Distance and Proximity in Service to the Empire: Ulster and New Zealand between the Wars

This essay uses the concepts of ‘distance’ and ‘proximity’ to investigate and assess perceptions of community, nation and empire in inter-war New Zealand and Ulster (as well as Ireland and Northern Ireland) within a British imperial context, and explores the extent to which service of the empire (for example in the First World War) promoted both notions of imperial unity and local autonomy. It focuses on how these perceptions were articulated in the inter-war years during visits to Northern Ireland by three New Zealand premiers – Massey, Forbes and Coates – and to New Zealand by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon. It discusses the significant ways in which distance from their ‘home base’ and proximity to expatriate communities (in Craigavon's case) and Irish unionists and nationalists (in the case of the New Zealand premiers) inflected public statements during their visits. By examining these inter-war visits and investigating the rhetoric used and the cultural demonstrations associated with them, the factors of both distance and proximity can be used to evaluate similarities and difference across two parts of the empire. Thus, we can throw some light on the nature and dynamics of British imperial identity in the early twentieth century.

The History of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts : sixty years of service to the federal judiciary /

"January 2000."

A half century of cable service to the three Americas.

"Waldseemuller world map of 1507" on lining-papers.

Johns-Manville service to the oil industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

From Packard to Perry : a quarter century of service to the defense acquisition community /

"June 1996."

"Black Hawks", three decades of service to the nation : a brief history of the 86th United States Army Reserve Command.

Mode of access: Internet.

Johns-Manville service to the iron and steel industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Auditor's Office : its service to the people of Illinois /

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Free masonry : its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard authors : with a review of Town's speculative masonry : its liability to pervert the doctrines of revealed religion : discovered in the spirit of its doctrines and in the application of its emblems : its dangerous tendency exhibited in extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison : and further illustrated in its base service to the illuminati /

"A list of masonic authors quoted in this work, to illustrate the character of free masonry"--P. [v].

Social security : need to improve postentitlement service to the public : report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives /

"B-249655"--P. 1.

NOAA, a young agency with an historic tradition of service to the nation

Mode of access: Internet.

Recreational transit service to the California Santa Monica Mountains : final report /

Performed by Crain and Associates, Inc. under contract to the Transportation Systems Center.

Australian Property Institute Inc, Submission to the Productivity Commission on Intellectual Property Arrangements – Issues Paper

This submission responds to the document Intellectual Property Arrangements Issues Paper (Issues Paper) released by the Productivity Commission in October 2015 for public consultation and input by 30 November 2015. The API is grateful for the extension of time granted by the Commission to complete and lodge this submission. The overall need for an inquiry into intellectual property is supported by API. In particular it is noted with approval that the Commission states in its Issues Paper that it is to consider the appropriate balance between “incentives for innovation and investments, and the interests of both individuals and businesses in assessing products”.1 However, API is of the view that intellectual property in the area of real property presents a number of issues which are not fully canvassed in the abovementioned Issues Paper. Intellectual property embedded in valuation and other property-related reports of API members involves the acquisition of information which may possibly be confidential. Yet, when engaged in banks and financial institutions the intellectual property in such valuations and/ or reports is commonly required to be passed to the client bank or financial institution. In the Issues Paper it is proposed that there are seven different forms of intellectual property rights.2 It is the view of API that an eight form exists, namely private agreements. The Issues Paper, however, regards private agreements between firms as alternatives to intellectual property rights. The API considers that “secrecy or confidentiality arrangements”3 as identified in the Issues Paper form a much larger part of the manner in which intellectual property is maintained in Australia for the purposes of trade secrecy or more often, financial confidentiality...

The Life of Benjamin Franklin : illustrated by tales, sketches, and anecdotes : adapted to the use of schools : with engravings.

"Essays of Dr. Franklin"--p. [136]-180. "We have selected a few of his lighter essays as a sequel to the biography; desirable, both as displaying somewhat of the character of their author, and conveying common sense maxims likely to be of much service to the young."--p. [136]. Includes verse.

Quantitative online prediction of peptide binding to the major histocompatibility complex

With its implications for vaccine discovery, the accurate prediction of T cell epitopes is one of the key aspirations of computational vaccinology. We have developed a robust multivariate statistical method, based on partial least squares, for the quantitative prediction of peptide binding to major histocompatibility complexes (MHC), the principal checkpoint on the antigen presentation pathway. As a service to the immunobiology community, we have made a Perl implementation of the method available via a World Wide Web server. We call this server MHCPred. Access to the server is freely available from the URL: http://www.jenner.ac.uk/MHCPred. We have exemplified our method with a model for peptides binding to the common human MHC molecule HLA-B*3501.