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Survival and growth of cultured juvenile sea cucumbers, Holothuria scabra
Microsoft Academic Search
Factors influencing survival and growth of cultured sandfish, Holothuria scabra, were evaluated in a series of experiments in land-based nursery tanks. There was a critical period in the culture of newly-settled juveniles(<5mm) during which high mortality occurred. After 1 month, survival averaged 34.4% (▒ 1.2 s.e., n=4) if juveniles were reared on plates, but was lower and more variable if
Stephen C. Battaglene; J. Evizel Seymour; Christain Ramofafia
The sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata): Its biology and exploitation as Beche-de-mer
One of the most intensively studied holothurians, Holothuria scabra has been discussed in the literature since 1833. The species is important for several reasons: (1) it is abundant and widely distributed in shallow soft-bottom habitats throughout the Indo-Pacific; (2) it has a high value on the Asian markets, where it is mainly sold as beche-de-mer; and (3) it is the
Jean-Franþois Hamel; Chantal Conand; David L. Pawson; Annie Mercier
Destruction of a Holothuria scabra population by overfishing at Abu Rhamada Island in the Red Sea
Populations of Holothuria scabra at Abu Rhamada Island were investigated during 52 months, from July 1999 to October 2003. During the first 23 months (July, 1999ûMay, 2001) the Island had a robust population with a tri-modal size frequency distribution curve, very high densities (85.7û95.1ind.\\/100m2 at the sandy habitat), high abundance (3362û3110 individuals) and biomass (46.7û34.3kg\\/100m2). Also, during this period most
Mohamed Hamza Hasan
The timing and reproductive output of the commercial sea cucumber Holothuria scabra on the Kenyan coast
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
The sea cucumber Holothuria scabra is a widely distributed and economically important species that has been harvested in Kenya for decades. No previous studies have been carried out on the reproduction of this species in Kenya. Standard gonad index methods were used to analyze reproductive patterns of individuals collected monthly in 1998-1999, 2000-2001 and 2006-2007. Morphological characteristics, gonad tubule lengths and fecundity were also measured. Mean monthly gonad indices were significantly correlated between males and females indicating synchronous gonad development between the sexes. Gonad indices showed a biannual pattern that was consistent in all three years with a minor spawning event occurring between August and September and a major spawning event between November and December. The pattern of gonad growth showed significant variability between years and between months. Temporal changes in gonad growth correlated significantly with gonad tubule length and absolute fecundity. Monthly gonad indices also correlated significantly with monthly measurements of air temperature and light suggesting a possible role for both factors in timing gametogenesis and spawning. There was a shift in sex ratio from unity in the 1998-1999 and 2000-2001 samples to significantly more males in the 2006-2007 samples, as well as a significant reduction in mean sizes (body wall weight) and reproductive output (gonad index) which suggests that the reproductive success of this species is potentially negatively affected by fishing.
Muthiga, N. A.; Kawaka, J. A.; Ndirangu, S.
Periodic movement, recruitment and size-related distribution of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Solomon Islands
Field studies of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra conducted in Kogu Veke, Solomon Islands, showed monthly recruitment of newly-settled juveniles on seagrass and indicated that size distribution was a function of substratum type and depth. Adults >250 mm body length were found mainly on sand, with 1û3 m. Individuals >10û250 mm were found mostly in 30û120 cm of water, on
Annie Mercier; Stephen C. Battaglene; Jean-Franþois Hamel
Evaluation of antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxic effects of Holothuria scabra from the North Coast of the Persian Gulf.
Bioactive compounds of the gonad, respiration tree, and body wall of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra collected from the North Coast of the Persian Gulf were extracted using ethyl acetate, methanol and water-methanol mixtures. Extracts were evaluated for their antibacterial and antifungal activities against Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. The activity was determined using the disc diffusion test. Cytotoxic activities of the extracts were determined by brine shrimp lethality assay. Results showed the existence of an antifungal activity of all extracts against A.ániger with MIC ranging from 3 to 9?g/mL. The highest antifungal activity was found in respiration tree (methanol) with an inhibition zone of about 50mm against A.ániger at 18?g/mL extract concentration. Cytotoxic activity was obtained for methanolic extracts only. Methanol extract of the gonads showed the highest cytotoxic effect (LC50=50.5?g/mL) continuing with RT methanol extract (LC50=70?g/mL). PMID:24054089
Mohammadizadeh, F; Ehsanpor, M; Afkhami, M; Mokhlesi, A; Khazaali, A; Montazeri, S
Effects of seven diets on the population dynamics of laboratory cultured Tisbe holothuriae Humes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)
The harpacticoid copepod Tisbe holothuriae was collected from Saronicos Gulf (Greece) and reared under constant laboratory conditions. In order to study the effects of food on the population dynamics, seven diets were tested: the seaweed Ulva; five artificial compound feeds: the liquid Fryfood« (Waterlife), a powder of Mytilus, yeast, soya and Spirulina, respectively; and a mixed diet consisting of Ulva and Fryfood. The life cycle parameters (mortality, sex ratio, generation time, offspring production) were measured, and the demographic variables [mean generation time (T), net reproductive rate (Ro), and intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm)] were determined. As to their efficiency regarding population dynamics, the diets ranked as follows: (1) Ulva+Fryfood, (2), Ulva, (3) Fryfood, (4) Mytilus, (5) soya, (6) yeast, and (7) Spirulina. In this order they cause a progressive increase of both larval mortality and generation time, a progressive decrease of sex ratio, number of offspring per egg sac, number of egg sacs per female and, consequently, of Ro and rm. The observed differences between diets were most pronounced with respect to offspring production. Of the compound diets, those containing animal extracts were more efficient than those containing vegetable materials. Ulva plays an important role in the nutrition of T. holothuriae, favouring offspring production as well as larval survival, development and pigmentation. Ulva in combination with Fryfood led to a greater copepodid survival and offspring production. This mixed diet proved to be the most favourable for rearing the Greek population of t. holothuriae, resulting in an efficient intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm=0.304) of the population.
Miliou, H.; Mora´tou-Apostolopoulou, M.
Molecular and morphological discrimination between an invasive ascidian, Ascidiella aspersa, and its congener A. scabra (Urochordata: Ascidiacea).
The solitary ascidian Ascidiella aspersa (M³ller, 1776) has sometimes been regarded as conspecific with A. scabra (M³ller, 1776), although previous detailed morphological comparisons have indicated that the two are distinguishable by internal structures. Resolution of this taxonomic issue is important because A. aspersa has been known as a notoriously invasive ascidian, doing much damage to aquaculture e.g. in Hokkaido, Japan. We collected many specimens from European waters (including the Swedish coast, near the type localities of these two species) and Hokkaido, Japan (as an alien population) and made molecular phylogenetic analyses using the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene, and found that in terms of COI sequences all the analyzed specimens were clustered into two distinct groups, one of which is morphologically referable to A. aspersa and the other to A. scabra. Thus, these two species should be regarded as distinct from each other. PMID:24601780
Nishikawa, Teruaki; Oohara, Ichiro; Saitoh, Kenji; Shigenobu, Yuya; Hasegawa, Natsuki; Kanamori, Makoto; Baba, Katsuhisa; Turon, Xavier; Bishop, John D D
Identification of Diploid Stylosanthes seabrana accessions from existing germplasm of S. scabra utilizing genome-specific STS markers and flow cytometry, and their molecular characterization.
Stylosanthes seabrana (Maass and 't Mannetje) (2n = 2x = 20), commonly known as Caatinga stylo, is an important tropical perennial forage legume. In nature, it largely co-exist with S. scabra, an allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 40) species, sharing a very high similarity for morphological traits like growth habit, perenniality, fruit shape and presence of small appendage at the base of the pod or loment. This makes the two species difficult to distinguish morphologically, leading to chances of contamination in respective germplasm collections. In present study, 10 S. seabrana accessions were discovered from the existing global germplasm stock of S. scabra represented by 48 diverse collections, utilizing sequence-tagged-sites (STS) genome-specific markers. All the newly identified S. seabrana accessions displayed STS phenotypes of typical diploid species. Earlier reports have conclusively indicated S. seabrana and S. viscosa as two diploid progenitors of allotetraploid S. scabra. With primer pairs SHST3F3/R3, all putative S. seabrana yielded single band of approximately 550 bp and S. viscosa of approximately 870 bp whereas both of these bands were observed in allotetraploid S. scabra. Since SHST3F3/R3 primer pairs are known to amplify single or no band with diploid and two bands with tetraploid species, the amplification patterns corroborated that all newly identified S. seabrana lines were diploid in nature. Flow cytometric measurement of DNA content of the species, along with distinguishing morphological traits such as flowering time and seedling vigour, which significantly differ from S. scabra, confirmed all identified lines as S. seabrana. These newly identified lines exhibited high level of similarity among themselves as revealed by RAPD and STS markers (>92% and 80% respectively). Along with the enrichment in genetic resources of Stylosanthes, these newly identified and characterized accessions of S. seabrana can be better exploited in breeding programs targeted to quality. PMID:19214807
Chandra, Amaresh; Kaushal, Pankaj
The structure of Calcareous Rings in Stichopus hermanni Semper and Holothuria atra Jaeger
The calcareous rings of two species of local sea cucumbers, Stichopus hermanni Semper and Holothuria atra Jaeger, were located, dissected, exposed and recorded. The calcareous rings of both species each composed of ten plates knit together by connective tissues. The radial plate of H. atra was a square with a notch at the anterior part whereas in S. hermanni it
Holothuria (Selenkothuria) parvispinea n. sp. (Echinodermata, Hololthuroidea, Holothuriidae) with key to the sub-genus Selenkothuria.
Description of a new species from Australia, belonging to the subgenus Selenkothuria (Holothuria, Aspidochirotida). A dichotomous key of the thirteen valid species included in the subgenus is also given. The species H. perrieri Thandar, 1977 and H. spinea Cherbonnier, 1988 are considered as non valid. PMID:24699597
Massin, Claude
Identification of Hox Gene Sequences in the Sea Cucumber Holothuria glaberrima Selenka (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata)
:áá The Echinodermata is a unique animal group forming an early branch in the deuterostomes phylogenetic tree. In echinoids and\\u000a asteroids a single Hox cluster with nine cognates of the vertebrate Hox paralogous groups has been reported, but no data are available from other echinoderm classes. We report here nine Hox-type sequences from the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima, a member
Ana T. MÚndez; JosÚ L. Roig-L¾pez; Pedro Santiago; Carlos Santiago; JosÚ E. GarcÝa-Arrarßs
Plant regeneration from protoplasts isolated from seedling cotyledons of Stylosanthes guianensis, S. macrocephala and S. scabra.
Plant regeneration from protoplasts is a prerequisite to the production of modified plants using somatic hybridization and transformation. Whole plant regeneration was achieved from protoplasts isolated from seedling cotyledons of Stylosanthes guianensis, S. macrocephala and S. scabra, three economically important species of this tropical forage legume genus. The effects of both protoplast density and protoplast culture method on cell division and plating efficiency are presented. PMID:24226829
Vieira, M L; Jones, B; Cocking, E C; Davey, M R
Spatial ecology and artificial neural networks: modeling the habitat preference of the sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota) on Rarotonga, Cook Islands
In this paper we discuss the ability of artificial neural networks to predict the habitat preferences of the tropical sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota) in the reef-top ecosystem of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. We suggest that ANN's combined with geographic information systems (GIS) may provide an effective method for modeling spatial patterns in ecological data. The model that we have developed is
Darrin Drumm; Martin Purvis; Qingqing Zhou
Purification and characterization of pepsin-solubilized collagen from skin of sea cucumber Holothuria parva.
Pepsin-solubilized collagen (PSC) was extracted from the skin of sea cucumber Holothuria parva and was fractionally characterized. The PSC from H. parva skin consisted of three ?1 chains (?1)3, in contrast to calf skin collagen type I with two ?1 and one ?2 chains (?1)2?2 with approximately 130ákDa each. The maximum transition (Tm) and denaturation temperature (Td) of PSC were determined to be 46.94 and 32.5á░C, respectively. The amino acid composition analysis revealed that glycine, proline, alanine, and hydroxyproline were the abundant amino acids available in extracted PSC. The results showed that the isolated collagen from H. parva has some similar characteristics to previously reported collagens used in food and pharmaceutical industries. PMID:24676570
Adibzadeh, Nasim; Aminzadeh, Saeed; Jamili, Shahla; Karkhane, Ali Asghar; Farrokhi, Naser
Identification of causal relationships among traits related to drought resistance in Stylosanthes scabra using QTL analysis.
Previous studies have shown that a negative relationship exists between transpiration efficiency (TE) and carbon isotope discrimination (Delta) and between TE and specific leaf area (SLA) in Stylosanthes scabra. A glasshouse experiment was conducted to confirm these relationships in an F(2) population and to study the causal nature of these relationships through quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis. One hundred and twenty F(2) genotypes from a cross between two genotypes within S. scabra were used. Three replications for each genotype were maintained through vegetative propagation. Water stress was imposed by maintaining plants at 40% of field capacity for about 45 d. To facilitate QTL analysis, a genetic linkage map consisting of 151 RAPD markers was developed. Results from this study show that Delta was significantly and negatively correlated with TE and biomass production. Similarly, SLA showed significant negative correlation with TE and biomass production. Most of the QTL for TE and Delta were present on linkage groups 5 and 11. Similarly, QTL for SLA, transpiration and biomass productivity traits were clustered on linkage groups 13 and 24. One unlinked marker was also associated with these traits. There were several markers coincident between different traits. At all the coincident QTL, the direction of QTL effects was consistent with phenotypic data. At the coincident markers between TE and Delta, high alleles of TE were associated with low alleles of Delta. Similarly, low alleles of SLA were associated with high alleles of biomass productivity traits and transpiration. At the coincident markers between trans-4-hydroxy-N:-methyl proline (MHP) and relative water content (RWC), low alleles of MHP were associated with high alleles of RWC. This study suggests the causal nature of the relationship between TE and Delta. Phenotypic data and QTL data show that SLA was more closely associated with biomass production than with TE. This study also shows that a cause-effect relationship may exist between SLA and biomass production. PMID:11283164
Thumma, B R; Naidu, B P; Chandra, A; Cameron, D F; Bahnisch, L M; Liu, C
Application of quantitative (1)H-NMR method to determination of gentiopicroside in Gentianae radix and Gentianae scabrae radix.
A quantitative (1)H-NMR method (qHNMR) was used to measure gentiopicroside content in Gentianae radix and Gentianae scabrae radix. Gentiopicroside is a major component of Gentianae radix and Gentianae scabrae radix. The purity of gentiopicroside was calculated from the ratio of the intensity of the H-3 signal at ? 7.44áppm or the H-8 signal at ? 5.78áppm in methanol-d 4 of gentiopicroside to that of a hexamethyldisilane (HMD) signal at 0áppm. The concentration of HMD was corrected with SI traceability by using potassium hydrogen phthalate of certified reference material (CRM) grade. As a result, the gentiopicroside content in two lots of Gentianae radix as determined by qHNMR was found to be 1.76 and 2.17á%, respectively. The gentiopicroside content in two lots of Gentianae scabrae radix was 2.73 and 3.99á%, respectively. We demonstrated that this method is useful for the quantitative analysis of crude drugs. PMID:24687868
Tanaka, Rie; Hasebe, Yuko; Nagatsu, Akito
Neuroanatomy of the tube feet and tentacles in Holothuria glaberrima (Holothuroidea, Echinodermata)
PubMed Central
Echinoderms are a key group in understanding the evolution of the nervous system in the Metazoa. Remarkably, little is known about echinoderm neurobiology. The echinoderm podia, which are unique echinoderm modifications and comprise structures responsible for locomotion and feeding, have been largely neglected in nervous system studies. Here, we have applied immunohistological approaches using different neuronal markers to describe the neuroanatomy of the holothurian podia and its relation to the muscular component. We show, using the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Selenka, 1867), the direct innervation of the podia by the ectoneural component of the nervous system, as well as the existence of a connection between the nervous system components in the main nerves, the muscle, and the connective tissue. These findings confirm the ectoneural origin of the tube feetÆs main nervous system and demonstrate its neuroanatomic complexity. We also show the presence of fibers and neurons within the tube feet mesothelium and connective tissue. The study of these simple structures will help us elucidate the echinodermsÆ neuromuscular circuit and their evolutionary relationships.
Diaz-Balzac, Carlos A.; Abreu-Arbelo, Jose E.
Discovery of Novel Saponins from the Viscera of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria lessoni
Sea cucumbers, sometimes referred to as marine ginseng, produce numerous compounds with diverse functions and are potential sources of active ingredients for agricultural, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products. We examined the viscera of an Australian sea cucumber Holothuria lessoni Massin et al. 2009, for novel bioactive compounds, with an emphasis on the triterpene glycosides, saponins. The viscera were extracted with 70% ethanol, and this extract was purified by a liquid-liquid partition process and column chromatography, followed by isobutanol extraction. The isobutanol saponin-enriched mixture was further purified by high performance centrifugal partition chromatography (HPCPC) with high purity and recovery. The resultant purified polar samples were analyzed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS)/MS and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS)/MS to identify saponins and characterize their molecular structures. As a result, at least 39 new saponins were identified in the viscera of H. lessoni with a high structural diversity, and another 36 reported triterpene glycosides, containing different aglycones and sugar moieties. Viscera samples have provided a higher diversity and yield of compounds than observed from the body wall. The high structural diversity and novelty of saponins from H. lessoni with potential functional activities presents a great opportunity to exploit their applications for industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical use.
Bahrami, Yadollah; Zhang, Wei; Franco, Chris
Isolation and Characterization of Adhesive Secretion from Cuvierian Tubules of Sea Cucumber Holothuria forskÕli (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)
The sea cucumber Holothuria forskÕli possesses a specialized system called Cuvierian tubules. During mechanical stimulation white filaments (tubules) are expelled and become sticky upon contact with any object. We isolated a protein with adhesive properties from protein extracts of Cuvierian tubules from H. forskÕli. This protein was identified by antibodies against recombinant precollagen D which is located in the byssal threads of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. To find out the optimal procedure for extraction and purification, the identified protein was isolated by several methods, including electroelution, binding to glass beads, immunoprecipitation, and gel filtration. Antibodies raised against the isolated protein were used for localization of the adhesive protein in Cuvierian tubules. Immunostaining and immunogold electron microscopical studies revealed the strongest immunoreactivity in the mesothelium; this tissue layer is involved in adhesion. Adhesion of Cuvierian tubule extracts was measured on the surface of various materials. The extracted protein showed the strongest adhesion to Teflon surface. Increased adhesion was observed in the presence of potassium and EDTA, while cadmium caused a decrease in adhesion. Addition of antibodies and trypsin abolished the adhesive properties of the extract.
Baranowska, Malgorzata; Schlossmacher, Ute; McKenzie, J. Douglas; Muller, Werner E. G.; Schroder, Heinz C.
Isolation and Characterization of Adhesive Secretion from Cuvierian Tubules of Sea Cucumber Holothuria forskÕli (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea).
The sea cucumber Holothuria forskÕli possesses a specialized system called Cuvierian tubules. During mechanical stimulation white filaments (tubules) are expelled and become sticky upon contact with any object. We isolated a protein with adhesive properties from protein extracts of Cuvierian tubules from H. forskÕli. This protein was identified by antibodies against recombinant precollagen D which is located in the byssal threads of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. To find out the optimal procedure for extraction and purification, the identified protein was isolated by several methods, including electroelution, binding to glass beads, immunoprecipitation, and gel filtration. Antibodies raised against the isolated protein were used for localization of the adhesive protein in Cuvierian tubules. Immunostaining and immunogold electron microscopical studies revealed the strongest immunoreactivity in the mesothelium; this tissue layer is involved in adhesion. Adhesion of Cuvierian tubule extracts was measured on the surface of various materials. The extracted protein showed the strongest adhesion to Teflon surface. Increased adhesion was observed in the presence of potassium and EDTA, while cadmium caused a decrease in adhesion. Addition of antibodies and trypsin abolished the adhesive properties of the extract. PMID:22013488
Baranowska, Malgorzata; Schlo▀macher, Ute; McKenzie, J Douglas; M³ller, Werner E G; Schr÷der, Heinz C
Toxicity effects of water extracts of Holothuria atra Jaeger in mice
Objective To determine lethal median dose (LD50) and histopathological toxicity of water extract of Holothuria atra (H. atra) in mice. Methods The behavioral changes, mortality and histopathology examination on liver were assessed in mice 14 d after the administration (i.p.) of H. atra water extract. Seven doses (10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mg/kg) of H. atra were used. The control group was treated with normal saline. Results In the acute study in mice, the water extracts of H. atra caused dose-dependent general behavior adverse affects and mortality. The main behavioral sign of toxicity was hypoactivity, noticed immediately after administration of the extract which was more obvious at the higher doses and persisted until death. Mortality increased with increasing doses, the calculated LD50 was 41 mg/kg in mice. The liver toxicity was confirmed by histopathological examination, which indicated the presence of abnormal hepatocytes with a distorted shape and undefined cell lining as well as enlarged nuclei in low doses groups. High doses groups indicated a more prominent distortion of the polyhedral hepatocytes with undefined cell lining, massive cytoplasm, pyknotic, karyorhexis and karyolytic nuclei (necrosis of hepatocytes). Control group showed polyhedral hepatocytes with defined cell lining arranged in cords and normal round nuclei, with granular cytoplasm. Conclusions Because of the relatively low LD50 value in the acute study in mice, it may be concluded that the H. atra water extract is toxic.
Hashim, Ridzwan Bin; Azizan, Nurul Alia; Zamli, Zaitunnatakin; Zulkipli, Farah Hanis; Mazlan, Nurzafirah; Althunibat, Osama Yousef
Characterization of proteolytic activities during intestinal regeneration of the sea cucumber, Holothuria glaberrima
Proteolysis carried out by different proteases control cellular processes during development and regeneration. Here we investigated the function of the proteasome and other proteases in the process of intestinal regeneration using as a model the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima. This echinoderm possesses the ability to regenerate its viscera after a process of evisceration. Enzymatic activity assays showed that intestinal extracts at different stages of regeneration possessed chymotrypsin-like activity. This activity was inhibited by i) MG132, a reversible inhibitor of chymotrypsin and peptidylglutamyl peptidase hydrolase (PGPH) activities of the proteasome, ii) E64d, a permeable inhibitor of cysteine proteases and iii) TPCK, a serine chymotrypsin inhibitor, but not by epoxomicin, an irreversible and potent inhibitor of all enzymatic activities of the proteasome. To elucidate the role which these proteases might play during intestinal regeneration, we carried out in vivo experiments injecting MG132, E64d and TPCK into regenerating animals. The results showed effects on the size of the regenerating intestine, cell proliferation and collagen degradation. These findings suggest that proteolysis by several proteases is important in the regulation of intestinal regeneration in H. glaberrima.
Discovery of novel saponins from the viscera of the sea cucumber Holothuria lessoni.
Sea cucumbers, sometimes referred to as marine ginseng, produce numerous compounds with diverse functions and are potential sources of active ingredients for agricultural, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products. We examined the viscera of an Australian sea cucumber Holothuria lessoni Massin et al. 2009, for novel bioactive compounds, with an emphasis on the triterpene glycosides, saponins. The viscera were extracted with 70% ethanol, and this extract was purified by a liquid-liquid partition process and column chromatography, followed by isobutanol extraction. The isobutanol saponin-enriched mixture was further purified by high performance centrifugal partition chromatography (HPCPC) with high purity and recovery. The resultant purified polar samples were analyzed using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS)/MS and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS)/MS to identify saponins and characterize their molecular structures. As a result, at least 39 new saponins were identified in the viscera of H. lessoni with a high structural diversity, and another 36 reported triterpene glycosides, containing different aglycones and sugar moieties. Viscera samples have provided a higher diversity and yield of compounds than observed from the body wall. The high structural diversity and novelty of saponins from H. lessoni with potential functional activities presents a great opportunity to exploit their applications for industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical use. PMID:24821624
Production and dispersal of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides spores on Stylosanthes scabra under elevated CO2.
This paper reports the effect of twice-ambient (700 ppm) atmospheric CO(2) concentration on infection, disease development, spore production and dispersal of the anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in susceptible (Fitzroy) and partially resistant (Seca) cultivars of the tropical pasture legume Stylosanthes scabra under controlled environment and field conditions. Reduction in plant height due to anthracnose was partially compensated for by growth enhancement at elevated CO(2) in Fitzroy but not in Seca. Anthracnose severity was reduced under elevated CO(2) although the reduction was only significant in Fitzroy. Delayed and reduced germination, germtube growth and appressoria production were partly responsible for the reduced severity. Despite an extended incubation period, C. gloeosporioides developed sporulating lesions faster and produced more spores per day within the same latent period at high CO(2) and ambient CO(2). When Fitzroy seedlings grown at 700 ppm CO(2) were exposed to pathogen inoculum under field conditions, they consistently developed more severe anthracnose with more lesions than seedlings grown at ambient CO(2). The environmental variable, which correlated most strongly with the dispersal and infection of C. gloeosporioides spores in the field, was relative humidity in plant canopy. We have shown that an enlarged Stylosanthes canopy under elevated CO(2) can trap more spores, which can lead to more severe anthracnose under favorable weather. The implications of these findings for perennial Stylosanthes pastures are discussed. PMID:15092933
Chakraborty, S; Pangga, I B; Lupton, J; Hart, L; Room, P M; Yates, D
Common cellular events occur during wound healing and organ regeneration in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima
Background All animals possess some type of tissue repair mechanism. In some species, the capacity to repair tissues is limited to the healing of wounds. Other species, such as echinoderms, posses a striking repair capability that can include the replacement of entire organs. It has been reported that some mechanisms, namely extracellular matrix remodeling, appear to occur in most repair processes. However, it remains unclear to what extent the process of organ regeneration, particularly in animals where loss and regeneration of complex structures is a programmed natural event, is similar to wound healing. We have now used the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima to address this question. Results Animals were lesioned by making a 3û5 mm transverse incision between one of the longitudinal muscle pairs along the bodywall. Lesioned tissues included muscle, nerve, water canal and dermis. Animals were allowed to heal for up to four weeks (2, 6, 12, 20, and 28 days post-injury) before sacrificed. Tissues were sectioned in a cryostat and changes in cellular and tissue elements during repair were evaluated using classical dyes, immmuohistochemistry and phalloidin labeling. In addition, the temporal and spatial distribution of cell proliferation in the animals was assayed using BrdU incorporation. We found that cellular events associated with wound healing in H. glaberrima correspond to those previously shown to occur during intestinal regeneration. These include: (1) an increase in the number of spherule-containing cells, (2) remodeling of the extracellular matrix, (3) formation of spindle-like structures that signal dedifferentiation of muscle cells in the area flanking the lesion site and (4) intense cellular division occurring mainly in the coelomic epithelium after the first week of regeneration. Conclusion Our data indicate that H. glaberrima employs analogous cellular mechanisms during wound healing and organ regeneration. Thus, it is possible that regenerative limitations in some organisms are due either to the absence of particular mechanisms associated with repair or the inability of activating the repair process in some tissues or stages.
San Miguel-Ruiz, Jose E; Garcia-Arraras, Jose E
LPS-Induced Genes in Intestinal Tissue of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria glaberrima
Metazoan immunity is mainly associated with specialized cells that are directly involved with the immune response. Nevertheless, both in vertebrates and invertebrates other organs might respond to immune activation and participate either directly or indirectly in the ongoing immune process. However, most of what is known about invertebrate immunity has been restricted to immune effector cells and little information is available on the immune responses of other tissues or organs. We now focus on the immune reactions of the intestinal tissue of an echinoderm. Our study employs a non-conventional model, the echinoderm Holothuria glaberrima, to identify intestinal molecules expressed after an immune challenge presented by an intra-coelomic injection of lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The expression profiles of intestinal genes expressed differentially between LPS-injected animals and control sea water-injected animals were determined using a custom-made Agilent microarray with 7209 sea cucumber intestinal ESTs. Fifty (50) unique sequences were found to be differentially expressed in the intestine of LPS-treated sea cucumbers. Seven (7) of these sequences represented homologues of known proteins, while the remaining (43) had no significant similarity with any protein, EST or RNA database. The known sequences corresponded to cytoskeletal proteins (Actin and alpha-actinin), metabolic enzymes (GAPDH, Ahcy and Gnmt), metal ion transport/metabolism (major yolk protein) and defense/recognition (fibrinogen-like protein). The expression pattern of 11 genes was validated using semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Nine of these corroborated the microarray results and the remaining two showed a similar trend but without statistical significance. Our results show some of the molecular events by which the holothurian intestine responds to an immune challenge and provide important information to the study of the evolution of the immune response.
Ramirez-Gomez, Francisco; Ortiz-Pineda, Pablo A.; Rivera-Cardona, Gabriela; Garcia-Arraras, Jose E.
Instantaneous adhesion of Cuvierian tubules in the sea cucumber Holothuria forskali.
The peculiar Cuvierian tubules of sea cucumbers function as a defense mechanism. They thwart attacks by creating a sticky network composed of elongated tubules within which the potential predator is entangled in a matter of seconds and thus immobilized. Cuvierian tubules are typical instantaneous adhesive organs in which tissue integrity is destroyed during the release of the adhesive secretion. However, very little information is available about this adhesion process. The adhesive epithelium-the mesothelium-and the sticky material it produces were studied in the species Holothuria forskali using different microscopy techniques (light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy). The mesothelium consists of two cell types-peritoneocytes and granular cells-organized in superimposed layers. In tubules before expulsion, peritoneocytes form an outer protective cell layer preventing adhesion when not needed. After expulsion, the elongation process removes this protective layer and allows granular cells to unfold and to become exposed at the tubule surface. At this stage, Cuvierian tubules are still not sticky. Upon contact with a surface, however, granular cells release their granule contents. Once released, this material changes in aspect, swells, and spreads readily on any type of substrate where it forms a thin homogeneous layer. After tubule peeling, this layer remains on the surface but is often contaminated with collagen fibers. Atomic force microscopy demonstrated the adhesive layer to be made up of globular nanostructures measuring about 70?nm in diameter and to be more adhesive than the collagen fibers left on it. The morphological organization of Cuvierian tubules therefore allows contact-dependent deposition of an adhesive material presenting a high affinity for various surfaces. It is certainly an adaptive advantage for a defense organ to be able to entangle different types of predators. PMID:24985220
Demeuldre, MÚlanie; Chinh Ngo, Thi; Hennebert, Elise; Wattiez, Ruddy; LeclÞre, Philippe; Flammang, Patrick
Cytotoxic effect of Alpinia scabra (Blume) N?ves extracts on human breast and ovarian cancer cells
Background Alpinia scabra, locally known as 'Lengkuas rayaÆ, is an aromatic, perennial and rhizomatous herb from the family Zingiberaceae. It is a wild species which grows largely on mountains at moderate elevations in Peninsular Malaysia, but it can also survive in the lowlands like in the states of Terengganu and Northern Johor. The present study reports the cytotoxic potential of A. scabra extracts from different parts of the plant. Methods The experimental approach in the present study was based on a bioassay-guided fractionation. The crude methanol and fractionated extracts (hexane, chloroform and water) from different parts of A. scabra (leaves, rhizomes, roots and pseudo stems) were prepared prior to the cytotoxicity evaluation against human ovarian (SKOV-3) and hormone-dependent breast (MCF7) carcinoma cells. The identified cytotoxic extracts were then subjected to chemical investigations in order to identify the active ingredients. A normal human lung fibroblast cell line (MRC-5) was used to determine the specificity for cancerous cells. The cytotoxic extracts and fractions were also subjected to morphological assessment, DNA fragmentation analysis and DAPI nuclear staining. Results The leaf (hexane and chloroform) and rhizome (chloroform) extracts showed high inhibitory effect against the tested cells. Ten fractions (LC1-LC10) were yielded after purification of the leaf chloroform extract. Fraction LC4 which showed excellent cytotoxic activity was further purified and resulted in 17 sub-fractions (VLC1-VLC17). Sub-fraction VLC9 showed excellent cytotoxicity against MCF7 and SKOV-3 cells but not toxic against normal MRC-5 cells. Meanwhile, eighteen fractions (RC1-RC18) were obtained after purification of the rhizome chloroform extract, of which fraction RC5 showed cytotoxicity against SKOV-3 cells with high selectivity index. There were marked morphological changes when observed using phase-contrast inverted microscope, DAPI nuclear staining and also DNA fragmentations in MCF7 and SKOV-3 cells after treatment with the cytotoxic extracts and fractions which were indicative of cell apoptosis. Methyl palmitate and methyl stearate were identified in the hexane leaf extract by GC-MS analysis. Conclusions The data obtained from the current study demonstrated that the cell death induced by cytotoxic extracts and fractions of A. scabra may be due to apoptosis induction which was characterized by apoptotic morphological changes and DNA fragmentation. The active ingredients in the leaf sub-fraction VLC9 and rhizome fraction RC5 may lead to valuable compounds that have the ability to kill cancer cells but not normal cells.
Effect of bÛche-de-mer fishing on densities and size structure of Holothuria nobilis (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) populations on the Great Barrier Reef
Decreasing catch rates for Holothuria nobilis (black teatfish) on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) prompted management agencies to close the fishery for this species in October 1999. At the same time, we surveyed densities and size structure of H. nobilis populations in the main area fished on the GBR. Densities of H. nobilis on four reefs protected from fishing (approximately
S. Uthicke; J. Benzie
Canopy Size and Induced Resistance in Stylosanthes scabra Determine Anthracnose Severity at High CO(2).
ABSTRACT This study examines the relative importance of canopy size and induced resistance to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides at 350- and 700-ppm atmospheric CO(2) concentrations on susceptible Stylosanthes scabra 'Fitzroy' from two studies in a controlled environment facility (CEF) and in the field. Plants were grown at the two CO(2) concentrations in a repeated experiment in the CEF and inoculated at 6, 9, or 12 weeks of age. Although the physiological maturity of plants was at a similar stage for all three ages, the number of lesions per plant increased with increasing plant age at both CO(2) concentrations. At 350 ppm, the increase was associated with canopy size and increasing infection efficiency of the pathogen, but at 700 ppm, it was associated only with canopy size, because infection efficiency did not change with increasing age. A level of resistance was induced in plants at 700 ppm CO(2). In a second study, plants were raised for 12 to 14 weeks at the two CO(2) concentrations in the CEF and exposed to C. gloeosporioides inoculum in replicated field plots under ambient CO(2) over three successive years. Fitzroy developed a dense and enlarged canopy, with 28 to 46% more nodes, leaf area, and aboveground biomass at high CO(2) than at low CO(2). Up to twice as many lesions per plant were produced in the high CO(2) plants, because the enlarged canopy trapped many more pathogen spores. The transient induced resistance in high CO(2) plants failed to operate when exposed to pathogen inoculum under ambient CO(2) in the field. These results highlight the need to consider both canopy size and host resistance in assessing the influence of elevated CO(2) on plant disease. PMID:18943969
Pangga, I B; Chakraborty, S; Yates, D
Influence of three bacteria strains on the population dynamics of Tisbe holothuriae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)
The influence of three bacteria strains (Helgo 21, NCMB 308 and NCMB 13) on the life cycle of Tisbe holothuriae Humes 1957 was investigated under constant experimental conditions (19 20░C and 38ë S). For each of the first six experiments, females (F1), whose life history was followed, were obtained from a common mother (F0). Experiment no 7 was carried out with adult females (F2) obtained during exp. 4. Females were bred in 50-ml dishes and transferred to a fresh container as soon as they produced a new egg-sac. Offspring (F2: exp. 1 6; F3: exp. 7) from successive egg-layings were counted as soon as they moulted into adults. Larval mortality was estimated by enumeration of the adults issuing from a known number of nauplii that had been fed different bacteria strains. Some difficulties arose in obtaining adults with NCMB 13: it appeared to be necessary to provide this first generation with a small quantity of TetraMin (commercial fish food) in order to initiate reproduction and obtain a second generation. However, in exp. 4, F2 adult females fed NCMB 13 became ovigerous and fertile without needing TetraMin. This result is interpreted as denoting an indispensable period of adaptation to the diet, which probably requires important changes at the enzymatic level. One experiment was carried out with Helgo 21; another one with NCMB 308; two with NCMB 13 (with a unique additional meal of TetraMin to allow reproduction), two with NCMB 13 during larval development, then only tetraMin during adult stage, and one with NCMB 13 alone (with females issued from exp. 4). Data obtained regarding longevity, duration of reproduction period, number of egg-sacs and number of adult descendants show an important variability between bacteria strains. Lower results were almost always obtained with Helgo 21 and NCMB 308. An interesting result lies in the maximum number of egg-sacs: low with Helgo 21 and NCMB 308 (5), but very ample with NCMB 13 (11 in one experiment). In experiment 7, carried out with animals bearing a large coefficient of inbreeding (0.375), the results concerning the maximum number of egg-sacs are good (10) as are the mean number of descendants per female (294: the highest number of the seven experiments). These results indicate that genetic factors involved in the reduction of descendants in ageing laboratory cultures can be suppressed to a certain extent by nutritional factors. The poor results obtained with Helgo 21 and NCMB 308 alone must be considered with caution: after a period of adaptation with an alimentary complement, these strains could perhaps permit an interesting production of copepods.
