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Dr. Barr Reporting for Duty!
No full textSpecial guest Dr. Marleen S. Barr joins the labsters and talks about her new book "The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber: Political Power Fantasy Fiction". Dr Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has also edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the novels Oy Pioneer! and Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir
Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel - Accession 715 no. 12
No full textAncestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel and Raymond Allen McDaniel compiled by Ruth Barr McDaniel chronicles the families of the author and her husband from the 1700s to the 1970s. In addition to genealogy, the volume also includes coats of arms, photographs, transcriptions of family documents, letters and diaries, maps, and an index. Family surnames include Allen, Bollinger, Parker, Cayce, Barr-Barre, Quattlebaum, Dowling, Zorn, Rice, McDaniel, Minnick, Mitchell, Scurry, and Abney. Please see the attached Table of Contents and Index.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2347/thumbnail.jp
If #MeToo Came True: Author Marleen Barr and K-B Have a Chat
No full textThis is an interview with Marleen S. Barr which refers to her short fiction collection When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice league Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber
Best-Selling Author and Professor Beth Allison Barr Speaker for GWU Lecture Series
No full textBest-selling author and history professor Beth Allison Barr is the guest speaker for the Mary Washburn Wilson Lecture Series at 1 p.m. on Nov. 14 and 15 at Gardner-Webb University. Barr is the author of “The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth,” which is a USA Today Bestseller and Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist in history and biography.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/3542/thumbnail.jp
Acmaeodera audreyae Westcott and Barr, new species
No full text<i>Acmaeodera audreyae</i> Westcott and Barr, new species <p>(Fig. 3)</p> <p>Holotype male: length 7.97 mm, width 3.08 mm, widest at base of elytra across umbones, subequal in width across pronotum; shining black with small yellow elytral markings as in figure 3, several of which either reach or occur on margin, where the left apical—and right apical and subapical—spots are vaguely suffused with orange; setae on dorsum long, mostly black, especially on head above and anterior portion of pronotum, with some mixture of white, below white and moderately dense, more densely placed than above, especially at sides.</p> <p> <b>Head</b> shallowly convex, flattened above, coarsely densely punctate; clypeus depressed at base, front margin broadly deeply arcuately emarginate; antennae sharply serrate from 5th antennomere, extending to procoxae. <b>Pronotum</b> broadly shallowly convex, shallowly transversely depressed immediately behind front margin, shallowly depressed on base at middle and obliquely so on each side anterior to deep basal foveae; punctures of disk coarse, shallower on middle, becoming deep and reticulately placed on sides; anterior margin broadly shallowly emarginate, indistinctly lobed at middle; posterior margin subtruncate; lateral margins well defined, except narrowly at base, visible from above only from apex to short distance behind, shallowly evenly arcuate; front angles subquadrate; hind angles quadrate, poorly defined. <b>Elytra</b> subflattened, strongly depressed at base between strongly raised 3rd intervals, these intervals elevated for only short distance behind base; umbones extremely bold; humeral angles moderately, broadly triangularly projecting ventrad; lateral margins distinctly, moderately coarsely serrate on about apical 1/2; suture distinctly elevated along apical 2/3; punctures of discal area as in figure 3, much coarser and more closely placed laterad of strongly elevated 5th intervals; 9th intervals wider, strongly elevated from behind umbones to about apical 1/5, 10th intervals flattened, marginal intervals slightly raised from base to about middle. <b>Underside</b> with front margin of prosternum having well developed blunt tooth on either side of subtruncate middle and sides transverse, ending well behind front angles of pronotum; abdomen with surface clearly visible throughout, not obscured by setae, punctures small to moderate on middle, becoming larger and more dense at sides; last visible sternite sparsely, evenly punctate, broadly rounded apically and with a very well developed preapical plate, the narrowly rounded apex of which almost attains the apical margin.</p> <p> <b>Specimens examined:</b> holotype (EMEC) labeled “ 5 mi NW Ocotillo, Imperial Co. Calif, April 8 1956, R. R. Snelling/ HOLOTYPE <i>Acmaeodera audreyae</i> Westcott and Barr. ” One male paratype (RLWE) with same data except taken on <i>Larrea divaricata</i> (creosote bush; family Zygophyllaceae).</p> <p>Variation: The paratype is 8.87 mm long, 3.34 mm wide, the only notable difference otherwise is that the preapical plate of the 5th visible abdominal sternite does not so nearly attain the apical margin; nonetheless, it is very well developed.