A statement of premiums awarded ... from July 1817, to April 1829 : extracts from the correspondence, schedule of the funds, and a list of the officers and members /

Mode of access: Internet.

The oration on the thirteenth anniversary of the American Institute : together with the list of premiums awarded at the fair at Niblo's garden /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31737.14.

Electric toy making for amateurs.

Mode of access: Internet.

Toy en agiois patros emon ephraim toy syroy ta eyriskomena panta = Ephraem Syri Opera omnia : quae exstant Graece, Syriace, Latine, in sex tomos distributa : ad Mss. Codices, Vaticanos aliosque castigata, multis aucta, nova interpretatione, praesationibus, notis ... illustrata : tomus secundus graece, et latine.

Mode of access: Internet.

Eysebioy toy Pamphiloy episkopoy tes en Palaistine Kaisareias, Apodeixeos Biblia Deka = Eusebii Pamphili Caesareae Palaestinae Episcopi, De demonstratione euangelica libri decem : quibus accessere nondum hactenus editi nec visi contra Marcellum Ancyrae Episcopum libri due, De Ecclesiastica Theologia tres omnia studio R.M. Latinè facta, notis illustrata et indicibus loco suo neccessarijs locupletatia.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Iōannoy toy zōnapa Epitome istopiōn] Ioannis Zonarae Epitome historiarum.

Title in Greek at head of t.-p.

Toy en agiois patros emon ephraim toy syroy ta eyriskomena panta = S. P. N. Ephraem Syri Opera omnia : quae exstant Graece, Syriace, Latine, in sex tomos distributa : ad Mss. Codices Vaticanos aliosque castigata, multis aucta, nova interpretatione, praesationibus, notis ... illustrata /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dave Gillanders, UM Swimming, on medal stand for bronze in 200-meter butterfly at 1960 Olympics. Ni Hayes (Aus.) Silver and Mike Toy (U.S.) gold

[L-R: Ni Hayes (Aus), Mike Troy, Dave Gillanders]

The Mrichchakati; or, The toy cart : a drama /

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Manufacturers' abbreviated guide for age-labeling toys : matching toy characteristics to children's ages.

Mode of access: Internet.

Toy model for a relational formulation of quantum theory

In the absence of an external frame of reference-i.e., in background independent theories such as general relativity-physical degrees of freedom must describe relations between systems. Using a simple model, we investigate how such a relational quantum theory naturally arises by promoting reference systems to the status of dynamical entities. Our goal is twofold. First, we demonstrate using elementary quantum theory how any quantum mechanical experiment admits a purely relational description at a fundamental. Second, we describe how the original non-relational theory approximately emerges from the fully relational theory when reference systems become semi-classical. Our technique is motivated by a Bayesian approach to quantum mechanics, and relies on the noiseless subsystem method of quantum information science used to protect quantum states against undesired noise. The relational theory naturally predicts a fundamental decoherence mechanism, so an arrow of time emerges from a time-symmetric theory. Moreover, our model circumvents the problem of the collapse of the wave packet as the probability interpretation is only ever applied to diagonal density operators. Finally, the physical states of the relational theory can be described in terms of spin networks introduced by Penrose as a combinatorial description of geometry, and widely studied in the loop formulation of quantum gravity. Thus, our simple bottom-up approach (starting from the semiclassical limit to derive the fully relational quantum theory) may offer interesting insights on the low energy limit of quantum gravity.

Big 4 audit fee premiums for national and office-level industry leadership in the United Kingdom

The pricing of Big 4 industry leadership Is examined for a sample of U.K. publicly-listed companies, and adds to the evidence from the Australian and U.S. audit markets that city-specific industry leadership commands a fee premium. There is a significant fee premium for city-specific industry leaders relative to other Big 4 auditors, but no evidence that either the top-ranked or second-ranked firm nationally commands a fee premium relative to other Big 4 auditors, after controlling for city-level industry leadership. We also test for Big 4 fee premiums relative to non-Big 4 auditors and the U.K. data suggest a three-level hierarchy based on audit fee differentials: (1) Big 4 city-specific industry leaders have the largest fees; (2) other Big 4 auditors (noncity leaders) and second-tier national firms have comparable fees that are lower than Big 4 city leaders but larger than third-tier firms; and (3) third-tier accounting firms have the lowest fees.

Toy model to describe the effect of positional blocklike disorder in metamaterials composites

We study theoretically the effect of a new type of blocklike positional disorder on the effective electromagnetic properties of one-dimensional chains of resonant, high-permittivity dielectric particles, where particles are arranged into perfectly well-ordered blocks whose relative position is a random variable. This creates a finite order correlation length that mimics the situation encountered in metamaterials fabricated through self-assembled techniques, whose structures often display short-range order between near neighbors but long-range disorder, due to stacking defects. Using a spectral theory approach combined with a principal component statistical analysis, we study, in the long-wavelength regime, the evolution of the electromagnetic response when the composite filling fraction and the block size are changed. Modifications in key features of the resonant response (amplitude, width, etc.) are investigated, showing a regime transition for a filling fraction around 50%.