State Power Plant Siting: a Sketch of the Main Features of a Possible Approach

Work on various phases of power plant technology and siting has been underway within the Environmental Quality Laboratory (EQL) at the California Institute of Technology for some time. Of particular relevance to this memorandum, a good deal of effort has been devoted to institutional aspects of the siting process. Our purpose in what follows is to draw from our past work -- and from the discussions and work of others -- a sketch of the major outlines of one possible approach to power plant siting for the state. We hope in doing so to give our present views about the issues and how they might rationally be resolved, not so much to convince as to inform, stimulate fruitful ideas, and help provide the basis for constructive debate. We ourselves are not necessarily wedded to any of the discussion that follows; we find our own minds changing from time to time as we study the problem further or confront sound suggestions from others. Part I of this memorandum briefly outlines the major features of what we see as a fruitful approach to the siting problem. Sections A through E of Part I describe some elements of the approach; Section F sketches the actual siting decision process we suggest, and in doing so shows how the elements play into the process. Section G comments briefly on a suggested role for judicial review. In Part II we attempt to reduce our ideas to a fairly precise outline for a state siting statute, and to deal with certain matters of detail not covered in Part I. Section A of Part II introduces the statutory outline by summarizing each of its provisions; Section B sets forth the outline itself. The Appendix to this memorandum depicts our suggested approach in time-line fashion; it should be helpful in reading and understanding the proposal

Washington Irving, the humorist

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

GLOBAL CHANGE, DOMESTIC POLICY, AND LIFE COURSE INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH EQUITY AMONG OLDER CUBANS

Cubas provision of free health services to the entire population via neighborhood-based family doctors produced dramatic health gains and achieved a relative state of health equality. Since 1989, however, the termination of Soviet trade, a grave economic crisis, intensification of the US embargo, welfare reductions, and population aging have placed Cubas health successes and elder care services in jeopardy. Little independent research, though, has focused on the influence of post-Cold War circumstances on citizen attitudes about health programs and resources targeting Cubas older population. This research examined global and domestic factors since 1989 that have most influenced perceptions of the equitability and inequitability of health resources among older Cubans. Its multi-layered design drew on new International Political Economy, crystallization, and aspects of Grounded Theory. In-depth narrative interviews were conducted with Cubans age 60 years or older, their families and community support group members, family physicians and other medical personnel, and key health and government informants. Perceptions of health equity were found to correspond most with the geographic proximity and nearly unhindered physical access of older patients to their family doctors and the temporal availability of family physicians to their older patients. Conversely, perceptions of health inequity corresponded most with the older persons experience of medicine shortages and health resource rationing following global socio-political-economic change and domestic policy shifts after 1989. Furthermore, the life course influences of the pre- and post-revolutionary eras and pre-1989 and post-Cold War period were seminal in shaping the perceptions and expectations of the older participants regarding health care, the leadership, and Cuban socialism. The findings have added to the international health and cross-cultural gerontology literature. Decision-makers and health practitioners in Cuba and elsewhere have been informed about the importance of popular perceptions of the impact of health and elder policy change in an era of globalized social relations and capital. The research also has contributed a gerontological dimension and a narrative perspective to further the development of new International Political Economy

A History of Hollingsworth & Whitney Company

A history of the Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, with executive offices in Boston, Massachusetts, divisional sales offices in New York and Chicago, and facilities located in Maine. Written at the time of a merger with Scott Paper Company in 1954

American Operas Based on the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1948--1976. (Volumes I and II).

A brief history of the origins of opera in the United States identifies titles, composers, and premieres to establish the point that composers in America were active in writing operas and that the music of European composers were available to them as models for their own works. A history of Shakespearean operas from their origin in the late seventeenth century in England to the present (1985) follows to illustrate that Shakespearean operas by American composers did not appear until after the Second World War. Eleven American composers are cited with their Shakespearean works. Their operas are grouped under three headings: festive comedies, dark comedy and romance, and tragedies. Among the comedies are three operas based on The Taming of the Shrew: Christopher Sly by Dominick Argento; and two operas of the same title as the play by Philip Greeley Clapp and Vittorio Giannini, respectively. The other comedies are Twelfth Night by David Amram, Love\u27s Labour\u27s Lost by Nicolas Nabokov, and Night of the Moonspell--after A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream--by Elie Siegmeister. A dark comedy, All\u27s Well That Ends Well by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and a romance, Winter\u27s Tale by John Harbison, are discussed together. From the tragedies are Prince Hamlet by Sam Raphling and two operas based on Antony and Cleopatra by Louise Gruenberg and Samuel Barber, respectively. Each of the operas is discussed according to the choice of characters, their voice classification, the instrumentation and size of the orchestra, the comparative lengths of the operas in acts and scenes, the similarity or departure from the story line of the play, and the manner in which the libretto is derived from Shakespeare\u27s text. Two hundred and eighty-five musical examples illustrate points concerning instrumental music, musical characterizations, and vocal ensembles. Finally, the relationships among all the operas are discussed, and from these, conclusions are drawn and recommendations for future research indicated. An epilogue on why American composers are turning to the plays of Shakespeare as a basis for some of their operatic works suggests historical, dramatic, and musical reasons

Developing a Named Entity Recognition Dataset for Tagalog

We present the development of a Named Entity Recognition (NER) dataset for Tagalog. This corpus helps fill the resource gap present in Philippine languages today, where NER resources are scarce. The texts were obtained from a pretraining corpora containing news reports, and were labeled by native speakers in an iterative fashion. The resulting dataset contains ~7.8k documents across three entity types: Person, Organization, and Location. The inter-annotator agreement, as measured by Cohen's $\kappa$, is 0.81. We also conducted extensive empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art methods across supervised and transfer learning settings. Finally, we released the data and processing code publicly to inspire future work on Tagalog NLP.Comment: To be published in The First Workshop for Southeast Asian Language Processing 2023 at IJCNLP-AAC

calamanCy: A Tagalog Natural Language Processing Toolkit

We introduce calamanCy, an open-source toolkit for constructing natural language processing (NLP) pipelines for Tagalog. It is built on top of spaCy, enabling easy experimentation and integration with other frameworks. calamanCy addresses the development gap by providing a consistent API for building NLP applications and offering general-purpose multitask models with out-of-the-box support for dependency parsing, parts-of-speech (POS) tagging, and named entity recognition (NER). calamanCy aims to accelerate the progress of Tagalog NLP by consolidating disjointed resources in a unified framework. The calamanCy toolkit is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/calamanCy.Comment: To be published in The Third Workshop for NLP-OSS at EMNLP 202

The inverse Raman effect: applications and detection techniques

The processes underlying the inverse Raman effect are qualitatively described by comparing it to the more familiar phenomena of conventional and stimulated Raman scattering. An experession is derived for the inverse Raman absorption coefficient, and its relationship to the stimulated Raman gain is obtained. The power requirements of the two fields are examined qualitatively and quantitatively. The assumption that the inverse Raman absorption coefficient is constant over the interaction length is examined. Advantages of the technique are discussed and a brief survey of reported studies is presented