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Doughty Donald Ross - fighter for cleared Highlanders: Donald Ross [1813-1882], critic of the Highland Clearances and contemporary of Hugh Miller
No full textMuch has already been written about the Highland Clearances, then and since, foremost among them
Hugh Miller in the Editor’s chair at The Witness, with such still famous leading articles as “Sutherland as it was and is” (1843), and by Donald Macleod and other eyewitnesses, to the savage cruelties of many proprietors.
We are honoured in this edition to bring to public notice the story of another fighter, and recorder of the evictions, Donald Ross, a native of Sutherland, who was simultaneously a successful fundraiser to help
the landless victims.
The author is Donald’s four times great nephew Dr Andrew Ross, Principal Curator of Palæobiology at the National Museums Scotland (NMS), whose very extensive researches enable Andrew here to present Donald’s evidence of atrocities, and his sterling endeavours for the starving evicted tenants.
Andrew has also turned up several important connections with Hugh Miller that he made during these campaigns.
We wish him well in seeking a publisher for a full biography of this fascinating, worthy, but flawed man
Immediate Press Release Regarding the Firing of Fred Davis and Rufus Jones from the State Department of Revenue
No full textA news release from Fred Davis and Rufus Jones. Davis and Jones were removed from their positions as auditors for the State Department of Revenue by Commissioner Donald King. The two men dispute public claims that their job performance was not satisfactory and suggest that they were removed because African-American organizations to which they belonged supported the governor's opponent, Ross Bass, in the August 6 primary election for the United States Senate
Duly Recorded: The Life and Ledger of Virginia Ross Dailey
No full textBorn in Catoosa County, Georgia in 1901, Virginia Ross Dailey was the oldest of three sisters. As a child, Virginia Ross attended Union Grove, a one-room school located off Dailey Hill Road near West Chickamauga Creek. She later taught at Union Grove as did her younger sister, Janie Ross Davis. Virginia, who went by the name “Virgie” her entire life, received formal teacher training at Young Harris College during the 1920s. Virgie Ross remained single until the mid-1930s, when she married John W. Dailey, a much older gentleman in poor health. After they married, John and Virgie built a small “ridge-rock” home just below the summit of Peavine Ridge. It was in that home that Virgie penned a ledger that is both a diary and book of memorandum. For students of Appalachian Studies, the document is an invaluable resource, providing important insights into rural social networks, mutual aid, and the importance of church in southern Appalachian life. It also challenges previously held notions about the impact of rural isolation on those living in the mountain region. Despite the fact that Virgie Ross Dailey seldom traveled more than five miles from her home, she had a telephone, received daily mail, and hosted countless visitors. The presentation will focus on the daily activities of the ledger writer, which includes egg gathering, wood cutting, gardening, berry-picking, and attending to a sick husband. It does not romanticize the life of Virgie Dailey nor make her a victim of what are truly extraordinary life circumstances
Mathematics, substance and surmise: views on the meaning and ontology of mathematics
No full textThe seventeen thought-provoking and engaging essays in this collection present readers with a wide range of diverse perspectives on the ontology of mathematics. The essays address such questions as: What kind of things are mathematical objects? What kinds of assertions do mathematical statements make? How do people think and speak about mathematics? How does society use mathematics? How have our answers to these questions changed over the last two millennia, and how might they change again in the future? The authors include mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, sociologists, educators, and mathematical historians; each brings their own expertise and insights to the discussion. Contributors to this volume: Jeremy Avigad Jody Azzouni David H. Bailey David Berlinski Jonathan M. Borwein Ernest Davis Philip J. Davis Donald Gillies Jeremy Gray Jesper Lützen Ursula Martin Kay L. O’Halloran Alison Pease Steven T. Piantadosi Lance J. Rips Micah T. Ross Nathalie Sinclair John Stillwell Helen Verran
DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY IN SYSTEMS HYDROLOGY
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Dacron Graft Encased Modified Ross Operation
No full textThe pulmonary autograft operation was introduced by Donald Ross in 1967. Since then, the Ross operation has become a viable and durable option for aortic valve replacement in both the pediatric and adult populations (1). Pulmonary autograft dilatation is one of the complications noted in the adult population. Because of this, the Ross operation is showing a declining trend in this adult population. To prevent this complication, Ross Ungerleider came up with a simple and reproducible modification by adding a Dacron tube graft over the pulmonary autograft, and found no pulmonary autograft dilatation in 30 patients over the period of four years (2).The concerns raised with the modified Ross procedure are that the Dacron tube graft is a cylindrical graft and the sinus portion of the autograft is essential for the normal functioning of the leaflets, as studied in valve-sparing aortic root replacement procedures and experimental studies, and the modified Ross procedure does not address and prevent the potential threat to the valve leaflets function in the long term (3). The pseudosinus creation in the Dacron graft