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World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
No full textInterview with Leland Flinn, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the submarine USS Silversides in the Pacific Theater during World War II
World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
No full textInterview with Leland Flinn, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the submarine USS Silversides in the Pacific Theater during World War II
Geology of Unst and Fetlar in Shetland : memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheet 131 (Scotland) Unst and Fetlar
No full textThis memoir, and the 1:50 000-scale geological map that it accompanies, are
the products of a contract between the Natural Environment Research Council
and the University of Liverpool to produce the map; and a subsequent contract
between the British Geological Survey and Professor Derek Flinn to produce the
memoir. Such contracts stem from the NERC policy of encouraging academics
with substantial knowledge about specific areas in the UK to transfer their information
into the public domain. This is done by funding them to extend mapping
from areas in which they have worked to the boundaries of BGS map sheets. The
maps, and accompanying descriptive memoirs (supported by open file reports
and archives), are then published by the British Geological Survey. In the case of
Unst and Fetlar the contracts have built on more than fifty years of experience of
Shetland geology possessed by Professor Flinn, who resurveyed the solid and drift
geology of the 1:50 000-scale Unst and Fetlar sheet (Sheet 131) and is the main
author of this memoir. He had also earlier surveyed the area of Central Shetland
(Sheet 128), published by the Institute of Geological Sciences (now BGS) as 1
inch to 1 mile geological maps in 1981 and 1982, and more recently produced
the 1:50 000-scale geological map (Sheet 130) and accompanying memoir for the
neighbouring island of Yell, published by the BGS in 1994. The 1:50 000-scale
geological map of Unst and Fetlar (Sheet 131), to which this memoir relates,
was published by the BGS in 2002. Some minor changes in interpretation by the
author since that date have been incorporated in this memoir, which includes
information gathered and interpretations made up to and including 2007.
Sadly Derek Flinn passed away in June 2012, whilst this memoir was undergoing
final preparations for publication. The British Geological Survey is proud
to publish it in his memory, reflecting a lifetime of dedicated geological work
on Shetland in general and on Unst and Fetlar in particular. The printing of
this memoir has been funded with the support of the Shetland Amenity Trust in
recognition of Professor Flinn's contribution to Shetland Geology
Home-Based Intervention for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Peripheral neuropathy is a side effect of neurotoxic chemotherapy, resulting in pain and declines in function and quality of life. This pilot study assessed effects of a sensorimotor intervention on pain, function, and quality of life in individuals with breast cancer.
Primary Author and Speaker: Amy Darragh
Additional Authors and Speakers: Karli Vicary
Contributing Authors: Karen Hock, LeAnn Gaerke, Sharon Flinn</jats:p
Digging Where You Stand? Critical approaches to participatory and activist heritage work
No full textRecent years have seen growing interest in participatory, community-led and activist approaches to knowledge production across a range of disciplines and practices including heritage, archive and public history work (Flinn 2011). Frequently such practices have been associated with radical and social justice orientated politics but participatory methodologies have also been critically examined as complex and contested, not least because of unequal power and trust relations often embedded in such approaches (Sexton 2015). Dig Where You Stand (DWYS), a complex mixed methods D-I-Y history methodology, rooted in history from below movements of the 1970s and expounded by Swedish author Sven Lindqvist (1978, 1979) is a still influential, fruitful yet challenging model for participatory and activist orientated heritage practices today (Flinn & Sexton 2018, von Rosen 2017). The papers in this double session will explore some of the challenges of participatory heritage and archive work by describing recent transformative developments of DWYS, combining a 1970’s ethos that ‘history is too important to be left just to historians’ (History Workshop Journal 1,1976) with contemporary critical thinking and the affordances of digital technologies, including the use of big data and social media, participatory system design, citizen sourced materials, and the many ethical concerns that are often left invisible and unexamined when studying digital archives and heritage and their affect. By doing so, the session will re-imagine DWYS and other similar D-I-Y participatory history and heritage methodologies in a dialogue with the future, opening up for multiple human, non-human and hybrid critical dialogues challenging authorized heritage discourses and practices and supporting social justice struggles in the present and the future. The papers presented represent current critical approaches to heritage, archives and digital humanities, practised across a range of disciples and developed within the joint University College London University of Gothenburg Centre for Critical Heritage Studies
