Assay Criteria, Source Materials and Models in the Isolation of �Natriuretic Activity�

The microelectronics industry is heavily tasked with minimizing contaminates at all steps of the manufacturing process. Particles are generated by physical and/or chemical fragmentation from a mothersource. The tools and macrovolumes of chemicals used for processing, the environment surrounding the process, and the circuits themselves are all potential particle sources. A first step in eliminating these contaminants is to identify their source. Elemental analysis of the particles often proves useful toward this goal, and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) is a commonly used technique. However, the large variety of source materials and process induced changes in the particles often make it difficult to discern if the particles are from a common source.Ordination is commonly used in ecology to understand community relationships. This technique usespair-wise measures of similarity. Separation of the data set is based on discrimination functions. Theend product is a spatial representation of the data with the distance between points equaling the degree of dissimilarity.

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Screen Presence

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403375.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen Monteiro

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Popular Media ◽

Andy Warhol ◽

Film Culture ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Popular Film ◽

Robert Rauschenberg ◽

Mona Hatoum ◽

Source Materials

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Working from a media and cultural studies perspective, Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media, and art since the 1950s through the examples of four pivotal figures – Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon. While their film-related works may appear primarily as challenges to conventional cinema, these artists draw on overlooked forms of popular film culture that have been commonplace, and even dominant, in specific social contexts. Through analysis of a range of examples and source materials, Stephen Monteiro demonstrates the dependence of contemporary artists on cinema’s shifting applications and interpretations, offering a fresh understanding of the enduring impact of everyday media on how we make and view art.

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Documents and Source Material

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2017.46.3.s5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 1-26

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Palestinian Authority ◽

Donald Trump ◽

The West ◽

White House ◽

Peace Negotiations ◽

Annotated List ◽

Un Security Council ◽

The Government ◽

Source Materials

This section comprises international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials, as well as an annotated list of recommended reports. Significant developments this quarter: In the international diplomatic arena, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2334, reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements and calling for a return to peace negotiations. Additionally, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry delivered a final address on the Israel-Palestine conflict, outlining a groundwork for negotiations. Two weeks later, international diplomats met in Paris to establish incentives for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table. Despite international discussions of peace talks and the impediment settlements pose to a two-state solution, the Israeli Knesset passed the controversial Regulation Law, enabling the government to retroactively legalize settlements and confiscate Palestinian land throughout the West Bank. Meanwhile, U.S. president Donald Trump took office on 20 January 2017, and he wasted no time before inviting Netanyahu to the White House for their first meeting, in February.

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Documents and Source Material

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.s5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Source Material ◽

Human Rights Abuses ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Source Materials ◽

Israeli Occupation

This section comprises JPS summaries and links to international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials from the quarter spanning 16 May-15 November 2017. Fifty years of Israeli occupation was the focus of reports by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Oxfam that documented the ongoing human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Other notable documents include Israeli NGO Gisha and UNSCO reports on the ten-year Gaza siege, Al Jazeera's interactive timeline of the Nakba, and an exchange of letters between the ACLU and U.S. senators on anti-BDS legislation.

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Literary Chronicles of the Qajars’ Epoch

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.2478/ejser-2018-0019 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 170-173

Author(s):

Gulnar Aqiq Jafarzade

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Original Source ◽

Literary Movement ◽

Literary Environment ◽

Source Materials

Abstract Following a historical appraisal and the progress of literature and poetry during the Qajar era, this article focuses on the specific literary environment in nineteenth century. As literature has effect in all areas such as cultural, social and other affairs, it is important to remember that Qajars’ rulers Fathali Shah and Nasiraddin Shah had an influential role in the comprehensive evolution of the literary environment in this period. Literary chronicles covered the works written during Qajar dynasty can be considered the most important sources for researching literary processes. Circle of poets inside and outside of the court led the new founded literary movement “bazgasht” (“Return”), turning to the their predecessors for the inspiration in this period. The most important and wealthy genre of literature were tazkiras (biographical books of anthology), based on the original source materials in Arabian, Persian, and sometimes in Turkish, especially written about poets and poetry.

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Oral Testimony as Historical Source Material for the Reconstruction of the Judicial History of Shipping in India (1600-1800)

Oral History Journal of South Africa ◽

10.25159/2309-5792/3618 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mir Kamruzzman Chowdhary

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Source Material ◽

Maritime History ◽

Historical Source ◽

Alternative Source ◽

Oral Testimony ◽

History Of ◽

Judicial History ◽

Source Materials

This study was an attempt to understand how the available alternative source materials, such as oral testimonies can serve as valuable assets to unveiling certain aspects of maritime history in India. A number of themes in maritime history in India failed to get the attention of the generation of historians, because of the paucity of written documents. Unlike in Europe, the penning down of shipping activities was not a concern for the authorities at the port in India. The pamphlets and newsletters declared the scheduled departure of the ship in Europe but, in India, this was done verbally. Therefore, maritime history in India remained marginalised. Hence, in this article, I make an endeavour to perceive how the oral testimonies can help shed some new light on certain aspects of maritime history in India, such as life on the ship, maritime practices, and perceptions among the littoral people in coastal societies. This article also outlines an approach on how the broader question on the transformation of scattered maritime practices among coastal societies can be adapted and transferred into an organised institution of law by the nineteenth century, and how these can be pursued in future. I also suggest in this article that the role of Europeans, especially the British, in the process of transformation, can be investigated further through oral testimonies in corroboration with the colonial archival records.

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Reflections on Local Population Studies and Social Science History

Local Population Studies ◽

10.35488/lps100.2018.43 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 43-51

Author(s):

Osamu Saito

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Population Studies ◽

Local Population ◽

Local Source ◽

Personal Reflection ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Science History ◽

Social Science History ◽

The Relationship ◽

Source Materials

This personal reflection of more than 40 years' work on the supply of labour in a household context discusses the relationship between social science history (the application to historical phenomena of the tools developed by social scientists) and local population studies. The paper concludes that historians working on local source materials can give something new back to social scientists and social science historians, urging them to remake their tools.

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