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Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D.
A provocative exploration of the links between appearance, gender and sexuality. Discusses beauty and ugliness, racism and beauty standards, and the role of class in shaping images of beauty.
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Correlation function profile analysis of polydisperse, macromolecular solutions and colloidal suspensions
Benjamin Chu, James R. Ford PhD, and H S. Dhadwal
Chapter 15 of Methods in Enzymology Volume 117: Enzyme Structure Part J; edited by C.H.W. Hirs, Serge N. Timashef.
Chapter summary:
This chapter presents the detailed descriptions of five methods of obtaining information about the characteristic linewidth distribution function G(F) from measured photocount autocorrelation functions, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The cumulants and nonlinear double exponential approaches require no a priori information about G(F), but are severely limited in the form of the distribution functions they can adequately represents. Both the methods discussed in the chapter are useful in providing starting estimates for the other techniques. The linear multiexponential and histogram approaches with singular value decomposition, and the regularized inversion, address the ill conditioning and may therefore be capable of more detailed description of G(F). The singular value decomposition methods requires a value for the range of G(F) in order to set up the model, are not constrained to physically reasonable distributions, and requires an interactive rank reduction stop to achieve a meaningful solution. The results of the histogram and multiexponential singular value decomposition and regularization techniques are illustrated in the chapter.
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Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1921
Anna Baerg and Gerald Peters PhD
Anna Baerg was born 30 January 1897 in Bijuk Busow, Crimea, Russia, the oldest cchild of Gerhard and Anna Baerg. She lived through the turbulent years of World War I, the Communist Revolution, and the ensuing civil war, in the Molotschna Mennonite colony in the Ukraine.
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The American Rabbinate : a Century of Continuity and Change, 1883-1983
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Jacob Rader Marcus
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Correlation Function Profile Analysis in Laser Light Scattering. III. An Iterative Procedure
James R. Ford PhD and Benjamin Chu
Chapter in Photon Correlation Techniques in Fluid Mechanics: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference at Kiel-Damp, Fed. Rep. of Germany, May 23–26, 1982: edited by Erich O. Schulz-DuBois
Chapter Abstract:
In photoelectron correlation function profile analysis, the inversion of the Laplace transform ∣∣g(l)(τ)∣∣=∫0∞G(Γ)e−ΓτdΓ (1) to obtain the normalized linewidth distribution function G(Γ) from the net electric field correlation function g(l)(τ) is essentially an unresolved ill-conditioned problem, where Γ and τ are, respectively, the characteristic linewidth and the delay time. In practice, g(l)(τ) contains noise and the integral has upper (b) and lower (a) bounds. Consequently, in order to remove the ill-conditioning, we need to have estimates of both the signal-to-noise ratio and the width, in terms of the support ratio γ(≡ b/a), of the linewidth distribution function. However, asg(l)(τ) depends upon the delay time range of our experiment, we now encounter a problem whereby our experimental conditions and the results we hope to obtain are interactive. Then, the success of a laser light scattering experiment depends upon (1) a proper choice of experimental conditions, as well as (2) appropriate inversion of the measured g(l)(τ) to obtain G(Γ). Thirdly, further analysis of G (Γ) is often required to obtain the desired information, such as molecular weight distribution, internal motions, etc. These three requirements are highly interdependent and the experimenter must be aware of the uncertainties introduced at each step. In this article, we propose an iterative procedure that tries to meet the above requirements.
About the book:
Photon correlation is a kind of spectroscopy designed to identify optical frequency shifts and line-broadening effects in the range of many MHz down to a few Hz. The optical intensity is measured in terms of single photon detection events which result in current pulses at the output of photomulti plier tubes. This signal is processed in real time in a special-purpose paral lel processor known as a correlator. The resulting photon correlation func tion, a function in the time domain, contains the desired spectral informa tion, which may be extracted by a suitable algorithm. Due to the non-intrusive nature and the sound theoretical basis of photon correlation, the phenomena under study are not disturbed, and the parameters in question can be precisely evaluated. For these reasons photon correlation has become a valuable and in many instances indispensable technique in two distinct fields. One of these is velocimetry in fluid flow. This includes hydro- and aerodynamic processes in liquids, gases, or flames where the velo city field may be stationary, time periodic, or turbulent, and may range from micrometers per second for motion inside biological cells to one kilometer per second for supersonic flow. The other major field is stochastic particle propagation due to Brownian motion.
