Alien Registration- Toole, Marilyn E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Toole, Marilyn E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Toole, Marilyn E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Impact of a mass vaccination campaign against a meningitis epidemic in a refugee camp.

Serogroup A meningococcus epidemics occurred in refugee populations in Zaire in August 1994. The paper analyses the public health impact of a mass vaccination campaign implemented in a large refugee camp. We compared meningitis incidence rates from 2 similar camps. In Kibumba camp, vaccination was implemented early in the course of the epidemic whilst in the control camp (Katale), vaccination was delayed. At a threshold of 15 cases per 100 000 population per week an immunization campaign was implemented. Attack rates were 94 and 134 per 100,000 in Kibumba and Katale respectively over 2 months. In Kibumba, one week after crossing the threshold, 121,588 doses of vaccine were administered covering 76% of all refugees. Vaccination may have prevented 68 cases (30% of the expected cases). Despite its rapid institution and the high coverage achieved, the vaccination campaign had a limited impact on morbidity due to meningitis. In the early phase in refugee camps, the relative priorities of meningitis vaccination and case management need to be better defined

Penmanship in Normal Schools: A Manual for Teachers

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Component Depreciation: A Tax Planning Strategy for Small Businesses

Recent federal   court  and  Internal  Revenue  Service  (IRS)  decisions  have  opened  up  an excellent  opportunity for   both  small  and  large  businesses  to  once  again  use  component depreciation,  thus  accelerating  depreciation  deductions  and reducing  cost  of buildings and improvements  in present  value terms.   Minor changes in the design or in the procedures followed  in purchasing  a building make it possible  to shorten the depreciable lives of portions of the "building". The savings can easily exceed the additional design, construction, and bidding costs especially if the changes are minor. Small business owners,  who may  not always retain  a fulltime  tax  advisor,  should  be  aware  that  it  is  necessary  to  involve  a  tax consultant at the beginning of the design process for construction projects or early in the search for  a building purchase

The Mid-Late Holocene Evolution of Southern Walland Marsh and the Origin of the ‘Midley Sand’

This paper documents new litho-, bio- and chronostratigraphic information and sedimentological data from sites at Sandyland on Broomhill Level, Midley and Lydd. These locations are situated between former tidal inlets at Romney and Rye which were instrumental in driving Foreland and Marshland environmental change during the last 2000 years. Peat formation commenced c. 4500 cal. yr BP at Sandyland and after 3700 cal. yr BP at Lydd. At Sandyland, eutrophic fen carr communities were replaced by acidic, nutrient-poor Myrica-dominated vegetation from c. 4100 cal. yr BP, a shift reported from other sites on Walland Marsh and from neighbouring areas. At Lydd, there was no local development of Myrica, probably due to the proximity of the site to tidal channels associated with an opening in the barrier at Hythe. Inundation occurred sometime after c. 2300 cal. yr BP at both sites although the upper contacts of the peat are sharp and have probably been eroded. The sedimentological investigations of the surface outcrops of ‘Midley Sand’ at Sandyland and Midley, combined with other stratigraphic and palaeogeographic evidence, are consistent with deposition in a tidal channel. The data support the existence of an open-ended channel connecting the inlets at Romney and Rye between AD 700 and the 12th century AD, which had already begun to infill and become reclaimed prior to the storms of the 13th century AD. The Wainway Channel appears to be a later feature which developed in the area after the closure of the Romney inlet and enlargement of the Rye inlet as a result of these storms

Palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Tequixquiac Basin, Central Eastern Mexico: Mid to late Pleistocene environments

This PhD research utilises, for the first time, sedimentary evidence for mid to late Quaternary environmental change in the Tequixquiac region of Central-eastern Mexico. This project has logged over 50 stratigraphic sections and geochemically analysed a 55 m lithostratigraphic sequence for multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental information. The main research objective was to develop a spatial and temporal Palaeogeographic and Palaeoenvironmental model for the study area the covered the late Pleistocene to early Holocene. The findings of the study, based on the analysis of sedimentology, micromorphology, stable isotopes δ18Ocarbonate and δ13CDIC as well as ICP-OES sediment and tephra geochemistry, LOI, AMS radiocarbon, 40Ar/39Ar and Uranium-series dating has allowed a chronologically constrained paleoenvironmental and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the study area. The results of the study suggest that the Tequixquiac Basin has undergone a significant hydrological change from perennial lacustrine to ephemeral fluvial conditions between MIS15 – MIS 1 controlled by a combination of; climatic fluctuations, expressed as depositional cyclicity driven by precessional fluctuations to insolation levels. On shorter time-scales, changes in the mean position of the ITCZ related to SST, latitudinal gradients, atmospheric surface pressure gradients, the extent of Northern Hemisphere land and sea ice cover, and oceanic circulation patterns. Fluctuations in the TOC content of sediments are thought to be related to El Niño-like (dry) and La Niña-like (wet) events. While climate is thought to have been critical to the development the Quaternary localised uplift, deformation and normal faulting have also influenced palaeohydrology and water-table elevation during the recorded depositional period (Figs 8.15 d & 8.16 d)

Variation of the Western Equatorial Pacific ocean, 1986-1988

Twenty one oceanographic sections made along 165°E during 1984-1988 provide a unique picture of the 1986-1987 El Nino and the subsequent La Nina in the Western Equatorial Pacific. The mean of six cruises from January 1984 throught June 1986, a relatively normal period, provides a reference with which the later sections are compared... Changes in the stratification along 165°E were corresponddingly large, reflecting both the geostrophic balance of the strong zonal currents and the changes in the volume of warm water in the Western Equatorial Pacific. The anomaly of warm water volume corresponded closely to the time integral of the warm water transport across 165°E. Local wind forcing and remotely forced waves were both important causes of the transport fluctuations. Winds, precipitation, and currents were all important factors determining the depth of the surface mixed layer and the thickness of the underlying barrier layer. The way in which these factors interact is a strong function of latitude. (D'après résumé d'auteur

A Follow-up Study on the Persistence of Savings from the Retrocommissioning of Ten Buildings on a University Campus: Preliminary Results

A study has been initiated to provide follow-up analysis on the persistence of savings achieved from the retrocommissioning of ten buildings on a university campus. The buildings were originally commissioned in 1996, and the energy savings achieved over the next four years were tracked to evaluate their persistence levels. This study has now expanded the time frame after commissioning to an average of eight years by analyzing the energy consumption data for each building for the most recent year that valid data were available for the building. Preliminary results show high aggregate levels of savings persistence over the eight year average period for each building. The aggregate chilled water usage for the most recent data year for the ten buildings was virtually identical with the 1997 level, and only 56% of the baseline consumption. The aggregate hot water usage for the most recent data year for the ten buildings showed savings of 60.6% vs. savings of 66.4% for 1997, while the aggregate electricity savings were 22.9% vs. 11.5% for 1997. However, virtually all of the change in electricity use occurred in two buildings where it can not be regarded as a result of commissioning activities. The two buildings that required follow-up commissioning in 2001 (Kleberg and G.R. White) showed greater thermal savings after the follow-up than in 1997, suggesting that the 2001 effort was more thorough than that in 1997. If they are excluded from the analysis, the aggregate CHW savings of the other eight buildings decreased from 45.0% in 1997 to 36.3% in the most recent year while HW savings decreased from 54.4% to 40.5%. Even these savings show a high level of persistence over an average period of more than seven years. More analysis is needed to verify the quality of the data used in these comparisons, as well as to fill in some missing years where data are available. Follow up investigation is also needed to compare current building operating parameters with those in place just after commissioning and in the year 2000, to get a clearer picture of why changes in savings have occurred in each building