GuÚrin, J.-P.; Rieper-Kirchner, M.
Structure elucidation, protein profile and the antitumor effect of the biological active substance extracted from sea cucumber Holothuria polii.
Holothuria polii (Delle Chiaje, 1823) (Holothuriidae) is a sea cucumber inhabiting Mediterranean Sea coast of Egypt. The bioactive compound of its tegument has antifungal, antibacterial and antiparasitic effects. The present study aims to elucidate the structure of the bioactive material of H. polii for pharmacological and chemotaxonomic purposes. Furthermore, the study demonstrates its efficacy as a cytotoxic agents against two tumor cell lines HCT116 (colon adenocarcinoma cell line) and MCF7 (breast adenocarcinoma cell line). The biological active compound of the ethanol extract has been characterized by means of infrared (IR), proton-nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) and mass spectra. Protein profile was carried out using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Cytotoxic activity was carried out according to sulforhodamine-B assay. IR, (1)H NMR, UV-Vis and mass spectra showed that the extracted bioactive material is a nonsulfated hexaosides called bivittoside. This glycoside is composed of aglycone and a glycosidic chain (carbohydrate chain) enclosed with six sugar units, including xylose, glucose, 3-O-methylglucose and quinovose. There were no traces of dissolved proteins. The preliminary cytotoxic assay of bivittoside exhibited significant cytotoxic activity against two types of cultured tumor cell lines of HCT116 and MCF7. The half-maximal inhibitory concentration was 17.4 Ág/ml and 18 Ág/ml for MCF7 and HCT116, respectively. Although H. polii belongs to the genus Holothuria, the lacking of sulfate group and the fact that it contains up to six monosaccharides make it different from this genus. The present study suggests separation of H. polii from its genus to a new one. On the other hand, results support the hypothesis that H. polii bioactive compound has an antitumor effect. PMID:23188650
Omran, Nahla Ee; Khedr, Abdalla M
Condensed tannin and saponin content of Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp, Desmodium uncinatum, Stylosanthes guianensis and Stylosanthes scabra grown in Zimbabwe.
Samples of the tropical forage legumes Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp (cowpea), Desmodium uncinatum (silverleaf desmodium), Stylosanthes guianensis (oxley fine stem stylo) and Stylosanthes scabra (fitzroy) and of natural pasture (veld) hay were analysed and ranked according to their proanthocyanidin (PA) and saponin content. Silverleaf desmodium and fitzroy leaf and stem samples of different ages were also separately analysed for the PA contents. All the samples analysed contained some PA but no saponins. High levels of PA were detected in silverleaf desmodium and very low levels in veld hay and cowpea. In all samples, more of the tannins were bound to protein or neutral detergent fibre (NDF) than were extractable, most being bound to proteins. The proportion of the unextractable PA was greater in younger than in mature materials. PMID:11234193
Baloyi, J J; Ngongoni, N T; Topps, J H; Acamovic, T; Hamudikuwanda, H
Diet of Littoraria scabra, while vertically migrating on mangrove trees: Gut content, fatty acid, and stable isotope analyses
The snail, Littoraria scabra, is a dominant grazer on tropical mangrove trees, and may play an important role in the food web dynamics of these ecosystems. Its daily vertical migration to avoid tidal submersion results in exposure to varying food types and abundances. A comprehensive diet analysis - gut contents, fatty acid profiles, and stable isotopes ( ?15N and ?13C) - was conducted on snails migrating along mangrove trees and snails maintained in non-tidal mesocosms at Nananu-i-ra, Fiji Islands. In addition, fatty acid profiles and stable isotope signatures were obtained from surface scrapings of mangrove roots, trunks, branches, and leaves. Results from this multi-technique study indicate that L. scabra is mainly a generalist herbivore, which easily shifts diets depending on food availability, and which also has the ability to ingest and assimilate zooplankton. Ingestion of greater quantities of diverse foods (i.e., microalgae, foliose/corticated macrophytes, filamentous algae, mangrove tissues, zooplankton) takes place in the bottom areas of mangrove trees (roots and trunks) during low tides, while top areas (branches and leaves) provide limited food resources for snails feeding during high tides. However, snails preferentially assimilate microalgae and bacteria, regardless of their feeding habitat (different areas within mangrove trees and non-tidal mesocosms). The daily vertical movements of this snail result in variable feeding times, ingestion of different food types and amounts, and different assimilations. These findings also suggest that organic matter derived from mangrove tissues may not be readily transferred to higher trophic levels through this grazing pathway.
Alfaro, Andrea C.
Euzebya tangerina gen. nov., sp. nov., a deeply branching marine actinobacterium isolated from the sea cucumber Holothuria edulis, and proposal of Euzebyaceae fam. nov., Euzebyales ord. nov. and Nitriliruptoridae subclassis nov.
A tangerine-coloured, Gram-positive actinobacterial strain, designated F10(T), was isolated from the abdominal epidermis of a sea cucumber, Holothuria edulis, collected in seawater off the coast of Japan. A 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain F10(T) was a member of the class Actinobacteria and was most closely related to Nitriliruptor alkaliphilus ANL-iso2(T) (87.4?% sequence similarity). Phylogenetic analyses showed that strain F10(T) represented a novel, deep-rooted, and distinct phylogenetic lineage within the class Actinobacteria and clustered with N. alkaliphilus and uncultured bacteria. The organism had meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, and rhamnose and galactose as the diagnostic cell-wall sugars. Strain F10(T) contained C???:??7c, C??:? and C??:??8c as the major cellular fatty acids. The predominant isoprenoid quinone was MK-9 (H?).The G+C content of the DNA was 68.3 mol%. Based on data from the current polyphasic study, it is proposed that the new marine isolate be placed in a novel genus and be considered a novel species designated Euzebya tangerina gen. nov., sp. nov. within the new family, order and subclass Euzebyaceae fam. nov., Euzebyales ord. nov. and Nitriliruptoridae subclassis nov. in the class Actinobacteria. The type strain of Euzebya tangerina is F10(T) (=NBRC 105439(T) =KCTC 19736(T)). PMID:19915105
Kurahashi, Midori; Fukunaga, Yukiyo; Sakiyama, Yayoi; Harayama, Shigeaki; Yokota, Akira
Ependymin, a gene involved in regeneration and neuroplasticity in vertebrates, is overexpressed during regeneration in the echinoderm Holothuria glaberrima.
We report the characterization of an ependymin-related gene (EpenHg) from a regenerating intestine cDNA library of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima. This finding is remarkable because no ependymin sequence has ever been reported from invertebrates. Database comparisons of the conceptual translation of the EpenHg gene reveal 63% similarity (47% identity) with mammalian ependymin-related proteins (MERPs) and close relationship with the frog and piscine ependymins. We also report the partial sequences of ependymin representatives from another species of sea cucumber and from a sea urchin species. Conventional and real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCRs) show that the gene is expressed in several echinoderm tissues, including esophagus, mesenteries, gonads, respiratory trees, hemal system, tentacles and body wall. Moreover, the ependymin product in the intestine is overexpressed during sea cucumber intestinal regeneration. The discovery of ependymins in echinoderms, a group well known for their regenerative capacities, can give us an insight on the evolution and roles of ependymin molecules. PMID:15256263
Sußrez-Castillo, Edna C; Medina-OrtÝz, Wanda E; Roig-L¾pez, JosÚ L; GarcÝa-Arrarßs, JosÚ E
HGA-2, a novel galactoside-binding lectin from the sea cucumber Holothuria grisea binds to bacterial cells.
A novel lectin, HGA-2, was isolated from the sea cucumber Holothuria grisea. The protein was isolated by a single chromatographic step using a column of Guar Gum as affinity. HGA-2 showed an apparent molecular mass of 17 kDa and 34 kDa under reducing and nonreducing conditions, respectively. The hemagglutinating activity was specific for rabbit erythrocytes, showing no activity for human blood A, B and O. Its hemagglutinating activity was inhibited by carbohydrates containing galactose, with higher affinity for GalNAc and glycoprotein porcine stomach mucin (PSM). HGA-2 was stable at pH 6-10, significantly declining at pH 5 and a temperature of 40░C, with its activity being abolished at 100 ░C. The HGA-2 protein was found to be Ca(2+)-dependent; it was highly toxic against Artemia nauplii and able to recognize and agglutinate cells of Escherichia coli. Amino acid sequences of tryptic peptides of HGA-2 strongly suggest that HGA-2 is a member of the C-type lectin family. PMID:24393613
de Melo, Arthur Alves; Carneiro, R¶mulo Farias; de Melo Silva, Winnie; Moura, Raniere da Mata; Silva, Giselle Cristina; de Sousa, Oscarina Viana; de Sousa Saboya, Jefferson Pablo; Nascimento, Kyria Santiago do; Saker-Sampaio, Silvana; Nagano, Celso Shiniti; Cavada, Benildo Sousa; Sampaio, Alexandre Holanda
Isolation of a Pigment-producing Strain of Staphylococcus kloosii from the Respiratory Tree of Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota (Brandt 1835) from Malaysian Waters
Staphylococcus kloosii, an orange pigment-producing bacterium, was isolated from the respiratory tree of Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota (Brandt 1835) from Teluk Nipah, Pangkor Island, Perak, Malaysia. This report is the first documentation of this Gram-positive strain, referred to as Strain 68 in Malaysia. A partial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence of the mesophilic strain has been registered with GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine) with accession number JX102547. Phylogenetic analysis using the neighbour-joining method further supported the identification of Strain 68 as S. kloosii. The circular strain produced orange pigments on tryptone glucose yeast extract agar (TGYEA) and in nutrient broth (NB) at approximately pH 7. The visible spectra of ethanolic and methanolic pigment extracts of the bacterial strain were considered identical with ?max at 426, 447 and 475 nm and ?max at 426, 445 and 473 nm, respectively. Both visible spectra resemble the visible spectra of lutein, which is a commercial carotenoid; however, further analyses are required to confirm the identity of this pigment. The methanolic extracts of the intracellular pigments comprised at least three pigment compounds: an orange pigment compound (major compound), a yellow pigment compound (the least polar) and a pink pigment compound (the most polar). These findings are the first documentation of the pigment composition of S. kloosii as no such record could be found to date.
Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim; Ngah, Nurziana; Hamid, Tengku Haziyamin Tengku Abdul; Susanti, Deny
Calbindin-D32k Is Localized to a Subpopulation of Neurons in the Nervous System of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Echinodermata)
Members of the calbindin subfamily serve as markers of subpopulations of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. Although markers of these proteins are widely available and used, their application to invertebrate nervous systems has been very limited. In this study we investigated the presence and distribution of members of the calbindin subfamily in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Selenka, 1867). Immunohistological experiments with antibodies made against rat calbindin 1, parvalbumin, and calbindin 2, showed that these antibodies labeled cells and fibers within the nervous system of H. glaberrima. Most of the cells and fibers were co-labeled with the neural-specific marker RN1, showing their neural specificity. These were distributed throughout all of the nervous structures, including the connective tissue plexi of the body wall and podia. Bioinformatics analyses of the possible antigen recognized by these markers showed that a calbindin 2-like protein present in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, corresponded to the calbindin-D32k previously identified in other invertebrates. Western blots with anti-calbindin 1 and anti-parvalbumin showed that these markers recognized an antigen of approximately 32 kDa in homogenates of radial nerve cords of H. glaberrima and Lytechinus variegatus. Furthermore, immunoreactivity with anti-calbindin 1 and anti-parvalbumin was obtained to a fragment of calbindin-D32k of H. glaberrima. Our findings suggest that calbindin-D32k is present in invertebrates and its sequence is more similar to the vertebrate calbindin 2 than to calbindin 1. Thus, characterization of calbindin-D32k in echinoderms provides an important view of the evolution of this protein family and represents a valuable marker to study the nervous system of invertebrates.
Diaz-Balzac, Carlos A.; Lazaro-Pena, Maria I.; Garcia-Rivera, Enrique M.; Gonzalez, Carlos I.; Garcia-Arraras, Jose E.
Calbindin-D32k is localized to a subpopulation of neurons in the nervous system of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Echinodermata).
Members of the calbindin subfamily serve as markers of subpopulations of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. Although markers of these proteins are widely available and used, their application to invertebrate nervous systems has been very limited. In this study we investigated the presence and distribution of members of the calbindin subfamily in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Selenka, 1867). Immunohistological experiments with antibodies made against rat calbindin 1, parvalbumin, and calbindin 2, showed that these antibodies labeled cells and fibers within the nervous system of H. glaberrima. Most of the cells and fibers were co-labeled with the neural-specific marker RN1, showing their neural specificity. These were distributed throughout all of the nervous structures, including the connective tissue plexi of the body wall and podia. Bioinformatics analyses of the possible antigen recognized by these markers showed that a calbindin 2-like protein present in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, corresponded to the calbindin-D32k previously identified in other invertebrates. Western blots with anti-calbindin 1 and anti-parvalbumin showed that these markers recognized an antigen of approximately 32 kDa in homogenates of radial nerve cords of H. glaberrima and Lytechinus variegatus. Furthermore, immunoreactivity with anti-calbindin 1 and anti-parvalbumin was obtained to a fragment of calbindin-D32k of H. glaberrima. Our findings suggest that calbindin-D32k is present in invertebrates and its sequence is more similar to the vertebrate calbindin 2 than to calbindin 1. Thus, characterization of calbindin-D32k in echinoderms provides an important view of the evolution of this protein family and represents a valuable marker to study the nervous system of invertebrates. PMID:22412907
DÝaz-Balzac, Carlos A; Lßzaro-Pe±a, MarÝa I; GarcÝa-Rivera, Enrique M; Gonzßlez, Carlos I; GarcÝa-Arrarßs, JosÚ E
Traditional Chinese medicine herbal extracts of Cibotium barometz, Gentiana scabra, Dioscorea batatas, Cassia tora, and Taxillus chinensis inhibit SARS-CoV replication
Development of anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) agents is pivotal to prevent the reemergence of the life-threatening disease, SARS. In this study, more than 200 extracts from Chinese medicinal herbs were evaluated for anti-SARS-CoV activities using a cell-based assay that measured SARS-CoV-induced cytopathogenic effect (CPE) in vitro on Vero E6 cells. Six herbal extracts, one each from Gentianae Radix (?? l¾ng d?n; the dried rhizome of Gentiana scabra), Dioscoreae Rhizoma (?? sh?n yÓo; the tuber of Dioscorea batatas), Cassiae Semen (??? juÚ mÝng z?; the dried seed of Cassia tora) and Loranthi Ramus (??? s?ng jý sh?ng; the dried stem, with leaf of Taxillus chinensis) (designated as GSH, DBM, CTH and TCH, respectively), and two from Rhizoma Cibotii (?? g?u j?; the dried rhizome of Cibotium barometz) (designated as CBE and CBM), were found to be potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV at concentrations between 25 and 200 ?g/ml. The concentrations of the six extracts needed to inhibit 50% of Vero E6 cell proliferation (CC50) and 50% of viral replication (EC50) were determined. The resulting selective index values (SI = CC50/EC50) of the most effective extracts CBE, GSH, DBM, CTH and TCH were > 59.4, > 57.5, > 62.1, > 59.4, and > 92.9, respectively. Among these extracts, CBM and DBM also showed significant inhibition of SARS-CoV 3CL protease activity with IC50 values of 39 ?g/ml and 44 ?g/ml, respectively. Our findings suggest that these six herbal extracts may have potential as candidates for future development of anti-SARS therapeutics. Abbreviations SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV, coronavirus CPE, cytopathogenic effect TCM, traditional Chinese medicine
Wen, Chih-Chun; Shyur, Lie-Fen; Jan, Jia-Tsrong; Liang, Po-Huang; Kuo, Chih-Jung; Arulselvan, Palanisamy; Wu, Jin-Bin; Kuo, Sheng-Chu; Yang, Ning-Sun
Traditional Chinese medicine herbal extracts of Cibotium barometz, Gentiana scabra, Dioscorea batatas, Cassia tora, and Taxillus chinensis inhibit SARS-CoV replication.
Development of anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) agents is pivotal to prevent the reemergence of the life-threatening disease, SARS. In this study, more than 200 extracts from Chinese medicinal herbs were evaluated for anti-SARS-CoV activities using a cell-based assay that measured SARS-CoV-induced cytopathogenic effect (CPE) in vitro on Vero E6 cells. Six herbal extracts, one each from Gentianae Radix ( l¾ng d?n; the dried rhizome of Gentiana scabra), Dioscoreae Rhizoma ( sh?n yÓo; the tuber of Dioscorea batatas), Cassiae Semen ( juÚ mÝng z?; the dried seed of Cassia tora) and Loranthi Ramus ( s?ng jý sh?ng; the dried stem, with leaf of Taxillus chinensis) (designated as GSH, DBM, CTH and TCH, respectively), and two from Rhizoma Cibotii ( g?u j?; the dried rhizome of Cibotium barometz) (designated as CBE and CBM), were found to be potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV at concentrations between 25 and 200 ?g/ml. The concentrations of the six extracts needed to inhibit 50% of Vero E6 cell proliferation (CC50) and 50% of viral replication (EC50) were determined. The resulting selective index values (SI = CC50/EC50) of the most effective extracts CBE, GSH, DBM, CTH and TCH were > 59.4, > 57.5, > 62.1, > 59.4, and > 92.9, respectively. Among these extracts, CBM and DBM also showed significant inhibition of SARS-CoV 3CL protease activity with IC50 values of 39 ?g/ml and 44 ?g/ml, respectively. Our findings suggest that these six herbal extracts may have potential as candidates for future development of anti-SARS therapeutics.AbbreviationsSARS,severe acute respiratory syndromeCoV,coronavirusCPE,cytopathogenic effectTCM,traditional Chinese medicine. PMID:24716104
The effects of body temperature and mass on the postprandial metabolic responses of the African egg-eating snakes Dasypeltis scabra and Dasypeltis inornata.
African egg-eating snakes (Dasypeltis) feed only on freshly laid bird eggs which they perforate within their esophagus before swallowing the liquid contents and regurgitating the empty shell. Compared to a snake's typical intact meal, the liquid diet of Dasypeltis would expectedly generate a more moderate postprandial metabolic response and specific dynamic action (SDA). Free-ranging Dasypeltis feed over a range of ambient temperatures and thereby experience predicted temperature-dependent shifts in the duration and magnitude of their postprandial metabolic response. Such shifts would undoubtedly be shared among different species and age classes of Dasypeltis. To examine these expectations, we measured pre- and postprandial metabolic rates of adult Dasypeltis inornata and adult and neonate Dasypeltis scabra in response to liquid egg meals weighing 20% of snake body mass at 20, 25, 27, 30, and 32 ░C. With an increase in body temperature, postprandial metabolic profiles of neonate and adult snakes became narrower and shorter in duration. Specific dynamic action varied among temperature treatments, increasing from 20 to 32 ░C. Standard metabolic rate, postprandial peak metabolic rate, and SDA scaled with mass exponents that typically did not differ from 1.0. As expected, Dasypeltis digesting a liquid egg diet experienced a more modest postprandial response and SDA, expending on average only 10.6% of the meal's energy on the breakdown, absorption, and assimilation of the egg meal, whereas other colubrids consuming intact rodent or fish meals expend on average 16.3% of the meal's energy on digestion and assimilation. Actively foraging and feeding throughout the avian egg laying season enable Dasypeltis to survive when eggs are not available. The adaptive suite of traits that enable Dasypeltis to consume eggs of large relative size and ingest only the liquid contents may also be joined by physiological adaptations specific to their liquid diet and extended bouts of fasting. PMID:23454629
Greene, Sara; McConnachie, Suzanne; Secor, Stephen; Perrin, Mike
Prevalence of Haplorchis taichui in Field-Collected Snails: A Molecular Approach
The prevalence of the cercarial stage of an intestinal trematode, Haplorchis taichui, in thiarid snails (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) was investigated using light microscope and species-specific PCR procedures. A total of 988 snails were collected from Mae Taeng district, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, which comprised of 3 species; Melanoides tuberculata, Tarebia granifera, and Thiara scabra. The overall prevalence of pleurolophocercous cercariae was 21.7% as determined by the morphology. For genetic detection of H. taichui infection in snails, 2 primers Hapt_F (5'-GGCCAACGCAATCGTCATCC-3') and Hapt_R (5'-GCGTCGGGTTTCAGACATGG-3'), were used. The genomic DNA of H. taichui, which was used as a positive control, gave an amplification of the 256 bp fragment. The overall prevalence of H. taichui from specific PCR was 9.7%. The proportion of H. taichui among the pleurolophocercous cercariae in this study was 44.9%.
Chontananarth, Thapana
Spatio-Temporal and Size-Dependent Variation in the Success of Releasing Cultured Sea Cucumbers in the Wild
Large-scale releases of cultured ôsandfish,ö Holothuria scabra, were used to examine size-and density-dependent effects on survival among sites. Juveniles were marked by fluorochromes in 3 size classes and released into open 500-m sea pens. A preliminary trial involved the release of 4,000 juveniles at two sites. In a subsequent large-scale experiment, we released 9,000 juveniles at 0.5, 1, or 3
Steven W. Purcell; MatÚo Simutoga
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Includes 21 articles that discuss collection development in Canadian school libraries. Topics include digital collections in school library media centers; print and electronic library resources; library collections; collaborative projects; print-disabled students; informing administrators of the importance of collection development; censorship;à
School Libraries in Canada, 2002
Collecting apparatus
An improved collecting apparatus for small aquatic or airborne organisms such as plankton, larval fish, insects, etc. The improvement constitutes an apertured removal container within which is retained a collecting bag, and which is secured at the apex of a conical collecting net. Such collectors are towed behind a vessel or vehicle with the open end of the conical net facing forward for trapping the aquatic or airborne organisms within the collecting bag, while allowing the water or air to pass through the apertures in the container. The container is readily removable from the collecting net whereby the collecting bag can be quickly removed and replaced for further sample collection. The collecting bag is provided with means for preventing the bag from being pulled into the container by the water or air flowing therethrough.
Duncan, Charles P. (Walnut Creek, CA)
Collection Mapping and Collection Development.
Describes the use of collection mapping to assess media collections of Aurora, Colorado, Public Schools. Case studies of elementary, middle, and high school media centers describe materials selection and weeding and identify philosophies that library collections should support school curriculum, and teacher-library media specialist cooperation inà
Murray, William; And Others
Jay's Collectibles
There is growing interest in collectibles of many types, as indicated by the popularity of television programs such as the History Channel's "Pawn Stars" and "American Pickers" and the Public Broadcasting Service's "Antiques Road Show." The availability of online auction sites such as eBay has enabled many people to collect items of interest as aà
Cappel, James J.; Gillman, Jason R., Jr.
Collective invention
This paper argues that many new production techniques have been developed by a process called 'collective invention'. When firms collectively invent, they make available to their competitors the results of new plant designs so that their competitors can incorporate extensions of those designs into new facilities they build. The paper analyses the implications of this behavior for the rate and
Robert C. Allen
Collective Bargaining.
This chapter discusses litigation touching on collective bargaining issues. The chapter is organized to follow the collective bargaining process, from cases dealing with union organizing to cases involving arbitration. Issues covered also include determination of bargaining units, scope of bargaining, union security, and unfair labor practices inà
Zirkel, Perry A.
Micrometeorite Collecting
Describes how to collect micrometeorites and suggests a number of related activities such as determining the number of meteors entering the atmosphere and determining the composition of the micrometeorites. (BR)
Toubes, Joe; Hoff, Darrel
Spoon Collective
NSDL National Science Digital Library
The Spoon Collective houses descriptive information, discussion archives, paper archives, and links to Websites for three dozen listservs related to the discussion of philosophy, sociology, political science, and literary theory. Some of the topics for the lists include Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, Feminism, Marxism, and Cultural Studies. Thirteen of the lists are dedicated to the work of influential thinkers, including Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. All content at the Spoon Collective can be searched aggregately.
Carnival Collection
"Come to the carnival" is a common refrain in New Orleans during the month of February, and this intoxicating collection from Tulane University pays homage to this wonderful cultural tradition. The collection includes over 1,500 float designs from the "Golden Age" of carnival by notable designers such as Jennie Wilde, B.A. Wikstrom, and Charles Briton. Support for the project comes from the late Charles L. "Pie" Dufour who left funds to continue the preservation of these rare and unique ephemeral materials. Visitors can browse at their leisure, and they may wish to start with fanciful designs like the 1870 "Twelfth Night Revelers" float or the 1891 "Atlanteans" design. Also, visitors can select the work of a particular float designer or krewe of note. Also, visitors can search the entire collection by keyword.
Blood Collection
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
The method that is used for the collection, storage and real-time analysis of blood and other bodily fluids has been licensed to DBCD, Inc. by NASA. The result of this patent licensing agreement has been the development of a commercial product that can provide serum or plasma from whole blood volumes of 20 microliters to 4 milliliters. The device has a fibrous filter with a pore size of less than about 3 microns, and is coated with a mixture of mannitol and plasma fraction protein. The coating causes the cellular fraction to be trapped by the small pores, leaving the cellular fraction intact on the fibrous filter while the acellular fraction passes through the filter for collection in unaltered form from the serum sample collection chamber. The method used by this product is useful to NASA for blood analysis on manned space missions.
Holocaust Collection.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
This is a Collection/Package of two (2) printed documents and 2 VHS videos that provide background and historical information on the Holocaust that is available from NTIS' database. The reports and videos were prepared or sponsored by various federal agen...
Collecting Artifacts
Fresh out of college, the author had only a handful of items worthy of displaying, which included some fossils she had collected in her paleontology class. She had binders filled with great science information, but kids want to see "real" science, not paper science. Then it came to her: she could fill the shelves with science artifacts with theà
Coffey, Natalie
Wastewater Collection.
Presents a literature review of wastewater collection systems and components. This review covers: (1) planning, (2) construction; (3) sewer system evaluation; (4) maintenance; (5) rehabilitation; (6) overview prevention; and (7) wastewater pumping. A list of 111 references is also presented. (HM)
Chatterjee, Samar; And Others
This chapter deals with the legal process by which employers and employee organizations discuss matters related to employment. The chapter is organized to reflect the initial sequence of events in the collective bargaining process. Cases are reported and analyzed in nine sections: obligation and authority to bargain; unit determination andà
Goldschmidt, Steven M.
This chapter summarizes recent state supreme court and federal court decisions involving collective bargaining for employees of public educational institutions. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1975 and reported in the General Digest as of March 1976. In his discussion, the author attempts to integrate relatedà
Collective instabilities
SciTech Connect
The lecture covers mainly Sections 2.VIII and 3.VII of the book ''Accelerator Physics'' by S.Y. Lee, plus mode-coupling instabilities and chromaticity-driven head-tail instability. Besides giving more detailed derivation of many equations, simple interpretations of many collective instabilities are included with the intention that the phenomena can be understood more easily without going into too much mathematics. The notations of Lee's book as well as the e{sup jwt} convention are followed.
K.Y. Ng
Collective Electrodynamics
In this book Carver Mead offers a radically new approach to the standard problems of electromagnetic theory. Motivated by the belief that the goal of scientific research should be the simplification and unification of knowledge, he describes a new way of doing electrodynamics--collective electrodynamics--that does not rely on Maxwell's equations, but rather uses the quantum nature of matter as its sole basis. Collective electrodynamics is a way of looking at how electrons interact, based on experiments that tell us about the electrons directly. (As Mead points out, Maxwell had no access to these experiments.) The results Mead derives for standard electromagnetic problems are identical to those found in any text. Collective electrodynamics reveals, however, that quantities that we usually think of as being very different are, in fact, the same--that electromagnetic phenomena are simple and direct manifestations of quantum phenomena. Mead views his approach as a first step toward reformulating quantum concepts in a clear and comprehensible manner. The book is divided into five sections: magnetic interaction of steady currents, propagating waves, electromagnetic energy, radiation in free space, and electromagnetic interaction of atoms. In an engaging preface, Mead tells how his approach to electromagnetic theory was inspired by his interaction with Richard Feynman. Carver A. Mead is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. He won the 1999 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation.
Mead, Carver A.
Pamphlet Collection
In a welcome move to researchers and historians, the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) has created an online guide to its large pamphlet collection, containing some 90,000 pamphlets, many from the 19th and early 20th centuries. While covering a number of important public and political issues in British history, the collection also contains a fair amount of European and International materials, including a large number of German-language pamphlets, as well as materials on Latin American trade unions, the League of Nations, pacifism, the two World Wars, and conflict in the Middle East. Users can browse the guide by fifteen topics (e.g., Issues in British history, political parties, social policy, poor laws, transport, etc.) or search the online catalog by subject keyword, author, title, or issuing body. The guide lists pamphlet author, title, and classmark, while the online catalog also includes publisher, pages, location, and other notes. As an added bonus, the majority of pamphlets listed in the social policy and transport guides have been digitized and are available in .pdf format.
Hemingway Collection
Ernest Hemingway was a red-blooded man of letters, and one of the 20th century's most celebrated and demonized writers. In 1968, Mary Hemingway arranged to have his papers donated to the Kennedy Library. Over the past several decades, materials related to Hemingway's long career have continued to become part of this very extensive collection. The Kennedy Library has created this specific page to provide both researchers and members of the general public with some basic information about their holdings, along with offering access to a selection of these papers. The photograph galleries are a real treat, as they cover everything from Hemingway's youth in Oak Park all the way up to his last days in Idaho.
Echinoderm Fauna of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean: Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, Number 2.
Two recent intertidal collecting expeditions and existing museum collections have added much to knowledge of the Ascension Island echinoderm fauna. Twenty-five species are now known from Ascension; eight are new records. One new species, Holothuria (Halod...
D. L. Pawson
Workforce Competitiveness Collection. "LINCS" Resource Collection News
This edition of "'LINCS' Resource Collection News" features the Workforce Competitiveness Collection, covering the topics of workforce education, English language acquisition, and technology. Each month Collections News features one of the three "LINCS" (Literacy Information and Communication System) Resource Collections--Basic Skills, Programà
Literacy Information and Communication System, 2011
Program Management Collection. "LINCS" Resource Collection News
This edition of "'LINCS' Resource Collection News" features the Program Management Collection, which covers the topics of Assessment, Learning Disabilities, and Program Improvement. Each month Collections News features one of the three "LINCS" (Literacy Information and Communication System) Resource Collections--Basic Skills, Program Management,à
Atmospheric Visualization Collection: Glossary
This page contains a glossary of terms commonly used in this collection, publications authored by collection members, scheduled meetings, and documentation on uses of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection.
Klaus, Christopher
This new mailing list is designed for users involved in developing electronic collections of information. Suggested topics to be discussed include "collection development strategies, identifying/assessing/acquiring content, collaborative collecting at local/regional/national levels, and other topical aspects of electronic collection management." To join, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com In the body of the message, type: join e-collections yourfirstname yourlastname
Lee, Stuart.; Wise, Alicia.
Collecting Samples for Testing
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Guide to data collection
Guidelines and recommendations are presented for the collection of software development data. Motivation and planning for, and implementation and management of, a data collection effort are discussed. Topics covered include types, sources, and availability of data; methods and costs of data collection; types of analyses supported; and warnings and suggestions based on software engineering laboratory (SEL) experiences. This document is intended as a practical guide for software managers and engineers, abstracted and generalized from 5 years of SEL data collection.
Earthquake Photo Collections
This collection of earthquake photos, published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), contains links to photos for specific earthquakes, as well as links to other USGS image collections and non-USGS collections. Highlights include photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, California. There is also a link to the USGS photo library (general geologic topics), and links to collections published by universities, museums, other government organizations, and professional organizations.
Value, Market Preferences and Trade of Beche-De-Mer from Pacific Island Sea Cucumbers
Market preferences of natural resources contribute to shape their exploitation and production. Beche-de-mer, the product after gutting, cooking, salting and drying sea cucumbers, is exported worldwide to Asian dried seafood markets. A better understanding of the trade, value and market preferences of Pacific island beche-de-mer could identify critical postharvest processing techniques and management strategies for fisheries and aquaculture. Data were collected on export prices and trade of beche-de-mer from Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga and New Caledonia, and the selling prices, respective sizes and organoleptic properties of the products in stores in China. Export prices varied considerably within and among the four countries and low-value species were the most exported by volume. Most of the beche-de-mer from the four Pacific islands is exported to Hong Kong, where quality products are sold and others are distributed to mainland China. Prices of the beche-de-mer in Chinese stores varied up to ten-fold and were mostly influenced by species, body size and, to a lesser extent, physical damage to the products. Market prices across species (averaging US$15û385 kg?1) appear to have mostly increased six- to twelve-fold over the past decade. The data allude that fisheries for Holothuria scabra, H. lessoni, H. fuscogilva, H. whitmaei and Thelenota ananas should be most carefully managed because they were the highest-value species and under greatest demand. The relationships between size of beche-de-mer and sale price were species specific and highly varied. This study also highlights the need for better regulations and/or enforcement of minimum size limits in sea cucumber fisheries, which can help to maximise economic benefits of wild stocks.
Purcell, Steven W.
Value, market preferences and trade of beche-de-mer from pacific island sea cucumbers.
Market preferences of natural resources contribute to shape their exploitation and production. Beche-de-mer, the product after gutting, cooking, salting and drying sea cucumbers, is exported worldwide to Asian dried seafood markets. A better understanding of the trade, value and market preferences of Pacific island beche-de-mer could identify critical postharvest processing techniques and management strategies for fisheries and aquaculture. Data were collected on export prices and trade of beche-de-mer from Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga and New Caledonia, and the selling prices, respective sizes and organoleptic properties of the products in stores in China. Export prices varied considerably within and among the four countries and low-value species were the most exported by volume. Most of the beche-de-mer from the four Pacific islands is exported to Hong Kong, where quality products are sold and others are distributed to mainland China. Prices of the beche-de-mer in Chinese stores varied up to ten-fold and were mostly influenced by species, body size and, to a lesser extent, physical damage to the products. Market prices across species (averaging US$15-385 kg-1) appear to have mostly increased six- to twelve-fold over the past decade. The data allude that fisheries for Holothuria scabra, H. lessoni, H. fuscogilva, H. whitmaei and Thelenota ananas should be most carefully managed because they were the highest-value species and under greatest demand. The relationships between size of beche-de-mer and sale price were species specific and highly varied. This study also highlights the need for better regulations and/or enforcement of minimum size limits in sea cucumber fisheries, which can help to maximise economic benefits of wild stocks. PMID:24736374
Purcell, Steven W
Collectivity and random interactions
Diverse quantum systems, from nuclei to buckyballs to superconducting metals, often show similar collective behaviors, such as pairing or collective bands. These universalities show up when one uses random two-body interactions. In this talk I will discuss some new signatures of collectivity found in fermion systems with random interactions.
