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Milus, E. A., E. Seyran, and R. McNew. "Aggressiveness of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Isolates in the South-Central United States." Plant Disease 90, no. 7 (July 2006): 847–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pd-90-0847.

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Although stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, has been an occasional problem on wheat in the south-central United States from 1941 until 1999, the disease has been consistently severe in the region since 2000. Furthermore, since 2000, the geographic range of stripe rust in the eastern United States has expanded, and the old population of races has been replaced by a new population. The objective of this study was to determine whether new isolates of the pathogen were more aggressive and better adapted to warmer temperatures than old isolates. In all, 6 old isolates (collected before 2000) and 14 new isolates (collected since 2000) were evaluated at 12 and 18°C for latent period on wheat seedlings and urediniospore germination on Noble agar. At 12°C, old and new isolates had similar latent periods and spore germination percentages. However, at 18°C, new isolates averaged 2 days less for latent period and double the spore germination compared with old isolates. Therefore, the new isolates are better adapted and, thus, more aggressive at warmer temperatures than the old isolates. These differences may have contributed to the severity of recent epidemics in the region and to the expanded geographic range for stripe rust.
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Brar, G. S., and H. R. Kutcher. "Race Characterization of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the Cause of Wheat Stripe Rust, in Saskatchewan and Southern Alberta, Canada and Virulence Comparison with Races from the United States." Plant Disease 100, no. 8 (August 2016): 1744–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-12-15-1410-re.

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Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, has been common across Saskatchewan, Canada since 2000. Fifty-nine isolates of P. striiformis f. sp. tritici, the majority of which were collected between 2011 and 2013 from Saskatchewan and southern Alberta, were analyzed for virulence frequency and diversity and compared with isolates characterized in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions of the United States. In all, 31 wheat differentials, including 20 near-isogenic lines and 1 triticale variety, differentiated 59 P. striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates into 33 races, of which one race, C-PST-1, represented 31% of the isolates. None of the races were virulent on Yr5, Yr15, or YrSP. Virulence frequency ranged from 65 to 98% on YrA, Yr2, Yr8, Yr9, Yr27, Yr29, Yr32, YrSu, ‘Heines VII’, and ‘Nord Deprez’. Race C-PST-6 was virulent on the greatest number of the differentials (n = 25) and C-PST-18 on the fewest (n = 14). Discriminant analysis of principal components and multivariate cluster analyses detected three and four major groups, respectively, which differed from each other in terms of virulence spectrum and year of collection. The diversity of the P. striiformis f. sp. tritici population in southern Alberta was greater than in Saskatchewan, which indicated that, although P. striiformis f. sp. tritici is primarily windborne over great distances and does not usually overwinter, there are detectable differences in virulence between these regions of western Canada. Comparative analyses of virulence frequency of Saskatchewan or southern Alberta isolates with isolates representing races from the Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest of the United States indicated greater similarity of Saskatchewan races to the Great Plains despite strong correlations with both parts of the United States. This suggests that the P. striiformis f. sp. tritici population in Saskatchewan is a mixture of inoculum from both parts of the United States.
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Lopes, Maria. "C. F. Hartt's Contribution to Brazilian Museums of Natural History." Earth Sciences History 13, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 174–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.13.2.v747x4571u0472k5.

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Charles Frederic Hartt (1840-1878), a geologist who took part in Louis Agassiz's Thayer Expedition in 1865, returned to Brazil several times during his life: a solo trip in 1867, two of his own expeditions (while he was professor of geology at Cornell University), the Morgan Expeditions of 1870 and 1871, and his final voyage, which started in 1874. Hartt is known for his opposition to Agassiz's glacial theory of the Amazon River basin, for his contributions to Brazilian geological knowledge, and for his rôle in the Geological Commission of Brazil. Lesser known are his contributions and links to Brazilian Natural History Museums, institutions which played an important and lasting role in the development of geological sciences in Barizl. In Brazil, Hartt combined enthnographical work with his geological explorations, and he continued the ethnographical work initiated by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, a naturalist from Rio de Janeiro Museu Nacional who later became the director of Museu Paraense. When the Museu Paraense opened in 1871, Hartt donated books and what became the museum's first geological collections: both North American samples and samples which Hartt had collected in the Amazon region, some of which were sent to the United States to be classified and then returned to Brazil. From 1876 to 1877, Hartt was employed by the Museu Nacional as head of the 3rd Section-Physical Sciences, Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, a position which enhanced his research, collecting, and his conferences. Even though Hartt had a three-year contract, he resigned after one year to devote all of his energies to the Comissão Geológica do Imperio do Brasil, the geological survey of Brazil which he directed. Despite his short official connection with the museum in Rio, Hartt's activities with Brazilian museums provide insight into the issues relating to the transfer and adaptation of institutional models from one country to another.
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McKeever, David. "EVOLVING INTERPRETATION OF MULTILATERAL TREATIES: ’ACTS CONTRARY TO THE PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ IN THE REFUGEE CONVENTION." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 64, no. 2 (March 31, 2015): 405–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589315000032.

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AbstractThe 1951 Refugee Convention does not apply to a person with respect to whom there are serious reasons for considering that ‘he has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations’ (Article 1(F)(c)). To date, this exclusion clause has generally been interpreted by courts, commentators and UNHCR in a static manner which fails to take into account developments in international law and practice. This paper considers the ‘evolutive approach’ to treaty interpretation, generally, and applies this approach, alongside standard rules of treaty interpretation, to Article 1(F)(c). This paper challenges a number of assertions commonly made regarding this clause, and concludes that it should be interpreted to the effect that conduct amounting to serious or sustained human rights violations, such that would constitute ‘persecution’ for the purposes of Article 1(A)(2) of the Convention, meets the standard for exclusion under Article 1(F)(c).
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Warren, Jaimie M., and Sarah F. Covert. "Differential Expression of Pine and Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme Genes in Fusiform Rust Galls." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70, no. 1 (January 2004): 441–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.70.1.441-451.2004.

