Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas in 2011: Building on the Past, on the Road to our Future

Woody Guthrie managed to capture much of Depression America in his songs. In “This Land Is Your Land” of 1940, he reflected the leftist sentiments of many thirties Americans. Singing that it was the blank side of a “Private Property” sign that “was wrote for you and me,” Guthrie echoed the conclusion that others had reached in the preceding decade — America belongs to the working masses rather than to a few wealthy owners. For all his insight, however, Guthrie missed part of the Depression experience when he set his “Private Property” sign beside a “lonesome highway.” Rather than deserted places, the nation's roadways were virtually teeming with dispossessed people. Millions of foreclosed farmers, evicted renters and unemployed workers crowded the thoroughfares, desperately searching for new lives. Despite what Woody Guthrie had to say, America's Depression highways were far from lonesome.A certain number of those folks jamming the nation's highways were not homeless drifters. They were instead more like author Erskine Caldwell. Soon after the 1932 publication of his novel, Tobacco Road, Caldwell had taken to travelling. He continued on the road until one day in 1940 when he pulled his car into a Missouri gas station. As had been his habit for the past years, he asked the attendant not for gas or oil, but for an analysis of the state of the nation. The attendant knew Caldwell's type. For years writers had been stopping and asking him “all sorts of fool questions” without purchasing anything. Well prepared, he silently handed Caldwell a neatly printed card describing his life and thoughts, ridiculing with its detail the questions writers asked him.

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Casual Employment in Australia: Growth, Characteristics, a Bridge or a Trap?

The Economic and Labour Relations Review ◽

10.1177/103530469800900102 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 31-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

John Burgess ◽

Iain Campbell

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Job Insecurity ◽

Growth Characteristics ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Employment Conditions ◽

Transitional Point ◽

Analytical Issue ◽

Transitional Employment ◽

On The Road

About one in every four Australian employees is a casual. The casual share has doubled over the past decade and continues to expand. This paper catalogues the growth of casual employment and discusses the characteristics of casual jobs and of those in casual jobs. The key analytical issue discussed is whether casual employment is a transitional employment arrangement on the road towards permanent employment conditions. Alternatively, is it a trap which is associated with job insecurity, low earnings and spells outside of employment? Although the evidence is partial and circumstantial, casual employment is a bridge for some and a trap for others. In particular, for those who wish to beak out of unemployment, casual employment is unlikely to be a transitional point on the road to a permanent job. This finding has important implications for the design of labour market programs.

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Adhesive-Free Bonding of Web-Like Plastic-Metal Combinations at Low Temperatures

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.809.392 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 809 ◽

pp. 392-397

Author(s):

Andreas Lehm ◽

Diana Romstedt ◽

Vinzenz Schoenberner ◽

Hannes Till Meyer ◽

Marko Eichler

Keyword(s):

Low Temperatures ◽

Research Projects ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Plastic Metal ◽

On The Road ◽

New Research ◽

Polymer Foils ◽

Technology Focus

A couple of research projects could demonstrate the adhesive-free bonding of metal and polymer foils very well in the past. The remaining issues on the road to industrial usage of this technology focus on higher process velocities, quality management and process behaviour during long-term usage. For this purpose, a new research project was initiated to concentrate on the maximum achievable adhesion between the two bonding partners at line speeds up to 10 m/min

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Friendship, Marriage-Like Relationships, and Informal Marriage

Family Law in America ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197554319.003.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 13-42

Author(s):

Sanford N. Katz

Keyword(s):

Behavior Pattern ◽

The State ◽

Adult Relationships ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Civil Union ◽

Legal Questions ◽

Romantic Friendship ◽

Domestic Partnership ◽

On The Road

This chapter discusses issues of establishing adult relationships, including friendship and informal marriage, and how individuals have attempted to regulate their upcoming marriage by entering into prenuptial agreements. The road to marriage has traditionally consisted of romantic friendship, courtship, engagement, and then formal marriage. It is during the formal or informal engagement period that a couple may think of entering into a prenuptial agreement. However, this behavior pattern has changed dramatically in the past fifty years. There may no longer be defined periods on the road to marriage, and marriage itself may no longer be the final relationship between two people. Whatever the arrangement, the relevant legal questions are the following: What relationships should be labeled “family”; who should be authorized to make such a designation, the state or the parties themselves; and should the state regulate them? At the present time, two kinds of adult relationships that are not formally recognized by the state as marriage are contract cohabitation and domestic partnership or civil union.

