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Marcus Joseph Wright memoirs, MSS.1585
No full textAbstract: An incomplete typescript copy (18 pp.) of, "Memoirs of Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright, CSA."Scope and Content Note: The collection contains an incomplete typescript copy (18 pp.) of, "Memoirs of Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright, CSA," which includes a family genealogy, and accounts of his early life in Tennessee and his career.Biographical/Historical Note: Confederate General and author from Tennessee
Marcus on Belief and Belief in the Impossible
Get PDFI review but don’t endorse Marcus’ arguments that impossible beliefs are impossible. I defend her claim that belief’s objects are, in some important sense, not the bearers of truth and falsity, discuss her dispositionalism about belief, and argue it’s a good fit with the idea that belief’s objects are Russellian states of affairs.
Reviso, pero no suscribo, los argumentos de Marcus a favor de que las creencias imposibles son imposibles.
Defiendo su tesis de que los objetos de las creencias no son, en algún sentido importante, los soportes
de la verdad y la falsedad; discuto su disposicionalismo acerca de las creencias y argumento que encaja bien
con la idea de que los objetos de las creencias son estados de cosas russellianos
Marcus Aurelius
No full textBy John Sellars Author: SELLARS, John. Reader in Philosophy, Royal Holloway University of London Reference: Marcus Aurelius. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, x + 146 pp., ISBN 9780367146078 In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is a perennial bestseller, attracting countless..
Ben Marcus, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textBen Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, published recently by Alfred A. Knopf. His short fiction has appeared in Grand Street, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, and Story Quarterly. He was born in Chicago in 1967 and grew up in the Midwest and in Europe, New York and Texas. His undergraduate degree was earned in philosophy at New York University. He received an M.F.A. from Brown University, and has since taught writing in New York, Texas, and Virginia. He is a senior editor of the literary journal Conjunctions, and will present a section of new fiction chosen for the spring issue, Sticks and Stones. Presently he lives in Virginia, where he is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University
Portrait of Marcus Bach
No full textPortrait depicts Marcus Bach, noted author and philosopher and educator of religious studies
Stanley Marcus
No full textStanley Marcus (April 20, 1905 – January 22, 2002) was an early president (1950–1972) and later chairman of the board (1972–1976) of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907. During his tenure at the company, he also became a published author, writing his memoir Minding the Store and also a regular column in The Dallas Morning News. Awards- the Chevalier Award from the French Legion of Honor listed in the Houston Chronicle\u27s list of the 100 most important Texans. He was named by Harvard Business School among the greatest American Business Leaders of the 20th century.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_forums/1086/thumbnail.jp
The mucosal microbiome of inflammatory bowel diseases
No full textThe human microbiome is the diverse community of micro-organisms that live with humans. The gut microbiome contains the densest collection of microbial cells in the body and has been described as functioning as an organ. Alterations in these microbial communities are associated with disease. This work provides a new methodology for the taxonomic assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequencing data, then utilises this and other cutting edge techniques to elucidate the mucosal associated microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and finally examines the viability of using mucosal samples for shotgun metagenomics or metatranscriptomics. Taxonomic classification is a corner stone for the characterisation of microbial communities, but currently many studies are limited to genus level classification. Thus, we developed SPINGO, a flexible and stand-alone software dedicated to species level assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequences. SPINGO outperforms other methods in terms of classification accuracy, and is as fast or faster than those that have higher error rates. Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) are Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) which cause inflammation along the gastrointestinal tract of millions of people worldwide. By collecting paired colonic pinch biopsies from inflamed and noninflamed tissue from IBD patients and paired healthy biopsies from healthy individuals we reveal a gradient between IBD and healthy controls that is associated with inflammation. Differential abundance analysis reveals a total of 89 taxa in this cohort to be different between CD and UC when compared to healthy controls. Clustering of these samples reveals discrete groups which may provide a frame-work for sub-typing IBD based on the microbiota. Microbiome scientists frequently rely on faecal samples as a proxy for the colonic environment despite numerous studies finding that it is not completely representative. Here we assess the potential of using colonic pinch biopsies for profiling the metagenome and metatranscriptome of the mucosal associated microbiota. We find that current methodologies are not capable of adequately separating microbial and human DNA or RNA resulting in as few as 1 – 2% of microbial reads after sequencing
Shotgun metagenomics exploration of fermented food microbiomes
No full textFermentation is among the worlds oldest forms of food preservation. Study into these foods began in earnest with Lois Pasteur over 150 years ago. Although much information has been gathered since, we have entered a new era of next generation sequencing where an unprecedented amount of information can be extracted from these food microbiomes. This thesis explores the utility of this technology on a wide variety of these foods. In chapter 1, we review the combination of omic technologies to understand the role of the fermenting microbes on various attributes of the food products, such as flavour and health-enhancing components of the food. Chapter 2 explores 58 fermented foods from various parts of the world using shotgun metagenomics. These 58 foods consist of a wide range of products, many of which have seen a recent resurgence in popularity, due to the emerging importance of the human microbiome and health. Many of these foods have not been investigated using shotgun metagenomics previously. The chapter also highlights the role food substrate plays in determining the microbial composition of these foods. Chapters 3 & 4 investigate kombucha specifically, a fermented beverage that has enjoyed a massive growth in commercial value over recent years. These chapters also combine targeted metabolomics, and with the combination of shotgun metagenomics, examines the interplay between microorganisms, kombucha chemistry, and oxygen transfer rate. Chapter 5 explores the microbiomes of 91 fermented foods from Africa. African fermented foods in particular, have lacked in-depth examination via next generation sequencing. Similarly to Chapter 2, Chapter 5 reveals that African fermented food microbiomes are also determined by the ingredients used to produce these foods. Finally, chapter 6 investigates the effect of read depth on the recovery of Metagenome Assembled Genomes (MAGs), revealing that specific genome coverage is the most important factor in terms of the likelihood of recovering a particular MAG
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