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ABSTRACT Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme is the causative agent of fusiform rust disease of southern pines in the United States. This disease is characterized by the formation of woody branch and stem galls. Differential display was used to identify pine genes whose expression is altered by C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme infection and to identify C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme genes that are expressed in fusiform rust galls. Six pine cDNAs that appeared to be differentially expressed in galled and healthy stems and 13 C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme cDNAs expressed in galled tissues were identified. A probe that hybridizes specifically to C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme 18S rRNA was used to estimate that 14% of the total RNA in fusiform rust galls was from C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme. This finding was used to calibrate gene expression levels in galls when comparing them to expression levels in uninfected pines or in isolated C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme cultures. According to Northern analysis and reverse transcriptase PCR analysis, all six of the pine clones were expressed at lower levels in galls than in healthy tissues. Seven of the nine C. quercuum f. sp. fusiforme clones that were assayed were expressed at higher levels in galls than in axenic culture. A number of the cDNAs encode proteins that are similar to those that play roles in plant development, plant defense, or fungal stress responses.
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Lam, David K. "Revisiting the Separate Products Issue: United States v. Microsoft Corp., 147 F. 3d 935 (D. C. Cir. 1998)." Yale Law Journal 108, no. 6 (April 1999): 1441. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/797333.

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Davies, John G. "United States v. Stacey C. Koon, 833 F. Supp. 769 (C.D. Cal. 1993) (1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17926)." Federal Sentencing Reporter 7, no. 4 (January 1, 1995): 205–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20639791.

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Fletcher, Betty B. "United States v. Stacey C. Koon, 34 F.3d 1416 (9th Cir. 1994) (1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 22588)." Federal Sentencing Reporter 7, no. 4 (January 1, 1995): 209–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20639792.

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Pedrozo, R., and C. R. Little. "First Report of Seedborne Fusarium thapsinum and its Pathogenicity on Soybean (Glycine max) in the United States." Plant Disease 98, no. 12 (December 2014): 1745. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-08-14-0806-pdn.

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A three-year survey from 2010 to 2012 was conducted in Kansas to investigate the identity and diversity of seedborne Fusarium spp. in soybean. A total of 408 soybean seed samples from 10 counties were tested. One hundred arbitrarily selected seeds from each sample were surface-sterilized for 10 min in a 1% sodium hypochlorite solution to avoid contaminants and promote the isolation of internal fusaria. Seeds were rinsed with sterile distilled water and dried overnight at room temperature (RT). Surface-sterilized seeds were plated on modified Nash-Snyder medium and incubated at 23 ± 2°C for 7 days. Fusarium isolates were single-spored and identified by morphological characteristics on carnation leaf agar (CLA) and potato dextrose agar (PDA) (3). From 276 seedborne Fusarium isolates, six were identified as F. thapsinum (2). On CLA, F. thapsinum isolates produced abundant mycelium and numerous chains of non-septate microconidia produced from monophialides. Microconidia were club-shaped and some were napiform. No chlamysdospores were found. On PDA, three of the isolates presented characteristic dark yellow pigmentation and three were light violet. Confirmation of the isolates to species was based on sequencing of an elongation factor gene (EF1-α) segment using primers EF1 and EF2 and the beta-tubulin gene using primers Beta1 and Beta2 (1). Sequence results (~680 bp, EF primers; ~600 bp, beta-tubulin primers) were confirmed by using the FUSARIUM-ID database (1). All isolates matched F. thapsinum for both genes sequenced (Accession No. FD01177) at 99% identity. Koch's postulates were completed for two isolates of F. thapsinum under greenhouse conditions. Soybean seeds (Asgrow AG3039) were imbibed with 2.5 × 105 conidia ml−1 for 48 h. After inoculation, seeds were dried for 48 h at RT. One isolate each of F. equiseti and F. oxysporum were used as the non-pathogenic and pathogenic inoculation controls, respectively. In addition, non-inoculated seeds and seeds imbibed in sterile distilled water (mock) were also used. Twenty-five seeds from each treatment were planted in pots (500 ml) with autoclaved soil and vermiculite (1:1). The experiment was a completely randomized design with three replicates (pots) per isolate. The entire experiment was repeated three times. After 21 days, aggressiveness of both F. thapsinum isolates was assessed using initial stand (%), final stand (%), and seed mortality (% of non-germinated seeds). Both seedborne F. thapsinum isolates caused reduced emergence and final stand, and increased seedling mortality when compared to the non-inoculated and F. equiseti controls (P< 0.0001). No significant difference was observed between F. thapsinum isolates and F. oxysporum. F. thapsinum isolates were re-isolated from wilted seedlings and non-germinated seeds, but not from the control treatments. Typically, F. thapsinum is considered a pathogen of sorghum, but it has also been recovered from bananas, peanuts, maize, and native grasses (3). However, its presence on soybean plant tissues and its pathogenicity has never been reported. To our knowledge, this is the first report of seedborne F. thapsinum and its pathogenicity on soybean in the United States. References: (1) D. M. Geiser et al. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 110:473, 2004. (2) C. J. R. Klittich et al. Mycologia 89:644, 1997. (3) J. F. Leslie and B. A. Summerell. The Fusarium Laboratory Manual. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2006.
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Gonzalez-Redondo, JM, TA Stoming, KD Lanclos, YC Gu, A. Kutlar, F. Kutlar, T. Nakatsuji, B. Deng, IS Han, and VC McKie. "Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in black patients with homozygous beta-thalassemia from the southeastern United States." Blood 72, no. 3 (September 1, 1988): 1007–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v72.3.1007.1007.

