Word Generation in Boston Public Schools: Natural History of a Literacy Intervention

Describes a program to teach high-frequency academic vocabulary and discourses skills, promote effective teaching strategies for vocabulary, comprehension, and discussion, and facilitate faculty collaboration; its implementation; and evaluation results

Platte River: Reservation and Quantification of Federal Reserved Water Rights - Firefighting & Administrative Purposes Only

This casenote addresses a decision of the Colorado Water Court interpreting whether the federal reserved water rights doctrine protects minimum quantities of streamflow in National Forests to protect the stability of stream banks. The author argues, in part, that because the court found that the flows sought by the Forest Service were necessary to protect one of the purposes of the National Forests, the water rights were improperly denied

Analysis of reentry into the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) for the LifeSat mission

This study investigates the reentry of the LifeSat vehicles into the WSMR. The LifeSat mission consists of two reusable reentry satellites, each carrying a removable payload module, which scientists will use to study long-term effects of microgravity, Van Allen belt radiation, and galactic cosmic rays on living organisms. A series of missions is planned for both low-Earth circular orbits and highly elliptic orbits. To recover the payload module with the specimens intact, a soft parachute landing and recovery at the WSMR is planned. This analysis examines operational issues surrounding the reentry scenario to assess the feasibility of the reentry

Some Memories of Frank Siebert

Dean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Native Northeastern America, was once on the faculty of the University of Maine at Orono and was a frequent visitor at Indian Island. He has known Frank Siebert for almost thirty years and has this to say about Frank as colleague and as field worker

Glenna Snow\u27s Cook Book: Home Tested Recipes by Beacon Journal Readers

Glenna Snow was the home economics editor for the Akron Beacon Journal in the 1930s and 1940s. Snow and the newspaper produced a book of readers\u27 recipes in 1938. Six years later, adding more recipes and a substitution section due to government rationing during WWII, the 1944 edition was published. Introduced by historian, Kevin Kern, this reprint edition contains1385 recipes in a readable form so that each ingredient, with its amount falls into the proper place at the proper time, to give the best results. The recipes are diverse and unique including instructions for War Cake and Martha Washington Omelet. Common staples like Coffee Cake, Pot Roast with Vegetables, and Apple Sauce are included. Among the more distinctive recipes are Potato Doughnuts, Squirrel Stew, and Souse. Kern explains that the cook book is an historical primary source. These recipes are not only a list of ingredients, but a record of the ethnic groups that populated the Akron area prior to and during WWII. The cookbook also illustrates the scarcity experienced during war highlighted by a substantial section on preserving food with methods such as canning, drying, and pickling. During the period covered by the two publications, electrification is becoming more widespread with recipes reflecting the change in technology. The cook book is a perfectly-preserved fossil of the archaeology of Akron and the Midwest during a period when America was recovering from the Great Depression and fighting a global war. More though, the book is a collection of recipes and techniques that are as relevant today as when they were collected.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/1138/thumbnail.jp

Charge Transfer Between O Ions And O2 Molecules In The Ground State And Singlet Delta Excited State

A crossed-beam apparatus has been used to study charge transfer between O- ions and O2 molecules in the ground state and in the metastable, singlet delta, excited state. The energy of the incident ions ranged from 10 to 10000 eV. The cross section for charge transfer between O - and ground state O2 was found to have a maximum of 7.8X10-16 cm2 at about 5 keV. At the lower energies there is good agreement with the previous measurements of Snow et al. and Rutherford and Turner who also used crossed beam techniques. The cross section for charge transfer between O- and metastable excited O2 ( 1Δg) was found to be less than 1xl0-16 cm2 over the energy range of 100 to 5000 eV. There are no other experimental measurements for comparison

Electron-attachment rates for carbon-rich molecules in protoplanetary atmospheres: the role of chemical differences

The formation of anionic species in the interstellar medium from interaction of linear molecules containing carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen as atomic components (polyynes) with free electrons in the environment is modelled via a quantum treatment of the collision dynamics. The ensuing integral cross sections are employed to obtain the corresponding attachment rates over a broad range of temperatures for the electrons. The calculations unequivocally show that a parametrization form often employed for such rates yields a broad range of values that turn out to be specific for each molecular species considered, thus excluding using a unique set for the whole class of polyynes.Comment: accepted to be published on MNRA