The Nebraska State Capitol

A High Peak of Architectural Progress Some little while ago there appeared on this page a saying to the effect that progress is a blind succession of events fully exposed only through the agency of a capable interpreter. This issue of American Architect is proof of that contention. The Nebraska State Capitol—to which the issue is entirely devoted—is much more than an excellent example of unusual monumental design or even a symbol of democratic government. It marks an important period in the history of building progress. In many ways the architectural genius of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue dramatized in this design a peak in the history of building accomplishment. As a break from the precedent of tradition the Nebraska State Capitol did much to advance a new and more virile architectural philosophy. From the engineering standpoint the building embodies the cumulative results of American energy, inventive skill and organizing ability; and from all combined points of view it stands as a remarkable interpretation of innumerable events that have shaped the progress of American art. industry and democratic government. For any one of these reasons American Archltect might be proud to publish the Nebraska State Capitol. In combination they make an entire issue necessary to present exclusively a most outstanding example of architectural progress. The Nebraska State Capitol — By Charles Harris Whitaker Highlights of The Capitol\u27s History — By John Edwards A Record of Successful Experiments — By Harry F. Cunningham, A.I.A Symbolism and Inscriptions — By Hartley B. Alexander, Hon. A.I.A. Color in the N ehraska StateCapitol Not in the Specifications — By Oscar H. Murray, A.I.A. An Outline of Mechanical Service Equipment — Meyer, Strong & Jones, Engineers The Story of the Capitol\u27s Construction — By Emile H. Praeger Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue • Exterior Views and Details of North Facade • Exterior Views and Details of South Facade • Plans, Elevations and Details • The Foyer • The Rotunda • The Senate Chamber • The House Chamber • Supreme Court Rooms • Memorial Hall • Governor\u27s Reception Room • Senate Lounge Cover Design by Ernest Born Acknowledgements • As It Looks to the Editors • Trends and Topics of the Times • The Readers Have a Word to Say • New Materials • Book

The International Drivers of Domestic Airline Mergers in Twenty Nations: Integrating Industrial Organization and International Business

The domestic airline merger phenomenon of the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked a great deal of Industrial Organization (IO) literature; yet, that literature neglected non-US domestic mergers and potential for international competitive gains. Using an International Business perspective to complement an IO analysis, I argue that factoring international competitive incentives helps explain domestic airline merger activity. A Cournot model of airline competition illustrates that domestic mergers, via enhanced domestic networks and reduced domestic competition, generate international competitive gains. Further, empirical tests - using a structural-equations approach on panel data covering international city-pair market segments - support domestic mergers improving international competitiveness. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG - (Was die inländischen Fluglinien in 20 Ländern zur Fusion getrieben hat. Eine integrierte industrieökonomische und betriebswirtschaftliche Analyse des internationalen Wettbewerbs) In der Industrieökonomik hat das Phänomen von Fusionen inländischer Fluggesellschaften in den späten 1980er und frühen 1990er Jahren viel wissenschaftliche Literatur angeregt. Die einschlägigen Forschungsarbeiten behandeln jedoch ausschließlich inländische Fusionen in den U.S.A. und lassen damit den Aspekt des internationalen Wettbewerbs außer Acht. In dieser Untersuchung, die die industrieökonomische Analyse um die Perspektive der internationalen Betriebswirtschaft ergänzt, wird gezeigt, dass die Anreize des internationalen Wettbewerb in das Erklärungsmodell für nationale Fusionen von Fluglinien integriert werden können. Anhand eines Cournot-Modells des Wettbewerbs zwischen Fluggesellschaften kann dargelegt werden, wie Fusionen zu einem erweiterten inländischen Netz an Flugverbindungen und verminderten Konkurrenzdruck im Inland führen und so die Position der fusionierten Fluglinie im internationalen Wettbewerb stärken. Dieses Ergebnis wird von empirischen Tests, die eine Struckturvergleichsmethode für Paneldaten über einen internationalen Städtevergleich der Marktsegmente verwenden, gestützt.airline-mergers, imperfect-competition, international-determinants

