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 G. B. Pegram -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pegram graduated from Trinity in 1895 and taught high school before becoming a teaching assistant in physics at (A university in New York City) Columbia University in 1900.
In autumn 1941, Pegram and Urey led a diplomatic mission to (A division of the United Kingdom) England to establish co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.
Pegram died in (additional info and facts about Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/G/G._B._Pegram.htm   (145 words)

  
 Rich Mountain Revisited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pegram arrived at Captain Anderson's position between Camp Garnett and the Hart farm just as Tyler's column was being brought up.
Pegram proposed a night attack upon the Federal forces holding the summit of Rich Mountain, a proposal enthusiastically accepted by his men.
Pegram led the men through laurel thickets on the north side of the pike to the top of the mountain where he took a position about a quarter of a mile from Rosecrans' right flank.44 But during the march the Confederates became nervous and fired into the last segment of the column.
www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh28-1.html   (7559 words)

  
 Chapter III. Administrative History Up To December 1941 | Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (The Smyth Report) | ...
Pegram telephoned to the Navy Department and arranged for a conference between representatives of the Navy Department and Fermi.
The first transfer of funds ($6,000) from the Army and Navy to purchase materials in accordance with the recommendation of November 1 is reported in a memorandum from Briggs to General E. Watson (President Roosevelt's aide) on February 20, 1940.
(B) experiments with amounts of uranium and carbon equal to about one fifth to one quarter of the amount that could be estimated as the minimum in "which a chain reaction would sustain itself.
www.atomicarchive.com /Docs/SmythReport/smyth_iii.shtml   (2593 words)

  
 Comparative Placentation
Matthee and Robinson (1999) studied the phylogeny with cytochrome b analysis of this tribe and came to the conclusion that all members should be assigned the genus Tragelaphus.
Hassanin, A. and Douzery, E.J.: The tribal radiation of the family Bovidae (Artiodactyla) and the evolution of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.
Wooding, F.B., Morgan, G. and Adam, C.L.: Structure and function in the ruminant synepitheliochorial placenta: central role of the trophoblast binucleate cell in deer.
medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/sita.html   (2102 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
King, B. King, B. B., 1925-, African-American blues singer and guitarist, b.
He grew up poor in the Mississippi Delta region, began playing the guitar at 12, was a street corner performer as a teenager, and as a young man worked as a singing, guitar-playing radio disk jockey in Memphis.
Yehoshua, A. Yehoshua, A. (Abraham B. Yehoshua), 1936-.
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 Encyclopedia: Nuclear fission
Rosenfeld immediately upon arrival told everyone at Princeton University, and from them the news spread by word of mouth to neighboring physicists including Enrico Fermi at Columbia University.
As a result of conversations among Fermi, John R. Dunning, and G.
Pegram, a search was undertaken at Columbia for the heavy pulses of ionization that would be expected from the flying fragments of the uranium nucleus.
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Pegram's cavalry brigades crossed into Kentucky on March 14, 1863.
General Pegram attacked the enemy in a frontal assault and ordered Scott to attack the rear.
On the 21st, the brigade held the left of the road in Gen. Pegram's attack on Missionary Ridge.
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 ipedia.com: G. B. Pegram Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Braxton Pegram was a US physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan project.
Pegram was born Trinity, North Carolina, one of the five children of William Ho...
The Columbia physics department was home to many of the key technologies required for the bomb project and Pegram and his colleague Harold C. Urey soon found themselves on Vannevar Bush's S-1 uranium commmittee co-ordinating all technical research.
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 ISS: Physical Relations of ESP: J. B. Rhine, J. G. Pratt, C. E. Stuart, B. M. Smith and J. A. Greenwood
Pegram gave a series of 165 runs for each of the three conditions to a group of children and adolescents - most of them blind.
In the paper by Pegram, referred to above, in which a comparative study was made of PT, PC, and GESP conditions, 165 runs being given for each of the three conditions, GESP averaged between PC and PT.
Success under these conditions implies various kinds of discrimination: (a) in locating the individual cards; (b) the perceptual disentangling of the proper symbols from the group of twenty-five which are all in close proximity to.
www.survivalafterdeath.org /articles/duke/physical.htm   (6632 words)

