14 research outputs found
Self-Determination
No full textU.S. Congressional records of the 100th Congress 1st session of September 16, 1987 on the acknowledgement and reaffirmation of the government to government relationship with Native American Indian Tribes, a copy of a conference paper entitled ‘Indian Self-determination the Ideal and Indian Self-Governance the Reality’ by Joseph De La Cruz President of the Quinault Indian Nation, a manuscript of an article entitled ‘Native American Organizers” by Helena Nyerges, a speech by Reuben A. Snake Jr. Tribal Chairman of Winnebago Tribe entitled ‘Toward effective, stable tribal government’ and clippings on Self-Determination and Indigenous rights are included in this file.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lhnac/1151/thumbnail.jp
Ce que disent leurs phrases
No full textInternational audienceA study of sentence lengths in French 17e century theatre (Corneille, Mairet, Molière, Quinault, Racine). The mid-values (mean, mode, median and medial) and the frequency function highlight some characteristics of each author and the constraints imposed by alexandrine verses and rules of the theatre. Four clusters of sentences are highlighted according to their lengths and their aims: to challenge, to converse, to expound even to soliloquize.Etude de la phrase dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle (Corneille, Mairet, Molière, Quinault, Racine). Les valeurs centrales (moyenne, mode, médiane et médiale) et la distribution des fréquences révèlent des caractéristiques propres à chacun des auteurs et les contraintes très fortes que font peser les vers alexandrins et les règles du théâtre classique. On distingue quatre type de phrases (en fonction de leur longueur) qui remplissent des fonctions différentes : interpeller, dialoguer, exposer voire soliloquer
Theories of Technological Progress and the British Textile Industry from Kay to Cartwright
No full textEditada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaLa industria textil británica continúa en el centro del debate sobre la revolución industrial. Las innovaciones técnicas en el período produjeron una aceleración extraordinaria del crecimiento del output y una considerable reducción de los precios de los tejidos. En este trabajo presentamos un estudio de la comunidad de los inventores responsables de la transformación tecnológica, lo que nos permite alcanzar una serie de conclusiones nuevas sobre el ritmo y dirección de la actividad innovadora durante la revolución industrialThe cotton textile industry remains central to all accounts of the first industrial revolution. Innovations in this period precipitated an extraordinary acceleration in the growth of output and a steep decline in the cost of producing all varieties of cloth. In this paper we outline an explanation through an analysis of the community of inventors responsible for the technological transformation, which enables us to offer some generalizations of the pace and pattern of the inventive activity in this period.Publicad
Book Review of \u3ci\u3eUnearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment\u3c/i\u3e by Kristin T. Ruppel. Tucson
No full textThe legacies of allotment on reservations—fractionated heirship and dispossession most notably—have been apparent to numerous observers since the early 20th century. In Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment, Kristin T. Ruppel explores contemporary efforts on the part of several Native individuals to correct more than a century of land tenure questions and outright fraud. Although such efforts have potential impact throughout Indian country, Unearthing Indian Land focuses on the local efforts of activists such as Ernee Werelus at Fort Hall in Idaho and Helen Sanders on the Quinault Reservation in Washington. Ruppel correctly traces the origins of Indian land definitions and interpretations to European colonization and, more specifically, to the early 19th-century Marshall Court trilogy of decisions related to Cherokee removal. The author gives less attention to the actual General Allotment Act of 1887 and Burke Act of 1906, which became the more direct mechanisms for Native land tenure difficulties in the 20th century. Despite this imbalance, the warren of regulations and case law surrounding Indian land becomes all too clear in the book. Much of the discussion in Unearthing Indian Land by necessity includes legal descriptions
Comprendre le théâtre du xviie siècle grâce à ses « encadrements » : interpréter George Dandin de Molière et Cadmus et Hermione de Quinault à la lumière de leurs ornements parathéâtraux
No full textUn grand nombre de pièces du xviie siècle sont « encadrées » par des ornements parathéâtraux : prologues, épilogues, intermèdes et choeurs. Rarement représentés, ces encadrements sont pourtant des indices, laissés par les auteurs, qui nous fournissent des informations sur la pièce principale. En analysant les encadrements de George Dandin et de Cadmus et Hermione, nous illustrerons la façon dont ces ornements nous permettent de mieux comprendre non seulement les idées d’une pièce, mais aussi son style.A considerable number of 17th century plays are “framed” by various paratheatrical ornaments such as prologues, epilogues, intermèdes and choruses. Although seldom performed, they are in fact clues left by the author which give information about the principal work. By analysing the function of paratheatrical “frames” in George Dandin and Cadmus et Hermione, this article aims to illustrate how these ornaments can help us better understand not only the ideas of a play, but also its style
The use of non-radioactive iodine as a label in immunoassays
No full textThe research described in this thesis has centered on the development of a nonradioactive iodine label for use in immunoassays. A protein can be iodinated with nonradioactive iodine, used in an immunoassay, and the iodine label detected by a chemical method.