Johnson, Calvin
Student Loan Collection Procedures.
This manual on the collection of student loans is intended for the use of business officers and loan collection personnel of colleges and universities of all sizes. The introductory chapter is an overview of sound collection practices and procedures. It discusses the making of a loan, in-school servicing of the accounts, the exit interview, theà
National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC.
Atmospheric Visualization Collection
The intent of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC) is to enhance physical science education and research through visualization of atmospheric data. This collection includes an archive of atmospheric data images and educational material based on these images. By utilizing collaborative digital library tools, a growing user community assists in the development of this collection.
Alaska Collection Development Manual.
Written to guide librarians and staff in all types of libraries, this manual describes steps in the processes of writing collection development statements and assessing library collections. The first section focuses on the collection development policy--the benefits of a written policy, who should write the statement, and elements to be included.à
MacLean, Barbara; And Others
CLIC Digital Collections
The CLIC Digital Collections bring together digital collections from eight different colleges around the Twin Cities, including Hamline University and Macalester College. Here, visitors can take advantage of several collections from Macalester, including Macalester Views and Oral History Collections. The oral histories offer insight into the goings on around campus over the past several decades as told by faculty, students, and others. The Views provide over 150 items that tell the story of Macalester students in all different settings, including Ghana, El Paso, and Fiji. The site also includes a wonderful Fine Art Collection from St. Catherine University that connects students, faculty, staff, and the general public to meaningful works of art.
The Rochambeau Map Collection
Military maps continue to fascinate the general public, and this collection from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress will be of great interest to those with a penchant for American history and cartography. This particular collection contains maps collected and used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau during the American Revolution. Rochambeau served as the commander in chief of the French forces during the Revolution, and this collection contains numerous printed maps that cover much of the continent of North America. Visitors to the collection can search the collection by title, creator, subject, and geographic place. The collection has a number of highlights, including a number of views of Quebec City, maps of military fortifications, and the defenses of the city of Boston.
Hampton Dunn Postcards Collection
The University of South Florida has expanded their digital collections by leaps and bounds in the past few months, and this particular addition is a real find. The Hampton Dunn Postcards Collection contains over 2600 digitized postcards that feature scenes from early twentieth century Florida. Within this collection, visitors will find color images of street scenes, natural vistas, and Floridians at work and play. Visitors will find plenty of urban scenes, along with some rather fascinating images of various public parks and gardens scattered throughout the Sunshine State. Browsing the collection is quite easy, and visitors can also search the collection in its entirety. Finally, visitors should also browse through some of the other digital collections offered by the University of South Florida Libraries.
Florida Law Collections
The Florida Law Collections document the laws and legal heritage of Florida through a wide range of texts digitized from the holdings of the University of Florida's Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center, the State Library, and Archives of Florida, and several other key institutions. Specifically, the collection includes issues of the Journal of the Florida House of Representatives, the Florida Historical Legal Documents collection, a Florida Water Law collection that is particularly noteworthy, as well as other general texts on Florida laws, the legislative process, and government. Given the debates over water rights and usage throughout the state, the Water Law collection is a real find, and visitors can search over 7300 documents within the collection. From the homepage, visitors can perform advanced searches and also look over recently added items. Finally, visitors can also sign up to receive their RSS feed and contact the site administrators with any additional queries they might have.
Bridge-NOAA Collection
The Bridge-NOAA Collection is a selection of exemplary resources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that have been reviewed by educators and found to be well-suited for educational purposes. The collection also emphasizes professional-development opportunities for teachers. There is a strong focus on research data and its use in teaching. The collection provides educators with accurate and useful information on global, national, and regional ocean-science topics.
Delaware Postcard Collection
From New Castle to Sussex County, this very thorough collection of Delaware-themed postcards covers the entire state. Created by the University of Delaware Library Digital Collections group, this digital offering covers a wide variety of the Blue Hen state's history. Visitors can view the front and back of a variety of postcards, many of which contain historical correspondence. Users may also use an advanced search to further delve into the collection.
Solar energy collection system
An improved solar energy collection system, having enhanced energy collection and conversion capabilities, is delineated. The system is characterized by a plurality of receivers suspended above a heliostat field comprising a multiplicity of reflector surfaces, each being adapted to direct a concentrated beam of solar energy to illuminate a target surface for a given receiver. A magnitude of efficiency, suitable for effectively competing with systems employed in collecting and converting energy extracted from fossil fuels, is indicated.
Selcuk, M. K. (inventor)
Solar energy collecting apparatus
A solar energy collecting apparatus is described which is integrally incorporated into a conventional building structure so that it does not protrude from the normal contour of the building, and which utilizes components of the building structure as a part of the collecting apparatus to thereby minimize the cost thereof. The collecting apparatus includes a solar energy absorptive panel which is adapted to be mounted between the conventional support members in the wall or roof of a building, and which includes an outwardly facing dark collecting surface, and an opposite inner surface having fins integrally formed therein to facilitate transfer of heat to air passed therealong.
Mcarthur, W.H.
NRC Collection of Abbreviations.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff collected the list of abbreviations from NRC documents and nuclear industry documents, both foreign and domestic. Readers can use the collection, which is not all inclusive, to identify the terms from whi...
UNO's Afghanistan Collection.
This paper explores the background history and sources of the Afghanistan collection at the University Library, University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). Credit for the impetus behind the development of the collection is given to Chris Jung, a former UNO geography/geology faculty member; Ronald Roskens, then UNO chancellor; and the Afghanistanà
McKernan, M. D.
The Communication Journal Collection
Building and maintaining a journal collection in communication studies is complicated by a lack of agreement on what communication is, what constitutes a communication journal, and the subsequent inconsistencies in the indexing and abstracting tools for the discipline. This paper provides an overview of the issues and controversies within the discipline and offers practical strategies for managing communication journal collections.
Dawn Popoff
Collecting Best Practices
How many beginning teachers struggle to create new lessons despite the fact that experienced teachers have already designed effective lessons for the same content? Shulman (1987) used the term "collective amnesia" to describe the failure of school leaders to design professional development that included the collection of its best practices.à
Tedford, Jennifer
[Azerbaijan medical manuscripts collection].
There are about 600 medical books in the manuscripts collection of Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan Sciences Academy. About 80 of them are Turkish, more than 80 are Arabic, and others are Persian. 167 Turkish-Arabic-Persian books from this collection is being presented as a list. PMID:22164726
Bayat, Ali Haydar
Urine collection device
A urine collection device for females is described. It is comprised of a collection element defining a urine collection chamber and an inlet opening into the chamber and is adapted to be disposed in surrounding relation to the urethral opening of the user. A drainage conduit is connected to the collection element in communication with the chamber whereby the chamber and conduit together comprise a urine flow pathway for carrying urine generally away from the inlet. A first body of wicking material is mounted adjacent the collection element and extends at least partially into the flow pathway. The device preferably also comprise a vaginal insert element including a seal portion for preventing the entry of urine into the vagina.
Michaud, R. B. (inventor)
University of Michigan Collections
The University of Michigan has been developing online digital collections for well over a decade, and their image collections cover everything from architecture to zoology. On this site, visitors can browse through the various collections at their leisure. They are arranged alphabetically, and first-time users would do well just to look over the "Art/Art History" section. Here they will find art images that can be used in the college classroom, tremendous holdings from their textiles collections, and a special section dedicated to Egyptian amulets. Also included here are collections from the University of Michigan's Herbarium Fungus Image Database and field notes. Not every site can say they have "something for everyone", but just about anyone with an interest in the visual arts, science, or the humanities in general will find something to pique their interest.
Fashion Plate Collection
There are fashion plates, and then there are the exquisite fashion plates that constitute the University of Washington Libraries digitized collection. The plates were first collected by long-time home economics professor Blanche Payne, who taught at the University from 1927 to 1966. The plates come from leading French, American, and British fashion journals of the 19th and early 20th century and they document many stylistic periods, such as the Empire, Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian. Visitors will want to start by reading an essay on the collection, and then they should feel welcome to browse the collection of over 400 plates at their leisure, or to browse the collection by subject. One fascinating aspect of the site is an extended excerpt from the 1913 book "Dame fashion" which comments on the history and transformation of various fashions during the 19th century.
Burke Museum Department & Collections
With this Web site, users may access free resources based on the nationally ranked collections of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. Over 5 million specimens are to be found in four areas: anthropology, botany, geology, and zoology. Online resources linked to the zoology collections include a guide to the herpetofauna of Washington, two mammals databases, and a fun section on spider myths. Likewise, records from the Museum's botany collections, housed at the University of Washington Herbarium, may be perused using the WTU Herbarium Database.
Special Collections: Terrorism
The General Accounting Office (GAO) has posted these two pages of "special collections" of use to those following the news about terrorism and airport security measures. The page collecting releases on terrorism holds links to reports going back to a 1980 release, "Assessment of Various Aspects of This Nation's Nuclear Safeguards," and one from 1981, "Federal Electrical Emergency Preparedness Is Inadequate," though reports are not available in .pdf format until those dated from 1987. Both pages collect a wealth of reports, making them easily accessible for researchers and interested members of the general public.
UWM Book Arts Collection
Here's a chance to get a look at 31 artists' books, in digital form, without having to make a trip to the Special Collections Department at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Included in the collection are exampled of many different book and paper arts techniques, such as papermaking, different styles of hand-binding, and page design. Browsing the collection works better than searching, because it's a bit difficult to predict what terms will result in a successful search in a collection as varied as this. The books have been scanned carefully, so that it is possible to not only read every page but also to see the style of the covers and binding details. For example, "Book" by Brian Borchardt, consists of a series of short quotes related to books, including the well-known Jorge Luis Borges, "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was the commander in chief of the French expeditionary army from 1780 to 1782. Rochambeau played a key role in the American Revolution, and his extensive map collection covered a great deal of eastern North America. The American Memory project at the Library of Congress has taken 40 manuscript and 26 printed maps from Rochambeau's collection and placed them online here. The views and maps in the collection cover areas from Labrador south to Haiti, and the maps themselves date from 1717 to 1795. Visitors can browse the collection by title, creator, subject, or place. In terms of highlights, interested parties will want to peruse the 1755 map of Nova Scotia and the 1781 military map of the area around Baltimore.
Texas Fashion Collection
The University of North Texas (UNT) Fashion Collection is "dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historically significant fashion." It's a terrific resource for students, researchers, and the general public. The collection got its start when Stanley and Edward Marcus worked to ensure that these items came to UNT in 1972 to support the growing fashion design program. Currently, there are over 15,000 items in the collection, some of which have been photographed and included as part of this online collection. Currently, over 500 items are available for browsing by decade, country of origin, and other themes. It's fun to look at the dresses, particularly the work from the 1980s by Oscar De la Renta and earlier works from the Roaring 20s. [KMG
MPI Collective Communications
The purpose of collective communication is to manipulate a shared piece or set of information. In this module, we introduce these routines in three categories: synchronization, data movement, and global computation.
Manual for Collection Developers.
Intended to introduce the novice book selector to a wide range of duties and to serve as a source of instruction for library science students, this manual deals with the review, selection, and ordering of current, retrospective, and periodical collections...
D. L. Perkins C. Bedoian
Vermont SIRI MSDS Collection
From Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc., this searchable material safety data sheets collection can be searched by company or compound name. Visitors can also search for toxicology reports by chemical name, chemical trade name, or the CAS or RTECS number.
Mount Horeb Digital Collections
Visitors to Wisconsin often find themselves wandering through Mount Horeb, which is no surprise given its historical and cultural curiosities. This digital collection from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC) offers a range of printed materials depicting the early 20th century in this quaint town. The items here include church histories, family memories, books about the celebrated Norway Building, and other publications from the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society. All told, there are 23 documents here, including several rare photographs of John F. Kennedy giving campaign speeches during his 1960 trek through Wisconsin. It's worth noting that visitors can search the entire collection and, if they choose, go on to the complete state of Wisconsin collection homepage.
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
Located at the Department of Physiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, this site offers images and information from "one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains." The site features photos of brains of over 100 different species of mammals, representing 17 mammalian orders. Users can browse the collection by common or scientific name; view serial sections of selected specimens (including human and chimpanzee), some of which are also available as QuickTime movies; read about the importance and history of the collections; and learn about brain evolution (this last section still under construction). Additional resources include a collection of related links and an internal search engine.
Collective Acceleration of Ions.
The collective method for acceleration of ions is described. The problem of the formation of an electron ring cluster charged with ions, its stability and focusing, and some questions of acceleration are discussed. (Author)
A. B. Kuznetsov E. A. Parelshtein I. N. Ivanov K. A. R. Reshetnikov V. A. Preizendorf
UCSF Japanese Prints Collection
The University of California at San Francisco has spent thirty years cultivating its collection of Japanese woodblock prints, and it has become an important part of the Library's East Asian Collection. The collection of 400 digitized prints concern Japanese health-related topics from the mid-19th century, and portray the gradual acceptance of Western medicine. Visitors can view the collection by theme or perform a search to find something more specific. The themes include "Contagious Diseases", which focuses on smallpox, measles and cholera, "Foreigners and Disease", which highlights the Japanese belief that foreigners carried diseases to Japan, and "Drug Advertisements". The "Drug Advertisements" are quite possibly the most beautiful drug ads in existence, and they feature elaborate images of drugs slaying disease, kabuki actors promoting a show sponsored by a children's medicine, Kindoru powder, and a detailed rendering of the interior of a drugstore, printed on a fan that was given out as a promotional item to advertise the business.
Winterthur Digital Collection
The Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware is one of the premier museums of American material culture, located in the childhood home of industrialist and collector Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969). For those unable to visit in person, the Winterthur Digital Collection includes detailed records, many accompanied by images, for the majority of the approximately 90,000 collection objects - including ceramics, furniture, glass, prints, paintings, metalwork, and textiles, most dating from about 1600 to 1860. At the main page to the online collection, artifacts are organized into searchable categories, such as Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, or Textiles and Needlework. Searchers can click a check box to limit to only those items that have images, and there is also an advanced search function, handy for known item searching. Textiles and needlework is one of the largest collection areas at over 18,000 items; limiting to items with images only reduces the number to about 8,000.
HHMI Wiki Collection
This wiki (a wiki is a website designed to let many people collaborate by adding and editing content) is a growing collection of information and resources for teaching physics for life sciences at the college and university level.
Catherine Crouch (Swarthmore College;); Mark Reeves (George Washington University;); Suzanne Amador Kane (Haverford College;); Robert Hilborn (University of Texas, Dallas;); Timothy McKay (University of Michigan;)
Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection
Provided by Wake Forest University Library, this collection features over 250 poems written by southerners and Confederate sympathizers during the American Civil War. The online examples include scanned pamphlets and clippings as well as broadsides. The collection is recognized as strongly representative of popular Southern war poetry and represents a wide range of subjects, tones, and abilities. Sample selections include: "Cotton is King," The Devil's Visit to 'Old Abe'," "God Help Kentucky," and "Hurrah for Jeff. Davis."
Digital Library Curriculum collection
The Digital Library Curriculum collection contains modules that form the basis for one or a several courses on digital libraries - thus constituting a unified curriculum for the field. They also can be used in computer science, library science, information science, and other programs for other types of courses or as supplements to an existing course. Core topics include digital objects, collection development, knowledge organization, architecture, user behavior and interactions, servics, preservation, management and evaluation and digital library education and research.
Living Stock Collections (LSC)
NSF Publications Database
The Living Stock Collections (LSC) program supports operation of and improvements in outstanding collections of living organisms used in basic biological research. The program provides support for two types of projects. Full Proposal Preparation Instructions: This solicitation contains information that supplements the standard Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) proposal preparation guidelines. More comprehensive information on NSF Award Conditions is contained in the NSF Grant Policy Manual (GPM) ...
Sweat collection capsule
A sweat collection capsule permitting quantitative collection of sweat is described. The device consists of a frame held immobile on the skin, a closure secured to the frame and absorbent material located next to the skin in a cavity formed by the frame and the closure. The absorbent material may be removed from the device by removing the closure from the frame while the frame is held immobile on the skin.
Greenleaf, J. E.; Delaplaine, R. W. (inventors)
A Survey of Collectives
Due to the increasing sophistication and miniaturization of computational components, complex, distributed systems of interacting agents are becoming ubiquitous. Such systems, where each agent aims to optimize its own performance, but where there is a well-defined set of system-level performance criteria, are called collectives. The fundamental problem in analyzing/designing such systems is in determining how the combined actions of self-interested agents leads to 'coordinated' behavior on a iarge scale. Examples of artificial systems which exhibit such behavior include packet routing across a data network, control of an array of communication satellites, coordination of multiple deployables, and dynamic job scheduling across a distributed computer grid. Examples of natural systems include ecosystems, economies, and the organelles within a living cell. No current scientific discipline provides a thorough understanding of the relation between the structure of collectives and how well they meet their overall performance criteria. Although still very young, research on collectives has resulted in successes both in understanding and designing such systems. It is eqected that as it matures and draws upon other disciplines related to collectives, this field will greatly expand the range of computationally addressable tasks. Moreover, in addition to drawing on them, such a fully developed field of collective intelligence may provide insight into already established scientific fields, such as mechanism design, economics, game theory, and population biology. This chapter provides a survey to the emerging science of collectives.
Tumer, Kagan; Wolpert, David
Spectral imagery collection experiment
The Spectral and Polarimetric Imagery Collection Experiment (SPICE) is a collaborative effort between the US Army ARDEC and ARL for the collection of mid-wave and long-wave infrared imagery using hyperspectral, polarimetric, and broadband sensors. The objective of the program is to collect a comprehensive database of the different modalities over the course of 1 to 2 years to capture sensor performance over a wide variety of adverse weather conditions, diurnal, and seasonal changes inherent to Picatinny's northern New Jersey location. Using the Precision Armament Laboratory (PAL) tower at Picatinny Arsenal, the sensors will autonomously collect the desired data around the clock at different ranges where surrogate 2S3 Self-Propelled Howitzer targets are positioned at different viewing perspectives at 549 and 1280m from the sensor location. The collected database will allow for: 1) Understand of signature variability under the different weather conditions; 2) Development of robust algorithms; 3) Development of new sensors; 4) Evaluation of hyperspectral and polarimetric technologies; and 5) Evaluation of fusing the different sensor modalities. In this paper, we will present the SPICE data collection objectives, the ongoing effort, the sensors that are currently deployed, and how this work will assist researches on the development and evaluation of sensors, algorithms, and fusion applications.
Romano, Joao M.; Rosario, Dalton; Farley, Vincent; Sohr, Brian
Theory of Collective Intelligence
In this chapter an analysis of the behavior of an arbitrary (perhaps massive) collective of computational processes in terms of an associated "world" utility function is presented We concentrate on the situation where each process in the collective can be viewed as though it were striving to maximize its own private utility function. For such situations the central design issue is how to initialize/update the collective's structure, and in particular the private utility functions, so as to induce the overall collective to behave in a way that has large values of the world utility. Traditional "team game" approaches to this problem simply set each private utility function equal to the world utility function. The "Collective Intelligence" (COIN) framework is a semi-formal set of heuristics that recently have been used to construct private utility. functions that in many experiments have resulted in world utility values up to orders of magnitude superior to that ensuing from use of the team game utility. In this paper we introduce a formal mathematics for analyzing and designing collectives. We also use this mathematics to suggest new private utilities that should outperform the COIN heuristics in certain kinds of domains. In accompanying work we use that mathematics to explain previous experimental results concerning the superiority of COIN heuristics. In that accompanying work we also use the mathematics to make numerical predictions, some of which we then test. In this way these two papers establish the study of collectives as a proper science, involving theory, explanation of old experiments, prediction concerning new experiments, and engineering insights.
Wolpert, David H.
Polarimetric imagery collection experiment
The Spectral and Polarimetric Imagery Collection Experiment (SPICE) is a collaborative effort between the US Army ARDEC and ARL that is focused on the collection of mid-wave and long-wave infrared imagery using hyperspectral, polarimetric, and broadband sensors. The objective of the program is to collect a comprehensive database of the different modalities over the course of 1 to 2 years to capture sensor performance over a wide variety of weather conditions, diurnal, and seasonal changes inherent to Picatinny's northern New Jersey location. Using the Precision Armament Laboratory (PAL) tower at Picatinny Arsenal, the sensors will autonomously collect the desired data around the clock at different ranges where surrogate 2S3 Self-Propelled Howitzer targets are positioned at different viewing perspectives in an open field. The database will allow for: 1) Understanding of signature variability under adverse weather conditions; 2) Development of robust algorithms; 3) Development of new sensors; 4) Evaluation of polarimetric technology; and 5) Evaluation of fusing the different sensor modalities. In this paper, we will present the SPICE data collection objectives, the ongoing effort, the sensors that are currently deployed, and how this work will assist researches on the development and evaluation of sensors, algorithms, and fusion applications.
Romano, Joao M.; Felton, Melvin; Chenault, David; Sohr, Brian
The Douglas Oliver Collection
This remarkable collection from the University of Hawaii Library's Pacific Collection brings together over 960 images taken by Professor Douglas Oliver. In the late 1930s, Professor Oliver conducted research on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. Visitors can browse through his images by title, category, place, collection, or reference number. Some of the images include rare photographs of nuptials and other events or ceremonies that marked key events in the community. Many of the images include portraits of men in profile, along with scenes of family life. The site also contains a glossary of terms, which details everything from place names (like "Aku") to "Upi," the wearing of tall conical hats known as upes.
Oliver, Douglas L.
IUPUI Image Collection
The creation of the unified Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) brought together a number of different academic institutions into one large campus. The history of these predecessor institutions (such as the Indiana University Herron School of Art) is an interesting one, and the development of the campus since the late 1960s speaks volumes about the growth of higher education across the United States. This digital collection was funded in part by the Jeannette Morrow Matthew Fund for Archival Photography, and it contains over 9200 images from IUPUI's University Archives. The collection doesn't have any thematic areas for easy browsing, so visitors may have to make use of the "Advanced Search" feature to find exactly what they are looking for here. The collection documents all aspects of university life, including interior building shots, student activities, scientific endeavors, faculty members, campus expansion, and so on.
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
For over fifty years, Wilbur "Buck" Clayton brought his special brand of trumpet magic to audiences around the world. Born in Parsons, Kansas, Clayton was a prominent member of Count Basie's orchestra and he went on tour for the State Department as well. This digital collection from the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City presents over 1500 photographs from this collection documenting Clayton's life and career. Visitors can browse the collection, and there are some great photos of Clayton as a small child and of course, some excellent photos of him collaborating with other jazz legends like Pee Wee Russell, Joe Turner, and Buddy Tate. Visitors with an interest in specific images can use the search feature to look for items using each photograph's details.
The Galapagos Collection
Access to the Galapagos Islands has become very limited in recent decades, and currently only three museums have permission from the Ecuadorian government to collect, preserve, transport, and maintain scientific anatomical specimens from the Galapagos Islands. One of these museums is the University of Wisconsin's Zoological Museum (UWZM) and they have made ten expeditions to this remarkable group of islands since 1969. Over the past few decades, these expeditions have produced many papers and reports, and some of these documents may be found right here at this collection which was created by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group. Visitors can read works like "Ecology of Giant Tortoises in the Galapagos Islands" by Linda Jean Cayot and classic texts such as A.L. Kroeber's "Floral relations among the Galapagos Islands" from 1916. All told, there are 37 digitized documents here, and visitors can browse through them or perform text searches as well.
Heat collection system
A heat collection system is disclosed which is capable of collecting heat from an animal husbandry enclosures such as a dairy barn, and transferring the heat into a home. Animal husbandry enclosures, such as dairy barns, tend to have excess heat, even in winter, the excess heat normally being wasted. The heat is collected by a pair of evaporators located in the dairy barn, with the evaporators being oversized to limit the amount of cooling taking place in the barn. Fluid from the evaporators is compressed by compressors after which it passes through a condenser from which heat may be extracted into the home. Pressure regulating valves are provided to insure that the compressors are not overloaded and to insure that a maximum heating effect is achieved. A thermostatically controlled fan is provided to drive air across the condenser so that heat is introduced into the home.
Ramlow, B.L.; Steele, R.R.
Neue Galerie: Online Collection
The mission of the Neue Galerie is "to collect, preserve, research and exhibit fine and decorative art of Germany and Austria from the first half of the twentieth century." Their collection covers a range of media, including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs created in both countries from 1890 to 1940. On their website, visitors can view some of these works by clicking on areas that include "Fine Arts" and "Decorative Arts". The collection is quite remarkable, and first-time visitors may want to start by looking over works by Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, and the Gustav Klimt study titled "Two Standing Woman Holding Sheet Music" from 1899. Each viewable item also contains a provenance record and other additional information. Visitors can also view each section as a slideshow, which is a nice way to pass a few minutes.
NSDL Bilingual Collection
The NSDL Bilingual Collection makes K-12 math and science resources available to teachers of students who are not proficient in English. The NSDL Bilingual collection provides quick and easy access to high-quality resources that are either non-text based or have English and non-English portals. These resources are selected from the larger NSDL collection. The majority of the non-English language resources are in Spanish, but there are also many resources in Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. In most cases, only the link to the English portal is listed and there you can find the link to the non-English portal(s). In a few cases, the English and non-English language portals appear with separate links.
Jack Sheaffer Collection
Born in 1929, Jack Sheaffer chronicled the explosive growth of Arizona during the better part of the 20th century. He attended Tucson High School, joined the Air Force in 1954, and then started working as a contract photographer for the Arizona Daily Star. Sheaffer was the chief photographer for the paper between 1955 and 1982, and this voluminous collection presents a healthy sampling of his work. Here visitors can make their way through over 10,000 photographs digitized by the University of Arizona Libraries Digital Collections. Visitors can perform a detailed search across the entire collection, but it's also fun to just type in a keyword or two, such as Tucson, roads, or parades. Visitors will note that the subjects covered by Sheaffer are vast, and they include tragic accidents, local beauty pageants, and the Tucson Rodeo. All told, this site offers an amazing portrait of Arizona in the latter half of the 20th century.
The Frick Collection: Multimedia
The Frick Collection was created by Henry Clay Frick's bequest in 1919, and it's housed in the Fifth Avenue mansion where Frick's family used to live. The coke and steel magnate had it built expressly to house his hundreds of works of fine and decorative art, and wanted it to be open to the public after his family was no longer living in the home. The website for the Collection is impressive, and offers a "Virtual Tour" of eight spaces inside and outside of the mansion. The virtual tour offers visitors the opportunity to view a list of artworks in each gallery, in addition to viewing the contents of the galleries. Visitors interested in reading about art, will be interested in the Frick Art Reference Library, which is located around the corner from the Frick Collection. Under "Research" on the menu across the top, visitors will find links to the "Library", "Archives", and more.
Wolfsonian Museum: Collections
What South Florida cultural institution is eclectic and borders on the eccentric? The Wolfsonian answers its own question as it houses everything from Art Deco household objects to rare books. The institution was founded in 1986 to exhibit, document, and preserve the Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. A decade later it became part of Florida International University. On their Collections page, visors can look through items organized into twelve themes, including Art Nouveau, Colonialism, and World's Fairs and Expeditions. One area that should not be missed is the collection of items related to the Works Progress Administration and the New Deal. Here, visitors can look over hundreds of prints, posters, and original pieces created during this most unique period in America's recent artistic past. Finally, visitors shouldn't neglect the opportunity to craft their own specialized search as they look through this fabulously diverse archive.
The LIFE Picture Collection
Although this is a commercial site with pictures and images for sale, users can nonetheless view and appreciate one of "the most extraordinary collections of pictures in the world" at The Picture Collection from Time, Inc. An initial free registration is required, and after that users need only log on to gain access to over 22 million images, including illustrations, prints, and photographs. Archival materials from many popular magazines are available here, including images from Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, as well as material from the recently acquired Mansell Collection. "Mansell photographs date from the beginnings of the medium in the 1840s through World War II [and] depict a vast range of scenics, important news events, and historical personalities, with a special emphasis on art and architecture. In addition, the new Mansell Collection includes extraordinary holdings of engraved illustrations, lithographs, and drawings predating the advent of photographic imaging." In addition to a key word search function, The Picture Collection offers a special searching and licensing program that lets you search for and store materials in "Lightboxes" of your own creation for later use; these are similar to folders that one might use in a conventional software setting. The program also calculates licensing fees for images based on what type of usage is intended (newspaper, magazine, Website, etc.). Research help is available for those users who would like someone else to do the searching, with one half-hour of free research offered initially. After that, a fee of 85 dollars an hour is charged; some or all of this fee may be waived if one or more images are licensed. An excellent help section rounds out this site and makes perusing this amazing (if somewhat overwhelming) collection even more pleasurable.
Dryden Aircraft Photo Collection
Any lover of airplanes is bound to enjoy this collection of digitized photos "of many of the unique research aircraft" from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The photos go back to the 1940s and into the present. Multiple resolutions are available. The collection is regularly updated. Visitors can browse the entire list alphabetically, or go right to the most recent postings in "What's New" or check out the Slide Show of selected photos. Each photo is accompanied by a short description of the aircraft's flight history. Some other miscellaneous photos include the shock wave of a T-38 at Mach 1.1 and photos of Dryden pilots.
COMET Program Collection
The COMET Program Collection and its MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training) web site provide education and training resources to benefit the operational forecaster community, university atmospheric scientists and students, and anyone interested in learning more about meteorology and weather forecasting topics. The collection makes available images, tutorials, visualizations, meteorological data, and learning materials on climate, icing, convective weather, fog and low stratus, hydrology, satellite meteorology, numerical weather prediction (nwp), winter weather, hurricanes, and other mesoscale meteorology topics. The site houses online learning materials as well as information on other training and education activities maintained by the COMET Program.
Collectivity of 98Pd
The N = 52 nucleus 98Pd was investigated at the Cologne TANDEM accelerator both with the Cologne plunger using the recoil distance Doppler-shift method (RDDS) and with the Cologne HORUS spectrometer for a ?? angular correlation experiment. For the first time lifetimes of yrast states and highly excited low-spin states were measured in 98Pd and the low-spin level scheme was extended. From our data we were able to interpret 98Pd as a nucleus that exhibits some collective features, but is obviously much less collective than the neighboring N = 52 isotones 94Mo and 96Ru due to its closeness to doubly-magic 100Sn.
Fransen, C.; Blazhev, A.; Dewald, A.; Jolie, J.; M³cher, D.; M÷ller, O.; Pissulla, T.
Collecting Climate Data
This professional development article identifies resources that show young learners (K-grade 5) how scientists study Earth's climate and make predictions. The online lessons either allow students to collect and analyze data or learn about tools and technologies that make data collection possible. The lessons are aligned with national content standards for science education. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which examines the recognized essential principles of climate literacy and the climate sciences for elementary teachers and their students.
Fries-Gaither, Jessica
Wotsit's File Format Collection
Wotsit's File Format Collection, provided by Paul Oliver, features a very large number of file formats. These include JPEG image files, wave sound files, Rich Text files, and common database and word-processing files such as Paradox and Wordperfect. Documents collected or linked at the site are primarily either original specifications from the creator or an improved version of the original. All of the specifications are very technical and are directed towards programmers. Users can subscribe to a mailing list for notification of site updates.
Portable data collection device
The present invention provides a portable data collection device that has a variety of sensors that are interchangeable with a variety of input ports in the device. The various sensors include a data identification feature that provides information to the device regarding the type of physical data produced by each sensor and therefore the type of sensor itself. The data identification feature enables the device to locate the input port where the sensor is connected and self adjust when a sensor is removed or replaced. The device is able to collect physical data, whether or not a function of a time.
French, Patrick D. (Aurora, CO)
Edgar Fahs Smith Collection
Part of the University of Pennsylvania Library, the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image offers a unique collection of chemistry related photographs. The pictures are in three categories and include scientist's portraits, apparatus images, and laboratory images. For example, a link to a 19th century pressure chamber brings up the photograph, information on the people in it, image information, and any other available facts. This very interesting collection can be browsed or searched by keyword and will easily take up several hours of your time.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Atmospheric Visualization Collection's (AVC) goal "is to develop a digital library collection based on the visualization of atmospheric data." Educators can search through the numerous, fun lesson plans by grade (kindergarten through undergraduate) or keyword. After registering, the Wiki server allows teachers to interactively modify the lesson plans in the Lesson Plan Sandbox. The topics of the activities include cloud characterization; measuring water vapor, cloud heights, and wind; and producing weather reports. Undergraduate and graduate students can learn about research and fellowship opportunities.
Native American Manuscript Collections
Based at the University of Oklahoma's Western History Collection, the Native American Manuscript Collections contain over 200 documents relating to Native Americans in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and the southwestern United States. On the homepage, visitors can browse the manuscripts, which are listed by nation. The Creek Nation area is quite fascinating, as there are over 35 documents here including handwritten journals, trading company ledgers, and letters from farmers like James M. Latty and other Creeks. After this introduction, visitors can browse around through the works of other nations, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw.
Traffic Data Collection Methodologies.
The focus of this research was to field-test portable and permanently-installed non-intrusive traffic data collection equipment. Four sites were selected in the Uniontown, Pennsylvania area. The primary objective of the site selection was to provide a cro...
J. French M. French
The Pyramid Collection
In this article the author presents readers with some very useful activities, ideas and problems. He has used these at various times over the years and together they make a very interesting collection. These pieces have come together from different sources, but like a jigsaw, they complete the picture of understanding of the numbers inside theà
Neville, Gary
Authentic Assessment: A Collection.
The essays in this collection consider the meaning of authentic assessment and the implications of its use. "Section 1: Assessing Assessment" includes the following essays: (1) "The Nation's Report Card Goes Home: Good News and Bad about Trends in Achievement" (Robert L. Linn and Stephen B. Dunbar); (2) "Budgets, Politics, and Testing" (Chrisà
Burke, Kay, Ed.
Digital Collections Inventory Report.
This report is intended to inform and stimulate discussion on digital library programs as well as the potential usefulness, scope, and desired features of future inventories of online digital collections. It describes a joint project by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources to determine the extent to whichà
McClung, Patricia A.
Iceberg Data Collection Stations.
Three automatic stations have been designed for data collection from tabular iceberg drifting in the Antarctic. One station was deployed in February 1979 at 70.5S, 20.3W. Data are telemetered by satellite to Service ARGOS for dissemination and processing.
R. Boe J. Markussen J. Stroemme
Collection Development Policy.
Concerned mainly with the acquisition of knowledge in its various forms, both print and nonprint, the Watson Library's collection development policy is designed to support the curriculum needs of Northwestern State University (NSU) in Louisiana and the university's mission of dedication to the creation, dissemination, and acquisition of knowledge.à
Buchanan, William; And Others
Multiple Intelligences: A Collection.
As a concise resource for Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and its implications for schooling around the world, this collection is designed for educators, parents, and others interested in education. The first section discusses Gardner and his background, and the second section expounds his theory. The third section explores theà
Fogarty, Robin, Ed.; Bellanca, James, Ed.
