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Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Benjamin Cone to Harris L. Kempner confirming a letter being given to Sydney Bluhm and discussing his role in the running of the Cotton Department
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Benjamin Abrams of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science expressing his sorrows that Harris L. Kempner will be unable to attend their Anniversary Weizmann Dinner and asking for a donation to help support the committee
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[Oral History Interview with Edward Harris]
No full textInterview with Edward Harris, who was an activist and later became an author. Harris discusses his book "In the Shadow of Big Tex", growing up in Dallas with his family, his college experience at El Centro College, Bishop College, and Arlington State College (now UTA), getting drafted, his activism with SNCC and Grassroots Incorporated, being arrested and later committed for "hypersensitivity to racial discrimination", and other community programs he was involved in
Carving Paris: A Literary Interview with Eddy L. Harris
No full textInternational audienceA literary interview with the American author, Eddy L. Harris conducted by Dominique Mantelli in 1998, while Harris was living in Paris. The researcher who met Harris thanks to the late scholar Harry James Cargas, then Professor of World Literature at Webster Unversity in Saint Louis, Missouri, delves into Issues of place, education, language and race, conducive to mapping the geographies represented in the works of Eddy L. Harris
Bioinformatic approaches elucidate a high likelyhood of interaction between miR-182 and the pro-apoptotic gene MTCH2 in breast cancers
No full textObesity: a perfect storm for carcinogenesis
No full textObesity-related cancers account for 40% of the cancer cases observed in the USA and obesity is overtaking smoking as the most widespread modifiable risk factor for carcinogenesis. Here, we use the hallmarks of cancer framework to delineate how obesity might influence the carcinogenic hallmarks in somatic cells. We discuss the effects of obesity on (a) sustaining proliferative signaling; (b) evading growth suppressors; (c) resisting cell death; (d) enabling replicative immortality; (e) inducing angiogenesis; (f) activating invasion and metastasis; (g) reprogramming energy metabolism; and (h) avoiding immune destruction, together with its effects on genome instability and tumour-promoting inflammation. We present the current understanding and controversies in this evolving field, and highlight some areas in need of further cross-disciplinary focus. For instance, the relative importance of the many potentially causative obesity-related factors is unclear for each type of malignancy. Even within a single tumour type, it is currently unknown whether one obesity-related factor consistently plays a predominant role, or if this varies between patients or, even in a single patient with time. Clarifying how the hallmarks are affected by obesity may lead to novel prevention and treatment strategies for the increasingly obese population
Extended dipolar nonlinear optical chromophores based on trans-bis[1,2-phenylenebis(dimethylarsine)]chlororuthenium(II) centers
No full textFour new complex salts trans-[(RuCl)-Cl-II(pdma)(2)L-A][PF6](n) [pdma = 1,2-phenylenebis(dimethylarsine); L-A =1,4-bis[E-2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzene (bpvb), n = 1, 1; L-A = N-methyl-1,4-bis(E-2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl)benzene (Mebpvb(+)), n = 2, 2; L-A = N-phenyl-1,4-bis(E-2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl)benzene (Phbpvb(+)), n = 2, 3; L-A = N-(2-pyrimidyl)-1,4-bis(E-2-(4-pyridyl) ethenyl) benzene (Pymbpvb(+)), n) 2, 4] have been prepared. The electronic absorption spectra of 1-4 display intense, visible metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) bands, with lambda(max) values in the range 432-474 nm in acetonitrile. Intense intraligand charge-transfer (ILCT) bands due to LA are also observed, with lambda(max) values in the range 350-416 nm. Cyclic voltammetric studies in acetonitrile reveal reversible Ru-III/II waves with E-1/2 values of ca. 1.05 V vs Ag/AgCl, together with L-A-based reduction processes that are irreversible with the exception of 1. Salts 1-4 have been investigated by using Stark (electroabsorption) spectroscopy in butyronitrile glasses at 77 K. These studies have afforded dipole moment changes, Delta mu(12), for the MLCT and ILCT transitions which have been used to calculate molecular static first hyperpolarizabilities, beta(0), according to the two-state equation, beta(0) = 3 Delta mu(12)-(mu(12))(2)/(E-max)(2) (mu(12) = transition dipole moment, E-max = MLCT/ILCT energy). In contrast with related Ru-II ammine complexes, replacement of a central E-ethylene bond with a 1,4-phenylene unit does not appear to be an especially effective strategy for combating the NLO transparency-efficiency tradeoff in these pdma complexes. Single-crystal X-ray studies with the complex salts 2 and 3 and also with the pro-ligand salt [Phbpvb(+)]PF6(.)0.5HPF(6) show that these materials all adopt centrosymmetric packing structures
The impact and effectiveness of equity focused health impact assessment in health service planning
No full textThis ebook looks at the use of equity focused health impact assessment (EFHIA) on health service plans. It examines:
What are the direct and indirect impacts of EFHIAs conducted on health sector plans?
Does EFHIA improve the consideration of equity in the development and implementation of health sector plans?
How does EFHIA improve the consideration of equity in health planning?
This ebook describes the use and evolution of health impact assessment (HIA) and EFHIA internationally and in Australia, how it has been used in relation to health service plans, examines its effectiveness and impacts on decision-making and implementation and examines several EFHIAs using case study and interpretive description methodologies.
This research shows that EFHIA has the potential to have both direct and indirect impacts on health service planning. These impacts are influenced by a broad range of factors however. The case studies in this ebook show that engagement with the EFHIA process and the extent to which EFHIA is regarded as a broader learning process are important factors that mediate the extent to which EFHIAs influence subsequent activities.
This research suggests that it is not possible to adequately describe the full range of impacts of EFHIA on decision-making and implementation without looking at perceptions about EFHIA’s effectiveness, in particular the perceptions of those involved in the EFHIA and those responsible for acting on its recommendations. These perceptions change over time, suggesting that future research on the effectiveness of HIA should look at the mechanisms by which this change occurs.
The ebook makes two theoretical contributions in the form of (i) a typology for HIAs and (ii) a conceptual framework for evaluating the impact and effectiveness of HIAs. This conceptual framework is tested for its applicability and refined.
The ebook and the accompanying publications were written to fulfil the requirements for a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at the University of New South Wales
[Correspondence between Meyer Bodansky and Kenneth L. Cartwright - December 1940]
No full textLetters between Dr. Bodansky and Benjamin R. Harris discussing the amounts of monostearin sodium sulphoacetate and the Emulsol Corporation's emargol. Letter from Dr. Bodansky and Mr. Kenneth L. Cartwright, asking for more dried yeast extract. and dried yeast extract for animal experimentation. Letter from Kenneth L. Cartwright to Dr. Bodansky, informing him that the dried yeast concentrate, used by Dr. A. O. Welch in a yeast experiment, was discontinued and instead offers ten similar dried yeast concentrates
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