicles Faraday's discoveries and his unlikely rise from poverty to the pinnacle of the English science establishment.

Pyrrolidinyl-camphor derivatives as a new class of organocatalyst for direct asymmetric Michael addition of aldehydes and ketones to beta-nitroalkenes.

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Ting, Ying-Fang; Chang, Chihliang; Reddy, Raju Jannapu; Magar, Dhananjay R; Chen, Kwunmin

2010-06-18

Practical and convenient synthetic routes have been developed for the synthesis of a new class of pyrrolidinyl-camphor derivatives (7 a-h). These novel compounds were screened as catalysts for the direct Michael addition of symmetrical alpha,alpha-disubstituted aldehydes to beta-nitroalkenes. When this asymmetric transformation was catalyzed by organocatalyst 7 f, the desired Michael adducts were obtained in high chemical yields, with high to excellent stereoselectivities (up to 98:2 diastereomeric ratio (d.r.) and 99 % enantiomeric excess (ee)). The scope of the catalytic system was expanded to encompass various aldehydes and ketones as the donor sources. The synthetic application was demonstrated by the synthesis of a tetrasubstituted-cyclohexane derivative from (S)-citronellal, with high stereoselectivity.

Jack Michael's Appointments at the University of Houston and Arizona State University: Reflections from a Former Student

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Mabry, John H.

2016-01-01

Jack Michael was an early enthusiast for what is now called applied behavior analysis. His many seminal contributions were through early publications in applied behavior analysis and the work of the students he trained (e.g., T. Ayllon, M. M. Wolf). His close mentorship of students earned him acclaim as a teacher along with his many theoretical…

Without the Light of Evolution: A Case Study of Resistance and Avoidance in Learning to Teach High School Biology

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Larkin, Douglas B.; Perry-Ryder, Gail M.

2015-01-01

We present the case of Michael, a prospective high school biology teacher, to explore the implications of teacher resistance and avoidance to the topic of evolution. This case is drawn from a year-long qualitative research study that examined Michael's process of learning to teach high school biology and describes how his avoidance of evolution in…

The Effects of DHEA on Resilience to PTSD

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2011-04-01

Resilience to PTSD Authors Cassandra M. Ellington Scott J. Wright Lolita M. Burrell Michael D. Matthews United States Military Academy...to PTSD 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Cassandra Ellington; Scott Wright; Lolita Burrell; Michael...Chilcoat, H. D., Kessler, R. C., Peterson, E. L., & Lucia, V. C. (1999). Vulnerability to assaultive violence: Further specification of the sex

Minding the Factors of Public Support: How Lessons From Panama Could Prevent Future Iraqs

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2017-06-01

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. MINDING THE FACTORS...OF PUBLIC SUPPORT: HOW LESSONS FROM PANAMA COULD PREVENT FUTURE IRAQS by Michael S. Handlan Michael D. Salazar June 2017 Thesis... Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing

Benefits of a Hospital Two-Bin Kanban System

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2014-09-01

Reader : Michael Dixon THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704–0188 Public reporting burden for...Approved by: Nedialko Dimitrov Thesis Advisor Rachel Silvestrini Co-Advisor Michael Dixon Second Reader Robert F. Dell Chair...stocks split between primary (in front) and secondary bins (directly behind). RFID tags are placed on the front of each bin. Photos taken at WRNMMC

Using a Counterfactual Process to Identify the Applicability of Emerging Technology

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2014-09-01

conditions that must exist for the antecedent to happen.129 Crafting a 126 Michael W. Morris and...opportunities of interrupting the sequence of events. For example, if the bombers were identified on Monday then the events that unfold on Tuesday ...www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10006491/Boston- marathon-bombings-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-pictured-behind-eight-year-old- victim.html Morris , Michael

Systems Fragility: The Sociology of Chaos

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2015-03-01

Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, no. 5652 (2004): 1912, doi:10.1126/science.1090847. 70 Barry Wellman, and Scot Wortley, “Different Strokes from...Michael Dombeck, Jack Williams, and Christopher Wood , “Wildfire Policy and Public Lands: Integrating Scientific Understanding with Social Concerns...bitstream/10092/2809/ 1/12593870_ResOrgs_IFED_dec04_EDSM.pdf Dombeck, Michael, Jack Williams, and Christopher Wood . “Wildfire Policy and Public

Michael Faraday, media man.

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Fara, Patricia

2006-03-01

Michael Faraday was an enthusiastic portrait collector, and he welcomed the invention of photography not only as a possible means of recording observations accurately, but also as a method for advertising science and its practitioners. This article (which is part of the Science in the Industrial Revolution series) shows that like many eminent scientists, Faraday took advantage of the burgeoning Victorian media industry by posing in various roles.

Michael Novak's "Business as a Calling" as a Vehicle for Addressing Ethical and Policy Concerns in a Business Law Course

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Murphy, Tonia Hap

2008-01-01

This article describes the author's experience of incorporating Michael Novak's "Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life" into a Business Law course. The author views it as a positive addition to the course, one that may be of interest to her colleagues at other institutions. Accordingly, after an overview of Novak's analysis in…

Guam: U.S. Defense Deployments

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2013-11-15

Guam. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Michael Schiffer added later that there would need to be parallel...maintain unit cohesion and operational readiness. In answer to Mr. Forbes’s question of whether the Air-Sea Battle Concept was ready, Schiffer ...officials have tied the buildup to North Korea’s threat. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Michael Schiffer testified to Congress

A Symposium on the Relevance of Michael Polanyi's Insights to a Reformulated Understanding of Science, Technology, and Society

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Mead, Walter B.

2011-01-01

This is intended as an introductory statement to the explorations undertaken in the essays that follow. The authors of these essays attempt to introduce the reader to some of the insights of Michael Polanyi and their implications for the reader who wishes to come to a greater understanding of modern technological society, which--for better or…

Molecular Nitrogen Fluorescence Lidar for Remote Sensing of the Auroral Ionosphere

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1994-02-24

AD-A280 716 PL-TR-94-2044 MOLECULAR NITROGEN FLUORESCENCE LIDAR FOR REMOTE SENSING OF THE AURORAL IONOSPHERE Richard Garner Michael Burka...6. AUTHOR(S) Richard Garner Contract F19628-92-C-0160 Michael Burka 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION...by Richard Dickmuaz of the HIPAS observatory and by Ralph Wuerker of UCLA PPL. 29 le

How "The Right" Continues to "Do Wrong" by Our Young People: Contemporary Reflections on Michael Apple's Analysis of the "Rightist Turn" in Education

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McGregor, Glenda

2018-01-01

Michael Apple's 2005 article, "Doing Things the 'Right' Way: Legitimating Educational Inequalities in Conservative Times", is a seminal piece of writing that highlights some of his core concerns with the effects of neo-liberal and neo-conservative ideologies on education. Since its publication, this article has incited much debate about…

RAND Project Air Force Annual Report 2008

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2008-01-01

Systems: Past Lessons and Future Recommendations, by Obaid Younossi, Mark A. Lorell, Kevin Brancato, Cynthia R. Cook, Mel Eisman, Bernard Fox, John C...Competency Development: Experience from Prince Sultan Air Base and Eskan Village in Saudi Arabia, by Laura Werber Castaneda, Lawrence M. Hanser, and...Proposal, by Michael R. Thirtle, Michael Boito, Ian P. Cook, Bernard Fox, Phyllis Gilmore, Michelle Grace, Jeff Hagen, Thomas Hamilton

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Crisis? A Commentary on Michael Young's Article "Overcoming the Crisis in Curriculum Theory"

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Lundgren, Ulf P.

2015-01-01

Michael Young's article "Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory: a knowledge-based approach" ("JCS, 45", 2) is discussed from the starting point that the claimed crisis is constructed from a decisive solution, that is the solution determines what is a crisis. But curriculum research and curriculum theory are in need of…

What I Think I May Have Learned--Reflections on 50 Years of Teaching: An Interview with Michael Wertheimer

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Michael, Kurt D.

2006-01-01

Kurt Michael is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Appalachian State University (ASU) where he teaches history and systems of psychology, abnormal psychology, child psychopathology, and interventions for children and adolescents. He received his BA (cum laude) from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MS and PhD in…

Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement

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2007-01-01

participating via videoconference from the UN in New York) Questions: Michael Hirsh (senior editor, Newsweek) David Ignatius (national security columnist , The...national security columnist , The Washington Post) HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT VIEWS IRAN R. Nicholas Burns The foundations of national security policy are...Michael Hirsh Senior Editor Newsweek David Ignatius National Security Columnist The Washington Post 2:15 P.M. -- Panel 3: What to Do

Expedition 18 Door Signing

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2008-10-11

Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke signs the door of a hotel room at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing for the launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., left, talks with Michael Griffin as Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tx., and Griffin's wife Rebecca look on prior to his testimony, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. If confirmed, Griffin, who currently heads the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will become NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Counterinsurgency in West Africa: Non Lethal Activities

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2009-06-01

Michael S. Lewis Beck, Alan Bryman , Tim Futing Liao, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods , SAGE, 2004, California, USA.p.894. 11...Publishing, 1966. Michael S. Lewis Beck, Alan Bryman , Tim Futing Liao, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods , SAGE, 2004...conduct the research . Research Design The methodology that will be used in this thesis is a qualitative method using case studies. Qualitative research

Binaural Processing of Multiple Sound Sources

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2016-08-18

Sound Source Localization Identification, and Sound Source Localization When Listeners Move. The CI research was also supported by an NIH grant...8217Cochlear Implant Performance in Realistic Listening Environments,’ Dr. Michael Dorman, Principal Investigator, Dr. William Yost unpaid advisor. The other... Listeners Move. The CI research was also supported by an NIH grant (“Cochlear Implant Performance in Realistic Listening Environments,” Dr. Michael Dorman

A new fossil soldier beetle (Coleoptera, Cantharidae, Silinae) from Eocene Baltic amber.

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Fanti, Fabrizio; Pankowski, Michael J

2018-01-09

A new genus and species of fossil soldier beetle Markus karenae gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Eocene Baltic amber. Its morphological characteristics place it in the taxonomic position of the subfamily Silinae. It is characterized by a particular lateral pronotal shape with two difform processes, pronotum slightly longer than wide, with a blunt and evident angle near the basal angles, anterior and posterior margins flat and with shallow punctation, and lateral margin strongly granulose and in relief. Furthermore, each of its legs has a claw with one acute tooth at the base, except for the posterior legs where the tooth appears to be blunt. The new taxon is morphologically compared with the other fossil representatives of Silinae from Baltic amber, and with extant Palearctic genera.

Essentializing the binary self: individualism and collectivism in cultural neuroscience

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Martínez Mateo, M.; Cabanis, M.; Stenmanns, J.; Krach, S.