A microassay was developed to measure iodine by means of its catalytic effect on the
oxidation of antimony(III) by cerium(IV). The reaction was monitored both spectrophotometrically, by measuring the absorbance of cerium(IV), and fluorimetrically, by measuring the fluorescence of cerium(III) or by measuring the fluorescence produced by the oxidation of 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulphonic acid with cerium(IV). The detection of potassium iodide, iodine-containing organic compounds and iodinated proteins was possible using the microassay. Iodinated Bolton-Hunter reagent, an iodine-containing hapten which is used to iodinate proteins, could also be detected using the microassay. The catalytic activity of iodide is greater than that of iodine in iodocompounds, therefore, it was not possible to achieve the same sensitivity using IBHR as with potassium iodide.
A two-site immunoassay for the measurement of human IgG was set up and the effectiveness of non-radioactive iodine as a label in the immunoassay was illustrated using several assay formats. Initially, IBHR-labelled antibodies were used and directly compared to enzyme-labelled antibodies. The cerium (IV) - antimony(III) reaction was successfully used to detect the iodine label. The results obtained were comparable to those obtained using an enzyme label, with respect to accuracy and precision of the standards and with respect to the results obtained for serum samples. However, the use of enzyme-labelled antibodies enabled measurement of lower concentrations of human IgG.
In order to improve the detection limit when using the iodine label, the use of the avidin-biotin system and of bispecific F(ab’)2 antibodies was investigated. IBHRlabelled avidin and IBHR-labelled biotin were prepared, and used in a labelled avidinbiotin (LAB) immunoassay and bridged avidin-biotin (BRAB) immunoassay, respectively. Bispecific F(ab’)2 antibodies were prepared by a chemical method, and were used in an immunoassay as bridging agents between human IgG and iodinated BSA. An improvement in the detection limit was achieved using IBHR-labelled avidin in the LAB immunoassay.