This is a National Science Teachers Association PDF file located on Cornell University's website. The lesson plan is devoted to collecting and assessing stream macroinvertebrates for the purpose of stream water quality study. The last few pages feature some nice drawings of various grouips; stoneflies, beetle larvae, caddisflies, etc, with key determination characters, and an idea of their tolerance to pollution.
Collections Define Cataloging's Future
The role of catalogers within academic libraries is evolving to meet new demands and cultivating a broader understanding of cataloging--one that focuses on collections, not the catalog, and applies cataloger expertise across metadata activities. Working collaboratively as never before, catalogers are reinventing their place within the library.
Simpson, Betsy
Microcomputer Software Collections.
Presents overview of special considerations in developing microcomputer software collections, review of standardized cataloging practices, and discussion of problems of selection and acquisition of software. Policies governing loan procedures for microcomputer software which involve four types of copy protection (patent, trade secret, contract,à
Demas, Samuel
May 4 Collection
The shock, anger, and sadness that the world felt when four students were killed by the National Guard during a 1970 war protest on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio will hopefully never be repeated. For researchers, students, faculty, staff, and members of the community, the memories of that tragedy, both written and recorded, have been compiled by the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Kent State University. The May 4 Collection has its own website, which is comprised of such links as a table of "Contents", "Index", "Exhibits/Chronologies", "Oral History Project", and "History Day Help". The "May 4 Collection Contents" reveals that there are 211 boxes of papers, records, newspaper articles, photographs, radio recordings, and comic strips that constitute the May 4 Collection. The "Oral History Project" link explains the ongoing project of recording "first-person narratives and personal reactions to the events of May 4, 1970." It aims to record narratives of all viewpoints of those "whose lives were affected by these historical events."
CNN and collective perception
Cooperation is an ability used by particular animal species (e.g. ants) to survive in the world. In the bio-inspired robotics field, several attempts were carried out to exploit the application of cooperative strategies both to accomplish tasks otherwise impossible and to improve the global performances of the group of robots. In this paper we discuss on the emergence of collective
P. Arena; L. Fortuna; D. Lombardo; L. Patane
RIF and Collective Bargaining.
Focuses on the modern case-law intersection between state legislation for school districts that applies to reduction-in-force (RIF) and other state legislation that applies to collective bargaining. One conclusion is that the implementation of RIF is more likely to be negotiable and arbitrable than the reasons for RIF. (96 footnotes) (MLF)
This document is an overall policy statement for library collection development for the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Part 1 comprises the library mission statement and a list of ongoing objectives. The second part provides some background information about the university environment and campus libraries. It also gives instructionsà
Dole, Wanda V.; And Others
Rock Collection in Montana
USGS Multimedia Gallery
Rocks are collected from the Stillwater Mine in Nye, Montana to be used for making lunar regolith simulant. __________ The USGS has created man-made moon dirt, or regolith, to help NASA prepare for upcoming moon explorations. Four tons of the simulant is expected to be made by this summer of 2009 ...
78 FR 6141 - Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Edward Judice Photograph Collection
Ed Judice was raised on Long Island, and he began his long career in photography at the age of 13 when he took a job sweeping floors in a local photo studio. After this, he served in the Army and then moved to New York, where he did commercial work for ad agencies and a range of magazines. He came to live in western Massachusetts, and this digital collection from the University of Massachusetts Libraries celebrates his photo documentation project at the Rodney Hunt Factory in Orange, Massachusetts. Visitors to this collection can make their way through these nicely high-resolution photos, and also several compelling short documentaries about the Three County Fair in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Lincoln Park Neighborhood Collection
Today, the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago's North Side is a relatively affluent area, complete with Victorian mansions and rather tony elevator apartment buildings. By the late 1940s, the area was experiencing the same type of urban disinvestment as other inner-city neighborhoods throughout the United States. In the early 1960s, the city of Chicago, working with funds from the federal government, began an ambitious urban renewal program designed to reduce the density of the built environment in the community and to remove "blighted" properties. This excellent collection from the DePaul University Libraries Digital Collections contains over 400 documents related to this ambitious project, including maps, zoning documents, policy statements, neighborhood organization planning documents, and photographs. First-time visitors may wish to start with the first document here, "A Brief Explanation of the Urban Community Conservation Act." Moving on, visitors can view the rest of the documents by title, thumbnail, subject, and brief description.
Broadside Verses Collection
A broadside is also called a "penny ballad," and it is a single sheet of paper printed on one side. It was a great way for people to get the word out about their cause or organization, especially in the 19th century. This collection from the Enoch Pratt Free Library brings together broadsides related to life in Maryland primarily between 1860 and 1865. These ditties and other pieces of doggerel include "White Wings," "Why Did They Dig Ma's Grave So Deep?" and "William Price." These verses deal with a range of themes, including love, temperance, and, of course, the Civil War. All told, the collection contains 130 items, and visitors will find it delightful to wander around these gems. Finally, the site also contains a narrative essay that provides useful context for these pieces.
Mark F. Boyd Collection
Mark F. Boyd was a physician, researcher, and writer who specialized in tropical medicine. His research on malaria brought him international recognition and the Rockefeller Foundation selected him to conduct research throughout the malarial regions of the western hemisphere. During his long life he collected a range of materials related to field ecology and, in particular, items dealing with Florida, natural history, and medicine. This digital collection from the University of Miami libraries includes maps, newspapers, prints, original documents, and pencil drawings of Key Biscayne. The items here are lovely and they include a historical tour through Coral Gables, a brochure for the Hotel Everglades, and a remarkable brochure that lists apartment rates for the 1937-1938 winter season in Miami. It's a neat pastiche of items and folks with an interest in Florida's history and hospitality will enjoy it immensely.
Clifford Glenwood Shull Collection
In 1994, Clifford Glenwood Shull was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. His career as a scientist started six decades prior at what was then the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Shull was known as the "Father of Neutron Scattering" and primarily known for his work on the neutron diffraction technique which was used to study condensed matter. This particular digital collection created by the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries allows interested parties to explore Shull's papers, correspondence, teaching materials, and other items related to his work. After reading a brief biography of Shull, visitors can click on through to the "Contents" area to get a better sense of the offerings available within the collection. In the "Access" area visitors can browse through the document series, which cover his time at MIT, the Oak Ridge Laboratory, and New York University.
Pennell Photography Collection
Joseph J. Pennell was a successful commercial studio photographer who worked in Junction City, Kansas from the early 1890s to the early 1920s. During his long tenure in this quaint burg he managed to document all facets of town life. Through portraits of local celebrities, prominent families, soldiers, and photos of local businesses the culture of this town at the turn of the century was preserved. This digital collection from the University of Kansas brings together almost 6000 images culled from his many years in the community. Visitors can browse around at their leisure or they can also use the Browse by Categories area to look around by subject. Interesting topics include architecture, boxing, street scenes, and Thanksgiving. The zoom feature is especially worth noting as it allows for a rather life-like examination of the collection. All in all, it's a remarkable archive and one that will warrant several return visits.
Empire Ranch Collection
The history of ranching in the American West is an engaging one, and it involves a myriad of players, including farmers, politicians, and power brokers of all stripes. The Empire Ranch in southern Arizona was one of the largest cattle ranches in the state, and its story dates back to the 1860s. Homesteader Edward Nye Fish first established the ranch, and it was originally just a mere160 acres. By the 1880s, the ranch was over a million acres and it later became a popular filming destination for many Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, the ranch is part of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. This digital collection brings together over 50 documents from the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections department, including photographs and diaries from one of the primary owners of the ranch, Edward Vail. Visitors will also find other documents here, including grazing permits, maps of the property, and railroad ephemera.
Robert W. Krueger Collection
Fans of all things Chicago will definitely enjoy the Chicago Public Library's digital collection of photographs from the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s by local photographer Robert W. Krueger. As the website states, the Public Library started working with Krueger in 1984 to document Chicago's North Side. The photographs in the collection include street scenes, parks, businesses, houses, schools, cemeteries, community events, and people. The "Images by Subject" menu on the left hand side offers more than a dozen subjects for visitors to peruse, including "transportation", "special events" and "residences". The images can also be viewed by decade. The "street scenes" subject area is great place to start and it will give visitors an idea of what it's like to walk around one of the many pleasant vintage neighborhoods on the North Side of Chicago.
The Jean Thomas Collection
Born in 1881 in Ashland, Kentucky, Jean Thomas defied many social conventions throughout her life, and the world is a richer place for it. In the 1890s, she decided to attend business school and shortly afterwards she became a court reporter. She traveled around Kentucky for her job, and along the way she became quite enamored of the musical traditions across the state. Later in life, she would go on to stage the American Folk Song Festival from 1930 to 1972. Thomas was also a photographer, and this delightful digital collection from the University of Louisville Libraries contains over 1000 of her photographs. Visitors can read an extended biography of Thomas, and then browse or search the collection at their leisure. Some of the subjects covered here include the American Folk Song Festival, live performances, and rural landscapes.
Leslie Jones Collection
During a long career, Leslie Jones (a self-described "camera-man") took well over 40,000 photographs documenting the city of Boston and environs. Jones was a staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler from 1917 to 1956, and he covered everything from a fox stuck in a tree on the Boston Common to Charles Lindbergh's U.S. tour after his historic crossing of the Atlantic. This remarkable online collection of photos was created by the Boston Public Library from the images generously donated by Jones' family. The photos are divided into over five dozen topical collections, including "Animals: Birds," "Boston: Neighborhoods," "Boston: Waterfront," and "Maritime: USS Constitution." Also of note are several particularly unique groupings dedicated to fires and fire departments around the city and the state of Massachusetts.
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Beloit College Digital Collections
Beloit College is the oldest college in the state of Wisconsin, and they are well regarded for their study abroad programs and focus on international and global affairs. They have also revamped their online digital collections area, and it is well worth a glance. Currently, they have ten collections here, including "Logan Museum of Anthropology", "Beloit-College, City and Environs", and "Asian Studies". First up is the "Beloit-College, City and Environs" area, which offers a historical view of images woven together that document the history of the college's relationship with the city of Beloit. Moving on, the "Asian Studies" area offers over 53 digital images of items held in the Logan Museum of Anthropology, such as historic posters, folk art objects, and paintings. The "Logan Museum of Anthropology" area offers curious visitors over 2,100 items drawn from their extensive holdings. The items here include an ancient adze, headdresses from Native American groups, and beaded necklaces.
Maple Recipe Collection
People in Vermont know a little bit about maple syrup and they can spin syrup and maple sugar into a delightful treat for any occasion. This digital collection of maple-infused recipes comes to the web-browsing public courtesy of the University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives. All told, there are 49 items here, including recipes by Judith Jones (the cookbook editor for Julia Child), published recipes from legendary Vermont food purveyors, and recipes from community organizations, like the Green Mountain Folklore Society. Visitors can browse through the collection, learn about the sponsoring institutions, and also sign up for their RSS feed. For those who are curious, the recipes date from 1952 to 2008.
The Hoagy Carmichael Collection
"This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's [IU] extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter" -- and Bloomington native -- Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981) who composed, among other American pop standards, the classic "Stardust." The Collection contains sound recordings of Hoagy's music, letters, photographs of him and his family, print and handwritten musical compositions, drafts of lyrics, a brief biography, a virtual tour of the Hoagy Carmichael Room at the Archives of Traditional Music, links to additional primary materials at the Lily Library at IU, and more. The site can be searched or browsed. Constructed by IU librarians from the Digital Library Program and the Archives of Traditional Music, the site is a fine example of regional librarianship.
The Social Museum Collection
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a number of academics, social welfare advocates, and muckrakers became interested in the living conditions of recently arrived immigrants to the United States. One such person was Professor Francis Greenwood Peabody of Harvard University. In 1903, he founded the Social Museum, which was established "to promote investigations of modern social conditions and to direct the amelioration of industrial and social life." For the next thirty years, Peabody and his colleagues at the museum worked on assembling a large collection of photographs, publications and reports related to the international social reform movement. At this site, visitors can browse through the photograph collection, which includes themes such as "charity", "housing", and "education". Visitors will also want to browse through some of Peabody's own publications, including his influential work, "The Approach to the Social Question: An Introduction to the Study of Social Ethics".
Animal Skull Collection
This intriguing and impressive website of animal skull images and information was developed by DeLoy Roberts, a high school biology and zoology teacher in Idaho. The site is quite extensive with separate skull galleries for mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and fish. Site visitors will find clear skull images of such animals as a badger, wolf, boa constrictor, golden eagle, salmon, great gray owl, and many more. The site also includes lists of Animal Skull Sizes (organized alphabetically by animal as well as by size) for mammal and bird skulls in the collection. For school groups that can make the trip, the actual skull collection is maintained by Mr. Roberts at his high school in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Roberts, Deloy
Culture collections and biochemistry.
This review describes the relationships and links between culture collections, which act as sources of genomes, transcriptomes, proteome, and metabolomes, and fields of research biochemistry that demand their support and help. In addition, the invaluable but not always rewarded efforts of these organizations as a source and conservator of organism diversity is discussed. Biological waste-water treatment, ethanol as a non-finite source of energy, Rhodococcus fascians as the source of a citrus-juice debittering agent, the sporulation of filamentous fungi in liquid medium, and biotransformation with growing and resting cells are processes developed by the authors that demonstrate some of the applications of organisms from culture collections in the general field of biotechnology and related areas, including industrial biochemistry and biocatalytic synthesis. PMID:12739105
Cßnovas, Manuel; Iborra, JosÚ L
Maryland Map Collection
It's not hard to find great maps of the Old Line State, especially if you take advantage of the offerings on this wonderful site. Created by the University of Maryland University Libraries, this collection brings together a selection of the Libraries' 2,500 maps that depict Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay, and the surrounding region from 1590 to the present day. The site features a number of great finds, including a 1920 "Automobile Touring Map of Maryland, with Inset of Baltimore City" (which notes "good roads" as well as "secondary roads") and the 1676 south-up map titled "A Map of Virginia and Maryland." Those with interest in conducting further research may find the Guide to Maryland Maps link useful, as it provides an overview of the non-digitized portion of the collection.
FAO Collections on Desertification
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Hypermedia Collections on Desertification, was created as part of the First Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP1) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Rome, Italy September 29-October 10, 1997. The site contains a collection of documents dealing with the causes and consequences of desertification, action programs, scientific and technical cooperation, and measures to support the study and prevention of desertification. The documents are written in either French, English, or Spanish. Some documents are available at the site, others can be ordered for a fee. QuickTime film clips show agricultural practices in arid lands and the effects that desertification can have on both animals and people. Factfiles provide information about desertification around the world. The Photofiles show pictures of the effects of desertification and attempts to mitigate it.
The Roger Reynolds Collection
Trained as a musician and an engineer at the University of Michigan, composer Roger Reynolds has been one of the major voices in contemporary music during the past half-century. In 1998, the Library of Congress established the Roger Reynolds Collection, and this site offers a tour through his works and life. Visitors to the site can look over a list of his works, which include theatrical productions, digital signal processing, video installations, and real-time computer spatialization. Moving down the site's homepage, visitors can browse the collection by format, search by keyword, and also take a look at two special presentations: "The Genealogy of Transfigured Wind" and "An Interview with Roger Reynolds". "The Genealogy of Transfigured Wind" affords visitors a series of illustrated histories and diagrams that provide substantial insight into how Reynolds created the series of compositions "Transfigured Wind".
Climate Change Collection (CCC)
The Climate Change Collection (CCC) provides access to high quality, digital materials relating to natural and human induced climate change and variability, including scientific, economic and policy issues of climate change. The collection focuses on background resources and learning activities that communicate the principles that underlie climate change and variability, including the differences and links between weather and climate; the basics of the climate system including the greenhouse effect and energy balance; climatic processes that occur at varying time scales, including orbital cycles and forcing; how scientific research is conducted relative to measuring change and variability; and how human activities, including the combustion of fossil fuels and changes of land cover, impact the climate system. The resources have been reviewed for scientific accuracy and currency, and annotated with comments and suggestions relating to their potential value to Earth system science teachers and their students, particularly at the middle school level.
Beloit College: Bartlett Collection
Professor Harley Harris Bartlett taught botany at the University of Michigan for many decades and he also served as the director of the university's botanical gardens. During his botanical research trips to Asia he brought back diverse collections of ethnographic material. After he passed away in 1960, his sister donated over 300 objects from Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines to the Logan Museum at Beloit College. The items here include carved figures, manuscripts, textiles, and other cultural artifacts. Visitors can browse within the collection as they see fit and they may wish to start by looking at the remarkable animal figurines and armbands. It's a wonderful resource for people with a penchant for the world of material culture in Southeast Asia.
Jewish Archives Collection
The state of Washington has a sizeable Jewish community, and their roots can be traced back to the earliest settlers of the Northwest. This digital collection, from the University of Washington Libraries, highlights a small part of the photographs, documents, and materials held by the Washington State Jewish Archives. The Archives started in 1968, and this particular database was produced partially by funding from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and other organizations. Here visitors can browse over 900 photographs which document many aspects of the Jewish experience across the state. The collection includes photographs of Jewish servicemen and women, commercial businesses, anniversary celebrations, and so on. Visitors can browse the images by subject heading, or they can also perform their own detailed search.
WSU Vancouver Historic Collection
This fun collection brings together items from three collections in the Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver Library Archive, including items from the WSU 20th Anniversary Oral History Project, campus environmental impact statements, and campus master plans. In a very real sense, it's a potpourri of materials that will interest folks who care about the built environment, sustainability, and the history of this corner of Washington. The oral histories are quite fascinating, as well as the Photographs area which offers a range of images documenting the history of this campus, including some remarkable aerial shots of southwestern Washington. Finally, the Ephemera section lives up to its name as it has everything from a 1992 course schedule to a curious pamphlet for a microcomputer seminar series in 1984.
Pullman Digital Collection
Founded in 1867, the Chicago-based Pullman's Palace Car Company manufactured a wide range of railroad cars at their facility for decades. By 1899, the Pullman Company had a virtual monopoly as it had absorbed its last competitor, the Wagner Palace Car Company. This lovely digital collection brings together images of over 1,200 Pullman car drawings from 1870 to 1969, with the majority of these items created for heavyweight and lightweight cars. The drawings are mostly of floor plans, but they also include duct layouts, heating pipe diagrams, and a few side elevations. Visitors can browse through items at their leisure and may also wish to look around by keyword or date of original issue. Railroad fans will find much to delight in this collection and those with a general interest in the history of technology will also be amazed.
DLESE Community Collection
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) mission is to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth System, by developing, managing, and providing access to high-quality educational resources and supporting services through a community-based, distributed digital library. Intended users include students, educators and citizens of all ages, in both formal and informal learning environments. The collection favors resources that convey linkages and connections; the general with the specific, theory with evidence, global with local, and that demonstrate the application of science to solving real world problems. This includes providing access to Earth data sets and imagery, and the tools and interfaces that enable their effective use. DLESE resources are community-contributed, by individuals, organizations, and formal collection efforts.
Canadian Pacific Railway Collection
The Canadian Pacific Railway collection provides access to over 1500 images documenting the company's activities all around British Columbia from the 1880s to the 1950s. The pictures portray railway stations both urban and rural, along with images of workers, buildings, hotels, ships, and yards that were part of the railroad's vast empire. Visitors can click on the Collection area to get started and the search function is another good way to focus in on items of interest. Within the History tab is an elegant and well-developed essay on the company, complete with illustrative images while the Photographers section provides great insight into who exactly took these pictures. And, of course, casual users may just wish to click on the Gallery to get a sampling of the works that make up this archive.
LSU Photograph Collection
For a look into the past of campus life at the Louisiana State University (LSU), you can't do much better than perusing through this photograph collection. Created by the LSU Library, the collection includes 475 photographs which range from 1886 to 1925. The photographs include scenes of student life, rousing activities, sports, noted faculty, buildings, and laboratories. Visitors can use the drop-down menus on the homepage to browse the photographs by topic, building name, or colleges and departments. "Cadet Life" is a good place to start, and this will provide visitors with a glimpse into the lives of cadets during the late 19th and early 20th century. Football fans will want to look at early images of LSU's Tiger Stadium during their stay on the site.
Temple Sheet Music Collections
Over the past few years, more and more university libraries have worked diligently to digitize some of their vast sheet music holdings. Old chestnuts are being revived by vocal groups on campus and farther afield, which is certainly a good thing. This sheet music collection from the Temple University Libraries brings together 850 pieces of music for consideration by the general public. Visitors can search the collection as they see fit. They will find that most of the music here is from the Gilded Age and earlier. There are a number of melodic tunes in here; visitors might do well to consider "Drifting Leaves" from 1905 or 1852's "Dreams of Home" as a way to get started on their journey. The site will be of great interest to musicologists and to anyone with an interest in the history of American popular song and musical heritage.
Collective Communications for HPJava
We discuss implementation of high-level collective communication library, called Adlib, for scalable programming in Java. We are using Adlib as basis of our system, called HPJava. Many functionalities of Java version of high-level communication library is following its predecessor-C++ library developed by in the Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium (PCRC). However, many design issues are reconsidered and re-implemented according to Java
Sang Boem Lim; Bryan Carpenter; Geoffrey Fox; Han-ku Lee
Collect Oxygen Over Water
In this activity, learners use a pneumatic trough (see related activity) to generate and collect pure oxygen. Learners will test to see if they've generated oxygen by observing the combustion of elemental sulfur, which yields a brilliant blue flame of sulfur oxidation. The manganese dioxide catalyst used in this process is easily recovered from a spent zinc-carbon battery (see related activity).
Ragan, Sean M.
USGS Education Collection
The USGS Education Collection provides scientific data and activities about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data and issues that affect quality of life. As an outreach project, it provides access to online material and educational resources that may be useful to K-12 educators and college instructors. Many resources can be used directly in the classroom: lessons, labs, demonstrations or as resources for teacher education, curriculum development and for student research.
Culture collections and biochemistry
This review describes the relationships and links between culture collections, which act as sources of genomes, transcriptomes,\\u000a proteome, and metabolomes, and fields of research biochemistry that demand their support and help. In addition, the invaluable\\u000a but not always rewarded efforts of these organizations as a source and conservator of organism diversity is discussed. Biological\\u000a waste-water treatment, ethanol as a non-finite
Manuel Cßnovas; JosÚ L. Iborra
Concord Consortium Collection
The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit R&D organization in Concord, MA, dedicated to transforming education through technology. Our deeply digital tools and learning activities capture the power of curiosity and create revolutionary new approaches to science, math and engineering education that bring out the inner scientist in everyone. The Concord Consortium Collection includes free science, engineering and mathematics activities for grades 3-14 that integrate probes and models, including the award-winning Molecular Workbench.
Concurrence in collective models
We review the entanglement properties in collective models and their relationship with quantum phase transitions. Focusing on the concurrence, which characterizes the two-spin entanglement, we show that for first-order transitions, this quantity is singular but continuous at the transition point, contrary to the common belief. We also propose a conjecture for the concurrence of arbitrary symmetric states which connects it with a recently proposed criterion for bipartite entanglement.
Vidal, Julien [Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de la Matiere Condensee, CNRS UMR 7600, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
Developmental Mathematics Collection
The Developmental Mathematics Collection (DMC) contains resources for the community college educator who teaches basic arithmetic through intermediate algebra. Educators will find student activities, topic teaching plans, innovative curricula and course sequences, as well as research syntheses on pedagogy and learning. The site hopes to create a Knowledge Exchange Network for Developmental Mathematics by creating linkages and collaborations across colleges within California's large urban regions.
Mary Louise Reynolds Collection
Mary Louise Reynolds (1891-1950) led a fascinating life at the center of the Surrealist circle of artists, numbering as her friends Max Ernst, Man Ray, Paul ├┬luard, Andr├┬® Breton, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dal├┬¡. Reynolds and Surrealist Marcel Duchamp were partners in a long term relationship thought by their friends to be far happier than most marriages. She was a book artist and served in the French resistance during World War II. The materials in the Mary Louise Reynolds Archive and her collection of rare books and bindings at the Art Institute of Chicago have inspired at least two books and several exhibitions, as well as this Web site. The site features four essays reprinted from the Art Institute's Museum Studies journal, illustrated with digital images of Surrealist works, and available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. There is also an online finding aid to the collection, and it is possible to search the Ryerson and Burnham Library's catalog for Reynolds collection items. One portion of the site (View Works of Art) brings together all the digitized works of art: Reynolds' book bindings, Surrealist documents, prints, and a few photographs.
Florida Heritage Collection
Recently launched by the libraries of the State University System (SUS) of Florida, this site contains some 48,000 pages of materials on Florida's history, culture, arts, literatures, sciences, and social sciences. The collection may be browsed by Florida county, title, or author or searched by a number of options. Item records include author, title, date published, a description, series, notes, a summary, and links to the electronic version (in .pdf or JPEG formats). Users can mark selected records and then email or print them. A user guide and tutorial are provided, as is a Florida timeline which links to related materials.
JSC Digital Image Collection
This high-quality collection is provided courtesy of NASA's Johnson Space Center, and it contains over 9,000 images. Visitors can get started by looking over the FAQ area, which provides answers to questions like "Where can I et prints and high-resolution scans of this imagery?" and "What is a 'fuzzy match?'" After this, visitors can perform a full-text search across all of the items, or use the Browse area. This last section allows visitors to look around by mission, equipment, or station location. Visitors with any level of interest in space technology or other related fields will find this resource fascinating.
Sophia Smith Collection
As part of the Five College Archives Digital Access Project (mentioned in the September 25, 1998 Scout Report), Smith College has digitized some of its archival holdings relating to women's history. The Website of the Sophia Smith Collection presents still more of the Smith College holdingsof "manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history." The site includes brief descriptions of over 300 manuscript collections, lesson plans for using primary source materials, links to additional women's history resources, and selected digital images. A permanent exhibition, Agents of Social Change, showcases some materials online. The exhibit contains pictures and digitized documents on eight 20th-century women and organizations working for women's rights. Visitors will find items such as a brochure about the National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW), a grassroots feminist organization; a 1980 photo of an NCNW march on New York City Hall; Gloria Steinem photographed at the Ms. office in 1983; and fan mail to Steinem after a TV appearance.
The Great Buildings Collection
Not just an ordinary architecture site, The Great Buildings Collection is a wide gateway to architecture around the world. This collection documents approximately a thousand buildings, offering 3D models ranging in detail from very simple formal massing models of just a few cuboid blocks, to basic interior/exterior spatial walkthrough models, to detailed interior/exterior models complete with furnishings and landscaping. The site contains sections on buildings and architects (arranged alphabetically by name), as well as architectural places of the world (arranged alphabetically by continent). Furthermore, viewers can glimpse architectural building types -- such as airport terminals, castles, factories, theaters, and villas -- and architectural styles such as Neolithic, Gothic, Renaissance, Prairie, Neo-Vernacular, and many more. Also available are photographic images, architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies for famous designers and structures of all kinds, architectural books, updated news articles, and a link to ArchitectureWeek, a new magazine on design and building. Although established in the late 1990s, this site keeps updated information on architectural design and is definitely worth a visit.
Bowen Country Club Collection
One of the ambitions of service groups like Chicago's Hull House was to provide urban youth with an opportunity to get out and experience some clean fresh air. The Hull House on Chicago's Near West Side took children from the surrounding neighborhood out to the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club every year from 1912 until 1963. The Club was financed by social activist and philanthropist Louise deKoven Bowen, and was located on 72 hilly and forested acres near Waukegan, Illinois. Young people from the city would come out to the grounds in two-week shifts and take part in team sports contests, learn how to dance, and also take art lessons. This wonderful photo collection from the Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago's library presents over 480 images of life at the club. Visitors to the site will find images of camp activities, the grounds, social life, and the broader milieu of the place. It's quite a find and one that will be of interest to persons with an interest in Chicago history and the history of outdoor recreation.
Herbert L. Block Collection
Herb Block (also known as "Herblock") was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. His work began to appear in 1929, and he continued creating social commentary for 72 years. The Library of Congress website digitized some of the 14,000 images that the Herb Block Foundation donated in 2002. Visitors interested in seeing the wide range of topics Block covered in his cartoons can click on the "Search This Collection" link that appears below the introductory paragraphs on the homepage. Once visitors have arrived to the search area they can click on "Subject and Format Headings" underneath the heading "Other Ways to Search" to see the A to Z subject index. Some of the topics include "Escalators--1960-1970","Government Officials--1970-1980","Mao, Zedong--1893-1976", "Overcrowding--1940-1950", and "Discrimination--1950-1960". Back on the homepage, visitors shouldn't miss the link to the "Image Sampler" which contains the "Herblock Collection Image Sampler" featuring 24 images.
Lauren R. Donaldson Collection
In 1946, Lauren R. Donaldson and several of his scientific colleagues were selected as radiation monitors for Operation Crossroads, which was the codename for the first atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. During this operation, two nuclear bombs were detonated above and below the ocean surface, contaminating the organs and tissues of living creatures and plants with large doses of radioactivity. Over the next twelve years, Dr. Donaldson and his colleagues would return a number of times to perform research related to these activities. Recently, the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections team digitized selected personal logs, photo albums, papers, and ephemera from the surveys undertaken by this team of researchers. Visitors can browse the collection, or they may wish to get started by looking over the sample searches which include "1946 Operation Crossroads" and "1947 Bikini Atoll Radiological Survey". Also, visitors can learn more about Dr. Donaldson and peruse a finding aid for his own personal and academic papers which are also held by the University of Washington.
As a secular saint of Tin Pan Alley, Hoagy Carmichael looms large in the world of American popular song. As a native Hoosier, Carmichael graduated from the Indiana University School of Law and went on to write hundreds of standards, including "Star Dust" and "Two Sleepy People". This digital tribute and archive to his work was created by staff members at the Indiana University Library. On the site's homepage, visitors can read a brief introduction about Carmichael and the digitization project. Next, the "Browse" section will give visitors access to photographs, correspondence, typescripts, publicity, and personal effects from the collection. The "Lyric Sheets" area shouldn't be missed as visitors can look at the music for "Always", "Air pollution blues", and several hundred other ditties. The "Photographs" area includes portraits of Carmichael as a young man and during his time on the Movie Time USA tour in the 1940s. Additionally, visitors can get help with research about Carmichael and also perform a more detailed search across the entire collection.
Dartmouth Digital Collections: Books
The good folks at the Dartmouth Digital Library Initiatives continue to offer a veritable cornucopia of printed ephemera, and this website will delight anyone with an interest in topics as wide-ranging as comics, Dr. Seuss, Russian placards, or the Arctic. Here visitors can make their way through nine digitized works, including "The Fortunes of Ferdinand Flipper." This particular item was published in the 1850s, and is widely considered to be the first comic book written in the United States. The collection here also includes Theodor Geisel's (Dr. Seuss) reflections on his early career as a young artist up to the publication of his 1937 book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Further along, visitors will find a collection of Russian placards dating from 1917 to 1922 designed by one V. Lebedev for the state news agency of Soviet Russia. Finally, the site also includes 16 volumes of the magisterial Encyclopedia Arctica, which was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. The work was never formally published, and it documents hundreds of scientific, zoological, and geographic topics.
1. Summary A collective is a group of self-motivated agents that maximize system performance through the pursuit of local objectives. This paper deals with two aspects of collective design: the application of optimization in the design of collectives, and the use of collectives for engineering design itself, in which multiple individuals or teams design parts of a large-scale system. Examples
I. Kroo
Collective symplectic integrators
We construct symplectic integrators for LieûPoisson systems. The integrators are standard symplectic (partitioned) RungeûKutta methods. Their phase space is a symplectic vector space equipped with a Hamiltonian action with momentum map J whose range is the target LieûPoisson manifold, and their Hamiltonian is collective, that is, it is the target Hamiltonian pulled back by J. The method yields, for example, a symplectic midpoint rule expressed in 4 variables for arbitrary Hamiltonians on \\mathfrak{so}(3)^* . The method specializes in the case that a sufficiently large symmetry group acts on the fibres of J, and generalizes to the case that the vector space carries a bifoliation. Examples involving many classical groups are presented.
McLachlan, Robert I.; Modin, Klas; Verdier, Olivier
Terrorism and Security Collection
The National Academies Press (NAP) offers the full text of several publications related to bioterrorism, laboratory safety, and cryptography, among other topics, for browsing online. Although not all of the titles are new, NAP has collected them on one page for easy access in light of current events. The 26 titles include Airline Passenger Security Screening: New Technologies and Implementation Issues (1996), Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response (1999), Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism (2001), Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents: Interim Report on Current Capabilities (1998), Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: Proceedings (1995) and Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers (1998). Users can perform keyword searches within each publication.
The Aaron Copland Collection
Along with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland may be considered one of the most well-known and regarded American composers of the 20th century. Copland├ó┬┬s accolades were many throughout his long life, and the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress has seen fit that the web-browsing public will be able to learn a great deal more about Copland├ó┬┬s works and life. Currently, this online collection contains approximately 1000 items, including photographs of Copland at work, some of his writings, and a host of his wonderful personal correspondences with the likes of Nadia Boulanger and Benjamin Britten. Some brief highlights of his career may be gleaned through perusing the timeline offered here, and even more may be learned about the man himself by reading some of the essays written by his friends and colleagues on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1975.
Milman Parry Collection
Part musicologist, part just plain curious, Milman Parry embarked on a quest to document and record the musical traditions of South Slavic song in the 1930s. Along the way, he came up with a provocative thesis: The epic tradition of storytelling and narrative present in the Iliad and Odyssey were not originally literary in nature, but rather part of the tradition of an archaic Greek oral tradition. After he passed away in 1935, his rather impressive collection found its way to Harvard University. Over the past few years, the staff at the Widener Library at Harvard have worked to place many of his field recordings and notes online, and their work has culminated in this fine website. Visitors to the site will want to listen to a few of these songs, and then perhaps also read some of the essays that explain the importance of his work, and that of his colleague, Albert B. Lord.
The Margo Duggan Collection
Margo Duggan served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and after the war was over she started working as a civilian employee of the United States Trust Territories Administration in 1949. Over the next five years, she worked on a number of the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline Islands and over at the Trust Territory headquarters in Hawai'i. She took a number of photographs during her time, and they document an important moment in the history of Micronesia. The University of Hawaii at Manoa's Library created this site, and visitors can view over 1,000 of the images she created. Curious visitors can read a brief biography of Duggan here and also look over the "About" page to learn more how the collection came to the university. The majority of the images here document life in Micronesia, and visitors can look through them via title, category, date, location, or reference number.
Tech News Collection
The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) started life in 1893 as the Armour Institute, courtesy of funding from Philip Danforth, Sr. who gave $1 million to start a school that would offer courses in engineering, chemistry, architecture, and library science. In 1940, the school merged with the Lewis Institute and received its current name. This intriguing digital collection offers a look into the school's history via the Technology News, which has been the student newspaper since 1928. Visitors can browse past issues from that year up to the current day. The Features area is quite interesting, as it includes direct links to April Fools issues and topical coverage of swine flu outbreaks in 1976 and 2009. The April Fools issue from 1942 is quite a pip, as it includes articles titled "Surrealist Ginks Gab" and "Tennis Toddlers Tersely Terrorize Tirty-Tird Toughs."
Century 21 Digital Collection
From April 21 to October 21, 1962, Seattle played host to millions of people who sought out a glimpse into the future through the Century 21 Exposition. This world's fair presented an optimistic vision of "a future improved through science and technology" and this online collection from the Seattle Public Library presents over 1,200 photographs of the fair, along with books, brochures, reports, and more. The photos were taken by Werner Lenggenhager, a Swiss immigrant who donated his works to the Seattle Public Library after his death. Visitors can browse the suggested topics, which include Aerial Views, Space Needle, and Seattle Center Before Century 21. Visitors should also be sure to catch the six photos of Elvis Presley as he sang and danced his way across the grounds while filming, "It Happened at the World's Fair."
