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Klare, Michael T. "Beyond Harvey and Irma Militarizing Homeland Security in the Climate-Change Era." Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Avançadas do Terceiro Setor 2, no. 2 (2019): 232. http://dx.doi.org/10.31501/repats.v2i2.10400.
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Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hurriedly dispatched to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to face Irma, the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. Florida Governor Rick Scott, who had sent members of the state National Guard to devastated Houston, anxiously recalled them while putting in place emergency measures for his own state. A small flotilla of naval vessels, originally sent to waters off Texas, was similarly redirected to the Caribbean, while specialized combat units drawn from as far afield as Colorado, Illinois, and Rhode Island were rushed to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Meanwhile, members of the California National Guard were being mobilized to fight wildfires raging across that state (as across much of the West) during its hottest summer on record.
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Silbert, Kate. "Needle, Pen, and the Social Geography of Taste in Early National Providence." New England Quarterly 92, no. 2 (2019): 179–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00733.
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This essay examines needlework samplers from Mary Balch's school and diaries produced by elite young women in Providence, Rhode Island in the late eighteenth century. Drawing on scholarship on material culture, social geography, and gender, it traces the physical mobility that characterized daily life, reading and writing practices, and social boundaries in the early republic.
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Duska, MaryKate, Jared M. Rhoads, Elizabeth C. Saunders, and Tracy Onega. "State naloxone co-prescribing laws show mixed effects on overdose mortality rates." Drug Science, Policy and Law 8 (January 2022): 205032452211125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20503245221112575.
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Objective To examine the relative changes in opioid overdose mortality rates between states that have and have not adopted naloxone co-prescribing laws. Methods We performed a synthetic control analysis. National Vital Statistics data for the years 2012–2018 were analysed, and five states with naloxone co-prescribing laws were examined: Arizona, Florida, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia. Opioid overdose-related deaths were identified through cause-of-death ICD-10 codes. Results Our pooled analysis for all opioid-related deaths showed no significant changes in opioid-related mortality rates in treated states, post naloxone co-prescribing law adoption (−0.05; 95% CI: −0.43, 0.33). Rates of other and unspecified narcotic-related mortality rates in Rhode Island were found to have decreased post-law adoption (−0.13; 95% CI: −0.25, −0.00). Conclusions These findings suggest that naloxone co-prescribing laws were not associated with changes to overall opioid overdose mortality rates, post-law adoption, during the study period. However, Rhode Island did see a decrease in other and unspecified narcotic-related mortality rates post-law adoption. This is perhaps due to the comprehensive nature of the state's law. As overall rates of naloxone co-prescribing remain low, interventions to enhance naloxone prescribing and distribution may be necessary for co-prescribing laws to impact opioid-related mortality rates.
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Zane, Sherry. "“I did It for The Uplift of Humanity and The Navy”: Same-Sex Acts and The Origins of The National Security State, 1919–1921." New England Quarterly 91, no. 2 (2018): 279–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00670.
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This essay explores U.S. national security interests on the World War I home-front from 1917-1921 in Newport, Rhode Island when Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt's covert operatives attempted to restrict same-sex acts through methods of entrapment. It argues that World War I provided government officials new opportunities to expand security concerns as it policed and punished gender and sexual non-conformity well before the Cold War.
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Dyer, Michael G. "Hazard and Risk in the New England Fishing Fleet." Marine Technology and SNAME News 37, no. 01 (2000): 30–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/mt1.2000.37.1.30.
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The United States Coast Guard and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center studied the 102 serious fishing vessel accidents (1993–1997) in Coast Guard District 1 (New England and Long Island, New York), U.S. national fleet accident data, and international fishing vessel safety programs for the purpose of establishing risk factors and formulating options for future action by the Coast Guard to enhance fleet safety. The 102 regional accidents involved total vessel losses and/or death(s), excluding strictly occupational cases. Each accident was studied in detail to determine causality among human and organizational, fishery and operational, and preventive safety factors. Causality in each case was assigned among the factors, summing to 1.0 and weighted according to the outcome of the accident, i.e., numbers of deaths and injuries. The results quantify (1) the aggregate "significance" of the causal factors; (2) the average weighted outcome of accidents by type (e.g., capsize, collision); and (3) the sensitivity of (1) and (2) to varied relative weightings of vessel losses and deaths.
