cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
American housing as affected by social and economic changes
Creators: name: Allen, Edith L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There are dwellings remaining in America to represent almost every stage in the development of housing since the beginning of the 17th century, in which families are making their homes. Some of these are very comfortable but many are not all that could be desired. There are rural as well as city slums and many of those are inhabited by fine American citizens. It is not the building of great masterpieces in house architecture that is needed, but the raising of the quality of houses where they are lagging behind. We must continue to center attention on housing in growing communities, which is a different problem from that of fewer pioneer settlements. So must remember that housing has always been influenced to a marked degree by the economic conditions of the people. Then a few have become very rich at the expense of the rest some very beautiful and pretentious houses have been built for those with fortunes, while the masses have lived in uncomfortable and ugly quarters. An even distribution of wealth, combined with nationwide prosperity, has resulted in comfortable homes for the masses. Under the circumstances few great masterpieces in house architecture have been produced and, though the architecture has beer fairly good, there has been adverse criticism of the monotony in the appearance of housing everywhere. But the most urgent question is, what shall we do with the millions of antiquated ugly dwellings we have on our hands; and the present day problem is to secure a good quality of housing for every family in the land, and to do it so that the result will satisfy artistic tastes.
93 Briefe, 1 Postkarte, 7 Beilagen, 15 Umschläge an Gottfried Keller
Creators: name: Vieweg, Eduard
name: Friedr. Vieweg und Sohn
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1850

description: von Eduard Vieweg, Heinrich Vieweg, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn
description: Beilagen: 6 Abrechnungen; 1 Verlags-Contract zu Erzählungen als Fortsetzung von 'Die Leute von Seldwyla', dat. 17.12.1856
description: Davon 22 Briefe von Fr. Viewegsche Buchhandlung (Braunschweig) an G. Keller
description: Dabei 1 Brief von C.F. Winter, akademische Verlagshandlung an E. Vieweg in Braunschweig, dat.: Heidelberg, 17.6.1850
description: Dabei 1 Briefkopie von Ed[uard] V[ieweg] an Anton Winter in Heidelberg, dat.: Braunschweig, 14.8.1850
Alimentação por gastrostomia endoscópica percutânea: impacto na qualidade de vida dos prestadores
Creators: name: Cotrim, Joana
name: Carvalho, Joana
name: Carvalho, Laura
name: Soares, Isabel
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2012

description: Introdução: Acredita-se que a colocação de gastrostomia percutânea endoscópica (PEG) permite melhorar o estado geral e a prestação de cuidados de saúde a doentes com aporte oral insuficiente e melhorar também a qualidade de vida dos cuidadores.

Objectivos: Avaliar o impacto da colocação de PEG na qualidade de vida de doentes e seus cuidadores e determinar os benefícios e as dificuldades com PEG.

Material e métodos: Inquérito ao médico assistente e ao cuidador principal de doentes da área de influência do Serviço de Pediatria de Vila Real submetidos a colocação de PEG e consulta do processo clínico.

Resultados: Foram inquiridos nove cuidadores principais de crianças com PEG da área de influência do Serviço de Pediatria de Vila Real. A idade de colocação de PEG variou desde o período neonatal até aos quinze anos. Os diagnósticos encontrados foram: paralisia cerebral, doença metabólica, doença neuro-muscular e neuropatia pós-infecciosa. Na maioria dos casos foi usada previamente sonda nasogástrica. A colocação de PEG permitiu reduzir o tempo gasto nas refeições, facilitar a administração de medicação e tornar a refeição menos desconfortável para os doentes e cuidadores. As principais complicações referidas são complicações minor. O manuseamento da técnica não gera dificuldades. Em alguns casos foi suspensa a alimentação oral.

Comentários: Verificou-se impacto positivo na qualidade de vida de doentes e cuidadores. A demonstração objectiva dos benefícios da alimentação por PEG carece ainda de mais estudos que contribuirão para que esta medida faça parte da orientação terapêutica a oferecer aos doentes com aporte oral inadequado.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 43 No 3 (2012)
Selatosomus cruciatus
Creators: name: Sanchez, Andreas
name: Chittaro, Yannick
name: Monnerat, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus cruciatus

description: Selatosomus cruciatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 2E)
1 ex., Breil / Brigels (GR), 1– 27.5.2014, PINT, leg., det. & coll. Y. Chittaro.
Nouveau pour les AIOr. Cette espèce, qui constitue sans conteste l’un des plus rares et des plus remarquables représentants de la famille, a été capturée dans une aulnaie alluviale colonisée par des prêles (Equisetum sp.) dont la larve se nourrit.
description: Published as part of Sanchez, Andreas, Chittaro, Yannick & Monnerat, Christian, 2015, Coléoptères nouveaux ou redécouverts pour la Suisse ou l'une de ses régions biogéographiques, pp. 119-132 in Entomo Helvetica 8 on page 127, DOI: 10.5169/seals-985940, http://zenodo.org/record/7756681
Grund-Riss der Statt Zürich samt den unterschidlichen Meinungen über dero Befestigung
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1881
Subjects: Stadtbefestigung

