Clara Barton

(noun)

(December 25, 1821–April 12, 1912) A pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian.

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Examples of Clara Barton in the following topics:

  • Women and the War

    • Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton are among the most prominent nurses of the Civil War.
    • Barton, convinced by her father that it was her duty as a Christian to assist in the war effort, gained permission from Quartermaster Daniel Rucker to serve on the front lines, distributing stores, cleaning field hospitals, applying dressings, and serving food to wounded and ill soldiers.

  • Introduction

    • Hartman also selected biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Robert E.

  • Practice 1: Goodness-of-Fit Test

    • The cumulative number of AIDS cases reported for Santa Clara County is broken down by ethnicity as follows: (Source: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, May 2011)
    • The percentage of each ethnic group in Santa Clara County is as follows:
    • Perform a goodness-of-fit test to determine whether the make-up of AIDS cases follows the ethnicity of the general population of Santa Clara County.
    • Does it appear that the pattern of AIDS cases in Santa Clara County corresponds to the distribution of ethnic groups in this county?

  • Substitution Reactions

    • The first two equations illustrate a useful procedure for reducing alcohols to alkanes, known as "Barton-McCombie deoxygenation".
    • The second diagram above shows a variation of the Barton-McCombie, called "Barton decarboxylation".

  • Radical Recombination Reactions

    • To this end, a clever reaction sequence, resulting in intramolecular functionalization of an isolated methyl group, was designed by Derek Barton, and has been named the "Barton reaction".
    • For the Barton reaction to work, it is necessary that the initial oxy radical be firmly oriented close to the C–H hydrogen.

  • Important Reagent Bases

    • Barton's base is a strong, poorly-nucleophilic, neutral base that serves in cases where electrophilic substitution of DBU or other amine bases is a problem.

  • Null and Alternate Hypotheses

    • Ho: No more than 30% of the registered voters in Santa Clara County voted in the primary election.
    • Ha: More than 30% of the registered voters in Santa Clara County voted in the primary election.

  • Frontier Revivals

    • With the effort of such leaders as Barton W.

  • Marketing exchanges and partnerships

    • In 2005, Barton A Weitz, Stephen B Castleberry, and John F Tanner published their book "Selling: Building Relationships" in which they discuss many of the aspects of modern business relationships, including market exchanges and partnerships.

  • Architecture

    • Notable examples of this exist at Earls Barton, Bradford-on-Avon and Barton-upon-Humber.