Lenin : a screenplay.

LENIN is a historical screenplay that follows the aging revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, as he goes from living in poverty/isolation to becoming one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. The story focuses on Lenin's relationship with his wife, Nadya, who is dealing with being a secondary person in her husband's life in comparison to the Revolution of Russia and a mistress named Inessa Armand. Her struggle of trying to prove herself to him as a woman, a wife, and a revolutionary is one of the most important aspects of the script, while Lenin's struggle of gaining the power over Russia that he desires while also dealing with his political circle who has their own agenda mirror's Nadya's arc. The screenplay uses real excerpts from Lenin's speeches, letters, and conversations with others in order to bring a since of authenticity to the screenplay. Very few changes to the history have been made in order to tell a very honest, truthful, and in-depth look at Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union

A Comparison of Methods for Measuring \u3ci\u3eCO\u3c/i\u3e\u3csub\u3e2\u3c/sub\u3e and \u3ci\u3eO\u3c/i\u3e\u3csub\u3e2\u3c/sub\u3e

Understanding the dynamics of respiratory gasses gives critical insight into the metabolic processes of a biological system. An efficient and effective means of measuring respiration is essential to understanding aspects of the biosphere. Many methods have been developed for measuring changes in CO2 and O2, both as integrated systems and as individual components. Many experiments use an alkali trap with subsequent titration as an inexpensive method for CO2 measurement. Haney et al. (2008) compared the titration method against infrared gas analysis (IRGA) and found them to be highly correlated, with r2=0.95. The use of IRGA provides the potential for automation in a system due to the electronic output. Bowling et al. (2001) described a system using a pneumatically driven piston to inject sample air, which gave consistency and high accuracy (a coefficient of variance of 0.05%). This and similar systems afford accurate measurements by incorporating complex mechanics, but can be expensive and time intensive to maintain. An emphasis was placed on simplicity and cost effectiveness, while still allowing for some degree of automation and instantaneous measurement results. When measuring respiration, the majority of systems used focus on CO2 as the measured gas, generally due to the differences in proportional gas changes relative to background concentrations. Blonquist et al. tested the validity of using an oxygen sensor to measure the respiration of soil and found it to be possible given corrections for temperature, pressure and humidity. The study also found oxygen measurements to be less affected by solubility in water and therefore advantageous in aquatic or semiaquatic environments. While assessing the biodegradability of hydrocarbons in soil, Miles and Doucette (2001) found that a measurement of respiration by oxygen depletion was comparable to measurements by known chemical depletion and collection of marked 14CO2. While the respiration rate can be measured by either CO2 or O2, the measurement of both gives further understanding to the underlying biological processes. Respiratory quotient (RQ), the ratio of CO2 produced to O2 consumed, is often used to determine the type of substrate being consumed and presence of anaerobic conditions. While some make the assumption that the RQ value is approximately 1 under aerobic conditions and therefore interchange respiration rates as determined by CO2 evolution or O2 depletion, Dilly (2003) found that RQ is rarely steady and is often well above or below 1 for microbial populations. Therefore respiration rates cannot be assumed comparable when measured by different respiratory gasses and an incorporation of both may be necessary to allow for proper understanding and comparison of metabolic processes. Four types of sensors were tested: syringe IRGA injection, and oxygen probe, and two types of CO2 probes. Each was combined with a data acquisition system, to created a measurement system capable of recording the gas concentration. To allow for better assessment of respiratory processes, each system was tested to compare its strengths and limitations in a closed system application

Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Undergraduates/ Carlson & SappNelson/ Purdue University/ 2012

This is a case study of a semester long data information literacy program employing an embedded librarian approach to teach students competencies in describing, organizing and documenting their work in developing software code. Materials include a book chapter describing the case study, a rubric for evaluating software code and its accompanying documentation, a handout to introduce the program to teaching assistants, a lesson plan for a skills session on documenting software code, and a list of possible activities to encourage good practice in describing and documenting code

Measurement of the Respiratory Quotient of Peat

Respiratory quotient (RQ) is the ratio of CO2 produced to O2 consumed by an organism. Complete respiration of glucose will give an RQ of 1 as described by the formula CnH2nOn+nO2→nCO2+nH2O. The respiration of molecules with lower oxygen content, such as lipids, give RQ values of less than one, whereas in cases of anaerobic metabolism, an increase in biomass or the respiration of substances such as humic, oxalic and citric acids the respiratory quotient can be greater than one. In complex systems such as soil, Dilly (2003) found that the RQ varied dramatically, and changed within the same soil under varying conditions. Similarly, Hollender et al. (2003) found RQ was informative in determining the underlying metabolic mechanisms, such as nitrification processes. Dilly (2004), studied the effects of various organic compounds on RQ, and found that beech forest soils amended with cellulose or humic acid maintained RQ values greater than one for more than 20 days after application.Measurement of RQ involves a simultaneous detection of the changes in CO2 and O2. The objective of this study was to demonstrate a technique to measure the RQ in a closed static system

Regulatory landscape for the direct marketing of meat and poultry in Oklahoma

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Trademark Fame and Corpus Linguistics

Trademark law recognizes that the same word can mean different things in different commercial contexts.  Legal protection might extend to two or more owners who use the same symbol (like Delta) to indicate different sources of disparate goods or services, such as airlines and faucets.  Generally, only those uses that threaten to confuse consumers—the use of similar symbols on identical or related goods—are subject to legal sanction. But the law extends special protection to famous trademarks, not only against confusing use, but also against dilution:  non-confusing use that blurs or tarnishes the distinctiveness of the famous mark.  The result of protection against blurring is that the law treats the famous mark as if the sole proper use of the term in the commercial context is to designate goods and services from the famous mark’s owner. Protection against dilution extends only to famous marks, but courts and scholars apply differing standards for assessing fame.  Nonetheless, the trend over time has been to treat fame as a threshold requiring both sufficient renown—the famous mark must be a household name—and relatively singular use. This article argues that corpus linguistic analysis can provide evidence of whether a mark is sufficiently prominent and singular to qualify for anti-dilution protection.  Corpus linguistics detects language patterns and meaning from analyzing actual language use.  This article draws data primarily from two large, publicly accessible databases (corpora) to investigate whether litigated trademarks are both prominent and unique.  Courts and parties can consider frequency evidence to establish or refute prominence, and contextual evidence like concordance and collocation to establish relative singularity. Corpus evidence has some advantages over standard methods of assessing fame.  Corpus evidence is cheaper to generate than survey evidence but may be equally probative.  Corpus analysis can help right-size dilution litigation:  A litigant could estimate the prominence and singularity of an allegedly famous mark using corpus evidence prior to discovery and better predict whether the mark should qualify for anti-dilution protection.  Judges should be able to rely on the results of corpus analysis with reasonable confidence.  Additionally, corpus evidence can show use of a mark over time, providing courts with tools to assess when a mark first became famous, a question that a survey generated for litigation cannot readily answer