Letter from William H. Thompson to Mr. W. Knaus

A letter from Democrat William H. Thompson who was running for United States Senator against the Governor of Kansas, Walter Stubbs, asking for names of people that might support him in his campaign. William Thompson ended up winning the election, and he represented Kansas from 1913-1919. An ad for his campaign is also included.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_ks_territorial_docs/1037/thumbnail.jp

On the ‘‘direct’’ calculation of thermal rate constants

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/102/19/10.1063/1.469053.We present a new approach for the direct (and correct) calculation of thermal rate constantsk(T) (‘‘direct’’ meaning that one avoids having to solve the state‐to‐state reactive scattering problem, and ‘‘correct’’ meaning that the method contains no inherent approximations). The rate constant is obtained from the long time limit of the flux‐position correlation function,C f,s (t), whose calculation is made efficient by taking advantage of the low rank of the flux operator. Specifically, the trace required to obtain C f,s (t) is evaluated by a Lanczos iteration procedure which calculates only the nonzero eigenvalues. The propagation in complex time, t c =t−iℏβ/2, is carried out using a Chebychev expansion. This method is seen to be both accurate and efficient by application to the Eckart barrier, the collinear H+H2reaction, and the three‐dimensional D+H2 (J=0) reaction

On the “direct” calculation of thermal rate constants. II. The flux-flux autocorrelation function with absorbing potentials, with application to the O+HCl→OH+Cl reaction

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/106/1/10.1063/1.474109We present a method for obtaining the thermal rate constant directly (i.e., without first solving the state-to-state reactive scattering problem) from the time integral of the flux-flux autocorrelation function, Cff(t). The quantum mechanical trace involved in calculating Cff(t) is efficiently evaluated by taking advantage of the low rank of the Boltzmannized flux operator. The time propagation is carried out with a Hamiltonian which includes imaginary absorbing potentials in the reactant and product exit channels. These potentials eliminate reflection from the edge of the finite basis and ensure that Cff(t) goes to zero at long times. In addition, the basis can then be contracted to represent a smaller area around the interaction region. We present results of this method applied to the O+HCl reaction using the J-shifting and helicity conserving approximations to include nonzero total angular momentum. The calculated rate constants are compared to experimental and previous theoretical results. Finally, the effect of deuteration (the O+DCl reaction) on the rate constant is examined

The Academic Elite in Sociology: A Reassessment of Top-Ranked Graduate Programs

Changing Times (1983) listed the top eleven graduate programs according to a National Academy of Sciences study. Given the questionable and subjective nature of the evaluation process which produced these ratings this paper examined the composition of the faculties of these top eleven departments. It was found that these departments were substantially linked to each other by hiring each others' graduates, and hence, enhancing each others' reputations

Validation of a novel scoring system for changes in skeletal manifestations of hypophosphatasia in newborns, infants, and children: The Radiographic Global Impression of Change scale

Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is the heritable metabolic disease characterized by impaired skeletal mineralization due to low activity of the tissue-nonspecific isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase. Although HPP during growth often manifests with distinctive radiographic skeletal features, no validated method was available to quantify them, including changes over time. We created the Radiographic Global Impression of Change (RGI-C) scale to assess changes in the skeletal burden of pediatric HPP. Site-specific pairs of radiographs of newborns, infants, and children with HPP from three clinical studies of asfotase alfa, an enzyme replacement therapy for HPP, were obtained at baseline and during treatment. Each pair was scored by three pediatric radiologists ( raters ), with nine raters across the three studies. Intrarater and interrater agreement was determined by weighted Kappa coefficients. Interrater reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and by two-way random effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) and a mixed-model repeated measures ANOVA. Pearson correlation coefficients evaluated relationships of the RGI-C to the Rickets Severity Scale (RSS), Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument Global Function Parent Normative Score, Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index, 6-Minute Walk Test percent predicted, and Z-score for height in patients aged 6 to 12 years at baseline. Eighty-nine percent (8/9) of raters showed substantial or almost perfect intrarater agreement of sequential RGI-C scores (weighted Kappa coefficients, 0.72 to 0.93) and moderate or substantial interrater agreement (weighted Kappa coefficients, 0.53 to 0.71) in patients aged 0 to 12 years at baseline. Moderate-to-good interrater reliability was observed (ICC, 0.57 to 0.65). RGI-C scores were significantly (p ≤ 0.0065) correlated with the RSS and with measures of global function, disability, endurance, and growth in the patients aged 6 to 12 years at baseline. Thus, the RGI-C is valid and reliable for detecting clinically important changes in skeletal manifestations of severe HPP in newborns, infants, and children, including during asfotase alfa treatment. © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Published by Wiley Periodicals Inc

Thermal rate constant calculation using flux–flux autocorrelation functions: Application to Cl+H2→HCl+H reaction

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/107/18/10.1063/1.474959.An efficient method was recently introduced by Thompson and Miller [J. Chem. Phys. 106, 142 (1997)] for calculating thermal rate constants using the flux–flux autocorrelation function with absorbing boundary conditions. The method uses an iterative method to exploit the low rank feature of the Boltzmannized flux operator and subsequently only propagates the eigenvectors that have significant contributions to the rate constant. In the present article, this method is used to calculate the thermal rate constants of the Cl+H2→HCl+Hreaction in the temperature range of 200–1500 °K. Total angular momentum is treated by employing the body-fixed axis frame, both exactly and also via various approximations. Comparisons with previous exact and approximate theoretical results are made

Theoretical calculation of photodetachment intensities for H3O−

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/105/13/10.1063/1.472380.We have calculated total and arrangement‐selected photodetachment intensities for the H3O− anion (and its deuterated form, D3O−) using a Green’s function in a discrete variable representation with absorbing boundary conditions. A multiply‐shifted quasiminimal residual method is used to obtain the Green’s function for many energies at once. We present spectra obtained by explicitly treating two and four degrees of freedom. Comparison with experiment indicates that the bending angles in the anion and neutral are more similar than in the current potential energy surfaces. The calculated spectra are also consistent with the suggestion that the barrier should be ‘‘earlier.’