The Use of Factice in Rubber Manufacture

1936 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Hurlston
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
Rubber Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
History Of

Abstract The two main classes of vulcanized oil substitute or factice are heat-cured brown factice and cold-cured white factice. They were both introduced into the rubber industry at about the same time (1846–1847), the former variety by Anderson and the latter by Parkes. It has been stated (Twiss, Trans. Inst. Rubber Ind., 7, 234 (1931)) that Parkes first opened a proofing factory at Birmingham but that the business was shortly afterwards absorbed by Chas. Macintosh & Co. and transferred to Manchester. This probably dates the commencement of the use of white factice in proofings. The early history of the development of the use of brown factice on a works scale is more obscure. As the name implies, these vulcanized oils were used in the first place as ingredients which could economically substitute part of the crude rubber content of mixings, but as time went on it became apparent to compounders that these materials possessed intrinsic properties which made them almost indispensable in certain mixings, both for ease of manufacture and for high quality of the resultant article. The utility of factices in the general rubber trade is therefore in many respects analogous to that of reclaimed rubbers.

Religion and Spirituality in Surgery

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tarpley ◽  
Margaret Tarpley
Keyword(s):  
Coping Skills ◽  
Early History ◽  
Intercessory Prayer ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Faith Leaders ◽  
History Of ◽  
Treatment Plans

The influence of religion and spirituality (R/S) on surgeons dates back to the early history of modern surgery and continues into the 21st century. Research topics include intercessory prayer (IP), social cohesion, coping strategies, the role of chaplains and other clergy or faith leaders, and communal activities such as worship. While evidence for benefits of practices such as IP are inconclusive, patients involved in R/S activities or who hold R/S beliefs appear to have improved coping skills and quality of life (QOL). Although R/S has proven value for patients and surgeons, lack of R/S training is a barrier to surgeon involvement in addressing R/S issues such as operative procedures, treatment plans, organ donation, and end-of-life (EOL) situations. Increased training at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate medical levels concerning R/S would provide surgeons and physician colleagues with skills and greater comfort in discussing these issues with patients and families. .

A Contribution to the Early History of India-Rubber. François Fresneau (1703–1770)

1938 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Number

Abstract In the fall of 1936 the Revue Générale du Caoutchouc published a special issue dedicated to the memory of the French scientist La Condamine on the occasion of the bicentenary of the discovery of rubber. Quite recently the same periodical issued another special number on the occasion of the International Exposition in Paris, 1937. The title page reproduces Cochin's well-known portrait of Charles Marie de la Condamine. The first paper by Ch. Jung, entitled “History and Development of the Rubber Industry,” gives all the credit of the discovery of rubber to Condamine, and for the details refers to the publication mentioned above. In the bicentennial number, Henri de la Condamine gives a detailed biography of his ancestor, wherein the name of Fresneau as a correspondent of Condamine is mentioned in a few places. A second paper, by Auguste Chevalier, deals chronologically with the various publications presented by Condamine, and here Fresneau receives as much credit as can be justified from the contents of these papers. Finally, we owe a revival of the correspondence between Fresneau-Condamine and the French Minister of Colonies Bertin to J. Ch. Bongrand. However, when one considers the exceedingly courteous phrases and carefully couched terms characteristic of letters of that period, and bears in mind that this correspondence only refers to the last years of Fresneau's life, such documents alone cannot be taken by the historian at their full value.

EuroPsy: The Development of Standards for High-Quality Professional Education in Psychology

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
European Federation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Professional Mobility ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

The paper presents a brief history of the EuroPsy initiative which began in 1998 and is now in the process of implementation across European countries in the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). EuroPsy defines a standard of professional education that aims to promote a high quality of education and professional practice for psychologists. The initiative was substantially supported by developments within the European Union (EU) and more widely in Europe, in particular the so-called Bologna process. This process, however, had a major political focus with an explicit commitment to facilitate mobility. Concerns for quality and a high level of professional education and an implied focus on consumer or client protection may not always sit easily with a commitment to facilitating professional mobility. This paper presents some of the challenges and potential tensions inherent in the EuroPsy.

Eyeglasses and Concave Lenses in Fifteenth-Century Florence and Milan: New Documents*

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Ilardi
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Glass Technology ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Optical Instruments ◽  
Early Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Personal Adornment

Five recently discovered documents reveal for the first time that eyeglasses with concave lenses for myopes were manufactured in Florence from at least the middle of the fifteenth century, about one hundred years before they were thought to be in use. This new evidence throws additional light on the development and early use of spectacles and on the early history of optical instruments and glass technology in general. These documents also reveal for the first time that Florence was the leading manufacturing center of high-quality eyeglasses and that spectacles had already become a prestigious item of personal adornment at least at the court of the dukes of Milan. This information should be of interest to historians of art and costume as well.