</p> <p> <b>Remarks:</b> This species seems closest to <i>A. inopinata</i> Barr, a species that breeds in <i>Haplopappus pinifolius</i> (Barr, 1972). However, that beetle is less robust, not so black—usually exhibiting a slight metallic reflec-tion—and the 3rd, 5th and 9th intervals are not so strongly elevated. Like <i>A. inopinata</i>, we suggest that the larva of <i>A. audreyae</i> works in one of the similar or unrelated low growing desert shrubs which at the type locality are very sparsely interspersed among the dominant plant, <i>Larrea tridentata</i>. It seems most likely that the association of <i>A. audreyae</i> with that plant is as a flower visitor, rather than it reflecting a larval host.</p> <p> <b>Etymology:</b> We take special pleasure in dedicating this species to Audrey K. Barr, loving wife of the junior author and longtime inspirational friend of the senior author.</p>Published as part of <i>Westcott, Richard L. & Barr, William F., 2007, Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz and new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 49-58 in Zootaxa 1481</i> on pages 56-57, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/273778">10.5281/zenodo.273778</a>
"The 2017 Senior Thesis Exhibition: The Mirth That Exists Between Everything Else" Installation Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in April, 2017.This is an image from the 2017 Snior Thesis Exhibition titled "The Mirth That Exists Between Everything Else." This image shows a still from a video created by Bryan Martin. The exhibition was shown in Clough-Hanson Gallery April 22-27, 2017. Artists included in the exhibition are Emma Barr, Dylan Boutwell, McKenzie Drake, Jill Fredenburg, Shelby Glass, Bryan Martin, Malerie McDowell, Haley Rushing, Mimi Shepley, Margaret Tronsor, and Jean Xiong. This digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey on April 26, 2017
Halftone of Amelia Huddleston (Barr) at 18
No full textPhotograph shows head and shoulders studio portrait drawing of author Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr 2014, sp. n.
No full textNeoeubria inbionis sp. n. Figs. 1–4, 25–27 Type material. Holotype (male): COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Prov., Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, Las Pailas Trail, 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. // reared from pupa collected on wood in seep basin // HOLOTYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [red label]. Deposited in INBC. Allotype (female): locality data same as holotype // ALLOTYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [red label]. Deposited in INBC. Paratypes (2 M & 5 F): ECUADOR: Napo Prov., Huahua Sumaco, Km 44 on Hollin-Loreto Rd., XII-15-1989, Malaise Trap, MS/ JS Wasbauer, H. Real // CALIFORNIA STATE COLLN AGRICULTURE // PARATYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [yellow label] (1 M) (EMEC); data same, except XII-16-1989 (1 F) (CSCA); data same, except XII-18-1989 (1 M) (CSCA); data same, except XII-19-1989 (1 F) (CSCA); data same, except XII-21-1989 (2 FF) (CSCA, EMEC); data same, except XII-22-1989 (1 F) (CSCA). Adult Description. Body oval; males (Fig. 3) smaller than females (Figs. 1–2, 4); males 4.6–5.0 mm long and 2.75 mm wide, females 5.0– 5.6 mm long and 2.8–3.5 mm wide. Integument color medium brown, shiny where setae sparse; covered dorsally with a combination of different kinds of setae: widely-spaced, long, erect blond and dark brown setae; sparse, shorter, pale brown setae; and very dense, recumbent, pale blond setae forming a pattern of broad bands and large spots. Venter uniformly clothed in medium-length pale blond setae. Aedeagus of trilobed type (Fig. 25) and lightly sclerotized. Basal piece long, reduced to ventral plate basally with lateral flanges that clasp the base of parameres. Parameres long, widest at apical three-fourths of aedeagus; tips narrow, curved laterally; dorsally conjoined just anterior to midlength. Penis lanceolate; shorter than parameres; tip slightly curved ventrally and laterally compressed; base deeply cleft. 1. Ectopria is omitted from the key because it is probable that the Neotropical species belong in other genera. Ovipositor (Fig. 26) with bacula long, 1.4 times as long as coxites, thin, gently curved; only partially sclerotized. Coxites 0.7 times as long as bacula; joined medially in basal half, divergent medially in apical half; laterally gently sinuate. Styli short, one-segmented. Long, thin accessory sclerite dorsally in basal third of membrane between coxites. Immature specimens examined. COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Alta Masis, 9 VI 2000, Río San Lorenzo [WDS- A-1302] // William D. Shepard, leg. (1 larva); Guanacaste Prov., Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, Las Pailas Trail, 18-I-2000, William D. Shepard & Cheryl B. Barr, collected on wood in seep basin [WDS-A-1283](24 larvae, 1 pupa); data same, except 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1386] (3 larvae, 3 pupae); data same, except 15-VI-2003, William D. Shepard & Cheryl B. Barr [WDS-A-1541] (11 larvae); data same, except Quebrada Pailas below Catarata, 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1387] (1 larva). NICARAGUA: Río San Juan, Refugio Bartola, 10 VIII 2002, riffle 3, Río Bartola, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1492] (1 larva). PANAMA: Chiriquí, Fortuna Forest Res., March 2004, Checo Colón-Gaud, leg. (1 larva). All immature specimens are deposited in EMEC. Etymology. Named in honor of INBio, the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad in Costa Rica. The case is genitive. Distribution. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador, based on adult and larval specimens. Habitat. The type locality in Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja at an 780 m is a series of seeps in a small basin connected by a spring run to a narrow, slow-flowing forest stream which is a tributary of the Río Colorado. The entire area around the seeps and both streams is heavily forested and generally heavily shaded. In the seep basin the water is only about 2–3 cm deep over a substrate composed of a thick deposit of silt and fine detritus on which lie sticks and larger pieces of rotting, waterlogged wood (Fig. 27). In the basin the water is extremely slowmoving but in a couple of meters it begins to flow downhill in a narrow spring run which is crossed by the Las Pailas Trail between Stops 3 and 4. Larvae and pupae of N. inbionis were collected on pieces of decomposing wood found in the seep basin. Larvae were positioned below the water’s surface and pupae were above. The water is likely hypoxic because of the fine organic detritus substrate, coupled with the lack of sunlight for aquatic photosynthesizers due to the heavily-shaded nature of the site. Possession of a plastron facilitates larval survival in this water. Neoeubria was the only psephenid present in the seep area, and the only other co-occurring aquatic byrrhoid Coleoptera was an unidentified ptilodactylid larva. Other arthropods present in the seep area included aquatic Hemiptera, Belostoma (Belostomatidae) and Ambrysus (Naucoridae), and the crustacean Hyallela (Amphipoda). No specimens were collected from the spring run formed by the seeps. A single larva was collected in a second, larger stream, Quebrada Pailas, a tributary of the Río Colorado, which is also located along the Las Pailas Trail. The other sites at which larvae were collected by the senior author are also forest streams, although with rocky substrates and faster flow. Although the particular microhabitat of the larvae at these sites is unknown, at all of them submerged wood was common. Neoeubria inbionis has been collected at elevations ranging from as low as 40+ m in Nicaragua, to as high as 780 m in Costa Rica. The Ecuadorian adults were all taken in Malaise traps which were set in a forested area to catch flies. Although we could obtain no further information beyond the label data, collection of adults via Malaise traps indicates that N. inbionis adults behave like other eubriine adults and fly near the aquatic habitat in which the larvae occur. Phylogeny. In the recent phylogeny of the Psephenidae by Lee et al. (2007), Neoeubria is included as “Genus A.” In the most parsimonious tree Neoeubria is placed in a basal trichotomy within the subfamily Eubriinae. The trichotomy positions Neoeubria in one branch, Sclerocyphon + Tychepsephus in another branch, and the remainder of the eubriine genera in a third branch.Published as part of Shepard, William D. & Barr, Cheryl B., 2014, Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr, a new genus and new species of Neotropical water penny beetle (Coleoptera: Psephenidae: Eubriinae), with a key to the adult Eubriinae of the Neotropic Zone, pp. 553-568 in Zootaxa 3811 (4) on pages 564-567, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/491902
Conditional immortalization of human B cells by CD40 ligation
No full textIt is generally assumed that human differentiated cells have a limited life-span and proliferation capacity in vivo, and that genetic modifications are a prerequisite for their immortalization in vitro. Here we readdress this issue, studying the long-term proliferation potential of human B cells. It was shown earlier that human B cells from peripheral blood of healthy donors can be efficiently induced to proliferate for up to ten weeks in vitro by stimulating their receptor CD40 in the presence of interleukin-4. When we applied the same stimuli under conditions of modified cell number and culture size, we were surprised to find that our treatment induced B cells to proliferate throughout an observation period of presently up to 1650 days, representing more than 370 population doublings, which suggested that these B cells were immortalized in vitro. Long-term CD40-stimulated B cell cultures could be established from most healthy adult human donors. These B cells had a constant phenotype, were free from Epstein-Barr virus, and remained dependent on CD40 ligation. They had constitutive telomerase activity and stabilized telomere length. Moreover, they were susceptible to activation by Toll-like receptor 9 ligands, and could be used to expand antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells in vitro. Our results indicate that human somatic cells can evade senescence and be conditionally immortalized by external stimulation only, without a requirement for genetic manipulation or oncoviral infection. Conditionally immortalized human B cells are a new tool for immunotherapy and studies of B cell oncogenesis, activation, and function
Bittersweet
No full textA novel by Nevada Barr Bard Books (Paperback, $13.50, ISBN: 0380799502, 9/1999) (Originally Published 1984) This is a novel of power and vitality that will grip the reader... The author\u27s skill in writing lively, often humorous dialogue and in developing strong, unique characters in a setting described with authenticity is impressive.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1039/thumbnail.jp
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