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  George Sinclair
SINCLAIR, GEORGE, a well-known mathematical writer, was professor of philosophy in the university of Glasgow in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
The self-complacency of Sinclair, and his presbyterian principles provoked the celebrated James Gregory, then a professor at St Andrews, to attack his Hydrostatics in a pamphlet published with the quaint title of the "Art of Weighing Vanity," and under the thin disguise of Patrick Mather, archbeadle of the university of St Andrews.
Sinclair was among the first in Britain who attempted to measure the heights of mountains by the barometer.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/sinclair_george.htm   (731 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Brian Sinclair dies at 62
Sinclair's passion for and thorough knowledge of country music shone through his sarcastic wit and casual demeanor, particularly in the insightful, respectful interviews he conducted with the many local and national country and bluegrass musicians who visited WHRB's studios.
Sinclair was born in Sabattus, Maine, on Nov. 4, 1940, to Roy and Thoris Sinclair.
Sinclair studied French at Harvard and pursued graduate studies in linguistics at the University of North Carolina, where Joiner was studying anthropology.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/01.09/09-sinclair.html   (795 words)

  
 Warren K Sinclair
Sinclair was President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements from 1977 to 1991.
Sinclair was Senior Biophysicist at the Argonne National Laboratory from 1960 to 1983, engaged in research involving radiation effects in cultured mammalian cells.
Internationally Dr. Sinclair is a member of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Radiation, and of the Board of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan.
www.racteam.com /Experience/Bios/WarrenKSinclair.htm   (571 words)

  
 Perspective on the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa - Kaiser Family Foundation
Michael Sinclair provides highlights from the AIDS 2000 conference and shares his views on the role of the South African government in access to treatment and care, U.S. government and private sector support efforts, and the future of the AIDS epidemic.
SINCLAIR: I think what was different about this conference from the 12 that have preceded it was, first, that obviously it was in a developing country for the first time in its history, which is of major significance.
SINCLAIR: Well, as you point out, South Africa really is, certainly in the African context, at a considerable advantage because it has had historically a very sophisticated Western-style medical system, which previously has been largely there for the use of the white, advantaged population.
www.kff.org /southafrica/transcript.cfm?RenderForPrint=1   (2532 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Wine molecule slows aging
Sinclair, 34, and his colleagues have been working on a marvelous protein called SIR2, which allows yeast cells to survive a startling 70 percent longer than normal.
Sinclair did not know which was which while he worked on them.
Sinclair and his team have begun testing improved varieties of resveratrol and its sister molecules in human cells.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/0308/24-antiaging.html   (917 words)

  
 Sinclair Calculators
Clive Sinclair was very innovative in the field of consumer electronics and, for many years in Britain, was widely known as "the man who invented the pocket calculator".
Whichever way you define the size of a pocket this is not true, but when the Sinclair Executive, shown on the left, was introduced in July 1972 it caused a sensation because it was the world's thinnest calculator by a long way.
Sinclair calculators are known for their innovative and often elegant designs.
www.vintagecalculators.com /html/sinclair1.html   (395 words)

  
 Michael McCullough, Unions living in ‘darkest hours’
Sinclair dismissed arguments in favour of privatization, such as the fact that while an in-house hospital laundry or Crown-owned BC Rail tends to drain public finances, a private laundry service or railway contributes to them by paying corporate income, property and other taxes.
Sinclair sidestepped the issue that workers' retirement funds—including union pension plans—depend on private-sector companies' maximizing their profits in order to meet their investment goals and provide income for a comfortable retirement.
Sinclair said there are no examples around the world of jurisdictions where the Fraser Institute's vision has made life better for the average person.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/44/271.html   (1058 words)

  
 Sinclair Research Ltd. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In September the Sinclair TV80 television was launched, using flat-screen technology unlike Sinclair's previous CRT televisions.
The Sinclair QL was announced on January 12, 1984, shortly before the Apple Macintosh actually went on sale.
Sinclair C5 Sir Clive had long held an interest in electric vehicles and during the early 1980s worked on the design of a single-seater "personal vehicle".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinclair_Research_Ltd   (2859 words)

  
 600th Celebration News, 5 Feb 1997
Six centuries ago Prince Henry Sinclair was accompanied by Antonio Zeno as Navigator, Sir James Gunn as Lieutenant, and between 200 and 300 knights, monks, and other crewmen.
Sinclair was installed as the Jarl of Orkney and Lord of Shetland when he was only 24 years old.
Sinclair held his appointment at the pleasure of King Hakon VI of Norway.
sinclair.quarterman.org /600/970205.html   (1484 words)