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Cress, Rosemary D., Susan A. Sabatino, Xiao-Cheng Wu, et al. "Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer: Results from a CDC-NPCR patterns of care study." Clinical medicine. Oncology 3 (January 2009): CMO.S2316. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/cmo.s2316.
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Objective To evaluate adjuvant chemotherapy use for Stage III colon cancer. Methods This analysis included 973 patients with surgically treated stage III colon cancer. Socioeconomic information from the 2000 census was linked to patients’ residential census tracts. Vital status through 12/31/02 was obtained from medical records and linkage to state vital statistics files and the National Death Index. Results Adjuvant chemotherapy was received by 67%. Treatment varied by state of residence, with Colorado, Rhode Island and New York residents more likely to receive chemotherapy than Louisiana residents. Older age, increasing comorbidities, divorced/widowed marital status, and residence in lower education areas or non-working class neighborhoods were associated with lower chemotherapy use. Survival varied by state but after adjustment for sex, sociodemographic and health factors, was significantly higher only for California and Rhode Island. Older age and lower educational attainment were associated with lower survival. Chemotherapy was protective for all comorbidity groups. Conclusion Although adjuvant chemotherapy for Stage III colon cancer improves survival, some patients did not receive standard of care, demonstrating the need for cancer treatment surveillance. Interstate differences likely resulted from differences in local practice patterns, acceptance of treatment, and access.
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Pennell, Michael. "More than Food Porn: Twitter, Transparency, and Food Systems." Gastronomica 16, no. 4 (2016): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2016.16.4.33.
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This article explores the ways in which social media, specifically Twitter, can provide transparency to local and national food systems. Those interested in and invested in food systems should focus more attention on the mundane, but easily dismissed, photos and tweets that populate Twitter, Instagram, and other social media feeds, especially those from chefs, mobile food vendors, and fishermen and women. As evidence, the article includes excerpts from interviews with and observations of chefs, food cart operators, and fishermen and women operating in the state of Rhode Island.
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Waldrop, Anne R., Jennifer L. Moss, Benmei Liu, and Li Zhu. "Ranking States on Coverage of Cancer-Preventing Vaccines Among Adolescents: The Influence of Imprecision." Public Health Reports 132, no. 6 (2017): 627–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354917727274.
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Objectives: Identifying the best and worst states for coverage of cancer-preventing vaccines (hepatitis B [HepB] and human papillomavirus [HPV]) may guide public health officials in developing programs, such as promotion campaigns. However, acknowledging the imprecision of coverage and ranks is important for avoiding overinterpretation. The objective of this study was to examine states’ vaccination coverage and ranks, as well as the imprecision of these estimates, to inform public health decision making. Methods: We used data on coverage of HepB and HPV vaccines among adolescents aged 13-17 from the 2011-2015 National Immunization Survey-Teen (n = 103 729 from 50 US states and Washington, DC). We calculated coverage, 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and ranks for vaccination coverage in each state, and we generated simultaneous 95% CIs for ranks using a Monte Carlo method with 100 000 simulations. Results: Across years, HepB vaccination coverage was 92.2% (95% CI, 91.8%-92.5%; states’ range, 84.3% in West Virginia to 97.0% in Connecticut). HPV vaccination coverage was 57.4% (95% CI, 56.6%-58.2%; range, 41.8% in Kansas to 78.0% in Rhode Island) for girls and 31.0% (95% CI, 30.3%-31.8%; range, 19.0% in Utah to 59.3% in Rhode Island) for boys. States with the highest and lowest ranks generally had narrow 95% CIs; for example, Rhode Island was ranked first (95% CI, 1-1) and Kansas was ranked 51st (95% CI, 49-51) for girls’ HPV vaccination. However, states with intermediate ranks had wider and more imprecise 95% CIs; for example, New York was 26th for girls’ HPV vaccination coverage, but its 95% CI included ranks 18-35. Conclusions: States’ ranks of coverage of cancer-preventing vaccines were imprecise, especially for states in the middle of the range; thus, performance rankings presented without measures of imprecision could be overinterpreted. However, ranks can highlight high-performing and low-performing states to target for further research and vaccination promotion programming.
