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Ivan : the remarkable true story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
\"The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage for almost 30 years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Becoming Nisei
Tacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a
significant number of first- and second-generation Japanese
immigrants to the United States, and these families formed
tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and
economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the
secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era
cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the
same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways,
including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged
from traditional expectations.
Becoming Nisei , based on more than forty interviews,
shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the
incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives
counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar
histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World
War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency
of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of
prevailing social and power relations.
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Becoming Nisei : Japanese American urban lives in prewar Tacoma
A vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century communityTacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
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A novel means of identifying hemoglobin Tacoma utilizing capillary electrophoresis with a hemoglobin A1c software platform
Hemoglobin Tacoma (Hb Tacoma) results from the substitution of serine for arginine at position 30 in the β-globin chain resulting in instability in vitro, and has been identified with gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), but the role of capillary electrophoresis (CE) has never been reported. Whole blood samples were received from 4 patients for HbA1c testing at McMaster University Medical Centre (MUMC) in Hamilton, Canada, and initially analyzed via CE with Sebia Capillarys 2 Flex Piercing instrument using the Hb A1c platform. Specimens were then run on the hemoglobin variant platform and HPLC with additional studies including Hemoglobin H (Hb H) body staining, instability testing and β-globin gene sequencing. Hemoglobin concentrations were within normal reference intervals and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) was normal in most cases. Capillary electropherograms produced on the Hb A1c platform demonstrated a small double peak at the 271–273 mark area running past Hb A2 in all samples. On the variant hemoglobin program, Hb A2 percentage was mildly elevated, and a variant hemoglobin (Hb X) peak at 127–128 marks was identified and quantified at 35–37%, yielding a ratio of Hb A: Hb X of 1.7 to 1. Genetic confirmation was performed in 2 of the 4 cases. This series supports that Hb Tacoma heterozygosity is associated with in vitro instability without significant phenotypic consequences. We report identification of Hb Tacoma using CE and propose that CE with Hb A1c and variant hemoglobin platforms is an effective screening tool for Hb Tacoma.
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An Efficient Pseudo-Spectral Method for Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems
In this paper, we present a new approach for solving nonsmooth dynamical systems. We first convert the nonsmooth system to the smooth form, using Chebyshev interpolation. Then, we solve the smooth system using Chebyshev pseudo-spectral method. The efficiency of our approach is shown for two practical nonsmooth mechanical systems.
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Water Resources Implications of Global Warming: A U.S. Regional Perspective
The implications of global warming for the performance of six U.S. water resource systems are evaluated. The six case study sites represent a range of geographic and hydrologic, as well as institutional and social settings. Large, multi-reservoir systems (Columbia River, Missouri River, Apalachicola-Chatahoochee-Flint (ACF) Rivers), small, one or two reservoir systems (Tacoma and Boston) and medium size systems (Savannah River) are represented. The studies inferred, using a chain of climate downscaling, hydrologic and water resources systems models, the sensitivity of six water resources systems to changes in precipitation, temperature and solar radiation. The climate change scenarios used in this study are based on results from transient climate change experiments performed with coupled ocean-atmosphere General Circulation Models (GCMs) for the 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment. Changes in precipitation are generally reflected in the annual total runoff volumes more than in the seasonal shape of the hydrographs. In the Savannah and ACF systems, where snow plays a minor hydrological role, changes in hydrological response are linked more directly to temperature and precipitation changes. Effects on system performance varied from system to system, from GCM to GCM, and for each system operating objective (such as hydropower production, municipal and industrial supply, flood control, recreation, navigation and instream flow protection). Effects were generally smaller for the transient scenarios than for the doubled CO sub(2) scenario. In terms of streamflow, one of the transient scenarios tended to have increases at most sites, while another tended to have decreases at most sites. The third showed no general consistency over the six sites. Generally, the water resource system performance effects were determined by the hydrologic changes and the amount of buffering provided by the system's storage capacity. The effects of demand growth and other plausible future operational considerations were evaluated as well. For most sites, the effects of these non-climatic effects on future system performance would about equal or exceed the effects of climate change over system planning horizons.
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No Cinderella Story: Friends Remember Ben Scott \Benderella\ Rae
\"Benderella,\" a.k.a. Ben Scott Rae, was a developmentally disabled transgender woman murdered in Tacoma, Washington, in 1977. This article demonstrates how oral testimony can help to extend the efforts of Transgender Day of Remembrance by filling out-and thereby increasing possibilities for empathy with-the complex lives of transgender individuals. Oral accounts-primarily from friends who frequented DJ's bar-augment and challenge existing narratives about Benderella appearing in the contemporary press and public documents. As the competing narratives surrounding Benderella's life and death multiply, so too does the indeterminate story of dis/empowerment embedded in transgender life and history.
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Cleaning urban waters using collaboration and science
Coordinating government agencies, universities, community leaders, and local businesses has led to successful and real-world clean water methods for Tacoma, Wash.
Journal Article
In short. Episode 171, Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Episode 171 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge: In 1940 the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened and from the beginning it was not performing as expected. After having been open for just four months a stiff breeze triggered an extreme new lateral movement that was beyond the bridge's engineering limits. The collapse was caused by a phenomenon, unknown at the time, called aero elastic flutter.
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Alley | Imagination : Building Community Resilience into Linear Neighborhood Spaces in Tacoma
As cities continue to implement transit oriented development policies, the recognition of corresponding risk of gentrification and displacement have led to an interest in making the process more equitable and resilient. Incorporating equity and resilience into transit oriented development could be addressed through an abundant yet overlooked asset- alleyways. The original intention of transit oriented development, to support environmentally sustainable practices through densification and increased transit ridership are being compromised by the displacement of transit dependent and low income communities of color (Puget Sound Sage, 2015). Revisiting the role of the alley in the contemporary city, we can imagine new roles for these currently overlooked spaces. Incorporating affordable infill housing and green space in proximity to high frequency transit has multiple ecological and social benefits that contribute to community resilience. Referencing historic African American residential life along alleyways, spatial analysis, residential survey data, and alley behavioral observation, and a design case study in Tacoma; this paper explores the potential to build a better understanding of the perceptions and possibilities of alley focused transit oriented development that is equitable and resilient.
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