Voices From The Past-Command History Post WWII to November 1999. An Historical Account of the Naval Personnel Research & Development Center (NPRDC) of San Diego, California

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund D. Thomas ◽  
Ted M. Yellen ◽  
Samuel J. Polese
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Development Center

scholarly journals Current Situation of Titanium Research, Development and Applications in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Hui Chang ◽  
Lian Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Genome Engineering ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Research Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Near Net Shape ◽  
Development Applications

This planery paper reviewed the progress of titanium research, development, applications and industry in China during the past four years since the Ti-2015 conference in San Diego. Including additive manufacturing, material genome engineering technologies, low cost titanium and short manufacture processing, powder metallurgies and near net shape fabrication technologies, applications in marine, gas and oil exploitations, as well as consuming products. And the industry situation in China has also been reviewed.

Uncommon Grounds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us

This chapter turns from a historical account of the development of the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of reading to a textual analysis of the US and Latin American historical novel. Hemispheric/inter-American scholars often cite William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) as exemplifying instances of literary borrowing across the North–South divide. As I demonstrate, however, each of the later texts also realigns its predecessor’s historical imaginary according to the dominant logics of the US and Latin American literary fields. Whereas the American works foreground experiential models of reconstructing the past and conveying knowledge across generations, García Márquez’s Latin American novel presents reading as the fundamental mode of comprehending and transmitting history.

Explosive Removal of Concrete From Reinforced Walls

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis D. Rickman ◽  
John Q. Ehrgott ◽  
Stephen A. Akers ◽  
Jon E. Windham ◽  
Dennis W. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Steel Reinforced Concrete ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Development Center ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Improved Methods ◽  
Combat Environment

During the past several years, the US Army has focused considerable attention toward developing improved methods for breaching walls in the urban combat environment. A major thrust area is centered on finding improved methods to breach the toughest wall type that Army units are likely to face: a double (steel) reinforced concrete (RC) wall. One impediment to this effort is that the relationship between the contact explosive charge configuration and the quantity of concrete removed has not been thoroughly understood. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center has conducted a research effort to better define the effectiveness of various explosive charge configurations in breaching RC walls. This paper presents a discussion of results from this research.

scholarly journals The fiction of History: recalling the past and imagining the future with Caesar at Troy.

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Richard Alston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

This essay considers the nature of historical discourse through a consideration of the historical narrative of Lucan’s Pharsalia. The focus is on the manner in which Lucan depicts history as capable of being fictionalised, especially through the operation of political power. The discourses of history make a historical account, but those discourses are not, in Lucan's view, true, but are fictionalised. The key study comes from Caesar at Troy, when Lucan explores the idea of a site (and history) which cannot be understood, but which nevertheless can be employed in a representation of the past. yet, Lucan also alludes to a ‘true history’, which is unrepresentable in his account of Pharsalus, and beyond the scope of the human mind. Lucan’s true history can be read against Benjamin and Tacitus. Lucan offers a framework of history that has the potential to be post-Roman (in that it envisages a world in which there is no Rome), and one in which escapes the frames of cultural memory, both in its fictionalisation and in the dependence of Roman imperial memory on cultural trauma.

scholarly journals Prevalence and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among people who inject drugs in the San Diego-Tijuana border region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffanie Ann Strathdee ◽  
Daniela Abramovitz ◽  
Alicia Harvey-Vera ◽  
Carlos Vera ◽  
Gudelia Rangel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
San Diego ◽  
People Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Protective Behavior ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hispanic People

