Memorial Services in honor of the late John B. Finch

Various memorial addresses.Memorial addresses from various authors regarding the late John B. Finch. Presented Sunday October 23rd 1887 in the afternoon at the People's Chuch in Boston Massachusetts

Loyalty Among Relationally Oriented Customers: Not Just an Issue of Managing Satisfaction: Working Paper Series--02-27

This paper explores empirically the relative impacts of satisfaction, brand community, and consumer experience on customer loyalty as expressed by future purchase intentions. Data drawn from qualitative research and a survey of relationally-oriented customers in a casino setting indicate that satisfaction yields to brand community as a key driver of loyalty. Important implications of this research for theory as well as marketing practice are discussed

The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence

The catastrophic impact of fishing pressure on species such as cod and herring is well documented. However, the antiquity of their intensive exploitation has not been established. Systematic catch statistics are only available for ca. 100 years, but large-scale fishing industries existed in medieval Europe and the expansion of cod fishing from the fourteenth century (first in Iceland, then in Newfoundland) played an important role in the European colonization of the Northwest Atlantic. History has demonstrated the scale of these late medieval and post-medieval fisheries, but only archaeology can illuminate earlier practices. Zooarchaeological evidence shows that the clearest changes in marine fishing in England between AD 600 and 1600 occurred rapidly around AD 1000 and involved large increases in catches of herring and cod. Surprisingly, this revolution predated the documented post-medieval expansion of England's sea fisheries and coincided with the Medieval Warm Period-when natural herring and cod productivity was probably low in the North Sea. This counterintuitive discovery can be explained by the concurrent rise of urbanism and human impacts on freshwater ecosystems. The search for 'pristine' baselines regarding marine ecosystems will thus need to employ medieval palaeoecological proxies in addition to recent fisheries data and early modern historical records

Entrapment of Bacteria in Fluid Inclusions in Laboratory-Grown Halite

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://online.liebertpub.com".Cells of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which were genetically modified to produce green fluorescent protein, were entrapped in fluid inclusions in laboratory-grown halite. The bacteria were used to inoculate NaCl-saturated aqueous solutions, which were allowed to evaporate and precipitate halite. The number, size, and distribution of fluid inclusions were highly variable, but did not appear to be affected by the presence of the bacteria. Many of the inclusions in crystals from inoculated solutions contained cells in populations ranging from two to 20. Microbial attachment to crystal surfaces was neither evident nor necessary for entrapment. Cells occurred exclusively within fluid inclusions and were not present in the crystal matrix. In both the inclusions and the hypersaline solution, the cells fluoresced and twitched, which indicates that the bacteria might have remained viable after entrapment. The fluorescence continued up to 13 months after entrapment, which indicates that little degradation of the bacteria occurred over that time interval. The entrapment, fluorescence, and preservation of cells were independent of the volume of hypersaline solution used or whether the solutions were completely evaporated prior to crystal extraction. The results of this study have a wide range of implications for the long-term survival of microorganisms in fluid inclusions and their detection through petrography. The results also demonstrate the preservation potential for microbes in hypersaline fluid inclusions, which could allow cells to survive harsh conditions of space, the deep geologic past, or burial in sedimentary basins

Springs of Florida

bulletin which documented the major and important springs in the state (Ferguson et al., 1947). This publication was revised in 1977, with many previously undocumented springs and many new water-quality analyses being added (Rosenau et al., 1977). The Florida Geological Survey's report on first magnitude springs (Scott et al., 2002) was the initial step in once again updating and revising the Springs of Florida bulletin. The new bulletin includes the spring descriptions and water-quality analyses from Scott et al. (2002). Nearly 300 springs were described in 1977. As of 2004, more than 700 springs have been recognized in the state and more are reported each year. To date, 33 first magnitude springs (with a flow greater than 100 cubic feet per second or approximately 64.6 million gallons of water per day) have been recognized in Florida, more than any other state or country (Rosenau et al., 1977). Our springs are a unique and invaluable natural resource. A comprehensive understanding of the spring systems will provide the basis for their protection and wise use. (Document pdf contains 677 pages

Zhong (2006), Degree-1 convection in the Martian mantle and the origin of the hemispheric dichotomy

[1] The surface of Mars appears dramatically different between the northern and southern hemispheres. Any endogenic origin for this hemispheric dichotomy must involve a pattern of mantle convection that reflects the shape of the dichotomy, primarily spherical harmonic degree-1. We investigated two mechanisms by which degree-1 convection may be initiated in the Martian mantle: (1) an endothermic phase change near the CMB and (2) viscosity layering in the mid-mantle. Using two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D spherical finite-element convection models, we explored the conditions under which each mechanism can produce degree-1 structures. The phase transition is only effective at generating degree-1 structures when the mantle viscosity is constant or weakly temperature-dependent (activation energy <100 kJ/mol), but the degree-1 pattern requires several billion years to develop. Increasing convective vigor in phase change models leads to reduced wavelengths for convective structures. Degree-1 convection can also develop in a layered viscosity mantle, with temperature-and depth-dependent viscosity. An overall sublithospheric radial viscosity variation of a factor of 100 including a factor of 8-25 jump in the midmantle can lead to formation of degree-1 structure in a timescale ranging from 100 My to several hundred My, consistent with the timescale for the formation of the dichotomy. Neither convective vigor nor the internal heating rate greatly affects the formation of degree-1 structures. We propose that degree-1 mantle convection induced by a layered viscosity structure may be responsible for the formation of the crustal dichotomy. Citation: Roberts, J. H., and S. Zhong (2006), Degree-1 convection in the Martian mantle and the origin of the hemispheric dichotomy

Immigrant Workers in the Massachusetts Health Care Industry: A Report on Status and Future Prospects

Given the vital picture of foreign-born health care workers, this study has the following objectives: To document the labor market position of foreign-born workers in the sector at various levels (national, statewide, sub-regional) including patterns of occupational concentration during the last decade or so, prospects for occupational mobility, wages, geographic concentration, employment by type of establishment (hospitals, community health centers, etc.) and workforce development opportunities; To document, whenever possible, the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of foreign-born workers in the sector, including country of origin and gender among others; To document the qualitative contribution of foreign-born workers in the health care delivery environment, especially through cultural and linguistic competence as well as cross cultural communications; To document promising institutional practices in Massachusetts (mainly collaborations and workforce development activities) aimed at improving or modifying the conditions for foreign-born workers and enhancing the labor pool for employers; To document the important role that institutions (universities, research organizations, hospitals, unions and professional associations, government and the non-profit sector) play in shaping the labor market prospects of foreign-born workers in the health care sector; To document critical shortages in some health care professions and occupations; To outline public policy recommendations for broad dissemination