Letter from W[illia]m Rennie, Jr. to John Muir, 1914 Mar 16.

March 16, 1914.Dear Mr Muir:—I have been in Scotland with my uncle Mr John Rennie and he gave me some photographs for you which I am sending.I also met Mr David and Mr Willie Douglas in Edinburgh and both were in poor health, although Mr Wm Douglas is still05725 running his business. They both send there best regards to you.I was coming down to Martinez to see you but as I was unable to get you on the telephone I began to doubt whether or not, you were at home.My uncle sends his very best regards to you and hopes to see you againthe next time he is out here.I am very sorry that I could not get into communication with you on the telephone as I would have liked very much to have met you personally.Yours trulyWm Rennie Jr.Barton VydFresnoCal

Privileged Killers, Privileged Deaths: German Culture and Aviation in the First World War: 1909-1925

This dissertation examines aviation’s influence on German cultural and social history between 1908 and 1925. Before the First World War, aviation embodied one of many new features of a rapidly modernizing Germany. In response, Germans viewed flight as either a potentially transformative tool or a possible weapon of war. The outbreak of war in 1914 moved aviation away from its promised potential to its lived reality. In doing so, the airplane became a machine which compressed time and space, reordered the spatial arrangement of the battlefield, and transformed the human relationship with killing. Germany’s fliers initially served as observers, noting troop positions in the war’s opening weeks. As the Western Front transformed into static trench warfare, flight, in concert with photography, became a method of gathering intelligence. The camera also shaped the identity and iconography of the aviator both in public and in private photographs. Aviation created a privileged space for combat pilots to engage with, or ignore, the consequences of killing as aerial violence became commonplace. Killing, death, and superstition in the air were repackaged with older cultural tropes to render new violence knowable. The German general staff too, became increasingly obsessed with killing in the air, and this fascination fed a new system for understanding the air war. Germany’s regional divisions were also reflected in aviation and directly influenced both the composition of its air service and the machines issued to its pilots. Aviators were again privileged in their use of cultural markers to signpost individual, local, and national identities. The end of the war, however, shattered previous perceptions of war time, and left living aviators to struggle to make sense of a new present, while the nation’s lost fliers were repurposed for contradictory social and political ends

Facilitation of student-staff partnership in development of digital learning tools through a special study module

A student-staff partnership was formed as part of a final year special study module to provide dental students the opportunity to work closely with faculty to produce high-quality e-learning resources in areas of the curriculum identified by the students as particularly difficult. The student-staff team identified the following themes as major influences on the success of the project: student-staff interaction, ownership, managing expectations, time pressures, and co-creation partnership benefits. This partnership resulted in a valuable learning experience for both the students and staff involved. The resource developed was evaluated by junior dental students in second and third year of the five year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree programme at Glasgow Dental School and showed a high degree of acceptability by those in both groups. The quality assurance built into the process has resulted in an e-learning resource that has been incorporated directly into our flipped classroom model for pre-clinical skills teaching

Medical students as EMTs: skill building, confidence and professional formation

Objective: The first course of the medical curriculum at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, From the Person to the Professional: Challenges, Privileges and Responsibilities, provides an innovative early clinical immersion. The course content specific to the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) curriculum was developed using the New York State Emergency Medical Technician curriculum. Students gain early legitimate clinical experience and practice clinical skills as team members in the pre-hospital environment. We hypothesized this novel curriculum would increase students’ confidence in their ability to perform patient care skills and enhance students’ comfort with team-building skills early in their training. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from first-year medical students (n=97) through a survey developed to assess students’ confidence in patient care and team-building skills. The survey was completed prior to medical school, during the final week of the course, and at the end of their first year. A paired-samples t-test was conducted to compare self-ratings on 12 patient care and 12 team-building skills before and after the course, and a theme analysis was conducted to examine open-ended responses. Results: Following the course, student confidence in patient care skills showed a significant increase from baseline (p<0.05) for all identified skills. Student confidence in team-building skills showed a significant increase (p<0.05) in 4 of the 12 identified skills. By the end of the first year, 84% of the first-year students reported the EMT curriculum had ‘some impact’ to ‘great impact’ on their patient care skills, while 72% reported the EMT curriculum had ‘some impact’ to ‘great impact’ on their team-building skills. Conclusions: The incorporation of EMT training early in a medical school curriculum provides students with meaningful clinical experiences that increase their self-reported level of confidence in the performance of patient care skills early in their medical education

Daubert\u27s Backwash: Litigation-Generated Science

In the 1993 landmark case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, the United States Supreme Court articulated its position on the admissibility of scientific evidence. The Court reasoned that federal judges should rely on the processes scientists use to identify unreliable research, including the process of peer review, to determine when scientific evidence should be inadmissible. In response, lawyers and their clients, seeking to rely on such evidence, have begun funding and publishing their own research with the primary intention of providing support to cases they are litigating. This Article examines the phenomenon of litigation-generated science, how it potentially undermines the Daubert review process, and how such evidence should be handled by the scientific community and by courts under Daubert

The Problem of Ernst Heinkel: Nationalism and State Power in Early Twentieth Century German Aviation

The thesis examines the changing power structure between Ernst Heinkel’s private aviation business and the German government during the first half of the twentieth century. Utilizing Heinkel’s autobiography, newspaper articles published during his lifetime, and court documents provide significant evidence with which to judge the question of Heinkel and German nationalism. The methodological focus provided by landmark works on German culture, economics, and intellectual history aid in the assessment of Heinkel as an historical actor from multiple perspectives. Heinkel’s life story as an innovative aviation pioneer and successful business man demonstrates the dynamic nature of nationalism, the unmistakable influence of economic factors on decision making, and the complex ramifications of transformative technologies on an unstable and rapidly modernizing German society

LANCASHIRE (Reino Unido) (Inglaterra). Canales. 1792 (1791-1792). 1:65700

Comprende parte de los condados ingleses de Lancashire y CumbriaEscala gráfica de 6 millas estatutarias [= 14,7 cm]. Orientado con lis en rosa de ocho vientosOrografía a trazosFiguran tres tablas referentes a las dimensiones y capacidad de los tramos de la obra proyectadaForma parte de la Colección Mendoz

SUFFOLK (Reino Unido) (Inglaterra). Canales. 1790 (1789). 1:64400

Escala gráfica de 4 millas [= 10 cm]. Orientado con lis en rosa de cuatro vientosOrografía a trazosRepresentación esquemática de las ciudades adyacentes al trazado del canalConsta una tabla con datos referente a la longitud, cpacidad y caída de los diferentes tramos de la obra de ingenieríaForma parte de la Colección Mendoz

ESSEX (Reino Unido) (Inglaterra). Canales. 1793 (1792). 1:21800

Escala gráfica de 1 milla, dividida en 8 estadios [= 7,4 cm]. Orientado con lis en rosa de ocho vientosRelieve de perfilSeñala el canal proyectado en color rosaIndica los límites entre las diversas parroquiasConsta una tabla con datos referentes a las dimensiones y capacidad de los tramos en que se divide el canalForma parte de la Colección Mendoz