Should Canada Re-join the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)?

PAIGH was formed in 1928, in Havana, as the first specialized organization of the Organization of American States. Headquarters remain in Mexico City. The organization is supported by a quota of its members as determined by the OAS. PAIGH members now include virtually all of the Latin American states. Canada was a member until 1997, but has since withdrawn

Synthesis Of The Herbicidin Glycoside

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The nanoSIMS as a tool to study zonation around/in melt inclusions

Melt inclusions preserve geochemical records of magmatic processes and can provide windows into melt composition prior to near-surface fractionation processes such as degassing, crystal fractionation, and mixing that can influence the compositions of erupted magmas. The compositions of melt inclusions are usually measured near their centers using in-situ analytical techniques such as electron microprobe, ion probe, or LA-ICPMS. However, melt inclusions can experience post-entrapment modifications through crystallization or exchange with the host mineral or the outside melt via diffusion through the host mineral. For example, water loss (or gain) can occur by diffusion of H-bearing species through the host mineral toward (or from) the enclosing melt. Zonation in melt inclusions and their host minerals provide information on such post-entrapment modifications. We present a new approach to the study of such zonation using the nanoSIMS Cameca 50L high-resolution ion microprobe. Our data document mechanisms of chemical evolution of melt inclusion after entrapment and can constrain the nature and timescales of syn-eruptive processes

2018 Best Practice Guidelines for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency: Version 9.1.0

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector including data centres generates up to 2% of the global CO2 emissions and data centres are estimated to have the fastest growing carbon footprint from across the whole ICT sector, mainly due to new business such as the cloud computing and the rapid growth of the use of Internet services. The European Code of Conduct for Data Centre Energy Efficiency programme is a voluntary initiative created in 2008 in response to the increasing energy consumption in data centres and the need to reduce the related environmental, economic and energy supply security impacts. Companies participating on the Code of Conduct have to adopt best practices for energy management in data centres. The present report supplements to the Code of Conduct and present the updated (year 2018) version of the Best Practices. This report is provided as an education and reference document as part of the Code of Conduct to assist data centre operators in identifying and implementing measures to improve the energy efficiency of their data centres. A broad group of expert reviewers from operators, vendors, consultants, academics, professional and national bodies have contributed to and reviewed the Best Practices. This report provides a full list of the identified and recognised data centre energy efficiency best practices within the Code of Conduct. Customers or suppliers of IT services may also find it useful to request or provide a list of Code of Conduct Practices implemented in a data centre to assist in procurement of services that meet their environmental or sustainability standards.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

2016 Best Practice Guidelines for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency

The Best Practices are the energy efficiency actions that data centre operators can implement in their data centres to make them more efficient. Due to the fats technology developments in the ICT field, the Best Practices are revised every year to keep them up-to-date.These Best Practices shall be implemented by the Participants in the Code of Conduct, but are a very useful guide for all the other data centres operators.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Shhh… We're talking about the Quiet Eye! A Perceptual Approach to the Transfer of Skill: Quiet Eye as an Insight into Perception-Action Coupling in Elite Football

Amidst the continued theorising and objective epistemological approach to perceptual research (Michaels and Beek, 1995), there remains little clarity regarding what information athletes use to direct decision making in performance settings and how skill is transferred from training to performance. The role of perception-action coupling within decision-making in team sports has been discussed at great length (Vaeyens et al, 2007; Pinder et al, 2011), with some consensus being reached that skilled performers do not necessarily have superior visual ability, but that their ability to locate and interpret key specifying information determines expertise in a particular skilled actions (Vickers, 2006). The methodological accord has often been to recreate core, single action motor-control tasks in the hope of elucidating data to suggest a change in behaviour in any given number of constraint manipulations (Vickers, 1996; Williams, Singer and Frehlich, 2002; Vine and Wilson, 2011). However, research remains in isolation of the complexities of the real world (Vaeyens, 2007; Williams and Grant, 1999). The Quiet Eye (QE) has become increasingly popular (Vickers, 2016), it details the final fixation towards a specific location or object within 3* of visual angle or less for a minimum of 100m/s (Vickers, 2016). It is reasonable to suggest that QE describes the variable in which to examine the relationship between perception and action (Panchuk and Vickers, 2006). A SensoMotoric Instrument – Eye Tracking Glasses (SMI-ETG) binocular system will be employed within an elite level goalkeeping context. QE data will be collected in three different practice trial environments and compared to QE measures taken in a representative performance simulation. The practice trial environment design will be informed by principles of ecological dynamics as presented in the Environment Design Framework (Newcombe et al, in preparation). 1. To understand the gaze behaviours of elite goalkeepers in-situ to determine an optimum approach to training that represents similar gaze patterns and fixations to competitive performance through the use of SMI Eye Tracking Glasses. 2. Use the Quiet Eye as an objective measure to understand how transfer occurs between training and performance from the means of perceptual attunement

