137 research outputs found
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
No full textThe Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history. Arthur Train was a Harvard-educated and well-respected attorney. He was also a best-selling author. Train’s greatest literary creation was the character Ephraim Tutt, a public-spirited attorney and champion of justice.Guided by compassion and a strong moral compass, Ephraim Tutt commanded a loyal following among general readers and lawyers alike—in fact, Tutt’s fictitious cases were so well-known that attorneys, judges, and law faculty cited them in courtrooms and legal texts. People read Tutt’s legal adventures for more than twenty years, all the while believing their beloved protagonist was merely a character and that Train’s stories were works of fiction. But in 1943 a most unusual event occurred: Ephraim Tutt published his own autobiography. The possibility of Tutt’s existence as an actual human being became a source of confusion, spurring heated debates. One outraged reader sued for fraud, and the legendary lawyer John W. Davis rallied to Train’s defense. While the public questioned whether the autobiography was a hoax or genuine, many book reviewers and editors presented the book as a work of nonfiction. In The Myth of Ephraim Tutt Molly Guptill Manning explores the controversy and the impact of the Ephraim Tutt autobiography on American culture. She also considers Tutt’s ruse in light of other noted incidents of literary hoaxes, such as those ensuing from the publication of works by Clifford Irving, James Frey, and David Rorvik, among others. As with other outstanding fictitious characters in the literary canon, Ephraim Tutt took on a life of his own. Out of affection for his favorite creation, Arthur Train spent the final years of his life crafting an autobiography that would ensure Tutt’s lasting influence—and he was spectacularly successful in this endeavor. Tutt, as the many letters written to him attest, gave comfort to his readers as they faced the challenging years of the Great Depression and World War II and renewed their faith in humanity and justice. Although Tutt’s autobiography bewildered some of his readers, the great majority were glad to have read the “life” story of this cherished character.https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/fac_books/1102/thumbnail.jp
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‘This Building Is Never Complete’: studying adaptations of a library building over time
No full textMoving beyond the concept of buildings as fixed physical objects, Patel and Tutt draw on a rich empirical study of the adaptations and refurbishments of a 50-year old library building. An innovative methodology is developed, through utilising visual data from archives, undertaking ethnographic fieldwork and curating an exhibition, to help trace the changes in the library building over time. Patel and Tutt build an ontology of the library in which different versions of the library are relationally and multiply enacted. They push for empirical visions and theoretical frameworks of research that look beyond notions of the fixity of the buildings and infrastructure, towards acknowledging their flexibility and heterogeneous nature over time; ‘building’ as always in the making
A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism
No full textThis article deconstructs the conceptual framework of the social theorist Salman Sayyid by critically examining his work on the political and hegemony in relation to the thought of the post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau. Sayyid elaborates a theory of the political that necessitates a communal break with existing society, a move very similar to Laclau and post-Marxist thought more generally. In analyzing Sayyid’s theories of the caliphate with Laclau’s conception of hegemonic struggle, the author suggests that the construction of any caliphate should think about the question of solidarity with “plebs” or those discarded from the system of capitalism. The article concludes with an analysis of how Sayyid’s theoretical praxis can be applied in American Muslim political activism through the concept of the counterpublic
Low-Density Lipoprotein Uptake Inhibits the Activation and Antitumor Functions of Human Vγ9Vδ2 T Cells
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Vγ9Vδ2 T cells, the main subset of γδ T lymphocytes in human peripheral blood, are endowed with antitumor functions such as cytotoxicity and IFNγ production. These functions are triggered upon T-cell receptor–dependent activation by non-peptidic prenyl pyrophosphates (“phosphoantigens”) that are selective agonists of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells, and which have been evaluated in clinical studies. Because phosphoantigens have shown interindividual variation in Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell activities, we asked whether metabolic resources, namely lipids such as cholesterol, could affect phosphoantigen-mediated Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell activation and function. We show here that Vγ9Vδ2 T cells express the LDL receptor upon activation and take up LDL cholesterol. Resulting changes, such as decreased mitochondrial mass and reduced ATP production, correlate with downregulation of Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell activation and functionality. In particular, the expression of IFNγ, NKG2D, and DNAM-1 were reduced upon LDL cholesterol treatment of phosphoantigen-expanded Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. As a result, their capacity to target breast cancer cells was compromised both in vitro and in an in vivo xenograft mouse model. Thus, this study describes the role of LDL cholesterol as an inhibitor of the antitumor functions of phosphoantigen-activated Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. Our observations have implications for therapeutic applications dependent on Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. Cancer Immunol Res; 6(4); 448–57. ©2018 AACR.</jats:p
Voucher funds in transitional economies : the Czech and Slovak experience
