Comparative description of tornadoes in France and the United States

1993 ◽  
pp. 427-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Dessens ◽  
John T. Snow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Description

Nelly Las, Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives, trans. Ruth Morris. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 261 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Lincoln University ◽  
Comparative Description ◽  
French Feminism

This chapter reviews the book Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives (2015), by Nelly Las, translated by Ruth Morris. Originally published in French in 2011, Jewish Voices in Feminism explores the connections and gaps between feminism and Zionism. In particular, it offers a comparative description of Jewish feminism in the United States and France, the two largest Jewish diaspora communities. Las argues that “French feminism, with its solid footing in secularism, does not have anything similar to the English-speaking countries’ new interpretations of Christian theology nor postmodern Biblical exegesis.” She places a great deal of emphasis on Zionism as a component of diaspora Jewish identity, and the ways that Zionism interacts with feminism. Las also identifies the range of attitudes toward Israel and Zionism among non-Jewish and (especially) Jewish feminists.

Impact of external factors on the situation in Syria

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Mazen Zeid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Comparative Description

The article analyzes the influence of external factors on the settlement of the situation in Syria. The author focuses on Syria's interaction with such countries as Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran. The author provides a comparative description of the goals and objectives of these countries to resolve the situation, as well as examples of the interest of these states in resolving the conflict. Political science techniques such as event analysis, system and sociological analysis, and modeling were used in dealing with the paper topic. The author concludes that external factors in the settlement of the situation in Syria can be, both positive and negative, depending on the development of further events in the country, manifestations of opposition forces, as well as possible conflict situations between the third countries themselves.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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