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Abstract The presence of various substitutions and deletions resulting in beta- thalassemia was studied in 19 black patients with homozygous beta- thalassemia and in numerous relatives; all patients were from Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama. Methodology included gene mapping, amplification of genomic DNA with Taq polymerase, identification of known nucleotide substitutions or a single nucleotide deletion through hybridization with synthetic oligonucleotides, cloning and sequencing of a beta-globin gene, and sequencing of amplified genomic DNA. Of the 38 chromosomes tested, 21 (55%) had the A----G substitution at nt -29, eight (21%) had the C----T substitution at nt -88, three (8%) had the substitution at codon 24, while one each of the following abnormalities were also detected: frameshift at codon 6, a C----A mutation at nt 848 of the beta IVS-II (new), an A----T mutation at codon 61 (new), a deletion of 1.35 kilobases including the 5′ end of beta, a Ggamma(Agammadelta beta) degree-thalassemia, and one thalassemia determinant that remained unidentified. The C----A mutation at nt 848 of IVS-II occurred at a position 3 nucleotides 5′ to the third exon, adjacent to the invariant AG dinucleotide of the acceptor sequence. The A----T mutation in codon 61 (AAG----TAG) resulted in the creation of a stop codon and thus in beta degree-thalassemia. The various mutations occurred on chromosomes with different haplotypes; however, chromosomes with a specific mutation but with different haplotypes belonged to one specific framework, which suggested that crossovers were responsible for these different types. Hemoglobin (Hb) F levels were generally high (55% to 75% with 98.5% in one patient with beta degree/beta degree); a few patients with specific haplotypes and an alpha-thalassemia-2 heterozygosity had a lower Hb F level. The Ggamma in the Hb F was consistently high when the C----T mutation occurred at nt -158 to the Cap site of the Ggamma-globin gene; seven patients with +/+ at this site had an average Ggamma of 73.8%, eight patients with +/- had 64.8%, and one patient with -/- had 34.2%. Variations in hematologic values and in Hb F, Ggamma, and Hb A2 levels of relatives with a beta- thalassemia heterozygosity depended to some extent on the types of mutations or deletions and on the haplotypes of the chromosomes with the beta-thalassemia determinant.
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Tait, Joshua Albury. "The Right, With Lincoln: Conservative Intellectuals Interpret Abraham Lincoln, c. 1945-89." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8613.

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Boe, Dennis Leonard. "The Evolutionary Development of Compositional Technique and Style in the Piano Sonatas of George Walker: A Study of the Sonata No. 4 and Analytical Comparison of the Four Sonatas, Together With Three Recitals of Selected Works of f.j. Haydn, l.V. Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Chopin, F. Liszt, J. Brahms, C Debussy, Z. KodáLy and F. Poulenc." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332806/.

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George Walker, pianist, composer and pedagogue, composed piano sonatas in 1953, 1957, 1975, and 1984. The Sonata No. 4 demonstrates the composer's continued fascination with a relaxation of traditional forms, coloristic effects of persistent interval combinations, incorporation of folk elements into his thematic material, and harmonic and rhythmic underpinnings as structural bases to his work.
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Robinson, Jr Allan Myers. "The genesis of cultivated choral tone in the United States (1906-1928): Peter C. Lutkin, F. Melius Christiansen, and John Finley Williamson." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15678.

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The purpose of this study was to chronicle the genesis of cultivated choral tone in the United States from 1906 to 1928. That transformation was led by three conductors whose disparate careers represented a shared trajectory. Individually and collectively, they pioneered two singing genres with European provenance--a cappella and senza vibrato singing--as early techniques to isolate and refine choral tone. Their work converged in 1928, when it expanded to become the American A Cappella Movement (1928-1938). The earliest of the three conductors was Peter C. Lutkin (1858-1931). After study in Europe, he became dean of the School of Music at Northwestern University. Through his publications and university a cappella choir, founded in 1906, he placed greater responsibility on singers, and employed diction and breath control to improve intonation and tonal purity. German-educated Norwegian-American F. Melius Christiansen (1871-1955) was guided by his experience as a violinist and influenced by the choir of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany. In 1907, he began to gradually transform the choir of St. John's Lutheran Church choir in Northfield, Minnesota. By 1920, his St. Olaf Lutheran Choir toured nationwide and eventually epitomized a choral prototype through his publications, compositions, ideology, and methods, both original and derivative. Self-reliant and confident, Christiansen championed Russian choral literature, symphonic form for programming, and self-referential choral singing. His "inner choir" technique, "instrumental" tuning for choirs, and "conductorless" onset of tone were widely imitated. Spiritual beliefs undergirded his work. Originally inspired by Christiansen, Ohioan John Finley Williamson (1887-1964), a trained singer, cultivated choral tone by recontextualizing solo vocal Lamperti technique into choral methods. In 1920, he modeled his ensemble's results via national tours with his Dayton Westminster Choir. By 1926, he co-founded a choir school in a Dayton church where he implemented his theory of the choral rehearsal as a class voice lesson. His unorthodox tenets included his belief that vowels were controlled by volume and phrase conducting, that vowel color was dictated by overtones, and that a conflict existed between time beating and "rhythmic magic" (or "pace").
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Turner, William W. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The conspiracy and coverup. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

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Turner, William W. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The conspiracy and coverup. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

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Turner, William W. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The conspiracy and coverup. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.

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Tripp, Robert S. A repair network concept for Air Force maintenance: Conclusions from analysis of C-130, F-16 and KC-135 fleets. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2010.

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Palermo, Joseph A. Robert F. Kennedy and the death of American idealism. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008.

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Affairs, United States Congress Senate Committee on Governmental. Nominations of Thomas F. Kranz, Todd W. Dillard, and Antonio C. Amador: Hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, on nominations of Thomas F. Kranz, to be Associate Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Todd W. Dillard, to be U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court ... and Antonio C. Amador ... Merit Systems Protection Board, October 19, 1990. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1991.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Nominations of N. Gregory Mankiw, Steven B. Nesmith, Jose F. Teran, James Broaddus, Paul D. Pate, Lane Carson, and C. Morgan Edwards: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on nominations of N. Gregory Mankiw ... Steven B. Nesmith ... Jose F. Teran ... James Broaddus .. Paul D. Pate ... Lane Carson ... C. Morgan Edwards ... May 13, 2003. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Nominations of Daniel F. Evans, Jr., Lawrence U. Costiglio, William C. Perkins, and Marilyn R. Seymann: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on nominees to be directors of the Federal Housing Board [i.e. Federal Housing Finance Board] ... January 28, 1992. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1992.