2013-01-01

Within the emerging field of cultural neuroscience (CN) one branch of research focuses on the neural underpinnings of “individualistic/Western” vs. “collectivistic/Eastern” self-views. These studies uncritically adopt essentialist assumptions from classic cross-cultural research, mainly following the tradition of Markus and Kitayama (1991), into the domain of functional neuroimaging. In this perspective article we analyze recent publications and conference proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2012) and problematize the essentialist and simplistic understanding of “culture” in these studies. Further, we argue against the binary structure of the drawn “cultural” comparisons and their underlying Eurocentrism. Finally we scrutinize whether valuations within the constructed binarities bear the risk of constructing and reproducing a postcolonial, orientalist argumentation pattern. PMID:23801954

Sacred Values, Strategic Communication, and Military Operations in Afghanistan

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2010-02-17

remembrance afterward is nothing less than a people‟s mass. War is the liturgy of identity.” Michael Vlahos 20 Combatant commanders (COCOMs) require...development. Identify Formation: Michael Vlahos ―…maintains that the process of globalization ushered into human consciousness a crisis of human change...provide contexts for the clash of political will. Conflict provides stories, symbols, and rituals that create narratives and form identity. Vlahos

Dome: Distributed Object Migration Environment

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1994-05-01

Best Available Copy AD-A281 134 Computer Science Dome: Distributed object migration environment Adam Beguelin Erik Seligman Michael Starkey May 1994...Beguelin Erik Seligman Michael Starkey May 1994 CMU-CS-94-153 School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstract Dome... Linda [4], Isis [2], and Express [6] allow a pro- grammer to treat a heterogeneous network of computers as a parallel machine. These tools allow the

Design and Control of a Closed-Loop Brushless Torque Activator

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1990-05-01

AD-A270 760 Technical Report 1244 Design and Control of a Closed-Loop Brushless Torque Activator Michael Dean Levi MIT Artificial Intelligence... Brushless N00014-86-K-0685 Torque Actuator 6. AUTHOR(S) Michael Dean Levin 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADORESS(ES) B. PERFORMING...200 words) This’report explores the design and control issues associated with a brushless actuator capable of achieving extremely high torque

Using Crowdsourced Geospatial Data to Aid in Nuclear Proliferation Monitoring

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2016-12-01

M. Stephens, and Ronald D. Bonnell, “DAI for Document Retrieval: The MINDS Project,” in Distributed Artificial Intelligence , ed. Michael N. Huhns...Ronald D. Bonnell. “DAI for Document Retrieval: The MINDS Project,” In Distributed Artificial Intelligence , edited by Michael N. Huhns, 249–283...was for the director of National Intelligence to explore ways that crowdsourced geospatial imagery technologies could aid existing governmental

MX Hierarchical Networking System.

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1982-02-01

criteria considered in this report are defined as follows: 1. Single Network Limitation. Will the scheme allow the maximum size network anticipated to be...AD-AI16 758 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL F/G 5/2 MX HIERARCHICAL NETWORKING SYSTEM.(U) FEB 82 M O-CONNOR, L M SOLISH, L...laboratory__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MX HIERARCHICAL NETWORKING SYSTEM by Michael O’Connor L. Michael Golish Lee Boyer IsI Approved for public

Quantitative Methods for Long-Range Environmental Forecasting. Long-Wave European Projections. Volume 2. Technical Volume

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1974-03-01

approaches to specific problems within the foreign affairs community ( e . g. , within DoD). The lag resulted from a variety of factors, in...ICATIOH / Prepared by: Herman M. Weil Airon Greenberg Larry German Douglas Hartwick Michael R. Leavitt Sponsored by: Defense Advanced...I Dr. G. Robert Franco, Project Director Dr. Herman M. Weil Mr. Aaron Greenberg Mr. Larry German Mr. Douglas Hartwick Dr. Michael

Message in a Battle: An Analysis of Presidential Communication Since 9/11

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2013-03-01

Rumsfeld as quoted in Michael Jacobson, “ Learning Counter-Narrative Lessons from Cases of Terrorist Dropouts,” Countering Violent Extremist Narratives...October 29. 2012, http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/improving-us-public-diplomacy-campaign-war-against-terrorism/p4215. 21 Michael Jacobson, “ Learning Counter...States Government as potential new perspectives are introduced through which lessons can be learned regarding the construction and expression of a

Using Our Voices, Losing Our Bodies: Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and the Spirit Murders of Black Male Professors in the Academy

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Johnson, Lamar; Bryan, Nathaniel

2017-01-01

The recent deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and other Black males have generated new civil rights urgencies in Black communities and spirited academic discourses in higher education regarding the educational and social plight of Black males in America. Connecting the deaths of Black males to our lived experiences in the academy, we use a…

Risk of Using Past to Predict Future: A Case Study of Jamming RCIEDs

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2009-06-01

Herrera THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this...Approved by: Kyle Y. Lin Thesis Advisor Michael A. Herrera Second Reader Robert F. Dell Chairman, Department of Operations...and continue forward. Thank you, CDR Michael Herrera , for your constant positive support and never allowing for me to lose sight of the goal. Dr

Organocatalytic Enantioselective Michael/Cyclization Domino Reaction between 3-Amideoxindoles and α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes: One-Pot Preparation of Chiral Spirocyclic Oxindole-γ-lactams.

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Yang, Peng; Wang, Xiao; Chen, Feng; Zhang, Zheng-Bing; Chen, Chao; Peng, Lin; Wang, Li-Xin

2017-04-07

The first organocatalytic enantioselective Michael/cyclization domino reaction between 3-amideoxindoles and α,β-unsaturated aldehydes is described. After sequential oxidation with pyridinium chlorochromate, a direct and one-pot preparation of highly sterically hindered spirocyclic oxindole-γ-lactams was achieved in 51-81% yields with 75-97% ee and ≤80/20 dr.

Time for a Change? Composite Field Artillery Battalions

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2014-06-13

Michael F. Morris , uses the battle as a case study on future employment of Marine Forces. Significantly, Major Morris ’ analysis reveals the importance...that the South African artillery played in the fighting. Calling it, “the star of the campaign.”6 Major Morris also believes that the Marine Corps...Force 1991-2005 relates the history behind the modular brigade. In “The 6Michael F. Morris

A Philosophy of Jewish Education in Question Marks: A Possible Reading of Michael Rosenak's Last Speech

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Rosenak, Avinoam

2014-01-01

Writing this article presents me with an opportunity to look closely at the last speech that my father and mentor, Professor Michael (Mike) Rosenak z"l gave before his passing in 2013. I will write about this speech from a perspective that is based on my intimate familiarity with the questions that concerned him throughout his life. I will…

ARC-2008-ACD08-0186-005

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2008-07-30

NASA Ames Robotics Academy Interns at the Lunar Science Institute (LSI) building 17 Interns: David Black, Michael Zwach, Guy Chriqui, Mark Mordarski Jr., Katy Levinson, Daniela Buchman, Scott Strutner, Patrick Crownover, Neil Bhateja, Michael Buchman, John Mueller, Michelle Grau, Ben Silver, Jacques Dolan, Alex Golec Windell Jones, Colin Wilson, Joe DeBlasio, Nick Hayes, Jordan Olive, William Shaw, Ames Education Dept., Mark Leon, Ames Robotics, Josh Weiner, jack Biesiadecki, Andrew Pilloud

Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria changes out film in camera

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1995-11-05

STS073-335-009 (20 October-5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, STS-73 mission specialist, changes the film in a 35mm camera on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. Alegria joined four other NASA astronauts and two guest researchers for almost 16-days of Earth-orbit research in support of the U.S. Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) mission.

Forty Years of "Pastoral Care": An Appraisal of Michael Marland's Seminal Book and Its Significance for Pastoral Care in Schools

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Best, Ron

2014-01-01

Michael Marland's seminal book: "Pastoral Care" was published 40 years ago this year. The thesis of the book--that pastoral care is the central task of the school, and must be planned and institutionalized through pastoral roles and structures--is explored against the background of the social, cultural and educational developments…

An Integral Part of the Frederick Community—Michael Dean | Poster

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For more than 30 years, Michael Dean, Ph.D., has been an integral part of the NCI at Frederick community. In addition to studying several different aspects of genomics and cancer research, he has worked with the Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern Program and also volunteered his time with Mission of Mercy, a community-based organization providing free healthcare and free prescription medications to the uninsured and under-insured.

Highlighting High Performance: Michael E. Capuano Early Childhood Center; Somerville, Massachusetts

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2006-03-01

This brochure describes the key high-performance building features of the Michael E. Capuano Early Childhood Center. The brochure was paid for by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative as part of their Green Schools Initiative. High-performance features described are daylighting and energy-efficient lighting, indoor air quality, solar and wind energy, building envelope, heating and cooling systems, water conservation, and acoustics. Energy cost savings are also discussed.

Trading Freshness for Performance in Distributed Systems

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2014-12-01

Systems (IOPADS ’99), May 1999. 3.6 Charles Babcock. Data, data, everywhere. Information Week, January 2006. 3.2 Peter Bailis, Shivaram Venkataraman ... Venkataraman , Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Ion Stoica. Pbs at work: Advancing data management with consistency metrics. In Proceedings of...5. doi: 10.1145/2463676.2465260. URL http://doi.acm.org/10. 1145/2463676.2465260. 2.4 Peter Bailis, Shivaram Venkataraman , Michael J. Franklin, Joseph

Review Article: Yamada, Jeni "Laura: A Case for the Modularity of Language"; Tomasello, Michael "First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development."

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Shatz, Marilyn

1994-01-01

Jeni Yamada's "Laura" and Michael Tomasello's "First Verbs" continue a tradition of providing useful information on the language ability of individuals in a depth rarely found in multisubject studies; however, these efforts are unusual for case studies in that both take strong theoretical positions on the essence of language and language learning.…

The Future of Professional Development Will Be Designed, Not Discovered: Response to Moon, Passmore, Reiser, and Michaels, "Beyond Comparisons of Online versus Face-to-Face PD"

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Fishman, Barry; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Kubitskey, Beth W.; Vath, Richard; Park, Gina; Johnson, Heather; Edelson, Daniel

2014-01-01

This article represents a response to the authors' "Journal of Teacher Education" ("JTE") article (Fishman et al., 2013) by Moon, Passmore, Reiser, and Michaels (2013). The authors believe that Moon et al. have properly identified both the value in their study and the importance of moving beyond not only their study, but…

Michael Francis Madelin (1931--2007): a pioneer in the biology and ecology of conidial fungi and slime moulds.

