Eight Weeks on Scudder: Writing from the Pandemic at the Fringes of the White Mountain National Forest

On the fringes of the White Mountain National Forest, in Shelburne, New Hampshire, a dog musher forges a close-to-home walking route where she can feel safe, both physically and spiritually

Wild Florida: A Woman Seeks What Lies Beyond Childhood RV Vacations

She has lived most of her life in New Hampshire and thought of Florida as a superficial place. Then she immerses herself in the smells, sights, and sounds around a cabin in Big Pine

A Woman in the Woods, Working: A Trail Leader Learns to Trust Her Own Steady Hand

A trail crew leader in the White Mountains of New Hampshire learns to trust her own steady hand with tools she had once believed she could not master. “In the early months of my trail job,” Sally Manikian writes, “I held the inane idea that only men knew how to build things.

IRS-1A applications for coastal and marine resources

The data from URS-1A satellite have been found very useful in the study of coastal zone and marine resources. Important applications are in mapping of the tidal wetlands, coastal land forms, suspended sediments, understanding the processes of estuarine dynamics, shoreline changes, generation of coastal currents, internal waves, degradation/improvement in mangroves and coral reefs. Significant results of these studies are outlined in the paper

Successful treatment by exchange transfusion of a young infant with sodium nitroprusside poisoning

Although sodium nitroprusside (SNP) is often used in pediatric intensive care units, cyanide toxicity can occur after SNP treatment. To treat SNP-induced cyanide poisoning, antidotes such as amyl nitrite, sodium nitrite, sodium thiosulfate, and hydroxycobalamin should be administered immediately after diagnosis. Here, we report the first case of a very young infant whose SNP-induced cyanide poisoning was successfully treated by exchange transfusion. The success of this alternative method may be related to the fact that exchange transfusion not only removes the cyanide from the blood but also activates detoxification systems by supplying sulfur-rich plasma. Moreover, exchange transfusion replaces cyanide-contaminated erythrocytes with fresh erythrocytes, thereby improving the blood's oxygen carrying capacity more rapidly than antidote therapy. Therefore, we believe that exchange transfusion might be an effective therapeutic modality for critical cases of cyanide poisoning

Going to Tent Rocks: An Encounter with the Edge of Understanding

In Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, a surprise encounter with light and beauty at the end of a day surprises Sally Manikian

A comparative study of modern transient pipe-line techniques using ammonia as fluid medium

This thesis presents a comparative study of transient pipeline techniques using ammonia as a fluid medium. Physical properties and characteristics of the use of liquid ammonia in pipelines is first given, and then two basic methods of determining surge pressures are presented. Friction effect is very important in waterhammer analysis, especially in long pipelines where the frictional resistance is large in comparison to the surge pressure. Initially, solutions for short and long pipelines are analyzed using the graphical waterhammer method. Next, a method introduced by Ludwig & Johnson is used for the same short and long pipelines for comparison. This method may be used since conditions in normal pipeline surge problems allows the use of certain acceptable assumptions. Calculations and charts are included in this thesis to make it more useful and acceptable.Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department o