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Nominations of Susan G. Esserman, Timothy F. Geithner, Gary S. Gensler, Edwin M. Truman, and David C. Williams: Hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, on the nominations of Susan G. Esserman, to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative ... January 20, 1999. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1999.

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Nominations before the Senate Armed Services Committee, first session, 105th Congress: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on nominations of William S. Cohen; Federico F. Peǹa; Keith R. Hall; Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA; Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC; Rudy F. de Leon; John J. Hamre; Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA; Gen. Michael E. Ryan, USAF; Adm. Harold W. Gehman, Jr., USN; Lt. Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, USMC; Dr. Jacques S. Gansler; Lt. Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, USA; Lt. Gen. John A. Gordon, USAF; Robert M. Walker; Jerry MacArthur Hultin; F. Whitten Peters; William J. Lynn III, January 22; February 5; March 6; July 9, 17, 24; September 9, 16; October 1, 23, 30; November 8, 1997. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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"Major E. E. Turner, Commandant, Bahamas Police, to F. C. Wells-Durrant, Acting Colonial Secretary, Bahamas." In The Marcus Garvey and United Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XII, 14. Duke University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822376187-003.

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Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth. "Rivalries and Alliances." In The F Street Mess. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635521.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses the ideological evolution and political ascendancy of John C Calhoun as the author of nullification and leader of southern sectionalism in the United States Congress between 1821 and 1844. It also discusses Calhoun’s influence on the early Congressional careers of Robert M.T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia.
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Allcock, Thomas Tunstall. "Introduction." In Thomas C. Mann, 1–12. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176154.003.0001.

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We have problems everywhere. —Thomas Mann to Lyndon Johnson, June 1964 On 11 April 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson made a rare foray outside the United States to spend three days in Punta del Este, Uruguay, attending a conference of American presidents. Six years previously, that same coastal resort town had been the location from which John F. Kennedy’s ambitious cooperative aid program, the Alliance for Progress, had been launched, yet Johnson hoped the meeting could be more than a celebration of his predecessor’s achievements. Having played a leading role in organizing the hemispheric summit, he pushed his aides to draft a wide-ranging series of proposals intended to launch a renewed and reinvigorated Alliance for Progress, focusing on regional economic integration through a common market and cooperative infrastructure projects. His public dedication to renewed efforts at hemispheric development would result in a rewarding trip, with constructive private and public meetings followed by a joint declaration that incorporated all his key proposals. The United States, he told the gathered presidents, was committed “by history, by national interest, and by simple friendship to the cause of progress in Latin America.”...
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Allcock, Thomas Tunstall. "Conclusion." In Thomas C. Mann, 214–20. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176154.003.0007.

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If Lyndon Johnson’s administration witnessed a dwindling of the energy and optimism of the early days of John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, then his successor would preside over its disappearance. Johnson’s attempts to promote regional integration were the last significant effort of an era characterized by the belief that the United States could further its own interests by encouraging Latin American modernization and economic development through various forms of aid and assistance. Johnson’s successor, Richard Nixon, whose experiences during his ill-fated tour of 1958 had helped prompt the Eisenhower administration’s belated interest in Latin America, would abandon the idea of hemispheric development almost entirely. Despite some claims to the contrary during the 1968 election campaign, the region did not play a significant role in the strategic vision of global affairs of Nixon and his chief foreign policy adviser, Henry Kissinger, and the Alliance was not part of their plans. As Nixon stated bluntly: “Latin America doesn’t matter.” To an even greater degree for the new administration than for its predecessors, stability was the key; few promises of economic assistance were forthcoming, and repressive governments would be embraced even more readily than in the Kennedy-Johnson era. “So unambitious as to be embarrassing,” was the stark assessment of Nixon’s regional agenda in the ...
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Foster, Jill A., and Matthew P. Ohr. "Botulinum Toxin Injections for Facial Rhytides." In Surgery of the Eyelid, Lacrimal System, and Orbit. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195340211.003.0037.

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Once feared for its deadly properties, Botulinum toxin is now revered for its effectiveness as a treatment in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation. The injection of Botulinum toxin is the most frequently performed nonsurgical cosmetic procedure, with at least 4.8 million procedures in 2009. First approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1979 for the treatment of strabismus, Botulinum toxin was shown to be both safe and effective for use to decrease muscle function. Botulinum toxin’s cosmetic applications were first recognized when it was noted that facial rhytides improved in the areas of treatment with the toxin when it was used for noncosmetic applications in the late 1980s and early 1990s. FDA approval for cosmetic treatment of the glabellar furrows was announced in 2002, and off-label aesthetic indications have continued to evolve. Botulinum toxin is produced by the gram-positive, anaerobic Clostridium botulinum. The neurotoxin acts on the peripheral nervous system, where it inhibits release of acetylcholine from the presynaptic terminal at the neuromuscular junction. There are seven distinct antigenic Botulinum toxins (BTX-A, B, C, D, E, F, and G) produced by different strains of C. botulinum. The human nervous system is susceptible to only five of these serotypes (BTX-A, B, E, F, G), and types A and B are currently available for human injection. In the United States, there are four commercially available Botulinum toxin preparations: three types of Botulinum toxin type A, OnabotulinumtoxinA or Botox Cosmetic® (Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA), IncobotulinumtoxinA or Xeomin (Merz, Frankfort Germany), and abobotulinumtoxinA or Dysport (Medicis, Scottsdale, AZ). There is one preparation of Botulinum toxin type B, RimabotulinumtoxinB or Myobloc® (Elan Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA). Other Botulinum toxin type A products are anticipated to come to the U.S. market in the next decade as well. Different formulations of Botulinum toxin type A are biochemically unique and are not necessarily equivalent in dosing. The Botox unit is three times as potent as the Dysport unit, but this conversion ratio does not take into consideration safety or antigenic potential. Practically speaking, a range of 2.5 to 3 to one has been recommended to make Dysport dosing approximate the effects of Botox.
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Rickard, David. "Microbes and Minerals." In Pyrite. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190203672.003.0010.

