Corrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005 (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)

Important missing specimen data are provided for the original description of Ozophora woodruffi Slater (2005: 245) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), along with additional comparative relationships. Because of the missing type information, according to ICZN rules (1999), the species became a nomen nudum. This paper now serves to validate the name, and authorship becomes Slater (2012)

A study of the flocculation of mineral suspensions by polymers

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A “Christian America” Restored: The Rise of the Evangelical Christian School Movement in America, 1920-1952

Finding the origins and causes of the twentieth century evangelical Christian school movement in America during the years 1920-1952 was the subject of this study. Numerous primary and secondary sources were utilized. Primary sources consisted of original minutes of the proceedings of the National Education Association, the National Union of Christian Schools, and the National Association of Evangelicals. In addition, numerous evangelical publications of this era such as Moody Monthly, The Sunday School Times, and United Evangelical Action were consulted. From within the movement original sources such as Christian School Statistics, The Christian Teacher, and The National Association of Christian Schools Newsletter also added to the project. The scores of original books, speeches, and pamphlets by the two most significant early leaders in the movement, Mark Fakkema and Frank Gaebelein, provided rich insight into the thinking and tactics of the founders of this fledgling Christian enterprise. Secondary sources included numerous historical works on fundamentalism, public education, Christian education, the Cold War, and selected biographical works. Research was conducted in numerous data bases as well as a visit to the Wheaton College archives and to Wheaton Christian Grammar School, both in Wheaton, Illinois. The result of this study revealed several conclusions. First, contrary to widely held views that the Christian school movement started as a reaction to de-segregation and the turbulence of the 1960s, this movement actually predated this era by at least thirty years. Second, the study found that this movement was a direct reaction to the decline of Protestant influence in America over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Third, this dissertation found that this movement goes back to the long held belief that America was founded as a Christian nation and should remain as such in the minds of evangelicals. Therefore, the thesis of this study states that the Christian school movement, responding to a century of change and adversity, emerged in the twentieth century as a means for evangelical Christians to reclaim their loss of power within the nation, their communities, and their homes in an increasingly complex American society

Synthesis of quinoline compounds of possible therapeutic value: Part I. 4:5-Benz-ß-carboline and its derivatives; Part II: Quinoline compounds containing arsenic.

Part I. 4:5-Benz-ß-carboline and its derivatives I. Synthesis of 4:5 Benz-ß-carboline and its Derivatives. • II. The Constitution of Methosuiphates and of Anhydronium Bases prepared from ß-Carboline Derivatives. • III. Some Observations on the Fluorescence of 4:5-Benz-ß-carboline and its Derivatives. • Experimental • • Part II: Quinoline compounds containing arsenic Introduction • I. Synthesis of Quinoline Derivatives of Aminophenylarsonic Acids • II. Synthesis of Quinbenzarsazine Derivatives • III. Synthesis of Quinoline Derivatives containing an Arsonic Acid Group directly attached to the Quinoline Nucleus. • Experimental. • • APPENDIX. Eleven reprints embodying research work not dealt with in this thesis

Application of the Comparative Method to Morpheme-Final Nasals in Nivkh

Following up on recent work, we consider morpheme-final nasals in the Nivkh language family of northeast Asia using the Standard Comparative Method, and attempt to reconstruct the inventory and morphophonemic behavior of morpheme-final nasal phonemes in Proto-Nivkh (PN). Previous work has pointed towards PN nasals at four loci, /*m/, /*n/, /*ɲ/, /*ŋ/, of which at least /*ŋ/ could be phonemically either “strong”, triggering fricatives to surface across morpheme juncture, or “weak”, triggering plosives to surface; with weak /*ŋ/ place-assimilating to following plosives across morpheme juncture, and weak /*n/ and weak /*ŋ/ elided in the Amur and West Sakhalin lects. However, with the benefit of more and better data than were available to previous authors, we find instead that elision must have been conditioned by a feature other than the strong-weak contrast (provisionally, length), but which interacted with the strong-weak contrast (“short” strong nasals were inextant), and that this “length” contrast also conditioned assimilation or non-assimilation of final /*ŋ/ (only “short” weak /*ŋ/ assimilated, not “long” weak /*ŋ/). We confirm that the strong-weak morphophonemic contrast existed for at least /*m/, /*ɲ/, and /*ŋ/ (rather than only for /*ŋ/), and the “length” contrast for /*n/ as well as /*ŋ/. Keywords: Nivkh, Gilyak, Proto-Nivkh, nasal, Comparative Metho

Investment Recovery: Understanding The Book Value Vs. Fair Market Value Of An Asset

This case is based on a real life conversation between CPA Dave Richards and business owner John Stevenson. John has run across a situation with his business in which he has a discrepancy between what he feels an asset is worth and with what a company has the asset valued on the books. The manager of the company does not want to sell an unused asset because he does not want the loss on the equipment to impact his division’s performance this period. Students get to listen along as Dave and John discuss the issues. This case introduces students to the accounting for capital assets, sales of used equipment and the tax consequences of selling equipment. Students are introduced to John Stevenson and Dave Richards as they discuss an issue John Stevenson has come across in his investment recovery business. Students are exposed to capital asset accounting and valuation from both a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles view and from a general businessman’s view. The case also covers an issue of goal conflict and goal congruence with respect to the company who currently owns the asset. This case is targeted for students in an MBA course who are not accounting majors. The case may be used as an in class discussion mechanism or assigned as a take home project. The case can be discussed fully within a one hour class if students have pre-prepared for the case. Students should expect to spend about 1 hours of preparation time outside of class

Tell Khaiber: An administrative centre of the Sealand period

Excavations at Tell Khaiber in southern Iraq by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium b.c. The results are significant for the light they shed on Babylonian provincial administration, particularly of food production, for revealing a previously unknown type of fortified monumental building, and for producing a dated archive, in context, of the little-understood Sealand Dynasty. The project also represents a return of British field archaeology to long-neglected Babylonia, in collaboration with Iraq's State Board for Antiquities and Heritage. Comments on the historical background and physical location of Tell Khaiber are followed by discussion of the form and function of the Public Building. Preliminary analysis of the associated archive provides insights into the social milieu of the time. Aspects of the material culture, including pottery, are also discussed

Light-modulated ion binding: towards calibrationless sensors

Emerging technologies create new application fields but few of them require that we completely rethink our approach in preparation and characterization of sensors. The vision of internet scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires the deployment of enormous numbers of sensors. This necessarily means that the cost of each sensor must be brought down significantly if this vision is to be realized. An ideal solution for this problem would be a sensor that does not interact with its environment in any way until there is a need for measurement. Upon the measurement, the sensor’s surface is completely regenerated and returned into the state as before the measurement. This step is critical as it ensures that the measurement did not any effect on the sensor hence no calibration is necessary. In our work, we use compounds that indeed can be switched between the active and passive state using light. Most commonly used compounds are so called spiropyrans (SP) and spirooxazines (SO). Here we show the recent advance in preparation of reversible, light-modulated sensors using surface immobilised SP/SO derivatives. A further attractive property of these materials is that they are inherently self-indicating through striking colour changes that enable the state to be easily determined (active vs. passive), and the presence of a bound guest to be detected. These spectral changes enable a range of self-diagnostic tests to be incorporated that enable binding events to be controlled at the surface interface, and for real binding events to be distinguished from artefacts arsing from changes in light intensity, or photobleaching of the active component. We have identified most notable problems for utilization of these compounds in “calibrationless” sensors such as relatively weak binding constants, photodegradation, and unfavourable kinetics of switching between the active and passive state and we demonstrate our approach in solving these problems