Marguerite Vance Correspondence

Entries include brief biographical information, a typed letter from Vance during a New York change of residence on personal stationery concerning a house where she had lived in Lincolnville, Maine, and the real boy about whom her story Jeptha and the New People was written -- before Vance moved back to New York City, a lengthy typed biography of Vance on News About Books and Authors stationery from the E.P. Dutton Publicity Department describing Vance\u27s progress from the Children\u27s Book Department of the Dutton 5th Avenue bookstore to her change of position as an editor of Children\u27s Books at Dutton, a typed letter from Vance on Christmas Day of 1960 in hopes of attaining facts for a book she would like to write concerning what was perhaps a nonfictional tale Vance had heard about in Rockport, Maine, and typed letters of book presentation from director Helen Ward and Barbette Thompson of the Library and Education Department on E.P. Dutton Company, Inc., Publishers stationery

From Coherent Modes to Turbulence and Granulation of Trapped Gases

The process of exciting the gas of trapped bosons from an equilibrium initial state to strongly nonequilibrium states is described as a procedure of symmetry restoration caused by external perturbations. Initially, the trapped gas is cooled down to such low temperatures, when practically all atoms are in Bose-Einstein condensed state, which implies the broken global gauge symmetry. Excitations are realized either by imposing external alternating fields, modulating the trapping potential and shaking the cloud of trapped atoms, or it can be done by varying atomic interactions by means of Feshbach resonance techniques. Gradually increasing the amount of energy pumped into the system, which is realized either by strengthening the modulation amplitude or by increasing the excitation time, produces a series of nonequilibrium states, with the growing fraction of atoms for which the gauge symmetry is restored. In this way, the initial equilibrium system, with the broken gauge symmetry and all atoms condensed, can be excited to the state, where all atoms are in the normal state, with completely restored gauge symmetry. In this process, the system, starting from the regular superfluid state, passes through the states of vortex superfluid, turbulent superfluid, heterophase granular fluid, to the state of normal chaotic fluid in turbulent regime. Both theoretical and experimental studies are presented.Comment: Latex file, 25 pages, 4 figure

Risk accelerators in disasters : insights from the typhoon Haiyan response on humanitarian information management and decision support

Published version of a chapter in the book: Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_2Modern societies are increasingly threatened by disasters that require rapid response through ad-hoc collaboration among a variety of actors and organizations. The complexity within and across today's societal, economic and environmental systems defies accurate predictions and assessments of damages, humanitarian needs, and the impact of aid. Yet, decision-makers need to plan, manage and execute aid response under conditions of high uncertainty while being prepared for further disruptions and failures. This paper argues that these challenges require a paradigm shift: instead of seeking optimality and full efficiency of procedures and plans, strategies should be developed that enable an acceptable level of aid under all foreseeable eventualities. We propose a decision- and goal-oriented approach that uses scenarios to systematically explore future developments that may have a major impact on the outcome of a decision. We discuss to what extent this approach supports robust decision-making, particularly if time is short and the availability of experts is limited. We interlace our theoretical findings with insights from experienced humanitarian decision makers we interviewed during a field research trip to the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan

A New & Complete Map of the City of Boston, with part of Charlestown, Cambridge, Brookline, Dorchester &c.

Relief shown by hachures. Published at the Boston Map Store. In lower margin: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by E.P. Dutton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.Oriented with north toward the lower right.https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/maps_boston/1062/thumbnail.jp

Map of New Hampshire.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century New Hampshire county and township boundaries, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, and notable physical features. Includes table of distances. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:447,000]

Seventy-five years; or, The joys and sorrows of publishing and selling books at Duttons, from 1852 to 1927; compiled from a variety of original sources and lavishly illustrated with prints and engravings depicting the growth of Duttons during three quarters of a century and showing views of the establishments of their many correspondents in foreign lands.

Mode of access: Internet

E.P. Dutton's map of Vermont with railroads & townships.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Vermont counties, townships, railroads, roads, and notable physical features. Includes table of distances. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:450,000]

Boston, Massachusetts 1860

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Linda Lee, incorporated : a novel /

"Under the title of 'The coast of Cockaigne', an abridged version of this story was published serially during the winter of 1921-22 in McCall's Magazine."--Author's note.Blue cloth stamped in gilt.Advertisements on page ii.Mode of access: Internet

Silver and gold : a story of luck and love in a western mining camp /

Advertisement on p. [ii].Mode of access: Internet