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Features interviews with important people in the field of computers and Internet communications, such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Andrew Grove (Intel), and Marc Andreesen (Netscape). 1 videocassette (55 min.) : 1/2 in VHS format Title from cassette Hosted and produced by Scott Gurvey "NBR 011"--Container Written & produced by Scott Gurvey ; director, Bob Buruchian ; graphic designers, Carlos Castilla ; editors, Bill Caruthers, Tony Ferreira

An analysis is made of the formulae used by the Navy's Inventory Control Points in calculating the variance of Net Leadtime Demand of repairable items. A new formula is then derived, which makes use of actual calculations of covariance between regenerations and demands. The resulting variance values derived from the new formula are compared with the variance values resident on the Navy's Ships Parts Control Center data base and are shown to produce lower variances. The new formula is also compared to the option path formula to determine which formula produces the smallest variance. The comparison suggests an under-estimation of variances results when the option path with its estimate of the covariance is used. The thesis concludes with recommendations for implementation of the new formula.

In The News: Flap n' Babble over the US budgets in both chambers of congress but they both pass their versions so they can take a looooong Easter vacation (and the nation MAY be safer for that). President Obama just finished a town hall talk in Strasburg Germany where he was treated like a rock star but NOT QUITE everyone is impressed. Posted: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:15 PM by Domenico Montanaro Filed Under: The First 100 Days, Barack Obama From NBC News International NBC Producer Andy Eckardt on the ground in Strasbourg, France, reports that approximately 500 to 1,000 so-called 'black block' protestors are reported to be scuffling with police when trying to get into the city. In the historic center, it is business as usual with an increasing police presence. Many people are out in the streets on this warm and sunny spring day. Security zones throughout the city will be enforced by 9:00 pm local time (4:00 pm ET), which will make access to the inner city very difficult without special permission. [ In Full ] He also announces a tour of France China Russia and other countries in June. Meanwhile, the G20 summit is over after mass demonstrations in London and tension among world leaders regarding financial industry regulations From Le Monde Dipomatique: TRANSLATION: Minute-by-minute cascade of major announcements follows end of G20 summit ( Le Monde ) Written by Mark Jensen Thursday, 02 April 2009 There was an extraordinary cascade of major news announcements in a two-hour period at the conclusion Thursday afternoon in London of the G20 summit. -- They were reported minute-by-minute on the web site of Le Monde (Paris) in brief squibs translated below. [ In Full ] Tobacco industry 'up in smoke'? The house passes a bill that allows the FDA to rule that Nicotine IS a drug , and cigarette ARE a delivery system allowing them to regulate it's content, distribution, and more. The federal tax has just risen from $0.39 to $1.01 per sales unit creating a situation where only the rich will be able to smoke. The lowest common denominator in rolling tobaccos, Bugler, just went from $2.75 a pouch (a little over a pack of ready made cigarettes) to $4.00. making it likely that the poor, unemployed, and otherwise economically disenfranchised will quit in droves and the rich won't care about the price increase, or other consequences of the FDA's regulation. EX-governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is indicted along with members of his family, for among other things, attempting to sell president Obama's vacated senate seat and attempting to shake down Chief of Staff Emanuel . The North Koreans are coming! The North Koreans are coming! Launch preparations are happening for either an ICBM or a communications satellite depending on which media outlet you read. This reminds me of another 'Cold War' incident... Look 'below the fold' in the 'Notes:' for archival footage, and be VERY afraid! ...and finally, Ward Churchill wins his wrongful termination suit [ Article ] against Colorado University and is awarded ONE dollar ($1.00). It was interesting to note that the 'Right side' of the forums at the Boulder Colorado Daily Camera truly believed that the minimal award was somehow relevant to the issue at hand. Churchill wins his case, awarded $1 in damages The University of Colorado unlawfully fired Ward Churchill for expressing his political beliefs, a Denver jury decided Thursday. But in what legal experts labeled a “compromise verdict,” the four women and two men on the jury only awarded the former ethnic studies professor $1 in damages. Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves will decide at a separate hearing whether Churchill, 61, gets his job back at CU or is given a lump sum of money instead. CU will also have to pay Churchill’s legal costs. [ In Full @ The Daily Camera, with 182 comments and counting ] Churchill, when handed the dollar bill, shouted: "Here the Dollar!" Reporter John Aguilar of the Boulder Daily Camera reported the proceedings via 'liveblog' over the four week duration of the trial. Excellent job John. A search at the Daily Camera's site for those bloggings is [ Here ] Follow up ( April 03 2009 1430 PDT ): Juror speaks out Members of the jury declined to talk to reporters after the verdict Thursday, and were escorted from the courthouse by sheriff’s deputies. But a woman identifying herself as juror Bethany Newill called the Caplis and Silverman show on Denver’s KHOW radio Thursday evening, and said the $1 award wasn’t intended to send a message that Churchill was a fraud. She told the lawyers-turned-radio hosts that five of the six jurors were intent on awarding Churchill money but that one was insistent he get nothing. Newill said they ultimately agreed on the nominal figure because Churchill’s attorneys didn’t provide them with a clear formula for determining damages for lost income or non-economic losses, like harm to reputation. “We sat there for pretty much hours debating this,” she said. Silverman asked if Newill thought the jury would have landed on a higher figure if Lane had called an economist to the stand to quantify Churchill’s losses. “Definitely, I do,” she said. [ In Full ] Essentially, the jury unanimously felt that CU was culpable for attempting to punish Churchill for exercising his First Amendment rights. More reason for celebration from the other British colony-gone-continental, Australia: Friday, April 03, 2009 Australia endorses UN indigenous rights declaration Ingrid Burke at 1:21 PM ET [JURIST] Australian Minister of Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin [official profile] announced Friday that the country has endorsed [statement] the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [text, PDF]. The move reverses the position of the country's former administration on the declaration. Macklin said the decision by the country's current Labor Party [official website] government to sign the declaration was rooted in its desire to improve relations with the nation's indigenous people... [ In Full @ Jurist Paper Chase ] [ After the commentary, John Kay & Steppenwolf on the subject of hard drugs, and the REAL victims... the users. Courtesy of the respective artists. ] "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service Creative Commons Copyright Courtesy of Cabale News Service and KPIG Radio Popout player below the fold in the "Notes" . Recorded & transcribed by The Buffalo Amongst Wolves @ My Buffalo River Home

