Honey and Honey Cookery

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A Novel Bis(phosphido)pyridine [PNP]^(2−) Pincer Ligand and Its Potassium and Bis(dimethylamido)zirconium(IV) Complexes

A novel PNP bis(secondary phosphine)pyridine pincer ligand, 2,6-bis(2-(phenylphosphino)phenyl)pyridine, has been prepared in high yield, and the properties of the doubly deprotonated form as a ligand in K_4(PNP)_2(THF)_6 and (PNP)Zr(NMe_2)_2 have been investigated. The neutral PNP ligand has been isolated as a mixture of noninterconverting diastereomers, due to the presence of two chirogenic phosphorus atoms of the secondary phopshines, but coordination of the dianionic form to potassium and zirconium allows for isolation of a single diastereomer in near-quantitative yield. The structure of a bis(dimethylamido)zirconium(IV) derivative of the bis(phosphido)pyridine ligand and DFT calculations suggest that the phosphides do not π-bond to early transition metals, likely due to geometric strain and possibly orbital size mismatch between phosphorus and zirconium. As a result, the soft phosphides are prone to formation of insoluble oligomers with substantial bridging of the phosphido lone pairs to other zirconium centers

Evaluation of capacitors for space propulsion applications final progress report

Low inductance energy storage capacitors for space propulsion application

Who Are User Entrepreneurs? Findings on Innovation, Founder Characteristics, and Firm Characteristics

Documents the prevalence of innovators who create products or services for their own use then start firms, by industry and type. Examines founder and firm characteristics, revenue growth, job creation, R&D investment, and intellectual property creation

History of endemic Hawaiian birds. Introduction

Reports were scanned in black and white at a resolution of 600 dots per inch and were converted to text using Adobe Paper Capture Plug-in. In order to view these files properly you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher.The history of endemic Hawaiian birds is developed in three major parts. Narrative accounts of 69 taxa, based on records since 1778, are detailed in Part I. Major ecological factors of population changes, such as depletion of food by foreign organisms, predation, disease, and habitat alteration, are treated in Part II. Chronological, geographical, and ecological elements of avian depopulation are synthesized and offered with conclusions in Part III. The Introduction states the objectives, lists the endemic avifauna, defines the historical scope, and outlines the complete work.Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; National Park Service Contract No. CX 8000 8 001

The United Nations and the Magna Carta for Children

The impulse that invited the preparation of this book is one which is linked to the convergence of a number of factors bearing on my interest in human rights. First, the brutality visited on children during World War II has had an abiding negative effect on my sense of what is possible in human conduct. Second, I am persuaded that children are not simply the means by which human societies are continued, but, as well, the potential source of moral revitalization and transformation for those societies. Third, I recognize that the human rights movement, which followed World War II, holds in it a profound promise that of humanity consciously co-existing as a single people, indeed, as a single family within which children, who are most deserving of our reverence and tenderness, will not be desecrated by hatred. Fourth, my coming to understand that the emergence of the rights of children, as a major part of the human rights movement, carries with it a twin danger — that the rights of children might be interpreted as reduction of the power, authority, and rights of parents; and, as a reaction to that flawed interpretation, a parents-led backlash against children\u27s rights might develop. Fifth, the conviction I gradually gained as I reviewed the history of efforts to offer children protection and rights within the existing international system, that, despite all that has been said and written about children\u27s rights, not much has been done to help people really understand the singular nature of the development that took place in 1989, when the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Principal aim of this work is to help judges, social workers, lawyers, physicians, police, parents, political leaders, children (especially those entering adolescence), teachers, guidance counselors, professors, journalists, and, certainly, the wider, lettered public understand the significance of this Magna Carta for Children. A secondary aim is to provide readers with a documentary source through which they can grapple with some of the conflicts, cultural blind-spots, moral ambiguities, and self-interests that accompanied and has followed, the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. I hope the volume has achieved its aims

Human Rights, Women, and Third World Development

As part of the effort to inaugurate a new international socio-political order after World War II, international emphasis was given to certain moral and legal entitlements we have come to call human rights. That emphasis initially found its most forceful expression in the Charter of the United Nations, which not only asserts its members\u27 faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, as well as in the equal rights of men and women of all nations, but also recites its members\u27 commitment to employ international machinery for the promotion of the social and economic advancement of all peoples. Indeed, whille assigning the General Assembly of the U.N. the task of conducting studies and making recommendations pursuant to the realization its purposes, the Charter also commits the U.N. as a whole-- with a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations --to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedom. Specific organs are then called upon to tender advice on the mode as well as the means by which the promotion is to be effected, and pledges are secured from member states to take joint and separate action, in cooperation with the U.N. to create the sought-after conditions of social stability and well-being. It is in large measure due to the assumed international obligation to take joint and separate action that, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed and adopted, followed by the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as that on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights--two international instruments that spell out specific human rights in accordance with the agreed-on, common standard represented by and elaborated in the UDHR. It is to that assumed obligation, too, that we owe certain regional, human rights instruments such as the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950), the American Convention on Human Rights (1969), and the African Charter on Human and Peoples\u27 Rights, officially named after the Gambian city where it was completed, the Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples\u27 Rights (1981). Despite the preceding measures taken on the regional and global level to promote and encourage respect for human rights, hardly a day goes by without our hearing or reading news of their violation or otherwise gaining information raising questions about the commitment of some nation-state to them. One particular area of violation and questionable commitment on the part of states that is frequently overlooked, however, is an area intimately linked to the norm of equality and nondiscrimination--the very starting point of all our liberties. That area concerns women