Rapid Technique for Liquid Scintillation Counting of Carbon-14-labelled Barium Carbonate

Rapid technique for liquid scintillation counting of carbon-14-labelled barium carbonat

Examining social exchange measures as moderators of politeness techniques in face-threatening acts between romantic partners

2016 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.Much has been written concerning face and the process individuals engage in to manage both their own and other’s face in a variety of contexts (Goffman, 1967). Despite ample research on the management of one’s own face (Brown & Levinson, 1987), still little is known concerning the motives behind helping others to create and manage face. This study utilizes measures from Social Exchange Theory (Thibaut & Kelley, 1959) as moderators for face-saving techniques presented in Politeness Theory. Particularly, romantic relationships were examined to determine how relationship satisfaction and stability levels influence decision-making processes when individuals approach their partners with a face-threatening act. Satisfaction was shown to be associated with concern for face whereas stability, commitment, and equity were not. Additionally, satisfaction and stability levels are correlated with the techniques individuals use to reduce uncertainty concerning their partners’ face needs. Future research is suggested to further understand effective techniques to reduce uncertainty surrounding face-threatening acts

Patients with ALS show highly correlated progression rates in left and right limb muscles.

ObjectiveAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) progresses at different rates between patients, making clinical trial design difficult and dependent on large cohorts of patients. Currently, there are few data showing whether the left and right limbs progress at the same or different rates. This study addresses rates of decline in specific muscle groups of patients with ALS and assesses whether there is a relationship between left and right muscles in the same patient, regardless of overall progression.MethodsA large cohort of patients was used to assess decline in muscle strength in right and left limbs over time using 2 different methods: The Tufts Quantitative Neuromuscular Exam and Accurate Test of Limb Isometric Strength protocol. Then advanced linear regression statistical methods were applied to assess progression rates in each limb.ResultsThis report shows that linearized progression models can predict general slopes of decline with good accuracy. Critically, the data demonstrate that while overall decline is variable, there is a high degree of correlation between left and right muscle decline in ALS. This implies that irrespective of which muscle starts declining soonest or latest, their rates of decline following onset are more consistent.ConclusionsFirst, this study demonstrates a high degree of power when using unilateral treatment approaches to detect a slowing in disease progression in smaller groups of patients, thus allowing for paired statistical tests. These findings will be useful in transplantation trials that use muscle decline to track disease progression in ALS. Second, these findings discuss methods, such as tactical selection of muscle groups, which can improve the power efficiency of all ALS clinical trials

Single acting translational/rotational brake

A brake system is provided that applies braking forces on surfaces in both the translational and rotational directions using a single acting self-contained actuator that travels with the translational mechanism. The brake engages a mechanical lock and creates a frictional force on the translational structure preventing translation while simultaneously creating a frictional torque that prevents rotation of the vertical support. The system may include serrations on the braking surfaces to provide increased braking forces

LaRC design analysis report for National Transonic Facility for 304 stainless steel tunnel shell. Volume 4S: Thermal analysis

For abstract, see N76-33552

LaRC design analysis report for National Transonic Facility for 304 stainless steel tunnel shell. Volume 7S: Special studies

For abstract, see N76-33552

Panel. Breeding, Feuding, and Forging Families

Breeding Dogs, Breeding Men: Faulkner’s Search for a Hybrid Masculinity in Times of War / Isadora J. Wagner, U. S. Military Academy at West PointThis paper contributes to genealogical studies of Faulkner’s families by tracing a lineage between Virginius MacCallum’s disastrous, hybrid “litter” of hound-fox puppies and “passel” of five sons in Faulkner’s first novel about Yoknapatawpha County, Flags in the Dust, to the McCaslin family’s more successful canine and human crossbreeds in the later novel Go Down, Moses (1942). Working with the intermediary texts “The Tall Men” (1941) and the 1946 printing of the Yoknapatawpha County map, in which Faulkner replaced the MacCallums with the McCaslins, the paper demonstrates how Flags in the Dust, written in 1926-27 in the wake of World War I, but published in 1973, inaugurates a line of hereditary questioning that Faulkner continues through breeding experiments with dogs and men into World War II to identify a hybrid masculinity that can survive the ravages of modern warfare.The Lynching of Homer Barron: Feuding \u27Families\u27 in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” / Wallis Tinnie, Miami-Dade CollegeIn response to a critic’s comment that the likelihood of mutual love between a black man and white woman during the 1880s would be “unthinkable,“ John T. Matthews points out that the situation was less unthinkable than unthought and posits that“governing illusions” of Faulkner\u27s Jefferson in “A Rose for Emily” have origins related to institutional slavery, illusions, Matthews submits, that have been left “unthought.” This paper examines the unthought in this Faulkner classic as it relates to the governing illusions of race and violence to secure a white democracy. The central thesis is that the “innocent” Jefferson “family” unites to murder both Emily’s father, whose name Grierson is anathema in post-Civil War Mississippi, and Homer Barron during the volatile 1870’s and 1880’s. The story\u27s choric narrator offers partial truths, deceptive rhetoric, alternative facts and nostalgic appeals with splashes of notarial rhetoric to achieve legitimacy.Family and/as Forgery: Writing Race and Gender in The Unvanquished / Jeff Allred, Hunter College/City University of New YorkWe all know that Faulkner’s families are bound by talk. This paper explores the less-examined relationship between family and writing in Yoknapatawpha one finds in The Unvanquished. Woven into that text\u27s discourse is a series of depictions of writing undertaken chiefly by subjects on the periphery of antebellum Southern society using stolen and/or repurposed materials. My paper focuses on the darkly funny gambit devised by the unlikely writing team of Rosa Millard and Ringo, an elderly white woman and an enslaved youth. Their use of stolen letterhead to forge Union Army “orders” aligns them with the emergence of modern “business communications” in the mid-nineteenth century, and I will explore the implications of this alignment, comparing their corporate mode of writing with other writerly modes present in the text. I argue that the circuitry they inhabit, so to speak, troubles the note of reactionary “redemption” that ostensibly resolves the text. Moreover, this circuitry mounts an implicit critique of populist and fascist modes of politics that links The Unvanquished with other, better-studied Faulkner texts from the 1930s