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9Th-12Th List by Author's Last Name 2018-2019~S
9th-12th List by Author's Last Name 2018-2019~S ZPD Points Author's Name Title Location 9.5 4 Aaseng, Nathan Navajo Code Talkers: America's Secret Weapon in WWII 940.548673 AAS 6.9 15 Abbott, Jim & T. Brown Imperfect, An Improbable Life 796.357092 ABB 9.9 17 Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Brothers in Arms: 761st Tank Battalio, WW2's Forgotten Heroes 940.5421 ABD 4.6 9 Abrahams, Peter Reality Check 6.2 8 Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart 6.1 1 Adams, Simon The Cold War 973.9 ADA 8.2 1 Adams, Simon Eyewitness - World War I 940.3 ADA 8.3 1 Adams, Simon Eyewitness- World War 2 940.53 ADA 7.9 4 Adkins, Jan Thomas Edison: A Photographic Story of a Life 92 EDI 5.7 19 Adornetto, Alexandra Halo Bk1 5.7 17 Adornetto, Alexandra Hades Bk2 5.9 11 Ahmedi, Farah & T. Ansary The Other Side of the Sky 305.23086 AHM 9 12 Albanov, Valerian In the Land of White Death 919.804 ALB 4.3 5 Albom, Mitch For One More Day 4.7 6 Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4.7 6 Albom, Mitch The Time Keeper 4.9 7 Albom, Mitch Have a Little Faith: a True Story 296.7 ALB 8.6 17 Alcott, Louisa May Rose in Bloom [see Classics lists for all titles] 6.6 12 Alder, Elizabeth The King's Shadow 4.7 11 Alender, Katie Famous Last Words, Hollywood can be Murder 4.8 10 Alender, Katie Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer 4.9 5 Alexander, Hannah Sacred Trust 5.6 13 Aliferenka & Ganda I Will Always Write Back 305.235 ALI 4.5 4 Allen, Will Swords for Hire 5.2 6 Allred, Alexandra Powe Atticus Weaver 5.3 7 Alvarez, Jennifer Lynn The Guardian Herd Bk1: Starfire 9.0 42 Ambrose, Stephen Undaunted Courage -
CRATER MORPHOMETRY on VENUS. C. G. Cochrane, Imperial College, London ([email protected])
Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV (2003) 1173.pdf CRATER MORPHOMETRY ON VENUS. C. G. Cochrane, Imperial College, London ([email protected]). Introduction: Most impact craters on Venus are propagating east and north/south. Can be minimised if pristine, and provide probably the best available ana- framelets have good texture on the left-hand side. logs for craters on Earth soon after impact; hence the Prominence extension – features extend down value of measuring their 3-D shape to known accuracy. range into a ridge, eg central peak linked to the rim. The USGS list 967 craters: from the largest, Mead at Probably due to radar shadowing differences, these are 270 km diameter, to the smallest, unnamed at 1.3 km. easily recognised and avoided during analysis. Initially, research focussed on the larger craters. Araration (from Latin: Arare to plough) consists of Schaber et al [1] (11 craters >50 km) and Ivanov et al parallel furrows some 50 pixels apart, oriented north- [2] (31 craters >70 km) took crater depth from Magel- south, and at least tens of metres deep. Fig 2, a lan altimetry. Sharpton [3] (94 craters >18 km) used floor-offsets in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) F- MIDR pairs, as did Herrick & Phillips [4]. They list many parameters but not depth for 891 craters. The LPI database1 now numbers 941. Herrick & Sharpton [5] made Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of all cra- ters at least partially imaged twice down to 12 km, and 20 smaller craters down to 3.6 km. Using FMAP im- ages and the Magellan Stereo Toolkit (MST) v.1, they automated matches every 900m but then manually ed- ited the resultant data. -
13Th Valley John M. Del Vecchio Fiction 25.00 ABC of Architecture
13th Valley John M. Del Vecchio Fiction 25.00 ABC of Architecture James F. O’Gorman Non-fiction 38.65 ACROSS THE SEA OF GREGORY BENFORD SF 9.95 SUNS Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 13.99 African Exodus: The Origins Christopher Stringer and Non-fiction 6.49 of Modern Humanity Robin McKie AGAINST INFINITY GREGORY BENFORD SF 25.00 Age of Anxiety: A Baroque W. H. Auden Eclogue Alabanza: New and Selected Martin Espada Poetry 24.95 Poems, 1982-2002 Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durell ALIEN LIGHT NANCY KRESS SF Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Edward Carey Fiction Saved a City And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhail Sholokhov Fiction AND ETERNITY PIERS ANTHONY SF ANDROMEDA STRAIN MICHAEL CRICHTON SF Annotated Mona Lisa: A Carol Strickland and Non-fiction Crash Course in Art History John Boswell From Prehistoric to Post- Modern ANTHONOLOGY PIERS ANTHONY SF Appointment in Samarra John O’Hara ARSLAN M. J. ENGH