description: Jul. Weber
description: Karte südorientiert
description: Kein Massstab angegeben
description: Erstellt auf der Basis des im Jahr 1853 von K. Fehr erstellten Planes, der sich seinerseits am 1704 von H. R. Landolt gezeichneten Plan orientiert. Vgl. Staatsarchiv de Kantons Zürich, Signatur: PLAN C 37
American housing as affected by social and economic changes
Creators: name: Allen, Edith L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: There are dwellings remaining in America to represent almost every stage in the development of housing since the beginning of the 17th century, in which families are making their homes. Some of these are very comfortable but many are not all that could be desired. There are rural as well as city slums and many of those are inhabited by fine American citizens. It is not the building of great masterpieces in house architecture that is needed, but the raising of the quality of houses where they are lagging behind. We must continue to center attention on housing in growing communities, which is a different problem from that of fewer pioneer settlements. So must remember that housing has always been influenced to a marked degree by the economic conditions of the people. Then a few have become very rich at the expense of the rest some very beautiful and pretentious houses have been built for those with fortunes, while the masses have lived in uncomfortable and ugly quarters. An even distribution of wealth, combined with nationwide prosperity, has resulted in comfortable homes for the masses. Under the circumstances few great masterpieces in house architecture have been produced and, though the architecture has beer fairly good, there has been adverse criticism of the monotony in the appearance of housing everywhere. But the most urgent question is, what shall we do with the millions of antiquated ugly dwellings we have on our hands; and the present day problem is to secure a good quality of housing for every family in the land, and to do it so that the result will satisfy artistic tastes.
Pew Research Center Poll: Politics
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: Thought given to coming presidential election (1); George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. John Kerry and John Edwards vs. Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo (3); choice is more a vote for one candidate/against another (2); chance of voting for John Kerry (1); chance of voting for George W. Bush (1); plans to vote in election this November (2); presidential debate between John Kerry and George W. Bush (17); George W. Bush handling of security issues (1); John Kerry does/does not change mind too much to be good commander-in-chief (1); John Kerry would/would not give our allies too much say in U.S. foreign policy decisions (1); George W. Bush is/is not too inflexible in his thinking about foreign policy decisions (1); likelihood of watching either of upcoming presidential debates (1); likelihood of watching this Tuesday's vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards (1); phrases better describe John Kerry/George W. Bush (5); George W. Bush/John Kerry would do better job handling certain issues (4); opinion of certain people (4); George W. Bush/John Kerry most likely to win coming presidential election (1); Iraq (3); war on terrorism (1); 2000 presidential election (1); how often vote (1).
The Constitutional Experience of Modern Greece: A Chronological Summary with Special Emphasis on the More Recent Developments
Creators: name: Christie, Emerson Brewer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The ancient Greeks were pioneers both in the study of constitutions and in conscious experimentation with them. Aristotle's "Constitution of Athens" is the earliest constitutional manual extant, while Plato's "Republic" is the first in date as well as interest of the numerous works in which philosophers have described imaginary perfect states.The modem Greeks have contributed no new ideas to constitutional theory with possibly one or two exceptions. They may, however, claim to have somewhat extended the area of constitutional government, for theirs was the first constitutional state to arise in the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean in modern times.It is the purpose of the present paper to present, not, indeed, a full-dress history, but a chronological summary of Greek constitutional experience from the outbreak of the Revolution in 1831 until now. It is hoped that such a summary may possibly be of convenience to some, as it is rather difficult, in this country, to find the particular class of facts about Greece which it contains.
title: Die Münzprägung Jovians (363-364)
Creators: name: Hanelt, Julia Sophia
Year: 2017

