Helicopter sling load accident/incident survey: 1968 - 1974

During the period considered a mean of eleven accidents per year occurred and a mean of eleven persons were killed or seriously injured per year. Forty-one percent of the accidents occurred during hover, and 63 percent of the accidents had pilot error listed as a cause/factor. Many accidents involved pilots losing control of the helicopter or allowing a collision with obstructions to occur. There was a mean of 58 incidents each year and 51 percent of these occurred during cruise

Pop Speculation: Tracing Geography, Investment, and Identity in São Paulo's Hip Hop and Open Mic Scenes

This article addresses the relationship between spatial affinities and socio-­‐ economic capital investment in hip hop culture as part of an assessment of urban development in Brazil’s largest city. Through a selected braiding of ethnographic reflections, urban cultural histories, and social theories of speculation, I argue that performers, particularly as they participate in institution-building projects (casas de hip hop) and open microphone circuits (saraus), have influenced the flows of investment and the social geography of expressive culture in São Paulo. Whether these dynamics signify a “sell-out” or shrewd negotiation is up for debate but what is clear is that the value of the marginalized periphery (periferia) has changed and with it the overall conceptualization of São Paulo

Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (Mid-Atlantic): Alewife/Blueback Herring

This profile covers life history and environmental requirements of both alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), since their distribution is overlapping and their morphology, ecological role, and environmental requirements are similar. The alewife is an anadromous species found in riverine, estuarine, and Atlantic coastal habitats, depending on life cycle stage, from Newfoundland (Winters et al. 1973) to Soutn Carolina (Berry 1964). Landlocked populations are i n the Great Lakes, Finger Lakes, and many other freshwater lakes (Bigelow and Sch roeder 1953; Scott and Crossman 1973). The blueback herring is an anadromous species found in riverine, estuarine, and Atlantic coastal habitats, depending on life stage cycle, from Nova Scotia to the St. Johns River, Florida (Hildebrand 1963

Generic sequences of polynomials

AbstractLet I be an ideal in a polynomial ring S over an infinite field such that I is generated by a generic sequence of homogeneous polynomials of specified degrees. Fröberg has conjectured a formula for the Hilbert series of S/I. Moreno-Socías has conjectured a combinatorial property for the initial ideal of I with respect to degree reverse lexicographic order. I show that Moreno-Socías' Conjecture implies Fröberg's Conjecture. I also give a criterion for a Hilbert series to admit an ideal with the property proposed by Moreno-Socías and show that the Hilbert series proposed by Fröberg does have this property

Banks on a Plane: Disparities in Financial Access and Critiques of Geospatial Accessibility

Banking and credit are necessary to build wealth, but they are unequally available across space, race, and class. Research on the spatial distribution of financial services indicates a robust pattern of banks retreating from low-income and predominantly minority communities to be replaced by alternative financial services (AFS); however, the methods used to measure and visualize the availability of services create different spatial imaginaries of financial exclusion that alter understandings of urban inequality. This project examines disparities in access to financial services in Atlanta area using five geospatial accessibility estimates. Locations for bank branches and alternative services are used to calculate Census tract-level access to each service category and then visualized to identify areas with poor financial access - areas underserved by traditional banks or overserved by alternatives. More complex spatial estimations provide smoother visualizations and more significant statistics, yet the simplest metric emphasizes the stark, disjointed nature of structural inequality

Concert recording 2019-02-11

[Track 1]. Petite symphonie. Adagio et allegretto [Track 2]. Andante cantabile [Track 3]. Scherzo [Track 4]. Finale-Allegretto / Charles Gounod -- [Track 5]. Funeral music of Queen Mary. March Man that is born of a woman Canzona Man that is born of a woman March / Henry Purcell -- [Track 6]. Canticle for eleven winds and mallet percussion / Francis McBeth -- [Track 7]. Capriccio. Allegretto [Track 8]. Andante / Leos Janacek

ECONOMIES OF SIZE IN PROCESSING MANUFACTURED DAIRY PRODUCTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOUTHERN DAIRY INDUSTRY

Livestock Production/Industries,

Uncertainty in the Context of End-of-life Communication in Heart Failure

End-of-life communication between patients, their family members, and healthcare providers is essential to quality care at the end-of-life. Advance care planning is increasingly utilized to facilitate end-of-life communication, but heart failure patients in particular face numerous challenges to achieving adequate end-of-life communication. Extant literature has highlighted the inherent uncertainty in heart failure as a barrier to end-of-life communication as well as the role of time perspective on the experience of heart failure patients, but little empirical research has been conducted to examine the impact of these constructs. The sample included 168 participants with heart failure who were recruited online through ResearchMatch and the American Heart Association support forum. Correlational data did not support a relationship between uncertainty in illness and end-of-life communication, but revealed significant associations between end-of-life communication and two dimensions of time perspective (i.e., past-negative, present-hedonistic). In contrast, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that uncertainty in illness predicted unique variance in end-of-life communication, and two dimensions of time perspective (i.e., past-positive, future) moderated this relationship. At high levels of uncertainty in illness, past-positive and future orientations were associated with increased end-of-life communication, but at low levels of uncertainty in illness, past-positive and future orientations were associated with decreased end-of-life communication. Study limitations and clinical implications are discussed