This article is from Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience , volume 8 . Abstract Dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in cognitive function such as working memory, attention and planning. Dopamine exerts complex modulation on excitability of pyramidal neurons and interneurons, and regulates excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission. Because of the complexity of this modulation, it is difficult to fully comprehend the effect of dopamine on neuronal network activity. In this study, we investigated the effect of dopamine on local high-frequency oscillatory neuronal activity (in β band) in slices of the mouse anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). We found that dopamine enhanced the power of these oscillations induced by kainate and carbachol, but did not affect their peak frequency. Activation of D2R and in a lesser degree D1R increased the oscillation power, while activation of D4R had no effect. These high-frequency oscillations in the ACC relied on both phasic inhibitory and excitatory transmission and functional gap junctions. Thus, dopamine released in the ACC promotes high-frequency synchronized local cortical activity which is known to favor information transfer, fast selection and binding of distributed neuronal responses. Finally, the power of these oscillations was significantly enhanced after degradation of the perineuronal nets (PNNs) enwrapping most parvalbumin interneurons. This study provides new insights for a better understanding of the abnormal prefrontal gamma activity in schizophrenia (SZ) patients who display prefrontal anomalies of both the dopaminergic system and the PNNs.

This research investigated relationships between water residence time and net nitrate retention (i.e., loading minus discharge) in flow-controlled backwater systems of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR). Goals were to gain a better understanding of the management potential for removing nitrogen in large river systems by increasing connectivity between nitrogen-rich main channel areas and backwater habitats. Nitrogen (N) runoff to receiving streams and rivers, particularly in the form of nitrate-nitrite (NO3NO2-N), has increased several-fold in recent decades (Justic et al. 1995, Vitousek et al. 1997, Goolsby and Battaglin 2001). A consequence of accelerated N mobilization and transport has been water quality degradation of coastal areas and estuaries which are sensitive to N inputs (Nixon 1995). For instance, increased N loading from the Mississippi River basin has been associated with the development of extensive areas of anoxia and hypoxia (Rabalais et al. 1994) and declines in fish and invertebrate abundance (Pavela et al. 1983) in the Gulf of Mexico. Continued unchecked N loading to coastal systems could lead to significant declines in the diversity and abundance of higher trophic levels and increased bloom frequency of noxious and toxic algae (Vitousek et al. 1997). In addition to managing NO3NO2-N runoff input to large river systems (i.e., watershed N source and transport control, wetland detention, riparian buffers, restored bottomland hardwood floodplains), there is a need to promote in-stream removal of NO3NO2-N by biological uptake, bacterial denitrification, and burial in order to reduce N transport to coastal systems (Mitsch et al. 2001). In-stream N transformation and removal do occur in large rivers, but are typically low and represent a small percentage of the overall load (5 to 20 percent, Seitzinger 1988).

This thesis investigates the lens-like action of the gravitational fields of celestial bodies, which can alter the apparent intensity of more distant sources. Previous work in this area has shown that the chance of an individual body being sufficiently well aligned with a source to cause a very large gravitational intensity change is small. The issue addressed in this study is the possibility of there being a significant total change in the intensity of a source due to the combined effects of the gravitational fields of all celestial bodies, and in particular, the potential impact on intensity distance measurements, that is, determination of the distances of celestial light sources by means of intensity comparisons. It is first shown that the problem can be treated in flat space by associating an appropriate index of refraction with gravitational fields. A wave approach is taken in deriving the total deflection of a ray by the field of a single point mass. A statistical analysis is then performed to determine the expression for the mean total change in the intensity of celestial light sources due to the combined fields of all intervening bodies.

Previous literature documents a strong relationship between food insecurity and mental health, and also examines the impact of safety net programs on food insecurity. However, little is known about the intersection between mental health, safety net participation, and food insecurity. In this research, we use a multi-program safety net calculator (including cash, food, and health insurance programs) and data from the National Health Interview Survey and the Current Population Survey to examine the effects of safety net generosity on food insecurity and mental health for single mother families. We examine four research questions. First, does state safety net generosity affect self-reported participation in safety net programs? Second, does mental health affect participation in safety net programs, conditional on generosity? Third, does more generous cash and food assistance affect mental health? And finally, how effective is the safety net in reducing food insecurity in the presence of mental health issues? We find that state-level safety net generosity does predict self-reported participation, and that conditional on generosity, those with mental health issues are significantly more likely to participate in safety net programs. More generous cash and food assistance is protective of maternal mental health, but results are somewhat sensitive to the measure of mental health examined. Finally, we find no effect of the safety net on 30-day food insecurity. These results have important implications for the effectiveness of safety net programs for some of the most vulnerable members of society: low-income mothers suffering from mental health challenges and their children.