SF Art of Living: The Classic Epictetus and Sharon Lebell Non-fiction Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness Art Attack: A Short Cultural Marc Aronson Non-fiction History of the Avant-Garde AT WINTER’S END ROBERT SILVERBERG SF Austerlitz W.G. Sebald Auto biography of Miss Jane Ernest Gaines Fiction Pittman Backlash: The Undeclared Susan Faludi Non-fiction War Against American Women Bad Publicity Jeffrey Frank Bad Land Jonathan Raban Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld Fiction Ball Four: My Life and Hard Jim Bouton Time Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues Barefoot to Balanchine: How Mary Kerner Non-fiction to Watch Dance Battle with the Slum Jacob Riis Bear William Faulkner Fiction Beauty Robin McKinley Fiction BEGGARS IN SPAIN NANCY KRESS SF BEHOLD THE MAN MICHAEL MOORCOCK SF Being Dead Jim Crace Bend in the River V. -
COURT of CLAIMS of THE
REPORTS OF Cases Argued and Determined IN THE COURT of CLAIMS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS VOLUME 39 Containing cases in which opinions were filed and orders of dismissal entered, without opinion for: Fiscal Year 1987 - July 1, 1986-June 30, 1987 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 1988 (Printed by authority of the State of Illinois) (65655--300-7/88) PREFACE The opinions of the Court of Claims reported herein are published by authority of the provisions of Section 18 of the Court of Claims Act, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 37, par. 439.1 et seq. The Court of Claims has exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters: (a) all claims against the State of Illinois founded upon any law of the State, or upon an regulation thereunder by an executive or administrative ofgcer or agency, other than claims arising under the Workers’ Compensation Act or the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act, or claims for certain expenses in civil litigation, (b) all claims against the State founded upon any contract entered into with the State, (c) all claims against the State for time unjustly served in prisons of this State where the persons imprisoned shall receive a pardon from the Governor stating that such pardon is issued on the grounds of innocence of the crime for which they were imprisoned, (d) all claims against the State in cases sounding in tort, (e) all claims for recoupment made by the State against any Claimant, (f) certain claims to compel replacement of a lost or destroyed State warrant, (g) certain claims based on torts by escaped inmates of State institutions, (h) certain representation and indemnification cases, (i) all claims pursuant to the Law Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense Workers, Civil Air Patrol Members, Paramedics and Firemen Compensation Act, (j) all claims pursuant to the Illinois National Guardsman’s and Naval Militiaman’s Compensation Act, and (k) all claims pursuant to the Crime Victims Compensation Act. -
Investigating Mineral Stability Under Venus Conditions: a Focus on the Venus Radar Anomalies Erika Kohler University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Theses and Dissertations 5-2016 Investigating Mineral Stability under Venus Conditions: A Focus on the Venus Radar Anomalies Erika Kohler University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd Part of the Geochemistry Commons, Mineral Physics Commons, and the The unS and the Solar System Commons Recommended Citation Kohler, Erika, "Investigating Mineral Stability under Venus Conditions: A Focus on the Venus Radar Anomalies" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 1473. http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1473 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Investigating Mineral Stability under Venus Conditions: A Focus on the Venus Radar Anomalies A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Space and Planetary Sciences by Erika Kohler University of Oklahoma Bachelors of Science in Meteorology, 2010 May 2016 University of Arkansas This dissertation is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council. ____________________________ Dr. Claud H. Sandberg Lacy Dissertation Director Committee Co-Chair ____________________________ ___________________________ Dr. Vincent Chevrier Dr. Larry Roe Committee Co-chair Committee Member ____________________________ ___________________________ Dr. John Dixon Dr. Richard Ulrich Committee Member Committee Member Abstract Radar studies of the surface of Venus have identified regions with high radar reflectivity concentrated in the Venusian highlands: between 2.5 and 4.75 km above a planetary radius of 6051 km, though it varies with latitude. -