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Verkade, Stephen D., and Robert H. Miller. "ADMINISTRATION AS A SABBATICAL EXPERIENCE FOR FACULTY." HortScience 27, no. 6 (1992): 672b—672. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.27.6.672b.
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There is a need for Universities to encourage the continuing development of administrative skills among faculty in order to meet the challenges of the future. National and university initiatives have been developed to recognize this need. This sabbatic leave was developed to provide a significant, active, and meaningful administrative experience in the Office of the Dean at the University of Rhode Island. This paper presents information on the structure, activities and involvement; and benefits to the participating faculty member, administrator, and institutions. The case study presented was both worthwhile and enriching for the participants, and strengthening for the sponsoring institutions.
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Humphrey, Thomas F. "Transportation Skills Needed by Private-Sector and Public-Sector Organizations." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1924, no. 1 (2005): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105192400106.
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The University of Rhode Island requested an assessment of the potential demand for developing new academic programs in the areas of transportation and logistics. Although the research focused on Rhode Island public- and private-sector organizations, it was concluded that the results have broader applications for the academic community. The research was accomplished by interviewing a total of 24 key executives in four large private companies and five large public-sector organizations. The questions focused on “skills required to do your job.” The interviews resulted in the following conclusions: ( a) a distinct difference must be made between education needs, training needs, and outreach needs; ( b) concerning public agency needs, responses tracked closely to the several national studies that have taken place over the past several years; ( c) private-sector organizations view logistics and supply chain management as critical to their bottom line; ( d) there appears to be a common interest among interviewees for universities to establish more outreach programs; ( e) private-sector companies all expressed possible interest in targeted logistics and supply chain management programs (certificate programs or individual courses could be of interest, either as traditional classroom or Internet-based); ( f) definite interest existed among public agencies to establish courses and distance-learning–based certificate programs in “transportation policy and management” (the author's label); and ( g) there were a surprising number of common needs.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rhode Island. National Guard"
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Karim. "Leaving the bridge, passing the shelters : understanding homeless activism through the utilization of spaces within the Central Public Library and the IUPUI Library in Indianapolis." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5928.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>By definition, homelessness refers to general understanding of people without a home or a roof over their heads. As consequences of a number of factors, homelessness has become a serious problem especially in cities throughout the United States. Homeless people are usually most visible on the streets and in settings like shelters due to the fact that their presences and activities in public spaces are considered illegal or at least “unwanted” by city officials and by members of the public. In response to this issue, activists throughout the country have worked tiresly on behalf of homeless people to demand policy changes, an effort that resulted in the passage of the homeless bill of rights in three states, namely Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Illinois. As I discovered through my fieldwork, in Indiana, the homeless, themselves, are currently lobbying for passage of a similar measure.
Locating my fieldwork on homelessness in Indianapolis in two sites, the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library (the Central Library) and the IUPUI Library, I examine the use of library buildings as alternative temporary shelters and spaces where the homeless can organize for political change. As an Indonesian ethnographer, I utilized an ethnographic approach, which helped me to reveal “Western values” and “American culture” as they play out in the context of homelessness. In this thesis, I show that there is a multi-sited configuration made up of issues, agents, institutions, and policy processes that converge in the context of the use of library buildings by the homeless.
Finally, I conclude that public libraries and university libraries as well can play a more important role beyond their original functions by undertaking tangible actions, efforts, engagements, and interventions to act as allies to the homeless, who are among their most steadfast constituencies. By utilizing public university library facilities, the homeless are also finding their voices to call for justice, for better treatment, and for policies that can help ameliorate the hardship and disadvantages of homelessness.
Books on the topic "Rhode Island. National Guard"
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Grandchamp, Robert. "Rhody Redlegs": A history of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery and the 103d Field Artillery, Rhode Island Army National Guard, 1801-2010. McFarland & Co., 2012.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Oversight of the oil spill liability trust fund: Hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, December 10, 1998, Narragansett, Rhode Island. U.S. G.P.O., 1999.