#26 Happy New Year!! Year Two of The Podcast Without a Name starts with highlighting some neat tech announced at CES 2018: - Toyota's e-Palette: The pizza shop, retail, and salon will soon come to you. http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/17487/toyota-unveils-e-palette-alliance-and-concept-vehicle-at-ces - Kohler's Numi, Smart Toilet: Men, close your eyes and picture this - colored lighting, music functionality, a heated seat, and a foot warmer, built into your toilet. REJOICE! https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-amazon-alexa-craziest-launch-at-ces - Wi-Fiber: Modular wifi that replaces streetlights. https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/10/wi-fiber-streetlights-ces-2018/ How can Wi-Fiber lower the barrier to entry for new ISPs and kick off a new era internet access dominated by content providers and not ISP. Potentially leading to the end of the Net Neutrality argument as we know it today. This brings us to possibly the real Net Neutrality argument: The chilling of speech by Social Media giants like Google, Facebook, and twitter. Who fact checks the "fact checkers?" Facebooks own research reveals how social media can have real and impactful effects on individuals, both positive and negative. Given this real influence and the curating of content based on specific worldviews, we all should be concerned. Even if you're benefiting from this trend, it could turn on you. Finally, we consider Steven Pinker's controversial statements on how the "alt-right" was formed. Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Find Us: PodcastWithoutAName.com Facebook: /PodcastWithoutAName Twitter: @NoNamePodcaster Instagram: PodcastWithoutAName Like, Comment, Subscribe, and Rate!

#26 Happy New Year!! Year Two of The Podcast Without a Name starts with highlighting some neat tech announced at CES 2018: - Toyota's e-Palette: The pizza shop, retail, and salon will soon come to you. http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/17487/toyota-unveils-e-palette-alliance-and-concept-vehicle-at-ces - Kohler's Numi, Smart Toilet: Men, close your eyes and picture this - colored lighting, music functionality, a heated seat, and a foot warmer, built into your toilet. REJOICE! https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-amazon-alexa-craziest-launch-at-ces - Wi-Fiber: Modular wifi that replaces streetlights. https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/10/wi-fiber-streetlights-ces-2018/ How can Wi-Fiber lower the barrier to entry for new ISPs and kick off a new era internet access dominated by content providers and not ISP. Potentially leading to the end of the Net Neutrality argument as we know it today. This brings us to possibly the real Net Neutrality argument: The chilling of speech by Social Media giants like Google, Facebook, and twitter. Who fact checks the "fact checkers?" Facebooks own research reveals how social media can have real and impactful effects on individuals, both positive and negative. Given this real influence and the curating of content based on specific worldviews, we all should be concerned. Even if you're benefiting from this trend, it could turn on you. Finally, we consider Steven Pinker's controversial statements on how the "alt-right" was formed. Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Find Us: PodcastWithoutAName.com Facebook: /PodcastWithoutAName Twitter: @NoNamePodcaster Instagram: PodcastWithoutAName Like, Comment, Subscribe, and Rate!

This classic treatise by Murray N. Rothbard provides a sweeping presentation of Austrian economic theory, a reconstruction of many aspects of that theory, a rigorous criticism of alternative schools, and an inspiring look at a science of liberty that concerns nearly everything and should concern everyone. http://mises.org Playlist link for complete presentation: http://tinyurl.com/axhdzg3 Full text of "Man, Economy, and State" available online: HTML version: http://tinyurl.com/y8zg569h PDF version: http://tinyurl.com/ta6kqjx EPUB version: http://tinyurl.com/vfvfve5 * * * * * Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Links to more online writings by Murray Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto http://tinyurl.com/y7mpkkaj Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/ph9k2zu The Ethics of Liberty http://tinyurl.com/pekmz3j Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pwt6pzz The Case Against the Fed http://tinyurl.com/r6phs4b Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/na9ds33 What Has Government Done to Our Money? http://tinyurl.com/p3mkr6z Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pku6eyp Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I http://tinyurl.com/ngqzfup Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/a3obfgu Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. II http://tinyurl.com/np6a898 Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/bd44b6s A History of Money and Banking in the United States http://tinyurl.com/ot23t9p Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/o8xj73s The Betrayal of the American Right http://tinyurl.com/r33fgpt Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/yx6vjudz The Progressive Era http://tinyurl.com/ydhn5aob Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/wd53r7v Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1 http://tinyurl.com/prrc32p Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/nhv65at Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 2 http://tinyurl.com/nh8bst5 Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/pdo4xup Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 3 http://tinyurl.com/qj9dfhm Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/q5kw4ke Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4 http://tinyurl.com/pkhlb2p Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/ns5gkuv Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 5 http://tinyurl.com/tuel93c Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/qtlup2h Anatomy of the State http://tinyurl.com/tjvfrp4 Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero http://tinyurl.com/obyk7yp Mises and Austrian Economics http://tinyurl.com/yynktdde War Collectivism http://tinyurl.com/rgkzu7x Ten Great Economic Myths http://tinyurl.com/nnr9dh9 The Economics of War http://tinyurl.com/otzpgct Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure http://tinyurl.com/ogo5ku2 Education: Free and Compulsory http://tinyurl.com/qmojaf2 Science, Technology, and Government http://tinyurl.com/qof8f5p Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty http://tinyurl.com/pdxlthg Kingdom Come: The Politics of the Millennium http://tinyurl.com/nhps5vo Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature http://tinyurl.com/oqxsjl3 Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers http://tinyurl.com/kv8eeup America's Great Depression http://tinyurl.com/p7wqfgx Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy http://tinyurl.com/qgnc7ra World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals http://tinyurl.com/pyzyfzb Related online resources: Murray Rothbard: Mises's True Heir http://tinyurl.com/ybj2nskx Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard http://tinyurl.com/oevl64l The Unstoppable Rothbard http://tinyurl.com/n9vbt7b Rothbard Vindicated http://tinyurl.com/q3yos7x Rothbard's Legacy http://tinyurl.com/3yselcl Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian http://tinyurl.com/o7v6zgj Human Action: A Treatise on Economics http://tinyurl.com/yapklreq Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/ab8wx88 Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution http://tinyurl.com/q9kf6jq Audio version: http://tinyurl.com/aa7gyv2 The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science http://tinyurl.com/yb3zs4rs Why Austrian Economics Matters http://tinyurl.com/ycqwjzt7 Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics http://tinyurl.com/pf46rtk The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics http://tinyurl.com/y8z4sf59 Economic Science and the Austrian Method http://tinyurl.com/reqtqfd The Austrian School's Critique of Marxism http://tinyurl.com/y84g9g7j * * * * * Text of this audio presentation Copyright © 2009 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Audio licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This YouTube channel is in no way endorsed by or affiliated with the Mises Institute, any of its scholars or staff members.