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Campbell, Richard

2008-12-01

Michael F Madelin (1931--2007) was Programme Secretary, Vice-President, and President of the British Mycological Society. A summary of his research on Coprinopsis, various conidial fungi, Coelomomyces and myxomycetes is presented, with a full list of his publications. His teaching career was initially at Imperial College, University of London, and then mostly at the University of Bristol.

Adaptive Filter Techniques for Optical Beam Jitter Control and Target Tracking

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2008-12-01

OPTICAL BEAM JITTER CONTROL AND TARGET TRACKING Michael J. Beerer Civilian, United States Air Force B.S., University of California Irvine, 2006...TECHNIQUES FOR OPTICAL BEAM JITTER CONTROL AND TARGET TRACKING by Michael J. Beerer December 2008 Thesis Advisor: Brij N. Agrawal Co...DATE December 2008 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED Master’s Thesis 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Adaptive Filter Techniques for Optical Beam Jitter

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, left, speaks as U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, looks on during the confirmation hearing for Dr. Michael Griffin, in front of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, in Washington. If confirmed, Griffin, who currently heads the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will become NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

"Integration was a Solution to Segregation, but Integration does not Address Quality Education": A Conversation about School Desegregation with Dr. Michael A. Middleton

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Diem, Sarah; Brooks, Jeffrey

2013-01-01

We conclude this special issue reflecting back on the history of desegregation and questioning how we move forward in trying to achieve racially integrated school settings. The epilogue includes a conversation with Dr. Michael A. Middleton, Deputy Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Middleton is an expert in civil rights and…

A Skeletal, Gas Phase, Finite Rate, Chemical Kinetics Mechanism for Modeling the Deflagration of Ammonium Perchlorate - Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene Composite Propellants

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2016-04-01

the Deflagration of Ammonium Perchlorate— Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene Composite Propellants by Chiung-Chu Chen and Michael McQuaid...for Modeling the Deflagration of Ammonium Perchlorate— Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene Composite Propellants by Chiung-Chu Chen and Michael...Ammonium Perchlorate—Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene Composite Propellants 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6

N719 dye-sensitized organophotocatalysis: enantioselective tandem Michael addition/oxyamination of aldehydes.

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Yoon, Hyo-Sang; Ho, Xuan-Huong; Jang, Jiyeon; Lee, Hwa-Jung; Kim, Seung-Joo; Jang, Hye-Young

2012-07-06

A remarkably efficient photosensitizer, N719 dye, was used in asymmetric tandem Michael addition/oxyamination of aldehydes, rendering α,β-substituted aldehydes in good yields with excellent levels of enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity. This is the first report of a multiorganocatalytic reaction involving iminium catalysis and photoinduced singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) catalysis. This reaction is expected to expand the scope of tandem organocatalytic reactions.

Immune Cells, if Rendered Insensitive to Transforming Growth Factorbeta, Can Cure Prostate Cancer

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2007-02-01

Robert E. Meyer,2 Shilajit Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2 Borko Javonovic,3 Timothy Kuzel,4 Seong-Jin Kim,5 Luk Van Parijs,6 Norm Smith,1 Larry Wong,1 Norman M...Zhang,1 Ximing Yang,2,5 Shilajit D. Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2,5 Borko Javonovic,3,5 Robert Meryer,2 Seong-Jin Kim,7 Norman M. Greenberg,8 Timothy Kuzel

Treatment of Laser Induced Retinal Injuries

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1985-01-01

AD TREATMENT OF LASER INDUCED RETINAL INJURIES cANNUAL/FINAL REPORT MICHAEL BELKIN INAVA NAVEH JANUARY 1985 Supported by U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH...CF ,I446 11. TITLE (Include Security Classification) (U) Treatment of Laser Induced Retinal Injuries 12. PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) Michael Belkin 13a. TYPE...ciliary body as seen in uveitis , is associated by elevation of aqueous humor protein levels. Therefore, protein was used by some investigators as an

Development of New Generation of Multibody System Computer Codes

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2012-11-02

Illinois at Chicago, 842 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607 Paramsothy Jayakumar Michael D. Letherwood U.S. Army RDECOM-TARDEC, 6501 E. 11 Mile...NUMBER W56HZV-13-C-0032 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Ahmed Shabana; Paramsothy Jayakumar ; Michael Letherwood 5d...public release. UNCLASSIFIED: Distribution Statement A. Approved for public release. REFERENCES 1. Contreras, U., Jayakumar , P., Letherwood, M

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., testifies before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee during the confirmation hearing of Dr. Michael Griffin, rear center, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. Griffin currently heads the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. If confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, Dr. Griffin would be NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-11

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., testifies before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee during the confirmation hearing of Dr. Michael Griffin, rear center, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. Griffin currently heads the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. If confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, Dr. Griffin would be NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Michael Griffin Senate Confirmation Hearing

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2005-04-12

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., testifies before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee during the confirmation hearing of Dr. Michael Griffin, right background, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. Griffin currently heads the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. If confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, Dr. Griffin would be NASA's 11th administrator. Photo Credit: (NASA/Renee Bouchard)

Generation of Tutorial Dialogues: Discourse Strategies for Active Learning

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1998-05-29

AND SUBTITLE Generation of Tutorial Dialogues: Discourse Strategies for active Learning AUTHORS Dr. Martha Evens 7. PERFORMING ORGANI2ATION NAME...time the student starts in on a new topic. Michael and Rovick constantly attempt to promote active learning . They regularly use hints and only resort...Controlling active learning : How tutors decide when to generate hints. Proceedings of FLAIRS 󈨣. Melbourne Beach, FL. 157-161. Hume, G., Michael

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC management and other employees gather in the Center’s television studio to watch the address by President George W. Bush at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., stating his goals for NASA’s new mission: Completing the International Space Station, retiring the Space Shuttle orbiters, developing a new crew exploration vehicle, and returning to the moon and beyond within the next two decades. Pres. Bush was welcomed by NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe and Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, who greeted him from the International Space Station. Members of the Washington, D.C., audience included astronauts Eileen Collins, Ed Lu and Michael Lopez-Alegria, and former astronaut Gene Cernan.

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2004-01-14

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC management and other employees gather in the Center’s television studio to watch the address by President George W. Bush at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., stating his goals for NASA’s new mission: Completing the International Space Station, retiring the Space Shuttle orbiters, developing a new crew exploration vehicle, and returning to the moon and beyond within the next two decades. Pres. Bush was welcomed by NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe and Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, who greeted him from the International Space Station. Members of the Washington, D.C., audience included astronauts Eileen Collins, Ed Lu and Michael Lopez-Alegria, and former astronaut Gene Cernan.

The Impact of Socio-Cultural Differences on Educational Values: A Comparison of the Pedagogy of Michael Oakeshott and John McGahern

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Williams, Kevin

2017-01-01

The year 2016 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of John McGahern (born 1934), the widely acclaimed Irish author. There is a shared temper of mind and several common strands in the work of McGahern and that of the English philosopher, Michael Oakeshott (1900-1990). Despite the very different cultural environments in which they grew up and…

Computer-Based Instruction Authoring Tools System (CATS): Lesson Maintenance

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1990-07-01

Tols-System ( CATS ): Lesson Maintenance Vol N. Hutton Michael R. Flaningam Barbara Tarker Ann Rybowlak Susan Sulzbach Mark Lyon Brian Thomason DTC"",~1...Authoring Tools &ystem ( CATS ): Lesson Maintenance Vel N. Hulton Michael R. Flaningam Barbara Tarker Ann Rybowiak Navy Personnel Research and...lools •ystem ( CATS ): Program Element 0604722A Lesson Maintenance 6. AUTHOR(S) V. N. Huhoa, N. R. Fl1ingam. B. Tarktr, A. Rybowiak. S. Sulzbach. M

Using Heart Rate to Predict Resilience and Susceptibility to PTSD in Soldiers

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2011-04-01

Predict Resilience and Susceptibility to PTSD in Soldiers Authors Brian Chung Jonathan Lanier Lolita M. Burrell Michael D. Matthews...AUTHOR(S) Brian Chung; Jonathan Lanier; Lolita Burrell; Michael Matthews 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING...members of the control group were matched with one of the trauma or PTSD victims based on age and sex and both individuals were shown the same

2016 Summer Series - Michael Flynn - Synthetic Biological Membrane

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2016-08-02

Full understanding leads to creation capability, which results in customization capacity. Synthetic biology uses our knowledge of biology to engineer novel biological devices or organisms that can perform tasks not found in nature. For Human space exploration, synthetic biology approaches will reduce risk, mass carried and increase Human reach. Michael Flynn will discuss the International Space Station (ISS) water recycling and his current work on developing a water filtration system capable of self-repair.

Structure of adducts of isoindolo[2,1-a]benzimidazole derivatives with maleimides

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Korolev, Oleksandr; Yegorova, Tatyana; Levkov, Igor; Malytskyy, Volodymyr; Shishkin, Oleg; Zubatyuk, Roman; Palamarchuk, Genadiy; Vedrenne, Marc; Baltas, Michel; Voitenko, Zoia

2015-03-01

The selectivity of formation and some mechanistic insights during the synthesis of substituted isoindolo[2,1-a]benzimidazoles are discussed. Furthermore, the reactions of the obtained products with maleimides were carried out. Two types rearrangement adducts together with intermediate Michael type adducts were isolated. The influence of the reaction conditions and reagents ratio is discussed. Specific spectral criteria for the identification of the Michael type adducts are indicated.

Basic-functionalized recyclable ionic liquid catalyst: A solvent-free approach for Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to nitroalkenes under ultrasound irradiation.