Douglas Menuez Photography Collection
Douglas Menuez began his careers as an intern with the Washington Post, and over the past several decades he has covered the AIDS crisis, the destruction of the Amazonian rainforest, and a host of other topics. One of his projects included documenting the rise of Silicon Valley, and along the way he took some 250,000 photographs that together constitute an insider's look at the world of venture capital, the semiconductor industry, and of course, the heady early days of the Internet's exponential growth. Recently, Stanford University acquired this prodigious collection. Visitors to this site can browse through approximately 2900 of these photographs, and given the number of images, this site certainly warrants several visits.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The Golden State is well chronicled in this digital newspaper collection created by the University of California, Riverside. The offerings here include over 400,000 pages of significant California newspapers published from 1846 to 1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian. First-time visitors can get started by looking over the Featured paper on the site's homepage. There are over two dozen titles, including the Amador Ledger, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Mariposa Gazette. Additionally, visitors can search by tags, dates, or publication using the site's search engine. Interested parties can also help out the project by adding corrections to the database. All visitors need to do is create a login and they can get started right away.
Tupper Scrapbook Collection
William Vaughn Tupper was quite the traveler, wandering around Europe, Great Britain, and North Africa from 1891-1894 with his family. This remarkable digital collection from the Boston Public Library contains 46 scrapbooks that document his fascinating journeys. First-time visitors might do well to check out "Volume 31: On the Nile. Cairo to Luxor" as a good starting point. Here they will find photographs of local attractions and curiosities purchased during Tupper's travels. There are shots of markets, local businesspeople, the pyramids, and festivals. There are many other volumes here, of course, and visitors will be delighted to know that each one contains at least 35 photos for their consideration. It's a remarkable find and for persons interested in the history of travel and journeys, it's a site to bookmark and visit again.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
Born in the town of Murom, Russia, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was educated as a chemist and dedicated his life to the advancement of photography. He spent many years documenting the Russian Empire, and he was even outfitted with a railroad car-darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II. Along with this equipment, the Tsar also gave him access to certain restricted areas. After Prokudin-Gorskii died in 1944, his sons sold his collection of photographs, glass negatives, and sepia-tone prints to the Library of Congress in 1948. This site allows visitors to view these images, which include photographs of prominent religious structures, public works, industrial areas, and people in traditional dress. Visitors can also look over some of the thematic albums, which include his travels to Central Asia in 1911 and his journey along the Oka River south of Moscow in 1912.
Access Excellence Classic Collection
Another good resource from AccessExcellence.org is the Activities Exchange Classic Collection Web site. The page presents links that focus on a single person or event by putting it into historical context and relating it to current science. Each contains a set of references, classroom activities, graphics, background information, and more. Some of the titles of the activities include The Discovery Of Radioactivity: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age; Radioactivity: Historical Figures; How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision; Discovery, Chance, and the Scientific Method; DNA Structure; and Development of Polio Vaccines. The pages and activities are well designed and offer educators some interesting and unique lessons for their students.
Florida Documents Collection
Created as part of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections, this rather remarkable offering includes an assortment of documents related to various aspects of Florida├┬ó├ó┬┬¼├ó┬┬ós history, life, and culture from 1777 to the 1920s. The range of materials here includes correspondence diaries, invoices, receipts, reports, and other documents. Key highlights cover a range from the Seminole Wars to the early days of Miami history. The user interface here is quite useful as visitors can use the Location Map & Timeline to browse around from Pensacola down to the Keys. Also, visitors can use the Subject Index area to look around from "Abstracts of Title" to "Yulee, David Levy." First-time visitors may wish to start by looking at the signature of Napoleon B. Broward and then wandering on over to a unique deed from the Florida East Coast Railway.
Old Boston Photograph Collection
In 2007, the Boston Public Library rediscovered a rather intriguing cache of photographs from the late 19th century in their archives. While there is still some debate about the provenance of these photos, they believe that the prints were taken by photographers affiliated with the Boston Camera Club, and that this organization was responsible for coordinating this specific project. Recently, the Library decided to digitize 113 of these images, and they are available here. Visitors can search the collection by keyword, and they will also find that the Flickr format will all allow them to send images to friends and also zoom in for a closer look. There are some great items here, including a print of Benjamin Franklin's house on Milk Street and a photograph of the Old State House from 1898.
Herman Miller Consortium Collection
The well-known firm of Herman Miller began manufacturing residential furniture in 1923. Based in Zeeland, Michigan, the company has created everything from the marshmallow sofa to the molded plywood chair. Also, it has played host to designers like Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. This rather nice digital collection from The Henry Ford Museum brings together over 366 images of various works created over the past eight decades. The materials are drawn from the Herman Miller Consortium, which was established in 1988 to bring together significant items from the company's corporate archives. Visitors can use the Browse all media link to look around at their leisure. It's a great way to learn about many key innovators in American furniture design throughout much of the 20th century. The materials here will no doubt inspire future generations of like-minded individuals.
Basque Digital Collection
In the early 1850s, some Basque people became disillusioned by the pickings in the gold fields of California. A number of them decided to raise sheep instead and spread across the American West. This vast digital collection from the University of Nevada at Reno brings together hundreds of images that document the Basque experience in the West and Europe. The images here include shots of arborglyphs, dancers, Basque festivals, monuments, and sheepherding. Visitors can make their way through over 3,200 images here, and they can search them by keyword or just browse around as they wish. First-time visitors should definitely pay close attention to the works of Richard Lane. Lane began photographing the sheep camps of northeastern Nevada in 1969, and he dedicated himself to filming "this disappearing way of life in all its complexity, including lambing, trailing, shearing, docking, shipping, and both winter and summer herding."
Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online
The Brown Archival & Manuscripts Collection Online (BAMCO) is a digital repository which contains documents related to many different subjects, including poetry, the history of Rhode Island, American political and diplomatic history, the history of science, and women's studies. This site provides users with finding aids for these various collections, along with digitized version of more than a dozen of said collections. Visitors can click on the "Browse all collections" area to look at all of the materials, or they can use the "Browse collections w/digital facsimiles", if they know they only want digitized materials. The currently digitized collections include the papers of James Manning (who corresponded with many a prominent Baptist minister in the late 18th century) and the Albert E. Lownes collection on Henry David Thoreau, to name only two. The Lownes collection contains books by Thoreau, critical works, and so on. The site also has contact information for those looking to ask specific questions about the collections.
77 FR 20820 - Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Sea cucumber aquaculture in the Western Indian ocean: challenges for sustainable livelihood and stock improvement.
The decline in sea cucumber fisheries that serve the Asian dried seafood market has prompted an increase in global sea cucumber aquaculture. The tropical sandfish (Holothuria scabra) has, in this context, been reared and produced with mixed success. In the Western Indian Ocean, villagers often participate in the export fishery for sea cucumbers as a source of income. However, with a growing concern of depleted stocks introduction of hatcheries to farm sandfish as a community livelihood and to replenish wild stocks is being promoted. This review identifies and discusses a number of aspects that constitute constraints or implications with regard to development of sandfish farming in the region. The conclusion is that for sandfish farming to live up to its expectations the possible impacts need to be further studied, and that improved evaluation of ongoing projects is required. In the interim, a precautionary approach toward new enterprise activities is suggested. PMID:22083524
Eriksson, Hampus; Robinson, Georgina; Slater, Matthew J; Troell, Max
Zoological Collections and Collecting in Cuba during the Twentieth Century.
Traces the history of 20th-century zoological collections in Cuba, and the present whereabouts of Cuba's zoological collections. The historical accounts are divided into two periods: from 1902 to 1959 and from 1959 to the present. A preliminary survey of the nature, size, and current state of these collections is included. (MDH)
Taboada, Gilberto Silva
American Collection: Educator's Site
This unusually rich companion Website has been posted in advance of the broadcast of the series, American Collection, a PBS special event presenting nine films based on the works of major American authors, including Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes, and Henry James. The heart of the site offers "teaching resources, lesson plans, background information, author profiles, online links, and behind-the-scenes production news on the films that will be seen on the series and the works of American literature on which they are based." The site also features a "gateway" of educator-selected sites on (currently) over 50 prominent writers in American literature; a video-finder for American literature on videotape (including films); and a "literary map" that is under construction, allowing high school students to participate by producing informative essays on writers from their region for posting on-site. A separate section also gives students the opportunity to post projects, games, and puzzles relating to the study and appreciation of American literature. Note: Material on the other five films will be added over the coming months. The series itself will begin broadcasting in 2000 on PBS and is a joint venture of PBS, Masterpiece Theatre, and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Collective effects in ? photodetachment
A study of the structure and photodetachment of the 0953-4075/30/19/014/img2 negative ion has been performed using many-body theory. An electron affinity for the 0953-4075/30/19/014/img3 of 0.273 eV was calculated within the Dyson equation method. A new approach for concurrent consideration of intrachannel and interchannel interactions and dynamic-core polarization and relaxation (screening) effects has been developed to calculate the total and partial photodetachment cross sections. The 0953-4075/30/19/014/img4 photoabsorption spectrum reveals a complex interference structure due to correlations between the two outer subshells, primarily strong interaction with the 0953-4075/30/19/014/img5 shape resonance. The influence of many-electron dynamic corrections on the photodetachment process is discussed. The resonance and interference profiles have been shown to be very sensitive to the proper account of collective phenomena. Reasonable agreement between the calculations and experimental data has been achieved.
Kashenock, G. Yu; Ivanov, V. K.
The Jane Johnson Collection
Back in the middle of the 18th century, what was a young parent to do when it came to providing a meaningful and lasting education for their son or daughter? It would be a few decades before Rousseau's Emilie, and a bit longer for John Dewey to make the scene, so parents had to be a bit more creative. One particularly enterprising soul was Jane Johnson, who decided to create a set of materials designed to instruct her son, George William Johnson, in a variety of subjects. Several hundred years later, the good folks at Indiana University's Lilly Library decided to digitize these rather remarkable teaching aids so that the web-browsing public might be able to look through them at their leisure. All told, there are 438 separate pieces, including six sets of alphabet cards (complete with vowel sounds), two booklets, three sets of lesson cards in verse and anecdotal form, and several card sets of moral instruction. The cards are quite visually appealing, and they contain references to such contemporaries as George Berkeley, and George Wright, a noted Member of Parliament. For those with a penchant for taking a stroll down the memory lane of pedagogy and instruction, this collection is worth several visits.
Collective atomic recoil lasing
A cloud of ultra-cold atoms is loaded into the attractive potential of a light wave that is generated by two counter-propagating modes of a high-finesse ring resonator. The two modes are coupled by the atoms due to coherent Rayleigh scattering and generate a potential which acts back on the motion of the atoms. This feedback leads to a new frequency component and can be described in terms of the long time proposed collective atomic recoil laser (CARL). This model is investigated experimentally and extended by introducing an optical friction force acting on the atoms. This allows for steady state operation of the CARL. Furthermore, it leads to a threshold behaviour of the CARL that translates into a novel type of phase transition: while passing the threshold the initially homogeneous atomic distribution is bunched in space and velocity. With this behaviour the system turns out to acquire some of the main features of the so-called Kuramoto model which provides a very general description of a network of limit cycle oscillators.
Zimmermann, Claus; Kruse, Dietmar; von Cube, Christoph; Slama, Sebastian; Deh, Benjamin; Courteille, Philippe
Iowa Maps Digital Collection
Lovers of all things historical, a number of us at the Scout Report could not get enough of the Iowa Maps Digital Collection. As the second-most shared resource this past year, it├ó┬┬s clear that our readers enjoyed it too! The Iowa Digital Library allows interested parties to whiz through years of Iowa history, even providing a clickable map of specific counties. The site impressed us with its varied archive of cartography and clear browsing parameters, as well as the option allowing users to download or print the maps at home.The Iowa Digital Library has done the cartographically inclined a great service by digitizing hundreds of maps from the Hawkeye State's grand and glorious past. On the homepage, visitors will be treated to a moveable feast of maps, including one of Scott County from 1875, a stylized map of the University of Iowa campus from 1943, and an official railroad commissioners map of the state from 1915. Visitors can browse the maps by state, county, township, town, or country via a series of drop-down menus. Additionally, visitors can browse all of the maps by time period, advertisements, publisher, or contributing institution. Persons with an interest in the history of cartography, United States history, or other related subjects will want to make multiple visits to this site.
Emergence of Collective Memories
Background We understand the dynamics of the world around us as by associating pairs of events, where one event has some influence on the other. These pairs of events can be aggregated into a web of memories representing our understanding of an episode of history. The events and the associations between them need not be directly experiencedùthey can also be acquired by communication. In this paper we take a network approach to study the dynamics of memories of history. Methodology/Principal Findings First we investigate the network structure of a data set consisting of reported events by several individuals and how associations connect them. We focus our measurement on degree distributions, degree correlations, cycles (which represent inconsistencies as they would break the time ordering) and community structure. We proceed to model effects of communication using an agent-based model. We investigate the conditions for the memory webs of different individuals to converge to collective memories, how groups where the individuals have similar memories (but different from other groups) can form. Conclusions/Significance Our work outlines how the cognitive representation of memories and social structure can co-evolve as a contagious process. We generate some testable hypotheses including that the number of groups is limited as a function of the total population size.
Lee, Sungmin; Ramenzoni, Veronica C.; Holme, Petter
Digital Collections: History and Perspectives
The author reviews the history of early efforts by libraries to build digital collections, the development of CONTENTdm software at the University of Washington, and OCLC's current directions in helping libraries build and manage digital collections.
Greg Zick
Beltsville 'Rhizobium' Culture Collection Catalog.
The USDA Beltsville Rhizobium Culture Collection contains a wide array of root nodule bacteria that fix nitrogen in symbiosis with legumes. The catalog gives information on the collection holdings and the services provided by the staff. Strains in the col...
H. H. Keyser R. F. Griffin
EPA Science Inventory
Resource Purpose: The Information Collection Rule (ICR) Information System was developed to store and distribute the information collected in the ICR for DBPs and microbiological research. It is a research database. The information system consists of our parts: laboratory...
Collective motion and giant resonances
This book compiles the papers presented at the conference on the subject of collective motion and giant resonances. Specifically discussed topics are: Beta decay of nuclei and astrophysics; inner hole states and their fragmentation; quantum chrome-dynamics, nuclear reactions of uranium and collective excitations; electron-positron interactions and collective model.
Wilhelmi, Z.; Kicinska-Habior, M.
Collective Focusing Ion Accelerator
The principal subject of this dissertation is the trapping and confinement of pure electron plasmas in bumpy toroidal magnetic fields, with particular attention given to the trapping procedure and the behavior of the plasma during the final equilibrium. The most important aspects of the equilibrium which were studied were the qualitative nature of the plasma configuration and motion and its density, distribution, and stability. The motivation for this study was that an unneutralized cloud of electrons contained in a toroidal system, sufficiently dense and stable, may serve to electrostatically focus ions (against centrifugal and self space-charge forces) in a cyclic ion accelerator. Such an accelerator, known as a Collective Focusing Ion Accelerator (C.F.I.A.), could be far smaller than conventional designs (which use external magnetic fields directly to focus the ions) due to the smaller gyro-radius of an electron in a magnetic field of given strength. A toroidal electric field, induced by a changing magnetic flux, would accelerate the ions. To prevent the electrons from being accelerated and shorting out this field (and possibly instigating a two-stream instability), the strength of the toroidal magnetic field which contains the electrons is given spacial periodicity in the toroidal direction. Suitably prepared electrons will not circulate toroidally in such a "bumpy" field due to the mirror effect of the field maxima. These experiments, then, have involved essentially independent electron clouds contained within the magentic "cells" formed by the bumpy field. Supporting experiments performed in a linear mirror system eliminated the complexity of the gradient inherent in a toroidal field and admitted experiments not possible in a torus. These included performing measurements on electrons ejected out one end. Technical developments in injection were also carried out in this simpler system. The electron cloud generally drifted poloidally at a finite radius from the toroidal minor axis. As this would preclude focusing ions with such clouds, damping this motion was investigated. Finite resistance in the normally perfectly conductive vessel wall did this. In further preparation for a working C.F.I.A., additional experiments studied the effect of ions on the stability of the electron cloud.
Goldin, Fletcher Joshua
Current Collection from Space Plasmas
The First Workshop on Current Collection from Space Plasmas was held at the Tom Bevil Center on the campus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville on April 24 to 25, 1989. The intent of the workshop was to assemble experts on various topics related to the problem of current collection for deliberations that would elucidate the present understanding of the overall current collection problem. Papers presented at the workshop are presented.
Singh, Nagendra (editor); Wright, K. H., Jr. (editor); Stone, Nobie H. (editor)
The Roles of Collections and the Scope of Collection Development.
Defines and describes three roles of library collections: archival, dispensing, and bibliographic. It is argued that the rise of remotely accessible materials makes possession less important relative to access, has implications for all three roles, and indicates a shift in emphasis away from collection development and conventional catalogs andà
Buckland, Michael K.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: Salmon Collection
The University of Washington presents the Salmon Collection, an online digital collection of "documents, photographs, and other original material describing the roots of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." Users may search for items by keyword or browse the entire collection, organized into the following categories: Native Americans, Traps and Fishwheels, Salmon Industry in Washington, Salmon on the Columbia River, Fish Drying, Salmon Industry in Alaska, Salmon Canneries, and Salmon Hatcheries. For a brief overview of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest, click on About this Site (also provides technical information about the collection and its content). The photographs are particularly compelling. The entire collection should appeal to ecologists and history buffs alike.
Tritium monitor and collection system
This system measures tritium on-line and collects tritium from a flowing inert gas stream. It separates the tritium from other non-hydrogen isotope contaminating gases, whether radioactive or not. The collecting portion of the system is constructed of various zirconium alloys called getters. These alloys adsorb tritium in any of its forms at one temperature and at a higher temperature release it as a gas. The system consists of four on-line getters and heaters, two ion chamber detectors, two collection getters, and two guard getters. When the incoming gas stream is valved through the on-line getters, 99.9% of it is adsorbed and the remainder continues to the guard getter where traces of tritium not collected earlier are adsorbed. The inert gas stream then exits the system to the decay chamber. Once the on-line getter has collected tritium for a predetermined time, it is valved off and the next on-line getter is valved on. Simultaneously, the first getter is heated and a pure helium purge is employed to carry the tritium from the getter. The tritium loaded gas stream is then routed through an ion chamber which measures the tritium activity. The ion chamber effluent passes through a collection getter that readsorbs the tritium and is removable from the system once it is loaded and is then replaced with a clean getter. Prior to removal of the collection getter, the system switches to a parallel collection getter. The effluent from the collection getter passes through a guard getter to remove traces of tritium prior to exiting the system. The tritium loaded collection getter, once removed, is analyzed by liquid scintillation techniques. The entire sequence is under computer control except for the removal and analysis of the collection getter. 7 figs.
Bourne, G.L.; Meikrantz, D.H.; Ely, W.E.; Tuggle, D.G.; Grafwallner, E.G.; Wickham, K.L.; Maltrud, H.R.; Baker, J.D.
This system measures tritium on-line and collects tritium from a flowing inert gas stream. It separates the tritium from other non-hydrogen isotope contaminating gases, whether radioactive or not. The collecting portion of the system is constructed of various zirconium alloys called getters. These alloys adsorb tritium in any of its forms at one temperature and at a higher temperature release it as a gas. The system consists of four on-line getters and heaters, two ion chamber detectors, two collection getters, and two guard getters. When the incoming gas stream is valved through the on-line getters, 99.9% of it is adsorbed and the remainder continues to the guard getter where traces of tritium not collected earlier are adsorbed. The inert gas stream then exits the system to the decay chamber. Once the on-line getter has collected tritium for a predetermined time, it is valved off and the next on-line getter is valved on. Simultaneously, the first getter is heated and a pure helium purge is employed to carry the tritium from the getter. The tritium loaded gas stream is then routed through an ion chamber which measures the tritium activity. The ion chamber effluent passes through a collection getter that readsorbs the tritium and is removable from the system once it is loaded and is then replaced with a clean getter. Prior to removal of the collection getter, the system switches to a parallel collection getter. The effluent from the collection getter passes through a guard getter to remove traces of tritium prior to exiting the system. The tritium loaded collection getter, once removed, is analyzed by liquid scintillation techniques. The entire sequence is under computer control except for the removal and analysis of the collection getter.
Bourne, Gary L. (Idaho Falls, ID); Meikrantz, David H. (Idaho Falls, ID); Ely, Walter E. (Los Alamos, NM); Tuggle, Dale G. (Los Alamos, NM); Grafwallner, Ervin G. (Arco, ID); Wickham, Keith L. (Idaho Falls, ID); Maltrud, Herman R. (Los Alamos, NM); Baker, John D. (Blackfoot, ID)
Fast Collective Communication Libraries, Please
It has been recognized that many parallel numericalalgorithms can be effectively implemented by formulatingthe required communication as collective communications.Nonetheless, the efficiency of such communicationshas been suboptimal in many communicationlibrary implementations. In this paper, we givea brief overview of techniques that can be used to implementa high performance collective communicationlibrary, the iCC library, developed for the Intel familyof parallel supercomputers as...
David G. Payne; Jerrell Watts; Lance Shuler; Prasenjit Mitra; Robert Geijn
Capillary blood collection in haematology
A capillary blood collection technique which facilitates the estimation of routine haematological parameters, including platelet count and sedimentation rate, is described. The technique requires 0À5 ml of blood, allows closer reproducibility than pipette collection methods, is suitable for monitoring blood counts in patients receiving cytotoxic agents, and can be integrated with semi-and fully-automated production lines. Images
Stuart, J.; Barrett, B. A.; Prangnell, D. R.
Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
The online presentation of the Miller Flute Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress has images of over 1,500 instruments, as well as a 17th-century flageolet tutorial. There is also an impressive array of "Special Presentations", which vary from an explanation what constitutes a flute, in "Flute Misnomers" and "Fife vs. Band Flute" to "Books, Tutors and Patents", which has a link to the images of the book "The Pleasant Companion: Or New Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet". In the "Understanding the Collection" section of the homepage, there is the "Catalog of the Wind Instruments in the Dayton C. Miller Collection", which helpfully offers "Conventions and Definitions", "Transverse Flute Elements Named in This Catalog" and "Key and Key Mounting Nomenclature" to help researchers and the public better understand the materials available in this great collection. The "Collection Connections" link, also in "Understanding the Collection", is a resource for teachers that, among other things, names the historical eras that are represented in the flute collection, and provides links to "Related Collections and Exhibits" on the American Memory website.
Collective Bargaining in Higher Education.
Papers are presented from a seminar on collective bargaining in higher education sponsored by the Center for Educational Management Studies of the University of Hawaii. The seminar was designed to address the similarities and differences among various countries and to draw on the experiences of Canada and Europe as they may relate to collectiveà
Soberman, Daniel A.; And Others
Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections
Whether a library's reference collection is large or small, it needs constant attention. Singer's book offers information and insight on best practices for reference collection management, no matter the size, and shows why managing without a plan is a recipe for clutter and confusion. In this very practical guide, reference librarians will learn:à
Singer, Carol A.
This system measures tritium on-line and collects tritium from a flowing inert gas stream. It separates the tritium from other non-hydrogen isotope contaminating gases, whether radioactive or not. The collecting portion of the system is constructed of various zirconium alloys called getters. These alloys adsorb tritium in any of its forms at one temperature and at a higher temperature release
Gary L. Bourne; David H. Meikrantz; Walter E. Ely; Dale G. Tuggle; Ervin G. Grafwallner; Keith L. Wickham; Herman R. Maltrud; John D. Baker
J. D. Baker; K. L. Wickham; W. E. Ely; D. G. Tuggle; D. H. Meikrantz; E. G. Grafwaller; H. R. Maltrud; G. L. Bourne
Special Collections. SPEC Kit 57.
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey on special collections in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions focuses on centralized departments that handle rare books, manuscripts, archives, and author-subject collections. Statistical results from 66 survey replies reporting on the staffing, size, and expenditures ofà
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies.
Collection Analysis Project. Final Report.
The Collection Analysis Project (CAP) was undertaken in response to one of the major recommendations of the University at Stony Brook Libraries' strategic plan. It is the first step in promoting the necessary change to bring collection management and development into conformity with accepted professional practice, and make it more responsive toà
Dole, Wanda; And Others
Feature selection for collective classification
When in addition to node contents and labels, relations (links) between nodes and some unlabeled nodes are available, collective classification algorithms can be used. Collective classification algorithms, like ICA (iterative classification algorithm), determine labels for the unlabeled nodes based on the contents and\\/or labels of the neighboring nodes. Feature selection algorithms have been shown to improve classification accuracy for traditional
Baris Senliol; Atakan Aral; Zehra Cataltepe
Collective network for computer structures
A system and method for enabling high-speed, low-latency global collective communications among interconnected processing nodes. The global collective network optimally enables collective reduction operations to be performed during parallel algorithm operations executing in a computer structure having a plurality of the interconnected processing nodes. Router devices ate included that interconnect the nodes of the network via links to facilitate performance of low-latency global processing operations at nodes of the virtual network and class structures. The global collective network may be configured to provide global barrier and interrupt functionality in asynchronous or synchronized manner. When implemented in a massively-parallel supercomputing structure, the global collective network is physically and logically partitionable according to needs of a processing algorithm.
Blumrich, Matthias A. (Ridgefield, CT); Coteus, Paul W. (Yorktown Heights, NY); Chen, Dong (Croton On Hudson, NY); Gara, Alan (Mount Kisco, NY); Giampapa, Mark E. (Irvington, NY); Heidelberger, Philip (Cortlandt Manor, NY); Hoenicke, Dirk (Ossining, NY); Takken, Todd E. (Brewster, NY); Steinmacher-Burow, Burkhard D. (Wernau, DE); Vranas, Pavlos M. (Bedford Hills, NY)
Image Collections: Providence Public Library
The Providence Public Library has worked tirelessly to digitize a range of works over the past few years. On this section of its site, visitors can look through collections that include Aerial Views, America's Cup in Rhode Island, Civil War Ballads, and over 16 additional collections. The Providence Buildings gallery is a real gem, as it includes over three hundred historical photographs of well-known structures, including the Providence Biltmore. For lovers of maritime lore, the Scrimshaw Collection showcases hundreds of photographs from the Nicholson Collection, a trove of whaling history. Users also shouldn't miss Rhode Island Mill Villages, a collection offering up dramatic views of towns like Hamlet Mills and Georgiaville Mill.
Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection
Located at the University of Wyoming, the American Heritage Center (AHC) is the institution's repository of manuscripts collections, rare books, and the university archives. Within their impressive archive is the Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection, which brings together over 3000 original photographs from the 20th century. First-time visitors can browse through the collection by date or subject, and the collection is particularly strong in images from the city of Laramie. The collection is also strong in terms of its coverage of rodeos, street scenes, and local theater events. Visitors should not miss the photo "Al Wilkenson Leaving Torpedo," which is quite outstanding. The photos can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnails, and it's easy to share the photos with friends by clicking the "Share This" link.
Confederate Imprints Collection: Sheet Music
As the United States continues to explore the legacy of the Civil War, this timely collection adds to the conversation. The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collection has created this collection of printed music created between 1861 and 1865 in the Confederacy. During its short-lived existence, the Confederacy produced more than 7,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, pieces of sheet music, pictures, and periodicals. Many collections of songs, known as songsters, were created during this period. The patriotic lyrics of these songs kept up southern morale, and they are interesting documents for musicologists, historians, and others. This collection features 50 pieces of music, including ballads like "Bonny Jean" and quick-steps like "Beauregard Manassas." Visitors can look over the pieces at their leisure, and those persons with a visual bent will be fascinated by the cover art for each musical composition.
Hispanic Reading Room: Online Collections
The Hispanic Reading Room site from the Library of Congress brings together over a dozen digital collections crafted from primary and secondary source materials related to Luso-Hispanic cultural history. The collections offered on this site include the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake as well as a collection on Puerto Rico and the Dawn of the Modern Age. This last area contains a small gallery of cartographic items as well as a short essay on national identity. Moving on, the Exhibits and Pictorial Collections contain wonderful visual explorations of the Spanish-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Of additional note, visitors on the hunt for a specific photograph or hard-to-find item may wish to consult the Reading Room's list of free-lance picture researchers who may be able to search for these items for a small fee.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: The Science Collection
The Science Collection brings together writings about scientific research conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to science held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Subcollections include a Botany Department Teaching Collection (images), an electronic edition of Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures (1978) by Thomas D. Brock, a collection of veterinary anatomical illustrations derived from the Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere fur Kunstler, or Handbook of Animal Anatomy for Artists (1898, 1911-1925) and the Journal of Chemical Education.
Center, University O.
Blood component collection by apheresis.
Apheresis component collection is a rapidly growing area in the blood collection field. Several instruments with varying capabilities are available. This is a brief review of the equipment available for granulocyte and apheresis component collection and indications for their use. In the United States, granulocytes are collected with the Fenwal CS3000, Fenwal CS3000 Plus, COBE (Gambro) Spectra, Haemonetics LN9000, and Fresenius AS 104. The use of hetastarch for sedimenting agent and stimulation with G-CSF and G-CSF plus dexamethasone have substantially increased granulocyte yields. Plateletapheresis is performed in the United States on the Fenwal CS3000, Fenwal CS3000 Plus, Fenwal Amicus, COBE (Gambro) Spectra, Gambro Trima Version 4, Gambro Trima Accel (Version 5), and Haemonetics LN9000. Automated red blood cell (RBC) collections are performed with the Haemonetics MCS+LN8150, Gambro Trima Version 4, Gambro Trima Accel (Version 5), Amicus, and Baxter Alyx. The RBC can be collected concurrently (with other components) in some instruments or separately in others. Plasma is collected concurrently on several instruments. Plasmapheresis for plasma only is performed on the Fenwal Autopheresis C and Haemonetics PCS2. Granulocyte yields range from 0.46 x 10(10) to 1.0 x 10(10) for unstimulated donors and 2.1 x 10(10) to 2.6 x 10(10) for donors stimulated with dexamethasone or prednisone. The use of G-CSF and G-CSF with dexamethasone has substantially increased granulocyte yields with yields of 4.1 x 10(10) to 10.8 x 10(10) reported. Platelet collection rates of 0.045-0.115 x 10(11) plt/min have been reported. Collection efficiencies of 46-85.7% have been reported. Automated (apheresis) component collection has the advantages of controlled volumes or doses of component, efficient use of the donor, multiple components from the same donor, better inventory control, and better quality control due to less manipulation of the individual components. Disadvantages of automated component collection include the use of expensive equipment and disposables, the need for specially trained machine operators, and lower capacity to collect large volumes of blood compared to whole blood donation. The use of apheresis component collection is rapidly growing to provide the best blood components in the most efficient manner. PMID:15880369
Burgstaler, Edwin A
78 FR 28848 - Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Collective Transformations, Collective Theories: What Adult Educators Can Learn From the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
The experiences of the 12-woman Boston Women's Health Book Collective was examined in a case study that focused on the collective's activities from its formation in 1969 through its publication of the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in 1973 and its opening of a women's clinic in downtown Boston that is still in operation today. The case study drawsà
Birden, Susan
Multicomponent collection as of 2005.
Multicomponent apheresis (MCA) begun in Genoa in 1985 in autologous terms. Named "sequestration" it was the preoperative collection of autologous components (RBC-plasma-platelets) using the same apparatus and harness ready for intraoperative blood salvage. In 1986 the technique was applied to donor platelet apheresis with the goal of reducing the costs of platelet collection and concurrently reducing the risks of viral disease transmission to haematological patients who did receive, in the same transfusion event, the necessary blood components obtained from the same donor. The results of this application were maximized by the so called aggressive MCA by which in selected donors, it is possible to collect 2 units of platelets along with 1 or 2 units of PRBCs. These applications were made possible by the development of the concept of dry-platelet collection according to which platelets are collected in only 20-25 mL of plasma and subsequently resuspended in non-plasma solutions such as T-Sol. A last development of MCC is for RBC apheresis, with the collection of 1-2 units of RBC independently of platelet collection. This is going to be the first step of apheresis as the unique modality of collecting blood leaving the bags to history of blood transfusion. Interestingly it took 15 years to MCC to be rediscovered and appreciated worldwide both for its intrinsic cost saving capabilities offered along with an increasing safety for patients. In terms of donor acceptance it is our experience that, since 1989 no donor has refused MCC, consisting at least in the concurrent collection of plasma along with platelets, but also RBC and or a second unit of platelets. PMID:15944115
Valbonesi, M; Giannini, G; Morelli, F; Frisoni, R; Capra, C
Pacific area data collection stations
The installation of environmental data collection systems at several remotely located sites in islands in the Pacific Ocean is summarized. The effort was designed to enhance the ability to collect hydrological information. The data collection station consists of a data acquisition system for handling data, a transmitter for uplinking information to the GOES-W geostationary satellite, and a variety of environmental sensors for data accumulation. Each system was assembled, tested, and deployed on designated islands. The concept of using microprocessors for handling data at remote sites and relaying it via a satellite link is a cost effective approach. Such systems require high reliability and proven performance in the field.
Rector, R. C.
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection tells the story of the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago. The Center was created in 1973 to address both the social and cultural needs of the community. This digital offering was produced as part of a collaborative project between the Special Collections Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois Graduate School of Information and Library Science, and the Center. Users of the site can make their way through photographs, newspapers, books, and other ephemera. Currently there are over 400 items in the collection, which visitors can browse at their leisure or search via the included search engine.
Shear Diversity Prevents Collective Synchronization
Large ensembles of heterogeneous oscillators often exhibit collective synchronization as a result of mutual interactions. If the oscillators have distributed natural frequencies and common shear (or nonisochronicity), the transition from incoherence to collective synchronization is known to occur at large enough values of the coupling strength. However, here we demonstrate that shear diversity cannot be counterbalanced by diffusive coupling leading to synchronization. We present the first analytical results for the Kuramoto model with distributed shear and show that the onset of collective synchronization is impossible if the width of the shear distribution exceeds a precise threshold.
Montbri¾, Ernest; Paz¾, Diego
The Ecology of Collective Behavior
Similar patterns of interaction, such as network motifs and feedback loops, are used in many natural collective processes, probably because they have evolved independently under similar pressures. Here I consider how three environmental constraints may shape the evolution of collective behavior: the patchiness of resources, the operating costs of maintaining the interaction network that produces collective behavior, and the threat of rupture of the network. The ants are a large and successful taxon that have evolved in very diverse environments. Examples from ants provide a starting point for examining more generally the fit between the particular pattern of interaction that regulates activity, and the environment in which it functions.
Gordon, Deborah M.
Texas Natural History Collections: Herpetology
The Herpetology Collection of reptiles and amphibians is part of the Texas Natural History Collections (TNHC) in the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Memorial Museum. The Collection "holdings consist of about 63,000 catalogued specimens, which are used for research by faculty, staff and students at the University, as well as by qualified researchers throughout the world." Frogs make up more than half of the catalogued specimens, and the United States is the primary source of specimens. Collection materials are also from Central and South America, Mexico, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Loans are available to "established researchers at recognized institutions with the facilities to properly house and care for the specimens." The website offers information about the Loan Policy to interested researchers. The site also links to the searchable and browseable TNHC Herp Database. Please note that the Database is under construction, and may be unavailable on occasion.
Metroliner Ride Data Collection System.
The report describes the engineering effort associated with collection of Metroliner dynamic vehicle performance data. A Metroliner car was instrumented with transducers and a digital recording system. Dynamic tests were performed and the resulting data w...