Background: People who inject drugs may be at elevated SARS-CoV-2 risk due to their living conditions and/or exposures when seeking or using drugs. No study to date has reported upon risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection among people who inject drugs or sex workers. Methods and Findings: Between October, 2020 and June, 2021, participants aged ≥18 years from San Diego, California, USA and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico who injected drugs within the last month underwent interviews and testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA and antibodies. Binomial regressions identified correlates of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity. Of 386 participants, SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence was 36.3% (95% CI: 31.5%-41.1%); 92.1% had detectable IgM antibodies. Only 37.5% had previously been tested. Seroprevalence did not differ by country of residence. None tested RNA-positive. Most (89.5%) reported engaging in ≥1 protective behavior [e.g., facemasks (73.5%), social distancing (46.5%), or increasing handwashing/sanitizers (22.8%)]. In a multivariate model controlling for sex, older age, and Hispanic/Latinx/Mexican ethnicity were independently associated with SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity, as was engaging in sex work (AdjRR: 1.63; 95% CI: 1.18-2.27) and having been incarcerated in the past six months (AdjRR: 1.49; 95% CI: 0.97-2.27). Presence of comorbidities and substance using behaviors were not associated with SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity. Conclusions: This is the first study to show that sex work and incarceration were independently associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite engaging in protective measures, over one-third had evidence of infection, reinforcing the need for a coordinated binational response. Risk mitigation and vaccination is especially needed among older and Hispanic people who inject drugs and those with less agency to protect themselves, such as those who are sex workers or incarcerated.

Empowering farmers for increased resilience in uncertain times

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 843 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nettle ◽  
M. Ayre ◽  
R. Beilin ◽  
S. Waller ◽  
L. Turner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Research Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Designs

As farmers continue to face increasingly uncertain and often rapidly changing conditions related to markets, climate or the policy environment, people involved in agricultural research, development and extension (RD&E) are also challenged to consider how their work can contribute to supporting farmer resilience. Research from the social sciences conducted in the past decade has focussed on adaptability or adaptive capacity as a key attribute for individuals and groups to possess for managing resilience. It is, therefore, timely to ask the following: do current ways of doing and organising RD&E in the dairy sector in New Zealand and Australia contribute to supporting farm adaptability? This paper reports on results from an examination of case studies of challenges to resilience in the dairy sector in Australia and New Zealand (i.e. dairy farm conversion, climate-change adaptation, consent to farm) and the contribution of dairy RD&E in enhancing resilience of farmers, their farms and the broader industry. Drawing on concepts from resilience studies and considering an empowerment perspective, the analysis of these cases suggest that, currently, agricultural RD&E supports adaptability in general, but varies in the strength of its presence and level of activity in the areas known to enhance adaptability. This analysis is used to generate principles for dairy scientists and others in the RD&E system to consider in (1) research designs, (2) engaging different farmers in research and (3) presenting research results differently. This represents a significant shift for the science and advisory communities to move to methods that acknowledge uncertainty and facilitate learning.

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1944

1945 ◽  
Vol 132 (869) ◽  
pp. 333-347
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deep Interest

The annual number of Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society published today, and the names which have just been read to us, remind us of the losses the Society has suffered. Allow me first to make brief mention of the last service rendered to the Society by one who had long been devoted to its interests, and whose name is among those of the Fellows whom death has taken from us during the past year. Sir Henry Lyons, who was our Foreign Secretary for a year, and then achieved so much for the Society in his full term of service as Treasurer, had acquired in that period a deep interest in the handling of the Society’s business and in the changes in its structure and its administration over the centuries of its history. He devoted the last four years of his fife, under conditions which must have deterred any less resolute enthusiast, to the writing of an historical account of the administration of the Royal Society under its Charters, and at the time of his death, last August, he was eagerly awaiting its publication, which war-time difficulties had long delayed. This long expected contribution to our history was published a few weeks ago, and the Society will welcome and cherish it, not only as a record of value and interest in itself, but in memory of one to whose devoted labours the Society and its Fellows owe so much.

scholarly journals Developments in Titanium Research and Applications in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Carsten Siemers ◽  
Christian Stöcker
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Alloys ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Titanium Aluminides ◽  
Pure Titanium ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Commercially Pure Titanium ◽  
Commercially Pure ◽  
Titanium Industry ◽  
Research Organisations

Since the Ti-2015 World Conference on Titanium held in San Diego, USA, research, development and applications of commercially pure titanium, titanium alloys and titanium aluminides have advanced considerably. In this plenary paper, information is provided on important achievements in the German titanium industry, governmental and non-governmental research organisations and universities from the last four years.

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