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Narayanaperumal, Senthil; da Silva, Rodrigo César; Feu, Karla Santos; de la Torre, Alexander Fernández; Corrêa, Arlene G; Paixão, Márcio Weber

2013-05-01

A task-specific ionic liquid (TSIL) has been introduced as a recyclable catalyst in Michael addition. A series of nitroalkenes and various C-based nucleophiles were reacted in the presence of 30mol% of recyclable basic-functionalized ionic liquid. Good to excellent yields were obtained in 30min under ultrasound irradiation. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Controlling Cocaine. Supply Versus Demand Programs

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1994-01-01

System Description of the Cocaine Trade, MR-236-A/AF/DPRC, Santa Monica, CA. RAND. * Kennedy, Michael, Peter Reuter, and Kevin Jack Riley (1994), A Simple...Peter Reuter, and Kevin Riley, and reviews by Richard Harwood, James Hodges, and Michael Kennedy deepened and improved this analysis. Helpful...relative to rean-ltaonprice Priefti 1.000 Actual heavy- waer treatment cost ($ mn~lons) TreatCost 9M.0 Total control budget ($ naions) Sofludgat.TrSdgate’o

Demonstration of Laser-Induced Fluorescence on Krypton Hall Effect Thruster

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2011-08-10

5b. GRANT NUMBER Thruster 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) William A. Hargus Jr., Gregory X. Azarnia, and Michael R. Nakles 5d. PROJECT... William A. Hargus, Jr. a. REPORT Unclassified b. ABSTRACT Unclassified c. THIS PAGE Unclassified SAR 13 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (include...Thruster William A. Hargus, Jr.∗ Gregory M. Azarnia† Michael R. Nakles‡ Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524 There is growing

Deals Among Rational Agents,

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1985-03-01

ARD-AI57 966 DEALS AMONG RATIONAL AGENTS(U) STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF 1/1lit COMPUTER SCIENCE J S ROSENSCHEIN ET AL. MAR 857 STAN-CS-85-1e42 NOO039-83... Rational Agents by Jeffrey S. Rosenschemn Michael R. Genesereth Contract N00039-83-c-0136 Department of Computer Science Stanford University Stanford, CA... Rational Agents Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Michael R. Genesereth COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTME NT Stanford University Sta-;!ord, California 94305 A ~ ,2 TA

Computational Characterization of Electromagnetic Field Propagation in Complex Structures

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1998-04-10

34Computational characterization of electromagnetic field propagation in complex structures", DAAH01-91-D-ROOS D.O. 59. Dr. Michael Scalora performed the...Development, and Engineering Center, Bldg. 7804, Room 242 Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898-5248 USA Dr. Michael Scalora Quantum Optics Group Tel:(205...scheduled to appear. They are: (1) M. Scalora , J.P. Dowling, A.S. Manka, CM. Bowden, and J.W. Haus, Pulse Propagation Near Highly Reflective

The Role of Data and Feedback Error in Inference and Prediction

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1998-06-01

O’Connor Bowling Green State University Research and Advanced Concepts Office Michael Drillings, Chief This Document Contains Missing Page/s...Bowling Green State University Technical Review by Michael Drillings, ARI NOTICES DISTRIBUTION: This Research Note has been cleared for release to...0601102A 2O161102B74F TA 1012 WU C06 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Bowling Green State University , 120 Mcfall Center, Research

Surface Layer Processes And Nocturnal Low Level Jet Development--An Observational Study During Pecan

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2016-12-01

PROCESSES AND NOCTURNAL LOW-LEVEL JET DEVELOPMENT—AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY DURING PECAN by Michael K. Beall December 2016 Thesis Advisor... OBSERVATIONAL STUDY DURING PECAN 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 6. AUTHOR(S) Michael K. Beall 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Naval Postgraduate... research project and collected high-resolution stable boundary layer data as it evolved through the night. The objective of this study was to use this

What We Know about Adolescents' Out-of-School Literacies, What We Need to Learn, and Why Studying Them Is Important: An Interview with Michael W. Smith

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Smith, Michael W.; Moore, David W.

2012-01-01

Michael W. Smith, a professor in Temple University's College of Education, focuses his research on how experienced readers read and talk about texts as well as what motivates adolescents' reading and writing in and out of school. He sees the recent research on adolescents' out-of-school literacies as a challenge to literacy educators to look at…

Adam's Rage: Children of the Pinelands Speak: The Michael L. Printz Award Winning Novels: Authentic Current Literature as a Catalyst for Increased Student Growth, Motivation and Healing

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Cecchini, Stephanie Anne

2012-01-01

Young adults deserve our best as parents, educators and community members. The Michael L. Printz award winning books, instituted by the Young Adult Library Association, form a recent grouping of current literature. Novels worthy of the Printz Award explore physical, emotional, and social themes important in the lives of young adults. This library…

An Investigation of Wing Lift Augmentation with Spanwise Tip Blowing.

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1987-04-22

ON8 Michael R. Mendenhall Steven C. CarusoS Co) D Daniel J. Lesieutre Nielsen Engineering & Research, Inc. 510 Clyde Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043...Augmentation with Spanwise Tip Blowing 12. PERSONALAUTHOR(S) Michael R. Mendenhall, Steven C. Caruso, Daniel J. Lesieutre, and Robert E. Childs 13a. TYPE OF...hardware and associated electronics for the flowfield survey 99 traverse rig mechanism. Mrs. Susana N. Nazario contributed tne software necessary for the

Prediction of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Cruciform Missiles Including Effects of Roll Angle and Control Deflection

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1986-08-01

CHARACTERISTICS OF CRU.CIFORM MISSILES INCLUDING EFFECTS OF ROLL ANGLE AND CONTROL DEFLECTION N by Daniel J. Lesieutre Michael R. Mendenhall Susana M. Nazario...ANGLE AND CONTROL DEFLECTION Daniel J. Lesieutre Michael R. Mendenhal. Susana M. Nazario Nielsen Engineering & Research, Inc.00 Mountain View, CA 94043...Lo PREDICTION OF THE AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CRU.CIFORM MISSILES - INCLUDING EFFECTS OF ROLL ANGLE AND CONTROL DEFLECTION by Daniel J

Acquisition Review Quarterly (ARQ): Volume 10, Number 3, Summer 2003

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2003-01-01

PROJECT NUMBER Lt Col Robert L. Waller, USAF, (Ret), Robert Graham, Maj David R. King, USAF, Lt Col John D. Driessnack, USAF, LTC Michael D. Proctor...High-Technology Industries Implications for Industrial Policy Maj David R. King, USAF Lt Col John D. Driessnack, USAF Why the "T" in SMART A...Business School William H . Reed Director Michael Wynne Defense Contract Audit Agency Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and

The Sound of Freedom. Naval Weapons Technology at Dahlgren, Virginia, 1918-2006

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2006-01-01

the TRINITY device, before later succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Other former Dahlgren...and the Computer (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999); Michael R. Williams, A History of Computing Technology, 2nd ed. ( Los Alamos , Calif.: IEEE...Minutes of Advisory Council. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid.; Michael R. Williams, A History of Computing Technology, 2nd ed. ( Los Alamos , Calif.: IEEE Computer

CHMWTR: A Plasma Chemistry Code for Water Vapor

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2012-02-01

Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC 20375-5320 NRL/MR/6790--12-9383 CHMWTR: A Plasma Chemistry Code for Water Vapor Daniel F. GorDon Michael...NUMBER OF PAGES 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT CHMWTR: A Plasma Chemistry Code for Water Vapor Daniel F. Gordon, Michael H. Helle, Theodore G. Jones, and K...October 2011 NRL *Directed Energy Scholar, Directed Energy Professional Society Plasma chemistry Breakdown field Conductivity 67-4270-02 CHMWTR: a Plasma

Privatized Military Operations. Industry Study, Spring 2009

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2009-01-01

to the nation. Ms. Kathy Aydt, Dept of Army GPCAPT Rob Barnes, Royal Australian Air Force COL Michael Bird, US Army CAPT Bruce Breth, US Navy ...Force CDR Ron Foy, US Navy COL Michael Hoskin, US Army Col Doug McCarthy, Canadian Forces Lt Col William Murphey, US Air Force COL Broc Perkuchin...Wellington, New Zealand Royal New Zealand Navy Logistics, Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zealand VT Fitzroy, Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New

Improving the Cybersecurity of U.S. Air Force Military Systems Throughout Their Life Cycles

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2015-01-01

James D. Powers, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Bernard Fox, Lauren Kendrick, Michael H. Powell Report Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704...Rational, Natural, and Open Systems, 3rd ed., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1992. 61 Snyder, Don, Bernard Fox, Kristin F. Lynch, Raymond E...Conley, John A. Ausink, Laura Werber , William Shelton, Sarah A. Nowak, Michael R. Thirtle, and Albert A. Robbert, Assessment of the Air Force

Assessment of the Air Force Materiel Command Reorganization: Report for Congress

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2013-01-01

Report for Congress Don Snyder, Bernard Fox, Kristin F. Lynch, Raymond E. Conley, John A. Ausink, Laura Werber , William Shelton, Sarah A. Nowak, Michael... Bernard Fox, Kristin F. Lynch, Raymond E. Conley, John A. Ausink, Laura Werber , William Shelton, Sarah A. Nowak, Michael R. Thirtle, Albert A. Robbert...Ausink, Chelsea Kaihoi Duran, Robert G. DeFeo, David W. George, Raymond E. Conley, Bernard Fox, and Jerry M. Sollinger, Air Force Materiel Command

Preparation for a Clinical Trial Using Adoptive Transfer of Tumor-Reactive TGF_Beta-Insensitive CD8+ T Cells for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

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2006-07-01

TumorCells Qiang Zhang,1 Thomas L. Jang,1 Ximing Yang,2 Irwin Park,1 Robert E. Meyer,2 Shilajit Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2 Borko Javonovic,3 Timothy Kuzel,4...reactive CD8+ T cells activates the antitumor immune response cycle Qiang Zhang,1 Ximing Yang,2,5 Shilajit D. Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2,5 Borko Javonovic

STS-69 MS Michael L. Gernhardt greets his mother at SLF

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1995-01-01

STS-69 Mission Specialist Michael L. Gernhardt (right) gets a chance to say hi to his mother, Suzanne Winters, and her husband Doug, after the STS-69 flight crew arrived at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. The five astronauts assigned to the mission are looking forward to a liftoff aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during a two and a half hour window opening at 11:09 a.m. EDT, Sept. 7.

Chain Dynamic Formulations for Multibody System Tracked Vehicles

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2012-08-01

CONTRACT NUMBER W911NF-07-D-0001 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Paramsothy Jayakumar ; Michael Letherwood; Michael Wallin...Hamed, M. A., Shabana, A. A., Jayakumar , P., and Letherwood, M. D., 2011, “Nonstructural geometric discontinuities in finite element/multibody system... Jayakumar , P., and Letherwood, M. D. 2012, “Use of B- Spline in the Finite Element Analysis: Comparison with ANCF Geometry,” Journal of Computational and

Retracted manuscript

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Klockars, Anica

2013-01-01

The following article from Small GTPases, “Scientific Yellow Journalism” by Anica Klockars and Michael J. Williams, published online on 20 September 2012  (doi: 10.4161/sgtp.22289; http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/smallgtpases/article/22289/) by Landes Bioscience and subsequently published in print in Small GTPases 2012 3(4):201 has been retracted by agreement between the authors and the journal’s Editor in Chief, Michael J. Williams (also an author of the paper).  PMID:23485921

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the LAV Mobility and Obsolescence Program by Using U.S. Army Stryker Suspensions

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2015-06-01

OBSOLESCENCE PROGRAM BY USING U.S. ARMY STRYKER SUSPENSIONS June 2015 By: Chad D. Harmon and Michael Z. Keathley Advisors: Amilcar Menichini...THE LAV MOBILITY AND OBSOLESCENCE PROGRAM BY USING U.S. ARMY STRYKER SUSPENSIONS 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 6. AUTHOR(S) Chad D. Harmon and Michael Z...bolster their light armored reconnaissance battalions. 14. SUBJECT TERMS Cost benefit analysis, mobility and obsolescence , LAV

Michael K. Scullin: Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.