  
 Free Barron's BookNotes for The Jungle - The Novel-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
To Sinclair, their fate was no different from that of the hogs and cattle brought to Chicago by train from all over the Midwest and West.
Sinclair's characters, for example, are creatures of circumstance- of the accidents of their pasts (through heredity and culture) and their present environments.
Sinclair rushes to tell his story, then stops in his tracks- for a paragraph or a whole section of a chapter- to explore a subject that outrages him.
www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/jungle2.asp   (5697 words)

  
 sinclair scientific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
from 1972 you could buy a hp35 for $395 (a fortune then) and it wasnt until 1974 that texas instruments introduced their scientific sr-50 for $169.95.
at a time when other scientific models were prohibitively expensive it beat using a slide rule.
amazingly, sinclair managed to use parts of the main logic in new ways to implement scientific function approximations.
www.voidware.com /calcs/sinclairscientific.htm   (237 words)

  
 Exclusive South Florida Provider of the Sinclair Method
The Sinclair Method is based on some of the scientific findings made over the past twenty-five years by J. David Sinclair Ph.
Using Naltrexone as a part of a medical treatment model was researched by Dr. Sinclair and he obtained patents for his work in Finland, the United States, and Japan.
The Sinclair Method has reported first year success rates as high as 90% for people who want to control or moderate their alcohol consumption.
www.newerahealthcenter.com /sinclairemethod.html   (467 words)

  
 in-cites - An Essay by Dr. Anthony Sinclair
Sinclair’s record in this field currently includes 20 highly cited papers cited a total of 525 times to date.
Sinclair is Professor of Zoology and former Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Research at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
They show an extraordinary loss of some 50% of bird species outside of Serengeti that is explained by habitat loss as well as a parallel loss in insect diversity due to human intervention in their systems.
www.in-cites.com /scientists/AnthonySinclair.html   (1868 words)

  
 Illustrated Redlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Sinclair engaged in ranching, purchasing thirty acres in the old Lugonia tract, set to oranges and other fruits.
Sinclair started the Redlands Electric Light and Power Company, a successful enterprise which was the forerunner of the larger and more important undertaking, the Southern California Power Company, incorporated April 19, 1897, of which Mr.
Sinclair, before her marriage, was Miss Agnes Rowley, of Brooklyn, N. (Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p.
www.illustratedredlands.com /Individuals/SinclairHH.htm   (246 words)

  
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Sinclair has been an innovator in calculator miniaturization right from the start.
In the last two years Sinclair brought to America the Sinclair Executive and Executive Memory -the world's thinnest, lightest calculators -as well as the Cambridge.
Sinclair also maintains a service-by- return mail operation in the U.S. (and everywhere else in the world) to handle any product problems.
www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_095/TECH_V095_S0018_P011.txt   (652 words)

  
 04-002 (Resveratrol)
Sinclair works with yeast – and he wanted to share an interesting find.
Sinclair put a teaspoonful of clear liquid in a vial and placed it in a box of ice.
The compound Sinclair gave Tatar was resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-002.html   (654 words)

  
 Planet Sinclair: Calculators: Scientific
The Sinclair Scientific, launched in August 1975, was a highly unusual calculator.
The Scientific Programmable was an advanced version launched in 1977, again using reverse Polish notation.
The Scientific Programmable Mark 2 was powered either by a 9V battery or a mains adaptor and cost £17.22.
www.nvg.ntnu.no /sinclair/calculators/scientific.htm   (176 words)

  
 Yale Peabody Museum: History and Archives: William John Sinclair
That Sinclair emphasized the interdependence of stratigraphy and paleontology can be seen in the detailed stratigraphic information that accompanied many of his taxonomic descriptions.
According to Glenn L. Jepsen, Sinclair’s student and successor, Scott spent most of his time on his own research, leaving the museum’s development and the training of graduate students in Sinclair’s capable hands.
It was Sinclair who instituted and secured funding for Princeton’s William Berryman Scott Fund for research in vertebrate paleontology.
www.peabody.yale.edu /archives/ypmbios/sinclair.html   (392 words)

  
 Evidence about the use of naltrexone and for different ways of using it in the treatment of alcoholism -- Sinclair 36 ...
Sinclair, J. and Suomela, M. (1994) The weaning-to-alcohol method for inducing sustained high levels of alcohol consumption: a replication.
Sinclair, J. D., Vilamo, L. and Jakobson, B. (1994) Selective extinction of alcohol drinking in rats with decreasing doses of opioid antagonists.
Sinclair, J. D., Kymäläinen, O. and Jakobson, B. b) Extinction of the association between stimuli and drinking in the clinical treatment of alcoholism with naltrexone.
alcalc.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/36/1/2   (6618 words)

  
 SINCLAIR CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Sinclair Scientific was a major achievement for Sinclair.
Until the appearance of this machine, functions such as those available on the Scientific were only to be bought for a lot of money.
It was advertised as offering logs, trig, and true scientific notation over a 200-decade range and Sinclair claimed that these were features only available on machines costing £100 or more (at the time of this claim in late 1974 the Scientific was £32.35 built and £19.95 as a kit).
www.tozzo.freeserve.co.uk /sinclair/cambs.htm   (279 words)

