819 research outputs found
Lutz Weltmann Correspondence Collection. 1923-1969 Bulk dates: 1930-1955
No full textThe Lutz Weltmann Correspondence Collection largely holds professional correspondence from others to Lutz Weltmann, a critic, publisher, author and teacher. Such correspondence often references various literary projects of Weltmann's or of the correspondents. One letter by him includes a brief curriculum vitae.Lutz Weltmann was born on February 15, 1901 in Elbing (now Elblag, Poland). He attended the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, receiving his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Freiburg in 1924. From 1924-1933 he was the theater and literature critic of Rudolf Mosse newspapers in Berlin, including the Berliner Volkszeitung, but also contributed as a freelance writer for the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger and the Kölnische Zeitung, among others. From 1927-1933 he was co-editor of the monthly Die Literatur (later titled Das literarische Echo). In 1934 he authored some articles for the Jüdisches Jahrbuch on Spinoza and in 1936 he lectured on Samuel Cooper for the Jüdischer Kulturbund and produced Jizchok Leib Perez's Die goldene Kette for the Kulturbund's theater. In the course of his work he came to know many other authors, critics and others in the field of literature and theater.After emigrating to England in 1939, he served in the British Pioneer Corps from 1940-1943. The following year he earned his teaching diploma in London in 1944 and then taught at various schools in Kent, London and Essex. He also wrote from England for West German newspapers after the war. During this time he was assistant editor of the series The Goethe Year 1749-1949- Das Goethe-Jahr 1749-1949, celebrating the bi-centenary of the birth of Goethe, and wrote a book on Kasimir Edschmid. He also wrote three unpublished works on Christopher Fry, T.S. Eliot, and on Shakespeare.All letters on the list "Briefe on Lutz Weltmann" not previously digitized were consolidated into this collectionProcesseddigitize
"Y'all come and have fun": discovering a New Jersey country and western music scene in a box of postcards
No full textSeveral years ago, Rutgers University's Special Collections and University Archives was given a checkbox containing fifty-six postcards advertising country and western music shows at venues around New Jersey. The postcards, primarily from the 1960s, promoted shows featuring Grand Ole Opry stars like Wanda Jackson, Hank Thompson, and Elton Britt. Preliminary research revealed that the postcards touted performances by regional and local musicians, as well. A closer look at the cards began to expose how a small, hyper-local ephemeral collection could bring to light and contribute to a larger history; in this case, a once thriving but little explored New Jersey country and western music scene. The research that forms this article focuses on one venue, the Copa Club in the city of Secaucus, and its owners, brothers and musicians Shorty and Smokey Warren, as a specific case study. This collection of postcards, like so much ephemeral material in archives, could have remained undervalued and under-researched. In this case, a close consideration set forth a journey that included research in local archives and interviews with scene participants. As a result, this article explores the past of an important musical genre that evolved along with social changes in the United States. This piece contributes to the scholarship around uses and value of ephemera, as well as scholarship that continues to challenge the southern origin story of country music and examine vital locales of country music outside the South.Peer reviewe
Cabin in the Pines: Albert Music Hall and constructions of a Pine Barrens musical tradition
No full textAlbert Music Hall is an outpost of bluegrass, folk, and country music in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, offering hours of live music every Saturday night. It has formally been in existence since the 1970s under the auspices of the Pinelands Cultural Society, but it traces its roots back to the 1950s, when brothers Joe and George Albert started hosting informal musical gatherings at their Pines fox hunting cabin, known in the area as the Homeplace. What started as locals playing old-time and country music at a rustic cabin deep in the woods has evolved into a more formal venue that features musicians from around New Jersey and beyond. Albert Music Hall has persisted as an island of an older, more rural, and isolated Pines in an industrialized, urbanized state. Through an examination of the language, material culture, and music of the venue, this paper considers questions and constructions of authenticity in relation to notions of what a true Pine Barrens musical experience might be for Albert Music Hall audiences and musicians.Peer reviewe
Going against the archival grain: case studies of pop culture archives of a music scene, regional zines, and local beer
No full textPopular culture collecting in academic special collections and archives is sometimes still viewed within the institution as a challenge to traditional collection development, which has tended to emphasize the mainstream and enshrine privilege and hegemonic structures. This is especially the case when the cultures and media emphasized in such collecting might be categorized as being counter-cultural, DIY, or somehow ‘other.’ This article consists of three case studies that emphasize recently developed popular culture-based collections at Rutgers University’s Special Collections and University Archives that focus on voices and communities outside archival norms of collecting: the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive, the New Jersey Regional Zine Collection, and the New Jersey Beer Collection. An emphasis on how faculty and staff have developed these collections by working with participants and creators outside mainstream popular culture leads to examples of how faculty and staff have engaged in critical pedagogy and outreach, particularly among students. Woven throughout are examples of challenges faculty and staff have faced around institutional acceptance, inclusivity, and cultural sensitivities along with work to overcome the challenges. The article concludes by considering future popular culture collection-building endeavors and engagement among students and community members.Peer reviewe
Author Disambiguation in PubMed: Evidence on the Precision and Recall of Author-ity among NIH-Funded Scientists.
