New type of trifunctional alcohol

New type of trifunctional alcohol was synthesized from commercially available trimer acid. Trifunctional alcohol is hydrocarbon with widely separated terminal hydroxyl groups, and was expressly developed as crosslinking agent for preparation of polyurethane propellants, binders and case liners

Trifunctional alcohol

New trifunctional alcohol derived from trimer acid and novel method of preparatio

Population health profile of the NSW Outback Division of General Practice: supplement

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Four Scottish indulgences at Sens

English interest in the great Cistercian abbey of Pontigny was stimulated by the exiles there of two archbishops of Canterbury, Thomas Becket and Stephen Langton.1 As archbishops of Canterbury, Langton and Edmund of Abingdon made gifts to Pontigny abbey in consideration of the welcome given to Becket.2 Edmund did not die at Pontigny, but was a confrater of the community, and the abbot claimed the body, asserting that Edmund had expressed a wish to be buried there. The process of canonisation was rapid.3 After Edmund's canonisation, Henry III sent a chasuble and a chalice for the first celebration of the feast, and granted money to maintain four candles round the saint's shrine.4 In 1254, en route from Gascony to meet Louis IX in Chartres and Paris,5 Henry visited Pontigny, as his brother Richard of Cornwall, who seems to have pressed for canonisation, had done in 1247.6 Archbishop Boniface of Canterbury ordered the celebration of the feast to be observed throughout his province.7 Pope Alexander IV granted a dispensation to allow Englishwomen to enter the precinct of Pontigny abbey on the feast of the translation of the relics of St Edmund8 (women were normally forbidden to enter a Cistercian monastery). Matthew Paris, the greatest English chronicler of the age, wrote a life of the saint.9 English interest continued into the fourteenth century. In 1331 an English priest was given a licence to visit the shrine,10 but it seems likely that the Hundred Years’ War made pilgrimage to Pontigny difficult.11 The indulgences preserved by the abbey reveal an interest in the shrine throughout the Western Church, granted as they were by prelates from Tortosa to Livonia and Estonia, and from Messina to Lübeck.1

Gender Differences in the Macrostructural Narrative Language of Second Grade African American Children

There is evidence that a racial and ethnic gap in achievement exists in the US. Recently, a gender achievement gap has begun to gain increased attention. The gender gap is more pronounced in African American and Hispanic American populations than in other racial and ethnic groups. Males tend to achieve poorer academic outcomes than females across academic domains. This descriptive study focuses on narrative ability differences between second-grade African American females (n = 8) and males (n = 5). Students generated a spoken narrative from the wordless picture book, Frog, Where Are You? Narrative ability was assessed using the Narrative Scoring Scheme which measures the quality of narrative macrostructure—the hierarchical organization of the narrative. The NSS measures the extent to which each of the following macrostructural components is produced in the narrative: Introduction, Character Development, Mental States, Referencing, Conflict/Resolution, Cohesion, and Conclusion. Results revealed no group differences in macrostructural narrative language ability. These findings indicate that narration may be an area of linguistic strength for African American males.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Social and Behavioral SciencesNo embarg

Impact of Simulated Insect Defoliation and Timing of Injury on Cabbage Yield in Minnesota

In 1992 and 1994, field studies were done to assess the tolerance of transplanted cabbage to simulated insect defoliation and to determine if the defoliation level and growth stage at which defoliation begins influences final yield. In both years, 6 defoliation levels ranging from 0-100% were applied to transplanted cabbage at 4 time intervals. The time intervals began at transplanting, pre-head and head stages and continued until either head stage or harvest. For both years, the only time interval with significantly higher yield than the trans- plant to harvest interval (longest interval) was the head to harvest interval (shortest interval) and significant yield loss occurred only when defoliation was \u3e12.5%. Results suggest that transplanted cabbage can withstand relatively low levels of defoliation before yield loss occurs but that yield loss is also related to the duration over which defoliation occurs. In early growth stages, to protect yield, pest management practices should focus on reducing the interval over which damage occurs. The use of cultural practices that delay the onset of defoliation or allow avoidance of pests could protect yield. These strategies may include using transplants to shorten the time from planting to harvest or using planting dates that allow significant plant growth (i.e., head stage) before defoliators are able to infest the crop and cause significant damage. In addition, management strategies that reduce pest populations can also protect yield but at the head stage should switch to managing pests to protect marketability by reducing aesthetic damage and head contaminants

Technological Neutrality Explained & Applied to CBC v. SODRAC

This article explores technological neutrality in the factual context of CBC v. SODRAC, heard before the Supreme Court of Canada in March of 2015 with decision pending at the time of publication. After outlining the history of the case in the first part, this article concludes with an application of the principle of technological neutrality, as non-interference, to the case. The only result coherent with the Supreme Court’s prior case law is to not treat non-usable or dormant incidental copies as reproductions under the Act. The status of permanent copies that serve a useful and identifiable purpose, e.g. archived copies, is less clear though it would not necessarily create incoherence in the law to recognize them as reproductions