  
 Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
A critic of the ministry of Pip; carried the enclosure Bill of 1796 through the commons; was a commisioner of Exise in 1811.
A scientific agriculturist and particularly concerned with the improvement of Northern agriculture.
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster founded the Department of Agriculture when he was a Minister in the Government of William Pitt, the Younger.
sinclair.quarterman.org /sinclair/who/sirjohn.html   (540 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mental Radio (Collector's Library of the Unknown): Books: Upton Sinclair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Upton Sinclair is primiarily known as the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of "The Jungle," "Oil," and "Dragon's Teeth," and as a fiery advocate of social justice and reform.
Sinclair's own wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, claimed to have "mind reading" or telepathic abilities, and asked Sinclair to help her better understand these abilities.
Upton Sinclairs "Mental Radio" is the first release in Hampton Roads' new "Classic in Consciouness Series." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
www.amazon.com /Mental-Radio-Collectors-Library-Sinclair/dp/0809480913   (1785 words)

  
 DAVES OLD COMPUTERS - Calculators and Slide Rules
The Sinclair Scientific (1975) is one of the earliest affordable scientific calculators.
The scientific functions are implemented without a special processor, which reduced cost, however the results have been described as "at best an approximation".
The National Semiconductor "Mathematician" (1976) is another early scientific calculator, and is one of the few non-HP calculator which employ RPN (Reverse Polish Notation).
www.classiccmp.org /dunfield/calc/index.htm   (1397 words)

  
 :: SCC - Radiologic Technology Continuing Education ::
Although Dr. Becker is a dentist, his interest always centered on academia and he began teaching biology at Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) as a part-time instructor in the autumn of 1972.
Currently he is a full professor at Sinclair Community College and Associate Director of Education at Miami Valley Hospital.
He has published in numerous scientific journals and textbooks, and lectures extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
hmi.sinclair.edu /module_detail.asp?ModuleID=89   (396 words)

  
 The Media, Politics, and Censorship
With 62 stations the company is the biggest of its kind in the country and has lobbied successfully in Washington for permission to grow even bigger.
Sinclair's not alone with cozy ties to Washington.
We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0510-10.htm   (751 words)

  
 Uncle Sinclair
Sir Clive Sinclair is a household name in the UK.
For a time Sinclair was Thatcher’s favourite entrepreneur in part because he had the flair and vision to challenge the Japanese domination of the consumer electronics market.
OK, so these melted batteries but we Sinclair devotees are used to a battery-life measured like those of exotic particles in quantum physics.
www.xnumber.com /xnumber/sinclair_notes.htm   (449 words)

  
 Water Fasting Classices: Upton Sinclair's Fasting Cure and Linda Burfield Hazzard's Scientific Fasting
While Sinclair was freaking out readers in the East with his reports about water fasting, on the other side of the country in Washington state, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard was quietly healing people that allopathic physicians had given up on.
Coming off the fast is as important as going on it, and if you break the fast incorrectly you can undo all the good you did during your period of non-eating.
You are certainly entitled to a place among the public benefactors of the age for giving to the people the knowledge you had gained by the fast.
chetday.com /fasting.htm   (1365 words)

  
 Calculators at the end of 1974
In the scientific arena, H-P has introduced the HP-55, a preprogrammed pocket calculator delivering 86 keyboard functions, 49 steps of program memory, and a built-in digital timer for $395.
Where established calculators are concerned, the attention centers on the continuous wave of price "adjustments." Most such changes are reductions, with Casio's fx-10 at $79.95 and Sinclair's Scientific at $49.95 (in kit form) leading this trend among scientific calculators.
One area strongly affected by the easy availability of scientific calculators is engineering education, according to Edwin C. Jones, Jr., professor of electrical engineering, Iowa State University.
www.decodesystems.com /calcs-jan75.html   (695 words)

  
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The Sinclair performs logarithmic and trigonometric functions, as well as displaying scientific notation on all calculations.
Clearly, a scientific calculator with- out scientific notation severely limits the size of numbers with which you can work easily.
And scientific notation without-transcendental functions is little more than window dressing on an arith- metic calculator.
www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_095/TECH_V095_S0010_P003.txt   (1152 words)

  
 Lehigh Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing
Scientific publishing is in a state of flux.
At the Lehigh conference, a set of distinguished speakers with first-hand involvement presented a spectrum of views on the challenges and issues that we face as we move fully into the digital age.
The conference was aimed at users and producers of scientific and technical scholarship.
www.lehigh.edu /~insigxi/archives/2005-2006/fall/FallConference.html   (1059 words)

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