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Don’t Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship and the Westerns of Delmer Daves
No full textAndrew Patrick Nelson offers a revaluation of Broken Arrow, which is often credited with helping to inaugurate a cycle of ‘pro-Indian’ Westerns featuring more sympathetic and even heroic portrayals of aboriginal characters. As a counterpoint to reflectionist readings of the pro-Indian cycle, Nelson explores an alternative explanation for the character of the famous Chiricahua leader, Cochise. He argues that Cochise is, in fact, a common character in Daves’ Westerns: the stoic secondary hero who steadies, strengthens, and defers to the mildly neurotic leading man who, rather than being a natural agent, proceeds based on reason. Re-conceiving Cochise as a ‘Davesian’ character is a small step towards reclaiming Daves’ pivotal role of the development of the Western in the 1950s.</p
Osama bin Laden Ain’t Here: Justified as a 9/11 Western
No full textThough one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small. The genre has enjoyed a resurgence, however, and in the past few decades some remarkable westerns have appeared on television and in movie theaters. From independent films to critically acclaimed Hollywood productions and television series, the western remains an important part of American popular culture. Running the gamut from traditional to revisionist, with settings ranging from the old West to the "new Wests" of the present day and distant future, contemporary westerns continue to explore the history, geography, myths, and legends of the American frontier. In Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990, Andrew P. Nelson has collected essays that examine the trends and transformations in this underexplored period in Western film and television history. Addressing the new Western, they argue for the continued relevance and vibrancy of the genre as a narrative form. The book is organized into two sections: "Old West, New Stories" examines Westerns with common frontier locales, such as Dances with Wolves, Unforgiven, Deadwood, and True Grit. "New Wests, Old Stories" explores works in which familiar Western narratives, characters, and values are represented in more modern-and in one case futuristic-settings. Included are the films No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, as well as the shows Firefly and Justified. With a foreword by Edward Buscombe, as well as an introduction that provides a comprehensive overview, this volume offers readers a compelling argument for the healthy survival of the Western. Written for scholars as well as educated viewers, Contemporary Westerns explores the genre's evolving relationship with American culture, history, and politics
The Svensson versus McCallum and Nelson Controversy Revisited in the BMW Framework
No full textThis note shows that the Svensson versus McCallum and Nelson controversy battled in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (September/ October 2005) can be mapped into a static version of a New Keynesian macro model that consists of an IS-equation, a Phillips curve and an inflation targeting central bank (e.g., Bofinger, Mayer, Wollmershäuser, (2006); Walsh (2002)). As a contribution to literature we supplement the controversy by a forceful graphical analysis. The general debate centers on the question by which notion monetary policy should be implemented. The two sides have fundametaly opposite views on this issue. Svensson argues for targeting rules as a notion of optimal monetary policy, whereas McCallum and Nelson promote simple instrument rules. In this note we systematically analyze these two categories of monetary policy rules. In particular we show that the rule discussed by McCallum and Nelson (2005) imposes different degrees of variability on the economy compared to a targeting rule when monetary policy falls prey to measurement error. To our opinion the rule developed by McCallum and Nelson contradicts the original idea of simple rules as a heuristic for monetary policy making and should be rebutted for practical reasons . --inflation targeting,monetary policy rules,New Keynesian macroeconomics,central bank strategies
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments
No full textThis paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by HTTP proxy, cache, gateway and web service concepts, a design for a scalable and reliable infrastructure that aims at satisfying these requirements is presented. Moreover it is shown how various applications can exploit the services included in the proposed infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing the current status of several prototype implementations
sj-pdf-2-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221113022 - Supplemental material for Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An <i>in vivo</i> multiphoton microscopy evaluation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221113022 for Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An in vivo multiphoton microscopy evaluation by Onome A Oghifobibi, Andrew E Toader, Melissa A Nicholas, Brittany P Nelson, Nicole G Alindogan, Michael S Wolf, Anthony E Kline, Seyed M Nouraie, Corina O Bondi, Bistra Iordanova, Robert SB Clark, Hülya Bayır, Patricia A Loughran, Simon C Watkins, Claudette M St Croix, Patrick M Kochanek, Alberto L Vazquez and Mioara D Manole in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism</p
THE BRITISH NEW LABOUR PARTY AND POLITICAL ZIONISM: CONTINUITY OF AN ESSENTIAL DILEMMA
No full textThis thesis examines the basis and nature of the relationship between the British our Party and political Zionism. Specifically, it locates the decision-making process and policies of the British New Labour Party towards political Zionism and the Israel-Palestinian question, within the historical evolution of this relationship. This thesis demonstrates that this relationship is uniquely based on common origins, a shared socialist ideology and related religious philosophies, with the Labour Party historically demonstrating a pro-political Zionist tendency in its decision and policymaking trajectory. However, a growing awareness within the Labour Party of the realities of both Palestine and political Zionism, in particular the consequences for the indigenous people, - the Palestinians, has presented key Labour figures, and the party generally, with an essential dilemma. The thesis argues that support for political Zionism has ultimately posed ideological and political contradictions for the Labour Party, whilst simuhaneously presenting personal psychological dilemmas for key leadership and policy-making figures. The three dimensions of this essential dilemma, ideological, political and psychological, have combined in a process of progressive adjustment of the historical pro-political Zionist policy trajectory, towards a position of neutrality. This adjustment has been consistent through the old Labour and New Labour decision and policy-making eras, and therefore the policy of New Labour cannot be fully understood without reference to this historical evolutionary process. This neutral position has enabled the party to not only accommodate its traditional pro-political Zionism inclinations, which stem from the personal or psychological and ideological commitments of its leadership and constituencies, but also to avoid ththe full implications ol internal and external determinants that might have otherwise divided the party.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221113022 - Supplemental material for Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An <i>in vivo</i> multiphoton microscopy evaluation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X221113022 for Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An in vivo multiphoton microscopy evaluation by Onome A Oghifobibi, Andrew E Toader, Melissa A Nicholas, Brittany P Nelson, Nicole G Alindogan, Michael S Wolf, Anthony E Kline, Seyed M Nouraie, Corina O Bondi, Bistra Iordanova, Robert SB Clark, Hülya Bayır, Patricia A Loughran, Simon C Watkins, Claudette M St Croix, Patrick M Kochanek, Alberto L Vazquez and Mioara D Manole in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism</p
Identification and characterization of two novel JARID1C mutations: suggestion of an emerging genotype-phenotype correlation
No full textFirst published online 14 October 2009. © 2010 European Society of Human GeneticsMental retardation (MR) is characterized by cognitive impairment with an IQ A) in a published family with nonsyndromic MR, MRX13. This change occurs in a highly conserved amino acid, with proline (P) being substituted by threonine (T) (p.P554T). [corrected] Functional analysis shows that this amino-acid substitution compromises both tri- and didemethylase activity of the JARID1C protein. We conclude that the two novel changes impair JARID1C protein function and are disease-causing mutations in these families.Sinitdhorn Rujirabanjerd, John Nelson, Patrick S. Tarpey, Anna Hackett, Sarah Edkins, F Lucy Raymond, Charles E. Schwartz, Gillian Turner, Shigeki Iwase, Yang Shi, P. Andrew Futreal, Michael R. Stratton, Jozef Gec
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