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2011-11-01

Presents Michael K. Scullin as the 2011 winner of the American Psychological Association Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award. "For an outstanding research paper that examines the relationship between prospective memory in executing a goal and various lapses of time from 20 minutes up to a 12- hour wake delay and a 12-hour sleep delay. The results suggest that consolidation processes active during sleep increase the probability of goal execution. The paper, titled 'Remembering to Execute a Goal: Sleep On It!' was published in Psychological Science in 2010 and was the basis for Michael K. Scullin's selection as the recipient of the 2011 Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award. Mark A. McDaniel, PhD, served as faculty research advisor." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). 2011 APA, all rights reserved

[An exceptional human relationship (Michael P. Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard)].

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Jacobs, R

1978-01-01

There were a father and a son, Michael and Sören Kierkegaard, both highly talented, imaginitive, witty, humorous, especially interested in shrewd dialectrical dialogues respectively debates, both profound melancholy ponderers. But according to very own individuality their congeniality wasn't absolute. The father, being under a questionable rigorous opinion of sin, suffered from undeserved divine grace since early childhood. And Michael Kierkegaard made Sören anxious with the religious experience of original sin. This anxiety moved (touched or affected) the sensitive son mighty. Nevertheless he should not despair hopelessly like his unlucky father. On the contrary: Sørens incomparable melancholy, mental agony and anxiety (fear or anguish) forced the faith, existing independently of them, in a radical refining. That is why Sören Kierkegaard succeeded in sublimation of all psychological and philosophic (al) attitudes (or opinions) in the sphere of religiousness. And the result? A novel philosophy of life: Christian existentialism.

Superelastic and pH-Responsive Degradable Dendrimer Cryogels Prepared by Cryo-aza-Michael Addition Reaction.

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Wang, Juan; Yang, Hu

2018-05-08

Dendrimers exhibit super atomistic features by virtue of their well-defined discrete quantized nanoscale structures. Here, we show that hyperbranched amine-terminated polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer G4.0 reacts with linear polyethylene glycol (PEG) diacrylate (575 g/mol) via the aza-Michael addition reaction at a subzero temperature (-20 °C), namely cryo-aza-Michael addition, to form a macroporous superelastic network, i.e., dendrimer cryogel. Dendrimer cryogels exhibit biologically relevant Young's modulus, high compression elasticity and super resilience at ambient temperature. Furthermore, the dendrimer cryogels exhibit excellent rebound performance and do not show significant stress relaxation under cyclic deformation over a wide temperature range (-80 to 100 °C). The obtained dendrimer cryogels are stable at acidic pH but degrade quickly at physiological pH through self-triggered degradation. Taken together, dendrimer cryogels represent a new class of scaffolds with properties suitable for biomedical applications.

Ion recombination correction in carbon ion beams.

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Rossomme, S; Hopfgartner, J; Lee, N D; Delor, A; Thomas, R A S; Romano, F; Fukumura, A; Vynckier, S; Palmans, H

2016-07-01

In this work, ion recombination is studied as a function of energy and depth in carbon ion beams. Measurements were performed in three different passively scattered carbon ion beams with energies of 62 MeV/n, 135 MeV/n, and 290 MeV/n using various types of plane-parallel ionization chambers. Experimental results were compared with two analytical models for initial recombination. One model is generally used for photon beams and the other model, developed by Jaffé, takes into account the ionization density along the ion track. An investigation was carried out to ascertain the effect on the ion recombination correction with varying ionization chamber orientation with respect to the direction of the ion tracks. The variation of the ion recombination correction factors as a function of depth was studied for a Markus ionization chamber in the 62 MeV/n nonmodulated carbon ion beam. This variation can be related to the depth distribution of linear energy transfer. Results show that the theory for photon beams is not applicable to carbon ion beams. On the other hand, by optimizing the value of the ionization density and the initial mean-square radius, good agreement is found between Jaffé's theory and the experimental results. As predicted by Jaffé's theory, the results confirm that ion recombination corrections strongly decrease with an increasing angle between the ion tracks and the electric field lines. For the Markus ionization chamber, the variation of the ion recombination correction factor with depth was modeled adequately by a sigmoid function, which is approximately constant in the plateau and strongly increasing in the Bragg peak region to values of up to 1.06. Except in the distal edge region, all experimental results are accurately described by Jaffé's theory. Experimental results confirm that ion recombination in the investigated carbon ion beams is dominated by initial recombination. Ion recombination corrections are found to be significant and cannot be neglected for reference dosimetry and for the determination of depth dose curves in carbon ion beams.

SU-E-T-665: Radiochromic Film Quenching Effect Reduction for Proton Beam Dosimetry

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Aldelaijan, S; Alzorkany, F; Moftah, B

2015-06-15

Purpose: Depending on the useful dose range in which radiochromic films operate, number of different radiochromic film models have been designed. The impact of different film models on quenching effect for percent depth dose (PDD) measurements in proton beams has been investigated. Methods: Calibrated PTW Markus ionization chamber was used to measure PDD and beam output for 26.5 MeV protons produced by CS30 cyclotron. An aluminum cylinder was added in front of the beam exit serving as a radiation shutter. The measured signal was normalized to a monitor chamber reading and subsequently scaled by ratio of water-to-air stopping powers atmore » given depth, while the effective depth of measurements was scaled by ratios of material-to-water physical densities and CSDA ranges. Output was measured in water at 2.1 mm reference-depth in the plateau upstream from the Bragg peak. Following the TRS-398 reference dosimetry protocol for proton beams, the output was calibrated in water. Three radiochromic film models (EBT, EBT3 and HD-V2) were calibrated within Lexan phantom positioned at the same water-equivalent depth. Thicknesses of films sensitive layers were 34 µm, 30 µm and 8 µm, respectively. Small film pieces (1 x 2 cm{sup 2}) were positioned within polyethylene phantom along the beam central axis with an angulation of 5° for PDD measurements. Results: While the output of the proton beam was found to be around 7 Gy/sec, the actual value of the output per monitor chamber reading (2.32 Gy/nC) was used for reference-dose irradiations during film calibration. Dose ratios at the Bragg peak relative to the reference-depth were 3.88, 2.52, 2.19, and 2.02 for the Markus chamber, HD-V2, EBT3, and EBT film models, respectively. Conclusion: Results at hand suggest that quenching effect is reduced when a radiochromic film model with smaller sensitive layer thickness is used for PDD measurements in proton beams. David Lewis is the owner of RCF Consulting, LLC.« less

Surface dose measurements with commonly used detectors: a consistent thickness correction method

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Higgins, Patrick

2015-01-01

The purpose of this study was to review application of a consistent correction method for the solid state detectors, such as thermoluminescent dosimeters (chips (cTLD) and powder (pTLD)), optically stimulated detectors (both closed (OSL) and open (eOSL)), and radiochromic (EBT2) and radiographic (EDR2) films. In addition, to compare measured surface dose using an extrapolation ionization chamber (PTW 30‐360) with other parallel plate chambers RMI‐449 (Attix), Capintec PS‐033, PTW 30‐329 (Markus) and Memorial. Measurements of surface dose for 6 MV photons with parallel plate chambers were used to establish a baseline. cTLD, OSLs, EDR2, and EBT2 measurements were corrected using a method which involved irradiation of three dosimeter stacks, followed by linear extrapolation of individual dosimeter measurements to zero thickness. We determined the magnitude of correction for each detector and compared our results against an alternative correction method based on effective thickness. All uncorrected surface dose measurements exhibited overresponse, compared with the extrapolation chamber data, except for the Attix chamber. The closest match was obtained with the Attix chamber (−0.1%), followed by pTLD (0.5%), Capintec (4.5%), Memorial (7.3%), Markus (10%), cTLD (11.8%), eOSL (12.8%), EBT2 (14%), EDR2 (14.8%), and OSL (26%). Application of published ionization chamber corrections brought all the parallel plate results to within 1% of the extrapolation chamber. The extrapolation method corrected all solid‐state detector results to within 2% of baseline, except the OSLs. Extrapolation of dose using a simple three‐detector stack has been demonstrated to provide thickness corrections for cTLD, eOSLs, EBT2, and EDR2 which can then be used for surface dose measurements. Standard OSLs are not recommended for surface dose measurement. The effective thickness method suffers from the subjectivity inherent in the inclusion of measured percentage depth‐dose curves and is not recommended for these types of measurements. PACS number: 87.56.‐v PMID:26699319

Coalition Logistics: A Case Study in Operation Restore Hope

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1994-06-03

coalition operations."° In Seland’s interview with Colonel Wolfgang Kopp, chief of staff, German/Franco Brigade, Colonel Kopp stated that key members...February 1994. 21William G. Pagonis and Michael D. Krause , "Operational Logistics and the Gulf War," The Institute of Land Warfare: The Land Warfare...Headquarters, 1989. Pagonis, William G. and Michael D. Krause . "Operational Logistics and the Gulf War." The Land Warfare Paper No. 13. Arlington, Virginia

The Institutionalization of Drug Trafficking Organizations: Comparing Colombia and Brazil

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2010-09-01

Shifter, “Latin America’s Drug Problem,” Current History (February 2007): 58. 6 Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras , “Social Structure and Change in Latin...In The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, by Michael Moran, Martin Rein and Robert E. Goodwin (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008), 691...Johan P. Olsen, “Chapter 34: The Logic of Appropriateness.” In The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, by Michael Moran, Martin Rein and Robert E

Ablative Heat Shield Studies for NASA Mars/Earth Return Entry Vehicles

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1990-09-01

RETURN ENTRY VEHICLES by Michael K. Hamm September, 1990 NASA Thesis Advisor: William D. Henline Thesis Co-Advisor: Max F. Platzer Approved for public...STUDIES FOR NASA MARS/EARTH RETURN ENTRY VEHICLES (UNCLASSIFIED) 12. PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) Harm, Michael, K. 13a TYPE OF REPORT 13b TIME COVERED 14 DATE OF...theoretical values. The tests were performed to ascertain if RSI type materials could be used for entry vehicles proposed in NASA Mars missions. 20

Air and Space Museum Apollo 40th Celebration

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2009-07-19

Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall holds a montage given to her by the STS-125 space shuttle crew along with Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong at the Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Monday, July 20, 2009 in Washington. From left, Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, Gregory C. Johnson, Andrew J. Feustel, Krall, Scott D. Altman, Neil Armstrong, John M. Grunsfeld and Megan McArthur. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Combining silver catalysis and organocatalysis: a sequential Michael addition/hydroalkoxylation one-pot approach to annulated coumarins.