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The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence: Obstacles on the Road to Coherence

Horizons ◽

10.1017/s0360966900038421 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 21-42

Author(s):

Richard B. Miller ◽

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Keyword(s):

Just War ◽

Nuclear Deterrence ◽

Critical Dialogue ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Nuclear Age ◽

Nation States ◽

Supreme Emergency ◽

On The Road ◽

Post Hoc

AbstractThis essay critically assays four recent attempts to furnish a moral justification for nuclear deterrence: the success thesis, the just war thesis, the argument from the “supreme emergency,” and the exceptionalist thesis. By entering into critical dialogue with representatives of these arguments I hope to show that the current confidence in the morality of nuclear deterrence is ill-conceived. Chief among the logical and practical difficulties plaguing these arguments are the following. (1) The success thesis rests on the fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning. Nor does the assertion of the past success of deterrence furnish guarantees of future effectiveness. (2) Representatives of the just war thesis either establish conditions for accepting deterrence that are incoherent with their judgments about use (e.g., U.S. Catholic bishops) or develop a theory of deterrence that cannot be morally institutionalized (e.g., David Hollenbach). (3) The argument for the supreme emergency eclipses moral convention in the nuclear age. (4) The attempt to salvage the supreme emergency according to a classical theory of community rests on a fundamental disanalogy between the Aristotelian polis and modern nation-states. Moreover, it opens the door for a double standard to evaluate the methods of war.

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Sultantepe: Anglo-Turkish Joint Excavations, 1952

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.2307/3642385 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 27-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Seton Lloyd ◽

Nuri Gokçe

Keyword(s):

Systematic Investigation ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Selection For ◽

On The Road

The First Season's excavating at Sultantepe, occupying a period of four weeks in May–June 1951, has already received preliminary notices in Anatolian Studies, II, etc. The mound (see Figure 1), which is situated at a distance of 10 miles from Urfa on the road leading to the ruins of ancient Harran, is too conspicuous a landmark to have escaped the notice of travelling scholars in the past; but no record of their visits has ever been published and its selection for excavations in 1951 was the result of a systematic investigation into the historical topography of the Harran region, initiated by the Institute in the summer of 1950 (cf. Anatolian Studies, I, pp. 77 ff.).The excavations were resumed on 8th May 1952 and the second season's work lasted until 20th June. The field-directorship was again jointly in the hands of Bay Nuri Gökçe, Director of the Hittite Museum at Ankara, and Mr. Seton Lloyd, Director of the Institute. They were assisted on this occasion by Dr. O. R. Gurney, as epigraphist, Mr. J. D. Evans (Institute Fellow for 1951–52), and Bay Burhan Tozcan, as field-assistants, and Mr. G. R. H. Wright, as architect.

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Realization of an Ergodic Markov Chain as a Random Walk Subject to a Synchronizing Road Coloring

Journal of Applied Probability ◽

10.1239/jap/1316796913 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 766-777 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kouji Yano ◽

Kenji Yasutomi

Keyword(s):

Markov Chain ◽

Random Walk ◽

Ergodic Markov Chain ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

Coupling From The Past ◽

Random Mappings ◽

On The Road ◽

Necessary And Sufficient ◽

Coloring Theorem

An ergodic Markov chain is proved to be the realization of a random walk in a directed graph subject to a synchronizing road coloring. The result ensures the existence of appropriate random mappings in Propp-Wilson's coupling from the past. The proof is based on the road coloring theorem. A necessary and sufficient condition for approximate preservation of entropies is also given.

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Oklahoma Renewable Energy Policy Encounters a COVID Roadblock

10.37419/jpl.v7.i3.18 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 512-525

Author(s):

Warigia M. Bowman ◽

Debbie Firestone

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Natural Gas ◽

Energy Policy ◽

Energy Security ◽

Electricity Generation ◽

Construction Projects ◽

Renewable Energy Policy ◽

The Road ◽

The Past ◽

On The Road

On the road to energy security, independence, and success, this past year Oklahoma has seen “construction” projects in the works. Renewable energy, however, hit a major roadblock in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, Oklahoma produced most of its electricity through coal and natural gas. In the past decade, renewable sources like wind and solar energy represent a growing segment of electricity generation in the state. In 2019 and 2020, Oklahoma developed a stronger renewable energy policy by enacting legislation, passing administrative decisions, and passing local city ordinances.

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