2019 Annual Report
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $ 2019 Annual Report 2019 Annual Report 1 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $ 2019 Annual Report Driven by the promise of great ideas. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $ 2019 Annual Report Contents Preface 2 Mission 3 From the President 4 On Racism and Our Responsibilities 6 The Year in Discovery 8 Deep Carbon Observatory 18 Microbiology of the Built Environment 21 About the Grants Listing 24 2019 Grants by Program 25 2019 Financial Review 123 Audited Financial Statements and Schedules 125 Board of Trustees 156 Officers and Staff 157 Index of 2019 Grant Recipients 158 Cover: A student participant in the Environmentor program holds a turtle. An initiative of RISE (the Rockaway Institute for Sustainability), the Environmentor program is a Sloan-supported science research mentorship that offers NYC high school students the opportunity to conduct authentic, hands-on environmental research on Jamaica Bay and the Rockaway shoreline. (PHOTO: RISE ROCKAWAY) 1 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $ 2019 Annual Report Preface The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation administers a private fund for the benefit of the public. It accordingly recognizes the responsibility of making periodic reports to the public on the management of this fund. The Foundation therefore submits this public report for the year 2019. 2 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $ 2019 Annual Report Mission The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants primarily to support original research and education related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. The Foundation believes that these fields— and the scholars and practitioners who work in them— are chief drivers of the nation’s health and prosperity. -
The Magellan Spacecraft at Venus by Andrew Fraknoi, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
www.astrosociety.org/uitc No. 18 - Fall 1991 © 1991, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112. The Magellan Spacecraft at Venus by Andrew Fraknoi, Astronomical Society of the Pacific "Having finally penetrated below the clouds of Venus, we find its surface to be naked [not hidden], revealing the history of hundreds of millions of years of geological activity. Venus is a geologist's dream planet.'' —Astronomer David Morrison This fall, the brightest star-like object you can see in the eastern skies before dawn isn't a star at all — it's Venus, the second closest planet to the Sun. Because Venus is so similar in diameter and mass to our world, and also has a gaseous atmosphere, it has been called the Earth's "sister planet''. Many years ago, scientists expected its surface, which is perpetually hidden beneath a thick cloud layer, to look like Earth's as well. Earlier this century, some people even imagined that Venus was a hot, humid, swampy world populated by prehistoric creatures! But we now know Venus is very, very different. New radar images of Venus, just returned from NASA's Magellan spacecraft orbiting the planet, have provided astronomers the clearest view ever of its surface, revealing unique geological features, meteor impact craters, and evidence of volcanic eruptions different from any others found in the solar system. This issue of The Universe in the Classroom is devoted to what Magellan is teaching us today about our nearest neighbor, Venus. Where is Venus, and what is it like? Spacecraft exploration of Venus's surface Magellan — a "recycled'' spacecraft How does Magellan take pictures through the clouds? What has Magellan revealed about Venus? How does Venus' surface compare with Earth's? What is the next step in Magellan's mission? If Venus is such an uninviting place, why are we interested in it? Reading List Why is it so hot on Venus? Where is Venus, and what is it like? Venus orbits the Sun in a nearly circular path between Mercury and the Earth, about 3/4 as far from our star as the Earth is. -
Hannah Caldwell Biography (HCEBIO)
