BELOVED sons and daughters, promoters and associates of the “Latin Union of High Fashion,” We heartily extend to you Our paternal welcome. You have seen fit to come here to give Us testimony of your filial devotion and, at the same time, to seek heaven’s favor on your Union. >From its very inception you placed it under the auspices of Him Whose glory must be the end of every human activity, eve...

To my beloved families. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First, I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Dr. Elisa Riedo, for providing me the opportunity to conduct this exciting research. I'm sincerely grateful for her valuable guidance and perpetual encouragement though my entire graduate research. and his group, for the fabrication of thermal cantilevers. their great help and support. v Finally, I would...

Sesha would never live a normal life. . . . The worst fear was that her handicap involved her intellectual faculties. . . . Yet . . . it never even occurred to me to . . . think of her in any other terms than my own beloved child. She was my daughter. I was her mother. That was fundamental. . . . We didn’t yet realize how much she would teach us, but we already knew that we had learned somethin...

Once released into the air, humidifier disinfectants became tiny nano-size particles, and resulted in chemical bronchoalveolitis. Families had lost their most beloved members, and even some of them became broken. Based on an estimate of two million potential victims who had experienced adverse effects from the use of humidifier disinfectants, we can say that what we have observed was only the t...

The literary world has been delirious with excitement since the announcement in February that a second novel by Harper Lee had been “found” and was to be published. To Kill a Mockingbird [3] was Harper Lee’s first (and until now only) novel published in 1960, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize, and certainly one of the most beloved novels in American history. Having recently read Go Set a Watchm...

We share the disquiet of Leano and Kalauokalani [1] regarding section 33 of the recently revised IASP Core Curriculum [2] entitled Muscle and Myofascial Pain. It is clear that this section was written by devotees of “myofascial pain syndrome,” as indeed about half of the three pages of content refers to that construct and its beloved “trigger points.” Asmuch space again in the chapter consists ...

The ’Slinky’ spring is a popular and beloved toy for many children. Like its smaller relatives, used in spring reverberation units, it can produce interesting sonic behaviors. We explore the behavior of the ’Slinky’ spring via measurement, and discover that its sonic characteristics are notably different to those of smaller springs. We discuss methods of modeling the behavior of a Slinky via th...

Dedicated to my daughter Lucy Brandenburger 11 years old and who happily explained epistemic game theory to me while we were playing cards one day. Adam: “Lucy, hold up your cards. I can see your hand.” Lucy: “Dad, it doesn’t matter if you see my cards. You don’t know my strategy.” to my late mother Ennis Brandenburger who passed on to me her love of language in all its forms. and to my wife Ba...

Early in his study of radio in the USSR, Stephen Lovell quotes Rick Altman: ?new technologies are always born nameless? (p. 2). New technologies, that is to say, do not arrive with a self-evident purpose, and are understood initially relative to what already exists. In the case of radio, relevant prior technologies were the telegraph, the telephone and ? if it can be called a technology ? the p...

These lecture notes survey a number of topics from the classical and modern theory of interpolation of operators. One aim, after the general introduction, is to discuss a family of results which deal with the problems of describing all interpolation spaces with respect to given couples of Banach spaces. A second aim is to present the remarkable K−divisibility theorem of Brudnyi and Krugljak, in...