description: Am 26. Juni 363 wurde Kaiser Julian im Zuge seines Perserfeldzuges bei einer Schlacht nahe des Tigris tödlich verwundet. Der überraschende Tod des jungen Kaisers forderte eine schnelle Nachfolge. Die Wahl fiel dabei auf den primicerius domesticorum Jovian. Nachdem der neue Augustus ein Friedensangebot der Perser angenommen hatte, begab er sich auf den Weg nach Konstantinopel. Die Hauptstadt sollte Jovian allerdings nie erreichen. Er verstarb unerwartet nach 236 Tagen am 17. Februar 364 ein einem kleinasiatischen Dorf. Trotz der kurzen Herrschaft konnten insgesamt 68 reguläre Münztypen in Gold, Silber und Buntmetall aus dreizehn unterschiedlichen Münzstätten festgestellt werden. Eine genaue Autopsie des unter Jovian geprägten numismatischen Materials zeigt, dass diese Münzstätten übergreifend eine relativ hohe Gleichmäßigkeit in den ausgegebenen Nominalen und der Gestaltung der Avers- und Reverslegenden aufweisen. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind hier die SECVRITAS REI PVBLIC(A)E-Solidi, die die Legende mit der schon unter Jovians Vorgängern verbreiteten Darstellung von Roma und Constantinopolis mit Vota-Schild bzw. -Kranz kombinieren. Diese Verbindung von Reverslegende und -bild ist dabei nur unter Jovian zu finden. Dasselbe ist für die VICTORIA ROMANORVM-Doppelmaiorinen festzustellen, die ebenfalls in der Form nur für Jovian belegbar sind. Diese sind zudem nur in östlichen Münzstätten zu finden. Zuletzt sind es besonders die Vota-Prägungen im Silber und im Buntmetall, die sich mit VOT/V/MVLT/X oder VOT/V auf dem Revers, in allen dreizehn Münzstätten finden lassen. Die große Homogenität des Materials und die Innovation neuer Typen, lässt den Schluss zu, dass dies auf direkter Anordnung Jovians oder seines Umfeldes noch aus Mesopotamien erfolgte.
Panorama vom Passwang
Creators: name: Winterlin, Anton
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1840

description: Rundpanorama vom Passwang; einzelne Orte; Berge und Täler sind in Bleistift am oberen und unteren Blattrand beschriftet
description: [Anton Winterlin]
description: Zur Datierung siehe: Brigitte Meles: Landschaftspanoramen der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Umgebung Basels und aus dem Jura, S. 317, in: Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 42 (1985), S. 315-320
description: Verso in Bleistift ein in wenigen Strichen skizziertes Bergpanorama, Berge teilweise beschriftet; beginnend auf der linken Seite mit Altels und endend auf der rechten Seite mit Rinderhorn
Hylis simonae
Creators: name: Sanchez, Andreas
name: Chittaro, Yannick
name: Monnerat, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eucnemidae
Hylis
Hylis simonae

description: Hylis simonae (Olexa, 1970)
2 ex., Leuk (VS), 16– 21.7.2013, PINT, leg., det. & coll. Y. Chittaro.
Deuxième donnée suisse pour cette espèce extrêmement localisée en Europe centrale se développant pourtant dans de nombreuses espèces de feuillus (Nieto et al. 2010). Les deux individus ont été capturés par un piège d’interception placé dans un pin (Pinus sylvestris).
description: Published as part of Sanchez, Andreas, Chittaro, Yannick & Monnerat, Christian, 2015, Coléoptères nouveaux ou redécouverts pour la Suisse ou l'une de ses régions biogéographiques, pp. 119-132 in Entomo Helvetica 8 on page 128, DOI: 10.5169/seals-985940, http://zenodo.org/record/7756681
[Panorama von der Pfalz aus]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1854
Subjects: Basel

description: Die Darstellung der Häuser und der Mittleren Brücke legen den Standpunkt Pfalz, hinter dem Chor des Basler Münsters gelegen, nahe
description: Zur Datierung: auf der rechten Seite ist die 1854 eingerichtete Harzgrabenfähre zu erkennen, die bis zum Bau der Wettsteinbrücke 1880 die beiden Stadtseiten verband
description: Verso in Bleistift: "Panorama vom Martinsthurm aus"
title: Entwicklung weiterer Skalen eines Messinstruments zur Bestimmung der intrinsischen Motivation von SchülerInnen
Creators: name: Schmidt, Florian
Year: 2017