Hockey Team, 1951
No full textb&w computer scanned reproduction of a photographExcellent conditionTeam photo of the Saint Mary's College hockey team. Front row (l to r): Ed McGrath (Arts class of 1952), R. Craig, G. [Nick] Walsh (Commerce class ca. 1952), Marty Barry, and Stan McPhee (Engineering class of 1951). Back row (l to r): Bill Flinn, Artie Flynn (Engineering class ca. 1953), Hugh MacLellan (Arts class of 1956), Jim Warner ("Big Jim," Engineering class of 1954), Jim Casey (Arts class of 1952, ordained in 1956), Don Fultz (Engineering class of 1952), and Bob Reardon (coach in this photo). Identities confirmed by J. Mills in 2015. Alumni Craig, Barry, Flinn, and Flynn do not appear in any yearbook after 1952. Ditto first-year students Craig (Arts) and Barry (Engineering), who likely finished their degrees elsewhere, while senior students Flinn and Flynn probably graduated in 1953 (no hard copy of the 1953 Collegian yearbook survives). Walsh appears in a 1977 alumni photo (98.04.0843), but there is no 1952 grad photo of him. Bob "Puddy" Reardon was an all-round athlete since his Saint Mary's High School days and Commerce graduate late 1950's before joining the RCAF in 1961.Picture appears on pg. 52 in the 1951 Collegian yearbook. Team members identified through list in the yearbook. Picture was donated by Edgar J. McGrath. Sticker in bottom left hand corner of the picture reads: 'From the collection of Edgar J. McGrath'
The Practice of History: Dig Where You Stand
No full textBack in 1978, a Swedish author-activist named Sven Lindqvist published a book called Dig Where You Stand. With the subtitle “How To Research A Job”, the book was an intricately detailed step by step guide to the mechanics of researching forgotten histories of manufacturing. But it was also a manifesto, a clarion call for a worker-centred, worker generated history, for working people to take control of their own history-making, wresting historical research out of the hands of “experts” – or more accurately, redefining what counts as expertise to begin with. The book’s call to “dig where you stand”, research your own immediate environment, the impact of your job on your life, on your body, had a pivotal impact across the globe on the burgeoning movement for community and workers’ histories, including the History Workshop movement. The latter impact was all the more remarkable given that the book was available in an English translation. The closest English-language readers could come to it was a summary Lindqvist published in the journal Oral History in 1979. Now, 45 years on from its original publication, Dig Where You Stand has been published in English. It remains timely even now. As Catharina Thorn from the University of Gothenburg puts it in her blurb on the back cover: “Do not mistake this for an ordinary handbook or a dated analysis of working-class conditions. Lindqvist’s book shows with vivid clarity how capitalism permeates society, our homes, lungs, and children’s future. And yet, at the end, there is not despair and hopelessness but an empowering sense that things can and will be changed.” In this episode we sat down in conversation with the two editors who brought the translated volume to life: Astrid von Rosen and Andrew Flinn. We discuss Sven Lindqvist and his remarkable history, the emergence of the book from the Swedish “dig” movement, its impact on workers’ history movements worldwide, and its continuing relevance even – perhaps especially – in the digital age
Storage protein gene expression in zygotic and somatic embryos of interior spruce
No full textStorage proteins from interior spruce (Picea glauca/engelmanhi
complex) were identified, partially characterized and used as
markers to compare the developmental fidelity between zygotic and
somatic embryos. The major storage proteins expressed in both
embryo types had molecular weights of approximately 41, 35, 33,
24 and 22 kD. The 41 kD protein was buffer and low salt-soluble,
whereas the 35-33 kD and 24-22 kD proteins were high salt-soluble
and disulfide linked. All of the proteins possessed several
isoelectric variants. Based on solubility and disulfide linkage
characteristics, as well as cDNA sequences, these storage
proteins were homologous to angiosperm vicilin-type (41 kD) and
legumin-type (35-33 kD, 24-22 kD) storage proteins.
