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Author\u27s Response to Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations: Children and Nature – and Technology by Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
No full textAuthor\u27s Response to Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations: Children and Nature – and Technology by Peter H. Kahn, Jr
Peter H. Amann Collection 1909-2009
No full textThis collection contains the personal and professional papers of Peter Amann, mostly correspondence but also including family papers, personal and professional writings, publicity materials relating to Peter Amann’s wife, and other personal documents. These materials reflect his role as a professor, author and prominent American historian as well as providing information about the rest of his family, including his father Paul Amann.Although most of these files date from his adult life, when he worked as a professor of history at various American universities, many files, including all of Series I, appear to have been inherited from his mother Dora Amann (née Iranyi) during the 1980s. These files include Dora Amann’s family papers and document the lives of the Iranyi/Israel family at the period before the Anschluss, during wartime, when Dora and Paul Amann lived in Paris, and conditions of Jewish individuals and families in Vienna under the Nazi regime.Other materials inherited from Dora Amann consist of some of Paul Amann’s correspondence, which contains a limited amount of post-war correspondence with prominent literary figures like Christopher Isherwood, Albert Camus, and the estate of Romain Rolland, and correspondence between Ernst Amann and his parents Dora and Paul. Included with the Paul Amann materials is an unpublished memoir, written in English, pertaining to his time as an Austrian soldier during World War I.The earlier family correspondence is almost entirely comprised of letters exchanged between Peter Amann and his parents. Starting in the mid 1950s, other figures begin to appear in the family correspondence, including Peter’s half-brother Wilhelm (Willi), who settled in Scotland, and Peter’s sister Eva. After the death of Paul Amann in 1959, the family correspondence contains an increasing amount of letters to and from Dora Amann.The professional correspondence starts during Peter Amann’s graduate studies at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. This series consists of correspondence and application materials for scholarships and fellowships, such as the Fulbright Peter Amann received in 1963, letters exchanged with colleagues and with collaborators on various research and book projects, letters seeking job placement, and letters with scholarly and academic publishers, relating both to proposed and to actual book and research projects. A substantial amount of official correspondence with the administrations of the various universities for which Amann worked, especially the University of Michigan, is also present. Additional materials in this series include diplomas and awards dating from Amann’s high school years in the 1940s through the 1970s, and various writings both academic and fictional, publications, and translations. Many of these writings included in the collection have never been published. A final subseries of professional correspondence pertains to his wife Enne Amann’s career as a folk singer, for which Peter Amann acted as manager during the mid 1960s through the early 1970s.The final series, personal correspondence, comprises letters and cards exchanged with friends and neighbors, as well as many materials pertaining to personal accommodations, such as lodging and transportation, while abroad for research purposes. The line between personal and professional correspondence is often blurry in the case of letters exchanged with professional colleagues, and therefore many correspondents appear in both the personal and professional series. The original order of the files with regards to dividing personal and professional correspondence was largely kept intact to avoid any destruction of contextual evidence. A variety of other types of correspondence, including letters to newspaper Op-Ed pages and letters to Congressional representatives expressing personal political views, were also included in this series, even if they refer to Peter Amann’s professional credentials.Peter Amann was born in 1927 in the Penzig district of Vienna, Austria. In 1939 Peter Amann fled with his family to France, and eventually reached New York via Portugal in 1941. After a few itinerant years following their arrival in the United States, Peter Amann graduated high school in Ohio and then continued his education at Oberlin College. In 1947 he completed his studies at Oberlin College and married Enne Niemi in Kentucky.For the next half decade Amann worked various jobs and wrote fiction in New York City and Milwaukee, before settling in Chicago in 1952 to work on a Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago. Soon afterwards his first child Paula was born, and two other children, Sandra and David, were born within the following 7 years. Aside from an initial stint at Bowdoin College in Maine (1956-1959) and a few years on the faculty of the State University of New York Binghamton (1965-1968), Amann spent his entire professional career at various campuses of the University of Michigan. From 1971-2004 he was a Professor Emeritus of History at the Ann Arbor campus.Peter Amann is arguably most noted for his major work Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848, but he also authored several other well-regarded scholarly books and articles on a variety of topics covering both European and American history. He has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship (1963-1964), a Guggenheim fellowship (1963-1964), and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1982); for all of these awards he traveled to France for research.Dora Amann, née Israel, was born in 1894 in Vienna. Along with her immediate family, she converted to Protestantism and changed her name to Iranyi; her extended family kept the name Israel. She received a musical education in Vienna, Uppsala (Sweden), and Norway, and sang professionally. She married Paul Amann, a translator, with whom she had two children, Peter and Eva (later Eva Irrera). In 1939 she emigrated to France and then in 1941 to the United States. After Paul Amann’s death, she spent much of her life in New Paltz, New York, and died in 1993 near Washington, D.C.For a detailed biography of Peter Amann’s father, Paul Amann, please see the Peter Amann Collection, AR 3305.digitize
Finding Aid for the Peter H. Taylor Collection (MUM00442)
No full textThe collection contains papers, photographs, and audio recordings related to the life and work of author Peter H. Taylor
Comparison of several author indices for gauging academic productivity
No full textBackground
Many author indices exist to gauge academic productivity. Several of these indices are calculated based upon an author's scholarly publication record, but the measurement methodology to calculate each index varies considerably, and the precise function being used, as well as the end result, is often complex and difficult to assess.
