Academic literature on the topic 'Ready Houston'

This chapter discusses using a broad humanities perspective to teach medical students about climate change. It argues that the humanities can recover a more robust approach to bioethics and serve as a bridge between students’ professional training and their own spiritual and moral convictions. The chapter describes a short elective course taught to first- and second-year students at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. It concludes with a class exercise in which students read the Physician Charter and write a short paper that takes one commitment from the charter and applies it to climate change.

Quick now, what's your knee-jerk advice when your child is reading and he asks you the definition of a tough word he can't figure out? "Look it up in a dictionary," right? It's bad advice. It's particularly bad advice for developing readers struggling through a thorny selection and trying to make sense of it. Don't get me wrong—I have nothing against dictionaries. I love dictionaries. They are indispensable language- learning, language-checking tools. Writers, always aiming for precision amid perplexing word choices, could not survive long without dictionaries. For readers, too, dictionaries are important, but not in the ways we typically advise children to use them. Certainly, researchers and very sophisticated readers do use dictionaries as side-by-side companions to books. Watch a thoughtful poetry student reading something by Milton or Housman or Browning and you'll see regular expeditions into a dictionary to check nuances and alternative meanings. For the most part, though, established readers will use a dictionary to check an unfamiliar word after they read a selection and can't figure out the word's meaning. Unfortunately, most classroom dictionary work focuses on having kids look up lists of words. Most often, those words are not connected to any reading exercise; and without a context for word exploration, the activity is an utter waste of time. When the words do relate to content, children are asked to look up the lists of words before reading. Sure, knowing definitions of potentially difficult words can remove some obstacles to comprehension, and I support telling youngsters in advance what a few really difficult or technical key words mean—words whose definitions cannot easily be derived from the context (more on this later) but whose meanings are essential for understanding. Still, you don't want your child slaving over a list of tough words, looking them up and writing definitions, as a necessary precursor to a reading activity. He'll be bored and exhausted by the time he starts the first sentence! In fact, most of us don't often take the advice we give freely to our children.

The eight General Electric MS7001B gas turbines in combined cycle service at the T.H. Wharton Station of Houston Lighting and Power currently have 85000 hours of operation with 2000 starts. The units are ready for their second major overhaul. A number of hot gas path components will require replacement at that time. Rather than replacing components one by one the user devised a Program for Reliability, Improved Maintenance and Efficiency (GT Prime) with an objective of achieving twenty additional years of trouble free service. Fortunately, the supplier had developed many improved parts for his

At the time of the start of the GT PRIME upgrade project, the eight General Electric MS7001 gas turbines in combined cycle service at the Wharton Station of Houston lighting and Power each had 85,000 hours of operation with 2000 starts. The units were ready for their second major overhaul. A number of hot gas path components required replacement at that time. Rather than replacing components one by one, the user devised a Program for Reliability, Improved Maintenance, and Efficiency (GT PRIME). We will discuss turbine condition, design changes, reduced emissions, and increased output in the pa