Photometric Mapping with ISOPHOT using the "P32" Astronomical Observation Template

The ``P32'' Astronomical Observation Template (AOT) provided a means to map large areas of sky (up to 45 x 45 arcmin) in the far-infrared (FIR) at high redundancy and with sampling close to the Nyquist limit using the ISOPHOT C100 (3 x 3) and C200 (2 x 2) detector arrays on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). However, the transient response behaviour of the Ga:Ge detectors, if uncorrected, can lead to severe systematic photometric errors and distortions of source morphology on maps. We describe the basic concepts of an algorithm which can successfully correct for transient response artifacts in P32 observations. Examples are given to demonstrate the photometric and imaging performance of ISOPHOT P32 observations of point and extended sources corrected using the algorithm. For extended sources we give the integrated flux densities of the nearby galaxies NGC6946, M51 and M101 and an image of M101 at 100 micron.Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures, published in A&A 410, 107

Dramaturgia y escuela I : obras teatrales para niños y propuestas didácticas de abordaje de los textos

Con "Dramaturgia y Escuela I" se pretende brindar a los maestros y a los profesores de teatro, múltiples y valiosas posibilidades de lectura y de juegos expresivos y ofrecer un aporte a la promoción de la lectura placentera y a la iniciación en aprendizajes teatrales. Esta selección de obras, en las se ha cuidado que estén siempre presentes valores éticos y estéticos, también se proporciona un repertorio interesante a actores profesionales que trabajen en teatro para niños. Gracias a la preocupación y al interés del Instituto Nacional del Teatro por este espacio de teatro pensado para niños, hoy llega a manos de nuestros colegas este material que seguramente será sólo el comienzo de un "abrir la puerta para ir a jugar" que continuará con las publicaciones de muchos colegas de otras provincias

Design and rationale of a matched cohort study to assess the effectiveness of a combined household-level piped water and sanitation intervention in rural Odisha, India.

INTRODUCTION: Government efforts to address massive shortfalls in rural water and sanitation in India have centred on construction of community water sources and toilets for selected households. However, deficiencies with water quality and quantity at the household level and community coverage and actual use of toilets have led Gram Vikas, a local non-governmental organization in Odisha, India, to develop an approach that provides household-level piped water connections contingent on full community-level toilet coverage. METHODS: This matched cohort study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a combined piped water and sanitation intervention. Households with children <5 years in 45 randomly selected intervention villages and 45 matched control villages will be followed over 17 months. The primary outcome is prevalence of diarrhoeal diseases; secondary health outcomes include soil-transmitted helminth infection, nutritional status, seroconversion to enteric pathogens, urogenital infections and environmental enteric dysfunction. In addition, intervention effects on sanitation and water coverage, access and use, environmental fecal contamination, women's empowerment, as well as collective efficacy, and intervention cost and cost-effectiveness will be assessed. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study protocol has been reviewed and approved by the ethics boards of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. Findings will be disseminated via peer-reviewed literature and presentation to stakeholders, government officials, implementers and researchers. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02441699

Choice of Law and the Preponderantly Multistate Rule: The Example of Successor Corporation Products Liability

Most state rules of substantive law, whether legislative or judicial, ordinarily adjust rights and obligations among local parties with respect to local events. Conventional choice of law methodologies for adjudicating disputes with multistate connections all start from an explicit or implicit assumption of a choice between such locally oriented substantive rules. This article reveals, for the first time, that some state rules of substantive law ordinarily adjust rights and obligations with respect to parties and events connected to more than one state and only occasionally apply to wholly local matters. For these rules I use the term “nominally domestic rules having preponderantly multistate application.” For choice of law cases presenting conflicts between such nominally domestic rules I use the term “preponderantly multistate cases.” As courts and scholars so far have failed to perceive the category of preponderantly multistate cases they have failed to appreciate their qualitative difference from cases presenting a choice between only locally oriented rules of law. This article describes preponderantly multistate cases and critiques the myriad ways in which courts have applied conventional choice of law methodologies to decide one category of these cases—those involving successor corporation products liability. The critique demonstrates why a court choosing between nominally domestic rules in a preponderantly multistate case never should use conventional choice of law methodologies. My thesis is that when a state lawmaker, whether a legislature or a court, adopts a nominally domestic rule having preponderantly multistate application, the lawmaker concomitantly makes an inherent choice always to apply that substantive rule in the state’s courts. Hence, in preponderantly multistate cases the forum should not be free to ignore the lawmaker’s choice of law; the forum just should apply its substantive law to all preponderantly multistate issues

Beyond Stereotypes: American Jews and Sports

In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews supposed physical inferiority while helping to construct a modern American Jewish identity. An Americanization narrative emerged that connected Jewish athleticism with full acceptance and integration into American society. This acceptance was not without struggle, but Jews succeeded and participated in the American sporting culture as athletes, coaches, owners, and fans. The diversity of topics in this volume reflect that the field of the history of American Jews and sports is growing and has moved beyond the need to overcome the idea that Jews are simply People of the Book. The contributions to this volume paint a broad picture of Jewish participation in sports, with essays written by respected historians who have examined specific sports, individuals, leagues, cities, and the impact of sport on Judaism. Despite the continued belief that Jewish religious or cultural identity remains somehow distinct from the American idea of the athlete, the volume demonstrates that American Jews have had a tremendous contribution to American sports and conversely, that sports have helped construct American Jewish culture and identity.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/casden/1006/thumbnail.jp

Design, production, and testing of field effect transistors

Cryogenic MOSFETS (CRYOFETS), specifically designed for low temperature preamplifier application with infrared extrinsic detectors were produced and comparatively tested with p-channel MOSFETs under matched conditions. The CRYOFETs exhibit lower voltage thresholds, high source-follower gains at lower bias voltage, and lower dc offset source voltage. The noise of the CRYOFET is found to be 2 to 4 times greater than the MOSFET with a correspondingly lower figure of merit (which is established for source-follower amplifiers). The device power dissipation at a gain of 0.98 is some two orders of magnitude lower than for the MOSFET. Further, CRYOFETs are free of low temperature I vs V character hysteresis and balky conduction turn-on effects and operate effectively in the 2.4 to 20 K range. These devices have promise for use on long term duration sensor missions and for on-focal-plane signal processing at low temperatures

Participation by Off-Reservation Indians in Programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service

Participation by Off-Reservation Indians in Programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Servic