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2143 entries. ; Cover title: The library of the late Col. Jonas H. French of Boston. ; McKay, G.L. Amer. auction cats. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- STATEMENT OF TASK -- 2 Basic Principles of Film Badge Dosimetry -- A. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- B. PERSONNEL DOSIMETRY FILMS -- C. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL BASIS OF FILM DOSIMETRY -- D. THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS -- E. DENSITOMETRY -- F. RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF FILM -- G. ENERGY DEPENDENCE AND FILM BADGE DESIGN -- H. OTHER SOURCES OF ERROR IN FILM BADGE DOSIMETRY -- I. CALIBRATION AND STANDARDIZATION -- J. NEUTRON DOSIMETRY -- 3 Radiation Source Terms in Atmospheric Testing -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. INITIAL RADIATION -- C. RESIDUAL RADIATION -- Fallout -- Induced Activity Other Than Fallout -- D. PHOTON FIELDS FROM RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVITY -- Bremsstrahlung -- X Rays -- Gamma Rays -- E. CONCLUSION -- 4 Use of Film Badges in Atmospheric Nuclear Testing -- A. FISSION AND ACTIVATION-PRODUCT MONITORING WITH FILM BADGES -- B. BETA PARTICLE MONITORING -- C. CALIBRATION -- D. FILM BADGE RANGE AND THE PROBLEM OF OVERLAP -- E. EFFECTS OF SOLARIZATION ON FILM BADGE MONITORING -- F. RADIOLOGICAL AND OPERATIONAL EFFECTS -- G. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS IN FIELD USE -- H. FILM BADGE EXPOSURE VERSUS DOSE -- I. TEST SERIES EXPOSURE LIMITS -- 5 Quantification of Personnel Film Badge Uncertainties -- A. DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF MEASURES OF TOTAL UNCERTAINTY -- Evaluating Individual Sources of Uncertainty -- Combining Several Sources of Uncertainty in One Badge Reading -- Special Problems in the Application of Uncertainty Analyses to Film Badge Dosimetry -- Uncertainty in Estimates of Total Dose Based on the Sum of Several Film Badge Readings -- B. CATEGORIES OF UNCERTAINTY -- Laboratory Uncertainties -- Radiological Uncertainties -- Environmental.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Bridging the Civil-Military Technological Divide in the Information Age -- Integrating the Civilian and Defense Economies -- China's Enduring Quest for Wealth and Military Power -- The National Innovation Systems Framework -- Examining the Defense Economy through the NIS Prism -- Understanding How Defense Technological Innovation Takes Place -- 2. Innovation and Stagnation during the Maoist Era -- The Building of the Conventional and Strategic Weapons Bases -- The Defense Economy's Relationship with the Maoist NIS -- The Setup of the Conventional and Strategic Weapons Systems -- The Floundering of the Conventional Defense Industrial System -- Barriers to Conventional Weapons Innovation -- The Flourishing of the Strategic Weapons System -- The Consolidation of the Defense Economy in the Late 1970s -- 3. The Eclipse of the Defense Economy under Deng Xiaoping -- The Defense Economy and Its Relationship with the NIS in the 1980s -- Defense Conversion -- The Impact of Conversion on the Defense Economy -- Successes and Drawbacks of Conversion -- The Struggle to Overhaul the Legacy Defense Industrial Base -- Key Activities of the System -- The State of the Defense Economy by the Late 1990s -- 4. The Revival of the Defense Economy in the Twenty-first Century -- Setting the Stage for Bold Reforms -- The Relationship between the Defense and National Innovation Systems -- Reform and Consolidation Begin -- Key Activities of the Rejuvenated Defense Innovation System -- The Prospects for Catching Up and Leapfrogging -- 5. Building a Dual-Use Economy -- From Defense Conversion to Dual Use and Spin-On -- Defining the Yujun Yumin Dual-Use Economy -- Chinese Approaches to Civil-Military Integration and Spin-On -- Building Linkages between the Civilian and Defense Economies.

Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community's efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of deindustrialization. Through powerful oral histories and other primary sources, Jeremy Brecher tells the story of a group of average Americans--factory workers, housewives, parishioners, and organizers--who tried to create a democratic alternative to the economic powerlessness caused by the closing of factories in the Connecticut Naugatuck Valley region during the 1970s and 1980s. This volume focuses on grassroots organization, democratically controlled enterprises, and supportive public policies, providing examples from the Naugatuck Valley Project community alliance that remain relevant to the economic problems of today and tomorrow.

