Study of process variables associated with manufacturing hermetically sealed nickel-cadium cells Quarterly report, 23 May - 23 Aug. 1970

Separator materials, ceramic to metal seals, cell plate polarization and impregnation processes, and plaque sintering data for study of variables in manufacture of nickel cadmium cell

Unbinding of giant vortices in states of competing order

Funding: EPSRC (UK) via Grants No. EP/I031014/1 and No. EP/H049584/1.We consider a two-dimensional system with two order parameters, one with O(2) symmetry and one with O(M), near a point in parameter space where they couple to become a single O(2+M) order. While the O(2) sector supports vortex excitations, these vortices must somehow disappear as the high symmetry point is approached. We develop a variational argument which shows that the size of the vortex cores diverges as 1/root Delta and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature of the O(2) order vanishes as 1/1n(1/Delta), where Delta denotes the distance from the high-symmetry point. Our physical picture is confirmed by a renormalization group analysis which gives further logarithmic corrections, and demonstrates full symmetry restoration within the cores.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Continued evaluation of potential for geologic storage of carbon dioxide in the southeastern United States

Southern States Energy Board Duke Energy Santee Cooper Power Southern CompanyBureau of Economic Geolog

“We are good neighbours, but we are not carers!”: Lived experiences of conflicting (in)dependence needs in retirement villages across the United Kingdom and Australia

Background and Objectives This study sought to qualitatively explore the lived experiences of 80 older people living in retirement villages across the UK and Australia. We focused on residents’ narratives around the themes of independence/dependence. Research Design and Methods Qualitative semi-structured interviews permitted in-depth exploration of how older people understood and experienced issues related to independence/dependence in the context of retirement living. Results Core themes identified strikingly different and often competing needs and narratives around independence/dependence. Of note was the fact that narratives and needs around independence/dependence frequently collided and conflicted, creating a sense of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in the retirement community. The primary source of such conflict was reflected by the fact that residents seeking a ‘prolonged midlife’ often felt that frailer and more dependent residents were a burden on them and were not suited to an ‘independent living community.’ Discussion and Implications Our findings are discussed in relation to the challenges such competing narratives create for retirement villages as living environments for a group of people that are far from homogenous

Letter from E[zra] S. Carr and Jeanne Carr to Louie Strentzel, 1873 Oct 29.

677their movements. I want you to know my John Muir – and I wish I could give him to some noble young woman for keeps: & so take him out of the wilderness in to the society of his peers. So he is coming to spend the winter with us. I hope you will meet. But it is awfully provoking that I cannot gather all my pets into a home which would be attracted to them. I some expression of myself. My homes heitherto have been larger & roomier bodies. ex- pressing my individuality so well, that you would have felt acquainted with me. I with all my beloved. had you been shut up then all by yourself. I always expected to see your mothers bonnie face by my Ingleside, which does not mean [underlined: a stone], or a hole in the floor! Thank the father as he should be thanked. The pretty leaves were spoiled not so the unspoilable kindness. Loving you all dearly. we are your obliged E & Jeanne Carr. University of California, Oakland, Cal. Oct 29, 1873.Dear Louie, I received your letter only to day, but should not have waited for it to thank your father for the grapes. The grapes came last Monday morning, we ha a notice that they were at the express office Sat evening too late to get them before the hour of closing. That was the day after the meeting of the Club. We distributed them immediately among the friends — and left for San Jos’! where the State Grange were in convention last week, which with some doings in the Normal School 06374 that I must limit myself to that time & be on hand for the necessary moving. Came home alone leaving my com- panions (the most delightful woman ever had or will have) to spend a blissful Autumn between the had of Kings River around Mts Whitney +c, & to take a horseback journey from there to Shasta, in which I could have accompanied them had I known there was no homes and no moving in the case. It vexes me to read the five letters I have received since I left them & know what might have been. They have been in entirely untrodden ways – but all the time with animals, so that the fatigues were nothing to their already borne. No such fortu- nate conjunction of kindred spirits will ever occur again, no shall I ever find myself with gentlemen whom companionship is so instructive. I never once felt that I was an encumbrance – or restraint upon kept us all the week. The subject before the Club was Fruit Nomenclature and I did not therefore prepare any elaborate account of my trip & occupied only half an hour — which it seems was an appetizer for I am requested to repeat it with amplifications for the benefit of the Oakland Library. Should this be one a series of readings for their benefit I will let you know. I am very much defrauded & as much provoked that I believed the promises made to us about homes at Berkley. Dr Merritt who has been the principal Regent engaged in building operations assured me that our houses would be completed by the 18th of September, just as I was starting for the Mts, and as I was far beyond Post Offices – I felt[in margin: I am very sorry to hear the father is ailing. I trust not for long.] University of California, Oakland, Cal.,Oct. 29, 1873. Dear Louie:I received your letter only to-day, but should not have waited for it to thank your father for the grapes. The grapes came last Monday morning. We had a notice that they were at the express office Sat. evening too late to get them before the hour of closing. That was the day after the meeting of the Club. We distributed them immediately among the friends -- and left for San Jose: where the State Grange were in convention last week, which with some doings in the Normal School, kept us all the week. The subject before the Club was Fruit Nomenclature, and I did not therefore prepare any elaborate account of my trip, and occupied only half an hour -which it seems was an appetizer for I am requested to repeat it with amplifications for the benefit of the Oakland Library. Should this be one of a series of readings for their benefit I will let you know.I am very much defrauded and as much provoked that I believed the promises made to us about homes at Berkeley. Dr. Merritt who has been the principal Regent engaged in building operations, assured me that our houses would be completed by the 18th of September, just as I was starting for the mountains, and as I was far beyond post offices I felt that I must limit myself to that time and be on hand for the necessary moving. Came home alone, leaving my companions (the most delightful woman ever had or will have) to spend a blissful Autumn between the head of Kings River, around Mt. Whitney, etc., and to take a horseback journey from there to Shasta, in which I could have accompanied them had I known there was no home and no moving in the case. It vexes me to read the five letters I have received since I left them and know what might have been. They have been in entirely untrodden ways - but all the time with animals, so that the fatigues were nothing to those already borne. No such fortunate conjunction of kindred spirits will ever occur again, nor shall I ever find myself with gentlemen whose companionship is so instructive. I never once felt that I was an incumbrance - or restraint upon their movements.I want you to know my John Muir - and I wish I could give him to some noble young woman \u27for keeps1 and so take him out of the wilderness into the society of his peers. As he is coming to spend the winter with us, I hope you will meet. But it is awfully provoking that I cannot gather all my pets into a home which would be attractive to them, and some expression of myself. My homes hitherto have been larger and roomier bodies, expressing my individuality so well, that you would have felt acquainted with me, and with all my beloveds, had you been shut up there all by yourself. I always expected to see your mother\u27s bonnie face by my ingleside, which does not mean a stone, or a hole in the floor:Thank the father as he should be thanked. The pretty leaves v/ere spoiled – not so the unspoilable kindness. Loving you all dearly, we are,Your obliged,E. S. & Jeanne Carr I am very sorry to hear the father is ailing - I trust not for long

