The need of landscape gardening

Citation: Brock, Robert James. The question of the times. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1891.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Since the advent of cheap and rapid transportation and verbal communication, the tendency is for the population to spread itself over more territory. Not the least of the factors in causing the popularity of suburban residence is the opportunity thus afforded of surrounding one's home with out-door beauty. We are just beginning to realize what real country life means. A home should include the beautiful as well as the useful. However, this does not necessarily imply, as many people think, the accumulation of useless articles of so called ornamental value. Landscape gardening is the one art in which we possess and use the living things themselves and not mere representations of them. The title, landscape gardener arose more than a century ago to designate the new art which aimed to give landscape like effects to gardens. It signifies the enlargement of mere gardening into complete harmony with nature. Before the advent of this new art, gardens were formal in their dominant features. Their chief value was to augment the architectural features in the scenes of which they became a part

Rate of heat extraction controller for environmental control

Automatic control device measures a physiological parameter related to heat production and conditions it to control the heat removal capacity of a watercooled environmental control suit

Cycles in metabolism and heat loss

Using calorimetric techniques, subjects' metabolism, thermoregulation, and body temperatures were monitored continuously for 24-hour days, using three types of experimental routines. A water cooling garment (WCG) was used for direct calorimetry, while partitional calorimetry was used to establish a non-suited comparison for one of the routines. In this replicated routine, called the quiet day, the subjects were sedentary throughout the daytime hours and slept normally at night. Results indicate that the WCG may act to reduce 24-hour total oxygen consumption (VO2) or heat production, possibly due to the lowered energy cost of thermoregulation

The Influence of Pervasive Algorithms on Programming Languages

Many leading analysts would agree that, had it not been for model checking, the improvement of suffix trees might never have occurred. In fact, few security experts would disagree with the synthesis of multicast systems. Tas, our new heuristic for the analysis of online algorithms, is the solution to all of these issues

Kentuckians at War: A Soldiers Perspective of WWII

This paper focuses on Kentucky soldiers\u27 perspectives of World War II. By utilizing information from actual interviews with Kentucky veterans and from letters written by Kentucky soldiers during World War II, this thesis gives an accurate description of living conditions and war experiences as perceived by the soldiers

Shuttle derived atmospheric density model. Part 1: Comparisons of the various ambient atmospheric source data with derived parameters from the first twelve STS entry flights, a data package for AOTV atmospheric development

The ambient atmospheric parameter comparisons versus derived values from the first twelve Space Shuttle Orbiter entry flights are presented. Available flights, flight data products, and data sources utilized are reviewed. Comparisons are presented based on remote meteorological measurements as well as two comprehensive models which incorporate latitudinal and seasonal effects. These are the Air Force 1978 Reference Atmosphere and the Marshall Space Flight Center Global Reference Model (GRAM). Atmospheric structure sensible in the Shuttle flight data is shown and discussed. A model for consideration in Aero-assisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle (AOTV) trajectory analysis, proposed to modify the GRAM data to emulate Shuttle experiments

Head Coaching Gender Equality at the Division III Level

Throughout history gender discrimination has created barriers that have prevented women from achieving their desired career goals no matter what the work setting is. One way that steps were made towards the elimination of gender discrimination was the enactment of Title IX in 1972. Pervious research has examined barriers that women head coaches coaching men’s teams have had to overcome in order to acquire their position. The coaches who were used in that research either coached NCAA Division I men’s teams or all three divisions combined. The barriers these women experienced were both externally and internally barriers. The external barriers include: 1) unequal assumption of competence, 2) hiring from a principal of similarity, 3) homophobia, 4) lack of female mentors, and 5) difficulty recruiting male athletes (Kamphoff, Armentrout, & Driska, 2010, Kilty, 2006). The internal factors that exist are 1) perfectionism, 2) lack of assertiveness, 3) inhibition in promotion of accomplishments, and 4) high stress of balance work and lie (Kilty, 2006). The purpose of this research was to see if these same barriers exist at just the Division III level. Two women who coach NCAA Division III men’s teams were interviewed about their experiences coaching men. The purpose of this study was to better understand the experiences and barriers that Division III female head coaches of men’s teams go through

Automatic controllers for the Apollo LCG Final report

Automatic controllers for liquid cooling garment of Apollo full pressure sui

Shuttle derived atmospheric density model. Part 2: STS atmospheric implications for AOTV trajectory analysis, a proposed GRAM perturbation density model

A perturbation model to the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Global Reference Atmosphere Model (GRAM) was developed for use in the Aeroassist Orbital Transfer Vehicle (AOTV) trajectory and analysis. The model reflects NASA Space Shuttle experience over the first twelve entry flights. The GRAM was selected over the Air Force 1978 Reference Model because of its more general formulation and wider use throughout NASA. The add-on model, a simple scaling with altitude to reflect density structure encountered by the Shuttle Orbiter was selected principally to simplify implementation. Perturbations, by season, can be utilized to minimize the number of required simulations, however, exact Shuttle flight history can be exercised using the same model if desired. Such a perturbation model, though not meteorologically motivated, enables inclusion of High Resolution Accelerometer Package (HiRAP) results in the thermosphere. Provision is made to incorporate differing perturbations during the AOTV entry and exit phases of the aero-asist maneuver to account for trajectory displacement (geographic) along the ground track

Drug absorption through a cell monolayer: a theoretical work on a non-linear three-compartment model

The subject of analysis is a non-linear three-compartment model, widely used in pharmacological absorption studies. It has been transformed into a general form, thus leading automatically to an appropriate approximation. This made the absorption profile accessible and expressions for absorption times, apparent permeabilities and equilibrium values were given. These findings allowed a profound analysis of results from non-linear curve fits and delivered the dependencies on the systems' parameters over a wide range of values. The results were applied to an absorption experiment with multidrug transporter-affected antibiotic CNV97100 on Caco-2 cell monolayers.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures (v4: detailed definition of the treated model - additional information about limitations