The Assault on Human Rigths and the Resilience of the Andean Dream: Health Inequities in Ecuador. IV Annual Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health; School of Public Health; University of Michigan

The point of departure for these reflections is life, since its protection is the central purpose encouraging the defense of human rights and of public health. Life in the Andes has an exceptional diversity. Particularly in Ecuador, my country, this diversity constitutes a characteristic sign that is expressed in two main forms: natural megadiversity and multiculturalism. Indeed, Ecuador’s small territory synthesizes practically all types of lifezones that exist on Earth, having received the gift of high average rates of solar energy and abundant nutritional sources, which have facilitated the natural reproduction of countless species that show their beautiful vitality in the variety of ecosystems that compose the Andean mountain range, the tropical plains, the Amazon humid forests, and the Galapagos Islands. But besides being a highly biodiverse country, it is also a plurinational and multi-cultural society, in which the activity of human beings, organized into social conglomerates of different historical and cultural backgrounds, have formed more than a dozen nations and peoples. Regrettably this natural and human wealth has not been able to bear its best fruits due to the violent operation of a deep social inequity – unfortunately also one of the highest in the Americas—which conspires against life and is reproduced in national and international inequitable relations. This structural inequity has changed its form throughout the centuries and currently has reached its highest and most perverse level of development.

Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Daniel Appleton White, 1799 May 29

Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter in Portland, Maine on May 29, 1799; it was sent to his friend, Daniel Appleton White, in Medford, Massachusetts. In the letter, Longfellow describes the Election Day festivities among the "plebeans" in Portland, which he apparently found both amusing and upsetting. He compares the horses pulling their sleds to Don Quixote's horse, Rocinante. He also writes about mutual friends, including John Henry Tudor and Jabez Kimball, and bemoans the behavior of the current members of Phi Beta Kappa among the Harvard College undergraduates, whom he insists have sunk the society below its former "exalted station."

Student mathematical textbook of James Freeman, 1774

Manuscript volume containing portions of text copied from Nicholas Saunderson’s Elements of algebra, Nicholas Hammond’s The elements of algebra, and John Ward’s The young mathematician’s guide. The volume is divided into two main parts: the first is titled Concerning the parts of Arithmetick (p. 1-98) and the second, The elements of Algebra, extracted from Hammond, Ward & Saunderson (p. 99-259).

The Bedford schools and charities of Sir William Harper : history of this celebrated endowment, the Act of Parliament and scheme of rules for its management, and a memoir of Sir William Harper /

Includes index.

Memories of two cities, Edinburgh and Aberdeen,

"Edina, Scotia's darling seat."--Dr. Chalmers: his life and opinions.--An academic trio--Dr. David Welsh, "Christopher North," Sir William Hamilton.--An Edinburgh brotherhood--Agostino Ruffini.--Hugh Miller.--Thomas De Quincey .--Aberdeen and its traditions.--"The Doctor"--James Kidd.-- Aberdeen grammar school--Dr. Melvin.--Marischal college and its professors.--Personal memories and friendships.--Index.

Public school methods /

Illustrated lining-papers and t.p.

Public school methods : the teacher's professional library.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ovid's epistles /

"Being part of a poetical and oratorical lecture, read in the grammar-school of Ashford ... "

Elements of arithmetic /

pt. 1. Primary arithmetic. --pt. 2. Grammar-school arithmetic. --pt. 3. Arithmetic practically applied.

The Elson readers / by William H. Elson.

Primer. Revised edition of Elson-Runkel primer.--Bks.1-4. Revision of Elson primary school reader, books one to four.--Bks.5-6. Revision of Elson grammar school reader, books one to two.--Bk.7. Revision of junior high school literature, book one.

History of the colony of New Haven to its absorption into Connecticut /

"Supplementary history and personnel of towns belonging to the colony of New Haven": p. [593]-732, 749-767.

Gravitational quasinormal modes of AdS black branes in d spacetime dimensions

The AdS/CFT duality has established a mapping between quantities in the bulk AdS black-hole physics and observables in a boundary finite-temperature field theory. Such a relationship appears to be valid for an arbitrary number of spacetime dimensions, extrapolating the original formulations of Maldacena`s correspondence. In the same sense properties like the hydrodynamic behavior of AdS black-hole fluctuations have been proved to be universal. We investigate in this work the complete quasinormal spectra of gravitational perturbations of d-dimensional plane-symmetric AdS black holes (black branes). Holographically the frequencies of the quasinormal modes correspond to the poles of two-point correlation functions of the field-theory stress-energy tensor. The important issue of the correct boundary condition to be imposed on the gauge-invariant perturbation fields at the AdS boundary is studied and elucidated in a fully d-dimensional context. We obtain the dispersion relations of the first few modes in the low-, intermediate- and high-wavenumber regimes. The sound-wave (shear-mode) behavior of scalar (vector)-type low- frequency quasinormal mode is analytically and numerically confirmed. These results are found employing both a power series method and a direct numerical integration scheme.