No full textWe examined the usefulness (precision) and completeness (recall) of the Author-ity author disambiguation for PubMed articles by associating articles with scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In doing so, we exploited established unique identifiers-Principal Investigator (PI) IDs-that the NIH assigns to funded scientists. Analyzing a set of 36,987 NIH scientists who received their first R01 grant between 1985 and 2009, we identified 355,921 articles appearing in PubMed that would allow us to evaluate the precision and recall of the Author-ity disambiguation. We found that Author-ity identified the NIH scientists with 99.51% precision across the articles. It had a corresponding recall of 99.64%. Precision and recall, moreover, appeared stable across common and uncommon last names, across ethnic backgrounds, and across levels of scientist productivity
April 13, 1912 Page one Winners of county match
No full textPhillips, John D.; Russell, George; Ide, George; Blackwood, Henry; Taylor, Helen; Munn, Evangeline; Munn, Sarah; Taylor, Aubrey; Thomas, Hazel; Stutler, Madge; Berner, Julia; Mason, Loretta; Wilcox, Nora; McArdle, Stella; Bailey, Lola; Wood, Hazel; Johnson, Elmer; Sholund, Michael; Davis, Marian; Roth, Gussie; Sutherland, Marie; McGee, Rita; Crompton, Edward; Lussier, Robert; Butler, Thomas; McDougal, Fannie; Lutz, Martin; Lutz, Edward; Hale, Dorothy; Johns, Ruth; Goodrich, Evelyn; Bishop, Marie; Peters, Elsie; Lake, Alice; McCurdy, Horace; Bugge, Carmen; Luce, Clarissa; Mills, Milton; Slayton, Henry; Danzer, Eustace; Crompton, Edward
Lutz Seiler und das „Territorium der Müdigkeit“
No full textInternational audienceThe article focuses on two essays from Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) by Lutz Seiler, in particular on two excerpts both establishing a special bond between tiredness, radioactivity of Seiler’s birthplace and his literary creativity. Far from merely being a paradoxical praise of the atom, the author describes the very origin of the act of writing in drawing upon his early years in eastern Thuringia: his receptiveness and awareness of the physical world and matter, which may have been fostered by his childhood spent in an uranium mining district.L’article est consacré à deux essais de Lutz Seiler parus dans le recueil Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) et plus particulièrement aux sections respectives de ces essais qui établissent une relation singulière entre la fatigue, la radioactivité de la région de RDA natale de l’auteur et sa créativité littéraire. Il tente de montrer que, loin de se livrer seulement à un éloge paradoxal de l’atome, l’auteur décrit la source même de l’acte d’écriture, remontant à son enfance : une porosité et une attention face au monde physique et à la matière, qui pourraient précisément avoir été favorisées par son enfance passée près des mines d’uranium
From single genomes to natural microbial communities : novel methods for the high-throughput analysis of genomic sequences
No full textKrause L. From single genomes to natural microbial communities : novel methods for the high-throughput analysis of genomic sequences. Bielefeld (Germany): Bielefeld University; 2007.Advances in sequencing technologies provide the opportunity to rapidly produce vast genomic data sets at a low price. In particular, the recently developed, ultra-fast 454 pyrosequencing has dramatically reduced the cost and time requirements per sequenced base pair. Furthermore, novel methods have been developed that enable sequencing of the 99 percent of microbes that are difficult to access with conventional, culture-dependent approaches. These culture-independent methods launch the exciting field of metagenomics - the study of the collective genomes (metagenomes) of free-living microbial communities.
In light of the immense data sets produced, sequence analysis is still a contemporary, ongoing challenge in computational biology. Additionally, new demands arise from the short length of sequence reads produced by ultra-fast sequencing techniques. In the field of whole-genome research, accurate methods are required for identifying and functionally characterizing the gene content of organisms, thus reducing the required manual effort while at the same time producing high-quality annotations. On the other hand, metagenomes are nowadays routinely sequenced, and an increasing number of metagenomic projects is expected in the near future (Pennisi, 2007), but their computational analysis is still in its infancy.
In the presented thesis, state-of-the-art machine learning techniques as well as algorithmic and statistical methods are employed for the high-throughput analysis and characterization of large genomic data sets. First, the gene finding software GISMO was developed, which combines the search for protein domains using profile hidden Markov models (pHMMs) with a sequence composition-based classification using a Support Vector Machine. This combined strategy is able to unveil almost the complete gene content of prokaryotic genomes in a fully automated manner. GISMO has already been extensively employed in the international effort to "Annotate a Thousand Genomes" as well as in various genome annotation and re-annotation projects.
Furthermore, a novel gene finding algorithm for metagenomic data sets was developed. It is robust for most problems encountered when predicting genes in metagenomes, including short sequence length and low sequence quality. Thereby, the algorithm allows to hunt for novel, unknown genes carried by organisms that cannot be sequenced using conventional, culture dependent techniques.
Finally, methods were devised for characterizing short-read metagenomes obtained by pyrosequencing. Following the pHMM-based identification of gene fragments, the latter are categorized into functional groups. Additionally, the source organisms (taxonomic origins) of gene fragments are predicted. The resulting genetic and taxonomic profiles can in turn be used to unveil important trends in the gene content, metabolism, and species composition of the underlying microbial communities
Prokaryotic taxonomy rules and nomenclature changes in the Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus group: author reply
No full textUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Microbiol Imunol & Parasitol, São Paulo, BrazilUniv Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Microbiol, BR-21941 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilInst Adolfo Lutz Registro, Setor Micobacterias, São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Microbiol Imunol & Parasitol, São Paulo, BrazilWeb of Scienc
Vers une histoire sociale de la RDA
No full textTowards a social history of the GDR, Niethammer.
Based on the results of a vast oral history study undertaken in the GDR in 1987 and on additional interviews after German unification, the author sketches a social history of the GDR. He analyzes the relations between the life experience and the political socialization of the successive generations, the effects of selective migration on the structure and the composition of the leading strata and the consequences of the demographic imbalance favoring women on social and economic institutions. Supplementing these approaches with an analysis of the economic and political dimensions, he makes the case for setting GDR in the framework of a continuous German history, and for comparisons with German society under Nazism and that of the other socialist countries.Niethammer Lutz. Vers une histoire sociale de la RDA. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°34, avril-juin 1992. Histoires d'Allemagnes. pp. 37-52
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