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Graham, D. Kurt. To bring law home: The federal judiciary in early national Rhode Island. Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
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Graham, D. Kurt. To bring law home: The federal judiciary in early national Rhode Island. Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
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To bring law home: The federal judiciary in early national Rhode Island. Northern Illinois University Press, 2009.
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Oppermann, Joseph K. Cape Hatteras National Seashore: Bodie Island Coast Guard Station : historic structure report. Cultural Resources, Southeast Regional, National Park Service, 2005.
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Lewis, Theodore. Bar mitzvah sermons at Touro Synagogue: National historic site, Newport, Rhode Island. T. Lewis, 1989.
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Graham, D. Kurt. To bring law home: The federal judiciary in early national Rhode Island. Northern Illinois University Press, 2009.
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National Marina Research Conference (1st 1989 Narragansett, R.I.). 1989 marina research: Original papers accepted for presentation at the 1st National Marina Research Conference, January 9-12, 1989, Narragansett, Rhode Island. Edited by Ross Neil W and International Marina Institute (U.S.). The Institute, 1989.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Establishing the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts: Report (to accompany S. 1374) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1986.
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Marques, Leonardo. "North American Slave Traders in the Age of Revolution, 1776–1807." In The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867. Yale University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300212419.003.0002.
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The chapter explores the creation of a U.S. branch of the transatlantic slave trade in the aftermath of U.S. independence. It looks at the central role played by Rhode Island merchants in this traffic, the tensions generated by the expansion of abolitionism in the region, and the broader political debates on the national level.
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Brett, Mark G. "Colonial Inversions: Roger Williams and Wiremu Tāmihana." In Locations of God. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060237.003.0010.
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This chapter turns to some remarkable examples in the colonial history of the Bible’s reception. In the seventeenth century, Roger Williams opposed Puritan national allegories by adopting the Persian imperial imaginary in order to secure Indian rights on Rhode Island. Wiremu Tāmihana advanced a similar anticolonial purpose in nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand by embracing the law of kingship from Deuteronomy. Whether in ancient or modern times, the sheer complexity of intergroup conflict in colonial contexts is not always reducible to binary contrasts between elites and subalterns, or imperialists and nativists. The more subtle postcolonial readings will attend to the details of mimetic circulation, both in the compositional layers of the Bible and in its reception. The discussion includes historical reflections on the settler colonial context within which this book was written, Australia.
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Roe, Alan D. "Disappointments and the Persistence of Grandiose Visions." In Into Russian Nature. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190914554.003.0005.
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Not long after the RSFSR started establishing parks in the mid-1980s, environmental concerns became mainstream in the Soviet Union as Gorbachev’s reforms encouraged Soviet citizens to discuss a variety of problems more openly than at any time previously in Russian history. In turn, national parks were often touted for their potential to transform the economy of entire regions and the lifestyles of their inhabitants. While the state could not provide the funds for parks to carry out their most basic functions, park supporters placed hopes in attracting foreign tourists and new opportunities to collaborate with international organizations. This chapter uses several case studies—Elk Island National Park, ideas for parks on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the proposed Beringia International Park and a park in the Altai Mountains—to demonstrate how park supporters used the national park idea to guard against development and future environmental threats.
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Smith, Robert B., and Lee J. Siegel. "Cataclysm!: The Hotspot Reaches Yellowstone." In Windows into the Earth. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195105964.003.0007.