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Hack, Daniel; Chauhan, Pankaj; Deckers, Kristina; Hermann, Gary N; Mertens, Lucas; Raabe, Gerhard; Enders, Dieter

2014-10-03

A highly stereoselective one-pot procedure for the synthesis of five-membered annulated hydroxycoumarins has been developed. By merging primary amine catalysis with silver catalysis, a series of functionalized coumarin derivatives were obtained in good yields (up to 91%) and good to excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99% ee) via a Michael addition/hydroalkoxylation reaction. Depending on the substituents on the enynone, the synthesis of annulated six-membered rings is also feasible.

Studies of the Processing of Single Words Using Positron Tomographic Measures of Cerebral Blood Flow Change.

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1987-01-01

BLOOD FLOW CHANGE Steven E. Petersen, Peter T. Fox, Michael I. Posner, Marcus Raichle McDonnell Center for Studies of Higher Brain Function...Single Words Using Positron Emission Tomographic Measurements of Cerebral Blood Flow Change *= ’I PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) * Petersen, Steven E. 13a. TYPE OF...CHANGE Steven E. Petersen, Peter T. Fox, Michael I. Posner, Marcus E. Raichle INTRODUCTION Language is an essential characteristic of the human

Speech Research. A Report on the Status and Progress of Studies on the Nature of Speech, Instrumentation for its Investigation, and Practical Applications.

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1978-03-01

Gloria J. Borden* Guy Garden* Robert Crowder* Steven B. Davis Michael Dorman* Donna Erickson William Ewan* Carol A. Fowler* Frances...Robert Crowder* Steven B. Davis Michael Dorman* Donna Erickson William Ewan* Carol A. Fowler* Frances J. Freeman* Jane H. Gaitenby Thomas J...Gibson, 1971; LaBerge and Samuels, 1974; Doehring, 1976; Estes, in press). We distinguish, in particular, between five separate levels of

Magnetohydrodynamic Particle Acceleration Processes: SSX Experiments, Theory, and Astrophysical Applications

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Brown, Michael R.

2006-11-16

Project Title: Magnetohydrodynamic Particle Acceleration Processes: SSX Experiments, Theory, and Astrophysical Applications PI: Michael R. Brown, Swarthmore College The purpose of the project was to provide theoretical and modeling support to the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX). Accordingly, the theoretical effort was tightly integrated into the SSX experimental effort. During the grant period, Michael Brown and his experimental collaborators at Swarthmore, with assistance from W. Matthaeus as appropriate, made substantial progress in understanding the physics SSX plasmas.

Joint Task Force - Port Opening: Can this Emerging Capability Expedite Operational Objectives Throughout the Range of Military Operations?

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2009-10-26

for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, 30 July 2007). 16 Craig Koontz , ―U.S. Transportation Command,‖ PowerPoint, 23 September 2009, Newport, RI...Support Group. To Lt Col Michael W. Pratt, Naval War College. Memorandum, 30 September 2009. Koontz , Craig. ―U.S. Transportation Command...PowerPoint. 23 September 2009. 22 Koontz , Craig. Contractor/Advisor to CDR U.S. Transportation Command. To Lt Col Michael W. Pratt, 28

Fatigue Management for Aerospace Expeditionary Forces Deployment and Sustained Operations

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2001-04-01

Aerospace Expeditionary Forces Deployment and Sustained Operations Contract Number Grant Number Program Element Number Author(s) LeClair, Michael A...3. F. Whitten Peters and Michael E. Ryan , US Air Force Posture State­ ment 2000, 30–31. 4. M. R. Rosekind et al., “From Laboratory to Flightdeck...Corporate Aviation Safety Semi­ nar, Flight Safety Foundation, St. Louis, Mo., 1994. 4. Philippa H. Gander, Mark R. Rosekind, and Kevin B. Gregory

Adaptive Problem Solving

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2017-03-01

AFRL-AFOSR-JP-TR-2017-0026 Adaptive Problem Solving Michael Barley THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND Final Report 03/01/2017 DISTRIBUTION A: Distribution...May 2015 to 26 Nov 2016 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Adaptive Problem Solving 5a.  CONTRACT NUMBER 5b.  GRANT NUMBER FA2386-15-1-4069 5c.  PROGRAM ELEMENT...Report for AOARD Grant FA2386-15-1-4069 “ Adaptive Problem Solving” 25 February 2017 Name of Principal Investigators (PI): Michael W. Barley - e

The 2008 IDA Cost Research Workshop: Contractor Data Reporting Systems

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2008-07-01

Consulting Services, Ltd. Mr. Michael Carey, NCCA, (703) 692-4901 Mr. Craig Clark, HVR CSL, 011 44 1420 87977 Ms Mary M. Mertz, NSWC-CD, (301) 227-4012...Services, Ltd Mr. Michael Carey, NCCA, (703) 692-4901 Mr. Craig Clark, HVR CSL, 011 44 1420 87977 Ms Mary M. Mertz, NSWC-CD, (301) 227-4012... Deegan , (202) 781-0959 Size: Professional: 57 Support: 2 Consultants: 0 Subcontractors: 9 collocated or 30 total Focus: O&S Cost Estimating

Flexural and Tensile Properties of Thin, Very High-Strength, Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Panels

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-09-01

Fiber - Reinforced Concrete Panels Michael J. Roth September 2008 G eo te ch ni ca l a nd S tr uc tu re s La bo ra to ry Approved for...Tensile Properties of Thin, Very High-Strength, Fiber - Reinforced Concrete Panels Michael J. Roth Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory U.S. Army...of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and noted authority in the field of 160 fiber - reinforced concrete . Implementation of Li’s work

The Michael Reaction

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Poon, Thomas; Mundy, Bradford P.; Shattuck, Thomas W.

2002-02-01

A brief account of the Michael reaction is provided, illustrating its versatility as a topic in undergraduate chemistry courses. Included is a short biography of the reaction's namesake, examples of its use in organic synthesis, and its unique role in the defense mechanism of the bacterium Micromonospora echinospora. A computational rationale for the selectivity of 1,4 versus 1,2 addition of nucleophiles to a,b-unsaturated carbonyls is discussed and links to animations suitable for an introductory organic chemistry course are provided.

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1993-01-01

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Preparation for a Clinical Trial Using Adoptive Transfer of Tumor-Reactive TGF_Beta-Insensitive CD8+ T Cells for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

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2006-07-01

Park,1 Robert E. Meyer,2 Shilajit Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2 Borko Javonovic,3 Timothy Kuzel,4 Seong-Jin Kim,5 Luk Van Parijs,6 Norm Smith,1 Larry Wong,1...cycle Qiang Zhang,1 Ximing Yang,2,5 Shilajit D. Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2,5 Borko Javonovic,3,5 Robert Meryer,2 Seong-Jin Kim,7 Norman M. Greenberg,8

Diversity oriented synthesis of tricyclic compounds from glycals using the Ferrier and the Pauson-Khand reactions.

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Hotha, Srinivas; Tripathi, Ashish

2005-01-01

Diversity oriented synthesis of tricyclic compounds was achieved using a combination of the Ferrier reaction and the Pauson-Khand reaction. Ferrier reaction was effected using NbCl5, and the Pauson-Khand reaction was carried out using Co2(CO)8, acetonitrile-dimethoxyethane. Michael additions using various alkyl, aryl, and heterocyclic thiols were also performed successfully. The Ferrier, Pauson-Khand, and Michael addition reactions were found to be highly diastereoselective.

Organocatalytic asymmetric anti-selective Michael reactions of aldehydes and the sequential reduction/lactonization/Pauson-Khand reaction for the enantioselective synthesis of highly functionalized hydropentalenes.

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Hong, Bor-Cherng; Dange, Nitin S; Yen, Po-Jen; Lee, Gene-Hsiang; Liao, Ju-Hsiou

2012-10-19

A new method has been developed for the enantioselective synthesis of highly functionalized hydropentalenes bearing up to four stereogenic centers with high stereoselectivity (up to 99% ee). This process combines an enantioselective organocatalytic anti-selective Michael addition with a highly efficient one-pot reduction/lactonization/Pauson-Khand reaction sequence. The structures and absolute configurations of the products were confirmed by X-ray analysis.

Design of an Advanced Modular Automated Evaluation System for Experimental High Power SGTOS

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2013-06-01

POWER SGTOS Shelby Lacouture, Kevin Lawson, Stephen Bayne, Michael Giesselmann, Heather O’Brien 1 , Aderinto Ogunniyi 1 , Charles J...Travis T. Vollmer and Michael G. Giesselmann, Rapid Capacitor Charging Power Supply for an 1800J PFN, Proceedings of the 2012 Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference, San Diego, CA, June 3-7, 2012. 1023 ...Scozzie 1 Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas Tech

Use of B-Spline in the Finite Element Analysis: Comparison with ANCF Geometry

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2011-02-04

Beam Elements”, Multibody System Dynamics , Vol. 20 (1), pp. 1-28. 7. Hamed, A.M., Shabana, A.A., Jayakumar , P., and Letherwood, M.D., 2011 “Non...West Taylor Street Chicago, Illinois 60607 Paramsothy Jayakumar Michael D. Letherwood U.S. Army RDECOM-TARDEC 6501 E. 11 Mile Road Warren...Ashraf Hamed; Abdel - Nasser Mohamed; Paramsothy Jayakumar ; Michael Letherwood 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7

The Road to Remarkable: Directed by Vision, Driven by Strength--2010 Five-Year Report of the Policy and Planning Board

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2011-01-01

The 2010 Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association (APA) was chaired by Elena J. Eisman, EdD. Other members of the board included Gwyneth M. Boodoo, PhD; G. Rita Dudley-Grant, PhD; Beverly Greene, PhD; Christopher W. Loftis, PhD; Michael J. Murphy, PhD; Paul D. Nelson, PhD; Kurt Salzinger, PhD; and Michael Wertheimer,…

Learning from Consumer-Oriented Review Efforts To Guide the Development of a System of Expert Panels To Identify and Share Promising and Exemplary Products and Programs. Working Papers. Volumes One and Two.

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These volumes contain working papers related to the development of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) Facilitated System of Expert Panels. Introductory papers by Susan Klein, Michael Scriven, Sharon Bobbitt and Susan Klein, and Michael Scriven and Lois-ellin Datta (printed in both volumes) set the stage for the discussions…

Future Drivers for State Alignments

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2009-02-12

It’s a Flat World, After All,” Global Issues , 07/08 (Dubuque, IA: McGraw Hill, 2008), 7. Thomas Friedman is an op-ed writer for the New York Times... Global Issues , 07/08 (Dubuque, IA: McGraw Hill, 2008), 62. Joseph Stiglitz is a professor of economics at Columbia University, he has been awarded the...Michael Pettis, “Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?” Global Issues , 07/08 (Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw Hill, 2008), 71. Michael Pettis is an investment banker

User's guide for mapIMG 3--Map image re-projection software package

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Finn, Michael P.; Mattli, David M.