description: In dieser Diplomarbeit wurde sich mit der Weiterentwicklung eines Messinstruments zur Erfassung der intrinsischen Motivation von SchülerInnen beschäftigt. In Vorarbeiten wurden nach fehlgeschlagenen Übersetzungen des englischsprachigen Intrinsic Motivation Inventory von Deci und Ryan, die Skalen Effort/Importance, sowie Interest/Enjoyment neu konstruiert. In dieser Arbeit wurde nun versucht, die Neuentwicklung der Skalen Value/Usefulness, Perceived Choice und Perceived Competence durchzuführen. Nach der Erstellung der Items dieser drei Skalen, wurden diese an zwölf Klassen der achten Schulstufe getestet. Diese neuen Skalen konnten sowohl trennscharf, als auch untereinander stabil entwickelt werden. Bei der Betrachtung aller Skalen gemeinsam, konnte jedoch keine gewünschte Skalenstruktur generiert werden. Analysiert man anschließend die inhaltlichen Ergebnisse, so gibt es keine signifikanten Unterschiede zwischen SchülerInnen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. In dieser Arbeit konnte ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung eines neuen Messinstruments der intrinsischen Motivation von SchülerInnen bewerkstelligt werden. Zwar muss noch einiges an Adaptionsarbeit geleistet werden, um die erhoffte Skalenstruktur zu erhalten, aber die drei neu erstellten Skalen liefern bereits vielversprechende Ergebnisse. Dementsprechend sind diese neu erstellten Skalen für die Erfassung der Motivation geeignet.
description: This diploma thesis focused on the further development of a questionnaire for measuring the intrinsic motivation of students. In preliminary work, the scales Effort/Importance as well as Interest/Enjoyment were redesigned after failed translations of the English Intrinsic Motivation Inventory by Deci and Ryan. In this work the development of the scales Value/Usefulness, Perceived Choice and Perceived Competence was now on the agenda. After compiling the items of these three scales, they were tested on twelve classes of the eighth grade. These scales are selective and stable as well. When considering all scales in common, however, no desired scale structure could be generated. Focusing on the content, analyses reveal no significant differences between student with or without migrational background. In this work a further step towards a new measuring instrument of the intrinsic motivation of students could be accomplished. Admittedly, a lot of adaptation work has to be done in order to maintain the desired overall factor structure, although the three newly created scales already provide promising results. Accordingly, these three scales are appropriate for measuring motivation.
The Constitutional Experience of Modern Greece: A Chronological Summary with Special Emphasis on the More Recent Developments
Creators: name: Christie, Emerson Brewer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The ancient Greeks were pioneers both in the study of constitutions and in conscious experimentation with them. Aristotle's "Constitution of Athens" is the earliest constitutional manual extant, while Plato's "Republic" is the first in date as well as interest of the numerous works in which philosophers have described imaginary perfect states.The modem Greeks have contributed no new ideas to constitutional theory with possibly one or two exceptions. They may, however, claim to have somewhat extended the area of constitutional government, for theirs was the first constitutional state to arise in the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean in modern times.It is the purpose of the present paper to present, not, indeed, a full-dress history, but a chronological summary of Greek constitutional experience from the outbreak of the Revolution in 1831 until now. It is hoped that such a summary may possibly be of convenience to some, as it is rather difficult, in this country, to find the particular class of facts about Greece which it contains.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstage
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: GL Co
Year: 1917
Subjects: Blumenstrauß
Kind

description: Glückwunschkarte zum Geburtstag. Die Karte zeigt ein Kind mit erhobenem Zeigefinger und einem Blumenstrauss
description: Die Karte ist gelaufen und datiert: "21. XII 1917"
description: Nummer unten rechts: "5069/2"
description: Anonyme/r Künstler/in
Woodrow Wilson's philosophy: some suggestions towards a coherent interpretation of Woodrow Wilson's philosophy as presented in his published works
Creators: name: Athearn, Clarence R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this thesis is to give such an exposition of Woodrow Wilson's philosophy as to make clear its place in modern thought, its relationship to contemporary philosophies. Since it soon becomes clear that Woodrow Wilson was an idealist, the scope of the thesis is narrowed to the determination of the type of idealism which he represented. There are two kinds of idealism in philosophy; abstract or absolute idealism; and concrete or personalistic idealism. These are commonly known as rationalism and personalism. The thesis is that Woodrow Wilson's philosophy can be interpreted coherently from the standpoint of personalism. Woodrow Wilson's philosophy determined the course of world history. This probably accounts for the contemporary interest in the subject. It is important to have an intelligent attitude toward the philosophy which guided our national destinies during so critical a period, and has issued in the current of events in which we struggle today. One's attitude toward Wilson's philosophy will largely determine one's attitude toward the war, toward peace, and toward the future. If the public could be happily relieved of its untoward confusion concerning Wilson's ideals, it would facilitate the course of public action. For, "the object of scholarship," as Wilson himself said, is "to release the human spirit from every kind of thralldom, particularly from the thralldom of not knowing the path and not being able to see the way as it treads it."
Woodrow Wilson's philosophy: some suggestions towards a coherent interpretation of Woodrow Wilson's philosophy as presented in his published works
Creators: name: Athearn, Clarence R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The aim of this thesis is to give such an exposition of Woodrow Wilson's philosophy as to make clear its place in modern thought, its relationship to contemporary philosophies. Since it soon becomes clear that Woodrow Wilson was an idealist, the scope of the thesis is narrowed to the determination of the type of idealism which he represented. There are two kinds of idealism in philosophy; abstract or absolute idealism; and concrete or personalistic idealism. These are commonly known as rationalism and personalism. The thesis is that Woodrow Wilson's philosophy can be interpreted coherently from the standpoint of personalism. Woodrow Wilson's philosophy determined the course of world history. This probably accounts for the contemporary interest in the subject. It is important to have an intelligent attitude toward the philosophy which guided our national destinies during so critical a period, and has issued in the current of events in which we struggle today. One's attitude toward Wilson's philosophy will largely determine one's attitude toward the war, toward peace, and toward the future. If the public could be happily relieved of its untoward confusion concerning Wilson's ideals, it would facilitate the course of public action. For, "the object of scholarship," as Wilson himself said, is "to release the human spirit from every kind of thralldom, particularly from the thralldom of not knowing the path and not being able to see the way as it treads it."
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 4863.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.04.1955, erstellt als Beobachtung im Projektionsverfahren Nr. 2928 von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1955