  
 WAR 87 Eradicating the tropical bont tick from the Caribbean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In St Kitts and Nevis, the former caused a dramatic decline of animal populations owing to mortality and the premature selling of diseased animals for slaughter by owners who were afraid of losing their complete herd.
Barre, N., Garris, G. and Aprelon, R. Acaricides for eradication of the tick Amblyomma variegatum in the Caribbean.
Corn, J., Barre, N., Theibot, B., Creekmore, R., Garris, G.I. and Nettles, V.F. The potential role of cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis (Ciconiformes: Ardeie), in the dissemination of Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae) in the eastern Caribbean.
www.fao.org /docrep/W2650T/W2650t06.htm   (3914 words)

  
 Harold C. Urey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most importantly, they developed the gaseous diffusion method to separate uranium-235 from uranium-238.
Pegram, led a diplomatic mission to England to establishing co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.
After the war, he became professor of chemistry at the Institute for Nuclear Studies, then Ryerson professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago before progressing to honorific offices at the University of California, San Diego.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Urey   (444 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.58 (1989)
This work was supported enthusiastically by George B. Pegram, who had resigned his post as dean of engineering to do re- search.
Unfortunately, there is also a strong resonance capture of neutrons by U which almost certainly does not give fissions, and this gives a fairly high cross-section all through the slow neutron region as well as the sharp peak at resonance (or resonances).
In addition, there are other contributions to (B), inevitably, such as capturing elements in the material of construction or in slowing down media such as Hz-containing materials, or in various impur- ities such as boron or cadmium which will be especially bad.
www.nap.edu /books/030903938X/html/162.html   (4954 words)

  
 Comments from John B. Pegram
I suggest that submission by communications link and filing of drawings in digital form be phased in at a later date after appropriate standards and PTO facilities are established-~ Applications not submitted in proper digital form would be subject to a translation requirement similar to that for foreign languages.
B. 18-Month "Publications I suggest that the 18-month "publication" be purely digital, and that the PTO not print the application, or any Application Gazette, Application Notice or bibliographic data.
Electronic filing of a copy of the provisional application, at least as early as the filing of a regular application claiming internal priority, should do the job.
www.uspto.gov /web/offices/com/hearings/18month/comments/r071all.html   (1933 words)

  
 ISS: ESP is a Psychological Phenomenon: J. B. Rhine, J. G. Pratt, C. E. Stuart, B. M. Smith and J. A. Greenwood
WHEN THE question is raised as to where the process of ESP fits into the mental system of the individual, the student of psychology may ask "What mental system?" The present state of psychological knowledge does not afford any generally accepted systematic conception of the mind.
The simplest supposition would be that when confronted with the task in BM: (a) two cards are to be matched; (b) one card is perceived; (c) the other is perceived; (d) the two are identified as similar.
Or it is suggested (b) that the subjects may approach the low-aim tests (after working at high-aim) with a level of aspiration which they think of in terms of an expected deviation, and that their performance is somewhat a function of their expectations.
www.survivalafterdeath.org /articles/duke/psychological.htm   (4662 words)

  
 UCLA´s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Mark Pegram was a co-investigator on landmark research that led to the development of Herceptin, the first molecularly targeted therapy for breast cancer.
Pegram, M. Konecny, G. O'Callaghan, C. Beryt, M. Pietras, R. Slamon, D. Rational combinations of trastuzumab with chemotherapeutic drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer.
Pegram, M. Pienkowski, T. Northfelt, D. Eiermann, W. Patel, R. Fumoleau, P. Quan, E. Crown, J. Toppmeyer, D. Smylie, M. Riva, A. Blitz, S. Press, M. Reese, D. Lindsay, M. Slamon, D. Results of two open-label, multicenter phase II studies of docetaxel, platinum salts, and trastuzumab in HER2-positive advanced breast cancer.
www.cancer.mednet.ucla.edu /institution/personnel?personnel_id=8842   (259 words)

  
 Five Year Report - Publications
CBT a: DiMarco, A. A., Averhoff, B., and L. Ornston (1993).
CBT 5: Kowalchuk, G. A., Hartnett, G. B., Benson, A., Houghton, J. E., Ngai, K. and L. Ornston (1994).
CCE 22: Wagner, G. Evolution of canalization by stabilizing selection: Why genetic and environmental canalization tend to be correlated.
www.yale.edu /yibs/reports/5year6.html   (1836 words)