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Epicenters from numerous earthquakes fall approximately along two parallel lines that stretch from southeast to northwest through Yellowstone National Park. During the past 630,000 years, lava flowed from eruptive vents located roughly along the same lines. The alignment of earthquakes and small volcanoes suggests that zones of weakness are deep beneath them within the Earth. Those zones may be the still-active roots of faults that once ran along the base of towering mountains. Such mountains would have made ancient Yellowstone resemble today’s Grand Teton National Park. Indeed, a few million years ago these mountains may have stretched northward through Yellowstone and hooked up with the Gallatin Range, which now extends from Montana south into Yellowstone’s northwest corner. So why is today’s Yellowstone Plateau relatively flat? What happened to the mountains that once may have rose thousands of feet skyward like the Tetons do today? The answer, quite simply, is that they were destroyed 2 million years ago during a caldera eruption, which is the largest, most catastrophic kind of volcanic outburst—an explosion so cataclysmic that it dwarfs any eruption in historic time. North America had continued its southwestward slide over the Yellowstone hotspot. After blasting and repaving the Snake River Plain, the hotspot was finally beneath the place for which it later was named. The power of its rising heat and hot rock began to shape Yellowstone into what it is today. The first eruptive blast at Yellowstone 2 million years ago left a gigantic hole in the ground—a hole larger than the state of Rhode Island. The huge crater, known as a caldera, measured about 5o miles long, 40 miles wide, and hundreds of yards deep. It extended from Island Park in Idaho to the central part of Yellowstone in Wyoming. During the volcanic cataclysm, hot ash and rock blew into the heavens over Yellowstone, then rained like hell from the sky. As heavier pumice and ash particles debris piled up on the ground, their heat welded the debris together to form a layer of solid rock called ash-flow tuff or welded tuff.
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Brown, Jeannette E. "Introduction." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0005.
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When I wrote my first book African American Women Chemists I neglected to state that it was a historical book. I researched to find the first African American woman who had studied chemistry in college and worked in the field. The woman that I found was Josephine Silane Yates who studied chemistry at the Rhode Island Normal School in order to become a science teacher. She was hired by the Lincoln Institute in 1881 and later was, I believe, the first African American woman to become a professor and head a department of science. But then again there might be women who traveled out of the country to study because of racial prejudice in this country. The book ended with some women like myself who were hired as chemists in the industry before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Therefore, I decided to write another book about the current African American women chemists who, as I say, are hiding in plain sight. To do this, I again researched women by using the web or by asking questions of people I met at American Chemical Society ACS or National Organization for the Professional Advances of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) meetings. I asked women to tell me their life stories and allow me to take their oral history, which I recorded and which were transcribed thanks to the people at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. Most of the stories of these women will be archived at the CHF in their oral history collection. The women who were chosen to be in this book are an amazing group of women. Most of them are in academia because it is easy to get in touch with professors since they publish their research on the web. Some have worked for the government in the national laboratories and a few have worked in industry. Some of these women grew up in the Jim Crow south where they went to segregated schools but were lucky because they were smart and had teachers and parents who wanted them to succeed despite everything they had to go through.
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"Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation." In Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation, edited by Joseph DeAlteris, Laura Skrobe, and Christine Lipsky. American Fisheries Society, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569124.ch16.
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<em>Abstract.</em> —Seabed disturbance by mobile bottom-fishing gear has emerged as a major concern related to the conservation of essential fish habitat. Unquestionably, dredges and trawls disturb the seabed. However, the seabed is also disturbed by natural physical and biological processes. The biological communities that utilize a particular habitat have adapted to that environment through natural selection, and, therefore, the impact of mobile fishing gear on the habitat structure and biological community must be scaled against the magnitude and frequency of seabed disturbance due to natural causes. Fishers operating in the mouth of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island use trawls to harvest lobsters, squid, and finfish and dredges to harvest mussels. These mobile fishing gears impact rock, sand, and mud substrates. Side-scan sonar data from 1995 with 200% coverage were available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the mouth of Narragansett Bay. Analysis of these data indicates that evidence of bottom scarring by the fishing gear is restricted to deeper waters with a seabed composition of soft cohesive sediments, despite the observation that fishing activity is ubiquitous throughout the bay mouth. A quantitative model has been developed to compare the magnitude and frequency of natural seabed disturbance to mobile fishing gear disturbance. Wave and tidal currents at the seabed are coupled with sediment characteristics to estimate the degree of seabed disturbance. Field experiments designed to compare the longevity of bottom scars indicate that scars in shoal waters and sand sediments are short-lived, as compared to scars in deep water and mud sediments, which are long-lasting. Finally, the model results are compared to the recovery time of sediments disturbed by the interaction of the fishing gear with the seabed. The impact of mobile fishing gear on the seabed must be evaluated in light of the degree of seabed disturbance due to natural phenomena. The application of this model on a larger scale to continental shelf waters and seabed sediment environments will allow for the identification of problematic areas relative to the degradation of essential fish habitat by mobile fishing gear.
