The Delaware Building was constructed shortly after the Chicago Fire of 1871 using pre-cast concrete panels on the outside. Originally six stories in height, the Italianate-style office building received an additional two floors around 1890 that were faced with sheet metal to resemble the appearance of the facade below. The lower two floors were originally dressed with ornamental cast iron arch...

The influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean on Late Pliocene global climate reconstructions has remained ambiguous due to a lack of well-dated Antarctic-proximal, paleoenvironmental records. Here we present ice sheet, sea-surface temperature, and sea ice reconstructions from the ANDRILL AND-1B sediment core recovered from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. We provide evidence for a major expans...

Recently, machine-learning techniques have been successfully used for the generation of complex artifacts such as music or text. However, these techniques are still unable to capture and generate artifacts that are convincingly structured. In particular, musical sequences do not exhibit pattern structure, as typically found in human composed music. We present an approach to generate structured ...

Thin films of -MoGe show progressively reduced Tc’s as the thickness is decreased below 30 nm and the sheet resistance exceeds 100 / . We have performed far-infrared transmission and reflection measurements for a set of -MoGe films to characterize this weakened superconducting state. Our results show the presence of an energy gap with ratio 2 0 /kBTc=3.8 0.1 in all films studied, slightly highe...

Spreading resistance analysis on ultrashallow structures is complicated by the interaction of bevel rounding with geometric effects associated with lateral boundaries. When a spreading resistance probe is stepped from the original sample surface, across the rounded region at the bevel edge and onto the bevel, the resistance increases. Some of the increase is the result of approaching the latera...

BACKGROUND Skin graft is one of the commonly done procedures by plastic surgeons, dermato surgeons and general surgeons. Pain at the donor area is a common complaint by the patient. The skin graft donor site area is usually covered with petrolatum dressing dermatosurgeons. AIM This study was done to compare collagen dressing with petroleum gauze dressing in control of post-operative pain on s...

A novel frequency domain technique for image blocking artifact reduction is presented in this paper. For each block, its DC and AC coefficients are recalculated for artifact reduction. To achieve this, a closed form representation of the optimal correction of the DCT coefficients is produced by minimizing a novel enhanced form of the Mean Squared Difference of Slope (MSDS), for every frequency ...

Professional programmers need common coding conventions to assure co-operation and a degree of quality of the software. Novice programmers, however, easily forget issues of programming style in their programming coursework. In particular with large classes, students may pass several courses without learning elements of programming style. This is often due to shortage of tutor work to give stude...

For more than 75 years the historiographical debate surrounding the appeasement policy of the 1930s has centred upon the notorious 1940 publication Guilty Men, in which a trio of left-leaning British journalists unleashed a vitriolic polemic castigating those men responsible for leading a hopelessly ill-prepared Britain into a catastrophic war. Thereafter the contours of the historiography are ...