J. May
Law in Popular Culture Collection
Marlyn Robinson, reference librarian of the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin provides this site, which contains information about the library's collection of books and films related to how popular culture affects peoples' notions of the American legal system. The bibliography, a collection of information about nearly two hundred articles and books related to the subject, highlights this site. Visitors can find information about the library's collection of over 500 films featuring lawyers, as well as descriptive information about the library's collection of hundreds of books of "fiction in all genres, as well as legal humor, plays, comics, and pulp magazines" that either feature a lawyer in a central role or are authored by lawyers. Rounding out the site is a gallery of related movie stills and posters. Note that while the books are available via interlibrary loan, the films are not available outside the UT community.
William P. Palmer III Collection
This unique collection housed at the University of Maine represents a broad spectrum of pre-Columbian and Northwest Coast art collected between 1965 and 1970. The items here include 550 tomb figures from the Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit cultures of Western Mexico, along with 1150 ceramic figures from the Michoac├┬├┬ín and Chup├┬├┬ícuaro cultures of Mexico. Additionally, the collection includes ceramics and gold items from Panama, jade objects from Costa Rica, and a small clutch of Mississippian ceramics. On the homepage, visitors can learn a bit more about the collection, and then they will want to surely start browsing at their leisure. There are a few thematically organized sections here, and visitors won't want to miss the "Images for Eternity: West Mexican Tomb Figures" section in particular.
Legal Aspects of Collective Security.
Reviews the operating principals and history of the United Nations Security Council. Examines the concept of collective security and the means by which it is pursued. Concludes by listing a four-point doctrine designed to increase international security. (JDH)
Sobakin, V. K.
Collected Reprints-1969 Volume Ii.
The report is a collection of reprints from ESSA Institute of oceanography, Atlantic and Pacific oceanographic laboratories, that includes marine geophysics and geology, marine meteorology, physical oceanography, as well as general reports in oceanography...
Texas Natural History Collections: Ichthyology
This Ichthyology Collection is part of the Texas Natural History Collections (TNHC) at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Memorial Museum. It is estimated that the Ichthyology Collection currently holds 676,384 specimens contained in approximately 30,000 jars. The Collection represents 180 countries, and over half of the specimens are from Texas. Loans are available to "researchers at recognized institutions with the facilities to properly house and care for the specimens." The site links to extensive indices for North America Freshwater Fishes and Texas Freshwater Fishes which include maps and images. The site also links to a searchable and browseable TNHC Fish Specimen Database containing 26,511 records. Note: The Fish Database is under construction, and may be unavailable on occasion.
University of Alabama Digital Collections
For devotees of Alabama history (and even for those who aren't), the University of Alabama's Digital Collections are a real find. Currently, the site offers up more than a dozen digital collections, including The University of Alabama Encyclopedia and the Hugh Davis Farm Journals. The Hugh Davis Farm Journals are quite a find, as they offer an insightful portrait of a 19th century attorney and plantation owner in Marion, Alabama. Here visitors can read his farm journals, which contain records regarding slaves and accounts of life on the plantation. The other collections offered here include the Marjorie L. Smith Slide Collection of images related to cotton agriculture in the 1960s and selected issues of the University of Alabama Yearbook, which is titled "The Corolla".
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City of Pullman Image Collection
The city of Pullman in eastern Washington was first settled in 1874 by Bowlin Farr, who would also plat the town in 1881. A decade later, a committee decided that Pullman should serve as the location for the land grant college. The school that would later become Washington State University opened its doors in January 1892, and the town's fortunes have been linked closely to those of that institution ever since. This delightful digital collection brings together over 1200 photographs and postcards culled from the Special Collections holdings at the Washington State University Libraries. On the collection's homepage, visitors can perform a keyword search, look over a list of topical headings, or just elect to browse through the entire collection. Visitors might want to get started by typing in "palouse" or "agriculture".
Student Employees and Collective Bargaining.
Union organizing activities, protection of state and federal labor laws, and the division of students into a separate collective bargaining unit are discussed; and the use of separate units is discouraged. Journal availabilty: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506.) (MSE)
Malin, Martin H.
Expression of ?-galactosidase controlled by a nitrogenase promoter in stem nodules of Aeschynomene scabra
A 365-base-pair (bp) DNA fragment, containing the promoter region of the nitrogenase reductase (nifH) gene from stem Rhizobium BTAi1, has been isolated and sequenced. The transcription initiation sites were localized at positions 152 (major initiation) and 114 (minor initiation) nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation codon. The 200-bp nucleotide sequence upstream of the nifH structural gene shows substantial homology to the corresponding nifH regions of cowpea Rhizobium (100%), Parasponia Rhizobium (89%), and Rhizobium japonicum (88%). The nifH promoter region of stem Rhizobium BTAi1 was fused to the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli. The fusion and a 1.6-kilobase DNA specifying neomycin phosphotransferase were inserted into a 3,4-kilobase fragment of stem Rhizobium chromosome, and the resulting construct was placed on a mobilizable vector, pREV1000. Stem Rhizobium transconjugants resistant to kanamycin were found to contain the nifH promoter region-lacZ fusion linked to the neomycin phosphotransferase gene at the site of chromosomal homology. Analysis of the DNA from stable transconjugants showed integration of a single copy of these sequences into the chromosome by a double-reciprocal crossover event. The transconjugants formed nitrogen-fixing nodules, indicating that the insertion occurred in a ônonessentialö region of the stem Rhizobium chromosome. Transconjugant strain BTAi1000 grows on ?-galactosidase indicator plates under aerobic conditions as white colonies, whereas under microaerobic conditions (97% N2/3% O2), which derepress nitrogenase, the colonies turn blue within 15-24 hr. ?-Galactosidase activity in derepressed cultures of BTAi1000 showed a 200-fold increase in comparison to the wild-type strain, whereas stem nodules formed by BTAi1000 exhibited 15- to 20-fold higher ?-galactosidase values than wild-type nodules. Nitrogenase promoter-dependent expression of ?-galactosidase in stem nodules was inhibited by fixed nitrogen, suggesting that the nifH promoter-lacZ fusion is controlled coordinately in trans with the native nif region. Images
Legocki, Roman P.; Yun, Allen C.; Szalay, Aladar A.
Collective Enforcement of International Obligations
\\u000a Collective enforcement is not a very clear notion. It may refer to the institutionalized enforcement through specific international\\u000a organizations, especially the United Nations. The European Convention on Human Rights uses the term ôcollective enforcementö\\u000a in the Preamble thereby describing the whole enforcement-system of that Convention1. Commission and Court have referred to this notion in interpreting Art. 24, the article providing
Jochen Abr. Frowein
Neurodynamical model of collective brain
A dynamical system which mimics collective purposeful activities of a set of units of intelligence is introduced and discussed. A global control of the unit activities is replaced by the probabilistic correlations between them. These correlations are learned during a long term period of performing collective tasks, and are stored in the synaptic interconnections. The model is represented by a system of ordinary differential equations with terminal attractors and repellers, and does not contain any man-made digital devices.
Zak, Michail
Programmable data collection platform study
The results of a feasibility study incorporating microprocessors in data collection platforms in described. An introduction to microcomputer hardware and software concepts is provided. The influence of microprocessor technology on the design of programmable data collection platform hardware is discussed. A standard modular PDCP design capable of meeting the design goals is proposed, and the process of developing PDCP programs is examined. A description of design and construction of the UT PDCP development system is given.
Collective Behaviour without Collective Order in Wild Swarms of Midges
Collective behaviour is a widespread phenomenon in biology, cutting through a huge span of scales, from cell colonies up to bird flocks and fish schools. The most prominent trait of collective behaviour is the emergence of global order: individuals synchronize their states, giving the stunning impression that the group behaves as one. In many biological systems, though, it is unclear whether global order is present. A paradigmatic case is that of insect swarms, whose erratic movements seem to suggest that group formation is a mere epiphenomenon of the independent interaction of each individual with an external landmark. In these cases, whether or not the group behaves truly collectively is debated. Here, we experimentally study swarms of midges in the field and measure how much the change of direction of one midge affects that of other individuals. We discover that, despite the lack of collective order, swarms display very strong correlations, totally incompatible with models of non-interacting particles. We find that correlation increases sharply with the swarm's density, indicating that the interaction between midges is based on a metric perception mechanism. By means of numerical simulations we demonstrate that such growing correlation is typical of a system close to an ordering transition. Our findings suggest that correlation, rather than order, is the true hallmark of collective behaviour in biological systems.
Attanasi, Alessandro; Cavagna, Andrea; Del Castello, Lorenzo; Giardina, Irene; Melillo, Stefania; Parisi, Leonardo; Pohl, Oliver; Rossaro, Bruno; Shen, Edward; Silvestri, Edmondo; Viale, Massimiliano
25 CFR 175.32 - Collections.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
...and Collections § 175.32 Collections. The utility shall attempt collection on checks returned by the customer's bank due to insufficient funds or other cause. An administrative fee shall be charged for each collection action taken by the...
University of Nebraska Libraries Digital Collections: Government Comics Collection
If titles such as "Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin" and "Adventures on Space Station Freedom" sound like comic book titles, it's because they are. These titles weren't produced by Marvel or DC however, but rather by the federal government. This digital collection of these works is the result of a two-year scanning and research project initiated by Richard Graham, assistant professor and digital media librarian at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. All told, the collection contains 180 comics, posters, and transcripts from congressional hearings on comics. Visitors can search through the entire collection and they will also quickly get a sense of the pedagogical function of these rather curious documents. There are a few "classics" here, including the legendary "Bert The Turtle Says Duck And Cover", which was intended to provide instruction on what to do in case of a nuclear weapon attack.
University of Florida Digital Collections: Florida Photograph Collections
Florida is much, much more than a certain rather large theme park and the bustling nightlife of South Beach. Anyone with a cursory interest in the history of the Sunshine State should make a beeline for this engaging site. Created by the University of Florida Digital Collections, the Florida Photograph collection contains thousands of images related to the history and culture of the state. The collection features a number of subcollections, including Florida Ephemera and Concrete Blog: Messages on the Wall. The Concrete Blog section offers a fascinating portrait of Gainesville's 34th Street Wall, which has served as a community sounding board and place of artistic reflection for over 30 years. Neophytes can also type a few keywords into the search engine to get started; they might do well to begin with Tampa, Apalachicola, or hotels.
BACKGROUND: All animals possess some type of tissue repair mechanism. In some species, the capacity to repair tissues is limited to the healing of wounds. Other species, such as echinoderms, posses a striking repair capability that can include the replacement of entire organs. It has been reported that some mechanisms, namely extracellular matrix remodeling, appear to occur in most repair
JosÚ E San Miguel-Ruiz; JosÚ E GarcÝa-Arrarßs
Bohunice Simulator Data Collection Project
The paper describes the way and results of human reliability data analysis collected as a part of the Bohunice Simulator Data Collection Project (BSDCP), which was performed by VUJE Trnava, Inc. with funding support from the U.S. DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration. The goal of the project was to create a methodology for simulator data collection and analysis to support activities in probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) and human reliability assessment for Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear power plant consisting of two sets of twin units: two VVER 440/V-230 (V1) and two VVER 440/V-213 (V2) reactors. During the project training of V-2 control room crews was performed at VUJE-Trnava simulator. The simulator training and the data collection were done in parallel. The main goal of BSDCP was to collect suitable data of human errors under simulated conditions requiring the use of symptom-based emergency operating procedures (SBEOPs). The subjects of the data collection were scenario progress time data, operator errors, and real-time technological parameters. The paper contains three main parts. The first part presents preparatory work and semi-automatic computer-based methods used to collect data and to check technological parameters in order to find hidden errors of operators, to be able to retrace the course of each scenario for purposes of further analysis, and to document the whole training process. The first part gives also an overview of collected data scope, human error taxonomy, and state classifications for SBEOP instructions coding. The second part describes analytical work undertaken to describe time distribution necessary for execution of various kinds of instructions performed by operators according to the classification for coding of SBEOP instructions. It also presents the methods used for determination of probability distribution for different operator errors. Results from the data evaluation are presented in the last part of the paper. An overview of observed human error probabilities (HEP) according to the developed taxonomy is given. HEP observed during training process were used as reference input data for HRA (Human Reliability Assesment) within existing PSAs performed by VUJE. Observing two different training seasons offered an opportunity to compare a progress achieved through the training process. This paper shows us how it is possible to make this kind of comparison in order to establish an objective measure of training quality and to determine training weaknesses. Results gained during the project-evoked interest of different NPPs (Nuclear Power Plant) in Slovak Republic to collect and process simulator data for further improvement of human factor safety, operational procedures, training process, etc. (authors)
Cillik, Ivan; Prochaska, Jan [Vuje Trnava Inc., Okruzna 5, 918 64 Trnava (Slovakia)
In search of exceptional collections
The following thesis deals mainly with two different problems, both of which are related to the study of exceptional collections of sheaves. The first problem was motivated after a result in the study of D3-branes in String Theory established a connection between a Del Pezzo surface of degree 1 and the finite trihedral group Delta27 through a three block exceptional collection. We prove after understanding these collections in depth that this connection can only be extrapolated to two other cases: P2 is connected to Z3 and the smooth cubic surfaces in P3 are connected to Z3? Z3 . The second problem was motivated as well by String Theory, and it consists of finding and describing the exceptional sheaves and collections on the singular reducible variety S=P2?H 3 where P2?H3 =P1 . The surface S became an object of study when a crepant resolution of the singularity of type ?(1, 1, 3) was found. More specifically, S is formed by the exceptional compact surfaces of the resolution. We provide insight in the study of the exceptionality of sheaves on S, finally showing that complete exceptional collections of invertible sheaves on S don't exist. We also show how to use mutations of exceptional pairs on S using the bounded derived category of sheaves Db(S).
Kabbabe, Tomas
Learning the Collection: A New Librarian's Experience in Collection Management
The author is a reference and instruction librarian at Iowa State University with collection development and liaison responsibilities for chemistry, biochemistry, entomology, and natural resource ecology. She recently came to librarianship with an education and three years' experience in biochemistry and biotechnology. During the last four yearsà
Lewin, Heather
McIntosh Cookery Collection
If you think you know New England cookery, you might want to take a gander at the Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection website. Located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the collection contains almost 7500 books, pamphlets, and ephemeral items related to this aspect of New England culture. Visitors to the site can search the entire collection, or browse through the "Subjects" area, which includes works divided into topics like "seafood", "historical", and "ethnic". Moving on, visitors can browse the cookbooks by place or decade, and here they will find items that include a guide to preparing cranberries from the American Cranberry Exchange and a wine list from the Lafayette House in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Also, visitors can download "cookbookmarks" to use for their own reading pleasure.
Alaska and Western Canada Collection
The University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections continues to break new and interesting ground with one of their latest offerings, which happens to focus in on Alaska and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. With extensive archival holdings in both areas, they are certainly well poised to do so, and this particular collection includes visual materials related to the famed Gold Rush of 1898 to 1900, mining activities, and World War II installations. As with previous collections from this series, visitors can type keywords into the search engine, or they can search by category. The Gold Rush section is a real gem, as it includes 225 images in total. They include an illustration of a miner's working outfit from 1897, a photograph of a mining town dance from 1900, and a harrowing photograph of a boat navigating the treacherous Miles Canyon along the Yukon River.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Collection features historical atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and individual maps of several types. Its primary focus is on 18th and 19th century maps of the Americas, but it also includes maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection can be viewed using either the Insight browser, Insight Java client, a GIS viewer that permits two-or three-dimensional viewing, or a Flash-based thumbnail viewer. The web site features a directory that is browseable in several modes, including map type, location, cartographer, year, or an alphabetical listing. Each entry is accompanied by an image of the map and a record that includes author, date, title, publisher, object dimensions, scale, and other types of cataloguing information. Other site materials include an overview of the collection and its internet technology, information on recent additions, and information on purchasing reproductions.
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Edited by Michael F. Murray, Assistant Professor of Music at Southwest Missouri State University, this site is a terrific resource for students and fans of traditional American music. The site offers numerous selections from the Max Hunter Collection, an archive of almost 1,600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Hunter was a travelling salesman from Springfield, Missouri who took his reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the rural Ozarks, recording the songs and stories of people he met. The collection may be keyword searched or browsed by song title, singer, or catalog number. Featured songs list the singer, location, and date and include a transcription of the verses, in some cases a musical score, and links to an audio recording in RealPlayer, high-quality AIFF, and for some selections, MIDI formats. This site is yet another example of how the Internet offers free worldwide access to unique and priceless collections.
Cambridge University: Digital Image Collections
Over the course of the past eight centuries, Cambridge University has come into the possession of more than a few important documents. Their online digital image collection may be seen as an important first stop for anyone interested in perusing some of these remarkable materials. These documents include The Portsmouth and Macclesfield Collection, which contains the writings and ideas of Sir Isaac Newton, and the sketchbooks of Conrad Martens, who accompanied Charles Darwin on board the Beagle. That is far from all, however, as visitors can also browse the pages of the 13th century illuminated volume, "The Life of King Edward the Confessor". All in all, it is a lovely collection and one that scholars with any interest in English history will want to examine and recommend to their colleagues and students.
The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Every day, the staff members at the Daily Palette Digital Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries put up a new artwork by a different Iowa artist. Since the project was launched in 2004, the collection has profiled over 1,000 artists working in the fine arts, literature, video, and the performing arts. Visitors can scroll through the Highlights of Collection section near the bottom of the page for a taste of the very intriguing offerings here. The Subcollections area includes areas like Iowa Writes, Iowa on Stage, and Iowa at 30 Frames per second. This last area has 11 rather intriguing short films, including "Body Beasts," "Back of the Mike," and "Alternative Forms of Energy." Also, Iowa Writes includes over 700 poems, including "Ode to Thresher" and "16th Avenue, Cedar Rapids."
Harvard Map Collection: Digital Maps
Not surprisingly, Harvard University has one of the largest map collections in the United States, with over 500,000 items. While not all of these items have been digitized for this site, visitors can take advantage of hundreds of the items here. First-time visitors should read the "Introduction" area and then browse through some of the map indexes. The site also includes technical information on the collection, and a selection of "Search Strategies". Some of the maps here document 17th century London, maps of the Revolutionary War, and towns in Massachusetts. The detailed search engine allows users to search by collection, keyword, and those records that have digital objects. Finally, the site also includes links to the Harvard Geospatial Library and the Harvard College Library.
Fossil Collection and Museum Curation
Before we go into the field, students are exposed to field collection techniques and appropriate information to collect at the outcrop. This assignment is good for field trips because students each collect 1 or few samples, but spend time on the outcrop measuring a section and collecting associated lithologic and other fossil data if available (locality information, exposure, over and underlying sedimentology, details of host rock, sedimentary structures, assocaited fossils, diversity and abundance, taphonomic condition of fossils, etc). The field locality can be anywhere where there are resaonably well preserved fossils (and should give students an appreciation of museum quality specimens). This allows this exercise to be flexible as field trip localities change. All of the information that they collect in the field will be included in their field notebook that is handed in at the end of the field trip for evaluation. In the lab-I used class time-students are asked to make a detailed sketch of their sample that they can take to the library with them, and a discussion is held as to where to look for information to identify specimens with. Students are given a week (variable depending on the availability of resources, for example if monographs need to be aquired through inter-library loan) to idenitfy their specimen and then asked to catalog them for the museum. They fill out a SUNY Oswego Paleontology Museum card, which they have seen all semester for their sample and are given the option to donate it to the collection or keep it.
Boyer, Diana
Distributed Control with Collective Intelligence
We consider systems of interacting reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that do not work at cross purposes , in that their collective behavior maximizes a global utility function. We call such systems COllective INtelligences (COINs). We present the theory of designing COINs. Then we present experiments validating that theory in the context of two distributed control problems: We show that COINs perform near-optimally in a difficult variant of Arthur's bar problem [Arthur] (and in particular avoid the tragedy of the commons for that problem), and we also illustrate optimal performance in the master-slave problem.
Wolpert, David H.; Wheeler, Kevin R.; Tumer, Kagan
Collective behaviour across animal species.
We posit a new geometric perspective to define, detect, and classify inherent patterns of collective behaviour across a variety of animal species. We show that machine learning techniques, and specifically the isometric mapping algorithm, allow the identification and interpretation of different types of collective behaviour in five social animal species. These results offer a first glimpse at the transformative potential of machine learning for ethology, similar to its impact on robotics, where it enabled robots to recognize objects and navigate the environment. PMID:24430561
DeLellis, Pietro; Polverino, Giovanni; Ustuner, Gozde; Abaid, Nicole; Macrý, Simone; Bollt, Erik M; Porfiri, Maurizio
Methods for xylem sap collection.
Xylem and phloem are essential for the exchange of solutes and signals among organs of land plants. The synergy of both enables the transport and ultimately the partitioning of water, nutrients, metabolic products and signals among the organs of plants. The collection and analysis of xylem sap allow at least qualitative assumptions about bulk transport in the transpiration stream. For quantification of element-, ion-, and compound-flow, the additional estimation of volume flow is necessary. In this chapter we describe methods for collecting xylem sap by (1) root pressure exudate, (2) Scholander-Hammel pressure vessel, (3) root pressurizing method according to Passioura, and (4) (hand/battery) vacuum pump. PMID:23073885
Alexou, M; Peuke, A D
Psychological aspects of art collecting.
WHAT impels the art collector to acquire works of art? Art historians have steadfastly turned their backs on this question, and psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have not had much to say on the matter either. Patients, after all, do not seek psychiatric services because they are collectors. Yet to anyone at all familiar with art collectors, it is clear that their reasons for collecting are both diverse and complex. They may range from relatively pure ones like those suggested in the passage from B÷rne, just as applicable to art as to poetry, all the way to the much crasser ones alluded to by Rush. Here I shall have nothing to say about those who collect for profit pure and simple, who may even buy paintings in wholesale lots only to stash them away in a warehouse until they have risen in value. This breed, which has increased apace with the feverish growth of the art business in recent years, does not collect art for art's sake. It is rather to the collector whose motives for collecting are primarily nonmonetary that I want to turn my attention. PMID:7208717
Baekeland, F
Collecting and Using Local History.
The local history collection should contain: county histories; city and village histories; state and regional histories; anniversary booklets; company histories; local newspapers; local magazines; genealogies; family albums; diaries; journals, and letters; account books; club yearbooks; school annuals; telephone books, city directories and localà
Miller, Marcia Muth
Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining.
Analyzes the reasons for decline of union representation to 9% of private sector workers. Suggests that workplace conditions and labor legislation designed to foster collective voice also sustain the individual system of representation, which is consistent with the philosophy of an open society. (SK)
Troy, Leo
Collective Labor Supply with Children
We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. We show how this model allows the analysis of welfare consequences of policies aimed at changing the distribution of power within the household. Our setting provides a conceptual framework for addressing issues linked to the "targeting" ofà
Blundell, Richard; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Meghir, Costas
Collective cognition in animal groups
The remarkable collective action of organisms such as swarming ants, schooling fish and flocking birds has long captivated the attention of artists, naturalists, phi- losophers and scientists. Despite a long history of scien- tific investigation, only now are we beginning to decipher the relationship between individuals and group-level properties. This interdisciplinary effort is beginning to reveal the underlying principles of
Iain D. Couzin
Powder collection apparatus/method
Device for separating and collecting ultrafine atomized powder from the gas stream of a gas atomizing apparatus comprises a housing having an interior wall oriented at an angle relative to horizontal so as to form a downwardly converging, conical expansion chamber, an inlet conduit communicated to the expansion chamber proximate an upper region thereof for receiving the gas stream, and an outlet proximate a lower region of the expansion chamber. The inlet conduit is oriented at a compound inclined angle (with respect to horizontal) selected to promote separation and collection of powder from the gas stream in the expansion chamber. The compound angle comprises a first entrance angle that is greater than the angle of repose of the powder on the housing interior wall such that any powder accumulation in the inlet conduit tends to flow down the wall toward the outlet. The second angle is selected generally equal to the angle of the housing interior wall measured from the same horizontal plane so as to direct the gas stream into the expansion chamber generally tangent to the housing interior wall to establish a downward swirling gas stream flow in the expansion chamber. A powder collection container is communicated to the outlet of the expansion chamber to collect the powder for further processing. 4 figures.
Anderson, I.E.; Terpstra, R.L.; Moore, J.A.
Planning for the Collection Move.
When professional movers are hired to move a library collection, drawing up written specifications becomes the most important part of the planning process. Specifications explain exactly what needs to be done, form the basis for a legal contract, and provide the basis for determining the cost of the job. Precision is an important component ofà
Mitchell, Eugene S.
Frame of Reference: Special Collections
Rare, distinctive, unique--academic libraries are exploring new ways to describe and define what they've traditionally called special collections: incunabula, manuscripts, rare books, cultural artifacts and more. These valuable, historically important, and often one-of-a-kind artifacts can be a treasure trove for scholars and students. Technologyà
Goetsch, Lori A.
Automated microorganism Sample Collection Module
Modified Gelman Sampler obtains representative sample of microorganism population. Proposed Sample Collection Module is based on direct inoculation of selected solid growth media encased in a cartridge at all times except during inoculation. Cartridge can be handled with no danger of contamination to sample or operator.
Gall, L. S.; Graham, M. D.; Umbreit, W.
Shallow Water Data Collection System
In September 1991, the first of a series of measure- ments was made with high frequency (2 10 kHz) sonar in shal- low waters (35-55 m) of Block Island Sound. Approximately 250 sonar echoes were collected with sonar heads mounted on a re- motely controlled, submersed system towed by a surface ship over various bottom types. For ten types of
R. N. Carpenter; J. G. Kelly; M. Buffman
The Applet Collection: Significant Figures
This Java applet is a game designed to provide practice in significant figures for beginners. Users view a number and must determine the number of significant figures. Scores are automatically tallied, with short explanations given for incorrect responses. This item is part of a larger collection of physics applets.
Bauer, Wolfgang
The power of collective ambition.
In the past few years, some companies have not just weathered the economic storm: They've emerged stronger than ever. How did such players as Four Seasons, Sephora, and Standard Chartered Bank defy conventional logic? Instead of pursuing a single ambition, such as profits, employees defined a collective ambition. As a result, those organizations deepened their engagement with employees and other stakeholders and became sustainably profitable. Purpose, a company's reason for existence, is the central element of collective ambition. The other elements--vision, targets and milestones, strategic and operational priorities, brand promise, core values, and leader behaviors--must be aligned to serve the company's purpose. Articulating the elements of collective ambition can give everyone in the organization a better sense of the company's purpose and how they can contribute to it. Purpose does not have to be about saving the world; providing excellent entertainment or banking services is just as meaningful a purpose as improving health care in emerging economies--as long as it is an authentic representation of why the company exists. To shape and then achieve a collective ambition, companies must strengthen their organizational glue (the collaborative engagement that creates a unified culture) and grease (the disciplined execution that enterprisewide change initiatives require). PMID:22250354
Ready, Douglas A; Truelove, Emily
Heat collection, dissipation and storage
Heat collection and dissipation are provided utilizing a roofing system having a support sheet with an upstanding edge around its periphery and a pair of water impermeable membranes disposed in the volume defined by the support sheet and upstanding edge. Water is pumped from a storage tank to an inlet between the membranes for filling the membranes with water, and
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
The wide array of datasets provided in this collection affords educators and learners alike an understanding of several large networks from state roads to the internet. Access data on social networks, Wikipedia use and e-mail communication and much more.
University, Standford
Collections Security: The Preservation Perspective.
Provides a brief review of the basic elements of library security and preservation programs as a background for an exploration of security/preservation issues, problems, and policies. Discusses environmental control, disaster preparedness, fire protection, storage and handling, and controlling access to collections. (AEF)
Patkus, Beth L.
Collective Communications for Scalable Programming
HPJava is an environment for scientific and parallel program- ming using Java. It is based on an extended version of the Java language. One feature that HPJava adds to Java is a multi-dimensional array, or multiarray, with properties similar to the arrays of Fortran. We are us- ing Adlib as our high-level collective communication library. Adlib was originally developed using
Collective electron oscillations in nanotubes
A model for nanotubes, recently discovered complex many-atomic structures with multitude of collectivized electrons, and a simple approach to the problem of collective electrons oscillations as a whole in a namotube, are suggested. The frequencies of the oscillations of the electronic cloud along the axis of a nanotube omega a and perpendicular to it omega t are calculated, as well
Miron Ya Amusia; Yuri Kornyushin
This paper describes the initial phases of an evaluation of high gradient magnetic separation (HGMS) as a potential method of fine particle collection from industrial stack gases. HGMS is a relatively new separation technique that has been shown to be capable of removing small, w...
Individual and Collective Protection Program.
The FY06-07 goal was to advance the development of the Triosyn Super HEPA (TSH) media as an enhanced filtration material to be included in individual protection and collective protection end-use applications. Work was also done to pursue the development o...
A. Gendron A. Staffa D. Ohayon M. SansCartier S. Franzot
The Mosque Project: Collective Drawings
Teaching the author's fifth-graders about Islam through art was a challenge. Remembering a colleague's "Collective Architecture" project, he reworked the concept using mosque architecture as the basis for a new project. The goal was to introduce Islam and its basic tenets using the visual arts, with the hope of enhancing cultural tolerance andà
Erwin, Douglas B.
Collecting Disability Data from Parents
This article describes the development and national trial of a methodology for collecting disability data directly from parents, enabling schools and local authorities to meet their obligations under the "Disability Discrimination Act" (DDA; 2005) to promote equality of opportunity for all children. It illustrates the complexities aroundà
Porter, Jill; Daniels, Harry; Feiler, Anthony; Georgeson, Jan
Further Observations on Collective Bargaining.
This 1976 document discusses the growth and impact of collective bargaining on higher education, based on examples from the City Colleges of Chicago (Illinois). The paper provides background information on the growth of unions in higher education, highlights the differing perceptions of unions, describes the components of a union contract, andà
Grede, John F.
Collective Bargaining for Adjunct Faculty.
This report addresses the unionization of part-time (or adjunct) faculty and sets forth certain demographic data pertaining to them. Included are sections from national faculty organizations' status reports on part-time faculty. The first part of the report lists factors contributing to the growth of adjunct faculty collective bargaining. Tablesà
Douglas, Joel M., Ed.
Collective Bargaining in Ontario, 1972.
This report highlights negotiations and trends occurring in the major collective bargaining in the province of Ontario, Canada in 1972. Bargaining during the year was centered primarily on non-manufacturing industries and in the public sector. Major issues negotiated were wages, improved working conditions, job security, and length of work week.à
Drory, Asher; Badgley, Susan
Radioactive Decay: Audio Data Collection
Many phenomena generate interesting audible time series. This data can be collected and processed using audio software. The free software package "Audacity" is used to demonstrate the process by recording, processing, and extracting click times from an inexpensive radiation detector. The high quality of the data is demonstrated with a simpleà
Struthers, Allan
Updating collection representations for federated search
To facilitate the search for relevant information across a set of online distributed collections, a federated information re- trieval system typically represents each collection, centrally, by a set of vocabularies or sampled documents. Accurate retrieval is therefore related to how precise each representa- tion reflects the underlying content stored in that collection. As collections evolve over time, collection representations should
Milad Shokouhi; Mark Baillie; Leif Azzopardi
Whittington Collection of Asian Ceramics
In 1987, Floyd and Carol Whittington donated over 200 pieces of Asian ceramics to Western Washington University. Their collection represents a wide range of styles and ceramic traditions from China, Thailand, Korea, and Vietnam. The Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections group digitized images of these items, and curious visitors can find them here. Visitors can search the items by geographic category or a descriptive term, such as stoneware or porcelain. Also, visitors are encouraged to browse through items by looking at thumbnail images. Those visiting the site for the first time should definitely look at the Bencharong footed dish from Thailand and the wonderful Chinese plate with grooved cavetto. The site is a ceramicist's holiday, and others with an interest in this art form will enjoy it as well.
The Bronx Park Postcard Collection
Over the years since its origins in the late 1880s, the Bronx Park has been expanded several times. In 1891, the city of New York allotted 250 acres of the park to the New York Botanical Garden, and in 1897 assigned 250 more to the Bronx Zoo. This particular digital collection brings together postcards of the grounds held by the Wildlife Conservation Society Library and the Garden's LuEsther T. Mertz Library. The collection here includes over 450 postcards, which visitors can browse by subject headings, including Zoo animals, Paths and walkways, and Bronx River. The Zoo animals area is well worth a look, as it features a range of animals, including a Noah's Ark exhibit, camels, and Indian elephants. It's an amazing archive of documents related to one of the most famous zoos in the United States, and historians and others will find it quite marvelous.
Belgian-American Research Collection
The University of Wisconsin System has created this digital collection of resources documenting Belgian settlers in Northeastern Wisconsin. Most of the original materials were gathered in the 1970s by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay during a project "to record the undocumented historical, social, and cultural legacy of this unique ethnic group." At the search page, the collection is divided into three main areas: Architecture Survey, over 400 pictures of buildings; Oral History Recordings, approximately 50 interviews recorded between 1975 and 1976; and Immigration Histories, 3 book length documents of 100 - 200 pages, each viewable on the Web in an e-book format that allows text searching and leafing through images of the original pages. Keyword searches can also be performed across across all the materials.
The Belgian-American Collection
While Wisconsin is well-known for its German-American community, some may be surprised to learn that a significant number of Belgians made their way to the Badger State in the 1850s. Most Belgians who came to Wisconsin made their way to the northeastern section of the state and their descendants continue to celebrate the harvest festival known as Kermis as well as a number of other cultural practices. This particular online collection from the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collection provides a host of materials related to this ethnic community. Visitors will note that the materials are divided into six sections, including "Immigration Histories", "Oral History Recordings", and "Belgian Survey Maps". The maps are well worth a look, as they include detailed renderings of nine different Belgian-American farms. Visitors should also not overlook the oral history excerpts and the substantial immigration histories.
Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
The Birmingham Public Library has a marvelous trove of maps in their collection and this site is the perfect place to explore almost 1,000 cartographic gems. As might be expected, the maps housed here depict various sections of Alabama, along with maps and atlases from Europe, Africa, and other regions of the world. First-time visitors might start by giving close attention to the Persia sive Shahistan map, which depicts the Middle East as it was in 1740. Visitors can scan around the maps by title, subject, type or date. It's remarkable to see how the field of cartography has progressed just by looking over these maps by date. This collection is a great way to explore the world and perhaps will inspire a new passion.
Amherst College: Emily Dickinson Collection
To say Emily Dickinson has an association with Amherst College is a bit of an understatement. Her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders of the college and her father, Edward Dickinson, was treasurer of the school for over 35 years. In 1956, Millicent Todd Bingham gave Amherst College the Dickinson poems and Dickinson family papers she inherited from her mother, Mabel Todd Bingham. Many of these wonderful materials were digitized for this fine collation, and lovers of poetry and American literature will find this entire collection to be a real delight. Visitors to the site will find 850 documents here, including drafts of poems like "Further in summer than the birds" and "On that Specific Pillow." Visitors can search the collection by genre, contributor, subject, or date range. After selecting a particular item, visitors can also zoom in and out as they see fit to get a sense of Dickinson's handwriting and creative process.
Cornell University Political Americana Collection
From Teddy Roosevelt to "We Like Ike," the Cornell University Political Americana Collection offers up a cornucopia of presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980. All told, there are approximately 5,500 items here, including cartoons, prints, posters, lapel buttons, and leaflets. The majority of this prodigious collection was donated to Cornell by the private collector Susan H. Douglas between 1957 and 1961. Visitors can use the Categories listing to look around via over 150 sections, including Mourning; Monroe, James; and New York. The When category breaks items into presidential election years and it's a great way to get a sense of the changing political fortunes and key issues surrounding each four year contest. Finally, visitors can zoom in and out on each object and also use a variety of embedded tools to look at the rich details of each item.
