Gays protest outside of NY City Hall for passage of civil rights bill Intro 475

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Intro 2 march for civil rights in Sheridan Square

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Lesbian mothers in support of Intro 384 Rally

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Kate Millett at City Hall for Intro 475

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Dr. June Christmas, Commissioner of mental health, at City Hall for Intro 2

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An examination of factors influencing effective and continuous improvement of Indonesian contractors' quality management systems

This paper presents the results of a pilot study examining the factors that impact most on the effective implementation of, and improvement to, Quality Mangement Sytems (QMSs) amongst Indonesian construction companies. Nine critical factors were identified from an extensive literature review, and a survey was conducted of 23 respondents from three specific groups (Quality Managers, Project Managers, and Site Engineers) undertaking work in the Indonesian infrastructure construction sector. The data has been analyzed initially using simple descriptive techniques. This study reveals that different groups within the sector have different opinions of the factors regardless of the degree of importance of each factor. However, the evaluation of construction project success and the incentive schemes for high performance staff, are the two factors that were considered very important by most of the respondents in all three groups. In terms of their assessment of tools for measuring contractor’s performance, additional QMS guidelines, techniques related to QMS practice provided by the Government, and benchmarking, a clear majority in each group regarded their usefulness as ‘of some importance’.

Should I grow wildflowers? Agrilink, your growing guide to better farming

Each Agrilink kit has been designed to be both comprehensive and practical. As the kits are arranged to answer questions of increasing complexity, they are useful references for both new and experienced producers of specific crops. Agrilink integrates the technology of horticultural production with the management of horticultural enterprises. REPRINT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ! For updated information please call 13 25 23 or visit the website www.deedi.qld.gov.au (Select: Queensland Industries – Agriculture link) This publication has been reprinted as a digital book without any changes to the content published in 2000. We advise readers to take particular note of the areas most likely to be out-of-date and so requiring further research: see detailed information on first page of the kit. Even with these limitations we believe this information kit provides important and valuable information for intending and existing growers. This publication was last revised in 2000. The information is not current and the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed by the State of Queensland. This information has been made available to assist users to identify issues involved in the production of wildflowers. This information is not to be used or relied upon by users for any purpose which may expose the user or any other person to loss or damage. Users should conduct their own inquiries and rely on their own independent professional advice. While every care has been taken in preparing this publication, the State of Queensland accepts no responsibility for decisions or actions taken as a result of any data, information, statement or advice, expressed or implied, contained in this publication.

Surveillance in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is an inherited cancer predisposition syn-drome characterized by early onset colorectal cancer (CRC) and several other extra-colonic cancers, most commonly endometrial cancer (EC) and gastric cancer. Our aim was to evaluate the efficiency and results of the ongoing CRC and EC surveillance programs and to investigate the grounds for future gastric cancer screening by comparing the gastric biopsies of mutation positive and negative siblings in search for premalignant lesions. We also compared a new surveillance method, computerized tomographic colonoscopy (CTC) with optic colonoscopy. The patient material consisted of 579 family members from 111 Finnish HNPCC families al-most all harboring a known mismatch repair gene mutation. The efficacy of CRC and EC surveillance programs on HNPCC patients was evaluated by comparing the stage and survival of cancer cases detected with surveillance versus without. The performance of a new technique, CTC, was explored using a same-day colonoscopy as a reference standard. The use of intrauterine aspiration biopsies for EC surveillance was intro-duced for the first time in a HNPCC setting. Upper GI endoscopies were performed and biop-sies taken from mutation carriers and their mutation-negative siblings. The present surveillance program for CRC proved to be efficient. The CRC cases detected by surveillance were at a significantly more favorable stage than those in the non-surveilled group. This advantage was reflected in a significantly higher CRC-specific survival in the sur-veilled group. The performance of a new technique, CTC was found insufficient for polyp detection in this population in which every polyp, no matter the size, should be detected and removed. Colono-scopy was confirmed as a better surveillance modality than CTC. We could not observe any of the assumed differences in the gastric mucosa from mutation carriers and their mutation-negative siblings and no cases of gastric cancer were detected. The results gave no support for gastric surveillance. The EC surveillance program (transvaginal ultrasound and intra-uterine biopsy every 2-3 years) seemed to be efficient. It yielded several asymptomatic cancer cases and premalignant lesions. The stage distribution of the endometrial cancers in the group under surveillance tended to be more favorable than that of the mutation-positive, symptomatic EC patients who had no surveillance. None of the surveilled EC patients died of EC compared to six in the non-surveilled patients during the follow up. The improvement was, however, not statistically sig-nificant, thus far. Another observation was the good performance of endometrial aspiration biopsies used in this setting for the first time.

