“THE SOLE OBJECT OF ALL MY EFFORTS IS TO DO YOU GOOD”: Robert Owen, Simón Rodríguez, and the Saint-Simonist Avant-Garde

In his Recuerdos literarios, Chilean intellectual José Victorino Lastarria recounts meeting the elderly Simón Rodríguez (1769-1856) in the company of his own elderly mentor, Andrés Bello. The elders were both from Caracas, and each had weathered the Wars of Independence in exile abroad, but on this occasion their discussion of politics was more local than global, as Rodríguez told how he once served a formal banquet to Mariscal Sucre (then President of Bolivia) on bedpans. The normally stern Bello cried with laughter, Lastarria noted, adding that Rodríguez told the story with “el énfasis i aquellas intonaciones elegantes” that he attempted to reproduce graphically in his writings (48-49). When it came to philosophy, Lastarria continues, Rodríguez remained something of an enigma, a reformer who sought to improve the lot of the poor through practical vocational education, but whose real or imagined originality was such that he denied knowing anything about Saint-Simon or Fourier, despite having spent two decades in France. The real answer, Lastarria suggests, is Robert Owen, the English factory manager/owner whose Co-operative Magazine introduced socialism into print in English and whose experiments in the textile town of New Lanark combined industrial production with a similar belief in the power of vocationally-minded education (Lastarria 45-46; Donnachie 135)

Characteristics of Local Passenger Transportation Providers in Texas

See this work in the Center for Transportation Research Library catalog: https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/catalogid=5761This study seeks to accomplish five things: first, to provide a basic understanding of the transportation complex currently serving the public in general and the transportation disadvantaged in particular; second, to provide basic informational input for the preparation of the transportation plan for the state of Texas, mandated by the legislature in 1975; third, to provide social service agencies, community organizations, and the public in general with a listing of transportation operators who could potentially meet transportation needs; fourth, through the dissemination of information about existing systems, to encourage coordination and integration and to reduce duplication of services; and, finally, by providing precise data on the characteristics of existing systems, to allow transportation providers to draw upon the experience of others in planning and operating their systems. Data and analyses are presented to accomplish these five purposes.The Texas Department of Community Affairs Economic Opportunity Division (Austin, Texas)Center for Transportation ResearchSee this work in the Center for Transportation Research Library catalog

Alien Registration- Briggs, Ronald C. (Limestone, Aroostook County)

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Applied Plasma Research

Contains reports on two research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-28282X)M. I. T. Lincoln Laboratory Purchase Order No. CC-54

Current Studies in Japanese Law

Over the past fifteen years there has been a remarkable growth in the study of Japanese law in the United States. The foundation was laid during the late 1950\u27s when the Harvard-Michigan-Stanford program brought together Japanese legal specialists and their American counterparts for study and research. At the end of this program a major conference was held, and the resulting publication, Law in Japan, continues to serve as a point of departure in descriptive studies of Japanese law. During the 1960\u27s interest in Japan continued to develop among law faculty members, but an even more important development was the increase in the number of students coming to the law school who already had some Japanese language and area training. With these students as a nucleus, a few law schools have begun to offer work in Japanese law. Some of these courses have been taught by visiting Japanese professors, and a few are taught regularly by Americans trained in Japanese law. At the same time, the Japanese legal system has been studied by many non-lawyers, such as political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Constitutional law, family law, and criminal law have been analyzed as political and social phenomena in studies which have gone beyond legal rules to origins and practices. The four papers in this volume represent these various developments. One is by a visiting scholar, two were written by students in a course dealing with Japanese law, and one is part of a doctoral thesis in anthropology.https://repository.law.umich.edu/books/1108/thumbnail.jp

AXTAR: Mission Design Concept

The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR) is a mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond promptly to time-critical targets of opportunity. It is optimized for submillisecond timing of bright Galactic X-ray sources in order to study phenomena at the natural time scales of neutron star surfaces and black hole event horizons, thus probing the physics of ultradense matter, strongly curved spacetimes, and intense magnetic fields. AXTAR's main instrument, the Large Area Timing Array (LATA) is a collimated instrument with 2-50 keV coverage and over 3 square meters effective area. The LATA is made up of an array of supermodules that house 2-mm thick silicon pixel detectors. AXTAR will provide a significant improvement in effective area (a factor of 7 at 4 keV and a factor of 36 at 30 keV) over the RXTE PCA. AXTAR will also carry a sensitive Sky Monitor (SM) that acts as a trigger for pointed observations of X-ray transients in addition to providing high duty cycle monitoring of the X-ray sky. We review the science goals and technical concept for AXTAR and present results from a preliminary mission design study.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 773

Machines as Teammates: A Collaboration Research Agenda

Humans will soon need to adapt to a collaborative setting in which technology becomes a smart collaboration partner that works with a group to achieve its goals. It is therefore time for collaboration researchers to explore the vast opportunities afforded by smart technology and to test its utility for enhancing team processes and outcomes. In this paper, we take a long view on the implications of smart technology for collaboration process design, and propose a research agenda for the next decade of collaboration research. We create a reference model to frame the research agenda

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains reports on eight research projects split into two sections.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-1165

Applied Plasma Research

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-18185)Lincoln Laboratory Purchase Order No. CC-554U. S. Navy (Office of Naval Research) under Contract N00014-67-A-0204-0019Air Force Office of Scientific Researc