2012-01-01

Version 0.0 (1995), Dan Steinwand, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)/Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC)--Version 0.0 was a command line version for UNIX that required four arguments: the input metadata, the output metadata, the input data file, and the output destination path. Version 1.0 (2003), Stephen Posch and Michael P. Finn, USGS/Mid-Continent Mapping Center (MCMC--Version 1.0 added a GUI interface that was built using the Qt library for cross platform development. Version 1.01 (2004), Jason Trent and Michael P. Finn, USGS/MCMC--Version 1.01 suggested bounds for the parameters of each projection. Support was added for larger input files, storage of the last used input and output folders, and for TIFF/ GeoTIFF input images. Version 2.0 (2005), Robert Buehler, Jason Trent, and Michael P. Finn, USGS/National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC)--Version 2.0 added Resampling Methods (Mean, Mode, Min, Max, and Sum), updated the GUI design, and added the viewer/pre-viewer. The metadata style was changed to XML and was switched to a new naming convention. Version 3.0 (2009), David Mattli and Michael P. Finn, USGS/Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)--Version 3.0 brings optimized resampling methods, an updated GUI, support for less than global datasets, UTM support and the whole codebase was ported to Qt4.

Culture and Negotiator Cognition: Judgment Accuracy and Negotiation Processes in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures.

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Gelfand; Christakopoulou

1999-09-01

In this paper, we argue that judgment biases in negotiation are perpetuated by underlying cultural values and ideals, and therefore, certain judgment biases will be more prevalent in certain cultural contexts. Based on theory in cultural psychology (Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Triandis, 1989), we considered the notion that fixed pie error, a judgment bias in which negotiators fail to accurately understand their counterparts' interests (Pruitt & Lewis, 1975; Thompson & Hastie, 1990), would be more prevalent at the end of negotiations in the United States, an individualistic culture, than Greece, a collectivistic culture. The results of a 2-week computer-mediated intercultural negotiation experiment, which took place between American students in Illinois and Greek students in Athens, supported this view. Theoretical implications of culture and cognition in negotiation are also discussed. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.

Implications of Societal Fragmentation for State Formation: Can Democracy Succeed in Afghanistan

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2006-03-01

Conflict,” in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Eds. Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote Jr., Sean M . Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge and London: The...Cote Jr., Sean M . Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1997), 49. 21 conceptions of legitimacy, they are...and Ethnic Conflict, Eds. Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote Jr., Sean M . Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1997

Erratum to "Use of oysters to mitigate eutrophication in coastal waters" [Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 151 (2014) 156-168

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Kellogg, M. Lisa; Smyth, Ashley R.; Luckenbach, Mark W.; Carmichael, Ruth H.; Brown, Bonnie L.; Cornwell, Jeffrey C.; Piehler, Michael F.; Owens, Michael S.; Dalrymple, D. Joseph; Higgins, Colleen B.

2015-03-01

The publisher regrets to inform that the article by Kellogg and colleagues (M. Lisa Kellogg, Ashley R. Smyth, Mark W. Luckenbach, Ruth H. Carmichael, Bonnie L. Brown, Jeffrey C. Cornwell, Michael F. Piehler, Michael S. Owens, D. Joseph Dalrymple, Colleen B. Higgins, Use of oysters to mitigate eutrophication in coastal waters, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 151, Pages 156-168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2014.09.025.

Automated synthesis of a library of triazolated 1,2,5-thiadiazepane 1,1-dioxides via a double aza-Michael strategy.

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Zang, Qin; Javed, Salim; Hill, David; Ullah, Farman; Bi, Danse; Porubsky, Patrick; Neuenswander, Benjamin; Lushington, Gerald H; Santini, Conrad; Organ, Michael G; Hanson, Paul R

2012-08-13

The construction of a 96-member library of triazolated 1,2,5-thiadiazepane 1,1-dioxides was performed on a Chemspeed Accelerator (SLT-100) automated parallel synthesis platform, culminating in the successful preparation of 94 out of 96 possible products. The key step, a one-pot, sequential elimination, double-aza-Michael reaction, and [3 + 2] Huisgen cycloaddition pathway has been automated and utilized in the production of two sets of triazolated sultam products.

Automated Synthesis of a Library of Triazolated 1,2,5-Thiadiazepane 1,1-Dioxides via a Double aza-Michael Strategy

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Zang, Qin; Javed, Salim; Hill, David; Ullah, Farman; Bi, Danse; Porubsky, Patrick; Neuenswander, Benjamin; Lushington, Gerald H.; Santini, Conrad; Organ, Michael G.; Hanson, Paul R.

2013-01-01

The construction of a 96-member library of triazolated 1,2,5-thiadiazepane 1,1-dioxides was performed on a Chemspeed Accelerator (SLT-100) automated parallel synthesis platform, culminating in the successful preparation of 94 out of 96 possible products. The key step, a one-pot, sequential elimination, double-aza-Michael reaction, and [3+2] Huisgen cycloaddition pathway has been automated and utilized in the production of two sets of triazolated sultam products. PMID:22853708

Chiral N,N'-Dioxide-Organocatalyzed Regio-, Diastereo- and Enantioselective Michael Addition-Alkylation Reaction.

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Feng, Juhua; Yuan, Xiao; Luo, Weiwei; Lin, Lili; Liu, Xiaohua; Feng, Xiaoming

2016-10-24

A highly regio-, diastereo- and enantioselective Michael addition-alkylation reaction between α-substituted cyano ketones and (Z)-bromonitrostyrenes has been realized by using a chiral N,N'-dioxide as organocatalyst. A variety of substrates performed well in this reaction, and the corresponding multifunctionalized chiral 2,3-dihydrofurans were obtained in up to 95 % yield with 95:5 dr and 93 % ee. © 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Direct Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Carboxylic Acids with Chiral Lithium Amides as Traceless Auxiliaries

PubMed Central

2016-01-01

Michael addition is a premier synthetic method for carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond formation. Using chiral dilithium amides as traceless auxiliaries, we report the direct enantioselective Michael addition of carboxylic acids. A free carboxyl group in the product provides versatility for further functionalization, and the chiral reagent can be readily recovered by extraction with aqueous acid. The method has been applied in the enantioselective total synthesis of the purported structure of pulveraven B. PMID:25562717

Michael J. Fox and his Parkinson's disease.

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Kempster, Peter A

2004-01-01

Michael J. Fox was a popular and successful film and television comic actor who developed Parkinson's disease at the age of 29 years. His recently published book, Lucky Man, structured around the story of his Parkinson's disease, is an amusing, briskly paced yet introspective memoir that covers the first 40 years of his life. Although quite anecdotal, it contains interesting observations on the preclinical phase of the disorder, evolution of motor fluctuations, and tactics for pharmacological treatment. Copyright 2003 Movement Disorder Society

STS-29 crew activities

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2000-04-19

STS029-04-029 (13-18 March 1989) --- Astronaut Michael L. Coats appears to like the status of the STS-29 flight as he offers a big smile from the commander's station on the flight deck. He takes a momentary break from updating the crew activity plan (CAP) to pose for the photo. This photographic frame was among NASA's third STS-29 photo release. Monday, March 20, 1989. Crew members were astronauts Michael L. Coats, John E. Blaha, James F. Buchli, Robert C. Springer and James P. Bagian. Photo credit: NASA

Catalytic asymmetric formal synthesis of beraprost

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Kobayashi, Yusuke; Kuramoto, Ryuta

2015-01-01

Summary The first catalytic asymmetric synthesis of the key intermediate for beraprost has been achieved through an enantioselective intramolecular oxa-Michael reaction of an α,β-unsaturated amide mediated by a newly developed benzothiadiazine catalyst. The Weinreb amide moiety and bromo substituent of the Michael adduct were utilized for the C–C bond formations to construct the scaffold. All four contiguous stereocenters of the tricyclic core were controlled via Rh-catalyzed stereoselective C–H insertion and the subsequent reduction from the convex face. PMID:26734111

Formulating a Strategic Response Plan for a High-Risk Seismic Event in New York City

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2013-03-01

65 Michael Daly, “Regulators Say Indian Point Nuclear Plant is Safe, but can Chernobyl -on-the- Hudson Happen?” Dailynews.com (March 15, 2011), http...www.nydailynews.com/new-york/regulators- indian-point-nuclear-plant-safe- chernobyl -on-the-hudson-happen-article-1.121117. 66 Ibid. 67 Ibid. 68...Michael Daly, “Regulators Say Indian Point Nuclear Plant is Safe, but can Chernobyl -on-the- Hudson Happen?” Dailynews.com (March 15, 2011), http

Tandem Aldol-Michael Reactions in Aqueous Diethylamine Medium: A Greener and Efficient Approach to Bis-Pyrimidine Derivatives

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Al-Majid, Abdullah M.; Barakat, Assem; AL-Najjar, Hany J.; Mabkhot, Yahia N.; Ghabbour, Hazem A.; Fun, Hoong-Kun

2013-01-01

A simple protocol, involving the green synthesis for the construction of novel bis-pyrimidine derivatives, 3a–i and 4a–e are accomplished by the aqueous diethylamine media promoted tandem Aldol-Michael reaction between two molecules of barbituric acid derivatives 1a,b with various aldehydes. This efficient synthetic protocol using an economic and environmentally friendly reaction media with versatility and shorter reaction time provides bis-pyrimidine derivatives with high yields (88%–99%). PMID:24317435

A Comparative Analysis of Army Physical Readiness Test Results of AMEDD Units Without Formal Physical Training Programs

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1984-06-01

Paul C.; Albrink , Margaret J.; and Krall, John M. "Exercise Effects on Fitness,, Lipids, Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Levels in Young Adults...1982): 14-15. Shepherd, Roy J.; Corey, Paul; Renzland, Peter; and Cox Michael . "The Impact of Changes in Fitness and Lifestyle Upon Health Care...Utilization." Canadian Journal of Public Health 74 (January/February 1983): 51-55. Shepherd, Roy J.; Corey, Paul; Renzland, Peter; and Cox, Michael . "The

Advancement and Application of Multi-Phase CFD Modeling to High Speed Supercavitating Flows

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2013-08-13

5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER N00014-09-1-0042 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Jules W. Lindau and Michael P. Kinzel 5d. PROJECT...REPORT U b. ABSTRACT U c. THIS PAGE U 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT U 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 29 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON Jules W. Lindau...Application of Multi-Phase CFD Modeling to High Speed Supercavitating Flows Michael P. Kinzel Jules W. Lindau Penn State University Applied Research

The Role of Technology in America's Schools. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session (Washington, DC, March 8, 2000).

