136 research outputs found
Doctor Jenner of Berkeley
No full textDr. Jenner of BerkeleyBerkeley -- The boy -- The journey to London: 1770 -- Advances in surgical training -- London: 1770-1773 -- Life in Jermyn Street -- Return to Berkeley: 1773 -- Letters from the dear man -- Balloons and the tartar emetic -- Cuckoos -- Family life -- Interlude: smallpox inoculation -- "The origin of the vaccine inoculation" -- The inquiry -- Running into storms -- Vaccination spreads around the world -- Fame -- The evidence at large -- The Hertford Street fiasco -- Village doctor -- An herpetic state of the skin -- Financial rewards -- Years of loss -- The last daysIncludes references to Dr. John Clinch of Trinity and the testing of the smallpox vaccine in NewfoundlandIncludes bibliographical references and inde
Magnetoelastic properties of terbium-dysprosium-iron compounds
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Science Behind, Around, and After Trees Response
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Bioscience following peer review. The version of record Jenner, R. A. (2015). "Response to Stach." BioScience 65(2): 119-120. is available online at:10.1093/biosci/biu214.NHM Repositor
Macroevolution of Animal Body Plans: Is There Science after the Tree?
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in BioScience following peer review. The version of record [Ronald A. Jenner; Macroevolution of Animal Body Plans: Is There Science after the Tree?. BioScience 2014; 64 (8): 653-664. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu099] is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biosci/biu099 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu099 The attached file is the pre-publication, uncorrected proof version of the article.NHM Repositor
The tyranny of history the roots of China's crisis
No full textOver a quarter of the human race lives within the borders of China, the empire that has outlasted all its rivals from the Roman to the British. But, claims the author of this sweeping and provocative study, the Chinese empire is in terminal crisis, a crisis that goes much deeper than the decline of the current regime and threatens the survival both of China as a unified state and of the high tradition and culture that span more than three thousand years. According toProfessor Jenner, China has been both held together and held back by the tyranny of its history, by a culture and an education system that have always looked back, have rooted authority in the past and have inhibited creative thinking. Although in this century the orthodoxy has borrowed the language of Marxism, 'revolutionary' history has contrived to celebrate the authoritarian values of the imperial bureaucracy and the single orthodox tradition of pre-revolutionaryChina. The tyranny of China's past is not simply a matter of history and politics, however, but derives equally from the Chinese writing system, which is inherently authoritarian, and the Chinese family, which inhibits both individuality and a sense of citizenship and provides the building blocks of the autocratic state. The very successes of pre-modern China's productive technology have left the present with an ecological nightmare that recent economic growth has onl
A Polychaete’s Powerful Punch: Venom Gland Transcriptomics of Glycera Reveals a Complex Cocktail of Toxin Homologs
No full text© The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The article attached is the publisher's pdf.NHM Repositor
Everyday Life in the Ancient World: Four Re-Collections
No full textThe thesis is made up of four separate but related texts recording the author’s investigations of loss, searches and re-constructions. Questions of ownership are also examined, with particular reference to objects of cultural and artistic significance. The Holocaust is a major focus, especially attitudes of the New Zealand government and New Zealanders themselves to the refugees who wished to settle here before and after World War II.
The thesis is a hybrid of critical and creative writing. The first three texts, “The autobiographical museum”, “History-making” and “Cairn”, are also hybrid in genre, containing found text, new prose and poems, discussion of other writers’ work and the author’s experiments in ‘active reading’. The fourth text is an Index which offers an alternative reading of the other three texts and helps the reader to locate material. While somewhat different from each other in form, all texts focus on the activity of gathering objects and information. All four texts are fragmented rather than complete.
Interviews with curators, education officers and CEOs in two Australian museums that have Holocaust exhibits provided information on the aims and processes of these exhibits. Meetings with six Holocaust survivors who act as volunteer guides in museums and reactions of visitors to the museums provided other perspectives on the work of the museums. The author also reports on visits to the Holocaust Gallery at the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand in Wellington.
Activity Theory, a cultural-historical model often applied to the analysis of learning and pedagogy, is used in the thesis as a metaphorical backdrop to the author’s own activity. The author’s focus on intentions, tools, processes, division of labour and financial pressures reflects the influence of Activity Theory as does the author’s willingness to let understanding take shape gradually through tentative conclusions, some of which are later overturned.
Over the period of the research, records of the past are recovered and re-examined in the present, as was intended. Individual and collective memory, including archival records, fiction and poetry are resources for these investigations. The author receives an object lesson in the power of the informal networking role of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, as well as benefiting from its formal displays and materials.
During the research the author writes records of the present because it seems necessary to do so. By the time the research ends, these have become records of the past – an outcome which Emanuel Ringelblum would have predicted but was a surprise to the author
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