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Jews and Christians after the Holocaust
Abraham J. Peck PhD
Essays read at a symposium sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in Cincinnati.
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Light Scattering Studies of the Internal Structure of Emulsion Polymer Particles
James R. Ford PhD
Chapter 17 of Emulsion Polymers and Emulsion Polymerization; edited by David R. Bassett and Alvin E. Hamielec.
Chapter abstract:
Wide angle light scattering is used as the principal probe to examine the core-shell structure proposed for certain acrylic acid acrylate ester copolymer latexes. Additional techniques were sedimentation and photon correlation spectroscopy. The work represents an application of core-shell light scattering theory to polymer latex suspensions and addresses the separate identification of light scattering by dust, latex particles and low molecular weight solutes. Core-Shell Theory and Model The exact electromagnetic scattering theory of the concentric shell model was first solved by Aden and Kerker (1) and shortly thereafter by Güttler (2). The problem has been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally for aerosols by Kerker and co-workers and is reviewed in Kerker's book (3). The aerosol system had a core of relative refractive index m1=2.105 and a shell of m2=1.482 corresponding to silver chloride coated with linolenic acid. The results indicated that for a smooth variation in the refractive index.
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Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings
Joseph A. Conforti
Samuel Hopkins was the closest friend and disciple of the man generally considered to be the greatest religious thinker America has produced—Jonathan Edwards. Hopkins was also a founder and leading spokesman of the New Divinity Movement, a major religious movement in New England congregationalism from 1740 to 1800.The author here combines biographical detail with a balanced and scholarly assessment of the historical and theological significance of this influential Calvinist thinker.
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Voice and Audience: The Emotional World of the Cantigas de Amigo
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Song.
It is the artistic use of the female voice (as role, persona, or rhetorical stance) in particular lyrical traditions or by particular poets, that is of interest here. Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This is not an attempt to completely cover the field but to offer an introduction and guide to those who are not familiar with woman's song, and a stimulation to those who are.
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Old age and beliefs in immortality
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter in The Older Woman, edited by V.C. Little.
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Wide Angle Light Scattering Investigation of the Internal Structure of Polymer Latexes
R L. Rowell, James R. Ford PhD, J W. Parsons, and D R. Bassett
Chapter 2 of Polymer Colloids II; edited by Robert M. Fitch.
Chapter abstract:
A new apparatus has been developed for the measurement of wide-angle and low-angle scattering from colloidal suspensions. The in strument employs an argon ion laser source, single photon counting detection, data acquisition by minicomputer and has an easily accessible angular resolution of 0.6°. The accuracy of the light scattering apparatus along with the reliability of the data-inversion procedure has been tested by comparison of measurements on a standard polystyrene latex by four independent methods on the same sample as well as comparison with numerous reports in the literature. An improvement of the inversion procedure of Rowell and Levit has been used in a double blind analysis of a control latex with no shell structure and the subject latex of pH-dependent shell structure. Both control and subject latex were analyzed using both homogeneous sphere theory and concentric sphere theory. The results conclusively established the existence of a concentric-shell structured latex and were in agreement with an independent study of the system by sedimentation methods, which is reported elsewhere in this book.
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Dynamics of Human Behavior: A Telelecture Program
University of Southern Maine
Table of contents:
Course Overview
Meet the Instructor
Course Objectives
Topical Outline
Session I
- Approaches to Human Behavior
- Reference Materials
Session II
- The Family
- Reference Materials
Session III
- Stages of Adulthood
- Reference Materials
Critique Form
Session IV
- Coping
- Reference Materials
Session V
- Issues in Geriatric Care
- Reference Materials
Bibliography
Telelecture Reaction Form
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Radicals and Reactionaries : the Crisis of Conservatism in Wilhelmine, Germany
Abraham J. Peck PhD
This is book is the first to attempt to deal fully with the Germany Conservative Party both as a long-time participant in the domestic affairs of the Wilhelmine Empire as a conservative political organization caught between the tradition and modernity in the last three decodes before 1918.
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The Effect of Angular Resolution on the Determination of Particle Size Distribution of Polymer Latexes by Light Scattering
R L. Rowell, J W. Parsons, James R. Ford PhD, and S R. Vasconcellos
Chapter in Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, edited by Paul Becher and Marvin N. Yudenfreund.
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Millennialism in American Thought, 1740-1840
Christopher M. Beam PhD
Doctoral dissertation on ideology of pre-Civil War reform movements.