An immunoassay for the measurement of thyroxine, which eliminates the necessity to prepare labelled derivatives of antigen or antibody, was developed. In this assay format, anti-thyroxine antibodies were used to capture thyroxine. Thyroxine contains four iodine atoms which served as the label, and these were monitored using the cerium (IV) - antimony (HI) reaction
Salmon juveniles are vulnerable to predation by invasive African clawed frogs in Washington state
No full textThe Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. hosts multiple threatened salmonid species. Predation by introduced species are among the threats salmon face. African clawed frogs (ACF; Xenopus laevis,(Daudin, 1802) ) are a generalist, non-native invasive species recently found in waterways in Washington State, USA. Our goal was to identify if ACF posed a threat to early life stages of Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, (Walbaum in Artedi, 1792)), coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch,(Walbaum, 1792)), and chum (Oncorhynchus keta,(Walbaum in Artedi, 1792)) salmon. We conducted feeding trials to discover the foraging propensity of ACF on salmon in three development phases, eyed eggs, alevin, and fry. We predicted that ACF would most readily consume less mobile life stages, based on foraging in other amphibians. Our results showed that ACF consumed all species at all juvenile life stages. The life stage experiencing the highest rates of consumption was salmon fry (72% consumption) and the lowest was eyed eggs (24% consumption). Gravel shelter minimally buffered ACF consumption. Given the growing presence of ACF in proximity to salmon spawning waterways, ACF may pose an additional threat to salmonid recruitment, and require further study to investigate potential interactions.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
On craft and being crafty
No full textThis thesis explores how designers might approach human behaviour as a material to be worked on. Unlike politicians, economists, lawyers, philosophers, psychiatrists and many others, designers have few
disciplinary resources to draw on in this space. Indeed, it is barely discussed at all. Contemporary designers are, we are told, supposed to treat people and things differently, and ensure that the latter are subservient to the agendas of the former - calls that become all the more insistent when designers are looking for ways to incorporate the design of services and organisations into their practice, a project that summons the prospect of breaking this taboo.
But what would a form of design that took human behaviour as its object actually be like? This thesis takes up this question as an issue in the philosophy of design, through investigating a long and rich history of suspicions about designers - namely, suspicions that they might extend their material palette from dead materials to living human beings. This exploration uncovers the emergence in the Industrial Revolution of today’s fears that designers might ‘treat people like things’; but it also uncovers an older, almost lost history of ideas about design, which understood its applicability to human beings in a way
that, today, is strikingly unfamiliar. Here we find the almost forgotten but still-lingering link between
craft and being crafty, encapsulated well by the lost ancient Greek concept of mêtis, 'cunning intelligence'. Mêtis isolates that aspect of design at work when extraordinary effects are elicited from unpromising materials, connecting design to political intrigues, daring military stratagems, the operations of impresarios and salesmen, and other instances wherein, through ingenious means, the weak prevail over the strong.
By uncovering and developing these ideas, the thesis provides a view of design that connects it to human
behaviour not through domination but through clever manipulation, a morally complex but undoubtedly potent approach that informs an alternative conception of how human behaviour might be understood as the object of design. The principle contribution of this thesis is, therefore, to provide a novel examination of human behaviour as the object of design; its main achievement is to provide the design disciplines with, on the one hand, an exposition of the implicit associations this project has at present; and on the other, the disinterment of mêtis and related ideas as a promising counter-perspective
Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866-99
No full textBoys of England was a Victorian boys' periodical. It was published weekly by Edwin J. Brett from 1866 to 1899, initially from the Fleet Street offices of the Newsagents'
Publishing Company, and later from Brett's own `Boys of England Office'. It was the first periodical of its kind, and achieved a large sale amongst eager youngsters.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide a general history of BOE and Brett, neither of which has yet been attempted. More specifically, the thesis is intended to address
misconceptions regarding Brett and his work. Historians of boys' periodical literature have tended to portray Brett's papers as largely supportive of middle class hegemony. They
argue that they failed to connect with the lives of their upper working and lower middle class readers. However, this thesis contends that in actual fact BOE engaged closely with
the lives of its readership, comprised mainly of boys from the `respectable' working classes. Therefore, BOE should rightly be considered an important, indigenous component
of working class society and culture in mid to late Victorian Britain.
To provide as comprehensive an analysis as possible, the thesis is divided into three sections: `Paper and Proprietor'; `Content'; `Response'. These sections are divided into further chapters, each exploring a salient facet of BOE and Brett. Some of these engage with, and challenge, the existing historiography of boys' periodical literature. Others introduce historiographies previously remote from the study of boys' papers, widening the
remit of this relatively self-contained field. Some examine entirely unstudied, or largely understudied, subject matter.
Ultimately, this thesis is intended to make a valuable contribution not only to the historiography of boys' papers specifically, and children's literature in general, but also to the wider historiographies of Victorian social and cultural history and the Victorian working class