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Merz-Refraktor mit 13.5 cm Öffnung und 195 cm Brennweite, vereinzelt andere Instrumente wie Tel. 88x; Sonnenbild D = 25 cm. - Auf der Zeichnung wird zum Teil das Instrument vermerkt bzw. die Zählung der Beobachtungen im Projektionsverfahren fortgesetzt. Sporadisch sind Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung sind die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
Refined a posteriori error estimation for classical and pressure-robust Stokes finite element methods
Creators: name: Lederer, P. L.
name: Merdon, Christian
name: Schöberl, Joachim
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
subject: mixed finite elements
subject: pressure robustness
subject: a posteriori error estimators
subject: adaptive mesh refinement
subject: 65N15
subject: 65N30
subject: 76D07
subject: 76M10

description: Recent works showed that pressure-robust modifications of mixed finite element methods for the Stokes equations outperform their standard versions in many cases. This is achieved by divergence-free reconstruction operators and results in pressure-independent velocity error estimates which are robust with respect to small viscosities. In this paper we develop a posteriori error control which reflects this robustness.
Forecasting Cotton Acreage
Creators: name: Cooper, Maurice R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production

description: The problem of forecasting social phenomena is one that economists have undertaken with varying degrees of success for a good many years. On the whole, agricultural forecasting in the past few years has been fairly successful. From September, 1924 to the latter part of 1928, the forecasts published in the monthly price situation of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, according to Dr. O.C. Stine, were about 87 per cent and the price forecasts in the outlook reports of the Bureau up to that time about 90 per cent correct. A few of the State agricultural colleges also had been making agricultural forecasts with about the same degree of accuracy. Since then the record has probably not been quite so good because of developments in business conditions which economists generally had not learned to forecast with accuracy equal to that developed in forecasting supplies of agricultural products or the influences on prices of changes in such supplies.In order to improve our forecasting technique it is necessary to do intensive research and make careful analyses of what has happened in the past and, by applying economic principles and statistical methods, determine what is likely to happen in the future. Studies pertaining to the problems of forecasting are relatively young compared with researches in the physical and biological sciences. Most of the work on forecasting economic events has been done within the past ten years. Considerable progress has been made, but there is yet a long way to go.
Forecasting Cotton Acreage
Creators: name: Cooper, Maurice R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The problem of forecasting social phenomena is one that economists have undertaken with varying degrees of success for a good many years. On the whole, agricultural forecasting in the past few years has been fairly successful. From September, 1924 to the latter part of 1928, the forecasts published in the monthly price situation of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, according to Dr. O.C. Stine, were about 87 per cent and the price forecasts in the outlook reports of the Bureau up to that time about 90 per cent correct. A few of the State agricultural colleges also had been making agricultural forecasts with about the same degree of accuracy. Since then the record has probably not been quite so good because of developments in business conditions which economists generally had not learned to forecast with accuracy equal to that developed in forecasting supplies of agricultural products or the influences on prices of changes in such supplies.In order to improve our forecasting technique it is necessary to do intensive research and make careful analyses of what has happened in the past and, by applying economic principles and statistical methods, determine what is likely to happen in the future. Studies pertaining to the problems of forecasting are relatively young compared with researches in the physical and biological sciences. Most of the work on forecasting economic events has been done within the past ten years. Considerable progress has been made, but there is yet a long way to go.
The Canadian Paper Industry and Its Growth: Its Present Position and Its Future
Creators: name: Boyce, Charles W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The rapid rise to prominence of the Canadian paper industry has given Canada a remarkable advantage during a period in which upset economic conditions have brought many countries to the very brink of bankruptcy. But expansion in Canada's paper industry has absorbed business slack. It has created new wealth, a large part of which has ready demand in export markets. It has provided the incentive for power development and the extension of transportation, and it has contributed greatly to the progress of settlement. In short, paper manufacture has kept Canada profitably busy during a period of world-wide adjustment.But even a miracle industry may not be permanent. The tremendous importance of the paper industry to Canada's welfare, its interrelation with other industries and its place in the economic structure not only of Canada but of the British Empire demands the utmost permanency. The utilization of products of vast areas of land which otherwise might be barren, the conversion of the resources from these lands into export commodities of high value, and the extension of industry and settlement into otherwise undeveloped regions can not depend upon an ephemeral industry. Paper manufacture is the backbone of these movements at the present time, and their whole future course depends to a large extent upon continued expansion of that industry to the very limit of its resources and the subsequent maintenance of that expansion.Is Canada's paper industry permanent? Any answer to this question involves analysis of the factors underlying the place of the industry in national economy, its present position in foreign and domestic markets, and its present stability, as a measure of future permanency. The question of adequate pulpwood supplies in the future is of vital importance. Are Canada's present available pulpwood supplies sufficient to support current growth of the industry? Will they tide the industry over the transition from virgin to second growth timber? Can Canada grow enough pulpwood to meet the mill requirements which have been set up? Can these requirements be grown in competition with other countries? These and many other questions deserve careful analysis as a basis for private and public policy.These are among the more important, questions underlying the permanency of the Canadian pulp and paper industry. It is impossible to discuss adequately all phases of these questions in a paper of this nature. Particular attention will be devoted, therefore, to the problem of pulpwood supplies of the future. Other questions will be discussed chiefly as they may relate to the question of pulpwood supplies.
The Canadian Paper Industry and Its Growth: Its Present Position and Its Future
Creators: name: Boyce, Charles W.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: The rapid rise to prominence of the Canadian paper industry has given Canada a remarkable advantage during a period in which upset economic conditions have brought many countries to the very brink of bankruptcy. But expansion in Canada's paper industry has absorbed business slack. It has created new wealth, a large part of which has ready demand in export markets. It has provided the incentive for power development and the extension of transportation, and it has contributed greatly to the progress of settlement. In short, paper manufacture has kept Canada profitably busy during a period of world-wide adjustment.But even a miracle industry may not be permanent. The tremendous importance of the paper industry to Canada's welfare, its interrelation with other industries and its place in the economic structure not only of Canada but of the British Empire demands the utmost permanency. The utilization of products of vast areas of land which otherwise might be barren, the conversion of the resources from these lands into export commodities of high value, and the extension of industry and settlement into otherwise undeveloped regions can not depend upon an ephemeral industry. Paper manufacture is the backbone of these movements at the present time, and their whole future course depends to a large extent upon continued expansion of that industry to the very limit of its resources and the subsequent maintenance of that expansion.Is Canada's paper industry permanent? Any answer to this question involves analysis of the factors underlying the place of the industry in national economy, its present position in foreign and domestic markets, and its present stability, as a measure of future permanency. The question of adequate pulpwood supplies in the future is of vital importance. Are Canada's present available pulpwood supplies sufficient to support current growth of the industry? Will they tide the industry over the transition from virgin to second growth timber? Can Canada grow enough pulpwood to meet the mill requirements which have been set up? Can these requirements be grown in competition with other countries? These and many other questions deserve careful analysis as a basis for private and public policy.These are among the more important, questions underlying the permanency of the Canadian pulp and paper industry. It is impossible to discuss adequately all phases of these questions in a paper of this nature. Particular attention will be devoted, therefore, to the problem of pulpwood supplies of the future. Other questions will be discussed chiefly as they may relate to the question of pulpwood supplies.
The past in the present : rock ideology and canon in the 1980s
Creators: name: Durham, Hannah Lee
name: 0000-0002-7833-2326
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Rock
Authenticity
Criticism
Music

