Correspondence from Samuel Eliot to Earl Clement Davis

This correspondence includes several letters from Samuel Eliot, then President of the American Unitarian Association regarding his role as voluntary chaplain for Camp Devens. Unfortunately, the correspondence is only those received by Earl Davis. None of Davis\u27 letters to Eliot have been found. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.https://commons.clarku.edu/pittsfield_manuscripts/1012/thumbnail.jp

The Past And Pending Using Cinema As A Dialogue To Break Down Walls In Communication

The Past and Pending is a feature-length documentary by Samuel Eliot Torres, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Digital Media from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on a family torn apart by a major decision to migrate to the U.S. from Puerto Rico. The protagonist, Torres, is now trying to receive closure from the events by asking the questions he could not ask as a child, but feels compelled to ask as an adult. Filming with only one person in the crew allowed for an intimacy and spontaneity that is prized by entrepreneurial digital cinema makers. Without the financial and scheduling constraints of enlisting a large crew, the film was allowed to thrive with a spontaneous and ongoing shooting schedule, controlled entirely by one person

Thoughts on Naval Strategy, World War II

The initial strategic decision which dictated our course in this war was adopted by the secret at Washingtion in March 1941 between the British and American Joint Chiefs of Staff. Rear Admirals R.L Ghormley and Richmond Kelly Turner, and Captains Alan kirk and DeWitt Ramsey represented the U.S, Navy. The decision there made, incoportated in the ABC-1 Staff Agreement of 27 March 1941, was this: If and when America enters the war, she will exert the principle United States military effort in the European theater

The ventures of faith

A sermon preached to the thirteenth graduating class of the Rice Institute, by the Reverend Samuel Atkins Eliot, D.D., Pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston

Computer methods for myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography

Two computer-aided videodensitometric methods that may be used in conjunction with two-dimensional contrast echocardiography were examined to quantify the time course of echographic opacification in the myocardium after experimental injections of contrast agents (hand-agitated Renografin-saline and sonicated sorbitol 70% solutions) into the left main coronary artery. Echographic studies of myocardial cross sections were digitized with an image processing computer using a 128 × 128 resolution matrix. Both stop frame and continuous cycle modes of acquisition were performed. A set of computer programs was developed to extract and analyze time-intensity curves from the digitized images. These included cardiac outline delineation, segmental division, regional intensity computation and exponential curve analysis. The stop frame method was applied to experimental studies in 17 closed chest dogs during control states and after coronary occlusions. Significant differences were found in the decay half-lives of echo intensity between normal (24 ± 8 seconds) and acutely ischemic (293 ± 165 seconds; p < 0.001) myocardium for the Renografinsaline solution. Interobserver reproducibility of the measured half-lives was r = 0.91 and standard error of the estimate = 5 seconds. The continuous cycle method of analysis was examined in five closed chest dogs (with up to six injections per dog), applying the sonicated sorbitol 70% solution in only the control state. The mean halflife was 4.2 ±1.1 seconds.These computer-based videodensitometric methods might be applied to a wide variety of experimental studies in two-dimensional contrast echocardiography that attempt to quantify myocardial perfusion and function