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"Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation." In Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation, edited by Joseph DeAlteris, Laura Skrobe, and Christine Lipsky. American Fisheries Society, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569124.ch16.
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<em>Abstract.</em> —Seabed disturbance by mobile bottom-fishing gear has emerged as a major concern related to the conservation of essential fish habitat. Unquestionably, dredges and trawls disturb the seabed. However, the seabed is also disturbed by natural physical and biological processes. The biological communities that utilize a particular habitat have adapted to that environment through natural selection, and, therefore, the impact of mobile fishing gear on the habitat structure and biological community must be scaled against the magnitude and frequency of seabed disturbance due to natural causes. Fishers operating in the mouth of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island use trawls to harvest lobsters, squid, and finfish and dredges to harvest mussels. These mobile fishing gears impact rock, sand, and mud substrates. Side-scan sonar data from 1995 with 200% coverage were available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the mouth of Narragansett Bay. Analysis of these data indicates that evidence of bottom scarring by the fishing gear is restricted to deeper waters with a seabed composition of soft cohesive sediments, despite the observation that fishing activity is ubiquitous throughout the bay mouth. A quantitative model has been developed to compare the magnitude and frequency of natural seabed disturbance to mobile fishing gear disturbance. Wave and tidal currents at the seabed are coupled with sediment characteristics to estimate the degree of seabed disturbance. Field experiments designed to compare the longevity of bottom scars indicate that scars in shoal waters and sand sediments are short-lived, as compared to scars in deep water and mud sediments, which are long-lasting. Finally, the model results are compared to the recovery time of sediments disturbed by the interaction of the fishing gear with the seabed. The impact of mobile fishing gear on the seabed must be evaluated in light of the degree of seabed disturbance due to natural phenomena. The application of this model on a larger scale to continental shelf waters and seabed sediment environments will allow for the identification of problematic areas relative to the degradation of essential fish habitat by mobile fishing gear.
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Taber, Douglass F. "Substituted Benzenes: The Reddy Synthesis of Isofregenedadiol." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190200794.003.0062.
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Jianbo Wang of Peking University (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 4988) and Patrick Y. Toullec and Véronique Michelet of Chimie ParisTech (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 6086) developed conditions for the electrophilic acetoxylation of a benzene derivative 1. Seung Hwan Cho and Sukbok Chang of KAIST (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 16382) and Brenton DeBoef of the University of Rhode Island (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 19960) devised protocols for the electrophilic imidation of a benzene derivative 3. Vladimir V. Grushin of ICIQ Tarragona devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 10999) a simple protocol for the cyanation of a bromobenzene 6 to the nitrile 7. Hua-Jian Xu of the Hefei University of Technology (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 8036) and Myung-Jong Jin of Inha University (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5540) established conditions for the efficient Heck coupling of a chlorobenzene 8. Jacqueline E. Milne of Amgen/Thousand Oaks reduced (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 9519) the adduct from the addition of 11 to 12 to deliver the phenylacetic acid 13. Jeffrey W. Bode of ETH Zurich effected (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 10913) Friedel-Crafts alkylation of 14 with the hydroxamate 15 to give the meta product 16. B.V. Subba Reddy of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad took advantage (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 5926) of the directing ability of the amide to effect selective ortho acetoxylation of 17. Similarly, Frederic Fabis of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie used (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 6414) the methoxime of 19 to direct ortho bromination, leading to 20. Teck-Peng Loh of Nanyang Technological University showed (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 10458) that the carbamate of 21 directed ortho C–H functionalization to give the ester 23. Yoichiro Kuninobu and Kazuhiko Takai of Okayama University rearranged (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 10791) the allyl ester 24 directly to the ortho-allylated acid 25. Youhong Hu of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 8495) and Graham J. Bodwell of Memorial University (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 9015) condensed a chromene 26 with a nucleophile 27 to give the arene 28. C.V. Ramana of the National Chemical Laboratory prepared (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 4627) the arene 31 by condensing 29 with 30 with high regioselectivity.
Conference papers on the topic "Rhode Island. National Guard"
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Nijhawan, Sunil, and YongMann Song. "Simulation of Severe Accident Progression Using ROSHNI: A New Integrated Simulation Code for PHWR Severe Accidents." In 2020 International Conference on Nuclear Engineering collocated with the ASME 2020 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone2020-16633.
