Gaelic Learners in the Primary School (GLPS) in Argyll & Bute, East Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Perth & Kinross and Stirling : Evaluation Report

For many years individual primary school teachers have no doubt sought to provide their pupils with a brief initial introduction to Gaelic language and culture. However, as a planned, systematic policy development across schools, backed by local authority and national support, GLPS (Gaelic learners in the primary school) has only come into being in the past three years. Thus far it has been taken up in a small number of local authorities, including the five which have commissioned the present evaluation (Argyll & Bute, East Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Perth & Kinross, Stirling), but it is attracting interest in a number of others

HAPTEN-SPECIFIC STIMULATION OF SECONDARY B CELLS INDEPENDENT OF T CELLS

Treatment of spleen cell suspensions from immunized mice with anti-theta serum and complement before transfer to nonimmune irradiated recipients reduced the degree of in vitro stimulation by hapten-homologous carrier complexes by 90%, but did not decrease at all the number of isolated precursor cells stimulated by hapten on heterologous carriers. Thus, secondary B cells can be stimulated by low concentrations of multiply substituted hapten-carrier complexes in the apparent complete absence of specific T cells

Témoignage : « Mon père était avec Leclerc »

Le 250e bataillon d’artillerie de l’armée américaine a été entraîné à Paris, au Texas, et a débarqué à la fin juillet 1944 sur la plage de Utah. Au début août, le bataillon devait constituer le support d’artillerie de la 2e division blindée française dans la bataille de Falaise puis couvrir son avancée en direction du Mans et de Strasbourg. Le bataillon fut récompensé par les Français : les soldats reçurent 20 Croix de guerre et furent autorisés à porter la fourragère aux couleurs de la Croix de guerre. Après la guerre, les vétérans des deux unités restèrent longtemps en contact.“My Father was with Leclerc”. The US Army’s 250th Field Artillery Battalion trained in Paris, Texas, and landed on Utah Beach in late July 1944. Beginning in early August, it provided artillery support for the French 2nd Armored Division for the battle of Falaise Gap and for the drive from Le Mans to Strasbourg.  The battalion received several awards from the French including a brigade citation, and members of the battalion received 20 Croix de guerre medals and were authorized to wear the fourragère de la Croix de la guerre.  After the war veterans from the 250th remained in contact with veterans of the 2nd Division and were proud of their association with the famous division

Axel Poniatowski, Cécile Maisonneuve, Benjamin Franklin

Les auteurs de ce livre estiment que Benjamin Franklin est « l’Américain par excellence ». Fils d’un artisan, fabricant de bougies et de savon, il parvint à dépasser une éducation primaire limitée pour devenir l’un des plus importants publicistes et écrivains de l’histoire américaine. Après avoir gagné beaucoup d’argent, il concentra sa grande intelligence et sa curiosité insatiable sur des inventions et des projets scientifiques. Puis, en vieillissant, il s’intéressa de plus en plus à la pol..

Témoignage : « Mon père était avec Leclerc »

Le 250e bataillon d’artillerie de l’armée américaine a été entraîné à Paris, au Texas, et a débarqué à la fin juillet 1944 sur la plage de Utah. Au début août, le bataillon devait constituer le support d’artillerie de la 2e division blindée française dans la bataille de Falaise puis couvrir son avancée en direction du Mans et de Strasbourg. Le bataillon fut récompensé par les Français : les soldats reçurent 20 Croix de guerre et furent autorisés à porter la fourragère aux couleurs de la Croix de guerre. Après la guerre, les vétérans des deux unités restèrent longtemps en contact.“My Father was with Leclerc”. The US Army’s 250th Field Artillery Battalion trained in Paris, Texas, and landed on Utah Beach in late July 1944. Beginning in early August, it provided artillery support for the French 2nd Armored Division for the battle of Falaise Gap and for the drive from Le Mans to Strasbourg.  The battalion received several awards from the French including a brigade citation, and members of the battalion received 20 Croix de guerre medals and were authorized to wear the fourragère de la Croix de la guerre.  After the war veterans from the 250th remained in contact with veterans of the 2nd Division and were proud of their association with the famous division

Charger 1: A New Facility for Z-Pinch Research

Charger 1 is a multipurpose pulsed power laboratory located on Redstone Arsenal, with a focus on fusion propulsion relevant experiments involving testing z-pinch diodes, pulsed magnetic nozzle and other related physics experiments. UAH and its team of pulsed power researchers are investigating ways to increase and optimize fusion production from Charger 1. Currently the team has reached high-power testing. Due to the unique safety issues related to high power operations the UAH/MSFC team has slowed repair efforts to develop safety and operations protocols. The facility is expected to be operational by the time DZP 2017 convenes. Charger 1 began life as the Decade Module 2, an experimental prototype built to prove the Decade Quad pinch configuration. The system was donated to UAH by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DRTA) in 2012. For the past 5 years a UAH/MSFC/Boeing team has worked to refurbish, assemble and test the system. With completion of high power testing in summer 2017 Charger 1 will become operational for experimentation. Charger 1 utilizes a Marx Bank of 72 100-kV capacitors that are charged in parallel and discharged in series. The Marx output is compressed to a pulse width of approximately 200 ns via a pulse forming network of 32 coaxial stainless steel tubes using water as a dielectric. After pulse compression a set of SF6 switches are triggered, allowing the wave front to propagate through the output line to the load. Charger 1 is capable of storing 572-kJ of energy and time compressing discharge to less than 250 ns discharge time producing a discharge of about 1 TW of discharge with 1 MV and 1 MA peak voltage and current, respectively. This capability will be used to study energy yield scaling and physics from solid density target as applied to advanced propulsion research

Measurement and data transmission validity of a multi-biosensor system for real-time remote exercise monitoring among cardiac patients

Background: Remote telemonitoring holds great potential to augment management of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and atrial fibrillation (AF) by enabling regular physiological monitoring during physical activity. Remote physiological monitoring may improve home and community exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (exCR) programs and could improve assessment of the impact and management of pharmacological interventions for heart rate control in individuals with AF.Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the measurement validity and data transmission reliability of a remote telemonitoring system comprising a wireless multi-parameter physiological sensor, custom mobile app, and middleware platform, among individuals in sinus rhythm and AF.Methods: Participants in sinus rhythm and with AF undertook simulated daily activities, low, moderate, and/or high intensity exercise. Remote monitoring system heart rate and respiratory rate were compared to reference measures (12-lead ECG and indirect calorimeter). Wireless data transmission loss was calculated between the sensor, mobile app, and remote Internet server.Results: Median heart rate (-0.30 to 1.10 b∙min-1) and respiratory rate (-1.25 to 0.39 br∙min-1) measurement biases were small, yet statistically significant (all P≤.003) due to the large number of observations. Measurement reliability was generally excellent (rho=.87-.97, all P<.001; intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC]=.94-.98, all P<.001; coefficient of variation [CV]=2.24-7.94%), although respiratory rate measurement reliability was poor among AF participants (rho=.43, P<.001; ICC=.55, P<.001; CV=16.61%). Data loss was minimal (<5%) when all system components were active; however, instability of the network hosting the remote data capture server resulted in data loss at the remote Internet server during some trials.Conclusions: System validity was sufficient for remote monitoring of heart and respiratory rates across a range of exercise intensities. Remote exercise monitoring has potential to augment current exCR and heart rate control management approaches by enabling the provision of individually tailored care to individuals outside traditional clinical environments