Gauge theory of collective modes
The classical theory of Riemann ellipsoids is formulated naturally as a gauge theory based on a principal G-bundle Script P. The structure group G = SO(3) is the vorticity group and the bundle Script P = GL+ (3, ?) is the connected component of the general linear group. The base manifold is the space of positive-definite real 3 Î 3 symmetric matrices, identified geometrically with the space of inertia ellipsoids. Non-holonomic constraints determine connections on the bundle. In particular, the trivial connection corresponds to rigid body motion, the natural Riemannian connection to irrotational flow and the invariant connection to the falling cat. The curvature form determines the fluid's field tensor which is an analogue of the familiar Faraday tensor. Associated G-bundles and the covariant derivative yield new quantum geometrical collective models that are a natural generalization of the Bohr model. These new geometric structures formulate the collective model as a Yang-Mills gauge theory.
Rosensteel, G.
Lafayette College Archives Photograph Collection
Keeping track of the history of a college campus can be a challenge, and the good folks at the Lafayette College Libraries have done a fine job of that via this photograph collection. In 2006, the Special Collections & College Archives division began digitizing some of their holdings with support from the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission. The site brings together images of faculty, social dances, AIDS Memorial Quilts made on campus, ROTC images, campus buildings, and their fabled "All College Day" celebration. The photographs date back to 1858, and visitors with a keen interest in the physical planning and layout of the campus will find a host of images that tell this story of institutional transformation.
Liturgy and Life Artifacts Collection
The talented staff members at the Boston College University Libraries have created a veritable bevy of wonderful digital collections. They cover topics like the urban infrastructure of Boston to this one on the vast brocade of liturgical objects. Here visitors can make their way through over 1,100 images related to the Catholic faith, including decorative pins, robes, candlesticks, and other items. Items in the collection can be viewed via the Digitool Viewer (which is automatically embedded), and users can zoom in and out to get a closer look at each item. New users shouldn't miss the "Apparition at Knock" pin or the decorative "Angel holy water fonts." Some of the more curious items here include automobile crucifixes. [KMG
Urine collection apparatus. [feminine hygiene
A urine collection device for females comprises an interface body with an interface surface for engagement with the user's body. The interface body comprises a forward portion defining a urine-receiving bore which has an inlet in the interface surface adapted to be disposed in surrounding relation to the urethral opening of the user. The interface body also has a rear portion integrally adjoining the forward portion and a non-invasive vaginal seal on the interface surface for sealing the vagina of the user from communication with the urine-receiving bore. An absorbent pad is removably supported on the interface body and extends laterally therefrom. A garment for supporting the urine collection is also disclosed.
West Virginia Historical Photographs Collection
Like many states, West Virginia has embarked on an ambitious project to digitize a wide range of photographs for use by the general public, historians, and those just curious about the state's history. Created by staff members at the West Virginia University Library system, this online collection brings together 20,000 photographs. The search engine for the site is easy enough to use, but the site might have benefited from a number of subject guides or thematic collections for more casual users. Overall, the site is a real find, as users will enjoy looking through construction photographs of the Personal Rapid Transit system on the campus of West Virginia University, demonstration farm projects in Hancock County, and African American miners at work.
Overcoming Communication Restrictions in Collectives
Many large distributed system are characterized by having a large number of components (eg., agents, neurons) whose actions and interactions determine a %orld utility which rates the performance of the overall system. Such collectives are often subject to communication restrictions, making it difficult for components which try to optimize their own private utilities, to take actions that also help optimize the world utility. In this article we address that coordination problem and derive four utility functions which present different compromises between how aligned a component s private utility is with the world utility and how readily that component can determine the actions that optimize its utility. The results show that the utility functions specifically derived to operate under communication restrictions outperform both traditional methods and previous collective-based methods by up to 75%.
Tumer, Kagan; Agogino, Adrian K.
Collective behavior in financial markets
The financial market is an example of a complex system characterized by a highly intricate organization and the emergence of collective behavior. In this paper, this emergent dynamics in the financial market is quantified by using concepts of network synchronization. We consider networks constructed by the correlation matrix of asset returns and study the time evolution of the phase coherence among stock prices. It is verified that during a financial crisis a synchronous state emerges in the system, defining the market's direction. Furthermore, the paper proposes a statistical regression model able to identify the topological features that mostly influence such an emergence. The coefficients of the proposed model indicate that the average shortest path length is the measurement most related to network synchronization. Therefore, during an economic crisis, the stock prices present a similar evolution, which tends to shorten the distances between stocks indicating a collective dynamics.
Dal'Maso Peron, T. K.; Rodrigues, F. A.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Amidst all of his other responsibilities as a lawyer, politician, and father, Abraham Lincoln found time to write. In fact, he wrote quite a bit, and it took scholars decades to assemble the majority of his various published (and unpublished) writings. After working on bringing together his writings, the Abraham Lincoln Association published "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln" in 1953. In total, there were eight volumes, and they included Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Recently, the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service digitized all eight volumes and placed them online here for the benefit of historians, rhetoricians, and those who are generally enamored of the 16th President. Visitors can perform simple searches, boolean searches, and proximity searches to their hearts' content. Also, they can look over other documents that were digitized for the collection, including Paul M. Angle's "Here I Have Lived: A History of Lincoln's Springfield".
G. William Skinner Map Collection
Professor G. William Skinner of the University of Washington was a major theorist of family systems and of spatial social science. Professor Skinner's maps are products of his "lifelong interest in the spatial distribution of social variables." His maps document subjects such as agrarian China, 19th century France, and Japan. Some of the variables he was most interested in included agricultural wages, fertility rates, and the sex ratio in various regions. This remarkable digital collection from the University of Washington Libraries brings together all 1200 maps from the Skinner Collection. Visitors can browse the maps by country and region, subject, or theme. The site also includes several documents by Professor Skinner on his work dealing with hierarchical regional space and a complete list of all the publications related to this work.
Whole air collection and analysis
A balloon-borne cryogenic system for collecting whole air samples for subsequent analysis for trace gas composition is described. Sample containers, consisting of cylinders arranged in concentric circles, are partly immersed in liquid Ne and thus act as cryopumps, maintaining a volume flow of 23 liters\\/min even at ambient inlet pressure of only 1.0 torr. The sampling system, with the battery
L. E. Heidt
Youth Collectivities and Adolescent Violence
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Current collection in a magnetoplasma
The authors present a survey of a very incomplete subject, current collection in a magnetoplasma. The best-developed and simplest theories for current collection are steady-state collisionless theories, and these must be understood before departures from them can be analyzed usefully. Thus, the authors begin with a review of them. The authors include some recent numerical results which indicate that steady-state collisionless Laplace-limit currents remain substantially below the Parker-Murphy (1967) canonical upper bound out to very large electrode potentials, and approach it as a limit only very slowly if at all. Attempts to correct this theory for space-charge effects lead to potential disturbances which extend to infinite distance along the electrode's magnetic shadow, unless collisional effects are also taken into account. However, even a small amount of relative plasma drift motion, such as that involved in a typical rocket experiment, can change this conclusion fundamentally. It is widely believed that time-averaged current collection may be increased by effects of plasma turbulence, and the authors review the available evidence for and against this contention. Steady-state collisionless particle dynamics predicts the existence of a toroidal region of trapped orbits which surrounds the electrode. Light emissions from this region have been photographed, indicating that collisional ionization may also occur there, and this, and/or scattering by collisions or possibly turbulent fluctuations in this region, may also increase current collection by the electrode. The authors also discuss effects on particle motions near the electrode, associated with breakdown of magnetic insulation in the region of large electric fields near it.
Laframboise, Jim G.; Sonmor, L. J.
The Middle East Water Collection
This extremely well-researched website offers a unique perspective on the Middle East, by presenting multi- and interdisciplinary documents, books, data, journal and newspaper articles that are devoted solely to water. The Middle East Water Collection website, presented by the Oregon State University libraries, examines the very complex issues that water presents, "to provide a greater understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of water and its interactions with politics, development, social issues, culture and religion." Additionally, the online collection is just a part of the complete 9000 item collection available at Oregon State University. Visitors can search via "Region/Country", "Basins", "Subjects", or "Full Text" by using the drop down boxes on the left hand side of the homepage. The "My Favorites" tab near the top of the page allows visitors to save any of the items to their own favorites page, simply by clicking "Add to Favorites" at the bottom of the entry they want to save. A pop-up window will display indicating the item has been saved to the visitors' page.
R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection
It is hard to classify R. Buckminster Fuller, but at the very least, it is fair to say he was an architect, a planner, an engineer, an inventor, and a Renaissance man in the best sense of the phrase. With support from the Save America's Treasures Program, Stanford University has seen fit to digitally reformat a wide range of very valuable audio and video materials culled from their R. Buckminster Fuller Collection. First-time visitors will need to create a login password before accessing the materials, but never fear, as it only takes a moment. After that, they will have complete access to all the materials within the collection. It's not a bad idea to start by looking through the "Browse" area first, and here they will find interviews with Fuller, along with the "Being with Bucky" seminars. Those who are completely unfamiliar with Fuller's work may wish to start by clicking on the "Exploring Bucky" area. Here they can read over brief answers to "Who was Bucky Fuller?" and "What is a geodesic dome?" For architects, engineers, and many others, this collection will be quite a find.
Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection
Ethnic minorities in Oregon are the subject of this Oregon State University Library website and the collection "consists of images that document the lives and activities of ethnic minorities in Oregon." With its streamlined homepage, visitors can focus on the collection and how to search or browse through it. Visitors are also welcome to contribute information on any unidentified photographs, by clicking on "Contact Us", near the bottom of the homepage. In addition, visitors can also click on the "Browse" link to see every one of the 239 items in the collection. Those users with something more specific in mind should use the "Quick Links" drop down box in the top right hand corner of the homepage. Some of the subject areas that can be searched for are "African Americans", "Indians of North America", "Mexican Americans", "Political Parades and Rallies", and "Powwows". The "Indexes" available to search are organized into headings like "Photographer", "Subject" and "Geographic", and they can be found below the "Quick Links" drop down box.
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
In the 1936 film, "San Francisco" Jeannette MacDonald sings the film's title song, which of course includes the Gus Kahn-penned lyric "San Francisco, welcome me home again/I'm not at home to go roaming no more." For those who might be pining for Baghdad by the Bay (or for images from the infamous earthquake in 1906), this online collection from the San Francisco Public Library will be most welcome. All told, the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection contains more than 250,000 photographs of San Francisco and California, although not all of these photographs are available online here. Visitors should begin their voyage through these images by using their search engine, which allows them to search by photographer, subject index, or by date. Perhaps the most novel way to search the images is to look through the photos by using an interactive map of the entire city. Here visitors can find photographs of the historic Moulin Rouge nightclub in the historic Barbary Coast area, or move on over to Sutro Heights over on the Pacific Ocean. For those who might be feeling a bit less adventurous, there are a number of thematic collections, including "Picture This: Family Photographs of Everyday San Francisco".
Walter Gordon Collection of Photographs
In the first half of the 20th century, the well-known African American attorney Walter L. Gordon had his office next to the African American newspaper, the California Eagle. The photographers for the paper often shot pictures of Black social life in Los Angeles, and once printed these photos were often discarded. Gordon saved many of these photos and began collecting the images, which often depicted leading members of the Black community in Los Angeles. His collection made its way to UCLA, and their digital collections group digitized over 800 of his photographs. Here visitors will find images of black resorts such as Val Verde, local political figures, and a range of jazz legends, such as Count Basie and Billie Holliday. Currently, visitors can view almost 300 of these items, and they can browse the photos by language, name, subject, or type. There are some real gems in here, including a great photo of Lionel Hampton on the stage and a cast photo of the members of "Carmen Jones" at an informal gathering. The image viewer here is quite impressive, as visitors can add a grid of select photos for comparative viewing and also manipulate each image as they see fit.
Electrospray Collection of Lunar Dust
A report describes ElectroSpray Ionization based Electrostatic Precipitation (ESIEP) for collecting lunar dust particles. While some HEPA filtration processes may remove a higher fraction (>99.9 percent) of the particles, the high efficiency may not be appropriate from an overall system standpoint, especially in light of the relatively large power requirement that such systems demand. The new electrospray particle capture technology is described as a variant of electrostatic precipitation that eliminates the current drawbacks of electrostatic precipitation. The new approach replaces corona prone field with a mist of highly charged micro-droplets generated by electrospray ionization (ESI) as the mechanism by which incoming particles are attracted and captured. In electrospray, a miniscule flow rate (microliters/minute) of liquid (typically water and a small amount of salt to enhance conductivity) is fed from the tip of a needle held at a high voltage potential relative to an opposite counter electrode. At sufficient field strength, a sharp liquid meniscus forms , which emits a jet of highly charged droplets that drift through the surrounding gas and are collected on the walls of a conductive tube. Particles in the gas have a high probability of contact with the droplets either by adhering to the droplets or otherwise acquiring a high level of charge, causing them to be captured on the collecting electrode as well. The spray acts as a filtration material that is continuously introduced and removed from the gas flow, and thus can never become clogged.
Dziekan, Michael
25 CFR 163.2 - Information collection.
...Information collection. 163.2 Section 163.2 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND AND WATER GENERAL FORESTRY REGULATIONS General Provisions § 163.2 Information collection. The information collection...
28 CFR 812.4 - Collection procedures.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
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43 CFR 29.14 - Information collection.
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25 CFR 151.15 - Information collection.
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76 FR 65504 - Proposed Agency Information Collection
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45 CFR 1177.10 - Collection services.
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77 FR 26763 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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75 FR 55359 - Notice of Information Collection
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Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications
Within a digital library, collections may range from an ad hoc set of objects that serve a temporary purpose to established library collections intended to persist through time. The objects in these collections vary widely, from library and data center holdings to pointers to real-world objects, such as geographic places, and the various metadata schemas that describe them. The key to integrated use of such a variety of collections in a digital library is collection metadata that represents the inherent and contextual characteristics of a collection. The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project has designed and implemented collection metadata for several purposes: in XML form, the collection metadata "registers" the collection with the user interface client; in HTML form, it is used for user documentation; eventually, it will be used to describe the collection to network search agents; and it is used for internal collection management, including mapping the object metadata attributes to the common search parameters of the system.
Hill, Linda L.; Janee, Greg; Dolin, Ron; Frew, James; Larsgaard, Mary
Invariants of collective neutrino oscillations
We consider the flavor evolution of a dense neutrino gas by taking into account both vacuum oscillations and self-interactions of neutrinos. We examine the system from a many-body perspective as well as from the point of view of an effective one-body description formulated in terms of the neutrino polarization vectors. We show that, in the single angle approximation, both the many-body picture and the effective one-particle picture possess several constants of motion. We write down these constants of motion explicitly in terms of the neutrino isospin operators for the many-body case and in terms of the polarization vectors for the effective one-body case. The existence of these constants of motion is a direct consequence of the fact that the collective neutrino oscillation Hamiltonian belongs to the class of Gaudin Hamiltonians. This class of Hamiltonians also includes the (reduced) BCS pairing Hamiltonian describing superconductivity. We point out the similarity between the collective neutrino oscillation Hamiltonian and the BCS pairing Hamiltonian. The constants of motion manifest the exact solvability of the system. Borrowing the well established techniques of calculating the exact BCS spectrum, we present exact eigenstates and eigenvalues of both the many-body and the effective one-particle Hamiltonians describing the collective neutrino oscillations. For the effective one-body case, we show that spectral splits of neutrinos can be understood in terms of the adiabatic evolution of some quasiparticle degrees of freedom from a high-density region where they coincide with flavor eigenstates to the vacuum where they coincide with mass eigenstates. We write down the most general consistency equations which should be satisfied by the effective one-body eigenstates and show that they reduce to the spectral split consistency equations for the appropriate initial conditions.
Pehlivan, Y.; Balantekin, A. B.; Kajino, Toshitaka; Yoshida, Takashi
Robert Venn Carr Jr. Collection
The Robert Venn Carr Jr. Collection at the University of Maine's Museum of Art is particularly strong in paintings, prints, and other 2D items. The Museum was established in 1946 and all told it contains over 6,000 items. Visitors to this site can browse around by style or by a list of artists. Each item contains information about its materials, the year of creation, and its dimensions. The style list is quite inclusive, containing pieces that represent Pop Art, Realism in art, Abstract Expressionism, and Cubism. Also, visitors can use the keyword search to look around by theme, idea, material, or any other word or concept that strikes their fancy.
Z├┬írate's Political Collections
Roberto Ortiz de Zarate, a licentiate of Information Sciences, has created a site designed to supplement a number of different classrooms. It offers information on contemporary leaders from 185 countries and three international organizations, the office-holders longest in power, contemporary women leaders, European governments since 1990, the first post-colonial African rulers, heads of state killed in or out of office, and obituaries of prominent leaders who have died since 1990. The site also includes a collection of unannotated related links.
Zarate, Roberto O.
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75 FR 77041 - 60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collections: Two Information Collections
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Sensorized waste collection container for content estimation and collection optimization.
The concurrent effects of a fast national growth rate, of a large and dense residential area and a pressing demand for urban environmental protection create a challenging framework for waste management in Pudong New Area, Shanghai. The complexity of context and procedures is indeed a primary concern of local municipal authorities due to problems related to the collection, transportation and processing of residential solid waste. In order to design and implement a suitable urban solid waste system, the first task is to forecast the quantity and variance of solid waste as it relates to residential population, consumer index, season, etc. The system here discussed addresses exactly these issues, by means of an intelligent, sensorized container. The container has been prepared and tested in the Pudong New Area, Shanghai. PMID:19103480
Vicentini, F; Giusti, A; Rovetta, A; Fan, X; He, Q; Zhu, M; Liu, B
Birmingham Conservatoire Historical Instrument Collection
If you have ever had a penchant to check out an ancient flageolet or a historic bass horn, this delightful online collection from the Birmingham Conservatoire Historical Instrument Collection is just the ticket. The project was developed by Professor George Caird and his colleagues at Birmingham City University, and funding for the project was provided by Arts & Humanities Research Council. From the homepage, visitors can browse the catalog of instruments by name or by maker, look over a host of images, and listen to some excellent audio samples of the instruments. The instruments are divided into categories that include "Trombones", "Plucked Strings", "Keyboards", and "Serpents, Ophicleides and Bass Horns". Each instrument is accompanied by information about its place of origin, its maker, its overall size, and numerous photographs. Moving on, the "Audio Resources" area is quite a pip, and visitors can listen to expert musicians playing everything from an 1836 piccolo to a folded coach horn making its way through Mozart's Post Horn Serenade.
Selective altruism in collective games
We study the emergence of altruistic behaviour in collective games. In particular, we take into account Toral's version of collective Parrondo's paradoxical games, in which the redistribution of capital between agents, who can play different strategies, creates a positive trend of increasing capital. In this framework, we insert two categories of players, altruistic and selfish ones, and see how they interact and how their capital evolves. More in detail, we analyse the positive effects of altruistic behaviour, but we also point out how selfish players take advantage of that situation. The general result is that altruistic behaviour is discouraged, because selfish players get richer while altruistic ones get poorer. We also consider a smarter way of being altruistic, based on reputation, called "selective altruism", which prevents selfish players from taking advantage of altruistic ones. In this new situation it is altruism, and not selfishness, to be encouraged and stabilized. Finally, we introduce a mechanism of imitation between players and study how it influences the composition of the population of both altruistic and selfish players as a function of time for different initial conditions and network topologies adopted.
ZappalÓ, Dario A.; Pluchino, Alessandro; Rapisarda, Andrea
Collective effects in complex plasma
In complex plasmas together with single particle behavior the study of collective phenomena in large assemblies is an important development. We analyze the interaction among particles in plasma in several cases, starting from clusters consisting of a few particles up to large assemblies. In some cases the formation of the self-built electric field at the edge of the cluster and the screening of an external electric field by the dust cloud are predicted. In the case of small clusters the formation of double layers at the edge of a cluster is considered. The dimension of the cluster plays a role. The competition for charge is crucial in explaining agglomeration of mesoscopic particles. Larger particles, of the size of a Debye length, agglomerate mainly because of the ion 'shadow' force, a small scale aspect of the self-built field. Experiments with an expansion of dust clusters in an external plasma sheath seem to prove the existence of the self-built electric field at the edge of the cloud and the screening of external sheath fields. Other experiments, such as formation of bubbles, lanes, electrorheological properties and 2D dislocations in crystals, enlarge the investigations on collective effects and show their importance in complex plasmas. .
Annaratone, B. M.; Antonova, T.; Arnas, C.; Bandyopadhyay; Chaudhuri, M.; Du, C.-R.; Elskens, Y.; Ivlev, A. V.; Morfill, G. E.; Nosenko, V.; S³tterlin, K. R.; Schwabe, M.; Thomas, H. M.
Brooker Collection at Boston College
A number of years back, the Boston College Law Library received a tremendous gift from Robert E. Brooker, III. Over many decades, Brooker had assembled some 2500 documents and manuscripts that tell the story of land use and legal systems in Boston and the New England area from 1716 to 1930. These documents include deeds of lands, contracts for goods and services, wills, letters, and estate inventories. Visitors to this collection can view all of these documents, and legal historians, geographers, and historians of New England will have a field day with the offerings here. One particularly note-worthy item is item #1013, which is a beautiful deed signed in October 1738 by Isaac Harris. It is the oldest deed in the collection, and it includes a transcript for those who don't want to squint while looking at the screen. Of course, visitors can also search through all of the items, and they are encouraged to use the viewing tools as well.
Mary Binney Wheeler Image Collection
In 1907, Mary Binney Wheeler was born into a prominent Philadelphia family. She was quite talented in the musical and terpsichorean arts; at the age of 17, she performed at Carnegie Hall as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Later in life, she developed a deep and abiding interest in South Asian art and culture. Over the course of 14 trips to the area, she took over 9,000 photographs in India and Sri Lanka. Her work was recognized by the National Geographic Society, the Indian government, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art as being of tremendous importance as it documented everything from washing laundry to the Himalayan Mountains. This collection is a marvel, and visitors can use the Navigating the Digital Collection area to learn how to most effectively look through the archive. The site also includes a detailed biography of Wheeler's life. Finally, the Lectures area should not be missed. There are six wonderful illustrated lectures here, narrated by Ms. Wheeler. They cover Sri Lanka, life in the ancient palaces, and the Valley of the Sky.
On the collective curvature radiation
In this paper, we study one possible mechanism of pulsar radio emission (i.e. with the collective curvature radiation of the relativistic particle stream moving along the curved magnetospheric magnetic field lines). We show that an electromagnetic wave that contains one cylindrical harmonic exp {is?} cannot be radiated by the curvature radiation mechanism, which corresponds to the radiation of a charged particle moving along curved magnetic field lines. The point is that a particle in a vacuum radiates the triplex of harmonics (s, s▒ 1) in which the polarization of the emitted wave changes from one point to another on a circle of constant radius, while for one s-harmonic the polarization remains constant. So, for the collective curvature radiation, the wave polarization is very important and cannot be fixed a priori. For this reason, the polarization of real unstable waves must be determined directly from the solution of wave equations for the media. Its electromagnetic properties should be described by the dielectric permittivity tensor ?, which contains information on the reaction on all possible types of radiation.
Istomin, Ya. N.; Philippov, A. A.; Beskin, V. S.
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H. W. Wilson "Nonbook Materials Core Collection"
The "Nonbook Materials Core Collection" is one of H. W. Wilson's new subscription-based electronic core collection development databases. It is a new addition to the five-volume core collection series formerly known as the "Standard Catalog Series." Other titles in this series have long been staples of collection development resources for bothà
Harper, Meghan
Fog collectors and collection techniques
The earth sciences taught that due to the occurrence of water in three phases: gas, liquid and solid, solar energy keeps the hydrological cycle going, shaping the earth surface while regulating the climate and thus allowing smart technologies to interfere in the natural process by rerouting water and employing its yield for natural and human environmentsÆ subsistence. This is the case of traditional fog collectors implemented by several researchers along the Atacama Desert since late Æ50s such as vertical tensile mesh or macro-diamonds structures. Nevertheless, these basic prototypes require to be upgraded, mainly through new shapes, fabrics and frameworksÆ types by following the principles of lightness, transformability, portability and polyvalence. The vertical canvas of conventional fog collectors contain too much stressed at each joints and as result it became vulnerable. Our study constitutes a research by design of two fog-trap devices along the Atacama Desert. Different climatic factors influence the efficiency of fog harvesting. In order to increase yield of collected fog water, we need to establish suitable placements that contain high rates of fogÆs accumulation. As important as the location is also the building reliability of these collectors that will be installed. Their frames and skins have to be adjustable to the wind direction and resistant against strong winds and rust. Its fabric need to be more hydrophobic, elastic and with light colours to ease dripping/drainage and avoid ultra-violet deterioration. In addition, meshes should be well-tensed and frames well-embraced too. In doing so we have conceived two fog collectors: DropNet® (H÷hler) and FogHive® (Suau). These designs explore climatic design parameters combined with the agile structural principles of Tensegrity and Geodesic widely developed by Bucky Fuller and Frei Otto. The research methods mainly consisted of literature review; fieldwork; comparative analysis of existing fog collectionÆs techniques and climatic design simulations. DropNet® is a lightweight fog collector kit -a standing-alone web- resistant against very strong winds. It is constructed with an elastic mesh according to the required tension. Apart from this, it is ease to be transported, assemble and relocated due to its tent-like construction. As a flexible construction it can be installed on flatten or uneven grounds. FogHive® is a modular space-frame, fully wrapped with a light waxy mesh, that can collect water fog and also performs like a shading/cooling device and a soil humidifier for greenery and potential inhabitation. Its body consists of a deployable polygonal structure with an adjustable polyvalent membrane which performs as water repellent skin (facing prevailing winds) and shading device facing Equator. In addition, a domestic wind turbine is installed within the structural frame to provide autonomous electrification. Both models have great applicability to provide drinking water in remote place and also irrigating water to repair or re-establish flora. Water collector, filtering (purification) and irrigation network are designed with appropriate materials and techniques.
H÷hler, I.; Suau, C.
Marist Archives and Special Collections
Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York has a range of materials that span the globe from the traveling papers of noted journalist Lowell Thomas to Tibetan headwear. Over the past few years, they have worked to create guides to their collections, and along the way they have digitized a number of objects for inclusion on this site. First-time visitors will want to look over the "Picture of the Day", which features items from Marist College history, panoramic views, and 360-degree views of unique items. The team at the College has also created a monthly digital archive which features a grid of items such as historic photographs of India, Venice, and items from Lowell Thomas's travels. Finally, the site also has a "Headlines" area which includes information about new exhibits and research tools.
George Washington Carver Digital Collection
George Washington Carver was many things to many people: at various points in his life he was a scholar, teacher, inventor, and student. From humble roots in southwestern Missouri, Carver went on to wear many hats. This fine digital collection from the Iowa State University brings together over 200 photographs, letters, and other items held in the ISU archives. The majority of the correspondence here is between Carver and his mentor, Dr. Louis Pammel, and their words cover a wide variety of topics, including peanuts, scientific experimentation, and so on. There are many wonderful photos of Carver, including his graduation photo from 1893, taken the year before he formally graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College. Visitors who might be less familiar with the contours of Carver life may also wish to read the narrative essay on his life by Toby Fishbein.
Devices for collecting chemical compounds
A device for sampling chemical compounds from fixed surfaces and related methods are disclosed. The device may include a vacuum source, a chamber and a sorbent material. The device may utilize vacuum extraction to volatilize the chemical compounds from a fixed surface so that they may be sorbed by the sorbent material. The sorbent material may then be analyzed using conventional thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TD/GC/MS) instrumentation to determine presence of the chemical compounds. The methods may include detecting release and presence of one or more chemical compounds and determining the efficacy of decontamination. The device may be useful in collection and analysis of a variety of chemical compounds, such as residual chemical warfare agents, chemical attribution signatures and toxic industrial chemicals.
Scott, Jill R; Groenewold, Gary S
Network Characteristics of Collective Chemosensing
The collective chemosensing of nonexcitable mammalian cells involves a biochemical network that features gap junction communications and heterogeneous single cell activities. To understand the integrated multicellular chemosensing, we study the calcium dynamics of micropatterned fibroblast cell colonies in response to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) stimulation. We find that the cross-correlation function between the responses of individual cells decays with topological distance as a power law for large colonies and much faster for smaller colonies. Furthermore, the strongly correlated cell pairs tend to form clusters and are more likely to exceed the percolation threshold. At a given topological distance, the cross-correlations exhibit characteristics of Poisson distributions, which allows us to estimate the unitary conductance of a single gap junction which is in good agreement with direct experimental measurements.
Sun, Bo; Duclos, Guillaume; Stone, Howard A.
Control of collective network chaos
Under certain conditions, the collective behavior of a large globally-coupled heterogeneous network of coupled oscillators, as quantified by the macroscopic mean field or order parameter, can exhibit low-dimensional chaotic behavior. Recent advances describe how a small set of "reduced" ordinary differential equations can be derived that captures this mean field behavior. Here, we show that chaos control algorithms designed using the reduced equations can be successfully applied to imperfect realizations of the full network. To systematically study the effectiveness of this technique, we measure the quality of control as we relax conditions that are required for the strict accuracy of the reduced equations, and hence, the controller. Although the effects are network-dependent, we show that the method is effective for surprisingly small networks, for modest departures from global coupling, and even with mild inaccuracy in the estimate of network heterogeneity.
Wagemakers, Alexandre; Barreto, Ernest; Sanjußn, Miguel A. F.; So, Paul
Control of collective network chaos.
Under certain conditions, the collective behavior of a large globally-coupled heterogeneous network of coupled oscillators, as quantified by the macroscopic mean field or order parameter, can exhibit low-dimensional chaotic behavior. Recent advances describe how a small set of "reduced" ordinary differential equations can be derived that captures this mean field behavior. Here, we show that chaos control algorithms designed using the reduced equations can be successfully applied to imperfect realizations of the full network. To systematically study the effectiveness of this technique, we measure the quality of control as we relax conditions that are required for the strict accuracy of the reduced equations, and hence, the controller. Although the effects are network-dependent, we show that the method is effective for surprisingly small networks, for modest departures from global coupling, and even with mild inaccuracy in the estimate of network heterogeneity. PMID:24985441
Wagemakers, Alexandre; Barreto, Ernest; Sanjußn, Miguel A F; So, Paul
National Park Service Photo Collection
Over the past century, a host of photographers have documented the grounds and buildings of the National Parks for the National Park Service, and in doing so have created a collection that contains over two million images. Some of these eminent photographers include such personages as Jack Boucher, Arno B. Cammerer, and Abbie Rowe. The National Park Service has recently placed 2000 of these images online, and added a fine search feature so that users can look for images by year, photographer, theme, parksite, or keyword. Some of these images included early photographs of the Virgin Islands National Park, rangers on location in Yosemite National Park, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument. The site is rounded out with links to other digital image archives, such as those housed on the American Memory website at the Library of Congress.
Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection
For 47 years, photographer and newspaperman Frank Hohenberger roamed around the highways and byways of Brown County, Indiana recording the life and times of this unique corner of the state. From time to time he also made forays into Kentucky, South Carolina, New England, Canada and Mexico. Once, he offered the memorable observation that "pictures speak the only language all mankind can understand." Visitors to this site created by Indiana University's Digital Library Program can browse the photos by date or by series. The series option is quite nice, as visitors can scan through his numerous trips. The "New England, 1950" series, for instance, features images of old bars, the waterfall at Kent House in Quebec, and hand-painted signs. It's a beautiful collection and one that may inspire photographers and others with an eye for capturing landscapes near and far.
The Collective Atomic Recoil Laser
An ensemble of periodically ordered atoms coherently scatters the light of an incident laser beam. The scattered and the incident light may interfere and give rise to a light intensity modulation and thus to optical dipole forces which, in turn, emphasize the atomic ordering. This positive feedback is at the origin of the collective atomic recoil laser (CARL). We demonstrate this dynamics using ultracold atoms confined by dipole forces in a unidirectionally pumped far red-detuned high-finesse optical ring cavity. Under the influence of an additional dissipative force exerted by an optical molasses the atoms, starting from an unordered distribution, spontaneously form a density grating moving at constant velocity. Additionally, steady state lasing is observed in the reverse direction if the pump laser power exceeds a certain threshold. We compare the dynamics of the atomic trajectories to the behavior of globally coupled oscillators, which exhibit phase transitions from incoherent to coherent states if the coupling strength exceeds a critical value.
Courteille, Ph. W.; von Cube, C.; Deh, B.; Kruse, D.; Ludewig, A.; Slama, S.; Zimmermann, C.
Particle collection enhancement by acoustics
The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate pulse combustion induced acoustic enhancement of coal ash agglomeration and sulfur capture efficiency at conditions typical of proposed direct coal-fired turbines. The MTCI proprietary approach results in agglomerates that allow the use of conventional cyclones to achieve very high particulate collection efficiency and eliminates the need for barrier filters which pose concerns regarding durability and economics. The goal of the program is to support the mission of the Department of Energy (DOE) for developing coal-fired combustion gas turbines. The MTCI concept can be packaged either as a hot flue gas clean-up subsystem for the existing combustor island configurations or as an alterative primary pulse combustor island with integrated sulfur capture, particulate agglomeration and capture, alkali gettering and NO{sub x} emissions control.
Mansour, M.N.; Chandran, R.R.; Duqum, J.N. [Manufacturing and Technology Conversion International, Inc., Columbia, MD (United States); Scaroni, A.W.; Koopman, G.H. [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Loth, J.L. [West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
Collective excitations of supersymmetric plasma
Collective excitations of N=1 supersymmetric electromagnetic plasma are studied. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, not only equilibrium but also nonequilibrium plasma, which is assumed to be ultrarelativistic, is under consideration. The dispersion equations of photon, photino, electron, and selectron modes are written down and the self-energies, which enter the equations, are computed in the hard loop approximation. The self-energies are discussed in the context of effective action which is also given. The photon modes and electron ones appear to be the same as in the usual ultrarelativistic plasma of electrons, positrons, and photons. The photino modes coincide with the electron ones and the selectron modes are as of a free relativistic massive particle.
Czajka, Alina [Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-406 Kielce (Poland); Mrowczynski, Stanislaw [Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-406 Kielce (Poland); Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, 00-681 Warsaw (Poland)
MAD data collection - current trends.
The multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction, or MAD, method of determining protein structure is becoming routine in protein crystallography. An increase in the number of tuneable synchrotrons beamlines coupled with the widespread availability position-sensitive X-ray detectors based on charged-coupled devices and having fast readout raised MAD structure determination to a new and exciting level. Ultra-fast MAD data collection is now possible. Recognition of the value of selenium for phasing protein structures and improvement of methods for incorporating selenium into proteins in the form of selenomethionine have attracted greater interest in the MAD method. Recent developments in crystallographic software are complimenting the above advances, paving the way for rapid protein structure determination. An overview of a typical MAD experiment is described here, with emphasis on the rates and quality of data acquisition now achievable at beamlines developed at third-generation synchrotrons sources.
Dementieva, I.; Evans, G.; Joachimiak, A.; Sanishvili, R.; Walsh, M. A.
