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The Eloquent President:A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Oration for the ages Painting Lincoln with his own expressions Ronald C. White is a professor of American Intellectual and Religious History and the author of a recent and widely admired book on one of Abraham Lincoln\u27s most famous works, Lincoln\u27s Greatest Speech: The Second ...
A Note on the Text of Lincoln\u27s Second Inaugural
Abraham Lincoln\u27s Second Inaugural Address is perhaps as familiar and frequently read as any text in American English. Engraved in stone on the North wall of the Lincoln Memorial in 701 words, it is a text that many of Lincoln\u27s countrymen can recite from memory and has often been called greatest speech. For the other leading candidate for that honor, the Gettysburg Address, there are five known copies in Lincoln\u27s handwriting, none of which is exactly the same. It is said to be a restful day in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress when no one turns up bearing one of the many facsimiles and claiming to have discovered another original. But there is nothing remotely like this in the case of the Second Inaugural, nor has there ever been any serious controversy about its text
Simple Model of the Dynamic JahnâTeller Effect in SixâCoordinated Copper(II) Complexes
A model potential is assumed for describing the vibrational degrees of freedom associated with the JahnâTeller effect in sixâcoordinated copper (II) complexes. The pseudorotational limit is characterized by a potential that is constant in the region between two concentric cylinders, but becomes infinite elsewhere. The energy spectrum is obtained for both angular and radial excitations. A squareâwell periodic angular potential is applied as a perturbation, yielding a localization of states. The results are used to describe the temperature dependence of the electron spin resonance spectra of copper (II) complexes with emphasis on the system NaCl:Cu(II) containing the hexachlorocuprate (II) complex.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70781/2/JCPSA6-57-2-702-1.pd
RISK PERCEPTIONS AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSES: PRODUCER-GENERATED HYPOTHESES FOR RISK MODELING
Farm level risk analyses have used price and yield variability almost exclusively to represent risk. Results from a survey of 149 agricultural producers in 12 states indicate that producers consider a broader range of sources of variability in their operations. Significant differences exist among categories with respect to the importance of the sources of variability in crop and livestock production. Producers also used a variety of management responses to variability. There were significant difference among categories in the importance given to particular responses and their use of them. These results have implications for research, extension, and policy programs.Risk and Uncertainty,
Early Holocene Occupation at the West Lost River Site, Klamath County, Oregon
Excavations at the West Lost River Site (35KL972) provide new insights on early Holocene occupation of southwestern Oregon. The article focuses on the artifacts and specimens recovered from the site
A Carbonaceous Chondrite Based Simulant of Phobos
In support of an ESA-funded concept study considering a sample return mission, a simulant of the Martian moon Phobos was needed. There are no samples of the Phobos regolith, therefore none of the four characteristics normally used to design a simulant are explicitly known for Phobos. Because of this, specifications for a Phobos simulant were based on spectroscopy, other remote measurements, and judgment. A composition based on the Tagish Lake meteorite was assumed. The requirement that sterility be achieved, especially given the required organic content, was unusual and problematic. The final design mixed JSC-1A, antigorite, pseudo-agglutinates and gilsonite. Sterility was achieved by radiation in a commercial facility
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal parenting skills programme in deprived communities : multicentre randomised controlled trial
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost utility of a universally provided early years parenting programme.
Design: Multicentre randomised controlled trial with cost-effectiveness analysis.
Setting: Early years centres in four deprived areas of South Wales.
Participants: Families with children aged between 2 and 4â
years. 286 families were recruited and randomly allocated to the intervention or waiting list control.
Intervention: The Family Links Nurturing Programme (FLNP), a 10-week course with weekly 2â
h facilitated group sessions.
Main outcome measures: Negative and supportive parenting, child and parental well-being and costs assessed before the intervention, following the course (3â
months) and at 9â
months using standardised measures.
Results: There were no significant differences in primary or secondary outcomes between trial arms at 3 or 9â
months. With â+â indicating improvement, difference in change in negative parenting score at 9â
months was +0.90 (95%CI â1.90 to 3.69); in supportive parenting, +0.17 (95%CI â0.61 to 0.94); and 12 of the 17 secondary outcomes showed a non-significant positive effect in the FLNP arm. Based on changes in parental well-being (SF-12), the cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained was estimated to be ÂŁ34â
913 (range 21â
485â46â
578) over 5â
years and ÂŁ18â
954 (range 11â
664â25â
287) over 10â
years. Probability of cost per QALY gained below ÂŁ30â
000 was 47% at 5â
years and 57% at 10â
years. Attendance was low: 34% of intervention families attended no sessions (n=48); only 47% completed the course (n=68). Also, 19% of control families attended a parenting programme before 9-month follow-up.
Conclusions: Our trial has not found evidence of clinical or cost utility for the FLNP in a universal setting. However, low levels of exposure and contamination mean that uncertainty remains.
Trial registration: The trial is registered with
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN13919732
The Nuclear Ionized Gas in the Radio Galaxy M84 (NGC 4374)
We present optical images of the nucleus of the nearby radio galaxy M84 (NGC
4374 = 3C272.1) obtained with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our three images cover the H + [N II]
emission lines as well as the V and I continuum bands. Analysis of these images
confirms that the H + [N II] emission in the central 5'' (410 pc) is
elongated along position angle (P.A.) \approx 72\arcdeg, which is roughly
parallel to two nuclear dust lanes.Our high-resolution images reveal that the
H + [N II] emission has three components, namely a nuclear gas disk,an
`ionization cone', and outer filaments. The nuclear disk of ionized gas has
diameter pc and major axis P.A. \approx 58\arcdeg \pm
6\arcdeg. On an angular scale of 0\farcs5, the major axis of this nuclear
gas disk is consistent with that of the dust. However, the minor axis of the
gas disk (P.A. \approx 148\arcdeg) is tilted with respect to that of the
filamentary H + [N II] emission at distances > 2'' from the nucleus;
the minor axis of this larger scale gas is roughly aligned with the axis of the
kpc-scale radio jets (P.A. \approx 170\arcdeg). The ionization cone (whose
apex is offset by \approx 0\farcs3 south of the nucleus) extends 2'' from the
nucleus along the axis of the southern radio jet. This feature is similar to
the ionization cones seen in some Seyfert nuclei, which are also aligned with
the radio axes.Comment: 11 pages plus 4 figure
Constraining the Kahler Moduli in the Heterotic Standard Model
Phenomenological implications of the volume of the Calabi-Yau threefolds on
the hidden and observable M-theory boundaries, together with slope stability of
their corresponding vector bundles, constrain the set of Kaehler moduli which
give rise to realistic compactifications of the strongly coupled heterotic
string. When vector bundles are constructed using extensions, we provide simple
rules to determine lower and upper bounds to the region of the Kaehler moduli
space where such compactifications can exist. We show how small these regions
can be, working out in full detail the case of the recently proposed Heterotic
Standard Model. More explicitely, we exhibit Kaehler classes in these regions
for which the visible vector bundle is stable. On the other hand, there is no
polarization for which the hidden bundle is stable.Comment: 28 pages, harvmac. Exposition improved, references and one figure
added, minor correction
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