News From USO Shows Press Release

Press release announcing colleges accepted for the 1970-1971 USO Tour.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1005/thumbnail.jp

Blank Report on Overseas Tour Form

A blank Report on Overseas Tour Form stamped with Harold I. Hansen\u27s contact information.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1017/thumbnail.jp

Letter to Minor Rootes from Judy Story, Director of Publicity, USO Shows

Letter establishing contact for publicity for USO Shows. Envelope included.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1003/thumbnail.jp

Memo from Judy Story, Director of Publicity, USO Shows

Memo accompanying press releases for college shows selected for USO Shows for the 1970-1971 tour.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1004/thumbnail.jp

Between Djelfa Diary and Almond Field by Max Aub and Tales from Alicante and Albatera by Jorge Campos

The article describes the relationship between Max Aub and Jorge Campos and how both fictionalized their respective stays in concentration camp

Letter from AETA-USO Overseas Touring Committee to Gorham State College

Letter from AETA-USO Overseas Touring Committee formally announcing the schools chosen for the 1970-1971 USO Tour for the United States Department of Defense.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1001/thumbnail.jp

Design-Related Causes of Rework and the Performance of Oil and Gas Projects in Nigeria

In recent times, the need to optimize project performance has been on the front burner of International Oil Companies, especially in developing countries. The quest for rework reduction to improve project performance underpins this research. This study assesses the frequency of occurrence of design-related causes of rework and its influence on project performance in terms of cost and time. A survey research design approach was adopted which involved a stratified random sample of 500 contractors and 385 consultants. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and analysed using Mean Item Score, Spearman Rank Correlation test, Kruskal Wallis test and One Sample T-test. The result shows that there is significant correlation between contractors and consultants’ perceptions of the frequency of occurrence of design-related causes of rework. It also shows that design-related causes of rework have significant influence on project time and cost performance. In addition, the project team members ranked errors and omission in design document, ineffective communication between project team members, design changes, lack of site verification by design team and lack of as-built documentation as the top five frequently occurring design-related causes of rework in oil and gas projects. Furthermore, project location does not influence the frequency of occurrence of design-related causes of rework and its impact on the performance of oil and gas projects.  It is concluded that there is need for effective design and quality management practices to enhance oil and gas project delivery. It is therefore recommended that construction professional in the oil and gas industry should implement design management surveillance and constructability reviews during the design phase as these are effective strategies to reduce design-related causes of rework which will lead to improved project performance in the oil and gas sector

A Survey of Meteoric Activity over Spain during the Eighth Fifteenth Centuries

The lack of astronomical observations from medieval and early modern Spanish sources is a constant in the records of solar eclipses, meteors, and other celestial phenomena. This may be partially explained by the absence of a documentary corpus similar to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, for example, that scholars may use for conducting a systematic search of such records; the problems increase by the presence of four different vernacular languages in the peninsula: Castilian, Catalan, Basque, and Galician, together with some other minority languages, to which Latin and Arabic must be added for historical research purposes. Currently, scientific literature records few medieval Spanish astronomical accounts, and most of them are contained in wider Arab surveys or they come from the best-known annals and chronicles. Our article intends to fill this gap partially in the issue of meteoritic activity. We present a survey of meteors, bolides, and meteor storms observed in Spain in the eighth-fourteenth centuries. Most of them have not been previously published and come from local or minor sources, but for the sake of completeness, we have included some records already mentioned by other authors.A part of this work was supported by grant P1.1B2012-47 from Universitat Jaume I.Martínez Uso, MJ.; Marco Castillo, FJ. (2016). A Survey of Meteoric Activity over Spain during the Eighth Fifteenth Centuries. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 47:168-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828616649316S1681934

Occultation of Planets by the Moon in European Narrative Medieval Sources

[EN] Existing research dealing with astronomical observations from medieval Europe have extensively covered topics such as solar and lunar eclipses and sightings of comets and meteors, but no compilation of occultations of planets by the Moon has been carried out and, till now, the data have remained scattered in different publications. The main reasons for this are the small number of observations that has reached us, their limited use for calculation of parameters associated with the rotation of the Earth, and the fact that between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the period that we consider, almost none of these observations were made scientifically, since they usually appear in narrative texts, be they chronicles or annals. Our purpose is to make a compilation of these phenomena, trying to shed light on some of the most controversial observations after examining them in their historical context. We will examine European sources, but, occasionally, we will also consider reports from other parts of the world to make comparisons, when necessary.This paper was partially supported by the UJI-B2016-18, 16I356 project. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments that greatly contributed to improving the final version of the paper. They would also like to thank the editor for generous comments and support during the review process.Martínez Uso, MJ.; Marco Castillo, FJ. (2019). Occultation of Planets by the Moon in European Narrative Medieval Sources. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 50(2):192-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828619845950S19222050

Letter from Minor Rootes to Jerome Coray

Letter from Minor Rootes to Colonel Jerome Coray, the director of USO Shows with mention of reports and other business documents from the 1970-1971 Gorham State College USO Tour. Also enclosed is an itemized list of expenditures from the tour.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1011/thumbnail.jp