Thermal study of the Missouri River in North Dakota using infrared imagery

Studies of infrared imagery obtained from aircraft at 305- to 1,524-meter altitudes indicate the feasibility of monitoring thermal changes attributable to the operation of thermal electric plants and storage reservoirs, as well as natural phenomena such as tributary inflow and ground water seeps in large rivers. No identifiable sources of ground water inflow below the surface of the river could be found in the imagery. The thermal patterns from the generating plants and the major tributary inflow are readily apparent in imagery obtained from an altitude of 305 meters. Portions of the tape-recorded imagery were processed in a color-coded quantization to enhance the displays and to attach quantitative significance to the data. The study indicates a marked decrease in water temperature in the Missouri River prior to early fall and a moderate increase in temperature in late fall because of the Lake Sakakawea impoundment

Views of Maine\u27s Rhine and Vicinity: Penobscot River

A booklet of postcard images of areas around Bangor, Maine, referring to the Penobscot River with the tourism slogan Maine\u27s Rhine, circa 1900

Household production and consumption over the life cycle: National Time Transfer Accounts in 14 European countries

Background: While the importance of unpaid household labour is recognised in total economic output, little is known about the demographics of household production and consumption. Objective: Our goal is to give a comprehensive estimation on the value of household production and its consumption by age and gender and analyse nonmarket economic transfers in 14 European countries based on publicly available harmonised data. Methods: We introduce a novel imputation method of harmonised European time use (HETUS) data to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to assign time spent on home production to consumers in households and estimate time transfers. Moreover, monetary values are attributed to household production activities using data on earnings from the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES). Results: We show that the nonmarket economic life cycle of men differs from that of women. The gender gap in household production is not evenly distributed over the life cycle. Women of working age contribute the most in net terms, while the main beneficiaries of household goods and services are children and to a lesser extent adult men. These patterns are similar across countries, with variations in the gender- and age-specific levels of home production and consumption. Conclusions: In Europe, in the national economy, intergenerational flows are important in sustaining both childhood and old age. In contrast, in the household economy, intergenerational transfers flow mostly towards children. Contribution: We add a new focus to the research on household production: While keeping the gender aspect, we demonstrate the importance of the life cycle component in household production

La última prisión de Quevedo. Documentos atribuidos, atribuibles y apócrifos

El autor manifiesta sus dudas sobre algunas obras atribuidas a Quevedo y tenidas por auténticas. Repasa diversos documentos relativos a la prisión de 1639: la Carta del arzobispo de Granada a Felipe IV (6 de diciembre de 1639), el memorial de Quevedo al Conde-Duque “Si no es la esperanza...”, el “primer” memorial de Quevedo a Felipe IV “Señor: Don Francisco de Quevedo ha tres años y más...”, las cuatro epístolas escritas “A imitación de las de Séneca” y el testamento y codicilo fechados el 25 de abril de 1645. The author shows his doubts about some works attributed to Quevedo and generally thought as authentic. He examines differents documents refering to the prision of 1639: A letter of the archbishop to the king Felipe IV (December, the 6th, 1639), Quevedo’s memorial addressed to the Conde-Duque “Si no es la esperanza...”, and the “first” memorial to the king Felipe IV “Señor: Don Francisco de Quevedo ha tres años y más...”, the four letters written “A imitación de las de Séneca” and the testament and codicil dated 25 April, 1645

Cuarenta y dos cartas de Quevedo a dos jesuitas distinguidos

Examen detenido basado en la documentación original coetánea de lo que ya sabemos de las relaciones de Quevedo con los jesuitas, y de las noticias que aportan una serie de cartas desconocidas de Quevedo. Lo que sabemos se somete a una revisión a fondo; en las cartas desconocidas el satírico ventila, con el acostumbrado ingenio y atrevimiento, su experiencia, su intelecto, su habilidad literaria y su sentido del humor. This article is a detailed exam based on contemporary documents about the relationship of Quevedo with the jesuits and new information provided by some letters unknown of Quevedo. What we know is revised thoroughly; in the new letters, Quevedo examines his experience, his know ledge, his literary skills and his sense of humour, with his ingenuity and fearlessness

"Más he querido atreverme que engañarme": Quevedo frente al dilema de hablar o callarse en Los sueños

Entre «hablar» y «callarse» parece haberse debatido Quevedo, obedeciendo ya a uno, ya a otro impulso, pero no por vacilación ni irresolución. Dicha postura retórica y las decisiones que tomó al respecto entre 1603 y 1631, si no más tarde, eran de índole personal y política; personal porque se trataba del impulso por expresarse que siente profundamente cualquier escritor, y política porque en la España del siglo XVII «hablar» traía a colación el riego de la intervención del Estado y de la Inquisición («callar»). Caught between «speaking out» and «silencing himself», Quevedo seems to have complied with now one and now the other of these two impulses, but not in vacillation nor irresolution. This rhetorical posture and the decisions that he took in this respect between 1603 and 1631, if not later on, were of a personal and political character. Personal because they involved the impulse to express oneself which every writer feels in a profound way, and political because in seventeenth-century Spain, «speaking out» carried the risk of intervention by the State or the Inquisition («silencing himself»)

Can our cities\u27 thriving creative precincts be saved from \u27renewal\u27?

Governments are busily rezoning our cities for high-rise apartments. The New South Wales government, for example, plans to rezone a 20-kilometre corridor in Sydney, from Sydenham to Bankstown, for urban density, in concert with a new metro rail line. Residents and community groups have reacted vociferously to the prospects of high-rise buildings in previously low-density suburbs. But there is another, overlooked dimension to the redevelopment. Much of it is on industrial land: pockets of old factories and workshops, portrayed as decrepit and in need of renewal. Our new project documents enterprises that actually use urban industrial lands. It\u27s a story of surprising and largely hidden vibrancy at the interface between creative industries and small manufacturing. Planners and economic developers tend to assume manufacturing has left central cities and that manufacturing enterprises can simply locate to city-fringe greenfield sites. In reality, manufacturing is changing form, and often depends on - and benefits from - urban industrial lands. Despite the scale of renewal plans, no detailed knowledge exists of what will be lost, or of existing enterprises\u27 needs

Molecular and Phenotypic Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant \u3ci\u3eStaphylococcus aureus\u3c/i\u3e Isolates Causing Bacteremia At a Major Hospital in Southern Mississippi

Staphylococcus aureus is the predominant cause of bacteremia worldwide. We assessed the molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance of methicillin-resistant S aureus isolates causing bacteremia in southern Mississippi. Diverse genetic backgrounds in terms of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and multilocus sequence typing types of methicillin-resistant S aureus were identified as causing bacteremia in Mississippi. A strong association of Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes with elevated vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration is one of the important findings of our study