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Pyrite consists of two elements—iron and sulfur—but considerations of pyrite formation have mainly concerned sulfur. Iron is extremely abundant in the Earth; in fact, it is the fourth most abundant element on Earth and is less localized in its distribution. By contrast, sulfur is the 17th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, and there are about 100 times more iron than sulfur. The interest in the primary role of sulfur in pyrite formation continues to the present day. In the Old Latin of early Republican Rome (i.e., before c. 200 BCE), sulfur was called sulpur or burning stone (i.e., brimstone). The p was pronounced with a puff of air. This puff was transliterated with an h following the p. When the f sound was introduced into classical Latin, p was often changed to ph in Latin words of Greek origin. Sulpur, however, had no Greek roots. The Greeks called it θείον (thion), which gave rise to our prefix, thio-. Sulfur had been written as sulphur in Old Latin, with the h indi­cating the puff of air after the p, but when the f sound was introduced this gave the mistaken impression that sulphur was originally a Greek word. At the end of classical times (around 27 BCE) the spelling was altered to sulfur, which is the spelling that usually appears in Latin dictionaries. In the last millennium, the element has traditionally been spelled sulphur in the United Kingdom and countries where UK rule held sway. By contrast, US English has continually used the correct sulfur spelling. The fountainhead of all chemical definitions worldwide, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, adopted the spelling sulfur in 1990. Finally, the UK authorities admitted their error and the UK Royal Society of Chemistry Nomenclature Committee recommended the correct spelling in 1992. In 2000 the authority determining quality and standards in UK schools decreed UK children should be taught the sulfur spelling. The sulphur spelling still occurs, but at best this is a literary affectation.
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Bessant, Rupa. "Introduction." In The Pocketbook for PACES. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199574186.003.0009.

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The Royal College of Physicians was founded by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518. For nearly 500 years it has engaged in a wide range of activities dedicated to its overall aim of upholding and improving standards of medical practice. The examination for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) (London) was first set in 1859. The Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow introduced their own professional examinations in 1881 and 1886 respectively. A need to have a unified membership examination throughout the United Kingdom (UK) was identified in the late 1960s, following which the first joint examination took place in October 1968. The MRCP(UK) subsequently developed into the current internationally recognized three-part examination. From 2001, the five-station PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) examination was introduced, replacing the traditional long case, short cases and viva format. The rationale for this change was to standardize the candidate experience, to permit direct observation of candidate–patient interaction throughout the examination, and to place added emphasis on the assessment of communication skills. The MRCP(UK) format evolved further in 2009. In response to the development of competency-based training and assessment, the key components of the examination were redefined as seven ‘core clinical skills’: A) Physical examination B) Identifying physical signs C) Clinical communication skills D) Differential diagnosis E) Clinical judgement F) Managing patients’ concerns G) Maintaining patient welfare. Each ‘core clinical skill’ is assessed at several different stations of the PACES examination and the marks for each ‘skill’ are integrated. A minimum pass mark for each ‘core clinical skill’ was introduced to ensure that candidates who scored poorly in one ‘core clinical skill’ area could not pass the examination by scoring highly in another skill (a compensatory marking system had existed prior to 2009). Furthermore, the requirement to obtain a minimum overall test score has been maintained. At the time of writing this book, a score of 130/172 was required to pass.
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Rapoff, Michael A., and Ann M. McGrath. "Adherence to Treatment Demands." In Comprehensive Handbook of Childhood Cancer and Sickle Cell Disease. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195169850.003.0013.

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Given the life-threatening nature of cancer, one might expect that children with cancer and their parents would be especially vigilant about following prescribed medical treatments. As illustrated in this chapter, this is not always the case (Partridge, Avorn, Wang, & Winer, 2002). Nonadherence can potentially lead to outright treatment failure, relapse, compromised outcomes, bone marrow transplant failures, or resistance to drugs such as antibiotics (Rapoff, 1999). The purpose of this chapter is to (a) review treatment demands on children with acute leukemia (the most common childhood cancer) and their families to understand better the complex behavioral requirements associated with medical treatments; (b) review studies that have investigated the extent of nonadherence to treatments for pediatric cancer, primarily leukemia; (c) examine factors predictive of adherence; (d) describe strategies for assessing adherence; (e) provide suggestions for improving adherence; and (f) suggest future directions to advance the field of adherence research in pediatric oncology. Strategies for improving adherence were gleaned from the pediatric medical adherence literature on other chronic diseases because we could not find a single adherence intervention study involving children with cancer. Acute leukemia is the most common malignancy in children (Ries et al., 1999). The specific etiology of childhood leukemia is unknown, but the causes appear to be multifactorial. Some of the factors involved in the pathogenesis of acute leukemia include exposure to ionizing radiation or certain drugs (e.g., benzene), certain chromosome abnormalities (e.g., Down syndrome), and congenital or acquired immune deficiencies (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus infection) (Golub & Arceci, 2002; Margolin, Steuber, & Poplack, 2002). The incidence of acute leukemia is 3–4 per 100,000 white children, and approximately 3,000 children will develop acute leukemia in the United States within a given year (Ries et al., 1999). The hallmark of leukemia is bone marrow failure. The bone marrow makes red blood cells, which carry oxygen; white cells, which fight infections; and platelets, which help blood clot. Children with acute leukemia commonly present with pallor and fatigue (secondary to anemia), fever and infections (caused by reduced normal white cells), and excess bruising and bleeding (secondary to low platelets).
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Dasgupta, Subrata. "Glimpses of a Scientific Style." In It Began with Babbage. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199309412.003.0014.

