A Preliminary Report on Anthropometry in the United States

1893 ◽  
Vol 3 (24) ◽  
pp. 554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Mussey Hartwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The United States

Preliminary Report of the Peabody Museum Awatovi Expedition of 1937

1939 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. O. Brew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
United States Department ◽  
States Department ◽  
The Third ◽  
Peabody Museum

The third Peabody Museum Awatovi expedition, under the direction of the writer began work on July 12, 1937, and remained in the field until November 5, 1937. The explorations and excavations were carried on under permission of the United States Department of the Interior. The continuation of these studies was made possible by the contributions of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Claflin, Jr., Mr. Henry S. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Emerson, and the Peabody Museum. Its primary objective was the securing of information relative to the post-Spanish period of Awatovi.

On Understanding Everything: General Education, Liberal Education, and the Study of Religion

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 460-466
Author(s):  
Amy Hollywood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Education ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Reason And Faith

In October 2006, the Harvard University task force on general education issued a preliminary report describing and justifying a new program of general education for Harvard College. Contending that “[g]eneral education is the public face of liberal education,” the task force enumerated what a person liberally educated in the twenty-first-century United States should know—or, perhaps better, know how to think about in reasoned and nuanced ways (Preliminary Report 3). The report called for seven semester-long courses in “five broad areas of inquiry and experience”: Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change, The Ethical Life, The United States and the World, Reason and Faith, and Science and Technology. In addition, the task force suggested that students be required to take three semester-long courses that “develop critical skills”: writing and oral communication, foreign language, and analytic reasoning (6). Not surprisingly, “Reason and Faith” generated some of the most heated discussion—and it was the first suggested requirement dropped by the task force, replaced in December 2006 by a new category, “What It Means to Be a Human Being.” By the time of the final report, this too was gone, replaced by “Culture and Belief,” an area of inquiry that may include the study of religion but is broader in scope than what was initially proposed (Report of the Task Force 11–12).

scholarly journals A Preliminary Report on My Life in Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 3770-3772
Author(s):  
Tom A. Rapoport
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
East Germany ◽  
The United States ◽  
Favorable Conditions

I describe my wanderings from the United States to East Germany and back. I hope this gives a glimpse of science in East Germany and encourages people who do science under less than favorable conditions. Although elements of my story are unique, the main points are general: don't be afraid to start something new; it pays to be persistent; and science is a passion—if it feels like fun, you've probably got it right.

scholarly journals Analysis of 11 Late-Type Close Binary Systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 411-411
Author(s):  
K. C. Lfung ◽  
D. S. Zhai ◽  
R. X. Zhang ◽  
Q. Y. Liu ◽  
J. T. Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Binary ◽  
Late Type ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Joint Research Project ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln

AbstractThis is a preliminary report on the joint research project between 3 observatories: Beijing, Yunnan, and Behlen Observatories from China and the United States. The systems we have been dealing with are primary of late spectral types and with short periods. Most.of the observations were secured from the observatories in China. The computational analysis is carried out in University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The photometric solutions are based on the Wilson and Devinney method. Out of 11 systems analyzed 6 of them: AO Cam. ER Ori. BX Peg, BB Peg, U Peg, and SW Lac are found to be contact systems. All of them are having their primary eclipses at occultation. Therefore they can be classified as W-type WUMa systems. They also show other W-type characteristics.

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