Shelf Order for Holdings Code Hannah Caldwell Biography (HCEBIO) Call Call Call Call Number Sorted Call Author Title Number Number Number Cutter Number Type Prefix Class X B ADA B ADA Ada, Alma Flor. Under the royal palms : a childhood in Cuba X B ADAMS B ADAMS Adler, David A. A picture book of Samuel Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Burgan, Michael John Adams : second U.S. president X B ADAMS B ADAMS Davis, Kate, 1951- Abigail Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Davis, Kate, 1951- Samuel Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Dunlap, Julie. Eye on the wild : a story about Ansel Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Elston, Heidi M. D., John Adams 1979- X B ADAMS B ADAMS Elston, Heidi M. D., John Quincy Adams 1979- X B ADAMS B ADAMS Ferris, Jeri. Remember the ladies : a story about Abigail Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Fritz, Jean Why don't you get a horse, Sam Adams? X B ADAMS B ADAMS Harness, Cheryl The revolutionary John Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Hewson, Martha S. John Quincy Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Venezia, Mike John Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Venezia, Mike John Quincy Adams X B ADAMS B ADAMS Wagner, Heather John Adams Lehr X B ADDAMS B ADDAMS Raatma, Lucia Jane Addams X B ADU B ADU Murcia, Rebecca Freddy Adu : young soccer super star Thatcher, 1962- X B ADU B ADU Savage, Jeff, Freddy Adu 1961- X B AIKEN B AIKEN Torres, John Albert Clay Aiken X B ALCOTT B ALCOTT Aller, Susan Bivin Beyond little women : A story about Louisa May Alcott X B ALCOTT B ALCOTT Silverthorne, Louisa May Alcott Elizabeth, 1930- X B ALCOTT B ALCOTT Wheeler, Jill C., Louisa May Alcott 1964- X B ALDRIN B ALDRIN Aldrin, Buzz Reaching for the moon X B ALDRIN B ALDRIN Casil, Amy Buzz Aldrin Sterling. -
O Lunar and Planetary Institute Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System 1516 Lpscmv LARGE FLOOR-FRACTURED CRATERS: R.W
LPSCXXIV 1515 LARGE FLOOR-FRACTURED CRATERS AND ISOSTATIC CRATER MODIFICATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS ON VENUS. R.W. Wichman, Dept. of Space Studies, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202-7306 and P.H. Schultz, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brown Univ., Providence RI 02912 Introduction: Several of the largest craters on Venus, including Mead, Meitner and Isabella, exhibit well-developed floor fracture patterns combining a central set of radial features with a peripheral set of concentric fractures. This pattern strongly resembles the fracture patterns observed in the largest floor- fractured craters on the Moon (eg. Humboldt, Gauss, Petavius). Although most lunar floor-fractured craters apparently reflect crater modification by igneous intrusions and volcanism [I,2,3], we propose that the fractures in these larger craters represent domical flexure events in response to post-impact isostatic uplift. Since the extent of uplift and surface failure in this model depends on both the size of the basin cavity and the local lithospheric thickness, this interpretation also provides a means for constraining lithospheric thicknesses on Venus. Based on the apparent onset diameter of isostatic crater modification, we derive lithospheric thickness estimates for the Moon of -80-100 km, and for Venus of -50-70 km. Large Floor-fractured Craters: As noted in a companion abstract [4], ten craters on Venus show patterns of concentric or polygonal fractures resembling failure patterns observed in lunar floor-fractured craters. These craters are comparable in size (-20-90 km) to most of the lunar examples, and three craters in particular contain well-defined, moat-like structures around a scarp-bounded central floor plate identical to features observed in the most extensively modified craters on the Moon [5]. -
Dynamical Erosion of the Asteroid Belt and Implications for Large Impacts in the Inner Solar System
Icarus 207 (2010) 744–757 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Icarus journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/icarus Dynamical erosion of the asteroid belt and implications for large impacts in the inner Solar System David A. Minton *, Renu Malhotra Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States article info abstract Article history: The cumulative effects of weak resonant and secular perturbations by the major planets produce chaotic Received 15 September 2009 behavior of asteroids on long timescales. Dynamical chaos is the dominant loss mechanism for asteroids Revised 2 December 2009 with diameters D J 10 km in the current asteroid belt. In a numerical analysis of the long-term evolution Accepted 3 December 2009 of test particles in the main asteroid belt region, we find that the dynamical loss history of test particles Available online 11 December 2009 from this region is well described with a logarithmic decay law. In our