Public Attitudes Toward Animal Research: Some International Comparisons

A comparative analysis was made of the public\u27s attitudes toward the use of animals in scientific research in 15 different nations. The intensity of opposition to animal research was found to vary from relatively low levels in Japan and the United States to much higher levels in France, Belgium, and Great Britain. More women than men were opposed to animal research in all 15 nations. Scientific knowledge, or the lack of knowledge, was not found to have a consistent relationship with attitudes toward animal research. Concern about the environment was found to be related to opposition to animal research in some western European nations, in particular West Germany. Cluster analysis was used to group the nations into four patterns based on intensity of opposition, level of opposition, gender differences in opposition, and the relationship between attitudes toward animal research and both environmental concern and scientific knowledge

A New Climate

One of the more striking changes taking place in American medicine these days is the increasing disposition of laymen to sound off about it in public. Whether this is also one of the more important changes, you will have the opportunity to judge by the conclusion of this morning\u27s program. Certainly no one could say that the AAMC, in planning this year\u27s annual meeting, tried to shield itself from exposure to this kind of change

Pennsylvania--Recent Developments in Pennsylvania Jurisprudence Related to Oil and Gas Leasing and Conveyancing

Pennsylvania is the largest producer of shale gas in the United States and is the second-largest natural gas-producing state overall. Owing to its strategic location atop the Marcellus and Utica Shale Formations, Pennsylvania’s position as a major natural gas producer is relatively new. Just a little over a decade ago, Pennsylvania ranked sixteenth among states in total natural gas production. With this rapid rise in the amount of natural gas development, there has been a corresponding increase in activity in courtrooms across Pennsylvania—both in state and federal courts. As a result, Pennsylvania oil and gas law has evolved within a number of different legal areas, with leasing and title issues perhaps being among the most frequent—and most important—topics that have been addressed by courts. This survey will address the 2019 reported judicial opinions issued by state courts in Pennsylvania that address oil and gas leasing and title issue

The ICC Publication of International Standard Banking Practice (ISBP) And the Probable Effect on United States Letter of Credit Law

Section II of this Comment will provide a brief explanation of what an LC is and how it functions. Section III begins with a description of the development of conflicting standards among United States courts for determining compliance with LC terms. Section III further provides a summary of the current standards for compliance under the UCC and the UCP 500, with an emphasis on the effort to standardize the documentary compliance standards required by these publications on a flexible strict compliance standard. Section IV of this Comment provides an explanation of the ISBP and analyzes how it will function as the latest step toward securing greater consistency among courts and banks in determining documentary compliance. This Comment concludes that the ISBP will be highly persuasive on United States courts and will more firmly establish the flexible strict compliance standard in LC jurisprudence

Energy management checklist for the home

"MP 386""Repring from USDA, PA-118

New Insights into Disinfection Byproduct Formation and Control: Assessing Dissolved Organic Matter Diffusivity and Chemical Functionality

Methods were developed for application of asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) and fluorescence parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis to raw and treated samples from drinking water sources to improve characterizations of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and discover DOM properties correlated to disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation potential (FP). Raw water samples were collected from a reservoir, adjusted to pH 6, 7, and 8 and subjected to (1) jar tests using aluminum sulfate (alum) and (2) treatment with magnetic ion exchange (MIEX®) resin. Both treatments were followed by DBPFP tests at pH 7. AF4 was used to size DOM in raw and alum treated samples at pH 6 and 8. AF4 fractograms showed that DOM removal was more effective at pH 6 than at pH 8, and preferential removal of larger-sized DOM occurred at pH 6 but not at pH 8. A fluorescence-PARAFAC model was constructed using excitation-emission matrices (EEMs) from all samples. A strong linear correlation (r2 = 0.87) between chloroform FP and a humic-like PARAFAC component (C1) was developed. This correlation was a significant improvement over the correlation (r2 = 0.03) between chloroform FP and specific ultraviolet absorbance at 254 nm (SUVA254), a DBPFP surrogate commonly used in drinking water treatment plants to optimize DOM removal processes. This indicated that chloroform FP-C1 correlations were not treatment-specific. Alum coagulation at pH 6, 7, and 8 and DBPFP tests at pH 7 were performed on a set of raw waters from eleven drinking water treatment plants from across the United States. AF4 was used to size DOM before and after alum coagulation, and showed similar results to the earlier study, i.e., increased removal at pH 6 compared to pH 8. A fluorescence-PARAFAC model was constructed and total trihalomethane (TTHM) FP was strongly correlated (r2 = 0.91) to C1 for eight water sources. TTHMFP-SUVA254 correlations for ten locations were weak (r2 = 0.15), which indicated that C1 was an improved DBPFP surrogate relative to SUVA254 and could be used as a surrogate to select and optimize DBP precursor removal processes

Concert recording 2015-10-12

[Track 01]. Four sonatas. D minor, K. 1, L. 366 ; [Track 02]. D minor, K. 141, L. 422 ; [Track 03]. D minor, K. 213, L. 108 ; [Track 04]. D major, K. 511, L. 314 / Domenico Scarlatti -- [Track 05]. 10 bagatelles, op. 5. Allegro marziale ; [Track 06]. Con vivacita ; [Track 07]. Vivo ; [Track 08]. Lento con tristezza ; [Track 09]. Dolce ; [Track 10]. Allegro con spirit ; [Track 11]. Prestissimo ; [Track 12]. Allegro ; [Track 13]. Allegretto ; [Track 14]. Presto / Alexander Tcherepnin -- [Track 15]. Three preludes, from 12 preludes, op. 85. No. 4, allegro ; [Track 16]. No. 8, mesto ; [Track 17]. No. 12, lento / Alexander Tcherepnin -- [Track 18]. Fantasia on an ostinato (1985) / John Corigliano -- [Track 19]. Sonata in A-flat major, op. 110. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo ; [Track 20]. Allegro molto ; [Track 21]. Adagio ma non troppo - Arioso dolente - Fuga; Allegro ma non troppo - L\u27istesso tempo di arioso - L\u27inversione della fuga / Ludwig van Beethoven

Assigning Rhythms to Troubadour Poems

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, French and Italian, 1973