Wind tunnel test on the effect of metal net fences on sand flux in a Gobi Desert, China 作者： WANG Tao 1,2,3,4 QU Jianjun 1,2,3 LING Yuquan 1 XIE Shengbo 1,3 XIAO Jianhua 1,3 作者单位： 1. Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China 2. Breeding Base for State Key Laboratory of Land Degradation and Ecological Restoration in Northwest China, Ningxi University, Yinchuan 750021, China 3. Dunhuang Gobi and Desert Ecology and Environment Research Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dunhuang 736200, China 4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Be巧ing 100049, China 提交时间： 2017-11-07 摘要: The Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway runs through an expansive windy area in a Gobi Desert, and sand-blocking fences were built to protect the railway from destruction by wind-blown sand. wind-blown sand wind tunnel experiment porous fence flow field sediment flux density Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway Gobi Desert 分类： 地球科学 >> 地理学 引用： ChinaXiv:201711.00366 (或此版本 ChinaXiv:201711.00366V1 ) doi:10.12074/201711.00366 CSTR:32003.36.ChinaXiv.201711.00366.V1 推荐引用方式： WANG Tao,QU Jianjun,LING Yuquan,XIE Shengbo,XIAO Jianhua.(2017).Wind tunnel test on the effect of metal net fences on sand flux in a Gobi Desert, China.干旱区科学.[ChinaXiv:201711.00366] 版本历史 [V1] 2017-11-07 12:23:22 ChinaXiv:201711.00366V1 下载全文

2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers for their Annual Best Book Prize Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet—most uniquely, romanticism—Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces—with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.

Introduction: Correct assessment of evapotranspiration fluctuations in different meteorological scenarios plays an important role in the optimal management of water resources. Probability analyzes with different probabilities of occurrence can increase flexibility in decision making and increase the reliability of decisions. Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important agricultural products in the world. Although rice is cultivated in a wide range of climatic and geographical conditions, it is vulnerable to changes in environmental conditions. Planting management, design of irrigation systems, and suitable irrigation cycle for optimal production are important issues for sustainable production. Materials and Methods: The study area includes the northern region of Iran, i.e. the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan, which is the main rice-growing area in Iran. Changes in rice evapotranspiration in three different cultivation dates with four different occurrence probabilities of 75, 50, 25 and 10%, was calculated using the FAO Penman-Monteith equation and meteorological data with a statistical period of 30 years (2020- 1990). Also, the average rice crop coefficient at different stages of growth in 10-day periods was estimated based on the Weibull model. These probabilities represent the probable limits of the expected values of evapotranspiration in different scenarios of low, normal, high, and very high evapotranspiration years. Results and Discussion: The results showed a relatively constant difference of 1 to 2 mm between different rice cultivation histories in the major rice cultivation areas of Gilan and Mazandaran in normal to very high evapotranspiration years. In the years of low evapotranspiration, the water requirement was significantly different from the normal, high and very high evapotranspiration years, which decreased from east to west. This difference was approximately 30% higher in Golestan province as compared with other areas. In the early planting situation relative to the late planting situation in the major western and central coastal areas, there was a 10% decrease in water consumption. At the scale of the whole growing season in Gorgan, evapotranspiration in different conditions of planting date was on average 20% (1300 cubic meters) more than the main regions of Gilan and Mazandaran. In case of timely planting, the net irrigation requirement in very high evapotranspiration years was about 2000 cubic meters per hectare more than the normal years. In years with high evapotranspiration, late planting increased the net irrigation requirement by more than 210 mm compared to different planting dates in Gorgan. According to the obtained results, the largest difference between evapotranspiration values during normal and very high evapotranspiration years was in the late planting situation. Therefore, it seems that late planting causes a significant increase in water consumption in the high evapotranspiration years. Consequently, it is better to avoid rice cultivation when the rice growing season is anticipated to be warm. Conclusion: Evapotranspiration, as one of the main components of the hydrological cycle, had a significant role in proper irrigation planning and water resources management. The results underline the importance of estimating the rice evapotranspiration to avoid appreciable yield loss under extreme conditions.

This study investigates the impact of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on household food calorie intake using a Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approach. The PSNP is a social protection program designed to enhance food security and alleviate poverty. The PSM method is employed to estimate the causal effect of the PSNP by matching treated and control households based on their propensity scores, which represent the likelihood of participating in the program. The analysis utilizes household-level data on participation in the PSNP and food calorie intake. The results provide insights into the program's effectiveness in improving household food calorie intake and contribute to the broader understanding of the role of social protection programs in addressing food insecurity.