Preparing for the 2000 Census -- Copyright -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Application of Sampling Procedures -- NEED FOR SAMPLING -- CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF SAMPLING -- The Terminology of Sampling Variability -- Sampling Error and Public Confidence -- Sampling and the Mail Return Rate -- The Accuracy of Small-Area Data -- 3 Addresses Linked to Geography: Cornerstone of the 2000 Census -- NEED FOR AN ACCURATE MAF -- CENSUS BUREAU PLANS -- Use of USPS Address Lists -- Updating TIGER, MAF, and the Linkage Between Them -- Targeted Updating -- Rural Areas -- Cooperation with Local Governments: Final Stages -- Multiple Unit Structures -- ASSESSMENT -- 4 Improved Survey Methods: Making It Easier to Respond -- RESPONDENT-FRIENDLY QUESTIONNAIRES -- MULTIPLE MODES FOR RESPONSE -- TARGETING FOR SPANISH-LANGUAGE QUESTIONNAIRES -- TARGETED PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGNS -- SERVICE-BASED ENUMERATION -- 5 Sampling for Nonresponse Follow-Up: Achieving Adequate Precision at Acceptable Cost -- ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS FOR NONRESPONSE FOLLOW-UP -- ASSESSMENT OF THE BASIC DESIGN ALTERNATIVES -- Operational and Costs Issues -- Sampling Variability Associated with Alternative Designs -- Other Criteria -- Conclusions About Design Alternatives -- OTHER DESIGN ISSUES -- Determining the Appropriate Amount of Nonresponse Follow-Up -- Unit of Sampling -- Follow-Up of Units with Postmaster Returns -- Role of Administrative Records -- 6 Integrated Coverage Measurement: Tackling the Differential Undercount -- INCLUSION OF INTEGRATED COVERAGE MEASUREMENT IN THE FINAL CENSUS ENUMERATION -- ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES -- RESULTS FROM THE 1995 CENSUS TEST -- Face Validity of the Methodologies -- Operational Problems: Incomplete Rosters -- Operational Problems: The Integrated Coverage Measurement Interview -- Weighting Procedures -- Comparability of Blocks -- NEXT STEPS.

Includes legal and general indexes. ; Original Latin or French and English translation on opposite pages. ; First vol. of a series. cf. Preface, p. viii. Later vol. entitled Statute roles of the Parliament of Ireland. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In the contest of the western powers of Europe to colonize the New World, France, owing to a mistaken policy, failed completely and saw her flag and sovereignty practically driven back from this hemisphere. The early attempts of Admiral de Coligny to colonize the Huguenots first in Brazil and then in Florida, were, owing to the indifference and even opposition of the French crown, abortive. And in the later effort of the French crown to colonize in Canada and Louisiana, the attempt to bring over the remains of feudalism as opposed to the strong individualism that characterized the English settlers, reinforced by the Hollanders in New Netherlands, the Swedes and the Germans in Pennsylvania, and the Huguenots in Virginia and the Carolinas, doomed the French settlers, in the valley of the Saint Lawrence and at the mouth of the Mississippi, to defeat in their effort to extend their language and supremacy over the continent of North America.

Comparative table of some later English coronation orders.--Coronation of King William and Queen Mary.--Anglo-French version of the English coronation order.--Consecration of the Anglo-Saxon king.--Appendices: Coronation oath of James II. Extracts from William III's Council register. Sancroft's commission to consecrate bishops. Extract from Parliament rolls of William and Mary. Lord chamberlains's warrants for the coronation of William and Mary. Extracts from Lord chamberlain's accounts, William and Mary. Extracts from declared accounts from Queen Anne to George III. Ceremonial of the coronation of King William and Queen Mary. Coronation of the queen consort. Anglo-French document on the coronation.--Notes. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Art and democracy: Wagner, Millet, and Whitman.--Angels' wings.--Nature and realism in art.--The human body in its relation to art.--Tradition, convention, and the gods.--The individual impression.--Beethoven and his earlier sonatas.--Beethoven and his later sonatas and his symphonies.--The art of life.--Notes on the art of life: Manners as a fine art. The simplification of life. The return to nature. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Art and democracy: Wagner, Millet, and Whitman.--Angels' wings.--Nature and realism in art.--The human body in its relation to art.--Tradition, convention, and the gods.--The individual impression.--Beethoven and his earlier sonatas.--Beethoven and his later sonatas and his symphonies.--The art of life.--Notes on the art of life: Manners as a fine art. The simplification of life. The return to nature. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface The Rise, Fall, and Unexpected Revitalization of the Kibbutz -- Introduction The Kibbutz at One Hundred: A Century of Crises and Reinvention -- Part I The Unfolding History of the Contemporary Kibbutz -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 The Early Roots of a Later Crisis-The Kibbutz Crisis of the 1980s and Its Roots at the Time of the Establishment of the State of Israel -- 2 From "We" to "Me": The Ideological Roots of the Privatization of the Kibbutz -- 3 The Changing Composition of Kibbutz Elites