Method
Two straightforward methods to weigh author productivity from the publication and citation record were evaluated as possible means for providing a clearer assessment of scholarly activity. The author characteristic index (termed c-index) assigns author rank for each publication based upon author position. The characteristic prime (c') -index normalizes author rank from author position, so that the total weight per publication is unity. The top 10 scholars with keyword 'celiac disease' in the Google Scholar database were then assessed using these metrics. Rankings according to total number of publications, h-index, and c- and c'-indices were compared, then tabulated along with total papers included for assessment, and mean values per paper for author position, number of authors, citations, and year of publication.
Results
The order of the top ten authors with keyword 'celiac disease' varied substantially depending upon whether the h-index, c-index, or c'-index was used as a gauge. The characteristic indices assign credit to authors according to their position in an author list. The affiliated metrics provided a more complete picture of scholarly activity.
Conclusions
Academic achievement by scholars, based upon quantitative publication characteristics, has recently become of interest for evaluating job candidates, for determining work performance, and for bestowing awards and honors. The characteristic indices as described herein are readily calculated and interpreted, and may improve the assessment of scholarly activity
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
Vie privée de Louis XV ou principaux événemens, particularités et ancdotes de son regne : tome quatriéme, orné de portraits.
No full textSign.: []\p2\s, A\p4\s, B-Q\p12\s, R\p11\sLas h. de grab. calc., retratos de la Condesa de Barry, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou y el Abad Terra
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Adontorhina similis Barry & McCormack, new species
No full textAdontorhina similis, Barry & McCormack, new species (Figures 4–5) Mendicula pygmaea Oliver & Killeen (2002, p. 56–58, plate 23) Thyasira subtrigona Hartley (1984, p. 192) Type locality. Porcupine Bank, 53 °07.77’N, 13 ° 13.37 ’W, 252 m Eastern Atlantic. Holotype. A complete shell, collected by P.J. Barry, NMINH. 2006.58. Measurements (Length x height x breadth). 1.14 mm x 0.78 mm x 0.62 mm. Paratypes. Three specimens, as holotype, NMINH.2006.64.1– 2. Measurements 1.25 mm x 0.94 mm x 0.6mm; 1.17 mm x 0.91 mm x 0.6 mm; 0.91 x 0.69 x 0.44 mm. Etymology. From the Latin similis, ‘similar,’ referring to the high degree of similarity in external appearance to Mendicula pygmaea. Material examined. CEO 3, Station GT, 54 ° N, 12 ° 24 ’W, 320 m 2 spec.; CEO 3 Station 9, 52° 30 ’N, 14 °W, 300 m 11 spec.; SFO 3 Grab 7, 53°07.77’N, 13 ° 13.37 ’W 252 m 6 spec.; SFO 3 Grab 8, 53°07.77’N, 13 ° 13.37 ’W 252 m 5 spec.; SFO 3 Grab 15, 52° 52.42 ’N, 12 ° 26.52 ’W 382 m 8 spec.; SFO 3 Grab 17, 52° 38.77 ’N, 12 ° 11.08 ’W 330 m 4 spec.; NMWZ. 2001.097, ERT 92 /082A 60 ° 36 ’N, 01° 39 ’E 130–145 m 200 spec.; Distribution. Porcupine Bank, west of Ireland. Depth range 252– 382 m. North Sea oilfields. Depth range 85–161 m (Oliver & Killeen, 2002). Description. Shell minute (maximum size 2 mm), fragile, moderately compressed, colour white; subovate, longer than high (Figure 4); inequilateral, beaks in posterior; very thin, transparent periostracum; sculpture of weak commarginal striae; sulcus absent, posterior flank flattened; umbones inflated, pronounced, prosogyrate; prodissoconch I approximately 150 µm in diameter; lunule indistinct; escutcheon obscure; anterodorsal margin weakly curved, straight in some specimens, anterior broadly rounded; posterior markedly angulate; posterodorsal margin straight, sloping; hinge plate thin, divided into two sections, anterior section thicker, both with irregular granules (Figure 4 C–D, F–H); small cardinal tubercle in the right valve with a corresponding depression in the left valve. Internal anatomy. The anterior adductor muscle is larger than the posterior muscle (Figure 5); both muscles are divided into quick and catch areas; anterior muscle is elongate, while the posterior is round. Single point of mantle fusion occurs beneath the gill axis, forming the posterior aperture; mantle folds thin and extended, particularly the middle fold which is filled with glandular tissue; all mantle folds have a small area of concentric muscle within their tips; centre of the mantle edge has a single strand of radial muscle but is otherwise filled with a large blood space; inner mantle is fold compressed, with a poorly defined rejection tract; on the inner surface of the mantle edge between the inner and middle folds, the area has small underdeveloped lobes or folds; periostracal groove deep. There is no region of glandular tissue underneath the anterior adductor muscle. Each gill has a single demibranch comprised of ten to eleven filaments; ascending lamellae three quarters the length of the descending lamellae; filaments thin with well-developed eu-laterofrontal cilia; gill filaments type 2 (Dufour, 2005); where interfilamentar fusion occurs, the abfrontal areas and blood space remains wide and forms a strong connection; filamentar muscles absent. Labial palps relatively large, triangular. Oesophagus thickened, leading into a very large stomach. Hindgut loops above the stomach and descends around the outside of the posterior adductor muscle. Lateral pouches undivided, unlobed and end in a pointed tip ventrally; there