Investigating Rare Events by Transition Interface Sampling

We briefly review simulation schemes for the investigation of rare transitions and we resume the recently introduced Transition Interface Sampling, a method in which the computation of rate constants is recast into the computation of fluxes through interfaces dividing the reactant and product state.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, contributed paper to the proceedings of NEXT 2003, Second Sardinian International Conference on News and Expectations in Thermostatistics, 21-28 Sep 2003, Cagliari (Italy

Alien Registration- Voter, Mary A. (Orono, Penobscot County)

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The "Texas Women : A Celebration of History" exhibit : second-wave feminism, historical memory, and the birth of a "Texas women's history industry"

textTouring the state in the early 1980s, the “Texas Women: A Celebration of History” exhibit was the first attempt to create a comprehensive, public Texas women’s history narrative. Surprisingly, the exhibit was organized not by academics or museum professionals, but rather by the Texas Foundation for Women’s Resources—a nascent second-wave feminist non-profit organization composed of up-and-coming political activists such as Ann Richards, Sarah Weddington, Jane Hickie, and Martha Smiley. Through an analysis of the exhibit, as well as archival research and oral histories with many of the participants, this thesis explores the reasons that a feminist organization with finite resources would choose to focus on the production of women’s history as a tool of feminist activism. The “Texas Women” exhibit was a uniquely effective way for the members of the Texas Foundation for Women’s Resources to express their feminist values in a culturally palatable way and to create embodied moments of feminist consciousness for their audience. Furthermore, it paved the way for the organization’s future successful feminist projects, fed the production of Texas women’s history initiatives around the state, and served as a springboard that helped launch Ann Richards’ successful political career.Women's and Gender Studie

Estelle Voter and Henrietta Taylor, interviewed by Albert Michaud, Part 1

Estelle Voter and Henrietta Taylor, interviewed by Albert Michaud, December 3, 1993, in Eddington, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. The two sisters discuss life on French Island in Old Town, Maine: family relationships and history; children\u27s entertainment; childbirth; schools; 1936 flood; funerals and mourning customs; holidays, especially New Year\u27s Eve, Christmas, Mardi Gras, dating customs; Skin Island; woolen mill; boxing; and blood stoppers. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2782_c1512_01 Part 2. mfc_na2782_c1512_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1058/thumbnail.jp

Estelle Voter and Henrietta Taylor, interviewed by Albert Michaud, Part 2

Estelle Voter and Henrietta Taylor, interviewed by Albert Michaud, December 3, 1993, in Eddington, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. The two sisters discuss life on French Island in Old Town, Maine: family relationships and history; children\u27s entertainment; childbirth; schools; 1936 flood; funerals and mourning customs; holidays, especially New Year\u27s Eve, Christmas, Mardi Gras, dating customs; Skin Island; woolen mill; boxing; and blood stoppers. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2782_c1512_01 Part 2. mfc_na2782_c1512_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1059/thumbnail.jp

Structural and energetic properties of nickel clusters: 2≤N≤1502 \le N \le 150

The four most stable structures of Ni$_N$ clusters with $N$ from 2 to 150 have been determined using a combination of the embedded-atom method in the version of Daw, Baskes and Foiles, the {\it variable metric/quasi-Newton} method, and our own {\it Aufbau/Abbau} method. A systematic study of energetics, structure, growth, and stability of also larger clusters has been carried through without more or less severe assumptions on the initial geometries in the structure optimization, on the symmetry, or on bond lengths. It is shown that cluster growth is predominantly icosahedral with $islands$ of {\it fcc}, {\it tetrahedral} and {\it decahedral} growth. For the first time in unbiased computations it is found that Ni$_{147}$ is the multilayer (third Mackay) icosahedron. Further, we point to an enhanced ability of {\it fcc} clusters to compete with the icosahedral and decahedral structures in the vicinity of N=79. In addition, it is shown that conversion from the {\it hcp}/anti-Mackay kind of icosahedral growth to the {\it fcc}/Mackay one occurs within a transition layer including several cluster sizes. Moreover, we present and apply different analytical tools in studying structural and energetic properties of such a large class of clusters. These include means for identifying the overall shape, the occurrence of atomic shells, the similarity of the clusters with, e.g., fragments of the {\it fcc} crystal or of a large icosahedral cluster, and a way of analysing whether the $N$-atom cluster can be considered constructed from the $(N-1)$-atom one by adding an extra atom. In addition, we compare in detail with results from chemical-probe experiment. Maybe the most central result is that first for clusters with $N$ above 80 general trends can be identified.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figure

Inner-complex compounds of alicyclic vic-dioximes

The need for a water-soluble vic-dioxime as an analytical reagent for nickel(II) and palladium(II) ions has long been evident. Thus, a preparation and investigation of some alicyclic vic-dioximes as possible water-soluble reagents was undertaken. Secondly, in order to obtain a better understanding of the structure of the inner-complex compounds that the vic-dioximes form with certain ions, an infrared spectroscopic study of the nature of the hydrogen bonds in these inner-complex compounds was made