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Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 06: Summer 2010
No full textWe interviewed Gilbert C. Din, Professor Emeritus at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is the author of several books on colonial Louisiana and a frequent contributor to the FHQ. We interviewed him about his work on William August Bowles and about his article that appeared in this issue, titled “William August Bowles on the Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling a Labyrinthine Conundrum.”https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1005/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Meilaender
No full textThis interview was conducted with Gilbert Meilaender as part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is a Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. His areas of expertise include theological ethics, Christian ethics, human dignity, the philosophy of friendship, and adoption. He is the author of several books, including Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption, and Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. Professor Meilaender discusses his upbringing as the son of a Lutheran pastor, his education at Concordia Senior College and his path to academia after being ordained as a Lutheran minister. He discusses his graduate studies at Princeton University with mentor Paul Ramsey. He talks about his identity as a theological ethicist in a time when higher education was trying to distinguish the academic study of religion from theological study. He also discusses his experience with foster care and adoption, which shapes his view on reproductive technologies and the implications of the unquestioned use of such technologies. Professor Meilaender talks about his involvement with The Hastings Center and his work on the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration. He notes that the Council’s work was philosophical, in contrast to law- and policy-oriented bioethics. He discusses the influence of the Council’s work on his thinking about human dignity, as well as the limits of bioethics, his approach to politics, and his belief in including religious views in public debate. The conversation concludes with reflections on his influences, friendships, correspondence with readers, and views on end-of-life care
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Meilaender
No full textThis interview was conducted with Gilbert Meilaender as part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is a Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. His areas of expertise include theological ethics, Christian ethics, human dignity, the philosophy of friendship, and adoption. He is the author of several books, including Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption, and Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. Professor Meilaender discusses his upbringing as the son of a Lutheran pastor, his education at Concordia Senior College and his path to academia after being ordained as a Lutheran minister. He discusses his graduate studies at Princeton University with mentor Paul Ramsey. He talks about his identity as a theological ethicist in a time when higher education was trying to distinguish the academic study of religion from theological study. He also discusses his experience with foster care and adoption, which shapes his view on reproductive technologies and the implications of the unquestioned use of such technologies. Professor Meilaender talks about his involvement with The Hastings Center and his work on the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration. He notes that the Council’s work was philosophical, in contrast to law- and policy-oriented bioethics. He discusses the influence of the Council’s work on his thinking about human dignity, as well as the limits of bioethics, his approach to politics, and his belief in including religious views in public debate. The conversation concludes with reflections on his influences, friendships, correspondence with readers, and views on end-of-life care
Buffington, Hailman, and Gilbert at Collins Speaker Series
No full textRex Buffington, Executive Director, John C. Stennis Center, John Hailman, author of From Midnight to Guntown, and Dr. Jerry Gilbert, Provost and Executive Vice President MSU during the Collins Speaker Serie
Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte scores effectively stratify outcomes over and above p16 post chemo-radiotherapy in anal cancer
No full textBackground: The majority (90%) of anal cancers are human papillomavirus (HPV)-driven, identified using immunochemistry for p16. Compared with HPV? patients, those with HPV+ disease generally show improved survival, although relapse rates around 25% indicate a need for further stratification of this group.Methods: Using two cohorts of anal cancer, previously characterised for p16, we assessed the prognostic value of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs).Results: Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte scores were used to stratify p16+ cases, where tumours with absent/low levels of TIL had a relapse-free rate of 63%, as opposed to 92% with high levels of TIL (log rank P=0.006).Conclusions: Assessment of TIL adds to p16 status in the prognosis of anal cancer following chemo-radiotherapy and provides evidence of the clinical importance of the immune response
English Romanesque tympana : a study of architectural sculpture in church portals c.1050-c.1200
No full textThis thesis presents a study of the use made of tympana in English Romanesque
portals and the evidence they offer for religious, social and cultural expression in village
churches where the vast majority of examples are preserved. In order to achieve this a
significant proportion of the analysis has been addressed to the manner in which people
may have interpreted what they saw. For the convenience of the reader basic descriptions
of all examples noted during the course of the research and details of manorial and patronal
circumstances are given as the Handlist in Volume 2.
The first two chapters establish the parameters of the research, outline the social
and religious environment during the period, and the art historical principles underpinning
the research. Chapter III examines the distribution of examples in geographical terms and
the use made of tympana in different categories of building. In chapter IV the structural
and compositional formulation of tympana is analysed and the use made of geometric
ornament. Chapter V assesses images of Christ and the relationship between these and the
representation of power. Chapter VI examines other human figural iconography through
the categories of figure-types depicted. The subject of chapter VII is the use of
compositional types as a means to assess the use made of beast imagery.