IL-21 and IL-21 Receptor Expression in Lymphocytes and Neurons in Multiple Sclerosis Brain

IL-17–producing CD4+ T cells (Th-17) contribute to the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and are associated with active disease in multiple sclerosis (MS). In addition to IL-17, Th-17 cells can also express IL-21, IL-22, and IL-6 under Th-17–polarizing conditions (IL-6 and transforming growth factor-β). In this study we investigated IL-21 and IL-21 receptor (IL-21R) expression in MS lesions by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. We detected strongly IL-21+ infiltrating cells predominantly in acute but also in chronic active white matter MS lesions in which IL-21 expression was restricted to CD4+ cells. In contrast, IL-21R was much more broadly distributed on CD4+, CD19+, and CD8+ lymphocytes but not major histocompatibility complex class-II+ macrophages/microglia. Interestingly, in cortical areas we detected both IL-21 and IL-21R expression by neurons. These findings suggest role(s) for IL-21 in both the acute and chronic stages of MS via direct effects on T and B lymphocytes and, demonstrated for the first time, also on neurons

The Ursinus Weekly, February 13, 1961

Jun Kawashima to study at U.C. this semester • Cub and Key asks junior men to apply • Dr. G. S. Pancoast seeks State Assembly position • Dr. Miller begins new TV series on WFIL-TV • Mrs. Rice addresses Collegeville club on Swedish decor • IRC Club to participate in Model UN meeting in N.Y. • Art museum presents series of art programs • Pancoast, Sanders appear on radio; Discuss politics • Spring Festival replaces May Day • Mr. H. Lloyd Jones helps plan conference at Lafayette College • Mr. Jordania to play his own piano pieces for French Club • Rev. Mrs. Kriebel will speak at annual Color Day • Lorelei will be held on Feb. 17 • Y to sponsor Ash Wed. candlelight service • Dean Rothenberger talks to Bible class on European tours • Dr. Harold K. Schilling to address Forum at 8 • Ford, Genter to direct annual senior show • Ardith Mumbauer to show her Costa Rican slides on Feb. 20 • Editorial: Policies • Letters to the editor • Chapel commentary • Seven weeks abroad at music festivals • Village of the damned • Consideration of costs • Tribute for Dr. Dooley • Book review: Herman Wouk\u27s This is my God • Snowbound thoughts • On the theory and practice of in-class sleeping • Spanish sketchbook: The marriage situation • Poomer • On the movie scene • Thoughts at Broad and Locust • Meal time mess • Man over beasts • Wrestlers score another victory, defeat E-Town • Lassies topple strong crusaders; Downed by Grads • Varsity five overpower Johns Hopkins, Fords • Greek gleanings • Cindy Benner is R&B contest rep • Dean\u27s listhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1332/thumbnail.jp

Registered reports: an early example and analysis

© 2019 Wiseman et al.The recent ‘replication crisis’ in psychology has focused attention on ways of increasing methodological rigor within the behavioral sciences. Part of this work has involved promoting ‘Registered Reports’, wherein journals peer review papers prior to data collection and publication. Although this approach is usually seen as a relatively recent development, we note that a prototype of this publishing model was initiated in the mid-1970s by parapsychologist Martin Johnson in the European Journal of Parapsychology (EJP). A retrospective and observational comparison of Registered and non-Registered Reports published in the EJP during a seventeen-year period provides circumstantial evidence to suggest that the approach helped to reduce questionable research practices. This paper aims both to bring Johnson’s pioneering work to a wider audience, and to investigate the positive role that Registered Reports may play in helping to promote higher methodological and statistical standards.Peer reviewe