Bacteria in the dust of rooms

Citation: McDonald, Vera Alta. Bacteria in the dust of rooms. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1904.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Bacteria are found every-where in nature, except at very high altitudes and at great depths. Among these various places, the dust of the air contains a great number of these minute microscopic organizations. Furthermore, these micro-organisms are very apt to be found clinging singly or in clusters to the larger or smaller particles of one kind or another, which usually make up the bulk of visible or invisible dust in inhabited regions. It is well known that there are certain occupations which confine persons to closed rooms or places in which dust particles of one kind or another are very abundant. Thus day after day, persons confined in air charged with coal-dust, metallic dust, cotton, woolen, or tobacco dust, are subject to attacks of more or less well marked pulmonary affections. There are three prominent forms of the living elements of dust, or the minute vegetable organisms, called bacteria, yeasts, and molds. Among these, the bacteria are far the most important; most of them being harmless to man and serving a very important purpose in the economy of nature in tearing asunder dead and worn out organic material and setting it free in suitable condition for the building up of new forms of life. A few species of bacteria however, are capable of causing some of the most wide-spread and dreaded of human diseases

Alta Gracia, A New Living Wage Factory

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ilrf_alta_gracia.pdf: 287 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

A study of a shared vision at a travel agency

Many authors on the subject of Strategic Management place great emphasis on the importance of visions and missions. Some state that the foremost direction-setting question senior managers need to ask is: "What is our vision for our organisation -what are we trying to do and become?" Others state that it is a key indicator of how an organisation views the claims of its stakeholders. Although it is clear that they consider corporate strategy as an integral part of the success of the organisation, the implementation of strategic vision is sadly lacking or not supported by everyone in many organisations. This paper explored the extent to which Flight Centre Limited S.A. 's vision is shared. The findings of this study, which followed a quantitative methodology, indicate that the organisation circumscribes to a vision and that the vision is generally shared by employees contributing to the astounding success of the organisation in South Africa

Call, challenge, and reformation

Preached at Edmonton, Alta, O 28 2001

The Recovery of the First History of Alta California: Antonio María Osio’s La historia de Alta California

The transformation of Alta California was as sudden as it was unexpected. From a population of less than 15,000 gente de razón [literally, people with the capacity to reason, meaning people born into Christianity; that is, any non-Indian people] in the mid-1840s, it contained over 100,000 inhabitants in 1850 and almost a quarter of a million two years later. Swarming over the landscape, hostile to the system of land ownership and use that had developed over the previous half century, the newcomers, imbued with their longstanding belief in Anglo-Saxon superiority, went where they willed and took what they wanted. The Californios [any Mexican raised, or later, born and raised in California] adopted various strategies to meet this invasion. Some participated in the institutions set up by the conquerors, sitting in the 1849 Constitutional Convention and in the early state legislatures. Others prepared to defend themselves through North American courts and land commissions. Others withdrew from public life and public view, in the hope that they would be left alone. Others left and returned to Mexico. This paper tells the story of another strategy, one man\u27s attempt to preserve a world through the creation of history and autobiography. On April 4, 1851, in the city of Santa Clara, Antonio María Osio, who had been a bureaucratic functionary and officeholder in Mexican California for two decades, presented Father José María Suárez del Real with a densely written one hundred and ten page manuscript. In a cover letter, Osio told Suarez del Real that what the priest had asked him to do, write the history of California, was beyond his ability. But he had decided, Osio said, to write a letter, a relación of events since 1815 and especially of what I have known and seen since 1825