No full textVoucher funds have arisen in the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe that have used voucher privatization. These funds collect vouchers from citizens and use them to buy shares in enterprises. In the Czech and Slovak Republics, voucher funds are typically organized as corporations owned by the citizens who contributed their vouchers. Recently, they have also been organized as unit trusts (either open-ended or closed). A management company manages the funds under a contract that specifies the management fee. The management company is typically owned by the initial sponsor of the fund - for example, a bank. Voucher funds can give owners a diversified and professionally managed portfolio. More important, the funds select who sits on an enterprise's governance boards (which oversee management and profitability). Although experience is limited, the funds in these two countries have probably stopped most fraud and self-serving by enterprise mangers and are beginning to encourage the restructuring needed for profitability. A few funds have replaced poorly performing or dishonest managers; more often, because qualified replacements are few, they encourage managers to improve performance. There have been complaints about funds'performance. Some have made unrealistic promises to voucher holders and have appointed poorly qualified members to management boards. There is concern about conflicts of interest in the bank-sponsored funds and excessive control of enterprises. Funds typically lack capital or expertise to undertake restructuring - but few other potential owners are likely to be better qualified. The author examines 27 regulations that have been proposed for funds. Regulations in transitional economies, unlike regulations in most western countries, should encourage funds to play a strong role in corporate governance, he contends, as few potential owners have this ability. Most important, regulations should require that funds disclose information about their operations so their owners can monitor and control fund managers. The regulatory regime, the author says, should discourage monopolies and anticompetitive behavior; create incentives for fund managers to improve fund performance; discourage self-serving or fraudulent behavior by fund managers, and conflicts of interest; and eliminate high-risk investments unacceptable to fund owners. Because there is so little experience with these funds, the regulatory regime should not be unduly restrictive. As problems arise, regulations to deal with them can be added.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Payment Systems&Infrastructure
Dissertatio Theologica, Super Actor. 26, 10. 11. De Reformatione Ecclesiae
No full textQuam ... Sub Praesidio ... Georg. Henrici Kelleri ... Disputandam proponit Author M. Joh. Christophorus Cucuel, Tutt. SS. Th. Stud. in Duc. Stip. Ad dies & Ian
Data for High-temperature anomalous Hall effect driven by frustrated spin fluctuations in the antiferromagnetic delafossite metal PdCrO₂
No full textThis dataset contains all digital data corresponding to the main-text figures in the journal article "High-temperature anomalous Hall effect driven by frustrated spin fluctuations in the antiferromagnetic delafossite metal PdCrO₂." Included are data from X-ray diffraction (both powder and single-crystal), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, magnetotransport measurements (Hall resistivity and magnetoresistance), specific heat, powder inelastic neutron diffraction, and magnetic pair distribution function analyses. Please refer to the accompanying README file for a detailed description of the dataset contents.Metallic delafossite oxides are of exceptional interest due to their ultraclean metallic transport. In the case of PdCrO₂, this arises in a triangular-lattice antiferromagnet, creating a unique opportunity to study frustrated magnetism in a very clean metal. Here, we combine a new chemical vapor transport crystal growth approach with magnetic, thermodynamic, magnetotransport, and neutron scattering measurements to elucidate the striking anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnetic PdCrO₂. The unconventional anomalous Hall effect (with anomalous Hall conductivity ~10⁵ Ω⁻¹cm⁻¹) and a large positive magnetoresistance effect (>1000%) are shown to exhibit complex temperature dependencies, persisting to almost seven times the Néel temperature (~250 K). For the first time, these effects are directly compared to elastic neutron scattering, inelastic neutron scattering, and neutron magnetic pair distribution function data, establishing unambiguous links between anomalous magnetotransport properties and directly probed short-range spin fluctuations. The latter occur over a notably broad temperature range due to geometrical magnetic frustration. Connecting to recent experimental and theoretical developments, these findings are discussed in terms of a temperature-dependent interplay between chiral spin order and chiral spin fluctuations, significantly elucidating the high-temperature anomalous magnetotransport in such compounds.This work was primarily supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) through the University of Minnesota (UMN) Center for Quantum Materials under Grant No. DE-SC0016371. S.R.H and B.A.F. (mPDF analysis) were supported by the DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, through award No. DE-SC0021134. S.R. and D.P. (contributions to INS measurements and analysis) were sponsored by the DOE, Office of Science, basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division. A portion of this research used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The beamtimes were allocated to ARCS on Proposal No. IPTS- 32959.1, and to NOMAD on Proposal No. IPTS- 32575.1. Parts of this work were conducted in the UMN Characterization Facility, which is partially supported by the National Science Foundation through the MRSEC Program under Grant No. DMR-2011401. We thank N. Perkins (UMN) for useful discussions regarding the magnetism and AHE in PdCrO₂.Tao, Yu; Jain, Pahuni; Zhang, Yi; Tutt, Fred; Phelan, Daniel; Balz, Christian; Hatt, Sabrina; Neuefeind, Joerg; Rosenkranz, Stephan; Frandsen, Benjamin; Leighton, Chris. (2025). Data for High-temperature anomalous Hall effect driven by frustrated spin fluctuations in the antiferromagnetic delafossite metal PdCrO₂. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/j73x-rg79
Islamophobia and Interfaith Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities
No full textThis video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities
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