Davis, Miles

Nearly all major disasters provide ample evidence of the failures of organizations to learn from their own or other organizations experience. In the case of Three Mile Island for example, a similar accident had occurred some months before at the similarly designed Davis Besse plant, but correct worker intervention had averted an accident. 

Miles Davis, the jazz trumpeter who seems to have a lock on cool-tone background music, played in the background one afternoon recently as I ordered an Adam and Eve. 

The specialty cocktail list includes die Kind of Blue, which sells best downstairs at die jazz club, explained Malysa Volpicelli, the beverage director. It is named for die Miles Davis standard, and is a variation on die Aviation, a gin drink davored with maraschino, an Italian cherry liqueur. 

Most opinion polls show that the motorist s infatuation with automobiles does not include internal-combustion engines. Many drivers would trade in their current car for an electric vehicle, if it could perform as well and not cost any more. One poll of California new car buyers conducted by the University of California at Davis in 1995 found that almost half would buy an electric vehicle over a gasoline car, but they wanted a 300-mile range and a more reasonable price. 

Mes J, Davies DJ, Miles W. 1978. Traces of mirex in some Canadian human milk samples. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 19 564-570. 

Figure 13.20 The use of glycogen and/or fatty acids during a prolonged running event (an ultramarathon). The distance of an ultramarathon is usually >50 miles. In the early part of the run, both glycogen and fatty acids are the fuels oxidised by the muscle. After several hours, glycogen is exhausted and fatty acids are the only fuel used. As fatty acid oxidation cannot provide more than about 60% of the ATP required for maximum power output, if the athlete is running at about 70 or 80% of the maximum, the output (i.e. the pace) must slow. Hence the rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) falls to about 60% of maximum (V02 ax), as shown in the Figure. The data on which the plot is based are from Davies Thompson (1979).

Bauer G (2000) Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species efficient, selective and interactive signals during intercellular induction of apoptosis. Anticancer Res 20 4115-4140 Beckwith AU, Davies AG, Davison IGE, Maccoll A, Mruzek MH (1989) The mechanisms of the rearrangements of allylic hydroperoxides 5a-hydroperoxy-3p-hydrocholest-6-ene and 7a-hydro-peroxy-3(1-hydroxycholest-5-ene. J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 2 815-824 Behar D, Czapski G, Rabani J, Dorfman LM, Schwarz HA (1970) The acid dissociation constant and decay kinetics of the perhydroxyl radical. J Phys Chem 74 3209-3213 Benjan EV, Font-Sanchis E, Scaiano JC (2001) Lactone-derived carbon-centered radicals formation and reactivity with oxygen. Org Lett 3 4059-4062 Bennett JE, Summers R (1974) Product studies of the mutual termination reactions of sec- alkylper-oxy radicals Evidence for non-cyclic termination. Can J Chem 52 1377-1379 Bennett JE, Brown DM, Mile B (1970) Studies by electron spin resonance of the reactions of alkyl-peroxy radicals, part 2. Equilibrium between alkylperoxy radicals and tetroxide molecules. Trans Faraday Soc 66 397-405... 

DE1G Crout, S Davies, RJ Eleath, CO Miles, DR Rathbone, BEP Swoboda. Application of hydrolytic and decarboxylating enzymes in biotransformations. Biocatalysis 9 1-30, 1994. 

We edge closer. What a strange feeling this scene evokes this almost supernatural dancing of light on water as if fairies of the wilderness were visiting us from a faraway world. The ioo-mile drive from Davis, the smells of the musty car, the small anxieties and noise of our everyday lives, the monotony of monoculture, all simply evaporate in a flash of awe and speculation. 

In the past only two nuclear accidents (Three Mile Island and Chernobyl) were widely reported, while over 100 went unreported. These other accident were not caused by only earthquakes, design errors or terrorist acts, but more recently also by software virus attacks through the Internet. For example, on January 25, 2003 a Slammer worm penetrated the private computer network of Ohio s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, and stopped its control computer. The only reason a meltdown did not result is because the plant was not in operation. 

The wood for the above mentioned Brazilian plant can be grown on a regenerable basis from about 90 square miles of forest (57,600 acres). Figure 7 is a block flow diagram showing the many process steps involved in Davy s wood gasification process. 

I have known Ken for forty years, since we were both undergraduates at Harvard. He played trumpet in a jazz band, and I heard him perform on several occasions. I, as a Miles Davis wannabe (but one with no musical talent), noted with envy that, when Ken played, he adopted the same, highly characteristic posture as Miles. However, this was probably the last time in his life that Ken imitated anybody. 

E. W. Miles, S. Rhee, andD.R. Davies. 1999. The molecular basis of substrate channeling J. Biol. Chem. 274 12193-12196. (PubMed)... 

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