Chronocoulometric method for the evaluation of antioxidant capacity of medicinal plant tinctures

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. The oxidation potentials of medicinal plant tinctures have been studied on glassy carbon electrode, modified layer-by-layer with multi-walled carbon nanotubes and poly(gallic acid) (PGA/MWNT/GCE) in phosphate buffer solution of pH 7.4. PGA-modified electrode has shown significantly higher sensitivity towards antioxidants in tinctures in comparison to bare GCE and MWNT/GCE. A novel approach for the evaluation of antioxidant capacity of medicinal plant tinctures using one-step chronocoulometry at 1.0 V has been developed. A steady state is achieved at 100 s of electrolysis. The antioxidant capacity has been expressed in quercetin equivalents per 1 mL of tincture. Linear dynamic ranges of 0.010-0.25 and 0.25-250 μmol L-1 quercetin with the limits of detection and determination of 2.9 and 9.8 nmol L-1, respectively, have been obtained. Eleven medicinal plant tinctures have been investigated. The antioxidant capacity decreases in the following order: Rhodiola rosea L. > Paeonia anomala L. > Aralia elata var. mandshurica (Rupr. & Maxim.) J. Wen > Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench ≈ Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. > Valeriana officinalis L. ≈ Leonurus cardiaca L. > Mentha piperita L. > Calendula officinalis L. > Crataegus spp. > Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer. Strong positive correlations of the antioxidant capacity of tinctures with the antioxidant activity and total phenolics (r = 0.9715 and 0.9738, respectively, at rcrit = 0.602, α = 0.05 and n = 11) confirm the accuracy of the developed chronocoulometric method

Benjamin Strong Jr.: The Common Monetary Thread

Benjamin Strong Jr. entered the banking industry after he graduated from public high school. Over the years he developed a deep knowledge of the banking history of the United States. Coupled with an intense interest in international affairs, he became a dominant force in U.S. monetary and banking affairs. In 1914 Strong was elected president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he served until his death in 1928

Prandtl-Meyer Reflection Configurations, Transonic Shocks, and Free Boundary Problems

We are concerned with the Prandtl-Meyer reflection configurations of unsteady global solutions for supersonic flow impinging upon a symmetric solid wedge. Prandtl (1936) first employed the shock polar analysis to show that there are two possible steady configurations: the steady weak/strong shock solutions, when a steady supersonic flow impinges upon the wedge whose angle is less than the detachment angle, and then conjectured that the steady weak shock solution is physically admissible. The fundamental issue of whether one or both of the steady wea/strong shocks are physically admissible has been vigorously debated over the past eight decades. On the other hand, the Prandtl-Meyer reflection configurations are core configurations in the structure of global entropy solutions of the 2-D Riemann problem, while the Riemann solutions themselves are local building blocks and determine local structures, global attractors, and large-time asymptotic states of general entropy solutions. In this sense, we have to understand the reflection configurations in order to understand fully the global entropy solutions of 2-D hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, including the admissibility issue for the entropy solutions. In this monograph, we address this longstanding open issue and present our analysis to establish the stability theorem for the steady weak shock solutions as the long-time asymptotics of the Prandtl-Meyer reflection configurations for unsteady potential flow for all the physical parameters up to the detachment angle. To achieve these, we first reformulate the problem as a free boundary problem involving transonic shocks and then obtain appropriate monotonicity properties and uniform a priori estimates for admissible solutions, which allow us to employ the Leray-Schauder degree argument to complete the theory for all the physical parameters up to the detachment angle.Comment: 192 pages; 17 figures; To appear in the AMS series "Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society", 202

Mini-Workshop: Numerical Analysis for Non-Smooth PDE-Constrained Optimal Control Problems

This mini-workshop brought together leading experts working on various aspects of numerical analysis for optimal control problems with nonsmoothness. Fifteen extended abstracts summarize the presentations at this mini-workshop