description: By the 1980s, much rock writing and other rock media were, in various degrees, participating in a “heritage discourse,” with roots in Romantic and Modernist ideologies, in which there was a noticeable preoccupation with a past “golden age” of musicians, albums, musical instruments and technology. The nostalgic mood was bolstered by the new compact disc format which resulted in a spate of album reissues and new boxed sets, along with the advent of the classic rock radio format in 1983. Although ideas of a rock canon had been intimated since at least 1970, rock critics in the 1980s seemed to organize around an established rock canon in various ways. During this decade, there emerged two general definitional orientations concerning rock music—one rigid and the other broad and more inclusive—which affected the ways rock media and audiences assigned value to different music. This dissertation aims to investigate the ways in which rock criticism in the 1980s, discourses of authenticity, and questions of genre boundaries have worked to emphasize and deemphasize certain music to attempt cohesive historical memory for rock music, and while doing so, confront rock’s definitional instability imparted by past mythmaking. In the 1980s, David Bowie and Joni Mitchell were already multi-decade recording artists and performers with international audiences, and both were already associated with a rock canon. Much of their work from the 1980s, however, was critically deemed mediocre, or worse, “bad.” The album case studies in this dissertation—Bowie’s band Tin Machine’s eponymous album (1989) and Joni Mitchell’s Dog Eat Dog (1985)—examine the various ways passé and untenable discourses of authenticity influence the reception of recordings after a certain “era” in a musician’s career arc. Moreover, each album presents unique sonic and representational problems when considering questions of genre and style in rock music.
Women's organizations in the United States: Their development and present status
Creators: name: Todd, Helga Colquist
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: At this time when the American press abounds in descriptions of the activities of women's organizations a study of their development and present status is very opportune. This is the report of such a study pursued for the purpose of ascertaining in the light of their historical development to what extent and in what manner they are participating in national life. A study of sixty national problems in which women's organizations have been interested furnishes evidence tending to indicate that national problems are composite in their nature. American women have organized for constructive work, and they have accomplished much. Even though we cannot measure their achievements with mathematical precision, it is certain that without their well organized efforts America would not be so good a country as it is to live in. Suffrage is universal; the Federal Constitution prohibits the traffic of intoxicating liquor; health movements are nation wide; education has been raised to a high plane; resident aliens are taught how to become good citizens; patriotism demands a high ideal; there are in the United States better homes, better business conditions, better farm opportunities, better commercial methods, a saner religion, a more widely appreciated literature ; the good things of life are more abundant and more accessible than they were fifty years ago. Every purposeful activity on the part of an individual exerts a positive influence in return upon the actor. This has been true of the women composing the organizations which have been the subjects of this study. Organized activities whether motivated by self-interested or disinterested impulses have reacted upon the actors themselves. The women who have been responsible for these purposeful activities have shared in the returns from the invested efforts. As their sphere of activity has been increased, their horizon has been broadened, their responsibilities extended, and their sympathies deepened. In accepting responsibility for service they have grown in strength, they have developed leadership, they have attained cooperative efficiency. Some of them may restrict their activity within narrow bounds, some may err in judgment as to the ills of humanity and the most effective methods of procedure in their cure, but taken as a whole they are conscious of their power, alive to the needs of society, forward looking, and unafraid.
Women's organizations in the United States: Their development and present status
Creators: name: Todd, Helga Colquist
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: At this time when the American press abounds in descriptions of the activities of women's organizations a study of their development and present status is very opportune. This is the report of such a study pursued for the purpose of ascertaining in the light of their historical development to what extent and in what manner they are participating in national life. A study of sixty national problems in which women's organizations have been interested furnishes evidence tending to indicate that national problems are composite in their nature. American women have organized for constructive work, and they have accomplished much. Even though we cannot measure their achievements with mathematical precision, it is certain that without their well organized efforts America would not be so good a country as it is to live in. Suffrage is universal; the Federal Constitution prohibits the traffic of intoxicating liquor; health movements are nation wide; education has been raised to a high