  
 Chapter L. Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs
The Army of the Potomac was composed of three infantry and one cavalry corps, commanded respectively by Generals W. Hancock, G. Warren, John Sedgwick and P. Sheridan.
(b) Inspection report of this division shows that it also contained Benning’s and Gregg’s Brigades.
(g) Evan’s Brigade, Colonel E. Atkinson commanding, and containing 12th Georgia Battalion.
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 African Swine Fever Virus Infection in the Argasid Host, Ornithodoros porcinus porcinus -- Kleiboeker et al. 72 (3): ...
(B) Cell of the filtration membrane portion of coxal gland with a virus factory (Vf) and released virions (arrows).
(B) At 30 days p.i., replicating ASFV is found only in the connective tissue cells in the center of the gland.
Kleiboeker, S. B., Scoles, G. A., Burrage, T. G., Sur, J.-H. African Swine Fever Virus Replication in the Midgut Epithelium Is Required for Infection of Ornithodoros Ticks.
jvi.asm.org /cgi/content/full/72/3/1711   (5776 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.68 (1995)
With B. Nagy, C. Drew, P. Hamilton, V. Modzeleski, M. Murphy, W. Scott, and M. Young.
With B. Nagy, M. Scott, V. Modzeleski, L. Nagy, M. Drew, W. McEwan, J. Thomas, and P. Hamilton.
Mass spectrometric analysis of organic compounds, water and volatile constituents in the atmo- sphere and surface of mars: the Viking Mars Lander.
www.nap.edu /books/0309052394/html/363.html   (4619 words)

  
 Harold C. Urey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Most importantly, they developed the gaseous diffusion method to separate (additional info and facts about uranium-235) uranium-235 from (additional info and facts about uranium-238) uranium-238.
Pegram, led a diplomatic mission to (A division of the United Kingdom) England to establishing co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.
In later life, Urey helped develop the field of (additional info and facts about cosmochemistry) cosmochemistry and is credited with coining the term.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Harold_C._Urey.htm   (320 words)

  
 Magnetic Resonance Molecular Imaging of the HER-2/neu Receptor -- Artemov et al. 63 (11): 2723 -- Cancer Research
B, signal enhancement in the tumor relative to the muscle tissue at 24 h after contrast.
Pegram M. D., Lipton A., Hayes D. F., Weber B. L., Baselga J. M., Tripathy D., Baly D., Baughman S. A., Twaddell T., Glaspy J. A., Slamon D. Phase II study of receptor-enhanced chemosensitivity using recombinant humanized anti-p185HER2/neu monoclonal antibody plus cisplatin in patients with HER2/neu-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer refractory to chemotherapy treatment.
Paganelli G., Bartolomei M., Ferrari M., Cremonesi M., Broggi G., Maira G., Sturiale C., Grana C., Prisco G., Gatti M., Caliceti P., Chinol M. Pre-targeted locoregional radioimmunotherapy with 90Y-biotin in glioma patients: Phase I study and preliminary therapeutic results.
cancerres.aacrjournals.org /cgi/content/full/63/11/2723   (3103 words)

  
 Chapter V. Administrative History 1942-1945 | Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (The Smyth Report) | Historical ...
At the time the S-1 Section was reorganized, Bush also set up a Planning Board to be responsible for the technical and engineering aspects of the work, for procurement of material and for construction of pilot plants and full-size production plants.
(b) To prepare recommendations as to how many programs should be continued.
The report, which is too long to present in full contained four principal parts, which dealt with: (a) The status of the development as appraised by the senior scientists; (b) Recommendations by the program chiefs and Planning Board; (c) Comments by Bush, Conant, and Maj. Gen.
www.atomicarchive.com /Docs/SmythReport/smyth_v.shtml   (3314 words)

  
 Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Maxwell, G. L., Risinger, J. I., Hayes, K. A., Alvarez, A. A., Dodge, R. K., Barrett, J. C., and Berchuck, A. Racial disparity in the frequency of PTEN mutations, but not microsatellite instability, in advanced endometrial cancers.
Moorman, P. G., Hamza, A., Marks, J. R., and Olson, J. Prognostic significance of the number of lymph nodes examined in patients with lymph node-negative breast carcinoma.
Maxwell, G. L., Risinger, J. I., Alvarez, A. A., Barrett, J. C., and Berchuck, A. Favorable survival associated with microsatellite instability in endometrioid endometrial cancers.
cancer.duke.edu /shared/TissueProcurement/pubs.asp   (4201 words)