The thesis demonstrates for the first time in a systematic and quantified manner
that tympana are a significant feature of English Romanesque portals and that a strong
decorative character is shared by all tympana, thus contributing to the adornment of the
house of God in a befitting manner. It argues that the iconography was composed so as to
ensure the utility of the images as a focus for devotion for a wide variety of audiences and
as a means of expressing social values, particularly through the relationship between the
figures depicted and the representation of temporal power. The thesis also confirms that
the religion presented by examples with figural sculpture is centred on the authority of God
and the saints and on iconic symbols, rather than exemplars for emulation, reflecting the
conservative nature of devotion in local communities. The thesis therefore raises
important issues in relation to our understanding of portals as architectural features, the
expression of religious devotion and social values in local communities during the period,
and the use of portals in the practice of religious devotion
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
No full textNo general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture.
Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts.
Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
Gilbert C. Fite is Richard B. Russell Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of American Farmers: The New Minority, Beyond the Fencerows: A History of Farmland Industries Inc., 1929–1978 and other books.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1036/thumbnail.jp
L'ABC de Bébé (pp. [1-2])
No full textPrinted in color on cloth and sewn at the spine.
These pages depict "A" for "avion" (airplane), "B" for "bascule" (seesaw), "C" for "construction" (boy building a house using blocks) and "D" for "dinette" (girl eating a meal with a doll).The imprint "Imagerie Pellerin, S.A." was used after 1921 and the company begin issuing cloth books for children during the 1920s.
Gilbert Dauphin was a children's book author who wrote under the pseudonym "Gil."Alphabet books
Assessing the use of global land cover data for guiding large area population distribution modelling
No full textGridded population distribution data are finding increasing use in a wide range of fields, including resource allocation, disease burden estimation and climate change impact assessment. Land cover information can be used in combination with detailed settlement extents to redistribute aggregated census counts to improve the accuracy of national-scale gridded population data. In East Africa, such analyses have been done using regional land cover data, thus restricting application of the approach to this region. If gridded population data are to be improved across Africa, an alternative, consistent and comparable source of land cover data is required. Here these analyses were repeated for Kenya using four continent-wide land cover datasets combined with detailed settlement extents and accuracies were assessed against detailed census data. The aim was to identify the large area land cover dataset that, combined with detailed settlement extents, produce the most accurate population distribution data. The effectiveness of the population distribution modelling procedures in the absence of high resolution census data was evaluated, as was the extrapolation ability of population densities between different regions. Results showed that the use of the GlobCover dataset refined with detailed settlement extents provided significantly more accurate gridded population data compared to the use of refined AVHRR-derived, MODIS-derived and GLC2000 land cover datasets. This study supports the hypothesis that land cover information is important for improving population distribution model accuracies, particularly in countries where only coarse resolution census data are available. Obtaining high resolution census data must however remain the priority. With its higher spatial resolution and its more recent data acquisition, the GlobCover dataset was found as the most valuable resource to use in combination with detailed settlement extents for the production of gridded population datasets across large areas. © 2010 The Author(s).SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
Towards Measuring Hydrophobic Hydration at Small and Large Scales
No full textThe hydrophobic effect is well-known, ubiquitous, and of critical importance to difficult problems such as protein folding and molecular self-assembly. The effect, as understood today, arises not from any direct force, but rather emerges from the statistics of many such forces acting on a variety of molecules. We have in our possession advanced theories aiming to predict the statistical outcomes of such systems without exhaustive sampling or extensive parameterization. However, certain key predictions of these theories lack validation, and their generalization to systems of nonideal hydrophobes or to mixed solutions remains an open question.
This thesis aims to describe these theories, analyze their predictions in the context of available experimental evidence, and add to that evidence. To this end, traditional tools such as contact angle measurements and vibrational spectroscopy will be employed in conjunction with single polymer pulling experiments and modern statistical analysis techniques. Machine learning methods will be examined as an avenue for increasing single molecule force spectroscopy throughput, with the specific goal of trackingrare events which might contain a large amount of information. Sum frequency generation data will be examined alongside solute-correlated Raman and infrared spectra, specifically for the investigation of aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of protein-folding agents.Ph.D
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