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The Wild Colonial Boy
Jerry L. Bowder PhD
The Wild Colonial Boy Presents several tunes from the 16th through the 18th centuries that were associated with life at sea and on land in Maine in the 1700's and 1800's. Commissioned by the Town of Bath for Bicentennial Celebration in 1976, the work was ordered to be five minutes in length, and to be based on tunes that were selected by Larry Douglas in an arrangement suitable for performance by Bath's public school music groups. The songs and one hymn were arranged in such a way as to suggest a story of the life a boy raised in Casco, Maine (i.e. the wild colonial boy) who goes to sea (Haul on the Bolin - a short-haul ditty sung by sailors as early as the time of King Henry VIII), falls in love and leaves his life at sea (Up She Goes), settles down on land (Plenitude -a hymn written by Supple Belcher of Farmington, Maine [from his hymn book Harmony of Maine of 1794], and Simple Gifts - a song composed by Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848 at the Shaker colony in Alfred, Maine), and finally takes up arms to defend his country in its fights for independecne from the British (Portsmouth).
Of interest: Supply Belcher served under George Wshington in the Revolutionary War and was an associate of Wm. Billings, another pioneer American Composer. Joseph Brackett, Jr. lived for a short time in Gorham, Maine. His father, Joseph Brackett, Sr. donated his farm and its land to form the basis of the Shaker Colony at Sabbath Day Lake.
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The Fall of the Bourgeoisie: Cuba, 1959-1961
Alfred L. Padula PhD
This is an inquest into the demise of the Cuban bourgeoisie. How is it that, within the space of twenty-eight months, Castro's revolution was able to destroy this once powerful, talented and rapidly growing class?
It is the thesis of this dissertation that the Cuban bourgeoisie was destroyed not only by pressure from without, by events beyond its control, but also that it disintegrated in considerable part from within. To an important exten, the bourgeoisie died of its own follies, its own failures.
This dissertation focuses on the process of internal disintegration. Separate chapters consider the impact of Castro's revolution on the sugar mill owners, the sugar planters, the cattlemen, the industrialists, the banks, the public utilities, the Catholic church and the professional organizations. Other chapters discuss the nature of the pre-revolutionary bourgeoisie, and their financing of Castro's rebellion. Each chapter provides sufficient historical background to make evident the strengths and vulnerabilities of the sector in question. And each chapter is developed around one or more leading personalities of that sector.
The outstanding characteristic of the pre-revolutionary bourgeoisie was its ambiguity. The Cuban bourgeoisie was torn between Madrid and Miami, between an aristocratic and egalitarian tradition. It lacked widely respected leaders, and widely admired goals. Most members of the bourgeoisie were wrapped in an intense individualism and devotion to their families. They were only rarely able to conceive of and support broader national interests. Safe in their comfortable economic and military dependence on the United States, the bourgeoisie sought the pleasures, but not the responsibilities, of affluence.
Castro brilliantly exploited the weakness of the old bourgeoisie. He played on their opportunism to help finance his rebellion. Once in power, he cultivated and won their support, giving his revolution a powerful initial momentum. Thereafter he began to turn against his benefactors, encouraging the ambitions of the less successful ranks of the bourgeoisie for the jobs, the lands, and the honors of their upper-class confreres. For every organization of the old bourgeoisie, a new revolutionary counter-organization sprang up to contest its authority. The bourgeoisie, betrayed by its own rebellious clerks, began to crack along the lines of age, of class ranking, of economic interest.
The speed and audacity of Castro's revolution left the bourgeoisie stunned; paralyzed. A bourgeoisie accustomed to manipulating government by financial lures found the revolutionary government was disinterested in money. The bourgeoisie was unnerved by Castro's sway over the masses, and fearful of penalties that might accrue owing to their misbehavior during the Batista era. The leaders of the bourgeoisie vacillated, temporized, and then went into exile. Other burgueses remained behind, attracted by Castro's appeal to idealism, nationalism and heroic tradition. In 1959 some were ready to substantially modify their traditional dependence on the United States. And in an orgy of self-criticism, others concluded that Castro was right: Cuba could no longer afford a bourgeoisie.
By 1960, a bourgeoisie weakened by the increasing socialization of the economy, and demoralized by its own impotence and loss of status, fled increasingly to Miami. Even in exile the bourgeoisie found itself disunited, able to agree only that the United States must save them. When the U.S. failed to do so, they were lost.