Letter from Ezra S. Carr Jeanne C. Carr to John Muir, 1868 Aug 31

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Letter from E[zra] S. [Carr] and Jeanne [C.] Carr to John Muir, [1869] Oct .

Oakland, Alameda Co.,Cor 11th & Webster Sts.,Oct. [1869]Dear John Muir,Yours of Oct. 3 just received. [I] think you must have another from me by this [time], as I wrote directing to Snellings about the date of yours.I hope you will consider this your home on the Pacific, and come home not for a meager visit, but to stay, and refit for new expeditions, and rest, and delight us all with what you have seen and experienced. It is a humble home -- more so than any we have known, but we are very glad to be together and once more in the family life, and to it you are urged to come as one of us, by yourSincere friends,E. S. and Jeanne Carr.Prof. Butler darted in upon the day we moved into this house, returning from the Sandwich Islands -- was dry as a chip -- darted in again four or five days later and preached a dry old sermon in Brayton Hall, and has gone back to tell of Mauna Loa and the Liberty Cap, to his winter audiences. It made me so mad that he should have found you! mad at both of you. It was Cunningham you saw. I think Cunningham pitied me in my disappointment -- anyway he tried to pacify me with promises of cones and things. Mrs. Hutchings said she would send me some bulbs of Lilium Californicum -- I wish she would do herself up in a package and come here, and bring Squirrel . Come along, dear John, and we will talk it all over. Bring your plants, your trunks, your staff and scrip if you wish. Dr. Carr will find room to store your things with his, should it please you.I expect I have lost my clusters of Sequoia cones. I had some good ones, but they have disappeared. I wanted Cunningham to send me some with fresh seeds that I could make grow.[Year supplied from Muir\u27s letter of Oct.3, \u2769

A gradual separation from the world: a qualitative exploration of existential loneliness in old age

This study sought to qualitatively explore experiences of existential loneliness (EL) in 80 older people living in retirement communities across the UK and Australia. Qualitative semi-structured interviews permitted in-depth exploration of issues such as biographical narrative, close relationships, loss, feelings of loneliness, and retirement living. It was our intention to conduct a large-scale, deep listening exercise that would provide further clues about existential loneliness in older people and the circumstances that give rise to such feelings. Data provided rich insight into older people’s inner lives. Core themes identified loss of close attachments, lack of physical touch and intimacy, deterioration of health and body, and lack of an emotional language through which to express EL as central to older people’s experiences. Furthermore, there was a suggestion that the move to retirement living was for many people inextricably connected to their experience of EL. Our data further support and extend the notion that EL can be thought of as a gradual sense of separation from the world and that ageing intensifies a myriad of social, emotional, and physical circumstances that prompt its emergence. This sense of existential isolation need not be thought of as exclusive to those experiencing extreme frailty or who face death imminently – our data pointed to a clear and gradual emergence of EL throughout later life