Psychologically-Based and Content-Oriented Experience in Entertainment Virtual Environments

In daily life, rich experiences evolve in every environmental and social interaction. Because experience has a strong impact on how people behave, scholars in different fields are interested in understanding what constitutes an experience. Yet even if interest in conscious experience is on the increase, there is no consensus on how such experience should be studied. Whatever approach is taken, the subjective and psychologically multidimensional nature of experience should be respected. This study endeavours to understand and evaluate conscious experiences. First I intro-duce a theoretical approach to psychologically-based and content-oriented experience. In the experiential cycle presented here, classical psychology and orienting-environmental content are connected. This generic approach is applicable to any human-environment interaction. Here I apply the approach to entertainment virtual environments (VEs) such as digital games and develop a framework with the potential for studying experiences in VEs. The development of the methodological framework included subjective and objective data from experiences in the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) and with numerous digital games (N=2,414). The final framework consisted of fifteen factor-analytically formed subcomponents of the sense of presence, involvement and flow. Together, these show the multidimensional experiential profile of VEs. The results present general experiential laws of VEs and show that the interface of a VE is related to (physical) presence, which psychologically means attention, perception and the cognitively evaluated realness and spatiality of the VE. The narrative of the VE elicits (social) presence and involvement and affects emotional outcomes. Psychologically, these outcomes are related to social cognition, motivation and emotion. The mechanics of a VE affect the cognitive evaluations and emotional outcomes related to flow. In addition, at the very least, user background, prior experience and use context affect the experiential variation. VEs are part of many peoples lives and many different outcomes are related to them, such as enjoyment, learning and addiction, depending on who is making the evalua-tion. This makes VEs societally important and psychologically fruitful to study. The approach and framework presented here contribute to our understanding of experiences in general and VEs in particular. The research can provide VE developers with a state-of-the art method (www.eveqgp.fi) that can be utilized whenever new product and service concepts are designed, prototyped and tested.

Hydrological importance of sacred forest fragments in Central Western Ghats of India

Sacred groves are patches of forests of special spiritual significance to humans, offering also a diverse range of ecological and environmental services. We have attempted here to understand the local hydrological dynamics of a sacred forest, in terms of the benefits the village community derive, in central Western Ghats region of India. A comparative assessment has been made between two small watersheds in terms of their landscape structure (woody species composition) with soil water properties and availability of water in the respective downstream villages. The result shows that, sacred site with more primeval vegetation has close association with soil moisture in comparison to non-sacred site during dry spell of the year. The higher soil moisture ensures year long availability of water in the downstream village of the sacred site which facilitates farming of commercial crops with higher economic returns to the farmers, unlike the farmers in the other village where they face water crisis during the lean season. The study emphasizes the need for conservation endeavour on sacred groves highlighting its potential for water conservation at local and regional levels.

Evaluación de líneas de sorgo por su resistencia a la mosquita, Stenodiplosis sorghicola (Coq.) en Nicaragua

Con el objetivo de evaluar líneas de sorgo por su resistencia a la mosquita, Stenodiplosis sorghicola (Coq.), se introdujo procedente de la Universidad de Texas A & M, en el año 2004 un vivero de 64 líneas de sorgo con resistencia a mosquita. Se seleccionaron las mejores 35 por aspecto de planta para sembrarlas nuevamente en 2005. Además en 2005 se intro dujo otro vivero de 50 líneas. Los tres viveros se sembraron en surcos de 5 m de largo distribuidos en bloques completos al azar con 3 repeticiones en la época de postrera (Agosto – Diciembre) de 2004 en Santa Rosa y 2005 en CNIA, am bas estaciones experimentales del Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). El daño de mosquita se evaluó usando la escala visual para daño elaborada por Fre deriksen et al (1981). También las líneas se evaluaron para rendimiento de grano y se tomó datos de días a floración y altura de planta. Los resultados indican que en 2004 Las lí - neas de mayor rendimiento de grano fueron 02CM1137-BK/ LM, 03CM15085-BK, 03CM15038-BK y 03CM15033-BK con 6002, 5194, 5144 y 5066 kg/ha respectivamente y que el daño de mosquita fue muy bajo. En 2005, en la evaluación de 35 líneas seleccionadas en 2004, las de mayor rendimien to fueron 03CM15038-BK, 03CM15033-BK, 03CM15131 y 01LI9278 con 6406, 6396, 6255 y 6215 kg/ha y daño de mosquita de 1.3, 1.0, 1.3 y 1.0 respectivamente. El daño de mosquita fue severo y algunas líneas no produjeron grano. El menor rendimiento se encontró en la línea 01LI9275 con 280 kg/ha y daño de 8.3. En el vivero nuevo introducido en 2005 las líneas de mayor rendimiento fueron 05:03CM15087-BK, 05:04LI4366, 05:00LI1324 y 05LI4042,43 con 7915, 7238, 6625 y 5088 kg/ha respectivamente y daño de mosquita de 1.0 en las primeras tres líneas y 2.0 en la cuarta. En este vi vero, la línea 05:04LI4015,16 no produjo grano y el daño fue de 9.0.