simulations the loss rate function that is established at t 1 Myr persists with little deviation to at least t ¼ 4 Gyr. Our study indicates that Keywords: the asteroid belt region has experienced a significant amount of depletion due to this dynamical erosion— Asteroids having lost as much as 50% of the large asteroids—since 1 Myr after the establishment of the current Asteroids, Dynamics Cratering dynamical structure of the asteroid belt. Because the dynamical depletion of asteroids from the main belt is approximately logarithmic, an equal amount of depletion occurred in the time interval 10–200 Myr as in 0.2–4 Gyr, roughly 30% of the current number of large asteroids in the main belt over each interval. -
NASA GSFC Opportunities for Adult Learning Using the Vantage Point
NASA GSFC OPPORTUNITIES FOR STEM PROFESSIONALS USING THE VANTAGE POINT OF SPACE Blanche W. Meeson§* and Geraldine B. Robbins‡ §NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610.2/160.00, Greenbelt, MD 20771 ‡Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 160, Greenbelt, MD 20771 ABSTRACT NASA has a variety of learning opportunities for STEM professionals. Three opportunities at GSFC are examined in this chapter: 1) standard summer research and development internship for undergraduates, 2) senior internship for undergraduate and graduate students and 3) a workshop series for informal learning center professionals. We describe these programs, examine their evolution with respect to most effective education practices and their assessment and evaluation, and identify the similarities and differences between them. The internship programs highlight authentic project-based research and development experiences with the senior internship providing a richer, deeper, and more demanding experience that has greater professional value. The workshops for informal learning center professionals on-the-other hand, focus on building knowledge of GSFC’s science and engineering strengths among these professionals, and on building enduring partnerships between individuals (participants and GSFC scientist, engineers and educators) and between organizations (GSFC and the informal learning center). Finally, we examine the characteristics of these programs from a design and management perspective. Through this examination we identify a general structure that provides insight into more effective design and management of similar education programs. INTRODUCTION Learning opportunities have been a key part of NASA’s educational activities since the beginning of the agency. When NASA was established in 1958, its charter directed the agency to provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the result thereof [1]. -
Evidence for Crater Ejecta on Venus Tessera Terrain from Earth-Based Radar Images ⇑ Bruce A
Icarus 250 (2015) 123–130 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Icarus journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/icarus Evidence for crater ejecta on Venus tessera terrain from Earth-based radar images ⇑ Bruce A. Campbell a, , Donald B. Campbell b, Gareth A. Morgan a, Lynn M. Carter c, Michael C. Nolan d, John F. Chandler e a Smithsonian Institution, MRC 315, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, United States b Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY 14853-6801, United States c NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 698, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States d Arecibo Observatory, HC3 Box 53995, Arecibo 00612, Puerto Rico e Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, MS-63, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States article info abstract Article history: We combine Earth-based radar maps of Venus from the 1988 and 2012 inferior conjunctions, which had Received 12 June 2014 similar viewing geometries. Processing of both datasets with better image focusing and co-registration Revised 14 November 2014 techniques, and summing over multiple looks, yields maps with 1–2 km spatial resolution and improved Accepted 24 November 2014 signal to noise ratio, especially in the weaker same-sense circular (SC) polarization. The SC maps are Available online 5 December 2014 unique to Earth-based observations, and offer a different view of surface properties from orbital mapping using same-sense linear (HH or VV) polarization. Highland or tessera terrains on Venus, which may retain Keywords: a record of crustal differentiation and processes occurring prior to the loss of water, are of great interest Venus, surface for future spacecraft landings.