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Thesis advisor, Alan W. McMasters

Thesis advisor, Alan W. McMasters

This volume was digitized and made accessible online due to deterioration of the original print copy.

This volume was digitized and made accessible online due to deterioration of the original print copy.

A net is visible depending on the net colour and the tone variation with its background; it can also be affected by the time of day, and the seasonal changes in water clarity or colour. Fish can differentiate between colours, and also different coloured nets may show significant differences in catches. The main objective of the study was to identify the net colour with the most fish capture. The green net caught the highest number of fishes thus 36 fishes, which consisted of 14 species with a total weight of 3.536 kg, an average length of 22.47 cm. The white net caught the next highest number of fishes; thus 27 fishes, which consisted of nine (9) species with a total weight of 3.743 kg and an average length of 28.69 cm. Eight (8) species, 15 fishes were caught by the brown net which was the least number caught with a total weight of 1.617 kg and an average length of 24.2 cm. Fishers should be educated so they know the colour of net used has an effect on fish catch. Studies should be carried out on the hanging ratio and thickness of the monofilament gillnets to know if it would affect fish catch. Further studies should be carried out on this study for the whole year to check if there would be changes in results. Marcusenius abadii was the species caught most during this experiment, followed by Synodontis ocellifer, Sarotherodon galilaeus, Hemichromis fasciatus, Chrysichthys auratus, Oreochromis niloticus, Clarias gariepinus, Mormyrops anguilloides, Tilapia zillii, Heterotis niloticus, Marcusenius senegalensis, Gymnarchus niloticus, Parachanna obscura, Synodontis bastiani, Chromidotilapia guntheri, Synodontis schall, and Mormyrops breviceps.

We study the influence of the choice of transport coefficients (viscosity and resistivity) on MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion disks. We follow the methodology described in paper I: we adopt an unstratified shearing box model and focus on the case where the net vertical magnetic flux threading the box vanishes. For the most part we use the finite difference code ZEUS, including explicit transport coefficients in the calculations. However, we also compare our results with those obtained using other algorithms (NIRVANA, the PENCIL code and a spectral code) to demonstrate both the convergence of our results and their independence of the numerical scheme. We find that small scale dissipation affects the saturated state of MHD turbulence. In agreement with recent similar numerical simulations done in the presence of a net vertical magnetic flux, we find that turbulent activity (measured by the rate of angular momentum transport) is an increasing function of the magnetic Prandtl number Pm for all values of the Reynolds number Re that we investigated. We also found that turbulence disappears when the Prandtl number falls below a critical value Pm_c that is apparently a decreasing function of Re. For the limited region of parameter space that can be probed with current computational resources, we always obtained Pm_c>1. We conclude that the magnitudes of the transport coefficients are important in determining the properties of MHD turbulence in numerical simulations in the shearing box with zero net flux, at least for Reynolds numbers and magnetic Prandtl numbers that are such that transport is not dominated by numerical effects and thus can be probed using current computational resources.

This report describes and gives the results of tests made to determine the effect of lateral inclination of the propeller thrust axis to the direction of flight. A wing-nacelle-propeller combination with the nacelle axis located successively parallel to and at 15 degrees to the perpendicular to the leading edge of a wing was tested with the combination at several angles of yaw. Tests of the wing alone at the same angles of yaw were also made. The data are presented in the usual graphic form. An increase in propulsive efficiency with increase in angle of the thrust axis was found. The change in net efficiency, found by charging the whole nacelle drag to the power unit, was negligible, however, within the range of the tests.

This report describes and gives the results of tests made to determine the effect of lateral inclination of the propeller thrust axis to the direction of flight. A wing-nacelle-propeller combination with the nacelle axis located successively parallel to and at 15 degrees to the perpendicular to the leading edge of a wing was tested with the combination at several angles of yaw. Tests of the wing alone at the same angles of yaw were also made. The data are presented in the usual graphic form. An increase in propulsive efficiency with increase in angle of the thrust axis was found. The change in net efficiency, found by charging the whole nacelle drag to the power unit, was negligible, however, within the range of the tests.

This report describes and gives the results of tests made to determine the effect of lateral inclination of the propeller thrust axis to the direction of flight. A wing-nacelle-propeller combination with the nacelle axis located successively parallel to and at 15 degrees to the perpendicular to the leading edge of a wing was tested with the combination at several angles of yaw. Tests of the wing alone at the same angles of yaw were also made. The data are presented in the usual graphic form. An increase in propulsive efficiency with increase in angle of the thrust axis was found. The change in net efficiency, found by charging the whole nacelle drag to the power unit, was negligible, however, within the range of the tests.

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This article is from ecancermedicalscience , volume 7 . Abstract The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) jointly hosted its triennial palliative care conference for Africa with the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) on 17–20 September 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the heart of the conference stood a common commitment to see patient care improved across the continent. The theme for the conference, ‘The Net Effect: Spanning Diseases, Crossing Borders’, reflected this joint vision and the drive to remember the ‘net effect’ of our work in palliative care—that is, the ultimate impact of the care that we provide for our patients and their families across the disease and age spectrum and across the borders of African countries. The conference, held in Johannesburg, brought together 471 delegates from 34 countries. The key themes and messages from the conference are encapsulated in ten ‘C’s of commitment to political will and support at the highest levels of governance; engaging national, regional, and international bodies; collaboration; diversity; palliative care for children; planning for human resources and capacity building; palliative care integration at all levels; developing an evidence base for palliative care in Africa; using new technologies; and improved quality of care. Participants found the conference to be a forum that challenged their understanding of the topics presented, as well as enlightening in terms of applying best practice in their own context. Delegates found a renewed commitment and passion for palliative care and related health interventions for children and adults with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses within the region. This conference highlighted many of the developments in palliative care in the region and served as a unique opportunity to bring people together and serve as a lynchpin for palliative care provision and development in Africa. The delegates were united in the fact that together we can ‘span diseases,’ ‘cross borders,’ and realise the ‘African Dream’ for palliative care.