Scavenger Hunt: A Group Collection
In this activity, learners are divided into teams. Half the team works as "collectors" and the other half works as "curators." Collectors go outside and search for various organisms as well as the evolutionary and ecological relationships between the organisms. Collectors earn points based on the complexity of the organisms they find. Examples include consumer, bryophyte, spores, simple food chains, communities, etc. The list of organisms to find can be tailored to the local environment learners will investigate. The curators identify and display the items in folders (animals, fungi, and protists are drawn, not collected). This activity can be used at the end of biology class and/or to assess learners' knowledge of classification, biology of organisms, evolution, ecological relationships, microscope use, and use of research tools.
Tinkelenberg, Donnell
Princeton University Historical Postcard Collection
From its grand edifices to its more modest buildings, the campus of Princeton University has changed greatly over its centuries-long development. The Princeton University Library Digital Collections group digitized well over 1000 images that tell the story of the campus via postcards of campus buildings, along with items from the town of Princeton and its surroundings. The items are divided into four separate series, including "Buildings", "Campus Ornamentation", and "Honoraria". The viewing tool for these images is quite user-friendly, and a toolbar allows visitors to view the items as a slideshow or in a grid layout. Each item is accompanied with a description. Visitors shouldn't miss the "Postcard Booklets" area, as they'll find a warm look at the campus activities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Sir Henry Dryden Collection
Like many of his peers who were "to the manor born", Sir Henry Dryden was a 19th century Brit who was fascinated with archaeology and the world of antiquity. Before his death in 1899, he produced thousands of architectural and archaeological drawings based on the things he saw and studied during his travels around Britain and Europe. Recently, a consortium of institutions including the University College Northampton digitized a number of Dryden?s drawings, and subsequently placed them online here. Visitors can browse the materials by date, or by topics that include archaeology, arms and armor, and church architecture. The heraldry area within arms and armor is worth a look, as it contains some highly detailed renderings of various coats of arms and heraldic shields. Overall, the collection provides an interesting look into one man's passion for the built environment and the world of 19th century Britain.
Priest Lake Museum Association Collection
What is this place, this Priest Lake, Idaho? It's a resort, it's a way of life, and it's a special area to many Idahoans. This digital collection from the University Idaho Library was made possible via the holdings of the Priest Lake Museum Association. The 380 photos here depict family, community, and business life in the Priest Lake area from around 1880 to 1950. The images bring this certain time and place to life, highlighting fishing at Two Mouth Creek, horse-drawn sledding, and general outdoor merry-making. Most interesting are the images of Nell Shipman, a silent film star who brought her own production company and zoo to the area. The photos can be viewed using the map, timeline, or interactive word cloud, which is rather fun.
Canada Year Book Historical Collection
Learning about Canada's past just became a bit easier with the Canada Year Book Historical Collection website. The site provides access to one hundred years worth of the annual "Canada Year Book". These books cover the years 1867 to 1967, and visitors will get the opportunity to learn about social and economic history from across the provinces. Visitors can browse by year or topic, and looking over the topics, which include "Occupations" and Economic Gains" is a good way to start. Additionally, visitors can also browse tables, charts, and maps as they see fit. Educators will want to look through the "Tools and Reference" area, as it contains lesson plans and a set of links to related sites.
Subsurface Samples: Collection and Processing
Microbiological data, interpretation, and conclusions from subsurface samples ultimately depend on the quality and representative character of the samples. Subsurface samples for environmental microbiology ideally contain only the microbial community and geochemical properties that are representative of the subsurface environment from which the sample was taken. To that end, sample contamination by exogenous microorganisms or chemical constituents must be eliminated or minimized, and sample analyses need to begin before changes in the microbial community or geochemical characteristics occur. This article presents sampling methods and sample processing techniques for collecting representative samples from a range of subsurface environments. Factors that should be considered when developing a subsurface sampling program are discussed, including potential benefits, costs, and limitations enabling researchers to evaluate the techniques that are presented and match them to their project requirements. Methods and protocols to address coring, sampling, processing and quality assessment issues are presented.
Long, Philip E.; Griffin, W. Timothy; Phelps, Tommy J.
Randy Barcel├┬├┬│ Collection
Set and costume designer Randy Barcel├┬├┬│ was born in Cuba, and he became well known for his unique designs for a range of Broadway and off-Broadway theatrical productions. Barcel├┬├┬│ also worked on designs for the opera and ballet, and he was also the first Hispanic nominated for a Tony Award. The University of Miami Libraries has a number of his oversized costume and set designs, costume plots, drawings and sketches, posters and postcards, videotapes and photographs. Staff members worked to digitize 90 items from the Barcel├┬├┬│ collection, and visitors can view those items right here. Visitors shouldn't miss the costume designs for the play "Rita and Bessie" and they can also just browse the items by data or document type.
Barcelo, Randy
Fleet Assignment Using Collective Intelligence
Product distribution theory is a new collective intelligence-based framework for analyzing and controlling distributed systems. Its usefulness in distributed stochastic optimization is illustrated here through an airline fleet assignment problem. This problem involves the allocation of aircraft to a set of flights legs in order to meet passenger demand, while satisfying a variety of linear and non-linear constraints. Over the course of the day, the routing of each aircraft is determined in order to minimize the number of required flights for a given fleet. The associated flow continuity and aircraft count constraints have led researchers to focus on obtaining quasi-optimal solutions, especially at larger scales. In this paper, the authors propose the application of this new stochastic optimization algorithm to a non-linear objective cold start fleet assignment problem. Results show that the optimizer can successfully solve such highly-constrained problems (130 variables, 184 constraints).
Antoine, Nicolas E.; Bieniawski, Stefan R.; Kroo, Ilan M.; Wolpert, David H.
Morphology of rabbit collecting duct.
Recently the assumed structural and functional homogeneity of the collecting duct (CD) has been questioned. The objective of this study was to determine if heterogeneity occurs in luminal surface membrane structure or in cytoplasmic configuration of cells in the collecting duct or both. Straight segments of cortical and medullary CD were examined in perfusion-fixed rabbit kidneys with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), light (LM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Principal cells were the most abundant cells in all CD regions; intercalated cells comprised 37% of the cell population on the cortex, 18% in the outer medulla, and less than 1% in the inner medulla. SEM revealed two surface patterns among the ciliated principal cells: 1, located in the cortex and outer medulla, with few surface microvilli, and 2, located in the inner medulla, with abundant microvilli. Intercalated cells exhibited four distinctive luminal surface configurations: I, numerous short microvilli; II, both short and elongate microvilli; III, microplicae alone; and IV, both microvilli and microplicae. Intercalated cells with patterns I and II were predominant in the cortex, while cells with patterns III and IV were most common at the corticomedullary junction. TEM confirmed that marked variation existed in cytoplasmic structures of both principal and intercalated cells. These findings may either indicate the presence of several specific types of principal and intercalated cells or reflect different functional states of the principal and intercalated cells. Regardless of their significance, their presence must be considered in studies seeking to establish precise structural-functional relationships in this region of the rabbit renal tubule. PMID:463786
LeFurgey, A; Tisher, C C
Collective Phenomena in Macroscopic Systems
A hypothesis of the magnetostatic turbulence and its implications of astrophysics / D.D. Ryutov and B.A. Remingtonn-- Coherent structures and turbulence in electron plasmas / M. Rome ... [et al.] -- Self-organization of non-linear vortices in plasma lens for ion-beam-focusing in crossed radial electrical and longitudinal magnetic fields / V. Maslov, I. Onishchenko and A. Goncharov -- Collective processes at kinetic levels in dusty plasmas / P.K. Shukla and B. Eliasson -- Magnetic field generation in anisotropic relativistic plasma regimes / F. Pegoraro, F. Califano and D. del Sarto -- Generation and observation of coherent, long-lived structures in a laser-plasma channel / T. V. Liseykina ... [et al.] -- Theoretical resolution of magnetic reconnection in high energy plasmas / B. Coppi -- The power of being flat: conformal invariance in two-dimensional turbulence / A. Celani -- Stochastic resonance: from climate to biology / R. Benzi -- Energy-enstrophy theory for coupled fluid/rotating sphere system-exact solutions for super-rotations / C. C. Lim -- Thermophoretic convection of silica nanoparticles / A. Vailati ... [et al.] -- Fluctuations and pattern formation in fluids with competing interactions / A. Imperio, D. Pini and L. Reatto -- Alternatives and paradoxes in rotational and gravitational instabilities / J.P. Goedbloed -- Poynting jets and MHD winds from rapidly rotating magnetized stars / R.V.E. Lovelace, M.M. Romanova, G.V. Ustyugova and A.V. Koldoba -- Turbulence and transport in astrophysical accretion disks / J.M. Stone -- Gravitational instabilities in gaseous discs and the formation of supermassive Black Hole seeds at high redshifts / G. Lodato -- Fine Structure and Dynamics of Sunspot Penumbra / M. Ryutova, T. Berger and A. Title -- Phase Mixing in Mond / L. Ciotti, C. Nipoti and P. Londrillo -- MHD simulations of jet acceleration: the role of disk resistivity / G. Bodo ... [et al.] -- Hamiltonian structure of a collisionless reconnection model valid for high and low B plasmas / E. Tassi, P. J. Morrison and D. Grasso -- Non locality of collective effects related to dynamical friction in elliptical galaxies / S.E. Arena and G. Bertin -- Evolution of a satellite dragged in by dynamical friction towards the center of a galaxy / S.E. Arena, G. Bertin and T. Liseykina -- Investigation of free decaying turbulence in a trapped pure electron plasma / G. Bettega ... [et al.] -- Structures of charge sheaths and transition layers in ion sources / M. Cavenago -- Generation of plasma perturbations under collisionless interaction of super-Alfvenic flows / G. Dudnikova, T. Liseykina and K. Vshivkov -- Program package for 3D Pic model of plasma fiber / P. Kulhanek and D. Bren -- A Stochastic approach to generalized quantum dynamics with collective long-range forces / A. Lavagno -- Filling of Electrostatic Plasma Lens for Ion-Beam-Focusing by electrons against direction of electric field due to non-linear vortex behavior / V. Maslov -- Thermal barrier formation for plasma electrons and ions in kind of connected solitary dip and hump of electric potential near ECR points in cylindrical trap / V. Maslov ... [et al.] -- Excitation of solitary wake-field by relativistic electron bunch and laser pulse / V. Maslov, A. Egorov and I. Onishchenko -- Enhancement of ion beam charge states by electron vortices in a plasma optical device / V. Maslov, A. Goncharov and I. Brown -- Wake-field mechanism of ion quasi-crystal formation in nonequilibrium dusty plasmas of technological devices / V. Maslov ... [et al.] -- Spiral perturbation in separator for extraction of heavy drops from plasma flow / V. Maslov ... [et al.] -- Fractional relaxation equation from AC universality in disordered solids / A. V. Milovanov, K. Rypdal and J. J. Rasmussen -- Vortices in two-dimensional rotating bose-Einstein condensates / T. Rindler-Daller -- Studying instability of 3D collisionless systems on Stochastic trajectories / V. N. Snytnikov and E. A. Kuksheva -- Contribution of large amplitude electric-field pulse and bursts to particle acceleration in a high
Bertin, G.; Pozzoli, R.; RomÚ, M.; Sreenivasan, K. R.
Collective decisions among bacterial viruses
For many temperate bacteriophages, the decision of whether to kill hosts or enter a latent state depends on the multiplicity of infection. In this talk, I present a quantitative model of gene regulatory dynamics to describe how phages make collective decisions within host cells. Unlike most previous studies, the copy number of viral genomes is treated as a variable. In the absence of feedback loops, viral mRNA transcription is expected to be proportional to the viral copy number. However, when there are nonlinear feedback loops in viral gene regulation, our model shows that gene expression patterns are sensitive to changes in viral copy number and there can be a domain of copy number where the system becomes bistable. Hence, the viral copy number is a key control parameter determining host cell fates. This suggests that bacterial viruses can respond adaptively to changes in population dynamics, and can make alternative decisions as a bet-hedging strategy. Finally, I present a stochastic version of viral gene regulation and discuss speed-accuracy trade-offs in the context of cell fate determination by viruses.
Joh, Richard; Mileyko, Yuriy; Voit, Eberhard; Weitz, Joshua
The Lloyd L. Gaines Collection
Born in 1911, Lloyd Lionel Gaines was one of eleven children. Gaines excelled in his studies and applied to the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936. He was denied admission solely on the grounds that Missouri's state constitution called for "separate education of the races." Gaines did not back down from this injustice, and he sought legal assistance from the NAACP. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court, but tragically Gaines disappeared at age 28 in Chicago and was never seen or heard from again. This engaging collection from the University of Missouri Law Library brings together documents related to Gaines's life, including photographs, family correspondence, materials related to his Supreme Court case, and related secondary materials. Visitors to the site can perform a simple search across all the materials, or dig in deeper by perform a citation search. Legal scholars will find the Case Materials area particularly engaging, as it includes links to the trial briefs, respondents' statements, and so on.
Heat collection and dissipation are provided utilizing a roofing system having a support sheet with an upstanding edge around its periphery and a pair of water impermeable membranes disposed in the volume defined by the support sheet and upstanding edge. Water is pumped from a storage tank to an inlet between the membranes for filling the membranes with water, and from an outlet at a drain point for withdrawing water from between the membranes. Air between the membranes is exhausted through a valve. The water storage tank associated with the roofing system has an outer surface with a number of vertical interior divisions defining the volume into compartments. A liquid conduit extends from the top of each conduit to the bottom of the adjacent conduit, and an inlet is provided to the bottom of one of the compartments and an outlet is provided from the top of one of the compartments. Vertical and horizontal stratification of the storage liquid by temperature is provided by the interior divisions and liquid conduits. Electrical controls responsive to temperature sensing at various components operate pumps, valves, and the like to direct liquid flow to the desired components.
Hager, I.V.
Beverage Cans Used for Sediment Collection.
Beverage cans are well suited for sediment collection and storage containers. Advantages include being free, readily available, and the correct size for many samples. Instruction for selection, preparation, and use of cans in sediment collection and storage is provided. (RE)
Studlick, Joseph R. J.; Trautman, Timothy A.
77 FR 77048 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...information is not collected. Affected Public: College students who apply to join Air Force ROTC. Annual Burden...Summary of Information Collection Respondents are college students desiring to join the Air Force ROTC program....
Measuring collections effort improves cash performance.
Having a satisfied work force can lead to an improved collections effort. Hiring the right people and training them ensures employee engagement. Measuring collections effort and offering incentives is key to revenue cycle success. PMID:19743655
Shutts, Joe
25 CFR 63.4 - Information collection.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
...BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT INDIAN CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION Purpose, Policy, and Definitions º 63.4 Information collection. The information collection requirement...
25 CFR 37.103 - Information collection.
... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES § 37.103 Information collection...collection of information displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number. This part involves...
25 CFR 42.11 - Information collection.
... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EDUCATION STUDENT RIGHTS § 42.11 Information collection. ...collection of information displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number. This part in §§...
25 CFR 103.45 - Information collection.
...Direct comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection to the Information Collection Control Officer, Bureau of Indian Affairs, MS 4613, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC...
36 CFR 34.12 - Information collection.
... 34.12 Section 34.12 Parks, Forests, and Public Property NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EL PORTAL ADMINISTRATIVE SITE REGULATIONS § 34.12 Information collection. The information collection requirements...
The Organizational Structure of Collection Development.
Reviews the influences of organizational evolution and intentional change, library posture toward collection development, personnel management, and human perspectives on the establishment of an administrative framework for achieving collection development goals. (Author/EM)
Bryant, Bonita
75 FR 60418 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...proposal and associated collection instruments, please write to TRICARE Management...OMB Number: TRICARE Retiree Dental Program Enrollment Application...enrollment in the TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (TRDP). The information...Collection The TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (32 CFR...
Collective Communications: A Model for Bargaining Success.
Discusses collective bargaining within a broader political and economic context. Addresses some of the fears that faculty had about the advent of collective bargaining in higher education. Describes the experimental negotiations process used by Carl Sandburg College (Illinois). (DMM)
Fuller, Jack W.
Replication-Based Incremental Copying Collection.
We introduce a new replication-based coping garbage collection technique. We have implemented one simple variation of this method to provide incremental garbage collection on stock hardware with no special operating system or virtual memory support. The p...
S. Nettles J. O'Toole N. Haines D. Pierce
77 FR 39690 - Proposed Agency Information Collection
...readiness of their communities for plug-in electric vehicles. Information collected...Collection Request Title: Clean Cities Plug-In Vehicle Community Readiness Scorecard...readiness of their communities for plug-in electric vehicles. The...
78 FR 56681 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...collection methodology involves the employment of technological collection of data via an electronic physical access control system (PACS) which provides the capability to rapidly and electronically authenticate credentials and validate the individual's...
Hazardous Waste Superfund Collection: Database Thesaurus.
The Hazardous Waste Superfund Collection Database Thesaurus provides an index to terminology related to hazardous waste and facilitates the use of the Hazardous Waste Superfund Collection Database. The second edition of the Thesaurus includes several new ...
25 CFR 211.2 - Information collection.
...2 Information collection. The information collection requirements contained in this part do not require a review by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501; et...
25 CFR 212.2 - Information collection.
25 CFR 67.3 - Information collection.
...SEMINOLE INDIANS OF FLORIDA § 67.3 Information collection. The information collection requirement contained in this part does not require approval by the Office of Management and Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3501 et...
75 FR 8996 - Notice of Information Collection
...opportunities will be available, representing all NASA Mission Directorates and current NASA missions in Earth and Space Science, mathematics, chemistry, and physics. II. Method of Collection The data collection uses web-based...
78 FR 13914 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...obtain a copy of the information collection justification, forms, and/or supporting material, contact Dana Hickman at (312) 751-4981 or email@example.com. Comments regarding the information collection should be addressed to...
10 CFR 707.15 - Collective bargaining.
...are parties to collective bargaining agreements will negotiate...rule because DOE security requirements themselves...non-negotiable under the security provisions of DOE...Employees covered under collective bargaining agreements will not be...
75 FR 70044 - Proposed Information Collection Renewal
...PEACE CORPS Proposed Information Collection Renewal...SUMMARY: The Peace Corps has submitted an information collection...public to comment on the renewal of the Peace Corps' Confidential Reference Form...
Condition Assessment of Wastewater Collection Systems
Municipal sanitary sewer collection systems play a critical role in protecting public health in our municipalities. They are designed to convey wastewater from their sources to a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Collection systems consist of house service laterals, sewers, pu...
28 CFR 115.87 - Data collection.
...false Data collection. 115.87 Section 115.87 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED) PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT NATIONAL STANDARDS Standards for Adult Prisons and Jails Data Collection and Review § 115.87 Data...
28 CFR 115.187 - Data collection.
... Data collection. 115.187 Section 115.187 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED) PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT NATIONAL STANDARDS Standards for Lockups Data Collection and Review § 115.187 Data...
28 CFR 115.387 - Data collection.
... Data collection. 115.387 Section 115.387 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED) PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT NATIONAL STANDARDS Standards for Juvenile Facilities Data Collection and Review § 115.387 Data...
28 CFR 115.287 - Data collection.
... Data collection. 115.287 Section 115.287 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED) PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT NATIONAL STANDARDS Standards for Community Confinement Facilities Data Collection and Review §...
Collection of Human Wastes on Long Missions
Report evaluates and compares three alternative approaches to hygienic containment of human wastes. Three practical means of waste collection: filter-bag collection with compaction by fan suction, canister collection with compaction by force applied to compaction cups or disks, and sleeve collection with compaction by rollers and winding on reel. Potentially useful in airplanes, buses, boats, trains, and campers and temporary toilets for construction sites and outdoor gatherings.
Jennings, D. C.; Lewis, T. A.; Brose, H. F.
A Survey of Collective Intelligence
This chapter presents the science of "COllective INtelligence" (COIN). A COIN is a large multi-agent systems where: i) the agents each run reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms; ii) there is little to no centralized communication or control; iii) there is a provided world utility function that, rates the possible histories of tile full system. Tile conventional approach to designing large distributed systems to optimize a world utility does not use agents running RL algorithms. Rather that approach begins with explicit modeling of the overall system's dynamics, followed by detailed hand-tuning of the interactions between the components to ensure that they "cooperate" as far as the world utility is concerned. This approach is labor-intensive, often results in highly non-robust systems, and usually results in design techniques that, have limited applicability. In contrast, with COINs we wish to solve the system design problems implicitly, via the 'adaptive' character of the RL algorithms of each of the agents. This COIN approach introduces an entirely new, profound design problem: Assuming the RL algorithms are able to achieve high rewards, what reward functions for the individual agents will, when pursued by those agents, result in high world utility? In other words, what reward functions will best ensure that we do not have phenomena like the tragedy of the commons, or Braess's paradox? Although still very young, the science of COINs has already resulted in successes in artificial domains, in particular in packet-routing, the leader-follower problem, and in variants of Arthur's "El Farol bar problem". It is expected that as it matures not only will COIN science expand greatly the range of tasks addressable by human engineers, but it will also provide much insight into already established scientific fields, such as economics, game theory, or population biology.
Wolpert, David H.; Tumer, Kagan
Towards automatic collection of the US census
We describe a study to determine the feasibility of using automatic speech recognition to collect information over the telephone for the Year 2000 census in the United States. The stages of research are protocol development, speech data collection and transcription, system development, and system evaluation. We developed a rapid prototyping methodology to produce two protocols now being used to collect
R. A. Cole; D. G. Novick; D. Burnett; B. Hansen; S. Sutton; M. Fant
Leading Collective Capacity in Culturally Diverse Schools
We discuss the ways leaders may nurture collective relationships within culturally diverse staff bodies. We organise our discussion around five key, interrelated issues. These are how leaders position themselves within the school's cultural milieu; how they structure work for collective capacity; understanding collective work; giving expression toà
Walker, Allan; Riordan, Geoff
New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection
The New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection (NYSESIC) is a thematic collection focusing on instructional materials that support teaching and learning in relation to the New York Earth Science Regents exam. The topics covered by the collection include solid Earth forms and processes, atmospheric composition and dynamics, forms and mechanics of water, bodies and mechanics in space, Earth history and Earth models.
The Bulgarian State Collection of Hebraica.
Describes the holdings in the Bulgarian State Collection of Hebraica, currently under the jurisdiction of the General Department of Archives. The collection, consisting of printed books, manuscripts, and archival documents, includes rare premodern Hebraica reflecting Sephardic and Balkan collecting interests. Discusses bibliographic issues and theà
Hill, Brad Sabin
Ready Reference Collections: Thoughts on Trends
What is a ready reference collection? A stack of reference books selected according to personal interests? Each institution is unique in its needs and so are the collections that each library carries. The curricula and programs determine the collection development policies and the student population justifies the needs for their implementation. Isà
Fernandes, Maria Isabel
Central Region Library Field Records Collection
The USGS Denver Library, Field Records Collection is an archive of unpublished field notes, maps, correspondence, manuscripts, analysis reports, and other data created or collected by USGS Geologic Discipline scientists during field studies and other project work. Materials in the collection represe...
The design space of garbage collection
A novel classification method for garbage collection methods is presented. The model spans a parametrized design space in which existing and newly developed garbage collection methods fit. The model also serves designers in choosing the right collection parameters for specific system and application environments
H. Corporaal; T. Veldman
Collective Excitations in the Theory of Superconductivity
The complex dielectric constant of a superconductor and the Meissner effect are derived in a manner which is gauge invariant, from the theory of superconductivity due to Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer. The collective excitations are important in maintaining gauge invariance; the longitudinal collective excitations ensure that a static vector potential produces no longitudinal current and the transverse collective excitations contribute
G. Rickayzen
Cost Savings of Contracting Out Refuse Collection
The article discusses the possible cost savings of contractingout refuse collection in the Netherlands. Our findings indicate that similar to foreigneconometric studies cost savings ofapproximately 15û20% apply to the Netherlands.Moreover, compared with the existing literature we show thatdifferent production technologies apply to internal municipal waste collection units and externalrefuse collection firms. Different cost functions have to be estimated for the
E. Dijkgraaf; R. H. J. M. Gradus
Creating a World Wide Web Resource Collection.
Because of their experience in collection, organization, evaluation, and presentation, collection development librarians are best qualified to create World Wide Web subject resource collections for academic libraries. This article presents popular subject directories and search engines, outlines search strategies, suggests points to consider whenà
Piontek, Sherry; Garlock, Kristen
Distributed Clustering Using Collective Principal Component Analysis
This paper considers distributed clustering of high dimensional heterogeneous data using a distributed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique called the Collective PCA. It presents the Collective PCA technique which can be used independent of the clustering application. It shows a way to integrate the Collective PCA with a given off-the-shelf clustering algorithm in order to develop a distributed clustering technique.
Hillol Kargupta; Weiyun Huang; Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar; Erik L. Johnson
Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach.
Discussion of developing racially diverse collections in academic libraries focuses on an Afrocentric approach. Topics addressed include valuing diversity; Afrocentricity as a framework for diversity; barriers to building Afrocentric collections; and resources for building Afrocentric collections, including black-owned publishers, African Americanà
Johnson-Cooper, Glendora
78 FR 18678 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request...
...Collection; Comment Request: Examination Questionnaire AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller...collection titled, ``Examination Questionnaire.'' DATES: Comments must be submitted...information collection: Title: Examination Questionnaire. OMB Control No.:...
78 FR 60376 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Information Collection Renewal; Submission for OMB...
...Collection Renewal; Submission for OMB Review Reverse Mortgage Products: Guidance for Managing...their information collection titled, ``Reverse Mortgage Products: Guidance for Managing...refer to the name of the collection, ``Reverse Mortgage Products Guidance.''...
76 FR 13342 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-National School...
...Collection; Comment Request--National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Direct Certification...collection. This collection for ``National School Lunch Program Direct Certification Improvement...Feasibility of Computer Matching in the National School Lunch Program.'' It builds on the...
77 FR 61050 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Leasing
...Information Collection; Comment Request; Leasing AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of...its information collection titled, ``Leasing.'' DATES: Comments must be received...of the information collection request. Leasing--12 CFR 23.4(c) and 12 CFR...
76 FR 68486 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for Review; Information Collection Request...
...secure Web-based technology (i.e., electronic...to collect information from users to...other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting...Collection: New Information Collection...Science and Technology, External...
76 FR 3909 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...Collection: Limitations on Provider Related Donations and Health Care Related Taxes; Limitation...collection; Title of Information Collection: Organ Procurement Organization/Histocompatibility...used to determine payment for Medicare. Organ Procurement Organizations and...
77 FR 18802 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collections; Request for Comment on Three...
...Proposed Collections; Request for Comment on Three Proposed Information Collection Requests...is planning to submit a request to renew three existing approved Information Collection...numbers represent consolidated burden for the three combined ICRs): Estimated total...
78 FR 50435 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request: FEMA Mitigation...
...Collection; Comment Request: FEMA Mitigation Success Story Database AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS. ACTION...Collection of Information Title: FEMA Mitigation Success Story Database. Type of Information Collection: Extension, without...
75 FR 8035 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Supplemental...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection...Collection; Comment Request--Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Federal Collection...Guidelines and Forms AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. ACTION:...
77 FR 6775 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request: Commodity...
...Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Title VI Civil Rights Collection Reports AGENCY...under OMB No.0584-0025, Civil Rights Title VI Collection Reports--Forms FNS-191...703-605-4385. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Civil Rights Title VI Collection...
77 FR 28853 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Usability Data Collections
...required or regulated. The results of the data collected will be used to guide NIST research. Steps will be taken to ensure anonymity of respondents in each activity covered under this request. II. Method of Collection NIST will collect this...
76 FR 35016 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Investigator...
...Collection; Comments Requested: Investigator Integrity Questionnaire ACTION: 30-Day Notice...appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques...the Form/Collection: Investigator Integrity Questionnaire. (3) Agency form...
76 FR 74802 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance...
...Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service...Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service...of policy for Extramural Research Administration, 6705 Rockledge...Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency...
78 FR 23933 - Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection Renewal; Comment Request...
...Collection Renewal; Comment Request Re Appraisal Standards AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance...information collection entitled, ``Appraisal Standards'' (OMB No. 3064-0103...following information collection: Title: Appraisal Standards. OMB Number:...
77 FR 9198 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Request-Study of...
...on this proposed information collection. This is a revision to a previous data collection to understand better the shopping patterns of SNAP participants at farmers' markets. The purpose of this collection is for the Food and Nutrition Service to...
76 FR 68787 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Extension of a...
...Currently Approved Collection; Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death ACTION: 60-Day notice of information collection under review...Title of the Form/Collection: Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable...
77 FR 1506 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested; Extension of a...
...Approved Information Collection; Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review...Title of the Form/Collection: Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable...
78 FR 13687 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...of the proposed information collection for the...and clarity of the information to be collected...automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize...verifying information, processing and...
78 FR 31563 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Public Comment Request
78 FR 954 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request
77 FR 39707 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Public Comment Request
78 FR 27241 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection: Comment Request
78 FR 22888 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
78 FR 953 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request
78 FR 73545 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...56; Total Annual Responses: 15; Total Annual Hours: 65. (For policy questions regarding this collection contact Camille Dobson at 410-786-7062). 3. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection; Title...
75 FR 19379 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY U.S. Energy Information Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of...
75 FR 11148 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Energy Information Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy...
75 FR 41838 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
75 FR 12227 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
76 FR 25683 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Energy Information Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of...
76 FR 70123 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
75 FR 14145 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
78 FR 6102 - Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments...
...FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice;...
78 FR 36185 - Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments...
76 FR 58237 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request: Supplemental...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection...Collection; Comment Request: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Pre- Screening Tool AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. ACTION:...
77 FR 75117 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Federal Claims...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection...Claims Collection Methods for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Recipient Claims AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. ACTION:...
78 FR 30844 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request: Supplemental...
...DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service Agency Information Collection...Collection; Comment Request: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Regulations, Quality Control AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. ACTION:...
75 FR 12241 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Alzheimer's...
...Collection; Comment Request; Alzheimer's Disease Supportive Services Program...collection requirements relating to the Alzheimer's Disease Supportive Services Program...of information technology. The Alzheimer's Disease Supportive Services...
76 FR 44009 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
...collection; Title of Information Collection: Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) Implementation and Monitoring; Use: The Medicare Community-Based Care Transitions Program (CCTP), authorized by...
75 FR 27731 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Safety Standard...
...CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Agency Information Collection...Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Safety Standard for Multi-Purpose Lighters AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission. ACTION:...
75 FR 74082 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested
...collection under review: customer satisfaction surveys...of the Form/Collection: Customer Satisfaction Surveys. (3) Agency form...distribute program-specific customer satisfaction surveys to more...
78 FR 62631 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Revision of a Currently-Approved Collection; Comment...
...FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Agency Information Collection Activities: Revision of a...Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). ACTION: Notice and...
75 FR 27781 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection Renewals; Comment Request
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76 FR 24880 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection Renewals; Comment Request
77 FR 10752 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; General Licensing...
...Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; General Licensing Provisions; Section 351(k) Biosimilar Applications; Correction AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice;...
76 FR 4931 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension of an Existing Information Collection...
...States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Information Collection...OMB-6, Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance; OMB Control No...Collection: Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance. (3) Agency...
75 FR 68371 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension of an Existing Information Collection...
Valve for waste collection and storage
A method and valve apparatus for collection of fecal matter designed to operate efficiently in a zero gravity environment is presented. The system comprises a waste collection area within a body having a seat opening. Low pressure within the waste collection area directs fecal matter away from the user's buttocks and prevents the escape of undersirable gases. The user actuates a piston covered with an absorbent pad that sweeps through the waste collection area to collect the fecal matter, scrub the waste collection area, press the waste against an end of the waste collection area and retracts, leaving the used pad. Multiple pads are provided on the piston to accommodate multiple uses of the system. Also a valve allows air to be drawn through the body, so the valve will not be plugged with fecal matter. A sheet feeder feeds fresh sheets of absorbent pads to a face of the piston with each actuation.
Thornton, William E., Jr. (inventor); Whitmore, Henry B. (inventor)
U.S. National Herbarium: Algal Collection
The Algal Collection of the U.S. National Herbarium, part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, "is represented by over 219,548 accessioned and inventoried herbarium specimens preserved on herbarium sheets." The Collection includes estuarine, marine, freshwater, airborne, and terrestrial algae; however, macroscopic and marine comprise the principal holdings. In addition to information about the Collection, this website contains information regarding loan requests, scientific visits, and the Research Database. At present, only the Type Algal Collection can be searched online, but research inquiries of the main collection may be requested. Site visitors will also find information about staff members, algae collection and preservation, and marine floras in the Americas. Additionally, site visitors can view lists and selected abstracts of publications by Collection staff members.
76 FR 68789 - Agency Information Collection Agencies: New Collection; Comments Requested; Census of Problem...
...Collection; Comments Requested; Census of Problem-Solving Courts 2011 ACTION: 30-Day...collection: New data collection, Census of Problem-Solving Courts (CPSC), 2011. 2...title of the form/collection: Census of Problem-Solving Courts or CPSC, 2011....
77 FR 32138 - Agency Information Collection Agencies: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested Census of Problem...
...Collection; Comments Requested Census of Problem-Solving Courts 2012 ACTION: 30-Day...collection: New data collection, Census of Problem-Solving Courts (CPSC), 201 2. The title of the form/collection: Census of Problem-Solving Courts or CPSC 2012 3....
Collective narcissism and its social consequences.
This article introduces the concept of collective narcissism--an emotional investment in an unrealistic belief about the in group's greatness--aiming to explain how feelings about an ingroup shape a tendency to aggress against outgroups. The results of 5 studies indicate that collective, but not individual, narcissism predicts intergroup aggressiveness. Collective narcissism is related to high private and low public collective self-esteem and low implicit group esteem. It predicts perceived threat from outgroups, unwillingness to forgive outgroups, preference for military aggression over and above social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, and blind patriotism. The relationship between collective narcissism and aggressiveness is mediated by perceived threat from outgroups and perceived insult to the ingroup. In sum, the results indicate that collective narcissism is a form of high but ambivalent group esteem related to sensitivity to threats to the ingroup's image and retaliatory aggression. PMID:19968420
de Zavala, Agnieszka Golec; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Eidelson, Roy; Jayawickreme, Nuwan
Apparatus for waste collection and storage
An apparatus for collection of fecal matter designed to operate efficiently in a zero gravity environment. The system comprises a waste collection area within a body having a seat opening. Low pressure within the waste collection area directs fecal matter away from the user's buttocks and prevents the escape of undesirable gases. The user actuates a piston covered with an absorbent pad that sweeps through the waste collection area to collect fecal matter, scrub the waste collector area, press the waste against an end of the waste collection area and retracts, leaving the used pad. Multiple pads are provided on the piston to accommodate multiple uses of the system. Also a valve allows air to be drawn through the body, which valve will not be plugged with fecal matter. A sheet feeder feeds fresh sheets of absorbent pad to a face of the piston with each actuation.
Thornton, Jr., William E. (Inventor); Whitmore, Henry B. (Inventor)
Method for waste collection and storage
A method for collection of fecal matter designed to operate efficiently in a zero gravity environment was invented. The system consists of a waste collection area within a body having a seat opening. Low pressure within the waste collection area directs fecal matter away from the user's buttocks and prevents the escape of waste gases. The user actuates a piston covered with an absorbent pad that sweeps through the waste collection area to collect fecal matter, scrub the waste collector area, press the waste against an end of the waste collection area and retracts, leaving the used pad. Multiple pads are provided on the piston to accommodate multiple usages. Also a valve allows air to be drawn through the body, which keeps the valve from becomming plugged with the feces. A sheet feeder feeds fresh sheets of absorbent pads to a face of the piston with each actuation.
77 FR 47048 - Agency Information Collection Extension
...DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY U.S. Energy Information Administration Agency Information Collection Extension AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice and...