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Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
No full textSt Cuthbert's literary cult was conceived in the late seventh and early eighth century with the production of three vitae, most importantly Bede's prose Vita sancti Cuthberti. Over the ensuing centuries, the cult stimulated the production of a great wealth of hagiographic material: this thesis analyses the key Cuthbertine works that were written by his Church during a turbulent but also prosperous time, between the ninth century and the end of the twelfth. Each chapter takes as a specific focus one of these texts, using it as a basis for exploring a number of themes pertaining to the cult of St Cuthbert, wider developments in the cult of the saints, and the changing and variable uses of hagiographic and historical writing.
The first chapter takes the Historia de sancto Cuthberto as an example of a text combining property records with miracles, and written episodically over a period spanning more than a century, establishing the thesis' triumvirate of themes: the fluidity of texts and of the representation of saints, and the enduring power of the Cuthbertine Church. Chapter Two explores the multifaceted identity that the Cuthbertine Church sought to convey for itself in Symeon of Durhamâ s Libellus de exordio. The third and fourth chapters focus on two highly flexible and manipulated texts, Capitula de miraculis sancti Cuthberti and Brevis relatio de sancto Cuthberto, which appear in manuscripts together, and often amalgamated: they are used to examine how a saint's image could be changed, and to question our often static notion of a text' s identity. The final chapter takes Reginald's Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti virtutibus to compare the miracle profiles of all the Cuthbertine texts, contextualising them with formative studies in the cult of saints such as the work of Sigal (1985) and Vauchez (1981). The thesis ends by suggesting that Cuthbert's cult was still thriving at the end of the twelfth century, and continued to do so, in the semi-independent socio-political and cultural sphere of northern England and southern Scotland.
The discussions in these chapters are supplemented by four appendices: a table giving detailed synopses and a thematic breakdown of Reginald's Libellus, and a table categorising and comparing the miracles that appear in all these Cuthbertine works provide the basis for exploring Cuthbert' s changing miraculous persona; a map charting the locations pertinent to Reginald's Libellus shows the vibrant geographical extent of Cuthbert' s cult; a table of manuscripts illustrates the various permutations into which these texts may be worked
AAC Congress Durum Wheat
No full textCongress durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum (Desf.) Husn.) is adapted to the durum production area of the Canadian prairies. Averaged over three years, AAC Congress yielded significantly more grain than Strongfield and AC Navigator. AAC Congress had protein concentration significantly lower than Strongfield but significantly higher than Brigade. AAC Congress is eligible for grades of Canada Western Amber Durum. It has lower grain cadmium concentration and higher yellow pigment concentration than the check cultivars, except AAC Cabri.This is a manuscript of an article published as Ruan, Yuefeng, Asheesh K. Singh, R. M. DePauw, Ron Knox, Tom N. McCaig, Richard Douglas Cuthbert, Brent McCallum, Thomas Fetch, and Brian L. Beres. "AAC Congress Durum Wheat." Canadian Journal of Plant Science. doi: 10.1139/CJPS-2017-0149. Posted with permission.</p
Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas
No full textThere is no absolute measure for the lasting impact of work by anthropologists. However, the scholarship of Mary Douglas has achieved wide‐ranging interdisciplinary recognition. Here the author considers ways in which her work has impacted scholarship
Scotland and the Isle of Man, c.1400-1625 : noble power and royal presumption in the Northern Irish Sea province
No full textAlthough Scottish during much of the medieval era, the Isle of Man was under British control during the late medieval and early modern historical period. However, the association between England and the island was not close. London did not exert much influence over Manx political affairs. The fact that the island functioned largely as a self-governing entity supports the theory espoused by various scholars that the British authorities adopted a gradual, decentralized approach to governing newly acquired territories
Self-directed work teams at Texas Instruments Defense Systems & Electronics Group
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 83).by Richard D. Rosson.M.S
Mary Douglas\u27 Purity and Danger revisited
No full textThe author’s starting point is that Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger is still an excellent stopping place for all those who, as theologian or religious scholar, wish to become acquainted with the most significant anthropological theories concerning religious (purity) rites and rituality (cultural revolutionism, functionalism, symbolism, cognitive anthropology and structuralism). Nevertheless, the author does not yet wholly agree with Richard Fardon when he claims that in Purity and Danger Douglas, in addition to an elaboration of a structuralist and functionalist approach to impure behaviour and rituals, has also developed a broad evolutionary theory of religion and culture and that much of the complexity of the book is a result of the attempt to reconcile these two arguments, which are based on different starting points. The author holds a more subtle opinion and suggests that more justice is done to the intrinsic value of Purity and Danger by stating that Douglas formulates a clear thesis and that she attempts to elaborate this thesis in a kind of Hegelian model of thesis-antithesis-synthesis throughout the various chapters. In doing so, when possible she unites the differences she comes across during the development of her ideas on a higher level and retains an openness for the introduction of new ideas that, on the basis of new empirical research or new interpretations of existing studies, could more or less nuance or adjust her own theories, thus without necessarily having had the intention of constructing an alternative form of cultural evolutionism.The author’s starting point is that Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger is still an excellent stopping place for all those who, as theologian or religious scholar, wish to become acquainted with the most significant anthropological theories concerning religious (purity) rites and rituality (cultural revolutionism, functionalism, symbolism, cognitive anthropology and structuralism). Nevertheless, the author does not yet wholly agree with Richard Fardon when he claims that in Purity and Danger Douglas, in addition to an elaboration of a structuralist and functionalist approach to impure behaviour and rituals, has also developed a broad evolutionary theory of religion and culture and that much of the complexity of the book is a result of the attempt to reconcile these two arguments, which are based on different starting points. The author holds a more subtle opinion and suggests that more justice is done to the intrinsic value of Purity and Danger by stating that Douglas formulates a clear thesis and that she attempts to elaborate this thesis in a kind of Hegelian model of thesis-antithesis-synthesis throughout the various chapters. In doing so, when possible she unites the differences she comes across during the development of her ideas on a higher level and retains an openness for the introduction of new ideas that, on the basis of new empirical research or new interpretations of existing studies, could more or less nuance or adjust her own theories, thus without necessarily having had the intention of constructing an alternative form of cultural evolutionism
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A SNP resource for Douglas-fir: de novo transcriptome assembly and SNP detection and validation
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A SNP resource for Douglas-fir: de novo transcriptome assembly and SNP detection and validation
Author(s): Howe, GT (Howe, Glenn T.)[ 1 ] ; Yu, JB (Yu, Jianbin)[ 1 ] ; Knaus, B (Knaus, Brian)[ 2 ] ; Cronn, R (Cronn, Richard)[ 2 ] ; Kolpak, S (Kolpak, Scott)[ 1 ] ; Dolan, P (Dolan, Peter)[ 3 ] ; Lorenz, WW (Lorenz, W. Walter)[ 4 ] ; Dean, JFD (Dean, Jeffrey F. D.)[ 4 ]
Source: BMC GENOMICS Volume: 14 Article Number: 137 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-137 Published: FEB 28 2013
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Abstract: Background: Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), one of the most economically and ecologically important tree species in the world, also has one of the largest tree breeding programs. Although the coastal and interior varieties of Douglas-fir (vars. menziesii and glauca) are native to North America, the coastal variety is also widely planted for timber production in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Chile. Our main goal was to develop a SNP resource large enough to facilitate genomic selection in Douglas-fir breeding programs. To accomplish this, we developed a 454-based reference transcriptome for coastal Douglas-fir, annotated and evaluated the quality of the reference, identified putative SNPs, and then validated a sample of those SNPs using the Illumina Infinium genotyping platform.
Results: We assembled a reference transcriptome consisting of 25,002 isogroups (unique gene models) and 102,623 singletons from 2.76 million 454 and Sanger cDNA sequences from coastal Douglas-fir. We identified 278,979 unique SNPs by mapping the 454 and Sanger sequences to the reference, and by mapping four datasets of Illumina cDNA sequences from multiple seed sources, genotypes, and tissues. The Illumina datasets represented coastal Douglas-fir (64.00 and 13.41 million reads), interior Douglas-fir (80.45 million reads), and a Yakima population similar to interior Douglas-fir (8.99 million reads). We assayed 8067 SNPs on 260 trees using an Illumina Infinium SNP genotyping array. Of these SNPs, 5847 (72.5%) were called successfully and were polymorphic.
Conclusions: Based on our validation efficiency, our SNP database may contain as many as similar to 200,000 true SNPs, and as many as similar to 69,000 SNPs that could be genotyped at similar to 20,000 gene loci using an Infinium II array-more SNPs than are needed to use genomic selection in tree breeding programs. Ultimately, these genomic resources will enhance Douglas-fir breeding and allow us to better understand landscape-scale patterns of genetic variation and potential responses to climate change.Keywords: Genome wide association, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Seed orchard, Complex traits, Pinus taeda. L., Population, Generation, Database, Selection, White spruc
Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
No full textThis study analyzes the relationship of Douglas Clyde Macintosh to the time in which he lived using the concepts of irony, innocence, and myth. By employing these concepts, the author identifies four significant moves that Macintosh made to break with philosophical idealism. The author explores Macintosh's relationship to an older, reigning Ritschlian liberal theology, and the development of neo-orthodoxy by his students H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr. This Yale strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism including neopragmatism in philosophy, radical empiricism, the American evasion of epistemology, and the role of apologetics in inter-religious dialogue. Macintosh's Yale strand of empirical theology emerges as a significant critique of the new historicist position.
In response to the social, intellectual and religious crisis of modernity, Macintosh moved to recover objectivism in theology, attempted to rehabilitate the apologetic arguments for the existence of God and the reasonableness of religious belief, employed the Radical Method in theology to define and to defend an essence of Christianity, and employed the Anselmian apologetic tactic of leaving Christ aside to prove his necessity for human salvation. His use of the Ritschlian Radical Method in theology produced differences in Macintosh's and Ritschl's theological content.
The author also analyzes the criticisms that H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr leveled against Macintosh. Eight reasons are presented for the eclipse of Macintosh's empirical theology in scholarship
Indian Horse
No full textTitle: Indian Horse. Author: By Richard Wagamese. Publisher: Vancouver: Douglas and MacIntyre, 2012. ISBN: 978155365402
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