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The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, Committee on Education and the Workforce, Washington, DC met in Washington, DC on March 8, 2000 to hear testimony on the role of technology in America's schools. Chairman of the Subcommittee Michael Castle presided. Contents include the opening statements of Chairman Michael Castle and of…

STS-113 Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria looks over the P1 Truss

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2002-01-01

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-113 Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria looks over the P1 Integrated Truss Structure, the primary payload for the mission. The P1 truss will be attached to the central truss segment, S0 Truss, during spacewalks. The payload also includes the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart B that can be used by spacewalkers to move along the truss with equipment. STS-113 is scheduled to launch Oct. 6, 2002.

Effect of Topography on Learning Military Tactics - Integration of Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) and Augmented REality Sandtable (ARES)

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2016-09-01

Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) and Augmented REality Sandtable ( ARES ) by Michael W Boyce, Ramsamooj J Reyes, Deeja E Cruz, Charles...NOTICES Disclaimers The findings in this report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position unless so designated by...REality Sandtable ( ARES ) by Michael W Boyce Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN LT COL Ramsamooj J Reyes Air Force Institute of

Technical Communication Practices of Russian and U. S. Aerospace Engineers and Scientists

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1993-06-01

Michael L. Keene University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Madelyn Flammia University of Central Flonda 93- 17927 Orlando, Florida ; ’ut’i i i l...Barclay. Michael L. Keene. Madelvn Flammia . and John M. Kennedy Abstract-As part of Phase 4 of the NASA/DoD Aerospace culture. organization, and...Russian survey participant respondents and 24% of the U.S. respondents indicated that PINELI I e, al TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Of RL’hiAN AND L S

Field Artillery and the Combined Arms Team: A Case for the Continued Relevance of American Fire Support

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2015-05-23

integrate with maneuver forces to meet future threats. Several former brigade combat team commanders mentioned the field artillery’s “identity crisis ” in...September 2008): 35. 5 Sean MacFarland, Michael Shields, and Jeffrey Snow, “White Paper: The King and I: The Impeding Crisis in Field Artillery’s Ability...Michael S. Coombes , “Agile Fires and Decisive Action: Achieving Pervasive Agility by Focusing On Fundamentals,” NTC Decisive Action Training

British Joint Counter-Insurgency Doctrine - Chinese Whispers From the Past and a Doomed Future

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2010-04-01

Committee” system of governance and policing used in Malaya to that, which had already been tied and tested in India. 119 Michael Crawshaw , "Running a...years and claimed the lives of one   155 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/uk_confidential/1731567.stm. 156 Ibid. 157 Crawshaw : p14. 158... Crawshaw , Michael. "Running a Country: The British Colonial Experience and Its Relevance to Present-Day Concerns." The Defence Academy of the

2013 Annual Report for ONR Sponsored Research: A Multiscale Study of Tropical Cyclone Formation, Structure Change and Predictability in the Western North Pacific Region & TCS08 Experiment Support

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2013-09-30

Eye and Eyewall of Hurricane Hugo (1989) and was published in Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1237-1259. ...Bell, Michael M., 2010: Air-Sea Enthalpy and Momentum Exchange at Major Hurricane Wind Speeds. Ph.D. Dissertation. U.S. Naval Postgraduate School...axisymmetric view of concentric eyewall evolution in Hurricane Rita (2005). J. Atmos. Sci., 69: 2414-2432, [refereed, published]. Bell, Michael M

Iran’s Security Dilemma

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1994-06-01

reasoning." Despite its ’For an example of a capabilities-driven analysis see Michael Eisenstadt, " Deja Vu All Over Again? An Assessment of Iran’s Military...Sancton, "No Longer Fenced In," Time, 23 May 1994, pp. 36-38. ’Michael Eisenstadt, " Deja Vu All Over Again? An Assessment of Iran’s Military Buildup...Eisenstadt, " Deja Vu All Over Again? An Assessment Of Iran’s Military Buildup," Iran’s Strategic Intentions and Capabilities, ed., Patrick Clawson

Steinhaus’ Geometric Location Problem for Random Samples in the Plane.

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1982-05-11

NAL 411R A1, ’I 7 - I STEINHAUS ’ GEOMETRIC LOCATION PROBLEM FOR RANDOM SAMPLES IN THE PLANE By Dorit Hochbaum and J. Michael Steele TECHNICAL REPORT...DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS -Dltrib’ytion/ STANFORD UNIVERSITY A-I.abilty Codes STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Dist Spciat ecial Steinhaus ’ Geometric Location Problem for...Random Samples in the Plane By Dorit Hochbaum and J. Michael Steele I. Introduction. The work of H. Steinhaus U wf94 as apparently the first explicit

Explaining Humanitarian Intervention in Libya and Non-Intervention in Syria

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2012-06-01

Russia will Veto every attempt to prepare an intervention like in Libya. Michael Heath , “Russia Won’t Allow Libya-Style Syria Solution”, Bloomberg...www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39935 (accessed February, 20 2012). 295 Ibid. 296 Neil McFarquhar. “U.N. Resolution on Syria Blocked by Russia and...russia_says_nato_exceeds_libya_mandate_fix_urgent/4745764.html (accessed March 30, 2012). 448 Ibid. 449 Michael Heath . “Russia Won’t Allow Libya-Style Syria Solution, Lavrov

Effect of Dietary Intervention on Prostate Tumor Development in TRAMP Mice

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2007-05-01

92, 3439-3443. 5. Gingrich,J.R., Barrios ,R.J., Morton,R.A., Boyce,B.F., DeMayo,F.J., Finegold,M.J., Angelopoulou,R., Rosen,J.M., and Greenberg,N.M...increases survival time in TRAMP mice Melissa J.L. Bonorden, Olga P. Rogozina, Michael E. Grossmann, Christina M. Kluczny, Patricia L. Grambsch, Joseph...TRAMP mice Melissa J.L. Bonorden, Olga P. Rogozina, Michael E. Grossmann, Christina M. Kluczny, Anna Lokshin, Patricia L. Grambsch, Joseph P. Grande

How Do We Know What Information Sharing Is Really Worth? Exploring Methodologies to Measure the Value of Information Sharing and Fusion Efforts

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2014-01-01

maintained by the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) section of the FBI and the Law Enforcement Online ( LEO ) system. The Regional...2013, pp. 20–26. Davis, Lois M., Michael Pollard, Kevin Ward, Jeremy M. Wilson, Danielle M. Varda, Lydia Hansell, and Paul S. Steinberg, Long-Term...default/files/2010_ITACG_Report_ Final_30Nov10.pdf Rhodes, William, Meg Chapman, Michael Shively, Christina Dyous, Dana Hunt, and Kristin Wheeler

Direct enantioselective conjugate addition of carboxylic acids with chiral lithium amides as traceless auxiliaries.

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Lu, Ping; Jackson, Jeffrey J; Eickhoff, John A; Zakarian, Armen

2015-01-21

Michael addition is a premier synthetic method for carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation. Using chiral dilithium amides as traceless auxiliaries, we report the direct enantioselective Michael addition of carboxylic acids. A free carboxyl group in the product provides versatility for further functionalization, and the chiral reagent can be readily recovered by extraction with aqueous acid. The method has been applied in the enantioselective total synthesis of the purported structure of pulveraven B.

Searching for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in Intergalactic Absorption: The Expanding Universe

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This simulation follows the growth of density perturbations in both gas and dark matter components in a volume 1 billion light years on a side beginning shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to half the present age of the universe. Credits: Science: Michael L. Norman, Robert Harkness, Pascal Paschos, Rick Wagner, San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, San Diego Visualization: Mark Hereld, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory; Eric C. Olson, University of Chicago

Iraq Stability: Foreign Military Sales in a New War Environment

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2015-05-06

htlp;/Jwww.bbc.oornlnewsfworld-middle-east-24179084 (accessed September 2, 20 14 ). 13 Michael Knights , "Bringing Iraq’s ’Ghost’ Forces Back to Life... Knights , Michael "Bringing Iraq’s ’Ghost’ Forces Back to Life." Aljazeera.com. http://www .aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/20 14/ 12/bringing-irag-ghost...VITA Mr. Jamie Jones is a supervisory intelligence officer and serves as U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Middle East Regional Affairs Officer. Jamie has

Deterrence by Denial: The Efficacy of U.S. Missile Defense in the Persian Gulf as a Deterrent Against the Iranian Regional Missile Threat

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2011-06-10

me throughout the entire process. Your professionalism and guidance were critical in making this a worthwhile study. Special thanks to my wife Jamie ...intelligence review by Michael Knights entitled ―Deterrence by punishment could offer last resort options for Iran‖ in April 2006. In this report, Knights ...RL32048, Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 20 August 2010. Knights , Michael. ―Deterrence by

United Nations Intervention for Humanitarian Relief in Bosnia- Herzegovina

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1993-02-22

govinan Corps I i~leca) 5th Mixed A.dr Peql ath Motorized Ode 149ithIME-dium AA Arty Regt’ (SA-6) 13th Motor- zeC Mde 5th Light A-A Arty Regt `145th...34 1. Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Translated and Edited by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 579. 2...Michael Howard and Peter Paret, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Cohen, Leonard J. "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia", Current History

Facile and Promising Method for Michael Addition of Indole and Pyrrole to Electron-Deficient trans-β-Nitroolefins Catalyzed by a Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalyst Feist's Acid and Preliminary Study of Antimicrobial Activity

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Al Majid, Abdullah M. A.; Islam, Mohammad Shahidul; Barakat, Assem; Al-Agamy, Mohamed H. M.; Naushad, Mu.

2014-01-01

The importance of cooperative hydrogen-bonding effects has been demonstrated using novel 3-methylenecyclopropane-1,2-dicarboxylic acid (Feist's acid (FA)) as hydrogen bond donor catalysts for the addition of indole and pyrrole to trans-β-nitrostyrene derivatives. Because of the hydrogen bond donor (HBD) ability, Feist's acid (FA) has been introduced as a new class of hydrogen bond donor catalysts for the activation of nitroolefin towards nucleophilic substitution reaction. It has effectively catalyzed the Michael addition of indoles and pyrrole to β-nitroolefins under optimum reaction condition to furnish the corresponding Michael adducts in good to excellent yields (up to 98%). The method is general, atom-economical, convenient, and eco-friendly and could provide excellent yields and regioselectivities. Some newly synthesized compounds were for examined in vitro antimicrobial activity and their preliminary results are reported. PMID:24574906