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In august 1951, David Wheeler submitted a PhD dissertation titled Automatic Computing with the EDSAC to the faculty of mathematics (D. F. Hartley, personal communication, September 7, 2011) at the University of Cambridge. The year after, in November 1952, another of Maurice Wilkes’s students, Stanley Gill, submitted a thesis titled The Application of an Electronic Digital Computer to Problems in Mathematics and Physics. Wheeler’s was not the first doctoral degree awarded on the subject of computing. That honor must surely go to Herman Hollerith for his thesis submitted to Columbia University in 1890 on his invention of an electrical tabulating system (see Chapter 3, Section IV). Nor was Wheeler’s the first doctoral degree on a subject devoted to electronic computing. In December 1947, Tom Kilburn (codesigner with Frederic C. Williams of the Manchester Mark I [see Chapter 8, Section XIII]) had written a report on the CRT-based memory system he and Williams had developed (but called the Williams tube). This report was widely distributed in both Britain and the United States (and even found its way to Russia), and it became the basis for Kilburn’s PhD dissertation awarded in 1948 by the University of Manchester (S. H. Lavington, personal communication, August 31, 2011). Wheeler’s doctoral dissertation, however, was almost certainly the first on the subject of programming. And one might say that the award of these first doctoral degrees in the realm of computer “hardware” (in Kilburn’s case) and computer “software” (in Wheeler’s case) made the invention and design of computers and computing systems an academically respectable university discipline. As we have witnessed before in this story, establishing priority in the realm of computing is a murky business, especially at the birth of this new discipline. Thus, if by “computer science” we mean the study of computers and the phenomena surrounding computers (as three eminent computer scientists Allan Newell, Alan Perlis (1922–1990), and Herbert Simon suggested in 1967), then—assuming we agree on what “computers” are—the boundary between hardware and soft ware, between the physical computer and the activity of computing, dissolves.
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Gautier, Bernard, Mickael Cesbron, and Richard Tulinski. "AFCEN RCC-F: A New Standard for the Fire Protection Design of New Built Light Water Nuclear Power Plants." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-81893.

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Fire hazard is an important issue for the safety of nuclear power plants: the main internal hazard in terms of frequency, and probably one the most significant with regards to the design costs. AFCEN is publishing in 2018 a new code for fire protection of new built PWR nuclear plants, so-called RCC-F. This code is an evolution of the former ETC-F code which has been applied to different EPR plants under construction (Flamanville 3 (FA3, France), Hinkley Point C (HPC, United Kingdom), Taïshan (TSN, China)). The RCC-F code presents significant enhancement and evolutions resulting from eight years of work by the AFCEN dedicated sub-committee, involving a panel of contributors from the nuclear field. It is now opened to any type of PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) type of nuclear power plants and not any longer limited to EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) plants. It can potentially be adapted to other light water concepts. Its objective is to help engineers design the fire prevention and protection scheme, systems and equipment with regards to the safety case and the defense in depth taking into account the French and European experience in the field. It deals also with the national regulations, with two appendices dedicated to French and British regulations respectively. The presentation gives an overview of the code specifications and focuses on the significant improvements.
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Jimenez, Oscar, Hamid Bagheri, John McClain, Ken Ridler, and Tibor Bornemisza. "CSGT: Final Design and Test of a Ceramic Hot Section." In ASME Turbo Expo 2003, collocated with the 2003 International Joint Power Generation Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2003-38978.

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The Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine (CSGT) Development Program was performed under the sponsorship of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT). The goal was to improve the performance (fuel efficiency, output power, and exhaust emissions) of stationary gas turbines in cogeneration through the selective replacement of hot section metallic components with ceramic components. The team was headed by Solar Turbines Incorporated and supported by ceramic component suppliers and national research institutes. The team performed a detailed engine and component design, fabrication, and field-testing of ceramic components. This program culminated in an engine test at 1121°C (2050°F) TRIT. This was a major challenge in that the engine ran with a continuous fiber reinforced ceramic composite liner (CFCC) and with silicon nitride (Si3N4) stage one ceramic blades and nozzles. The design and testing of all three components will be discussed in this paper, with emphasis on the ceramic nozzles. Another test that will be discussed in this paper is a heavily instrumented engine test that took place prior to the test mentioned above. This instrumented engine test was performed in order to better understand the temperature effects between the ceramic and metallic component interfaces. The results from this were then used to correlate the analytical model with test data. This led to additional design changes to the outer and inner shroud ceramic / metallic interfaces, as well as ceramic nozzles, fabricated from Kyocera SN 282 silicon nitride material. These nozzle changes were then engine tested successfully for a total of 100 hours at full load [1010°C (1850°F) TRIT and 100% speed]. During the engine test, the firing temperature was increased to 1121°C (2050°F) TRIT for an adequate duration to ensure meaningful performance data were gathered.
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Bluestein, Maurice. "Applied Heat Transfer in the Development of the New Wind Chill Temperature Chart." In ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2004-59103.

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In November, 2001, the national weather services of the United States and Canada, recognizing inaccuracies in the original, adopted a revised Wind Chill Temperature (WCT) chart. This revision was developed by the authors under a mandate from a joint action group for temperature indicies (JAG/TI) formed by the U.S. Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology. This new chart provides, for a given air temperature and recorded wind speed, that air temperature, the WCT, which would result in the same rate of heat loss from exposed human skin in still air. Values of the WCT are given for a range of air temperatures from −45°F to 40°F and a range of wind speeds from 5 mph to 60 mph. For Canada, the ranges are from −50°C to 10°C and 10 km/hr to 80 km/hr. The new chart was developed using principles of heat transfer, including conduction, forced convection and radiation. Skin tissue resistance was obtained from human studies. This paper describes the application of these principles and will show how these same principles have been used to demonstrate the errors in the original chart developed over 60 years ago by our military in Antarctica and adopted by the U.S. Weather Service in 1973. As was the case for the original chart, a clear night sky has been assumed, thus ignoring any direct solar radiation that would otherwise tend to elevate the WCT. The new chart is unlikely to be the final version long term and this paper will also discuss possible future modifications.
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Price, Jeffrey R., Oscar Jimenez, Les Faulder, Bryan Edwards, and Vijay Parthasarathy. "Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine Development Program — Fifth Annual Summary." In ASME 1998 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/98-gt-181.