岩石介质流变学

第一章 绪论
1.一维情况
2.平衡方程和波动理论基础
第二章 塑性力学和粘塑性力学中的一维本构方程、初值问题和边值问题
1.一维经典塑性力学问题的某些本构方程
2.半线性和拟线性率型本构方程
3.瞬态塑性应变的率型本构方程
4.特征线场，初值问题和边值问题
5.例子
第三章 理论的实验基础
1.静态实验
1.1常规试验
1.2长程试验
1.3短程试验
1.4Portevin-LeChatelier效应
2.杆的动态纵向撞击
3.重复加载试验
3.1静态加载后再动态加载
3.2动态加载后动态重复加载
第四章 用数值方法确定本构方程
1.用于数值例子中的本构方程
2.初始条件与边界条件
3.冲击波
4.数值例子
5.模型之间的比较
6.结论和某些评论
第五章 一维率型本构方程
1.动态重复加载实验对率型本构方程所加的限制条件
2.率型材料的稳态运动
3.关于率型材料的微分方程（5.1.2）的解
4.本构假设Ⅰ和Ⅱ的结论
5.关于动塑性中“平台”存在的评论
第六章 内变量描述的非弹性性状
1.加在带内变量的本构方程上的热力学限制
1.1状态空间，本构方程
1.2加在本构方程上的CLAUSIUS-DUHEM不等式的实质
2.加在本构方程的耗损部分上的热力学限制
3.构架无关原理.材料的同格群
4.对单位自由能限制的意义
5.具有内部状态变量的弹—粘塑性模型
6.具有内变量的一维塑性理论
第七章 具有内变量的材料中的加速度波
1.引言
2.拟线性假设
3.对称加速度波
4.强平衡态.强椭圆率条件
5.实加速度波
6.第二对称假设和强平衡态附近的热流
7.线性理论
8.半线性理论
第八章 经典粘塑性力学中的某些本构方程
1.BINGHAM刚/粘塑性模型
2.弹—粘塑性模型
3.拟线性模型
第九章 岩石的粘塑性本构方程
1.引言
2.标准压缩试验
3.蠕变试验
4.体积压缩性
5.结论
第十章 一维粘塑性本构方程在连续统物理的其他领域中的应用
1.引言
2.拟线性率型本构方程，电线上的实波和对称波
3.线性率型本构方程
4.关于模拟电晕效应的半线性率型本构方程
4.1一般考虑
4.2实验结果的简短描述
4.3本构方程用于数值例子
4.4数值结果与实验结果的比较
4.5关于所讲座的模型的评论和结论
5.电晕效应和波传播的与速率无关的模型
5.1引言
5.2问题的表述
5.3数值例子
5.4结论要点
第十一章 流变学模型在岩体工程中的应用
1.油井周围岩石的里面蠕变、膨胀及压缩
1.1基本方程
1.2线弹性解
1.3线性粘弹性岩石
1.4弹性/粘塑性岩石
1.5井眼周围岩石的膨胀/压缩及损伤
1.6更一般的原始应力状态
2.水平井段周围岩石的蠕变、膨胀及压缩
2.1基本方程
2.2弹性解
2.3线性粘弹性模型下水平井段周围岩石的蠕变
2.4弹性/粘塑性模型的蠕变
2.5水平井段周围岩石的蠕变、膨胀/压缩，损伤破坏
3.开挖后的岩体高边坡流变学性状的分析
3.1简介
3.2岩体流变学模型
3.3有限元分析
3.4数值结果
3.5结论
附录实验数据分析中所使用的数值方法和程序
1.引言
2.问题的表述
3.迭代方法的原理
4.卸载描述
5.边界条件
6.程序方框图
7.关于RI情况的要点
8.其他的特征线方法变量
9.要点
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