plane; resident aliens are taught how to become good citizens; patriotism demands a high ideal; there are in the United States better homes, better business conditions, better farm opportunities, better commercial methods, a saner religion, a more widely appreciated literature ; the good things of life are more abundant and more accessible than they were fifty years ago. Every purposeful activity on the part of an individual exerts a positive influence in return upon the actor. This has been true of the women composing the organizations which have been the subjects of this study. Organized activities whether motivated by self-interested or disinterested impulses have reacted upon the actors themselves. The women who have been responsible for these purposeful activities have shared in the returns from the invested efforts. As their sphere of activity has been increased, their horizon has been broadened, their responsibilities extended, and their sympathies deepened. In accepting responsibility for service they have grown in strength, they have developed leadership, they have attained cooperative efficiency. Some of them may restrict their activity within narrow bounds, some may err in judgment as to the ills of humanity and the most effective methods of procedure in their cure, but taken as a whole they are conscious of their power, alive to the needs of society, forward looking, and unafraid.
The Form of the State Statutes
Creators: name: Manning, Raymond Edward
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The rights and duties of man have been made either the tools of unscrupulous politicians or the playthings of the unintelligent, This is a serious condemnation of representative government as it now exists and it is so intended. Those who have not yet felt the effects of the situation hold it as a joke. Indeed, the popular past time is the discussion of the latest freak legislation.At least a partial answer to all is uniformity through cooperation, must find some way for a getting together to reduce this absurd divergency in the statute books. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is doing its part for the substance of the law. There may be some reason for variation in the laws of the states, small though it may be, but who is there who will say there should not, or can not, be uniformity in the manner of presentation? Why can not the acts of the legislature be so arranged and indexed so as to at least permit a man a decent chance to find out what he is presumed to know?
The Form of the State Statutes
Creators: name: Manning, Raymond Edward
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The rights and duties of man have been made either the tools of unscrupulous politicians or the playthings of the unintelligent, This is a serious condemnation of representative government as it now exists and it is so intended. Those who have not yet felt the effects of the situation hold it as a joke. Indeed, the popular past time is the discussion of the latest freak legislation.At least a partial answer to all is uniformity through cooperation, must find some way for a getting together to reduce this absurd divergency in the statute books. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is doing its part for the substance of the law. There may be some reason for variation in the laws of the states, small though it may be, but who is there who will say there should not, or can not, be uniformity in the manner of presentation? Why can not the acts of the legislature be so arranged and indexed so as to at least permit a man a decent chance to find out what he is presumed to know?
ROLE CONFLICT, ROLE AMBIGUITY, AND ROLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF MIDDLE MANAGERS IN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF
Creators: name: Updegraff, David Rowley
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, Section: A, page: 4253.
TESS Experiments: Self-Affirmation and Defensiveness to Health Messages for the Self vs a Close Other
Creators: name: Ferrer, Rebecca
name: Klein, William M.P.
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) offers researchers the opportunity to capture the internal validity of experiments. Investigators submit proposals, and TESS fields successful proposals for free on a representative sample of adults in the United States. This experiment was conducted to examine whether self-affirmation influences the processing of health messages targeting a loved-one. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of four conditions which varied by priming treatment (self-affirmation or no affirmation) and messaging (cancer risk to self or cancer risk to close other). A total of 419 respondents participated. Respondents answered measures of risk perceptions, how interested they would be in more information and testing, and their intentions to lose weight or encourage their loved one to lose weight. This allowed for comparison of reactions to the messaging across groups and demographic variables.
Times Mirror Poll # 1990-NII0690: June News Interest Index
Creators: name: Times Mirror Center For The People & The Press
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: Obtaining the News (14); Following News Stories (16); News stories with too much coverage (10); Press job performance (1); Knowledge of current news stories (6); Boris Yeltsin (1); Us spending for defense (1); banks taken over by the government (1); Bailing out failded Savings and Loan banks (6); Taxes (2); 1992 Democratic Candidate for president (2).
title: Schülervorstellungen zum Thema Schall
Creators: name: Schwendinger, Daniel
Year: 2017

