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    Low leak rate poppet-and-seat check valve

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    Valve leakage due to contaminant entrapment and chattering is effectively minimized by a metallic poppet-and-seat check valve designed for use in extreme environmental and fluid temperature conditions

    A sequential linear discriminant analysis program for geological and remotely-sensed data

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    Sequential linear discriminant analysis program for geological and remotely sensed dat

    Variance of some selected attributes in granitic rocks

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    Variance in selected attributes in granit

    Statistical evaluation of the composition, physical properties, and surface configuration of terrestrial test sites and their correlation with remotely sensed data Final report

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    Utilizing spatial filtering for analyzing structural configuration of Michigan Basin for application to remote sensin

    Keynote Address - Rehabilitation, A Service System

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    Response to Taylor and Platt

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    Emerald Freedom: “With Pride in the Face of the Sun”

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    Esmeraldas, Ecuador, became home to free African and Afro-Hispanic people in the mid 1500s. It is the only region in the Americas where self liberation— cimarronaje—of Afro-descendant people preceded slavery. It is also the region that soon gave birth to zambaje, the emergence of an African-Indigenous population. This article sets forth salient dimensions of historical and contemporary blackness before sketching the enduring and transforming cultural dynamics of this rain-forest littoral region of the neotropics by reference to cosmovision, the marimba dance, arrullos, chigualos, alabados, la tumba, and la tropa. Following this sketch I turn to political economy, cultural ecology, and globalization. Esmeraldas, Ecuador, deviene un santuario para africanos libres y gente afro­hispana a mediados del siglo 1600. Es la única región en las Américas donde la autoliberación —cimarronaje—de personas afrodecendientes precede la esclavitud. Es también donde surge el zambaje, el desarrollo de una población africana­indígena. Este artículo expone dimensiones sobresalientes de la negritud histórica y contemporánea. Explica dinámicas culturales persistentes y en transformación en este bosque lluvioso litoral neotrópico haciendo referencia a la cosmovisión, la danza de la marimba, los arrullos, los chigualos, los alabados, la tumba, y la tropa. Luego enfoca economía política, ecología cultural, y globalización

    Interculturality and the Indigenization of Modernity: A View from Amazonian Ecuador

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    After introducing the history and topography of the forest of Canelos, I turn to the central theme of this essay, the indigenization of modernity. I next illustrate pervasive mythic cosmology to orient the reader to Canelos Quichua Amazonian perspectives on cultural topography. The relationships that obtain in language, history and ecology between the lowlands and the \u27highlands address the subject of ethnogenesis in indigenous thought and in written historical portrayal. Bulding toward an indigenous structure of conjuncture, I treat epistemic distortion in various academic sectors and attept to counter or deflect what I take to be such distortions. In so doing I draw especially on published research of Marshall Sahlins and Michael Uzendoski. Indigenization of modernity has clear millennial proclivities. The intertwining of millennial and modernn processes, within which ethongenesis and emerging culture become manifest, is present in a myriad of intercultural systems wherein people seek to appropriate modern accoutrements of life through counterhegemonic and profound transformative systems of indigenous meaning. A continuación de na introducción a la historia y la topografía del bosque de los Canelos, enfoco el tema principal de este ensayo, la indigenización de la modernidad. Luego presento un retrato de la cosmología mítica domoinante para orientar al elctor en cuanto a perspectivas que mantienen los Canelos Quichua de la Amazonía sobre una topografía cultural. En las relaciones que surgen en el idioma, la historia, y la ecología entre las tierras bajas y la sierra impera el tema de la etnogénesis en el pensamiento indígena y en el relato histórico. Apuntando hacia una coyuntura estructural indígena evalúo la distorsión epistémica en varios sectores académicos e intento corregir o contrarrestar lo que considero ser distorsiones de esta índole. Utilizo investigaciones publicadas por Marshall Sahlins y Michael Uzendoski para sustentar mi argumento. La indigenización de la modernidad tiene proclividades milenarias claras. El entrelace de procesos milenarios y modernos, dentro de los cuales se manifiesta la etnogénesis y el surgimiento cultural, está presente en un sinnúmero de sistemas interculturales por medio de los cuales la gente busca apropriarse de elementos de la vida moderna usando sistemas de significación antihegemónicos y de transformación profunda

    Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonia

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    Book review of, Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonia. Laura M. Rival. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xx + 246 pp., plates, maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. ISBN 0-231-11844-9

    Remembrances of Bill Vickers: Early and Late Career Activities

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