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A program is being performed under the sponsorship of the United States Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies, to improve the performance of stationary gas turbines in cogeneration through the selective replacement of metallic hot section components with ceramic parts. The program focuses on design, fabrication, and testing of ceramic components, generating a materials properties data base, and applying life prediction and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). The development program is being performed by a team led by Solar Turbines Incorporated, and which includes suppliers of ceramic components, U.S. research laboratories and an industrial cogeneration end user. The Solar Centaur 50S engine was selected for the development program. The program goals included an increase in the turbine rotor inlet temperature (TRIT) from 1010°C (1850°F) to 1121°C (2050°F), accompanied by increases in thermal efficiency and output power. The performance improvements are attributable to the increase in TRIT and the reduction in cooling air requirements for the ceramic parts. The ceramic liners are also expected to lower the emissions of NOx and CO. Under the program uncooled ceramic blades and nozzles have been inserted for currently cooled metal components in the first stage of the gas producer turbine. The louvre-cooled metal combustor liners have been replaced with uncooled continuous-fiber reinforced ceramic composite (CFCC) liners. Modifications have been made to the engine hot section to accommodate the ceramic parts. To-date all first generation designs have been completed. Ceramic components have been fabricated, and are being tested in rigs and in the Centaur 50S engine. Field testing at an industrial co-generation site was started in May, 1997. This paper will provide an update of the development work and details of engine testing of ceramic components under the program.
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Price, Jeffrey R., Oscar Jimenez, Vijay Parthasarathy, and Narendernath Miriyala. "Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine Development Program: Sixth Annual Summary." In ASME 1999 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/99-gt-351.

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The Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine (CSGT) program is being performed under the sponsorship of the United States Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies. The objective of the program is to improve the performance of stationary gas turbines in cogeneration through the selective replacement of cooled metallic hot section components with uncooled ceramic parts. This review summarizes the progress on Phase III of the program which involves field testing of the ceramic components at a cogeneration end user site and characterization of the ceramic components following the field test exposure. The Solar Centaur 50S engine, which operates a turbine rotor inlet temperature (TRIT) of 1010°C (1850°F), was selected for the developmental program. The program goals include an increase in the TRIT to 1121°C (2050 °F), accompanied by increases in thermal efficiency and output power. This will be accomplished by the incorporation of uncooled ceramic first stage blades and nozzles, and a “hot wall” ceramic combustor liner. The performance improvements are attributable to the increase in TRIT and the reduction in cooling air requirements for the ceramic parts. The “hot wall” ceramic liners also enable a reduction in gas turbine emissions of NOx and CO. The component design and material selection have been definitized for the ceramic blades, nozzles and combustor liners. Each of these ceramic component designs were successfully tested in short term engine tests in the Centaur 50S engine test cell facility at Solar. Based on the results of the engine testing of the ceramic components, minor redesigns of the ceramic/metallic attachments were conducted where necessary. Based on their performance in a 100 hour cyclic in-house engine test, the ceramic components are approved for field testing. To date, four field installations of the CSGT Centaur 50S engine totaling over 4000 hours of operation have been initiated under the program at an industrial cogeneration site. This paper discusses the component design and material selection, in house engine testing, field testing, and component characterization.
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Mintz, Todd S., George Adams, Marius Necsoiu, James Mancillas, Chris Bajwa, and Earl Easton. "Historical Rail Accident Analyses Identifying Accident Parameters That Could Impact Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel." In ASME 2010 Pressure Vessels and Piping Division/K-PVP Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2010-25445.

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As the regulatory authority for transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires that SNF transportation packages be designed to endure a fully engulfing fire with an average temperature of 800 °C (1,475 °F) for 30 minutes, as prescribed in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 71. The work described in this paper was performed to support NRC in determining the types of accident parameters that could produce a severe fire with the potential to fully engulf a SNF transportation package. This paper describes the process that was used to characterize the important features of rail accidents that would potentially lead to a spent nuclear fuel transport package being involved in a severe fire. Historical rail accidents involving hazardous material and long duration fires in the United States have been analyzed using data from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). Parameters that were evaluated from this data include, but were not limited to, class of track where the accident occurred, class of hazardous material that was being transported, and number of railcars involved in the fire. The data analysis revealed that in the past 34 years of rail transport, roughly 1,800 accidents have led to the release of hazardous materials resulting in a frequency of roughly 1 accident per 10 million freight train miles. In the last 12 years, there have only been 20 accidents involving multiple car hazardous material releases that led to a fire. This results in an accident rate of 0.003 accidents per million freight train miles that involved multiple car releases and a fire. In all the accidents analyzed, only one involved a railcar carrying Class 7 (i.e., radioactive) hazardous material (HAZMAT).
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Price, Jeffrey, Oscar Jimenez, Vijay Parthasarathy, Narendernath Miriyala, and Don Leroux. "Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine Development Program — Seventh Annual Summary." In ASME Turbo Expo 2000: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2000-gt-0075.

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The Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine (CSGT) program is being performed under the sponsorship of the United States Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies. The objective of the program is to improve the performance of stationary gas turbines in cogeneration by retrofitting uncooled ceramic components into the hot section of the engine. The replacement of previously cooled metallic hot section components with the uncooled ceramics enables improved thermal efficiency, increased output power, and reduced gas turbine emissions. This review summarizes the progress on Phase III of the program, which involves field testing of the ceramic components at cogeneration end user sites. The Solar Centaur 50S engine, which operates a turbine rotor inlet temperature (TRIT) of 1010°C (1850°F), was selected for the developmental program. The program goals include an increase in the TRIT to 1121°C (2050°F), accompanied by increases in thermal efficiency and output power. This will be accomplished by the incorporation of ceramic first stage blades and nozzles, and a “hot wall” ceramic combustor liner. The performance improvements are attributable to the increase in TRIT and the reduction in cooling air requirements for the ceramic parts. The “hot wall” ceramic liners also enable a reduction in gas turbine emissions of NOx and CO. The component design and material selection have been definitized for the ceramic blades, nozzles and combustor liners. Each of these ceramic component designs was successfully tested in short term engine tests in the Centaur 50S engine test cell facility at Solar. Based on their performance in a 100 hour cyclic in-house engine test, the ceramic components were approved for field testing. Oxidation of the ceramic components in the gas turbine environment dictated the need for environmental barrier coatings, which were optimized under the program. To date, six field installations of the CSGT Centaur 50S engine totaling over 14,000 hours of operation have been initiated under the program at two industrial cogeneration sites. An 8000 hour field demonstration of a low emission ceramic combustion system was initiated in August 1999. This paper briefly discusses the recent developmental efforts for the ceramic components, but focuses on the various field demonstrations.
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Feng, Weizhong, and Li Li. "The Introduction and Analysis of the World’s First High-Temperature Retrofit Project on a Subcritical Coal-Fired Power Unit." In ASME 2021 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2021-65650.

