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Meet our Editorial Board member: Andrew Taylor-Robinson
No full textTaylor-Robinson, AW ORCiD: 0000-0001-7342-8348Brief biographical sketch invited by Current Immunology Review
Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
No full textDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
Group Portrait with Reverend Father Landry
No full textOutdoor group portrait of students with Reverend Father Landry on path adjacent to ivy-covered adobe wall. Subjects numbered and identified: 1) Chas Graham, 2) Jas. Nugent, 3) P. Morrissey, 4) [un-named], 5) A. White, 6) [un-named], 7) Frank Foley, 8) John Burke, 9) Edw. Kelly, 10) Rev. Father Landry, 11) Geo Robinson, 12) A. Tobin
Nuclear spin relaxation as a probe of zeolite acidity: a combined NMR and TPD investigation of pyridine in HZSM-5
No full textThe relative surface affinities of pyridine within microporous HZSM-5 zeolites are explored using two-dimensional 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation time measurements. The dimensionless ratio of longitudinal-to-transverse nuclear spin relaxation times T_1⁄T_2 is shown to exhibit strong sensitivity to the silica/alumina ratio (SAR) of these zeolites, which is indicative of material acidity. This trend is interpreted in terms of increased pyridine surface affinity with decreasing SAR. Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) analysis corroborates this observation, revealing a distinct increase in the heat of desorption associated with adsorbed pyridine as a function of decreasing SAR. A direct correlation between NMR and TPD data suggests NMR relaxation time analysis can be a valuable tool for the non-invasive characterisation of adsorption phenomena in microporous solids
Emergence and persistence of hantavirus in rodent reservoirs role of glucocorticoid hormone /
No full textRodent-borne hantaviruses have received considerable attention in recent years due to the high mortality rate in humans that their infections cause. Anthropogenic stressors are key factors in the emergence of hantavirus-associated diseases. Urbanization, deforestation, noise pollution, artificial lighting and electromagnetic fields are the most common forms of human impact on the environment. An increased systemic concentration of the immunosuppressive class of steroid hormone glucocorticoid is a frequent consequence of chronic anthropogenic stress. Elevated glucocorticoid levels play a crucial role in modulating immune tolerance of rodents, thereby enabling establishment of the host-pathogen interaction. Glucocorticoids support virus persistence in the reservoir host by activating an organ-specific regulatory response mediated by T regulatory lymphocytes to reduce inflammatory and antiviral responses, principally via production of cytokines interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor-β. In-depth analysis of this mechanism would help to understand how rodents maintain a disease-free condition. This may have implications for a cost-effective intervention strategy against hantavirus and other zoonotic human pathogens
Children's literature, popular culture and Robinson Crusoe /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.Introduction: Robinson Crusoe, the child, and the people -- Performing Crusoe and becoming Crusoes: the pedagogical uses of Robinson Crusoe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Crusoe comes home: Robinsonades and children's editions of Robinson Crusoe -- Poaching on Crusoe's island: popular reading and chapbook editions of Robinson Crusoe -- Animal spirits are everything!: Robinson Crusoe pantomimes and the child of nostalgia -- An island of toys: childhood and Robinson Crusoe consumer goods
Group Portrait, no.73
No full textPhoto taken outdoors adjacent to ivy-covered adobe wall. Subjects numbered and identified. Standing (L to R): 1) C. Graff, 2) Tom Robinson, 3) A. Keenan, 4) J. Selby, 5) Jos. Beretta
Romantic Passions
No full textTable of Contents
About the Contributors
"Introduction: Passion in a Barren Field"
- Elizabeth Fay, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love"
- Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
"Hemans, Heber, and Superstition and Revelation"
- Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Passion and Romantic Poetics"
- Jeffrey C. Robinson, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Romantic Anger and Bryon's Curse"
- Andrew M. Stauffer, University of Virginia
"Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows: Romantic Passions, the Sublime, and Mesmerism"
- Charles J. Rzepka, Boston University</p
Kim Stanley Robinson: Apprenticeships in Narrative (Liverpool University Press, 2024)
No full text Kim Stanley Robinson remains one of the most progressive writers working today. His novels and short stories have mapped cycles of capitalist violence, economic expansion, and material despoliation, in turn proposing radical visions of social and economic justice through cooperatives, collective agreements, and stewardship of the environment. But if Robinson is readily considered a political author, less attention has been paid to his craft and composition. This book examines Robinson’s concern with literary apprenticeship. In novels such as the post-apocalyptic The Wild Shore, the intergenerational star-ship narrative Aurora, and the tale of Ice Age hunters, Shaman, Robinson creates characters who struggle with and against storytelling. In these fictions, apprentices battle against the limits of their interpretative powers as they come to recognise the real pleasures, and the intense hardships, of art and narrative. </p
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