is very important to decrease the stress and strain on the leaflets, so that it is closer to normal, as studied by K .Jane Grande-Allen et al (3).Keeping this in mind, the author has made an additional modification to the modified Ross operation by removing the autograft sinuses, which were getting restricted by the cylindrical Dacron graft, and creating a pseudosinus/neosinus in the Dacron graft.With these modifications to the modified Ross operation, the author hopes to take care of the pulmonary autograft dilatation at all three levels:Annular level – The author sutures the autograft to the Dacron graft and then to the aortic annulus, which prevents annular dilatation.Sinuses – By excising the native autograft sinuses, which are being restricted by the Dacron graft, and creating the pseudosinus/neosinus in the Dacron graft, the author hopes to preserve the valve leaflet function.Sinotubular junction – Since the author is fixing the commissures to the Dacron graft and then suturing the Dacron graft to the ascending aorta, the dilatation at the sinotubular junction is nullified.ReferencesRoss DN. Replacement of aortic and mitral valves with a pulmonary autograft. Lancet. 1967;290(7523):956-958.Ungerleider RM, Ootaki Y, Shen I, Welke KF. Modified Ross procedure to prevent autograft dilation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010;90(3):1035-1037. </p
Financial structures and economic development
No full textThe author constructs a model that captures the two-way nature of the relationship between financial and economic development - and allows societies at different levels of economic development and with different policies to choose different financial services. In this model, various types of financial contracts and institutions arise in response to the economic environment. Incentives for financial structures to emerge are generated by liquidity and productivity risk, the costs of gathering information and mobilizing resources, and the costs of financial transactions. The emergence and development of financial arrangements in response to the economic environment can alter investment decisions and per capita growth rates - while the level of per capita income helps determine the types of financial services a particular society chooses to develop and use. The author not only reconciles more empirical regularities than past theoretical studies have done, but highlights the role of public policies on financial activities. Policy has important implications for the rate of economic growth, the level of financial development, and the types of institutions providing financial services. The model also predicts that per capita growth rates should be related to the types of financial services provided by the financial sector. Thus, the most common empirical measure of financial development may not appropriately capture fundamental features of financial development.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Governance Indicators
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Morocco
No full textThis paper tries to uncover the reasons underlying the performance of the Moroccan economy. The author argues that wage moderation and judicious monetary policies were instrumental in restraining inflation. With one brief exception in 1983, monetary authorities remained firmly committed to eschew any inflationary financing of the budget deficit. This strategy could only succeed however because of the wide ranging system of credit and monetary regulations which worked to channel domestic funds toward the Treasury at relatively low costs. The prospects for the continuation of such a strategy are not favourable however. As far as the growth performance is concerned, it appears that it can be attributed to an outstanding export response to the new trade regime on the one hand and a set of favourable supply shocks, including a string of recordagricultural harvests and the collapse of real oil prices, on the other. The paper studies the evolution of the budget and its different components and argues that the reluctance by Morocco's policy makers to monetize existing budget deficits is well explained by the sharply unfavourable trade-offs between higher monetization and inflation existing in Morocco. It analyzes the implications that continuing budgetary disequilibria has on investment and saving decisions and finds that such implications may be substantial, even though they may not work their way exclusively through traditional interest rates channels.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
Evaluating Communication in the British Parliamentary Public Sphere
No full textThis article begins with a re-evaluation of political communication research based on Habermas' original theory of the public sphere. It presents Habermas' alternative framework for assessing communication in contemporary ‘actually existing democracies’. The model is then tested with a case study of the UK parliamentary public sphere based on 95 semi-structured interviews with political actors (politicians, journalists and officials). It concludes that parliament today operates rather better, according to public sphere norms, than the public sphere described in Habermas' accounts of 18th and 19th-century England. Such a finding, on its own, is clearly at odds with public perception. The research accordingly offers two explanations for this disparity and the (perceived) crisis of political legitimacy in UK politics
2019 Commencement
No full textFormer First Lady of Lynn Helen Ross, Lynn President Dr. Kevin Ross, President Emeritus Dr. Donald E. Ross, and Commencement Speaker James Patterson, Best-selling author and philanthropist, pose together at Lynn University\u27s 2019 Commencement.https://spiral.lynn.edu/commencement-photos-2019/1199/thumbnail.jp
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