This article is from ecancermedicalscience , volume 7 . Abstract The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) jointly hosted its triennial palliative care conference for Africa with the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) on 17–20 September 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the heart of the conference stood a common commitment to see patient care improved across the continent. The theme for the conference, ‘The Net Effect: Spanning Diseases, Crossing Borders’, reflected this joint vision and the drive to remember the ‘net effect’ of our work in palliative care—that is, the ultimate impact of the care that we provide for our patients and their families across the disease and age spectrum and across the borders of African countries. The conference, held in Johannesburg, brought together 471 delegates from 34 countries. The key themes and messages from the conference are encapsulated in ten ‘C’s of commitment to political will and support at the highest levels of governance; engaging national, regional, and international bodies; collaboration; diversity; palliative care for children; planning for human resources and capacity building; palliative care integration at all levels; developing an evidence base for palliative care in Africa; using new technologies; and improved quality of care. Participants found the conference to be a forum that challenged their understanding of the topics presented, as well as enlightening in terms of applying best practice in their own context. Delegates found a renewed commitment and passion for palliative care and related health interventions for children and adults with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses within the region. This conference highlighted many of the developments in palliative care in the region and served as a unique opportunity to bring people together and serve as a lynchpin for palliative care provision and development in Africa. The delegates were united in the fact that together we can ‘span diseases,’ ‘cross borders,’ and realise the ‘African Dream’ for palliative care.

An analysis is made of the formulae used by the Navy's Inventory Control Points in calculating the variance of Net Leadtime Demand of repairable items. A new formula is then derived, which makes use of actual calculations of covariance between regenerations and demands. The resulting variance values derived from the new formula are compared with the variance values resident on the Navy's Ships Parts Control Center data base and are shown to produce lower variances. The new formula is also compared to the option path formula to determine which formula produces the smallest variance. The comparison suggests an under-estimation of variance results when the option path with its estimate of the covariance is used. The thesis concludes with recommendations for implementation of the new formula.

An analysis is made of the formulae used by the Navy's Inventory Control Points in calculating the variance of Net Leadtime Demand of repairable items. A new formula is then derived, which makes use of actual calculations of covariance between regenerations and demands. The resulting variance values derived from the new formula are compared with the variance values resident on the Navy's Ships Parts Control Center data base and are shown to produce lower variances. The new formula is also compared to the option path formula to determine which formula produces the smallest variance. The comparison suggests an under-estimation of variance results when the option path with its estimate of the covariance is used. The thesis concludes with recommendations for implementation of the new formula.

In celebration of Independence Day in the United States, 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of <em>The Flag Goes By</em> by Henry Holcomb Bennett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of July 2nd, 2006.<br />(Summary by Annie Coleman)

2Card

By Arnold Bennett

The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and ‘nerve’ he rose to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ever mayor of his home town.<br /><br />“’And yet,’ demanded Councillor Barlow, ‘what’s he done? What great cause is he identified with?<br />’‘He’s identified,’ said the speaker, ‘with the great cause of cheering us all up’.” (summary by Andy Minter)

3Price of Love

By Arnold Bennett

Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of the family. She falls in love with one of Mrs Maldon's descendants, but along the way, she has to come to terms with the fact that he isn't, perhaps, the perfectly honest man she thought he was. (Summary by Christine)

4How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

By Arnold Bennett

"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. Yes, he assured them, it could be done. Yes, if you want to feel connected with the world, instead of endlessly pacing the treadmill (or, "exceeding your programme", as he called it), you must do so.-- For time, as he gleefully notes, is the ultimate democracy. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. Even a saint gets not a minute more; even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. And he can choose today to turn over a new leaf! -- Bennett believed that learning to discern cause and effect in the world would give his readers an endless source of enjoyment and satisfaction. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought... and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office. (Summary by Mark F Smith)

5Old Wives' Tale

By Arnold Bennett

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. (Summary by Andy)

6Grand Babylon Hotel

By Arnold Bennett

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery.<BR><BR> Bennett wrote this as a 15-part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for 100 pounds. It first appeared in The Golden Penny in 1902, which described it as "the most original, amusing, and thrilling serial written in a decade". (Summary by Anna Simon)<BR><BR>NB the Wikipedia page for this book (see link on the left) contains some plot spoilers!

7Literary Taste: How to Form It

By Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 contain detailed lists of the 337 volumes required to complete a comprehensive library of English works. This reading is from the 1913 version at Project Gutenberg, and so does not contain the revisions made by Swinnerton for the 1939 edition, which included authors of the early Twentieth Century. Swinnerton's revisions are available from Wikipedia. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

8Tales of the Five Towns

By Arnold Bennett

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that “Five Towns” was more euphonious than “Six Towns”. The real town names which are thinly disguised in the novel are: Hanley, Longton, Burslem and Tunstal, the fifth, Stoke, became “Knype”. <br /><br />Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was born in Hanley, the eldest child of a pawnbroker who subsequently became a solicitor. Bennett’s father wished him to become a solicitor too, but he failed his university entrance examination and instead became a solicitor's clerk, at first in his father's office and, from 1889, in London. <br /><br />He showed early promise as a writer winning a writing competition in a local newspaper as a boy. In London he began to see his writing published in popular magazines and he joined the staff of ‘Woman’ magazine in 1893. <br /><br />His first novel to be published, <em>A Man from the North</em>, appeared in 1898 and its success allowed him to give up other work to concentrate on writing. His first short story (<em>A Letter Home</em>) was written in 1893 and appears in <em>Tales of the Five Towns</em>. (Summary by Martin Clifton)

