War: Deter, Fight, Terminate, The Purpose of War is a Better Peace

One of the most frustrating aspects of the Vietnam War is that, as far as the means of war were concerned, the American Armed Forces succeeded in everything they set out to do. At the height of the war, they were able to move almost a million servicemen and women a year in and out of Vietnam, feed them, clothe them, house them, supply them with arms and ammunition, and generally sustain them better than any combat force had ever been sustained in the field

Clausewitz and Strategy Today

A key element in modern military thought in this country has been a return to study and analysis of a work over a century-and-a-half old-Carl von Clausewitz\u27s On War, published posthumously by his widow in 1832

Hinode/Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Observations of the Temperature Structure of the Quiet Corona

We present a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of the quiet solar corona on disk using data obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on {\it Hinode}. We show that the expected quiet Sun DEM distribution can be recovered from judiciously selected lines, and that their average intensities can be reproduced to within 30%. We present a subset of these selected lines spanning the temperature range $\log$ T = 5.6 to 6.4 K that can be used to derive the DEM distribution reliably. The subset can be used without the need for extensive measurements and the observed intensities can be reproduced to within the estimated uncertainty in the pre-launch calibration of EIS. Furthermore, using this subset, we also demonstrate that the quiet coronal DEM distribution can be recovered on size scales down to the spatial resolution of the instrument (1$"$ pixels). The subset will therefore be useful for studies of small-scale spatial inhomogeneities in the coronal temperature structure, for example, in addition to studies requiring multiple DEM derivations in space or time. We apply the subset to 45 quiet Sun datasets taken in the period 2007 January to April, and show that although the absolute magnitude of the coronal DEM may scale with the amount of released energy, the shape of the distribution is very similar up to at least $\log$ T $\sim$ 6.2 K in all cases. This result is consistent with the view that the {\it shape} of the quiet Sun DEM is mainly a function of the radiating and conducting properties of the plasma and is fairly insensitive to the location and rate of energy deposition. This {\it universal} DEM may be sensitive to other factors such as loop geometry, flows, and the heating mechanism, but if so they cannot vary significantly from quiet Sun region to region.Comment: Version accepted by ApJ and published in ApJ 705. Abridged abstrac

The Grizzly, February 14, 2002

Salt Lake City Says Hello to the 2002 Winter Olympics • Black History Month at Ursinus: How Diverse is the Campus? • Lorelei: Blast or Bust? • All About Enron: Latest in the Scandal • Parking on Campus: Will There be Enough? • Opinions: Is the Bookstore Slighting Us?; New Dance Studio Missing One Thing: Dancers; Women Drinking While Pregnant: Is That Acceptable? • Exclusive Interview with Jamie Kennedy, Host of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment • The Silver-Brown Dance Company Stomps the Night Away • Is Digital TV Coming to Your House? • Introducing the Wellness Center • Black History Month at Ursinus: The Truth • What the Class of 2002 can Expect in the Real World • UC Women\u27s B-Ball Chops Down Washington on Friday, but Kneels to Swarthmore on Sunday • Ursinus Seeks Women\u27s Golf Coach and Prospective Players • UC Invitational Huge Success for Bears • Men\u27s Basketball Clinches Play-off Berth With Two Dominating Wins! • UC Bears Make a Splash in the Pool, Being Out-Touched by a Strong Bryn Mawr Teamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1507/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 21, 2002

Well-known Political Consultant Mark Moskowitz at Ursinus • Greek Organizations Come Together for GPC Activities Fair • Too Big for our Buildings • Eye on Your Future: Internships • \u27Tis the Season to Ignore the Needy? • Do You Care About Political Apathy? • Should a Minor Receive the Death Penalty? • Opinions: Feeling Uninvited in Your Own Home; Smoking or Non? You Decide; 17-Year-Old Could be Tried as Adult • Be a Film Society Member • Howard, Roesch Look to Lead Wrestling to C.C. Championship • On Your Mark...Indoor Track Ready to Go • Dougherty Rockets Off to National Meethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1526/thumbnail.jp

Worm Burden-Dependent Disruption of the Porcine Colon Microbiota by Trichuris suis Infection

Helminth infection in pigs serves as an excellent model for the study of the interaction between human malnutrition and parasitic infection and could have important implications in human health. We had observed that pigs infected with Trichuris suis for 21 days showed significant changes in the proximal colon microbiota. In this study, interactions between worm burden and severity of disruptions to the microbial composition and metabolic potentials in the porcine proximal colon microbiota were investigated using metagenomic tools. Pigs were infected by a single dose of T. suis eggs for 53 days. Among infected pigs, two cohorts were differentiated that either had adult worms or were worm-free. Infection resulted in a significant change in the abundance of approximately 13% of genera detected in the proximal colon microbiota regardless of worm status, suggesting a relatively persistent change over time in the microbiota due to the initial infection. A significant reduction in the abundance of Fibrobacter and Ruminococcus indicated a change in the fibrolytic capacity of the colon microbiota in T. suis infected pigs. In addition, ∼10% of identified KEGG pathways were affected by infection, including ABC transporters, peptidoglycan biosynthesis, and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis as well as α-linolenic acid metabolism. Trichuris suis infection modulated host immunity to Campylobacter because there was a 3-fold increase in the relative abundance in the colon microbiota of infected pigs with worms compared to naïve controls, but a 3-fold reduction in worm-free infected pigs compared to controls. The level of pathology observed in infected pigs with worms compared to worm-free infected pigs may relate to the local host response because expression of several Th2-related genes were enhanced in infected pigs with worms versus those worm-free. Our findings provided insight into the dynamics of the proximal colon microbiota in pigs in response to T. suis infection