Medical Imperialism: Examining DiMoia's account of the Proliferation of Western Medicine in Modern South Korean history

Medical Imperialism: Examining DiMoia's account of the Proliferation of Western Medicine in Modern South Korean histor

Evaluation of tungsten tin and lead projectiles against real and synthetic bones encased in ballistic gelatin

This work is designed to explore the wounding potential of these new tungsten tin bullets

War came to the Iowa community

On April 6, 1917, the United States of America declared war. Throughout the country communities marshalled forces to meet the situation. Today the United States is engaged in another war, which is creating problems of social and economic war planning on dimensions greater than those of the war in 1917-18. As the defense effort expands each community will face a notable increase in organized group activities, in new integrating organizations, heightened enthusiasm expressed in rallies and campaigns, new regulations of private lives. Everyone today recognizes that war involves readjustments in our society. Economic and political adjustments are obviously serious. Equally drastic are the necessary modifications in family life, in churches, in recreation, in education, in the innumerable activities which in peacetime follow so normal a routine that we accept them as a matter of course. These problems are no less vital to the welfare of our people than the effects of war upon land values and prices of farm products. The preservation of a democratic way of life depends upon the actions and attitude of all members of the nation in their local communities. The successful adjustment of individuals to these changes, and the organization of our energies for effective prosecution of the war require an understanding of the problems which will be involved

New Territories in Adult Education: Game-based Learning for Adult Learners

The purpose of this paper is to address the different approaches to game-based learning by focusing on applied examples and implications for adult education

Australian Young People, their families and postschool plans : a research review

This literature review is part of a project commissioned by The Smith Family that is investigating the effects and influences of family expectations on the cost benefit analyses undertaken by students when they are considering their post-school plans. The 2006 report for The Smith Family, On track? Students choosing a career, pointed to the possibility of a strong effect of family expectations on young people’s post-school plans (Beavis, 2006). Post-school plans often include decisions about further education, so a family’s influence or involvement in assessing the costs and benefits associated with this decision is not surprising (Usher, 2005). On track? identified uncertainties about how and to what extent family expectations shape young people’s educational plans. It concluded that the extent to which this influence is shaped by the gender, interests and ability of the young people remains unknown The present project is intended to help better understand the inter-relationships between family expectations and young people’s plans. It comprises this literature review which informs the development and analysis of some intensive case studies of a small number of young people and their families. The report includes a consideration of the key issues resulting from the research as well as suggestions for policy and further practice

Advanced Physical Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry: Probing Small Molecule Activation

Robust and efficient catalysts are necessary for realizing chemical energy storage as a solution for the intermittency associated with renewable energy sources. To aid in the development of such catalysts, physical methods are used to probe the photochemistry of small molecule activation in the context of solar-to-fuels cycles. Three systems are studied in the context of HX splitting (X=Br, Cl): polypyridyl nickel complexes, NiX3(LL) (LL = bidentate phosphine) complexes, and dirhodium phosphazane complexes. Two systems are studied in the context of dioxygen activation: cryptand-encapsulated peroxide dianion and cubane models of cobalt water oxidation catalysts. Nickel complexes are shown to facilitate photo-driven H2 evolution from solutions containing HCl. Transient absorption (TA) reveals that polypyridyl ligands act as redox mediators, circumventing the inherently short excited state lifetimes common to first row transition metal complexes. By coupling the one-electron photochemistry of the polypyridyl ligands to disproportionation of reduced nickel complexes, two-electron chemistry is achieved. Halogen photoelimination is studied in a series of NiX3(LL) complexes which eliminate halogen in both solution and the solid state. Computation shows that efficient halogen photoelimination is facilitated by a dissociative LMCT excited state. TA identifies an aryl-halide complex as an intermediate in the photoelimination reaction. Halogen photoelimination from valence isomeric dirhodium phosphazane complexes, Rh2[I,III] and Rh2[II,II], is studied using TA and photocrystallography. TA suggests a common photo-intermediate that is probed by photocrystallography to reveal structural changes associated with transition to the proposed common intermediate. Oxygen activation chemistry is studied using the first soluble form of peroxide dianion. The kinetics of peroxide dianion oxidation are studied by leveraging the dianion’s propensity to form ion pairs with ruthenium polypyridyl complexes. TA kinetic data and DFT calculations facilitate a Marcus analysis which shows that the O–O bond of the peroxide dominates the internal reorganization energy. Cubane model complexes structurally related to the CoPi water oxidation catalyst are studied using TA and computations. Photooxidation by a covalently linked photosensitizer exhibits fast electron transfer rates. Calculations show extensive delocalization of the cubane molecular orbitals and examination of the excited state manifold implicates d–d excited states as facilitators of rapid charge transfer.Chemistry and Chemical Biolog

First Record of Nestling Relocation by Adult Gyrfalcons (\u3cem\u3eFalco rusticolus\u3c/em\u3e) Following Nest Collapse

Nest collapse has been documented in many bird species, with little discussion of adult behavior following collapse. We present evidence of a partial collapse of a Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) nest during the nestling period and the subsequent adult response. A nest camera captured the nest collapse and showed one adult Gyrfalcon holding a live nestling in its beak before leaving the nest. Later, we found the surviving nestling alive in an alternate nest 5 m from the original nest, presumably transported there by the adult. We believe this is the first report of an adult Gyrfalcon moving a nestling to a new location following nest disturbance. We place this observation into a context of Gyrfalcon nesting behavior described in published sources. The continued use of nest cameras may provide additional documentation and insight into this behavior and its prevalence in birds