description: Die Erforschung von Schülervorstellungen nimmt in der Physikdidaktik eine zentrale Rolle ein, denn Schülerinnen und Schüler kommen nicht als unbeschriebene Blätter in den Unterricht, sondern bringen ein Set von vorunterrichtlichen Vorstellungen mit. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Schülervorstellungen zum Thema Schall erforscht. Zunächst wurden sie mit einer qualitativen Vorstudie aufgespürt und in einer zweiten Phase dann quantitativ validiert. Der Fokus lag dabei lehrplanbedingt auf der Sekundarstufe I der allgemeinbildenden höheren Schule und so konnten sowohl einige Vorstellungsschwierigkeiten als auch einige vorunterrichtliche Präkonzepte eruiert werden, die Schülerinnen und Schüler in den Physikunterricht mitbringen. So weisen Schülerinnen und Schüler beispielsweise Radiowellen dem Gebiet des Schalls zu, glauben, dass sich Schall nicht durch Festkörper ausbreitet und eine Schallquelle nichts Bewegliches sein muss. Dass höhere Töne lauter und lautere Töne schneller sind, sind zwei andere Schülervorstellungen. Auch die Schallgeschwindigkeit ist für sie schwer zu fassen und somit für viele Kinder auch von einem schnellen Flugzeug nicht zu erreichen.
description: The research of pupils' misconceptions plays an important role in physics didactics, because pupils do not enter the classroom as a tabula rasa, but bring along a set of pre-lesson ideas. In the course of this thesis the pupils' misconceptions were researched on the subject of sound. First of all, they were tracked with a qualitative pre-study and then quantitatively validated in a second phase. Due to the curriculum, the research was realized in the secondary academic school (lower level). Thus some difficulties of conception as well as some pre-lesson preconceptions, which students bring in the physics lessons, could be found. For example, pupils link radio waves with sound, think that sound doesn’t propagate through solids, and that a sound source does not have to be movably. Two other misconceptions are: Higher tones are louder and louder tones are faster. The speed of sound is also a difficult issue for them and therefore another misconception is, that it cannot be reached by a fast plane.