Somatic embryos of different genotypes matured on 40 μM ABA
accumulated significant levels of storage protein, similar to or
higher than levels found in zygotic embryos. Somatic embryos on
10 μM ABA displayed initial storage protein accumulation, but the
levels did not reach those found in zygotic embryos or somatic
embryos matured on 40 μM ABA.
Zygotic embryos and somatic embryos differentiated on 40 μM or
10 μM ABA displayed differential storage protein accumulation,
with the legumin-type proteins apparent before the vicilin-type,
although all showed major accumulations during cotyledon
development. Zygotic embryos displayed a rapid, transient period
of storage protein accumulation, with maximum storage protein
levels attained at least 1 month prior to mature seed shed. In
contrast, somatic embryos differentiated on 40 μM ABA displayed a
more prolonged, gradual accumulation of storage proteins, which
were still on the increase after 9 weeks of maturation on ABA.
Somatic embryos on 10 μM ABA initally accumulated storage
proteins, but these were rapidly degraded as the embryos
germinated precociously.
Analysis of storage protein mRNA5 indicated they were present
by torpedo stage in zygotic embryos and somatic embryos matured
on 40 μ M and 10 μM ABA. In all cases, the transcripts increased
during development, with those of legumin reaching high levels
prior to those of vicilin. Transcript levels in zygotic embryos
increased during cotyledon development and then declined rapidly
to very low levels at least 1 month prior to mature seed shed.
Somatic embryos on 40 μM ABA displayed high transcript levels for
a prolonged period, and these were still present after 9 weeks,
although they had declined to 50% of maximum levels. Low levels
of storage protein transcripts also appeared in somatic embryos
on 10 μM ABA, but declined during precocious germination,
although they were still detectable after several weeks of
precocious germination.
Osmotic stress, caused by the culture of somatic embryos on
medium containing 15% mannitol, induced storage protein and
storage protein transcript accumulation. This could be inhibited
by inclusion of the ABA-biosynthetic inhibitor, fluridone,
suggesting that the increase was due to osmotic stress—induced
ABA biosynthesis.Science, Faculty ofBotany, Department ofGraduat
Identification and characterization of a matrix metalloproteinase (Pta1-MMP) expressed during Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) seed development and germination
No full textExtracellular matrix (ECM) modifications occur during plant growth, development, and in response to environmental stimuli. Key modulators of ECM modification in vertebrates, the extracellular matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), have also been described in a few plants. Here, we report the identification of Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) Pta1-MMP and its characterization during seed development and germination. The Pta1-MMP protein has the structural characteristics of other plant MMPs, and a recombinant protein (rPta-MMP) generated by using EST sequences for a seed-expressed MMP exhibits Zn2+-dependent protease activity, and is inhibited by the active site-binding hydroxamate inhibitor GM6001 and EDTA. The Pta1-MMP gene is expressed during embryo development, with transcript levels increasing from proembryo to early cotyledonary stage, then declining during late cotyledonary expansion and maturation drying. Protein extracts exhibited similar developmental-stage MMP-like activity. Seed imbibition in water facilited germination, which was stimulated by GA3 and inhibited by ABA. The timing of germination was mirrored by the presence of MMP-like protease activity in both water- and GA3-imbibed embryos. Pta1-MMP transcript levels increased in association with germination for both GA3- and water-treated embryos, in agreement with MMP-like activity. In contrast, by 10 days after imbibition, Pta1-MMP transcripts in ABA-treated embryos were at levels similar to the other treatments, although MMP-like activity was not observed. The application of GM6001 during Loblolly pine seed imbibition inhibited germination in a dose-dependent manner. Our results suggest that Pta1-MMP is required for ECM modification, facilitating the cell division and expansion required for both embryo development and germination. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an MMP in any gymnosperm and also its involvement in embryo development and subsequent germination.Ph. D
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