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Mrs. Helen Douglas Morton Obituary
No full textNewspaper Article - Mrs. Helen Douglas Morton ObituaryAlberta Women's Institutes; AWI CollectionDeaths
MORTON— On Sat.. Oct. 17. Mrs.
Helen Douglas Morton of Vegreville.
passed away at the age of 68 years.
She is survived by 2 sons.' Edmund
Forrest of Vegreville and Alexander
Charles of Calgary, also 2 grandchildren.
Her husband predeceased her
by 8 months.
Funeral service will be held on
Wed. Oct. 21 at 2: 00 p. m. at the
Vegreville United Church. Rev. G.
B. Mather will officiate and interment
will be made in the family
plot. Riverside Cemetery. No flowers
by request. Donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society or the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind will
be gratefully accepted. Park Memorial
Ltd.. ( Vegreville) Funeral Administrators
and Directors. The Chapel on
the Boulevard
Tennyson and youth
No full textThis paper will examine the prominence of Alfred Tennyson's work in several textual accounts of youth penned between 1892 and the present day, by writers including T. S. Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, J. M. Coetzee, William Faulkner and Andrew Motion. The young Woolf broke in her new pens by copying out Tennyson's 'Tithonus'; Eliot had a taste for Tennyson's 'martial and sanguinary poetry; as a young man. Kingsley Amis was singular among his contemporaries precisely because he admired the work of a poet considered outdated, and a reference for Modernist verse over that of Tennyson is seen as a sign of sophistication (however ironically presented) in the writings of people as diverse as Auden, Motion and Coetzee. [From the Author
Validation of real-time polymerase chain reaction tests for diagnosing feline immunodeficiency virus infection in domestic cats using Bayesian latent class models
No full textThe objectives of the current study were to estimate the sensitivity and specificity of three real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for diagnosis of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection in domestic cats, both individually and when interpreted in series with one of two serological tests, separately in populations of cats at low and high risk of being infected with FIV. One PCR test targeted the pol gene and two targeted the gag gene of FIV. For comparison, sensitivities and specificities of the individual serological tests (IDEXX SNAP test and AGEN Simplify test) were also estimated. The study populations consisted of domestic cats thought to be not vaccinated against FIV. Low-risk (males aged 4 years or less and females; n= 128) and high-risk (males over 4 years; n= 128) cats were selected from those where blood samples were submitted to a commercial clinical pathology service. Bayesian latent class models were used to obtain posterior probability distributions for sensitivity and specificity for each test, based on prior distributions obtained from three experts. Medians of the posterior sensitivity distributions for the PCR tests based on the pol gene and two regions of the gag gene tests ranged from 0.85 to 0.89, compared to 0.89-0.97 for the two serological tests. The medians of posterior specificity distributions for these PCR tests were 0.94-0.96, and 0.95-0.97 for the serological tests. In contrast, the PCR based on one region of the gag gene had lower median sensitivity. Sensitivities of combinations of these serological and PCR tests interpreted in series were low; medians of posterior sensitivity distributions ranged from 0.75 to 0.83. Relative to the low-risk population, median sensitivities in the high-risk population were lower for all tests other than the AGEN Simplify test; specificities were similar in both populations. We conclude that the sensitivities of the two PCR tests based on the pol gene and two regions of the gag gene, respectively, in non-vaccinated cats are probably lower than the sensitivities of the two serological tests we assessed. We do not recommend screening cats whose FIV vaccination status is uncertain with one of these serological tests and then testing positives with one of these PCR tests because in non-vaccinates, the sensitivities of combinations of these serological and PCR tests interpreted in series are low. Assessment of the validity of these PCR assays in FIV-vaccinated cats is required
Strange Attractors: A Commentary on Applications of Indeterminacy in my Recent Music
