The Virginia Seed Service had its beginning in an older organization, the Virginia Crop Improvement Association. This later association was developed to stimulate the more widespread use of improved seed for field crops. / Master of Science

Performance of Southwest Virginia coal: The results of the 24-hour tests herein recorded indicate that nut and slack coal from Southwest Virginia can be burned economically at burning rates of from 15.36 to 27.20 pounds of dry fuel per square foot of projected grate area per hour with an average efficiency of 75.12 per cent, with extremes of 73.21 and 77.28 per cent. / Master of Science

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Introduction: At the present time there are, on the market, numerous lubricating aids which are designed to improve the lubricating qualities of the various mineral lubricating oils, especially those intended for automotive use. The manufacturers of some of these make statements concerning them that to any fair-minded individual are startling. With this in mind, it has been the purpose of the author to try to verity these claims or else disprove them. It would be impossible in the time allowed to test allot these aids; so a representative few were chosen which covered the field quite thoroughly. From the results shown by the use of these aids in an internal combustion engine, as well as those shown by the physical property tests in the laboratory, it seems as though their suitability for industrial use would be demonstrated. In other words, the results should show which of the arguments put forth by the manufacturers of the various products are of sound basis and which are stated merely for the sake of advertising and publicity. / Master of Science

Este estudo pretende investigar, a partir do confronto da tese elaborada por Fredric Jamseon em Pós-modernismo ou a lógica cultural do capitalismo tardio com uma análise voltada para a materialidade histórica, o alcance da fusão da base e da superestrutura no capitalismo tardio. Nesse sentido, busca esclarecer em que medida o ensaio de Jameson ajuda a compreender a dominância do pós-modernismo, e o quanto é insuficiente, por outro lado, para explicar a situação da produção material nas regiões em que o neoliberalismo e a globalização não estão desenvolvidos, e que, portanto, não respondem integralmente à lógica cultural que anima o capitalismo financeiro. Noutras palavras, reinvindica-se o teste da realidade da ideologia do pós-modernismo para além das fronteiras do mundo anglo-saxão. Sendo assim, é debatida a possibilidade da tese de Jameson sobre a fusão da base e da superestrutura no estágio do capitalismo tardio estar circunscrita aos países onde ambos, a acumulação flexível e a globalização financeira, de fato, vingaram. Sem prejuízo do conteúdo da crítica, esta pesquisa visa igualmente traçar considerações acerca da prosa jamesoniana, a fim de apontar para alguns de seus efeitos e sua relação com o caráter de denúncia apresentado no ensaio e estabelecer suas correspondências com o método da Escola de Frankfurt, mais especificamente, o de Theodor Adorno. / This study intends to investigate, from the confrontation of the thesis prepared by Fredric Jameson in Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, with an analysis on the historical materiality, the extent of the fusion of the base and superestructure in late capitalism. In this sense, it seeks to clarify where Jamesons essay helps to understand the dominance of postmodernism and how it is unsufficient to explain the situation of material production in areas where neoliberalism and globalization are not developed and, therefore, do not respond fully to the cultural logic that animates financial capitalism. In other words, it is necessary a reality test of the ideology of postmodernism beyond the borders of the Anglo-Saxon world. Thus, it is discussed the possibility of Jamesons thesis of base and superestructure stage of late capitalism be restricted to countries where both flexible accumulation and financial globalization indeed ocurred. This research also aims to make considerations about Jamsons prose in order to point some of its effects and its relations with the denouncing contents of this essay and estabilish their correspondences with the method of the Frankfurt School, more specifically, the one of Theodor Adorno.

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