The Name of the game: a philosophical study comparing games with life and the relation to physical education

Call number: LD2668 .R4 1968 K

Prescription packaging design for the impaired : a meta-analysis.

This thesis is a critical analyzation of the state of prescription drug packaging in the United States with respect to unresolved problems for users with visual, physical, and cognitive impairments. It begins with an anecdotal overview inspired by Deborah Adler’s journey of prescription drug packaging for her grandparents and her design solution outlined by a case study. This case study focuses on the need for better prescription packaging for those with the aforementioned and neglected issues. This thesis uses studies in user-centered design, packaging design, and industrial design among others in order to critically assess and question the current state of user experience for those with impairments. The latter part of the thesis argues that a universal standard would be difficult to implement due to logistical challenges of the private sector of pharmaceutical companies

Lewis acidity quantification and catalytic activity of Ti, Zr and Al-supported mesoporous silica

Water-tolerant supported Lewis acids are actively sought after, in particular to address the challenging direct amidation reaction. To this aim, a versatile and easy synthesis of large pore silica materials with supported Ti-, Al-, Zr-Lewis acids, using acetyl acetonate as a metal-stabilizing agent, was accomplished. The formation of bulk metal oxides was not observed, even at high concentrations of metal species. The Lewis acidity was demonstrated using quantitative and qualitative titration techniques using a series of Hammett indicators, such as butter yellow, phenylazodiphenylphosphine and dicinnamalacetone. The optimal concentration of metals corresponding to the highest Lewis acidity of solids was found to be 4% for Al-SBA-15, 12–15% for Ti-SBA-15 and 7% for Zr-SBA-15 materials. The water-tolerance of the supported metal centers was explored by a pyridine adsorption-FTIR study before and after water addition. The metalated materials were used as water-tolerant heterogeneous catalysts for the amidation of electron-poor and bulky amines, such as substituted anilines and morpholine, obtaining 59–99% yield of the corresponding amides

Confinement of the Grubbs catalyst in alkene-functionalized mesoporous silica

Herein, we report on the impact of alkyl chain length of olefin moieties anchored into silica mesopores on the confinement behavior and stability of the first-generation Grubbs catalyst, i.e., [RuCl2(C(H)(Ph))(PCy3)2] . In this contribution, ordered mesoporous SBA-15 silica materials were functionalized with alkenyl-trichlorosilanes exhibiting different carbon chain lengths, e.g., vinyl- (C2), allyl- (C3), hexenyl- (C6) and octenyl- (C8) trichlorosilanes. Subsequently, the Grubbs I catalyst was incorporated into these different host materials in the presence of organic solvent. The thus-obtained materials, before and after interaction with Grubbs I, were characterized by a variety of methods, including N2 physisorption, thermogravimetric analyses, solid state NMR (13C, 31P and 29Si) and attenuated total reflectance (ATR) infra-red spectroscopy. Our investigations reveal a pronounced dependence of the Grubbs surface stability as a function of the grafted alkyl chain length of the alkene moieties. The nature of the immobilized Ru-based species is function of the surface modification and the presence of residual silanol groups

Carbon dioxide oversolubility in nanoconfined liquids for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates

The physical phenomenon of gas oversolubility in nanoconfined liquids was successfully applied for the catalytic cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides to generate organic cyclic carbonates. Hybrid adsorbents based on MCM‐41 and SBA‐15 mesoporous silica materials were synthesized, and efficient nucleophile deposition on the surface of the support was achieved through a grafting procedure, which allowed for an effective and durable metal‐free catalytic system. Room‐temperature transformation of styrene and hexene oxides to the corresponding organic carbonates at atmospheric pressure of carbon dioxide was explored

EZRA POUND, MARCO POLO, AND CATHAY

Studies of Ezra Pound and the Orient frequently focus on various aspects of his work with the papers of Ernest Fenollosa and on the numerous texts which helped shape Pound\u27s understanding of Asia. One background text which is rarely discussed, however, is Marco Polo\u27s Description of the World, usually known as the Travels. This book, perhaps the most influential travel book ever written, describes Marco Polo\u27s thirteenth-century journey from Venice along the Silk Road to China, his adventures in Asia as an emissary of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, and his return by sea to Europe. When Pound titled his collection of Chinese translations "Cathay," he silently acknowledged a debt to Polo. It was Polo\u27s Travels which brought the term "Cathay" into popular use in the West and fired the Western imagination with its first vision of the Orient. This paper clarifies the nature of Pound\u27s Orient by examining the connections between Marco Polo and Ezra Pound, between the Travels and the Cantos. The purpose is twofold: first, to explore an alternative to the usual approach to the study of Pound and the Orient-to follow Pound from Europe east along the Silk Road to China instead of west through Japan-and second, to examine how the fabulous image of Asia found in the Travels is used by Pound to advance his own ideas and create his own Orient. The heart of the paper is an examination of three texts: Chapter XXIV in Book II of the Travels, Pound\u27s brief essay, "Kublai Khan and his Currency," and the beginning of Canto XVIII consisting of twenty-three lines Pound adapted from Polo. These texts all deal in different ways with Kublai Khan\u27s making and control of paper currency in China. In the essay and in Canto XVIII, Pound draws from Polo\u27s Travels to promote his own economic theories. The recent controversy, spearheaded by Frances Wood, over whether or not Polo actually visited China links the Travels and the Cantos even more closely. Ultimately they are both fictional works grounded in experience but describing imaginary worlds