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Abstract As analysts still grapple with understanding core damage accident progression at Three Mile Island and Fukushima that caught the nuclear industry off-guard once too many times, one notices the very limited detail with which the large reactor cores of these subject reactors have been modelled in their severe accident simulation code packages. At the same time, modelling of CANDU severe accidents have largely borrowed from and suffered from the limitations of the same LWR codes (see IAEA TECDOC 1727) whose applications to PHWRs have poorly caught critical PHWR design specifics and vulnerabilities. As a result, accident management measures that have been instituted at CANDU PHWRs, while meeting the important industry objective of publically seeming to be doing something about lessons learnt from say Fukushima and showing that the reactor designs are oh so close to perfect and the off-site consequences of severe accidents happily benign. Integrated PHWR severe accident progression and consequence assessment code ROSHNI can make a significant contribution to actual, practical understanding of severe accident progression in CANDU PHWRs, improving significantly on the other PHWR specific computer codes developed three decades ago when modeling decisions were constrained by limited computing power and poor understanding of and interest in severe core damage accidents. These codes force gross simplifications in reactor core modelling and do not adequately represent all the right CANDU core details, materials, fluids, vessels or phenomena. But they produce results that are familiar and palatable. They do, however to their credit, also excel in their computational speed, largely because they model and compute so little and with such un-necessary simplifications. ROSHNI sheds most previous modelling simplifications and represents each of the 380 channels, 4560 bundle, 37 elements in four concentric ring, Zircaloy clad fuel geometry, materials and fluids more faithfully in a 2000 MW(Th) CANDU6 reactor. It can be used easily for other PHWRs with different number of fuel channels and bundles per each channel. Each of horizontal PHWR reactor channels with all their bundles, fuel rings, sheaths, appendages, end fittings and feeders are modelled and in detail that reflects large across core differences. While other codes model at best a few hundred core fuel entities, thermo-chemical transient behaviour of about 73,000 different fuel channel entities within the core is considered by ROSHNI simultaneously along with other 15,000 or so other flow path segments. At each location all known thermo-chemical and hydraulic phenomena are computed. With such detail, ROSHNI is able to provide information on their progressive and parallel thermo-chemical contribution to accident progression and a more realistic fission product release source term that would belie the miniscule one (100 TBq of Cs-137 or 0.15% of core inventory) used by EMOs now in Canada on recommendation of our national regulator CNSC. ROSHNI has an advanced, more CANDU specific consideration of each bundle transitioning to a solid debris behaviour in the Calandria vessel without reverting to a simplified molten corium formulation that happily ignores interaction of debris with vessel welds, further vessel failures and energetic interactions. The code is able to follow behaviour of each fuel bundle following its disassembly from the fuel channel and thus demonstrate that the gross assumption of a core collapse made in some analyses is wrong and misleading. It is able to thus demonstrate that PHWR core disassembly is not only gradual, it will be also be incomplete with a large number of low power, peripheral fuel channels never disassembling under most credible scenarios. The code is designed to grow into and use its voluminous results in a severe accident simulator for operator training. It’s phenomenological models are able to examine design inadequacies / issues that affect accident progression and several simple to implement design improvements that have a profound effect on results. For example, an early pressure boundary failure due to inadequacy of heat sinks in a station blackout scenario can be examined along with the effect of improved and adequate over pressure protection. A best effort code such as ROSHNI can be instrumental in identifying the risk reduction benefits of undertaking certain design, operational and accidental management improvements for PHWRs, with some of the multi-unit ones handicapped by poor pressurizer placement and leaky containments with vulnerable materials, poor overpressure protection, ad-hoc mitigation measures and limited instrumentation common to all CANDUs. Case in point is the PSA supported design and installed number of Hydrogen recombiners that are neither for the right gas (designed mysteriously for H2 instead of D2) or its potential release quantity (they are sparse and will cause explosions). The paper presents ROSHNI results of simulations of a postulated station blackout scenario and sheds a light on the challenges ahead in minimizing risk from operation of these otherwise unique power reactors.
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