Outline of the voyages and discoveries of Christopher Columbus.--Some facts concerning the early history of the Western continent.--Acts of Congress relative to the World's Columbian exposition.--President Harrison's proclamation.--Biographical notices of President, Vice-President, cabinet officials, governors of states and territories, prominent political officials and World's fair officials.--Description of the World's Columbian exposition.--Chronological table of important events.--Latest census returns of population . etc.--Sketches of schools, colleges, universities . --The Constitution of the United States.--Statistics relative to the growth of the country . etc. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword: Göran Printz-Påhlson, a Life in and beyond Letters -- Inbetween: Locating Göran Printz-Påhlson -- 'The Overall Wandering of Mirroring Mind': Some Notes on Göran Printz-Påhlson -- The Words of the Tribe: Primitivism, Reductionism, and Materialism in Modern Poetics -- Part One: Linguistic Primitivism in Modernism and Romanticism -- Part Two: Linguistic Reductionism in Poetry Criticism -- Part Three: The Material Word: From Imagism to New Criticism to Intertextualism -- Part Four: The Polity of Metaphor and the Purity of Diction -- Other Prose -- Part Five: Style, Irony, Metaphor, and Meaning -- Part Six: Realism as Negation -- Part Seven: Historical Drama and Historical Fiction: The Example of Strindberg -- Part Eight: The Canon of Literary Modernism: A Note on Abstractionin the Poetry of Erik Lindegren -- Part Nine: The Tradition of Contemporary Swedish Poetry -- Part Ten: Kierkegaard the Poet -- Part Eleven: Surface and Accident: John Ashbery -- Part Twelve: The Voyages of John Matthias -- Letters of Blood: Poems -- Letters of Blood -- One -- My Interview with I.A. Richards -- Generation -- Televisiondreamroutines -- The Longest-Running Show on Television -- The Enormous Comics -- Poem Unnamed -- Botchuana -- Two -- Aelius Lamia: Tankas for Robert Hass -- Odradek -- Turing Machine -- Broendal -- Two Prose Poems -- Sir Charles Babbage Returns to Trinity College -- Man-Made Monster Surreptitiously Regarding Idyllic Scene -- Joe Hill in Prison -- Remember the Rosenbergs -- When Beaumont and Tocqueville First Visited Sing-Sing -- Three Baroque Arias from Gradiva -- Three -- Comedians -- Acrobats on the Radio: Letter to Newcomb -- To John at the Summer Solstice, Before His Return -- Four -- The Green-Ey'd Monster.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. A Defector Like No Other -- 1 Walk-in -- 2 Getting Under Way -- 3 A Visit to Headquarters -- 4 En Route -- 5 New Job, Under Clouds -- 6 Bombshell -- 7 Popov's Ghost -- 8 Defection -- 9 Impasse -- Part II. Deadly Games -- 10 ''Guiding Principle'' -- 11 Deceiving in Wartime -- 12 Postwar Games -- 13 Symbiosis: Moles and Games -- Part III. Hidden Moles -- 14 Dead Drop -- 15 Code Clerks -- 16 Connections -- Part IV. Confrontation -- 17 Crunch Time -- 18 Face-off -- Part V. Too Hot to Handle -- 19 Head in the Sand -- 20 Lingering Debate -- Part VI Late Light -- 21 Hiding a Mole, KGB-Style -- 22 The Other Side of the Moon -- 23 Boomerang -- Appendix A: A KGB Veteran's View of Nosenko -- Appendix B: A Myth and Its Making -- Appendic C: Self-deception- Bane of Counterintelligence -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.

Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I Current Risks of Disease Transmission -- Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? -- Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview -- TRANSFUSION PLASMA -- BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- RED BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- PLATELET CONCENTRATES -- II Guarding the Blood Supply -- The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods -- Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors -- CDC Surveillance of Donors -- DISCUSSION -- Surveillance of Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens -- DISCUSSION -- III New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring -- Information Technology and Blood Safety -- Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients -- IV Risk Tolerance -- Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion -- Trade-off of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor Concentrates in the 1970s and 1980s -- DISCUSSION -- Examples of Risks That We Tolerate -- DISCUSSION -- V Risk Communication -- A Mental Model Approach to Risk Communication -- DISCUSSION -- Risk Communication: Building Credibility -- ROLE OF INFORMATION -- THE ROLE OF RISK NUMBERS -- THE ROLE OF RISK COMPARISONS -- SOURCES OF CONFLICT -- DISCUSSION -- Attitudes Toward Risk: The Right to Know and the Right to Give Informed Consent -- DISCUSSION -- Patients, Informed Consent, and the Health Care Team -- DISCUSSION -- Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Patients -- DISCUSSION -- VI No-Fault Insurance -- Administrative and "No-Fault" Systems for Compensating Medically Related Injuries -- The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury -- DISCUSSION -- VII Concluding Remarks -- Henrik H. Bendixen -- Appendixes.