scintillator
scintillator (sin-ti-lay-ter) n. a substance that produces a fluorescent flash when struck by high-energy radiation, such as beta or gamma rays. A scintillator forms the basis of a gamma camera. See also
scintigram.
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DIRECTOR OF CENTER ON GLOBAL PROSPERITY LLOSA WINS FIRST ANNUAL JUAN BAUTISTA ALBERDI AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/8/2006; 431 words
; ...presented with the First Annual Juan Bautista Alberdi Award, from the Hispanic American...awarded every year. HACER's Alberdi Award was inspired by the 19th-century Argentinean intellectual Juan Bautista Alberdi. He will be remembered in the...
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The real Latin America.
Magazine article from: World and I; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Jefferson, in order "to govern the government." Juan Bautista Alberdi was the father of the classical liberal Argentine...by the turn of the century than Italy or France. Alberdi wrote that "the Constitution of Argentina is the...
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The path from trade to power: The sons of Syrians and Lebanese in the military and in foreign affairs in Argentina (1920-1962)
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...indigenous population with backwardness. Argentine thinker Juan Bautista Alberdi's 1852 dictum that "To govern is to people...most developed countries in Europe who, according to Alberdi and his generation, brought habits of hard work...
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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & PRIZES: ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS
Magazine article from: The Americas; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...based nationalism in Paraguay. Juan Manuel Casal (Universidad de Montevideo...associated with Manuel Dominguez and Juan E. O'Leary) that sought to...panel included me war writings of Juan Bautista Alberdi, me publication of a Spanish translation...
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Nineteenth-century nation building and the Latin American intellectual tradition; a reader.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 614 words
; ...Lastarria, Francisco Bilbao, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Esteban Echeverria, Lucas Alaman, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Juan Montalvo, Jose Marti, Soledad Acosta de Samper, Justo Sierra, Euclides de Cunha, Clorinda...
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Putting People First; A radical prescription for curing Latin America's ills.(Liberty for Latin America)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 3/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...pockets of political and intellectual activism--like the writings of 19th-century Argentine political thinker Juan Bautista Alberdi--as an "individual sparkle in the collectivist night." Vargas Llosa proposes a controversial and liberal...
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Nuevos paradigmas de la educacion linguistica: el maestro del siglo XXI.
Magazine article from: Kanina; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...conscientes de que ste haba tomado una nueva fisonoma en tierras americanas. Dentro de este segundo grupo se destacaron Juan Bautista Alberdi, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y Esteban Echeverra y el propio Sarmiento lleg incluso a proponer una reforma ortogrfica...
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Immigration and the revival of the sainete in post-2001 Argentine theater: El Super crisol by Los Macocos.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...immigration, from an open-door policy to a restrictive one. Founding fathers Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Juan Bautista Alberdi viewed immigration as an essential part of building the nation, although their visions exploited the association...
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Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina. Volumen I: A buen bocado -- Aubigne. Volumen II: Auden -- Casa de los celos.(Reseña de libro)
Magazine article from: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Borges clearly deserves the attention, but Beckett less so and Aubign much less so. There are also fair-sized and informative entries for Cathy Acker, Joseph Addison, Miguel Angel Asturias, Juan Bautista Alberdi, W.H. Auden, Jane Au
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Mexico's dramatically shrinking families.(Opinion)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 6/21/1999; 700+ words
; ...war with the US was due to underpopulation of the territory in question. Nineteenth century Argentine politician Juan Bautista Alberdi's famous dictum, "to govern is to populate" became Mexico's mistaken principle of political science as well...
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Juan Bautista Alberdi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Juan Bautista Alberdi The Argentine political theorist Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810-1884) wrote extensively...xE1;n on Aug. 29, 1810, Juan Bautista Alberdi was orphaned when still a young...
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Juan Manuel de Rosas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...López, he defeated Juan Lavalle , and became governor...Aided by López and Juan Facundo Quiroga , he waged a sanguinary...fine minds in Argentina—Juan Bautista Alberdi , Bartolomé Mitre , and...
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José Mármol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...conspiracy against the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. On April 1...company of other exiles, among them Juan Bautista Alberdi, who had just written a long poem...romantic inclination (as well as Alberdi's example, no doubt), composed...
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William Wheelwright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...He died in London on a business trip on Sept. 26, 1873. Further Reading A notable Argentine philosopher, Juan Bautista Alberdi, wrote a commemorative biography, Life and Industrial Labors of William Wheelwright in South America (trans...
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Immigration
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
...their largely empty and expanding country and would have endorsed the nineteenth-century Argentine statesman Juan Bautista Alberdi's maxim that "to govern is to populate." Even Millard Fillmore, while running for president on the nativist...
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