  
 Re: First we take Manhattan
The first contact with the government was made by G.B. Pegram of Columbia University, who arranged a conference between Enrico Fermi and the Navy Department in March 1939.
In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was persuaded by his fellow scientists to use his influence and present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the fall of 1941 Harold C. Urey and Pegram visited England to attempt to set up a cooperative effort, and by 1943 a combined policy committee with Great Britain and Canada was established.
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 Guilford Co., NC - Deed Abstracts Part 2
JACOB PEGRAM is indebted to GEORGE PEGRAM for $ 397 and is hopeful of paying said debt, therefore he mortgages 85 acres of land to JOHN FRAZER as security for $ 1 - land is part in Guilford and part in Rockingham Co., NC...begin at a branch...
JACOB PEGRAM is indebted to GEORGE PEGRAM by bond of 27 Feb. 1839 for $ 114 and bond of (blank)) Feb. 1839 for $ 25 to JOHN FEILDS- all of which bonds NATHAN KING is his security.
Said PEGRAM sent letter to said WHITE stating that said land hab been sold for $ 200 and that $ 75 had been received in cash, the balance to be paid as follows: $ 62 to be paid on 25 Dec. 1848, the rest to be paid on 25 Dec. 1849.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 92981083
OKEYO-OWUOR, G. OLOO 35 Natural enemies of the legume pod borer Maruca and P. AGWARO testulalis Geyer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in small scale farming systems of Western Kenya E.-D. UMEH 43 Natural enemies in the control of pests of cassava Manihot esculenta Crantz M.
PEGRAM, A. JAMES, 139 The economic impact of cattle tick control in Central G.
MORALES and B. NOLT of the whitefly Bemisia tahaci (Genn.) in Israel and Columbia: An interim report B.
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 Targeting Multiple Her-2 Epitopes with Monoclonal Antibodies Results in Improved Antigrowth Activity of a Human Breast ...
Koukourakis M. I., Giatromanolaki A., O’Byrne K. J., Cox J., Karmmer B., Gatter K. C., Harris A. bcl-2 and c-erbB-2 proteins are involved in the regulation of VEGF and of tyrosine phosphorylase angiogenic activity in non-small cell lung cancer.
Pegram M. D., Pauletti G., Slamon D. HER-2/neu as a predictive marker of response to breast cancer therapy.
Lewis G. D., Lofgren J. A., Mcmurtrey A. Growth regulation of human breast and ovarian tumor cells by heregulin: evidence for the requirement of ErbB2 as a critical component in mediating heregulin responsiveness.
clincancerres.aacrjournals.org /cgi/content/full/8/6/1720   (7102 words)

  
 Comments from John B. Pegram
I suggest that at least there be a period in which priorart can b- submitted by a third party without payment of a fee.
Byanalogy to the trademark opposition and cancellation procedures, itmay be that at some point the third party should be told to awaitpatent issuance and seek reexamination.
A. Filing in Digital Form I suggest that, regardless of whether or not 18-Month publication is adopted promptly, the PTO require the text of all patent applications to be filed in digital form commencing on a specific date, such as on or after January 1, 1996.
www.uspto.gov /go/com/hearings/18month/comments/r028all.html   (1917 words)

  
 Effect of Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Gene Transduction on Human Melanoma Xenografts in Nude Mice -- Weinreich et ...
Chirivi R. G., Garofalo A., Padura I. M., Mantovani A., Giavazzi R. Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist inhibits the augmentation of metastasis induced by interleukin 1 or lipopolysaccharide in a human melanoma/nude mouse system.
B and AP-1-induced IL-8 expression, cell survival, and proliferation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.
Anastassiou G., Schilling H., Stang A., Djakovic S., Heiligenhaus A., Bornfeld N. Expression of the cell adhesion molecules ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and NCAM in uveal melanoma: a clinicopathological study.
cancerres.aacrjournals.org /cgi/content/full/63/18/5957   (3708 words)

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