are two tubules leading into the pouches. Kidneys paired, small. Foot short with a well developed heel; ventral portion of the heel contains glandular tissue which continues out to the tip of the foot; heel sagittally grooved; tip of the foot is undifferentiated from the heavily ciliated stem. Differential diagnosis. The sharp angle created by the posterior shell margin in combination with the flattened posterior flank differentiates Adontorhina similis from other Adontorhina species. A. similis is similar to Adontorhina lynnae Valentich Scott, 2000; however, A. lynnae has larger, prominent umbones and a more densely granulated hingeplate. Internally, A. lynnae differs in having almost double the number of gill filaments in each demibranch and the labial palps are far more reduced than those in A. similis. The lateral pouches are larger and develop lobes on the posterior surface while the lateral pouches of A. similis are relatively smooth and simple. Further features which separate A. similis from other species of Adontorhina can be found in Table 1. Remarks. Oliver & Killeen (2002) were the first to recognise the irregular granules in this species but declined to erect a new species. Specimens of Mendicula pygmaea Verrill & Bush, 1898, from the east coast of America were not available for them to examine. Examination of the holotype of M. pygmaea (Figure 6) and fresh material from the northwest Atlantic for the present study confirmed the lack of teeth in M. pygmaea (Figure 7). However, the European specimens, previously identified as M. pygmaea, have irregular granules on the hinge plate (Figure 4 C–D, F–H), a feature which precludes inclusion in Mendicula. Furthermore, examination of the internal anatomy has shown additional differences between these species. The adductor muscles of M. pygmaea are smaller than those in A. similis as are the lateral pouches. The foot of M. pygmaea does not contain as well-developed a heel as that of A. similis. M. pygmaea from the northwest Atlantic remains a valid species, however, the European form can no longer be recognised as M. pygmaea and is here described as Adontorhina similis. Oliver & Killeen (2002) reported that specimens which had previously been recorded as Thyasira subtrigona Jeffreys, 1858, by Hartley (1984) were actually specimens of A. similis (although Oliver & Killeen listed them as Mendicula pygmaea). The type specimen of Thyasira subtrigona was destroyed (Jeffreys, 1864) and has been considered a nomen dubium by van Aartsen & Carrozza (1997). Other authors have recognized T. subtrigona as a member of the superfamily Galeommatoidea (Bowden & Heppell, 1968; Oliver & Killeen, 2002).Published as part of Barry, Peter J. & Mccormack, Grace P., 2007, Two new species of Adontorhina Berry, 1947 (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from the Porcupine Bank, off the west coast of Ireland, pp. 37-49 in Zootaxa 1526 on pages 42-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17753
Influences of host community characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence in Blacklegged ticks
No full textLyme disease is a major vector-borne bacterial disease in the USA. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted among hosts and humans, primarily by blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). The ~25 B. burgdorferi genotypes, based on genotypic variation of their outer surface protein C (ospC), can be phenotypically separated as strains that primarily cause human diseases – human invasive strains (HIS) – or those that rarely do – and are non-randomly associated with host species. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which phenotypic outcomes of B. burgdorferi could be explained by the host communities fed upon by blacklegged ticks. In 2006 and 2009, we determined the host community composition based on abundance estimates of the vertebrate hosts, and collected host-seeking nymphal ticks in 2007 and 2010 to determine the ospC genotypes within infected ticks. We regressed instances of B. burgdorferi phenotypes on site-specific characteristics of host communities by constructing Bayesian hierarchical models that properly handled missing data. The models provided quantitative support for the relevance of host composition on Lyme disease risk pertaining to B. burgdorferi prevalence (i.e., overall nymphal infection prevalence, or NIPAll) and HIS prevalence among the infected ticks (NIPHIS). In 2006, we found positive associations of the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews with NIPAll. We also found positive associations of NIPHIS with shrews, and with host community diversity (H’), but negative associations with mice, and with chipmunks. In 2009, the relative abundance of mice showed a positive association with NIPAll, whereas the relative abundance of shrews and of H’ showed a negative association. With NIPHIS, only H’ showed a positive association, whereas the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews, had negative associations. Our study highlights the variability between two years in the effects of host composition on B. burgdorferi genotypes. More importantly, our results highlight how disease risk inference, based on the role of host community, changes when we examine risk overall or at the phenotypic level. Long-term studies will be necessary to detect any consistent effects of host community composition on genotypic variation in the Lyme disease spirochetes
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
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