The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church. Having escaped her father by marrying the respectable and attractive Henry, she attempts in vain to help Willy, son of a drunken and bankrupt business associate of her father's. (Summary by Wikipedia)

10Mental Efficiency

By Arnold Bennett

In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvantages) of marriage and other pocket philosophies.<BR/><BR/>The book stands the test of time, and much is still relevant and amusing - perhaps even more so, with nearly 100 years of hindsight, than when it was originally written.<BR/><BR/>The book "X" to which Bennett refers in Chapter 5 is <i>An Essay on the Principle of Population</i> by Thomas Malthus, of which there is also a <a href="http://librivox.org/an-essay-on-the-principle-of-population-by-thomas-malthus/" target="_blank"> Librivox recording</a>. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

11Regent

By Arnold Bennett

'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.<br /><br />Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the 'Five Towns'.<br /><br />In fact, as he says to himself 'What I want is change - and a lot of it too!'. A chance meeting at the local theatre leads to his going to London and then... (Summary by A.J.M.)

12Clayhanger

By Arnold Bennett

This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business, and falls in love.<BR>The books are set in Bennett's usual setting of "the 5 Towns", a thinly-disguised version of the six towns of "the Potteries" which amalgamated (at the time of which Bennett was writing) into the borough (and later city) of Stoke-on-Trent.<BR>In one of the earlier chapters in the book, Bennett writes that Edwin had only heard of a philosopher as 'someone who made the best of a bad job' and in some ways that is what Edwin has to do in the book - survive under a stifling layer of conduct imposed by his father, his church and the society he is part of.<BR>(Introduction by Wikipedia, summarised by seasound11)

This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and explains how to grow and care for the traditional garden flowering plants, bulbs, trees, and shrubs. There are sections covering all aspects of ornamental gardens including water gardens and caring for house plants in the winter. The author has lots of unexpected but good advice in her chapter of Don’ts, for example: “ Don’t supply with cut flowers, plants and the like, people who spend more money for unnecessary luxuries than you do for your whole garden, and then tell you how foolish you are to spend so much time and money, and work so hard for your flowers.” As this shows, the author is at times as colorful as the flowers in this informative book (Summary by A.L. Gramour)

This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, growing and storing vegetables, managing garden pests, and fall garden work.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)

In <i>The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book</i>, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's writing includes some thought-provoking ideas liberally spiced with his wry sense of humour, and as always too, you can barely believe it was written so long ago. This was published exactly 100 years ago, in 1911. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

<br />Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of some of the essays in this eclectic collection, it is well to remember that they were written at the time of the First World War and the fight for women's suffrage. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

17Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

By Arnold Bennett

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter)

18Human Machine

By Arnold Bennett

Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: "I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which has perhaps wholly or partially escaped you -- namely, that you are the most fascinating bit of machinery that ever was."<br /><br />As ever, his prose is honeyed, his thoughts inspired, and his advice as relevant today as when it was written.

19Hilda Lessways

By Arnold Bennett

This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to make a career for herself, her coming of age and her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and keeper of a lodging house in London and Brighton. He also shows her intensifying relationship with the enigmatic George Cannon that ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation with Edwin Clayhanger (Summary by Simon Evers)

20These Twain

By Arnold Bennett

Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon, are living in Bursley. Edwin does not enjoy an entirely happy marriage with Hilda because of her outspokenness. Hilda has strong opinions on matters which at the time were considered to be a male preserve – for example, on Edwin’s business. She also does things without telling him. As a consequence, Edwin has his doubts about their marriage and is angered by his wife just as he had been by his father. The book shows how Hilda and Edwin attempt to compromise, its title being a play on words: does it mean "these two" or "these separate"? It is suggested that they had both become perhaps too set in their ways before their marriage, even though each was in some way 'saved' by their union. (Summary by Simon Evers)

21Pretty Lady

By Arnold Bennett

‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in London. Though a refugee, she demands no pity; she is self-sufficient, practical and realistic. Christine is not a harpy preying on innocent soldiers, but a canny businesswoman, doing the best she can with the opportunities life has given her. Her main relationship is with G.J. Hoape, a wealthy man above the military age. Bennett in this novel presents a disturbing image of wartime society, fragmented, uneasy and divided. There are references to industrial unrest and to social injustices, and hints that the British press is less than frank about the war. (Summary by Simon Evers)

22Buried Alive

By Arnold Bennett

The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not try to disabuse him. After the funeral (in Westminster Abbey), Priam Farll marries a widow and lives a happy life until the loss of his wife’s money means he has to take up painting again. A connoisseur of art recognises his style but thinks the paintings are by an imposter. He makes a fortune by buying his works through a small dealer and selling them in America as genuine. Meanwhile Priam Farll refuses through his obstinate shyness to prove his own identity. (Summary by Simon Evers)

23Roll-Call

By Arnold Bennett

"The Roll-Call" is the sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy. This book concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannon (he quickly dropped the surname Clayhanger), is an architect, in many ways representing the ambitions held by his stepfather, Edwin. However, he possesses an arrogance endowed by family wealth and Bennett examines with some aplomb the difficulty of bringing up children without spoiling them. George eventually joins the army and this is a fitting finale to this fine series. (Summary by Simon Evers)

24Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

By Arnold Bennett

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, and falls hopelessly in love with her.<br><br>Alresca takes Foster under his wing and they travel to Alresca's home in Bruges. It is clear to Foster that Alresca has some strange obsession. Foster also notices a stranger who seems to be dogging his footsteps.<br><br>Things take an even more sinister turn when Alresca inexplicably dies. . .<br><br>(Summary by Simon Evers)

25How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

By Arnold Bennett

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to really live and learn, offers very valuable advice.<br /><br /> Time is the most precious of commodities, states Bennett in this book. Many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day. And he added that the old adage "time is money" understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to make the best of the time remaining in their lives. Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through." Which of us is free from that uneasy feeling that the "great spending departments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? [...] Which of us is not saying to himself -- which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. - Summary from the author's preface and the reader.