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Abstract Global warming concerns have pushed coal-fired power plants to develop innovative solutions which reduce CO2 emissions by increasing efficiency. While new ultra-supercritical units are built with extremely high efficiency, with Pingshan II approaching 50% LHV[1], subcritical units with much lower efficiency are a major source of installed capacity. The typical annual average net efficiency of subcritical units in China is about 37% LHV, and some are lower than 35% LHV. Since the total subcritical capacity in China is about 350GW and accounts for over one third of its total coal-fired power capacity, shutting all subcritical units down is not practical. Finding existing coal-fired plants a cost-effective solution which successfully combines advanced flexibility with high efficiency and low emissions, all while extending service lives, has challenged energy engineers worldwide. However, the (now proven) benefits a high temperature upgrade offers, compared to new construction options, made this an achievement worth pursuing. After many years of substantial incremental improvements to best-in-class technology, this first-of-its-kind subcritical high temperature retrofit successfully proves that a technically and economically feasible solution exists. It increases the main and reheat steam temperatures from 538°C (1000°F) to 600°C (1112°F), and the plant cycle and turbine internal efficiencies are greatly improved. This upgrade’s greatest efficiency gains occur at low loads, which is important as fossil plants respond to renewable energy’s increased grid contributions. These are combined with best-in-class flexibility, energy-savings, and technological advances, i.e., flue gas heat recovery technology and generalized regeneration technologies [4]. This project, the world’s first high-temperature subcritical coal-fired power plant retrofit, was initiated in April 2017 and finished in August 2019. Performance reports created by Siemens and GE record unit net efficiency at rated conditions improved from 38.6% to 43.5% LHV. The boiler’s lowest stable combustion load with operational SCR, without oil-firing support, was reduced from 55% to 19%. Substitution or upgrading of high-temperature components extended the lifetime of the unit by more than 30 years. At a third of the cost of new construction, this project set a high-water-mark for retrofitting subcritical units, and meets or supports the requisite attributes for Coal FIRST, Coal Plant of the Future, proposed by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in 2019 [2].
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McDermott, Mary D., Charles D. Griffin, Daniel K. Baird, Carl E. Baily, John A. Michelbacher, Kenneth E. Rosenberg, and S. Paul Henslee. "Completion of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II Sodium Processing at Argonne National Laboratory." In 10th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone10-22485.

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The Experimental Breeder Reactor - II (EBR-II) at Argonne National Laboratory - West (ANL-W) was shutdown in September 1994 as mandated by the United States Department of Energy. Located in eastern Idaho, this sodium-cooled reactor had been in service since 1964, and was a test facility for fuels development, materials irradiation, system and control theory tests, and hardware development. The EBR-II termination activities began in October 1994, with the reactor being maintained in an industrially and radiologically safe condition for decommissioning. With the shutdown of EBR-II, its sodium coolant became a waste necessitating its reaction to a disposal form. A Sodium Process Facility (SPF), designed to convert sodium to 50 wt% sodium hydroxide, existed at the ANL-W site, but had never been operated. The SPF was upgraded to current standards and codes, and then modified in 1998 to convert the sodium to 70 wt% sodium hydroxide, a substance that solidifies at 65°C (150°F) and is acceptable for burial as low level radioactive waste in Idaho. In December 1998, the SPF began operations. Working with sodium and highly concentrated sodium hydroxide presented some unique operating and maintenance conditions. Several lessons were learned throughout the operating period. Processing of the 330 m3 (87,000 gallons) of EBR-II primary sodium, 50 m3 (13,000 gallons) of EBR-II secondary sodium, and 290 m3 (77,000 gallons) of Fermi-1 primary sodium was successfully completed in March 2001, ahead of schedule and within budget.
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Hung, W. S. Y., A. Fahme, and A. Kubasco. "Development of a Custom Ambient NOx Correction Equation for a Mars SoLoNOx Gas Turbine." In ASME 1994 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/94-gt-402.

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The United States federal new source performance standards (NSPS) for stationary gas turbines contain NOx limits that are standardized based on the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard for ambient conditions. The measured NOx emissions from stationary gas turbines at test conditions are to be corrected to ISO standard ambient conditions using a recommended equation, which was developed using data from conventional (diffusion flame) combustion systems. It is genearlly expected that this correction equation will require a revision when advanced lean premixed or hybrid combustion system is utilized. At the site of the first Mars 100S SoLoNOx gas turbine, a continuous emissions and gas turbine performance data gathering system has been installed. From the data gathered, the non-applicability of this NOx ambient correction equation is demonstrated. This points to the need to develop a custom NOx ambient correction equation for gas turbines with an advanced lean premixed system. Using a proven NOx model, the humidity effect on NOx emissions from an advanced lean premixed system is determined to be much stronger than that for a conventional combustion system. The humidity effect was determined based on an engineering application of the NOx model. Through statistical analyses, this stronger humidity effect is supported by more than one thousand five hundred data points gathered over a eight-month period at the above customer’s site, covering an ambient temperature range over 100°F (56°C). Using this newly determined humidity effect and a least-square curve fit of the data, a custom NOx ambient correction equation has been developed for this prototype Mars SoLoNOx gas turbine.
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