No full textThis commentary reflects on how indeterminacy has been used in the music I have written over the period of my doctoral studies, 2005-2008. Non-musical ideas play a major role in my compositional language and this is reflected in the use of 'strange attractors' as a metaphor for the philosophical and aesthetic stance behind composing with indeterminacy. After a brief introduction chapter, the links between strange attractors—and chaos theory in general—and indeterminate music are discussed. And applications of indeterminacy to pitch organisation techniques such as spectral modelling and frequency modulation are examined as part of a frequency-based harmonic continuum. Different methods of generating ambiguous pitch percepts that sit at the boundaries of the harmony/timbre duality are considered In pieces with text processes
Narrative art and act in the fourth gospel: aspects of the Johannine point of view
No full textThis thesis assumes that the narrative form of the Fourth Gospel is important for understanding the Gospel's meaning. Narrative is a communicative transaction whereby meaning is transmitted from author to reader via the way the story is told. Meaning is also established by overt speech-acts, and the 'act' performed in the overall structuring of the story. It arises within a context of rule-governed speech behaviour which determines parameters and implications that inform understanding. The Gospel's narrative form meets with readers' conventional expectations about how it relates to ostensive historical reality. Factors internal and external help determine genre. Part one examines aspects of the Gospel's narrative art. The way in which the narrative situation varies over the course of the narrative is outlined. The implied author manipulates the narration to create a close association in the reader’s mind between the narrator and the beloved disciple. In John 3 the voice of the narrator merges with those of Jesus and John. These strategies have implications for the Gospel's theological meaning and the relationship of the implied author to the story world. Speech-act theory elucidates the narrative act by which the implied author conveys the Gospel's message and seeks to induce belief in the reader. Part two considers the Gospel's relationship to historical reference. Factors which influence a decision as to whether or not the Gospel is to be taken as fictional are examined, for example, whether aspects of the narration suggest fictional discourse and whether the speech-acts operate within a 'pretended' world. Descriptive categories for the Gospel as natural narrative and 'display text' are proposed, as is a flexible model of genre, which modulates the poles of 'fiction' and 'history'. An analysis of the Temple Cleansing pericope provides illustration of the Gospel’s status as an historically-based, theological display text
Honors for Dr. E. M. Jellinek at Seventy
No full textA clipping from the SSAS Alumni News honoring E. M. Jellinek on his 70th birthday, based on the article written by M. K. (Mark Keller) for the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published in issue, 21(1), i–4 (1960)
Letter from Confederate Maj. Richard Morton of the CSA Nitre and Mining Bureau to A. T. Imes, Pres of Shelby iron Works, 1863.
No full textLetter from Confederate Maj. Richard Morton of the CSA Nitre and Mining Bureau to A. T. Imes, Pres of Shelby iron Works, 1863. Impressed watermark upper left corner, of seal of State of Virginia. The Nitre and Mining Bureau was formed in 1862 as part of the Confederate Ordnance Dept. The Col. St.John mentioned was Isaac M. St.John, the Civil Engineer who was the head of the bureau. Maj. Richard Morton, author of the letter, was his second in command, and succeeded to the head of the bureau when St. John was promoted to brig. gen. This bureau was in charge of the saltpetre manufacturing facilities in all the Confederate states, as well as the testing lab in Augusta, Ga., and the copper mining facilities necessary for making percussion caps. Also the facilities for making Sulphur and sulphuric acid. This letter talks about testing pig iron for density.https://mds.marshall.edu/blake_collection/1221/thumbnail.jp
Az addikciótudomány történetéből: E. M. Jellinek
No full textThis paper pays tribute to a pioneer in addiction science, Elvin Morton Jellinek, born 125 years ago. The authors were inspired to look into Jellinek’s pre-alcohol years while compiling his comprehensive bibliography. This article shares their results in Hungarian for the first time. Jellinek’s role in laying the foundations of a multidisciplinary field is not considered smaller due to his mysterious background and gaps in his biography, also related to his recently verified Hungarian origin. Instead, his complex approach to the alcohol problem, reflected by his complete bibliography, might be better interpreted with an awareness of his past.Peer reviewe
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