26Great Man: a Frolic

By Arnold Bennett

Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a best-selling novel. (Summary by Simon Evers)

27Old Adam

By Arnold Bennett

Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midlands 'Five Towns'. Yet when he unexpectedly gains three hundred and forty-one pounds in a speculation on rubber shares, he realises that he doesn't 'feel so jolly, after all'. After a visit to the local music hall, he decides that a change is in order. He takes the morning train to London, where adventures in the theatrical world await. 'The Old Adam' was also published under the title, 'The Regent'. (Phil Benson)

28Leonora

By Arnold Bennett

Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull, domesticated and meaningless. Arthur Twemlow, the son of John’s former business partner, blows into Leonora’s life and that of her family. Meanwhile, old Uncle Meshach has re-written his will . . . . - Summary by Simon Evers

Arnold Bennett escribió Enterrado en vida después de su obra más conocida y seria, Cuento de viejas, y siempre la consideró como su novela más delirantemente divertida. Defensor del realismo ("En primer término, una novela debería parecer verdad. Y no puede parecer verdad si los personajes no parecen reales") y crítico con las novelas sensacionalistas decimonónicas, Enterrado en vida no deja de tener ciertas características de estas últimas (confusión de identidades, esposas secretas, románticas heroicidades) como un travieso y satírico guiño al lector avisado. Sin embargo, es la extraordinaria prosa de Bennett la que consigue que cualquier lector olvide el mundo que le rodea y, sin ningún esfuerzo, se encuentre paseando por el Londres de 1908 con el singular señor Priam Farll. Bennett convierte un simple paseo por High Street, una conversación con el estanquero, o una merienda en un salón de té, en escenas tan nítidas y reales, tan coloristas, que lo cotidiano se vuelve extraordinario. Summary by Phileas Fogg

30Mr. Prohack

By Arnold Bennett

Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which, with a lucky investment, he turns into a fortune. This humorous book follows his progress and that of his wife, son and daughter who all, in their different ways, slowly get used to their new lives. - Summary by Simon Evers

31Lilian

By Arnold Bennett

Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, who suspects that Felix is more interested in Lilian than perhaps he should be and gives Lilian the sack. Her plan fails as Felix invites Lilian to dinner – and the book follows the course of their evolving relationship.

32Clayhanger (Version 2)

By Arnold Bennett

A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes over the business successfully. The story follows Edwin’s relationships with his family and the mysterious Hilda Lessways. It is the first book of four in the Clayhanger series, following Edwin’s life. - Summary by Simon Evers

33Riceyman Steps

By Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in London's characterful Clerkenwell district shortly after the First World War. - Summary by Anthony Ogus

Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century. ‘In Queen's Quorum (1951), a survey of crime fiction, Ellery Queen listed Bennett's The Loot of Cities among the 100 most important works in the genre. This collection of stories recounts the adventures of a millionaire who commits crimes to achieve his idealistic ends. Although it was "one of his least known works," it was nevertheless "of unusual interest, both as an example of Arnold Bennett's early work and as an early example of dilettante detectivism".’ - Summary by David Wales

35Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

By Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. In 1911 Bennett paid a financially rewarding visit to the US, which he later recorded in this 1912 book Those United States in England; titled Your United States in America. He is a keen observer with an entertaining dry wit.- Summary by David Wales

36Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

By Arnold Bennett

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five Towns, 1905, available at Librivox.).The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in which much of the writer's best work is set. Later [than initial] critics have been kinder to the collection's key story, with Margaret Drabble calling "Simon Fuge"... one of the greatest short stories in the English language", and John Wain remarking that... "it says as much as a novel, it says easily as much as a novel of a hundred thousand words could say on this theme" and naming it... "the best thing that Arnold Bennett ever did." The stories exhibit Bennett's usual dry wit and belie the word "grim" in the title. - Summary by David Wales

37Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front

By Arnold Bennett

Bennett's served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a visit to the Western Front he wrote this 1915 collection of essays about his impressions. He declined being awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) at the end of the war. - Summary by David Wales

Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular with the public. After contributions to the WWI war effort, he declined the Order of the British Empire (OBE). - Summary by David Wales.

39Helen with the High Hand

By Arnold Bennett

James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great step niece, a determined young lady in her twenties, turns his whole world – and hers - upside down. The book humorously follows the fortunes of them both as we learn more about the pair. - (Summary by Simon Evers)

40Tower Menagerie

By Edward Turner Bennett

Such is a brief outline of the history up to the present period of the establishment known as the Tower Menagerie. Of the animals contained in it during the summer of 1828, and of two others which had then recently died, the succeeding pages offer delineations, descriptions, and anecdotes. - Summary by Edward Turner Bennett

This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles written originally in the popular press of the time (The London Daily Express): Arnold Bennett, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Compton Mackenzie, J.D. Beresford; Israel Zangwill, H deVere Stacpoole, Henry Arthur Jones, and several prominent clergy. - summary by david wales