Reflections from Within: Ten Years of Service to HEQ

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Yoon K. Pak ◽  
Christopher M. Span ◽  
James D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
History Of Education ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
High Quality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Years Of Service

Before we expound on our brief “farewell” essay, we wish to extend our deepest gratitude to those colleagues who contributed as authors, reviewers, associate editors, and editorial board members in sustaining the high quality of scholarship in the history of education. You have been indispensable in this process. I hope you realize the extent to which your role as reviewers serves as a means of mentoring, in contributing to the development of a community of scholars through your topical expertise. The majority of authors, junior and senior faculty alike, shared how appreciative they were of the thoughtful and lengthy feedback offered by the reviewers. They did not view the critiques in a punitive way but rather as a place for creating dialogue. This spirit of collegiality is what also helps our field to thrive.

Champagne

Creating Wine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Wine Quality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter looks briefly at the early history of champagne and the dramatic increase in production in the late nineteenth century. Champagne producers were the most successful of all producers in establishing brand names, informing consumers of wine quality, and associating the drink with the needs of the rapidly changing lifestyles of the middle and upper classes in rich urban societies during the nineteenth century. The chapter also considers the organization of the commodity chain favoring the champagne houses over British retailers, the response of the champagne houses and small growers to the phylloxera crisis, and the collapse of local production and importation of large quantities of outside wines after 1906. In the end, despite the crisis, the champagne producers were still more successful than those in other wine regions in controlling the quality of their product.

Presidential Address: Great Historical Enterprises II. The Maurists

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
M. D. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Small Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Bodies

Ayear ago our theme was the work of the Bollandists. Their name suggests immediately, to all acquainted with European historiography, the name of another body of religious, many of them the contemporaries of Henskens and Papebroch, and it would be impossible to omit from even the shortest list of great historical enterprises the achievement of the Maurists. The two bodies of men and their work, nevertheless, have little in common save an equal devotion to accurate scholar-ship. What impresses us in the history of Bollandism is its continuity of spirit and undeviating aim over more than three hundred years, during which a very small but perpetually self-renewing group has pursued a single narrowly defined task, which is still far from completion. With the Maurists, on the other hand, it is the magnitude, the variety and the high quality of the achievement that strikes the imagination. While the Bollandists, a small family in a single house, have in three centuries produced in major work no more than a row of sixty-seven folios, the Maurists, in a little more than a hundred years, published matter enough to stock a small library, and left behind them letters, papers and transcripts which have been used and exploited by scholars for nearly two centuries since. Indeed, it would be both impossible and alien to the scope of our interests to attempt the briefest survey of Maurist scholarship in its entirety, and my remarks to-day will be confined to their publications on European history after the decline of the Roman Empire. Who were the Maurists, and wherein lay their peculiar excellence?

Missing names from the Fungal Name Repositories found in the literature related to Chinese fungi

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 411 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
KE WANG ◽  
YONG-HUI WANG ◽  
MING-JUN ZHAO ◽  
PAUL M. KIRK ◽  
YI-JIAN YAO
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fungal Taxonomy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
History Of

Fungal taxonomy has a history of more than 260 years, with authors publishing over 475,000 names. Three online Fungal Name Repositories were established to manage registration of new names. During data collection for a project to develop a modern Checklist of Fungi in China and the first Redlist assessment of macrofungi in China, 532 names of Chinese fungi, distinguished in 5 different categories, were found missing from the three repositories. The absence of these names from the repositories badly hampered the transmission of information on fungi. Managing and checking these names is important in maintaining the high quality of fungal taxonomy and provides a sound basis for any future research involving fungi.

In Defense of Presidential Libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
Bob Clark
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Early History ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Library System ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Presidential Library System

The recent announcement by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Barack Obama Foundation that there will be no Barack Obama Presidential Library has received very little attention or scrutiny. This essay examines that decision and places it in historical context based on the author’s expertise gained through years of working within NARA at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and writing about the early history of NARA and the presidential library system. The essay explores the many ways in which the failure to build an Obama Library adversely impacts researcher access to important historical information, damages the quality of museum exhibits at a privately run Obama museum, threatens the presidential library system as we know it, and ultimately impairs our democracy.

scholarly journals DRY MIXTURES AND MIXING EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR PRODUCTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Y. Fadin ◽  
O. Shemetova
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mixing Process ◽  
Chemical Additives ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Main Indicator ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Stability

Today’s economic situation creates conditions for revising the existing base of materials and raw materials in construction, as well as for transforming and using it in the future. One of the ways to achieve this goal is the creation of new types of building materials, more effective and low in the price category compared to the classic ones. Dry building mixtures belongs to such materials. The high quality of dry building mixes is guaranteed by the stability of their composition and the properties of the ingredients used. Saving time when using high-quality dry building mixes will allow to get an irreproachable end result. A necessary component in the manufacture of dry building mixtures is the mixing process, which includes the preparation of raw materials, dosing and the distribution of chemical additives. The main indicator of the quality of the finished product in the production of dry mixes is its uniformity. Therefore, special attention is paid to the mixing section in the production line. The variety of bulk materials and their properties contributes to the creation of various types of mixers for high-quality mixing of components. The article discusses the history of the emergence of dry building mixes and mixing equipment for production.

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